How to make a famous minister

Chapter 29

Fan Xuanchao followed Fan Xuanlang to the study, and when he saw Mr. Chen, he still looked out of his mind.

Mr. Chen first pointed out some bad writing in Fan Xuanlang's big characters, and then read Fan Xuanchao's articles. After analyzing and explaining, he spread out several articles one by one on the table, and took out Fan Xuanchao's previous articles In contrast, he asked gently: "Xuanchao, after you came back from Wuqiao, your articles are not as good as before. This is not a problem of ability, but what is on your mind?"

Seeing that Mr. Chen had already noticed, Fan Xuanchao said with a wry smile, "I have something on my mind..."

When Mr. Chen saw what he said, he fell silent, and said to Fan Xuanlang: "Brother Lang, go to the garden, how about playing with your wet nurse?"

Fan Xuanlang looked at his brother, then at Mr. Chen, nodded in agreement, and went out.

"But because of the ancestral hall?" Mr. Chen asked, Fan Xuanchao nodded, "Let's talk."

Fan Xuanchao hesitated for a few seconds, and said in a broken jar, "I don't want to study anymore, and I don't want to take the imperial examination—I, I don't want to be an official."

Mr. Chen didn't speak for a long time, but just looked at him silently, that gaze was pressing heavily on his heart as if it had strength.Fan Xuanchao closed his eyes and endured.

"I'm afraid you don't want to study, don't want to be an official, don't you want to be an official of Ming Dynasty?" Mr. Chen asked softly, without asking Fan Xuanchao's deepest thoughts, nor did he seem to ask a rebellious question.

Fan Xuanchao said nothing, but nodded hastily.

"Do you remember, I came to teach you, what did I ask you on the first day of class?"

"Remember, Mr. said that some people study to become an official, some people study to improve their talents, and some people study to become rich and powerful. Mr. asked me why I study?"

"How did you answer me back then?"

"..." Fan Xuanchao was silent, and then said in a low voice, "I said... I said... seeing the refugees from Liaodong, I don't know what I can do for them, so I have to study first."

"Do you still remember what those refugees looked like?" Mr. Chen asked further.

Fan Xuanchao looked sad, "I remember, I remember, they were in my dreams almost every night in those days, and I haven't forgotten those people's faces for a day in these years-but! But! How many people are there in the Ming Dynasty? Refugees? The Hangzhou Mutiny in January, the Funing Mutiny in March, and the Guizhou Mutiny last year, are these all coincidences? These are all forced! The Ming Dynasty is in danger! But those people, the eunuchs only care about taking money and breaking the law The Donglin Party only cares about the factional struggles in the imperial court, who cares about the tens of thousands of people in Ming Dynasty?

Everyone said that the Donglin Party was good, but what was so good about them?People who are not members of the Donglin Party will be beaten to death with a stick. No matter how good the official is, no matter how important the resolution is, as long as it is not made by the Donglin Party, it will be wrong and will be overthrown.

As for the eunuchs, their crimes are beyond description!Selling officials and nobles is light, deceiving the superiors and concealing the truth every day, no one is better at collecting the people's fat and anointing than them.

The dispute between the two parties has dragged the entire country into the quagmire, but no one realizes that they are wrong.The only one who can stop the two parties is the emperor, but he doesn't want to take care of things at all, he just wants to be a carpenter!He can't even read the words!Can such a person be an emperor!Just because he is the eldest son, he can waste the fate of the country openly, right?If you want me to work hard for such an emperor and such a country, I can't do it-I don't want to! "

Fan Xuanchao's remarks, if the target of Fan Jingwen's remark, can be regarded as a political mistake of the same level as committing a riot.

But luckily the person who heard it was Mr. Chen.Mr. Chen passed the imperial examination, but he also came from a poor family. Unlike Fan Jingwen, who was born in an official family and received the most traditional ideological education of "heaven, earth, monarch, relative and teacher", he has experienced both poverty and poverty in his life. In a hurry, I can see all the wonderful moments of "Chang'an Flower" in one day.When he was at the peak of his life, he saw the despicable behavior of the carnivore, but at the lowest point of his life, he also saw all kinds of life.

The more he saw, the more he respected Fan Xuanchao's ideas, no matter how shocking.Although he disagreed, he at least understood.

That's why he sighed.

After Fan Xuanchao said these words, he felt uneasy, wondering how his master would teach him a lesson.But he doesn't regret it, these words have been pressed in his heart for a long time.He wanted to say it since he was in the Wanli Dynasty.If an emperor makes a mistake, everyone must follow the unlucky dynasty. Why does it have to continue?Now that we know that the Qing Dynasty was not a dynasty that enslaved the Han people like the Yuan Dynasty, and we clearly know that there will be a prosperous Kangxi and Qianlong era in the future, why do we have to suffer for a little bit of face of the "Han family"?

Fan Xuanchao’s thinking is still stuck in the modern thinking of “if this company is not good, I will quit” and “that company will go bankrupt and be acquired if it is not good”, and he does not realize how terrible it is to “change the dynasty”.

Until he saw the Liaodong refugees who went south due to the war.

For the first time he doubted his claim, was he right?Is it right to let history develop in the original direction?Or is there a choice other than history?Maybe a better future?

However, this slight suspicion finally dissipated in Wei Zhongxian's greed and treachery, in Donglin Party's wrongdoing, and in Emperor Tianqi's inaction.

Now that the dynasty is broken, replace it with a new one.

Build a world of peace and prosperity from the ground up.

Fan Xuanchao looked at Mr. Chen's face that almost lost his spirit at once, and said sadly: "Sir, this country is already broken to the bone. I don't want to work my life for this kind of country."

Mr. Chen looked back at Fan Xuanchao, with a face full of vigor and eyes that glowed because of what he believed to be the correct belief—he once thought that his students would be the hope of the Ming Dynasty in the future and the pillars of the country.But he didn't know when he stepped into a fork in the road, but he didn't notice it, so that today, the pillar of Ming Dynasty 20 years later, has been so disappointed in this crumbling country.

If Fan Xuanchao also thinks so, how many people in this country think so?How many educated people are unwilling to serve the country, but watch the country gradually slide into the abyss of extinction?

But what qualifications does he have to accuse Fan Xuanchao?Mr. Chen himself saw through the officialdom and resigned to return to his hometown.

"You are not someone who only knows what other people say, so if you think this way, you must have thought it through carefully, and I can't do anything about it." Mr. Chen said weakly, "But, Xuanchao, if you don't study today, you may not read it in the future." There is no chance of even serving the country."

Fan Xuanchao said in a low voice: "It's not that I don't like reading, but if you want me to be an official, I absolutely don't want to."

Mr. Chen said: "You are also sixteen this year. Although you are not weak yet, but since you can say this, I can't treat you like ordinary children. Although I am just your teacher , not to accept you as an introductory disciple, but there are several years of teacher-student friendship, how about giving you 'Hanyuan'?"

"Although the master never accepted me as an introductory student, I have always regarded him as my real teacher. If you give me the words, I dare not refuse." Fan Xuanchao said sincerely.

"Hanyuan, it's a good word, don't let it down." Mr. Chen said.

Fan Xuanchao vaguely knew the meaning of this word. Mr. Chen reminded him of his sincerity when he said "what do you want to do for the refugees from Liaodong".In other words, it was his sincere feelings that he thought could change the world.

Mr. Chen, after all, still disagrees with his decision.