The koi fish in the pond are big and fat, and when the tail of the big cat is in the water, they will bite the tail and be caught on the shore.

The big cat was so good to him that he even knew that he was hungry and gave him fish to eat.

Jia Cong hugged the koi with the big face of the second brother Bao, and tears flowed from the corners of his mouth with emotion......

The saint finally got through the grief of his old friend's death, and his spirit looked much better. At this time, he was sitting in the shade of a tree sipping tea, and there was a fishing rod beside him, but he did not use it.

The "grandson" sprinkled cumin on the koi on the grill, and the princes and grandsons next door were going to cry.

Looking at Jia Cong, who was busy with his work, the sage asked about the recent events leisurely, and occasionally said a few words of gossip in Beijing, and criticized the story between Brother Gongzi and the pretty girl with Jia Cong.

Of course, Jia Cong would never admit these things, he knew it from a second brother surnamed Bao, and every story happened to one of his friends.

The sage listened to the music, and felt that he was a lot younger. The two grandparents put aside the annoying government affairs of the previous dynasty and talked about it for nearly an hour and a half.

After lunch, Dai Quan asked people to bring two reclining chairs, and the two took a nap by the Taiye pool in the refreshing autumn breeze.

It wasn't until the big cat came to Taishan and shouted at Jia Cong that the old man paused his rest time and talked to Jia Cong about business.

"You are also famous now, and you can't always stay at home. Recently, you have been taking the township examination in the same year, have you ever participated in it? ”

Jia Cong shook his head: "The Tao is not the same, I am too lazy to go." ”

"Confused!"

The old man scolded angrily: "What do you have? Do you think you're Wei Qinghe? Or do you think you're more powerful than your teacher, Xu Qingteng? ”

"But didn't you also say that empty talk will ruin the country, but hard work will prosper the country? I'd rather stay at home and study and practice calligraphy than go out and talk to those people. ”

Jia Cong did not hide his true thoughts, and after the township test, many people sent posts inviting him to participate in various poetry meetings.

At the beginning, he also went to two shows, but the current Shilin atmosphere is really problematic, and it seems that if you don't spray the imperial court policy, you can't reflect their superiority and can't reflect their literati style.

It is said that Daxia is not convicted of words, and it is a good phenomenon for scholars to discuss politics, after all, the imperial court is so a few people, and the officials of science and Taoism cannot achieve comprehensive supervision. It is a rare good thing to have someone to help the imperial court supervise officials.

But Jia Cong soon discovered that this group of people was not spraying for the public, but spraying for the sake of spraying, and the spraying was worthless, and even hindered the smooth implementation of the imperial court's policies.

Qingzhang Tianmu is to persecute the gentry, the reform of the tax system is to plunder the people's wealth, and the rectification of the government is to suppress dissent......

There are even people who think that the current imperial court's military expenditure is getting bigger and bigger, and they don't know the lesson that belligerence will die, so Jia Cong, who is almost angry, rolled up his sleeves and beat him.

Let's not talk about whether there are real problems in these aspects, even if there are problems, if he can put forward his insights and propose some reasonable and appropriate solutions, Jia Cong will look up to him.

But in fact, these people probably don't even know whether the potatoes are round or square, and they don't even know where the enemy of the Nine Sides is facing is, so how can they really have any reasonable advice.

really responded to the words of the second brother Bao at the gate of the Gongyuan, but as long as these people really care about the country's major policies, they will not know the promotion of potatoes and corn when they go out of the township test, and they don't know the pressure that the important towns on the nine sides have to face.

Jia Cong told these things one by one, and the Emperor Taishang laughed instead of anger after hearing it.

"You, you, are still a child."

The old man raised his hand and rubbed it on Jia Cong's head, and sighed: "Actually, I know very well those things among the literati, I was not in charge of the government at the beginning, and the court was controlled by those so-called 'gentlemen'......."

Hearing the old man talk about the past, Jia Cong's ears moved slightly. These things will not flow out of half a sentence except for the living note, big melon!

I saw the sage reminiscing about the past, and talking to Jia Cong about the secrets before and after the pro-government: "The cabinet of that meeting was controlled by the so-called 'gentleman' party, and I couldn't do it even if I wanted to go out of the palace to inspect the three guards in front of the palace." Later, he was still the teacher of Old Man Wei, and Mr. Chongyang entered the court, which broke the control of the 'Junzi' party over the government and gave me a chance to breathe. ”

"Mr. Chongyang?"

This name Jia Cong felt very unfamiliar, and it seemed that Chaozhong had never mentioned it.

The old man nodded: "Mr. Chongyang's doctrine is a taboo in Shilin, it's normal that you haven't heard of it." When the time comes, I'll let you see his writings. ”

Oops, the melon is half-baked, so uncomfortable!

Jia Cong scratched his ears and cheeks, but the old man just didn't let go, skipped Mr. Chongyang and continued: "Later, your grandfather and I launched a rebellion to return to government and regained power. A large number of pragmatic people were used to depose an official from Jiangnan Shilin, which temporarily curbed the empty talk atmosphere that filled the DPRK and China......"

"You're talking about the Xiliners?"

The old man nodded first, and then shook his head: "Yes and no, compared to the Xilin Party, the 'Gentleman' Party is slightly better." This is a problem left over from the previous dynasty, do you know Cheng Zhu Lixue? ”

"Naturally, Cheng Zhu Lixue is one of the most important prominent studies of Confucianism at present, and it can be said to be the first of Confucianism."

Jia Cong's answer not only did not get the old man's approval, but sneered and said: "Today's Cheng Zhu Lixue is no longer the real Cheng Zhu Lixue. In the fifth year of the previous dynasty, the Yuan court issued an edict, and Cheng Zhuzhi learned the heart of Confucius and Mencius...... If you follow it, you will be a gentleman, and if you follow it, you will be a villain; Those who are for the country will be governed by it, and if they are lost, they will be chaotic, which is really beneficial to turning the people into customs and cultivating themselves to govern others. Do you know what the purpose of this edict is? ”

"If you follow it, you will be a gentleman, and if you go against it, you will be a villain......"

Jia Cong recited silently a few times, and said in shock: "This is to suppress the people's thoughts!" If you are not a disciple of Cheng Zhu Lixue, you will be called a villain. Wouldn't the scholars under that heaven be imprisoned in a narrow doctrine and thought, unable to promote the way of the saints? ”

Confucius and Mencius probably would not have imagined that the disciples of Confucianism would distort their thoughts like this a thousand years later.

The old man nodded with satisfaction and sighed: "This is a good thing for the emperor, but for the Han dynasty, it is a shackle that is difficult to break. Preserve heavenly principles and destroy people's desires, but I would rather people's desires be greater, so that the blood of my Han family's sons and daughters will be stronger! ”

As soon as he said this, this emperor, who had fought with people and the sky all his life, became excited.

He stood up, waved his sleeves and sighed: "The hundred schools of thought of the pre-Qin Dynasty contended, Confucianism, Taoism, Law, and Mo...... Every doctrine is a rare treasure, and I don't want the people of my dynasty to be kept captive by one doctrine. Whether it is the 'gentleman' party or the Xilin party, they all inherited the mantle of the previous dynasty and practiced the business of the scholar in the name of the gentleman. Jia Cong, do you want to defeat them and promote the true way of saints for the people of the world? ”

Yes?

I don't want to, not at all!

Jia Cong's brain shook like a rattle, the pot was too big, and he couldn't carry it!

The old man slapped Jia Cong's brain, and he was angry: "No, you want to!" ”

Jia Cong hugged his head and squatted down, still shaking his head: "I don't want to, really, sage master, I don't want at all." It's a huge task, I can't do it, I'm just a child! ”

This is different from going into battle to kill the enemy, the invisible enemy is the most terrifying.

The old man grabbed Jia Cong's neck, "kindly" and seducingly.

"Jia Cong, you can't escape, your teacher Xu Qingteng has already taken over the mantle of Old Man Wei, you are his disciple, and you are destined to fight with them, not only to decide or lose, but also to divide life and death."

Yes? Teacher?

Jia Cong could think that Old Man Wei was a person who opposed the science lord, but his teacher Xu Jin was a disciple of science in the Eight Classics.

How is this possible?

I saw the sage master sneering: "So, what you have to do now is to understand them, integrate into them, and finally defeat them!" It's not okay to hide at home, you have to learn from your teacher, who would have thought that Xu Qingteng, the pride of science and the six-yuan Wenkui, would be their gravedigger. ”

Jia Cong was already dumbfounded, because the sage master had burst out a big melon again.

The golden hammer that had accompanied the old man Wei for thirty years had been given to Xu Jin and Xu Qingteng by the sage.

"At the beginning, I secretly cultivated two people, one is your teacher Xu Jin, and the other is your father-in-law Lin Ruhai."

Yes?

Jia Cong felt his brain buzzing, and his open mouth really couldn't close.

I only heard the sage master continue: "It's a pity that Lin Ruhai is naturally arrogant, his temperament is too upright and upright, and he can't tolerate a little sand in his eyes. It can be seen from the incident of Jiangnan Salt Class that he can be a good looker, but he cannot be a Zaifu. ”

Jia Cong nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and the old man's evaluation of his father-in-law and father was very good.

But as long as the father-in-law and father could have made peace with the people in Jiangnan, the Lin family would not have been so miserable.

The old man sighed and sighed: "Old man Wei has been shouted for a lifetime, but in the past ten years of his rule, he has not only saved money for the imperial court to solve the disaster of the feudal town, but also suppressed the Xilin Party people and did not dare to come forward. This is the real Zaifu, Lin Ruhai can't do it, now it depends on whether Xu Jin can do it. ”

Yes?

Jia Cong couldn't keep up with the old man's thinking, and left the Dragon Head Palace with a buzzing brain.

What the old man said to him today was beyond his imagination, these were the secrets of the secrets, the kind that was enough to turn the world upside down.

Chao Zheng is completely a pediatric in front of Dao Zheng, Chao Zheng may still live, and Dao Zheng is the real immortal.

It is no wonder that in the middle and late Zhaowu periods, the Xilin Party gradually lost the central right to speak, and it turned out to be the means of Emperor Taishang and Old Man Wei.

Then looking back, I sent my uncle to the south to sit in the salt class, and used the salt class corruption case to clean up the Jiangnan officialdom.

then asked the second uncle to go to Zhejiang to supervise the school, and then there was a fraud case in the Zhejiang imperial examination, which weakened the reputation and strength of the major academies in Jiangnan......

After the old man Wei left, the two strongest ministers in the center, Qi Bohan, the head of the Shu party, and Chu Bang, the leader of the two Zhejiang parties, were immediately demoted out of Beijing, and Xia Lingxing was pushed to the high position of the second assistant of the cabinet.

Now that he has spared no effort to cultivate the six-yuan Wenkui Xu Jin, he has even given the king Jin Gong, and the thoughts of the two saints have been placed in a clear place.

Whether it is Zhou Jiong, the first assistant of the cabinet, or the second assistant Xia Lingxing, it is just a transition, and Xu Jin and Xu Qingteng are the candidates for the second saint.

Therefore, when the saint told himself these secrets today, I am afraid that he is not just mentioning himself......

"Brother Cong, the saint and His Majesty will not let a person who is born wise wander outside their plans, Mr. Qingteng accepted you as an apprentice when he was appointed by the saint. Therefore, Mr. Qingteng has taken over the mantle of Wei Wenzhenggong's Taoism, and you, as Mr. Qingteng's only disciple, your fate has been sealed. ”

The outside of the study was guarded by Jia Shiyi himself, and not a single fly could fly in.

Daiyu quickly strung everything together, and she dug deeper than Jia Cong with her delicate thoughts, and broke the intention of the Emperor Taishang to say these words today.

With the success of Jia Congxiang's trial, he already has enough identity and strength to stir up trouble in the Shilin literary world.

The Emperor Taishang pointed out the secret, and Jia Cong had to make a choice now. Because the dispute between Taoism and Taoism is related to the rise and fall of the dynasty, the two sages did not dare to relax in the slightest.

During the Zhaowu period, Emperor Taishang personally selected Lin Ruhai and Xu Jin to carefully cultivate, and the current emperor will also choose suitable candidates, and Jia Cong is one of them.

Of course, if Jia Cong can't grow into a qualified successor, the second saint will not be disgusted with him.

After all, he is a "son and grandson", and he will be Liu Hong's right-hand man in the future.

But it is impossible to be like the old man Wei and hold the king in his hand to rule the world.

Daiyu's eyes were shining, she was different from Jia Cong, and she was very happy in her heart.

It's not that she thinks about her status under one person, but she sees an opportunity to realize the ambitions of Brother Cong and herself.

"Brother Cong'er, do you still remember the skinny and skinny child in Grandma Liu's Zhuangzi?"

When Daiyu thought of those hungry children with yellow faces and thin muscles, swollen abdomen, and a tingling in her heart.

She squeezed Jia Cong's hand tightly, and said earnestly: "You once said that you should establish your heart for heaven and earth, establish your life for the people, continue your education for the saints, and open peace for all generations." I know why you are hesitating, no matter what you have to face in the future, I will be by your side. You just need to remember one sentence, you are not alone, because of me! ”

……

Jia Cong made a decision in his heart, but he still didn't easily change his original life rules.

In fact, the dispute over Taoism is not only a dispute over doctrine, but also a struggle for interests. The most obvious is the Qingzhang land and the tax reform, even if the emperor Chrysostom Yuyan, he has not been able to suppress the discussion of the government and the opposition.

Xu Jinguang was blocked by powerful people several times when he promoted the Qingzhang of Gyeonggi Tianmu, and even was assassinated several times when he went south to inspect the Qingzhang work of Nanzhili.

It is estimated that the magnates in Gyeonggi have only been fooled and lame, but the investigation in Nam Zhili has really touched the fundamental interests of the Xilin Party.

The power of the Xilin Party in Jiangnan was really amazing, and they even mobilized peasants and tenants to gather to attack the Qincha Xingyuan, and almost caused a popular uprising.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in just one time, causing Xu Jin to suspend the Qingzhang affair in Jinling and stationed the Qin Cha Xingyuan in the palace of King Wu to temporarily avoid the edge.

Jia Cong saw from the teacher's letter the difficulty of Qingzhang Tianmu's advancement in Jiangnan, and he didn't have a good way to do it.

To put it bluntly, this is no longer an ordinary court struggle, if you want to bring down the black hand of the Xilin Party behind them, you must first defeat the "gentleman" theory they uphold and strip off their "gentleman" identity, so that those people who are bewitched by it can know their true colors.

Daiyu took the letter handed by Jia Cong, and after reading it carefully, she was full of emotion.

"In fact, during the reign of Taizong, most of the land in the Jiangnan Prefecture had been occupied by the powerful gentry. Those who lost their land either became tenant servants of the powerful or went to work in the workshops to make a living. They relied on the powerful to make a living, and naturally did not dare to resist the orders of the powerful. ”

The Lin family's ancestral home is Gusu, and Daiyu has helped manage the family's industry in the past two years, and she knows a lot about the situation in Jiangnan.

She frowned, and told Jia Cong about her guess: "Mr. Qingteng is not only facing those powerful gentry on this trip, but also hundreds of thousands of millions of people. These people don't care about the ministers, they are bewitched by the Xilin Party, thinking that the imperial court is sending people to destroy their chances of survival, so one careless will cause Jiangnan to fall into a crisis of popular revolt. ”

Daiyu's analysis was very correct, and Jia Cong understood why the teacher who was holding the king Jingong would show weakness to Jiangnan and avoid entering the palace of King Wu.

"That's the reason, that's why the teacher stopped the matter of clearing the acres of fields, and temporarily lived in the courtyard of King Wu's mansion and waited for the opportunity."

Daiyu nodded: "This is also something that can't be helped, the riot of hundreds of thousands of people is too terrible." Maybe those people are waiting for Mr. Qingteng to force the people to revolt, so that they will have a chance to impeach Mr. Qingteng and oppose the reform of the tax system in Qingzhang Tianmu. ”

Jia Cong smiled bitterly: "I understand, I understand, but now I can't advance or retreat, which is too embarrassing!" ”

"Unless ......"

Daiyu, who was originally bitter with a bitter face, suddenly brightened her eyes, smiled at Jia Congyan and said: "What the people want is nothing more than food and clothing, and the court is not short of money now, how about letting Mr. Qingteng take in the landless people, and let the court be the master of the migration of the people to Jiaozhi?" ”

Well?

Jia Cong didn't agree with Daiyu's method, because Jiangnan was already rich, and Jiaozhi was a barbarian land that drank Maoru's blood in the hearts of the people, so the ghost was willing to go.

"It's not proper, last time I was almost calculated by Wen Lao Pixiu in order to rob people for Jiaozhi, it can be seen that there are really few people who are willing to go to sea to survive......"

But I saw Daiyu smile slightly: "Brother Cong, you think of something wrong." It's not that the people don't want to go, it's that there are people who don't want the people to go. If the court had removed the landless people, who would have planted the land for them? If you think about the troubles in the past few years, and then think about the smuggling in the sea without permission, is there really no one who wants to go to the sea to survive? ”

……

"This is what Yu'er's girl came up with?"

After listening to Jia Cong's narration, the emperor looked at the secret music just before sending it off, and couldn't help but be shocked and said: "Jia Xiaosan, your ancestral tomb is smoking, and you kid can make a family relationship with Yu'er!" ”

Yes? I want to sue the old man of the saint, and the old man of the emperor scolds people!

I saw the emperor hand the secret music in his hand to Jia Cong, Jia Cong took it and opened it in confusion, and it wrote: "Chen Qin sent the military and political affairs of the north and south Zhili, and the right deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate Xu Jin Qijuan, and the south Zhili Qingzhang Tianmu was full of obstacles, and the Xilin Party bewitched the people...... The ministers want to migrate to the landless people in the south of the Yangtze River to ...... Jiaozhi"

Jia Cong raised his forehead and sighed: "Sister Lin actually thought of going with the teacher, since the Xilin Party people used those landless people as knives, then we will give him a salary ...... the bottom of the kettle."

The Emperor laughed, and his heart was very happy.

"Xu Qing's plan is indeed a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle, without those tenants and ordinary people to farm for them, the Xilin Party will be more anxious than us. When the time comes, the tax will be apportioned to the mu, and the tax will be shared according to the mu, and I want to see what they will do. ”

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Sorry for the late update tonight.

Recently, it's all 5,000 word chapters, which can be regarded as slowly making up for what I owe before.

By the end of this book, Brother Cong and Daiyu have passed the growth period, and the two will start a new journey. The two will work together!

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