Chapter 217, What is the royal road?
The negotiations with Zuo Liangyu were quite smooth, and Zuo Liangyu did not feel guilty about human trafficking, so the two sides quickly reached an agreement on strengthening bilateral ties in a sincere and friendly atmosphere in order to achieve win-win cooperation. The Zheng family agreed to provide Zuo Liangyu with all kinds www.biquge.info of goods and services at preferential prices, and Zuo Liangyu also assured the Zheng family that they could provide the Zheng family with the special goods they needed on time and in quantity, and that the Zheng family's goods could circulate freely in the area controlled by Zuo Liangyu safely and without discrimination. The two sides also agreed to jointly fund the establishment of a large-scale talent exchange center in Wuchang, and each side will send relevant personnel to participate in the management and operation.
After agreeing on these basic guidelines, Zheng Sen did not need to take care of the rest. So Zheng Sen was idle, and on this day, Zheng Sen took Li Xiangjun with him, invited Kong Zhang, and chartered a painting boat on East Lake and boated on it.
"Oki, Kimisuke. This East Lake was the place where Qu Zi often chanted. Kong Zhang sat by the window, holding a wine glass in one hand, pointing to the lake in the other hand and facing Zheng Sen and Li Xiangjun and said, "Look at the Moshan over there, the ancestors of the Three Kingdoms also built an altar on it to worship the sky. ”
Because Li Xiangjun is still dressed as a man and still claims to be surnamed Li Mingxiang, Kong Zhang naturally asked about her cousin. Li Xiangjun now made up the word "Junfu" as his own expression. In ancient times, a person's expression was always related to the meaning of the name. The word Xiang has a common meaning of auxiliary, so Li Xiangjun gave himself such a table word.
Zheng Sen didn't know if Kong Zhang saw that Li Xiangjun was a woman, but he felt that Kong Zhang should have seen it, because when Li Xiangjun was present, he would never talk about those gentlemen topics. But since Kong Zhang pretended not to see it, everyone also pretended not to see it.
"Da Mu, on the Yellow Crane Tower that day, your sword is really beautiful!" Kong Zhang said again.
"I was born in a general's family, although I don't dare to say that I am proficient in all the eighteen kinds of martial arts, but I have practiced some common things a little." Zheng Sen said, "It's Brother Bangui, I watched Brother Bangui dodge those plates and saucers on the Yellow Crane Tower that day, and it can be called like a rabbit." Brother Bangui is afraid that he has also practiced martial arts, right? ”
"I've learned a little from Fu Qingzhu." Kong Zhang replied, "At that time, my father went to Beijing to take the examination, so he took me to Beijing to see the world. My father used to say, 'Read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles', and he didn't want me to become a nerd who could only read and read dead books, so he would always take me with him when he had the opportunity to go out. As a result, that year in the Beijing Division, there was an incident in which Shanxi Zhusheng shouted for Mr. Yuan Linhou. At that time, I liked to join in the fun, so I participated in it, and as a result, I met Fu Dingchen and Fu Qingzhu, who took the lead. Does Da Mu know about this person? ”
"Mr. Fu Qingzhu avenged his teacher's grievances and fought against the traitorous ministers, which is spread all over the world, how can I not hear about it?" Zheng Sen said, "It's just that I didn't have a chance to see each other." Of course, Zheng Sen knew Fu Dingchen Fu Qingzhu, or Fu Qingzhu (later Fu Dingchen changed his name to Fu Shan and changed the word Qingzhu). He had heard of this man when he was a schoolboy in his previous life. But this is not because he avenged his teacher, but because in many martial arts novels, Fu Qingzhu is a top hero. Later, as he grew older, Zheng Sen learned more and more about Fu Shan, and gradually came to know that he was not only a martial artist, but also a medical scientist who could leave a strong mark in the history of Chinese medicine, an important calligrapher, and a Taoist thinker. This person is a rare all-rounder in Chinese history, and he is proficient in philosophy, medicine, Confucianism, Buddhism, poetry, calligraphy, painting, gold and stone, research, and martial arts.
Kong Zhang listened and said, "If you want to say Damu, if you have a chance, you should really get to know this Mr. Fu Qingzhu." Kong has seen two of the most interesting and talented characters so far, one is you, and the other is Mr. Fu Qingzhu. Well, if you meet, you'll hit it off at first sight. It's just that Mr. Fu Qingzhu is still in Shanxi now, and it's a bit chaotic over there. In the past, it often takes more than half a year to write a letter. ”
"It's really not very stable in Shanxi, and gentlemen don't stand under the wall. What is Mr. Fu doing in Shanxi now? Zheng Sen asked.
"Mr. Fu is now serving his mother in his hometown in Taiyuan. At the same time, he also studied some knowledge. After all, Taiyuan is a provincial capital, and it is quite stable. Kong Zhang said, "By the way, last time I was on the Yellow Crane Tower, I wanted to ask Damu some questions about you, but I was interrupted." Now that I'm fine, I can ask you for advice. ”
"Don't dare to be." Zheng Sen replied.
"I see in your book that it mentions that living things must be able to reproduce faster than nature can provide food. And nature relies on high mortality rates to maintain balance. This calculation can also be used for personnel purposes. In the explanation, you talked about why most dynasties in the world only have a three-hundred-year national ancestry, and this is the basic reason. This one looks very different from what we've learned before. Doesn't this mean that as long as it reaches 300 years, it is useless to practice benevolent government or anything? Kong Zhang asked.
"How can it be useless to practice benevolence? The key is what it means to be benevolent. Zheng Sen replied, "I don't know what Brother Bangui thinks is Xingrenzheng?" ”
"Isn't it just a martial arts cultivation, emphasizing morality and light punishment, lightly taxing, cultivating with the people, and not competing with the people for profit?" Kong Zhang said.
When Zheng Sen heard this, he shook his head with a smile and said, "Mencius said: 'It is the property of the people of the old Ming monarchy, and it will make Yang enough to serve his parents, and he will be able to live for his wife, and he will be full for life, and he will be free from death in his fierce years; Then drive it to goodness, and the people will follow it lightly. It is benevolent government to be able to 'control the property of the people' and make the people's property 'worthy of their parents, and their wives to live, and to be full of life and free from death in their evil years'. Where is it not a tax or a benevolent government? For example, if this field is trampled at will, it will naturally not grow crops, but just if it does not trample on the crops, can it be regarded as farming? If a farmer just doesn't trample on the crops and doesn't care about other things, then as a farmer, he can only be said to be eating in the corpse. However, those who serve the country think that as long as they do not disturb the people, they are practicing benevolent government. Can this also be called benevolent? Isn't this the same as a corpse vegetarian meal? This is also the difference between the way of the sage and the theory of Huang Laozhi. ”
Kong Zhang listened, thought for a while, and said: "I still don't understand, I hope Mr. will teach me clearly." ”
"Mencius said: 'A house of five acres is made of mulberry trees, and fifty people can be clothed.' Chickens, guineas, dogs, and animals, if there is no time, the seventy can eat meat. A hundred acres of land, don't take it away, a family of a few people, you can be hungry. 'At the time of Mencius, a family of several people had to have a hundred acres of land in order to be free from hunger. It is the 'beginning of the royal road' to enable the people to have a hundred acres of land, and without this, it cannot be said that they can walk the royal road. In today's world, the method of cultivating the fields and the crops cultivated have all improved, and a few families can have dozens of acres of dry land or more than ten acres of paddy fields, and there will be no hunger. Whoever desires to do good government in the world today must first give the people such a land, and then speak of something else. Otherwise, there is a benevolent government? ”
"The fields in the world are limited, and everyone in Aneng has so many fields?" Kong Zhang asked.
"Brother Bangui, the world when King Wu, the world when Duke Zhou, and even the world when the First Emperor and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were all ordinary?" Zheng Sen asked.
Kong Zhang thought for a while and said: "After Zhou Gong was divided, it was bigger than when King Wu was sealed, and then it became bigger and bigger. Oki, do you mean to open the edge? To be able to open the side is the king of benevolence? Then why is there an irony since ancient times that 'the border court bleeds into the sea, and the martial emperor opens the border without intention'? ”
"The key is what the edge is for. If it is obtained from the opening of the border, it is all the Gobi Desert and cannot be used as the land of the people. Such an opening is naturally scolded. Zheng Sen replied, "Besides, Brother Bangui, how does Confucius comment on Guan Zhong?" ”
Kong Zhang said: "Confucius always manages the virtue of the middle, and the merit of the big pipe." ”
"What is Guan Zhong's merit?" Zheng Sen immediately asked.
"Guan Zhong Xianghuan Gong, tyranny princes, a Kuang world, the people have been given by it today. Microtubule Zhong, I belong to the left side of the hair. Kong Zhang replied without thinking.
"Good!" Zheng Sen said, "Guan Zhong's life's politics is nothing more than 'respecting the king'." However, those who 'respect the king' are false, but the 'disgrace' is real. In the past, when the Zhou rites were not declining, the Duke of Zhou practiced the feudal road and shared the merits of the four wildernesses and established the country. The other country was built, there was Xia Jun, but outside the capital, they were all barbarians. And the barbarian slash-and-burn cultivation cannot live a single person in hundreds of acres. Xia Junjiao's cultivation is a hundred acres of land and can live a few families. In this way, the people of China and the barbarians can all have the land to live on. In this way, the land of the world is expanding day by day, and the people can have a field of health and death. Then the implementation of ritual music, a hundred years down, razed into summer. Therefore, the Duke of Zhou, the saint also; The way of Zhou Gong, the way of the sage. Later generations learn from its feudalism, do not understand the essentials, and every time it corrupts the world, it is ridiculous! After the decay of the Zhou rites, and the barbarians failed to turn into more than the people of China, the princes of the world have no strength, can not work together, repeatedly turned against the defeat of Yidi, and then there is a Xia into the trend of Yi, and Guan Zhong, together with the princes, the Yi, a Kuang world, so that the benevolent government of the Duke of Zhou will not be defeated, is called by Confucius. ”
"But there is no uncultivated land in the world that has not been cultivated?" Kong Zhang asked again.
"Why is it that there is no uncultivated land in the world that has not been cultivated?" Zheng Sen asked rhetorically, "When Emperor Shun was in the past, there were floods everywhere, and there were so many fertile fields?" Even where there is no flood, it is also the basis for sealing pigs and snakes. Dayu cast nine tripods, inscriptions, and the people were identified to expel the beasts. Three through the door of the house without entering, open the mountain to divert the water, in order to discharge the flood, change the heaven and the earth, there is today's good land. At the time of Shennong's family, the people did not know what things could be eaten, and things could be cultivated, when how to cultivate, Shennong's family tried to do it, and there was a method of farming. If Dayu, if Shennong, or can make the people's fields more and wider, or can make the fields multiply, it is all the people who have no regrets about their health and death, so as to educate them. This party is benevolent government, and the party is the royal road! If you don't trample on the politics of farmland, where will you go? Besides, the world is so big that no one who lives in the study can do it. Half Gui Brother Guan a certain book, when you know that now such as the Nanyang Islands, such as the Americas, barren forests everywhere, there are many pigs and long snakes, just like when Emperor Shun was born; There are all kinds of grains and fruits that no one has seen, and they can all be satisfied, just like when Shennong was in time; The people of that place, slash-and-burn, hundreds of acres still can't live a person, just like when Dayu was in time. This is to imitate the sages, practice benevolent government, and turn raze into summer, is there a place to do the royal way? ”
"I see!" Kong Zhang asked again: "I heard that Mr. made people buy the homeless, but for this matter?" ”
Zheng Sen nodded.
"Sir, you know that the ancient saints can walk the royal way, and they have a position. Mr. Jin wants to do it, but there is no position, can he do it? Kong Zhang asked again.
Zheng Sen knew that Kong Zhang meant to ask: Do benevolent government and follow the royal road, the premise is that you are the Son of Heaven. Now that you are not the Son of Heaven, and you are doing this, is this not transgression? So he stood up and sighed and said, "Knowing that I sin against me is only spring and autumn." ”
Kong Zhang listened, stood up, straightened his clothes, and then bowed down and said: "The last school is the last, and I am willing to swim from Mr., but Mr. will not abandon him as a boy." ”