Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 28 A Genius Is Always Lonely

Under Zhuge Xuan's arrangement, Huangmenting Villager temporarily lived in the east of the city.

The shipping trade between Jiangdong and Jingzhou is extremely frequent. In history, many people traveled between the two places by boat, and the wars between the two places were mostly in the Yangtze River water war.

However, after all, there are more than 1000 people in Huangmenting, and there are a lot of supplies. It is not easy to gather so many ships in a short period of time.

What's more, Zhuge Xuan has just become the prefect of Yuzhang, and has not yet fully grasped the power of the entire county.

So according to what he meant, he would help introduce them to find a big merchant who wanted to transport goods to Jingzhou, and Huang Menting would pay for the boat and entrust the merchant to send them there.

So in the next few days, Deng Hong and Shen Chen would often run to the prefect's mansion, and Deng Hong would go to meet those merchants, discuss prices, and discuss cooperation intentions.

Shen Chen went to the backyard. This was the second time he saw Zhuge Liang. At that time, Zhuge Liang was reading a book in the porch of the backyard. It was approaching late autumn in September, and the autumn wind was coming. He was wearing a long robe. He was 13 years old. .

The servant who brought Shen Chen introduced to Zhuge Liang: "Young man, this is the young man from the family of the Lord's friend. The Lord said that you are about the same age. I hope you can become friends and have another playmate." .”

Zhuge Liang frowned slightly, but still stood up and saluted Shen Chen seriously: "I am Zhuge Liang."

"Shen Chen."

Shen Chen also replied: "Brother Zhuge, we have met."

"Oh?"

After seeing the ceremony, Zhuge Liang asked in surprise, "Have you seen it?"

"That day at Mount Niqiu, do you remember?"

Shen Chen laughed.

"Niqiu Mountain?"

Zhuge Liang thought for a while, his pupils dilated slightly: "I remember, you were riding on horseback at that time."

"Yes."

"What a coincidence, sit down."

"Thank you, Brother Zhuge."

Shen Chen walked over and knelt on the same seat with Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang actually doesn't like the children of his relatives very much. He is precocious and can't play with those immature children.

But Shen Chen, at least from the performance point of view, is polite and polite, not like a mischievous brat.

After the two sat down, Shen Chen noticed that there was a sentence engraved on the bamboo slip in Zhuge Liang's hand, called "Ji Zi Zhi Ming Yi Li Zhen", this is "Book of Changes".

"Brother is watching Zhouyi?"

"Ah."

Zhuge Liangliang nodded, put down the bamboo slips in his hand and said, "There are many things I don't understand."

Shen Chen was puzzled and said, "Hasn't every school of Jizi's knowledge of Yi and Lizhen clearly explained it? Except for Zhao Bin's theory, everyone thinks this is hidden wisdom."

"It's not this sentence, it's this sentence" Regret death and loss, don't be sorry, there is no disadvantage in good luck. ", I am thinking that this sentence should be divided into regrets, losses, and no sympathy. If there is auspiciousness, there will be no disadvantages. Or should we regret death and losses, and do not sympathize when there is no auspiciousness, disadvantages? Good luck."

Zhuge Liang pointed to another sentence on the bamboo slips and said.

Shen Chen has read "Book of Changes", "Book of Changes" is a part of "Book of Changes", "Book of Changes" has more than [-] characters in the Han Dynasty version, because "Lianshan Yi" and "Gui Zang Yi" were not lost at that time , so it is a very important Confucian classic.

However, the complete version of "Book of Changes" has too much content to be easily carried, while "Book of Changes" has only [-] characters, which is very small, and can be written in about three bamboo slips.

Therefore, when Deng fled Nanyang, he brought with him classics with relatively few words.

Books like "Book of Rites" and "Zuo Zhuan" with a cost of 18 to [-] yuan can be written in bamboo slips, and there are dozens or hundreds of volumes, not counting many scriptures with annotations. It is really inconvenient to use a carriage , can only give up.

At present, Shen Chen has not read many books, only "Book of Changes", "The Analects of Confucius", "Book of Filial Piety" and a small part of "Shangshu" and "Book of Rites".

However, having withstood the baptism and impact of the information age in later generations, Shen Chen also had deeper thoughts on the comprehension and research of these books, and he was often able to quickly find the main points in them.

He looked at Zhuge Liang pointing at this passage, smiled and said: "I don't know what my brother thinks, but I think it should be remorse for death, no pity for loss, no disadvantage for good luck."

"Oh?"

Zhuge Liang asked, "Why do you do this solution?"

Shen Chen shook his head and said: "This is just my personal opinion. The "Book of Changes" is essentially a book for the predecessors to summarize the laws of everything. How to explain a passage should not be based on what the predecessors think, but what you think. think."

"What do you think?"

"That's right, elder brother, read the first sentence first. Don't be sorry for the death and the loss. If there is good luck, there will be no disadvantage. What should I do?"

"There should be no regrets, no gains and losses, no worries, and no disadvantages when going to the auspicious place."

"If you interpret it like this when fortune-telling, isn't it encouraging? But if it's replaced by remorse and loss, don't feel sorry for the good and bad, is it not good?"

"Regret about your own gains and losses, and worry about the bad luck and disadvantages ahead."

"You see, different understandings of a sentence lead to differences in direction. Some people see fish and think of delicious fish meat, but Zhuangzi sees fish but knows the joy of fish. Isn't this a difference in viewing things? "

"It seems to be the reason, but I still don't quite understand it, can you explain it in detail?"

"For example, if a person wants to go out for a long distance, he first calculates a hexagram and gets the hexagram. Then whether he should go out or not depends on his own wishes. If he goes out to see his beloved, the explanation he sees should be Just don’t worry about gains and losses, go out bravely, and there will be no disadvantages. If he is forcibly recruited by the princes to fight and does not want to go out, then what he sees is disadvantageous, this is the interpretation of the hexagram.”

"Does good or bad luck depend on your own wishes in the end?"

Zhuge Liang lowered his head, and involuntarily thought of the tragic scene he saw when he passed by Xuzhou more than three months ago.

If one day when he grows up, someone hopes that he can help him in an official position to fight against the butcher who slaughtered the entire Xiapi, and if he calculates this hexagram by himself, is it good or bad?
Don't think about it, it must be a big culprit.

After all, that person was already more ferocious than the human Tu Baiqi. Bai Qi only murdered 40 soldiers, but that person didn't even spare the old and the young. His humanity has been wiped out to the extreme.

Own.

If such a situation really happens one day, do you have the courage to move forward bravely without regretting or worrying about gains and losses?

Shen Chen said softly: "Yes, "Book of Changes" tells us that people should obey the sky, but sometimes, even if they know that they can't do it, they have to go against it. Maybe it's against the will of heaven. But just as I do Just like the sentence in "Remorse for death, don't be sorry for what you lose. If you go to good luck, there will be no disadvantages". Only when you don't regret and don't care about gains and losses, can you move forward. Even if you die, you will have no regrets."

"Do what you know you can't do."

The young Zhuge Liang read this sentence carefully. For some reason, this sentence is like nectar in summer and a stove in winter.

He smiled, bowed his hands to Shen Chen earnestly and said, "The words of my virtuous brother made me suddenly understand. Maybe there are too many unreasonable things in this world, but because the enemy is so powerful that the world is afraid, this is what needs to be done." Brave people go against the sky."

"I believe that my brother is a man of great benevolence, courage and wisdom."

Shen Chen also laughed: "I'm known as a child prodigy in my hometown. When I read books, I always have my own insights, but when I tell others, they don't understand. Only being with my brother makes me feel at ease."

The two looked at each other and laughed loudly.

Although both of them are children, their minds are no different from those of adults. Sometimes, with a word, a look, or a movement, you can know what each other wants. This is not only a tacit understanding, but also because both of them have a feeling ——At this lonely age, I found another friend who I can talk to.

Geniuses are lonely, because it is difficult for ordinary people to understand.It's like when Shen Chen was in his hometown, there were many words and meanings that the elders in his hometown didn't understand.

Future generations may not understand why.

But we need to know that the people of later generations were born in a world with extremely advanced information.

A copy of "Zuo Zhuan" has 19 words, and if you search it on the Internet, you can find translations, annotations, and explanations. It is easy to understand and easy to understand.

And in the Han Dynasty?
There are more than 1000 villagers in Huangmenting, and the literacy rate may not exceed one percent.

They don't know why it rains, don't know why the sun and moon rise in the east and set in the west, don't know where they are, where they grew up, and don't have a clear concept of the geographical location of the big man.

Many people think that the place where they live and the thirteen states they hear from others are the whole world in their eyes.

Even those powerful families, the knowledge they have is nothing more than history books such as "Zuo Zhuan" and "Spring and Autumn" and philosophies such as "The Analects" and "Mencius".

When it comes to knowledge reserves and interpretation methods, people in the Han Dynasty are completely incomparable with people in later generations.

More importantly, the way to acquire knowledge at that time was really too difficult.

Bamboo slips are not easy to preserve, and books are easily lost. There are no pinyin letters, no punctuation, and no annotations. Even if there are bamboo slips and books, it is almost impossible to learn without the teaching of teachers and the help of predecessors.

And even if there is a book to read and a teacher to teach, sometimes a sentence in the book has different meanings from the original explanation because of different sentence sentences.

For those obscure ancient classics, the Confucian scholars at that time could only grope for the meaning word by word, in order to self-judgment and self-understand, and then annotate them into their own words, gradually becoming a genre.

Once two people understand a certain sentence differently, it may lead to academic disputes.

Just like the interpretation of "Dream of Red Mansions" in later generations, countless red scholars have their own ideas and understandings. Everyone is arguing and arguing endlessly on the Internet. In the end, no one can convince anyone.

So starting from the Western Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars have commented on those Confucian classics and wrote biographies.More than 100 schools of thought, such as "Ouyang Shangshu", "Fu Sheng Shangshu", "Shi Shiyi", "Meng Shiyi", "Fei Shiyi", "Mao Shi", "Lu Shi", "Qi Shi" and so on, were born.

Even "Zuo Zhuan", "Gu Liang Zhuan" and "Gong Yang Zhuan" are actually biographical annotations for the book "Spring and Autumn", that is, to explain the meaning of the content written in the book "Spring and Autumn".

It can be said that any high school student in the later generations, as long as you know high school mathematics, you will be a famous Han algebra mathematician when you return to the Han Dynasty!
If you are lucky and bring a laptop with you when you travel through time, which contains the translations, annotations, and explanations of all Confucian classics, then congratulations, you are a more powerful Confucian classicist than Zheng Xuan, the great Confucianist in the world. All Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty had to find you to learn art from you.

So to some extent, there is a huge generation gap between ordinary people and Shen Chen.They got too little knowledge. For a traveler like Shen Chen, sometimes the content and meaning of a sentence could not be understood at all, so it became very boring.

And now the appearance of Zhuge Liang brought a lot of fun to Shen Chen, because he could understand what Shen Chen said, even if he didn't understand it at first, after a little click, he would understand.

A genius will be lonely, and the world will not understand.But when two geniuses are together, that's interesting.

No?
(End of this chapter)