novelonline Chapter 340 Smoke is rising from Jia's ancestral grave!
Chapter 340 Smoke is rising from Jia's ancestral grave!
Chapter 340 Smoke is rising from Jia's ancestral grave!
The Taiye pool is still the same, the koi in the pool are big and fat, and the big cats have their tails in the water, and they will bite their tails and be caught by them to the shore.
The big cat was so kind 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 Bao's second brother, and was moved to tears from the corner of his mouth...
The saint master finally got over the grief of his old friend's death, and his spirit looked much better.At this time, I was sitting in the shade of a tree drinking tea, and there was a fishing rod beside me, but I didn't use it.
The "pro-grandson" sprinkled cumin on the selflessly dedicated koi on the grill, and the prince and grandson next door were about to cry.
Looking at the busy Jia Cong, the sage asked leisurely about recent events, and occasionally shared a few gossips in Beijing, and together with Jia Cong criticized the story between the young master and the pretty maid.
Of course, Jia Cong would never admit these things. He knew about it from a certain second brother surnamed Bao, and every story happened to one of his friends.
The sage master listened to the music and felt that he was much younger.The grandfather and grandson 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 to bring two deck chairs, and the two of them took a nap by the Taiye Pool in the refreshing autumn wind.
It wasn't until the big cat came and shouted Jia Cong that the old man stopped his rest time and talked about business with Jia Cong.
"You are also famous now, so you can't stay at home all the time. Recently, there have been many essay meetings in the same year in your subject. Have you ever participated?"
Jia Cong shook his head: "I don't want to go if we don't agree with each other."
"Confused!"
The old man scolded angrily: "What is your way? Do you think you are Wei Qinghe? Or do you think you are better than your teacher Xu Qingteng?"
"But didn't you also say that empty talk harms the country, and hard work rejuvenates the country? I would rather stay at home and practice calligraphy than go out and make false claims with those people."
Jia Cong did not hide his true thoughts. After the provincial examination, many people sent posts asking him to participate in various poetry and literary meetings.
At the beginning, he also went to two games, but the current atmosphere of Shilin is really problematic. It seems that if you don't spray the imperial court policy, you can't show their superiority and literati style.
Ordinarily, Daxia was not convicted of crimes with words, and it was a good sign for officials to talk about politics. After all, the imperial court only had so few people, and even the officials of science and Taoism could not fully monitor them.It is a rare good thing for someone to help the court supervise officials.
But Jia Cong soon discovered that this group of people were not spraying for the public, but spraying for the sake of spraying. The spraying was worthless, and even hindered the smooth implementation of the court's policies.
Qingzhang Tianmu is to persecute the squires, the reform of the tax system is to plunder the people's wealth, and the rectification of officials is to suppress dissidents...
Some people even think that the current imperial court is spending more and more on military affairs, and they don't know the lesson that a war is bound to die. Jia Cong, who was 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, Jia Cong will give him a high regard if he can come up with insights and some reasonable and appropriate solutions.
But in fact, these people probably don't even know whether the potatoes are round or square, and they don't even know who the enemy the Nine Sides are facing, so how can they really have any reasonable advice.
It really echoed what Brother Bao said at the gate of the Gongyuan, but those who really care about the country's major policies will not make a fuss that they don't know the promotion of potatoes and corn during the rural examination, and they don't know the pressure that the nine border towns will face.
Jia Cong told these one by one, and the Supreme Emperor laughed instead of anger.
"You, you are still a child at heart."
The old man raised his hand and rubbed Jia Cong's head, and sighed: "Actually, I am very aware of those things among literati. Back then, I was not in charge of the government, and the court was controlled by those so-called 'gentlemen'. Gentlemen and cronies..."
Hearing the old man talking about the past, Jia Cong's ears twitched slightly.Except for daily life, these things won't reveal half a word, big melon!
I saw the sage recalling the past and talking to Jia Cong about the secrets before and after his pro-government: "At that time, the cabinet was controlled by the so-called 'gentleman' party. Even if I wanted to go out of the palace to inspect the imperial guards, I couldn't do it. Old man Wei’s teacher, Mr. Chongyang, entered the court, which broke the control of the 'junzi' party on the government, and gave me a chance to breathe."
"Mr. Chongyang?"
The name Jia Cong felt very strange, as if it had never been mentioned in court.
The old man nodded: "Mr. Chongyang's theory is a taboo among scholars. It's normal that you haven't heard of it. When the time is right, I will let you see his works."
Oops, I ate half-baked melon, so uncomfortable!
Jia Cong scratched his head, but the old man didn't let go, skipped Mr. Chongyang and continued: "Later, your grandfather and I launched a change of return to power and regained power. A large number of pragmatic people were employed, and a group of officials in the south of the Yangtze River were demoted. Officials from Lin family have temporarily curbed the empty talk that pervades the court..."
"Are you talking about the Xilinites?"
The old man nodded first, and then shook his head: "Yes or no, compared with Xilin Party members, the 'Gentleman' Party is slightly better. This is a problem left over from the previous dynasty. Do you know Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism?"
"Naturally, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is one of the most prominent schools of Confucianism at present, and it can be said to be the head of Confucianism."
Jia Cong's answer not only did not get the approval of the old man, but he sneered and said: "The current Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is no longer the real Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. In the five years from the previous dynasty to Zhengzheng, the Yuan Court issued an edict that Cheng Zhuzhi learned from Confucius and Mencius. The heart of the heart... If you follow it, you will be a gentleman; What is the purpose of the edict?"
"If you follow it, you will be a gentleman, if you go against it, you will be a villain..."
Jia Cong read it silently several times, and said in amazement: "This is to suppress the people's thoughts! If you are not a disciple of Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, you will be called a villain. Aren't the scholars in the world going to be imprisoned in a narrow theory of thought?" In the middle, it is impossible to carry forward the way of the sage."
The two sages of Confucius and Mencius probably would not have imagined that the disciples of Confucianism would distort their thinking into this way after a thousand years.
The old man nodded in relief, and sighed: "This is a good thing for the emperor, but for the Han dynasty, it is a shackle that cannot be broken. Preserving the principles of heaven and destroying human desires, I would rather human desires It can be bigger, so that my Han Jiaerlang will be more bloody!"
Speaking of these, the emperor who had been fighting with people and heaven all his life became excited.
He stood up, waved his sleeves and sighed: "A hundred schools of thought contended in the pre-Qin period, Confucianism, Taoism, Law, Mohism... each theory is a rare treasure, and I don't want the people of our dynasty to be confined by a theory. The 'gentlemen' party Whether it’s the Xilin Party or the Xilin Party, they all inherited the mantle of Confucianism from the previous dynasty and acted in the name of a gentleman. Jia Cong, do you want to defeat them and promote the true way of sages for the world’s scholars?”
what?
I don't want to, not at all!
Jia Cong's brain was shaking like a rattle, the pot was too big for him to carry!
The old man slapped Jia Cong on the head, angrily saying, "No, you want to!"
Jia Cong squatted down with his head in his arms, still shaking his head: "I don't want to, really, Master Saint, I don't want to at all. This task is too difficult, 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" persuading him.
"Jia Cong, you can't escape. Your teacher Xu Qingteng has already taken over the old man Wei's mantle. You are his disciple, and you are destined to fight with them. It's not only about victory, but also life and death."
ah?teacher?
Jia Cong could think of Mr. Wei as someone who opposed Neo-Confucianism, but his teacher Xu Jin was a serious disciple of Neo-Confucianism.
How can this be?
I saw the sage master sneering: "So, what you have to do now is to understand them, integrate into them, and finally defeat them! You can't hide at home, you have to learn from your teacher, who would think of the pride of Neo Confucianism, Liuyuan Wen Kui Xu Qingteng will be their gravediggers."
Jia Cong was already dumbfounded, because the sage master broke out another big melon.
The golden mace that used to accompany Mr. Wei for 30 years has been given to Xu Jin and Xu Qingteng by the sage.
"At the beginning, I secretly trained two people, one is your teacher Xu Jin, and the other is your father-in-law Lin Ruhai."
what?
Jia Cong felt his brain buzzing, and he couldn't close his opened mouth.
I only heard the sage master continue to say: "It's a pity that Lin Ruhai is born with arrogance. His temperament is too upright and straightforward, and there is no room for a little sand in his eyes. It can be seen from the Jiangnan salt class that he can be a good prime minister, but not a prime minister."
Jia Cong nodded like a chicken pecking rice, the old man's evaluation of his father-in-law was very good.
If the father-in-law and father-in-law could make false claims with the people in Jiangnan, the Lin family wouldn't be in such a miserable situation.
The old man sighed with emotion: "Old man Wei has been called a lifetime of peace, but in the ten years he has been in power, he has not only saved his fortune for the court to solve the disaster of the feudal town, but also suppressed the Xilin Party members so that they dare not take the lead. He is the real prime minister, Lin Ruhai can't do it, now it's up to Xu Jin to do it."
what?
Jia Cong couldn't keep up with the old man's thinking, and left the Dragon's Head Palace with a buzzing mind.
What the old man told him today was beyond his imagination. These are the secrets among the secrets, the kind that can turn the world upside down.
Chao Zheng is completely childish in front of Dao Zheng, Chao Zheng may still survive, Dao Zheng is the real immortality.
No wonder the Xilin Party gradually lost the right to speak in the middle and late Zhaowu period. It turned out to be the method of the Supreme Emperor and Mr. Wei.
So looking back, I sent my uncle to the south to sit in the salt class, and use the salt class to clean up the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River.
Then let the second uncle go to Zhejiang to supervise the school, and then the Zhejiang imperial examination fraud case occurred, so as to weaken the reputation and strength of the major academies in the south of the Yangtze River...
After Mr. Wei left, the two most powerful cabinet ministers in the central hub, Qi Bohan, the leader of the Shu Party, and Chu Bangzheng, the leader of the Liangzhe Party, were immediately relegated from Beijing, pushing Xia Lingxing to the high position of the cabinet's second assistant.
Now that he has spared no effort in cultivating Liuyuan Wenkui Xu Jin, he even gave him the golden mace for fighting the king, and the second sage's mind has been placed in the clear.
Whether it is Zhou Jiong, the chief minister of the cabinet, or the summer tour of the second minister, it is just a transition. Xu Jin and Xu Qingteng are the two sages' internal candidates for prime minister.
So the sage master told himself these secrets today, I am afraid it is not just to remind himself...
"Brother Cong, the sage and His Majesty will not let a person who is born with Suhui wander outside of their plans. Mr. Qingteng accepted you as a disciple at the beginning, which was handpicked by the sage. Therefore, Mr. Qingteng took over Wei Wenzheng. As the only disciple of Mr. Ivy, your fate is already doomed."
Outside the study room was guarded by Jia Shishi himself, and not a single fly could fly in.
Daiyu quickly put all the things together, and she dug deeper than Jia Cong with a delicate mind, explaining the emperor's intentions in saying these words today.
With Jia Cong's success in the township examination, he already has enough identity and strength to stir up trouble in the world of scholarly literature.
The Supreme Emperor pointed out the secret, and Jia Cong had to make a choice now.Because the dispute of Taoism is related to the rise and fall of the dynasty, the two saints dare not relax in the slightest.
During the Zhaowu period, the Supreme Emperor personally selected Lin Ruhai and Xu Jin to train them carefully. Today's emperor will also select suitable candidates, and Jia Cong is one of them.
Of course, if Jia Cong can't grow into a qualified successor, Ersheng won't abandon him.
After all, they are "children and grandchildren", and will be Liu Hong's right-hand man in the future.
But it's impossible to be like Mr. Wei, the prime minister who holds the king's golden mace and rules the world.
Daiyu's eyes are shining, she is different from Jia Cong, she is very happy in her heart.
It wasn't that she was thinking about her status under one person, but that she saw an opportunity to realize Brother Cong's and her own ambitions.
"Brother Cong, do you still remember the scrawny, sallow and emaciated child in the village of Grandma Liu's family?"
When Daiyu thought of those children with yellow and emaciated faces and bulging abdomens but hungry, she felt a tingle in her heart.
She clenched Jia Cong's hand tightly, and said earnestly: "You once said, to establish a heart for the world, to establish a life for the people, to inherit the sage's knowledge, and to create peace for all generations. I know why you are hesitating, no matter what you want in the future. I will always be by your side in the face of any demons and ghosts. You just need to remember one sentence, you are not alone, because of me!"
……
Jia Cong had a decision in his heart, but he still didn't easily change his original law of life.
In fact, disputes over Taoism are not just disputes over doctrines, but mostly conflicts over interests.The most obvious ones are clearing up the land and the reform of the tax system. Even the emperor's golden words failed to suppress the opinions of the ruling and opposition parties.
Xu Jinguang was blocked by the dignitaries several times when he promoted Qingzhang in Tianmu, Gyeonggi, and was even assassinated several times when he went south to inspect the work of Qingzhang in Nanzhili.
It is estimated that the dignitaries in Gyeonggi were just limped by someone, but the investigation in Nanzhili has really touched the fundamental interests of the Xilin party members.
The power of the Xilin party members in the south of the Yangtze River is really astonishing. They even arbitrarily mobilized farmers and tenants to gather crowds to attack the imperial envoys, and almost caused a civil uprising.
Tens of thousands of people were gathered at one time, so Xu Jin had to suspend his Qingzhang affairs in Jinling, and stationed the imperial envoy Xingyuan in the other courtyard of King Wu's mansion to avoid the sharp edge.
From the teacher's letter, Jia Cong saw the difficulty of advancing Qingzhang Tianmu in the south of the Yangtze River, and he had no good solution for this matter.
To put it bluntly, this is no longer an ordinary court struggle. If you want to bring down the black hands behind the Xilin party, you must first defeat their "gentleman" philosophy and strip their "gentleman" status, so that those who are The bewitched people know their true colors.
Daiyu took the letter from Jia Cong and was filled with emotion after reading it carefully.
"In fact, during Taizong's reign, most of the land in the south of the Yangtze River was occupied by powerful gentry. Those people who lost their land either became tenant servants of powerful families, or entered workshops to make a living. They relied on the powerful to make a living. Naturally, Don't dare to resist the orders of the powerful."
The ancestral home of the Lin family was in Gusu, and Daiyu helped manage the family property in the past two years, so she knew a lot about the situation in Jiangnan.
She frowned, and told Jia Cong her guess: "Mr. Qingteng will not only face those dignitaries and gentry on this trip, but also hundreds of thousands and millions of people. These people don't care about imperial envoys." Minister, they were bewitched by the Xilin party members, thinking that the imperial court sent people to destroy their chances of survival, so a careless mistake would plunge Jiangnan into a crisis of civil uprising."
Daiyu's analysis was correct, and Jia Cong finally understood why the teacher holding the golden mace would show weakness to Jiangnan and avoid entering Wu Wangfu.
"That's the reason why the teacher stopped the matter of Qingzhang Tianmu and temporarily stayed in the other courtyard of King Wu's Mansion to wait for the opportunity."
Daiyu nodded: "There is no other way. The riot of hundreds of thousands of people is terrible. Maybe those people are waiting for Mr. Qingteng to force the people to revolt, so that they have a chance to impeach Mr. Qingteng. Oppose Qingzhang Tianmu's reform of the tax system."
Jia Cong smiled wryly and said: "I understand, I understand, but now I can't advance or retreat, this is too aggrieved!"
"unless……"
Daiyu, who had a bitter face, suddenly brightened her eyes, smiled at Jia Cong and said: "The common people only ask for food and clothing, and now there is no shortage of money in the imperial court. You say that Mr. Qingteng takes in the landless people. How about the imperial court making the decision to relocate the people to Jiaozhi?"
Ok?
Jia Cong didn't quite agree with Daiyu's method, because the south of the Yangtze River was already rich, and in the hearts of the common people, Jiaozhi was a barbaric place that drank hair and blood, and ghosts were willing to go there.
"No, no, last time, I was almost tricked by Wen Lao Paixiu in order to rob people for coochie. It can be seen that there are really few people who are willing to go to sea to survive..."
But Daiyu smiled slightly: "Brother Cong, you misunderstood one thing. It's not that the people don't want to go, but some people don't want to let the people go. If the imperial court removes those landless people, who will give them back?" Farming and working? If you think about the troubles of the Japanese a few years ago, and then think about the private smuggling, is it true that no one wants to go to sea to survive?"
……
"Is this what that girl Yu'er thought of?"
After listening to Jia Cong's narration, the emperor looked at the secret performance just before the defense, and couldn't help being shocked and said: "Jia Xiaosan, your family's ancestral grave is full of smoke, so you and Yu'er can get married!"
ah?I'm going to sue the old saint, the old emperor scolded me!
Seeing that the emperor handed the secret memorial to Jia Cong, Jia Cong took it and opened it suspiciously. It read: "The imperial envoy of the southern and northern Zhili military and political affairs, Xu Jin Qizuo, the right deputy governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Nan Zhili There are many obstacles in Qingzhang's fields, and the Xilin party members are bewitching the people... The minister wants to move the landless people in the south of the Yangtze River to Jiaozhi..."
Jia Cong sighed with his hands on his forehead: "Sister Lin and the teacher thought of going together. Since the Xilin party members use those landless people as knives, let's give him a bottom line..."
The emperor laughed out loud, feeling very happy in his heart.
"Xu Qing's plan is indeed a bottom line. Without those tenants and common people farming for them, the Xilin party members will be more anxious than us. When the time comes, the people will be allocated to the mu, and the tax will be shared equally by the mu. I want to see what they will do?"
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Sorry for the late update tonight.
Recently, they are all 5000-word chapters, which can be regarded as slowly making up for what was owed earlier.
At this point in the book, brother Cong and Daiyu have passed their growth period, and the two will start a new journey.Confronting each other, the two will advance hand in hand!
(End of this chapter)