Mingyue didn't know what was happening in the palace of King Qi, and in the past two days, he had been pondering the hint Xunzi had given him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Straight wood is cut first, Ganjing is exhausted first......"

If memory serves, this should be Zhuangzi's words.

"Trees that grow very straight become timber and are useful, so they are always cut down first; The water of Ganjing is sweet, and people are vying to draw it first, so it dries up first. ”

It is very common in this world to be able to appear and suffer from the world's taboos, and finally suffer from them. Zhuangzi believes that if you want not to be "cut down first" and not to be "exhausted first", then you must either become "straight" and not become Ganjing, that is, empty oneself and inaction.

Xunzi quoted this sentence to remind Mingyue, the meaning couldn't be clearer, in the past two months, he has indeed been too high-profile......

Mingyue also woke up suddenly, he was too addicted to the feeling of being a "prophet", and he was keen to convey the knowledge of the future generations to the hundreds of schools, many places had crossed the line, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he looked back, after all, he was just a proton under the fence, don't treat yourself too much as an outsider.

So he said that he was sick in the mansion, and he ran to the Jixia School Palace when he was no longer fine, anyway, the knowledge of junior high school physics was almost exhausted, and the rest had to be figured out by the Mo family themselves......

However, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, he does not go to the school palace, but many people come to the door, all of whom are protégés of the nine-rate and ten-rate families, either they are not convinced by his theory, and they want to debate with him and rub off on his fame; Or maybe I have a strong interest in "Gewu" and want to discuss it with him.

For the former, Mingyue will all close the door to thank guests, as for the latter, it also depends on the identity of the other party before deciding whether to meet or not.

But on this day, the name card handed over by the people of the Proton Mansion made Mingyue unable to refuse.

The man claimed to be Xu You, a disciple of a peasant family, passing through Linzi, and heard the name of Chang'an Jun, so he came to pay respects......

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After coming to Zizi for a few months, Mingyue was also accustomed to the style of Corporal Ji, although there were no rich and noble people among these people, but they were not ambiguous in their dress, all of them wore crowns and swords, and their appearance was neat, just to let the princes not frown when they saw them, and they also believed in asceticism.

But this peasant disciple who came to see him today was particularly special, but he was wearing a coarse linen short coat, and his feet were the common grass shoes of Qichu farmers, he was in his thirties, but he seemed to be forty, he already had a lot of forehead lines, and his hands were also calloused, and it could be seen that he had really gone to the ground and wielded farm tools.

At first glance, he was an ordinary old farmer, he came to visit the door in this dress, and was almost blasted out by Lu Jujian and others who were guarding the door......

Although this person was dressed roughly, Mingyue did not slack off, and he was also curious about the school of farming. He had heard the saying that the Mohists were the ideological representatives of the small handicraftsmen, the Yang-Zhu school represented the interests of the small landowners, and the peasants, represented by Xu Xing, were the spokesmen of the lower peasants.

The farmer is the foundation of the world, and the king is also the origin. No matter how many years the theories of the sons of Jixia have been beyond the world and how many years they have led future generations, the basis for them to stand on the polemic and talk about it is still the agriculture that developed rapidly after the popularization of iron tools.

But the strange thing is that in this era when agriculture should be heavy, the farmers have not been very good, as can be seen from their difficulty in entering the Jixia School Palace......

After inviting Xu You to sit down, Mingyue said: "I heard that the ancestor of the farmer said that the Shennong family, inherited the cause of Houji, paid attention to sowing a hundred grains, persuaded to cultivate mulberry, and met the people's food and clothing......

Perhaps it is because he has been farming with the people all year round, Xu You's smile has a bit of the simplicity of a farmer: "The leader of my farmer's family is called Ye Lao, and now he is plowing between Qi and Chu. Ye Lao Yan said that if you want to persuade people to farm, you must first take the lead in farming. The peasants in the countryside do not believe the words that come out of their mouths, but only approve of the grain that grows in the fields, and if we are not proficient in the art of ploughing, who will believe in the peasants? ”

This kind of unpretentious attitude is Mingyue appreciated very much, and immediately asked about Xu You's intention, Xu You was also straightforward, and said bluntly: "When I passed through Jixia, I heard people talk about the rainfall told by Chang Anjun, and I was deeply shocked, so I took the liberty to come to visit, and I hope that Chang Anjun will teach you a lesson or two!" ”

Seeing that although Xu You was much older than himself, he was not ashamed to ask, Mingyue did not hide it, so she repeated what she had said countless times in Jixia a long time ago.

Xu You was very excited after hearing this, the farmer is a school with the development of farming as the main purpose, and the "time of the day" is a necessary condition for a good harvest, spring sowing, summer ploughing, autumn harvest, winter storage, all of which are determined by the rhythm of time shown by the movement of the celestial bodies, the farmer preached many years ago, only by grasping the "time of the day", it is possible to grasp the "agricultural time", specifically, first of all, through observation and research, grasp the rhythm of the change of seasons, understand the law of wind, frost, rain and snow, through the formulation of the calendar and other means, to "know the time"......

The farmers are pragmatic and materialistic, and they understand very well that their desire for "knowing the time" cannot be completed by relying on the prayers for rain of the Yin and Yang family, Fangshi, and Wuzhu, but it happens to coincide with the "natural theory of rainfall" proposed by Mingyue.

Seeing that Chang'anjun did not cherish himself, Xu You also reciprocated the favor and immediately presented some summary of the farmer's experience on climate and rainfall.

Mingyue took the slip and took a look, but saw that it was written as an excerpt from two articles, namely "Judging Time" and "Twelve Chronicles".

The book systematically discusses the relationship between climate and agriculture, and divides agrometeorological conditions into three categories: timely, first and last, and whether or not they can catch up with the rain is the most important thing in time. The Twelve Chronicles, on the other hand, summarize the common climates during the twelve months of the year.

Xu You said: "In the past, we only knew when it might rain, but we didn't know why it would rain, but now with a conversation with Chang'anjun, this problem will be solved!" ”

He said with great anticipation: "If we can combine the two and summarize the pattern of rainfall, the people will know when there is rain and when it will clear, and they will not have to suffer from losing time!" ”

The idea is not bad, Mingyue has also pondered, do you want to make persistent efforts to make a set of Warring States version of "Looking at the Clouds and Knowing the Weather"?

However, the amount of work is too huge, and he will never be able to do it with his level of physical geography as a junior high school student, and he needs the assistance of a group of astronomical officers who know the stars well, and he also needs the help of a knowledgeable wild old man like Xu You......

Maybe in the future, the official opening of the government can recruit some professionals to complete this idea?

Pressing this thought down for the time being, Mingyue asked Xu You in turn, who wrote this "Trial" and "Twelve Chronicles"?

Xu You's words revealed a bit of pride: "It was made by my grandfather, and my grandfather was a Chu person, and he did it." ”

Mingyue has been in Qi for a few months, and has already known a lot of the past of the Nine Streams and Ten Families, even if he is lonely and unheard, he also knows that Xu Xing is the representative of the farmer's family, and he can't help but change it with honorifics: "It turned out that after Xu Zi, he was disrespectful and disrespectful......"

He heard that Xu Xing was a contemporary of Mencius, and he brought the peasant family from the countryside to the Jixia School Palace, and carried it forward, becoming one of the ten families of the nine streams, with dozens of disciples.

The peasant family is an outlier among the hundreds of princes, they are a bit similar to the Mo, they live a very simple life, wear ordinary coarse cloth clothes, although they advocate farming, but they do not have an inch of land of their own, they live a life of traveling around the world, and they do not pursue high-ranking officials like Confucianism, they only hope to get a thousand acres of land, several acres of houses, so as to settle down and lead the local people to develop farming.

If there is enough grain, the people will be enough, and if the people are enough, the world will be enough, which is their consistent concept......

Having professionals to help their own national territory develop production should have been a matter of applause for the kings and princes, but the farmers have been suffering from no place to stand, and the reasons for this are probably two points.

First, their leader, Xu Xing, offended the scholar Meng Ke fiercely, and then the peasant family was squeezed out and suppressed by Qilu Confucianism......

It turned out that Xu Xing imitated Shennong's words and deeds, which attracted the attention of many people, and even two brothers named Chen Xiang and Chen Xin, who originally learned from Confucianism, suddenly changed their doors and went to Xu Xing. Chen Xiang also helped Xu Xing lobby Mencius, hoping that Mencius would agree with the concept of the farmer and help the farmer in Qilu and other countries.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Meng's gateway views and regional concepts are extremely important, and he not only refuted the views of the peasants one by one, but also scolded Xu Xing, a native of Chu, as a "man with the tongue of the Southern Barbarians", what ability can he have? Learning from him is simply a summer change!

Mencius did not let Chen Xiang go, thinking that his betrayal of the master was an unrighteous act, and drove Chen Xiang away, never to see him again.

So the first attempt of the farmer to develop towards Qilu failed.

So in the end, the peasants only had a place in Tengguo, a small country in Si, and engaged in tepid production for a period of time.

Xu You recalled: "When Teng Wen was the prince, my grandfather took his disciples to open up land in Teng and farmed with the local people, and they were happy, but after Teng was destroyed by the Song Dynasty, we had to leave there......

In those years, the East was in chaos, the Song State destroyed the Teng State, and then was killed by Qi, and the Qi State was attacked by the Five Kingdoms, almost declined, and there were wars everywhere, and it was indeed not a good time for farmers to develop productive forces.

When the war subsided, Xu Xing also died, and his disciple Chen Xin became the leader of the peasant family, "Ye Lao". Chen Xin and the peasant family together, felt that now that the Qi country was in ruins, it was the time for them to show their talents, so they wanted to enter the Qi country through the upper door again......

"Ye Lao took me and found Teng Geng, who was the prince of Qi at the time."

Mingyue couldn't understand the old Confucian anymore, and suddenly laughed: "You are looking for the wrong person, and Teng Geng's view of the gateway and the view of the region, compared to Mencius, is really better than the blue!" ”