Chapter 326: Inner Saint and Outer King
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It is generally related to the current affairs of the time, and it is related to military affairs.
The first question, using both rigidity and softness, asks about the national policy, which is to let the candidates discuss the way of governing the country.
As for the second way, Prime Minister Pei Duxuan should recruit talents and staff officers from all over the world to invite Yu to meet with guests in private, and ask about the virtuous.
Lin Yanchao thought in his mind, the first question is more general, but there will be less room for play.
As for the second question, it can be detailed, but there is more room for play.
Such a general question seems to be easy to answer, but in reality it is difficult.
Lin Yanchao suddenly had a feeling of not knowing where to start, he was grinding ink while brewing ideas, and several times he felt that it was inappropriate, so he put down the pen again. At this time, the candidates on the left and right were already writing with their pens, but there were few people in the hall who were thinking about it like Lin Yanchao and didn't write.
Oh no! I'm actually Kavin.
Lin Yanchao couldn't help but be depressed, in the past, he was full of literary thoughts, but this time he was Kaven in the palace test. Lin Yanchao put down his pen and looked at the test paper, trying to figure it out, but he became more and more irritable.
Seeing this, Lin Yanchao knew that he could not continue like this, otherwise his mentality would collapse immediately.
So Lin Yanchao got up and walked to the tea room outside the hall and fetched a pot of tea.
On the way out of the hall, he was followed by the deacon, but Lin Yanchao's mind was on the topic, and he didn't care about it back and forth.
Back in the hall, Lin Yanchao was still puzzled, and he didn't have any ideas at all. There are several options, but it doesn't work that way. Such a volume is mediocre and not a masterpiece. If you want to win the top article, it must be like the theory of cheating, etc., and the article will come out to the point of 'the pen falls into a storm, and the strategy becomes a crying ghost and god'.
Write an article though. The difficulty is also here, when you have nothing to do, you can write quickly, but when you want to write how well you want to write, you often add invisible shackles to make it impossible for you to play.
Lin Yanchao frowned and thought about how to put pen to paper. I saw the palace cake wrapped on the side, and then took the legendary red silk cake, broke it on the table, and then took a handful of tea to eat.
Well, that's pretty good!
Lin Yanchao couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth, and continued to eat with the cake dipped in tea.
Shen Shixing was inspecting the examination room with his hands in charge, and he couldn't help but smile when he saw this scene.
After eating a bag of cakes, Lin Yanchao still didn't start writing, he thought to himself at the moment. After taking so many eight-share policy questions, I have already counted them in my heart, and if I ask about the policy of governing the country, if I write it plainly and don't figure out the intention, it must be hanging, but the candidates present are all thinking about the intention and writing the article. If you're constrained by too many rules, it's hard to write well.
Lin Yanchao knows all this. But knowing this, I couldn't write a single pen.
Seeing that the people around him were all working hard to write, and they looked radiant, Lin Yanchao was also in his heart at the moment, no matter what he was, just write directly. That's going to make him the last few places.
But when Lin Yanchao wanted to write like this, he was still a little unwilling in his heart.
If I think about it again, maybe I will think of something else.
So Lin Yanchao's pen was put down again, rubbing his eyebrows and temples, and holding his chest with both hands. I simply closed my eyes and recuperated.
At this time, all the tributes in the palace were flying in with their pens, but Lin Yanchao was the only one who had not started writing, and the time passed minute by minute.
"Elder Shen Ge, why didn't this tribute Shi write?" Yan Qing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, asked Shen Shixing.
Shen Shixing smiled and said, "Maybe there is no good plan!" Do you know who he is? ā
"Who?"
"It's Huiyuan Lin Yanchao!"
Yan Qing was surprised when he heard this: "It turned out to be him." ā
Then Yan Qing looked at Lin Yanchao a few more times, and then smiled at Shen Shixing and said, "Maybe there are other considerations!" ā
By noon, many of the quick-witted tribute students had already finished writing the first article, and the rest had also written most of it, picking up food to satisfy their hunger in the temple.
And Lin Yanchao still didn't move, just sat quietly.
Gu Xiancheng and the other scholars occasionally raised their heads and glanced at Lin Yanchao, but they couldn't help but wonder when they saw that he didn't lift a pen.
At the moment when the afternoon sun penetrated into the hall, Lin Yanchao's eyes opened, and he already had an idea in his mind, so he immediately started writing and wrote quickly.
If you use both rigidity and softness, then sublimation to the way of governing the country can be said by the inner saint and the outer king.
Rou is the heart of the king's education, Ze is the meaning of the people, and the king is the king's way, and the king transforms the world.
Lin Yanchao used this sentence to use both rigidity and softness, and led it to the inner saint and outer king, otherwise it would be off-topic.
Generally speaking, what is the inner sage, the inner is the inside, itself, and the self is in line with the way of the sage, and the outer king is the outside, and the king uses the royal road externally.
The inner saint and the outer king are all said together with the eight entries on the university.
The eight items on the university are self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country and leveling the world.
Then self-cultivation Qi family is the inner saint, and governing the country and the world is the outer king.
To put it simply, the inside is the body, and the outside is for use.
However, Confucianism generally attaches importance to the inner sage, and despises the outer king, thinking that it can conform to the way of the sage, so the royal road to the outside world will be a matter of course.
This is also what Confucius said, for the sake of politics and virtue, such as Beichen, where the stars arch up.
Therefore, the Confucian scholars of the Song and Ming dynasties all emphasized virtue and neglected merit.
Although the inner saint is suitable for the outer king, he is not the inner saint first and then the outer king, nor is he the outer king but the inner saint. Writing this, Lin Yanchao couldn't help but stop with the tip of his pen, this sentence can be described as earth-shattering.
But at the time, it couldn't be wrong.
Zhang Juzheng is practicing the royal road externally, but is he holy inside? No.
Lin Yanchao admits that he is a person who can 'govern the country and level the world', but he does not have 'self-cultivation, Qi family'.
However, the views of most scholars accuse Zhang Juzheng of not having an inner saint (rejecting Ding Wei), and doubt whether he can truly implement the royal road externally, which is not right.
Writing this, Lin Yanchao added another sentence, saints are not all kings, but kings must be saints.
Lin Yanchao knew that these sentences were written down, if Zhang Juzheng saw it, he would be greatly appreciated, so as to realize Lin Yanchao's meaning, there are many people with high virtue in history, but none of them can apply the royal road to the people in the world, on the contrary, they can implement the royal road in the world, so that the people are all benefited, this is the real saint, just and soft together, so what is there to worry about the lack of personal virtue?
After writing this article, Lin Yanchao also knew that his article was a sword that went off the rails, which was contrary to the meaning of the traditional Confucian inner and outer kings, and it could not be regarded as an upright, mediocre and peaceful article.
But since the palace test does not stop, then there is nothing to worry about.
If you don't take the first class for such an article, you will go to the top three, and the way of righteousness with grievances is not what Lin Yanchao wants.
Rather die than die silently, if you want to be a blockbuster and soar into the sky!
Thinking of this, Lin Yanchao looked outside the hall, it was almost dark, your sister, there is not enough time for this exam. (To be continued.) )