The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2519 The Za family takes action

The young man continued with a smile: "The point of this matter is that you only see money in your eyes, but in the eyes of us Ning'an people, money is just an ordinary tool. What we care about is not money, but whether we can What I care about is that my wife can have enough food and clothing, and that my children can study well. I care that my parents don’t have to worry about it when they are old. I care that my relatives and friends can live a good life. I care that I can be happy with myself. , these are our ultimate goals. We sometimes use money to measure some things, but we are not trying to bully anyone, we just don’t want to live worse than others. Therefore, it is not because we Ning’an people are obsessed with money! How unbearable, but you just want to attack us Ning'an people and deny our efforts and progress. The people of Jing State also made the same mistake back then, and also accused the wealthy Qing State of extravagance and greed. Therefore, we Ning'an people do not do this. Kind of thing.”

Zong Weixiong stared at the young man and praised: "Ning'an is indeed the land of crouching tigers, hidden dragons. Ordinary young people have such insight."

"This is not some insight. This is something that all of us in Ning'an know. Dear fellow villagers, do you think this is true?" the young man asked.

"Of course!" Many Ning'an people responded proudly.

Zong Weixiong saw the light of confidence in their eyes.

Zong Weixiong was silent for a moment and then said: "Ning'an is indeed extraordinary. I came to the right place."

The old man smiled and said: "Yes, you can teach me! Once you live in Ning'an for a while, you will understand that our Ning'an is the best place in the entire human race!"

"Low-key, low-key, and there is a holy courtyard." One person said with a smile.

The crowd roared with laughter.

Zong Weixiong pondered for a long time, stood up and paid, glanced at the teahouse, and found that the boy was still there, but the young man had disappeared. Then he frowned slightly, but could not remember the appearance of the young man, so he no longer cared and left the teahouse.

Not long after, the boy left the teahouse and before he got home, he saw his mother-in-law looking around at the door. When she saw him, she ran over excitedly holding her skirt.

Tong Sheng looked at his wife dotingly and said, "Slow down, what good thing makes you smile like this?"

"A senior official came from the county and said that Ning'an County was about to be promoted to a prefecture. The county government was looking for talents. The chief of the pavilion recommended you, so he gave you a letter of appointment. I was illiterate, but he read it to me, saying Your salary is equivalent to the ninth grade. If you can be promoted through meritorious service, it will not delay your imperial examination. This is a great event!"

"Really? Let me take a look at the county documents." Tong Sheng hurriedly took the county documents and read them carefully.

The neighbors not far away looked at the child with envy, knowing that this usually inconspicuous child had a future.

Zong Weixiong continued to inspect Ning'an County. The more he learned about the current situation, the more complicated he became.

In his opinion before, even though Fang Yun had made achievements in many aspects, he could not be an all-rounder. Those on the list or those promoted by Jingguo were nothing more than something to show off. In the darkest place of Jingguo, he must be an all-rounder. There are many shady things.

However, after days of visits and investigations, Zong Weixiong discovered that the decree issued by Fang Yun may be controversial, may not have a very good effect, and may even have some negative effects in the short term. However, if we look at it from a long-term and development perspective, All of Fang Yun's decrees are very correct.

Zong Weixiong even deduced Fang Yun's reforms and decrees in detail, and found that everything was almost perfect, transforming Jingguo in almost all aspects. Moreover, everything in Ning'an City also proves that Fang Yun's innovation is feasible.

"Are old rituals more important, or innovations that are beneficial to the human race?"

Zong Weixiong thought for a long time, and suddenly remembered Fang Yun's previous respect and courtesy. He was stunned for a long time, sweating like rain.

"Did he already anticipate what happened today when the courtesy was restored?"

Zong Weixiong let out a long sigh. He never expected that Fang Yun would set a huge trap early.

Scholars can have no conscience, but scholars with conscience cannot violate their conscience.

When Zong Weixiong was in the Hall of Ceremony, he took it as his duty to be fair and uphold etiquette. As he got to know Fang Yun and Ning'an deeply, he gradually felt that Fang Yun's innovation not only did not violate etiquette and law, but was of great benefit to the human race.

However, this is not the result that Lidian wants.

As a result, Zong Weixiong wavered between his conscience and the palace of etiquette. Finally, he remembered Fang Yun's respect for etiquette and restored it. Suddenly, he discovered that Fang Yun pretended to respect etiquette and forbade the indiscriminate return of etiquette, but in fact, he had established an indestructible monument.

Zong Weixiong previously believed that Fang Yun's indiscriminate return of rituals was wrong and that he was playing the piano indiscriminately, and he agreed with Fang Yun's later ban on indiscriminate return of rituals. However, his current situation is actually very similar to Fang Yun's then.

Supporting the Hall of Ceremony is tantamount to messing with the ancient rituals, supporting conscience is tantamount to facing up to the ancient rituals.

If there is no Fang Yun's honoring and restoring activities, then Zong Weixiong can choose to support the ceremony. At most, he feels guilty, which can be resolved by doing some good deeds and reading more scriptures of all saints in the future.

However, the movement to restore respect for etiquette has left a deep mark on Zong Weixiong’s cognition. If he now supports the etiquette hall to punish Fang Yun, it would be tantamount to violating his own conscience, going against what he has learned, and at least being civilized. If the gallbladder is covered with dust, the gallbladder may crack.

"This Fang Xusheng is so unreasonable that he is tormenting people to death..." Zong Weixiong could only smile bitterly and had no choice.

After a long time, Zong Weixiong regained his energy, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "That's all, no matter whether there is Fang Xusheng or not, as a scholar, you should stick to your conscience and not violate your true heart."

Afterwards, Zong Weixiong wrote down what he had seen and heard in the past few days, and wrote down his thoughts truthfully, and sent them to the Lidian.

At about the same time, the Lidian officials sent to various places in Jingguo successively submitted their inspection documents.

After the Lidian received all the documents, some cabinet elders were furious.

A few Lidian officials reported their summaries truthfully, almost all of which praised Fang Yun.

There were also many officials who reported in a very neutral position. Although they summarized Fang Yun’s inappropriateness, none of them could be regarded as crimes or even faults, and they seemed to be helping Fang Yun.

Only a very small number of Lidian officials harbored evil intentions, picking bones in eggs, nitpicking, and finally deduced that Fang Yun was unforgivable and extremely evil. If Fang Yun was not killed, the human race would inevitably suffer a catastrophe.

The inspection results of the Lidian officials accounted for at least 30% of the decision-making of the cabinet elders!

The Lidian was going to punish Fang Yun with great fanfare, and even conduct a strict investigation. Now that such a result has been produced, it has become a joke.

Although the elders were angry, they did not lose their minds. They also knew that many of Fang Yun's practices were correct. However, in order to protect the Confucianism and the dignity of the Li Hall, they had to do this and curb the Criminal Hall.

Just when the Li Hall was hesitant, the Wenxin Academy, composed of miscellaneous schools, announced that since many miscellaneous school disciples in Jing State believed in the Legalists and violated the Miscellaneous School's Holy Way, from now on, the Wenxin Academy would cut off all cooperation with the miscellaneous school scholars in Jing State.

At the same time, the Wenxin Academy announced that it would send miscellaneous school officials to Jing State for investigation. If it was found that the miscellaneous school officials had betrayed the Holy Way, they would use the Miscellaneous School's Holy Way Wenbao to expel them from the miscellaneous school!

A stone stirred up a thousand waves!