Chapter 136: It’s like a treasure

Zhao Xing said slowly: "I shook my head, just to feel sorry for you. Look, such a big royal secret is in the palm of your hand, and you have put in such great effort to conceal the royal face, but you have to go abroad to accompany this princess...

What a pity - do you know what the situation is like overseas? There is no acquaintance around you, and you can't even find someone to talk to, because you are completely different from their language.

Think about it, no one overseas pays you a salary, and all the expenses are all based on the little money brought by the princess. You can spend money on everything. Think about it again, if you don’t have an acquaintance and you need to buy every move with money. How much money should you spend? If you buy land, houses, and hire a group of people to protect you, all of this is bought with money. How much should you spend every month’s wages?

You can't farm, do business, or weaving. You are lonely and helpless overseas and cannot return to your hometown for life. No one knows when you die, and no one dares to bury it... Looking into my eyes, tell me, are you really planning to live this kind of life?

Don’t say I will take care of you. I have been working hard overseas for three years and am just about to enjoy the life of a scholar in the Song Dynasty. I will not go overseas, I will live on this land. So, you will not find me immediately if you have any problems. If you want to force me, I will never obey the imperial edict. You can do it."

Tong Guan was so anxious that he was: "What should I do? What should I do?"

When Tong Guan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, Zhao Xing said slowly: "If you believe me, let me arrange it. The princess is a pitiful person, then don't drag others down - this is what you say to you. Go back and tell the Queen Mother that I have a house in Jiaozhi and a house in Qiongzhou. These two places are across the sea from my Song Dynasty and can walk over on land, so please ask the Queen Mother to choose any one for resettlement.

As for the princess, there is no need to take anyone around her. The princess goes out to be an ordinary person. Taking the chief officer to the pavilion will make her fall in love with the scene. It is better not to take it.

If there are palace maids who are willing to follow, please let the princess carry some with you... Please rest assured that my two houses are very comfortable, without the suffering of dysentery, and the sea and land on both sides are very close. When the wind silences, the princess is willing to marry, and I will find a good family to marry... Wait, I have a good idea, marry her to the Duke of Dayue County, I can do this. Tell the Queen Mother, I will definitely let her get married with you in a grand manner."

Zhao Xing's eyes were like a thief who had successfully stole a chicken. Tong Guan got his guarantee and couldn't sit still. He was anxiously preparing to return to the palace to report the news. Before leaving, he suddenly remembered: "By the way, Zhou Bangshi, a Jinshi of Qiantang, is in your mansion? I came here under the guise of promulgating him, so don't miss it. There is an edict: I will preach the Zhou Bangshi's magistrate of Huazhou. I need to announce this decree to him."

"He is in the side yard, and there is a lantern with a 'Zhou' hanging at the gate of the yard... I'll ask the yard to take you there!" Zhao Xing replied.

Tong Guan took two steps and suddenly stopped: "On the first day of April, there is no moon, that night is the most suitable for walking, so you can remember the days."

"I understand! You must explain the situation clearly when you go back. Remember: For your own good, you must quit the work around the princess. It is best to follow what I said, and not send eunuchs to accompany you..."

The two chatted about the details and decided on the plan to leave the palace. Tong Guanxing ran away. After Zhao Xing saw him go, he pondered alone in the house for a while, and then slowly walked out of the house, Ma Meng walked to the room.

According to the general principles of royal affairs, the nameless wild child would never be allowed to be born. The most famous medical skill in the Song Dynasty was acupuncture. If one needle was pricked, perhaps the princess had a secret miscarriage.

Zhao Xing walked slowly in the yard, lamenting for the unborn child as he walked... But this was no longer his business, he had already walked to Ma Mengde's door.

Su Shi was evaluating the new poems and works of several disciples in the house. This is what he had forgotten his troubles just now. Su Shi is such a person. He is an open-minded person and always finds happiness for himself.

Huang Tingjian wrote the "Fisher's Poem", which included the sentence "The bride's head and eyebrows are dark green, her daughter's eyes are wavy, and she was shocked by the fishing fish mistakenly recognize the moon as the hook". Huang Tingjian thought it was good, "With the water and the mountains, but instead of the jade skin and flowers, this is really the family style of the fisherman." He happily asked Teacher Su to comment.

After reading it, Su Dongpo nodded with a smile and said, "No, it's really good. I just left the bride's rock and entered my daughter's sanctuary again. This fisherman is so romantic, but does this guy still have the heart to fish?" It immediately caused the disciples to burst into laughter.

Su Dongpo said again: "Lu Zhi, your handwriting has become clearer and clearer recently, but the strokes are too thin and look like snakes hanging on the top of a tree."

Huang Tingjian in the room immediately responded: "The teacher's name is not a question, but it looks a bit flat, like a stone-pressing toad."

Zhao Xing listened to a few words outside the door, but he couldn't understand them. It was too profound. Su Shi's speech quoted classics, Zhao Xing knew mathematics, physics, chemistry, and philosophy, but he was not familiar with those classics. He smiled and pushed open the door, rushed into the room like nothing happened, found a seat to sit down, and then shook his head on the chair like Ma Mengde.

Su Shi found him, glanced at him, and then opened his mouth. Zhao Xing had already shaken his head and said, "You can't say it! You can't say it."

"Okay, I won't ask you," Su Shi was also relaxed and immediately said: "I'm late when I leave, I'll post a poem. You, a disciple, have had several poems circulating, but you were not by my side when you wrote the poem. Do you always admit that others have seen it with your own eyes? Today, you must write a poem."

What do you do? Zhao Xing can only sing. He slapped the table and sang the theme song of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The strange "Linjiang Xian" was sang "A pot of turbid wine and we met happily. How many things in ancient and modern times are all in the conversation and laughed." Su Shi was very moved when he heard this and praised him.

This poem is quite in line with Su Shi's style. The heroism and seeing through the world are very similar to Su Shi's appetite. Especially the last few sentences, it is simply to address his troubles just now and persuade him... Of course, Zhao Xing has denied that this poem was written by him.

This is indeed not what he wrote, but no one in the Song Dynasty believed it.

Su Shi praised the words without hesitation, and then said: "I came today to tell you that Mr. Lu wants to see you, but tomorrow he happens to be at home, so you go with me."

Mr. Lu refers to Lu Dafang, who was the prime minister of the dynasty who offended some of Su Shi's appointment letters. He wanted to see Zhao Xing. Could it be that he indirectly wanted Su Shi to express that he didn't care about the words in Su Shi's edict?

"Gong-gong Lu likes ancient times and thinks that the Zhou rituals will be feasible in later generations. Recently, Huang Luzhi (Huang Tingjian) and Zhang Wenqian (Zhang Lei) were talking about the Shooting ceremony in the palace. Gong-gong Lu knew about it and planned to ask you some details about the Zhou rituals. Where did the two Japanese people go? You can take them with you."

Zhou Li, Zhao Xing remembered Zhang Yong's words and smiled bitterly: "Is anyone still caring about Zhou Li now? Now it's the Song Dynasty. Zhou Li ignores the etiquette of Japanese, Korean and Yue people? Aren't he afraid that others will scold him? "

"Ha, Japanese, ha, Korean? What do you mean?" Li Xiao was studious and asked very urgently.

"Ha, this is a Hu language. You don't need to know. I'm just letting go. Ah, Mr. Lu likes Zhou Li, how much does he like?" Zhao Xing's last sentence was purely nothing to say. But none of the people present despised him for this. Ma Mengde quickly stuffed a book in his hand into Zhao Xing's hands. Judging from the situation, they were still talking about this just now.

There are four words written on the book: Lantian Township Agreement.

The village convention means a village convention, which is based on the etiquette norms of daily life, and the provisions of mutual assistance among villagers, and mutual advice on good and avoid evil rules. The purpose is to make the customs pure.

Zhao Xing didn't know that the Lantian Township Agreement was known as the first Township Agreement in China. It was compiled by Lu Dajun, the brother of Lu Dajun. Before the Song Dynasty, some people-friendly ceremonies of the Zhou Li only went deep into county-level units and were organized by the government. By the Song Dynasty, these people-friendly measures went straight into the countryside for a short time, and were advocated by the Lu brothers.

In order to make it easier to implement the rules and regulations of the township and the people can last long, the Lu brothers established corresponding organizations. The recommendation agreement is presided over the matter, and everyone takes turns to serve on the monthly basis. Regular gatherings are recorded and rewarded and punished good deeds. This is the self-government initiated by the people, and the villagers voluntarily participate. Those who come will not refuse, and those who go will not chase them.

This book records some habits among the villagers. According to the current term, it is "natural law" or "customary law", and the initial part is the "parental law" of the Song Dynasty.

This is the patriarchal law, the real patriarchal law! The pastoral law I saw before was garbage, women had no property rights, and the juniors in the clan had no private rights, but they were actually called patriarchal law?! Whatever you think of is like the primitive tribal chief system of the Hu people. People who make up such lies must have never read the "Lantian Township Agreement" - of course, he might have read the Lantian Township Agreement, but he was ordered by the emperor and came out to the fore.

Use the tribal chief system to deceive the world, and then ask the Han people to admit in Chinese that this thing belongs to the Han people and criticize how ugly it is - this is the case that turns black and white in the world.

There is no China behind Yashan!

Zhao Xing just wanted to cry while holding this Lantian Township Agreement.

It is not scary to have no Chinese after Yashan. What is scary is to deliberately tell you a different kind of Chinese, and tell you that the Chinese before Yashan is the same as they wrote it.

We have lost China, and even lost its true nature!

Su Shi was enthusiastically introducing the Lantian Township Agreement to Zhao Xing. When this Township Agreement was first born, it also caused a lot of trouble for Lu Dajun. The court officials mainly discussed that it was suspected of "forming a clique". Because the spontaneous gathering of villagers was not approved by the organization, it was a "group incident"... Fortunately, Lu Dajun lived in the Song Dynasty, and the organization did not mobilize the people's yamen runners to suppress the people.

Later, the Lu brothers became more and more famous, and people had classified the Lu brothers and disciples as ritual studies, or Guanxue, or Guanzhong Neo-Confucianism. The court was embarrassed to interfere, so it adopted a strategy of discouraging, not supporting, not attacking, and not suppressing. As more and more officials and disciples were more and more, they were spreading as local officials everywhere, and they also practiced to promote Lantian Township in various places. Therefore, the etiquette of this week continued to be passed down among the people after wars.

Zhao Xing got the full version of Lantian Township Agreement. The behavioral norms of villagers in the first chapter of the village agreement were recorded, and then folk etiquette... Among these folk etiquettes, Zhao Xing saw many familiar things, such as social operas, temple fairs, dragon boat racing, spring and autumn festivals, etc.

These entertainment activities were originally part of the "country rituals" and were organized by the government to promote the customs of strengthening relatives and friendship through fellow villagers' friendship activities. Later, because the Hu people came, these things became fragmented, and only entertainment was left among the people, and no one knew its origin.

"So that's it, it's like this," Zhao Xing muttered blankly: "Everyone says Yashan..., I know the source now. It turns out that since then, our culture has lost its origin, and we don't even know the folk customs everywhere! What's more sad than this?!"

What Ma Mengde showed to Zhao Xing was an early version of the "Lantian Township Agreement". At that time, the Lu brothers only implemented this kind of rural agreement in their hometown Lantian, so it was called the "Lantian Township Agreement". Later, there were too many gossips and the feudal etiquette was divided into lands in Lantian, which was suspected of feudal separatism and restoration of feudalism. In the Song Dynasty, it was oligarchic slavery led by the emperor, so the Lu brothers quietly changed it to "Lushi Township Agreement" and put it on a layer of clan cloak. The patriarchal law belongs to the family affairs of the people, so the imperial court did not interfere again.

It is precisely because of the implementation of the "Lüshi Township Agreement" that China began to speak patriarchal law. In other words, China officially entered the patriarchal society from this "Lantian Township Agreement", so it is called China's first patriarchal law and the first village agreement. Although China had begun to gather and live in families due to war, there was no clear and systematic clan "customary law" at that time...

"I go, I really want to meet this Mr. Lu. Not only did he bring the two Japanese people, but he also brought the Goryeo and Jiaozhi. Confucius said: If you lose etiquette, please go to the wild. We have lost too much now, and we are boasting about these countries: the Tang system of clothing, the rituals and music of the Han monarchs and ministers. Let them talk about it."

"Okay", Qin Guan likes the most lively, and he said happily: "The previous Four Kingdoms War was a big start and a bad end. This time, those three countries must have seen the beautiful articles of the Song Dynasty and the objects and treasures of the Song Dynasty."

Chen Gongchuan thought for a while when he heard the news, and patted Chen Yiniang in his arms. Chen Yiniang obediently stood up and flashed to the side. Chen Gongchuan sat up, glared at him and asked, "You will marry my sister after all, right?" In other words, sooner or later I will be your elder brother-in-law. The family will not speak two families, and you didn't say hello in advance when the Four Kingdoms fought for poetry last time, which made me feel embarrassed.

You said this time, but you prepared time for me. Who are those two? Yuan Yeping is a famous Japanese poet, warrior, Tang swordsman, and Ji Shouzhong is even more famous than him; Park Ing-kwang is a great poet of Goryeo, these are not good at plagiarism. Now I give you two choices, one is to show my identity so that I can be on an equal footing with them, and the other is to give me time, I want to find a helper,"

"Showing out your identity - this is impossible, finding a helper, this is a solution... This is an influential conference. It just so happens that the prince consort of Xiao Wang is going to organize a genre in Xiyuan. The place is big enough, so why don't we push the party until the end of the month..."

The "end of the month" mentioned by Zhao Xing refers to April 30th in the Gregorian calendar. This day is the Gengshen day of Guimao in the year of Dingmao in the Chinese calendar, which is the Friday and the beginning of summer.

On this day, standing in the famous place of Xiyuan, Zhao Xing immediately recalled why the word Xiyuan is so familiar. This is the place where the "Xiyuan Elegant Meeting" was held. Xiyuan Elegant Meeting and Lanting Rally are ranked as two major events in the Chinese literary world. The protagonist of the previous rally was Wang Xizhi, and the protagonist of this rally was Su Shi.

Outside the West Garden, there were crowds of people, and the scene seemed to be outside the theater of the stars' concert in the future. Fans who could not get tickets were crowded around the theater, waiting to see their idols. However, the scene at this time was even larger than the concerts of the stars. There were 4,000 people outside the West Garden. They looked at the closed garden gate, as if they were looking at a temple.

It will surely become a temple, and at this moment, it will surely become history. The only regret is that the names of the bystanders cannot climb onto the scoreboard.

A small crack was slightly opened. A few gorgeously dressed fat men by the garden door immediately blocked the garden door with their fat bodies. They came over and whispered to the people in the garden. The scholars a little far from the garden door did not squeeze in. They remained gentle and stood there in a gentle manner, looking forward to the results of the secret talks at the garden door.

This phenomenon seems to have occurred many times, and the students have become accustomed to it, so they are just looking forward to it patiently. Sure enough, after a while, a few pieces of paper were handed out from the crack of the garden door, which were the poems of the masters in the garden. One of the fat men in the brocade clothes took the papers as if they had obtained treasures, while the other few people showed disappointment, gave in a few steps, and gave up the figure of this person.

The fat man glanced a few times and immediately shook the paper in his hand and shouted loudly: "The poems of Mr. Dongpo (Su Shi), Mr. Shaoyou (Qin Guan), and a poem of Mr. Xiao Wang, obtained by my Shenghe Bookstore. Only one poem is read aloud on the spot..."

The students were in a mess and shouted in a mess: "Those who studied Bachelor of Dasu...", "Those who studied Shaoyou in Qin...

The sound of the garden gate is noisy, but the garden is quiet.

This banquet was actually a reunion of the literati and a rest in life. The people here survived the disaster and gathered again. Li Gonglin, who was good at painting characters, described this literary event as a picture - "The Collection of Elegant Collection of Xiyuan", and Mi Fu wrote a note on this picture, namely "The Collection of Elegant Collection of Xiyuan". This gathering was called a grand event that was no less than the collection of Lanting of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The scene depicted in the painting has since been regarded as a classic example of the ideal life of Chinese scholars and officials, and has become the main body of repeated strokes under the paintings of later generations.

Zhao Xing looked at the "Share Collection Pictures of the West Garden" described by Li Gonglin. This picture was painted by Li Gonglin and prefaced by Mi Fu. Its authentic works have been lost and the fakes are preserved in Japan. It is a national treasure of Japan. "Share Collection Pictures of the West Garden" is famous internationally because it is the only picture that records the grand events in ancient China's literary world. Similar gatherings of literati have never appeared in China after the West Garden.

The pine, cypress, bamboo in the West Garden, small bridges and flowing water, is the most beautiful in the garden. The host and the guest are elegant. A stone table is displayed under the tall green pines and green bamboo in the garden. A cicada flies towards a small river, and the river bank is dense. The two concubines of the master comb high and swore that they have many jewelry, standing behind the table. Su Dongpo wore a tall hat, a yellow robe, leaning against the table to write, and the son-in-law Wang Shi was watching nearby... Mi Fu stood up, looking up, and was writing an inscription near a rock. Qin Guan sat on the root of a tree with many tumbling trees, listening to someone playing the piano...

In addition, Huang Luzhi, Cai Zhao, Li Zhiyi, Zheng Jinglao, Zhang Lei, Wang Qinchen, Liu Jing, Huang Buzhi, monk Yuantong, Taoist Chen Bixu, they either wrote poems, painted, wrote stones, read books, talked about scriptures, and enjoyed the joy of traveling. The 16 main friends almost included the literary elites in Kyoto at that time...

There were six servants and book boys at this rally - history should have been recorded like this, but now, it seems that history has some problems. It has countless more people than before...

At this moment, history deviates from the original track.

After understanding this, Zhao Xing was so excited that he was almost fainted - history has changed, and I finally changed history.

More than twice the number of people participating in the Xiyuan rally. In addition to the original twenty-two people, there were also large groups of Luo Party members - such as Lu Dafang, Wang Yansou, etc. In history, it was the most intense time for the Shu Party's Luo Party. Since Su Shi presided over the "Center Office", Fu Yaoyu, Wang Yansou, Zhu Guangting and others attacked Su Shi's exam questions out of context and suspected of slandering Emperor Shenzong. After this attack was blocked by Su Shi's fan Empress Dowager Gao and returned, Fu Yaoyu, Wang Yansou, Zhu Guangting and others turned to attack Lu Tao. Zhu Guangting and others were disciples of the Cheng family and representatives of the Luo Party. Su Shi and Lu Tao were both from Shu, so the Shu Party and Luo Party spread wildly.

Originally, the Luo Party should have tried its best to attack the Su Shi school, but their attack was indistinguishable. Not only the Su Shi school, but as long as the other party was from Sichuan, it was the reason they were right. Anyone who agreed with Sichuan was opposed; they agreed with Sichuan... But in Xiyuan, the two parties actually sat together and enjoyed the Zhou ritual demonstrations made by the surrounding Three Kingdoms in the exquisite garden of Xiao Wang's Prince Consort.

The gathering in the Xiyuan Garden was not only the Shu Party, but also several court officials, three heavyweights - Shangshu Zuo Pushe (Left Prime Minister) Wen Yanbo, Shangshu You Pushe (Right Prime Minister) Lu Gong, and the Privy Councilor Zhang Dun (Shu Prime Minister) was also among them. These three people, plus the Central Secretariat Order Lu Dafang, mean that all the senior officials of the Political Affairs Hall of the Song Dynasty gathered in Xiyuan.

The number of people attending the Xiyuan party has changed, and the purpose of the party has also changed. If Li Gonglin comes to depict the scene of the Xiyuan party again, his painting techniques will probably change. He learned the beauty and heavy colors of Tang paintings from the Japanese girl Cuiyi, and obtained a variety of wonderful inks from Zhao Xing. In addition to his newly learned golden division layout techniques, the painting style has also changed from simple and elegant to like thick ink and heavy colors, focusing on the layout of the picture.
Chapter completed!