After a night of autumn rain, there was still some moisture in the air in the early morning.

The morning breeze was a little cold, and the two brothers, Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen, rode horses and walked in the somewhat cold wind. Because the two tall mares were left in the horse farm of Jiehe Commercial City, Wu Haogu changed to a mare with a shoulder height of four feet and five inches, and also found a gelding horse of about the same height for Wu Haowen to walk, both of which were Khitan horses purchased from Jiehe Commercial Market.

Wu Haowen has probably also practiced equestrianism, and now he doesn't need someone to hold the reins, and he can ride a horse by himself, so now the two brothers of the martial arts family are going out together.

By the way, Wu Haowen now also has his own small courtyard, called Xiaoningyuan. Just near the Xinzheng Gate in the west chamber of Kaifeng Fucheng, it is the marriage of the seventeenth sister of the Han family. The house is not big, but it is very exquisite, and there is a smell of books everywhere, which is obviously thoughtful.

After Sister Han Seventeen became pregnant, Wu Haowen accompanied her to live in Xiaoning Garden. In addition to going to the secretary province on duty, he spent most of his time with his wife in Xiaoning Garden, and half of the time he went home to visit his parents, and rarely went to the house borrowed by Cheng Yi and Hou Zhongliang in Chengnan Academy to attend classes.

So Wu Haogu came to Xiaoningyuan with a gift early this morning, saying that when he went to meet Mr. Yichuan and Hou Shisheng, Wu Haowen was a little reluctant to accompany him.

On the way to Xiaoningyuan, Wu Haogu asked, "How is your teacher?" ”

"Alas, it's just a country village master!"

"Why do you say that about your teacher?"

Wu Haowen shook his head again and again, and said with a wry smile: "To tell you the truth, it didn't make sense to listen to him in class, so I almost dozed off." ”

These words came from the mouth of Wu Haowen, a three-good Confucian scholar, and it was really a bit surprising to Wu Haogu.

"He's also an official eunuch," Wu Haogu said, "how can you say that he's a village master?" His father, Hou Ke, was a member of the Guanxue family, and he also participated in the Pingnong Zhigao Rebellion, and later became an official in the palace. ”

"But it's not a roll call outside Donghua Gate." Wu Haowen shook his head, "Big brother, don't you know, those people who are Guan Xue and Luo Xue like to pull some mysterious things, and add the things of Buddhism and Taoism to Confucianism, making it nondescript and useless, basically nonsense." ”

Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism complement each other, aren't they just nonsense? Wu Haowen learned "one morality", and of course he did not agree with what Confucius and Mencius did not say, and relied on the things that later generations absorbed from other sects.

"It's not nonsense," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "It's to deceive people!" ”

"Isn't it nonsense to deceive people?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "No, second brother, you still don't understand...... Guan Xue and Luo Xue engaged in these deceitful ways in order to confront the Buddha and the Tao ideologically, mainly against Buddhism.

You are the sixth Jinshi, so you naturally have insight and know that it is nonsense. But how many people in the world have not seen it? If you don't make up for it, Confucianism is not a famous religion, it is not a teaching, how can it fight against Buddhism? Therefore, your teacher, Mr. Sheng, and Mr. Yi Chuan are both great Confucians, and they are building a high wall for Confucianism that can resist Buddha and Taoism. ”

"Does it work?" Wu Haowen asked, "It's better to simply use Taoism to manage gods and Confucianism to manage people." ”

"Hehe," Wu Haogu smiled, "Can the Taoist priest agree?" Can a monk agree? Can the Confucian scholars in the world agree? ”

"Why not?" Wu Haowen said, "As long as the official family has a will...... In the future, even if it is on the head of the ancestors of the Zhao family, our Confucianism will do it in a down-to-earth manner. ”

"Huh?" Wu Haogu grabbed the reins and immediately turned his head to look at his brother.

Wu Haowen was stunned by him, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "Big brother, I'm talking nonsense, don't really go and tell the official family." ”

"What a nonsense is reasonable!" Wu Haogu smiled, "It's also a way......

"Really?" Wu Haowen smiled, "Then can I not go to Chengmen to study?" ”

"Nope." Wu Haogu shook his head, "Your father-in-law must have made sense for you to ask you to study." Today, I will also listen to Hou Shisheng's class for my brother...... Chengnan Academy, I studied Confucian scriptures there for five years. ”

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Kaifeng Chengnan Academy is located in the south of Kaifeng Fucheng, close to Daimen Tower and Yinan Bridge. Mi Fu is now an official Cai Heba Dispatch Division Yamen is in the area, and it is not too far from the martial arts managed by Guozijian. In Kaifeng Mansion, it is a "school district" - the nearby house is, of course, the school district house.

Seongnam Academy is a little old academy, not an official school, but a private school, so there are often famous Confucians who come to give lectures, but the level of the examination is not high.

Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen were both wearing official uniforms, and the gatekeeper of the academy did not dare to stop them, and they also stepped forward to help Wu Haowen tie the reins of the horse to the horse post.

"Is Master Hou here?" Wu Haowen asked.

"Here, I'm talking about the "Lu Township Covenant" and the "Jiehe Business Covenant" in Zhengxin Hall."

"The Boundary River Merchant Covenant?" Wu Haogu smiled, "It's fresh, I have to listen to it." ”

Wu Haowen grabbed his brother's shirt, "Big brother, what's so nice?" A village master is just a ......"

"Hehe," Wu Haogu just smiled, "It seems that he didn't say anything good!" ”

As he spoke, he still carried a box of pastries and two bottles of "Wine Immortals", strode towards Zhengxin Hall, and soon arrived outside a very ordinary classroom in the academy.

The lecture was being held in the hall, and the person teaching was a big man, wearing a white-washed cyan Confucian shirt, carrying a Dongpo scarf, and speaking a Qin dialect (he was from Shanxi, but he had settled in Guanzhong for several generations), and it should be Hou Zhongliang. There were very few students who attended the lecture, only four or five people, and they all looked a little old, not like the students of Seongnam Academy.

This is also normal, Cheng Yi and Hou Zhongliang are both great Confucians, not to teach people to take the imperial examination...... In the commercial city of Kaifeng Prefecture, people's hearts are very impetuous, studying is to be an official, and if they miss a few times, they will go to do business or be a small official, and there are very few old people who will come to listen to the lectures of Confucianism.

In addition, most of the Confucians in Kaifeng Mansion came from industrial and commercial families (some were nobles and eunuchs, but they were actually doing business), and they were still a little interested in the "Republic and Commercial Covenant", and they didn't want to listen to the "Lu Township Covenant" at all.

However, there were basically no students listening, and Hou Zhongliang was still very serious in analyzing the differences between the "Lu Township Covenant" and the "Republic Commercial Covenant".

Contrary to Wu Haogu's expectations, the Confucians of the Song Dynasty were very interested in the method of civil autonomy such as "covenant"! Therefore, as soon as Wu Haogu's "Republic and Commercial Covenant" came out, it was often commented on.

As famous as the "Republic and Commercial Covenant", there is also a "Lü Township Covenant", which is a written township covenant formulated and implemented by the famous Lantian Silu (Lü Dazhong, Lü Dajun, Lü Dalin, and Lü Dafang) during the reign of Shenzong.

This township covenant has been implemented since the ninth year of Shenzong Xining, and it has been more than 20 years now, and it is still being implemented!

In other words, as early as more than 20 years before the autonomy of Jiehe Shang City, there was such a thing as autonomy in the Song Dynasty. However, one is rural autonomy and the other is urban autonomy, and the latter is naturally more influential. Moreover, the "Republican Commercial Covenant" is more rigorous than the "Lü's Township Covenant", and it also "creatively" implements representative democracy - the "Lü's Township Covenant" cannot be used to govern the world, while the "Republican Commercial Covenant" can be used to govern a small country.

However, in Hou Zhongliang's eyes, Wu Haogu's "Republican Commercial Covenant" is an out-and-out evil covenant, and it cannot be compared with the "Lu Township Covenant" at all.

“…… The township covenant is a covenant of the villagers, in order to enable the neighbors and villagers to persuade each other with virtue and industry, to regulate faults, to intersect with etiquette and customs, and to sympathize with each other in adversity. It is a covenant with men, and the covenant of one or two people is done by those who are upright and upright. In the covenant, the major events are discussed by gatherings, rewards and punishments are given in the covenant, and good and evil are written in the villagers' gatherings. Therefore, the covenant of the village is a covenant of great goodness, and if it is promulgated in the world, it will be able to rule for three generations.

And the negotiator is a contract of money, in order to obtain the original profit, and the profit is fair. The so-called patriarch is not elected by the businessmen, nor is he an upright person, but a person selected by the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce, everything is for the benefit of the shareholders, and there is no suffering of the people in his heart. Therefore, the mayors of the business market elected by these patriarchs must be mercenary, seeking for profit, not for the people. If the "Republic Treaty" is implemented in the world, it will be in danger of overturning the world! ”

"Mr. Shisheng, since the "Lu Family Township Covenant" is so good, why not implement it in the world?"

Just when Hou Zhongliang was talking vigorously, he suddenly heard someone interject and ask a question. Hou Zhonglang looked up and saw that it was a military attache in a green robe, about twenty-two or three years old, quite handsome, standing beside his newly recruited student Wu Haowen.

"The "Lu Township Covenant" cannot be implemented in the world, just as the way of the saints in the past cannot be implemented in the world." Hou Zhongliang said, "This is the loss of the world!" And if the "Republic Commercial Treaty" is implemented in the world, it will be a disaster for the people of the world! Whoever makes this covenant will be the culprit of the chaos in the world! ”

Wu Haogu, who was scolded in front of the culprit, was not angry at all, but asked lightly: "Mr. thinks that the "Republic of Commerce Treaty" will one day be able to do the world?" ”

"The law of Shang Yang can be used in the world, how can the "Republic of Commerce" not be able to work in the world?" Hou Zhonglang said sharply, "Doing good government makes the superior temporarily lose small profits, but doing evil government can make the superior temporarily gain great benefits." The "Republic Commercial Treaty" is a bad government, so it can bring huge benefits to the superiors. Where the benefits are, the gold and stone are open! Wu Dongmen, is what you said right below? ”

Recognizing himself, Wu Haogu smiled, and arched his hand and said, "Xiaguan Wu Haogu, bring your brother to visit Mr. and Mr. Yichuan." ”

"You want to see the tutor?" Hou Zhongliang looked at Wu Haogu and felt an aura of calm and confidence.

This official is fortunate to be very lucky, and it's not easy!

Hou Zhongliang glanced at the five Confucian students who were listening to the lecture in the Zhengxin Hall again, all of them were new science and technology scholars who were elected to be officials (there are 561 Wen Jinshi, but not everyone is as likely to get a real job as quickly as Wu Haowen), and today it seems that he has to have a good debate with Wu Haogu in front of them, so as to revive the prestige of Guan Luozhixue.