Yang Jingchen and others moved Zhang Gui to give up running a newspaper, and also invited Zhang Gui's future father-in-law, Shang Zhou Zuo, to be a lobbyist.

Therefore, when Zhang Gui appeared, he first saluted Shang Zhou Zuo: "I don't know why Yue Weng and the princes came to the Han Mansion?" ”

Shang Zhouzuo said: "They want me to persuade you to stop running newspapers, and together with Your Majesty, withdraw the edict that allowed all officials to run newspapers." What do you think? ”

"Please forgive my son-in-law for this matter!"

Zhang Gui replied first, and then said: "What's more, how can relatives interfere with politics?" If you feel that the matter of the newspaper is inappropriate, you can completely relieve Your Majesty yourself. ”

Yang Jingchen saw that Zhang Gui was so faceless, so he had to endure his anger and said: "Uncle Guo, this newspaper can be run by all officials, and Uncle Guo, as the governor of Xichang, can naturally be negligent in the matter of running a newspaper, which is not a disturbance to the government of foreign courts!" ”

"Even so, Ben Hou has no reason to join forces with you!"

Zhang Gui replied.

Yang Jingchen had to grit his teeth and endure his anger, and said again: "Uncle Guo, do you really want to go against the people of the world like this all the time?" ”

Zhang Gui smiled: "How did Ben Hou go against the people of the world? ”

"Uncle Guo, you should understand!"

Yang Jingchen replied loudly.

Zhang Gui replied: "Ben Hou doesn't understand! ”

"Uncle Guo!"

Gong Dinghe couldn't help shouting at this time, and said: "Although you are a noble relative, you can't just think about the prosperity of the past, but you should think about the future!" ”

"Are you threatening Benhou?"

Zhang Gui asked.

Gong Dinghe said: "Uncle Guo can think whatever he wants, but this is the truth!" You can't just think about catering to the emperor of the current dynasty and not care about being settled by the queen in the future! Such as the fate of the two relatives of the Zhang family in the temple of the Hongzhi Dynasty! ”

Zhang Guidao: "Ben Hou never did these things for his own dynasty to have greater power, but really for the sake of the society. So, it's useless for you to threaten Benhou like this! ”

"Rao is like this, Uncle Guo, you can't be willing to be cheap, and go to make friends with the common people, and even let the common people know about the political affairs of the court, and even let them discuss the ministers and doctors!"

"Green Sword Fairy"

"This is reversing the dignity and inferiority, and the great bad system!"

"Uncle Guo, you are already a noble relative, and you are not clothy! You can't equate yourself with cloth clothes and not know how to maintain the dignity of your fellow rentier! ”

Yang Jingchen replied.

Zhang Gui laughed: "It was you who suggested that Your Majesty should open up a wide range of opinions, so Chen Hanlin proposed to run a newspaper, so that more public opinion can reach the heavens through the newspaper, and make the monarch more aware of the public opinion of the world!" Why, now you are trying to prevent His Majesty from listening to public opinion on the grounds that you want Benhou to defend the dignity of his fellow rentiers? ”

"Isn't this to block the Son of Heaven?!"

Zhang Gui asked as he spoke.

"The Son of Heaven rules the world with scholars and doctors, not with the people, and opening up the way is to open the way to the scholars, not the people."

"If the people are wronged, they have their own drums to hear to the heavens!"

"Now the newspaper is so that the common people can discuss state affairs like scholars and doctors, and know the faults of His Holiness, which is contrary to the principle that the affairs of the world can only be done by meat eaters! It is not in line with the Venerable One's reasoning! ”

Gong Ding and Huidao.

Zhang Guihe sneered: "The people are the most important, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light." How to explain it? ”

"Although the common people are important, they are only important not to mourn and starve, not to disrupt the people, and not to really put them above the scholars."

"As the sage said, the people can make it, but they can't know it!"

"Uncle Guo still needs the old man to explain the way of this saint to you in detail, so that you can understand the truth here?!"

Yang Jingchen asked.

"That's not right!"

After Zhang Gui replied, he said: "How did I hear a Confucian minister say that the sage reads this sentence like this: the people can make it, and let it be; You can't make it, you know it. ”

Zhang Gui looked at Wen Zhenmeng and Chen Zizhuang as he spoke: "One of you is the champion and the other is the role model, you are good at learning, you can tell me, whether the people can make it, not to know it, or the people can make it, from it; You can't make it, you know it. ”

Saying that, Zhang Gui bowed his hand to Shang Zhouzuo again: "By the way, please ask Yue Weng." ”

Chen Zizhuang, Wen Zhenmeng, and Shang Zhouzuo suddenly realized that the words of this saint would indeed have great ambiguity because of the different readings.

Wen Zhenmeng also muttered: "It's too!" How do you read it? ”

Chen Zizhuang said: "How much do you need to say? Uncle Guo's sentence reading is correct! ”

Yang Jingchen objected: "That's not right! Uncle Guo's sentence reading is wrong! ”

"Uncle Guo's sentence is right, the saint has no intention of fooling the people and making the people only for cattle and horses?!"

Wen Zhenmeng said at this time.

"Uncle Guo's reading is wrong! If you don't have a courtesy, you don't need to let the people know what etiquette is, you just need to let the people obey the etiquette of the scholars! ”

Gong Ding and Huidao.

Shang Zhouzuo said: "This is not right! Failing to be polite to the common people is to criticize the people for having complete etiquette, not to say that they do not know what etiquette is, and let them only obey the call of the scholar. The son-in-law read this sentence correctly. ”

"Wrong! Those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people. Scholars are also laborious; The people are also laborers. The common people should be ruled by the soldiers! ”

A Hanlin official who came with Yang Jingchen replied loudly.

"Rites are not the right of scholars to enslave the people! Etiquette should start with respect and end with benevolence! The so-called governance of people should also be the intention of the saints to be benevolent and loving to the people, not the meaning of the ruler to make the people like cattle and horses! You are misinterpreting the meaning of the saints! ”

Chen Zizhuang continued to refute a sentence, and said: "So Uncle Guo's sentence reading is correct, and it is in line with the meaning of the sage!" ”

"Wrong!"

Yang Jingchen immediately continued to refute, and began to search his stomach to quote one or two sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics to persuade Chen Zizhuang and make him admit that the sage is to make the scholar higher than the people, and the scholar is the slave owner of the people, and at the same time to convince himself, so that he can still use the slave and serve the people with peace of mind in the future.

But at this time, Ni Yuanlu, a bachelor of Hanlin who came with Yang Jingchen and others, also stood up after hearing Chen Zizhuang say this: "Yang Gong, Uncle Guo's sentence reading seems to be correct, as Shaozong Bo Chen Butang said just now, the sage should not want to make the people slaves. ”

Ni Yuanlu thought about it again as he spoke, and then said more firmly: "Well, I think Uncle Guo's sentence reading is right, everything is inferior, only reading is high, it is a misinterpretation of the Song people, not a saint's willingness!" ”

"That's right, the sage should not mean to treat the people as cattle and horses."

"I also think Uncle Guo's sentence reading is correct."

……

For a while, Yang Jingchen's many Qingliu civil officials also stood on the side of Zhang Gui and Chen Zizhuang at this time, after all, not all civil officials did not have their own independent thinking ability.

What's more, under the influence of Wang Yangming, the Ming Dynasty has been active in the field of thought since the later period, and many people have begun to jump out of the cage of Cheng Zhu Lixue, like Wang Yangming, to take the initiative to think.

And Yang Jingchen's face was quite ugly because of this, and he looked at Ni Yuanlu and the others: "You guys! How could you listen to his Chen Jisheng's demagoguery so easily! Although the people are not cattle and horses, they are not human beings either! ”

"That's right, you can't mess with dignity and humility, so Uncle Guo's sentence reading is wrong."

Gong Ding and Huidao.

"That's right!"

After Ni Yuanlu changed camps, he immediately replied.

"Wrong!"

"That's right!"

"Wrong!"

……

The two sides are at a stalemate, and no one can convince anyone.

The same Confucian saying, because of their different positions and different understandings, they all quarreled for a while, and their faces turned red, and they almost wanted to fight.

Zhang Gui smiled when he saw this, and he also understood that there was a serious conflict of ideology and concepts hidden behind this seemingly sentence reading dispute.

Many scholars have turned Confucianism into a tool to assert their privileges as human beings.

Of course, there are also idealists who insist that Confucianism is their tool for governing the country and securing the country.

Different people have different choices and different ideas.

But it is still the majority who speak only for their own interests.

At this time, the civil officials who insisted that Zhang Gui's sentence reading was wrong still accounted for the majority, and there were still not many people like Ni Yuanlu who chose to support Zhang Gui and Chen Zizhuang.

Seeing this, Zhang Gui couldn't help but say to Chen Zizhuang: "It seems that you have to hurry up and let all the scripture books have standard sentences to read." ”

"Uncle Guo is right, otherwise, I don't know how many scholars will misinterpret the way of the sage."

Chen Zizhuang replied.

"It is incumbent upon you to reform this area."

Zhang Gui replied.

Chen Zizhuang said: "After returning to the ministry, I will go to the book and ask for the implementation of the method of sentence reading, and let the books of the world's scriptures have only one set of sentence reading standards, so as to avoid the world from misinterpreting the meaning of the sage!" ”

Wen Zhenmeng said: "Then this can only be arranged by Chen Gongyou, who is responsible for arranging the readers of the scriptures and sentences, and can only be the learned and decent Hanlin Qingliu, not the Yang Zhangyuan and the like who intend to serve the people of the world with the way of a saint!" ”

"Wen Xiangnan! You don't want to get what you want! You are the pseudo-scholars, we are the decent, and we can only read the four books and five verses! ”

Yang Jingchen was busy objecting loudly at this time.