Chapter Twenty-Five: My Heart and My Nature

This passage is from "The University".

One of the main investigations of the imperial examination in Daqian was the Four Books and Five Classics written by Confucian sages, which had a fixed format and were called Baguwen.

Confucianism is a prominent study, so it is tested separately.

There is also an exam mixed with the French ink soldiers, for a total of two.

The imperial examination is divided into three times, the township examination and the provincial examination, which is the inheritance of the system of the previous dynasty, and is the expectation of many scholars day and night, and being an official in the imperial court is also related to their practice.

No one doesn't want to be named on the gold list, Zhong Yunyi also went through three exams at the beginning, and finally became a jinshi, and he has always been in the imperial history.

Obviously, the young man was also trying to gain fame, and now he was thinking hard about the truth contained in the classics, and when he heard Lin Shou's inquiry, he came over and pricked up his ears to listen.

Lin Shou also read the Four Books and Five Classics, mainly because the old Taoist priest had a lot of books at that time, in addition to those Taoist collections, the books of the hundreds of schools of thought were collected.

The days in the Taoist temple were very boring, and Lin Shou read many books and the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism.

Lin Shou had also read military books and had been exposed to the thoughts of the Legalists of this world.

Due to the existence of extraordinary power in this world, these sons and hundreds of schools also have magical abilities, so the scriptures written are different from those on the earth, but the core of spiritual thought is the same.

This sentence is about producing more, consuming less, producing quickly, and consuming appropriately, then the wealth of the country will always be sufficient.

Listening to Lin Shou's question, Zhong Yunyi was stunned, but he didn't expect that the Taoist priest in front of him was also interested in Confucian learning, and said in a straight way: "What this sentence says is that if there are no idle people in the country, then there will be more people who create wealth; If there were no officials in the court who were vegetarian in the corpse, then there would be no loss due to extravagance; If you do the right thing in the right season, don't waste people's power at will, and do things according to the season, then the country will accumulate wealth faster; Do what you can and practice economy, then the country's finances will become abundant; If the country's finances are sufficient to prevent disasters, then the country is rich, and this is the road to enriching the people and strengthening the country. ”

Lin Shou smiled and said, "What Mr. Zhong said is very detailed, but it is also a clichΓ©, and there is nothing new. ”

The young man on the side was a little angry, and when he heard Zhong Yunyi's answer, he felt empowered, but Lin Shou's evaluation was a clichΓ©, and there was nothing new, which made him feel unfair, so he spoke out for Zhong Yunyi.

"This gentleman is very talented, and what he says is the right way, how can the Taoist master understand the essence of my Confucianism?"

Zhong Yunyi was not angry, and smiled a little brightly: "I also think so, which of the princes of the court can't say these words, but who can do it?" ”

The young man was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhong Yunyi's words, and he complained a little in his heart, I speak for you, why do you still agree with that Taoist priest?

"I have never read poetry and books like Mr. Zhong, and I have more experience as an official in the imperial court, I just speak from what I have seen and heard among the people." Lin Shou saw that Zhong Yunyi was not angry, nodded secretly, and said again.

"This ...... Lin Daochang, but it doesn't matter, we live above the temple, maybe not as rooted in the people as Lin Daochang can see clearly. ”

Zhong Yunyi thought about it for a while, it seems that he has never been deep in the people, his family is rich, he has been reading poetry and books at home since he was a child, and he passed the township test at the age of thirteen.

Then he passed the provincial examination, and won the first place, and he failed the palace examination once, and won the name of Tanhua for the second time.

After that, he was an official in the imperial court, and he never left the capital until he returned to the countryside today.

"Once upon a time, Daqian Taizu waved his army to the south, Dingding Qiankun, the world experienced wars, and finally reunited, but at that time it was already ten rooms and nine empty, the white bones were exposed in the wild, there was no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the land was more than people, so naturally the more people who produced, the more they got and the more they stored. Today, however, there is no shortage of land and many people, and there are not many people who have annexed land, and although there are more people engaged in production and the wealth of the country is gradually increasing, people have less and less to eat. If a man eats all day long, the kingdom will prosper, and if a man cannot eat all day long, the kingdom will decline. ”

"In the land of a county, eighty percent of the cultivated land is in the hands of the gentry, with a population of tens of thousands, and half of them are tenants, all of whom are rich in the people, and how much money is the people?"

When Zhong Yunyi heard Lin Shou's words, he muttered to himself: "There are many people who eat, and there are many people who eat people!" ”

The former sentence is that the officials are corrupt too much, so that the people do not have enough to eat, but the latter sentence is expressed by Lin Shou, the limited land and the increase in population naturally lead to the peasants working hard and not being able to eat.

The young man on the side was already stunned when he heard Lin Shou's rebellious words, and his fingers trembled and pointed at Lin Shou and said, "This rebellious remark is also!" ”

Zhong Yunyi lowered his head in contemplation, then raised his head to look into Lin Shou's eyes and asked, "And what?" ”

Lin Shou took the teacup and drank it all, and said with a smile: "Shouldn't it be the poor man who asks Mr. Zhong what to do?" ”

Zhong Yunyi wept when he heard this, and muttered, "What should I do, what can I do?" This road is long, I have exhausted myself and cannot reach it, although my heart is good, but what is the goodness of all hearts? ”

Seeing that Zhong Yunyi was confused, and even had a tendency to self-denial, Lin Shou shouted: "The road is long, why don't you go up and down and seek, what is good in your heart, can you regret nine deaths?" What is your heart when you read the scriptures of the saints? What kind of sex to raise? ”

The sound was like thunder, and it suddenly sounded in Zhong Yunyi's ears.

Zhong Yunyi's inner world was like being washed by thunder, and Lin Shou's broken drink kept echoing in his ears.

"What is your heart? What kind of sex to raise? What a heart! What a sex! ”

The road is long, why not go up and down and seek, what is good in your heart, can you regret nine deaths? This sentence was like lightning and thunder slicing through Zhong Yunyi's inner world.

The second realm of Confucianism, the Great Confucian Mirror, is in the world of poetry and books, and everything you learn and think in this life is recorded in it, and the endless majesty reverberates in the heaven and earth.

The knowledge that Zhong Yunyi learned was constantly tumbling in the heavens and the earth, and then Lin Shou's words suddenly broke in, and the heavens and the earth changed dramatically.

The surging Haoran righteousness turned into substance in Zhong Yunyi's body, and he suddenly woke up and raised his head.

Pointing to the sky, Zhong Yunyi's eyes were bright, and the Confucian robe on his body hunted: "My heart is the heart of heaven, my nature is nature, and my life is my destiny!" Save my heart, nurture my nature, practice my life, that's all! ”

There was a thunder on a dry day, and the heroic righteousness on Zhong Yunyi's body suddenly exploded, but there was nowhere to vent.

Lin Shou smiled, twisted into a magic trick in his hand, and the surging Haoran righteousness had a source to vent, and they all blended into it.

Zhong Yunyi closed his eyes tightly, but his inner heaven and earth had undergone great changes, as if he was opening up the world.

In the daytime, Wenqu Star appears in the world, blooming supreme light comparable to the sun.

In the distant capital, hundreds of officials looked at the stars in the sky with indescribable envy.

"Someone has entered the third realm of Confucianism and Taoism!"

In the palace, the emperor smashed his favorite jade thread.

The young man next to Zhong Yunyi was surprised that his jaw was about to fall, he didn't even grasp Haoran's righteousness, and the fluctuations in the ordinary middle-aged man in front of him were clearly the movements of the Confucian monk entering the third realm.

Lin Shou smiled brightly, and the Haoran righteous qi was refined, and the taste was much better than the power of the ghost spirit.