Under the delicate eaves of the roof, four people sit around the table, facing the elegant and quiet courtyard. The fragrance of tea was bursting, and the three of them came to visit Zhao Xingde, who originally tasted tea and reminisced about the old, but when they were in the court, as soon as they opened their mouths, there was a matter of party strife. Zhu Sen frowned slightly, glanced at Zhao Xingde, and turned his gaze to a "Ink Bamboo Drawing" on the wall, letting them argue on their own.

"Why not?" Chen Dong asked sharply, "A gentleman and a gentleman are friends with the same way, those who guard are moral, those who do it are faithful, and those who cherish it are honorable." With its self-cultivation, it will benefit from the same way; If you do things, you will work together with one heart; It has always been the same, and this gentleman's friend is also. He snorted heavily, and said, "During the Xuanhe period, the dynasty was disordered, the traitors were in power, the loyal and good were brutalized, and the heavens were angry and the people were resentful. Liao thieves into the Kou, a war and Hebei Province, World War II and the fall of the Beijing Division, His Majesty was captured, the world is new and scattered, panic does not know the end, if it is not for the gentleman with one heart and one mind, ten thousand people with one heart, as the mainstay, how can you save the situation, how to talk about the Song Dynasty Zhongxing? ”

"Wu Zilong's henchmen are messing around in the Great Rites Discussion, sprinkling and mixing, they are simply scoundrels, this is also called the 'Party of Gentlemen'?" Deng Su did not show weakness, and sneered, "Luo Zhi henchmen, coercing Yousi, and using the party to fight differences, I don't know, it turns out that a gentleman is the same as a villain." ”

"You?" Chen Dong's face showed anger, but he didn't say anything, and snorted heavily. After Wu Zilong became a scholar, although he claimed to be a writer and did not ask about the affairs of the DPRK and China, many of his henchmen still looked at him. Although Chen Dong was dissatisfied with his actions, the world often regarded Chen and Wu as one. Chen Dong was forced to share a lot of criticism, and he couldn't openly break with Wu Zilong. However, he was reluctant to continue the topic, but Deng Su was unwilling to let it go. One of the two is the prime minister, and the other is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and they usually make a sense of harmony with the outside world, but Deng Su first voted for Zhao Qi, and the knot with the old people of the Li Society is still there. Now that he was surrounded by Taixue classmates, he took off some precautions a little, and Deng Su wanted to seize the opportunity to persuade Chen Dong to stop standing with Wu Zilong.

"Shaoyang," Deng Su slowed down his tone and shook his head, "Wu Zilong has already made a decision, but he can control the DPRK and China remotely, which is not the blessing of the country." ”

Chen Dong kept a calm face and did not speak. Although he is recognized as the head of the society, most of the Qingliu characters intersect with each other morally, and the connection between them is still relatively loose. Wu Zilong's reputation is far inferior to Chen Dong, and even inferior to Zhu Sen and Cao Liangshi. However, on the eve of Xuezheng's election of prime minister, in order to compete with the Hou Party, the council also did everything possible. In addition to donating lives, Wu Zilong also contacted the students of various states and counties, echoed each other, helped each other, lobbied the gentry, and even punished a few half-hearted people. In short, do everything possible to let the people supported by the council become a state school politician. In the end, the council finally overwhelmed the Hou party's forces. Chen Dong was elected prime minister, and Wu Zilong took root in the official schools of various states and counties, and naturally became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. Moreover, this state and county school and political dispute has spawned far more intricate people from all walks of life than the backbone of the science society itself. Once you taste the benefits of forming a party, you will eat the marrow and know the taste, and you can't stop it. The people in the same party advance and retreat together, help each other, and share the same hatred for the enemy. The more the party members work together, the easier it will be to deal with the loose opponents, just like the officials and armies of the court deal with the rabble. If the opponent refuses to sit still, he can only form a party to fight each other. In the midst of party struggle, if either side shows the slightest weakness, it will be the result of a collapse of the army. As soon as this atmosphere of forming a party is opened, everyone is in the game, and no one can withdraw. The partisan strife will only intensify.

"Although 'they' are offended by Lu Fuxiu, the prohibition of forming a party is not a matter of current affairs," Chen Dong sighed after a long silence, "In all fairness, party struggle is just a means, just like armor." The Liao people are eyeing each other, can I put my guns into the warehouse? Traitors form a party for weeks, and we can't be a mess. Only by using the party of the gentleman, the party of the villain, the true friend of the gentleman, and the pseudo-friend of the villain, can the Taoist demon disappear, and the party of the righteous man and the gentleman can be prosperous, and the world can be governed with one heart and one mind. "But......" Deng Su was still about to refute, but Chen Dong interrupted him and continued, "Besides, you have also seen the situation of today's Great Rites Discussion, there are many discussions, each has its own opinions, and no one can convince anyone, if it goes on like this, it will be quarreled for three or four months, a year and a half, and there will be results?" The great etiquette discussion is just to sit and talk about it, the imperial court must train the army but the enemy, pay taxes on money and grain, promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages, and everything must be done together, if the people's hearts are weak, there is no party and no disciples, a decree goes down, and everyone in the state and county shirks. How do you do that? Chen Dong looked at Deng Su. usually works together in the DPRK, and both of them have their own scheming. Today here in Zhao Xingde, the two of them have a chance to put their hearts together. After Cai Jing and Li Bangyan died, the traitorous party and the evil were leaderless, and Chen Dong also went to the big trouble in his heart, although Hou Huanyin had powerful means, but after all, he was in a corner of Jingdong and was not enough to succeed. Imperial court ministers, there is only one Deng Su on His Majesty's side, if Deng Su is subdued, not only can he use this to balance Wu Zilong, but His Majesty may also be completely dead set on taking back power.

"Shaoyang, you don't want to be a vegetarian meal, you want to do things. However, the argument of friends is to drink to quench thirst! ”

Deng Su retorted: "With the party system, you win with the righteousness of the world? Or is it the self-interest of the party that wins it? Do you know about the Yi tribe's Gu cultivation? Put the snake and scorpion poison in a box and let it devour each other, and what is left is the most poisonous worm. What you said about using the party to control the party is basically the same as raising Gu by the Yi people. Everyone has selfish intentions, and if anyone is a polite gentleman and a little soft-hearted, he will be ruined and ruined, and then he will be thrown into the well. The wise and great people in the country, the spirit and wisdom, are all used to guard against each other, and the state affairs are wrong, and they don't have time to take care of it! This party is declining, the other party is thriving, Chen Chen is due to the situation, the worse it is, the more the latecomer is not as good as the before, the gentleman is extinct, everyone has to be a shameless villain in the end, but knowing that the party is the same and different, it is just a fat family! Shaoyang, as a ruler, you must no longer help the arrogance of your friends, otherwise, the country will be defeated one day, and the Great Song Dynasty will prosper indefinitely, you and I, the so-called 'Qingliu' of the Manchu Dynasty, are the sinners of the Great Song Dynasty through the ages! Speaking of which, Deng Su shook his head and sighed, "Who is a gentleman?" Who is the villain? Heartbeat is freedom, after Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, when Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp, can you tell the difference? ”

Chen Dong seemed to be touched, but still muttered: "The party of gentlemen, the party of villains...... Always telling. ”

"The great etiquette discussion must be righteous and righteous," Deng Su said categorically, "whether you can distinguish between the party of gentlemen and the party of villains." The Great Rites Law must first correct the name and righteousness, and prohibit friends from competing with each other. In this way, the party of villains is still a little jealous, and they dare not openly compare themselves with each other, and the government will not be corrupted to the point of being out of control. Otherwise, people all over the world will compete to take friends as their ability, and in time, no one will not form a party, and everyone will be in the whirlpool, and they will be even more powerless to fight against their friends. ”

"This matter can be ......discussed in the long run," Chen Dong shook his head and said, "The top priority is to end the dispute over the 'Song Rite Law', if they are unwilling to give up, they can only follow the rules of the public discussion, win with more, and exclude the issue of 'Song Rite Law' from the Great Rites Discussion." He calculated, although Wu Zilong has many henchmen, but after all, he is only a force in the society, and if the "Song Rite Law" is forcibly excluded by public opinion, Chen Dong has eight or nine points of certainty. It's just that in this way, I'm afraid that the rift within the society will be made public, and Chen Dong still wants to convince these people who adhere to the "Song Rite Law" as a last resort.

Deng Su nodded in agreement, but Zhu Sen frowned and said: "If it is possible, it is still necessary to convince people with reason, and if the issue is forcibly excluded, I am afraid it will not be convincing." Furthermore, the rule that more is better may not be right. He put the tea in the cup to a little on the table, dipped his index finger a little, drew a large circle on the table, like a cake, looked at the three people with puzzled faces, Zhu Sen said, "If this is the people of the world, if according to the rule of winning by the many and the outnumbered, so the party will fight differently," he pinched his finger in the middle of the circle, drew the circle into two sizes, and then wiped it casually, erasing the smaller semicircle, and said, "Since it is a party dispute, I think it is necessary to cut the grass and eradicate the roots," Then. Dip his index finger in some more tea, draw another one in the remaining half of the circle, divide it into two large and small ones, and then erase the smaller half again, and said coldly, "The situation is getting worse, and there will be no future troubles," and so on and so on three times and twice, until the water circle on the table was too small to be divided again, Zhu Sen stopped and sighed, "If you come a few more times, you can't bear to see it." Public discussion does not convince people with reason, and many are victorious, and take this as a matter of course, in the end, it will gently erase most people, and it will backfire. ”

Although his tone was flat, all the people present understood people, Deng Su lowered his head and said nothing, his eyes looked at the small piece left, and most of the people who had been wiped into a water stain, and there was some fear in his eyes, as if it was not a water stain, but dripping blood. Zhao Xingde's face also became solemn, he sighed, the surprise in his eyes flashed, and he turned to the cloudy sky. He is the minister of the Xia Kingdom, and the Song Dynasty has a great deal of etiquette, and it is okay to listen to it, but if you rashly put your beak in it, you will have no self-knowledge.

"That's the case," Chen Dong's face was grim, he was silent for a long time, sighed, and said, "Brother Zhu thinks, how to deal with it?" ”

"If the rules of public discussion have always prevailed over many, then the great law of etiquette must be restricted, so that the system of public discussion does not become violent with the crowd. Politics. Zhu Sen said slowly, "As for Wu Zilong and others' insistence on the 'Song Rite Law', I think what Lu Fuxiu said is extremely true. People's hearts are free, why not follow the law of etiquette and let anyone choose. I have also read the draft of this "Song Rite Law", which is a temperate discipline, but it is too strict and it is not easy for ordinary people to abide by it. In that case, why not let the choice be made. It was renamed the "Song Rite Law" as the "Qingliu Law", and the sage was willing to use this self-discipline to follow the Song Rite Law. The law that ordinary people abide by is called the "Law of Vulgarity", and it is also the law that people choose by themselves. In this way, you have the best of both worlds. ”