Chapter 13 Chapter 13

In 492 BC, Confucius passed through Song State when he was going from Wei State to Chen State.At that time, the chief minister of the Song Dynasty, Ma Huanyu, was plotting to seize the throne. When he heard that Confucius was coming, he led his troops to expel Confucius, fearing that Confucius would ruin his affairs.At that time, Confucius and his disciples were practicing Zhouli rituals under the big tree. Huan Yu cut down the big tree and wanted to kill Confucius.Under the protection of his students, Confucius fled Song State in a hurry. On the way to escape, he said: "He was born with virtue, how should I give him?"

The meaning of this sentence is to say: If God really allows me to inherit Chinese culture, I don’t think Huan Yu may be able to do anything to me. These words of Confucius have a strong dark smell, and are highly sought after by the world because of their perseverance and fearless attitude towards life.During the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi, a great statesman, was born. Although Wang Anshi was famous in history, he had a huge trouble—he was ugly. Although there are many handsome men and beautiful women in this world, those who are inherently ugly also have a huge mass base.Ordinary people are ugly if they are ugly, which is not a big problem, but as an outstanding politician, once his appearance is ugly, things will be a little troublesome. This will not only affect the dignity of the politician himself, but even become an excuse for political opponents to attack.

So Wang Anshi went to the doctor for help, and the doctor brought a kind of "bath bean powder" and asked Wang Anshi to rub his face vigorously.Wang Anshi rubbed it a few times, and his face was burning hot. Instead of rubbing his beautiful face, his mouth was crooked and his eyes were squinted, his skin was broken and his flesh was swollen, making him even uglier than before. Now Wang Anshi was furious, he threw the bath bean powder on the ground vigorously, and said loudly: "I am born black, what is the bath bean like?" This sentence, on the surface, sounds like Wang Anshi's anger, but in fact it is a powerful declaration of political reform.What Wang Anshi meant was to say: those of you who oppose the reform, don’t demand full blame, and keep picking and picking. Any reform is just like me. It’s impossible to be perfect, and it’s impossible to have a solution that can solve all the problems and problems in the world. There will always be, but that's never a reason for us to give up.

Wang Anshi's words reveal the unprecedented fearless courage of a reformer, and this kind of courage, this kind of persistence, and this kind of firm belief that he will not give up until he achieves his goal is exactly where the social value of thick black thought lies.It is similar to what Confucius said under Huan's persecution. Confucius was a master of Confucianism, and it was the inheritor of authentic Confucianism who obstructed Wang Anshi's reform, and the representative figure was Sima Guang who compiled it. Sima Guang was able to become a master of Confucianism because he was an extremely intelligent person.When he was young, when he was playing with his friends, a friend accidentally fell into the water tank and was rescued by him by smashing the water tank with stones. This is the famous "Sima Guang smashing the tank" in history. s story.

Later, Sima Guang became an important minister of the imperial court. It happened that Jiaozhi Kingdom traveled a long way to pay tribute. The tribute brought an extremely strange beast, which was exactly the same as the legendary unicorn.Because there is a saying in history that when a sage is alive, a unicorn appears, which is an unprecedented auspicious omen.The emperor at that time was overjoyed and ordered Sima Guang to arrange a ceremony to warmly welcome Qilin to Beijing. But Sima Guang had other ideas. He quietly said to the emperor: "We have never seen such a thing as a unicorn. It is just a legend. As for whether this animal really exists, it is still a question. There have been many times in history. There have been incidents where swindlers used farm cattle as unicorns, and the emperor and ministers at that time were ashamed of others. If it is fake again this time, then we will be ashamed..."

When the emperor heard this, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked Sima Guang, "Then, in your opinion, what should we do?" Sima Guang said: "This matter is easy to handle. Let's treat the envoy of Jiaozhi Kingdom warmly, with good tea, good food, good wine and good food, but we don't say a word about Qilin. If he insists on talking, we will pretend that we didn't hear it." , let’s assume that he didn’t bring the unicorn, and let him bring it back. If the unicorn is real, we should be auspicious as usual, but if the unicorn is fake, wouldn’t we avoid embarrassment?”

The emperor was overjoyed: "Just play according to Qing." Sima Guang's handling method really won the thick and dark samadhi of his ancestor. He ignored the strange beast brought by the messenger, and pretended not to hear it when the other party mentioned it. How thick-skinned it is to do this a little?What's more, when Sima Guang encountered a problem, the first thing he considered was face, instead of being full of curiosity to check the authenticity of the unicorn. This can only prove one thing, Sima Guang's head is full of thick black , It's all a matter of shame, unless this person has carefully figured out the thick and dark science, otherwise when he thinks about the problem, he will not think in this way.

Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, the deadly rivals, both inherited the deepest dark art from Confucius, so one of them became a great statesman and reformer; the other became a great writer and thinker.It is the unfathomable thick black thoughts that allow them to go to the highest point of the ideological realm of life, not afraid of floating clouds to cover their eyes, and their own destiny is thick at the highest level-thereby meeting opponents in history, meeting good talents, and becoming a team leader. Against well-matched political opponents.