Between words.

Someone outside knocked on the door and said that Xu Huobo, Yuan Keli came back from Taixue, heard about Sun Chengzong, and Guo Zhengyu wanted to see him here.

Lin Yanchao smiled and said, "Let them come in!" ”

After a while, Xu Huobo and Yuan Keli both entered, and Sun Chengzong and Guo Zhengyu also immediately got up to salute.

Xu Huobo and Yuan Keli are both prisoners, and it stands to reason that they cannot make friends with Sun Chengzong and Guo Zhengyu, two 'department-level' Beijing officials.

The most important name for a scholar.

If the friends arrive first, the status of the two can no longer be described as before.

In forestry, the order of 'entry' time is followed.

For example, Xu Huobo and Tao Wangling were both the first students to worship under Lin Yanchao, even if Xu Huobo is only a prisoner now, Tao Wangling is just a person, but other protégés with official positions are polite when they see the two.

If Xu Huobo and Tao Wangling are blessed to start early, Guo Zhengyu and Sun Chengzong are second, and he is both court officials.

Lin Yanchao was entangled in official duties and had no time to teach his disciples, and on weekdays, Guo Zhengyu, Sun Chengzong, and Tao Wangling taught Lin Yanchao on their behalf.

Therefore, Guo, Sun, and Tao are professors in Lin Xuemen, and their status is second only to Lin Yanchao.

This is like Wang Yangming's subordinate Wang Ji and Qian Hongde.

Now that several people are meeting, Guo Zhengyu and Sun Chengzong did not pretend to be officials, they all got up and returned the salute to Xu Huobo.

As for Yuan Keli's late entry, he solemnly saluted Sun and Guo.

These people in the house, plus Tao Wangling, who is far away in Zhejiang, are the backbone of forestry at present.

Although Xu Huobo is the founding disciple of Lin Yanchao, he is easy-going, and he doesn't have the shelf of a senior brother at all, and said with a smile: "I went out of the city today and bought two watermelons and soaked them in the well water." Just in time, the beautiful life is coming, and everyone comes to eat together. ”

Sun Chengzong, Guo Zhengyu said with a smile: "Thank you for this, let me wait for this blessing." ”

Xu Huobo smiled and said to Lin Yanchao: "Teacher, the watermelons in Daxing County, the capital are different from their hometowns. ”

Lin Yanchao shook his head and said, "Do you think I haven't eaten since I came to Beijing?" I'm afraid it's true that you bought it to satisfy your cravings! ”

Everyone laughed.

So they all sat down in the study.

The subordinates of the Lin Mansion immediately brought two wooden barrels containing watermelons.

The watermelon was so in the well water, and Lin Yanchao ordered people to go to the ice cellar to get some ice and throw it into the wooden barrel.

Xu Huobo clapped his hands and said: "Wonderful, wonderful, that is, the teacher has an ice cellar, so this melon is more relieving of the heat." ”

Sun Chengzong stroked his stiff beard and said, "I see." ”

Guo Zhengyu asked, "What is so?" ”

"Only to buy melons, not only to satisfy hunger, but also to take advantage of the teacher's ice cubes!"

There was a burst of laughter in the same doorway, and the room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Yuan Keli immediately cut open a watermelon, and several people were very happy to eat it. And the subordinates successively carried ice cubes and put them in the house, and the summer heat suddenly subsided a lot.

So Xu Huobo asked what everyone was talking about?

Sun Chengzong said what a few people were chatting with, and then mentioned the matter of Xunzi's worship.

Yuan Keli knew that Sun Chengzong was the leader of the previous subject, and Guo Zhengyu was the head of the Ministry of Rites, and he was also known as the three great sages in the world, and they were all famous figures in the world, so he wanted to show his views in front of the two.

Yuan Keli said: "What Senior Brother Sun said is extremely true, but Yuan Mou secretly thought that this matter was difficult in the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven has the name of Xiao Shizong, saying that his temperament is very similar to the World Temple, and it is difficult for him to make a decision to change the World Temple, and we want to compete with Science in the temple for this place, and there are many ways, so there is no need to take this method. ”

"Taking a step back, even if Xunzi worships the Confucian Temple, it is not something that can change in the overall situation, and now it is more important how to let more readers agree with the ideas of our school of merit, and then support the reform and change of the law."

Sun Chengzong smiled when he heard this, but didn't say anything.

After Yuan Keli finished speaking, he saw Lin Yanchao, Sun Chengzong, and Guo Zhengyu were all silent, and said immediately: "The boy's family sees it, and I ask the two senior brothers to correct it." ”

Guo Zhengyu smiled and said, "It's okay, what Senior Brother Yuan sees is from the big picture. ”

Sun Chengzong also said: "The matter of worship is a trivial matter, but it is not a trivial matter. However, what Senior Brother Yuan said about the Son of Heaven may not agree, but it is also worth considering. ”

Yuan Keli was fine, but when he heard Guo Zhengyu and Sun Chengzong say this, he was even more uneasy in his heart.

Lin Yanchao immediately said: "Whether it is a newspaper or a ritual, it is not achieved overnight, and I won't talk about the details today." ”

"Fang Cai can stand up and say that the study of merit should compete with science in the temple, and I think this sentence should be changed to a place of competition with science."

After listening to Lin Yanchao's words, Guo Zhengyu and Sun Chengzong were fine, but Yuan Keli and Xu Huobo were shocked.

Their understanding is only to let the study of merit achieve the same status as the study of mind and qi, but they don't know that Lin Yanchao wants to let the study of merit replace science as a prominent science.

Today was the first time Fang heard these words from Lin Yanchao's mouth, and it was like a stormy sea for them.

Lin Yanchao said: "Today's discussion is to be righteous and ambitious!" ”

"Although the current Ming Dynasty is a peaceful and prosperous era, it is actually internal and external troubles, which are not in the barbarians, not in the poverty of the people, not in the corruption of officials, but in the minds of each of us."

"The princes of the court, stick to the old rules, and the words must be called the ancestral system, and Cheng Zhu Lixue is already in the twilight, which is the disadvantage of the court. Of course, we can also sit idly by, and then keep the wealth for decades, but unfortunately this must not be a family and a surname, the world rises and falls, and the people are suffering. ”

"Of course, the people can decide their own way out, whether it is to rise or perish, we are just ordinary people after all, to change the general trend of the world, it is not human, but today God has given us this opportunity to change history, this is God's gift, if you abandon it and do not take it, you will be blamed."

"It is the general trend to break the old habits and promote the idea of changing the Dharma and doing things to the world. And if we want to coexist peacefully with the science of science from the beginning, confirm each other's strengths and weaknesses, and hold the mind of a hundred schools of thought contending, then there will never be a day when we will replace us, and the act of changing the Dharma will be far away. ”

As soon as Lin Yanchao's words came out, everyone was shocked.

Even Guo Zhengyu and Sun Chengzong were deep in thought.

If it is said that the positioning of the previous study of merit is the same as the study of mind and qi, everyone is just a discussion within Confucianism.

So at this moment, with Lin Yanchao, it is a question of who lives and who dies.

Whoever is a scholar is the ideological highland.

Legalists burn books, Confucianism strikes a hundred schools, and it is the only one.

For philosophy, this is a step backwards in history.

But for politics, it's a much more effective way to do it than to kill!

It is true that everyone wanted to be eclectic at the beginning and confirm the long and short, but later in the battle of national policies, it became life and death.

If there is no clear understanding at the beginning, everyone only thinks about bickering, quarrelling, friendly debates like the Goose Lake meeting, spraying each other like keyboard warriors, and falling asleep when the keyboard is pushed, then it is wrong. I don't know how to die with such a mentality.

What they want to do is, in the eyes of modern people, the overthrow of feudal thinking.

Everyone has reached this point, after many years of struggle, how many detours, how many people have died.

So today, Lin Yanchao is here to ring the alarm bell for everyone, so that they will be prepared in their hearts in the future, and they will not be able to turn back when they embark on this road.

On this day, everyone talked a lot in Lin Yanchao's study, and many words were forgotten later.

But Lin Yanchao's words, everyone remembers.

The road in front of them gradually unfolded in front of everyone, and everyone did not turn around like headless flies, but had a clear goal.

Such a major event related to hundreds of millions of people was decided when everyone drank a few bowls of sour plum soup and ate a few slices of watermelon.

As if they had pushed open a window and seen another world, they chatted with Lin Yanchao until midnight before leaving.

Before leaving, everyone was still debating.

Under the summer moonlight, the insects by the pool are chirping.

The trees by the pool were lush and green, and Lin Yanchao stood by the house and watched his disciples go away from the small stone path by the pool.

Entering the cabinet to worship the prime minister is not enough for the three immortals, and it will take a hundred or even hundreds of years of efforts to open up the wisdom of the people.

It is just right to take scripture as the national policy.

In comparison, the study of merit has long been recognized by everyone today, and it is not considered novel, but considering the problem of acceptance, in ancient times, this was the only way out of the deadlock in front of us.

Why talk about Taoism?

It is not to let old trees bloom with new flowers, nor to forcibly graft today's ideas to ancient times. Instead, he told them that the courage to innovate and change the law has always been present in Confucianism since ancient times, and this is not what one family is good at! We can walk this path on our own, and we don't need others to help us.

Therefore, we don't have to be like Wang Anshi to pretend to be a Zhou Li, and practice the truth of changing the law by a lawyer.

In the same way, the science of Bangu is not representative of Confucianism as a whole.

If it is said that the science is excessive, then the study of merit is not enough, and everyone is not in line with it, but the only way to correct it is to overkill, and if it can, to minimize the turbulence of change.

Science has been a national policy for 200 years, as Shao Kangjie said to Cheng Yi, 'Ginger trees are born, ginger trees are born', the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty is also science, and defeat is also science.

Staying alone, closing one's eyes, and not seeing the ever-changing changes in the world will certainly help to maintain internal stability, but one day it will be broken by external forces.

Now is the time to replace it.

The debate of the disciples gradually faded away, but Lin Yanchao knew that the fire he had lit had already reached them, and the flame of learning from the saint was passed on to them, just to set the prairie on fire!

The next day, Guo Zhengyu begged the Son of Heaven to allow the newspaper to be done, and it was copied out by the residence of the Secretary of General Affairs.

At this moment, Lu Yicheng is deploying things.

Lu Yicheng is Lang Zhong of the Shandong Division of the Ministry of Households.

There are two Langzhong in the Shandong Division of the Ministry of Households, and Lu Yicheng is one of them.

The household department is different from the ministry of officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Rites has only four divisions, and each department has only one Langzhong, and the power is naturally greater.

However, there are thirteen Qing officials in the household department, and each division is not equal to the lang, so there are too many langzhong, and it is not so valuable.

But this is not worth much, relatively speaking, Lu Yicheng has been giving you the position of accompanying the bigwigs for many years, and for the same year of the other Wanli eight years, he has climbed fast enough.

Lu Yicheng wants to go up one more liter, that is, Jingqing or release.

He was reluctant to be released, but the official system of the Ming Dynasty has always been internal and external, and there was no reason for Beijing officials to be second-class officials.

So in order to stay in Beijing, Lu Yicheng thought of various ways, and in front of him was to hug Lin Yanchao's thighs, which were very thick thighs.

Lin Yanchao is the same year as him, and he is a fellow villager, so his friendship couldn't be better. However, in the same year in Beijing, Lin Yanchao is obviously better with Gu Xiancheng, and recently Yang Hao and Zhong Yuzheng are also coming from behind.

And in the same township, his relationship with Lin Yanchao is not as high as Ye Xianggao, Lin Cai.

They are fellow villagers and the same year, why ...... The relationship is not as good as the above people.

The last time he went to Lin Yanchao's house to celebrate the New Year, even a little Hanlin named Fang Congzhe was enough to enter the room, making him wait in the living room for a quarter of an hour.

With the relationship between the two, Lin Yanchao should have resigned immediately, and Fang Congzhe came to see him.

That time, Lu Yicheng just talked to Lin Yanchao about a pot of tea, that is, he left silently, and he didn't feel good in his heart.

At this moment, Lu Yicheng deeply felt that the world had changed, and the current officials no longer attached as much importance to the friendship of the villagers and the year as before, but paid more attention to the formation of the party.

Lu Yicheng knew that Lin Yanchao had a force in the court, but he held his own identity as a member of the household department, and he was also a member of the Zhengwupin and could sit on an equal footing with Lin Yanchao in the official position, so he was expecting Lin Yanchao to take the initiative to let him join, so it was logical.

But Lin Yanchao didn't mention a word, originally when he went to meet Lin Yanchao a year later, he wanted to break this matter, in his opinion, it was enough to give Lin Yanchao face, but he didn't mean anything.

This made Lu Yicheng feel that Lin Yanchao looked down on him a little, that's right, since he was a junior high school, Lin Yanchao has never looked down on himself, and it was Lin Chengyi who had the friendship of his fellow villagers in the same year, but not himself.

He is just a third-class ranking official, and it is a fluke to win the Jinshi, and the crazy appearance when he was in the first place must remain in his heart, he must be secretly laughing at himself, thinking that he can't be a big official.

Even if he struggled to the position of Hubu Langzhong today, Lin Yanchao didn't think that he could have a place in front of him. In Lin Yanchao's heart, he must take the initiative to beg to join the Lin Party, but he Lu Yicheng also has backbone.

When Lin Yanchao was sparse at the beginning, although he did not run for Lin Yanchao like Wang Jiaping and Yu Shenxing, he was resolutely on Lin Yanchao's side, although he only said this to his relatives and family, but he was standing in line.

In this matter, Lu Yicheng felt that Lin Yanchao owed him a great favor.

So later, when Lin Yanchao failed to dismantle the Jingjun Shangshu, Lu Yicheng changed his attitude, and even the two met once, he deliberately pretended not to see it, and let the sedan chair man go directly.

This time, Guo Zhengyu was sparse, when the Di was copied into the hands of Lu Yicheng.

Lu Yicheng said with a smile: "The last time the world was a public affair, the princes of the court must know the power of the newspaper, and the court public opinion lies in the science and road, the local public opinion lies in the school, and the public opinion lies in the people. ”

"The matter of the newspaper must be manipulated by those who have a heart, and if the things of the past are repeated, the first assistant of the Son of Heaven will not agree...... There must be someone behind this Guo Langzhong, and he should check it carefully. ”

Lu Yicheng's words mean that Guo Zhengyu has some heart to criticize.

His words were said in the office of the Shandong Department of the Ministry of Households, and another Langzhong, as well as the outside Lang, the director and other officials all heard it.

A director echoed: "Eighty percent of this is instigated by Lin Sanyuan, but now he is resigning from the Son of Heaven and revoking the appointment of the East Palace Master, but he is secretly letting his students interfere in the government and politics over there, this move is really incomprehensible." ”

Lu Yicheng shook his head and said with a smile: "Piri Yangqiu is also possible, don't say it yourself, let others say it, I suspect that Lin Sanyuan really has no evidence when I say this, maybe there are others." ”

When the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs heard this, they knew that Lu Yicheng was referring to Lin Yanchao.

In the past, when he was friendly with Lin Yanchao, he said good things about him every day, for fear that others would not know about their relationship, but now the two seem to be out of harmony.

As a colleague, everyone also knows how this Lu Langzhong is a person, and Bi Qiang, the former head of the household department, has accused him many times for official affairs.

Therefore, when Lu Yicheng was in the office where Bi Shangshu was there, his words were extremely sycophant and respectful, but as soon as Shangshu left, he would speak ill of him in front of his subordinates, especially after Bi Shangshu gave his name later.

Originally, slandering officials behind their backs and saying bad things about them was also a common thing among officials, but Lu Yicheng's two attitudes really made people feel that the contrast was too great.

Hearing Lu Yicheng say this now, everyone couldn't help but feel like they were coming again, and shook their heads at each other.

But said that another Lang Zhong of the Shandong Division, Shen Lang Zhong picked up the mansion and looked at it for a while, but said: "I don't think this matter is simple. ”

Facing another Lang Zhong, Lu Yicheng immediately said with a smile on his face: "Lord Shen has seen Gao Zhuo, please give me a lesson or two to solve the confusion of the younger brother!" ”

Shen Langzhong smiled, although he was in charge of Langzhong, Lu Yicheng was very respectful to himself on weekdays, and almost treated him with a subordinate attitude.

However, in the face of such a person, I always feel that behind this respect, what kind of discussion is there, but no matter how you say it, respect on the face is more pleasing to the eye than disobedience on the face, as well as people who disobey yang and yin.

Shen Langzhong took out the mansion and copied it and said: "Look at these last few sentences, the right to distribute the newspaper is in the hands of the Ministry of Rites, and it is used to declare and teach the people!" So it is unlikely that Lin Sanyuan will promote it, it should be Shen Guide, and he should control public opinion for his own use. ”

When Lu Yicheng heard this, he immediately said: "Lord Shen is really far above Lu Mou when he sees it, and it is really a breakthrough. ”

Shen Langzhong smiled and said: "Yes, Shen Guide is a smart person, rather than handing over a public opinion weapon like a newspaper to the people, it is better to take it into the hands of the imperial court itself, this trick is really powerful." ”

After a pause, Lu Langzhong said to several officials: "What did you think of about this matter?" ”

All the officials said with puzzled expressions on their faces: "I beg Lord Langzhong to give me advice!" ”

Lu Langzhong nodded and said: "You think, since the Ministry of Rites said that it can run a newspaper independently and put the public instrument of public opinion in the hands of the imperial court, then the Hanlin Academy, as the authentic article in the world, can not also run the newspaper in the name of righteousness, and the General Administration Department who was originally responsible for the copying of the mansion should not run the newspaper independently, so that our household department can also get a piece of the pie, and also run a newspaper, so that the people of the world can hear the public opinion from our household department!" ”

After Lu Langzhong finished speaking, all the officials were impressed.

Lord Lu, this argument is high, it is really high!