Chapter 36 Thirty-fifth chapter The Holy Son of Heaven seeks the virtuous and asks Zhuang Zhengjun to resign his title and return home

It is said that Zhuang Zhengjun saw the man jumping off the mule, bowed to the ground, hurriedly jumped out of the car, knelt down, supported the man, and said, "Who is this step? I have never recognized it." The man got up after bowing, and said, "Three miles ahead There is a village shop in the distance, the old gentleman please get into the car, and I will accompany you back to the shop to have a talk." Zhuang Zhengjun said: "It is best." Get into the car.The man also got on the mule and came to the store together.After meeting each other, they sat down.The man said: "I figured out in the capital that the edict of enlistment went to Nanjing. At this time, it should be the day when Mr. Zhang came, so I went out of Zhangyi Gate and asked mules and carts all the way. I really asked. Today I am fortunate to receive a great teaching." Zhuang Zhengjun said: "Sir, what is your name? Where is your hometown?" The man said: "My younger brother's surname is Lu, his name is De, his name is Xinhou, and he is from Huguang. I have searched all the anthologies of famous people in this dynasty and hid them at home. It has been twenty years, and I have found nothing bad. It is only the fourth family in the junior high school, only Gao Qingqiu was in trouble. The capital is kept by someone else. My younger brother went to the capital and bought it at a high price. He was about to go home when he heard that the imperial court had confiscated Mr. I think that the elder has gone, and my younger brother still wants to visit his anthology. Mr. Kuang is How can I miss a famous contemporary person in person? Because I have been in Beijing for a long time, I can ask all the way." Zhuang Zhengjun said: "My younger brother is firmly in the white gate. He had no intention of official career, but because of the special favor of the emperor, he had to come and go. But It's a pleasure to meet Mr. in a happy encounter! But we two are going to break up when we meet each other, why are we in love! I will stay in this shop tonight and have a talk with you in bed." He also talked about the celebrity anthology , Zhuang Zhengjun said to Lu Xinhou: "Sir, you are so good at reading ancient books, isn't it a very scholarly person? But where the state prohibits, you must avoid it. Although there is no slanderous words in Qingqiu writing, since Taizu I hate him, and now that books are banned, I don’t care if I don’t read his works. My little brother’s humble opinion is that when it comes to reading, it’s a promise to return from a blog, and the experience is the main thing. If you go back to your house, sir, it’s a waste of time. Over the years, I still have some clumsy books and slowly ask for advice." Lu Xinhou agreed.The next morning, Lu Xinhou went to Nanjing to wait.

Zhuang Zhengjun entered Zhangyi Gate and lived in Huguo Temple.Xu Shilang immediately sent his family to wait, and then came to worship in person.Zhuang Zhengjun will write it.Xu Shilang said: "Sir, the journey has been hard." Zhuang Zhengjun said: "The mountains and the wild are vulgar, and they are not used to the work of chariots and horses. In addition, they are "the posture of the willows, looking forward to autumn." Master Lao first." Xu Shilang said: "Sir, please make arrangements quickly, and I'm afraid we will call in within three to five days."

It was the first day of October in the 35th year of Jiajing.Three days later, Xu Shilang copied the imperial decree from the cabinet and sent it.wrote: On the second day of October, the cabinet issued an edict: I inherit the great achievements of my ancestors, spend my time seeking talents, and use capital to govern the way.I have heard that the master and minister are the kings, and the past and the present understand justice.Today, Zhuang Shangzhi, recommended by Xu Ji, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, entered the court on the sixth day of the lunar new year and introduced it to the grand ceremony.This is it.

On the fifth day of the sixth day, the guards of the Habayashi lined up outside the Meridian Gate, and all the brine books were set up, and all officials waited outside the Meridian Gate for the ritual system of passing on the group.I saw the light of a hundred torches, and knew that the prime minister had arrived. The Meridian Gate was wide open, and all the officials entered through the Yemen.After passing the Fengtian Gate and entering the Fengtian Hall, there was a sound of heavenly joy inside, and Honglu Temple could be heard faintly singing: "Scheduling shifts." The net whip rang three times, and teams of internal officials took out golden furnaces and burned dragon saliva. The incense, the palace ladies held the palace fans, surrounded the emperor as he ascended the throne, and danced singly one by one.Zhuang Zhengjun wore a court scarf and official uniform, followed Banwei, danced and worshiped the emperor.At the moment when Lezhi is gone, the twenty-four elephants carrying vases walk without their hands. It is really: "The flowers welcome the sword and the stars are just falling, and the willows and flags are not dry." The officials dispersed.

Zhuang Zhengjun returned to the lower place, took off his clothes, and wandered around for a while, only to see Xu Shilang come to pay respects.Zhuang Zhengjun dressed up and came out to sit.After tea, Xu Shilang asked: "The emperor's ascension to the palace today is truly magnificent. Sir, if you want to sit quietly in your apartment, I'm afraid you will be summoned again in a few days." Three days later, another copy of the imperial edict was sent: Zhuang Shangzhi met in court on the eleventh day, and was specially granted a forbidden horse to ride.This is it.On the eleventh day, Xu Shilang sent Zhuang Zhengjun to the Meridian Gate.Xu Shilang said goodbye and waited in the court room.Zhuang Zhengjun walked into the Meridian Gate alone.I saw two eunuchs leading a royal horse and asking Zhuang Zhengjun to ride it.The two eunuchs knelt down and kicked.Hou Zhuangzheng sat down firmly, and the two eunuchs were holding the border rope, and their hands were ocher-yellow, and they walked slowly through the gate of Qianqing.Outside the gate of Xuanzheng Hall, Zhuang Zhengjun got off his horse.At the gate of the hall, there were two eunuchs, who delivered the decree, and Xuanzhuang Shangzhi entered the hall.

Zhuang Zhengjun went in holding his breath, and the emperor sat on the throne in casual clothes.Zhuang Zhengjun went up to worship.The Son of Heaven said: "I have been in power for thirty-five years. Fortunately, thanks to the ancestors of heaven and earth, the sea characters have risen and the frontiers are safe. It's just that the people have not enough food and clothing, and the scholar-bureaucrats have not seen that they can perform rituals and music. Which one is the first in this matter of education? So special Mr. Jiang came up from the field, and I hope Mr. will carefully plan for me, so there is no need to hide anything." Zhuang Zhengjun was about to play, but he didn't want a pain in his head and heart. You can't play it in detail, but the guests and ministers should think about it carefully, and then play it." The emperor said: "If that's the case, it's okay. Sir, you must make a joint effort. As long as everything is feasible, it is suitable for the past and not for the present." After all, start Drive back to the palace.

Zhuang Zhengjun left the Hall of Qinzheng, and the eunuch caged the horse again, and sent it out of the Meridian Gate.Xu Shilang then went out to the court door together.Xu Shilang don't go there.Zhuang Zhengjun went to the next place, took off his turban, and saw a scorpion inside.Zhuang Zhengjun smiled and said: "Young man Zangcang, so it is this thing! It seems that I have lost my way!" The next day, he got up, burned incense and washed his hands, and picked a yarrow himself, which was "expelled by Tianshan".Zhuang Zhengjun said: "That's right." Then he made ten strategies for the upbringing in detail, and wrote a book "Pleading for the gift to return the mountain", and sent it in from the Secretary of General Administration.

Since then, all officials from the six ministries of Jiuqing have come to visit and ask for advice.Zhuang Zhengjun was impatient, so he had to go to each yamen to pay homage.The Duke Tu Taibao of the University said to Xu Shilang: "Brother Zhuang Nian from Nanjing, the emperor has great intentions. Why don't you invite him to come to the students for a walk? I want to collect the door and wall, thinking of peaches and plums." The servant is not good. Suddenly, he said this to Zhuang Zhengjun tactfully.Zhuang Zhengjun said: "There is no Confucius in the world, so he shouldn't be among his disciples. Moreover, the Taibao Lord has repeatedly presided over the ceremonies, and the Hanyuan disciples do not know how many students. Why should he be a savage who was born late? He dare not learn." The servant returned the words to the Taibao. .Taibao was not happy.

A few days later, the emperor sat in the toilet hall and asked the Taibao: "I have carefully looked at the ten strategies proposed by Zhuang Shangzhi. I have learned a lot. Can this person be a minister?" Talented, honored by the emperor Kuang Dian's special kindness, and the government and the field Xu Yue. But I couldn't help being a Jinshi, and suddenly became a Qing Er. My ancestors in the court did not have this kind of law, and I opened the world to open up the heart of luck. Fuhou Shengjue." The emperor sighed once. , with the edict of the teaching university: Zhuang Shangzhi allowed the order to return to the mountain, and gave five hundred taels of internal money, and gave Yuanwu Lake in Nanjing to Zhuang Shangzhi to write books and advocate Xiuming.

When the imperial decree came out, Zhuang Zhengjun went to the Meridian Gate to thank him again, bid farewell to Xu Shilang, packed his luggage and went back south.All the officials of the Manchu Dynasty came to see him off, and Zhuang Zhengjun resigned, but he still called a car and came out of Zhangyimen. The weather was cold that day, and I walked a few miles, but I couldn't find a place to stay, so I had to take a small road and go to a person's house to stay overnight.That family lived in a thatched cottage with a lamp lit inside, and an old man in his sixties or seventies stood at the door.Zhuang Zhengjun went up to him and bowed to him, saying: "Father, I'm on a journey, and I missed Sutou. I want to borrow my father to stay here for one night, and I will pay the rent tomorrow morning." The old father said: "Guest officer, you are a traveler Whose house will go with the roof? It’s okay to borrow it. It’s just that my family only has one house, and there are two people living in it, both in their 70s. Unfortunately, another old wife died this morning, and I have no money to buy a coffin. Now it’s parked at In the house. Where does the guest officer live? Besides, you have a car, how can you get it in?" Zhuang Zhengjun said: "It doesn't matter, I just need a place, and I will spend the night. The car just asks him to stay outside the door." The old man Said: "Well, you can only sleep in the same bed with me." Zhuang Zhengjun said: "That's fine." When he walked into the room, he saw the old woman's dead body standing still, and there was an earthen kang beside her.Zhuang Zhengjun laid down the luggage, asked the boy to sleep in the car with the coachman, and let the old man sleep in the kang.Zhuang Zhengjun fell asleep outside the kang, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.In the middle of the night, I saw the dead body gradually moving, Zhuang Zhengjun was startled, looked closely, and saw that the hand was also moving, with the intention of sitting up, Zhuang Zhengjun said: "This man is alive! "Busy to push the old man. After pushing for a while, he couldn't wake up.Zhuang Zhengjun said: "Why do seniors sleep so well!" When he sat up and looked at the old man, he saw that there was only air coming out of his mouth, but no air coming in, he was already dead.Looking back at the old woman, she had stood up, her legs straightened, and her eyes were staring blankly.It turned out that it was not alive, but a dead body.Zhuang Zhengjun panicked, ran out the door, called the driver, blocked the door of the car, and refused to let him go out.

Zhuang Zhengjun wandered outside the door alone, regretting in his heart: "'Good and bad regrets are born', if I sit at home and don't come out for a walk, I won't suffer this false alarm today!" He thought: "Life and death It’s also a common thing, I don’t have deep meaning after all, so I’m afraid.” Gathering my mind, I sat in the car.Wait until it's daylight.The walking corpse also fell down, and there were only two corpses lying horizontally in one room.Zhuang Zhengjun said sadly: "These two old people are so poor! Although I am here for one night, I won't bury him, who will bury him?" Because he called a servant and a coachman, he went to find a market, and Zhuang Zhengjun took dozens of Two silver coins came to buy the coffin, and the market hired some people to pick it up here and bury the two of them.Another piece of land was found, which also belonged to a nearby family, and Zhuang Zhengjun bought it with money.Bought it and watched the two old people buried.After the burial was over, Zhuang Zhengjun bought some paper money for offerings, and wrote another article.Zhuang Zhengjun shed tears to pay homage.All the people in the city came to Luobai to thank Zhuang Zhengjun. Zhuang Zhengjun bid farewell to Taierzhuang, and ordered a horse-slip boat, which is quite good for reading.In a few days, I came to Yangzhou and stayed in Chaozhou for a day, and I wanted to change the river boat back to Nanjing.I got on the riverboat the next morning, and I saw more than 20 people sitting on the shore in neat sedan chairs, all of whom were from the Lianghuai general merchants who came to wait for Mr. Zhuang Zhengjun and put in the posts.Because of the narrowness of the boat, Mr. Zhuang Zheng invited ten people to come on board first.Some of the family members in the house, some called uncles, some called elder brothers, and some called old uncles, bowed and sat down.The person sitting in second place is Xiao Baiquan.All the salt merchants said: "The emperor wants to use Taiweng more, and Taiweng refuses to be an official. It's really a good character." Xiao Baiquan said: "The old man knows what the old man means. The old man aspires to be a great talent. This conquest, come back today, and leave it to the next Ke Lun Yuan. Since the emperor knows, the future is expected." Zhuang Zhengjun smiled and said: "How can you disdain the conquest ceremony? If you talk about Lun Yuan, Lai Ke must be the elder brother. Younger brother Lie firmly in the haze, and listen to the sound." Xiao Baiquan said: "Do you still see the courtyard and the Taoist here?" Zhuang Zhengjun said: "I am so anxious to return, I have to set sail." After that, the ten others went up. I did two more meetings with the dozen or so people.Zhuang Zhengjun was very impatient.Immediately, the Salt Court came to worship, the Salt Road came to worship, the Branch Division came to worship, Yangzhou Prefecture came to worship, and Jiangdu County came to worship, which made Mr. Zhuang Zheng so anxious that he sent all the officials aboard, which was called speeding the boat.That night, the general merchant collected six hundred silver coins and sent them to the ship, but the ship was too far away to make it, so he took the silver back. When Zhuang Zhengjun came to Yanziji with a favorable wind, he said happily, "I see Jiangshan beauties again today!" He called a canopy boat, loaded his luggage and swung all the way to Hanximen.Ask someone to carry the luggage, walk home, pay homage to the ancestors, meet the lady, and said with a smile: "I said it will be three months at most, or two months at least. How is it today? Am I not lying?" The lady also laughed Yes, prepare wine to wash away the dust that night. The next morning I woke up and just washed my face, the servant came in and said, "Master Liuhe is here to worship." Zhuang Zhengjun went out to meet.When he came back, the chief secretary came to worship again, Yingtianfu came to worship, the post road came to worship, Shang and Jiang counties came to worship, and the gentry of the city came to worship, coaxing Zhuang Zhengjun to put on and take off his boots, and take off his boots and put them on again.Zhuang Zhengjun was annoyed, and said to his wife: "I have no reason! Since the imperial court gave me Yuanwu Lake, why should I live here with these people? Let's move to the lake to benefit!" He moved to Yuanwu Lake overnight. This lake is a very wide place, about the same size as West Lake.On the left side of Taicheng, you can see Jiming Temple.The water chestnut, lotus root, lotus and gorgon in the lake produce thousands of stones every year.There are seventy-two fishing boats in the lake, and the whole city of Nanjing sells this lake fish every morning.There are five continents in the middle of the lake: four continents store pictures and books, and a large garden on the middle continent is given to Mr. Zhuang Zheng to live in, with dozens of houses.There are old trees in the garden, plum blossoms, peaches, plums, plantains, osmanthus, and chrysanthemums, which bloom continuously in all seasons.There is also a garden of bamboos, tens of thousands of poles.There are four open windows in the garden, looking at the lake and mountains, it is really like a fairyland.A boat was tied to the door, and it was going to cross over there in the lake.If this ship is taken away, it will not be able to fly over there.Zhuang Zhengjun lives in the garden. One day, the same lady rented a barn to watch the water, and said with a smile: "You see, these lakes and mountains are all ours! We can play every day, unlike Du Shaoqing who wants to take the Zunhu to Qingliang Mountain to see flowers." Nothing to do , Drinking another bottle of wine, asked the lady to sit beside Du Shaoqing's "Poems" and listen to him.Read something funny, eat a big glass, and laugh at each other.Zhuang Zhengjun was really at ease in the lake.Suddenly one day, someone called a boat on the other side of the bank.Let the boat go here to cross over, and Zhuang Zhengjun welcomes him out.The man who came in to meet him was Lu Xinhou.Zhuang Zhengjun was overjoyed and said: "I left on the way, longing for today. How did you get here today?" Lu Xinhou said: "Yesterday I was in Zun's mansion, but today we are here. You used to be a fairy here, I envy you!" " Zhuang Zhengjun said: "This place is far away from the world. Although it is not Wuling, it is similar. You stay here for a while, I am afraid that you will get lost when you come again." Prepare wine and drink together.At the middle of the night, the servant came in and said in a hurry: "Hundreds of soldiers and a thousand torches have been sent to the palace of the king of Zhongshan, and they have taken all seventy-two fish boats. The soldiers came and surrounded the garden." Stop!" Zhuang Zhengjun was shocked.Another young man came in and said: "There is a senior soldier who came into the hall." Zhuang Zhengjun walked out.The chief soldier saluted Zhuang Zhengjun when he saw him.Zhuang Zhengjun said: "I don't know what's the matter?" The chief soldier said: "It has nothing to do with the Zunfu." Then he whispered in his ear: "Because Lu Xinhou's collection of "Gao Qingqiu Anthology" is a banned book, he was accused. Jingli said that this man is brave, so he sent troops to take him. He is here at the end of today, so I came to ask for this man, and don't let him go away." Zhuang Zhengjun said: "Master, just look for me. I will come tomorrow Tell him to throw himself into prison, and I'll leave it to me." Hearing this, the chief soldier said, "The lord has said it, what do you say! I'll leave." Zhuang Zhengjun sent him out, and the chief soldier gave an order, and all the soldiers gathered together Crossed the river.Lu Xinhou had heard about this, and said: "I am a tough guy, am I willing to leave and bring Mr. Tired? I will go to prison tomorrow!" Zhuang Zhengjun smiled and said: "You only go to sit for a few days, less than a month, I will take care of you Come out and be at ease." Lu Xinhou went to prison. Zhuang Zhengjun secretly wrote more than a dozen letters, sent people to Beijing to ask the elders of the court, and sent documents from the ministry to release Lu Xinhou, but accused the leader of the crime.Lu Xinhou thanked Zhuang Zhengjun and stayed in the garden again. Two days later, two more people called a ferry to cross the lake.Zhuang Zhengjun went out to welcome Chi Hengshan and Du Shaoqing.Zhuang Zhengjun said happily: "It's interesting, 'I just want to talk about it and heard the guests come'." He invited him to sit on the lake pavilion.Chi Hengshan said that he wanted to order the rituals and music of the Taibo Temple.Mr. Zhuang Zheng left the two of them to eat wine for a day, and ordered the etiquette and music performed in the Taibo Temple properly, and handed it over to Chi Hengshan to take it. Years passed in a blink of an eye.In the middle of February, Chi Hengshan discussed with Ma Chunshang, Qu Yanfu, Ji Weixiao, Xiao Jinxuan, and Jin Dongya about offering sacrifices to Taibo Temple in Du Shaoqing's river house.Everyone said: "Who are you looking for to be the officiant?" Chi Hengshan said: "The one who is offering sacrifices is a great saint. It must be a sage to officiate to be worthy of it. Now we must find this person." Everyone. Said: "Who is it?" Chi Hengshan folded his fingers and named this person.Because of this, there are different teachings: After all, who is this person, let's listen to the next chapter.