Chapter 54 Will - We never bow down and seek talents to help ourselves

Hu Linyi said many times: "The world is corrupt, and only two or three of us support it. Is it okay for us not to lower our heads and ask talents to help ourselves?" He wrote to Zeng Guofan: "Restrain oneself to treat others, but Lin Yi Be patient for it, make it difficult for it, otherwise things will be in vain.” When Wei Yuan got the ancient text of the Confucian classic "The Great Learning", he was ecstatic when he saw it, and studied hard all night.When Tang Jinzhao went to visit, he saw that Wei was unkempt, with disheveled braids and grass-like hair sticking out at the roots. He was wearing a worn-out robe with no mandarin jacket, which was also stained and stained. Wearing a pair of worn black sandals and no tabby socks.In the past, there is no trace of the calm and rigorous poor talent. Wei Hunran is a beggar who roams the streets. Tang Daqi: "Why is Mo Shen like this?" The whole article is compared with the current article "Great Learning", and I don't know how much time has passed."

When Zeng Guofan was weak, he changed his name to "Disheng" in order to reform himself.Ten years later, he has changed from a hard-working examinee to a straight Hanlin, but after introspection, he found that not only the problems in his body have not been eliminated, but more and more.So I made up my mind and bravely changed my past.Sleeping in love with the bed, unable to get up at dawn, he scolded himself for "doing nothing, shameful"; he liked to recite poems and compose fu, search for chapters and excerpt sentences, but did not devote energy to useful studies such as classics and history. He believed that the crux of the problem was A good name is also "shameful"; when writing a letter to a local official, the tone is a bit more intimate, it is "intended to bait him to ask questions", "very ugly", and should be rewritten, "as a sparse speech"; like Talking about the mountains, fighting for verbal advantages, is a lie, and if you commit it again, you will be "killed by the gods"; telling people that you are addicted to pornographic jokes, "envy you when you hear them", is a "true beast".Here, "introspecting myself three times a day" will achieve success in ten years.

Hu Linyi himself asked to go to Guizhou as an errand, thinking that "this country is barren, or it can keep its innocence, and he dare not betray the kindness of good friends." .” At the age of 20, Li Hongzhang made his ambition: "Waste the past and let it go, and the time is 20 autumns. When you are blue-eyed, you invite celebrities to reward you, and you chat with your heart to reward your old friends. You pretend to be true through the ages, and there is only one ups and downs in the world. I have long been ashamed of Penglai Xiandao. , Hairpin flowers are mostly on the heads of young people." His poems on entering the capital said: "The husband only holds the Wu hook with one hand, and his spirit is higher than that of Baichilou. Whoever wrote the history in the past ten thousand years will find a prince three thousand miles away."

After Ding Richang returned to his hometown, he was seriously ill and discouraged, so he said that he would concentrate on studying ancient Chinese and stop asking about human affairs.Li Hongzhang criticized him very unceremoniously and said: If you do this, it is not impossible to become a famous artist, and the famous mountain of works will be passed on endlessly. However, from the Han Dynasty to the present, there is no problem. It's just literature, "Is it beneficial at that time? Is it beneficial in later generations? Life is like morning dew. If you get it in time, you can make one or two careers that help the world, stabilize the people, and stand up to the sky. Wouldn't it be more empty words?" Ding Richang's words were sonorous and powerful. Once again he helped the sick out of the mountain.

Tan Sitong came out as a descendant, so he won't be liked by his father. When he was 12 years old, his second sister, biological mother and eldest brother died of the epidemic within five days. Tan was also infected and passed out for three days.Resurrection is because of despising his life, with deep thoughts and high hopes, and privately harboring Mozi's ambition to rub his head and let his heels go.He said: "In order to save all sentient beings, there is no fear of life, no fear of notoriety, no fear of death, no fear of hell and evil ways, and even no fear of the great power and virtue of the masses. Gai Ren is the ultimate."