Taiping Inn

Ouyang Wen read a lot of books and was full of knowledge. He naturally knew that the words of the Neo-Confucian saint came from the famous "debate between kings and kings".

He had disagreed with what Lou Xinqing said, "The Confucian sect also regarded Mr. Qingping as half a disciple of the Confucian sect." Now he was about to look at him with admiration. No matter how Mr. Qingping acts, he does have real talents and knowledge. Unfortunately, what I learned was not orthodox Confucianism, and it was mixed with too many things from the Legalists, Mohists and even Buddhism and Taoism, so it was inevitable that it was arguably true.

However, Ouyang Wen still looked at this Mr. Qingping with admiration.

Li Xuandu continued, "The teacher of the Neo-Confucian saint is even more serious. He once said, "The Tao cannot be done when the Yuan saint dies, and the sub-sage saint dies, and the Tao cannot be passed on. If the Tao does not work, there will be no good governance in a hundred years; if the learning does not be passed on, there will be no true Confucianism in a thousand years. . 'These two people were equally to erase the orthodox for thousands of years. Taking this as a watershed, Neo-Confucianism began to emerge in the Confucian school. It was not until the birth of the sage of the dynasty of the mind and Neo-Confucianism were born. "

"When the saint of Xinxue was young, he was actually a disciple of Neo-Confucianism and had the idea of ​​"get the lord to do the way", but he almost died because he wrote a letter to impeach the inner minister of the dynasty. This was why the saint of Xinxuean came to the stone coffin later. The act of enlightenment. The saint said: "There is the way in the world, and sacrifice the way for one's life. If there is no way in the world, sacrifice the way for one's life. "The saint who learns the mind cannot give in like the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, but "get the way for the king" and cannot seek it. So the sage of Xinxue proposed the "Awareness of the people and practice the way". What is "Awareness of the people and practice the way"? It means to educate the people, let the people know the etiquette, and then "Practice the way" through the people, which can bypass the emperor."

Ouyang Wen's face changed drastically.

Then Li Xuandu said, "I had a deep conversation with the King of Qi, and the King of Qi also had a similar statement. The King of Qi believed that if the warehouse is solid, he knew etiquette, and if he had enough food and clothing, he knew honor and disgrace. If you want people to know etiquette, you want to be aware of the people. ', we must first make the warehouse full and have enough food and clothing, and let the people have enough food and eat enough, and do not have to spend all day working hard to make a living, so that we can read and read, and finally change the world and people's hearts from the bottom to the top."

Li Xuan smiled, "This is back again. How can I keep the warehouse in a solid state and have no worries about food and clothing? I still have to fall in love with the court, that is, "Get the king". It's good to know the people's way of doing things," "Get the king to do things." 'Well, it is impossible to avoid the people's living and working in peace. To make the people live and work in peace, the first thing is to quell the war and make the world peaceful. No longer let the world be self-confidence, like the Confucian school, if you want to make a rule, you can control it for thousands of years in the future. It's a fool's dream."

Ouyang Wen didn't know how to refute Li Xuandu for a moment, so he could only say, "Everyone is like a dragon, which is really a great ambition."

Li Xuandu said calmly: "Is there a dragon starved to death in the world? Before talking about everyone being like a dragon, it is more practical to solve the problem of starvation in the wild."

Ouyang Wen nodded and said, "Mr. Qingping said very well."

In fact, Ouyang Wen understood that what Li Xuandu said was nothing more than one meaning: "Getting the king to practice the way" is from top to bottom, while "knowing the people to practice the way" is from bottom to top. The two are very different. Although most of the Confucians are those who are interested in learning, they are still the one who "gets the king to do the way" in their bones. As for Li Xuandu, like the Earth Master, he did not fully recognize "get the king to practice the way" or "know the people to practice the way". Instead, they believed that this world was too conservative and needed to break some rules, but this kind of change was not " The change of Tao is a change of "art". These two people actually hope to change "the Tao" by using "art", which is really hard to understand. If these two people were not ordinary people, he would have ridicule them. Now.

Li Xuandu said, "The prince-consort can tell me what I said to the Queen Mother and Master Long, and see what they say."

Ouyang Wenying said, "Yes."

Seeing that Li Xuan did not refuse, Lou Xinqing thought there was a lot of room for this matter. She looked at Li Xuandu and hoped that he could give a positive answer.

After Li Xuandu said something, he sat upright on the chair, closing his eyes slightly, without any expression on his face.

Seeing that Li Xuan was in such a state of expression, Lou Xinqing knew that he was thinking and thought about it, so he sat there patiently and waited quietly.

The uneasy one was Xu Jiu. Although Li Xuan had already given him a brief explanation before, he did not expect that the court could offer such sincere conditions, which was indeed a big deal. He was worried that Li Xuan would not change his mind temporarily. .

Because of this, Xu Jiu also wanted to find some hints from the new master, but his eyes were always looking at Li Xuandu, but he had never found anything.

After all, waiting is limited. Seeing that Li Xuan kept sitting upright without saying a word, Lou Xinqing stood up: "Mr. Qingping..."

Li Xuandu finally opened his eyes.

Xu Jiu, Lou Xinqing, Xu Zaijun and Ouyang Wen all looked on Li Xuandu, waiting for his reply.

Li Xuandu said slowly, "I can't say that I promise you now, nor do I say that I won't agree to you. I'd better ask Miss Lou, the prince, and the prince-consort to return to the imperial capital to report first, and see what the empress dowager said. If the empress dowager is really sincere, then We will meet again."

A smile suddenly appeared on Lou Xinqing's face.

This is agreed. For people who live forever, gold and silver are common things, and their power is only temporary, but their reputations during and after thousands of years are an unavoidable temptation. Even Mr. Qingping cannot avoid the vulgarity. Compared with these, what is the point of dying a few people? Zhang Suqing is not his biological father, so he cannot be said to be a great revenge on killing his father, and Zhang Baiyue is not his wife, so he cannot be said to be a hatred for taking his wife. Li Xuandu's adoptive father was Li Daoxu, but the one who stood on the Empress Dowager's side was the father and son who were united. Now my wife is Miss Qin, and she will naturally forget her old ones when she has a new one.

Lou Xinqing stood up and said, "If it is true as Mr. Qingping said, maybe we will meet next time we will be in the Imperial Capital."

Xu Zaijun and Ouyang Wen also stood up.

"This is also unsure." Li Xuandu stood up and ordered Xu Jiu beside him, "Send a guest to me."

"Yes." Xu Jiu replied.

Lou Xinqing bowed respectfully and said, "Goodbye."

Li Xuan watched the group leave his study until he completely disappeared from sight before he sat back in his seat.

Not long after, Qin Su came to Li Xuandu's study and asked, "Are the guest gone?"

"Let's go." Li Xuandu opened the inkstone again and found that the ink in the inkstone was a little dry. He poured some water into it and prepared to re-grinse the ink.

This piece of ink was given by a famous Jiangnan scholar when he visited Li Xuandu. It has a great background. It is the "Qianqiu Guangyin" written by the master of ink making today. Although it is not as good as the "Purple Jade Guangyin" that entered the palace. , but it is almost the same. The back is made with the three words "Qianqiu Guang" in the negative document, while the front is made with the signature written in the positive document. Such a piece of ink on the market costs at least 5,000 taels of silver. Li Xuan was not willing to use such expensive ink, but then he thought that what he wrote now would also be passed down to future generations, so he naturally had to use ink well.

Qin Su walked to the desk and took the ink ingot from Li Xuandu's hand, "I'll do it."

Li Xuan was so happy that the beauty was grinding ink with her bare hands and asked, "Have you heard it?"

Qin Su lifted up her cuffs with one hand, revealing her white white wrists, and held the ink ingot in the other hand and replied, "I heard it. Are you slowing down the war?"

The two had a tacit understanding. Qin Su didn't think that Li Xuan would change his mind because of this, but thought that Li Xuan had other plans. Xu Jiu was worried that Li Xuan would change his decision temporarily, which Xu Jiu could never compare.

"That's right." Li Xuandu nodded, "As long as they are lucky, they will not be able to kill each other, and they will not be able to guard against us with all their might. Then we can slowly take advantage of it."

Qin Su smiled and said, "You are the only one who thinks a lot."

Li Xuandu said, "I can't blame me for this. They came to me on their own initiative. As long as they have fantasies, this will happen."

Speaking of this, Li Xuan sighed, "Su Su, you know why I didn't mention revenge today."

"Why?" Qin Su focused on grinding ink.

Li Xuandu said: "Because it is not difficult to take revenge, I have not made any moves yet, and I have not even gone to the imperial capital yet, so they will rehabilitate Zhang Xiang. If I go further, the Confucian Sect will regard Xie Zhi as an abandoned son. It's not an incredible thing. So I don't think revenge is a difficult thing, it's just a natural thing. On the contrary, the big thing we are doing now is the real difficult thing."

Qin Su let out a light "um".

Li Xuan remembered what Lou Xinqing said before and said softly: "How many years have the short and long rivers and lakes, who will work hard for whom in the end? Heroes and heroes know the current affairs, why bother to go through life and death and get rid of swords and guns? It is better to put aside the shackles of fame and fortune and escape. If you leave the hometown of right and wrong, the world is big in drunkenness, and the years are long when you laugh. No matter whether you succeed, king or defeat, don’t make a wedding dress for others. What are my worries about the separation and harmony of the world?”

Qin Su said: "This statement seems to make some sense."

"There are indeed some truths, but more of them are just fallacies." Li Xuandu snorted, "To sum up this passage, there are only eight words: people do not punish themselves for themselves, heaven and earth. It is truly a sentence that kills the heart, only knowing how to protect themselves, you only know how to protect yourself Only Fan Wenzheng's "If you are poor, you will be safe", but you forgot Fan Wenzheng's "If you are rich, you will benefit the world". He is extremely selfish but refuses to benefit others at all, and is not a fault for his true origin. He truly inherits the ancestor Yang Zhu's It’s not to be able to make a profit in the world.’”

Qin Su thought for a while, "That's right. In a peaceful and prosperous era, it makes sense to abandon fame and fortune, but now it's a mess and the people are in trouble, so it's a bit out of place to say these words."

Li Xuandu said, "I think this girl Lou has another sentence that she didn't say. I will make up for her: The mountains and rivers are broken and the days are long, and the world is peaceful and vague. I don't believe that the heaven gives me many opportunities and good fortunes, allowing me to have a realm of cultivation. To make me a rich and idle person who is in the world of wine. If I can really abandon the world and ignore it, watch so many people suffer indifferently, and be a carefree person, it would be that the sky is blind, and it would be I have lost my conscience."