About half an hour later, surrounded by more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs, the Han Empress Feng came slowly.

Zhang Yue hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and said, "The courtier Zhongyi respectfully greets the queen!" ”

"The palace is ......" Empress Wei sat on the top with the support of Chun Yuyang, smiled at Zhang Yue, and ordered to the left and right: "Come here, give a seat to the waiter......"

Zhang Yue then got up and bowed again, and then sat down on the guest seat of Empress Wei's head under the service of a eunuch.

Soon someone brought snacks, wine and meat.

"You don't have to be restrained!" Empress Wei laughed softly: "In Changxin Palace, it can be like a home......

"The queen is very loving, and the ministers are grateful...... Zhang Yue hurriedly got up and thanked him.

"I invited the waiter to come today, but I heard that the waiter had refined the art of Huang Lao, and he knew the method of quiet and inaction, so I invited the waiter to come here and give a lecture for the palace......" Empress Wei smiled: "I don't know if the waiter is willing?" ”

"The queen's order, the minister dare not disobey!" Zhang Yue bowed and said: "It's just that Weichen is shallow in learning, and he really doesn't dare to pretend to be the queen......

Empress Wei said: "The service is too modest, the government and the opposition, who doesn't know, the service learns the heavens and people, reads the theory of a hundred schools, and understands the Huang Lao, Confucianism, and the magic of law?" ”

"Besides, this palace just wants to ask the waiter to explain part of the content of the Tao Te Ching......"

Zhang Yue listened and was silent.

"Tao Te Ching" is the general outline of the Huang Lao School, with far-reaching meaning and infinite wisdom!

In particular, the contemporary Tao Te Ching is not the artificially emasculated version of the later generations.

It is a classic with positive thoughts, high-spiritedness, and full of life wisdom and political wisdom!

For example, in later generations and in many versions today, there is a saying that has been used rottenly: good is like water, and water is indisputable for all things.

However, in the writings circulated by the Huang Lao School, this sentence is wrong.

The correct way to read it is: goodness is like water, and there is contention for water conservancy.

One word difference, the meaning is completely different.

The former is to let people sit back and enjoy their success, making people stick to the old ways, while the latter has a trace of natural selection, the survival of the fittest, even if it is good water that is beneficial to all things, there is also a fight.

Otherwise, if the water is not disputed, how to gather the rivers and the sea.

If the water is really indisputable, how can there be a monstrous flood, and how can there be a tide of rivers and seas?

Wisdom like Lao Tzu, how could he write such a lazy and unenterprising text?

Do you really think that the old Huang school is just lying, waiting, and watching, and only has a prosperous era of Wenjing?

If this is the case, the Han family will not talk about fighting back against the Xiongnu.

I am afraid that now the Central Plains has been reduced to a place of nonsense.

In fact, later Taoism and the contemporary Huang Lao school are two completely different entities.

The former is religious, while the latter is a synthesis of political science, sociology, and military science.

Therefore, Zhang Yue was silent.

Because he didn't know whether he should talk to Empress Wei about the real Tao Te Ching or the version that had been tampered with and distorted by the magicians, magicians, and magic sticks?

The former is obscure, and a person who does not have great wisdom may not be able to comprehend it even if he tells it to him.

And the latter......

Basically, even the farmer's uncle can understand a thing or two.

Empress Wei looked at Zhang Yue's silence, thinking that he had an idea in his heart, so she relieved: "There is no need to be taboo in the service, you can preach ......"

As for Wei Yan?

Anyway, it's been so long, and if you kneel for another hour or two, it should be fine, right?!

Now, the key is to win over Zhang Zizhong!

Do you need to tie the bell to the bell......

Besides......

Empress Wei also has health preservation and self-cultivation needs, and also hopes to live longer.

Zhang Yue listened, bowed his head and said, "Unknown queen, which chapter do you want the minister to say?" ”

"Tao Te Ching" is commonly known in the world, in fact, these are two works of Lao Tzu, combined.

Part A is called the Tao Jing, and Part B is called the De Jing.

Each one is almost 5,000 words, which adds up to about 11,000 words.

It's just that in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, there was a great generous scholar, whose name was: Heshang Gong, who alienated, deleted, and distorted the emperor's masterpiece and ideological program of the Huang Lao School.

As a result, the original version of the Tao Te Ching of later Taoism appeared.

And this Heshang Gong also founded the first Taoist school - Fang Xian Dao.

It mixes and distorts some of the Lao Zhuang doctrines and the thoughts of the Yin and Yang family, advocating alchemy and nourishing qi, being born to seek immortals, and living forever.

It's about how after I became an immortal, who cared about the flood.

As for later generations, the well-known "Tao Te Ching" eighty-one articles have not yet taken shape.

Therefore, Empress Wei listened, was very curious, and asked: "The Tao Te Ching is still divided into chapters?" How come this palace has not heard of it? ”

Zhang Yue listened and said with a smile: "I don't dare to hide it from the queen, the "Tao Te Ching" recited by the minister since childhood is divided into "Tao Jing" and "Tao Jing", the former describes the way of self-cultivation and health preservation of the holy kings and sages, and the latter speaks of the virtue of the inner saint and the outer king, and the inner king and the outer tyrant!" ”

"It is the study of self-cultivation and governing the country and rejuvenating the world......"

Empress Wei listened, looking confused.

She can't be blamed for that.

It was really after Yuanguang, and with the Empress Dowager Dou going, the Huang Lao School entered a very embarrassing situation.

As a result, scholars gradually withered and elites gradually decayed.

Later, because of the rebellion of Liu An, the king of Huainan, Lu Bushu almost wiped out the remaining elites.

The remnants had no choice but to blend into the ranks of Confucianism and pretend to be Confucian students.

He even degenerated into the likes of alchemists and warlocks, and became the pioneers of Taoism.

The old Huang politician, who was once close to the center of power, died in Huaiyang with Ji Di's illness and withered away.

In the court of the Han family, there has been no real Huang Lao scholar for at least thirty years.

On the contrary, all kinds of alchemists, indiscriminate and indiscriminate, mingled in the court.

Empress Wei was born at the bottom, but the singer of the Pingyang Hou Mansion has not received much education since she was a child, and by the time she became the queen, the elite of the Huang Lao School had already disappeared.

When she is old, the only "Tao Te Ching" she can find is the version of the river gong annotated by the magicians.

As a result, the bad money succeeded in driving out the good money.

In the original history, the Huang Lao School and their ideological propositions withered and shattered, and no one heard of them anymore - not to mention the so-called celebrities who talked about the Tao of the two Jin Dynasty, these scum were not even qualified to give Zhang Liangxiao, He Cao, and Zhang Cang shoes to the Wangling!

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Yue became excited.

Why did the Huang Lao School and Huang Lao Thought of the Han Dynasty rule for the first 60 years?

In addition to the support and support of the founding ministers, the support of the queen mothers is also crucial!

Empress Lu, Empress Bo, and Empress Dou were all staunch supporters and defenders of Huang Lao's thought.

If you can influence Empress Wei, let Empress Wei also accept Huang Lao's thoughts......

Maybe it can turn the tables around......

At the very least, it can bring Huang Lao's thoughts back to his soul and leave seeds for future generations.

Thinking like this, Zhang Yue looked at Empress Wei seriously and asked again: "Unknown queen, do you want to listen to the way of self-cultivation and health preservation in the world, or is it the virtue of the inner saint and the outer king, the inner king and the outer tyrant?" ”

When Empress Wei heard this, she looked left and right, and found that no one understood, so she thought about it for herself and said, "Then please talk about the way of governing the world and cultivating one's health......

The inner saint and the outer king, the inner king and the outer tyrant, this kind of thing is too complicated.

Empress Wei doesn't want to touch these things now.

Zhang Yue listened, smiled slightly, and said: "Lao Tzu said: Tao, but Tao!" Very Dao also! Name, name, name, very name. No, the name of the beginning of all things, yes, the name of the mother of all things, also ......"

Empress Wei listened, and a light gradually flashed in her eyes.

Especially when she chewed it carefully, she was deeply attracted by the ideas and artistic conceptions in it.

At her age, at this point.

What is needed is no longer a means of competing for favor, fighting for beauty, and playing black.

It is to cultivate virtue and hope, to unite the upper and lower levels, to make friends with courtiers, to be stable, and to precipitate.

And what Zhang Yue said has a profound meaning and lasts forever, the more I think about it, the more I feel it, and the more I listen to it, the more it makes sense.

After listening to Zhang Yue's first words, Empress Wei sighed: "What Qing said is completely different from what this palace has heard in the past, and it seems to be completely different, and it has no ......meaning."

Although, it's just a few words of difference, and it's not even a change in order.

But what is revealed is very different.

In the past, Empress Wei has always wondered that although this "Tao Te Ching" is also a truth, the most good word.

But I always feel a little awkward, and it doesn't quite match my own heart.

Now, Empress Wei finally knows why this is so.

In the past, the Tao Te Ching talked about not fighting, not doing, and not fighting.

In everything, harmony is precious.

This can make her feel the same way, so she can call it a ghost!

She is Wei Zifu, the Wei Zifu who went from a singer to a queen.

Born in the family of Pingyang Hou's house slave, a lowly daughter who doesn't even know who her father is.

Relying on her own wisdom, skill and planning, she has come to this day, and she is still firmly seated as the queen of the Han Dynasty, and has experienced more than a dozen beauties who are younger and more beautiful than her, gentle and considerate, smart and skillful, and are challenged by beauties from all over the world, and still sit firmly in the back of the throne!

It's not the kind of silly white sweet who was born with a golden key in his mouth and had a smooth journey.

Her life is a history book of strife.

Fight with people, fight with heaven, fight with courtiers.

She is a woman who overcame her fate and changed her life.

Now, although I am old, I want to cultivate myself, change my image, and create a kind, kind, and virtuous person.

But......

They are also unwilling to bow their heads to others easily and retreat in the face of pressure and threats.

Pretending she can do it.

But nature cannot be changed!

Now, what Zhang Yue said has opened a new door for her.

It turns out that there is still such an operation?

It turns out that this can still be done?!

Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!

Lots of work, lots of tricks!

"Tao Te Ching" is indeed worthy of the three generations of the Han family's queen mother, and the most respected and wise sayings!

This made Empress Wei feel really enjoyable and agreed.

Zhang Yue listened and replied: "The queen doesn't know, Lao Tzu's work, the original intention is to expound the road of the Book of Changes, the reason of all things, and the way of the world!" ”

"And "Yi" cloud: Tianxingjian gentleman is self-reliant, and the terrain Kun gentleman is kind to carry things, so don't use the hidden dragon, see the dragon in the field, the dragon is in the sky, and the dragon has regrets!"

"Lao Tzu knows it, but he does the two classics of "Morality", expounding that there is a struggle for the sake of the Buddha, all things are contentious, and the way of natural selection is ......"

Empress Wei listened, nodded, and said: "This palace knows that there are the best words in the world, and the most reasonable words are also!" ”

Obviously, history proves that the empress and queen mothers of the Han Dynasty have zero immunity in the face of Huang Lao's thought and Huang Lao's theory!

They are naturally easy to accept and understand Huang Lao's thoughts.

The reason is that every generation of queens and queen mothers since the beginning of Empress Lu has been women who have won the competition with people, the sky, and the world, and then stepped onto the pinnacle of power.

Huang Lao's thought, for them, is not just a programmatic guiding ideology.

It is also a spiritual pillar and a source of faith.

As long as you get in touch, there is no reason to refuse.

It is not only the Huang Lao School that needs them, but they also need the guidance and guidance of Huang Lao's thoughts.

So, Empress Wei completely left Wei Yan behind, and seriously asked Zhang Yue for advice on Huang Lao's morality, the way to be quiet and do nothing.

Zhang Yue naturally didn't miss the opportunity to pick something that could resonate with Empress Wei.

For example, "those who know are wise, and those who speak are wise", and "governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and the way is to conquer the world", of course, there is also the intention not to say some incorrect words, bypassing those philosophical ideas that may turn back the clock on history.

But I heard Empress Wei nodding her head constantly, and her curiosity skyrocketed.

So, poor Wei Yan, at the gate of the Jiaofang Palace, knelt from morning until noon.

The eyes of the kneeling are dizzy, the kneeling knees are swollen, and the kneeling is numb.

Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer, snapped, fell to the ground, and became a dead dog completely.

When the eunuch who guarded him saw it, he was frightened and hurriedly went to the Jiaofang Palace to inform Empress Wei, but he didn't dare to take matters into his own hands and carried him indoors.