"Five hundred years ago, five hundred years later," Shen Mo smiled: "Decision-making is the business of a few people, and when there are too many people involved, it is like a duck in a meeting, no matter how lively the noise is, it can't be said." ”

"And you're bringing these gods here?" Gui Youguang was a little dizzy.

"If the Dharma power of the Buddha is boundless, there must be 800 Arhats to support the scene." Shen Mo smiled: "If I do this by myself, it is just my personal behavior, but if I bring these great gods here, it will be a grand meeting to carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, a conference destined to go down in history, can the effect be the same?" ”

Gui Youguang paused for a while, shook his head and said with a wry smile: "My lord is getting bigger and bigger, and now everyone will definitely know it, and he will once again become a topic of conversation in the government and the opposition." ”

"What's the solution?" Shen Mo smiled and said: "The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, I can only be a tide maker who rides the wind and waves." ”

It was not until the end of March and the beginning of April that he conveyed such a meaning through He Xinyin, a famous feng shui master in the southeast, - there are still seven days before the auspicious day of the Zodiac, how do you think about it?

How's it going? I haven't skimmed it yet. Everyone is dumbfounded, even if it is finalized now, and then carved, it won't be completed in a month, right? Then they said, "How late is it?" ”

Master He shook his head and said, "No, no, no, once this is over, next time it will be next year." ”

Although I don't know why Ji Yue is so mysterious, but the authority will not be wrong, now everyone stopped arguing, looked at each other and said: "Whoever has a way this time, will listen to whomever he wants." ”

So Wang Ji got up and solemnly launched the leftist version of the statue in central Zhejiang - the sitting statue of Mr. Yangming in white marble swallow clothes. After removing the red silk, I saw Mr. Yang Ming wearing a python robe, wearing a seven-beam cage scarf crown, decorated with a sable cicada, touching the red belt with his left hand, and holding a jade wat with his right hand. The face is clear, with a slight smile, the beard is over the shoulder, the expression is peaceful, and the end is lifelike and sacred and cannot be offended, so that Wang Sizheng and other old people who have seen real people suddenly have red circles, and they say again and again, "Like!" It's so similar! He also complained to Wang Jidao: "There is such a good offering, why don't you take it out earlier, it will hurt us a lot." ”

Wang Ji smiled and said without saying a word, and said in his heart that if you took it out earlier, you would definitely have to pick your nose and eyes to show your authority.

Seeing that the offering is so decided, everyone can't run in vain this trip, so they have to do their best for the ancestral hall of the ancestor. The six schools each took out the treasured Yangming handwriting inscriptions, such as "Jiaoting Ji", "Twelve Jingwen", "Zhiluo Quan'an Book", "West Lake Poems" and so on, all of which are their treasures of the town and mountain, and now they are dedicated to add glory to the ancestral hall.

On the day of the auspicious day of the Zodiac Dao, Wang Xuemen and the officials and gentry of Suzhou City gathered in the newly completed Yangming Ancestral Hall to hold a grand ceremony to respectfully invite the return of Yangming Gong. Looking at Mr.'s voice and smile, remembering that he was an old man who was approachable and educated, Wang Xuemen couldn't help crying, and finally vowed to learn from his heart and win the status of Mr. Yangming.

Shen Mo and a warm reception, only 'reluctantly' to send the elders back, parting there are also local customs presented, so that everyone to take advantage of the excitement, happy to return, but also Shen Mo single-mindedly revived Wang Xue, and the reputation of enthusiasm and generosity, spread all over the world, to the ears of all sects.

After this matter was done, Shen Mo had no regrets, and began to pack up, say goodbye to the big gentry in Suzhou City, and wait for Yan Maoqing's wife to come to take over, and then set foot on the road to Beijing.

On the eighth day of the fourth month, Yan Maoqing arrived outside Suzhou, Shen Mo was going to pick up a zodiac auspicious and hold a handover ceremony with him, but a bad news suddenly came - Tang Shunzhi was critically ill and had reached the point of dying, and now he was going to his hometown Changzhou along the Grand Canal, he ordered his subordinates to send a letter to Shen Mo, hoping to see him for the last time - Shen Mo was suddenly hit by five thunders, and he no longer had the intention of entertaining Yan someone, so he sent someone to say a word to the past, so he took a boat along the Grand Canal and went south, lest he could not say goodbye to his uncle.

The mood of silence was very low along the way, he thought that he was used to seeing life and death, and his heart was like iron, but he didn't expect to hear the news, which made him unable to swallow and sleep at night, and the whole person was immersed in palpitations and couldn't extricate himself, which shows the status of this Uncle Tang, who is also a teacher and friend, in his heart...... Along the way, the boat broke into the water, and finally in Jiaxing Mansion, he met head-on with the official ship escorting Tang Shunzhi.

The two ships were wrong, the sailor fixed the pedal firmly, and a handsome young man dressed in white with a haggard face greeted him, bowed deeply to Shen Mo and said, "Senior brother, you are here." "He is the son of Tang Shunzhi, named Hezheng and Zi Yuanqing, one year younger than Shen Mo, and the two have met a few times.

"Yuanqing, get up quickly, how is my uncle?" Shen Mo asked anxiously as he stepped onto Tang Shunzhi's official ship.

"Just fell asleep." Tang Hezheng said softly: "Say that you can wake up again......"

Hearing his words, Tang Shunzhi was obviously dying, Shen Mo's heart couldn't help but tighten, his body shook, he stood by holding on to the railing, and asked in a hissed voice: "Yuanqing, how can this be?" Uncle Shi, he's only in his early fifties! ”

Tang Hezheng wept and said: "It's still the root of the old disease." "In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, Tang Shunzhi was promoted from the prefect of Shaoxing to the post of Taifuqing because of his military exploits, and he was in charge of the Fujian and Zhejiang Naval Division.

Tang Shunzhi replied to Shen Mo with a poem: "The national shame is still unexpected, and he is willing to be in danger." The people of Jiuyuan do not return, and the ten thousand gullies are cold. Don't you hate to hide the bow early, and finally know that it is difficult to borrow a sword. I am not a strong man, and I am here to rush to the crown. "After exhausting the iron and blood of this sage, he embarked on the journey of the sea without hesitation.

After that, he ran around on the sea ships all the year round to fight against the Japanese, and lived at sea for several months in the summer of a year, and many crew members suffered from a strange disease, skin ulcers, bleeding gums, and weakness, although Tang Shunzhi had superb martial arts, he did not escape this fate.

After hearing about it, Shen Mo immediately gave Tang Shunzhi a copy of the "Navigation Memo" he had written...... This is what he recorded in his mind, all the memories of the Age of Discovery, and prepared it for future ocean-going captains to use as reference books.

Tang Shunzhi knew in the book that their disease was because they were away from the land for a long time, and the lack of fruits and vegetables in their recipes, so that the body lacked something called 'vitamin', so that these diseases appeared, and the way to deal with them was very simple, eat more fruits and vegetables.

But what if the fruits and vegetables go bad after going to sea for a long time? Two hundred years later, Captain Cook's solution was to 'eat kimchi', but the silent wisdom was not comparable to that of the Western barbarian, and the answer he gave was - before sailing, bring soybeans, mung beans, peas and other beans, and when the vegetables are gone, soak bean sprouts on the ship to eat, which can also replenish the missing vitamins.

Tang Shunzhi adopted the method of silence, and soon after, he wrote excitedly and said: "The sick crew has improved, and now the officers and men are in good health, and they are no longer bothered by that strange disease." ’

Shen Mo was very happy at that time, and ordered people to promote it among the various water divisions. Later, I only heard that Tang Shunzhi led his subordinates to win one victory after another, killing the Japanese in fear, and I never heard of him having health problems.

Why all of a sudden, all of a sudden, it doesn't work?

Silently listened to Tang Hezheng sobbing and explained: "In his early years, my father built a thatched hut in the mountains and practiced penance for 16 years, and he was determined to practice the teachings of Mencius, get rid of the temptation of material **, sharpen his mind, and seek breakthroughs. During those sixteen years, regardless of cold or summer, he slept on a door panel, did not make a stove in winter, did not use a fan in summer, ate meat once a month, and never had more than two layers of clothes on his body, and at the same time studied hard day and night, learned all over the hundreds of schools, from astronomy, music to geography, and the art of war, and finally wrote six scriptures, and successfully practiced ......" Although his face was full of sadness, his expression was proud.

"Relying on deep qigong, my father has always maintained abundant energy, but after all, he is still a **mortal fetus, and he can afford years of penance, and he has reached the brink of crumbling." Tang Hezheng finally couldn't help shedding tears, and choked up: "Originally, he planned to recuperate after writing the book to continue his age, but at this time, the Japanese invaders were raging in the southeast, the people's lives were devastated, and the court was helpless. ”

"Perennial fighting, so that his health deteriorated more and more, that time after the 'sepsis', he has not been good, the energy is not as good as before, but he is too strong, has been reluctant to tell others," Tang He said: "This year is even more swollen, it is not easy to lift a spoon and pen, and often fall into a coma, my father knows, not far from the period of the big go, this is the begging bones, last month was finally approved, this is to leave Ningbo to return to his hometown in Changzhou......" Speaking of this, this young man who is very similar to his father's appearance has been crying, Can't say it anymore.

At this time, the old family in the cabin came out and said, "Zhongcheng, our master is awake." Shen silently patted Tang Hezheng on the shoulder and walked into the cabin.

Shen Mo went in with a sad mood, but he didn't smell the strong smell of medicine, and he didn't see anyone on the bed, and even the bedding was neat, not like a person who had been lying down. But Tang Shunzhi was indeed in the room, and he was sitting on a soft chair in a cloth robe—although the cloth robe was half-old, it was as wrinkled as a new one, and it was ironed on Tang Shunzhi's body, and even the most luxurious and fitting brocade robe could not be compared.

Tang Shunzhi's face was clear, his eyes were deep, and he was looking at his nephew with a faint smile, and his fluttering demeanor was like a spring breeze, just like what others felt when they came into contact with Shen Mo.

At this moment, Shen Mo finally understood that he had been imitating this chic and gentle uncle all along, unconsciously...... But it is still not as free as the original version of others, and you can always find some traces of axes and chisels.

Everything in front of him made Shen Mo blurt out: "Uncle Shi, could it be that you entertain me?" "What he means is, are you really sick? Why don't you take medicine and stay in bed?

Tang Shunzhi smiled faintly, slowly stretched out his hands in his sleeves, and the mood that had just been relaxed suddenly sank - I saw that the hands were completely swollen and blackened, and even the nails fell off.

Tang Shunzhi put his hands in his sleeves and said with a faint smile: "Your uncle is such a person who wants to save face, even if he dies, he is also decent, the kind of stiff hospital bed, drowning and waiting for death, I can't accept it." ”

"Then you have to take medicine." Shen Mo said softly.

"People are born with a fate, this is a fixed number" Tang Shunzhi said lightly: "If you don't reach the limit, the king of Hades can't take me; When it comes to the limit, Hua Tuo can't keep me, so why bother to drink those unappetizing black soups? It's not as good as this, at least the house is clean, and I have the appetite to eat and drink. Seeing that Shen Mo's eyes were red, he comforted softly: "Humble words don't have to be like this, there is a way that life is suffering, people have been crying since they came into the world, how many hardships and tortures have they experienced in their lives, and now I finally want to unload all the burdens, and my soul travels in all directions of the world, how can I not laugh and go?" You have to send me with a smile. ”

Tang Shunzhi, the word Yingde, the number Jingchuan, was born in Wujin, Changzhou, his ancestors and his father were all Jinshi, all officials to the prefect and above, but it is an authentic scholarly family, a famous son. He is even more talented superhuman, studious, sixteen years old in Xiucai, twenty-two years old in the Yuan of the Jieyuan, the following year in the tribute Yuan, although in the palace examination, and the champion passed by, but also achieved the fourth place 'pass on the good results', the young weak crown to achieve such results, he is enough to make the world's scholars bow to worship.

His chief examiner is Zhang Xuan, who relied on the 'Great Gift Discussion', Zhang Shoufu paid special attention to him, he seemed to have stepped into the fast lane of his career, and people at the time said that he could be in the cabinet after ten years. But the young Tang Shunzhi, with an inevitable impulse and self-esteem, he deeply hated Zhang Xuan for initiating a great ceremony, resulting in the death or debasement of the upright ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, since then the righteousness of the court has disappeared, and the sycophants have ascended to the position, so he disdains to be with Zhang Xuan and others, and a year later he returned to his hometown and hid in the mountains to read the book of sages.

Then he guarded the system for his mother, and it was not until five years later that he was ordered by his father to return to the imperial court, and served in the Hanlin Academy for less than two years. This completely infuriated the narrow-minded Zhang Xuan, and decided to give the most severe punishment to this arrogant and ignorant descendant -- dismissal for the people, never useful!

This year, he was only twenty-eight years old.

Five years later, Zhang Xuan stepped down, and according to the convention, anyone who was knocked down by Zhang Ge Lao could turn over. Xu Jie, Tang Shunzhi is the same, he rose to the Hanlin Academy and Zuo Chunfang to admonish, this year, he was thirty-two years old.

Only half a year later, on the New Year's Day of the nineteenth year of Jiajing, according to the custom, the emperor wanted to accept the spring greetings of the minister of civil and military affairs, Tang Shunzhi, Luo Hongxian, and Zhao Shichun gave advice to Emperor Jiajing, and proposed that after Emperor Jiajing accepted the congratulations of the hundred officials, he asked the prince Zhu Zaiqi to go out of the Wenhua Hall and accept the congratulations of the hundred officials. This is because Emperor Jiajing once ordered Zhu Zaiqi to supervise the country for two years, but neither the civil nor military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had ever seen the future emperor, and it was in line with etiquette to accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials.

The duty of the counsellor is to advise. Who knew that this duty had aroused Emperor Jiajing's sensitive and suspicious heart, and he was furious after seeing it: "I can't afford it!" Because he happened to be sick in bed at that time, he thought that the minister had a different heart, and expected that he was about to die, and he was going to invite the prince out of the cabinet to become emperor.

He used a red pen to criticize Tang Shunzhi and others with a severe condemnation of more than 100 words, and dismissed the three of them from their posts as people, which will never be used...... The same bad luck struck again, this year, Tang Shunzhi was only thirty-two years old.

Then came 16 years of penance in the mountains, and by the time he was recommended out of the mountains again, he was already nearly 50 years old -- 25 years had passed since he was 23 years old, and in the 25 years, he had only been an official in the court for just over four years, and most of the rest of the time he was 'dismissed from his post for the people' and 'never used' at home.

His family persuaded him, you have never been wrong, but you have suffered for so many years, even if you don't go out of the mountain, no one will say anything about you. He said: "Xiang is already a famous person, this body is not mine, and I have to care about honor and disgrace?" Then he resolutely went out of the mountain...... After several years of boating and fighting, it was finally time when the oil ran out and the lamp dried up, so he relieved himself of his responsibilities without regrets and returned to his hometown by boat to bury his bones...... Facing this sage who could break through life and death and misfortune and regarded his body as a stinky skin, he was silent and realized, so respectful that he knelt down on his knees, and asked softly: "Dare to ask Uncle Shi, how can you treat Ronghua as nothing, and put life and death out of the way?" ”

Tang Shunzhi smiled slightly and said softly: "Mr. once said: 'You see such flowers and trees, blooming and falling in the deep mountains. When you don't look at this flower, this flower and your heart will die together. When you look at this flower, the color of this flower is immediately understood. Then you know that this flower is not outside your heart. After a pause, he continued: "This is the truth of my heart, and it will take me a lifetime to interpret it, and this flower in your heart will be different from the flower in my heart, so I can't teach you." ”

"Do you mean to let me understand it with my own heart?" Shen Mo asked softly.

"That's right," Tang Shunzhi said slowly: "But when Uncle Shi is dying, I can refer to my own experience with you." ”

"Uncle Shi, please speak." Shen solemnly said with bated breath.

(To be continued)