After marking the first point in his mind, Zhu Pingan continued to look down, and then came to the core of the problem in Yang’s elder brother’s zhangshi:
“I hope that the emperor listen to the words of the ministers, check Song’s treachery, the group of ministers in Song fear of Wei Huai En, certainly do not have to ask also. The emperor or ask the two kings, make their face Song evil; Or ask the cabinet ministers, Oracle to do not fear Song Wei. If the real, the heavy is put to the power of the crime to correct the national law, light is Oracle to send home to the national body. Then the thieves have gone, the government can be clear.”
This paragraph is the direct cause of the tragedy of Yang’s brother, Yang’s brother, “or ask the two kings,” this sentence violated the Jiajing emperor’s taboo, resulting in the impeachment of Yang’s brother Yan Song did not, he was also jailed for questioning, and finally abandoned the city.
Zhu Pingan looked very carefully, after reading the zhangshi of Yang’s elder brother, the eastern sky is the morning sun is thinning out.
“Senior brother, Pingan ……”
After Zhu Pingan read and closed the zhangshi and opened his mouth to say senior brother, he paused for a moment, weighing how to open his mouth to propose.
“Zi Hou, between you and me, what else is there not to open up. What advice does Zi Hou have, but please speak frankly, Sheng, wash your ears and listen.”Seeing this, Yang Jisheng couldn’t help but smile slightly, reaching out his hand to make a gesture of invitation.
“If senior brother has something to say, then Ping An will speak straight. After reading it, Ping An has two rough points to discuss with senior brother.”Zhu Pingan nodded at his words, opened the zhengshi and spread it out on the dining table, reached out and pointed out the paragraph where the first suggestion was made, and slowly opened his mouth to say, “The first point: senior brother said in this paragraph that the Holy Spirit “has always been tolerant of Song’s obvious evils”, and then later on said, “The cover is only to be a fullMinister’s decency, the aunt tolerate it to wait for his own bad ear”……Inevitably, there is implied that the intention of the holy harbouring Yan Song. His Majesty saw the rustic, fear will not like, in Ping An’s opinion, it is better to delete the statement about His Majesty’s tolerance to treat the relevant statements.”
Yang Jisheng heard Zhu Pingan’s first point of view, smiled and shook his head, “Zihou this point, but is too much to consider, Sheng, this paragraph in fact is not a reproach to the saint, but just to remind the saint, and no longer give Yan traitors grace to condone the grace of the Yan traitors, the Yan traitors are the seedling of the good and bad, the city of the tigers, one day on the throne is one day of the harm, one day does not remove it, then the millions of people suffer from the poison of it.”
“Brother, words like this, but read it, still will make people feel that there are blame the saint harbouring one. If His Majesty also feels this way when he reads the report, it will be detrimental to the work of the senior brother’s report.”Zhu Pingan shook his head and reminded again.
“Zi Hou, I understand what you mean, but if you waste food because of choking, is it not unwise. The fact that Sheng has today is all due to the grace of His Majesty’s promotion. For me to bluntly remind His Majesty is to repay His Majesty’s favour and be loyal to the duties of a subject.”Yang Jisheng shook his head at the words, and did not adopt this piece of advice that Zhu Pingan proposed, his attitude was resolute.
Er.
The start was unfavourable.
Zhu Pingan sighed in his heart, in fact, in his heart, he also understands that there is nothing wrong with what Yang Jisheng said, because it is indeed the duty of a courtier to give direct advice. Historically, Wei Zheng, the prime minister of the early Tang Dynasty, was known for his courageous advice to the emperor, and became a model for successive generations of subjects to emulate. No one is perfect, the emperor is also a person, there are also mistakes, as a subject, found the emperor made a mistake, is it because of the fear of the emperor blame will not remind the emperor! If that is the case, is that still what a qualified courtier does?
Besides, he was the famous Yang Jisheng.
In addition, this little problem compared to “or ask the two kings”, is a scabby disease, “or ask the two kings” is the real disease.
“Let’s leave this point aside for now. This second point is for Senior Brother to consider.”
Zhu Pingan weighed the matter again and again in his mind, giving up his intention to continue persuading on this point and focusing on the point of “or asking the two kings”.
“Zi Hou please speak.”Yang Jisheng saw that Zhu Pingan was so serious and formal, he also sat down and asked Zhu Pingan to speak on the second point.
“The second point is here – “The emperor may ask the two kings to make them face Song’s evil”.”Zhu Pingan reached out and pointed out where this sentence was on the zhangsheng, looked up at Yang Jisheng, and said with a serious, solemn face.
Just after Zhu Pingan’s words fell, he heard a sound of a cup being knocked over in the bedroom of the inner room, and in addition, vaguely heard a vague exclamation of alarm.
Who?
Is there someone else?
Zhu Pingan was taken aback when he heard the sound coming from the inner room and turned his head to look in the direction of the inner room.
“Oh, Zi Hou need not worry, in the house is canine son Ying Ji.”Yang Jisheng smiled faintly and explained softly.
So it was Master Yang’s second son, Zhu Pingan let out a sigh of relief at the words.
Senior Brother Yang had two sons, the eldest son Yang Yingwei and the second son Yang Yingji. According to historical records, Master Yang failed to impeach Yan Song and was thrown into jail, after knowing that he would surely die, he wrote two wills in the jail, one “Foolish Husband Oracle Virtuous Wife Zhang Zhen” to his wife, and one “Father Pepper Hill Oracle Yingwei, Yingji Two Sons” to his two sons.
“Ying Ji, what’s wrong?”Yang Jisheng asked aloud in the direction of the house after explaining to Zhu Pingan.
“Please also ask father to chastise, the child was thirsty and poured a cup of tea, not realising that the tea was too hot, he slipped up and knocked over the teacup.”As soon as Yang Jisheng’s words fell, an explanation from a teenager of about ten years old came from the inner room.
“Everything under the sun must be done in detail. How many times has my father said that this time, you will be punished for copying the Analects of Confucius ten times, do you have an opinion?”Yang Jisheng shook his head slightly at the words, facing the inner room and raising his voice to educate.
“Child has no opinion.”Yang Yingji’s voice came from the inner room as he admitted his punishment.
“Elder brother, Ji Di was only accidentally knocking over a cup, so he was punished for copying the Analects ten times, isn’t that a bit much.”Zhu Pingan sniffed and advised gently.
There were twenty chapters in The Analects of Confucius, totalling 15,900 words, copying it ten times would be nearly 160,000 words. The brush characters were not like the modern fountain pens and neutral pens, copying 160,000 words in brush characters, how long would it take to do so.
“Ten times is actually not much, for one thing, copying the Analects of Confucius can cultivate your body and mind, and secondly, it can deepen your understanding of Ying Ji. However, since Zi Hou has asked for it, then it should be copied five times.”Yang Jisheng smiled slightly and explained the good intention of punishing him for copying the Analects, but he still listened to Zhu Pingan’s persuasion and changed the punishment of copying ten times to five times.
“Thank you father, thank you brother Zhu for your good intentions, but a man’s promise is worth a thousand words, Yingji has already promised to copy ten times, how can he go back on his word, please father take back the order, the child is willing to copy the Analects of Confucius ten times.”Although Yang Yingji is young, he is very principled and insists on copying the Analects ten times.
“Good, worthy of being my Yang Jisheng’s son.”Yang Jisheng sniffed, appreciating Yang Yingji’s decision, and his face was salty with honour.
“Ping An is ashamed.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand in shame at his words, admiring Yang Jisheng’s family style. When dealing with people in the world, the word sincerity comes first, and from this one small thing, a corner of the Yang family’s family style can be seen.
