Chapter 54: Persuasion
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Su Jin looked at the crowd: "Food, clothing, housing and transportation are the most ordinary things in the world, and people are born inseparable from these four things, so in our minds, this matter is commonplace, and there is nothing to do. ”
All the men and women nodded yes, and Su Jin said with a smile: "Dare to ask you, Tao Qiannan lives under the South Mountain, picks chrysanthemums under the east fence, and cultivates several acres of square fields, is it for elegance or vulgarity?" ”
Everyone gossiped and said: "Naturally, it is an elegant matter, who dares to talk about this elegant word if Tao Gong is indecent." ”
Su Jin nodded and said: "You are right, but if Tao Gong is not self-cultivation, how can he come to the poem "Getting Early Rice in Xitian in the Middle of September of Gengwu Year": Life is inherently Tao, food and clothing are solid; None of them camp, but for self-safety! Tao Gong's poem illustrates that there is a complementary relationship between clothing, food, housing and transportation and the 'Tao' that people pursue, and if you leave any side, you will lose the brilliance it emits. ”
After everyone thinks about it, it does make some sense.
Su Jin continued: "The ancient sages have pursued many things in clothing, food, housing, and transportation, are the sages pursuing indecent things? Mencius said: I can do what I want for fish, and I want for bear's paws, and you can't give up fish and take bear's paws. This means that Meng Shengren has a more refined pursuit of one of the ways of 'food', and in his opinion, eating bear's paws is naturally more elegant than eating fish. ”
"The sage Confucius said: If it is not an elegant thing, why does the sage need to say this?"
"Mozi said: Eat for a long time, and then seek beauty; The garment shall always be warm, and then seek beauty; Jubi Chang'an, and then seek pleasure. Although it is said that we first seek food and warmth, and then think about beauty and happiness, we can also see that the Mo family obviously has a higher pursuit of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and the sages are like this, so how can we belittle the matter of clothing, food, housing and transportation? ”
Su Jin was quoted from the scriptures, and the poems and clouds in his stomach came out like flowing water, and everyone present was dumbfounded when he heard it, the small officials of the Su family are not only as simple as being able to make a good poem, but also full of economy and talent.
Su Jin smiled and came to the final conclusion: "The so-called clothing, food, housing and transportation are all 'rites' in general, needless to say in the troubled times, my Great Song Dynasty is this peaceful and prosperous era, the clothes are bright and beautiful, the food is finely cooked, the residence is high, and the line is comfortable, otherwise how to highlight this peaceful and prosperous world?" It is rude to carry a gold ingot in your arms but wear rags and eat scraps, and it is rude to the country and the people, and it must not be done. ”
The four simple things in life were forced to be put on the line by Su Jin, and rose to the height of 'etiquette', and Su Jin himself had a big headache, isn't this openly advocating 'extravagance and glory, simplicity and shame'? But I have already gone around this road, and I can't go back, but I can't slap myself in the face; Fortunately, this is a small-scale gathering, and he only needs to brainwash the dozens of people here, and Su Ji only needs to get the clothes orders from these dozens of families to achieve the goal.
Everyone talked about it, although some people felt that Su Jin's views were a little thin and one-sided, but they couldn't find words to refute them for a while, and more people were brainwashed by Su Jin and agreed with Su Jin's proposal.
Li Chong is well-informed, and Su Jin's out-of-context quotation of the words of the sages is full of loopholes in his opinion, but he will not refute it, on the contrary, he admires Su Jin even more; This Su Gongzi is not an idler, looking at everyone with a look of deep disapproval, Li Chong even thought very vulgarly, even if there is a bubble of shit on the ground now, this Su Xiaoguan can fool everyone to treat shit as gold; This guy is so good at breaking.
Su Jin took advantage of this momentum to quickly show the clothing renderings one by one, detailing the shining places, materials, styles, ornaments, and occasions to say that the head is the way, a group of people with hot brains began to lose their minds, the original Su Ji's new clothes are innovative in style and ornaments, more eye-catching than the regular clothes on the market, and the fine painting style of Rou Niang Huanniang is more noble and natural.
After a lively time, Su Jin accepted it when he saw it, and he couldn't turn the "Falling Flowers" poetry club into a "Falling Flowers" hypermarket, looking at Li Chong's expression with a little displeasure, Su Jin announced that it was over, but he just called on everyone to go to Su Ji tomorrow to choose materials and styles.
The poetry club went on normally, and in order to appease Li Chong's injured heart, Su Jin not only allowed Li Chong to bring a few of his poems to Bianliang to compete with other poetry clubs, but also promised to personally appear on the scene when he was needed.
As the sun set, everyone returned happily, Li Chong blocked many literary and artistic young people who asked to cross the boat with Su Jin, and took a small boat with Su Jin alone, and dragged it to the end, before rowing to the shore slowly.
The old oars rubbed against the oars, the boat went lightly, the old oars rubbed against the oars and the oars made the sound of 'squeak' made people feel calm, after a day of noise, both of them did not want to say more, one left and one right sat on both sides of the boat and looked at the lake and water color silently.
Su Jin stretched out his hand into the lake, let the water flow pass between his fingers, couldn't grasp anything, and sighed in his heart.
"The deceased is like a husband." Li Chongdao.
Su Jin looked at him in surprise, he didn't expect this Li Heizi to actually observe words and feelings, and the sigh in his heart was actually hit by him as soon as he said it.
"Master Su, there is a word or offense below, but I don't vomit unpleasantly." Li Zhong said solemnly.
Su Jin smiled: "Please speak." ”
Li Chong lowered his head and thought for a while, as if he was considering the wording, and finally said: "Su Gongzi's talent may be able to enter the office, and it is unknown whether he will become a minister under the official family in the future, so why waste his good years in the profit and profit of the camp?" ”
After speaking, he looked at Su Jin's face with some concern, Su Jin tilted his head and thought for a while: "There is no industry to be expensive or cheap, does Brother Li really think that it is a shameful thing to be in business?" ”
Li Chongdao: "I don't have this intention, I just feel that it's a pity to be overkill, with the talent of the son, I may be able to benefit the common people in the future, and there will be greater achievements, and the lintel of the Su family can also be used to make it bigger, killing two birds with one stone, why not?" ”
Su Jin put away his smile and said seriously: "Brother Li, I really haven't seriously considered this matter, the top priority at the moment is to revive Su Ji's family business, and engaging in business can also be a 'righteous business', and it will not benefit the people if it is not tasted, not to mention that there is no talent that Brother Li admires, and the career may not be suitable for me." ”
Li Zhong said solemnly: "Su Gongzi is talented, eloquent, and superior to others, why should he be too humble, and he can't force you to do anything, but he is indeed a reverence for you, the career or hardship, but how much ability and responsibility, if they are like Su Gongzi's thoughts, how can the Great Song Dynasty be a country?" The Great Song Dynasty attaches the most importance to civil governance, and is also lenient to scholars, if Su Gongzi really has the idea of protecting himself, the officialdom will be more comfortable. ”
Su Jin was a little surprised by what Li Chong said, how much ability and responsibility, such words may be said casually in the future generations, but it is of great positive significance for the people of the Song Dynasty to think like this, and it is even more unbelievable that officialdom is more comfortable than other industries.
"In that case, why didn't Brother Li go to the office, but instead set up a poetry club to play in the mountains and rivers?"
"During the period of Ding worry, the period of Ding worry expires in October this year, and I will fill the vacancy in the next year, otherwise how can I be qualified to say you." Li Chongzheng said.
Su Jin knew that Ding Wei was a system of ancient officialdom, the death of parents or direct elders in the family, all by Taichang in charge, no matter what position he was in, he needed to suspend his job and go home to keep filial piety, generally speaking, the period was three years, but in fact, he could come back in 27 months, which was actually a system of etiquette that followed filial piety.
Li Chong's father died three years ago, so he was suspended from his post in Tianchang County and returned home until October this year.
Su Jin was silent, he really hadn't thought about it, the ancient officialdom was a dangerous place in Su Jin's impression, he just wanted to live a happy life, and he really didn't want to do something earth-shattering and crying, but listening to what Li Chong said, it was interesting to portray an officialdom like an ivory tower.
Nine times out of ten, it is a common ideal of the Song people to become an official and enter the glory of the ancestors, which is just like the fact that college students in later generations tried their best to drill into the camp and eat the system, so Li Chong had this idea.
"Maybe I'll think about it, but it's definitely not right now, and there's still a lot of work at hand." Su Jin thought.