"On Contradiction - Zhu Yijun". When Zhang Sixiu opened the thin book, the emperor's name pierced his eyes so loudly that the hair on his back stood up.
"Who is the Taoist?" The first sentence asks, establishing the pattern of this grand text in the universe.
"The Book of Changes says: One yin and one yang are called the Tao. Yin and yang are contradictions. Everything in all things exists - it may be exciting and cause chaos; it may be harmonious and harmonious; it may be when yang is strong and yin is weak, or when yin is weak. The Yang is strong but the Yang is weak.”
The emperor started with a question and then answered the question, pointing out irrefutably that yin and yang are the Tao. Contradiction is the embodiment of yin and yang. When Zhang Sixiu saw the first few sentences in the article, he started to sweat slightly on his back.
"Where do contradictions come from? The inherent nature of things and things. And what is the nature? Movement, connection, and contradiction. Why is it so cloudy? Confucius said: The deceased is like a man who never abandons day and night - a sage said The principle that explains everything in the world is "motion". The movement of stars is the movement of heaven; the movement of seas and fields is the movement of earth; all things move and balance, and the sage takes the stillness in the movement, and persists between yin and yang and contradictions. Huzhong - "The Doctrine of the Mean" exists from this."
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Throughout the course of "On Contradictions", the emperor did not just follow theories, but also provided practical examples to irrefutably prove the legitimacy of the reforms - taking the salt policy reform as an example.
“When the Salt Law of the State was in full swing, salt was expensive but grain was cheap, and the contradiction was that salt production was insufficient for civilian use. Later, salt production increased day by day, and grain reserves became less and less. Salt was cheap but grain was expensive, and the contradiction turned into the accumulation of official salt. After the Tianxia Salt Farm was contracted, salt production increased sharply, and the conflict turned into too low salt prices - although it was good for the people, it was not good for those who made a living in the salt farm."
"For this reason, in the fifth year of Wanli, the court set a minimum salt price, and the sales of salt should not be less than five cents per catty. Is there any contradiction? No, setting a minimum salt price - even if there is a new disease, the price is illegal and low Those who seek more sales are obviously in conflict with the Salt Transportation Department."
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If you try to view the pros and cons of everything in the world through the theory of contradiction, it will be like reading a text on the palm of your hand!
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Nothing in the world can exist without yin and yang; nothing can exist without contradiction, which is the universality and absoluteness of this contradiction; spears and shields are inseparable; spears and shields are always in conflict - this is the law of the unity of opposites. . Contradictions exist in one body and share the same thought. They change when the situation changes and when time changes. This is the particularity and relativity of this contradiction.
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"The sage said: "Yi", is it complete? - The riddle has been solved long ago, and it has been clearly revealed to future generations. It is a pity for those who did not see it later. At this time, those who do not know the reason for the changes in the world can only leave the boat to seek the sword. Ridicule!"
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A booklet with less than 5,000 words, Zhang Sixiu pondered over and over again and stayed up all night. The emperor's majestic and majestic prose clearly explains the universality of contradictions, the unity of opposites, the particularity, the struggle, and the mutual transformation of contradictions under the action of internal and external factors with indisputable logic. Zhang Sixiu gained something after reading it once, and gained something again after reading it again - and then he felt as if the fog shrouded in front of him had been lifted, and he almost screamed because he had gained enlightenment!
"On Contradiction" was adapted by Zhu Yijun based on "On Contradiction" written by later great men. It also reflects the results of his study in Chinese classical philosophy over the past few years. His own Tao, the so-called "Three Views", had long been formed; and his advanced insights in sociology also allowed Zhang Juzheng and other scholars who studied heaven and man to say such words as "sages are born with knowledge." Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain this observation. How could the philosophy of destroying nature sprout in the heart of a fifteen-year-old emperor?
After the small-scale copying of "On Contradiction", Zhu Yijun's body has been shrouded in a mysterious aura among the upper echelons of the empire.
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In Jiangling City in August, Mr. Zhang Wenming was watching the recently popular new drama "Feng Ming Ji" in the Zhang Mansion Garden. "Ming Feng Ji" was written by Wang Shizhen. After the Wang family was ruined, it is said that Wang Shizhen revised it again and again, and finally produced the first current affairs and political drama in Chinese history. [Note]
During the Wanli period, Kun Opera was the most popular in the entertainment circles across the country. At that time, a group of famous composers and lyricists pushed the development of Kun Opera to its peak - and also created conditions for the later birth of Peking Opera.
"Ming Feng Ji" written by Wang Shizhen contains five plays, including "Eating Tea", "Manuscript", and "Impeachment". The protagonists are Yang Jisheng, a hero who fought against Yan Song, and other ten loyal ministers with "Double Loyalty and Eight Righteousness". This set of historical facts was written from the beginning to the defeat of Yan Song and the execution of Yan Shifan. The ten loyal ministers who succeeded each other in the process of overthrowing Yan were praised by Wang Shizhen as: "The red and phoenixes in the rising sun sing together." This is "Ming Feng Ji" 》The origin of this name.
Zhang Wenming was usually busy with nothing to do, and he couldn't bear to socialize with officials from various places who passed through Jiangling, so he found work to train his own opera troupe.
Recently, someone came to tell me that "Ming Feng Ji" written by Wang Shizhen in the sixth year of Longqing Dynasty became popular in the south. Zhang Wenming kept up with the trend in acting, so he ordered the class leader to lead the boys and girls to practice quickly.
On August 15, all the chief officials in the Zhang Mansion and all branches of the Zhang family gathered in the Zhang Mansion to wish Zhang Wenming Mid-Autumn Festival. Because Zhang Wenming loved to be lively, the Zhang family set up a banquet in the garden, and the respectable people sat around, drinking and listening to the opera.
"I hate the powerful ministers who conspired to help the party and dedicated themselves to subverting the government. I can't write about his heinous crimes, and I can't write about his deceitful intentions. Who doesn't know his obvious crimes? I only write about him. The six nobles were in trouble together, and they also benefited from the transportation of goods all over the world. After all, returning the thought is a sincere feeling, and you can tell the king face to face." It happened to be the end of singing "Dengqian Xiuban", and the noise in the banquet became quieter, and the performance was about to The lyrics of Yang Jisheng's Lao Sheng were clearly delivered to the ears of the guests.
Zhang Wenming was drinking from a small bowl of amber wine. Hearing this libretto, his face looked at ease. Zhang Juyi, who was waiting for his father at home, laughed and said: "This libretto talks about Yan Song, not Xu Jie or Gao Gong."
After hearing this, Zhang Wenming smiled, put down the bowl of wine and said, "Gao Gong and my uncle have a good relationship. If he hadn't said that 'ten-year-old boy', he would have been in the court at this time—— But I can help your elder brother share some of the burden."
After Zhang Juyi heard this, he smiled bitterly and said: "A tall beard cannot tolerate..."
Before he finished speaking, a cold light flashed in the corner of Zhang Juyi's eyes, and then he saw a dagger inserted into his old father's throat. Zhang Juyi was so shocked that his mind went blank, and he actually continued the sentence: "Others share authority with him."
Then there was chaos on the field. The old man on the stage finished throwing the knife, tore the costume in half at the front, revealing a short dress, then pulled out a machete from behind his shoulder and went straight to Zhang Wenming, the head table.
This scimitar is currently the most powerful weapon in the garden. During the Ming Dynasty, assassinations of political opponents were rare. Xu Jie and Yan Song had been fighting for more than ten years, and neither of them thought of sending assassins to physically eliminate each other - no matter who was assassinated, his opponent would immediately fall into destruction.
Therefore, in the garden of Zhang Wenming's house, the chairs and benches that could stand up to the machete were the chairs and benches that sat under the buttocks. The servants of Zhang's house lifted these up one after another while shouting to the martial arts guard who was drinking and having fun in the front yard to come over. On one side, he surrounded the master's family to prevent the assassin from getting close.
Who would have thought that the assassin just fired a feint, and in the chaos of the whole garden shouting "Killing!" and "Here comes someone!", he moved sideways and dodged a dish thrown by a servant. , straight towards the northwest corner of the garden.
When he reached the foot of the big wall, he pursed his lips and whistled, and suddenly a long rope was thrown in through the wall from outside the garden. Seeing that the pursuers had arrived, the assassin had no time to crawl slowly, so he pulled the rope and took a few steps back. He then took a short run and pulled the rope to the top of the wall.
The guard from the Zhang Mansion who was chasing after him saw that the assassin was about to get out. In desperation, he used the long and short weapons in his hands as flying knives and threw them against the wall with all his strength. The assassin held the rope with one hand and threw the machete outside the wall with the other hand. Then he held down the wall and pushed his body horizontally, trying to fly out from the wall.
There was only a "pop" sound, and the Yanling knife thrown by a martial artist from the Zhang family hit the assassin's thigh. The assassin screamed and fell out with a thud.
Everyone rushed forward a few steps, and when they pulled the rope, they actually pulled the rope in from outside the wall. The person who responded must have let go. The outer wall of Zhang's Mansion was more than ten feet high. None of these people could jump up. It was too slow to get a ladder or go around the back door. A strong martial artist shouted: Build a personal ladder!
The ladder hadn't been set up yet, so everyone heard the sound of a sword slashing into the air outside the wall. It must have been someone wielding a knife forcefully. Along with the sound of waving a knife, there was a horse neighing and thumping outside, and the sound of horse hooves gradually faded away.
The martial artist who climbed up the wall on a human ladder shouted: "The assassin has been silenced and all the heads have been taken away! - Go! Go report to the official and seal the city!"
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