ps: It is a lacquer carving rather than a lacquer carving. The error has been changed. In addition, some characters in the novel have fictitious characters and behaviors, so there is no need to investigate them in detail.

Zi Zhang Zhiyan shocked everyone in the room. Even Yuan Xian and Qi Diaokai pointed at him with his fingers, and could not speak for a long time.

However, for Zi Zhang himself, it has been more than one day or two for him to have such extreme thoughts.

Generally speaking, the disciples that Confucius accepted before leaving Lu were called "advanced" disciples, and the disciples that he accepted in other places after leaving Lu were called "backward" disciples. Zhang, a son of Chen, was the best among the backward disciples. Although he was young, he was interested in learning and thinking deeply, liked to discuss issues with Confucius, and had a great achievement in the thought of loyalty and faith, and had his own opinions.

Although Confucius was very optimistic about Zi Zhang, when evaluating his personality, he shook his head and said, "Chai Yeyi, if you join Lu, your army will be Pi, and Yuyeyi."

Gao Chai is stupid, Zeng Shen is slow, Zhong You is reckless, while Zi Zhang is extremely arrogant.

Zizhang's extremeness is reflected in his unique understanding of Confucius' thoughts. Unlike the "gentlemen and Confucians" who are self-consistent and like to engage in red tape, he likes to make friends, and lives in a random way and does not pay attention to appearance etiquette.

He also admitted: "If the lower part is useless, the country will be rich; if the upper part has righteousness, the country will be governed; if the upper part is polite, the people will not fight; if there is a god, the country will respect it; if both love it, the people will not be resentful; if the upper part is undestined, the people will not steal."

These views have been separated from some of Confucius' thoughts, but are somewhat similar to Mozi in later generations... The lower part is useless and the lower part is righteous and the higher part is the same as the higher part is the same. The higher part is the gods and the clear ghosts of the Jimo family, and they love both the Jimo family, thinking that the Jimo family is undestined.

This kind of rebellious thought will naturally be rejected by other Confucius disciples, so Zi Zhang suddenly came to "spoken words" and was immediately attacked by them. Qi Diaokai, Youruo and others rely on their senior brothers to suppress Zi Zhang with their qualifications, asking him to apologize and take back these words.

"Otherwise, you will be driven out of the sect!" Yuan Xian, who always likes to impose his moral values ​​on others, is even more aggressive.

At this moment, an old but still powerful voice came from the inner room: "Xian! The gentleman is harmonious but different, don't make things difficult for him, let him in!"

It was Confucius, and then he stopped and watched Zi Zhang take off his shoes and walk in with only his feet.

Although he was Ye Gong's "guest" in his house, Confucius's house was very simple. He had a few straw mats and a short case with copper stools and beans on the table. Zi Zhang saw that the Master was kneeling on the mat next to the window, and was writing the bamboo slips in his hand in full concentration in the morning sun. He was writing the pen in his hand with all his pens and slashing them. He did not look back after he came in.

After no one paid attention to political ideas, Confucius' life gradually shifted to academics. He was compiling and usurping the classics that brought Prince Chao to Chu State and scattered.

"Master, it was the time for the La Festival, and my disciple brought some jerky meat..." Zi Zhang took out the food from the bag and placed it beside the mat. He also had his own livelihood outside, and brought some food and jerky meat every month. Although it was not much, he could express his feelings. But every time he thought of these things, the Master ate very little, and most of them still helped the group of people outside, he felt disgusted.

Confucius nodded, and before he turned around, Zi Zhang knelt quietly. He found that the Master's hair seemed to be whiter than when he came last time, and his tall figure was much hunched...

For a time, after the ten years of Chen's apprenticeship, Zi Zhang was vividly remembered...

...

When Wanqiu of Chen State became a disciple of Confucius, Zi Zhang was in his prime. After Chen and Cai's difficulties, he slowly began to learn etiquette, music, poetry, and calligraphy. However, what he was most interested in was the way of loyalty and faith.

Compared to the embarrassment of Chen and Cai, life in Ye County is relatively comfortable, at least there is no need to run around.

This is thanks to Mr. Ye managing the place in an orderly manner. When Confucius first arrived, he praised Mr. Ye's governance philosophy.

A major difficulty in the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period was that it was small and sparse population and vast land, which needed to be filled by the people. Ye Gong was in Wan, and Ye built cities and strengthened the borders and expanded the territory, and also mobilized the people to dig two ponds in the east and west, and accumulate water from the mountains and rivers in the square to irrigate the farmland. The Ye people benefited greatly. The increasingly prosperous economy and lower taxes here attracted the people of Luhunrong and Zheng to join. It was a great success to be able to achieve "the nearest is happy, and the far is coming". In Confucius's view, the disciples were ready to sell their thoughts to Ye Gong and enter the officialdom in Wanye. Confucius was also moved and asked Zilu to tell Ye Gong that Confucius was a person who "forgets food with his hard work, and forgets worries with joy, and does not know that old age is coming", which means that Zhongni can still do things before he was old.

He really hopes to create a "Eastern Zhou" that is well-educated and polite in the south of this week.

However, although Ye Gong respected and raised Confucius and appointed Zilu and others as officials, he was as close as Confucius's own thoughts...

Last year, because of one incident, Confucius was completely desperate about Ye Gong.

Zi Zhang still remembered that it was a daily meeting between the two, and Zi Zhang was accompanying him.

At that time, Mr. Ye talked about a case: "There is an upright man in Ye County. His father stole someone's sheep, so he reported his father. I punished his father and praised him."

Confucius said disapprovingly: "In my opinion, an upright person is different from the kind of person that Mr. Ye said. In Lu State, when something similar happened, the father concealed it for his son and the son concealed it for his father. This is integrity! As for reporting his father, although it conforms to the law, it is still unfilial. Mr. Ye should not praise this person, but should punish him!"

Mr. Ye admired the law and advocated the ethics of family affection, and opposed the destruction of relatives for justice. The conversation between the two suddenly fell into a deadlock.

Finally, Mr. Ye said lightly that when Chu State ordered Yin Ziwen, the nephew of Chu State, broke the law, and the court officials of Chu State were released as a member of the Lingyin family. After Ziwen heard about it, he personally sent the nephew back again and asked the officials to punish him in accordance with the rules of Chu State.

"After this incident, everyone in Yingdu sang that Ziwen's clan violated the national law and law. He explained it in a reasonable and did not listen to it. He was kind to the people and complained about it, and was just and fair..."

Mr. Ye smiled and said, "Shen Zhuliang is not talented, I hope he can maintain national laws like Ziwen. Moreover, Master, in the current state of Lu, I am afraid that there will be no more sons who are honored as father-hidden."

Confucius suddenly became silent. Indeed, now that Lu is ruled by the Zhao family, Zhao respects the law and moves the Zhao family completely to Lu. The past moral standards between the villagers' parties have been replaced by new criminal laws.

This conversation was also the last time that Ye Gong summoned Confucius. Although he has been offering sacrifices since then, he has never met him again...

Afterwards, Yuan Xian, Youruo and others were resentful, so they added fuel to the fire of the "Ye Gong Haolong" that Ji Ran said in Ye County before, and spread it to express their dissatisfaction.

Confucius said nothing. Perhaps he was used to being cold-hearted, but when he was alone, he sighed to Zi Zhang and said, "Mr. Ye is a person who looks very similar to Mr. Zhao Wuxiu."

"He is not bad in nature, and is also talented and has a loving heart for the people, but he is too eager for quick success and instant benefits. In order to consolidate his status and expand his territory, he abandoned benevolence, righteousness, integrity and shame, and used strict punishment and harsh laws as the criterion for the people. However, they did not know that haste would not achieve anything, and that small profits would not be achieved. Now Zhao State abandons etiquette and makes the first contribution, power to the land, and captives to the people, only seeking to annex the princes and establish hegemony. However, the day when Zhao Hou succeeded, it was also the time when the Central Plains ritual collapsed and music was broken. Ye Gong also had this trend, but fortunately, he still had the right to be a monarch and a minister in his heart, and he should be able to start and end well with the King of Chu..."

Zi Zhang heard it in his ears and remembered it in his heart. Indeed, Ye Gong gave people the impression that he had always been modest and conservative, but in fact, he had been secretly imitating some things from the northern Zhao State, such as the development of the iron industry in Wandi. Chu State originally needed some foundation for iron smelting. After several years of development, Wandi had become the largest iron smelting center of Chu State. The same was followed by Zhao State's spirit of respecting the law, but Ye Gong still used the old law of Chu State "The Second Classic of the Chicken", and did not copy the military merits and other systems of Zhao State.

However, Zi Zhang had another question: The Master spent his whole life looking for a wise king. However, the most wise monarch in the world is the Marquis of Zhao and Duke Ye. However, both of them kept a distance from the Master's benevolence and righteousness, and they were more interested in the name and law, and they achieved good results. Zhao dominated the north and Ye Fu was called the southern country. However, the disadvantages of the Master's repeated statements were only fulfilled by the princes and nobles, and most of the people were able to see it harmoniously.

In this way, is it because Zhao Hou and Ye Gong are blind and do not recognize the real dragon? Or is there something wrong with the concept of the Master and the senior brothers, and they are no longer adapting to this era?

This problem became stronger and stronger when his mother Chen State was in danger of national destruction. Suspicion arose in his heart, almost defeating everything Zi Zhang had learned over the past ten years. The pain was followed by deeper thinking. Thinking without learning would lead to danger. He decided not to seek troubles on his own, but to leave Wan and Ye and go to the wider Central Plains to take a look.

"This time I came here, I said goodbye to Master..."

Confucius paused for a while, and he didn't say anything for a long time before sighing, "Let's go."

Zi Zhang stood up and was about to leave, but Confucius said loudly: "The world is difficult and the war is in chaos. Bring more clothes and dry food. If you spend all the silk coins or have traveled enough to read a book, you can visit Zigong in Taoqiu. He has always been generous and will definitely support you..."

Zi Zhang almost cried, but he still held back and asked for help, and then shed tears.

For ten years, the Master was like his father, but the young birds were going to grow up, leave their wings, and fly. Moreover, Zi Zhang vaguely felt that the Master understood that everything he worked hard to maintain, whether it was rituals and music, or the order of the king and his ministers, was accelerating the collapse, just like the melting ice and snow in spring, and there was no way to reverse it.

But the Master was too stubborn. After all, this was something he had spent his whole life maintaining. Even if he escaped to Jiuyi, he had to persevere to the end!

The Master was able to go to the end with his obsession. Although he would never regret it, Zi Zhang did not want the entire Confucius to disappear and be eliminated by the times...

Zizhang didn't want to hide in the south like Youruo, Yuan Xian and others, deceive himself. He had to go out and visit Zigong, Zaiyu and other disciples who had already split, learn from their experience, open his eyes to face up to this era, find a new way out for the Master and Confucius!

...

Confucius was still facing the tide of the times and doing a mantis arm as a chariot; Zi Zhang wiped away his tears and embarked on a tram with his luggage; and on the spring of the fourth year of Zhaohou, on the day of the first day of the first month of the year, the Huangchi meeting was also prepared to be held on the banks of Jishui...

"Left Historian" says: "In the spring of the fourth year of the king, the king had captured the Duke of Qi Tu, so he summoned the emperor to gather together for five and six times to face Daliang. On the day of the day, he also brought the King of Heaven and King of Song, Bo Qin, Bo Yan, Bo Lu, Bo Zheng, Bo Wei, Bo Chen, Bo Cai, Bo Zhongshan, Bo Teng, Bo Xue, Bo Tan, Bo Zi, Bo Xiao, Bo Xiao, Bo Wu, Dazai, Bo Yue, Bo Zhong, Bo Ba people met in Huangchi! Since the Zhou Shi moved east, the alliance of princes has been prosperous, and no one can surpass his right! "

ps: The setting of "Zuoshi" in the book is a record written by Zuo Qiuming, rather than a book compiled by later generations.
Chapter completed!