Zhu Quan is young and strong, and he has been practicing martial arts for a long time, and this winding upstream, not rugged mountain road is just a leisurely walk for him. Turning his head and seeing behind him, although Dao Yan, who was over seventy years old, was panting slightly, he still had some spare strength, and he didn't need to support himself, but it was a much younger scholar Xie Jin, who was already sweating on his forehead after coming here, and he was quite tired. It turned out that the Tao was derived from the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and after becoming a monk, he traveled all over the world, and his body was far stronger than that of ordinary old men.

Seeing a murmuring stream on the side of the mountain road slowly flowing down, and there were several bluestones under the tree, Zhu Quan took off the gourd on the side of his waist to pour the stream water, came to the stone and sat down, and said with a smile to Dao Yan who approached him, Xie Jin smiled: "I am waiting for a threesome today, it is better to sit here and talk about the Tao and rest for a while." He knew that the Tao Yan had been known for a long time, and he knew that this old monk had a lot of miscellaneous knowledge in his belly, and he was an extremely outstanding and intelligent person.

After Dao Yan thanked him, he took the gourd handed by Zhu Quan, and after drinking two sips of clear stream water, he couldn't help but feel his chest open, and turned his head to Xie Jin and asked, "The poor monk dares to ask the scholar, what are the five constants of Confucianism?" ”

"Confucius is benevolent, righteous, and courteous. Mencius advocated benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and wisdom. Dong Zhong Shu of the Western Han Dynasty said benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith. "Later generations of Confucian disciples are respected as the Five Constants." Xie Jin stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and replied casually, saying this in his mouth, but he secretly wondered in his heart that this prince and young master, the first meritorious person in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor, actually tested himself with such a Confucian introductory school. ”“

Dao Yan shook his head when he heard this, and asked again: "From what the scholars have seen, are the two sages of Confucius and Mencius empty talk?" ”

Xie Jin couldn't help but brush his sleeves and said unhappily when he heard this: "Confucius once said: A gentleman wants to accept his words and be sensitive to deeds. The two sages of Confucius and Mencius once led a group of disciples to travel around the world to give lectures, and went through hardships. Speaking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who was sitting upright on one side, and the look of disgruntle on his face was very obvious, showing that he was not only quite dissatisfied with Daoyan's problem of sitting in the well and watching the sky, but also quite concerned about Zhu Quan's accusation that "Literature Dacheng" was just a family's words.

Dao Yan's eyes showed an unhappy look on his face, and he secretly laughed in his heart, and asked: "In this way, Confucius and Mencius are the sages who practiced themselves?" Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Zhu Quan, who was sitting leisurely beside him, and then asked: "The five constants of Confucianism, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith." "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "The Book of Difficulties", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" and other famous doctors and sages of the past dynasties have passed down countless medical books and countless living people, can they be regarded as the physical practice of Confucian benevolence? ”

Xie Jin couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, recalling that he was also sick when he was young, and he was cured by the diagnosis and treatment of Langzhong in the township, and after a long sigh, he bowed his head and said: "The famous doctors of the past dynasties wrote books and said that they will be passed on to future generations, and the hearts of the parents of the doctors are for the great benevolence. ”

Zhu Quan couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart when he heard this: "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "The Book of Difficulty", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", and "Shennong's Materia Medica" are the four famous works of Chinese medicine in later generations. In the later generations of the Ming Dynasty, there was still a famous doctor Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", which was known as the great book of oriental pharmacology.

Dao Yan clasped his hands together and sighed: "That being the case, why are these many medical books that have helped the world and cost countless efforts of the sages not to be included in the eyes of scholars and scholars, and are not included in the "Dacheng of Literature"? ”

The scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, who was quite conceited in his heart, only felt that the other party's unaggressive questioning was like a slap in the face, and he was so shocked that he was speechless.

The three of them followed the mountain road and finally came to a hill.

If it is said that the forest is still verdant and verdant in the middle of the mountain, at this time on the top of the mountain, looking at the sky high and the clouds are light, Zhu Quan, Dao Yan, Xie Jin breathed the mountain breeze blowing in his face, and his mind couldn't help but be open.

"Horizontally look at the side of the ridge into a peak, the distance and the height are different, I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain. The peak loop turned down to know Mr. Dongpo's poetic wonderland. Xie Jin has been very fond of Tang poetry and Song poetry since he was a child, and at this time, he couldn't help but touch the scene, and recited Su Shi's poem "Title West Forest Wall" in the Song Dynasty.

Looking at the vast forest sea from afar, as far as the eye can see, Zhu Quan sighed: "The artistic conception of the poem "Title of the Western Forest Wall" by the scholar of Su University is lofty, and this king borrows a sentence from it, and he does not know the true face of national studies, just because he is in Confucianism. When he turned his head, his eyes showed a puzzled expression, and he said with a smile: "China's learning is for the study of China, and the scholars have read Confucian classics since childhood, and the compilation of the "Dacheng of Literature" only includes Confucian works. When he said this, he secretly sighed in his heart: Since Confucianism became an official school in the Han Dynasty, through the Han, Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties, many corrupt Confucians regard other learning as evil and crooked, and regard themselves as orthodox. Even after hundreds of years, many of the so-called scholars are not vibrant, and they are really ridiculous, although Confucianism is an indispensable part of Chinese culture, but China's thousand-year-old culture, how can it be carried by the words of Confucianism?

When Xie Jin heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, but what lingered in his mind was Su Shi's famous sentence for the ages: I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain.

In the dead of night, the candle flame flickered, and Xie Jin paced back and forth in the study, still sleepless. From time to time, I recalled what Dao Yan said when he was climbing the mountain today, there have been countless works by famous doctors in the past dynasties, why can't the medical skills of the way of living people be included in the canon? In "The Art of War" and "Seeking Attack", Sun Wu once said that a general must have wisdom, faith, benevolence, courage and strictness. How can such a famous book of soldiers advocate the way of killing? These truths may have occasional thoughts in the depths of his heart when he read the "Art of War", but he has been deeply influenced by Confucian classics since he was a child, but he has always unconsciously avoided it, unwilling to think deeply, Legalism is the way of harsh political strategy, and soldiers are advocating the way of conquest, which is the thinking inertia of most Confucian literati in all dynasties from the Han Dynasty onwards.

In the Hanlin Courtyard, Dao Yan, who was dressed in civil official clothes and had a wrinkled face, swept over the cabinet chief assistant Xie Jin, who was sitting on both sides, Zheng Ci, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Jichi, the waiter of the Criminal Department, and more than ten officials of all sizes who were ordered to compile books, and said loudly: "This official is only shallow in learning, and he is not very afraid of compiling books under orders. ”

Xie Jin, Zheng Ci, Liu Jichi and others hurriedly stood up, each humble. It turned out that Dao Yan knew that he was the first person to compile books by order, but he was afraid that these officials, who had read the subset of scriptures and history since childhood, and represented the first-rate figures in the Ming Imperial Examination, might not be convinced.

Whether it is Zheng Ci in a high position, Liu Jichi, or the Hanlin Academy, a Su Confucian who is above the top, he is often refuted by Dao Yan to the point of incompleteness, with a red face and red ears, Fang Shi knows that this emperor who behaves grotesquely on weekdays and is regarded as a minister of the humerus by His Majesty the Emperor today, the talent in his chest is far better than his own last school and backward advancement, these two humble words are still from the bottom of his heart.

"Order all prefectures and counties to recruit people who are full of learning to come to Beijing to participate in the compilation of books, and all folk books, no matter what kind they are, will be purchased and compiled into a book." Since the crown prince and young Fu Daoyan were ordered, he finally issued the first order to these subordinates.

When the officials looked at each other, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy stood up and bowed and asked: "Your Majesty once said that since the deed, the subset of scriptures and histories, the books of a hundred schools, as for astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medicine, monks, and skills, are all included in it. It did not mention Yuanqu, dare to ask the young master, Yuanqu was spread after the Tatar barbarians stole my Shenzhou, how can it be juxtaposed with Tang poems and Song lyrics? Do you want to include it in the classics? It turns out that the so-called Yuan song comes from the fan song, Hu music, which gradually spread after the violent Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, and was first circulated among the people, known as "Market Xiaoling" or "Village Fang Minor". In the minds of today's Ming literati, even if it is a Tang and Song poem, it is not comparable to those barbaric nonsense.

Dao Yan couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, knowing that these literati who hated the tyrannical Yuan hated the house and Wu, and despised the barbarian tyrant Yuan, and unconsciously even hated Yuanqu, and after taking a few sips of the teacup, he said in a deep voice: "Although Yuanqu is from the barbarian dynasty Hu Feng, which of its composers is not Han?" Its rhythm, formula, sentence structure, word count, and level exquisiteness, aren't they also born out of Tang and Song poems? If there are no Chinese characters to bear, how can these barbaric nonsense tunes become Yuan songs? Will it be passed on to future generations?

Xie Jin, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, said loudly: "The sea is tolerant of all rivers, and inclusiveness is true, and this book compiled by us and others will be left to future generations to judge." ”

On the Fengtian Palace, a man over forty years old with a thin face knelt on the ground and cried to Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty: "The minister is not talented, stealing the loyalty of Shen Baoxu, daring to ask for death, and looking forward to His Majesty's mourning." ”

Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who was standing not far away, saw this person's crying, but he did not have the slightest compassion in his heart, but secretly thought to himself with some amusement: This guy persuaded me to take care of Annan's idle affairs, but he also did some homework.

It turned out that this person's name was Pei Boqi, and he was a general under the former king of Annam, Chen Riqing. Hu Yiyuan, who had been named the king by Zhu Di, and his father and son killed Chen Riqing's descendants in a rebellion, the generals led the troops to fight outside, and Pei Boqi's parents and family members who were loyal to the Chen family were killed together. He said to emulate Shen Baoxu, but in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Chu State doctor, Wu Zixu led the Wu army to attack the Chu State to avenge the revenge, this person went to the Qin State to borrow troops to restore the country, crying outside the Qin city wall for several days, and finally made the Qin Aigong, who was unwilling to do much trouble, sent troops to attack the Wu army, relieved the crisis of the Chu State, and then insisted on the reward of the King of Chu Zhao, and took a family to live in seclusion in the mountains, which was regarded as a model of loyal ministers by all dynasties in later generations.

Zhu Di patiently listened to Pei Boqi's cry, knowing that the other party had the intention of recovering the country with the help of the power of the Ming Dynasty, but he really didn't want to cause more trouble in his heart, first, Hu Yiyuan and his son were quite obedient after accepting their edict canonization, and more importantly, although Timur's army bizarrely turned back to China, this incident reminded him that the main threat to the Ming Dynasty at present was the Timurid country in the Western Regions, the northern steppe, the Tatars, and the nomadic tribes of Warat, so he did not want to do more in the south, and immediately ordered the officials of the Ministry of Rites to give Pei Boqi a mansion of food and clothing. The placement of good students did not say a word about sending troops.

To the surprise of Zhu Di, Zhu Quanjun and Chen, the matter did not stop, and more than 20 days later, Chen Tianping, the grandson of the former king of Annam, was escorted by the Lao Xuanzhi envoy to Nanjing.

On the Fengtian Palace, under the attention of hundreds of civil and military officials, he saw this Chen Tianping, who had gray sideburns and a face full of vicissitudes, cried to Zhu Di: "The thieves invaded Siming Mansion, seized its land, investigated their hearts, and really wanted to resist the kingdom, violently expropriated, cruel laws and punishments, and the people were grieved. The implication is that he is obviously borrowing troops from the Ming Dynasty in order to regain the throne that belongs to him.

Zhu Di read the letter of Laos to comfort the sword and line gangsters, and after proving the identity of this person, he couldn't help frowning, and comforted Chen Tianping with kind words, but still did not reply to the matter of sending troops to help him restore the country.

In the imperial study, Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who was wearing a python robe, bowed to Zhu Di and said: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, the king of the land of Annan is Zhang Sanyi or Li Si, which is no different from my Ming Dynasty. It's better for everyone to sweep the snow in front of the door, don't care about the frost on the tiles of others, as for this Chen Tianping, he gave the mansion to live in Nanjing, in order to show His Majesty's virtue of life. It is the best policy to take back Qiuwen first, Qingyuan and other places in the five counties. Speaking of this, he smiled and continued: "If he and Hu Yiyuan's father and son provoke at the border and cause any trouble, they will naturally make other decisions." "It turned out that although Hu Yiyuan and his son promised to return the land of the five counties they had occupied, they have delayed it until now on the grounds that it will take time for the people to migrate.

"Something else?" Pacing back and forth, Zhu Di, who was wearing a dragon robe, didn't feel a little funny when he heard the words, sat down behind the desk, and asked in a deep voice: "In your opinion, if Hu Yiyuan and his son are obedient to my Ming Dynasty, let the Chen family fend for themselves in Nanjing, and if his father and son dare to pick quarrels and provoke trouble on the border in the future, they will send troops to attack them in the name of Chen Tianping or his descendants?" You're a bad kid. ”