Feudal scholar-bureaucrats reborn: marrying a husband and marrying a virtuous

The situation of the merchant has nothing to do with Lin Fangxu for the time being, but Shang Zhongyan's way of being an official is still worth learning.

At the end of September, after bidding farewell to Jiang Daoyu and his party, the business resumed its usual life except for a few extra young people.

Of course, a group of juniors stay in the business, and the business people can't just ignore it and let them fish and pick flowers by themselves, right?

Shang Zhongyan adhered to the principle that one sheep is herded, and a flock of sheep is also herded, and the principle of treating everyone equally, so he simply taught everyone a unified class.

Jiang Shiwu and Shang Yu didn't take the imperial examination, so of course they couldn't talk about the Four Books and Five Classics every day, so Shang Zhongyan talked about what he was best at.

What is Shang Zhongyan good at?To ask this, why not ask him what is different from young people?

He has lived longer than young people, he has traveled farther than young people, and he has experienced more things than young people, including Lin Fangxu, a guy who is at odds with his body and mind.

Every three days, Shang Zhongyan told the nine juniors something that he had experienced or experienced by others, which was regarded as a class for them. After the lecture, he was asked to go back and write about his impressions.

Lin Fangxu, Xu Zhongkang, and Shang Tan will also arrange a few more contemporary questions individually.

Those who want to take part in the examination, listen to the same story, can't do the same after-school homework as others. No, Shang Zhongyan, as a Jinshi of the former dynasty, is still able to comment on the current imperial examination articles with ease.

Jiang Shiwu and Jiang Shiyun, as typical representatives who have no choice but to be good at writing, should think that their grandfather's request to write articles is simply heartless and unreasonable.

But who told the Beijing camp that there are too many literary exams, no matter how ruthless and unreasonable they are to make trouble, for the sake of dreams, I have to endure writing.

However, maybe my grandfather still felt sorry for them, and told a story on the battlefield in the first class.

It is said that at the time of the Ten Kingdoms War, Zhao State and Hu State were adjacent, Hu State was weak, and Zhao State was powerful.

Zhao Guo wanted to annex Hu Guo, and found an unwarranted reason to launch a war.

Zhao Guo's army is strong, his horses are strong, and his supplies are abundant. Naturally, he is invincible, but when he hit the capital of Hu State, he couldn't attack for a long time.

The people of the state of Hu took advantage of the advantages of the city and took advantage of the momentum of breaking the boat, causing Zhao's army to suffer a lot of losses in the siege.

Zhao Guo's vanguard general Hong Qi may have been forced to do so in the end, or he may be eager to make contributions.

When attacking the city again, Hong Qi ordered people to drive a large number of Hu people forward with knives and guns, and finally attacked by stepping on the wall of Hu people's corpses.

After the Hu State was destroyed, Hong Qi was the hero who took the capital of the Hu State, and later served as the commander of the Jingwei.

Five years later, there was a censor who was dismissed from office because he drove ordinary people to death when he attacked the city.

After Shang Zhongyan finished speaking slowly, he glanced at several people and continued: "When Hong Qi was dismissed at that time, someone explained to him that the people who died at that time were all Hu people, and they were the people of the enemy country, and they were not good people. The contribution of General Hong was obliterated. Some people also said that now that the entire Hu country is named Zhao, how can there be any enemy people? If you killed the relatives of our Zhao people’s family, isn’t that considered cruelty to good people?”

After Shang Zhongyan finished speaking, he saw several people represented by Jiang Shiyun eager to speak, so he asked by name, "Xiaoyun, do you think Hong Qi should be dismissed from office?"

Jiang Shiyun stood up without hesitation and said: "No, it's a fact that he took down the capital of the Hu State, and he can't be a hero just because of an improper strategy. This is too chilling."

After he finished speaking, Jiang Shiwu nodded in agreement.

Shang Tan waited for him to finish speaking, stood up on his own initiative, and said respectfully: "Grandfather, grandson has a different opinion."

Shang Zhongyan also wanted to hear his opinion, so he encouraged: "Then tell me."

Shang Tan said solemnly: "The war between countries is decided by those in power. The people are so innocent, but they have to suffer because of it. Sun'er feels that General Hong has indeed committed a crime of disregarding human life and should be dismissed."

After Jiang Shiwu heard this, he couldn't help saying loudly: "There is no one who survives a war! Besides, he is just obeying the emperor's orders."

Seeing that Shang Tan was about to retort, Shang Zhongyan stopped him and said, "Okay, I said before that I will give you homework. Today's homework is, do you think Hong Qi should be dismissed from office? It doesn't matter if you think it should be." , Shouldn’t be okay, write down your reasons clearly, and talk about it in two days.”

After Shang Zhongyan gave Shang Tan and the other two essay questions, he sent them to practice calligraphy and write essays by themselves.

When the young people left together, the eight-year-old Shang Yu pulled his elder brother Shang Tan by the sleeve and asked worriedly, "Brother, do you think I should or shouldn't?"

Shang Tan scratched his sister's nose and said with a smile: "How does elder brother know whether you think you should or not? Don't worry, grandpa didn't come out to test you. You should learn the "Thousand Characters" taught by your mother first."

Chen Kai was listening to the conversation between the siblings, and wanted to ask Shang Tan, which one should he choose?

It's a pity that I'm too embarrassed to ask, and Shang Tan couldn't hear his heartfelt thoughts. He asked Lin Fangxu and Xu Zhongkang at this time: "What are Dongsheng and Zijian's views?"

Xu Zhongkang said with a smile: "I, like Brother Xiansi, also think that he should be dismissed."

After Jiang Shiwu heard it, he frowned and said, "Huh..., I knew that you must be in the same group!"

Lin Fangxu joked: "I haven't even said it yet, why does Second Brother Jiang think that I'm also with the two of them?"

Jiang Shiyun clasped his hands, and said with a drawn-out smile, "Huh...the scholars don't hold each other anymore? It's impossible for Xie Yuanlang to be on our side, right?"

Lin Fangxu also smiled and said, "Why not?"

Shang Tan and Xu Zhongkang were also quite surprised, and Xu Zhongkang couldn't help asking: "Dong Sheng thinks it's wrong? Brother Wei is very curious about the reason why Dong Sheng chose this way? Can you tell Brother Wei first?"

Lin Fangxu didn't want to satisfy him, and said: "I heard that the lords of the court often quote scriptures and start debates because of their different views on a political matter. Why don't we learn from the lords when the time comes, and discuss the topic presented by the master this time?" debate?"

They were all young people, who didn't have the heart to be competitive, and Shang and Tan saw that he had sent a battle invitation, so there was no reason for him not to accept it.

"Great, great, that's a good idea!" Xu Zhongkang clapped his hands.

"Yes, you can invite your grandfather to be a witness at that time. I want to see what Dongsheng has different opinions, and I can argue with one point." Shang Tan echoed.

After listening to Shang Tan's speech, Jiang Shiwu quit, and said, "What's the point of arguing, Xiaoyun and I are also in the same group as Brother Lin, okay?"

Shang Lun listened for a long time, and couldn't help but interjected: "That's not fair...!, there are three people on your side, brother, shall I stand on your side?"

Shang Tan didn't accept his kindness, instead he reprimanded softly: "You are already thirteen, and you have read sage books for two years, so you can't follow others' advice."

Shang Lun blushed and said, "But I just feel that both are right and neither is right. I don't know how to choose?"

After hearing what he said, Chen Kai also breathed a sigh of relief, and someone finally asked.

Perhaps it was because Chen Kai's expression was too obvious, Shang Tan glanced at him, and said: "Think about the story my grandfather told, and make a choice based on your own judgment. If you really can't choose, even if you don't choose, you can't just go along with it blindly." others."

When they were talking, Shang Wanjun listened quietly, she actually didn't know how to choose.

But it doesn't matter, she doesn't need to ask, she knows that grandfather's question is for people who will enter the officialdom in the future, even if she can't answer it well, it doesn't matter if she can't answer it.

She just thinks that Jiang Shiyun is really spoiled by his family and can't tell what is the priority. Does a brother follow a group of men and join in blindly? Does he seem special?

Thinking of Jiang Shiyun's ignorance, he glanced at Chen Kai again.

A good family background is a good fate, no matter how willful you are, you will be the head of the Bo family in the future.

Unlike myself, my grandfather obviously had such a good opportunity, but he resigned from office and returned to his hometown, and restricted his father everywhere, so that his father is now just a worker of the Ministry of Industry.

When Shang Wanjun thought of her mother leaving, she told herself: "Ninny, if you feel uncomfortable staying here, just come back, it's all mother's fault, even if you are so tired, you have to look at others."

In the end, with a sad face and tears in his eyes, he became Shang Wanjun, the comforted person, the one who comforted her.

Perhaps, at the beginning, my father loved his mother's weakness and docile so much that he wanted to marry his mother despite his grandfather's opposition.

But the mother's weakness and insensitivity to the world really made Shang Wanjun, as a daughter, feel powerless and tired from the beginning when she was a little sensible.

She was already fifteen at the beginning of the year, and she will be married next year, but her marriage has not yet been settled. Apart from being worried, her mother seems to be unable to think of a way out.

The grandfather obviously chose his cousin as the heir, completely excluding father, the eldest son, which made others think of his father and himself as a father's daughter.

The two elder brothers in the family have followed their mother's temper, and they can't take care of things. Everything is taken care of by the sister-in-law, and the two sister-in-laws only care about their own small family.

All of these made Shang Wanjun feel helpless about her future, so she had to stay in Hangzhou alone, hoping to get some help from her grandfather.

The others naturally didn't know her plan, and they were reading history books and sages' articles, trying to figure out how to refute each other the day after tomorrow.

After Jiang Shiwu wrote the word "shouldn't" on the paper, he didn't know how to write. He scratched his head and ears, and leaned on his chin, thinking that after the ink in the inkstone was dry, there were still only these two words.

Jiang Shiyun, who was sitting next to him, was writing quickly, and a pile of free manuscripts was thrown beside him. Jiang Shiwu leaned over and asked, "Xiaoyun, how do you think brother Lin's writing is doing, why don't we go and have a look?"

Jiang Shiyun squinted at him and said, "No...! Second brother, don't even think about copying. You won't be able to copy the Beijing Camp Exam. What will you do then?"

Jiang Shiwu wailed, lying on the table like a big bear, and said: "Or I won't write, and then you and Brother Lin will argue with my cousin and the others. If you really argue If you don't win, I'll go up and beat them up...!"

Jiang Shiyun crumpled the manuscript in his hand, threw it on his head viciously, gave him a warning look, and began to meditate again, planning to rewrite it.