Chapter 61 Chapter 5: Prison of White Water

When he arrived at Baishuitan, Shi Yue didn't care about his demeanor, and quickly rushed into Sang Chongguo's office, and said with a dark face: "Changqing, how many issues of "Baishuitan Academic Journal" have been published? Show me it, hurry up !" Seeing his expression, Sang Chongguo didn't know what happened, so he quickly took out two magazines from the bookshelf, handed them to Shi Yue, and asked, "What's the matter, Ziming?" Shi Yue shook his head, said nothing, found a chair to sit down, and began to read the magazine.The second monk Sangchong Guozhang couldn't figure it out. He only saw that Shi Yue looked relaxed at times, frowned slightly at times, shook his head and sighed at times, and nodded with a smile at times...

History is sometimes extremely ironic. When Shi Yue was reading "Baishuitan Academic Journal" in Baishuitan, Wang Anshi was also reading a journal in his study. "Bai Shui Tan Academic Journal" has only two issues, and it has become a must-read publication for scholars in Bianjing. Wang Anshi read very fast. While reading, he pointed to an article and said with a smile to his two sons Wang Yu and Wang Pang: "Look at this article, it's very well written-"Economic Economics, Applying What You Learned", The common people think that people who study classics are pedantic people, but they don’t know that learning classics is for the purpose of being useful to the people of the country. I can’t imagine that there is such a talent in Baishuitan!”

Wang Pang laughed and said, "Daddy, Baishuitan is full of talented people. Many members of the poetry club said that they were going to study in Baishuitan. There is a slogan among scholars in Tokyo, which is 'If you don't go to Baishuitan, you will be a scholar in vain.'" Wang Yu snorted disapprovingly, and said, "Brother, why do you have those vulgar views? Guozijian is nothing more than that, so what about Baishuitan?" Wang Pang didn't know what Wang Yu was thinking, and said with a smile: "Brother doesn't know, the students of Guozijian are only eligible to enroll because their fathers were officials in the court, but Baishuitan has no distinction between teaching and learning. Father often said , there are many talented people in the field, but Guozijian is actually not as good as Baishuitan."

Wang Yu still wanted to speak, but Wang Anshi waved his hand and said, "Your brother is right about this matter." After finishing speaking, he continued to read.Suddenly, Wang Anshi's eyes stopped, and he frowned after a long while and asked, "Why is this article in the same tune as Sun Jue? It's really old-fashioned!" Brother Wang Yu hurriedly went up to read it, and saw that the title was "Sages should pay attention to the laws of the ancestors, and it is not appropriate to take doubtful texts to try to rule". Sarcastic Wang Anshi reform.Wang Yu sneered and said: "This topic is the original words in Sun Jue's memorial. Can you control the Imperial College, but not Baishuitan? These guys are really stubborn!"

Wang Pang glanced at Wang Yu, and said a little dissatisfied: "This is the first phase, and it's still before the Imperial College, so it can't be said that you won't change after repeated admonitions, right?" Wang Yu rolled his eyes at him, and reprimanded: "What do you know? Maybe Su Jia was influenced by this article." Wang Anshi glared at their brothers, continued to read, and saw those mathematical physics papers, his face was slightly pale.He has always hoped to be more "talented" and less pedantic.Wang Anshi also valued these miscellaneous studies.After reading it, he picked up the second issue of "Bai Shui Tan Academic Journal" and read it.Unexpectedly, after reading only a few articles, Wang Anshi couldn't help being furious, threw the book to the ground, and shouted, "How unreasonable! How unreasonable!"

Wang Yu picked up the "Baishuitan Academic Journal" on the ground, and the title of an article jumped into his eyes-"A Discussion on the Second Law of Immunization and Baojia Is Not Consistent with Classics and Meaning". The title was printed in the boss's official script, which was extremely eye-catching.He flipped through ten lines at a glance, and the next one was "Reforms in the Name, Accumulation as Reality——Comparison between Wang Mang's Restructuring and the Reforms of Our Dynasty"; "Controversy"; and then read "Lao Tzu, Words from the Family", which is a satire on "Lao Tzu". Everyone in the world knows that Wang Anshi and his son admire Lao Tzu... There are nearly one-third of the articles in the entire "Ming Li Juan" I am criticizing the new law and Wang Anshi through history and scriptures!