The emperor's banquet is undoubtedly a kind of honor, but not a kind of enjoyment. It is even more unpleasant than having dinner with his leaders in later generations. After all, no matter how famous the leader is, he can only be a "local emperor". Of course, many officials who are qualified to attend the banquet will not think so, but they will hold various private banquets to communicate with each other after attending the emperor's feast.

A few days after Huangfu Song, who was highly honored, returned to Luoyang, he held a private banquet at home. All the invited officials were officials familiar with Huangfu Song, and half of the eunuchs and relatives were not. Huangfu Song and others were representatives of the aristocratic families who were loyal to the Han Dynasty in Luoyang. They may also be loyal to the emperor himself, but they were definitely not the same as the eunuchs and relatives who were completely dependent on the emperor.

The Grand Marshal Ma Riyi, Situ Ding Gong, Sikong Liu Hong, Taifu Zhu Jun, Guangluxun Zhao Qian, Weiwei Yang Biao, Shangshu Lingshi Sun Rui, Shangshu Lu Zhi, the Central Secretary Wang Yun, the Sili Clerk Zhang Wen, the Jinwu Yuan Pang, the later general Yuan Wei, the Northern Army's Marquis Liu Biao, Guanglu Dafu Zong Fu, Shizhong Zhongji, Shizhong Zhao Wen and others, as well as Cai Yong, the former Taiwei Cao Song, the former Taiwei Cui Lie and other famous officials who were temporarily idle and were temporarily unemployed, came to the banquet.

The counselor Zhong Shao, the Secretary of the Shangshu Lang, the General Kong Rong of the Hu Ben, the Secretary of the Shangshu Zheng Tai, the Minister of the Huangmen Xun You, the Minister of the Huangmen Zhong Yao, the Chief of the Central Army Yuan Shao, the Chief of the Dianjun Cao Cao, the left lieutenant of the auxiliary army Zhao Rong, the right lieutenant of the General Office Wang Qian, the Chief of the General Office Chen Lin and other handsome young men were also invited. However, Yuan Shu, who was ordered by his uncle Yuan Wei to think about his mistakes, was still in his custody period, so he did not come.

After a banquet, the guests here were scattered into small groups, talking about topics of interest. Among the groups, the students of the Party and patriotic countries were undoubtedly the center of the conversation - even if this was the banquet held by Huangfu Song.

A group of old ministers who were about the same age as Huangfu Song were also talking about similar topics at this time. Although they could not run into the crowd of young people, there were also a few older people among the party and patriotic students, such as Liu Biao and Wang Yun.

Moreover, Cai Yong, who is here, also taught himself a lot of knowledge taught by the Party and the country. Although he had only met the Party and the country, the "scientific knowledge" he learned from his daughter every night and the specific situation of the Party and the country were more detailed than most people.

When he heard his daughter say that students at Central University all had recommended admissions, he couldn't help but feel moved. However, the first thing he thought of was not to use this quota to go to school, but to recommend the children of the Taishan Goat clan who had helped him over the past ten years. However, Yang Xu, the "Premier of the Hanging Fish", had just passed away, and his children still had to filial piety, so he had to give up.

Later, Cai Yong wanted to recommend Kong Rong, who had a close relationship with him, to study, but was rejected by Kong Rong. During the few months since the Party Patriotic came to Luoyang, Kong Rong also had some understanding of the "scientific knowledge" he taught and his many words and deeds in Luoyang. Kong Rong found that many of the Party Patriotic thoughts were contrary to the Confucian classics and the Confucian classics. As the 20th generation grandson of Confucius, he naturally could not be a student of the Party Patriotic Party.

He wanted to give the recommended quota to others twice in a row but failed. The good-looking man Cai Yong finally decided to leave the quota for a few years, and wait until the Yang family's children had finished their filial piety period, and then let one of Yang Xu's sons come to school.

As for Cai Yong's own family, there was actually a daughter besides Cai Yan. However, Cai Yong neither thought of giving him the recommended quota, nor did he plan to use it for his younger daughter. After all, Cai Yan has fallen into the "claws" of the party and patriotism. How could Cai Yong send his younger daughter to the tiger's mouth? Anyway, they are all a family, so he and his younger daughter can learn the knowledge taught by the party and patriotism from Cai Yan.

====== The dividing line for me is a good person=====

After the banquet was removed, middle-aged and elderly people such as Huangfu Song sat in a circle in a row and sat in a row, with only a few shallow cups for drinks and snacks for wine in front of them, and chatted leisurely and casually. If it were someone else's house, there might be an informal occasion like this, guests would be invited to a new room with the Eight Immortals table and Eight Immortals chairs. But Huangfu Song had just returned a few days ago and had not had time to catch up with the latest trends in the class.

"...Is the patriotic principal of the Party who was standing behind His Majesty before, wearing mysterious clothes?"

During the chat, Huangfu Song, who was sitting on the mat in a more comfortable and casual posture, picked up the shallow cup, lazily worshipped around him, and leaned out while sucking a light water and wine, and asked Cai Yong, who seemed to be sitting not far away from him indifferently.

"It's undoubtedly the Party Principal."

The honest man Cai Yong knew that Huangfu Song’s questions were just for introductions to open up the topic of the party and patriotism, but he nodded seriously and replied.

Even if Huangfu Song was away from home, he would not have no idea what happened in Luoyang in the past few months. At least he was very clear about the clothing characteristics of the Party and Patriotic Party. However, among the left-behind members of the Huangfu family in Luoyang, no one had any contact with the Party and Patriotic Party or those who had close contact with the Party and Patriotic Party, so he naturally had to use this banquet to inquire about other information.

Similarly, except for a very small number of "lucky people", everyone here also had the idea of ​​getting some secrets from the exchange of the banquet. What they knew was basically some peripheral information.

During the interactions between the "upper society" in ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign countries, the banquet was used as a place for intelligence exchange, which is truly "the heroes have similar views."

"Duke Bo Yi, when I was in Chen Cang, I met His Majesty's messenger. He needed to find Hua Xiong, Jia Xu, Ma Teng, Ma Chao and others who were forced to recruit students from Central University and escorted to Luoyang. At that time, except for the Ma family and son, they were all in the kingdom party and were in the rebels, the rest were all under the command of former general Dong Zhongying.

When I returned to Luoyang, I realized that the Central University was more powerful than the Imperial College, and the prince and his nephews also went to study. I wonder if Mr. Bo Yi knew that the 'science' taught by the President of the Party was so strange?"

As Huangfu Song asked, everyone here had some understanding through different channels and made their own judgments, so they tried every means to obtain recommended admissions from a Central University. However, Cai Yong was a famous great scholar, and his daughter Zhao Ji was inseparable from the Party and the country almost every day, so everyone wanted to hear what Cai Yong had to say about this.

"Ah! As Yoshima said, 'science' is so strange!"

When Cai Yong heard someone mention "science", he immediately shone his eyes and patted his thighs and sighed. His face was filled with the feeling of being upset. He sat up straight slightly, holding his white beard and pondered:

"If we say that the strangeness of 'science' is like the rumor in the market, it is a magical art of gods. According to the principal of the Party, it can make people fly into the sky, make iron ships float on the water, and make children also be able to lift tens of thousands of pounds of things. But when we talk about it in detail, there is nothing strange, and it is no different from the knowledge of Confucianism, Mohism, and Fa.

"Science" is actually a knowledge that explains the principles of the operation of all things. According to the young lady, the Party President subdivided "science" into many "disciplines", including mathematics, linguistics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography, astronomy, meteorology, and there are 100 types of names. It is like a vast sea, its vastness and its depth is unpredictable!

The President of the Party once said that everything in the world can be the research object of "science". If every "discipline" is to be thorough, it is not a great achievement that can be achieved by one person."

Cai Yong said that most of the people here know something. Especially Wang Yun and Liu Biao, who had been enrolled for half a month, nodded unconsciously. This surprised Huangfu Song. After all, Cai Yong's description of the knowledge passed down by the Party President was so grand. This was not a knowledge that could be created by one person, one family, or several schools.

However, Huangfu Song was not wrong at all. The difference between this "science" and the various schools of thought is that it is the general term for the crystallization of wisdom for thousands of years of mankind. Even the individual disciplines contained the experience of many schools over thousands of years. They had the opportunity to obtain the results of this great cause - even if it was just the incomplete and insignificant part, just like a hair of a ox, it was already extremely lucky.

"Duke Bo, if you say so... With the hugeness of 'science', even if a person studies hard throughout his life, wouldn't he have no day to complete his studies?"

"That's true, I have also asked about the Party President, who used the method of "professional". The spokesperson does not necessarily have to be a versatile talent. Even if he specializes in a profession and studies a certain segment of a certain discipline under science to the extreme, it is a welcome thing. Many 'professional personnel' communicate with each other and learn together... It is like building a wall. Each person only adds a brick and combines the strength of everyone to achieve the great cause of 'science'."

Cai Yong answered Huangfu Song's question again. Huangfu Song nodded while thinking, without any intention of asking questions. Yuan Wei, the latter general who passed down from the "Book of the Book of Changes", immediately took it up and asked Cai Yong with some concern: "What Mr. Bo said is very much. But the changes carried out by the Party Principal seem to have many Hu styles and customs. For example, if we cut our hair and change our clothes, we do not read classics, even if we learn the art of gods and immortals, China is not China!"

"What Yang Gong said is different! China is in me, not in clothes, classics, customs and etiquette. Confucius wrote the "Spring and Autumn Annals" and said: "If the barbarians enter China, then China will enter China, and if China enters barbarians, then barbarians will be there." King Wuling of Zhao was in a hu clothing and cavalry, and his country was strong. The country was strong and China will exist. If the country is weak, China will not exist. Since it does not exist, how can we talk about China?"

Cai Yong smiled and shook his head gently, then suddenly smiled, and a serious look appeared on his usual gentle face:

"Our country inheritance is in people, and when people are in China, what's wrong with Hu customs? Those who are beneficial to the country and the people will do everything! Those who make China prosperous will do everything! Those who can make China stand at the top of the world will do everything!"

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