Prime Minister

Chapter 278 The King

The coronal needles of the corona moved slowly, and the sky became brighter and brighter.

As the sun comes out, the spring cold will dissipate, and Zhang Yue doesn't need to add cold clothes, otherwise, he will write articles while getting a runny nose from the cold, just like a provincial test.

Zhang Yue had been sitting in front of the desk and thinking for a long time, it was really uncomfortable to sit like this for a long time, and many scholars beside him changed their positions.

Zhang Yue also moved his body slightly, rubbed his numb legs, and then looked at the exam questions in front of him.

Before Dong Zhongshu wrote Chunqiu Fanlu, the world view at that time was mostly filled with ghosts and gods, but when he transformed it into a more practical view of heaven, he tried to analyze social philosophical issues with Yin Yang, five elements, and Zhouyi.

Zhang Yue wrote the character "Wang" on the manuscript paper. The upper horizontal line of the "Wang" character represents the sky, and the lower horizontal line represents the earth.

Dong Zhongshu said in Chunqiu Fanlu directly that the ancient writers are the king of three paintings.The three are heaven, earth and man.And those who participate in (three) connections are kings.

Therefore, this is how the King of Heaven and Earth came to be.This is explained in terms of words.

According to the records of Baihutong, the king goes, and the world goes, and this is explained from the pronunciation of the characters.

So how to write an article about the king of heaven and earth?How to solve the problem?
Zhang Yue raised his head, but saw that the spring sky was very high, the blue sky was vast, and countless scholars were in it with him under the eaves, and the occasional spring breeze blew the curtains of the corridor.

During the ups and downs of the curtain, Zhang Yue's eyebrows suddenly passed.

Zhang Yue's frowning frowns trembled, and with the flick of the curtain on his brows, at this moment, it was like a revelation, and all the lumps in his chest were wiped away.Zhang Yue had already made up his mind, and immediately raised his hand and wrote on the scroll with a pen, "The king leads the people, and the world is one."

This is the first poem, and it is also a solution to the problem, and there are hidden waves in the bottom of the pen.

Chunqiu Fanlu is Dong Zhongshu's painstaking work, and its core idea is the theory of the interaction between heaven and man and the unity of the great.

For 2000 years of feudalism, the two factions of Confucianism and Legalism have been fighting back and forth. The views of the other party can basically be said to be your honey and the other's arsenic. If you agree, I firmly oppose it.

But only on the theory of great unification, there is an astonishing consensus.

In other words, regardless of reforms, the law remains the same, but the theory of great unification never changes.

This is the Six Kings Bi, the Four Seas One.

With this break-the-topic sentence, the whole article is like lifting the collar of a fur coat, pulling it up and then everything goes smoothly.

With one sentence to break the topic, the entire article below can be played around this statement. Zhang Yue continued to write, "The king leads the people, and the world is one."The six contracts are based on virtue, and Kyushu has a common agreement.The king was ordered to make the first month to rule the world, so that all things should be followed one by one as the beginning. '

Great unification, first of all, the king ruled the world alone, and then the six contracted virtues, and the nine states shared the law.

Human morality and law run through the four seas.

Confucianism and Legalism have diverged here. Confucianism emphasizes common virtues, and Legalism emphasizes common law, but both Confucianism and Legalism must be used in order to govern.

Afterwards, the king made rites and music... all laws and conquests were issued by the king... this is one of the world.

Zhang Yue wrote the first paragraph quickly, and the second paragraph began with the words "a husband and a king must not know the sky".

That's how the frame came out.

Although the problem solving is exciting enough, if you blindly ask for praises in the palace examination, it is easy to fail, which will cause the examiner to dislike it and make it difficult to enter the higher level.You must have your own opinions and opinions, but you must not show your sharpness and touch people's taboo.

The king leads all the people, and one person rules alone. Who will supervise?The lessons learned from Qin's demise cannot be ignored.

Zhang Yue continued to write that the king must observe the will of the sky, follow the will of the sky, embody the way of heaven and follow the way of humanity.

If Zhang Yue continues to write like this, he will copy the theory of "the feeling between heaven and man", which is so lacking in innovation.

Zhang Yue changed his style of writing and moved out of Mencius's "Heaven sees itself, the people see, and the sky listens to the people".

No matter how people perceive the way of heaven, it is still human beings who are cognizant, not the real way of heaven, so it finally falls into the hearts of the people.

Is the human heart the same as the heart of one person?No, it is the heart of all peoples.

With such a structure of the whole article, the king penetrates the heaven, the earth and the people, and must inherit the way of heaven.The way of heaven is the will of the people. The king needs to be aware of the will of the people from time to time. Do what the people like, and don’t do what the people don’t like.

Such an article combines Chunqiu Fanlu and Mencius' noble people, people-oriented, into one.

This is also the original intention of the letter I wrote to Wang Anshi.

My way is consistent.

Only when the text is in harmony with the ambition can we express our feelings directly.

Zhang Yue can be said to have a well-thought-out plan, and his brushstrokes are full of spirit, as if the strokes were not written on paper, like an old official carving words on bamboo slips with a knife, or a craftsman carving on a stone wall with a chisel hammer.

Since this article appeared in the world, why have the sages worked so hard, and why some people have devoted their whole lives to writing an article with all their blood.

In order to achieve, the text is to carry the Tao, not to be lost to the public for oneself, and to leave a legacy for future generations.

When Zhang Yue's final strokes were settled, he just left the pen and wrote a poem.

After Zhang Yue wrote, he realized that someone was standing beside him, when the other party came, and how long he stood beside him, but he didn't realize it at all.

Zhang Yue slightly lowered his head and saw the hem of the other party's bright yellow robe. He immediately shook his body, hurriedly got up from the seat, then avoided the seat and fell down by the desk, speechless for a while.

The other party didn't say anything, but bent down and removed the paperweight from the case, picked up the paper he had just written, and looked at it carefully.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel uneasy at this moment, wondering how the other party would evaluate his article.

At the end, the person said to the left and right: "A good handwriting."

There is no one word to comment on whether the test paper is good or not. Could it be that my paper can't meet the other party's wishes?
But Zhang Yue knew that the other party was famous all over the world for his handwriting, so he could praise himself for his good handwriting. What a high evaluation this is.

Zhang Yue saw that the people in purple robes beside him all said yes.

Zhang Yue said in his heart, these people should be slaughtered.

After speaking, the other party bent down again and put the test paper on his desk, pressed it again with a paperweight, and said, "Good test!"

"According to the order."

Zhang Yue waited for the other party to leave before getting up and sitting on the table again, looking at the test papers on the desk, his mood was stirred for a while.

Zhang Yue raised his head to look at the emperor, the emperor was a little thin, although he was at the age of knowing the fate, but he had a refined and elegant demeanor.

Accompanied by several purple-robed officials, he patrolled the examination room, and stopped by every examinee with a meticulous demeanor. During the period, he also talked with Han Qi and other ministers, which was very approachable.

Seeing this, Zhang Yue couldn't help throwing away his previous prejudices, saying that this is really a good official.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue turned his eyes back to the scroll, calmed down and continued to write. It was past noon and there were still two questions.

At this moment, the eunuchs in the palace came with food tables.

There are candidates at every table, pasta and side dishes, and a bowl of Qibao Leicha, which is really considerate.

Zhang Yue was also hungry, so he happened to take a break for a day or two.He put away the test paper, then took a sip of the steaming Qibao Leicha, and immediately felt refreshed.

(End of this chapter)