"Everything in the world is like a new chess game! That's so well said." Zhu Biao couldn't help but his eyes lit up and he muttered.
Han Du had a dark look on his face. Is this what he wanted to say? What I clearly want to say is that if Fang Xiaoru returns to his hometown, he may not be able to keep up with the changes of this era.
"Your Highness, this is not what we are discussing now." Han Du's tone was full of helplessness.
However, Zhu Biao nodded repeatedly and extended his hand to signal Han Du, "I know, you know, please continue talking."
"Another reason why I think His Highness is going to accept Fang Xiaoru now is the platform."
"Platform? What is that?" Zhu Biao was used to hearing something strange from Han Du's mouth from time to time. It doesn't matter if he is a stranger, as long as Han Du explains to Gu.
Han Du smiled and explained: "Your Highness, you can think of it as a step-like thing, just like the grades of officials. For example, the first to third grades are all senior officials of the imperial court, the top few among hundreds of officials. A group of people. Ranks 4 to 6 are mid-level officials, and grades 7 to 9 are low-level officials. The top, middle, and low-level officials here are platforms one by one."
As soon as Han Du explained it like this, Zhu Biao understood what a platform was.
"The sages have said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. This is to tell the world that reading is only a part of increasing talents, but not the whole. The same increase in knowledge can also increase people's talents. The so-called well-informed , nothing more than that.”
Zhu Biao nodded repeatedly after hearing this.
"His Royal Highness Fang Xiaoru also knows that in terms of knowledge, he has no problem at all. If we have to say that he has any shortcomings, it is that he is not knowledgeable enough. Therefore, now let Fang Xiaoru go back to his hometown and concentrate on learning. , even if it takes another ten years, his knowledge will not necessarily improve. Because his knowledge has reached a bottleneck. If you are lucky, you will be enlightened once, but if you are not lucky, even if you concentrate on it for ten years, it will be just a waste. It’s just time.”
"So, this is also the reason why Fang Xiaoru wants to become an official now. I am afraid it is because he feels that no matter how much time he spends on the scroll, he will not be able to get the slightest benefit. At this time, what Fang Xiaoru needs most is another The way is to become an official, so as to increase his knowledge and talents, and maybe he can break through the bottleneck."
It is actually not unreasonable for scholars to talk about "cultivating one's moral character, managing one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world". Self-cultivation means improving one's self-cultivation. How can one improve one's self-cultivation? Naturally, by reading and absorbing nutrients from books to improve one's own knowledge, one can naturally improve one's self-cultivation. It can be said that this step is learning.
Then there is housekeeping, which means taking care of the housework. Some people may think that managing housekeeping is a very simple matter. After all, how big does a family have to be? There are only three or five people, and the area is over a hundred square meters. But don't forget, the ancients said, "It is difficult for an upright official to deal with household affairs." If housework was easy to divorce, it wouldn't be called housework, and there wouldn't be so many divorced people in the world. Even though there are only a few people in a home, it is a microcosm of society. If someone can handle housework properly and keep the family in harmony, then this person's status in society will definitely not be low, at least he will be the company's management. You can see that in a home, having parents opposite each other is like being the top chairman of a company. If you can handle the relationship with your parents like a fish in water, then you can handle the relationship with the chairman like a fish in water. If you have children, they are like your subordinates. If you can educate your children in the direction of your own ideals, then you can let your subordinates do things according to your own intentions. In this way, everyone will naturally work together and achieve success.
Not only that, there are even people on the same level as you, wife. Do you think your wife looks like a colleague at the same level as you? If the relationship between husband and wife can be properly handled, is the relationship between colleagues still a problem?
Therefore, a person who is good at housekeeping is at least a management talent.
But many times, people do not follow the step-by-step sequence of self-cultivation, managing the family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world; This is not to say that the Qi family is not important. On the contrary, the Qi family is very important, but it is not easy to do so. In some ways, managing a family is even more difficult than running a country.
Therefore, many scholars will skip Qijia. After gaining enough knowledge, he directly participated in running the country.
As for the peaceful world, there is nothing to say. This is the ultimate ideal of scholars. Throughout the ages, among countless scholars, there are only a handful of people who can truly achieve peace in the world.
Zhu Biao pondered for a while, then slowly said: "In your opinion, it would be better for Fang Xiaoru to join the court as an official now than to return to his hometown and study hard?"
"That's natural." Han Du nodded without hesitation, "If he wants to increase his talents and knowledge, only by standing on the big platform of the imperial court can he enrich himself as quickly as possible."
After hearing this, Zhu Biao still had some questions, "But if Fang Xiaoru becomes an official and becomes entangled in worldly affairs, will it really not hinder his knowledge?"
Whether it was his father or Zhu Biao himself, what they valued most was Fang Xiaoru's knowledge. In order to prevent Fang Xiaoru's knowledge from being contaminated, his father even preferred to keep him to himself and let him return to his hometown to study hard.
In fact, it is not surprising that Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao have this idea. In the eyes of the world, scholars should be clean in their knowledge. Being tainted with worldly things will make their knowledge filthy.
"Your Highness, everyone in the world loves the lotus, which comes out of the mud but remains unstained. But no one has ever thought that if there is no mud, how can the holy lotus come from it? Insight into worldly affairs is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is article. In the eyes of Weichen, worldly things The chaos is the place where knowledge is practiced, and the cage of human relationships is where talents are put to use. If you want to stand high in the future, only by dedicating yourself now can you escape from the mud and remain untainted."
Insights into worldly matters are knowledge, and understanding of human feelings are articles. What echoed in Zhu Biao's mind were these two sentences from Han Du. What is an export certificate? This is the person in front of me.
However, in view of the previous events, although Zhu Biao was shocked by Han Du's sophistication in saying this, he did not show it. I also felt that what Han Du said made sense, so he asked: "Then what official position do you think should be assigned to him?"
