Chapter 69: The world is in an uproar
Sima Guang's letter to Wang Anshi? Sima Guang's letter to Wang Anshi pointed out the inappropriateness of the various shortcomings and omissions that occurred in the process of changing the law, and admonished Wang Anshi's letter.
"There is something wrong with this letter from Sima Xianggong. ”
"Looking at Ruyue and Miaoyu's words, it shouldn't be a mistake, it's 100% that there is a problem with this letter. ”
On a street not far from Sima Guang's mansion in Bianliang City, people come and go, two people are talking about it in a small dinner, at this time, people have very little entertainment in life, and ordinary people can't have the spare money and spare time to go to casinos, green buildings, go to the dog and tease crickets, therefore, in addition to the east family, the west family is short, occasionally read the newspaper, talk about the new things in the newspaper has become the biggest hobby of ordinary people.
And this time.
Sima Guang's letter was actually published.
Sima Guang is a big celebrity in the Great Song Dynasty who can cause thousands of empty alleys, and Wang Anshi is also a person who has been famous for a long time and is not inferior to Sima Guang, the correspondence between the two.
In the entire large, medium and small cities of the Great Song Dynasty, many people directly asked their opinions on this matter as soon as they met and did not even greet them.
"Phew, a dirty person, dare to say that there is a problem with Sima Xianggong's letter?" Shaking the folding fan, the gorgeously dressed Gongzi brother turned into the snack bar from the side, he swept the dirty tables and chairs in the snack bar, frowned, and didn't sit down, just pointed at the two people who just spoke, "You guys should talk to this son, what is wrong with Sima Xianggong's "Book with Wang Jiefu"?
"Yo, it turned out to be Shen Gongzi. ”
"Don't be close. Shen Hongwen grimaced and snorted, "Can you understand Sima Xianggong's letter? Which sentence is not the truth on the letter? What kind of phenomenon has not happened? You two are despicable and ignorant villains. also said that there is a problem with Sima Xiang's public letter, if you can say that you are ugly, Shen will invite you to eat and drink, if you can't say half of it, hum ......"
The two of them suddenly had bitter faces, but they knew that this Shen Hongwen was a complete admirer of Sima Guang. When Sima Guang entered Bianliang, Shen Gongzi went to 'greet him', but because he had a bad stomach, he was delayed in running to the toilet halfway, and finally his stomach was comfortable, and Sima Guang had already entered the house.
As a result, Shen Gongzi climbed onto the roof of Sima Guang's residence.
There are a lot of people climbing on the roof itself, plus this Shen Gongzi is not as good as ordinary people, he knows how not to step on the roof, so Shen Gongzi went up. The roof collapsed, and this matter became a joke for a while, and Shen Hongwen became a famous figure near and far.
"Shen Gongzi, Sima Xianggong's letter is naturally no problem, but Ruyue and Miaoyu put this letter on the homework question, and the homework question he gave has always been an analysis question, so this time I put this letter in it. This makes us suspect that they think there is something wrong with this letter. ”
"That's right, I don't know how Shen Gongzi explains?"
"You two have some truth to that. Shen Hongwen folded the fan. The eyebrows are also slightly furrowed, indeed, the cases that were placed in the homework by Miaoyu and Ruyue have always been fine at first glance, but in-depth analysis can find out what is wrong. Could it be that Sima Guang's letter also has such a situation, but Shen Hongwen clearly knows that what Sima Guang wrote is the truth. There's nothing wrong with that.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Shen Hongwen's eyes lit up.
"Little Sima Xianggong is here. ”
Through the window, you can see a young man with extraordinary manners and bright eyes on the street, and many people around greet and salute this young man.
"It's really Sima Xianggong's son, little Sima Xianggong, this little Sima Xianggong's demeanor is no less than Sima Xianggong. The eyes of everyone in this snack bar were bright, but they didn't dare to disturb Sima Kang. Instead, Shen Hongwen flashed out of the snack bar and stopped in front of Sima Kang.
"Little Sima is good!"
"Why did Shen Gongzi stop me?" Of course, Sima Kang thought that this Shen Hongwen still had a good impression of this son-in-law who admired his father very much.
"That's right, the serials of Ruyue and Miaoyu in the newspaper recently published a letter "Letter with Wang Jiefu", they said that this letter was written by Sima Xianggong to Wang Xianggong, and the students want to ask, I don't know if it is true?" Shen Hongwen said respectfully.
"This letter is indeed true, if Shen Gongzi has nothing else, please give way. Sima Kang said lightly.
Shen Hongwen saluted again: "Little Sima Xianggong, I still have a doubt, I want to ask you to solve it." Then why did Ruyue and Miaoyu put this letter in their homework questions, didn't they think that this letter was wrong?"
Sima Kang frowned in his heart, this time the new newspaper was issued, and he was also startled when he saw the "Book with Wang Jiefu" at first glance, didn't he say that such a letter, his father hadn't shown it to a few people at all, and Wang Anshi couldn't have taken it for others to see, so how did Miaoyu and Ruyue get it?
More importantly, such a letter is included in the homework question for the essay "The Art of Sophistry".
What the homework questions of "The Art of Sophistry" are, Sima Kang knows very well.
Miaoyu and Ruyue's first article serialized in the newspaper only said in general terms that "Tool Theory" was used for rational thinking, and he and Sima Guang didn't care about it at that time, and even scoffed at it, but then serialized it one by one.
"Those articles don't seem to explain very well, but they are a link to examples. ”
Sima Kang and Sima Guang are both rich and wealthy, and they have also seen some examples in Miaoyu and Ruyue's articles from books, but when they read it, although they knew that it was sophistry, they didn't know why they were sophistry.
"Hui Shi's ten questions, how many masters have been stumped for thousands of years?"
"Deng Xizi", "Yin Wenzi", "Huizi", "Gongsun Longzi"...... Which one isn't a god?"
"How beautiful is "The Theory of Referring to Things" and "White Horse Not Horse" ......"
They read the works of famous artists, but they couldn't see through all the factors in them, but under the analysis of Miaoyu and Ruyue, those extremely ingenious and intoxicating dialectics fell apart one by one, which felt like a fairy, stripped naked and turned into a mortal, which brought people a great shock.
It can be said that if Miaoyu and Ruyue just explained those big truths, everyone would just scoff and disdain, thinking that it was useless, but after they explained. took out "Deng Xizi", "Yin Wenzi", "Huizi" and "Gongsun Longzi...... Wait for those famous articles that they will only sigh with emotion as examples after reading them, and the impact will be real.
After each chapter, there are homework questions, which naturally further stimulates everyone's interest.
And every story in Miaoyu and Ruyue's homework questions can be said to be classics.
It's just that Sima Kang never expected that this book would be serialized to the end, and the homework left behind was actually "The Book with Wang Jiefu".
"My father's letter was from the perspective of a friend to persuade the prince at that time. Sima Kang said lightly, "This is not learning, nor is it preaching and teaching. Therefore what is written in the letter is true, and if you look carefully at it, you will know it. And Ruyue and Miaoyu are talking about doing knowledge, they advocate a rigid and rigid way to do it, which is different from literature, literature is wonderful, and it may be insufficient to see it from their eyes, as for whether this is the case, you have to ask Ruyue and Miaoyu. Okay, Shen Gongzi, I still have important matters, you should please. ”
Soon Shen Hongwen left.
Sima Kang strode towards the door.
"There can be no mistake in my father's letter, what is said above can be verified everywhere, but why should they keep it as homework?" Sima Kang felt heavy.
"The Book with Wang Jiefu" appeared in the serial homework questions of "The Art of Sophistry", and there was an unprecedented uproar in the whole world.
"The Art of Sophistry" has always been something that seems reasonable, but is actually sophistry. No exceptions.
And this time, it was Sima Guang's letter. Sima Guang is a person. That was the prime minister of the dynasty, the most famous and talented literati of the Great Song Dynasty, a scholar, a university scholar, and a historian. Thinker, politician, founder of the Lianshui School.
Sima Guang wrote a letter, even if it was an extremely ordinary and insignificant letter, it would never be unreasonable. Sophistry, or logical error.
And this letter "Letter with Wang Jiefu" was written by him to Wang Anshi.
Wang Anshi's knowledge and identity can be said to be not weaker than Sima Guang in any aspect except historiography.
Sima Guang's letter to him couldn't be cautious.
Moreover, Sima Guang's letter to Wang Anshi is not a Taoist family, but a major event related to the life and death of the entire people and the country -- the change of the law.
It is necessary to be extra cautious.
If there are logical errors in such letters, or problems of one kind or another, then can the entire Great Song literati be saved, and who else can the people of the world believe?
"No wind, no waves! Flies don't bite seamless eggs! Don't think too highly of Sima Xianggong. ”
"But Sima Xianggong has made a mistake, this ...... It's horrible......"
"Sima Xianggong can't make mistakes? This is the word of ignorance......"
"Wang Xianggong made a mistake, Sima Xianggong made a mistake, then you tell me who else should we trust in the world?......"
"Uh...... So what is wrong with this belief?"
“......”
......
In the entire Great Song Dynasty, from court officials, to various academies, to ordinary scholars, the people of Li are analyzing and speculating whether Sima Guang's letter is inappropriate.
But—
No!
There's nothing wrong with it at all.
On the contrary-
And the more I have read the book, the more knowledgeable I read this letter, the more I admire it, and even the more I study it, the more admiration in my heart will be.
These letters of Sima Guang and Wang Anshi are famous articles that have been handed down to the world for generations, and even in the later civilization period, they are still praised by countless experts and masters.
Sima Guang is a humble gentleman, and he is attentive everywhere, whether it is the tone of persuasion to his friends, the strategies he uses, or the reasonableness and basis of his problems, and he maintains Wang Anshi's self-esteem everywhere and tries his best not to arouse his disgust, everything can be seen from this letter that this person is indeed a prime minister.
In addition, the words of this letter are so refined and beautiful, not a word can be added or subtracted. None of the things said are exaggerated, they are all facts.
Therefore......
"Fart, the ignorant say there is a problem with the faith. ”
"If you read this letter carefully, what's wrong? It's not that you can't read it, right?"
"If you insist on saying that there is a problem with his faith, there is only one possibility, and you yourself have a problem. ”
......
Controversy abounded, and some people almost scolded their mothers for this matter. (To be continued......)