Chapter 11: What is the best class in the world?

[The strange words of the Mai Taoist priest attracted by a sparrow; Wang Yangming's 12-year-old "world's first class" shocked the world. 】

Then Zhuzi's disaster came. In the second year of Qingyuan, the "party ban" officially occurred, and Shen Jizu, the superintendent of the imperial history, impeached Zhu Zi for the "Ten Crimes" by chasing the wind and shadows, moving flowers and trees, and reversing fabrications, so a cruel liquidation rarely seen in history was set off.

Zhu Zi was denounced as the "leader of pseudo-learning", and some people even put forward a terrifying suggestion of "beheading Zhu Xi to eliminate pseudo-learning".

Subsequently, Zhu Zi was dismissed from office for the crime of pseudo-learning. At the same time, the exile of Zhuzi's disciples and the imprisonment of those who were in prison were severely hit.

At this time, Zhu Zi's physical condition was not good, foot disease was great, and at the same time the left eye was blind, and the right eye was almost completely blind, at the time of this catastrophe, Zhu Zi first calmly accepted the persecution of the imperial court to him, seized the time to lecture, and completed all the works of his life, his only wish at this time is to promote the Tao, to make the Taoist successor.

My father said that the place for a learner to refine his mind is when he is on the line of life and death, and he must be able to trust the principles of heaven and keep his heart in the most difficult times.

I said indignantly: "Why did the imperial court persecute Zhu Zi, is there any heavenly reason? ”

The father said indifferently: "You have to remember a sentence, 'The Tao is high and slanderous, and the virtue is ruined'." The Book of Changes says that "the first gentleman and the second villain" are the truth, the gentleman is few, the villain is many, and the husband should accept it calmly for adversity, and the true morality will be seriously injured by evil, which is the law of nature. ”

I asked, "What laws of nature?" ”

My father said, "One yin and one yang is the Tao." ”

At this point, I admired a great sage like Zhu Zi, and I secretly decided that I would also become a saint like Zhu Zi.

At this time, a strange thing happened that made me have a subconscious of sanctification.

On this day, I had nothing to do to go to the market. When I saw someone selling sparrows, I was so excited that I wanted to buy one. But I didn't have any money with me, so I begged the man to give me the sparrows first, and then give him money. Unexpectedly, this person not only didn't give it, but also humiliated me, I couldn't control myself for a while, so I quarreled with him.

At this time, a Taoist priest passed by, looked me up and down, and then paid for a sparrow and gave it to me.

I only heard someone in the crowd shouting: "Isn't this Mai Shenxiangdao?" ”

The crowd was in a commotion, and the Taoist priest took my hand and said to everyone: "Get out of the way, let me tell you, this son will become a great weapon one day, and he should build a very meritorious name." ”

Then he took me to a secluded place and spoke to me and told me to repeat it for the rest of my life. "It must be swept away, and then it will enter the holy realm; It must go to the Dantai, and then the holy womb will be born; It must go to the lower dantian, when the holy fruit is round. ”

When he left, he instructed me: "Children should study and love themselves, and what I say will be fulfilled in the future." ”

When I recalled the Taoist priest I met when I was five years old and the Taoist land I am today, I suddenly had an extraordinary feeling.

Since then, I have devoted myself to studying, and my grandfather and father were amazed at my transformation, but they did not want to know my secrets.

In this way, under the teachings of my father and the hint of the Dao soil, the will of a saint in my heart was established.

Then, when I was 12 years old, I followed my father's orders and went to a private school in the capital.

One day, I suddenly asked my husband, "What is the world that is done by the first people?" ”

The teacher said: "Wei Ke Gaodi, showing his relatives and fame like respecting the public, is the first class of people." ”

At that time, I shook my head and said, "Wei Ke Gaodi is always there, is it the first class in the world?" ”

The teacher exclaimed: "According to the opinion of the child, what is the first thing?" ”

I raised my head and said, "Only the sages are the first." ”

After hearing this, my father smiled and said, "The ambition of a son is so extravagant."

My private school teacher's surname is Zheng, and he is a jinshi from the same township and subject as my father, and his knowledge and character are actually quite powerful.

When he saw that I didn't care about my father's title, he focused on the concept again.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the top three in each imperial examination, that is, the first-class jinshi, all stayed in the Hanlin Academy as historians, and the champion was awarded for revision, and Bangyan and Tanhua were awarded for editing. Although this revision was only from the sixth rank of the official, it was an extremely important position at that time.

Since the orthodox years of Yingzong, the court teaching system has been formed, that is, the "sutra feast" and "daily lecture" system, which stipulates that the two days, the twelfth and twenty-second days of the first month of each month are the "sutra feast" days, and every single day is the "daily lecture".

During the "Sutra Banquet" and "Daily Lecture", the emperor listened to the lectures of scholars and Hanlin officials in the Wenhua Palace, and my father won the title in the 17th year of Xianzong's Chenghua, and soon became the daily lecturer of the emperor, and six years later, he became a veritable official of the emperor's "scripture feast".

Mr. told me a secret, since the first year of Xuanzong Xuande, there has been an inner study hall in the inner palace to train the ability of the little eunuchs to participate in politics.

After the orthodoxy, the palm seals and pen eunuchs of the most powerful Yamen priests in the inner palace were mostly served by eunuchs from the inner study hall. According to a good friend of my father, who is also his fellow villager and colleague, my father also served as a teacher in the Inner Shutang.

As he was talking, Mr. high-fived and said, "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived." ”

I saw a scholar in his twenties, with a thin appearance, into our room, and after the two exchanged pleasantries, when he knew that I was Wang Hua's son, he said: "You are the fairy who sent his son, spoke at the age of five, and showed poetry at the age of ten?" ”

He asked me about my studies and interests, and we had a good conversation. I remember him saying, "You are very smart, and the future must be limitless." ”

At this point, he suddenly sighed, and Mr. asked, "Brother Fang, what are you sighing for?" ”

Fang Zheng sighed: "I have a student now, and he is also a very intelligent and talented person, but unfortunately this person has a bad heart and ......."

The gentleman asked, "And what?" ”

Fang Zheng sighed: "And he is a eunuch, if one day he succeeds, I don't know how many people will suffer." ”

I asked, "What's his name?" ”

Fang Zheng said: "His name is Liu Jin. ”

Since then, the name has been imprinted in my mind.

Fang Zheng said again: "I often tell Liu Jin about your father Wang Hua's personality and knowledge, Liu Jin really wants to know your father, and it is estimated that this opportunity will come soon." ”

The gentleman asked, "Why?" ”

I couldn't help but say, "If I were Liu Jin, I would definitely have a way to get to know my father." ”

When Mr. Fang Zheng told him that I didn't care about my father's champion, Fang Zheng said: "Bo'an, you are wrong, the champion is one every three years, and the Ming Dynasty has thirty-three subjects since the opening of the department in the fourth year of Hongwu, which means that there are only thirty-three champions." ”

I sneered in my heart: "Thirty-three, what a way!" ”

But Fangzheng's prophecy was soon fulfilled.

[The strange words of the Mai Taoist priest attracted by a sparrow; Wang Yangming's 12-year-old "world's first class" shocked the world. 】

Then Zhuzi's disaster came. In the second year of Qingyuan, the "party ban" officially occurred, and Shen Jizu, the superintendent of the imperial history, impeached Zhu Zi for the "Ten Crimes" by chasing the wind and shadows, moving flowers and trees, and reversing fabrications, so a cruel liquidation rarely seen in history was set off.

Zhu Zi was denounced as the "leader of pseudo-learning", and some people even put forward a terrifying suggestion of "beheading Zhu Xi to eliminate pseudo-learning".

Subsequently, Zhu Zi was dismissed from office for the crime of pseudo-learning. At the same time, the exile of Zhuzi's disciples and the imprisonment of those who were in prison were severely hit.

At this time, Zhu Zi's physical condition was not good, foot disease was great, and at the same time the left eye was blind, and the right eye was almost completely blind, at the time of this catastrophe, Zhu Zi first calmly accepted the persecution of the imperial court to him, seized the time to lecture, and completed all the works of his life, his only wish at this time is to promote the Tao, to make the Taoist successor.

My father said that the place for a learner to refine his mind is when he is on the line of life and death, and he must be able to trust the principles of heaven and keep his heart in the most difficult times.

I said indignantly: "Why did the imperial court persecute Zhu Zi, is there any heavenly reason? ”

The father said indifferently: "You have to remember a sentence, 'The Tao is high and slanderous, and the virtue is ruined'." The Book of Changes says that "the first gentleman and the second villain" are the truth, the gentleman is few, the villain is many, and the husband should accept it calmly for adversity, and the true morality will be seriously injured by evil, which is the law of nature. ”

I asked, "What laws of nature?" ”

My father said, "One yin and one yang is the Tao." ”

At this point, I admired a great sage like Zhu Zi, and I secretly decided that I would also become a saint like Zhu Zi.

At this time, a strange thing happened that made me have a subconscious of sanctification.

On this day, I had nothing to do to go to the market. When I saw someone selling sparrows, I was so excited that I wanted to buy one. But I didn't have any money with me, so I begged the man to give me the sparrows first, and then give him money. Unexpectedly, this person not only didn't give it, but also humiliated me, I couldn't control myself for a while, so I quarreled with him.

At this time, a Taoist priest passed by, looked me up and down, and then paid for a sparrow and gave it to me.

I only heard someone in the crowd shouting: "Isn't this Mai Shenxiangdao?" ”

The crowd was in a commotion, and the Taoist priest took my hand and said to everyone: "Get out of the way, let me tell you, this son will become a great weapon one day, and he should build a very meritorious name." ”

Then he took me to a secluded place and spoke to me and told me to repeat it for the rest of my life. "It must be swept away, and then it will enter the holy realm; It must go to the Dantai, and then the holy womb will be born; It must go to the lower dantian, when the holy fruit is round. ”

When he left, he instructed me: "Children should study and love themselves, and what I say will be fulfilled in the future." ”

When I recalled the Taoist priest I met when I was five years old and the Taoist land I am today, I suddenly had an extraordinary feeling.

Since then, I have devoted myself to studying, and my grandfather and father were amazed at my transformation, but they did not want to know my secrets.

In this way, under the teachings of my father and the hint of the Dao soil, the will of a saint in my heart was established.

Then, when I was 12 years old, I followed my father's orders and went to a private school in the capital.

One day, I suddenly asked my husband, "What is the world that is done by the first people?" ”

The teacher said: "Wei Ke Gaodi, showing his relatives and fame like respecting the public, is the first class of people." ”

At that time, I shook my head and said, "Wei Ke Gaodi is always there, is it the first class in the world?" ”

The teacher exclaimed: "According to the opinion of the child, what is the first thing?" ”

I raised my head and said, "Only the sages are the first." ”

After hearing this, my father smiled and said, "The ambition of a son is so extravagant."

My private school teacher's surname is Zheng, and he is a jinshi from the same township and subject as my father, and his knowledge and character are actually quite powerful.

When he saw that I didn't care about my father's title, he focused on the concept again.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the top three in each imperial examination, that is, the first-class jinshi, all stayed in the Hanlin Academy as historians, and the champion was awarded for revision, and Bangyan and Tanhua were awarded for editing. Although this revision was only from the sixth rank of the official, it was an extremely important position at that time.

Since the orthodox years of Yingzong, the court teaching system has been formed, that is, the "sutra feast" and "daily lecture" system, which stipulates that the two days, the twelfth and twenty-second days of the first month of each month are the "sutra feast" days, and every single day is the "daily lecture".

During the "Sutra Banquet" and "Daily Lecture", the emperor listened to the lectures of scholars and Hanlin officials in the Wenhua Palace, and my father won the title in the 17th year of Xianzong's Chenghua, and soon became the daily lecturer of the emperor, and six years later, he became a veritable official of the emperor's "scripture feast".

Mr. told me a secret, since the first year of Xuanzong Xuande, there has been an inner study hall in the inner palace to train the ability of the little eunuchs to participate in politics.

After the orthodoxy, the palm seals and pen eunuchs of the most powerful Yamen priests in the inner palace were mostly served by eunuchs from the inner study hall. According to a good friend of my father, who is also his fellow villager and colleague, my father also served as a teacher in the Inner Shutang.

As he was talking, Mr. high-fived and said, "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived." ”

I saw a scholar in his twenties, with a thin appearance, into our room, and after the two exchanged pleasantries, when he knew that I was Wang Hua's son, he said: "You are the fairy who sent his son, spoke at the age of five, and showed poetry at the age of ten?" ”

He asked me about my studies and interests, and we had a good conversation. I remember him saying, "You are very smart, and the future must be limitless." ”

At this point, he suddenly sighed, and Mr. asked, "Brother Fang, what are you sighing for?" ”

Fang Zheng sighed: "I have a student now, and he is also a very intelligent and talented person, but unfortunately this person has a bad heart and ......."

The gentleman asked, "And what?" ”

Fang Zheng sighed: "And he is a eunuch, if one day he succeeds, I don't know how many people will suffer." ”

I asked, "What's his name?" ”

Fang Zheng said: "His name is Liu Jin. ”

Since then, the name has been imprinted in my mind.

Fang Zheng said again: "I often tell Liu Jin about your father Wang Hua's personality and knowledge, Liu Jin really wants to know your father, and it is estimated that this opportunity will come soon." ”

The gentleman asked, "Why?" ”

I couldn't help but say, "If I were Liu Jin, I would definitely have a way to get to know my father." ”

When Mr. Fang Zheng told him that I didn't care about my father's champion, Fang Zheng said: "Bo'an, you are wrong, the champion is one every three years, and the Ming Dynasty has thirty-three subjects since the opening of the department in the fourth year of Hongwu, which means that there are only thirty-three champions." ”

I sneered in my heart: "Thirty-three, what a way!" ”

But Fangzheng's prophecy was soon fulfilled.