Shangluo, Ziyi Lane, Situ Mansion.

In the season of spring, spring is long, but the night still comes earlier. In the month of spring, Tong Shihua, voles turn into cubs, rainbows begin to see, and Ping begins to grow. A bright moon hangs in the southeast. In the pond, frogs chirp constantly. Wang Tianci, who was dressed in casual clothes at home, just took the candlestick from the hand of a maid, waved her hand, asked her to step back, and walked into Wang Rong's inner room with the lit candlestick.

"A godsend has come. Wang Rong sat at a table of eight immortals in a very ordinary green shirt and said without raising his head. The candles on the two rows and three seats on the table were about to burn out, and Wang Rong seemed to be unaware of it, turning over an account book in his hand, and on the table were some tooth chips less than an inch wide and about five inches long, or bone white, or jade white, painted with some vermilion or cyan patterns, and there were words under the pattern, or recorded as one note or two notes, or recorded as three notes and four notes.

Wang Tianci was silent and didn't say a word, and lightly wanted to help Wang Rong replace the two rows of candlesticks that were about to burn out, so Wang Rong raised his head, waved his hand, and motioned for him to blow out the candlesticks in his hands first, "It's not too late to burn out and then replace them." ”

When Wang Tianci heard this, he blew out the candlestick in his hand without saying a word, and the light in the room returned to its previous appearance, much dimmer.

He admired his great-grandfather Wang Rong very much since he was a child, he had heard too many stories about his great-grandfather Wang Rong since he was a child, and his grandfather himself was a legend!

The two most famous stories of Wang Rong when he was a child were when he was just over six years old when he watched the fierce beast fight in the Shangluo Xuanwu Field, and suddenly, when a fierce beast abandoned the monk in front of him and rushed to the side of the Xuanwu Field to watch, countless monks fled in panic, and Wang Rong, who was only six and a half years old, did not move at all and did not change his expression. Afterwards, the family asked him why he didn't move, Wang Rong said: "I can't run the beast, and I can't beat him, running is not the same as not running?"

There is also a story that is very famous. When Wang Rong was a child, he was playing with children when they noticed a plum tree full of fruit on the side of the road. The other children rushed over to pick plums to eat, but Wang Rong stood still and said, "The plum tree is still full of plums on the roadside, which means that the plum must be bitter, otherwise it would have been picked up a long time ago." ”

This is Wang Rong, who has been different from ordinary people since he was a child.

Before he reached the age of twenty, he was introduced as a friend of the most famous great master in the world at that time, Chen Liuruan's Ruan family. At that time, the seven people led by Ruan Ji and Ji Kang were known as the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, Ruan Ji and the others needless to say, they were both the most well-known great masters in the world, and the rest of them were also four advanced great masters in the end, and only one ended up staying in the second-grade purple-robed monk. And Wang Rong was introduced by Ruan Ji at the age of less than twenty, and the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest became a good story, which still makes countless monks yearn for it.

The only thing Wang Tianci didn't understand was his grandfather's habit of picking on the door the older he got.

Since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, the nobles of Shangluo have competed for wealth, the most famous are Shi Chong, the son of the founding father of the Great Sima Shibao, and Wang Xun, the uncle of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty. Wang Rong had a very famous thing when he was young, that is, after his father's death, his father's old subordinates came to mourn, and when they saw that Wang Rong was young, they gave Wang Rong a lot of money. But Wang Rong gave all this huge amount of money to others, and he didn't keep a penny for himself. This is also something that Wang Tianci has always wanted to emulate. In his opinion, money is something outside the body, and even Linggu or something is something outside the body. In his opinion, it was clear that his grandfather had already cultivated himself to the point where he did not like things and did not feel sorry for himself, so why did he become more and more incomprehensible as he got older? When he was in Jinyang before, he had asked Wang Rong, who occasionally returned to his hometown, a few times, but Wang Rong always smiled and did not answer. What's more, this is a matter of planning, so many servants under the Wang family are in charge, and if they are handed over to a competent person, they will handle this matter properly. Shouldn't the three dukes of the court think about how to assist the Son of Heaven in governing the world every day?

"Grandpa, you still have to enter the palace tomorrow to discuss matters, don't be too late today. Wang Tianci gently put the candlestick on his hand and spoke.

"Can God know what Grandpa Tai will discuss when he enters the palace tomorrow?" Wang Rong stopped what he was doing and asked gently.

"God's gift didn't dare to ask. Wang Tianci replied respectfully, "Our Wang family's ancestral training is not in his position, and he does not seek his government. In the affairs of the imperial court, no one in the family is allowed to ask. ”

Seeing Wang Tianci's response, Wang Rong nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, it is worthy of being a godsend, this ancestral training must be adhered to in the future." It's just that things have the right to be disciplined, and the rules are to be observed and flexible, and you need to continue to understand when to be cautious and when to be flexible. ”

"God's gift has written it down!"

"Tomorrow's matter is very simple, that is, King Yuzhang will conduct the five-grade assessment of monks. God's gift, grandpa is testing you, you just have such a little information, how many things can you associate?"

Wang Tianci knew that this was the time when his grandfather instructed and assessed him, and he didn't dare to slack off in his heart. He was an extremely intelligent and logical genius, and after a little thought, he immediately organized his thoughts in his mind.

"In recent years, because Empress Jia wanted to abolish the crown prince, King Yuzhang was quite sought after by some people in Shangluo, and those who had good deeds were called 'Shangluo Twenty-four Friends'. Wang Tianci said cautiously, "But the 'Shihan System' clearly stipulates that if you want to become a prince, you must become a five-rank monk before the age of twenty-seven. Although the prince failed to become a fifth-rank monk back then, the prince had already become a third-rank monk, so it was not a violation of the 'Shihan system'. Although King Yuzhang has gained a lot of momentum in recent years, his cultivation has not improved. According to the great-grandson, tomorrow's assessment is afraid that Empress Jia has another basis. Otherwise, there has been no movement for so many years, and suddenly at this time the assessment will inevitably have some variables. ”

"The prince is in danger!" Wang Rong said in surprise, "The one who guards Kim Yong Palace is none other than Huainan Wang Huang Fuyun." A few days ago, a Huangmen squire proposed that the position of the crown prince of the imperial court should not be suspended for a long time, and some people proposed that according to the story of Emperor Jingdi Wen, the elder brother would die and the younger brother would be replaced by the king of Huainan as the imperial brother. Empress Jia has been planning for so many years, how could she let the fruits of her hard work fall into the hands of others. Tomorrow's conference, the king of Huainan will inevitably participate. These days, although the rumors about Shangluo are not true, they must be manipulated by people behind the scenes, and their purpose is to put pressure on Empress Jia, so that Empress Jia knows that the prince will not die one day, and it will always be a big trouble. With Empress Jia's personality and style of doing things, I am afraid that she will take advantage of the fact that the king of Huainan will not be in Kim Yong Palace tomorrow to send someone to harm the prince. The crown prince was killed, and the king of Huainan, who was in charge of the guards of Kim Yong Palace, could not escape the blame, killing two birds with one stone, and Empress Jia had used it many times before. ”

Wang Tianci was shocked when he heard this, and he could no longer maintain the graceful demeanor that he usually did not panic, and exclaimed: "This matter is very bad, how can this be good! Grandpa, how did you deal with it?"

"How to deal with it?" Wang Rong smiled bitterly, "Godci, who do you say this world belongs to?"

Wang Tianci was stunned when he heard this, paused for a moment, and replied seriously: "The world is the world of the people of the world, and Emperor Wen of Zhou said it to the monks of the world on the meditation platform when he was receiving Zen. Emperor Wu also said the same thing when he was promoted to Zhou Chan. ”

"But does Empress Jia think so?" Wang Rong's old face was full of helplessness at the moment, "Don't say that Empress Jia is Emperor Wu, in his later years, all the policies are no longer to share the world with the monks of the world, but to find ways to live in the world." Therefore, he vigorously promoted the Hanmen monks, so he founded Hongdu Academy, so he reused Jia Chong, Feng Chen and others, all of them, he wanted to increase the imperial power, and no longer the world. ”

"But Grandpa, aren't you Situ, you can stop this. Wang Tianci hurriedly said.

"Can I stop one, can I stop two? I can manage it for a year, and I can manage it for a lifetime?" Wang Rong patiently explained, "God sent me to ask you, is there more monks from poor families or more monks from families in the world?"

"Naturally, there are many monks from the poor family. Wang Tianci said without hesitation.

"That's it. Emperor Wu saw this, and he thought that he could win over a larger number of Hanmen to restrain our family. Very simple arithmetic, the number of monks from the poor sect is dozens or even hundreds of times the number of our family. ”

Wang Rong's words were like a thunderbolt, and instantly broke through all kinds of fog in Wang Tianci's heart in the past. At this moment, he admired his grandfather even more, he really stood tall and saw far, and directly grasped the essence of the problem.

"Regardless of whether the prince really adheres to the oath of the emperor's family and the monks of the world when he received Zen in the Great Jin Dynasty, it doesn't matter. Emperor Wu also adhered to this concept when he was young. Even if the crown prince is saved, with the prince's ability and talent, what if he one day becomes the martial emperor in his later years? The prince really has the demeanor of Emperor Xuan in the past, whether it is cultivation or ability. In the last years of the Great Shang, Sima Cao, who assisted Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty to defeat the princes of the north and finally laid the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, how talented Sun Lingjun was, he said a sentence that I only understood later. That is, the person sitting on the throne of the Son of Heaven is as good as Emperor Shang Xian, even better than Emperor Shang Wu. This world should still share the world, and this world cannot tie prosperity and decay to one person. God, do you understand?"

Wang Tianci was dumbfounded when he said this, he had never thought about such a complicated issue, even if he felt that he had understood the things of the world, but to this day, he knew that he was afraid that he couldn't even understand one-twelfth of them.

"But Grandpa, why did you insist on defending the prince at the beginning of that day?"

"First, at least the current crown prince adheres to the concept of the emperor's family and the monks of the world. Who can say what will happen next? Wang Rong said and stretched out another finger, "Second, the imperial court has its own majesty, and the three princes and nine kings have their own majesty." We are from the same world as the emperor's family, and we are not the servants of their emperor's family. This principle is more important than whether the prince can maintain it, and whether the prince will change in the future. God, firmly remember Grandpa Tai's words, we monks, our family will always adhere to this bottom line. No matter whether it is the Sima family or the Huangfu family in that position, or which family is in the future, we must resolutely oppose the monopoly of power. You must know that since the beginning of the pre-Shang dynasty, countless knowledgeable monks have been pursuing this point, and it was not until the last years of the post-Shang dynasty that they were able to realize the monarch's Zen concession as in ancient times. This is a huge breakthrough that has been achieved by the efforts of many predecessors and many years, and in any case, you must not forget this. When Wang Rong said this, his eyes, which had been cloudy, burst into light, and his whole body exuded a rare great grandmaster momentum, like the king of the jungle without being angry and arrogant.

Wang Tianci's heart sank, and he responded solemnly: "Great-grandson Tianci remembers the teachings of Grandpa Tai! Guarding the family for the rest of his life should share the concept of the world with the Son of Heaven!" He now finally understands in his heart that in Grandpa Tai's mind, whether the prince lives or dies, whether the prince is on the throne or the king of Yuzhang is on the throne, these are not important things. The important thing is that this world cannot be a world with one family name.

Wang Rong looked at his serious and respectful attitude, and showed a satisfied look on his face: "Outsiders say that our Jinyang Wang family is as talented as a forest, but I know in my heart that the only thing that can be relied on in the future is God-given you." Seeing that he was about to be modest, he waved his hand and changed his words, and said, "God, do you know why Grandpa Tai has often fiddled with these calculations over the years?"

The great-grandson was puzzled. ”

"Grandpa Tai asked you, how many spirit valleys can be played in one season of one acre of good spiritual field? How many spirit valleys can be played in one season of ordinary spiritual field? How many spirit valleys can be played in one season of one acre of poor field?"

Wang Tianci was stunned when he heard this, smiled bitterly, and shook his head.

"How much does it take for a monk to cultivate to the ninth rank? How much does it take for a monk to cultivate to the ninth rank? How many spiritual fields are there in our Great Jin Dynasty? How many monks are there? How many spiritual fields are there in Jizhou? What about the other states and counties? How many monks were there in the world in the pre-Shang period? How many monks were there in the Later Shang period? How many monks were there in the Great Zhou Dynasty? How many monks are there in the world in our Great Jin Dynasty? And now the annual output of the Linggu in the Great Jin Dynasty is increasing or decreasing compared with the pre-Shang and post-Shang periods? How much has it increased? Compared with the increase in the number of monks?"

When Wang Tianci heard these questions, his heart was even more bitter. After all, he was only in his early twenties, and in addition to cultivating, he also had to read the books of his predecessors and sages, and he really didn't know anything about these issues. He was never complacent, he was never a tireless learner. In the eyes of others, he is a genius, and he himself understands that he is just more diligent in thinking and learning. And now, he realizes more and more that he still has so much to learn.

"Countless monks only care about their own cultivation, only about their own devotion, and only pursue how to get more resources. And few monks care about how many resources there are in this world and how many monks can sustain their cultivation. In the early days of the pre-Shang dynasty, the largest number of monks in the world was in the early days of Emperor Wu of Shang, with a total of more than 3.78 million people. Emperor Wu of Shang launched a series of wars against the Northern Barbarians and the Southern Barbarians, with more than 20 major battles and countless small battles. Although countless tribes have been conquered from south to north and east to west, the number of monks in the world has also dropped from more than 3 million at the peak to more than 2 million. It was not until the life of the Later Shang Ming Dynasty that the number of monks in the world climbed to a peak again, as high as 4.13 million. During the reign of Emperor Zhang of Shang, his cousin Dou Xian relied on this incomparably powerful national strength to completely conquer the Northern Barbarians, allowing the influence of the Later Shang Dynasty to reach its peak. But this world is extremely prosperous and will decline, and after the Later Shang Dynasty beat Emperor An, he began to fight endlessly, and when he arrived at the second emperor of Huan Ling, he imprisoned the monks on a large scale twice before and after. God, what do you say is the reason behind these phenomena?"

"The monks of the world are not willing to let the royal family or relatives control the government, the world is the world of the people of the world, not a family with one surname. Wang Tianci replied earnestly.

Wang Rong shook his head: "It's still too superficial." The essence behind this is that there is a problem with the allocation of resources in the world. The total number of spiritual fields in this world is limited rather than unlimited, and the output of spiritual valleys in this world is limited. However, the number of monks in the world is increasing. Everyone wants to have more resources, but resources are limited. How to allocate these limited resources, and what to rely on, is the key. During the pre-Shang and post-Shang periods, the royal family divided the princes, and there were a large number of spiritual fields in the world that could be divided. After the chaos in the world, only three or four of the monks in the world survived. After the Great Zhou received Zen, the princes of the Great Seal and the spiritual field of the world were also sufficient. But after Da Jin replaced Da Zhou, this Lingtian was not enough. Especially in these years, you see that after Yang Jun was the assistant to the government at that time, in order to strengthen his position, regardless of the actual situation, he sealed the monk Luo, and within three days, there were thousands of marquis. But these thousands of marquises, where is there still a spiritual field to share? God's gift, how does our law of the Great Jin Dynasty stipulate, you can tell me. ”

"The law of the Great Jin Dynasty stipulates that the county marquis can be based on 7,000 acres of Lingtian, the township marquis can be based on Lingtian 500 mu, the Pavilion Marquis can be based on Lingtian 300 mu, the earl can be based on Lingtian 200 mu, the baron can be based on Lingtian 100 mu, the Guannei Marquis can be based on Lingtian 50 mu, the ordinary monk male cultivator can be based on Lingtian 10 mu, and the female cultivator can be based on Lingtian 7 mu. ”

"There are now more than 4.6 million monks registered in the Great Jin Dynasty, and according to the calculation of ordinary male nuns, about 40 million acres of spiritual fields are needed. Although the Great Jin Spiritual Field is higher than this, do you know how many acres of spiritual land there are under our Jinyang Wang Family?"

"But there are three dukes in our family, six county marquis, ten township marquis, fifteen pavilion marquis, four princesses, and the rest of the counts and barons and Guannei marquis. Many Lingtian have been sealed by the royal family since the pre-Shang period, and all dynasties are the ancestral property of our royal family. Wang Tianci instinctively blurted out.

Wang Rong smiled and shook his head: "Yes." Herein lies the problem. Our Jinyang Wang's spiritual field is as high as hundreds of thousands of acres, but every acre of spiritual land is not taken by force, it is all obtained legally and reasonably. Since the founding of the former Shang dynasty, there have been thousands of marquis, but in the last years of the former Shang dynasty, there were less than 300 of these thousands of marquis remaining. Some families are extinct, and some families have been stripped of their titles for crimes. The corresponding spiritual fields of these families slowly and slowly transferred to the hands of other families. The ancestors of our Wang family have strictly adhered to the family motto of our ancestors for generations, and there are almost no children of the traitor department, but talents are emerging in an endless stream, so our family's family business is getting bigger and bigger, and Lingtian is more and more. In the last years of Emperor Wu, Jia Chong and others formulated the "Jin Law", one of the purposes of which was to redistribute the spiritual fields of the world. It is necessary to redistribute a large number of spiritual fields such as our Jinyang Wang family, Hedong Pei family, Boling Cui family, and so on. God, do you think this is right or wrong?"

Seeing that Wang Tianci was hesitant when he heard this question, Wang Rong smiled and said: "Tianci, you go back and think slowly, when will you figure out this problem, then you can exercise at the grassroots level for a few more years, and you can be the subordinate of the Three Princes and Nine Qing in the future." ”