Guo Xiang is over 60 years old, and in terms of the level of hygiene and medical care in this era, he is close to the limit of his lifespan and far beyond the average age. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

His skin was saggy, his hair was almost gray, his eyelids were drooping, and his back was slumped, but he knelt on the seat, but he tried to hold his waist as high as possible, and there was a slight tiredness in his expression, but he seemed to be in good spirits.

Of course, the average age of this era has been lowered a lot by the cloth-clothed civilians, and it is not surprising that these scholars with status have different births and raises, and their age is much higher than the average.

"I've seen Master Guo, I've kept you waiting."

Looking at the person in front of him, Chen Zhi saluted calmly, while the latter nodded in return, then turned his head and instructed the two Tsing Yi servants beside him to take out a piece of paper full of words and put it on the low table in front of him.

Guo Xiang is highly regarded by the New Han people, but when Chen Zhi first met him, his heart was very complicated, because in the first life, he had seen a discussion about Guo Xiang.

While affirming Guo Xiang's academic achievements, that is, Guo Xiang took Xiang Xiu's commentary on the Zhuangzi as his own.

Xiang Xiu is one of the seven sages of the bamboo forest, the people of the time said that he is enlightened and far-sighted, less known to Shantao, Yahao Lao Zhuang's learning, is also a great sage, but has been ancient, the previous layer for the "Zhuangzi" to make notes, but not completed, Guo Xiang continued, and then thought it was plagiarized.

This period of history is also quite similar in the timeline of the New Han Dynasty, except that it is generally said here that Guo Xiangzhi's learning is based on Xiang Xiu's extensive explanation, and Guo Xiang's "Zhuangzi Notes" actually carries the crystallization of Xiang Xiu's and Guo Xiang's learning.

Chen Zhi has his own ideas about this view, and took advantage of his position to find the notes made by the two of them, and after comparison, it was found that Guo Xiang's annotations and Xiang Xiu's annotations were actually different, but most of them were different from each other, or some of the sentences were simply the same as the text, and of course there were many of them with the same meaning and slightly omitted, and some of them were slightly supplemented with the same meaning.

Chen Zhi also has his own judgment on this, because of Guo Xiangzhi's annotation, which is very similar to the "Chinese translation into Chinese" in later generations, that is, the original sentence is expressed in different sentences, which is a common method of plagiarism.

However, Guo Xiang is different, because he does have his own academic background and his own theory, which has a profound experience in Chen Zhi's several conversations with Guo Xiang——

It's not the first time Guo Xiang has come, every time he comes, he will look up some classics through Chen Zhi, and often talk to Chen Zhi about his ideas and initiatives.

Because of this, Chen Zhi knew that this person had real talent and learning, and he also wanted to leave something.

"Shouichi, you can take a look at this sentence."

Chen Zhi was thinking about it, when the old man's words on the other side interrupted his thoughts, and when he looked up, he saw Guo Xiang waving to him and pointing to a sentence on the paper in front of him.

Chen Zhi took advantage of the situation, looked down, and saw that the sentence read: "The husband is benevolent and righteous, and the human nature is also; Human nature has changed, and the past and the present are also different. Therefore, the travel is sent and the past is underworld; If it is stuck and tied to one side, see it. If you see it, you will be pseudo-born, and pseudo-life will be responsible. ”

After savoring it for a moment, Chen Zhi nodded and said: "Guo Gongguo is still changing, and this statement has the meaning of internal and external affairs. ”

Guo Xiang couldn't help nodding and smiled: "Sure enough, it is Shouyi, I can see the difference, when several of my disciples first saw it, they also had doubts, and asked if this statement was wrong, because of the suspicion of disorder, I said, if you are just obsessed with the unchanging old rules, how can you make the famous religion and the principles of nature converge?" I came here today, just to improve this sentence, I need to get a few Lao Zhuang classics, can I recommend it? ”

Chen Zhi has a lot to recommend, because he knows very well that what the grandmaster in front of him wants is not just Lao Zhuang's words, more precisely, what he wants is books that are enough to support his arguments, whether it is the words of Lao Zhuang and his disciples, or several schools of Taoism, or the scriptures of He Yan and Wang Bi, in fact.

Chen Zhi knew very well in what direction the academic thinking of the grandmaster in front of him was changing.

He is trying to merge Confucianism and Taoism.

As soon as he thought of this, Chen Zhi reported a few titles, and after roughly introducing the content, Guo Xiang nodded with satisfaction: "I just need these books, you are in charge here, it is really much more convenient." ”

Chen Zhi instructed the bookkeeper to fetch the three books and four volumes of the slips mentioned, and he sat down and chatted with the old man in front of him.

Chen Zhi and Guo Xiang actually had a little intersection in the past, to be precise, they had an intersection with Guo Xiang's children and nephews, that is, Chen Hua's teacher, Guangling Guo Zhan.

Guo Zhan was ruined by the article "Shi Shuo", so he devoted himself to retreat, and there has been no news for more than a year, he is Guo Xiang's nephew, and he has also inherited part of the doctrine, which can be said to be a disciple, but there are distortions, taking a different path, and there is obvious hostility towards Chen Zhi.

Regarding this, Guo Xiang obviously knew, and had talked about it in a previous conversation, but the old man didn't care much, and he had no intention of pursuing Guo Xiang's distorted way of learning, as if he was talking about other people's affairs.

At that time, Guo Xiang's words still left a deep impression on Chen Zhi-

This metaphysical master, who had a mixed reputation in later generations, said at the time: "The outside and the inside are secret, I don't know that his way is not the right way, maybe his way is born in accordance with the current situation, and it can be passed on to the future, I don't need to be angry because of this, but there is one more road, my road will not go through in the future, maybe his path can be continued, if he goes astray, then it can also be a lesson for future generations." ”

This sentence made Chen Zhi come out of the evaluation based on later generations, recalling what Guo Xiang said, and only then did he notice that the path advocated by this metaphysical master was actually different from what Lao Zhuang said.

Zhuangzi said, "What is heaven, what is man", and believed that "the four-legged ox and horse are the heavens; Falling off the horse's head, wearing the nose of the cow, is called a person", saying that "there is no way to destroy the sky, there is no reason to destroy life", which means that the cow and horse themselves are nature, and the domestication of them is done by man, and it is no longer natural, and its essence is to regard the relationship between heaven and man as opposites.

This is the belief that all human actions towards nature are to satisfy desires and thoughts, and do not hesitate to destroy the heavens and lives, which is also the view inherited by many previous masters, such as He Yan and Wang Bi mentioned by Chen Zhi, also have similar expressions.

In contrast, Guo Xiang looks at the problem from the perspective of man, believing that man's change to nature can be carried out under the premise of obeying natural nature, and his various words are an attempt to show that "man-made" can conform to nature.

He said: "Whoever knows what heaven and man do, it is natural; Then put its body inside and outside the thing, and the same as all the mysteries, let it be all the same. This kind of view of the name and religion has actually changed Lao Zhuang's position of inaction, and has a positive significance.

In fact, during Chen Zhi's tenure in the secretary province, because of his position, he came into contact with many people who were scholars, and they came from all over the world to Luoyang to do learning, because there was a background, a collection of books, a master, and many conditions, and at the same time, it also brought many views from all over the world.

Chen Zhi found that the views of these people, to a greater or lesser extent, were influenced by Guo Xiang's views.

"Obviously, according to the inertia of history, Guo Xiang's view, with the development, will have an impact on the academic and academic trends and inheritance of the whole world."

Looking at the old man in front of him with declining vitality, Chen Zhi suddenly had an illusion at this moment, feeling that he was watching the shaping process of history.

This feeling, after he came to the secretary department, gradually emerged, more and more intense and clear.

Different from Jin Ge Iron Horse's shaping of the historical map, reading past books and documents, and listening to many grandmasters talk about their ideas and thoughts, gives Chen Zhi another sense of shaping history, as if he is guiding the future context.

Simply learning a noun or two from the books of later generations is completely different from the current feeling of personally participating in it and watching a certain idea take root.

In particular, in the process of shaping their thoughts, many grandmasters will also discuss and ask Chen Zhi.

Of course, Chen Zhi also knew very well that although the grandmasters knew their names, they did not pay attention to his fame, but to their ability to organize books, and the reason why they would discuss doctrines and concepts with them was not to get any inspiration from Chen Zhi's side, but to influence Chen Zhi, so that Chen Zhi could accept their thoughts, and then influence more people through Chen Zhi.

Guo Xiang in front of him is planning like this, in the interval between looking for books, he will often take out some things to discuss, express his opinions, and then explain according to his own doctrine to make Chen Zhi understand.

For this approach, Chen Zhi mostly smiled in a friendly manner, but he would not blindly follow it, because he came from the afterlife and could see a vein, so he would not fall into it.

Soon, the required books were moved, and Guo Xiang immediately devoted himself to the consultation, so he stopped talking and immersed himself in the books and slips.

Chen Zhi came out and recalled the conversation between the two just now, feeling a little touched.

"Several grandmasters before and after, they all want me to accept their doctrine, maybe I have the idea of accepting disciples, my reputation may not be important in their eyes, but it is better than nothing, the key is that I still have a little ability to sort out and summarize, plus the connections behind it, for them, it is an ideal disciple candidate, but unfortunately, I have no intention of this, and I don't have time to put it on this matter."

Shaking his head, Chen Zhi gave an order, glanced at the time, explained to Guo Xiang's entourage, and didn't bother Guo Xiang, so he left first.

The secretary ministry has its own operating system, and there is no need for him, the secretary and supervisor, to be here all the time.

For Chen Zhi, today is also an ordinary day.

However, when he arrived at his house, he found something unusual.

"The old lady is here." Chen Jue was guarding the door, and as soon as he saw Chen Zhi, he came up to report.