"Your Majesty, if you look at it superficially, Wei Zheng first voted for the crown prince to build, and then voted for Taizong, and the suspicion of invalidating the two masters, vertically straight, is also Taizong's advice. Even if he is not a person who is round inside and outside, he is also a person who is square inside and outside. ”

"That's reasonable, but why do you say he's round on the inside and outside?"

"How can you look at the surface of a person? Zheng Guozi had a sick birth, and said to Uncle Zi, if I die, my son will be in charge. Only the virtuous can subdue the people with leniency, and the second is as fierce as fierce. The husband is fierce, and the people are afraid of it, so he rarely dies. The water is cowardly, and the people play with it, and they are more dead. Therefore, it is difficult to forgive. After a few months of death, the uncle was in power, and he couldn't bear to be fierce and choose to be lenient, Zheng Guo had many thieves, all gathered in the swampy lakes overgrown with reeds. The uncle repented and said, I had listened to him earlier, but I couldn't do it too much. So he sent troops to attack the thieves of the Worms, and killed them all, and the thieves stopped. When the Master heard this, he said, "Wonderful! If the government is lenient, the people will be slow, and if it is slow, it will be rectified violently. If you are fierce, the people will be disabled, and if you are disabled, you will be lenient. Wide to be fierce; Fierce to help wide, government to peace. This paragraph is from Confucius's "Zuo Chuan", the son died, and said to Uncle Zi, I must be in power when I die, only people with noble virtues can govern the people with lenient policies, and secondly, there is nothing more important than Yan Meng, the fire is fierce, people are afraid to see it, so few people die from the fire. Water is weak, and people like to play with it, so many people die from water. Therefore, it is difficult to govern the country blindly with lenient policies.

Uncle Zi repented after being taught a lesson. After hearing this, Confucius said, "Well, if the administration is lenient, the people will be lenient, and if they are lenient, they will be corrected with harshness, and if they are harsh, the people will be persecuted, and then they will be lenient, and the politics will be peaceful."

So how do you look at the surface of things?

But Zheng Lang's brows furrowed slightly. Wang Anshi said this, there are several meanings, in line with what he said about righteousness, take a look, this is a book repaired by Confucius, he is also in favor of forgiveness and fierceness, not everything is benevolent.

Secondly, it also proves that his heart is still dominated by great Legalist thoughts.

But no one will notice, and they will all listen to him. He also said: "Wei Zheng assisted the prince to build, at that time Taizong was already powerful, Wei Zheng still forcibly entered the construction, if you want to do it early, you must do it early." After being built again and again, he did not listen, was indecisive, did not remove the main trunk, and wanted to cut off the branches and leaves, but instead beat the grass and startled the snake, which was removed by Taizong. If it is the two ends of the first rat, the inner circle and the outer square, why not repay it before Taizong is completed? One of them, too. ”

If you want to argue that Wei Zheng is an inner square and an outer circle, you must first argue that Wei Zheng is an inner side, which seems reasonable.

"Wei Zheng Taizong is a dead man, not taking the initiative to flatter the master, but Taizong is hard to invite. Therefore, the country of Qi does not take care of the first affairs of the son, and the latter affairs are white and ashamed, and does not take the affairs of Yan Zi Qi Jinggong and not the virtuous minister. is the second master, Pang Deyi died in Fanbei, Yang Ye died in Chen Jiayu, who dares to say that they are not righteous people, not straight people? The second is also. ”

"Taizong broke the Turks, and the Turkic people came to vote and discuss it. Wei Zheng thought that the Turkic world was a thief, and the people were difficult to convince. Now it is fortunate to break it, with its surrender, I can't bear to kill it, and it is advisable to return to my homeland and not stay in China. Fu Rongdi has a beast's heart, if it is weak, please surrender, if it is strong, it will rebel, and it will be his surname. There are nearly 100,000 people who have descended today, and in a few years, there will be a lot of rest, and it will be the heart, and there will be no regrets. There are examples of the previous promotion. However, Taizong didn't listen, and Wei Zhengfu didn't persuade him, why? ”

"Why?"

"Li Jing and others have repeatedly made military exploits, the world of Taizong can be served, Taizong is dead, who can serve his descendants? Therefore, he was awarded Hu, divided his lordship, lightly his merits, won the merits of the heroes, and the whole meritorious heroes, otherwise he could only learn from the Western Han Dynasty and be protected by his descendants, and he would harm these meritorious ministers. However, more than 100 years later, there was the chaos of Anshi, and I don't know if Wei Zheng didn't insist at the beginning, whether it was right or wrong. The third also. Therefore, the minister said that he is also a world of inner and outer circles, please think about it. ”

"It's ......," the little emperor couldn't help laughing, and then looked at the young man in front of him again.

When he went out this time, Zheng Lang specially asked the little maid to dress up for Wang Anshi.

History says that Wang Anshi and his ministers went to a banquet in the palace, and the little emperor made a relaxed rule that anyone must go fishing in the imperial pond, and the imperial kitchen will make the fish that everyone catches and makes the dishes that everyone likes to eat. Everyone went fishing with great interest, only Wang Anshi sat absentmindedly in front of the platform and thought about the problem, and ate the bait as a snack one by one. Everyone was surprised, but Wang Anshi said that he was full. So the little emperor thought that this person was a hypocrite, who could not like fishing, and could eat a few grains of bait by mistake for the sake of thinking about the problem, but it was impossible to eat the whole plate of bait. So there is no reuse.

Opponents thought Song Renzong was right, and those in favor thought Song Renzong was exaggerating, and gave an example, saying that Mrs. Wang complained that her officials did not know what to eat, and a friend of his thought he liked to eat venison, and the next day he made a pot of venison and put it in front of him, and sure enough, he ate it. My friend said that I was right, but Mrs. Wang said, no, I don't believe that you will change a pot of vegetables tomorrow and put the venison farther away. The next day, I did as I said, but after eating another pot of vegetables, the venison did not move.

This claim is only half credible, but the official version is quite credible. When Wang Anshi served as a judge in the third year of Jiayou, he wrote ten thousand words to Zhao Zhen, asking for reform, and Zhao Zhen, who had just been dizzy by Fan Zhongyan and others, saw it, and also thought it was broad, but he still paid a little attention to this talent, and transferred him to Beijing to repair the living notes in the Zhiji Xian Academy, and cultivated it, Wang Anshi thought that it was an idle position, and he could not resign, so Zhao Zhen reassigned him to the knowledge system, and issued an edict for the emperor, and picketed the prison in Beijing. Because of his resentment, it was difficult to continue to be an official in the court, so he asked his mother to mourn and go back to Jiangning to mourn.

No matter which one it is, it is not a small blow to Wang Anshi, and it also aggravates his stubborn surname.

Therefore, Zheng Lang must not leave a bad impression on the little emperor, so that this cowardly prince can get a warm growth environment.

So he asked the little maid to take a black robe and fur coat, and let him put it on, with a white fox collar on top, new soap blue cloth shoes underneath, and a small black hat on his head, at least for the time being, like a handsome young man from everyone's background.

The little emperor also liked it when he saw it, because he saw some shadows of Zheng Lang from him.

Actually, it is not, Hugh wants to say that his life is sloppy and careless, and he pays attention to the details of life, even Sima Guang is not as good as Zheng Lang, whether it is Zheng Lang who is an elegant person, or whether he loves cleanliness, he is still a typical petty bourgeoisie who pays attention to it when he has the conditions.

Wang Anshi was affected a little, not very obviously, sometimes Zheng Lang took the initiative to bring it up and asked him to repair the edges.

"Actually, it's difficult, it's hard to be such a person, and it's even harder to get along with people."

The little emperor rubbed his hands and glanced at Zheng Lang again, yes, you teach quite well, it seems that just being a man in these four seasons is very knowledgeable. "Tell me about it again." ”

"There are too few square gentlemen in the world, mostly in the other three situations, such as Li Tang of the Southern Dynasty, such as Chen Guo of the Southern Dynasty, the sound of the whole country, if he does not wake up in the spring, the heating is fragrant, and the whole country is flattering, then Tianxingjian, the gentleman will strive for self-improvement, and be a spring thunder that wakes up the world."

"A good Tianxingjian, a gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement." The little emperor couldn't help but praise it.

It's really good, but it can also be seen that compared with Zheng Jiazi, this son has more fortitude and less suppleness and gentleness, but he is still a good young man.

Even the other ministers promised one by one, a good Wang family.

The fact that the qualifications are good, coupled with Zheng Lang's careful advice, the current thinking is at least more mature than Wang Anshi's thinking in the same period in history, and his thinking is more ambitious.

"It's not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that there are a group of winter people around you, cold and violent, such as when Emperor Yang of Sui, for example, when Qin Shi Huang, at this time, even if the master and son are resurrected, there is nothing they can do. Therefore, the master said that there is no way to enter the dangerous state, and there is no way to live in the chaotic state, and if there is a way in the world, you will see it, and if there is no way, you will be hidden, and if there is a way, the state will be poor, and you will be ashamed. ”

Confucius said that if you don't enter a dangerous country or live in a turbulent country, you will come out to engage in politics when the world is politically clear, and you will retire when the political darkness is dark. It is a shame that the country is politically clear, but it is poor and lowly. It is equally a shame that the politics of the country are dark and they are rich.

In fact, there is a way to help it, and there is no way to leave it. Even sacrifice is not a meaningless sacrifice, so it is said that a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.

But later it was misinterpreted that Confucianism was a group of people who were wise enough to protect themselves and were greedy for life and afraid of death, which was another wrong statement.

"Then let's talk about the other two."

"Your Majesty, if the court is full of people who are inside and outside, then congratulations to Your Majesty, the rule of Wenjing, Zhenguan, Kaiyuan, and Xianping is here."

The best years of the Northern Song Dynasty were not created in the hands of Liu E, nor in the hands of Zhao Zhen, or Song Shenzong, or Song Taizong, but in the early days of Song Zhenzong's reign, which had nothing to do with Kou Zhun, and Kou Zhun's greatest political achievement was that push, otherwise the Northern Song Dynasty would probably lose half of the country at that time.

At that time, there were several people in power, including Li Xin, Lu Mengzheng and Cao Bin, strictly speaking, all of them met the requirements of Wang Anshi or Zheng Lang, the inner and outer circles, this group of humble gentlemen, laid the best cornerstone for the prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty.

"And what about summer?"

"Xia Chen doesn't know," Wang Anshi also didn't dare to say at this time, but he didn't know that Zheng Lang was most worried that he and Sima Guang would become two big suns, not the so-called gentlemen in front of him, and said: "If it appears, it is also terrible, this group of people think that they are gentlemen, they exclude dissent, and they have no ability to see the future of the country like Wei Zheng, so they are not capable enough, so they have to find faults and seek to clear their names. Let them impeach. It's just as dangerous. ”

If all the ministers do not seek merit, but have no faults, and do nothing, of course, it is very dangerous.

The little emperor knew what he said, obviously this sentence was influenced by some of Zheng Lang's thoughts, and Zheng Lang had said similar things before, so he was silent.

But this sentence finally made a person angry, boy, you are clearly referring to Huai scolding Sang!

Fan Yan stood up.

Originally, he was very dissatisfied with Zheng Lang, don't think that he had nothing to say that day, but he was not convinced, and still insisted on his own opinion, not that he was cowardly, and many gentlemen in the later Renzong Dynasty had his problems, the world is big, Lao Tzu is the second, and everyone else is wrong.

He didn't discern this reason, but made Fan Yan think that this was the real Great Annihilation, how could he do this "Great Annihilation" if he didn't mess with so many people?

Now it's good again, I don't know where I found two more sharp-toothed people to be students, it's hard to support alone, two people in a group, three people in a party! The greatest scourge of the Song Dynasty was about to appear. For the future of the Great Song Dynasty, he bravely stood up.

But this time, he stood up, which was destined to be a big mistake!