We just crossed Xianxia Ridge the day before yesterday, and tomorrow we will climb the mountain again and leave Fujian.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but admire that the officials were really good at tormenting people.
The night before leaving Fujian, we usually stay at Yuliang Station or Man'yoji Temple. After we have enough strength, we set off to climb the mountain early the next morning.
This time, Zhang Yue and Qi Niang chose to stay at Wanye Temple for the night.
This is also the place where the two met before. After staying in the temple, the two watched the waterfall. Although they did not return to their hometown this time, they were able to revisit their old place, which was a little fulfilled.
As for the two young men of the Zhang family, it was their first time to see such a waterfall, and they were so excited that they didn't know what to say. In fact, there was little rain this time back home, so the waterfall was not as majestic and roaring as before, which is a bit regrettable.
Indeed, it is difficult to revisit the place as it was in memory after so many years.
After looking at the waterfall for a while, Seventeen Niang felt tired and went to rest early. Zhang Yue was a little disappointed, but the couple had been together for many years, and Shiqi Niang sometimes didn't understand her own feelings very well.
She is his virtuous wife, but Zhang Yue has to deal with it emotionally.
Zhang Yue walked in the temple for a while, and saw Chen Guan debating scriptures with a monk. It turned out that the other monk was also staying in Wanye Temple.
Chen Guan and the monk said: "The essence of Buddhism is not in the words, nor is it separated from the words. There is no need to read too many words in the Buddhist scriptures, only one Diamond Sutra is needed. The key point of this sutra is 'Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi' Nine characters.”
"This is also the mean word of sincerity."
The monk praised: "The layman's words have been the only clear method."
Chen Guan said: "Master, you are so complimentary. Over the years, I have read carefully and thought deeply. I have struggled with hardship and food. I have not waved my fan in the summer and warmed the stove in the winter. I have restless nights and restless pillows to seek the way. However, I have not yet attained the truth."
Speaking of Chen Guan's resignation, when he walked to the side corridor and saw Zhang Yue standing there, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy and said: "Mr. Zhang!"
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Why are you here?"
Chen Guan said: "After bidding farewell that day, I thought about paying a visit to Mr. Zhang. But Mr. Zhang must have paid homage to his ancestors when he returned home, so I waited for news at Wanye Temple. Unexpectedly, within a few days, I saw Mr. Zhang again. male."
Zhang Yue smiled slightly and said: "Now I am returning to Beijing according to the order."
"Congratulations, Mr. Zhang, for being appointed by the emperor again."
Zhang Yue smiled languidly and nodded: "It is fate for you and me to meet each other this time. Are you willing to come to Beijing with me?"
Chen Guan said happily: "The student is willing."
Chen Guan immediately paid his respects.
Zhang Yue helped him up and said, "I don't stick to formalities, and I don't pay much attention to the ceremony of apprenticeship. There is only one way to enter and exit my door. The four words of loyalty to the emperor and love to the people are enough. Returning to my hometown this time, I can meet the talented people who will come after me. It is a worthwhile trip."
Chen Guan was very happy and said immediately: "The students have been taught."
Zhang Yue really appreciated Chen Guan, so he happened to meet him again at Wanyushi Temple today and took him under his tutelage.
Zhang Yue said to Chen Guan: "Now that you have entered my sect, what do you think I can teach you?"
Chen Guan thought to himself that other people who accepted his disciples only had to give instructions or teach others, but he had never seen anyone like Zhang Yue asking for advice from his disciples.
Perhaps this is just a matter of humility.
Chen Guan immediately said: "Students think that Wang Jiefu is now the Prime Minister and has replaced Lu Xianggong to preside over the affairs of the court. When Zhang Gong returns to the court to get along with Wang Xianggong at this time, he may not be better than he was with Lu Xianggong."
Zhang Yue nodded, Wang Anshi was more stubborn than Lu Huiqing, and even less willing to listen to what others said.
Chen Guandao said: "Students have read Wang Xianggong's New Meanings of the Three Classics. This book uses the principles of life and fate as the theory of morality. If you want to make a great contribution to the world, you must have future ministers practice it from generation to generation. This so-called morality is based on the principles of life and fate." Learn one.”
"From now on, people in the world who share the same customs will all follow the study of life and life. If they don't learn the study of life and life, they will become Quxue. Today, officials like Sima Junshi do not agree with the study of life and life, and are despised as a popular custom."
"Once the new meanings of these three classics are completed, no matter whether there are kings or ministers in the future, the so-called state affairs are all derived from the principles of life and fate, so they cannot be shaken. From now on, scholars all over the world will take this book as their source."
Chen Guan was talking about the problems that Zhang Yue had to face when he returned to the court. One was Wang Anshi, and the other was the new meaning of the Three Classics.
These new meanings of the Three Classics are the condensation of the new party's ideology and are more accessible than those of Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing.
Later, the state of affairs was derived from the new meaning of life in the Three Classics.
At that time, no matter whether there is Wang Anshi or not, Lu Huiqing will be the same.
Just like Confucianism, Confucius has been gone for many years, but his teachings are still used in the court today.
Zhang Yue said to Chen Guan, "I learned from Guan Zhongye."
Guan Zhong's studies.
Chen Guan perked up after hearing this, and immediately said: "The students understand, and with the teacher's words, they feel confident in their hearts."
Zhang Yue said: "I am not afraid of fighting. As the saying goes, there is no need to avoid the confrontation between two blades. A good hand is like a lotus in the fire, as if it has its own ambition to reach the sky."
The party struggle in the court is like a confrontation between two blades, and those who fall into the lower class within the country will run away after seeing it.
But those who know the cause and effect of the comings and goings do not need to avoid them, just like picking up the lotus from the fire. These people have the ambition to reach the sky.
For example, although Zhang Yue was demoted, he returned to the court within a few months. Lu Huiqing spent so much effort and cost, but the damage to Zhang Yue was really limited.
But is this your own ability?
This is not the case, but was determined by the political environment of the Song Dynasty.
For example, Legalism aims to eliminate those with vested interests. The higher the position in this system and the greater the ability, the more dangerous it is. Just look at the political struggle of the Qin Dynasty. In the end, the First Emperor himself became the victim of the struggle. The other prime ministers, ministers, and clan members who threatened the imperial power were killed without blinking an eye, and they were killed in rivers of flesh and blood. .
Ordinary people were not spared. For example, when Qin Shihuang found out about the meteorite that fell from the sky and said, "The First Emperor died and the earth was divided," he immediately ordered the killing of all the people within a ten-mile radius of the meteorite.
As a minister, don't say anything against the country. Even the deer and the horse will be ruined if they say something wrong.
The political struggle here is about who is ruthless, tough, and spicy enough, and who has no bottom line and principles.
But the Song Dynasty, on the other hand, protected those with vested interests, so the higher the official position, the safer it was.
Of course, this does have many problems, but the advantage is that the bottom line is indeed relatively high.
Written by Sima Guang, Feng Jing, Wen Yanbo, and Lu Gong, Zhang Yue was defeated like this. Apart from being temporarily out of town, he actually had nothing to do.
Because of this kind of political struggle, the intensity is not too high.
Therefore, the secret of the political struggle here does not actually lie in one party destroying the other, because no one can destroy the opponent, so how to obtain the support of a third party through struggle is the skill.
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"Sergeant Zhang Xue has been reinstated."
The people in the teahouses in Bianjing were talking about this enthusiastically.
"Yes, we all thought he was unjust when it came to the big fire in Sansi."
"You know that Shu is angry. He had to leave Bianjing because he was wronged by others, but he still has the ambition to serve the country in his heart."
"I have also read that poem, and it is indeed very well written... There are treacherous ministers in the court."
Beside the tea shop, Lu Huiqing was sitting alone enjoying tea. At this moment, listening to the words of the common people, there was a look of disdain on his face.
"What do these little Shengdou people know!"
