Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 415 Call Fang Xiaoru

The civil servants didn't come to get involved, so they naturally wanted to express their resistance to Lao Zhu's appointment of Zhu Su in a subtle way.This made Zhu Su couldn't help shaking his head: This group of civil servants really dared to shine when they were given some sunshine. They thought that Hu Weiyong's Huaixi faction fell, and the court couldn't do without them, right?

They didn't even think about who the emperor above them was, that was Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang!
Ah yes, Lao Zhu in this timeline hasn't started killing people yet.Even when dealing with officials from the Huaixi lineage before, they used Zhu Su as bait to remove them while their crimes were still minor.And among a large group of people, basically only Hu Weiyong, the chief villain, was exterminated, and those involved in deeper martial arts such as Lu Zhongheng and Tang Shengzong were not like the direct copying of the family and extermination of the family in history, but the removal of the nobles.

This gave these civil servants the illusion that "His Majesty's methods are not cruel".

In fact, this is just that after Lao Zhu absorbed the lessons of "history", he thought more and walked more steadily step by step.

This group of civil servants can't escape the end of a white and clean land.

In his heart, he mourned in silence for these civil servants who dared to throw face at Lao Zhu, and Zhu Su began to eat breakfast under Xiang Deng's service.While eating, he suddenly thought of Fang Xiaoru who was still in the mountain temple, and asked, "By the way, how is Bifeng Temple going?"

"Returning to Your Highness, Uncle Fang who was retreating in the temple was clamoring to see you at first, but after Mr. Song came to visit, he became quiet."

"Now I'm just crying in the temple every day, saying that I have no face to be your Highness's disciple."

"Uh..." Zhu Su was stunned.It seems that Song Lian has already conveyed his "hard work" to Fang Xiaoru.Fang Xiaoru will not continue to be obsessed with those various philosophical principles.

It's just... Could it be that it's overkill?Why did she become Lin Daiyu again?
"In this way, after dinner, I will go to Bifeng Temple for a walk." Zhu Su said.It's not good to put Fang Xiaoru under house arrest all the time. I should also try to see if I can convince the scholars all over the world with the theories I have summed up in retreat these days.

Fang Xiaoru, who is well-read and highly moldable, happens to be a good touchstone.

"Yes." Xiang Deng bowed to his orders and started to prepare.After breakfast, Zhu Su strolled up Bifeng Mountain with three or five personal guards.

Since the day he found Yao Guangxiao in Bifeng Temple, it was only the second time he came up to this mountain temple.Before reaching the gate of the temple, I saw that the gate was the same as before, and there were already several old monks lining the mountain road.Seeing Zhu Su and his party, he bent down and knelt down from a distance: "Welcome Your Highness!"

"Why do you have to make such a fuss? I'm just walking around casually." Zhu Su said displeased.The abbot at the head was trembling, wiping his sweat with his robe while leading the way.Zhu Suyuan didn't pay attention to it, and after a few glances, he suddenly thought of something, and asked: "Could it be that the monks in the temple have changed? Why hasn't this king seen you before?"

The abbot hurriedly bowed and said: "The monks in the temple are always young monks, maybe His Highness has seen too many nobles, so he doesn't remember the humble faces of young monks and others."

Zhu Su narrowed his eyes and looked carefully. Indeed, the facial features of these monks seemed to have been seen before.It's just that they were all fat and big in the past, but now they are all thin, and they really don't look like before.

"Oh. It's my king's diary." He didn't say much, just smiled slightly.

In the past, these monks took advantage of the Yuan and Ming wars to occupy good land, and designated the acres below the mountain as temple property. The land of Buddhism, the number of acres of fields is staggering.

Later, after Zhu Su came, he confiscated all their properties and distributed them to military families and ordinary people.This move helped these rich monks lose weight by the way, and scraped off the fat in their intestines.

Zhu Su turned his head and looked at the majestic and magnificent Daming River and Mountains in the clouds and mist below the mountain: In this world, this temple is not the only one that needs to be scraped off.

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"Sinner Fang Xiaoru, pay homage to my teacher!"

When he saw Fang Xiaoru again, he was no longer in the unkempt and frantic state before.He had a haggard face and tears in his eyes. When he saw Zhu Su, he bent over and kowtowed: "Sinners are ignorant and fall into confusion. They even hurt my teacher. If you are so unfilial, you should hardly exist in this world." !"

After all, I won't stop grabbing the ground with my head.

Zhu Su asked the dog to pull Fang Xiaoru up, and said to him: "Looking for death and life is not what a real man does. Who has no faults? The faults can be corrected, and there is nothing good about it!"

"Now that you know where you are in the wrong place, it's as if you have already got the door. Why is An Neng missing out on future efforts because of self-pity?"

"...my teacher." Fang Xiaoru wiped away tears. "If you can really improve, that's all."

"But... this disciple is really poor in comprehension. Although he knows that some of those words are nonsense, he still can't tell the difference."

"Disciple... I really feel that I am a piece of rotten wood. After Master Song awakened me, I have been working day and night these days, but I still can't realize the true Dao that you want to convey under the layers of confusion."

After finishing speaking, Fang Xiaoru's face was slumped, ashamed.

Zhu Su was secretly ashamed.At that time, those philosophical sentences were nothing more than what they should be. Where did they come from?

Even if there was, it was just something I had just tinkered with in the past two days.

But at this time Zhu Su still pretended to be inscrutable. He put on airs and shook his head: "Oh. I have high hopes for you as a teacher. I hope you can understand yourself and go deeper. I don't want to hurt you. Bewildered."

Fang Xiaoru was even more ashamed.

"That's all." Zhu Su said. "In that case, I'll tell you the truth."

"Just think about it, you have been thinking about philosophy for so many days, what can you gain from its intricacies and profound mysteries?"

"Get?" Fang Xiaoru was slightly taken aback.Then he said dejectedly: "I'm ashamed to say it. My teacher, these days, the apprentice has gotten nothing but being confused and even more confused."

"What is this world? What is the truth? I... I really can't understand!"

Fang Xiaoru grabbed her head with a headache.

"Stupid!" Zhu Su suddenly reprimanded: "I don't get much, isn't this also a kind of gain?"

"There are thousands of mystical philosophies in the world, some explain the world with their heart, some explain the world with reason. Others say that the essence of the world is a mass of qi."

"These ideas are justified by the public and justified by the mother-in-law, and no one can convince anyone. If you only rely on words to argue, it will naturally make people dizzy, and I don't know what to say."

"But why do you have to rely on the reasoning that these people conceived to make guesses? What's the point of that?"

"The world is right in front of your eyes, at your feet. What is the world, why don't we start from a small place and explore it ourselves?"

Fang Xiaoru was stunned. He looked at Zhu Su in a daze, thought for a long time, and then said hesitantly:
"You mean... how to distinguish and understand those philosophies is irrelevant."

"Since you want to understand the world, just study the world directly, and don't bother with those esoteric and complicated statements and explanations?"

(End of this chapter)