Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 136 I’ve learned it!

It is late autumn and the weather is getting colder.

The furnace has already been lit inside the furnace pavilion.

The autumn wind was raging outside, but it was very warm in the stove pavilion.

But Wang Dai, He Changsheng and others felt very disappointed.

He Changsheng was about to speak when he burped. They had already eaten and drunk their fill before going to look for trouble, and were forced to eat a few steamed buns there. The Song Dynasty court was generous in supporting scholars, and each steamed bun was very big, which made them full.

He Changsheng became even more angry and said, "Su Yun is not a good man. He has no sense of shame and says whatever he wants. He has no gentlemanly manners at all. When dealing with him in the future, there is no need to talk about gentlemanly manners!"

Wang Dai hesitated and said, "Why not just forget it? This guy seems like someone you can't mess with. Look at what he wrote in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It's just like a sow wearing a bra, one set after another.

This person is vicious and cruel. Fortunately, he has not completely torn his face off today. Otherwise, if he were to scold Wang Lang like Zhuge Liang, wouldn't we vomit blood on the spot? "

Upon hearing this, He Changsheng was immediately angry and felt contemptuous. He usually looked down on Wang Dai. If his father was not Wang Gui, He Changsheng would never be with such a person.

Wang Dai is a man who not only has a not very good brain, but is also greedy, lustful, and timid, just like his father.

Humph, Wang Gui, the Third Edict Minister!
However, this matter still depends on Wang Dai.

His father was only a fourth-rank official. If he hadn't relied on Wang Dai's banner, he wouldn't have been able to attract so many people. So, he still had to coax Wang Dai.

Seeing that Wang Dai was about to retreat, He Changsheng immediately became serious and said, "Don't doubt it, we don't mind. Although my father and the Su family have some conflicts, they are not to the point of deep hatred.

Your Wang family is different. At that time, Mr. Wang wanted to kill him. If Zhang Dun hadn't stopped him, the grass on Su Shi's grave would have been three feet high. Do you think Su Yun would bear a grudge against the Wang family?"

Wang Dai hesitated and said, "My ancestor was just being impartial. This kind of thing can't be blamed on my ancestor, right?

Besides, my grandfather is old and it’s time for him to retire after working for a few more years.

After all, Su Yun is just a young man in his teens. Even if he has a promising future, it will take decades before that happens. By then, things will have changed. Who will remember what happened decades ago?
Besides, Su Zizhan is only Su Yun's uncle, not his father!"

He Changsheng almost got angry when he heard this, and suddenly felt that he could not be trusted with such a young man. He took a deep breath and said, "Brother Buyi, Su Yun and Su Shi have a special relationship.

When Su Shi was in trouble, Su Yun traveled thousands of miles from Meishan to Bian Jing to pick up Su Shi and send him to Huangzhou despite the wind and snow.

This has gone beyond the ordinary family relationship, and it is said that Su Shi's family has been very kind to Su Yun.

Let me put it this way, if Su Yun becomes the prime minister one day, he will also avenge Su Shi just for the sake of the reputation of repaying a favor.

By then, Mr. Wang will naturally withdraw, but what about your father, you, and even your son? Su Yun will avenge you!"

When he spoke of the latter part, He Changsheng's face was already full of resentment.

Wang Dai was surprised and said, "I saw that Su Yun was smiling, he wouldn't be so..." He suddenly thought of Jia Xu, the ruthless scholar in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and shuddered.

He Changsheng shook his head and said, "He's just a smiling tiger. The less threatening he looks, the scarier he is. If he gets angry, he can even dig up our ancestors' graves. Brother Buyi, we must prepare early."

Wang Dai finally made up his mind and nodded, "Okay, but Su Yun is so strategic, we may not be able to deal with him."

After calming Wang Dai, He Changsheng smiled and said, "It's a deliberate plan. No matter how powerful he is, he will fall into our trap one day. There is still a long way to go, so we just have to wait for the opportunity."

After Su Yun finished his breakfast, he went to class.

He is attending the Jingyi Zhai, where the courses are mainly based on the meaning of scriptures. Since he has not yet selected the sutra, he must attend all the courses for the time being.

Of course, students in the outer dormitory are basically still in the state of not having chosen a sutra yet, and they have to take all of them. When they enter the inner dormitory, they will have targeted courses.

Su Yun had a day's class and gained a lot. In the past, he was dizzy when reading books such as "Book of Songs", "Book of History", "Book of Changes", "Book of Rites" and "Book of Rites", but after listening to the explanations of the professors of the Imperial College, he found them quite interesting.

It has to be said that the professors at the Imperial College really have real stuff. These ancient books that originally seemed mysterious and boring actually became lively and vivid in their insights.

The reason is that the content in these books is too dry, a bit like the formulas in mathematics. Someone has to combine the historical background, customs and habits of the time, etc. in the books to explain them to you. Otherwise, just reading these dry contents will really be confusing.

But with these professors citing classics and relating them to the background of the time, we will discover that the poems that seem to be about love, the Book of Changes that tells fortunes, and the Book of Zhou that writes about some boring and outdated etiquette are not actually that simple. These books actually contain principles of governing a country that have never been outdated.

In Su Yun's view, these books are the social sciences of Southeast University since ancient times. Reading and understanding these books can indeed enable one to acquire basic abilities in governing the country.

For example, there is a sentence in Zuo Zhuan: The most important affairs of a country are sacrifices and wars.

This sentence reveals the basic logic of governing the country.

Among the keys to governing a country, the two most important things are sacrifice and military affairs.

Everyone can understand military affairs, but not everyone may understand sacrifices.

But in later times, the so-called sacrifice is to unify the people's thoughts, form the concept of a country and a nation, let all people support this country, so as to achieve long-term stability of a country. Another way of saying it is that governing a country requires a combination of civil and military, that is, leading in military and spiritual civilization.

Of course, there is no need to learn Zuo Zhuan Su Yun for the time being, it is just a metaphor.

This made Su Yun overjoyed. What he feared most was being asked to recite something, and still being confused after you finished reciting it, and having no idea what was behind it.

This teaching method of the professor at the Imperial Academy is somewhat similar to the style of ancient Chinese professors in later generations.

However, Su Yun did not know that in the past few years, the teaching method was not like it is now. It was not like what he imagined, where students would just recite aloud right away. The reason was that all the learning was carried out under the baton of the imperial examination.

Previously, the focus was on copying the scriptures and the meaning of the text, so it is understandable that memorization was the main focus. But now the focus is on the main meaning of the scriptures, so naturally the teaching method is different.

But this method is undoubtedly more suitable for Su Yun, and Su Yun is indeed immersed in it.

It has to be said that Su Shi's asking Su Yun to copy the Book of Han, learn official documents, and learn poetry, as well as Su Zhe's teaching Su Yun Mencius, opened a door for Su Yun and gave him a basic concept of learning these things.

In addition, in order to write Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Su Yun thoroughly studied Records of the Three Kingdoms and also researched a lot about the official system, customs and habits of the Han Dynasty. The difficulty of further study was greatly reduced.

This kind of learning is of great help to Su Yun.

When professors at the Imperial College teach poetry, books, rites and the Book of Changes, they do not just talk about the social background of the time, but also combine it with the situation since the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties. This way of teaching is naturally designed to meet the examination requirements of classics and righteousness in the imperial examinations, but for Su Yun, this is actually what he lacks the most.

The knowledge that Su Yun learned in later generations was actually Westernized. Even the little knowledge of ancient Chinese texts that he learned from the Chinese textbooks were also Westernized.

So when he looked at the Song Dynasty, he also used the perspective of later generations and Westernization. It's not that it was bad, but sometimes it was difficult to understand what people of that time were thinking.

This is also the reason why Su Shi, Su Zhe and others always felt that Su Yun was heretical.

Su Yun immersed himself in it, and only then did he truly understand a sentence often said by later generations: Chinese culture is profound and extensive.

When Su Yun was studying in later generations, there were always people criticizing ancient Chinese culture, saying that it contained too much dross and nothing useful, and that China was dragged down by these things.

Su Yun had also criticized it before, but later, as the country's economy took off and its military made great strides, people opened their eyes and realized, damn, the world is just a huge makeshift team!
Your developed Western country also has many problems and is not as magical as the legend says.

But at that time, Su Yun was still skeptical.

Now that he had truly entered into the narrative of Chinese civilization, and had seriously studied these cultural classics and gone deep into them, Su Yun truly understood that it was not that Chinese civilization was not good, but that he had never really delved into these things.

Of course, this is not to say that Chinese culture is impeccable and is all essence without any dross, but rather that the accumulation of Chinese civilization is so profound that the accumulated wisdom has greatly broadened Su Yun's horizons.

Su Yun studied very hard, because the knowledge and vision he brought from later generations were reacting chemically with the millennium-old Chinese civilization. Every time he saw a knowledge point, he would connect it with the knowledge of later generations to deepen, localize and modernize it!

Su Yun felt that he gained something every moment. The feeling of wandering in the ocean of knowledge was really great!

So Su Yun stayed there day and night.

Because Su Yun had just entered the school and was considered a transfer student, he did not have to take part in the monthly and quarterly exams for the time being and would start again from the next quarter.

……

Su Yun looked in astonishment at Zhang Ze who had snatched his book away from him.

Zhang Ze had a complicated look on his face and said, "Ju Zheng, you have to go back!"

Su Yun looked up at Zhang Ze and asked, "Why?"

Zhang Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "It's the New Year! I called you several times before but you didn't come back. You have to go back to have the New Year's Eve dinner now, right?"

Su Yun suddenly realized.

Su Yun only felt that he lowered his head for a moment, and when he looked up again, it was snowing in the Imperial Academy.

It's winter.

It seems like two months have passed?
Su Yun wasn't sure.

As for that period, it seemed that Zhang Ze came to see him. Oh, Wen Huanghua and others also came to see him several times. Well, it seemed that someone else had caused him trouble?
This is not very certain. He is immersed in classics every day and has become a little crazy. He just ignores any sarcastic remarks made by others.

Su Yun laughed and said, "Okay, let's go now."

Su Yun was about to go out, but Zhang Ze grabbed him and said, "You should wash and change clothes... Forget it, go home, it's more convenient at home."

Su Yun took a look at his body. It was so greasy, as if he hadn't changed it since the class started.

(End of this chapter)