After Rong Lu and Li re-entered Zeng's mansion, there was already a housekeeper in the mansion to lead, because Ronglu and Zeng's house had a special relationship, and they didn't have to wait in the living room, the housekeeper got Zeng Guofan's words and led the two to Zeng Guofan's study.

When he came to the great scribe of Zeng Guofan, he also built a study in the residence of Hengyang, and the name of the study was "no slow", and "no slow" was originally the name of the study used by Zeng Guofan when he was a Beijing official. The term "no slowness" is a reference to the Analects? Yao said, "There are no gentlemen, no size, no dare to be slow, and they are not arrogant". Zizhang asked Confucius what to do to be suitable for politics, and Confucius said that he should "respect the five beauties and screen the four evils", and "Tai is not arrogant" is one of the "five beauties". What does it mean to be "Thai but not arrogant"? A gentleman treats others, no matter how large or small the other party is, he is respectful and respectful and does not dare to slack off, so it is. This is true for people who are up and down when they are handed over to officials, and the same is true for relatives and neighbors in the township. Therefore, the "no slow" study door in the capital has a couplet in Zeng Guofan's handwriting, "Ten thousand volumes of books should be collected for children, and a statue is satisfied with mulberry hemp". Xialianhua uses the Tang Dynasty Meng Haoran's poem "Talk about wine and hemp", expressing the meaning of "no slowness" in order to be in harmony with the Tian family's fathers and friends, and not to put a shelf in front of them.

And now the couplet at the door of Hengyang's Wuslow study has been replaced with "The world is mostly wrong because of busyness, and good people come from half-suffering", and the couplet admonishes himself. The world is complicated, and it is easy to make mistakes when you are busy, so you must be impatient. The word "many" is very apt to avoid the problem of generalizing in a partial way. The next link is self-exhortation. Willing to come from hardship, people must be able to endure hardship, endure hard work, and go through hardships to become perfect people. The word "half" is also used very well, because it is obviously not enough to be a perfect person by enduring hardships and standing hard work. This pair is even more implicitly in line with the word "no slowness", showing that Zeng Guofan's cultivation in dealing with things and being a man is more refined than when he was in the capital.

Stepping into the study, I saw Zeng Guofan drinking tea in front of the bookcase, and Zeng Guoquan was holding a scroll to watch, and saw Rong Lu and Li Chong coming in. Zeng Guofan twisted his beard and smiled: "Zhonghua came just in time, how about looking at the old man's essay on Yue?" ”

Rong Lu was slightly stunned, only to see Zeng Guoquan hand over the scroll, and when he unfolded it, he saw that it was the "Discussion of Yuewen" that he had seen in later generations, and after reading it again, Rong Lu said: "Rong Lu is a junior, let's let the ninth master evaluate it first." ”

Zeng Guofan's triangular eyes moved slightly, and he said with a smile: "It's okay, Lao Jiu Shicai has already said it." ”

Rong Lu hummed and said, "Then the junior will have the courage to comment a few words." "Since Rong Lu and Zeng Jijing settled on their relationship, Rong Lu has privately regarded himself as a junior. Now several people in the study are not wearing official uniforms, so they all replace them with family rites.

"Although Zeng Shuai's essay on Cantonese criticism cuts into the weakness of the long-haired rebel thief, and takes the long-haired introduction of foreign religion and the destruction of my Chinese literature as the outline, it can indeed gather the hearts of scholars all over the world, but he has no monarch for the long-haired thief. If you commit chaos but don't reprimand enough, if this document is seen by people with ulterior motives in the DPRK and China. I'm afraid that Zeng Shuai will be criticized for not having enough heart to serve the country. Rong Lu said slowly. In Rong Lu's impression, this essay was indeed from the perspective of the defender of traditional Chinese culture to crusade against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the world said that this article was too focused on defending the Tao and ignoring the fact that Hong Yang rebelled, and the call for loyalty to the country was not enough.

Zeng Guofan's eyes flashed with a slight look of disappointment, but Zeng Guoquan stroked his palms and smiled: "Brother, you see that even Zhonghua said so." It's not that brother, I don't have enough vision. ”

Rong Lu was slightly stunned, it seems that Zeng Guoquan's opinion is the same as his own, since Zeng Guoquan can see the problem with this article, then why does Zeng Guofan insist on writing it like this? Could it be that this Wen Zhongjun did not write much to serve the country, and it was not a mistake of Zeng Guofan. Is it intentional? At that moment, Rong Lu unfolded the scroll and looked at it carefully, and after reading it for a while, he suddenly realized: "It turns out that Zeng Shuai is so thoughtful." ”

Hearing that Rong Lu had a new insight, Zeng Guofan was slightly happy and said, "Zhonghua can talk about it." ”

Rong Lu said: "Zeng Shuai's article is called the Yue Wen, which means isolation, Hong Yang started in a corner of Guangxi, and now it has hit the south of the Yangtze River, and the people who should obey are very heavy, Zeng Shuai's request for Guangdong is to wake up all living beings not to blindly follow." At the same time, he only said that he would ask for Guangdong, which had the meaning of forgiving other provinces from thieves, etc., which was the effect of discord. And the article only said that Hong Yang Xingyang taught to destroy my Chinese literature, but it hit the weakness of the long hair, aroused the hearts of the world's scholars to defend the Tao, and even exposed Hong Yang's tricks of traitors and thieves to deceive the people, which can be described as hitting the nail on the head. Moreover, Hong Yang once had a chaotic text to beg Hu Wei, and this chaotic text talked about Yidi's argument, which was indeed sinister, but Zeng Shuai downplayed the saying of loyalty to the monarch and serving the country in the discussion of Yue, which was to avoid this section and only use the debate between Chinese and Western languages to fight back against Hong Yang, which is indeed very clever. ”

After hearing this, Zeng Guofan smiled slightly: "Yes, Zhonghua's words have won my heart, and this text is used by my Xiangyong to tell the world, and the long hair is now entrenched in Changsha and other places, and the plundering is very heavy, so I use this to inspire the children of Xiangzhong It is also in line with the times." However, what Zhong Hua said deliberately downplayed the statement of loyalty to the country has also been exaggerated, thinking that I have been in the Qing Dynasty for nearly two hundred years, and it has already been in the middle of China. I Zeng Wen is not going to recognize the country of long hair as the orthodoxy of the Han family, they are just a group of bandits with strange powers, and they are lucky to prosper for a while, I don't have to exalt them too much in this article, how can these young people shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty? It's just a thief in a few provinces, if I send a message to call on the king of the world, this is a big fuss, raising the prestige of the long-haired thief, and falling into his own name. ”

Rong Lu smiled faintly, this old fox let himself evaluate this article must not have any good intentions, he is a Manchurian, and he is also the Minister of Hunan League Training, Zeng Guofan's article has such a big loophole, how can he make it clear to himself first, if the court asks for guilt in the future, there is Rong Lu, a Manchurian person, can also turn around.

In fact, Rong Lu also understands that no matter how good Zeng Guofan says, Zeng Guofan and the Hunan army have always been armed by the Han people, and the Hunan army wants to send out a division.

At the moment, Rong Lu didn't break it, nodded and said: "Zeng Shuai is right, the Manchu and Han are already a family, so why divide you and me." Rong Lu and Dashuai are married this time to explain to the world that our Manchu and Han are a family. ”

Zeng Guofan originally had some doubts about this Manchurian son-in-law, but when he heard him say this, he stroked his palms and smiled: "The old man is very fortunate to have Zhonghua such a good son-in-law." After Rong Lu humbled a few words, Zeng Guofan asked, "Is there anything wrong with Zhonghua's arrival today?" ”

Rong Lu beckoned to Li Chong behind him, Li Chong stepped forward to present a volume of Wence, Zeng Guofan unfolded it and read it, the more he looked at his face, the more difficult it was to look, Zeng Guoquan was very curious, he leaned over and looked at it, only to read a few lines of text, Zeng Guoquan's face changed greatly: "This long-haired thief and pseudo-king of the West are so generous to do business with Yiren?" ”

Rong Lu nodded and said: "These are just the tip of the iceberg, the younger generation has eyeliner in Guangzhou, and has a good relationship with many foreign banks in Guangzhou. The puppet king of the West in Shanghai and the foreigners of the great way of trade, more and foreigners to purchase guns and firearms, but also to build railways, telegraphs, and now buy a large number of factory machinery, his ambition is not small. Recently, I heard that this fang has purchased several foreign gun production lines from Sweden, a small Nordic country, if these machinery arrives in Shanghai, the long-haired thief will be self-sufficient in firearms and firearms in the future, and the puppet king of the West will be very difficult to control. ”

Zeng Guofan's face turned a little blue, and his triangular eyes were full of anger and scolded: "This fang not only leads the foreign religion to mess with my China, but also worships the foreign in a grand manner, and shamelessly loots the people's fat and ointment to buy foreigners' utensils, and admires Yidi's ingenious and obscene skills, which is really my Chinese shame!" The construction of this railroad will inevitably provoke a popular uprising, and we can just use it. ”

Rong Lu Zhengse said: "Zeng Shuai thinks exactly, but the pseudo-king of the West seems to have been prepared, as early as the beginning of the construction of the railway, he wantonly bought the people with small profits, and pressed with the army, the people of southern Jiangsu dare not speak, and the people of the world only look at the immediate benefits, because now the railway has been built for most of it, and there is no sign of civil change." ”

Zeng Guofan stood up and paced a few steps with his hands in his hands, and sighed lightly: "This fang of the puppet king of the West can not only fight well, but I can't imagine that there are such means to govern the place. I heard that this person is engaged in some kind of freedom of belief in southern Jiangsu, and he is not like Hong Yang's ban on destroying the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and even his pseudo-princess has engaged in neo-Confucianism, which is indeed a headache. ”

Rong Lu nodded and said: "The younger generation came today to want to make a deal with Zeng Shuai, and we should also go to the imperial court to buy a new foreigner's rifled gun, if possible, it is best to run your own mechanical bureau and produce your own firearms to resist the threat of long hair." Now the long-haired thief has walked ahead of us, if there is really a day when the long-haired thief learns Western techniques, I am afraid that there will be no day to turn over. At the same time, we also have to write to the imperial court, so that the imperial court can come out to put pressure on foreigners, and we should no longer trade with long-haired thieves, but should turn around, and let the imperial court unite with foreigners to suppress long-haired! ”

Zeng Guofan looked at Rong Lu in surprise, and then looked back at Zeng Guoquan, who was also surprised, Zeng Guofan paced a few steps and said lightly: "Zhonghua said this from the heart? ”

Rong Lu nodded and said very sincerely: "It is the heartfelt words of the younger generation, although the law of the foreigners is suspected of tricking, but the foreigners' ships are still in sight, my generation wants to stabilize the country and resist foreign insults, it is time to go abroad to learn from them, as the so-called stones of other mountains can attack jade, if we blindly hold on to the defects, even if they are not destroyed by the long-haired thieves, he will be swallowed up by the foreigners one day!" ”

Looking at Zeng Guofan and Zeng Guoquan looking at each other, Rong Lu was slightly stunned and said, "Could it be that the junior said something wrong?" (To be continued......)