This winter, Zhao Wuxian spent time in Wen County with Ji Huan, his wife and children, and they offered sacrifices to Zhao Ying, telling him that the Zhao clan had once again become the ruler of the Jin state.

"Zhao Yi wings, the extremes of the four directions. The sound of the voice, the spirit of the water. Shou Kao and Ning, in order to protect my future life! ”

At the beginning of January in the spring of the following year (494 BC), he went to Tongluo to perform the duties of Shangqing in the new "capital" of the Jin Kingdom, and waited for the first batch of Jiangdi immigrants to Yecheng. I didn't want to be in this period of time, but I met a visitor, an old acquaintance.

"Zhibo is dead."

The letter was handed from Zhao Wuxian's hand to an elder dressed in gray dark clothes and immortal bones, he was Gubu Ziqing, the face of the person who had disappeared for nearly ten years. Ten days ago, he suddenly came to visit Tongba, which made Zhao Wuxian overjoyed, without wearing shoes, only wearing a full coat and running out of the door to greet him, and straightly said that he had searched all over the world, but he did not find the location of Gubu Ziqing. This person was very heavy when he was a teenager, and to a large extent, his sentence "This son is a true general" influenced Zhao Ying's choice of heirs and began to pay attention to Zhao Wuxian.

Now that the prophecy has come true, Zhao Wuxian, as the secretary of the Jin State, has made Gubu Ziqing famous, but he has changed his career, regarded face to face as a small way, and no longer took on work.

So Zhao Wuxian introduced Gubu Ziqing as a guest and entertained him every day, but the banquet was politely rejected by Gubu Ziqing on the grounds of purity and cultivation.

But Zhao Wuxian still came over from time to time, and talked to him, and those who reached his position needed some opportunities to make a leap forward in spirit and philosophy, rather than staying at the same level forever.

In this regard, Gubu Ziqing is a good person to talk to.

After handing over the letter, Zhao Wuxian sighed: "Although I have thought about it countless times, but after Zhibo finally died today, there is no sadness or joy in my heart. What did Zhibo think before he died? Remorse for your choice? A pity for the failure? Or curse me for not ending well? After all, he is my predecessor, and he has also been above 10,000 people under one person, and he has also forced the Zhao family into a corner, but now he is dying miserably in Shaoliang, it is really thought-provoking, human nature and life, it is really impossible to understand, can Mr. solve the confusion for Wuxi? “

"It is often known that the Kai style is called Xuande. Xuande is deep, far away, and opposite...... Sex and life are the two of them, and they are so varied that they are so far-reaching and unpredictable that they are beyond the reach of a gentleman like me, who sets up a stall to make a living. ”

Gu Bu Ziqing's words were mysterious and mysterious, but they made people unclear, Zhao Wuxian smiled and said: "Mr. can't understand it, so who can solve it?" ”

The white-haired face-to-face man with sideburns bowed slightly: "Lao Tzu can solve it." ”

"Lao Tzu?" Zhao Wuxian restrained his smile and asked: "I heard that before Zhibo's death, Lao Tzu appeared in Shaoliang and met him for the last time. ”

At that time, Lao Tzu was still in the Zhou room to do the Taishi of the Tibetan room, he entered the Zhou room from Chen Guo Taixue, astronomy, geography, human ethics, everything learned, "poetry", "book", "Yi", "calendar", "rites", "music" read everything, cultural relics, regulations, history books are all learned, for the period of Taishi, collect the world's literature, receive the world's books, know everything. Therefore, the princes, doctors, and scholars who heard his name and went to them were like carp crossing the river. Lu Zhi Kongqiu, Song Zhi Xin Wenzi, and Zhou Zhi Changhong all learned from him, although he did not apprentice, but he was like a master and apprentice. Zhibo is also among them, but what he has learned ......"

Gubu Ziqing showed a hint of disapproval on her face, and raised her little thumb and said, "It's just the surface of Lao Tzu's learning." ”

"I want to hear about it."

"Zhibo simply understood Lao Tzu's way as a technique of fighting for power and profit, fighting for strength and ruthlessness with utilitarianism, and pretending to be an indisputable law, which is the path to defeat."

According to Gubu Ziqing, he visited Lao Tzu in Taihua Mountain, learned the "Tao" from him, and gained a lot in the past few years, and when he walked outside, he regarded himself as the true successor of Lao Tzu.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Wuxian respects him as a guest and often comes over, although he has not had the opportunity to see Lao Tzu who sees the head and the tail of the dragon, but Gubu Ziqing is a window for him to understand Lao Tzu and Taoism.

So Zhao Wuxian showed great interest: "Dare to ask Lao Tzu's true knowledge." ”

Gubu Ziqing was waiting for this moment, and immediately said: "Lao Tzu's learning, Tao also." ”

"Dao?"

"Yes. The Tao can also be the Tao, and the non-constant Tao is also; The name can be named, and the name is not constant. ”

Although there are some differences with the "Tao Te Ching" of later generations, it is roughly the same, Zhao Wuxian snickered in his heart, this paragraph is familiar, and he can also recite it.

"I heard that in the Song Dynasty, Wu created the Heavenly Dao Sect, saying that thousands of ghosts and gods are all incarnated by the Heavenly Dao, I don't know if it is consistent with the Tao of Lao Tzu?"

Gu Bu Ziqing said solemnly: "Different, there is a thing that is chaotic, boundless, imageless, soundless, and unified, and it has existed long before the opening of the world. Unique, unique, unrivaled, following its own laws and never changing, running in cycles that never stop, it can be the root of everything in the world and even the source of heaven and earth. I can't describe exactly what it is, and I can only call it in general terms with the Tao. Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law of the Tao, and the Tao is the law of nature, so the Tao is not the way of ghosts and gods, but the way of the law and nature. ”

Zhao Wuxian slapped his hands and smiled: "Although there are differences, there are also similarities, you can supplement each other's evidence, if Mr. has the opportunity, why not go and communicate with Song Guodawu." ”

In the Song Dynasty, the spread of the Heavenly Taoism was originally Zhao Wuxian's Taoist thought as the core, combined with the local ghost and god view of the Song State to shape the pantheistic religion, in the barbarian land, the spread of this religion should emphasize the ghost and god side, in the more advanced Central Plains cities, it is necessary to emphasize the philosophical side, but because of the Central Plains scholars and rationality, the utilitarian gods of the common people, this religion has been difficult to flow out of the Song State, only to the Song State and Chu and Wu border to a certain extent, the influence is limited to a corner.

Just looking at Gu Bu Ziqing's face, he probably thought that the Dao of Heaven was just a heresy, and I don't know what Lao Tzu's expression was after hearing it......

As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Wuxian asked seriously: "Dare to ask, what kind of person is Lao Tzu?" ”

Gubu Ziqing stroked his beard and said yearningly: "If you don't go out of the house, you will know the world, and you will not see the way of heaven." This is Lao Tzu, like a god, like a dragon, who has been by his side for several years, and I still haven't been able to understand one percent of it. ”

It's really the first mysterious figure in China for thousands of years...... Zhao Wuxian was curious.

"As the saying goes, I have always wanted to listen to Lao Tzu's teachings, but I don't know where he is and whether he is still alive. Now that he has appeared in Hexi, I don't know if he will come to the Jin Kingdom, can Mr. contact Lao Tzu and tell him that the unsympathetic is thirsty? ”

Gu Bu Ziqing's face was embarrassed: "Lao Tzu's learning is to hide himself, he lived in seclusion in Taihua Mountain for several years, after the rumors of him there, the inquirers are endless, so Lao Tzu is traveling again, he is over eighty years old, there is no trace of coming and going, even I may not be able to find it again, whether we can see each other, it all depends on whether he wants to see it or not." ”

Zhao Wuxian was slightly disappointed: "Since Lao Tzu can go to Shaoliang to see the dying Zhibo, but he is stingy to meet the boy?" ”

"The Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, three to all things, all things are transformed by the Tao, all things are connected, when the time comes, Lao Tzu will definitely come to see the general."

Gu Bu Ziqing paused and said sincerely: "After all, the general is a rare figure in hundreds of years, the general is interested in Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will also be curious about the general, I believe that in the near future, we will be able to meet!" ”

Zhao Wuxian nodded: "I hope so......"

Gu Bu Ziqing waited for a while, felt that this was a rare opportunity, and asked again: "Dare to ask the general what he would ask him if he saw Lao Tzu?" ”

Zhao Wuxian thought about everything: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to understand the avenue of heaven and earth, and what I want to ask should be the way of the king and the way of governing the country." ”

Gu Bu Ziqing's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward and said, "There is someone who can recommend it to the general." ”

Is this the purpose of Gubu Ziqing's visit? Zhao Wuxianxiao asked with interest: "I don't know who can get Mr.'s recommendation, with Mr.'s knowledge, he must be a rare talent?" ”

"How dare you, it's Lao Yu's apprentice in Zheng Guo, follow me to learn Lao Tzu's learning, named Ren Zhang! Although he is young, but over time, he can also go to the monarch on the way of Lao Tzu and go down to An Lishu! ”

PS: After I started writing, I found that Lao Tzu was simply a fog, I don't know its shape, I can't describe it, I can't write at all, I have turned over a few times Lao Tzu's five thousand words and reconciled the old, and I still can't understand the old man, and I gave up after scrapping the manuscript a few times, and for the time being, I still understand Lao Tzu from the side, so as to destroy this hazy mystery, and wait for a deeper understanding of him before trying again, the second chapter is in the evening (to be continued.) )