"It's raining!"

"It's really raining!"

"Your Majesty, it's really raining right now!"

Shen Shixing looked at Zhu Yijun with joy on his face.

Zhu Yijun also smiled slightly, then glanced at the ministers around him, and saw that most of these ministers looked more and more solemn, so he asked:

"But why aren't a few happy, and their faces are more ugly than before the rain?"

Zhu Yijun said: "Spread my will, make me happy, and rest for half a day, and go back to my family and have fun!" Then write a congratulatory note and present it. ”

"In addition, the decree was that King Su had a meritorious contribution to rainfall, rewarded the prince with double money, and led the officials of the Qin Heavenly Prison to rush to the severe drought of the country to carry out the rainfall."

After Zhu Yijun said this, he looked at Chen Younian, Shi Xing and others:

"In the early dynasty, it was assumed that it would not rain because a few officials related to political affairs came to me!"

So, Chen Younian, Shi Xing, and Ban Jin all came over.

Zhu Yijun looked at the three of them: "You three, what do you have to say about this rain falling artificially now?" ”

"The minister is guilty!"

"I almost misled Your Majesty into believing that natural disasters are related to personnel!"

Shi Xing knelt down on the ground full of puddles and replied.

Seeing this, Zhu Yijun didn't say anything, but said: "Give me to the edict to reflect on and write a conclusion, no matter what point of view it is, I am not guilty, but it must be justified, otherwise I will stay in the edict prison all the time!" ”

Zhu Yijun said and left here.

When the rain fell, the people also cheered.

Throughout Gyeonggi, everyone rushed to tell each other.

The grain merchant boss had no choice but to lower the price of grain, and it was a big drop.

"It's down! It's all down! ”

Tu Sanmu had been guarding outside the grain store for a long time to look at the price, and when he saw the price of grain plummeting, he ran home happily, and then he didn't pay attention to his feet, so he hooked the wooden basin that received the water, fell into the basin, and splashed the rain everywhere.

Seeing this, Tu Ermu picked up a feather duster and beat it: "Stinky boy, it hurt Lao Tzu to take Tianshui for nothing!" ”

At this time, the entire neighborhood put out wooden pots and clay pots under the eaves to collect jade and pearls.

At this time, the eunuch straightened out the cane, leaned against the door and looked at the silver threads densely covered throughout the neighborhood, and said: "Finally, it turns out that it is better to fight the dragon king than to ask the dragon king!" ”

As he spoke, Fang Lishun saw his old friend Chen Younian and two officials escorted by Jinyi Guard.

Fang Lishun walked over and asked, "Why was Gong taken at this time?" ”

Chen Younian didn't answer, only muttered: "Why, why don't you go down sooner or later, but at this time." ”

Then, under Fang Lishun's attention, Chen Younian, Shi Xing and others were taken to the edict.

As soon as he arrived at the Imperial Prison, Luo Wanhua, who was still studying in the Imperial Prison, was Chen Younian's teacher, and after Chen Younian came to the Imperial Prison, he was also very surprised, so he asked, "Why are you here?" ”

"The disciple was imprisoned because of his words, after the Son of Heaven prayed for rain, there was still no rain in Gyeonggi, which may be related to the lack of amnesty for the world."

Chen Younian replied.

Luo Wanhua knew that Chen Younian mentioned this, it should be in order to let His Majesty let him out, so he couldn't help but ask him: "What are you doing with this?!" ”

"Doesn't the gentleman want to get out of prison?"

Chen Younian asked.

Luo Wanhua said: "I don't want to! ”

Chen Younian couldn't help but be stunned.

Then, Luo Wanhua said: "The reason why I was raised about this is because I have incurred many crimes, such as corrupting the national system in Renzhi County, Huguang, only knowing how to give lectures, etc., so that I have the opportunity to continue to be locked up here, if I really don't go out, won't I confess in vain?" ”

Chen Younian said "oh": "I don't know." ”

"Idiot!"

Luo Wanhua scolded and asked, "It's raining outside?" ”

Chen Younian nodded: "How does Mr. know that he can calculate the will of heaven." ”

"Your clothes are wet, and your hair is also wet, you said that if it doesn't rain outside, is Jinyiwei willing to give you a bath first?"

After Luo Wanhua asked, he scolded again: "How did you become an official!" ”

Then, Luo Wanhua asked him again: "Your Majesty has succeeded in praying for rain?" ”

"It's not Your Majesty who prayed for rain successfully, it's King Su who used their practical knowledge to rain successfully!"

"Sir, that's where the scary is!"

"So the disciple is now full of thoughts on this, and he seems even more stupid."

Chen Younian replied.

Luo Wanhua also fell silent after hearing this.

After a while, Luo Wanhua said: "Obviously, the avenue is only in itself, everyone wants to rain, then the sky will rain by itself, the Son of Heaven prays for rain from the people's desires, from the avenue, but now it is not by such a successful rainfall, natural disasters can not restrain the monarch from the will of the people, so what else can restrain the Son of Heaven to be people-oriented?" ”

After Luo Wanhua said, he said: "Or is the avenue not in itself?" What did I learn in the past be wrong? ”

……

"If it hadn't been for the public to admit that natural disasters have nothing to do with personnel, we might have been given death by His Majesty at that time."

Ban Jin, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, who was locked up in the cell next to Shi Xing, also told Shi Xing about what happened today at this time.

Shi Xing smiled helplessly: "Although I said this for the sake of my life, if the natural disaster really should not be in the human affairs, and the will of the Son of Heaven represents the will of heaven, then I am afraid that it will be difficult for the people of the world to speak through the sky." ”

"Yes, the wisdom of the people will be opened."

"In addition, once the natural weather cannot be related to the morality of the scriptures, it will be difficult for the Confucian scholars to be respected by the world, and in that case, there will be great changes unseen in a thousand years."

Ban Jin said at this time.

Shi Xing then looked at Ban Jin: "How does the Duke plan to write a reflection book, is it to persuade His Majesty to continue to believe in the induction of heaven and man, and sincerity is spiritual?" ”

Ban Jin smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty naturally won't believe it!" It is better to say that only Providence is Divine Providence than to say that there is no Providence! ”

Shi Xing's jaw.

……

Wang Jiaping has been out of Beijing to Hanhai for many days, but when he was resting halfway, his friend asked him to bring him the news that it had rained in the capital.

"Is it really raining in Gyeonggi?"

Wang Jiaping was overjoyed and asked Yang Ji, the student who came to report the news to him.

Yang Ji replied: "It's raining, but it's not because Your Majesty prayed for rain, it was Qin Tianjian who succeeded in raining it with practical means." ”

Wang Jiaping was also silent after hearing this, and only sighed after a long time: "The holy will is the will of heaven!" ”

……

"Because I have a heavenly constitution in my mouth, and I am the will of heaven, it is my intention to let King Su and others succeed in raining through various practical knowledge, so that the rainfall can succeed!"

"Therefore, the practical knowledge is not correct, not because the truth itself exists and remains unchanged, but because I, the Son of Heaven, believe it, so he has become the truth!"

"They have been reflecting on the edict for so long, and the truth they have reflected on is like this!"

"Master, let's take a look and tell me what you think."

After Zhu Yijun got the reflections of Chen Younian, Shi Xing and other ministers, he asked about Shen Shixing.

Shen Shixing said yes, and looked at these recitals, and said to Zhu Yijun after a while: "Your Majesty, it is still difficult for the civil and military officials, and even the common people of the world, to be willing to accept that there are natural laws in this world that they cannot control everything in the world through their own will." ”

"Even if this will is correct or not, let the Son of Heaven decide, it is better than admitting that human desires cannot oppose the way of nature!"

"Because if this is not the case, it will mean that the world cannot be dominated by them, and there is no basis for the distinction between people, but many people still want to be superior."

(End of chapter)