Chapter 40 Blue Passive (still available at night)
In the following days, Su Ze was either giving lectures or busy drying salt on the beach.
After two meals, I have to study "Mencius", and when I go back in the evening, I have to refine salt. I am very busy every day.
Lin Liangjun was also infected by Su Ze's attitude, and he became more serious about reading and writing in health school. By the end of the month, Su Ze finally reaped the rewards.
After burning all the dry reeds in his ten acres of reed fields, Su Ze produced a total of three hundred kilograms of refined salt.
Calculated as one hundred cents per catty, this is thirty thousand cents.
The copper coins in Fujian are of fairly good quality. One thousand five hundred Wen coins can be exchanged for one tael of silver.
Thirty thousand Wenqian is almost twenty taels of silver.
The remaining silver guards can make up for the thirty-two taels of fined silver for fighting with weapons.
However, Su Ze's help to Changning Wei was not completely selfless. He had already signed an agreement with the ancestral hall, and all the tidal flats of Changning Wei were used for drying salt by Su Ze. The income from selling salt in the past two years belonged to Su Ze.
Su Ze had a new understanding of these clans in southern Fujian. After seven generations of development, Changningwei had formed a fairly systematic clan system.
The clan funds individuals, and the individuals give back to the clan. This relationship, similar to "angel investment," is already very mature.
Now that the Changning Guard is extremely weak, "capable people" like Su Ze are what the Changning Guard urgently needs, so the conditions for contracting the tidal flats this time are very favorable.
After negotiating the contracting of the tidal flats, Su Ze returned to Wei School. He picked up the "Collected Commentary of Mencius" again and began to study it carefully.
The so-called collection of annotations is actually equivalent to today's translation of ancient texts. Modern translations of ancient texts will naturally contain private materials. Zhu Xi's "Collected Commentary on Mencius" contains Zhu Xi's private materials.
Su Ze is in the "Part 2 of the wholehearted chapter" in "Collected Commentary on Mencius". In this chapter there is a famous saying by Mencius through the ages.
Mencius said: "The people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important."
Later interpretations said that this was the beginning of people-centered thought, but in Zhu Xi's annotations, the explanation is this: "
She, the god of earth. Ji, God of Grain. The country is based on the people, and the country is also established for the people, and the respect of the king is related to the survival of the two, so its importance is like this. Therefore, the people of Qiu are the emperor, and the emperor
is the princes. It's because the princes are officials."
Su Ze sneered. It's no wonder that later generations criticized Zhu Xi. However, Mencius' people-centered thought was confused by Zhu Xi's misinterpretation and interpretation, and he also elaborated on a set of strict hierarchical feudal systems.
Zhu Xi first explained the simple saying that the people are more noble than the king, "The king's supreme status depends on the survival of the country and the people, so the people are more noble than the king."
Deliberately not talking about the importance of the relationship between the king and the people, but just talking about the people as the foundation of the king's existence in a general way, this is a complete sophistry.
The latter sentence is even more outrageous.
"The one who can win the hearts of all the people in the world is the emperor; the one who can win the favor of the emperor can only be a prince; the one who can win the hearts of the princes can only be a high official." It is clearly explaining that "the people value the king more than the king", Zhu Xi can also use his own style of
king The system of monarch and minister, Su Ze also admired his brain circuit.
Later, the "overthrow of the country" was attributed to "the princes' lack of morality", and the responsibilities and obligations of the monarch were not mentioned at all.
This is where the poison of Neo-Confucianism lies. Zhu Xi regards Gang Chang as his guide and refuses to criticize the so-called emperor father at all. This is just like the so-called "clean stream" in the Ming Dynasty today. It seems that it is full of momentum and will always remonstrate with the emperor. In fact, it is nonsense. Use it or not, it’s all about gaining fame and self-impression.
This set of theories was naturally loved by the rulers, and was designated as a required book for the imperial examination in later generations. The scholars of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were also interrupted. The so-called "water is too cold" among the Confucian scholars was not as good as a brothel girl.
Su Ze sighed and put down the book in his hand. If it weren't for the purpose of brushing up his skills, he really wouldn't be able to read a single word of this book.
[Study wisely, "Imperial Examination" experience +1, upgraded! Level 2 upgraded to Level 3, 0/300]
[Reading Ming History, "History" experience +1, upgraded! Lv4 upgraded to Lv5, 0/1000]
[Skill "History" has been upgraded to level five, gaining 1 free attribute point. ] [The skill "History" has been upgraded to level five, please extract the passive skill. ]
Then a light flashed, and three cards, one blue and two green, appeared in front of Su Ze.
History has finally reached Level 5!
And this time there is a blue passive!
Su Ze quickly looked at the three cards.
[Blue Passive - Extensive Quotations: Increase your understanding of obscure allusions when reading, and increase the accuracy of quoting allusions when writing. ]
[Green Passive - Learning from History: When reading historical books, you will gain an energetic BUFF and increase your mental work efficiency by 10%. 】
[Green Passive - Poetic Book in the Belly: Charm +1 for History Lovers]
Su Ze just took one look at it and decisively chose the first blue passive.
It is indeed a blue passive! This talent is very critical for the imperial examination.
The imperial examination is based on the eight-part essay. The eight-part essay is called eight-part essay because it has a fixed format and writing method.
In eight-part essay writing, citing allusions is also a very important exam content.
Being able to use allusions proficiently is an important criterion for the excellence of an article. As the imperial examinations became more and more abnormal in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the requirements for citing allusions became higher and higher.
You can't make mistakes when using allusions during the imperial examination. If you use the wrong allusions, you will be deposed.
Writing requires the use of allusions, and reading the questions requires the use of allusions, and the requirements are even very abnormal.
The reason is also very simple. The content of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was the "Four Books and Five Classics". You must know that "The Doctrine of the Mean" with the smallest number of words only has 3568 words. Naturally, there are fewer and fewer questions, and the allusions used in the questions are becoming more and more biased. .
By the Qing Dynasty, in order to set the questions for the imperial examinations in some places, they would even make up a few words from the preceding and following sentences of the Four Books and Five Classics, and create some completely incomprehensible questions for the candidates to write articles.
[Extended Reference] This skill is a magical skill for Su Ze who is preparing to take the imperial examination!
Su Ze once again checked the two skills that had just been upgraded. The first was "History" that had been upgraded to Level 5.
Before traveling back in time, Su Ze was voracious in his studies, and could not remember the details of historical materials clearly. In the Internet era, you could look them up at any time, so his historical skills were actually very weak, and he was only rated Lv4 by the system.
After upgrading, Su Ze's originally vague historical records became much clearer, and he also gained an updated understanding of many historical books.
Being promoted to Level 3 of the "Imperial Examination" gave Su Ze a lot of skills in preparing for the imperial examination. The "Mencius" and "Collected Commentary on Mencius" he read during this period also seemed to be imprinted in his mind.
Although he has not yet studied the other three books and the Classic of Classics, Su Ze could get all the questions on "Mencius" right in the self-examination test!
The last thing was the free attribute value. Su Ze thought about it and decided to sell salt tonight. He resolutely added the "strength" attribute.
After adding more points, Su Ze felt that his body suddenly became much stronger. 6 points was already above the average level of ordinary people. Su Ze's current physical strength was probably about the same as that of Xiong Wu. Even if he was a regular soldier of Changning Guard, Even if you compete in strength, you may not be able to compete with Su Ze.
Everything was ready, Su Ze took the mule borrowed from the family temple and invited Lin Deqing to go to the ghost market again.
However, this time Su Ze also brought with him more than 50 remaining villagers from the Changning Guard. They were divided into five mandarin duck formations. They followed Lin Deqing from a distance under the cover of night and ambush outside the ghost market, waiting for Su Ze's attack. instruction.
The previous updates were slow and delayed a bit, but today these two updates are consecutive, so I just released them.
(End of chapter)