"Xue Yuanjing?" Lu Chen looked at him while stroking the beard on his chin, looking up and down at the middle-aged man dressed like a scholar, and then nodded, "Xue Yuanjing, a member of the Xue clan in Hedong, Xue Shou's nephew, and Xue Shou, Xue Deyin is known as the 'Three Phoenixes of Hedong'. I wonder how your uncle Xue Shou is doing these days?" Lu Chen looked at Xue Yuanjing with a smile and asked.
Although Xue Yuanjing and Xue Shou are now members of the Eighteen Bachelors of Li Shimin Literature Hall, in the end, their identities are only bachelors of the Literature Hall. Even if they have positions in the Cefu, they are only Li Shimin's retainers, not to mention Xue Shou. In recent years, his health has been poor, and Xue Shou passed away in the eighth year of Wude. Xue Shou and Fang Xuanling were good friends, and Xue Shou was recommended to the Literature Museum by Fang Xuanling.
But at this time, Xue Yuanjing's reputation as the so-called "Three Phoenixes of Hedong" is only in the Hedong area. In Chang'an City, who knows who they are? Not only Xue Yuanjing was stunned by Lu Chen's such nonsense. , even Li Shimin was stunned. After all, Xue Shou and Xue Yuanjing had not been in the literature museum for too long. Logically speaking, Lu Chen should not know them, but Lu Chen knew the origin of Xue Yuanjing just by relying on their names. It was so clear that he couldn't help but look at Lu Chen with confusion.
"This Xue Yuanjing, Master Xue, I make you look a little useless, so tell me, what use are you?" Lu Chen, who was still smiling, suddenly turned cold and looked at Xue Yuanjing, "You are Professor Linzi , or do you want to do something that benefits the country and the people? Holding up the sage's book, criticizing this, commenting on that, is this something useful? "
"We are literati, so we should achieve some achievements in knowledge!" Xue Yuanjing was pressed by Lu Chen and replied hesitantly.
"Achievements? What are your achievements? Wrote a book? Established?" Lu Chen continued to ask without giving in, "Cheng held up the book and said, Zi said, do you know what Confucius or Mencius said is really that What do you mean? Why don't you add your own thoughts and take it into account?" Lu Chen looked at Xue Yuanjing with a sneer, "Since you think you have learned well, I will ask you a question, can you answer it?"
"Why not?" Seeing that Lu Chen actually wanted to test him on his remarks about saints, he immediately became energetic and looked at Lu Chen with chest raised and replied.
"The Master said that those who know virtue are rare!" Lu Chen looked at Xue Yuanjing, smiled slightly, and said this directly. Suddenly, not only Xue Yuanjing, but also other bachelors of literature who had read "The Analects" fell into deep thought. Of course, Including Li Shimin, they didn't understand why Lu Chen would bring it up after such an obvious conversation.
"This sentence comes from "The Analects of Confucius: Wei Linggong Pian". Such a simple sentence, I didn't expect that County Duke Lu would actually use it to testify against us!" After hearing Lu Chen's question, Xue Yuanjing couldn't help but feel proud. Hu Hu laughed, "This sentence is from Confucius: 'There are very few people who know virtue', but he lamented that there are too few people who know virtue!" Xue Yuan finished his respect and looked directly at Lu Chen.
Others nodded one after another. After all, in their understanding, Confucius's words also meant this.
"Haha!" Unexpectedly, Xue Yuanjing was very proud. After finishing this, Lu Chen sneered directly, "You are Confucius' sigh, but I, this sentence is Confucius criticizing Wei Linggong!" Lu Chen looked at it Xue Yuanjing said, "I think that Confucius should have said this at the time, 'Those who know virtue are the best'!" After Lu Chen finished, he looked directly at Xue Yuanjing.
"'Those who know virtue are rare', 'Those who know virtue are rare'..." Everyone recited Lu Chen's fragments and compared them with the fragments they knew. According to what they thought before , this sentence is a sigh from Confucius, but according to Lu Chen's sentence, it is that Confucius is criticizing the princes, princes, local scholars, officials and other people in power. "Appointing people based on their talents" means being too selfish, narrow-minded and foolish in their governance, "appointing people to be nepotistic", "appointing people to be slaves", "appointing people to be stupid" and "appointing people to benefit only".
"This..." Just such a short sentence had two meanings, which directly stunned Xue Yuanjing and others.
"Study!" Lu Chen looked directly at Xue Yuanjing and others and snorted, "You just learn what the predecessors did. How can there be any progress? What we learn is knowledge, but we need to know whether the knowledge is right or wrong. , not everything can be applied mechanically!”
"Then what did Duke Ling of Wei ask Confucius, and why did Confucius leave? You don't look at the correspondence before and after, you just think about it yourself, what kind of scholar are you?" Lu Chen shouted coldly.
Lu Chen's words immediately made a group of bachelors break into cold sweats. After all, they entered the literature hall and were treated very politely by Li Shimin. This was all so that they could stand in the court and hold high positions in the future. Unfortunately, they were Lu Chen's words directly gave him a blow.
Suddenly, the entire Ce Mansion hall became silent, including Li Shimin, who looked at Lu Chen quietly, as if it was the first time he saw Lu Chen. The Lu Chen at this time was obviously different from the easy-going person he saw in Lujiazhuang.
"My words are not intended to attack or ridicule you. You are all assisting the King of Qin. You must not study too hard! That's all!" Lu Chen said, cupping his hands at these people.
"I, Mr. Lu, am not such a weak-minded person!" Hearing Lu Chen's words, Cheng Yaojin on the side laughed and jumped out. With Cheng Yaojin making such a gag, the scene suddenly became less tense than before. .
"Mr. Su Guo, there is still an unsettled score between you and me!" Lu Chen looked at Cheng Yaojin and said with a smirk.
"It's all a matter! It's all a matter!" Although he felt a little frightened when Lu Chen smiled like this, he still laughed.
"Young Master Lu can come to this king today, and this Ce Mansion is so brilliant!" Li Shimin also said with a smile, and the scene suddenly relaxed a lot.
Lu Chen looked at Li Shimin, and Li Shimin understood Lu Chen's eyes at once, "I want to have something to do with Mr. Lu County alone, everyone should leave!" Li Shimin waved his hands directly to the members of the Cefu, and everyone After saluting directly at Li Shimin, he walked out of the hall. As they walked away, a group of bachelors from the Literature Museum were still thinking about what Lu Chen had just said.
"Keming, please stay for a moment!" Just when Du Ruhui was about to walk out of the door, he was stopped by Li Shimin.
Du Ruhui turned around in confusion. He couldn't understand why Li Shimin left him behind when he clearly wanted to talk to Lu Chen alone, but he still walked back honestly.
"Mr. Lu, this is not the place to speak. How about we go to the side hall?" Li Shimin looked at Lu Chen and said.
"Guests and hosts do as they please, of course they will follow His Highness's arrangements!" Lu Chen said with a smile.
Only Du Ruhui still stood there with a blank look on his face, his expression obviously asking, what should I do?
"Keming, you come too!" Li Shimin naturally noticed Du Ruhui's expression and looked directly at Du Ruhui.
"Yes!" Du Ruhui quickly responded with his hands raised and followed behind Li Shimin and Lu Chen.
Li Shimin brought Lu Chen and Du Ruhui to the side hall. Li Shimin sat in the main seat, Lu Chen sat on the left hand seat, and Du Ruhui stood opposite them.
"Keming, sit down!" Li Shimin pointed to the chair beside him and said. Since sitting on the chair at Lu Chen's place, Li Shimin also bought a lot of furniture from Lujiazhuang.
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Du Ruhui sat on the chair on the other side.
Not long after, a maid came over to serve tea.
"Duke Lu came to see me, right, about Changyuan Tower?" Li Shimin picked up the tea cup, took a sip, looked at Lu Chen with a smile and asked.
"Exactly!" Lu Chen responded simply without being verbose.
Hearing the words "Changyuan Tower", Du Ruhui narrowed his eyes and glanced at Li Shimin, then at Lu Chen. Du Ruhui suddenly understood why Li Shimin called him and left him behind.
Moreover, a few days ago, Li Shimin suddenly came to him to ask about Changyuan Tower owned by the Du family. Du Ruhui immediately figured it out. At that time, Du Ruhui was still wondering why his Royal Highness, King Qin, was suddenly interested in Changyuan Tower. It turned out that The root of the disease lies with Lu Chen.
However, Du Ruhui also admires Lu Chen. The Du family is different from other aristocratic families. Other aristocratic families like to have relations with Li Jiancheng, but the Du family is on Li Shimin's side. I don't know if it is because of Du Ruhui. , or the head of the family is really optimistic about His Highness the King of Qin, and directly bet on His Highness the King of Qin.
When Du Ruhui returned home and inquired about Changyuan Tower, the patriarch also asked him why he was interested in Changyuan Tower. Du Ruhui did not evade and directly told the clan leader what Li Shimin asked about, and the clan leader also gave it to Du Ruhui. As a reassurance, if Li Shimin was really interested in Changyuan Building, he wouldn't mind giving it to Li Shimin. Unfortunately, Du Ruhui took this matter the same way as Li Shimin. Li Shimin shook his head and smiled, telling Du Ruhui that he didn't need it. Changyuan Tower directly confused Du Ruhui at that time.
Now seeing Lu Chen sitting here and Li Shimin mentioning Changyuan Tower again, Du Ruhui finally understood. Halfway through, it was not his Highness the King of Qin who was interested in Changyuan Tower, but the person opposite him from Chang'an County. male.
"Is it possible that Duke Lu is interested in Changyuan Tower?" Du Ruhui saluted Lu Chen and asked directly.
"A bit interested!" Lu Chen nodded without any ambiguity, "It's just that my interest is not to get Changyuan Building, but to discuss a business with your Du family. I don't know if your family has any Interested?"
