With excited hands, Zeng Bu took the thin book from Lao Zongyuan from the hand of Empress Dowager Gao behind the curtain.
He took a deep breath, put the jade in his hand aside, and then opened the book respectfully.
The whole text comes into view.
The words circled in ink and the notes stuck between the words made Zeng Bu's eyes jump.
Although, the Empress Dowager said that the prince, Prince Yan'an, was already ten years old.
But everyone knows that it is a false year.
The Prince of Yan'an County was born on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the ninth year of Xining, in the Zhu Cairen Pavilion of the imperial city of Da Nei.
Such important events are written in court newspapers and spread throughout the world.
Moreover, because all the five sons of the official family had died before Prince Yan'an was born, the sixth son of the emperor was the eldest son of the emperor when he was born!
When it successfully grows to three years old, the official family can't wait to make him a duke, and add him to the school as a Taiwei and the Taiping Army as a military envoy.
At the age of six, he entered the Changwu Army as an envoy, was granted the title of Prince of Yan'an County, and established the Prefecture of Yitong with the Third Division.
Last year, the emperor gathered in Yanzhong in the Ying Palace and summoned the world's important ministers. The prince of Yan'an County was beside him to congratulate him.
These are all the contents of the morning newspapers.
Although Zeng Bu was in the world, he paid close attention to this information and kept it in his heart.
Therefore, Zeng Bu knew that the prince would actually be eight years and three months old this year.
Just because he was born in December of the ninth year of Xining, he was considered to be one year and one month old when he was less than a month old. Counting the false years, he was already regarded as a child without even opening his eyes in his infancy. It's two years old.
And His Royal Highness, who is over eight years old, is actually reading "Spring and Autumn"?
Not just reading, but looking at the words marked by His Highness, as well as the questions and my own interpretations on the notes.
He might even be able to understand Spring and Autumn!
Even if some words look childish, even if there are some questions, they are extremely naive.
But...but...this is called a child's heart, pure and flawless!
Therefore, Zeng Bu bowed respectfully to the Empress Dowager Gao inside the curtain: "Your Highness the Empress Dowager, I read the words written by the Prince of Yan'an County. I am pure and sincere, speaking from my heart. I am truly frightened. This is truly a blessing in the world!" "
Empress Dowager Gao liked hearing such words and immediately said happily: "This is exactly the purpose of inviting the bachelor here!"
"Although the elderly, women and children admire the virtues of saints, it is difficult for them to follow the path of saints and sages, so they can only seek help from bachelors!"
"I don't dare!" Zeng bowed and bowed: "I will die to be loyal to the official family, Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother, and Her Royal Highness the Prince of Yan'an County!"
Empress Dowager Gao listened and sighed in her heart: "Sure enough, Sixth Brother has become the most popular person in the world!"
Zeng Bu was just a Hanlin bachelor who had just returned from his service.
But he still believed that the only heir to the emperor was the emperor's eldest son!
Even Zeng Bu is like this.
Not to mention others.
The new party and the old party will only recognize the emperor's eldest son!
Just like during the Zhiping period, even though the late emperor had three sons, both the government and the public only recognized the eldest brother, Prince Ying.
As for second brother and fourth brother?
Even if they saw Han Qi and Wen Yanbo in the forbidden area, it would be as if they had not seen them before.
This is etiquette, this is Tsunasa!
Thinking about Taizong's story again, the whole world can only fight against it!
Fortunately, today's sixth brother is indeed smart, filial and sensible.
The birth of this child was not only expected by the public, but also made Empress Dowager Gao happy.
Then he said to Zeng Peng: "I am here to thank the bachelor for my sixth brother!"
"I would also like to ask the bachelor to answer the prince's questions for the sake of the Spring and Autumn Annals of Lao Shen Cao!"
Zeng Bu bowed again: "Wei!"
So, some ministers brought the copywriting, pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Zeng Bu sat on the floor in the palace, spread out paper and wrote.
Of course, who is Zeng Bu?
The top smart man in the country and the master of Confucianism!
He is also the biological brother of Zeng Gong and Zeng Nanfeng!
Throughout his life, Zeng Gong advocated restoration, advocated literature to defend morality, and inherited and carried forward the ancient prose movement of Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan.
In the Song Dynasty, what did Confucian scholars mean by the so-called "retrospection" and "advocating the ancients"?
Anyone who understands knows that under the guise of restoring ancient times, they take the right to interpret the Six Classics as their own.
This is true for San Su, this is true for Er Cheng, so is Zhang Zai, and even more so for Wang Anshi.
Going forward, the same is true for Hu Yuan, Zhou Dunyi, and Shao Yong.
Anyway, Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi would not jump out of the ground and beat them!
Therefore, like all other civil servants and officials, Zeng Bu was also good at stuffing private goods.
Moreover, Zeng Busai's private goods skills are very superb.
During Xining's political reform, Zeng Bu was appointed as a confidant by Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing.
When the market was changed, I discovered that everyone was not in the same boat at all.
What Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing want to do is open source, especially Lu Huiqing, who is eager for success and pursues simple and crude short-term financial profits in order to achieve results in the short term and silence others!
But what about Zeng Bu?
Influenced by his brother Zeng Gong and his teacher Hu Yuan, he actually advocated increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, focusing on reducing expenditure. In his opinion, the market-for-profit law was too rough and too short-sighted!
Now that he has been given the opportunity, he naturally wants to quietly insert some of his personal opinions into it.
So, in just an hour, Zeng Bu had already written thousands of eloquent words.
They are all responses to the opinions and questions raised by the Prince of Yan'an County in the Chun Qiu Gu Liang Biography.
In order to take care of the little prince, and also to take care of Empress Dowager Gao.
In many places, Zeng Bu spoke very straightforwardly and concisely, without using too many gorgeous words or stacked words.
After the book was completed, Zeng Bu checked it over and found that there were no omissions or typos, and no taboo words, and then he said to the Empress Dowager Gao behind the curtain: "I would like to write to Her Majesty the Empress Dowager: Your Majesty, Prince Yan'an, I have carefully annotated the "Chun Qiu Gu Liang Biography" and the accompanying text, and begged Her Majesty the Queen Mother to take a look at it!"
Empress Dowager Gao immediately ordered someone to fetch the text written by Zeng Bu.
Then read them one by one against the books of the Prince of Yan'an.
After just reading it once, Empress Dowager Gao was already overjoyed: "The bachelor's knowledge is really profound, I respect you!"
The words written by Zeng Bu are straightforward and simple.
At least Empress Dowager Gao understood it, and she thought it made sense.
In fact, if Zeng Buruo took Wang Anshi's views on the Spring and Autumn Period, concealed his signature, and showed them to Empress Dowager Gao, the result would be the same.
That's what Confucianism is like.
The general line is the same, but the differences are only in details, and the opinions are different only in morality.
The best example is the Three Chuan of Spring and Autumn Period.
Gu Liang, Gongyang, and Zuo Zhuan are all interpretations of Confucius' Spring and Autumn Annals, and they are also re-annotations, re-interpretations, and re-elaborations of Confucius' Spring and Autumn Annals.
But these three biographies, which come from the same source, are almost three books in terms of morality and stance.
People who are not specialized in this field have no idea how many twists and turns there are, let alone the fact that in the past, Confucian scholars almost went crazy over the differences in these details.
The ancestors and masters have already done a good job, but how can the disciples and grandsons not learn from it?
Since the Qingli Education Movement, the literary world of the Song Dynasty has ushered in a situation where a hundred flowers are blooming.
The intensity of the collision of ideas is no less intense than the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
However, this time, everyone is using the banner of Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Jia Yi and Yang Xiong to defend themselves.
