Chapter 17: The Six Arts of a Gentleman
Lu Zhi is not interested in Gongsun Zhan, who is light in fancy clothes, arrogant, and talks at every turn, and also has no good impression of Liu Bei, who likes music and costumes, calls friends, and often follows behind Gongsun Zhan, but he has a great impression of the ordinary and simple Liu Ze, and Lu Zhi can see clearly the talent and talent he shows intentionally or unintentionally, and he also greatly appreciates the humble and introverted character Lu Zhi, often saying: "The son can be taught." β
Liu Ze knows that Taoguang is obscure, the truth of self-preservation, outstanding talent, sharp edge after all is not a good thing, the ancients have a saying that the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, modern people often shoot the first bird, in short, the first bird is naturally to be hated, Liu Ze does not want to be this bird. In class, he never actively expressed himself, he hid the knowledge he had learned after 2,000 years, and kept it secret, if he really brought out thousands of years of knowledge, I am afraid that he would be regarded as a demon, how did Bruno die, Liu Ze was clear, he didn't expect to touch this mold, Rao is so, Liu Ze's occasional flash of wisdom is enough to make him respected as a genius.
Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan are both famous Confucians, and the content of their lectures is naturally based on classics, and the Four Books and Five Classics are all compulsory courses, but they are not without dabbling in other disciplines.
The learning content of Confucian students in the Han Dynasty was very extensive, but it was not that the scholars of the Ming and Qing dynasties only read the eight-strand text, which can be summarized as the "six arts". The Six Arts? Etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics.
Rites refer to the five rites: auspicious rites, fierce rites, military rites, guest rites, and jia rites; Music refers to music, poetry, and dance; There are five shots: white arrow, Shenlian, Yanzhu, Xiangqi, Jingyi; The five methods of driving the carriage are as follows: singing and luaning, chasing the water, passing the king's table, dancing and crossing, and chasing the fowl left; Books are six books of calligraphy; The number refers to the nine disciplines of mathematics and art: Fangtian, Libu, Differential, Shaoguang, Shanggong, Average Loss, Yingshu, Equation, and Pythagorean.
Liu Ze's biggest headache is to read the Four Books and Five Classics of those who are so good, fortunately, he has also studied Chinese studies before, and he can finally pass every exam without danger.
As for arithmetic, it is very difficult for Liu Ze to hide even if he wants to, in his opinion, the mathematics level of the Han Dynasty is only comparable to that of Cheng DΓΉ in the primary school of later generations, and many difficult arithmetic problems have really become pediatrics on his side, such a "talent" is unattainable, even Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan often sigh that they are not as good as themselves.
Poetry and poetry are Liu Ze's weakness, this is the era of Han Fu, Li six and four, the words are gorgeous, but Liu Ze reads the most classic "Liangdu Fu" of Han Fu is obscure, and the taste is like chewing wax. Of course, it is no wonder that Liu Ze, after appreciating the gluttonous feast of Tang and Song poems, the poetry of the Han Dynasty is nothing more than vulgar food, and it is not on the same level at all. In the poetry class that day, Liu Ze couldn't help but chant "The sun is at the end of the mountain, the Yellow River flows into the sea, and you want to be poor for thousands of miles, and go to the next level", the four were shocked, and Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan were also dumbfounded.
After the Book of Poetry, four-word poems are very popular, and the appearance of five-word poems is only nearly a hundred years ago, Bangu's "Yongshi" is undoubtedly the pioneering work of five-word literati poetry, and then five-word poems have sprung up, but few masterpieces have come out, and Liu Ze casually chanted this five-word poem at this time, regardless of the structure and momentum, can be called a masterpiece, Liu Bei Gongsun Zan and others can not be evaluated, but Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan are experts, how can they not know the advantages and disadvantages of this poem, and Liu Ze has been even more impressed since then.
Two years have passed, in the spring of this year, a person suddenly came to the Lu Academy, but it was Zheng Xuan's disciple Donglai Wangji, saying that Zheng Xuan's father was seriously ill, and asked Zheng Xuan to return to his hometown immediately, and at the same time he also brought a news, saying that Lujiang Mountain Yue rebelled, and even broke several county seats, and even Lujiang Taishou was killed, and now the shape of Lujiang is in chaos.
Zheng Xuan said to Lu Zhi: "My father is seriously ill, Xuan has to return, the more the country is rebelling today, and the prestige of his son in Jiujiang will be levied by the court, so you should make plans early." β
Lu Zhi nodded yes and said goodbye to Zheng Xuan. Within a few days, the appointment of the court arrived, and Lu Zhi was appointed as the Taishou of Lujiang and immediately went to his post. Lu Zhi had no choice but to disband the school and go south to take up his post.
Before leaving, Lu Zhi said to Liu Ze alone: "Go to the teacher, but the time is still shallow, and you can't teach everything you have learned in your life, but your talent in astronomy and mathematics is far less than that of a teacher. β
Lu Zhi's meaning is naturally to hope that Liu Ze can become everyone in the field of scriptures, but Liu Ze has traveled through thousands of years to be a master of scriptures, wouldn't it be in vain to disappoint God's arrangement, not to mention that Liu Ze is not too interested in those who are also obscure and difficult to understand the Four Books and Five Classics, you must know that in the next nearly two thousand years, the Four Books and Five Classics have been ruling the career economy of Chinese literati and becoming the root cause of China's backwardness. Chinese scholars are still holding those four books and five classics that have been turned badly, and they go to the top of the examination in a grand manner, and they are knighted. It is undeniable that the Four Books and the Five Classics have their importance, but what is fatal is its uniqueness, exclusivity, not hearing things outside the window, and only reading the books of sages and sages, which is sad and lamentable!
Liu Ze has long been determined that if he has the ability to change his education, he must cut off this bad cultural habit of emphasizing literature and ignoring reason in China for thousands of years, so that the children of the next generation can not only learn a subset of economics and history, but also learn astronomy and mathematics, and even physics and chemistry, and the prosperity of a nation cannot be achieved by one person, but by the civilization passed down from generation to generation, and the science and technology passed down from generation to generation. However, he didn't say these words to Lu Zhi, but just nodded in response: "Follow the teacher's teachings." β
Later, he said: "The teacher is here, if the trapped dragon enters the sea, he will be able to show his great fortune, if he ascends to the court in the future, he must be careful to beware of eunuchs in the court." Of course, Liu Ze knew that he would be framed by the eunuch Zuo Feng in the future, so he reminded him a little, and sure enough, he saw Lu Zhi's eyes lit up, and there was a hint of surprise on his face.
Gongsun Chan naturally wants to go back to Liaoxi County, his father-in-law Liu Taishou has already written to him to agree to the position of a senior county official, and Gongsun Chan specially recommended Liu Bei and Liu Ze to his father-in-law, Gongsun Chan and the Liu brothers get along very well in the past two years, Gongsun Chan has not many other advantages, but there is no reason for him to be an official and not take care of his brothers. Liu Taishou gave Liu Bei the position of secretary of Diandian County, and when he heard that Liu Ze was outstanding in arithmetic, he left him the position of a treasurer. The official is a high-class county official like Gongsun Zhan. Hearing the news, Liu Bei was naturally overjoyed and went home to tell his father. Liu Hong knew that Gongsun Zhan was a son of the Gongsun family in Youzhou, and he was also the fast son-in-law of Liu Taishou in Liaoxi County.
Liu Ze didn't have the heart to be a planner, so he politely declined Gongsun Zhan's grand invitation: "Gu Yun: 'Parents are here, don't travel far', today my brother has gone, Ze is willing to serve his parents in front of the hall and dare not travel, Brother Bo Jue's good intentions are understood." Originally, he planned to run it with Liu Bei, but Liu Bei accepted Gongsun Zhan's invitation, so he didn't have much to do.
Gongsun Zhan had no choice but to say: "The virtuous brother is filial, the foolish brother will not dare to force it, if he has any difficulties, he will come to Liaoxi to find Zhan." β
For Gongsun Zhan, Liu Ze is very grateful, and the life he gave himself can be given by others. But gratitude is gratitude, but Liu Ze doesn't have the slightest idea of following him. Gongsun Zhanzhi was a talented and sparse person, and on this historical stage in the late Han Dynasty, he was only a supporting character after all, and finally annihilated in the raging fire of Yijing.
In the past two years, Liu Ze has often thought about the question that since God arranged for me to be reincarnated in the Liu family, it is definitely purposeful, doesn't it mean that I want to use the wisdom of two thousand years to help him achieve his grand cause? Thinking of this, Liu Ze couldn't help but be enthusiastic and excited.
Although Liu Bei had great ambitions, but his fate was ill-fated, half of his life was upside down, several overturned, until he was forty-six years old, he was assisted by Zhuge Liang, first took Jingxiang Nine Counties, and then got Bashu Hanzhong, and obtained a place in the three-point world, but this also exhausted his energy, and he died in the White Emperor before seeing the recovery of the Han Dynasty.
Historians have debated the reasons for this for 2,000 years, but in the final analysis, the foundation is too thin. Cao Cao started his army from Qiaojun, and there was a large group of Cao's Xiahou brothers who supported him, including Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, etc., all of whom were a generation of famous generals, and Wei Hongqing was heavily funded, Wen Xun Yu, Xun You, Guo Jia, Liu Ye, Man**, Wu Youlejin, Li Dian, Xu Zhu, Dian Wei, Yu Ban, from the East County and Yanzhou, it can be said that the soldiers are strong and strong, the strength is strong, and the time is exhausted, so it can unify the north.
Jiangdong Sun Quan, father and son have worked hard for many years, and his ministers are like clouds, including Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong, Zhang Hong, Zhuge Jin, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, the country is dangerous and the people are attached, and they occupy the geographical advantage, which is to be able to reach Jiangdong.
On the other hand, Liu Bei, although he is a relative of the Han family, has been down-and-out for a long time, only to make a living by selling and weaving mats, poor and destitute, although he has repeatedly fought the Yellow Turban Meritorious, how can he have no one in the court, and he is shy in his pocket, so he only got the sesame official of the county lieutenant, although he has Gongsun Zhan to help him get the position of the minister of the plains, but the soldiers are less than a thousand, and there will only be related and Zhang, the only thing that can be praised is only popularity, and even the position of a big official like Zhou Mu has been given to him to sit in vain, but because the foundation is too thin and the soldiers are outnumbered, the seat of Xuzhou Mu has not been covered with heat and let people run away, From Xuzhou to Runan, from Runan to Xinye, the soldiers are fighting less and less, will they fight back and forth or Guan Zhang Zhao, compared to Cao Cao and Sun Quan, who were proud of the spring breeze at this time, Liu Bei's start was too late, this is like a game of Go, the layout and the middle game are behind, no matter how high your official kung fu is, it is difficult to have a chance to turn the tables.
However, this qiΔ will be changed, because of my arrival, the trajectory of history will change slightly, the political and military pattern of the Three Kingdoms era will be reshuffled, and I, a person with two thousand years of wisdom, will definitely break the old pattern and create a new world - Liu Ze shouted with ambition in his heart.