I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

outside the pavilion.

Old General Xue had been praising Chu Wei and Chang Yuyan for their youth and promise, while Xue Yuan stood aside, looking at the people in the pavilion with his hands behind his back.

Chang Yuyan suddenly smiled and said, "Jiuyao, have you read the article written by the Holy One?"

Xue Yuan lazily said: "Look."

"This method is really indescribable," Chang Yuyan sighed. "A small thing can be used to read sentences. If it benefits the people of the world, where will there be people who can't read?"

Xue Yuan didn't speak.Chang Yuyan stepped forward to his side, covered his hands and said in a low voice, "Jiuyao, really Mrs. Li came up with this idea?"

Xue Yuan raised his eyelids and gave him a look, "What do you want to say."

"This method is good, but it doesn't attract people's liking," Chang Yu said, "Not to mention anything else, just talk about the words of the sages, and the words of the sages can be translated into different meanings by different sentences. To put it harshly, this It is a cover to satisfy one's selfish desires. The gentlemen of my family have used the words of the saints to make profits for themselves. Since ancient times, how much have the words of the saints been misinterpreted? No one knows whether this is right or wrong, and both sides have their own opinions If you really want to use this method, which school of sentences should you follow? What's more, it's not just the words of sages. There are many sages and sages in the world. If this method is used in every book, people of all ethnic groups and sects will not Are you going to hate him so much?"

Xue Yuan's eyes flashed, "What if Mrs. Li really thought of this?"

Chang Yuyan laughed, gloating, "That's really a great Confucian who cares about the world today, I can't compare, no matter how many poems I have written, I can't compare."

"You didn't write poems for the sake of the world, but to anger your father and clansmen, for fame and fortune," Xue Yuan said, "I see that you have read so many words of sages, and you have fed them all to dogs."

"This is because the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked," Chang Yu said calmly, "The gentleman who taught me only talked about these words, but never took them into his heart. The officials in the court were even more crooked. In a roundabout way, they only need to change a word at will and change the way of reading a sentence, and they will stand on the ground of righteousness and say whatever they want. No one is better than anyone in the muddy water. Do you think this thing is easy to spread? ? I’m afraid that if it gets out, it will offend the public.”

Xue Yuan smiled and said, "That's why the Holy One called you and Master Chu here."

Chang Yuyan was startled.

For things that are beneficial to poor people but not beneficial to the upper class, it is natural to use the upper class to fight the upper class, and the saints need to use their strength to fight, and the poor people and the people only need to wave their flags behind their backs.

Chu Wei and Chang Yuyan were born in a family of officials and officials, and they were talented and famous. They were unswerving royalists. Xue Yuan felt it was a pity that they did not show up.

Xue Yuan glanced at him with a smile, stepped forward and walked aside, grabbed a servant of the Li family, and asked about the youngest son of the Li family.

Chang Yuyan was stunned for a long time before slowly following him, "The youngest son of the Li family, named Li Huan, I do know him."

The little servant tremblingly said: "Yes, this lord is right."

Xue Yuan let go of the servant and looked towards the gazebo.The Holy Majesty had finished speaking with Li Bao, the old man looked haggard and was helped down by the servants, the collar of his shirt was already wet with sweat.

Gu Yuanbai glanced down in the pavilion, and happened to meet his eyes.The corners of her lips curled slightly, and she turned to the other person, "Come and sit by my side."

Several people came forward, Xue Yuan was obviously the farthest, but he took three steps at a time, quickly brushed past everyone and jumped up the steps, sat beside the Holy One, and asked in a low voice, "Are you tired?"

Gu Yuanbai said: "Not bad."

Xue Yuan thought for a while, "Your Majesty recognizes Li Huan, the youngest son of the Li family?"

Gu Yuanbai snorted coldly, "You have a face but no brains, you're just an idiot."

The Holy Majesty rarely speaks so harshly, even Xue Lin, that mindless thing, Gu Yuanbai is still very personable after being frightened by wolves.Xue Yuan changed the subject as if nothing had happened, but he cared more in his heart.

Gu Yuanbai looked at the two young talents, "You two gentlemen, the matter of punctuation marks is of great importance. It is about the safety of the Grand Tutor, so don't spread the word about it now."

Chang Yuyan and Chu Wei both nodded.

The Holy Majesty ordered a few more things, and the two memorized them one by one. After stepping back, Chu Wei was suddenly blessed. When he got out of the pavilion, he looked back, but between the hidden fences, he saw Xue Yuan's hand on the Holy Majesty's back.

The five fingers are separated, strong and powerful, and placed intimately between the waist of the Holy One.

Chu Wei looked at this for a long time, and there was some confusion between the handsome brows. When Chang Yuyan wanted to look back together in doubt, Chu Wei suddenly came back to his senses, and walked forward quickly as if avoiding, "Brother Chang, We should go."

Chang Yuyan didn't notice anything and said, "Okay."

Five days later, at the morning court, the ministers finished their discussions, but the Holy Majesty did not leave the morning court, but spoke the words of the saint with emotion.

"I feel the benevolence of the sage Kong," said the sage, "every sentence of the sage Kong is handed down from generation to generation. Everyone admires me, Daheng has a large number of talents, self-restraint and ritual, the role of the sage's words in it cannot be ignored .”

The Confucian masters in the court couldn't help showing a look of self-effacing.

The voice of the sage changed, "I often feel that the people in the world can't learn the words of the sage, and my grand tutor also has this worry like me. Li Bao is a great scholar in the world, and he has studied the principles of the sage for decades. He is old now, but in order to let the people of the world listen to the words of the sage and let the scholars of the world learn the knowledge of the sage, he came up with a good way."

"Come here," the sage said, "I invite my Grand Tutor to come to court."

Baiguan didn't expect such a scene, they turned their heads and looked back, with surprised expressions.

The gray-haired Emperor Li Bao walked into the hall step by step.

He is old, and his body is also old.If you still had some ambition when you were young, it has long been extinguished by the weakened life.But even Li Bao couldn't escape the literati's pursuit of leaving his name in history.

Long live in the annals of history, highly praised by future generations.

With death and family prosperity behind him, every word of the Holy Majesty pierced Li Bao's heart.

Li Bao leaned on a cane, trembling every step he took.His eyes flicked across the bright red palace carpet under his feet. The magnificent palace was still as majestic and tall as before. On the gold pillars were dragons and phoenixes, Pan Teng, and twelve coats of arms.

He slowly looked at the officials around him.

They were all wearing official robes, and they were all able to walk.Dressed in a dark official robe, there is a subdued majesty in the silence.

These are the people the sage asked Li Bao to deal with.

Many of them had been to Li Bao's residence and asked Li Bao to correct his articles. Many of these people were increasingly famous talents, great Confucian scholars, and representatives of various factions.

Li Bao withdrew his eyes from them and finally walked to the front of the main hall. He threw away his crutches and knelt tremblingly.

"My minister, Li Bao, pays homage to the Holy Majesty!"

"Get up," Gu Yuanbai said, "Come here, help the Grand Tutor up."

After being supported by the eunuch to stand up, Li Bao held up a thick stack of papers in his hands, "My lord, this is what I want to offer!"

The eunuch stepped forward to take it, Gu Yuanbai randomly took out one and looked at it, twitched the corner of his mouth, looked at Li Bao with more gentle eyes, turned his head to the eunuch and said: "Give these to the hands of the ministers."

Five eunuchs filed out from the side, and immediately called the papers into the hands of the ministers.The officials were either puzzled or curious, and after looking down, their hearts shrank, and they couldn't believe it.

Li Bao took a few breaths, and under the gaze of the Holy Majesty, he explained the functions of these punctuation marks one by one.

Gu Yuanbai nodded from time to time, expressing his approval and appreciation.

What was written on the paper was not the "Cao Hui Controversy" written by Gu Yuanbai that day, but the two paragraphs of "Warring States Policy" written by Li Bao himself with punctuation.

There are very few two paragraphs, although they are concise, they have already explained everything.

After Li Bao finished explaining, the entire hall was so quiet that there was still a lingering sound.

Someone was so shocked that he said, "How can this work?!"

"Why can't this be used?" The Holy One looked at him lightly, "I think Li Qing's words are good, and the method is also good. With this method, the people of the world can no longer spend energy and time learning sentence reading, which is beneficial to all people. , isn’t it exactly what the sage Confucius said about teaching without discrimination?”

The interrogator was speechless.

Li Bao's lips trembled, "What the Holy Majesty said is absolutely true! This method, this method...I implore the Holy Majesty to use this method for sentence reading, so as to popularize all people!"

As soon as this remark came out, all officials were in an uproar.

One by one, the officials stood up passionately and loudly said no to the Holy Father, but if they were asked why they couldn't, they couldn't say anything else.Some poor officials in the imperial court had troubled eyes, but before they stood up, some ministers who had talked with the Holy One a few days ago stood up resolutely.

The whole court was as noisy as a vegetable market.

Gu Yuanbai looked at the officials below who didn't want the slightest image. Some of them even rolled up their sleeves and their faces were flushed. The etiquette that Confucius said was all forgotten. Take a look, this is full of benevolence and righteousness An official of Li Zhixin.

What they value is not the saint at all, but the fame and fortune represented behind the saint.

The world is full of goodwill, and the world is all good.

There are not no pure Confucian scholars, but those who have been ups and downs in the officialdom rarely maintain their original aspirations.

The Holy Majesty propped up the dragon chair and stood up slowly, the eunuch beside him shouted: "Quiet—"

The officials seemed to realize that this was above the main hall, they shut their mouths suddenly, their faces pale.

Gu Yuanbai came down the steps step by step, pointing at the chaotic group of officials, with faint anger in his calm, "Look at you! You have read so many sage books in vain, look at what you are like now! What a difference Poppy!"

"What are you rolling up your sleeves for? Are you going to beat me to death in front of me!" Gu Yuanbai's face finally lost his composure, and anger was burning in his brows and eyes, "Absurd! Absurd!"

The faces of the officials who were scolded by His Majesty pointed at their noses turned pale, and then turned red with shame.

"You are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and you are full of serving the country and the people. I find it ridiculous when I see you like this," Gu Yuanbai snorted heavily, his chest still heaving violently, "If you can't say it, then it's not good to say it." Where, I don't think you think it's bad, it's your own selfish desires, looking at the punctuation marks brought by the Taifu, what you see in your eyes is not the words of a saint, not the people of the world, but the power you only want to see' The word for 'quan' and the word for 'li' for fame and fortune!"

Baiguan's breathing was stagnant, and he knelt on the ground in a hurry, with more than a dozen muffled sounds, cold sweat drenched his back, and panicked: "I dare not wait!"

"Don't you dare?" Gu Yuanbai looked at them gloomyly, "Then tell me. Where are Huang Qing, Zhou Qing, Shang Shu? Where is Jiu Qing? Stand up for me and tell me what is wrong with Tai Tuo's method , where it can’t be used!”

The minister was silent.

Gu Yuanbai said: "Tell me?"

Hubu Shangshu was the first to step forward, "I don't think there is anything wrong with it, it can be used, of course it can be used."