My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 40 Blue Passive (Still at night)
In the next few days, Su Ze was either lecturing or drying salt on the beach every day.

After two meals, I still have to study "Mencius", and I have to refine salt when I go back in the evening. I am very busy every day.

Lin Liangjun was also infected by Su Ze's attitude, and he took a lot of effort in studying and reading at the Wei School. At the end of the month, Su Ze finally ushered in a harvest.

After burning all the dry reeds in his ten-acre reed field, Su Ze produced a total of three hundred catties of refined salt.

Calculated on the basis of one hundred Wen per catty, this is [-] Wen.

The fineness of Fujian copper coins is not bad, and [-] Wen coins can be exchanged for one tael of silver.

Thirty thousand Wen is almost 20 taels of silver.

If the rest of the silver guards are gathered together, they can make up for the 32 taels of silver for fighting with weapons.

However, Su Ze's helping Changningwei is not completely selfless. He has already signed an agreement with the ancestral hall. The tidal flats of Changningwei will be given to Su Ze to dry salt, and the income from selling salt in the past two years will belong to Su Ze.

Su Ze has a new understanding of these clans in southern Fujian. After seven generations of development, Changningwei has formed a fairly systematic clan system.

The clan sponsors individuals, and the individuals give back to the clan. This kind of relationship similar to "angel investment" is already very mature.

Now that Changning Guard is even weaker, a "capable person" like Su Ze is what Changning Guard urgently needs, so the conditions for contracting the tidal flat this time are very favorable.

After negotiating the contracting of tidal flats, Su Ze returned to Wei Xue, where he picked up "Mencius Collected Notes" again and began to study it seriously.

The so-called collection of annotations is actually equivalent to today's translation of ancient texts, and the translation of ancient texts into the present will naturally include private goods. Zhu Xi's "Mencius Collection" contains Zhu Xi's private goods.

Su Ze is working on "Under the Chapters and Sentences of the Heart" in "Mencius Annotations". In this chapter, there is a famous saying of Mencius through the ages.

Mencius said: "The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least."

Later interpretations say that this is the beginning of people-oriented thought, but in Zhu Xi’s annotations, the explanation is as follows:
"She, the god of earth. Ji, the god of valley. The country is built on the basis of the people, and the country is also established for the people, and the honor of the king is tied to the survival of the two, so its weight is so important.

That's why you get the people of Qiu to be the son of heaven, you get the son of heaven to be a prince, and you get the princes to be a great official. "

Su Ze sneered. It is no wonder that later generations criticized Zhu Xi. Mencius's people-oriented thought was confused by Zhu Xi's misinterpretation and commentary, and he could still explain a set of strict hierarchical feudal system.

Zhu Xi first stated that "the supreme status of the king depends on the survival of the country and the people, so the people are more noble than the king".

It is proper sophistry to deliberately not talk about the importance of the relationship between the ruler and the people, but to talk about the people as the basis of the ruler's existence.

The latter sentence is even more outrageous.

"It is the emperor who can win the hearts of all the people in the world. Those who can win the favor of the emperor can only be princes, and those who can win the hearts of princes can only be doctors."

Obviously explaining that "the people are more important than the emperor", Zhu Xi can also move out his own system of monarch and minister, and Su Ze also admires his brain circuit.

Later, the "overthrow of the country" is blamed on "the princes have no way", and the responsibilities and obligations of the monarch are resolutely not mentioned.

This is where the poison of Neo Confucianism lies. Zhu Xi regards Gangchang as his standard, and he refuses to criticize the so-called emperor at all. This is the same as the so-called "Qingliu" in the Ming court today. Use it or not, it's all about gaining fame and moving yourself.

Naturally, this set of theories was loved by the rulers, and was designated as a compulsory bibliography for the imperial examinations in later generations. Scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were also interrupted.

Su Ze sighed and put down the book in his hand. If it wasn't for brushing skills, this kind of book would really be hard to read.

[Study wisely, "Imperial Examination" experience +1, has been upgraded! Lv2 upgrade to Lv3, 0/300]

[Read Ming History, "History" experience +1, has been upgraded! Upgrade Lv4 to Lv5, 0/1000]

[The skill "History" has been upgraded to level five, and one free attribute point has been obtained. 】

[The skill "History" has been upgraded to level five, please extract the passive skill. 】

Then a ray of light flashed, and three cards, one blue, two green, appeared in front of Su Ze.

History has finally reached level five!

And this time there was a blue passive!

Su Ze quickly looked at the three cards.

[Blue Passive - Quoting from many sources: increase your understanding of rare allusions when reading, and increase the correctness of citing allusions when writing. 】

[Green Passive——Take Shi Mingjian: When reading history books, you can get energetic BUFF and increase the efficiency of mental work by 10%. 】

[Green Passive - Poems and Books in Belly: Charm for History Lovers +1]

Su Ze just glanced at it, and decisively chose the first blue passive.

It really is a blue passive!This talent is crucial to the imperial examination.

The imperial examination is the eight-legged essay, and the eight-legged essay is called the eight-legged essay because it has a fixed format and writing method.

In the writing of stereotyped essays, citing allusions is also a very important examination content.

Being able to use allusions proficiently is an important criterion for whether an article is wonderful, and as the imperial examinations in the mid-Ming Dynasty became more and more perverted, the requirements for citing allusions became higher and higher.

When using allusions in the imperial examination, you can't make mistakes. If you use the wrong allusions, you will be dismissed.

Writing requires allusions, and reading topics requires allusions, and even the requirements are very abnormal.

The reason is also very simple. The content of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was "Four Books and Five Classics". You must know that "The Doctrine of the Mean" has only 3568 words. Naturally, there are fewer and fewer questions that can be asked, and the allusions used in the questions are also more and more biased. .

In the Qing Dynasty, in order to formulate questions for the imperial examinations in some places, they even forcibly made up a few words from the front and back sentences of the Four Books and Five Classics, and made some completely incomprehensible questions for candidates to write articles.

[Quotes] This skill is a magic skill for Su Ze who is preparing to take the imperial examination!

Su Ze checked the two newly upgraded skills again. The first was "History" which was upgraded to Lv5.

Before time travel, Su Ze swallowed dates when he was studying, and he couldn't remember the details of historical books and historical materials clearly. Anyway, in the Internet age, he can check them easily, so his historical knowledge is actually very weak, and he is only rated as Lv4 by the system.

After the upgrade, Su Ze's original vague historical records became much clearer, and he also gained a new understanding of many historical books.

Upgrading to Lv3's "Imperial Examination" required a lot of skills for taking the imperial examination in Su Ze's mind. The "Mencius" and "Mencius Collected Notes" he read during this period also seemed to be imprinted in his mind.

Although the other three books and this scripture have not been studied yet, Su Ze can get the questions about the book "Mencius" right in the boy's test!
In the end, it was the value of the free attribute. Su Ze thought about it, and he was going to sell salt tonight, so he resolutely added it to the "strength" attribute.

After adding some points, Su Ze only felt that his body suddenly became much stronger. At 6 points, it was already above the average level of ordinary people. Su Ze's current physical strength was about the same as that of Xiong Wu. Competing in strength may not necessarily be better than Su Ze.

With everything ready, Su Ze took the mule borrowed from the family temple and invited Lin Deqing to go to the ghost market again.

It's just that this time Su Ze brought more than 50 soldiers from Changning Guard with him. They divided into five mandarin duck formations, followed Lin Deqing in the dark, and lay in ambush outside the ghost city, waiting for Su Ze's orders. .

　The previous updates took a bit of a slow pace, and today these two are even more continuous, so they are simply released.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)