Chapter 421: Those who return are not necessarily friends

Zhao Xing had no choice but to the child, and he waved his hand: "Let him go!"

This is not the first time Zhao Yun left home. Zhao Yun, who is now twelve years old, has a history of pirates back to four years old. Since he was four years old, he led a few descendants of servants to the street to play, and then forgot to go home. Afterwards, Zhao Xing found him, and the child yelled to travel around the world with his sword, and then led a blind man who likes to tell jokes about the Three Kingdoms into the mansion so that he can "listen to the blind man's lies" every day.

The prototype of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the Song Dynasty has appeared. In the notes of the Song people, the contents of "traveling a thousand miles apart" and "savior of Changbanpo" similar to the plot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are recorded in many places. This shows that in the Song Dynasty, most of the exciting plots of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms have taken shape, but no one has connected these stories to form a novel.

Zhao Yun's name was accidentally similar to the famous general of the Three Kingdoms "Zhao Yun", so the child became even more obsessed with martial arts practice. In addition to the master Jin Buer, he also plundered countless artists from the people, hoping that they could teach their magical martial arts. As a result, after Jin Buer's verification, these people found that most of them were verbal skills.

What’s funny is that Zhao Yun inherited Zhao Xing’s strong physique, but did not inherit Zhao Xing’s agility. Every time he ran away from home, he always forgot to steal some money from his family as travel expenses. Every time he spent all his pocket money, he swaggered into the three major ticket shops, took out the identity certificate given by his father, and asked to withdraw money from the three major ticket shops. As a result, unexpectedly, he would be caught by his father the next day after the withdrawal, and then go home obediently, planning to run away from home next time.

After this, Zhao Xing was also paralyzed, and the guards in Zhao Xing's family were also paralyzed. They regarded Zhao Yun's every time he left home as an outing, and wandered outside for a few days. When the child finished spending money, the guards would quietly inform Zhao Xing to come and pick him up. I guess this would be the case this time.

Jin Buer was also tired, and he whispered: "My disciples followed him. They rode famous horses. Such horses must be stayed in good shops and eaten good food. They cannot be fed in small shops in the countryside, so the third son was at most around the city. This is Huqian Mountain, and most of the mountains are our servants, so there should be no accidents.

By the way, someone came to his family and reported that Master Mi Fumi had already received it from Japan. He refused to log in to Hangzhou. He went to Dengzhou first, and Han Zhongyan received him. Then he advised him to come to Hangzhou to apologize, saying that it was an unintentional mistake and he would not blame him.

He heard that after hearing the advice, Mi Fu reluctantly claimed to do so. But he asked Han Zhongyan to send someone to accompany him. Han Zhongyan sent Hou Meng to accompany him, but Lord Yuan Yeping reported that Hou Meng's other mission was to inquire about the new fast gun. He heard that Han Zhongyan was surprised that we would sell old guns on a large scale. He heard a little news and wanted to purchase some fast guns from us for experiments."

"It's so troublesome", Zhao Xing was worried: "How should I refuse them? What are you going to do?"

...

In the 11th month of the lunar calendar in 1103, this date was actually in 1104 AD (Year Calendar). The court announced a general amnesty for the world and announced that the reign would be changed to the Xuanhe period next year.

At the same time as the amnesty, the court announced a series of promotion measures. It is worth mentioning that the elder brother of King Shen, who was always disliked by Emperor Huizong of Song, was transferred to Ryukyu (Taiwan). The official family asked King Shen to go to his fiefdom to take the vassal.

In the same month, Zhao Xing slowly left Huqiu Mountain and walked towards Hangzhou. At this time, the Arab tributary group had arrived in the capital. When the New Year was approaching, they presented congratulatory gifts to the court and asked the court to open up the firearm trade. In contrast, the white delegation stayed in Hangzhou under the guidance of Deng Yufu, waiting for Zhao Xing to come back to give a reply.

Deng Yufu's arrival made his wife Li overjoyed. She originally thought she had died overseas. Now she miraculously saw him returning again. Li also learned from Deng Yufu that when the city of Jerusalem was invaded, Deng Yufu hid in the home of a European friend of Zhao Xing and was lucky enough to escape the massacre. This led to the change of Li's conception of Zhao Xing, who had regarded Zhao Xing as his life and death enemy for many years.

Deng Yufu's return also made the students in Hangzhou overjoyed. In the past, they always heard Zhao Xing praise the deeds of the Song man who went abroad alone. In Zhao Xing's words, everything Deng Yufu did was simply a realistic version of "Journey to the West". It was a blessing to see this living person now. So they rushed to ask for advice and asked Deng Yufu to go to various academies to give lectures in order to prove various legends overseas.

The merchants also like Deng Yufu very much because in their opinion, Deng Yufu has been overseas for more than ten years and has an extraordinary understanding of the overseas dynasty. Every overseas custom that Deng Yufu now tells them means novelty in the eyes of students, and in their eyes, it means countless jingling gold coins. So they all paid to sponsor Deng Yufu's speeches...

Well, if anyone in the Song Dynasty earned enough property by speaking, it was Deng Yufu.

Zhao Xing has always described Deng Yufu as a brave man, a person with broad vision, and attributed himself to Deng Yufu's name in the African botanical garden. Deng Yufu's speech partially confirmed Zhao Xing's description of overseas, but he refused to admit that he was in the botanical garden overseas and refused to admit...

However, the Song people didn't care about this. What they cared about was Deng Yufu's personal description, which made the Song people learn more than eighty years ahead of normal history in the late Northern Song Dynasty and learn about the complete world.

The noise caused by Deng Yufu was so huge that Hangzhou students ignored another scholar, Mi Fumi, who returned from abroad. This Master Mi was low-key in his work. He seemed unwilling to talk about his past overseas. After all, when talking about this, it was not a glorious thing to mention the scandal of him slapping Su Dongpo to death.

In the same month, Shaanxi soldiers and civilians who were replenished with military ordnances were killed and sacrificed flags, held a oath-taking meeting, preparing to attack Tubo. However, when the war was about to begin, they suddenly received an imperial edict. It turned out that the palace had caught fire, and the emperor believed that it was not suitable for war, so he urgently ordered the troops to stop.

In the Confucian theory of the five elements of the earth, it is believed that your house has caught fire, which is the response of heaven and man. God is warning you that something you do has damaged the "fire virtue". Swords and weapons belong to fire virtue, so the emperor thought it was not easy to start a war at this time.

But Tong Guan sneered at the Five Elements Theory and the theory of induction of heaven and man. After reading the edict, he folded it up and stuffed it into his boots as if nothing had happened. The general in the army asked him, what did the emperor write? Tong Guan replied: The emperor hopes that we will succeed as soon as possible.

Tong Guan's answer made Qin Fenglu's strategy make Liu Zhongwu very happy, and his subordinates were eager to try, but Gao Qiu smiled at his mouth.

After the army set off, Gao Qiu asked Tong Guan secretly: "What do the official say?"

Tong Guan smiled: "I know I can't hide it from you. The official said that there was a fire in the palace and it is not easy to use weapons."

In the world view at that time, it was not a "eight trigram" thing to violate the theory of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, but a very, very rebellious act.

Gao Qiu smiled, and he said without any worries: "Zhao Liren once told me, 'The war is determined by the swords and guns in the hands of the soldiers. The heavenly and man are just a piece of shit. If God cares about such trivial matters, all the people will care about it?' The things God cares about are not caring about, and the common people are concerned about, because it is effective. He spends energy to prevent us from going to war, and he will definitely want to benefit from it! What benefits - we are the only confidant in the hands of the official who has the army!"

After a moment of pause, Gao Qiu said again: "I heard that there are legends in Nestorianism. It is said that God created the heaven and earth, and there is no God in the world. He is just a matter of God created the land. So, let's not care about God. No matter the victory or defeat in this battle, it has nothing to do with God. As for you and me, the government is too anxious. If we cannot win this battle, can we still control the army?

Therefore, I suggest that this battle doesn’t matter what the officials mean, and let you and me work together, I don’t believe it. Shaanxi is now well-equipped, so it can’t beat a group of Tubo savages.”

"The Yan Master said it makes sense," Tong Guan replied in a low voice: "The Qin people have been fighting for a long time. If we come and cannot help the Qin people defeat it, will this army still listen to us? Yes, this time we don't care about anything and just focus on fighting..."

In the subsequent war, Tong Guan and Gao Qiu performed low-key. He supported and cooperated with the leading generals to fight a series of beautiful battles. A year later, Zhao Huaide and others surrendered again, and the Song army won first; Gao Qiu was summoned to the capital. Tong Guan was still persisting. Four years later, the rebellion of the northwest tribes was quelled. At the celebration meeting for the regaining of the four states, the generals happily received the rewards. Tong Tong Guan slowly took out the emperor's edict and told the generals in the army to watch. Everyone was shocked when they saw it. The leading general asked him in fear why he did this? Tong Guan replied: "The morale was in high spirits at that time. If the troops were stopped like this, how could they fight in the future?"

Shaanxi general Liu Zhongwu asked: "What if I defeated it?"

Tong Guan replied: "This is exactly why I didn't show you at that time. If I defeated, of course I will be the only one who will take the blame."

It is said that the generals knelt all over the ground at that time, and everyone was grateful and admired. Everyone knew that the military order was like a mountain, let alone the violation of the order. This was really not a joke. If it was defeated, Tong Guan might indeed lose his head.

At the same time, Tong Guan also did another very touching thing. After the war started, a very desperate general was killed. At that time, the general's wife had passed away. After he died in battle, his only son was wandering on the streets and became a beggar. Tong Guan ordered him to be retrieved and the child was recognized as his adopted son in public. He declared that he would treat the orphans well as his own children and raise him into a human.

This move is very powerful. The generals who fought on the field of life and death all day long were very moved and believed that Tong Guan was a boss worthy of his life. From then on, Tong Guan firmly established his prestige in the Northwest Army.

Unfortunately, this child who changed his name to Tong Shimin helped Tong Guan do a lot of bad things when he grew up. In normal history, when the court eliminated the "Six Thieves", he and Tong Guan were ordered to behead him at the same time by the new emperor.

The soldiers from Shaanxi went to the forefront, and in Liaodong, Shuai Fan finally became impatient to continue to ravage the Liao people. The New Year was coming, and he was eager to go home for the New Year. Fortunately, the end of the year was coming, and the taxes required by the Liao people were also paid. The merchants' association in Tianjin began to raise the taxes for that year. At this time, Han Zhongyan from the Northern Affairs Bureau also came to collect the money. General Xiaoshi and the army of the Northern Affairs Bureau arrived, Shuai Fan immediately led the soldiers of the Nanyang Affairs Bureau to pull away. He fled back to Hangzhou like a thirsty horse. As soon as he got ashore, he immediately asked to see the legendary figure Deng Yufu.

"You are worse than me. I have heard of Li Ren talking about you earlier, saying that you have been overseas for more than ten years, and you have personally drawn overseas maps and collected overseas tree species. Especially apple seedlings, it changed the Song Dynasty... I am not as good as you!" Shuai Fan said with emotion.

When Shuai Fan said this, Mi Fu stood aside and sneered slightly. Shuai Fan didn't even look at Master Mi. He pulled Deng Yufu and kept asking: "Come on, let's go to the top of the Green Tile Tower to give advice. Let's talk to me about overseas experiences. I often hear that Zhao Liren has been overseas, and I am really envious. It's a pleasure to have a chat with you today."

Shuai Fan pulled Deng Yufu away without saying anything. A few white men next to him, and the Guangdong vassal leader Fox muttered privately, and followed Shuai Fan's footsteps toward the building. Some of the people in the group greeted each other, leaving Mi Fu alone who was left behind.

Mi Fu was not angry either. He took his hand and walked into the hillside of Jasmine Garden, and carefully savored the scenery of Jasmine Garden.

The current Jasmine Garden has been increasingly perfect after more than ten years of construction. In the Song Dynasty, Cheng Yi built a stele forest in Xi'an, which is famous all over the world. Zhao Xing also created a similar stele forest in Jasmine Garden, but he did not erect the stele of the characters. Instead, he collected notes written by celebrities at that time, carved them into stone slabs, and spread them on the ground to form a poetic avenue for him to visit while walking.

This poetry avenue is also very famous in the southeast. Southeast students often come to visit and ask to walk and ponder on the poetry avenue. In ancient China, people often believe that writing is a sacred place, and writing has a magic power to conquer people's hearts. They dare not trample on this poetry avenue. Therefore, the scenery that is often seen in the Jasmine Garden is that there are a bunch of people kneeling on both sides of the poetry avenue. They worship on both sides of the road, rubbing their fingers on the inscriptions, and feeling the skills of their predecessors.

Since Zhao Xing was a disciple of Su Jun, the handwriting of Su Dongpo, and Huang Tingjian's handwriting was naturally placed first by him. In addition, the notes written by Qin Guan and Chao Buzhi also occupy a large amount of space in the poetry avenue. In addition to these people, there are also calligraphy by Cai Jing and copybooks by Mi Fu himself, as well as some inscriptions by ancient people in the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties collected by Zhao Xing, and even inscriptions by Wang Xizhi and his son copied by later generations.

There is a stone beam without words in the middle of the Poetry Avenue. This stone beam existed, and Zhao Xing took into account the discussions of people at that time, and specially built this transitional belt in the middle of the Poetry Avenue. When outsiders talked about it, he used the existence of this stone beam to defend himself, saying that he had not trampled on the stele of the characters. Mi Fu was not polite, so he walked up to the middle belt, and while walking, he was visiting the inscriptions on both sides of the road. He didn't go far. He stopped in front of an inscription and savored the words on the ground on the monument.

Few people stepped on this middle road, and there was only Mi Fu in the long corridor. He was fascinated by the sight and did not notice that there was an extra figure around him at some point.

This figure stood with Mi Fu for a long time. Seeing that Mi Fu was really fascinated by his research, he asked with a smile: "Miao, it is said that you once chatted with Cai Jing. Cai Jing asked: Who is the best calligraphy today?"

Mi Fu replied: "At that time, I said that after Liu Gongquan in the late Tang Dynasty, you and your younger brother Cai Bian have to be considered as you."

"It is said that Cai Jing asked again: What's the second?"

Mi Fu replied: "Of course it was me. That's what I said at that time, and now I say this. But I didn't expect that after the incident in Cai Jing, the people in the world were not ashamed of Cai Jing's calligraphy. All the inscriptions he wrote were destroyed, but there are many inscriptions in Cai Jing here, including..."

Mi Fu pointed to the two-foot-sized characters in Banshan Pavilion and said, "Including the two words 'jasmine'... Alas, there are not many big characters written by Cai Jing now. I didn't expect you to keep these words written by Cai Jing."

Zhao Xing apologized with a smile: "Art itself is a kind of creation, and creation is not a sin. I will not blame the art he created because of his people... Miao, when the teacher passed away, I was angry and angrily irrelevant to others. Please forgive me."

Mi Fu nodded with a smile: "In recent years, I have been in Japan and often sighed that Su Laopo has found a good disciple. When I think about the scene that day, I often wonder why you protected Su Laopo so well, and it seems that there is a vague premonition that something is going to happen to him.

I can understand that anyone who takes good care of me will inevitably be angry and embarrassed if someone is ruined by others. It is not your fault for saying this. When I am in Japan, I often feel deeply guilty when I think of the things that day. You said why I am so careless and I don’t care about Su Laopo’s feelings at all. This is my fault. Whenever I dream of this, I often wake up from nightmares when I think of this."

Zhao Xing agreed silently. He seemed to recall the sadness of the day again, and sighed and said, "A bright moon has fallen, and all that is left is boring stars. The sky without the moon is so lonely."

Mi Fu raised his eyes and touched Zhao Xing, and said sarcastically: "You are as dazzling as the sun now. You are still one step away from deposing the emperor directly, and you are also saying that you are lonely. If you are lonely, I should jump into the sea."

Zhao Xing replied with a sarcastic smirk: "The situation at that time was like an arrow on the string, and I had to fire it. Miao thought that now, is it better or worse than that day?"

Mi Fu is known as Mi Dysfunction, and he never cares about his words. When Zhao Xing asked this, he raised his eyebrows and replied without hesitation: "I heard that Cai Yuanchang has a close relationship with you, but you imparted him overseas. Although I admit that state affairs are now developing on the better side, what about the friendship between friends? Did you think about today when you met Cai Yuanchang?"
Chapter completed!