Chapter 160: Poetry Society
Gao Huaide didn't understand what the selfishness of the prince's son-in-law had to do with him, but he himself was very afraid that others would say that he was selfish. Pinshu.com(wWW.VoDtw.coM)
Not only him, but also the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of the world are also very disgusted with selfishness.
When people say they are selfish, they always feel that their conduct must be bad, otherwise why are they said to be selfish?
No matter what kind of person he is, he is the most noble and selfless, so that he can show his own integrity.
Gao Huaide is no exception, and when he heard Zhao Xu say that those scholars are selfish, he also agrees.
Yes, everyone is selfish, there is no way, this is human nature, even those ancient sages and sages are not like this.
"Each of these scholars has selfish motives, and I have grasped this point, so I dare to do this, because I have grasped their weaknesses."
Zhao Xu has never denied that he is selfish, nor has he said that he is selfless, he admits this, who dares to say that he is selfless in front of him, Zhao Xu will definitely spit on him.
He himself has selfish intentions, and he does not regard himself as selfless, let alone accuse others of being selfish, which he will not deny.
"Isn't this a bit of a generalization, or some people are selfless, such as some sages and saints in ancient times." Gao Huaide asked tentatively.
"Hmph, are these people really so selfless, and some of them are just sanctimonious?" Zhao Xu just said this in his heart.
Sometimes he really wants to ask the gentlemen of the sages, the "selfless" defenders, and then he accuses others of selfishness.
Those who teach others to be selfless at every turn, ask yourself: Are you selfish? Are you selfish?
Who dares to say that you really don't have a little selfishness in it, do you dare to pat your chest and say, I don't have selfishness?
You must not dare, you must find it difficult to speak, because there is definitely selfishness in your heart.
But when you want to admit that you are selfish, you will definitely feel that you are very faceless in front of everyone, afraid that your colleagues will say about you. [.A lot of good novels]
Afraid of being looked down upon, afraid of being shunned by everyone, afraid of being spurned by society. You're afraid you won't be allowed in this circle.
And when you want to admit that you are selfless, you must be afraid that others will say that you are shameless, because some of the things you have done or said are definitely selfish.
And these will definitely be recorded by people you know well, at this time do you dare to say, you are afraid that you will be attacked by a group.
"Although they are called sages, they are also selfish in their hearts, whether they admit it or not, but selfishness always accompanies them, manifests itself in their actions, or is hidden deep in their inner world."
Zhao Xu is very disdainful of this, calling them saints, are you a saint, not necessarily! As long as people are selfish.
Looking at Gao Huaide's mouth wide open, Zhao Xu was like a conscientious teacher and slowly told what is selfishness?
"As long as it is a person, there will be a bit of a selfish factor in it, you don't have to deny this, and no one can deny it, as long as he is still alive in this world."
"For example, the scholar said that Sage Confucius is also selfish, he just wants to carry forward his doctrine, this is selfishness."
This is obviously someone's wish or long-cherished wish, but it has become a selfish motive in him.
However, Gao Huaide didn't hear anything boring, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, no one had told them before.
In the past, he always heard people say how great it was for Confucius to travel around the world with his disciples to propagate his ideas.
At that time, I admired this Confucian Sage, but now when I hear Zhao Xu say this, it turns out that he is doing it for his own business, so it doesn't seem great.
As a soldier, Gao Huaide doesn't have so many ways in his heart, but he does know a story about this.
He happened during the "Anshi Rebellion" in the Tang Dynasty, and in the later period of the Anshi Rebellion, the rebels were also extremely unstable. [.A lot of good novels]
An Lushan's son An Qingxu killed his father and succeeded An Lushan to inherit his throne and become the nominal leader.
An Qingxu ordered his general Yin Ziqi to take Suiyang City as soon as possible, knowing that this city was also attacked during the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion during the Han Dynasty.
It has not been able to be attacked for a long time, which shows how strong Suiyang City is, so Yin Ziqi has not made progress for several months.
It is worth besieging Suiyang City in groups, it is because of his siege that Suiyang City can be said to be exhausted.
So they began to consider whether to abandon the city and flee. This suggestion was quickly vetoed by Tang General Zhang Xun.
Suiyang is the barrier of Jianghuai, and it is a firm guardian of the land of Jianghuai, and if there is no Huaiyang, the land of Jianghuai will definitely not be guaranteed.
So he decided to defend Huaiyang City, he was also a very far-sighted general and knew how to get close to the soldiers.
He began to eat and live with the soldiers, but where was there anything to eat now? The soldiers even ate their horses, and ate what they could eat in the city.
However, on this day, Zhang Xun gave the soldiers a meal of meat, and the big guy was very happy to eat, probably because he hadn't tasted meat for a long time, and the food was very fragrant.
No one asked where this meat came from, it turned out that this was Zhang Xun's concubine's meat, a living human flesh.
Just when there was nothing to eat in the city, Zhang Xun's concubine Huo Shi stood up and said:
"If I lose Suiyang City, I will definitely lose it, at that time, it can only be eaten by jackals, tigers and leopards in the Violent Corpse Wilderness, or it will rot by itself, it will be useless.
In this case, it is better to kill the concubine body and temporarily use it as military food in the army, and it can also give the soldier a moment more to live, and increase the chance of victory, so that it is worth it if I die."
I have to say that a woman like Huo is very admirable, and the husband and wife are originally the same forest birds, and they fly separately when the disaster comes;.
The Huo family, instead of flying out, helped her husband and let her husband eat herself.
This Zhang Xun actually agreed to defend the city for the imperial court in order to survive, and killed his concubine and the soldiers to eat together.
That's not all, he also ordered the killing of the old and weak women and children in the city to serve as military rations, and his selfishness in the face of the catastrophe can be seen.
These are what Gao Huaide said, how big the shock this gave Zhao Xu, would he Zhang Xun do this if he was not selfish?
Maybe you say that he is for the country, and if it is really for the country, you should fight the rebels directly when you run out of ammunition and food.
Where are there so many excuses, it's not that I want to live, this is the selfish side of human nature, and later this Zhang Xun actually received a commendation from the imperial court.
Such a person can still be praised by the court, Zhao Xu doesn't understand very much, what use does the court want him to do with such a person.
In fact, this is nothing, according to his understanding of Zhao Xu, when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, due to the construction of a large number of people, countless people were requisitioned, until the fertile land was barren, and natural disasters were added, resulting in a rare famine in history.
The consequence of the famine was that the land was thousands of miles away, wailing everywhere, people were struggling on the line of death, and people were eating in order to survive.
Isn't this selfishness, they stand aside for their own survival, what family affection is, what's the use of him?
There is no doubt that a person's selfishness can be seen in the most difficult times.
"Okay, far from it, although this is tragic, but those literati are not weaker than this, they just don't have the opportunity to experience such a scene, if possible, they will not let you down."
"Just as they opposed the new imperial examination system of our dynasty, it was because they felt that it was not good for them, so they gathered people to make trouble."
"But I said that as long as the scholars who do not participate in the imperial examination because they are dissatisfied with this policy, they should not come in the future, so it has touched their inner interests."
In this way, it may lead to them not being able to enter the official career in the future, this is their selfishness, this is their selfish aspect, do you think there is still opposition? ”
Zhao Xu is also good at what he said, and now those scholars are either familiar with Song Law, or they are exercising their physical fitness as soon as possible.
No one is going to do it like them, it is something they have done voluntarily, and they must do it for the sake of their future careers.
When Zhao Xu and Gao Huaidezi were talking about it, the housekeeper of the Gao Mansion hurriedly came in, still holding an invitation card in his hand.
"The master just sent someone from Master Fan Zhi, saying that he invited you to participate in the poetry meeting." The housekeeper said respectfully.
"Okay, I got it." Gao Huaide asked the housekeeper to go down, but he said to himself.
"This boss is good at fixing these things, and I don't have any literary talent, what are you inviting me to do?"
After saying that, he shook his head helplessly, there was no way to invite himself, how could he give Fan Zhen this face, didn't he?
Zhao Xu is also very curious, what poetry will:
"I said, father-in-law, what are you doing shaking your head, what kind of model invited you to the poetry meeting, what is this?"
Zhao Xu really hasn't seen any poetry meetings. He had only seen it described in books before, and he hadn't seen it yet.
"This poetry meeting was organized by Fan Zhen, the old man, and invited some literati and officials to drink and write poems and so on at his place, and I really have no interest in this."
Gao Huaide is a military general, you let him compose poems, isn't this equivalent to letting Zhang Fei embroider? Maybe Fan Zhen is just polite.
But Lao Fan Zhen didn't think about this, he was the prime minister of the dynasty, since he sent an invitation, can you not give face?
Zhao Xu's thoughts here are different, it seems that the literati of the Song Dynasty often drank flower wine in groups of three or five, and there were still traditions for chanting poems.
You see that these court officials are like this, up and down, not to mention those ordinary people, it must be the same.
Zhao Xu really wanted to see what kind of state the literati of the Great Song Dynasty were like, and at the same time, he also had his own ideas.
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