Chapter 859: Death of Zhang Zai

Zhao Xu waited for the princess and the consort to see each other, and then said: "We are talking about the children of Su Mingrun's family. By the way, Shoukang, is there an elder in his family who lives in Zhuangzi? How is his character?"

Speaking of this Princess Wei, she curled her lips: "That child is very naughty and very kind to my sister, but it seems that I have to take their things every time I go..."

Zhang Dunli laughed on the side: "The princess really takes a lot of things from the Bian Guan family."

"Consort!" Princess Wei refused: "That was given to me by Sister Shi and Hachi Gong!"

"Oh?" Zhao Xu thought wrong again: "The Su family is actually also rich."

Zhang Dunli bowed and said: "Your Majesty has misunderstood. These are not precious things. Ba Gong is a good hand in farming, but he can't stay idle. Other houses around him are full of gardens and pavilions. The Sujia Village was turned into a vegetable garden for Ba Gong.

, fish pond, mulberry forest.”

"The prince and the bachelor can also leave him alone. How many people are there in the Su family? If you can't finish eating, just send it to the Zhuangzi around."

"I just harvested a strange crop recently. It's said that Su Mingrun got it from overseas. It's called carrots. It has a pleasant color and is sweet and crispy. I have already obtained some and will send them to His Majesty in a few days."

"The kale in Bianjing was also planted by Hachigong first. This winter, kohlrabi, beet, cabbage, and winter rapeseed have been added. Hachigong said that after they bloom and bear fruit, Bianjing will be able to have more good varieties next winter.

It’s time for vegetables.”

Princess Wei said excitedly: "His big radish this year, the largest one weighs four kilograms, and there are cracks in the ground. They are the most delicious. Every time I go to Zhongmou, I..."

When I said this, I blushed when I thought about it. I was right about the flat jar. It seemed that I took a lot of things from other people's homes every time I went there.

Seeing Zhao Xu and the two empress dowagers looking strange, Nan Ran said: "Hachi is a very good-tempered man... He only treats us as juniors and won't be offended... My consort likes to get along with him the most. If you have any brothers, ask him!"

Zhang Dunli said: "Your Majesty just asked about the character of Hachigong. What should I say... Hachiko is illiterate and has no knowledge of classics and history, but he has his own principles. He treats others honestly and fairly, and is neither arrogant nor conceited. He is neither hypocritical nor flattery. He is a natural born

His temperament is average."

"The Master said that when you are seventy, you should follow your heart's desires without breaking the rules. I think this old man is almost like this kind of person. Therefore, I like to be close to him. In fact, I also want to learn his way of dealing with the world."

Zhao Xu nodded: "In fact, I think Su Mingrun was also influenced by what he heard and saw, so he had to be subtle. I heard that the students of the Polytechnic Institute are doing some kind of public sacrifice?"

Zhang Dunli said: "Yes, they are offering sacrifices to Mr. Hengqu, the headmaster of Songyang Academy."

This year was a year of great loss for Neo-Confucianism. Not long after Shao Yongcai passed away, Zhang Zai also passed away.

Zhang Zai spent most of his life and energy on writing books, teaching and educating people.

The establishment of education in Guanzhong gradually formed its own ideological system, which made "Guanxue" flourish, scholars emerged in large numbers, and the folk customs of Guanzhong changed.

After meeting Su You, the two schools of thought collided, merged, improved, and supplemented their thoughts, and became inseparable, thorough, and complete.

Guanxue has gained an unbreakable foundation of "practical learning" and its theoretical foundation has been improved.

Through Guan Xue, Shu studies took a key step from "application" to "management of the world" and completed a major development from "mathematics" to "philosophy".

After that, the two gradually merged, forming the "Neo-Confucianism" sect that inherited and developed Confucianism. It held high the banner of restoration and vigorously promoted "investigating things to gain knowledge" and "restraining oneself and restoring rituals." As it develops today, it has even proposed

The slogan of "natural justice and human kindness".

With the addition of dialectics, logic, contradictions and other speculative weapons, the Confucian Neo-Confucianism that has gone astray in history was directly nipped in the bud.

When he was lecturing at Songyang Academy, Zhang Zai "bent down to read, raised his head and thought. If he got something, he would recognize it, or he would sit up in the middle of the night, take a candle and write..."

During this period, he wrote a large number of works and summarized his life's academic achievements.

In order to instruct scholars, he wrote "Bianyu" and "Dingwen". Su You greatly appreciated it after reading it, and wrote it on both sides of the gate of Songyang Academy as the school motto.

The two articles had a lot of words, so Su You extracted eight of them and composed a couplet - "People are connected with things, nourishing one's character with intention". It was erected by the gate of the academy.

The Guanshu School used these eight characters as precepts and affectionately called the two articles "Eastern Inscription" and "Western Inscription".

During the teaching period, Zhang Zai also used his salary to purchase hundreds of acres of Sushu farmland in Hengqu, and personally led his students in the practice of restoring "ancient rituals" and "well fields."

According to the model of "Zhou Li", it was divided into public fields and private fields, which were equally distributed to landless and landless farmers, and the east and west canals were dredged to "test one township", hoping to prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the well field system.

Su You thought this was impossible, but he still wrote a letter to Zhang Zai expressing his point of view. This has also become a talk that the school of science and engineering likes to talk about - I do not support your point of view, teacher, but I firmly support your work.

Pursue truth and practice. Because practice is the standard for testing truth, and it should be the only standard.

In the tenth year of Xining, Lu Dafang, the commander-in-chief of Qin Feng Road, believed that Zhang Zai's academics inherited the thoughts of ancient sages and could be used to revive ancient rituals and correct moral customs, so he petitioned Shenzong to summon Zhang Zai back to Beijing to serve.

Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty appointed Zhang Zai to the post of Tongzhi Taichang.

Soon Zhang Zai's condition worsened and he resigned and returned to the west.

On November 17, Zhang Zai traveled to Lintong, stayed in the hotel that night, took a bath and went to bed. He passed away the next morning at the age of fifty-eight.

Zhang Zai was called to the Jin Dynasty twice in his life, served as a foreign official three times, and wrote books. He used all the high salary from the academy to engage in social practice and subsidize students. When he died, he was extremely poor.

After hearing the news, the students from Songyang Academy rushed to Lintong, bought coffins, buried them, and returned to Hengqu to protect the coffins.

Zhang Dunli was a scholar-type prince-in-law, and he knew a lot about everything in the academic circles of the Song Dynasty.

After listening to Zhang Dunli's detailed explanation, Zhao Xu nodded: "Xu Quan, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Chen Zhaoming, a young eunuch of Si Tianjian, Su Yuanzhen of Zhengzhou, Fu Bi of South Korea, Guan Gou and Sima Guang, a censor in Xijing, all reported to the Ming court.

If you want to beg for a gift of a shirt, then according to the duties of the third hall of Chongwen Academy, you can give half of the funeral expenses, and the court will express its sincere wishes."

Zhang Dunli cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty is kind and kind, Zhang Shanchang's students will definitely be grateful."

Zhao Xu said: "While I have some free time now, how about going to your village to rest for a few days?"

Zhang Dunli hurriedly bowed and saluted: "The villa is humble and humble, but to have a saint come to visit me, and the tiles and stones in the pond and garden look up at God's grace, I am so grateful that I shed tears of gratitude!"

Zhao Xu was rather annoyed with his two younger brothers who stayed in the palace, but he had a really good relationship with his two younger sisters.

The Princess of Shu had a dignified character, and Zhao Xu was even a little in awe of her. On the contrary, she doted on the somewhat arrogant Princess of Wei.

It is a pity that Zhang Dunli, the consort of Princess Wei, is a conservative, and his knowledge is not weak. He is as good as Wang Shen in chess, calligraphy and painting. His idol is Sima Guang, and Zhao Xu often gives him a headache.

Zhang Dunli "is good at writing about characters, nobility, inferiority, beauty and evil, with visible appearance, meticulous brushwork, and life-like expressions."

Su Shi had a good relationship with Wang Shen, while Zhang Dunli had a good relationship with Su You.

Su Youyuan was an official in Jiaozhi, and he specially ordered people to sketch the costumes and customs of overseas people, as well as the statues of gods and Buddhas in the Angkor Grottoes, architectural drawings, and various strange local sea fish, giant pythons, giant turtles, crocodiles and other sketches of drawings as gifts.

, Zhang Dunli used some of these creatures as inspiration and combined with imagination to create "Nine Songs of Calligraphy and Painting" as a return gift.

This scroll is based on the eleven themes of Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs of Chu", including Dong Huang Taiyi, Yunzhong Jun, Xiang Jun, Xiang Lady, Da Siming, Shao Siming, Dong Jun, He Bo, Shan Gui

, with themes of national mourning and ritual souls, the picture on the right and the text on the left, whether it is painting or calligraphy, can be regarded as a masterpiece in the contemporary art world of the Song Dynasty.

After receiving the scroll, Su You took it to show off to Li Shunju. Li Shunju thumped his chest at that time: "Why didn't I expect such a good thing! In less than thirty years, this painting can be exchanged for a house in Bianjing City! Wait!"
Chapter completed!