Chapter 3 The Gentleman on the Beam

In the Han Dynasty, because knowledge was mainly disseminated using bamboo slips, almost all the scholars in the world were from scholar families. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Even if there are a few children from poor families who want to study and learn to get ahead, they still have to learn knowledge through the schools or academies organized by the scholar families.

The Han court suffered from the scarcity of scholars in the world, and some of the scholars sent to various places as officials were talented but lacking in personal morality. Therefore, at the beginning of the first year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered each state and county in the world to raise filial piety and honesty, and to use these selected virtuous people to go to various places as officials. This is also the filial piety and honesty system that has been used in the Han Dynasty to this day, and the scholar family almost monopolized the transmission channels of knowledge, so they naturally mastered the promotion channels of the Han officialdom in disguise.

As the head of the Chen family, one of the top scholar families in the world, Chen Yu promised Wu Yi these future prospects are by no means exaggerated or untrue. Wu Yi knew that this was his mentor paving the way for his closed disciple's career.

Wu Yi bowed deeply and gave a salute: "The teacher is as kind to Wu Yi as a mountain, how dare Wu Yi not follow the teacher's arrangement." ”

Chen Yu stroked his beard and smiled: "You are about to perform the crown ceremony this year, and your father asked the old man to help you take a table in advance before you left. Benevolence is its own responsibility, isn't it also important? Isn't it far from death?' And now there are eunuchs in the court of the Han Dynasty who are causing trouble to the government, and there are Taiping Dao plotting against them. ”

"Ziyuan worships the words given by the teacher, and vows to use this life to wipe out the eunuchs and Taiping Dao, these ghosts!" Wu Yi knew what his teacher expected of him, so he swore as he liked. Anyway, it won't be long before Zhang let these eunuchs and Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao jump.

Chen Yu immediately smiled when he saw Wu Yi making such a grand wish: "Okay, good, if you can really get rid of the eunuch party and Taiping Dao, it can be regarded as a wish for the old man." Hehe, today the old man specially set up a family banquet for you, and after the family banquet, you will rest on the old man's village for one night before leaving. ”

At night, Wu Yi lay on the bed in the guest room, thinking about the next direction of his life.

The Wu Yi in history, as an ordinary son of a family, has been loyal to Liu Yan, Liu Zhang, Liu Bei, and Liu Chan, and his official position has been promoted step by step to the level of a general of the chariot cavalry. But Wu Yi really didn't want to live a life like watching other people's faces step by step.

But the reason why the Wu family is thriving today is because of his uncle Wu Kuang, who was the confidant of the current general He Jin, and took advantage of the care of the general He Jin, so that the Chen Liuwu family got many opportunities that they could not have otherwise. There is a great general He Jin in one day, as long as Wu Kuang does not lose He Jin's trust, Chen Liuwu can enjoy the shade under the big tree and rapidly develop his family power. But as long as He Jin was still tricked into the palace by the Ten Standing Servants as in history, and was cut into pulp, Chen Liuwu would be beaten back to his original form.

Relying only on such a seemingly strong and weak family force, Wu Yi wants to take a piece of the pie with those profound princes in the coming troubled times, but he is afraid that he will be besieged from all sides as soon as he raises his banner. Therefore, if Wu Yi wants to be unique, he must take precautions to pave the way for his future.

And when Wu Yi was still thinking about how to go in the future, Chen Yu, who had already been asleep, suddenly sent a servant to come, saying that Chen Yu was going to gather everyone to his main room to give a lecture.

'Obviously the lights have been turned off and resting, why does the teacher want to recruit people to lecture at this time?' ’

Wu Yi hurriedly put on his long gown and followed the servant to Chen Yu's main room, and when Wu Yi arrived from the guest room, most of the people in the village had already gathered around Chen Yu's bed. Wu Yi took a cursory glance at the dim light, and was able to be shouted at this time, except for himself, almost all of the people in the room were members of the Chen clan who lived in the village. But his mentor Chen Yu called everyone over at such a night, but he knelt on the bed and closed his eyes to recuperate.

When everyone arrived, Chen Yu opened his eyes slowly: "I will call you all over tonight, it is because the old man wants to tell you that no matter what kind of situation you will be in the future, you must correct your virtues, and don't go down the evil road for the sake of profit." People who do bad things are not born bad, but they usually don't learn well and are greedy for profits, and they slowly develop bad habits from small things. could have become a righteous gentleman, but in the end, he might become a gentleman on the beam! ”

Everyone was puzzled to say that as one of the three gentlemen of the Chen family with extremely high moral character, he was indeed qualified to teach his juniors to pay attention to virtue. But calling people from the bed at the third watch in the middle of the night is just to educate these things that have been said on weekdays, which is really incomprehensible. What's more, everyone understands the word righteous gentleman, but what does the word gentleman mean on the beam?

Just when everyone began to whisper to each other, Wu Yi, who was standing in the crowd, was stunned, of course he had heard the word "gentleman on Liang", this word would be the 'nickname' of the thieves in later generations!

"The villain is greedy and actually came to Chen Jun's house to steal, it is really a crime that deserves death! Please also punish Chen Jun!! A thin man in ragged clothes jumped from the beam of the room, startling everyone, but he knelt down in front of Chen Yu for the first time to plead guilty.

"Ahh

"It's a night thief!"

"Ahh Could this be the gentleman on the beam! ”

"Shame! The stealing is all here!! ”

"Tie him up and send him to the government!"

When these startled Chen clan people came to their senses, they immediately scolded this so-called 'Liang Shang Gentleman'.

Chen Yu waved his hand at these excited Chen clan people: "Get up, you can take the initiative to come out and ask for guilt, which shows that you are not so bad that you are incurable." The sages once said: 'The original nature of human beings is good, the nature is similar, the habits are far away, and the way to transfer religion is to specialize. 'If you can henceforth have good thoughts and put an end to evil thoughts, who dares to say that today's Liang Shangjun will not become a righteous man and a gentleman in the future?' ”

The man couldn't raise his head when he was reprimanded by everyone, but after hearing Chen Yu's words, he suddenly became excited: "Please also ask Chen Jun to listen to the villain, the villain is a ranger who lives nearby, although he does not do his business all day long because he has a few acres of land at home, but he has never done anything harmful." It's just that in recent years, natural disasters have continued, and a few acres of thin fields in the villain's house have been poor for several years, and they can't even eat recently, which makes Zhidi hit Chen Jun's village with crooked ideas. ”

Chen Yu sighed: "Natural disasters are ruthless, and I don't know how many people in the world are in distress like you because of natural disasters. That's it, that's all for today, and the old man will ask you to get some silk cloth, and you can sell these things to tide over the difficulties. ”

"Thank you Jun Chen! Thank you Jun Chen!! The man bowed his head in gratitude, and withdrew with one of the servants

After dealing with this gentleman on the beam, Chen Yu seemed to be tired, and after a few words of simple education to the juniors in the house, he let everyone rest.

Wu Yi followed the crowd to the guest room, and muttered to himself, "What happened tonight may be the source of the word Liang Shangjun in the future, but I didn't expect that I actually witnessed this scene with my own eyes, and it will be a story that will be passed down through the ages." It's just that when this gentleman encounters natural disasters, he can still rely on his agility to steal something to live, but there are more poor people in the world who have suffered natural disasters and man-made disasters, they have nothing but to cultivate the land, and they even have to eat in order to survive. This is the reason why Zhang Jiao was able to gather the vast number of Yellow Turban Sect members during the Yellow Turban Uprising. Alas, what's the use of knowing all this? Let's go back and get a good night's sleep first, and I'll have to pack my bags tomorrow morning. ’