Chapter 11 The Great Zhou Confucians
Zhang Xueyi, as she said, left by boat with Zhang Hongli at noon that day, and Tang Ze did not go to see him off. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In the next few days, there was a thunderstorm, and Tang Ze was a little irritable.
Practice, read, practice calligraphy, listen to Xiaotong play the piano, watch Xiaolou embroidery, and occasionally learn martial arts with Tang Cheng, of course, life is very leisurely.
He has always been sincere and upright in his work, and he can endure loneliness, but in the past few days, he has been a little unable to sit still.
It is impossible to go out, the rain in summer is always accompanied by thunder, and no one has the leisure to go to the river to play chess.
Tang Ze is a righteous son, in the eyes of outsiders, he is naturally an unattainable existence, but in the entire Zhang family, the status is really not high, after Zhang Xueyi left, I don't know what rumors came out, Tang Ze was a little unpopular.
The person in charge of the Zhang family is naturally Prime Minister Zhang Weixian, the people outside and the guards call him the Prime Minister or Lord, and the people in the inner house call him Master. Zhang Weixian had a wife and a concubine, three sons and a daughter, divided into a large house and a second room. The person in charge of the internal affairs of the Zhang family is naturally Dafang, that is, the eldest lady Xu Huaiman. Zhang Weixian originally had a lover, but unfortunately he died in childbirth, leaving him with such a daughter as Zhang Xueyi, he naturally had to be a baby, and Zhang Xueyi was raised by the eldest lady Xu Huaiman.
Xu Huaiman heard that he has a strict appearance, but he is very good, and he treats others kindly, and he treats Zhang Xueyi as if he were his own. Now Tang Ze made Zhang Xueyi sad and crying, and even had to send her out of Da Zhou, so that their mother and daughter were separated from each other, even if Tang Ze saved her daughter's life, but some complaints were still there, and the people below heard it, even if he was afraid that he was the fourth son of the Zhang family and did not sneer at him, but a white eye can still be seen often.
In addition to the big house, the second room Ru's wife Zhao Sixiang also has a lot of resentment towards Tang Ze, she gave birth to a genius for the Zhang family, that is, Zhang Hongli, the third son of the Prime Minister's Mansion, who originally sent him to Zhengqi Academy for two years to study, because of Tang Ze's affairs, this time was advanced.
Of course, Tang Ze doesn't care about this, after all, he has the status of the fourth son.
At this time, he still knew little about this world, and only knew that Cangzhou was vast and boundless, and the masters were like clouds. He never thought that with his little strength, he would be able to travel around the outside world to cultivate or something. According to his previous thoughts, even if he broke away from the Zhang Mansion, he would stay in Tianjing City and spend a lot of energy to build a business empire, and then he could collect resources to cultivate. In this situation now, although Qi refining needs to be careful, it only needs to collect cultivation resources. Overall, the Zhang family is currently his best haven.
It rained for a few days, and Tang Ze stayed in the Wenxin Building for a few days, while having fun, he was also practicing desperately, and at night he had a few tricks with his father, drinking some wine, chatting, and barely getting by. Sitting on the second floor, watching the people below hurrying back and forth with oil-paper umbrellas, you can also see Xiaolou and Xiaotong.
The rain and fog in the distance are hazy, and the garden attic and lotus pond pavilion are washed by the rain and are exceptionally clean, dotted with colorful colors, as if they are in an ink painting.
When the sky gradually curtains, a lantern is hung high, and the starry lights shine in the continuous courtyard, like the stars in the sky, some are fixed, some are moving, and in the dark night, there is a peaceful quiet.
This is the deep mansion compound in the ancient city.
Qi refining is progressing very smoothly, and it is still advancing at a very fast speed, but in this way, the large amount of medicinal power that has been saved in the body before is consumed rapidly, and the gifts given to him by Elder Su are all genius earth treasures such as spirit grass and spirit fruit, and there is no trace of finished pills, one is to avoid revealing flaws, and the other is that there are no pills in Meigu, not even Danfang, as for the two bottles of one-grade Qi Induction Pill obtained from Daoist Cui, Tang Ze took some of them, and the rest were also given to Xiaoyu.
With a little calculation, such a rapid cultivation will probably last for three or five days before it ends.
The heavy rain finally stopped, and he had made an appointment with the little girl Tian Tian to boxing by the river, although it was just a casual remark, but Tang Ze never lied to children, sure enough, when he went to the Xuanwu River early in the morning, Tian Tian ran over with cheers, and the old man surnamed Tian also noticed him and nodded.
After saying hello to Zhou Lao, Tang Ze pulled Tian Tian to the side to box, listening to her chattering about the boring time in the past few days, and the fact that she taught her little sister to play this very interesting 'Tai Chi Watermelon Boxing'. It's funny to see her excited.
Not long after, after the old man Zhou and the old man surnamed Tian over there finished a game, they smiled and waved at Tang Ze here, and Tang Ze had no choice but to pull Xiao Tian Tian over again. First of all, a brief introduction, and then Tang Ze greeted the old man surnamed Tian, and the etiquette of the scholar was naturally in place. After the old man surnamed Tian thanked Tang Ze for taking care of Tian Tian, he asked Tang Ze to roughly talk about the principle of Tai Chi, and answered simply, although he was not too serious, but it was just some introductions, which could arouse the curiosity of the two. And when the old man surnamed Tian asked about Tai Chi, he was naturally a little interested in Tian Tian's comparison.
didn't have a deep conversation, the three of them started chatting about chess again, and then Zhou Lao invited him again.
Tang Ze nodded in agreement, and after sitting down, he helped to collect the son, while laughing and talking with the two old men.
"In the past few days, I have been idle at home in the rain, and I have talked about that game of chess with a few friends, Tang Gongzi has a lot of clever moves, and he has a deep understanding of the way of using soldiers, and he is thought-provoking. Zhou Lao said in a loud voice, glancing at his friends around him, "Lao Tian's heart is itching, today the rain stopped, so he came over immediately, hahaha......"
The old man surnamed Tian smiled: "Tang Gongzi's remarks about the country of gentlemen and the country of villains won my heart, and I came here today to ask for advice." He looked sincere, but he was really asking questions, but looking at his sitting posture, there was a faint aura of iron-blooded killing, and it was clear that an old general was asking his subordinates.
Tang Ze secretly guessed in his heart that this old man surnamed Tian didn't want to use chess to deduce the way of war, so he liked to play chess......
Just chatted casually, while playing chess with Zhou Lao, both sides were not slacking off. It can be seen that Zhou Lao is very interested in Tang Ze's chess move, this time he did not deliberately play his own game, he took the initiative to win, trying to crack Tang Ze's methods, thinking, recalling, and deducing in his heart consumed a lot of energy, and this game was naturally lost.
In vain to see such an eclectic chess technique, the old man surnamed Tian who was watching the game was very surprised, and the three of them deduced this game of chess a little, Tang Ze played another game with the old man surnamed Tian, and saw that it was not early, so they went home.
For the next five or six days, it was like that.
Another old man surnamed Wang also came once, and he was also very free and easy. Their status should be very high, and it can be seen from the momentum of their conversation.
Three people, two literates and one martial arts, are all well-educated people, in this world where the flow of information is not smooth, they can be regarded as well-informed, but Tang Ze can't sense their cultivation, even if they use the eight-pole supernatural power to sense, it is still the same, either their cultivation is extremely high, or they are ordinary people, the answer is self-evident. In their speech, they will not be like most Confucian scholars, who are all talking about their mouths when they open and close their mouths, or that the saints have clouds, and so on. Their temperament is more close to Prime Minister Zhang Weixian, with good feelings, round on the outside and square on the inside, heroic and righteous in the chest, and the core of divine thinking does not deviate from the way of the sage, and they are true Confucians. Even the old man surnamed Tian is also a Confucian general.
Confucianism, taking off the shell of the three outlines and five constants to serve the emperor, and condensing the means of reaching heaven for the vast weather, its core is actually similar to Confucianism in the previous life, but it is the truth of life, the philosophy of life, and strive to find a rule that is consistent with the world, so as to help the world and save the people, and open the world to peace. This is completely different from other avenues that seek transcendence and eternal life, and seek self-truth. In the name of the opening chapter, it is said that it is true human science to prove the heart of heaven with the will of the people! In other words, what Confucianism and Taoism actually seek is the avenue of the entire human race!