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Wei Zheng sighed: "This person is peerless, but his character is similar to his father, that Zu Ting can also be called a great talent back then, but unfortunately all his thoughts are used for corruption and personal gain, and even at the expense of forming a party for personal gain, framing Zhongliang, and finally ending up being betrayed by someone and ending up with hatred, but it is precisely because of this that he was lucky enough to escape the liquidation of the former ministers of Northern Qi after the fall of Northern Qi, such as Lu Lingxuan and Mu Tipo's mother and son, so that the ancestral family would not be completely killed." ”

"But the last time Zu Junyan asked for an official, he still relied on bribing Xue Daoheng, otherwise even if he was good at writing, Xue Daoheng would not recommend him, but he was directly rejected by the emperor, and even scolded Xue Daoheng for this, there is an emperor generation, I am afraid that this Zu Junyan will no longer be able to be an official, and after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne, it is unlikely that he will be used."

"Originally, he was said to have lost the road to being an official, and he should have been naturally recruited by the lord, but what I'm worried about is that such a person has no discipline, and confidential things can't be revealed to him, otherwise he may really go to report the lord in order to advance to the rank, so I have been hesitating just now, whether to recommend this person to the lord."

Wang Shichong let out an "oh": "So is Xuancheng familiar with this person, have you ever been in contact?" Sometimes his father's bad character does not necessarily mean that he himself is also a shameless villain. ”

Wei Zheng shook his head: "I've only heard of this person's name, and I've also read his articles, he is indeed talented and talented, if it is used as a document to draft various edicts, it is no problem at all." ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "This person is now Fan Yang?" ”

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "He didn't become an official, so naturally he could only go back to his hometown." Does the lord intend to go to Fan Yang to see this person? ”

Wang Shichong said with a straight face: "Fan Yang must go, Fan Yang Lu in the five surnames and seven hopes." In recent years, there have been few important official positions in the DPRK. But it is still a first-class family in the north. It just so happened that he visited them together this time, does Xuan Cheng know any outstanding talents in the Lu family? ”

Wei Zheng smiled slightly: "Fanyang Lu clan is a first-class family with five surnames and seven wangs, and its earliest ancestor is surnamed Jiang, the descendant of Jiang Ziya, the ancestor of Qi State. Lu Sheng, a doctor in the Qin Dynasty, once worked with Xu Fu to make alchemy for Qin Shi Huang, and later lived in seclusion in Fanyang, Zhuo County, Hebei Province, and settled in Fanyang since then, becoming the ancestor of Fanyang Lu. ”

"The great Confucian Lu Zhi in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, who was the teacher of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan, was the most famous figure in the Lu clan of Fanyang, Lu Zhi was dismissed from his post because he refused to bribe the eunuchs who came to supervise the army after defeating the Yellow Turban Uprising, and later openly opposed Dong Zhuo's dictatorship in the court after being reinstated. almost died, but Cai Yong interceded to save his life. He returned to Fanyang's hometown to live in seclusion, and his noble deeds won the respect of the world, and his descendants became officials in the court of the Wei and Jin dynasties for generations, and the Lu family also became a first-class family in the north. ”

Wang Shichong said with a smile: "Lu Zhi is a classmate and friend of a generation of great Confucian Zheng Xuan, who studied under the great Confucian Ma Rong of the Han Dynasty, and is also the teacher of Liu Bei, the Zhaolie Emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty, but he is very famous. He was able to lead the army to quell the rebellion when he got off the horse, and he could study and write books when he got off the horse, and he was really a great talent, but unfortunately his books were destroyed in the war and can no longer be found now. ”

Wei Zheng nodded: "Yes, only the Book of Changes by his classmate Zheng Xuanzhu is now circulating in the world." Lu Zhi's descendants were officials in the Wei and Jin dynasties for generations, and later when the Five Chaos was in China, Liu Kun, the last loyal minister of the Jin Dynasty in the north, was unwilling to destroy the country, and insisted on resisting in Bingzhou, while Lu Zhan, the descendant of the Lu family, defected to Liu Kun, became his secretary, responsible for drafting documents, and later Liu Kun remembered him before he died, and made a poem to give Lu farewell, which has been passed down to this day. ”

Wang Shichong sighed: "What does it mean to make steel, but it becomes a finger twisting and soft, and the hero's ambition dies before he is paid, which is really emotional, and the name of the Lu family has also been circulated with these two poems." It's just that why did Lu Zhan surrender to the Hu people again and become an official of the Hu regime? ”

Wei Zheng smiled slightly: "At that time, the entire north fell, and if the Hu monarch wanted to rule steadily, he had to win over these Han clans in the north, and there were some big families, such as the Taiyuan Wang family, the Chen Jun Xie family, and the Qian Jun Huan family, etc., with the Eastern Jin Dynasty court crossing the Yangtze River in the south and retiring to the south of the Yangtze River, but the Lu family, the Li family, and the Zheng family stayed in the north and entered the Hu people's court as officials, and also let the Confucianism and traditions of the Han family affect these Hu people's courts, and finally in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Wei Tuoba Emperor ordered the complete sinicization, And the most valuable point of the five surnames and seven hopes is that they only marry each other among these seven big families, and do not mix with the Hu people, so as to ensure the purity of the noble blood of these Han families. ”

Lu Xuan, the descendant of the Lu family, was the first to respond to the order of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the era of Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and entered the imperial court, representing the absolute allegiance of the northern family to the Northern Wei court that had just entered the Central Plains, the Lu family, the Cui family, and the Zheng family at that time married each other and advanced and retreated together, when Cui Hao, an important minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty, insulted the ancestors of the Northern Wei Dynasty because of the history of the country, and the whole family was wiped out, Lu Dushi, the head of the Lu family at that time, because his mother was Cui Hao's sister, fled with his family because of fear, and defected to Zheng Zhen, the head of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and was sheltered by the Zheng family. Later, after rescuing from the disaster, he married Zheng Zhen's sister as his wife to strengthen the ties between the two families. Lord, you should be clear about the relationship between these five surnames and seven wangs. ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "I know these things, over the past few hundred years, these super families have become a huge group, sharing honor and disgrace, that is, the emperor of today, can not use other medium-sized families in Kanto, but the face of the Cui family, the Zheng family, and the Lu family cannot be left ungiven." It's just that the Lu family and the Zheng family have not been a big official in the court since the two traitors Zheng Yi and Lu Ben of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, that is, the Zheng family also has a Zheng Shanguo who serves in the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, but the sons and nephews of the Lu family can't hear the slightest news, and they were humiliated by Na Yanrong a few years ago, how did they get mixed up with this situation? ”

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "The accumulation and reputation of the family are the same thing, and the ability of the children is also indispensable, if it is from the Yan Kingdom to the Northern Wei Dynasty, these Hu regimes, have just entered the Central Plains, and need the support of these big families, then no matter how talented the children of these families are, there will be officials to do, and the Hu court at that time allowed these big families to have thousands of acres of fertile land." Ten thousand slaves. This is also the time when the power of the five surnames and seven hopes is the greatest. The lords and the nobles almost monopolized the fields and manors in the entire north, and without their allegiance, the imperial court was afraid that it would be difficult to carry out the order. ”

However, the Great Uprising of the Six Towns in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty changed this qiē, and those ordinary Hu soldiers from the north, with the hatred of drinking wind and eating sand in the north for more than a hundred years, entered the Central Plains and took revenge on these big families frantically, and where they passed, the land deeds of those big families were burned. Servant tenants were forcibly conscripted into the army, and this great uprising not only destroyed the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also destroyed the economic foundation of the super family. Even if the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty in the end and reunified the north, the influence of the Super Family would not be the same as in the past. Even if there were people in the court, the estates and fields on which they were based, as well as the huge number of slave tenants, had been greatly weakened. ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "In addition, at the beginning of the founding of this dynasty, Gao Xi set the uniform land system, and even divided the land of these big families to be nationalized. and then distribute it to the common people, so it is difficult for the five surnames and seven hopes to have the influence of the year. Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, there have been continuous wars, and the policy is more dependent on the Hu general group in Guanlong, so the official position is mostly held by the Hu general group or upstart families like the Gao family and the Yang family, so that the Fanyang Lu family has fallen to the point of being humiliated by Yan Rong. ”

Wei Zheng laughed: "What the lord said is very true. Now the most outstanding talent in Fan Yang Lu's family should be Lu Chu, after all, this person has a long-standing collection of books in his family, and he is studious since he was a child, but he has a stuttering problem, and it is difficult to say that people can hear clearly, so he did not enter the court as an official. ”

Wang Shichong said "oh": "It turns out that the Lu family disciple who was humiliated by Yan Rong is this Lu Chu, stutter and stutter, how does this person learn?" ”

Wei Zheng pondered for a while: "His articles are okay, but he is rigid and truthful, and he doesn't know how to be accommodating, even if he is a child of other families, he will have a headache when he sees him, if he is allowed to be a law enforcement officer, there should be no problem, but if he is responsible for the coordination and handling of interpersonal relationships, it is absolutely impossible." ”

Wang Shichong's eyes flashed: "Then set off early tomorrow morning and go to Fanyang, I want to personally visit Lu Chu and Zu Junyan." ”

Fifteen days later, Fanyang, Zhuo County. This is just the size of a county, but it is famous for the two northern surnames of Lu and Zu, and even the scale of the county seat here is much larger than most of the counties that Wang Shichong has walked, and it is about to catch up with some lower-level states, that is because these big families will not live in the countryside, but mostly live in the county seat, and only place the children of some tributary families in the countryside outside the city to guard the ancestral hall, which is the same as the people who entered the city in later generations.

Wang Shichong walked on the bluestone road of Fanyang City, followed by Zhang Jincheng and Wei Zheng on the left and right behind him, he changed into a scribe and Confucian dress this time, Zhang Jincheng was still a black-clothed bodyguard, and Wei Zheng was a cloth robe, a bookkeeper or a housekeeper, and the three of them walked in this city, but attracted the attention of many people.

Wang Shichong and his entourage arrived early this morning Fan Yang, when they first entered the city gate, it was the beginning of the hour, when the city gate was first opened, accompanied by a thin morning mist, the three of them were sandwiched between a group of vegetable farmers outside the city who entered the city to sell.

Wang Shichong followed the sound and looked, only to see a small academy, dozens of children sitting behind the small table in the hall, shaking their heads and reading the three-character scripture, and a gentleman in his forties in the hall was looking back and forth with a straight face, holding a ring ruler, patrolling back and forth, and there was a plaque hanging at the door of the academy, with four big characters on it: "Chaoyang Academy".

Wang Shichong traveled all the way in Hebei, and he has seen this kind of school in many states and counties, but it is the first time to see a school that has started teaching so early, and this school is close to the city gate, and there is a market not far away, and many vegetable sellers who have just entered the city are selling and shouting here, and some of the children brought by the vegetable sellers also ran outside the school, stood in the hall, and followed the children in the hall to read books.

When Wang Shichong entered the city just now, he saw a lot of vegetable sellers carrying flat poles, one basket was filled with vegetables, and the other basket was filled with children, and he was a little surprised at the time, but now he finally understands what is going on, so he sighed to Wei Zheng on the side: "I didn't expect this Fan Yang to have such a academy." I don't know who opened it. ”

Wei Zheng smiled slightly: "In fact, in those states and counties in the north with big surnames and county prestige, there will be such schools, not every descendant of five surnames and seven wangs." In particular, the descendants of the tributaries can be mixed into the court to become officials, or to seek an official errand in the county and township. Therefore, the foundation of one's life is often this kind of ancestral academy. If you really can't, you can also teach for a living. ”

"Although the emperor is now the world's township school, but the future emperor can't stop the township school and Taixue forever, and always have to choose talents from the people. Fan's family, the ancestral family has a lot of descendants, and the atmosphere of reading and teaching has become a common practice, even those farmers in the countryside also hope that their children and grandchildren can learn knowledge and get ahead in the future. ”

"I have been to this Chaoyang Academy before, that gentleman is the tributary heir of the Lu family, he makes a living by teaching and teaching, and does not hide from the lord, in fact, my parents died when Wei Zheng was young. Like these peasant children, they go to the private school every day to listen to the lectures after herding cattle. After a little longer, I traveled all over the world and searched for famous teachers, and then I learned the ability. ”

Wang Shichong sighed: "Sure enough, it is the descendant of the Lu family, I am afraid that this move is also learning from their ancestor Lu Zhi, when Lu Zhi studied under the great Confucian Ma Rong, Ma Rong once deliberately let the beautiful concubine sing and dance in the hall when he lectures every day, and the average young student can't hold back and not look at it, but Lu Zhi is not squinting, it has been like this for a few years, it seems that this family style has also been passed down, today this Lu Chaoyang Academy is open to the vegetable market to teach, and its ancestors are also the same." ”

Zhang Jincheng interjected: "I don't think it's useful, if you want to say that adults can bear it, it's pretty much the same, but how can these children study and learn in such a noisy environment." ”

Wei Zheng smiled: "This is someone's unique door rule, we don't need to say more, at least Fan Yang Lu relies on this method, and the talent is continuous, which in itself is a good proof, if you don't care about books, you are a quiet environment, and children can also play tricks." ”

Wang Shichong nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Xuancheng is right, whether you can become a talent or not, it is useless to rely on others to force it, the key is to look at self-control, Fan Yang Lu's teaching method is really extraordinary, it is this Fan Yang farmer, in addition to selling vegetables, he also brings his children into the city to listen to lectures and study, the folk customs here are really different from other places, no wonder there are so many talented literati." ”

Wei Zheng smiled slightly, stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Lord, it seems that you have gained something in Fan Yang this time, but these families are very noble and arrogant, and they are not completely worried about money, it is best to be an official, and the second best thing is to be able to give full play to their personal strengths, which must be kept in mind by the lord." ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "I know in my heart, I don't have to bring people back this time, let's get married first." ”

Wang Shichong said while walking into a small restaurant on the side of the street, it was breakfast time, it was also just opened, two shirtless masters around a leather apron, was in front of a large table and noodles, and then pinched out one by one wontons, threw them into a large pot in front of him, and soon turned over to the water, while the two guys stood in front of the cauldron, one from the side of the pot boiling mutton bones out of bowls of mutton soup, the other with a colander to scoop up the dumplings in the big pot one by one, After counting the numbers, they put them in the sheep soup bowl, and the three or four little servants shuttled back and forth, bringing the bowls of sheep soup dumplings to the table in front of the guests.

Wang Shichong sat down on a table at the corner of the street, and a guy ran over, wiping the table diligently, and asked: "Three guest officers, do you eat wontons, our Yang family's wontons are a must for this Fan Yang, look at you from other places like this, you want to eat it again after eating it and keeping it!"

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "Then let's have three bowls, by the way, little brother, is there a gentleman named Zu Junyan in this city?" ”

The guy was still happy, but when he heard Wang Shichong ask, his face changed slightly: "Does the guest officer know this person?" Is it his friend? ”

In addition to Wang Shichong's question, several tables of guests around him also looked here, their eyes full of disdain.

Wang Shichong is very good at observing words and feelings, as soon as he saw everyone's reaction, he knew that this ancestor Junyan's reputation in the city must not be good, he laughed: "No, no, no, I have never known that Zu Junyan and I have never known each other, but I heard that this person has a family background, and he is also very talented, so I passed by Fan Yang and wanted to visit." ”

The guy said coldly: "Guest officer, I advise you not to go to see this surnamed Zu, this person's reputation has long been stinky in this Fan Yang City, and no one treats this Fan Yang's father and fellow villagers." When he had finished speaking, he turned around and went to serve the three of them.

Wang Shichong didn't expect this ancestor Junyan to be so unpopular in Fanyang, he glanced at Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng also spread his hands helplessly, probably he didn't expect this to be the case.

At this time, the guy came over with three bowls of wontons, and sang in a long voice: "Three bowls of wontons are coming, guest officer, use them slowly!" As he spoke, he took out the three large bowls from the tray in his hand and placed them in front of the three of them. Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "Man, then dare to ask Lu Chu Lu Gongzi's family, how can you go?" (To be continued......)