Chapter 351: Flowers bloom inside and outside the wall

Cao Yu said that no matter which child is a son-in-law, he would be fine, but if he continues, he still reveals his true face: "I heard that Lord Zhao Feng, the legitimate son of Lord Zhao Feng, is old and sincere. How about I marry my daughter to you?"

Cao Yu was the son-in-law, and the general family was the professional son-in-law of the Song Dynasty. However, the civil officials of the Song Dynasty rarely became son-in-law. The famous young prince-in-law Wang Shi was actually a son of the general. His ancestor Wang Quanbin was a founding minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

The royal family of Song Dynasty repeatedly intermarried with the generals. Those princes-consorts of generals were different from those of civil officials. When civil officials became princesses, they could only be a dispersed official in their lifetime. Only when military generals became princesses had the qualifications to be "guardians of the palace" and specifically governed the palace's Yulin Army. The official name was "mon-consort Duwei".

Cao Yu's daughter was born by a princess. If Zhao Xing's child marrys Cao Yu's daughter, it would be like he would step into the ranks of royal relatives and reach a bridge of intermarriage with the generals.

Zhao Xing was a little silent, refused very simply, and even a little rude: "Hehehe, I always thought: the most failure of being a man is to be a prince consort. Brother Cao, don't blame me, I don't mean to offend you here. Just mentioning the word "money consort" reminds me of Wang Shu, and of the prince consorts of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. Now, how many people have famous and surnamed in history?

But they are all elites and heroes in the world. It is understandable to think about it. Can the characters the royal family value is ordinary? When I saw Wang Shi, I often wondered, what would happen if those prince consorts were not the prince consorts from ancient times to the present? With their talents and knowledge, can't they leave a strong mark in history?

Unfortunately, they became the princess, and even historical books of all dynasties did not want to record them. Or they wrote them in the wedding of the princess (the title of princess in the Song Dynasty).

There are only three things in life that are proud of - the wedding night, and the wedding is better than the wedding when I was named on the golden list. With my poor imagination, I can't imagine that there is something more unlucky than "being a son-in-law into the wedding chamber". These three beautiful scenery in life suddenly lost one of them because of marrying the princess, and in the future, I can't even be romantic - as a man, this is not called failure, how can it be considered failure?

Brother Cao is also the son-in-law, and brother Zhang is also, but I think it is rare for Brother Cao to leave the capital and become the commander of the Daming Mansion. If you were not from the Cao family, if you were not the Cao general, Gao Gong, who was the last man behind Daming Mansion, was the sudden death of his father, if I had not suddenly fought with the Liao soldiers... If it weren't for all these coincidences, you would have probably not been able to get this position.

As for the next, I regard myself as a civil servant in my life, although I have planned several wars, to be fair, I am only suitable to be the leader. The specific wars are still done by the mentor Meizhou and others. And I do not plan to be among the family of the sons, nor do I plan to be in the royal family. At present, I have a good relationship with the family of the sons, including Zhang Tian, ​​Zhang Li and Zhang Cheng, among which the three Zhang family members - Zhang Tian, ​​Zhang Li and Zhang Cheng, have close contacts with me, but I do not plan to go further. Why don’t we keep this friendship, respect each other as guests and treat each other like friends."

Zhao Xing's words rejected Cao Yudi's request for marriage, but this words are very consistent with this era.

The Song Dynasty was an era of worshipping civil servants and suppressing military officials. Civil officials despised military officials very much. With Di Qing's merits of destroying the country, civil officials were persecuted to death. Zhao Xing became a Jinshi and was unwilling to claim to be a military general. This was also the basic mentality of civil officials.

Civil officials like him also had Zhang Feng, who was ranked alongside him as the "Two Generals of Yuanyou". He spent his whole life fighting the Xixia people, and his military achievements were much greater than other aspects. The strategy of "deep and shallow attack" alone won him the title of "No. 1 Strategist in the Song Dynasty", but he became the most proud of his life. When he heard people call him "Mr. Liuhua", he smiled so hard that he couldn't see his eyebrows.

Zhang Xing was only famous for his willow flower lyrics throughout his life. Since then, he has been plagued by official duties, without the mind to recite poems and play the moon, and no masterpieces have appeared in the world. In this regard, Zhao Xing, who is known as "Northern Zhao" with Zhang Xing, is obviously more famous. He won the nickname of "Zhao Chuxing" for "If Life Is Only Like First Meeting" and won the title of "Zhao Farewell" and "Zhao Changting" for "Farewell Poems". Now, if you don't sing "Life Is Only Like First Meeting" at the banquet where literati first meets. If you don't sing "Farewell Song" at the banquet where you don't sing "Farewell Song" at the banquet where you don't sing "Farewell Song" at the banquet where you don't sing "Farewell Song", scholars think you are very untasted.

Zhao Xing, a disciple of the Su family who claimed to be a poem, was still a recognized lyricist and music master. If he was willing to easily agree to enter the general, Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli would not believe it.

After a moment of pause, Cao Yu retreated and looked for the second best: "How about your legitimate son Zhao Hai? I heard that he has not married yet, so why not decide on this marriage between our two families?"

Zhao Xing laughed heartlessly, and casually greeted others, and turned the topic away: "My sons, hurry up and clean up. The thief is here, please keep a close eye on the things!"

Cao Yu looked up and found that Jiang Zhiqi was leading Wang Shiru toward him a little far away. He turned around and the soldiers under Zhao Xing had begun to clean up the scene in a hurry and hide the hidden things. When he packed up the Thunder and Fire Whip, Zhao Xing shook his head slightly. The soldiers were stunned and immediately understood, leaving the Thunder and Fire Whip on the ground, while the rest was clean.

The Song people had no sense of confidentiality. Perhaps they heard the explosion here and mistakenly regarded it as a firecracker for celebration. When Wang Shiru was curious, Jiang Zhiqi led him to watch the fun.

Seeing Wang Shiru approaching, Shuai Fan walked forward a few steps without showing his expression, crossing his body, and concealing the soldiers who were sorting out the explosion site. Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli quickly went behind their backs and tucked the pistol given by Zhao Xing into their waists. Zhao Xing signaled them to take it out and falsely taught them how to fill gunpowder and install projectiles.

For a moment, the scene became deserted.

Wang Shiru set foot on the land of the Song Dynasty as a "Liao Kingdom's Deportation Envoy". This "deportation" is different from the modern meaning. It is a concrete manifestation of the ancient etiquette "come and reciprocity". The Song Dynasty sent envoys, and the Liao Kingdom later sent envoys to escort them all the way and greeted them to the Song Dynasty court. Its mission was to submit an agreement signed by the two parties to the Song Dynasty court to obtain the endorsement of the Song Dynasty court, deliver the receipt of annual tribute land, etc.

Wang Shiru looked around and walked to Zhao Xing, clasped his fists and bowed, and said with a much more respectful attitude, saying, "I just heard that Lord Zhao is a disciple of Master Su, and I have long admired him for a long time. How is Master Su good recently?"

It is said that the Liao people also asked Su Che with the same question, which made Su Che quite depressed: Why do you ask Da Su?

At that time, many Liao people thought that Su Shi had come when they heard that Su Xueshi was coming when they heard that Su Xue was sent to Liao Kingdom. They came enthusiastically, but when they heard that Su Che was not Su Xueshi, but just Su Xueshi's younger brother, they immediately turned against each other. They turned around and left without hesitation, which made Su Che vomit blood depressedly.

This was the era of Su Shi. The Liao people asked this question with respect. Fortunately, they were Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing never thought that he could compete with the Song people in writing poetry. He was most proud of being a lackey under Su Shi, so he bowed and replied: "I am very safe in my family. Thank you Lord Wang for your concern!"

Wang Shiru immediately asked a question that made the Song people present at the venue quite embarrassing: "I heard that Su Xueshu is still a criminal minister of the Song State. In the hardship of Lingnan, I, Liao people, have not heard of Su Xueshu's new poems for a long time. There are rumors that the scholar was framed by the court and died in Lingnan, which made me, Liao people regretful. Lord Zhao, can the scholar?"

Wang Shiru's expression was full of hunger, and Song Guan was speechless at the venue.

After all, such a talented poet was convicted of poetry and was regarded as a state criminal, and the entire Song Dynasty was ashamed of being behind.

At this time, it was the first month of the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo. Su Shi, who was pardoned and returned north, accompanied by Pan Dalin, to Jingkou, met with his cousin Cheng Zhiyuan. The three of them climbed the Miaogao platform and visited Jinshan Temple. In the temple, the portrait of Dongpo painted by Li Gonglin was still there - it was preserved by the abbot of the temple at great danger. Su Shi looked at his sitting statue and felt mixed feelings.

The painting is a painting from ten years ago. The Su Shi in the painting is the energetic Su Shi ten years ago. It was the image of Su Shi left by the painter Li Gonglin during the gathering of the West Garden.

This is a very satisfying work by Su Shi, located in the Xiyuan Garden of the son-in-law, Wang Shi, and Jinqing. At that time, almost all the most outstanding writers and artists of the Northern Song Dynasty came.

Su Shi sat on a stone in this Wang Family Garden, wearing his iconic "Zizhan hat" on his head. He held a bent bamboo stick in his hand. He wore a wide Taoist robe and looked at the end of the garden with a serious expression. His eyes were slender and bright. He was still as pure and unobstructed. His eyebrows were thin and raised above his eyes and penetrated straight into his temples, making his face look square and even.

He has a regular mouth, with even upper and lower lips, and the delicately trimmed moustache looks thin and slightly longer.

In the painting, Su Shi has a serious expression, and his right hand naturally sags and is placed on a black stone.

Ten years later, Su Shi survived and returned thousands of miles north. When he saw this painting again, he couldn't help but feel sad. He thought of his five years in Huangzhou at the age of 45 to 50, his three years in Huizhou at the age of 59 to 62, and his four years in nominally exiled to Danzhou at the age of 63 to 66!

With his trembling hands, he left the following words beside the portrait: "The heart is like a tree that has been ashes, and the body is like a boat that has not been tied. Ask you for your life's achievements, Huangzhou, Huizhou, Danzhou."

At this New Year, the new emperor of Liao appointed Chen Jianu, the governor of Wugu tribe, as the King of the Southern Court, the Xuanhui envoy of the Han Palace, and Xiao Changge was deployed to the State of Song to express his grief to the State of Song, and declared that the new emperor of Liao ascended the throne... The envoy had just set off and was rushing towards Shunbao Village.

With a slight change in history, among the people who accompanied Su Shi to the north, in addition to a group of disciples taught by Su Shi in Hainan, a group of Guangdong students were added, and Pan Dalin, a fanatical "star-chasing clan" in the Song Dynasty. Pan Dalin appeared beside Su Shi and also had a new identity. The former hotel owner now has an official title: Guangnan East Road Guest Office Envoy. This official position is equivalent to the modern "Prefecture Party Director of the Provincial Party Committee Reception Office."

Zhao Xing, who was in Shunbao Village, did not know that Pan Dalin returned north with Su Shi without Zhao Xing's consent. He looked south and replied leisurely: "Ah, it is gratifying that the era of literary inquisition has passed. The poems written by my teacher in Guangdong can also be published. These poems caused a great sensation in Goryeo, Japan, but they were not allowed to be heard in the Central Plains... and when I go back, I will publish the teacher's poems all over the world."

Wang Shiru corrected his clothes and made the move to bend his crown - this was the etiquette of the ancients, expressing his respect.

Zhao Xing immediately noticed that Wang Shiru's clothes were left-sided. He frowned slightly. Wang Shiru quickly discovered Zhao Xing's attention, smiled awkwardly, and changed the topic: "Every time my country's students often listen to Su Gong's masterpieces, what they admire most is the song "Go to the River, Waves, and Eternal Romance"... made such a masterpiece of eternal song, counting eternal heroes. Only the fairy of the Po.

I often hear that the ministers of your country attacked Mr. Su liked to be curious and lewd skills, and I always didn't believe it. But today I saw the Guangdong official army, but I didn't believe it. Even you, a disciple of the Su family, are easy to use strange and lewd skills, so I guess Mr. Po's attainments are even deeper.

I, the Great Liao Dynasty, often said that Guangnan is a place of demons, costume monsters, behavior monsters, and speaking tone monsters. Now it seems that even the weapons used are like demons coming to the world - you were playing with gunpowder just now? I heard that this weapon was used by the imperial guards to perform, but I didn’t expect its power to be so terrifying. After this artifact, Song military uniforms have a great increase in kung fu."

Wang Shiru said, "The Song army's kung fu in uniform made a big splash." In fact, his implicit meaning was: the Song army did enough confidentiality and kept fooling the Liao people that gunpowder was only used in dramatic performances, and it kept it secret for more than 80 years. Unexpectedly, as soon as it appeared, it restrained the cavalry that the Liao people were proud of.

Zhao Xing did not explain the difference between his firearms and the court firearms. He had a humble expression and answered honestly: "Mr. Wang is polite. Since I led the army, I have won every battle, but I only fought a draw in Liao Kingdom. It means that my official lacks ability and cannot afford to be praised by Mr. Wang."

Zhao Xing's words seemed to be extremely humble, but he was also extremely proud in his bones.

Wang Shiru mocked Su Shi for his love of fiddling with edible horses, dragon bones, water wheels, developer and other "strange tricks and tricks" and mocked the Song army's uniforms for hiding the power of the firearms. Zhao Xing said "humblely" that since he led his troops to fight, he has been invincible. Those who have fought with him either destroyed the country or complained to the sky. However, he was "accidentally" by the regular army of the Liao Kingdom on the bank of the Yellow River, and he hastily responded...

However, in this unimaginable danger, Zhao Xing blocked the Liao Dynasty's cavalry with an incomplete army and several generals of the Ding family. During the entire battle, he first demonstrated positional combat techniques, and then showed field battles, counterattacks, and siege battles.

What he called a draw was that he robbed a county town in Liao and moved all the people of this county town to the mouth of the Yellow River.

Such a war is considered a draw!

Wang Shiru wanted to vomit when he heard this. He was sweating profusely. With an incredible look, he seemed to be unable to imagine Zhao Xing's shamelessness. He asked tremblingly: "Mr. Zhao, with three thousand scattered soldiers, he resisted the elites of our Xin'an Army, Chongyi Army, and Guangshun Army, and the three armies of the Guangshun Army, and they were in a stalemate. I thought this was a victory. So, what was the victory that I imagined by the adults?"

Jiang Zhiqi felt very proud, Cao Yu and Zhang Dunli smirked. The handsome boy smiled disgustingly. Jiang Zhiqi saw Zhao Xing turn around and looked like "I won't tell you". He forced Wang Shiru to change the topic: "Mr. Wang, when I first came to Liao, I didn't expect that there were people from Liao. However, the explanation of the classics of Liao is different from that of my Song Dynasty...

Lord Wang, let’s discuss it again. You just said ‘Guangdong Monster’. The demon in Guangdong is nothing more than advocating ‘to apply what you have learned and to unite knowledge and action’. I think that the learning of saints is all-encompassing. Although Guangdong has the suspicion of randomly explaining the learning of saints, there is a saying that I deeply agree with – the power of civilization lies in creation. Only by continuous innovation can the progress of civilization be reflected. Otherwise, it will be barbarism and ignorance. Lord Wang, what do you think this statement?”

Jiang Zhiqi actually despises the Liao Kingdom because in Zhao Xing's three speeches on the Winter Solstice, one of them vaguely mentioned: the grassland nomadic peoples mainly deal with destruction and robbery. They think that "destruction and robbery" is civilization, and their knowledge is always passed down from generation to generation, just like birds and beasts, "passing the father to the son to the grandson" of knowledge, generation after generation, only degeneration and no evolution.

In his speech on the "Shi Cai Master" on the Winter Solstice, Zhao Xing gave great contempt for the "destroyers" and the "learners" who have been following the rules. He believed that backward ethnic groups on the grassland entered the Central Plains, which were a group of locusts. They came to learn and learn the culture of the Central Plains civilization. However, before they learned to "create", they forbid others to "create" and regard this as a tradition. Whoever dared to create was violated by their taboos, they would gather to abuse the other party and say "violate tradition" - of course, here they adopted the omission method, and what they really wanted to say was "violate the tradition that the grassland nation has always destroyed and did not build", referred to as "violate tradition".

They do not allow any innovation or transformation - this is what Zhao Xing said, "If you want to be a beast, you will not allow others not to be a beast."

Zhao Xing's new Confucian concept caused an uproar when the Song Dynasty was proposed. At first, scholars disdained the academic where Guangnan's "pointing place" emerged, but the court ministers attached great importance to this "national financial and financial resources" and were in the attitude of "more than more things, less". During his tenure, Zhang Dun tried his best to suppress opposition, downplayed the academic influence of Guangnan, and used the cruel means of the New Party to reject dissidents. At that time, no one in the entire Song Dynasty dared to jump out and attack.

However, no one expected this kind of academic vitality. The Song Dynasty happened to be at the crossroads of commercial civilization, and at this time, the theory that matched commercial civilization was blank. Zhao Xing's new theory was covered with the shell of Confucianism, and talked about the most interested literati "establishing one's own morality and speaking" and explained the practice in a very specific way - this just filled the gap in commercial theory.

With the development of Guangnan commerce, this theory quickly spread to all parts of the country. However, it seems to be a sign of "flowering in the wall and fragrance outside the wall". It is like a treasure to Su Shi's most admired Goryeo and Japan to obtain this theory, and it is not misunderstood. However, literati students within the Song Dynasty secretly evaluated Zhao Xing's proposal based on their personal preferences - some insults, and some immediately practiced it and began to "establish their own lives" through farming and reading.

But in this theory, no matter who is, he deeply agrees with Zhao Xing's insults and criticizes the barbarians, feeling like "I feel sad."

The Song Dynasty paid attention to inheritance. The Song Dynasty was weak in military terms and was not as good as the Liao Kingdom with millions of war horses in terms of force, and even the weak Xixia capital came to bully the Song Dynasty. Therefore, in order to prove its true nature, the Song Dynasty particularly advocated orthodox. In the modern Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the concept of treating the weak Liu Bei as a symbol of justice was formed in the Song Dynasty. Liu Bei was the orthodox Han Dynasty. Although he was weak, it seemed to be similar to the military embarrassment of the Song Dynasty, he represented the orthodox Chinese, so the Han people praised him.

The Master once said: "When the barbarians enter China, they will be China. When the Chinese enter the barbarians, they will be barbarians." Wang Shiru is a Chinese that goes deep into the barbarians. According to the sage, he is also a barbarian with left-sided clothes. Such a person talking about Confucianism is an insult to Confucianism. Jiang Zhiqi said that the Liao people have different explanations of Confucianism, and said that "only creation can reflect civilization", which actually agrees with Zhao Xing's denial of Confucianism in Liao Kingdom.

Jiang Zhiqi is worthy of being a "professional speech attacker". He beat around the bush and scolded him. Wang Shiru, as a scholar of the Liao Kingdom, didn't even notice the language trap. He retorted angrily: "The "New Meaning of the Five Classics" published by the Song Kingdom. Our Liao Kingdom has collected all the Liao Kingdom and studied it in detail. The views in it are no different from those of our Liao Kingdom.

I think that the only one in Liao Kingdom did not have Wang Anshi, and I would not demote Su Xueshi to Lingnan. In addition, the academics of your Song Kingdom and the Great Liao Kingdom also have similarities, only Guangdong Confucianism... Hehe, there is Su Xueshi, Liu Zhi's counselor, Liu Anshi, Fan Zuyu's investigation... These former wise men devoted themselves to their knowledge and created Guangnan's "New Confucian academics". For example, Sima Xianggong wrote "Zizhi Tongjian" on the same day, which was inconvenient for our Liao Kingdom to evaluate.

Well, I heard that "Zizhi Tongjian" was banned, but I didn't expect that the State of Song also had another view on Confucianism in Guangdong. I wonder if Lord Jiang can tell me about the novelty of me?"

Wang Shiru said that Guangnan New Confucians were created by those who were demoted and wise men, and did not mention Zhao Xing at all. Zhao Xing did not care about this. His fame was not as prominent as those who were demoted and high-ranking officials, and far from being innovated in academics in the beginning of sects and schools. Naturally, he was very satisfied to be able to hide under the shadow of the sages of the senior sages to enjoy the cool air. So he not only did not explain, but was relieved.

But he did not expect that Wang Shiru was in a way that praised Guangnan New Ru, and his compatriot Jiang Zhiqi said sarcastically.

Wang Shiru's passage was explained by the hesitant and indifferent way of speaking in Confucian scholars. This way of speaking was called "elegant" at the time. In fact, this sentence must be explained in modern language, which implies several faint dissatisfaction and accusations against the Song Dynasty.

Wang Shiru's counterattack was mainly at some point. The first was to accuse Wang Anshi. He believed that the Liao Kingdom did not use the banner of reform in this way, but in fact, he used reform as the name to exclude dissidents in order to seize the greatest power. Secondly, he believed that no matter how poor the Liao Kingdom was, he would not exil a talented person to a place of death, and waited for the news of the person's death with vicious heart.

Finally, he pointed out the senior ministers behind Guangdong Xinxue, and vaguely pointed out that with Jiang Zhiqi's reputation, he was not qualified to criticize the behavior of those senior ministers.

Another meaning of his words is also to imply that Jiang Zhiqi: Guangnan has its current prosperity because the predecessors and talents gathered in one place, and their talents created Guangnan. Originally, these people's talents were all the talents of the prime minister, but now these people work together to govern a place in Guangdong, and the energy presented can be imagined. Therefore, Nanjing Dao was defeated by Guangnan, not because he was incompetent, but because the enemy was too strong.

In contrast, the Song Dynasty court demoted such a talent for governing the country to the south, causing them to die one by one in the barbaric land of Lingnan. This shows that the Song Dynasty was still not worthy of the direct view of the kings and ministers of the Liao Kingdom. It shows that the Confucian principles adhered to by scholars in the Song Dynasty were not necessarily correct, but the new Confucianism that emerged in Guangnan has a certain highlight.

Wang Shiru was in the Liao Kingdom, and was infected with the mentality of the Liao people worshiping the strong and surrendering to the strong. Guangdong South Road used its strength to tie the Nanjing Road in an encounter, so the Liao people should not belittle Guangdong South Road, because the stronger the Guangdong South Road is, the more face the defeated Nanjing Road is.

It is precisely because of this mentality that Wang Shiru tried his best to promote the knowledge of Guangdong South Road, believing that it was these sages of the previous generation who were exiled to Guangdong South Road, which expanded Guangnan's strength and fought against Nanjing Road, Liao Kingdom with his own cultural heritage. Nanjing Road with its strength along the way against the former prime ministers and prime ministers hidden behind Guangdong South Road, and a talented scholar Su, who could actually draw. This shows that Nanjing Road is not weak and is not unfair to defeat.

From his own standpoint, Wang Shiru did not want the monarch and ministers of the Song Dynasty to wake up, so he did not want the Song Dynasty to implement Guangnan's rational policies and strategies across the country. Therefore, his praise for Guangnan was indifferent, and the focus was on satirizing the foolishness of the monarch and ministers of the Song Dynasty. In his words, he just gently pointed out the identities of Su Shi and others, and just satirized Jiang Zhiqi a little.

Jiang Zhiqi understood that in front of Jiang Zhiqi, who was good at language struggle, Wang Shiru's political struggle skills learned from the grassland were pediatrics in front of Jiang Zhiqi. He laughed and fought back sharply: "Guangdong Xinxue believes that there are three or sixty-nine kinds of people, among which 'people' is the creator, they are the creators because of creation, while others are just learners, and they are in charge of retelling and recording. There is also a kind of thing called 'scourge' and 'human-shaped virus'.

Lord Wang doesn’t know what the new study in Guangdong is, so I might as well explain it to you..."
Chapter completed!