Chapter 61: The Dragon Gate Treatise

As soon as the door opened in the morning, Wuhua walked out of the door and ran towards the entrance of the village.

Since everyone knows that the five flowers can be ridden, the five flowers and Lou Shide and a few friends have a new game, to the entrance of the village, early waiting for a few people of the five flowers to gently top the little ones one by one, four or five babies will ride on its back and slowly carry a few people to the yard to class, at first the villagers still feel fresh, and after a long time to get used to it.

Now Xiao Zheng doesn't walk when he goes to Xiao Hai's house, so he shouts at Wuhua, makes Xiao Hai hit a pair of saddle pigtails, and goes out of the village to pat Wuhua's neck and run fast and steadily. Once Xiao Zheng deliberately let the five flowers run away and ran once, and found that this little guy was not slower than a horse at all, and more importantly, he was steady, which caught up with the fighters in the herd.

With such a baby car, not only Jin'er likes it, but Xiao Zheng is also overjoyed. In order to praise the five flowers, Xiao Zheng specially made an itchy brush for the five flowers, every time he rode back from the outside of the five flowers, it stretched its neck and waited, when Xiao Zheng tickled it, the little guy would close his eyes comfortably, and it seemed to be very enjoyable.

Wuhua is not for everyone to ride, Jin'er and Xiao Zheng can, a group of babies can also do, as long as others want to ride, Wuhua will turn the horns to face people.

Once Ershunzi took advantage of the five flowers to run up inattention, and the five flowers jumped three times and two times to turn the two straights upside down, and it wasn't over, chasing the top of the two straights. Xiao Zheng couldn't stop it, and chased Er Shunzi to the wall, but the result was that Er Shunzi fed five flowers a good meal of grass and flattered and scratched for a long time before it was over, Xiao Hai, who witnessed the whole incident, sat on the ground and covered his stomach, and he didn't have much to hurt Er Shunzi, so angry that Er Shun blew his beard and stared.

The white frost stained the ground, and the trees were killed, except for the wheat in Zhang Shun's more than 300 acres of fields, which showed green, and the mountains and fields were all withered and yellow. Riding the five flowers to Zhang Shun's newly opened brick kiln, the old guy is really not blowing, except for the beginning of the charcoal burning bricks did not master the heat, the first two kilns out of some waste, now basically a kiln kiln good bricks out, took more than a dozen money to the old Zhang Shun these first to open some wages to encourage everyone to cheer, the old guy proudly said that this time next year, the bricks of the two villages to build a house he all.

After coming back, I saw Xiao's mother and Jin'er, and said that I was not busy now, and I wanted to go to Longmen, Jiangzhou, Shanxi, to take a trip, first, to pay tribute to the priest's last wish for the master, and secondly, I wanted to go out to experience it, Xiao Zheng knew that he had been in Datang for more than a year, and the scope of activities was too small, and he just happened to see the customs of Datang when he went out for a walk.

Xiao Mu and Jin'er also supported Xiao Zheng to go out to have a look, and Xiao Hai volunteered to stand up after hearing this letter and said that he wanted to follow. The reason is very simple, it is inconvenient for you to be alone, in case you can't deal with one or two gangsters like in Chang'an, my brother and I can protect you with this ability, Xiao Zheng agreed after hearing it.

On the way, Xiao Hai consciously tried the foot strength of the five flowers, but he didn't expect that the five flowers were not slower than Xiao Hai's horse, and looked at Xiao Zheng sitting on the back of the ox more steadily than on the horse, which made Xiao Hai very envious, and said that Xiao Zheng was lucky, God sent a god to him as a mount, Xiao Zheng also smiled faintly after hearing it.

Seven days later, when I arrived at Jiangzhou Longmen, I learned that my ancestor was a big family in Longmen, and there was quite a bit of "loess royal family" momentum in the local area.

Entering the most prosperous street in the city, seeing the crowd of people on the road, bustling, there is a three-layer stone carved archway at the entrance of the street, about five zhang high, three rooms wide, looking majestic and majestic from afar. The archway is not far from a large courtyard, the black lacquer door leaf is equipped with a pair of large copper rings of Jiaotu Beast Street, the word "Wangfu" on the door is particularly eye-catching, look at the scale of the yard to know that this family has the heritage of Ding Xingwang's wealth.

Walking up the steps and letting the doorkeeper say goodbye, a moment later, an old man with a slender figure and dressed as a scribe walked out, looked at Xiao Zheng and asked, "Are you a disciple of Li Wenbo?" Xiao Zheng stepped forward and saluted and said, "No, it's just a kid." Brought the two into the door, and saw that the middle hall facing the door was written with three big words "To the middle hall", which was written by a famous master at a glance, Xiao Zheng couldn't help but look at it twice.

After entering the middle hall to let the family serve tea, Lao You said: "The old man Wang Ji is the head of this family and the younger brother of your ancestor, Brother Wenbo has always been good?" After Xiao Zheng saw the ceremony, he briefly talked about the master's situation, which made Wang Ji sigh after hearing it.

Then the old man asked about Li Wenbo's past, and Xiao Zheng also answered them one by one. When Xiao Zheng told the old man about this visit, the old man was a little excited when he listened, and sighed and said that when your master was studying in Niuxi, your master was most optimistic about your master, so he accepted him as a closed disciple.

Seeing that it was getting late, the three of them moved to the dining room, Xiao Zheng saw a young man of the same age as himself waiting, Wang Ji smiled and said to Xiao Zheng: "This child is the old man's second son Wang Kuang, and he is also a leader of the younger generation in the clan, you don't have to be limited to seniority, but you can be commensurate with each other, and you can have more contacts in the future."

The two sat down after the ceremony, the old man ate very elegantly, and saw that the meals were all local dishes, with a lot of styles but not a large amount, and the taste was also quite good, the host seemed to have put a lot of thought into it, which also made Xiao Zheng, who came from afar, feel more grateful.

After dinner, he came to the middle hall, and after the servant served tea, Wang Ji also chatted with Xiao Zheng about this ancestral master, it turned out that the Wang family was also the leading family in Jiangzhou, and Wang Tong's achievements were inseparable from his family history. Wang Tong's father, Wang Long, was a local Confucian in Shanxi, and was responsible for drafting the edict for the "Yunmen Dragon" during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, and was the private secretary of Emperor Wen of Sui.

Wang Tongqing is out of blue, and he was a local Confucian before Zhongxiucai at a young age. When he was twenty-three years old, he was summoned by Emperor Wen of Sui to see the "Twelve Strategies of Taiping", because of his unsatisfactory career, he resigned and went home soon after and only did two things - lecturing and writing, but this master was also jealous of the talent, and he passed away when he was not confused.

After chatting about his ancestors, the old man smiled and asked Xiao Zheng: "The Tao is governed by government, all are punished, the people are free and shameless, the Tao is virtuous, all are courteous, shameful and qualified." Why? Wang Ji asked like this, and Wang Kuang beside him sat up straight and prepared to listen to Xiao Zhengru's answer.

Seeing the old man ask like this, Xiao Zheng smiled bitterly in his heart, he was most afraid of hanging Kong Meng's book bag with these people who were reading, usually these individuals looked gentle and elegant, but once these old guys talked about Kong Meng's eyes lit up and talked exaggeratedly, but there was no way to answer it.

After reasoning his thoughts, he said: "This sentence means that if the people are only managed by policies and regulated by punishment, the people will only seek to be exempt from punishment, and even if they make mistakes, as long as they are not punished by punishment, there will be no shame in their hearts." And by using morality to manage and educate the people with etiquette, the people will have a sense of shame in their hearts, so that they will automatically and spontaneously abide by social norms. The original intention was that only the 'royal way' used to convince people with virtue could finally make the people obey, which was the goal pursued by the sages of the past generations."

Afraid that the old man would continue to ask, he hurriedly continued: "When the ancestor was alive, he often praised the ideas of the master, and often used him as an example to teach the younger generations, and admired the ...... of the ancestor of 'rejuvenating the benevolent government, lightly conscription, and not lightly using the sword soldiers'", Wang Ji nodded while listening, and several people chatted together for a while before resting.

Early the next morning, Wang Kuang took Xiao Zheng out of the city to the ancestral tomb of the Wang family, and offered sacrifices in front of Wang Tong's tomb.

On the way back, Xiao Zheng found that Wang Kuang was quite knowledgeable, and he was peaceful, the two chatted very speculatively, the two talked about the royal road and domineering, and Wang Kuang talked to Xiao Zheng without so many worries, and said to him with a smile: "Brother Wang, this royal way, domineering, Confucius and Mencius are simple and very simple."

Wang Kuang said: "I want to hear the details", Xiao Zheng said: "This so-called royal road, that is, the opponent is not satisfied and he is beaten up; This is domineering, and the opponent will be beaten if he obeys; This way of Confucius and Mencius is to respectfully salute and then beat the opponent to subdue; This sometimes does things, the royal road still needs to be overbearing, why do you have to stick to what road to take, it's just that you go to the goal, you don't care how he goes."

Seeing that Xiao Zheng said something interesting, Wang Kuang laughed after listening to it, and called Xiao Zheng a genius, and talked about the true meaning of the avenue in a few words.

When he came back and saw Wang Ji, Xiao Zheng saw that it was still early, and said that he had been out for more than ten days, and he was worried that he would resign to Wang Ji because he was worried about the high hall at home. Wang Ji saw that Xiao Zheng had made up his mind, so he asked Xiao Zheng to wait, and after a while, the family took out two burdens from the house.

Wang Ji smiled and said to Xiao Zheng: "There are no other gifts here, this is a book written by your master later, you can study it in time and it will be beneficial to you in the future." The other one contains some local customs, you can take it home and bring it to your relatives as a meeting gift, and you and Wang Kuang will also know each other in the future, and you can have more contacts in the future."

Seeing that Wang Ji was so enthusiastic about himself, Xiao Zheng thanked him again and then said goodbye and went out, Wang Kuang kept sending the two out of the city gate, and made an appointment to go to Xiao Zheng's house as a guest if he had the opportunity. After Wang Kuang came back, he also told Wang Ji what he talked to Xiao Zheng on the road, and after listening to it, Wang Ji stroked his beard and said with a smile: "This child's way of speaking seems absurd, but in a careful way, 'the royal road still needs to be overbearing', which is a bit interesting."