Chapter Seventy-Three: Meet the Master

Early the next morning, Zhu Zhenguo took gifts and went to Ouyang Mansion to meet him. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Master is well!" Zhu Zhenguo respectfully worships the last great gift.

"There hasn't been much change as a teacher, but Zhenguo is getting taller and taller, and the book he brought back before his head can be read?" Ouyang Zhengman is only less than fifty years old, but half of his hair is silver-white, but his complexion is ruddy, and his body looks very tough.

"Students have already studied it, but they have read it in a superficial way." Zhu Zhenguo is humble.

"Oh, that's for the teacher to test you." Ouyang Zheng is dutiful to Zhu Zhenguo, a protégé.

"Please ask the teacher for advice!" Zhu Zhenguo stood in front of Ouyang Zheng and saluted again. Zhu Zhenguo has also become accustomed to all kinds of cumbersome understandings between this literati.

"The years are long, and the busy are self-promoting. Heaven and earth are wide, and the contemptible are narrow. The wind and snow are idle, and the disturbers are self-redundant. Why? "Ouyang is serious.

"Back to Master, this sentence literally says, the years are long, and the busy always feel that things are in a hurry. The heavens and the earth are incomparably spacious, but the despicable feel narrow. In this world, the wind and snow are beautiful and ordinary, but those who are worried are always looking for troubles. Literally, these explanations are difficult for Zhu Zhenguo.

"The interpretation is good, but what truth can be felt?" Ouyang Zheng asked again.

"It is to teach people to see through the essence of things, and not to disturb themselves." Zhu Zhenguo is also right.

"Zhenguo's truth is not bad, but he put himself into this sentence, if you jump out of this sentence and look at it, there is actually a truth, that is, calm." Ouyang Zheng explained.

Zhu Zhenguo thought about it in his heart, and he was also surprised, Ouyang Zheng really deserved to be a generation of Confucianism, and this philosophical truth is like this. There are 10,000 kinds of people, but they should be calm when they see people in a hurry, they must be calm when they see people being narrow-minded, and they must be calm when they see people looking for troubles and moaning without illness.

Zhu Zhenguo said that the essence of seeing through things is to see through the small, and what Ouyang Zheng said is to see through the real unaffected and meaningless. That is to calmly face all the characters and things.

"Students are taught, thank you for your teachings." Although Zhu Zhenguo admires Ouyang Zheng, he also knows that he is not a person who sees through and calm, and his noble morality cannot play much role in troubled times. Noble morals bring more joy to one's own spiritual world.

Don't be frightened, watch the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court; Go and stay unintentionally, looking at the clouds in the sky. Such Taoist thoughts of inaction are really not in line with Zhu Zhenguo's current state of mind.

It's a world where legal constraints are weak, moral constraints are weak, and there are conflicts between ethnic nations. What Zhu Zhenguo wants now is a sense of security, a sense of security that can ensure the safety and stability of himself and his family no matter what happens, which is something that people who have lived in a modern stable society for a long time strongly want to reget.

Ouyang Zheng came up with some questions to take the school again, saying that the school examination was actually Ouyang teaching Zhu Zhenguo, teaching Zhu Zhenguo to be a person with high morals, to be a clear stream in the literary world and a clear stream in the officialdom like Ouyang Zheng himself.

Zhu Zhenguo was also humbly taught, but he didn't know that the throbbing in his heart was only from the need for a sense of security. It can also be said that everything Zhu Zhenguo does is dominated by a feeling of insecurity.

After the school examination, Ouyang Zheng picked up the tea made by the maid and drank two sips.

Zhu Zhenguo also opened his mouth to say another purpose of today's visit: "Master, the student still has something to ask. ”

"What?" Ouyang Zheng put down the ceramic teacup in his hand and asked, knowing in his heart that this proud protégé had never taken the initiative to say anything to him.

"The teacher respects you, the student had a grudge with the lake bandits in the rich lake before, and he was also retaliated against by the lake bandits, and his life was narrowly saved. It's just that the students' hometowns are by the Fushui River, and they are often harassed by lake bandits, and the people are miserable. Zhu Zhenguo paused when he said this, wanting to wait for Ouyang Zheng to respond.

"Does Zhenguo want the imperial court to send troops to suppress bandits?" Ouyang Zheng's face also became serious, although he said that other things in the place were not under the jurisdiction of him, the master of the academic administration, it did not mean that he, the old man of the former cabinet, was not capable of taking care of it.

It's just that Ouyang Zheng knows in his heart that this matter is extremely troublesome to deal with, although this Fushui Lake bandit is rampant, it has not yet reached the point of killing officials and rebelling, even if it is reported to the imperial court, the imperial court will let the local guard of Dajiang County send troops to solve it. The problem is that the local guard is so rotten that there are not even a few decent ships, and where can they solve this problem, and when the time comes, it will be a matter of fiddling with it at will.

"Master, is the imperial court willing to send troops?" Zhu Zhenguo himself knows that there is no hope.

"The imperial court will not send troops, firstly, the treasury is empty, there is no money and food, and secondly, although there are bandits in Fushui Lake, the power is not large, only the local security problem is counted, at most the local guard station is ordered to send troops, and the matter will not be solved." Ouyang Zheng's face became depressed when he said this, once upon a time, the imperial court was already weak to this point, thinking back to when he was in the cabinet more than ten years ago, the treasury was full and the decrees were prosperous.

"That being the case, the second uncle of the student used to be the elite hundred households of the border army, and there are dozens of elite soldiers of the old border army in the clan, can you organize and train the regiment to train the village bravery, not to exterminate the bandits in the lake, but to ensure the safety of one party." Zhu Zhenguo said what he wanted to achieve.

"Your idea is not bad, but there is no such precedent in Dahua for a hundred years, and the township army is trained to protect the territory and the people, and this matter still needs to be decided by the county magistrate, and it must also be reported to the imperial court for reporting, and the division will arrange it for you." Ouyang Zheng thought carefully before saying this.

I also want to solve this matter for this student, after all, Zhu Zhenguo was attacked and seriously injured two years ago, these thieves are really bold, they directly enter this county town to kill people, and the officials have no way to take them, and now their student apprentices are still threatened, isn't this a big joke.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Zhu Zhenguo also knew that this matter could not be done overnight, so he bowed down to express his gratitude.

"Okay, no need to be polite, you go down, go to find Wen Feng to play, Wen Feng has been thinking about you recently." Ouyang Zheng waved his hand and motioned for Zhu Zhenguo to go down.

Zhu Zhenguo didn't say much, the teacher had spoken, and after the salute, he went out to find Ouyang Wenfeng.

When Zhu Zhenguo came, Ouyang Wenfeng knew that he had been waiting in the front yard for a long time, and Zhu Zhenguo came over. Ouyang Wenfeng hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Zhenguo, you have been gone for more than two months, leaving me alone in this sandbank." ”

"Haha... You're still boring, with Miss Song by your side, I don't know how much fun it is. Zhu Zhenguo joked with a smile.

"Zhenguo is quiet, quiet, don't say much at home." As soon as Ouyang Wenfeng heard this Miss Song, he immediately became nervous.

"Haha... I'm afraid the teacher already knew. Zhu Zhenguo said with a smile. But it's also a fact, Ouyang Zheng didn't know that his son had a very good relationship with the painting boat recently, but he didn't bother to say it, and he felt that it was nothing in his heart.