Wang was sleeping badly, and this was the first time since he decided to accept the fact of the crossing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info All the things he experienced throughout the day had a great impact on him, starting from being stopped at the door by the confucius's porter, to Kong Xiu's examination of his Analects, and then to seeing Liu Xiu's letter in his father's room, which frightened him, although he later learned that Liu Xiu, who wrote the letter, was actually Liu Xin, but the fact that he could see paper in the Western Han Dynasty also made him have to start re-examining his historical memory.

You must know that since you have traveled to the Western Han Dynasty, too many things are completely incompatible with your own memory, whether it is gold and five coins are the hard currency of the Western Han Dynasty, I have never seen anyone take a piece of copper lump to reward people or buy things, or the Western Han Dynasty has actually appeared in the public toilet, or in the study of the father Wang Mang saw the paper, although these things did not completely overturn his view of history, but he also realized that the history that has been handed down to the 21st century is not necessarily the real history.

Thinking that when he and his father talked yesterday, because he talked about the changes in the court situation, he pulled the topic to Dong Xian, so his father didn't have time to tell himself why he expected to associate with Kong Xiu, so after he got up in the morning, as usual, tied a gauze bag on his legs, ran around the city wall of the new capital, and after returning home and eating breakfast in his room and saying hello to his grandmother and mother, he told Cangba to wait for the West Market to open and see if there was any paper selling, if there was, buy some back, Then I went straight to my father's study. Anyway, Wang Yu knew that unless his father was visiting a guest or visiting a friend, he usually read in the study in the morning.

When I arrived at my father's study, I saw that Wang Xing was still standing at the door like a sculpture, and it was still the same old rule, so I asked Wang Xing to pass it to my father before entering the study again. As soon as I entered the door, I saw that my father was holding a circle of bamboo slips in his hand and looked at it with relish, so he didn't bother him, but knelt to the side, and saw that there were no maids waiting for him, so he picked up the stove on the case, and used carbon fire to bake the stone spoon, tore the tea cake and put it into the stone spoon to bake for a while, and then did not use a pestle to mash it, nor did he add onions, ginger, salt and other messy things, poured the tea directly into the boiling water, covered and simmered for a while, and then poured a bowl for Daddy Wang Mang and himself, Then start savoring your creations.

In fact, since crossing over to the Western Han Dynasty, in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, in addition to the lack of toilet paper in the toilet, the tea of the Western Han Dynasty is really distressing. The boiling tea of the Western Han Dynasty is to roast the tea and pound it into broken foam, and then pound the small tea leaves filtered by the sieve into boiling water to boil, not to mention, but also add green onions, ginger, and salt to it, and the things that come out are not tea at all, but have both bitter, salty, spicy and other tastes, it is really difficult to swallow the soup, if the amount of salt can not be grasped, not only does not quench thirst, but the more you drink, the more thirsty you are. Therefore, when Wang Shu is outside, he generally does not drink the tea soup of the Western Han Dynasty unless necessary.

Some time ago, Wang Shu asked Cangsan to get a set of tea sets of the Western Han Dynasty, and according to the memory of later generations, he made some tea leaves in the tea cake and soaked them in boiling water, but the result was not only bitter, but also faintly uncomfortable in the stomach after drinking, until he roasted the tea leaves, he tasted the fragrance of the tea in the memory of later generations. After a period of practice, Wang Shu barely mastered the fire of baking, so when he saw that his father was fascinated by reading, he was idle anyway, so he made some tea for the future by himself.

Just as Wang Shu was tasting the tea, he suddenly heard the voice of his father Wang Mang in his ears: "Zhongsun, what are you pouring in the tea bowl for your father?" Why does it taste weird? Wang Shu hurriedly replied: "Father, this is the son thinks that the current tea soup is too cumbersome, and the taste is too mixed, so the son deliberately simplified the production process, and removed the onions, ginger, salt and other miscellaneous tastes, although such tea has a faint bitter taste when it first enters, but the aftertaste of the taste is sweet and mellow, plus the smell of faint but lingering fragrance, which is in line with the characteristics of the gentleman's indifferent, elegant, noble and ethereal, so the son will call this kind of tea outside Tsinghua and indifferent as the gentleman's tea. ”

Hearing Wang Shu say this, Wang Mang picked up the tea bowl and smelled it carefully, but there was a strange aroma, and he took two sips, and sure enough, as his son said, he felt it carefully, and there was a faint sweetness between his lips and teeth. Wang Mang was naturally very curious about this, Wang Shu in his memory was not good at this, and now his son can actually make a gentleman's tea, and he doesn't know if he pretended to be his own after learning from others, so Wang Mang immediately turned his face sideways and said: "Zhongsun, this gentleman's tea was taught to you by others?" You know, honesty is the foundation of people and the world, if you admit it, you don't blame your father, if you don't admit it, then don't blame the old man for punishing, even your grandmother can no longer protect you! ”

Wang Wei saw that his father actually took the very simple tea he made very seriously, but he didn't think that the chairs, tables, and children's carriages he made were borrowed by others, indicating that he should have secretly investigated. So after a little thought, and then said: "It's just because one day the tea soup boiled by spring apricots was slightly more salty, who knew that after drinking it at night, I was even more thirsty, and my son learned the appearance of spring apricots and cooked it once, but I didn't put salt, and the result was spicy and pungent, and it was really difficult to swallow, and then my son simply didn't even put green onions and ginger, but this kind of tea soup tasted weird, so my son didn't grind the tea, but poured it into boiling water after baking, and the result was a wonderful taste, and later my son also tried tea without baking, However, this kind of tea tastes bitter, and it is uncomfortable to drink too much. Wang Shu said while demonstrating the whole process in front of Wang Mang, and after Wang Shu demonstrated the entire process of making tea, Wang Mang believed that what his son said was not a lie.

Wang Mang said to Wang Shu: "Zhongsun, it's not that your father is harsh on you, it's really that your gentleman's tea has a lot to do, and your father also thinks that this tea ceremony is something you learned from Kong Boren, and it is foreseeable that it will spread in my Han Dynasty in a short period of time, although the gentleman's tea will not bring you any benefits, but it will bring you a prominent reputation, so don't underestimate this gentleman's tea." ”

Hearing that his father Wang Mang immediately mentioned Kong Xiu, Wang Shu naturally picked up the topic that he hadn't finished talking about yesterday. So he said to Wang Mang: "Father, yesterday I said that you wanted to have a relationship with Master Kong, but because of Dong Xian's matter, I didn't talk about it in detail, and today my son came here to ask my father, if this matter has a lot to do with my father, my son came to ask him how to do it in the future." ”

Wang Mang heard Wang Shu say this, but smiled: "Zhongsun, you are too careful, as a father, I just saw that Kong Boren has been the county magistrate of Xindu since the second year of Jianping, and in just a few years, Xindu has become rich and rich, and his father once asked Kong Boren what method has made such a big change in Xindu, he actually pointed to the "Zhou Guan" on his father's book and said, without him, one "Zhou Guan" will rule the world, and half of the new capital is enough. He was born to respect Duke Zhou for his father, and he longed for the governance of three generations, so after hearing Kong Boren say this, he naturally became friends. ”

Hearing Wang Mang talk about "Zhou Guan", Wang Shuke didn't know what kind of book it was, so he wanted to ask him to take a look, but Wang Mang pointed to the books piled up on a large bookcase in the corner of the study and said, these are. Wang Shu was so shocked when he saw the book "Zhou Guan", but then he came back to his senses, the book is not paper after all, the more words it has, the larger the area it occupies. However, when Wang Shu got up and wanted to take a book to read, he was stopped by Wang Mang, only to see Wang Mang order Wang Xing outside the door to call a basin of water, and then after washing his hands, he asked Wang Shu to wash his hands in the same way, so he carefully took out a volume and said: ""Zhou Guan" was originally presented to the king in the river, originally hidden in the secret mansion, and later Liu Zijun saw the light of day again when he studied the secretary of the palace, but this "Zhou Guan" and was recorded by Liu Zijun's father and son, so you must be careful when reading for your father, since you have never seen this book, Let's read the first volume first. ”

Wang Shu saw that his father attached so much importance to this book, so he was naturally very careful, not only removed all the tea sets on the case, but also wiped them twice with a rag before taking the booklet and putting it on the case. But as soon as I opened it, I saw that it was written at the beginning: But the king built a palace to cover the square position, the country and the economy, and set up officials and divided duties, thinking that it was the people. It is to set up the heavenly official mound, so that the commander of his subordinates and the rule of the state, in order to support the king of the country...... Although Wang Shu still understands what it means, when he sees Tianguan, he knows what kind of book it is, even people who are not familiar with history know through TV series that the Ministry of Heavenly Officials started from the empress Wu Zetian, and Wang Shu, who is a graduate of the Department of History, knew that the Wu Zhou Dynasty was established in imitation of the Zhou system and according to "Zhou Li", so Wang Shu blurted out: "It turned out to be "Zhou Li"! ”

"Zhou Li? Zhongsun, have you ever read this book, and why do you call "Zhou Guan" "Zhou Li"? Wang Mang heard what his son said and hurriedly asked. Wang Xu didn't dare to say that this was the "Zhou Li" of later generations, but he couldn't think of any other way for a while, so he took his quasi-teacher to the top of the cylinder: "Since my father said that Master Kong ruled the new capital with half of "Zhou Guan", then the focus of this book is naturally not the official system, but the etiquette system, so the son thinks it is more appropriate to call it "Zhou Li". ”

Hearing Wang Shu say this, Wang Mang couldn't help muttering to himself: ""Zhou Guan", "Zhou Li", "Zhou Li", "Zhou Guan", ...... "Wang Shu is going to be bad at first glance, isn't it the name of a book, the key "Zhou Li" is different from "Analects", his teacher once said that this "Zhou Li" is similar to Plato's "Ideal State", it is an ideal country blueprint, an ideal political model, and it cannot be realized at all in ancient times. So it doesn't matter what the book is called, he doesn't want his father to think about such trivial things, so he interrupted his father's contemplation and said to him: "Father, this "Zhou Li", no, it is "Zhou Guan", in fact, it is just like that, and the son is just talking nonsense......"

"Shut up!" Wang Shu also wanted to go on, who would have thought that his father would be furious: "Not only for my father, but even the Confucian saint in your mouth wants to revive the Zhou Dynasty ritual system, you kid is talking nonsense here, and you won't let me get out!" "Wang Shu originally wanted to persuade Wang Mang not to care too much about the name of the book, but he didn't expect to make his father angry because of his words, and when he saw that he was going to go by himself, he got up and walked to the door, but just when he was about to push open the door, he suddenly realized that his father only went to get "Zhou Li" after washing his hands, plus the half of Zhou Lizhi Xindu that Kong Xiu said before, all of which showed that he did not cherish this Zhou Li on the case, but that he was respecting the content of this book, and regarded everything written in this book as a golden rule, so when he said it himself" Zhou Li is just like that", Dad will be so angry.

And thinking about the reforms that Wang Mang made after becoming the emperor, almost all of them were not suitable for realization, and it was very likely that they were influenced by Zhou Li, since he wanted to understand what was going on, Wang Yu said that he couldn't let his father be too superstitious about an illusory book, so he turned his head and knelt down to Wang Mang who was in anger and said: "Father, there are clouds in the Analects, the father is the son, and the son is the father, and the sage Confucius also said that the father must be able to correct the mistake of being a son, and the son must also be able to correct the mistake of the father, so the son is courageous, Ask the father to listen to his son's end. ”

Wang Mang saw that Wang Shu was just about to leave, and he came back again, and he continued to defend himself, laughed angrily, and said: "Okay, okay, you say, I'll listen and see what you think!" Wang Shu knew that if he didn't impress his father in three or two sentences, he estimated that he would definitely not be able to eat good fruits, so he thought for a while and said: "Has my father ever counted the number and number of official positions and numbers recorded in "Zhou Guan", and my son heard Master Kong say that "Zhou Guan" secretly coincides with the number of days, involving more than 360 kinds of official positions and more than 24,000 personnel. And it is very difficult for my Han to support more than 10,000 officials with a population of nearly 60 million, and the land of the Zhou Dynasty is only 1,000 miles, and the population is only 1 million, so it is necessary to support more than 24,000 people. ”

Wang Mang was still angry, but when he heard what his son said, it seemed to make some sense, so he didn't say anything to see what else he could say. And Wang Shu saw that Wang Mang didn't say anything, so he continued: "Father has ever thought that if the Zhou Dynasty ritual system is really as recorded in "Zhou Guan", then how did the Zhou Dynasty come to perish, I don't know if the etiquette system that my father yearns for is to take what he needs and distribute according to his work, or to do his best and distribute according to his needs? ”