A good war horse cannot be used to pull things or plow the land.

It's okay to pull it once in a while, but if you carry a weight for a long time, it will make the horse clumsy, just like Zheng Lang, whose surname is Gwentun, who lacks speed and explosiveness. Without speed and explosiveness, how much can you play on the battlefield? The Song Dynasty wanted to get good war horses, but had no other way, either forcibly moved the people out of Guanzhong and turned the cultivated land into pasture to raise war horses, or recaptured Hehuang and Hetao, like the Tang Dynasty, using the grasslands of Hehuang and Hetao to raise war horses.

You can't go to the south, and when you get to the south, the war horse will become very short for a long time, such as the Sichuan horse and the Yunnan horse, which can be used to fight in the south, bear hardships and stand hard work, not afraid of heat, and can run on mountain roads, but the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty came from the south?

Therefore, Wang Anshi's horse protection method is also strange, what do farmers do with that kind of horse? Is it a number, or is it used to cultivate the land? If it's okay to mobilize the army like that, if you're going to use it for battle, don't, stop early. But no one pointed it out at the time.

Xiaoqing is like this, the horse is a good horse, but after pulling the cart for a long time, the horse's martyrdom grinds down, and the speed is also not fast. However, there are only a hundred miles from the capital to Zhengzhou, and if it is slower, two hours is enough. But what kind of riding skills does Song Bo know?

The avenue is very large, there are many pedestrians, sweating all the way, riding to Zhengjiazhuang, it is almost evening. Song Bo also stroked his chest and sighed: "It's better to ride a horse, the speed is really fast." ”…… When he came to the door, he turned over and dismounted, and shouted loudly: "A few mothers, it's in." ”

Hearing that, several ladies trotted out together, looked at Song Bo and asked, "What's the hit?" ”

"I've passed the provincial test."

Several mothers were all unstable on their feet, and the eldest mother's eyes gradually shifted from Song Bo's body to the distance, where there was a vast farmland, the wheat and onions were dripping green, and the cauliflower was as yellow as a cloud, and the eldest mother's heart floated up, as if it had floated into the clouds, and tears flowed down in a hurry.

"Auntie, it's a happy event." Song Bodao.

"Yes...... Happy event," the eldest lady wiped her tears with the corner of her clothes, which were tears of joy, and said to Song Bo: "Come in and talk." ”

Several ladies came to their senses and entered the house together, and Song Bo said: "Xiaolang not only hit, but also won the provincial yuan." ”

Fortunately, I was in a hurry, and I didn't make it clear once, but I said it twice, otherwise none of the women would be able to stand it. But a few ladies still asked: "Uncle Song, is it the provincial yuan?" ”

"Provincial test first?" "Is there any mistake?" "yes, a great event." Song Bo nodded and replied.

It is a great event, the son can win, there are some preparations in his heart, and the probability of winning is very high, as for the provincial yuan, no one dares to think about it. The people of Zhengzhou say that they will connect the three yuan, but ask the rumor himself, do you really believe in the three yuan? Most of them will not answer.

The eldest lady said again: "Uncle Song, buy a few sheep tomorrow." ”

Cui Xian stood beside her and suddenly said: "Auntie, no, the palace test will be held soon, although the provincial yuan will definitely win, but the wedding banquet was held in advance, and it is not good to spread it." ”

"Xian'er is right."

But this news brought a strong sense of joy to the Zheng family, and the family sat happily, almost not knowing what to say. It was dark, the spring breeze knocked lightly on the curtain cage, and Cui Xian said to Huan'er: "We have to pack our luggage too." ”

"Why?"

"Can you stay any longer?"

Huan'er woke up and couldn't stay. If you stay any longer, you will soon go to the palace exam, and if you win the list, the Zheng family Xiaolang will come back, which also means that you have to host a family affair. Is it to welcome your own little lady in Zhengjiazhuang? What did that become?

It turned out that Cui Xian was going to return to Caizhou after returning from the capital, but she thought that once she went to the local government and needed political achievements, she learned some textile skills, and if she did it well, it would also be a help to the little husband, so she stayed again.

Provincial high school exam, I had to go back. However, this little husband actually won a provincial yuan? I have to admit that he has some skills, Cui Xian held her cheeks and looked at the moon in the sky.

…… Zheng Lang was invited into the Feng Mansion by Feng Yuan.

Very respectfully gave Feng Yuan and Feng a big gift, not only did this person respect him very much in terms of knowledge and conduct, but the second child also troubled others.

"You're welcome, sit down."

Zheng Lang sat down, and Feng Yuan said again: "Congratulations to Xingyuan first." ”

Feng Yuan can't avoid this custom, is Shengyuan so easy to test? Moreover, this son has talent, morality, political vision, and ambition...... Guan Jian is the emperor's appreciation for him with the ministers, and if there is a Lianzhong Sanyuan, even Lao Feng has some taste.

The two little maids rushed to the living room to make tea, and then stared at Zheng Lang with big watery eyes.

Feng Yuan said again: "Shengyuan, I asked Wang Sanlang and Sima Sanlang to invite you here, because I have an inquiry. ”

"Please advise."

Feng Yuan nodded with satisfaction, take a look, how can this kind of peaceful and modest appearance not be loved? It's not just the little emperor, change yourself, and you also attach importance to this. Xu Xu said: "I heard Uncle Ouyang Yong mention the mean, but I think it's not far-fetched. Master doesn't have any interpretations to support your view......"

The simplest example, Zheng Lang's reinterpretation of benevolence and righteousness, from Zhou Li to Zhou Shu, to Confucius Zhushu and Meng Xun, there are many chapters and sentences in it to support Zheng Lang's benevolence and righteousness, so after Zheng Lang said it at that time, everyone couldn't explain it. Confucius's knowledge was not innate, he learned from the Confucian scholars of the Zhou Dynasty, and then reflected on and carried forward this knowledge, that is, Zheng Lang found arguments to support his views from the words of the master's predecessors to the master himself and then to the master's proud students and successors.

But what Zheng Lang said about the mean has gone a little far.

The good intentions are there, but the arguments are not sufficient, so Feng Yuan asked a little.

"Feng Shilang, is Yi one of the Six Classics?"

"Yes."

"Why is there a flip of sixty-four hexagrams in Yili, and the flipping of each hexagram?"

"Yin and yang are not fixed, but when yang and yin change, the number of hexagrams will inevitably be reversed."

"Can you explain it in depth, because the sky is moving, there are four seasons of day and night, meteors are eclipsed by the moon, and the sky and the earth are moving, so spring sowing summer is long autumn and winter hiding. The earth moves people and moves, so there is benevolence and righteousness. ”

"That makes sense." Feng Yuandao, in this way, you can interpret the I Ching that says that the sky has yin and yang, the earth has softness, and people have benevolence and righteousness.

"Therefore, it is easy to split the world with Qiankun first, which is the extreme number. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty did not know this hexagram if it was not royal, and our dynasty also had many taboos about these two hexagrams. Yin and yang are divided, they intersect with each other, heaven and earth are generated, and all things are born, and the vibration is not stopped, so there is water, and the water flows on it, so it is said, Tun, rigid and soft are difficult to be born, and they are in danger, and the tycoon is chaste. Good and good, heaven and earth are also the beginning. ”

"Great goodness, the words of the provincial yuan."

If you don't study it, it's very strange to read the Book of Changes, most of them think that it is used for divination, and it is also a misinterpretation of later generations. Zheng Lang's sentence is very meaningful, Qiankun is the head of Yi, which is set as yin and yang, and only when yin and yang are divided, all things can be produced. When all things are born, will they shake, but what creatures don't need water? So the yin and yang intersected, the water also came, flowed above, all things were born and shook in the inside, and the tun hexagram came out. Together, it is said that first the pole of yin and yang, and then the intersection of yin and yang, so the third hexagram is the tun hexagram! Tun, raising, beginning!

Therefore, it is said in the rhetoric that it symbolizes the first birth, and the two qi of yin and yang begin to intersect to create all things, which is quite difficult, but all things are created, and Da Jiheng comes.

Can it be said that it is not right? How difficult it is for the earth to produce life!

Therefore, Feng Yuan said that Zheng Lang is also a great goodness.

"In the end, it is the way of the tycoon, so there is danger just across the core (the bottom is Yangyao), all things are gradually born, but it is difficult but difficult, the difficulty is from the outside to the inside, only a line of vitality hangs alone, so the inside is in the water and the soft is in the danger, the outside is in the mountains and the water is in the line, the outside of the mountains and the water, Mengsheng is also, and the king of Wen is also good."

Feng Yuan stroked his hand and said, "Good master, too." ”

If you don't delve into it, you don't know the mystery, but when you study it, you know how difficult it is, when King Wen rearranged the hexagram of Fuxi, how many brain cells did you waste? can be arranged, without the development of Confucius, will future generations pay attention to it?

This explanation is that ordinary people, as long as they have read a little bit of the Book of Changes, can understand that the Tun hexagram is an internal shock and an external hurdle, but the yin and yang of the earthquake and kan are not immovable, it is still continuing to follow the operation of the heavenly way in the transformation, every time it is changed, a line will come out. It happened that the six were changed, and the number of the six lines became a hexagram, and the six lines were there.

Therefore, the Book of Changes divides the way of heaven and earth into 64 hexagrams and more than 300 hexagrams, revealing the mystery of the operation of heaven, as well as the changes of the earth, and the corresponding actions of humanity. Therefore, the first hexagram of Tun said Pan Huan, Li Juzhen, and Li Jianhou. The way of heaven is waiting for the opportunity, the way of the earth is in the quiet place, and humanity is conducive to the feudal candidates and creating meritorious deeds. And the late life said that Confucianism is done for the sake of doing, and it is not for Taoism to be quiet and void and to do nothing. ”

"Good." Feng Yuan bowed his head again.

Taoism talks about yin and yang, and I Ching also talks about yin and yang, many people don't understand the difference, but Zheng Jiazi interprets it, and the easy-to-understand commentary, but the difference is said at once. Feng Yuan Dao is good, as a Confucian student, do you want to put Dao Shi on the head? If you want to press, you have to tell a Tao.

"How? Conform to the operation of the way of heaven, that is inaction, and the thought of Taoism is also. Otherwise, Yili wouldn't have so many corrections, precepts, and strategies. However, blindly going against the sky is also a dead end. Therefore, the "Dictionaries" says that if the husband writes virtue and distinguishes between right and wrong, it is not that he is unprepared. Oh, if you want to survive and die, you can know it. It is also said that the gossip is in a column, and the image is in it, so it is important, and it is in it, and it is only rigid and soft, and it is changed in it, and it is the order of resignation, and it is moving in it, and the good and the evil are repentant, and the one who is born is moving, the one who is rigid and soft, the one who is original, the one who is flexible, and the one who is interesting. It is also said that softness is the way, and those who are not good away should be blameless, and they should use softness. ”

To do something is to go against the sky, and later Taoism tried to live forever, but it was also against the sky, but it was definitely not Lao Tzu's original intention. It is okay to go against the sky, but not too much, so if you want to distinguish right from wrong and state the essence of the complicated things, it is not enough to only the middle four lines, because the first line is the beginning, how it is converted from the previous hexagram, can be used as a lesson, and the last line is the end, explaining how this hexagram dies. But just look at it as a hexagram, fortune telling, each hexagram is a specific time of day, earth movement, humane elaboration, can it be used as a fortune teller?

It can't be just divination! For example, in the Song Dynasty, what kind of environment does the world move, and you can know how to do it by comparing a certain hexagram and a certain line.

Knowing all the changes and true meanings of the hexagrams, you can know the world while sitting at home. This sentence alone cannot prove Zheng Lang's theory, so there are the following two sentences, sixty-four hexagrams, three hundred and eighty-four hexagrams, rigidity and softness move each other, and the changes of heaven, earth and man are included in it. Do you see it, what ancestral law can't be changed?

But how? The law of femininity is not conducive to staying away from the strong, and is intended to be blameless, and it is used in the gentle guard. Be careful to do the right thing. Therefore, this way of the middle is exactly what Zheng Lang said about the way of harmonizing the yin and yang, softness, rigidity, benevolence and righteousness of heaven, earth and man.

There is an argument, and the unity of nature and man in the golden mean is accurately expounded, rather than an abstract concept.

Feng Yuan pondered.

Zheng Lang's approach is very bold, and the previous interpretation of Confucianism was taken out of context, that is, the analysis of chapter by chapter, including Feng Yuan, most of them were Confucianism taken out of context. On the contrary, Zheng Lang's horizontal and vertical analysis links the six classics of Confucianism as a whole, and only the five classics should remain, and the Book of Music disappears, and then comprehensively analyzes it.

It is possible to produce a different meaning, after all, Confucius's revision of books is not a matter of one or two years, and each stage of thinking is different, but it can better and better expound Confucianism. Otherwise, what has become before, the blind man touches the elephant, and the leopard is in the tube! We caught a sentence, this is Confucianism. Seriously!

In fact, Confucius himself did not explain clearly some of his thoughts, and he had to be an official, lecture, and wander to create all the grassroots, so how much time could he spend on creating a vast knowledge. But Zheng Lang didn't dare to say this, at least he could say it now, people are saints, they know everything from birth, what are you, a little hairy child!

Seeing that it was dark outside, Feng Yuan said, "You go." ”

Playing like Zheng Jiazi, Elder Feng, can't play, how many books does Confucianism have, and how huge is the work? Originally, he wanted to say that Confucianism is ultimately based on benevolence, but when he thought that Zheng Lang's surname was stupid and soft, besides, it might have an impact on him becoming an official in the future, so he didn't say it. Or think in your heart that only such a young man is qualified to practice Confucianism. The heart is not good, the cultivation is not good, and I don't know what to cultivate Confucianism!

"Whoa." Zheng Lang respectfully bowed and left the house.

…… On the other side, he sharpened his knife and prepared to catch his son-in-law.

Catching a son-in-law under the list is a great spectacle in the history of the Song Dynasty, the daughter is older, and if you want to find a good son-in-law, not only the daughter is happy, but the family has a strong son-in-law, and the whole family can be stained. For example, Zheng Lang has not yet married the daughter of the Cui family, and the two eldest brothers have been stained. Is Zheng Lang wrong? That's right, even Cai Qi and Song Shou didn't think Zheng Lang was wrong, this is what a son-in-law should do.

However, how to find this son-in-law? It's best to be a scholar, but if a scholar is not admitted to the palace examination, what's the use? Then the palace test list said, up to the prime minister, scholars, down to the rich gentry in various places, is everywhere, not in the capital, many places rich landlords and businessmen come to Beijing together, and then compete for the scholars on the list, which is called catching sons-in-law. The most bizarre thing is that the notes of the Song people record a story, Han Nan won the champion, and wanted to cross the horse to hang flowers and parade the street, suddenly more than a dozen servants rushed up, pulled him off the horse, and ran away, and the official was dumbfounded and shouted: "Hey, what are you doing, this is the champion of the new department." The servant dropped a sentence and said, "I am the new champion." ”

Han Nan was very confused at the moment, so frightened that his face was colorless, and all the family members set him up to a mansion, and one person greeted him, and when he saw it, it was Prime Minister Wang Dan, Han Nan said: "What do you have to say about Lord Zaifu, send someone to give an order, and you should obey your orders in the later life." ”

You can't play like this, Wang Xianggong.

Wang Dan asked with a pleasant face: "Han Zhuangyuan is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, a new champion, and it will be unspeakably expensive in the future, and he can't have a wife at home, and his parents can be safe?" ”

Han Nansheng said honestly: "My parents died, because I studied hard to read the sages, my family and country were poor, and my wife has left me. ”

"Then I have several daughters, how about giving one daughter to marry you?"

Han Nansheng happily agreed, and when the little lady of the Wang family heard that she was married to the champion, the five daughters all competed, and finally chose the third daughter. Wang Dan was afraid of good things and dreams at night, so he immediately presided over the wedding, the champion was kidnapped, Song Zhenzong was angry, and then received an invitation, saying that he was Wang Dan's son-in-law, Song Zhenzong laughed and laughed, and wrote the eight-character happy banner of "The setting of the fishing net, Yan Wan's request", and sent someone to beat the gong and drum and send it to the prime minister's mansion.

At night, the three ladies lifted their heads, and when they saw their husbands, they fainted, and an old man, with gray hair, was frightened in the middle of the night, and his face was like earth, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm an official of your family, Han Zhuangyuan."

"You're the champion, how old are you?"

"Read all the paperwork for a hundred quintals, and the old man will get a green shirt. The beautiful woman asked Yu how old he was, thirty-three years ago. ”

The three ladies pinched their fingers, seventy-three years old, disagreed, and wanted to repent of the marriage, Wang Dan persuaded: "I only have him as the champion in my eyes, where can I see him!" ”

The story is fake, and there is no such champion in history. But a similar incident happened to Wang Dan, who married his daughter to Jiake Sun Deng. Kou Zhun also did it, his brother's daughter was about to leave the cabinet, and he hadn't found a good family yet, so he caught his son-in-law under the list, and no matter how bad his character was, he caught the new Jinshi HD back home, persuaded him hard, and became a parent. Ouyang Xiu is too, just hit the list, and was invited to the house by Xu Yan three times and four times, repeatedly asked and persuaded him, and stuffed his daughter to Ouyang Xiu.

is still Yan Shu smart, Fu Bi has not yet made the list, and his daughter is stuffed out.

There were also unsuccessful, and later Feng Jing won the three yuan, and Zhang Yaozuo, the uncle of Zhang Guifei, who was favored by Zhao Zhen, dragged him to the house, tempted him with a rich dowry, pretended to be the emperor's will, and even used Feng Jing to promote Feng Jing and impress Feng Jing, but Feng Jing finally did not agree.

It's not an ugly thing, but every time the list is released, there are fun things. Wang Dan caught a seventy-three-year-old man and went back to be a son-in-law, it was fake, but the people really have it, you are the prime minister, of course you can pick one, I am just a businessman, what does it matter, as long as it is a jinshi, as long as you agree, it doesn't matter if you are in your seventies, come on, my fifteen or sixteen-year-old yellow flower girl has not come out of the cabinet, she looks like a flower and jade, and married her!

Even forcibly dragged the married man to the house to persuade him, and then when he heard that he pulled the wrong object, what should he do, this should be caught almost the same, and he probably can't catch it again, so he persuaded him bitterly, you will go out of the mother-in-law, and see how good-looking my daughter-in-law is, and how rich and powerful my family is.

There are also scholars who disagree, especially those businessmen and big landowners, who are so poor that they only have money left in their hands, and they have nothing but money, so they have to persuade: "Even if you are a jinshi, you can't be a high-ranking official immediately, there is a process of surveying and grinding, you can't just have political achievements, you also need popularity, the boss's like to recommend, you won't bribe, at least you have to make friends, set up a banquet and drink a flower wine, don't accept gifts during the New Year's holidays, and receive platinum for gifts." But your family's strength can't work, but my family does. If you see it, you get a beauty and a property. As long as you get married, I will give you a thousand yuan immediately. ”

"If you don't agree, add another thousand. Jinshi, if the people's hearts are content, two thousand is enough, and you can buy a mansion in the capital. ”

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, and can only be described by the word hunger.

The granddaughter took a fancy to it and inquired again, but the old man Wang couldn't stand his granddaughter's bitter pleading, but he couldn't persuade him, and Wen Fei was his own strength. But the temper of the old man Wang and the martial artist is offended, and the so-called half-pull and half-drag is called catching, anyway, it is caught, and Lao Tzu will catch it directly. So he shouted, gathered more than 30 members of the family, and said, "You do a thing for so-and-so, and you must arrest a person for so-and-so." ”

Whether you agree or not, let's catch it first.

"Whoa." Other people's houses are better, Wang Deyong can have a few good goods in his family, all of them are powerful martial artists, he is afraid of causing trouble, not afraid of causing trouble. Hearing the old man's command, he replied in unison.

After giving the order, more than 30 big men rushed out of the palace, and the pedestrians saw these 30 or so fierce people rushing towards them angrily, and they avoided them one by one.