After the three princes left, Master Meng naturally walked away, however, Fang Qing's resentment was still unsettled, but he was held down by Song Juren, while Xiao Shanchang and Xu Shanchang, as well as the other two Hanlin Bachelors, still did not leave, obviously they all had something to say. Faced with this situation, Zhang Shou smiled at the four princes and everyone who were left behind.

"When I was a child, I once met a stranger, his surname is Ye, and he is an old gentleman who pays great attention to teaching and educating people. He told me a story about his experience when he passed through a small town, well, since I want to tell you about it, I'll give you a name, it's "Overcharged Three or Five Buckets". Because it's just a story, and there aren't that many people, maybe it's not elegant, but I like it very much. ”

Zhang Shouxian stated that it was just a story and not an article, so he paused and slowly recited the article that forced them students to recite because the teacher liked it very much: "At the head of the river port of Wansheng Rice Bank, there are open boats from the countryside moored horizontally. The ship was loaded with new rice, which pressed the hull very low......"

He memorized slowly, organizing the language behind him, trying his best to remove many things that were distinctively characteristic of the times. For example, the silver dollar and foreign money were exchanged for the copper coins that were common in those years, the foreign rice and foreign noodles were removed and replaced with rice transported by ship from the grain areas outside the country, and the two bureaus that the peasants had to pass through when they were cooking rice were changed to two tax customs......

Fortunately, his back was slow, and he changed it all the way, but there were no major mistakes. However, even so, the atmosphere of joy and sorrow after the harvest came to his face under his simple text rendering. Listening to this, Fang Qing, who was born in poverty, couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes, and some of the students in the Jiuzhang Hall who were farming couldn't help but turn their heads sideways to hide the sadness on their faces.

After all, the part of the small merchants and hawkers who sell foreign goods and small commodities in the back echoes the transnational dumping of foreign rice and foreign noodles in the previous article, which has brought a greater impact, but after all, it is another matter, and it has nothing to do with the central idea he wants to express at this time.

Therefore, he changed the so-called bank notes into two-thirds white strips and one-third of the grain merchants' money. The grain merchants patted their chests and promised that they could use these white strips to buy things at a discounted price of 95% in several other shops in the vicinity.

So, after the harvest, the peasants went to the trading houses to buy cloth, salt, and all kinds of necessities with white slips. The white strips that they had worked so hard to get in exchange for grain were torn to pieces in exchange for pieces of cloth and bags of salt, and even their hard-won copper coins were added. Eventually, when the boat returned, they had only a little money left in their purse bags.

When he finally said that in order to pay the rent, many people even had to fill the rice that they had intended to eat. The sentence that the farmer can't eat the rice he grows suddenly caused several sighs.

Although there are the two famous sentences in "Silkworm Woman", "Those who are all over Qiluo are not silkworm raisers", and there are also two sentences in "Compassion for Nong" that everyone knows among readers, "Who knows that Chinese food is hard work". But the poems are concise and abstract, but the stories are vivid and concrete. At this time, Zhang Shou told the story, and the appeal was naturally greater.

Moreover, Mr. Ye's very distinctive dialogues, Zhang Shou tried to change as little as possible, or even not at all. When he finally memorized the whole text, he saw that among the lecturers in the East Palace around him, like clay carvings and wood sculptures, some people were secretly wiping the corners of their eyes, some people sighed and shook their heads, and some people looked embarrassed, as if they felt that they should not stay......

And among the portraits of this crowd, the four princes are particularly prominent, because his face is full of resentment. Born in the palace, the biggest grievance he has suffered in his life since he was a child is just the same bullying and contempt by the other two brothers as the third brother.

The four words of Gu Cheap hurt the peasants have never shocked his heart like this.

After all, in their bones, they are not scholars, and they do not have some hypocritical sensibility - the kind of people who have three wives and four concubines in their private lives and enjoy luxury, and when they see the misery of the common people, they will cry with tears, sigh for a long time, and sigh for a long time, and sigh that the times are difficult, it is the scholars, not them.

The royal attendants are accustomed to hard work and hardship, and they know that the scenes after the harvest that Zhang Shou said are indeed fake, but in their minds, the world is like this, and they have long been tempered by the indifferent world to have a cold heart.

If the royal attendant is so sentimental, is it still a sharp blade in the king's hand?

"What is there to say, rich and poor, birth, old age, sickness and death, if you see too much, you will see it......"

Hua Qi, who had sharp ears, heard some of his own people muttering, and saw that Zhu Ying, Zhang Chen and the others were only standing far away and did not come around, but they obviously heard Zhang Shou's words, because the eldest lady was asking there if it was really so miserable after the harvest. He also shook his head with a wry smile, and then quietly stepped forward, intending to interrupt Zhang Shou's education on the world.

For the four princes, it is very important to know the people's livelihood and suffering, but there is no need to only know the people's livelihood and suffering. Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, this is not just talk, but the truth. Poor people must be hateful sometimes!

Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not here, if the fourth prince goes back and tells his brother that the brothers were really fooled by Zhang Shou to the point that they felt that the small people were diligent and honest, then there would be a big problem! You must know that in this world, whether it is officials or small people, most of them are afraid of power and morality, and they are not pure obedient people!

But at this time, he only heard Zhang Shou and said: "Mr. Ye's story, I only thought that the grain was cheap and hurt the peasants, and the grain merchants were hateful, but after tasting it carefully, I felt that it was not the case, and then I thought that if the imperial court had to collect some money when collecting taxes, it would not only be useless to the farmers, but would add to the burden." ”

"It is said that there is no business and no treachery, and there is no treachery and no business, but in a good year, there is a good harvest in the world, and the market is full of grain, how can it be sold at a high price? Grain merchants who don't have enough capital may not have enough money to collect grain? Moreover, if there happens to be a cross-door business, or there is a friendship with the rest of the stores that can be exchanged, those white slips that can be cashed out are cunning or affordable? ”

Seeing that the four princes were completely stunned, Zhang Shou said with a smile: "Some people like to say that when the water is clear, there are no fish, but I like to say that some things can't be determined casually." Well, when I met Mr. Ye at that time, I also met another Mr. Zhou, and he also told me another story. ”

casually put the story of Lu Xun's "Medicine" in the background of the melting pot of heaven and earth in the late Yuan Dynasty Taizu Uprising, Zhang Shou really saw that the four princes were shocked, and even the other two scholars of the Hanlin Academy suddenly changed. And after Xiao Shanchang and Xu Shanchang looked at each other for a while, Xiao Shanchang stepped forward.

"The old Mr. Ye and Mr. Zhou that Mr. Zhang said are very interesting people, if there is a chance, I also want to meet and ask for advice." 168

And after saying such a thing to Zhang Shou, Xiao Shanchang faced the four princes and said solemnly: "The two stories of the four princes and Mr. Zhang, one is that the peasants work hard all year round but have no food and clothing, and the other is that the small people do not know the righteousness of driving out the Tartars, and they don't ask about medicine when they are sick, but they spend a lot of money to buy the blood steamed buns of the anti-Yuan righteous people, in a vain attempt to cure the terminal disease, and they are completely ignorant!" ”

In fact, most of the people in the world are like this, there is a diligent and simple side, a tricky and slippery side, a disobedient side, a numb side, and a herd or even blind obedience side. It is absolutely impossible to generalize. ”

For Xiao Shanchang's admonition, the fourth prince hesitated slightly, and then habitually wanted to see Zhang Shou. But at this moment, Lu Sanlang's voice came from behind him: "What does Mr. Xiao mean by this, just like there are good people and bad people in the world?" ”

Lu Sanlang deliberately understood his words so simply and rudely, Xiao Shanchang couldn't help but have a headache, but he was very knowledgeable, but he would not be taken to the ditch by this Jiuzhangtang Zhai Chief.

At that moment, he smiled happily: "Lu Gaoyuan, you understand it like this, only half of it is right. The son said, the people can make it, from it, not to make it, to know it. That's what it refers to. Since the people are stupid, we should strengthen education! ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Shou suddenly showed an expression full of interest. Because the reading of that sentence in the Spring and Autumn Period was all passed down by word of mouth, and later there was printing, and this thing was not printed on books, so how this sentence in the Analects should be broken is still talked about by countless experts and scholars in later generations.

After Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, in addition to promoting Arabic numerals, he also implemented the set of punctuation marks in later generations, so the "Analects" had punctuation, but Emperor Taizu probably did not translate it too carefully, so in the official Analects, that sentence is still punctuated in accordance with the annotations such as the "Analects" and other annotations, and the most common sentence readings are punctuated.

Therefore, at this time, Xiao Shanchang actually expressed it in public, and the two scholars of the Hanlin Academy frowned, and one of the older ones immediately stood up and reprimanded: "Obviously, the people can make it, but they can't make it known, the way of the sage is far-reaching, and it is not easy for people to know, so there is such an interpretation, how can you misinterpret the book of the sage so much!" ”

Xiao Shanchang's expression immediately turned cold: "How did I misinterpret it?" Throughout the Analects, all the expressions in it are close to the people and love the people, so how can there be such an idea that the people cannot be educated and cannot be learned? ”

"This is the punctuation model of the Analects set by Emperor Taizu himself!"

"Emperor Taizu didn't have time to look at it from beginning to end, it was clear that the compiler at that time did not understand the original intention of the sages, wantonly misinterpreted, and fooled Emperor Taizu, so he poisoned future generations! It is necessary to know that there is also such a sentence in the Analects: 'Zi Shiwei, Ran has a servant.' Zi said: "Amazing! Ran You said: If you are a good person, why not? Said: Rich. Said: If you are rich, why not? Said: Teach it. ’”

When Xiao Shanchang said this, his voice was almost like a roar: "If the sage thinks that the people can't make it known, then why should he teach it?" If it weren't for the fact that this bullshit commentary turned out to be the respect of the whole country, and a certain examiner even dethroned the candidate for this, I would not have sworn in anger that I would never enter the ranks in this life, and I would be ashamed to be in the company of some foolish people! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Shou has already determined that if he doesn't stop it, the next thing will be a big battle between Mars and the earth - after all, future generations may cause a war of scolding in the air because of this sentence, not to mention that everything has to be quoted from the scriptures now?

He didn't want his place to become a place for two celebrities to debate the classics, so before a certain bachelor who was so angry could fight back, he suddenly coughed heavily and said: "Fourth prince, in fact, Mr. Ye and Mr. Zhou have told me a lot of stories, do you still want to hear them?" ”

"Of course, it's all a little story told orally, and it's not in the eyes of famous people."

The fourth prince just watched Xiao Shanchang suddenly fight with others, but he thought in his heart that Zhang Shou had used this sentence to scold Confucius scholars last time at the banquet, and later when he lectured to him and the third brother, he also mentioned that this short sentence could have many ways to break sentences, but what it should be depends on your own understanding.

Therefore, Zhang Shou suddenly did not judge the argument between Xiao Shanchang and the two, but diverted the topic, which he felt normal.

But he was not the third prince, so he didn't intend to uphold justice among Xiao Shanchang and that bachelor, so he immediately said with a smile: "That's good, I really want to hear more!" ”

And Lu Sanlang had just hid aside to gag Xiao Shanchang, and when he saw that people were really angry at the candidate for a scholar from the Hanlin Academy, he couldn't help but add three points to his evaluation of people, so he opened his mouth and said as a peacemaker: "If the two gentlemen have a disagreement, they might as well communicate calmly, and it must not look good if they quarrel here." Please also give my teacher some thin noodles to calm his anger a little. ”

When Lu Sanlang said this, the elder scholar of the Hanlin Academy was dumbfounded. He glanced at Xiao Shanchang hatefully, and then arched his hand to the fourth prince and Liu Zhiyuan Lu Juan a little stiffly, but he didn't say anything to make amends, and immediately brushed his sleeves away. As soon as he left, the other bachelor-in-waiting, who was in his early thirties, would not stay any longer, squeezed out a smile and said a few words before hurrying away.

And when they left, Xiao Shanchang, who had just been angry and rushed to the crown, also felt bored, and simply resigned. Xu Shanchang stayed behind and said a few words for others, vaguely mentioning the old matter of mentioning the old matter of Xiao Shanchang's refusal to be an official after the inscription of the science field, and finally characterized the matter as an academic dispute, and also retired.

As soon as they left, plus the people were gone, those astronomical and mathematical talents had already left, and they were all their own people, and the four princes cheered happily as if they had been released from the birdcage.

"It's rare that the third brother doesn't want me to go back to class together, teacher, don't talk about it later, tell me it now! When I go back, I will definitely repeat it to the third brother as it is...... I know how to tell stories! ”

In the face of such a self-free bear child, Zhang Shou stared at the person with interest for a while, and then smiled and said, "Are you really sure you want to tell you now?" Do you remember? ”

Seeing that the fourth prince slapped his chest loudly, he finally smiled: "Okay, I'll tell you another story, this story is called "Scarecrow". "Hehe, I want to see your optimistic bear child, listening to this dark fairy tale full of metaphors, what is the reaction! I think that at the beginning, after reading the unabridged version outside the textbook, he was deeply depressed...... Of course, it's not just Ye Shengtao's, a lot of stories in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale collection are all cured (caused) and healed (depressed), how many friends who went to see it were completely confused?