Cui Xie obviously didn't believe in himself as much as he did, so he turned his face helplessly and replied to Li Mengyang: "I wrote three things about the CCP, one was to persuade the emperor to ask for overseas talents, the other was to seek the doctrines of scriptures and justice in other countries, and the third was It is a good variety that is hardy to cold and drought, high-yield and easy to grow. Brother Li said the same thing."
Li Mengyang said: "The third suggestion is to benefit the country and the people. I have no doubts about it, but I don't know why the lord has written to ask for the first two? I have established the country with Confucianism, and Your Majesty will study the meanings of the scriptures with all the gentlemen of the Hanlin every day, and cultivate Qi and pacify it. The Tao is already in my heart, why should I seek answers from overseas barbarian theories. And it is even more inadvisable to call foreign talents into China - those barbarians who do not understand the language and do not learn the meaning of the classics, how do you know if they are really talented, or if they are famous?"
He stood up, bowed, and said, "Mengyang really can't figure it out, please explain it in detail."
Wang Jiusi also stood up and cupped his hands, and said, "Brother Xianji, I often hear people talk about it in the Shuji class. I hope you can help me."
Although Bian Gong was not so excited, he was still staring at Cui Xie, waiting for him to answer.
Choi Xie finally understood. These writers didn't come here to chat with him about art, but they came to smash the scene. He sighed slightly and looked up at the three people: "Have the three of you heard the phrase 'one thing today, another one tomorrow, if you have accumulated a lot of habits, then you will naturally find a connection'?"
It is not known how the three geniuses reacted. Wang Shengren turned his face to the door first, not wanting to face his own dark history.
Li Mengyang laughed and said: "These are the words in Zhu Zi's "Recent Thoughts", how can my generation of scholars not read the truth."
The two talented people also felt aggrieved that they were underestimated, and they both silently protested silently.
Cui Xie smiled slightly and asked them, "Since you have read it all, have you ever done it? Zhu Zi said that knowledge and action are always interrelated, and although knowledge comes before action, when it comes to seriousness, knowledge is always taken lightly and action is taken. Heavy. The reason why I value Bo An Xian brother, thinking that he will be able to do the things of the sage in the future, is because he is not a person who only talks about the truth, but a person who is willing to examine things and seek knowledge, and is willing to practice the meaning of the sage."
Wang Shouren's neck was almost crooked, he bowed his head and thanked: "Brother Cui is too famous..."
"It's not too much honor!" Cui Xie said proudly, "It was after seeing Wang Xian's younger brother Gezhu that I learned how to take care of one thing and one thing after returning to my hometown, and I gained a little from it, and then I knew how to plant it. Higher yields of soy grains.”
The three young geniuses did not understand the good qualities of bamboo and soybeans, so they frowned and asked, "I'm not here to learn how to study things, but to ask why the lord asked the emperor to ask for books and talents from foreign countries... "
Cui Xie replied calmly: "Zhu Ziyun, there are many principles in the world, but it is only one, and there is no room for two or three. It is the emperor who found other scriptures from a foreign country and stripped away the text. What he said The truth of the book must also be a truth that is practiced in the whole world. If it is the same principle of heaven, what is the difference between reading it and the sages? If its truth is wrong, then my generation is a well-educated person who knows the book and understands the truth, and will be able to argue it. What is wrong, let it go."
The three of them listened to his answer in a daze, and thought it seemed reasonable, but also felt that his answer did not seem to have the same meaning as what they asked.
Cui Xie did not give these young people a chance to react, and sighed with a vicissitudes of life: "I have been in the country for five years, and I have found a reason for the miscellaneous soybeans, but I have not yet solved its deeper root. After 10, 20, and 50 years, I have exhausted everything I have seen and known, and the world is huge, and there are even more things that I have never seen or known. The truth in the book may have been written into the book by those talented people who were born there.
"So if you want to study the principles of heaven, you can't just rely on examining things, but also rely on reading, reading all the books in the world, and learning from the books that the world is not easy."
He smiled incomprehensibly and shouted: "Come here, bring the big white board and graphite pen in the backyard, and then go to the kitchen to get a drawer of soaked bean sprouts. I share this with you all today. bean!"
Really comics have a way, you don't go, creatures have no way to vote! Today, I don't want these three troublemakers to write an article about soybean sprouting. He wrote the word Cui Xie upside down!
The three geniuses didn't know his intentions, and asked blankly, "What's the point? Bean sprouts?" What's the quality of bean sprouts
Wang Shouren knew that he had developed a high-yield soybean, and asked enthusiastically, "Is this the kind of bean sprout that my brother personally cultivated? What's the difference between it and ordinary bean sprouts?"
There is no difference, except that the fruit is bigger and the pods are fuller.
Cui Xie smiled lightly and asked Wang Shouren to help the guests. He went back to the study and took two sharpened lenses, sharp tweezers and a knife, and came back to take them to observe soybeans.
The cook brought over a drawer of soaked soybeans that were ready for dinner to make fried bean sprouts. Cui Xie lifted the cloth of the drawer, picked out the beans according to the degree of germination, spread them out in front of everyone, and used a knife and tweezers to dismember one of the corpses. The beans that have just given birth to a little pointy radicle are separated by germ, cotyledon, radicle, and seed coat.
But he couldn't remember so many names, so he just picked up a few by himself, anyway, no experts came to him.
After finishing one, he simply outlined it with lines on the whiteboard, and then cut another bean sprout with a slightly longer radicle, detached seed coat, and slightly longer cotyledons, and spread it out in the same way as the one just now, and asked someone to take it. A magnifying glass to take a closer look.
He dissects them one by one, and one by one is called for observation. The longest bean sprouts are already an inch long, and thin fibrous roots grow from the bottom. If you cut the roots, you can cook vegetables.
Several talents came and went, but they didn't see any truth in it. Wang Shouren took the lead and said with a wry smile: "This is not something that a mortal like me can make sense of. It's better for Brother Cui Shi to tell us about it. You study from here. Have you come up with a way to produce high soybean yields?"
Although everyone thought they were looking at something fresh with a magnifying glass, they looked at the soy bean sprouts they were used to eating. After all, they didn't see any reason, so they could only follow Cui Xie, wanting to hear what he could say. Come.
Cui Xie took out the hybrid soybean paper, turned over the parts about the germination rate, root condition, and cold and drought resistance characteristics of soybean seeds, and told them about the characteristics of different types of soybeans. A certain type of soybean sprouts are short and thick, with short stems, a certain type of soybean has a well-developed root system and is resistant to drought, and a certain type of soybean germinates quickly and has a short growth period…
Although the talented people have lived for more than 20 years and have not paid attention to how the bean sprouts grow, it is really not interesting to read these things about soybeans, but at least it is better to let them read the article now than to be hard on the bean sprouts.
A few people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, posing as if they were reading the article attentively, for fear that Cui Xie would call them "grid" bean sprouts again.
Of course, editor-in-chief Cui would not do such a wasteful thing. Seeing that they had carefully read the penultimate page of the article several times, he did not dare to turn to the next page, so he smiled and said: "Today, I should have shared the article with all the talented people. But I only want everyone to see my humble work, not the way we have a gathering of talented people."
yes!
Talent gatherings should write poems, drink wine, comment on articles, and teach scriptures. This is in line with the status of their talents!
A flash of excitement flashed in Li Mengyang and the others' eyes, and they agreed in unison. Cui Xie put on the air of the master and said: "In this case, as the proprietor, I will point to a topic - please use the bean sprouts on this table as the topic, or write about the truth of your own, or write about the current malpractice and the suffering of the people. , or just start with it and see who can write the best articles.”
Talents slowly write observation notes and reading notes, and he acts as a judge, just commenting on this group of people.
Wang Shouren seemed to see his heart to pick the author by looking at the writing, and chuckled: "How can you write an article without a good wine, you have to harass Cui Shixiong for a meal."
Talented people need to drink when they write poems, and they also need to drink when they write articles. The more they drink, the smoother their thoughts become.
Cui Xie asked someone to fry the undissected bean sprouts, open a jar of soju, and serve it with steamed fish, fried chicken, stewed meat, and bacon with garlic moss. For some reason, the geniuses were a little bit weaker on the meat, but the chopsticks shoved into the shredded pork and fried bean sprouts again and again, chewing the bean sprouts crunching as if they harbored deep hatred.
The wine is steamed and brewed spirits. After drinking a few cups, everyone's faces became a little drunk, and some people began to ask for paper and pens to write articles while drunk.
Li Bai fights a hundred poems about wine, and Li Mengyang also wrote an article that is powerful, talented, and cut out after drinking a small pot of shochu. The author rewrites the harm of Huangzhuang and extortionate taxes to the common people. His words are strong, tragic and generous, and he deserves to be the first of the first seven sons.
Wang Jiusi started his life with soybeans, and wrote about the prosperous world in his dreams when everyone was full. When he woke up, he saw the hardships of the people and the greed of officials, which made people feel cold.
Biangong wrote about the benefits of soybeans in the middle of the rules, and looked forward to a good day when other grains and vegetables can be mixed in this way to increase yields, and the people of the world will have plenty of food and clothing.
Wang Shouren knew that he was studying with the prince, but he didn't want to be in vain when it was time to show his talent, so he wrote an article praising Cui Xie's ability to deeply study Zhu Zi's aspirations and learn from things.
This time, it was Choi Sub's turn to be embarrassed.
Alas, being praised like this by the sage, he can at least be a character with a postscript commentary in "The Great Biography of Yangming".
He was secretly excited for a while, put Wang Shouren's article aside, and seriously commented on the other three. Li Mengyang's writing style is good, and the structure is Wang Jiusiqi's, but Biangong's style is more positive and more in line with the core values of Da Ming.
Mr. Cui weighed it up and was reluctant to let go of any of them. He simply took all of them. He brushed off the paper and praised: "Good article, the heart of pity for the people jumped on the paper. If there are more people like worthy disciples in the DPRK, why worry about the injustice of the country? , the people are not rich."
He commented 200 words on each of them, and then asked the three people passionately: "Are you willing to practice today's words and do your best for the prosperity and stability of our country?"
The four of them were in high spirits, and they all said, "I waited until I entered the dynasty, but I had a heart for retribution, so why not! Can Duke Cui teach me?"
For a country to be stable, it depends on food.
Canglin knows etiquette well enough. When the grain output is high, the people will live a prosperous life, the number of refugees and rebels will be reduced, and taxes can be paid enough.
Once the taxes are collected, the officials of the imperial court will be able to pay their salaries in full. There is no need to be like now, giving two stones of rice a month for the true color, and the folded color for worthless treasure notes, and often not enough. A clean and honest official family like Mr. Li and several of his friends can eat happily with two white pajamas and half a piece of salted fish. When the Cui family treats guests, they can serve fat chickens and ducks casually, all because the family has an industry and can run a business.
Not only the civil and military officials are paid enough salary, but the frontier army also has the money to feed the soldiers, have enough training, and get new equipment, and the frontier war can be fought more easily. The tragic misfortune of women directly invading the customs and kidnapping the children of wealth and silk.
He talked about the benefits of abundant food one by one, and he said that these young officials who had just entered the court and were ambitious to do a big thing were in turmoil.
Li Mengyang couldn't help but ask him, "According to your wishes, what can we do?"
Cui Xie laughed, and Wang Shouren also showed an "as expected" look.
Cui Xie said: "You can concentrate on researching things like me, looking for ways to increase grain production. Although the farmers in the village have been farming for many years, they do not understand science. Those who grow up and prosper, don’t even know how to improve. My generation of scholars understands the meaning of the scriptures and the principles of tomorrow, and they can carefully study the origins behind them and find a clear path for them…”
No, no, we can't find out! When facing the bean sprouts, we can only think of frying them!
The faces of the three geniuses turned green, and they pursed their lips bitterly, not daring to make any sound, for fear that they would mistakenly think that they had agreed.
Cui Xie stared at them for a long time, and seeing that they really refused to take the scientific research route, he pointed them to another clear path: "Otherwise, the virtuous brothers would be willing to use their own hands to produce flowers with wonderful brushes to breed the seeds I collected. , The recipes for farming and breeding have been rewritten into simple articles that the common people love to read?"
This is easy, is this their true nature...
Li Mengyang stood up first, cupped his hands and said, "Senior Cui, please guide me."