Xuande

Chapter 32

For scholars, other talents may be unsatisfactory, but the core ability of debating classics must be mastered.

Because Liu Bei's "good at fighting" has earned Lu Zhi enough face, Lu Zhi is more and more satisfied with Liu Bei. Wherever he goes, as long as he can take Liu Bei with him, he will definitely take him with him, introduce him to more people, and introduce himself Tell everyone what to expect from Liu Bei.

This is Lu's successor!

Lu Zhi had a son and a daughter before, but the son died young, and he has not had another son until now, but with Liu Bei, everyone thinks that even if Lu Zhi has no son, he does not have to worry about his knowledge and glory being inherited .

At the beginning of the fourth year of Guanghe, when Liu Bei ended his probationary period of observing politics and was officially recognized as Shangshutai Lingshi, his record of victories in the Debate Grand Prix had increased to 31, with two draws and no defeat.

As a result, Liu Bei gained a firm foothold in the circle of scholars in Luoyang with his reputation for being good at debating scriptures, so he was formally accepted by the circle of scholars.

And because he is good at debating and has solid knowledge, some people already regard him as a leader among the younger generation of students of the ancient literature school, and think that his future achievements will not be smaller than Lu Zhi.

In order to please Lu Zhi, some people publicly declared that for Liu Bei, accepting apprentices and teaching is not the end, and the establishment of a sect is unknown.

In fact, it was not until this time that Liu Bei was sure that it was useful to have something from the future in his head.

Earlier, Liu Bei traveled all over Zhuo County with a five-character poem, but he couldn't find a place to advance. He wanted to find someone to help him evaluate and flatter him, but it was meaningless and he couldn't find it at all.

Because what is important is not talent, but reputation. The greater the reputation, the greater the talent, and the more famous you are, the more talented you will be.

Scholars at the end of the Han Dynasty understood this very well. Even if they were talented, they also had to be famous.

The so-called smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, so that one or two scholars try their best to perform, try their best to toss, so that they can become famous, and only when they are famous can they have the opportunity to show their talents.

When the spotlight shines, someone will naturally discover your talent. If you don’t have talent, you have to fabricate it out of thin air. Otherwise, how can you continue to play this game of people carrying people in sedan chairs?
Liu Bei waited for more than ten years, went through hardships, and finally gained a certain reputation.

So it's finally time to show off your talent.

If you don't take this opportunity to continue to push your reputation up and let more people see and know yourself, when will you have to wait?
The time is right, let's go!
It's funny to say that Liu Bei once thought that the scholars of the Eastern Han Dynasty didn't care much about poetry, but only valued the meaning of the scriptures, so they mainly used the classics debaters as their foundation.

After arriving in Luoyang, he participated in many literary conferences and met many people, so he knew that scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty also liked poetry.

In addition, although the skills of the scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty were not very good at creating poetry, there were not many people who knew it, and their reputation was not small, but the imperial court did not rely on poetry to select officials, so literati and inkmen only regarded it as a hobby, not like the Five Classics and Ten Poems. The Four Schools of Law attach as much importance to it.

After research, Liu Bei knew that the earliest five-character poem was "Ode to History" by the historian Ban Gu. Although the technique is immature, it can be regarded as the founder of the mountain.

After Ban Gu, people continued to create poems. Many poems had good diction, but they didn’t know the authors, so they could only name them anonymously. Among them, there was a song "Picking Lotus in Shejiang River", which made Liu Bei feel very kind, because it was the poem he had learned. passed.

After reading this poem, Liu Bei asked Lu Zhi and some of his friends their views on the literary genre of poetry. Liu Bei had a good idea, and gradually began to take out the inventory in his stomach, intending to set up a classic debate expert, Set up another poet's persona.

Many of the existing means of gaining fame are rotten by the predecessors, such as honesty, filial piety, and the like.

It's okay for the people of the Fanyue family to do this. Some people are willing to give it a bad foot. If someone like Liu does this, he will only be laughed at and become a laughing stock.

It can only be said that people in this era are desperately trying to make themselves famous, and they are all trying to find ways to get a position. It is unnecessary to be involved in this track, and Liu, as a stinking foreigner who came to Luoyang to beg for food, rashly participated If you go in, you can only be rolled into slag.

So he recognized the status quo of the ecology, decided to seize the pain points of the industry, give full play to his own advantages, and strive to create a differentiated track.

I don't want to roll on the same track as you, I want to open up another track to roll myself!

Grandpa wants to write poetry!

If you have the ability, you weak chickens also come to write poems and roll with the master!
So after winning another victory at a certain sutra debate party, Liu Bei took advantage of the beautiful scenery of spring to come up with a song called "Spring Mian Wujuouxiao", which aroused applause from the audience.

After the debate meeting, this five-character poem was copied, and then spread throughout the circle of Luoyang scholars in a short period of time.

Many people praised this five-character poem, including Lu Zhi and other Confucian scholars, who believed that Liu Bei, a master of classics debate, was not only good at classics and meanings, but also talented in writing. He was a versatile writer and had great prospects for development.

It's not that the Han people don't like poetry. The Book of Songs is one of the Five Classics. The Han people use words and sentences that can match the rhythm to make songs, but those that can't match the rhythm to make poems, which is the source of the general term poetry.

Out of the pursuit and longing for ancient romanticism, if someone can write such chic and romantic words and sentences, and at the same time is an excellent official and teacher, how can he not be sought after and recognized?

With the success of the first water test, Liu Bei knew the feasibility of the differentiated track he had created, so he decided to go on with great strides, continue to cultivate this track, and broaden the track.

When he went out for an outing with his friends, he saw weeping willows and chanted.

[The jasper makes up a tree as high as ten thousand green silk ribbons hanging down. I don’t know who will cut the thin leaves. The spring breeze in February is like scissors]

When the friends around him heard about it, they immediately booed and asked Liu Bei to write it down. Liu Bei wrote down the poem with a pen, and the friends circulated it one after another, admiring it loudly.

So in the next few days, this seven-character poem, which is more two-character than five-character poems, also spread throughout the circle of scholars in Luoyang.

Scholars applauded and praised Liu Xuande's romantic metaphor of comparing the spring breeze in February to scissors, and the poem was copied one after another.

Although some people regret that these poems cannot be sung in harmony with the rhythm, the magnificent and romantic imagination reflected between the lines really makes some emotional people intoxicated by it.

Once this person who writes poetry is set up, he can't stop.

Following the scissor-like spring breeze in February, another day, Liu Bei participated in the classics debate meeting, held the position of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period and had a debate with a Gongyang Spring and Autumn Student. Drizzle.

On the way home, Liu Bei "occasionally felt something" and wrote down [The light rain on Tianjie is as moist as crisp, and the grass looks like it is far away, but it is not there.

Soon, through the spread of caring people, another seven-character poem spread to the circle of scholars in Luoyang, and people once again felt the beauty of seven-character poems.

So soon some people took to the streets to admire the willow trees in Luoyang City in the drizzle, which felt like a pilgrimage to a holy place.

Relying on Liu Bei's own reputation as an expert debater, the five-character poems and seven-character poems he "created", relying on beautiful words and romantic imagination, set off a wave of five-character poems and seven-character poems in Luoyang City.

Many scholars lamented Liu Beizhi's literary talents and growing reputation, and realized that although five-character poems and seven-character poems could not bring any direct political benefits, the great reputation was of great benefit to them.

Who doesn't want to be famous?

No kidding, fame is something you can't see and touch, but when it's really available, it can even save lives.

Things of this metaphysical nature should not be absent, more should not be less, so they also want to follow the trend and create poems in order to gain fame.

Liu Bei eats meat, so they can also drink a few mouthfuls of soup, right?

This brand new track was opened up and proved to be feasible. Those guys who were suffering from being rolled up on the original track rushed over to get their status on the new track.

But no matter how they were created, these works did not give people any surprises. People only felt that compared with Liu Bei's romantic and magnificent imagination, these poems were a bit dull and lifeless, and they were just five or seven words.

Where there is contrast, there is harm.

Everyone's hearts hurt by those boring and fabricated works urgently need Liu Bei, the poet's magnificent and wonderful fantasy to soothe.

Liu Bei's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, and Lu Zhi is very happy.

He originally thought that the requirements he had set for this disciple were quite high, but after almost half a year, the achievements of this disciple have far exceeded his original imagination.

He felt more and more that it was correct to take Liu Bei as his disciple in a desperate way.

Without the investment at that time, how can there be today's harvest?
As Liu Bei's reputation increased, so did his Lu Zigan's reputation. Teachers and students were bound in identity and fame, and both were prosperous, and both were lost.

The risks are great, but...

The income is also amazing.

(End of this chapter)