Source: Volume 7 of "Helin Jade Dew" by Luo Dajing of Song Dynasty: Zhao Pu, the prime minister in the early Song Dynasty, only read "The Analects of Confucius" in human words. Taizong Zhao Kuangyi asked him about this. He said: "I have known everything in my life, and I can't believe it. In the past, I used my half-assistant Taizu (Zhao Kuangyin) to rule the world, and now I want to use my half-assistant to bring peace to your majesty." Zhao Pu, a famous statesman in the Northern Song Dynasty, made suggestions for Taizu and mobilized He rebelled, supported Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, and was appointed prime minister. After the death of Song Taizu, Zhao Kuangyi became the emperor. Others thought that Zhao Pu had only read "The Analects" throughout his life and was uneducated and unskilled, so it was inappropriate to be a prime minister. Zhao Kuangyi asked if it was true, and Zhao Pu said that I use half of the Analects to help govern every major event in the world. I open the text and read the books, which is the Analects. At this time, I am called a small official and use half of the Analects to rule the world. Zhao Pu, the prime minister in the early Northern Song Dynasty, was an outstanding politician, but he was by no means a scholar. It is for this reason that he has such a shocking saying as "Half of the Analects of Confucius rules the world." After his death, first of all, it was recorded in "Confucian Officials" in the first volume of "On the Origin of Ancient and Modern Times" written by a man named Lin Jun (dòng) (the specific year of his birth and death is unknown): "Zhao Pu, a distinguished minister of his generation, went to the Eastern Expedition. Studying in the West, nothing is unsatisfactory, pursuing what he has learned, and there is nothing more than "The Analects of Confucius". "Zhao Pu has studied no other books except "The Analects of Confucius". Under this passage, there is a small note that reads: "Zhao Pu said: "The Analects" has twenty chapters, and I use half of them to help Taizu rule the world." Another figure related to this allusion is Luo Dajing (about 1196-1252), who lived in the same era as Lin Jun. There is this record in "Helin Yulu" written by him: "Du Shaoling's poem goes: 'The children's knowledge stops at the Analects, and the older children end with merchants.' Therefore, the Analects is a children's book. Zhao Pu came to the prime minister again, It is said that people from Shandong have only read the Analects of Confucius... Taizong tried to ask Pu about this, and Pu didn't hide it. He said: "I know nothing in my life, and I can't believe that I used half of it to help Taizu determine the world." , Now I want to use it as a half-assistant to bring peace to Your Majesty. '" This record shows that "The Analects of Confucius" was "a children's book" at that time, and Zhao Pu, who had been a private school teacher, was naturally familiar with it. Compared with what Lin Jun recorded in "The Confucian Officials", Luo Dajing here has a different text in the first half of the sentence, and also adds the second half of the sentence "Now I want to use my half-assistant majesty to bring peace", and explains the specifics. It was after "Zhao Pu returned to prime minister" that he heard people say that the only book Zhao Pu read was "The Analects of Confucius", so Song Taizong asked Zhao Pu about this. Zhao Pu made no secret and said the above words. However, Luo Dajing did not directly say that Zhao Pu "rules the world with half of the Analects of Confucius." Instead, he misrepresented the meaning of Luo Dajing's words as "ruling the world with half of the Analects of Confucius." It was the famous opera writer of the Yuan Dynasty who Gao Wenxiu (the exact date of birth and death is unknown). In the third chapter of his Zaju opera "Good Wine Meets the Emperor", he has this sentence: "Every time when a major decision is made, the text is read and the book is read, which is the Analects of Confucius. At this time, the small official is called a half of "The Analects of Confucius". "The Analects of Confucius" governs the world." However, "Meeting the Emperor with Good Wine" is not about Zhao Pu's deeds, and as a drama piece, it should not be used as a basis for discussing historical issues. However, the sentence "Half of the Analects of Confucius governs the world." , not only became a derivative of the above words of Luo Dajing and was associated with Zhao Pu, but also spread widely with the help of Zaju, a popular literary and artistic form, so that people today who are superstitious about "The Analects of Confucius" compete to talk about it. road.