[Three Kingdoms] Carnival

The key to governing the government is nothing more than seeking the virtuous, and the key to seeking the virtuous is nothing more than Taixue.Tai scholars, the source of sages, and the origin of education.Therefore, since Huang Chu changed Yuan and Emperor Wen first established Luoyang Palace, rebuilding Taixue has become an important matter in the court.According to historical records, "in the first year of Huangchu, Taixue began to be opened, the ashes of the past were swept away, the gaps in the old steles were repaired, and the staff records of doctors were prepared, and the courses were examined according to the Han Dynasty A and B."When Emperor Ming was caught, the warehouses were rich and there were no refugees in the wild. He began to overhaul Luoyang, built Taiji Hall in front, Zhaoyang Hall in the back, expanded Fanglin, repaired Pochi, raised Jingshan, published six steles "Dian Lun" in Taixue .In the middle of Zhengshi, the three-character stone scriptures of ancient, seal, and official were established, and the west of the lecture hall was established.At that time, the Taixue in the south of Luoyang City will have 240 rooms and 850 rooms.

However, if you take a closer look at it, today's Taixue is far from that of the later Han Dynasty.During the Taihe and Qinglong years, there were many incidents at home and abroad. In the south, Shu bandits repeatedly invaded Guanzhong, and in the north, Xianbei invaded border counties.After the war in Jian'an and the epidemic in the two states, more than half of the great Confucians of the previous generation were killed or injured. Today's doctors in the Imperial Academy are mostly people who have a rough understanding of the skin.In short, the heart of a doctor is not to educate people but to seek a job, the heart of a scholar is not to be in the holy way but to avoid military service, and both parties have no intention of studying, but the accidents have made Taixue the most stable place for many years.

However, it is too arbitrary to directly define Taixue as a place with its own name. After all, even in the current Zhengshi year, the lords of various famous families will still go to Taixue to study at the age of fifteen. .Of course, what they are looking for is not the six classics. They have learned these at home when they were seven or eight years old, and they were familiar with them by heart when they were 15 years old.The learning here is the strange writings and easy training from all directions, the priorities of the political situation in the DPRK and China, and the entangled relationship between the families.Most of these aristocratic sons with superior backgrounds will become extremely powerful ministers in the future. If they can get to know each other earlier and become close friends, they will be in the officialdom in the future, which will be a guarantee for themselves and the family.

After the lecture that day, the teacher left with the book, and the teenagers discussed in the hall.What I just talked about in class is "Yi" annotated by Zheng Xuan.Zheng Xuan has a good knowledge of the Five Classics, both modern and ancient, and he is similar to the annotations of the previous generation, but in the mouths of today's doctors, most of them have become the scriptures, and young people are not interested in this kind of cliché.When they got together, they talked about the most popular topic in Luoyang recently - the debate between speech and meaning.

This is not a new topic in Qingtan, and its popularity originated from a literary theory of the Xun brothers.Since the end of Jian'an, the Xun family was ordered to move the family to Jiangdong. After the two dynasties of Emperor Wen and Emperor Ming, they have been divided into two branches.The head clan of the Xun family moved back to Yingyin in the early and late years of Jing. It is still a famous family in the Ruying area, and even because of the special favor of the emperors of all dynasties, its status is far superior to other families.The other branch stayed in the south and continued to govern Jiangdong together with the Sun family and other prominent families in Jiangdong. Now it is Xun Can and Xun Fengqian, the son of Xun Lingjun, who are in charge.However, there are also rumors that the main reason why Daoxun's family moved back to the north was that Xuncan's older brothers were impatient with those small southern clans, and they wrote letters year after year to obtain the imperial edict.However, the imperial court was unwilling to give up the business for many years, so it put forward the conditions for branching, and Xun Can, who had always been at odds with his brothers, chose to stay and take the responsibility of governing Jiangdong.

Turn back to literary theory.One month ago, Xun Yu's sixth son, Xun Yi, came to the Taixue to discuss Confucianism. Before he had time to say anything, a servant entered the hall. Expressing his heart, he also instructed the servant to open it on the spot and read it aloud to everyone.Xun Wei discussed it with Confucianism, but Xun Can's letter was biased towards Daoism. When Xun Wei talked about "the relationship between words and ideas", he thought that "Zigong said that the master's words and nature and the way of heaven cannot be obtained and heard", so six Although the book exists, it solidifies the chaff ears of the saint.Xun Wei replied on the spot that "the sage erects an image to express his words" in "Yi" on the spot, but the servant turned to the second piece of paper slowly. , the so-called "full words" in "Yi Zhong" are words of inspiration, and you should not listen to them all.Xun Yi would naturally respond later, but no one cared.Afterwards, it was passed on from word to mouth, and within a few days it became known to everyone. Some people were curious about the gossip about the discord between the Xun brothers, but those who talked about it, such as Xia Houxuan, Zhuge Dan, Deng Yang, etc., were more interested in its content. , One after another wrote in classical Chinese and refuted each other.For a time, the "debate between speech and meaning" seemed to have become a hot topic in Luoyang City.

"The so-called 'Zihan's words benefit and life and benevolence' are common things, but life and benevolence are things that are difficult to describe and need to be understood with heart. From this point of view, 'words that do not fully express meaning' is the best." Xia Houyuan, son of Xiahouyuan And said first.

"But if the six books are the dross of the saints, why should the master study the Book of Songs, combine the Spring and Autumn Period, and read the Yiwen. Because it is still biased to say that 'the words are not enough'." At a young age, he has inherited the title of Marquis of Xingxiang Wei Guan, who was then Shang Shulang, rested his hand on his chin, hesitant about radical words.

"If you want me to say, 'words are not exhaustive' is the most important thing, but the essence is not to belittle the six classics, but to 'bodyless'." Wang Bi, the son of Wang Can who just woke up, yawned and said lazily , "Doesn't Uncle Ping have an article "Anonymous Theory", 'The husband is nameless, so he can be named by the name of the world', but here is just that the husband is not full, so he can be attached to the world's meaning." Of."

"This means that a gentleman is not a weapon." Pei Xiu, who was born in the famous Pei family in Hedong, finally came to a conclusion.He pushed Wang Bi, who was about to fall asleep again, "You and Shangshu He can walk together, do you know what that thing he brought with him last time?"

"Ah?" Wang Bi tilted his head and thought for a while, "Oh, that thing seems to be called Wushi San?"

"I heard my brother talk about this stuff, and he also heard from my father back then that this five stone powder seems to be a prescription found in the old Sikong mansion's waste book when he was repairing the Xudu mansion. It is said that it was left by the doctor Hua. The strange medicine that I took, nourishes essence and Qi, and is beneficial to the four bodies, Tai//Zu seems to have used it in his later years, only one pack is needed, and the medicine will cure the disease."

"If there is such a strange thing in the world, the Tai//Zu has passed on the prescription to the people, how could it have been sealed for so long." Wei Guan shook his head again and again, not believing what Xia Houhe said, "Abi, have you seen Wushi San?" Fang Zi?"

"Fang Zi has never seen it, but the last time I was at Uncle Ping's house, he gave me some wine to taste." Wang Bi said, "It's bitter and dry, it's so unpalatable, it's like eating sand. If it's for growing If I live to be a hundred years old, I have to eat this thing every day, I would rather die early."

"Come on, last time I took you to eat squid, you just moved your chopsticks for such a delicious thing. Is there anything you say is delicious in this world?"

"It's only been a while since I went out, why do you guys talk about food without saying anything?" At this moment, Zhong Yao's youngest son, Zhong Hui, walked in.

"Who said that there is no food that I think is delicious. Ah Hui," Wang Bi swept away his drowsiness, and looked at Zhong Hui with blinking eyes, "Did you bring the mung bean cake made by your aunt today?"

"No—" Seeing Wang Bi's face sinking for a second, Zhong Hui burst out laughing, "Bring it with you, mother is happy to know you like this, and reminds me not to forget it every time I go out. "

"Not only this, I also like to eat the red bean cake and lotus cake made by my aunt." After taking the food box from Zhong Hui, Wang Bi sat down on the table contentedly, and ate mung bean cakes on the bamboo slips.

"Abi, you eat alone again." Xia Houhe shouted dissatisfied, "And you, why don't you bring more."

Pei Xiu said quietly: "No matter how much you bring, can you beat Ah Bi?"

"Okay, okay, I brought something more interesting than food." As he spoke, Zhong Hui took out a box from his sleeve, opened the lid, and there were a few scrolls of bamboo slips inside, "I heard you say Five stone powder, look," he opened a volume and spread it out on the case, "there is a prescription on it."

"'Wu Shi San, also known as Wu Du San, is a product of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty. Zhang Qian opened the Western Regions and spread it to the west. There are many events in the later Han Dynasty, so the powder is left in the west. For powder, amethyst and white quartz should be used. , red stone fat, stalactite, stone sulfur'..."

"This is really eating sand, no, eating stones."

"What's next, what is the effect of the medicine?"

"Let me take a look.' There are eleven or five flavors on the right. Pound and sieve them into powder, and take seven square inches of wine.'Efficacy of medicine..." Xiahouhe looked down the next column, "Hey, the back is blacked out, no medicine is written effect."

"It wasn't blackened, it was burned by the fire." Zhong Hui explained, "Originally, my father kept many volumes, but a servant accidentally knocked over the candle a few years ago, and snatched these few volumes from the study. .”

"It was originally written by Uncle Zhong. No wonder this word... I heard people say the day before yesterday that a single word by Uncle Zhong is worth a thousand gold. That servant must have caused too much trouble."

"What are you talking about. No matter how much money is worth, will I still sell the handwriting left by my father?" Zhong Hui frowned, and then felt a little aggressive, and exhaled, "We planned to punish that man severely. The servant, after the fire, he went crazy, talking nonsense every day, let him go home."

"This Jane..." On the side, Wei Guan opened another volume, frowning more and more as he read, "Ah Hui, have you read the contents of other Janes?"

"...No." Zhong Hui hesitated for a moment and replied.

"Look here." Wei Guan spread the bamboo slips in front of everyone, "'In the 12th year of Jian'an, the three counties of Karasuma were conquered in the north. The table must not be prepared, and the public is advised.'”

Everyone obviously realized the strangeness, and they all raised their heads and looked at each other.A few seconds later, Pei Xiu stood up and ran quickly to the bookstore next to the lecture hall. After a while, she came back with a few bamboo slips, picked up one and spread it beside the one just now.

"'In the 12th year of Jian'an, Karasuma, the three prefectures, will be conquered in the north. All the generals will say, 'Er Yuan is dead, and Liu Biao is the worry.' Tai//Zu Zhibiao must not be ready, so he insists on going north.'"

"'June, Zhiyi, there will be heavy rain. Guo Jiayan said:'Soldiers are valuable and fast, and it is beneficial to keep the luggage. Light soldiers and roads are used to cover up their surprises.'"

"'June, Zhiyi, there will be heavy rain in the sky, and all the generals are thinking of retreating. Tai//The ancestor said: 'Soldiers are precious and fast. If you march slowly, the enemy will be prepared. You should leave heavy luggage, light soldiers and roads to go out , to hide it.'”

"It's not just about conquering Wuhuan." Pei Xiudao, "Look at the five years before the first battle of Guandu in Jian'an."

"'In the first month of spring in the fifth year, Dong Cheng and others conspired to vent, and they were all put to death. At that time, Liu Bei defected to Xu, and the generals marched eastward. All the generals said that it was impossible. Du Guojia persuaded the public, so he attacked and broke it.'"

"'In the first month of the spring of the fifth year, Dong Cheng and others plotted to take revenge, and they were all put to death. At that time, Liu Bei defected to Xu. 'Then attack the east and break it.'"

"In the end..."

After a long time, Xiahouhe took the lead in asking everyone's aspirations:

"Guo Jia, who is it?"

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, then shook their heads.

"I counted, and there are sixteen places in different places, as early as before Jian'an, and as late as the 24th year of Jian'an when Tai//Zu took Jingzhou." Wei Guan looked at the two Janes for a long time, "According to the current situation, this Guo Jia is from Yangzhai, Yingchuan, and he was a counselor at that time, and he was highly regarded."

"It shouldn't be." Xiahou said softly, "This year, His Majesty added Yuan clothes, and specially issued an edict to sacrifice three generations of famous ministers to Tai // Zu Miaoting. If this Guo Jia is really as outstanding as the merits written on it, Tai // Zu will respect him , how could it be impossible without him this time."

"Could it be so?" Pei Xiu thought for a while, then said in a speculative tone, "Ah Hui, you also know that Uncle Zhong always likes to write anecdotes, maybe the volumes in this box are all written by Uncle Yi." It is compiled by history and literature combined with folk gossip, which is not true."

"Axiu is right." Before Zhong Hui could reply, Xia Houhe nodded again and again, "Look at this, 'Chen Changwen was not punished for his crimes, and he sued Jia several times. What a serious matter the court complaint is, and it’s Uncle Chen’s father’s complaint from the court, who wouldn’t be scared to death, how could the Tai//Zu be "more and more serious"; and here, "Tai//Zu is very sad, mourning Crying and saying: "Sorrowful for filial piety, painful for filial piety, pity for filial piety", how could Tai//Zu cry like that to a counselor; the most important thing is that around here in the 12th year of Jian'an, I just wrote that Guo Jia died of illness Yu Wuhuan, in the following 15 years, he followed the mother//ancestor to conquer Jingzhou, and lived and died for a while..."

"Ah He, stop talking." Wei Guan tugged on La Xiahouhe's sleeve, "Are you going to get angry without seeing Ah Hui?"

"Eh..." Xia Houhe suddenly stopped talking, paused for a few seconds, and said awkwardly, "This, the essay on ghosts, absurdity is not a delicate writing, right?" Still calm, he approached him cautiously, and gently touched him with his arm, "Ah Hui, I didn't mean to say that there was something wrong with what uncle wrote. Don't be really angry at me, I—"

"What are you talking about?"

A voice suddenly came from outside the hall.The teenagers followed the prestige and saw that the person who came was Zhong Hui's elder brother Zhong Yu.It was only then that Xia Houhe discovered that it was not him, but Zhong Yu, who Zhong Hui had been looking at with a sullen face.

"Marquis of Dingling."

Several people stood up and saluted Zhong Yu politely. Du Zhonghui and Wang Bi sat where they were.

"You don't need to be too polite, I'm here to pick Ah Hui back home." Zhong Yu's eyes slowly swept over the crowd, and said gently, "By the way, I bought Feiyulou cakes from the south of the city when I came, you guys try it Have a taste."

"This……"

"I bought it specially for you to eat. I have asked the servant to send Ah Hui's portion home."

"Then we will be disrespectful."

After finishing speaking, Xia Houhe couldn't wait to open the food box and ate several pieces.Pei Xiu and Wei Guan hesitated for a while, and each took a piece, biting slowly.As for Wang Bi, he is obviously very picky about it. No matter how expensive the pastries of Feiyulou are, they are not as expensive as those in his hands.After eating the last mung bean cake, he lifted his robe and stood up, walking towards the outside of the hall.

"Ah Hui, thank you."

"You really don't want to taste a piece?" Xia Hou and Chao Wang Bi shouted.

"Don't taste it, it's unpalatable."

Xia Houhe paused for a moment, and looked at Zhong Yu apologetically on behalf of Wang Bi.The latter shook his head, still maintaining a gentle smile, as if he didn't care about Wang Bi's words.

"By the way, when I came here just now, I saw General Xiahouba. He is waiting for you to go to the martial arts field with him."

"My brother is here." Xia Houhe wiped the debris from the corner of his mouth, "Then I have to find him quickly, lest he punish me to practice sword again."

"Well, let's go."

"Marquis Dingling, I'll take my leave too." Pei Xiu and Wei Guan finally finished the piece of pastry they picked up, looked at each other, saluted Zhong Yu and left.For a while, only Zhong Hui and Zhong Yu were left in the hall, as well as half a box of unfinished pastries.

Zhong Yu picked up a piece of pastry and handed it to Zhong Hui: "Why, don't you want to try a piece?"

"Everyone is gone, why are you pretending to be a brother and friend?" Zhong Hui snorted softly, "If you want to eat, you can take it back and eat it yourself."

Zhong Yu smiled, not annoyed, and threw the pastry back into the food box: "You know, I don't eat the leftovers."

"What on earth are you here for?" Zhong Hui asked coldly, "Don't say anything to take me back home. According to your thoughts, I'm afraid I can't go back in my life."

"Not only you, but also your concubine's mother." Before Zhong Hui's fist hit, Zhong Yu had expected to grab it, raised his eyebrows provocatively, and threw Zhong Hui's hand aside, " You are still too impulsive. Make enemies everywhere, and you will suffer a lot in officialdom."

"What are you doing?!"

"It's not that I want to control you, but you are a member of the Zhong family. If you cause trouble and affect the family, you will be to blame for your death." Zhong Yu's voice became colder, "Listen, Luoyang City is now Looking at Taiping, in fact, there is an undercurrent, and everyone has their own ulterior motives. You will be out of office soon, and it will be good for you to be cautious in your words and deeds after entering the court, and show less sharpness."

"Come on." Zhong Hui gave him a blank look, "I think it's you who should be careful. You were a part of the memorial to ask the late emperor to restrain the pomp. Now those who were demoted back then have gained power one by one. Or else Before long, Cao Shuang probably will send you out of Luoyang."

"I know." Unexpectedly, Zhong Yu did not refute, he glanced at Zhong Hui lightly, "If I am in Luoyang, do I still have to worry about what trouble you will cause?"

Zhong Hui was stunned for a moment, and then heard Zhong Yu's indifferent voice: "You and I don't like each other for a day or two, it's not bad for a moment of quarrel. But no matter what, our surname is Zhong, and no one wants to humiliate each other." Father, you have humiliated the family. Based on this, can you listen to what I just said?"

"……understood."

"It's good to know. If one day, you become a burden to the Zhong family, I won't think about the brotherhood." After finishing speaking, Zhong Yu seemed to think of something, and sneered, "By the way, there is a difference between concubines and concubines. You and I are not brothers."

"you--"

"I know what you're going to say. Thanks to your mother, I can't be regarded as a serious son." Zhong Yu waved his hand, "Stop arguing, I should go." Turning around, he caught a glimpse of the bamboo slips spread out on the desk, " From now on, don’t hesitate to take out father’s things, what if you lose them.”

"Oh, you are jealous that my father only let me into his study."

Zhong Yu didn't bother to have this kind of childish quarrel, didn't answer, turned and left the school.

After Zhong Yu's back disappeared, Zhong Hui's face became even more gloomy.He looked at the food box and the crumbs on the desk, and then at the empty lecture hall. Thinking of how Xia Houhe looked happily looking for his brother just now, a sense of grievance suddenly surged in his heart, and he couldn't explain it clearly.

"Ah Hui?" When he lowered his head to pack the bamboo slips, Wei Guan's voice came from outside the hall.He walked into the hall, "I knew you hadn't left yet."

"you are not--"

"It's fake, so is Axiu. It's just that a servant came from his house halfway, so I came back to find you alone." Wei Guan squatted down and helped Zhonghui clean up, "Don't be sad. Look at Axiu A few years ago, his aunt treated his mother very badly. Thanks to his current fame, his mother is better. Your aunt Jia is much more gentle than the Pei family. In the future, you will be an official and enter the court , an extremely human minister, who dares to underestimate you and your mother. After all, there is more or less such a thing in any big family, just look at it and get used to it."

"I'm not sad." Zhong Hui said firmly, "I'm just thinking about this bamboo slip."

Wei Guan blinked, pretending not to see the slightly red eye sockets of the young man: "You still feel something is wrong?"

"Father is indeed interested in anecdotes, but most of them are records, and he rarely writes his own stories." If he said it was to change the subject at the beginning, then when he said this sentence, Zhong Hui suddenly realized that there seemed to be something really wrong. It's too good, "Boyu, how about this, I copied Jian'an 12 years ago, you copied Jian'an 12 years later, we compared the different places and put them together to make a copy, and when we have time in the future, we will make a good copy. Study it."

"You are, what did you find?"

"No, I just feel that if we dig deeper, there may be some unexpected results." Zhong Hui said, "It's almost sunset, let's copy faster together."

Seeing that Zhong Hui didn't feel sad about what happened just now, Wei Guan was also happy to see the result: "Okay."

It was indeed much faster for the two of them to copy.Zhong will dry the two silk slips, stack them together and put them in his sleeves.Looking at the bamboo slips on the table, he picked them up and was about to put them back into the box when he suddenly had a plan.

"Boyu, even if there are a few volumes missing from the slips in this bookstore, no one will notice."

"These here are copied by the gentlemen according to the historical records of Lantai. Even if they are lost, they will probably go to other bookstores to copy a copy. They should not look for them with much fanfare."

"That's good."

As he said that, he changed the direction of his outstretched hand, picked up the volumes that Pei Xiu carried, and put them in the box.

"Why is this?" Wei Guan asked curiously.

Zhong Hui closed the box tightly, and put the remaining bamboo slips into his book case: "I don't know for the time being... but I always feel that one day, I will definitely be grateful for what I did today."

"Okay, let's go home then. I also want to eat mung bean cakes made by my aunt."

"Then why didn't you ask Ah Bi for it just now?"

"I really can't beat him."

This is the third year of AD 240, the fourth year of Zhengshi of Cao Wei Dynasty, a fragment of Luoyang city. It was one year before Zhong Yu lost Cao Shuangyi and was demoted to be the prefect of Wei County. Will let Wei Guan go because of soft-heartedness, leading to the failure of raising troops and Jiang Wei's death in Chengdu, there are still 22 years left.At this time, Zhong Hui, who was only 19 years old, didn't know yet, because of his move, a ripple appeared on the calm lake of history.And the more rapid and violent waves will have to wait until 21 years later, when Mianzhu Pass, thousands of miles away, is breached by Deng Ai.