The next day, Xu He got up early, washed up, and then went to the city to the county government office.
After the disciples informed him, he was introduced to the guest room of the county government's back hall.
Sure enough, Xie Kun was reading a book and waiting for him to come over.
When Xu He saluted, Xie Kun did not speak, but just motioned for him to sit down first, and then continued to read the book in his hand with relish.
After a while, he put down the book and raised his hand to look at Xu He: "I heard that you wrote a poem in front of the new military commander yesterday?"
Li Zhijie's big mouth must have come back to promote it.
"Thousands of hammers carved out the deep mountains, and the fire burned them as if they were idle. Don't be afraid of being shattered into pieces. You want to leave your innocence in the world." Xie Kun recited "Song of Lime" and didn't say anything. He seemed to be savoring the artistic conception of this poem.
"Don't be afraid of being broken into pieces. You want to leave your innocence in the world. If all the princes in the court have your ambition, why worry about the mountains and rivers of our great Wei Dynasty withering and the people suffering!" After Xie Kun finished speaking, a look of anger appeared on his face.
Xu He was a little confused when he heard this: "Uncle, our Wei Dynasty has been in peace for a long time, and the people are peaceful. Even if there are bandits and natural disasters, they are just diseases of mustard moss. It seems that we have not reached the point where the mountains and rivers are withered and the people are suffering. ?" Xu He asked doubtfully.
Xie Kun glanced at Xu He and sneered at the corner of his mouth: "In the thirty-fourth year of Zhengzheng, there was a drought in Huguang, the crops failed, and the people were starving, so they changed their sons to eat."
"In the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Emperor Zhengzheng, there was a flood in the prefectures and counties of Baoding. Floods rushed east and west, Huaishan and Xiangling, and corpses littered the fields."
"In the thirty-fourth year of Zhizheng period, Yingtian Hui, Ningchi, Tailu Prefecture, Anqing, Chuzhou and Guangde were hit by rain. The fortresses collapsed and people fled to higher places to hide from water. Diseases were prevalent and more than 3,200 people died. .”
"In the thirty-fourth year of Zhengzheng, Shanxi's governor requested that Shanxi's prefectures and counties' annual supply of grain and grass be distributed locally. The reason was that the bandits raided the border areas, and the people of Shanxi were exhausted and unable to farm. There was also a locust plague, which resulted in a shortage of crops. There were more than twenty rebellions among the hungry people."
Xie Kun looked at Xu He with burning eyes: "Did you find anything?"
"It all happened last year!" Xu He frowned. He really didn't expect that in this age, there would still be a tragedy of exchanging children and eating them.
Xie Kun sneered: "What I just said is only a fraction of last year's disasters. According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs alone, not counting the natural disasters that local officials concealed and failed to report, there were 274 cases. Do you think this is still a long-lasting peace? Are the people at peace?"
Xu He was shocked. He thought that what he had just experienced was already terrible, but he did not expect that there were more than 270 disasters counted throughout the year.
There is no peace here, this is simply riddled with holes!
Seeing the shocked look on his face, Xie Kun chuckled: "Just now it was a natural disaster, now let's talk about a man-made disaster!"
"In the thirty-fourth year of Zhengzheng, Zhang Shiche, the Minister of War in Nanjing, and others reported that at the junction of Jurong, Liyang, and Guangde, bandits broke into the prison of Jurong County, killed the county magistrate, and hanged the chief clerk. Only the county magistrate was killed. The public office in the countryside was spared!”
"In the thirty-fourth year of Zhengzheng Period, Governor Su Song impeached the commander of the Suzhou Prefectural Guard Station. He indulged the soldiers, dressed up as lake bandits, and robbed passing merchants. When the incident was revealed, Governor Su Song, Han Chengqing, was killed!"
"In the thirty-fourth year of Zhengzheng period, Japanese pirates plundered Xushuguan. Cao Bangzhou, the new governor of Su Song, led three thousand soldiers of the guard to attack the thieves. The soldiers of the guard were defeated and thousands of Lou Yu died!"
"In the thirty-fourth year of Zhengzheng period, seventeen Japanese pirates captured Changshu and set fire to it. The residents of Nancheng were killed, no one was spared, and all the soldiers died."
Xu He was shocked when he heard this.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese plague that existed in the previous Ming Dynasty also existed in the Wei Dynasty.
And just last year, the few examples Xie Kun mentioned casually all occurred near Hailing.
This is just Jiangnan, the thousands of miles of sea territory along the southeastern coast of the Wei Dynasty, there are still many such tragic things happening.
Hearing this, he had long since lost the feeling in his predecessor's mind that the Great Wei Dynasty was singing and dancing.
For a moment, he seemed to see the tragic scene of hungry people everywhere and wailing creatures.
Xie Kun laughed miserably: "Boy, do you still think that the iron buckets in this world are like water that cannot be poured into them?"
Xu He was silent.
"But just when the situation in the world is in danger, the eunuchs are in power in the capital, the high officials of the court are united and opposed, and the treacherous officials are controlling the government. The emperor has not been in court for thirteen years. I heard that he is now addicted to monasticism, and all matters are handed over to the chief minister of the cabinet. Qin Yan will handle it."
"Qin Yan appointed party members and squeezed out loyal ministers, creating a mess in the court."
"So, do you think this world is still the peaceful and prosperous world in your mind?"
If what Xie Kun said is true, then this is not a peaceful and prosperous age. The Wei Dynasty was clearly a blind man riding a blind horse, facing a deep pool in the middle of the night!
"That's why I say that the princes of this imperial court are not even as good as you, a boy who is not even a child."
"At any rate, you still have the ambition to remain innocent in this world and prove your ambition through death. Those people are just maggots who live in a state of decay."
Innocence, Xu He’s original intention is to prove his innocence.
But when it came to Xie Kun, it was used to compare the big bosses who destroyed the program, violated discipline and corrupted the government.
This junior fellow student has changed the concept secretly, but it cannot be said that his reading comprehension is off topic.
Xu He thought about it, and he probably felt uncomfortable in his heart, and always wanted to find an opportunity to use the topic to express himself.
But why would he talk about these natural and man-made disasters, internal and external difficulties to a social student like himself who was not yet a child?
Xu He was a little confused.
I thought Xie Kun would continue this topic, but after he calmed down, he began to ask about Xu He's studies.
"I heard that you have read through the Four Books. Have you selected the text?"
Like Fengfang, Xie Kun asked Xu He that the most important thing in his studies was to inquire about the classics.
Xu He said: "I haven't chosen yet. Among the five classics, which one does my uncle think is suitable?"
The choice of the Five Classics is not urgent for Xu He at this stage, until the provincial examination and the joint examination. The first test consists of two articles, one with four texts and one with five scriptures.
The four scripts are equivalent to the language and mathematics of later generations. These are all compulsory examination items, and the papers are also the same.
But the Five Classics will test the Shizi Benjing, that is, among the Five Classics, if the Shizi chooses the "Book of Rites", the Five Classics will test the topics related to the "Book of Rites".
But this lack of urgency is only relative. With Xu He's level of reading the "Four Books", it was already time to choose the classics in advance and start studying the topics of the Five Classics.
"You need to be careful when choosing this book. Let me give you a direction. First, you must choose the one that interests you from the Five Classics. This way, you will find it interesting to read and be able to persist!"
Xu He nodded when he heard this. This is easy to understand. Interest is the best teacher.
Thinking of this, he first excluded the "Book of Rites" and "The Book of Changes". These two books were at times sweet and concise, but at worst difficult to understand. They were really not what he was interested in.
"Secondly..." Xie Kun continued, "It is best for this scripture to be a regional specialty or a family study, so that you can have someone to discuss the meaning of the scriptures with you and help you grow!"
"Regional specialization?" Xu He was a little confused. Are you sure it is [specialization] and not [specialization]?
Xie Kun seemed to sense his doubts and explained: "Regional specialization means that scholars in certain places relatively intensively choose one of the Five Classics as their own classic to take the exam."
"For example, most scholars in Yuyao, Zhejiang choose "Book of Rites" as their classic!"
"Shizi Anfu from Jiangxi Province is good at governing the Spring and Autumn Annals!"
"Changshu scholars like to choose "Poetry"!"
"Most of the scholars in Wuxi are in charge of Shangshu!"
"And the scholars in Yin County, Ningbo like to choose "The Book of Changes"!"
When he heard the words Ningbo Yinxian, Xu He suddenly thought of the fat man Fengfang yesterday.
He quickly told Xie Kun that Fengfang had given him "Annotations on Mao's Poems".
Unexpectedly, after Xie Kun heard Fengfang's name, his brows suddenly wrinkled and his face showed displeasure.
