Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 290 Wang Situ ([-])
one year later
Xiping three years (AD 174)
Runan County

Pingyu County

"In today's world, in terms of ability, it should belong to Fan Zizhao, in terms of talent, it should belong to Heyang Scholars, and in terms of virtue, it should belong to Wang Zi'an."

On the Yatai, the well-known critic Xu Shao is criticizing the world's talents, and his elder brother Xu Jing is watching over him.

This is a once-a-month critique. It began to appear two years ago, in the first year of Xiping, when Duan Jiong arrested Tai students.

In the past, Confucian scholars gathered in Taixue to discuss the world's scholars and current affairs.

Ever since Duan Jiong brought the Taixue together, the scholars often gathered together according to their regions to continue discussing current affairs, and comment on other scholars in the world by the way.

People's mouths can't be blocked. Emperor Liu Hong brought Taixue, but it just prevented the scholars from chewing their tongues in Taixue. The scholars just continued to chew their tongues in another place.

Scholars gathered not only in Runan to discuss current affairs, but also in Yingchuan, Nanyang and other places.

It's just that Runan County is the old nest of Yuan's family, so the eunuchs' suppression is relatively small. Scholars have more freedom of speech in Runan County, so among the many small circles discussing current affairs, Runan has become the largest and most influential. One of the most powerful circles also spawned something like Yuedan Ping last year.

Xu Shao is so arrogant that no one can look down upon him, even the Yuan family in Runan, the Yang family in Hongnong, and the Wang family in Liaodong, the three great gentry families of the time, are nothing but dead bones in his eyes.

However, his evaluations are very accurate, often hitting the nail on the head, and he is willing to evaluate even some poor children.

Fan Zizhao is just a son of a merchant. He runs a business that the scholars despise every day, but he is praised by Xu Shao. Xu Shao thinks that this son of a merchant is very capable. The commerce is developed and the department stores are unimpeded.

"Fan Zizhao, although he doesn't understand the Four Books and Five Classics, is a capable man in governing the region. Unfortunately, because of his background as the son of a merchant, he can only be dimmed."

Xu Shao commented on a son of a merchant in this way, which made some scholars dissatisfied: "A merchant is a capable person who governs the local area. Does he understand "Spring and Autumn"? Does he understand "Book of Changes"? Does he understand "Book of Rites"? Does he understand the "Book of History"? He doesn't understand these sage books, so why should he be evaluated as a capable person in governing the region? Xu Zijiang, your evaluation is too ridiculous. I think it is because you have a personal relationship with that fan surnamed , that’s why you elevate the other party so much, ah~hahaha!”

Faced with such groundless accusations, Xu Shao was not angry at all, but smiled lightly and said, "Let me ask you, are there books on saints first in the world, or saints first."

"Of course there were sages first, and then the disciples of the sages wrote books about the deeds of the sage's life." The scholar replied.

"That's right. Since there are saints first, then there are saint books, that means that saints have never read saint books, so saints are not qualified to be called saints?" Xu Shao laughed.

"Ah, this!" the scholar was so retorted that he was speechless.

That's right, if you don't have the qualifications to be evaluated as a capable person without reading the books of saints, wouldn't saints also be qualified?After all, the sage must have never read the sage books, and those sage books were written by his disciples after his death.

"Fan Zizhao, at the beginning, only had a few hundred dollars of capital, and then in just seven or eight years, he seized the opportunity to use the few hundred dollars of principal to make millions of dollars in profits, and doubled his net worth several times. Ten thousand times, gentlemen, who of you dare to say that you have such ability?" Xu Shao continued to add.

"Forehead……"

Everyone was convinced by Xu Shao, and most of them also believed that his evaluation was fair.

Discussing talent is a better proof, as long as the person involved comes to the stage to write a few poems and prose, you will know whether he has talent or not.

Ability and morality, among these three evaluations, although [virtue] is the most important criterion for a person, morality is also the most difficult to evaluate, because morality is the easiest to fake.

After all, if you really want to talk about virtue, Wang Mang is absolutely unprecedented, but the result.

Moreover, over the past 100 years, the disadvantages of the prosecution system have become more and more obvious.

In order to pass the inspection system, many people resort to deception and formalism.

For example, call others to your home, and then give up a pear in front of everyone.

Another example is that some people engage in performance art, lie down on the ice, and beg for a carp.

Another example is some people, while saying that they want to live in seclusion and not bow down to secular interests, they send people everywhere to advertise that they are living in seclusion, for fear that others will not know that they are a person who is indifferent to fame and wealth and lives in seclusion.

Another example is that some people shouted that they should observe filial piety for their parents for three years, during which they were not allowed to have intercourse. After three years, they found that several children had grown up, some of them were two years old.

In short, with the passage of time, the probation system is like a decoration, and it is impossible to prosecute real talents at all.

Both those with background and those without background are cheating, and in the end, those with background are naturally prosecuted. Therefore, the children of the family are monopolizing social resources more and more, and the whole world is becoming more and more depressing.

The official probation system of the Han court gradually became useless, and was replaced by an alternative "probation system" organized by scholars spontaneously among the people, such as "Yue Dan Commentary".

After Xu Shao published the Fu written by Heyang Shi, a group of scholars admired this exquisite Fu after seeing this exquisite Fu, and believed that Heyang Shi was indeed a talented person.

But when it comes to [Germany], it becomes difficult.

You can't let the parties perform filial piety live, right?That's too funny!
[Can] can be evaluated by whether the things he does are good or not, and [cai] can be evaluated by whether the articles he writes are good or not, but how should [De] be evaluated?
Performing filial piety live?Weeping graves live?The live show makes pears?Or live on the ice?
"Wang Zi'an lost his mother when he was six years old, and he began to observe filial piety at the age of six. Now he is 16 years old, and he is still observing filial piety!" Xu Shao told everyone such an unbelievable message.

Originally thought that Yuan Shao's [-] years of filial piety would have been shocking, but he didn't expect that there would be another [-] years of filial piety, and he was still keeping filial piety.

Outrageous!It's outrageous!

Although the ancients said that three years of filial piety is required to comply with etiquette, but everyone talks about it, and no one will really observe three years of filial piety.

Decades ago, Wang Yun even criticized the ancient etiquette of keeping filial piety for three years.

I believe that true filial piety should be to take good care of your parents while they are alive, instead of kneeling in front of the grave and pretending to be after your parents are dead.

The ancients must be right?
Everyone has such a question in their hearts.

This kind of pretentious filial piety is not real filial piety, but it is also a disgrace to your living relatives. Your living relatives need you to work and feed, but you have kept filial piety at the grave for three years, delaying farming, and causing the children in the family to starve to death. What kind of filial piety is it?
Nowadays, more and more people oppose the ancient etiquette of keeping filial piety for three years.

Under such a big trend, there are Yuan Shao and Wang Ding (styled Zi'an, Wang Yun's son) such alternatives who have kept their filial piety for six or even ten years, which makes people feel very surprised.

While everyone was still discussing, a short young man squeezed into the crowd and shouted at Xu Shao on the Yatai: "Mr. Zijiang, please also evaluate me, Cao Cao, please!"

When Xu Shao saw Cao Cao's short figure, he didn't bother to comment and ignored Cao Cao.

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao rushed directly to the stage, drew his sword and threatened, "If Mr. Zijiang refuses to evaluate me Cao Cao today, I, Cao Cao, will have a duel with Mr. Zijiang!"

"..." Xu Shao was speechless, so he was silent for a long time, and then said: "You, Cao Mengde, a hero in troubled times."

"Haha, good, Mr. Zijiang's evaluation is really objective!" Cao Cao laughed, very happy.

"At the same time, he is also a traitor who governs the world." Xu Shao deliberately paused, and then added this sentence later.

"Eh..." Cao Cao was very embarrassed, but he already had the evaluation he wanted, and it would be too much to threaten others, so he put away his long sword and apologized to Xu Shao: "Cao Cao is rude, I hope you don't blame me. "

"Hehe!" Xu Shao sneered.

(End of this chapter)