Wu Haogu and Mi Youren took Zhao Ji to the Roast Pig Courtyard, and just found a private room to sit down, the great monk of the Roast Pig Courtyard pushed the door in.

Wu Haogu has returned to Kaifeng Mansion for many days, but it is the first time he has met the great monk of the Roast Pig Academy.

The great monk held a letter in his hand, and when he saw Wu Haogu, he said: "Da Lang, you came at a really good time, and the letter from Linzheng has just arrived." ”

"Monk Fu's letter? Did he get to Japan? ”

Wu Haogu hurriedly asked.

"It's here, it's been there a long time ago." The monk said, "The letter was sent from Heiankyo, Japan, and Rinmasa said in the letter that he had also met with the monks and officials of Japan. ”

"Monk's house?" Zhao Ji stared at the monk of the Roast Pig Courtyard for a while, and had already found out that he was the "drunken Arhat", and listened to what he said interestingly, so he asked, "What's the matter?" A monk in Japan became an official? ”

"It was the official family who became a monk," the monk of the Roast Pig Temple said with a smile, "He is called the Emperor of Shirakawain, but the power of Japan is still in the hands of this official family who became a monk." Linzheng's kid doesn't recite scriptures well on weekdays, but now he can be a guest of the monk's house, it seems that he really has a fate with my Buddha. ”

Wu Haogu took the letter from the hand of the monk of the Roast Pig Courtyard and unfolded it. Actually, I didn't write anything, except for some greetings, I wrote about my experience in Japan.

He set off from Haizhou and went straight to Japan, and the process was quite smooth, he didn't encounter any wind and waves, but he was seasick and dizzy. After arriving at Hakatatsu, Dazaifu in Japan, he rested for a few days, and then sold the silk he had brought to Japan for gold and continued on his way.

Although Hakatatsu is a Japanese port, most of the residents are Song people, and most of them are maritime merchants from the Meishu area. The Song people's settlement in Hakata was called the "Tang House" - although it is now the Great Song Dynasty, the Japanese do not seem to have forgotten the Tang Dynasty. They called the Song people "Tang people", the Song people's residential area "Tang houses", and even the goods produced by the Great Song Dynasty were called "Tang things". And Monk Fu is naturally also a "Tang monk"!

"Karabo" is right next to the port, and it is the most prosperous area of Hakatatsu, and a large area is full of very ornate buildings. On the streets of Hakatatsu, you can also see Song Dynasty merchants wearing Great Song costumes and speaking Zhejiang dialect.

And most of these businessmen are extremely wealthy, and there is no shortage of people with millions of dollars! In the vicinity of Hakatatsu, there are many magnificent temples, all of which were built with the support of the Song merchants. Fu Linzheng followed the old monk to quit, and also became a guest of many Song merchants, and received a large number of donations, which was enough to build a small Xiangguo Temple in Heianjing.

The Japanese yamen that administered Hakata was called Dazaifu, and the trade between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo and Japan was also managed by this yamen. However, the monk who quit was a high-ranking monk who had been sealed by the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was also a high-ranking monk and a senior official of the original Japan, so the Japanese officials in Dazaifu did not collect the tax of the monk Fu and let him go.

After spending some time in Hakata, Fu took a merchant ship from the Seto Inland Sea to a port called Namba. Namba is located close to Heiankyo, the capital of Japan, and is therefore a thriving port city. However, there were no Song people, and they were all merchants of Japan.

Monk Fu and Jiejie did not stay in Namba for a few days before setting off for Heiankyo. Heiankyo is the largest city in Japan and the best place to be. At the same time, it is also a "Tang-style" city, with the same city wall as the Great Song Dynasty, the scenery outside the city is beautiful, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the streets in the city are clean and tidy, and the market is more prosperous than Hakatatsu. There are many Buddhist temples and shrines inside and outside Heianjing, and the residents all worship the Buddha and worship the Buddha, so they are polite, most of the nobles in the city can speak "Tang language", and often hold song parties and tea parties, like to recite poetry, delve into calligraphy and painting, and cultivate sentiment - it is estimated that Monk Fu and a group of otaku ministers are mixed together.

In the imperial palace in the capital of Heian, Monk Fu really met an old Japanese monk with a shaved head. Then Monk Fu presented a gift on behalf of Kaifeng Daxiangguo Temple, which is the "True Face of Quit Arhats", "Bishamen Tiantu" and "Flying Sky Map" of Wuhao ancient paintings. The Japanese monk and the old official family are also knowledgeable, and immediately saw that these three paintings were "priceless treasures", and personally inscribed poems on the paintings and stamped them, and collected them into the palace treasury as national treasures.

On the occasion of the great joy of the Emperor of Shirakawain, Monk Fu put forward a request to establish a small Xiangguo Temple in Japan to propagate the Dharma, and the Emperor of Shirakawain immediately agreed to Monk Fu's request, and generously assigned a piece of land to Monk Fu in the north of the Heiankyo Imperial Palace, and asked him to build a Heiankyo Xiangguo Temple there. At the same time, he also made Monk Fu a lawyer and a temple builder of Xiangguo Temple.

In the letter, Monk Fu also explained the meaning of "Quan Lawyer" and "Temple Building", the former is the official position of the Japanese national monk, quasi-fifth level, which is equivalent to the fifth grade. The "temple building division" is equivalent to the "official office", that is, the official who is responsible for the construction of the temple, and the temple building division of Xiangguoji Temple is the department responsible for the construction of Heiankyo Xiangguoji Temple.

"Foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures" is really the truth!

Monk Fu is a little monk who cooks in Kaifeng Mansion, and now he is awesome when he goes to Japan, and he actually becomes a great monk from the fifth grade, which is simply a step to the sky!

Wu Haogu read Monk Fu's letter word by word, but his eyes kept looking at Zhao Ji. This King of the Great Song Dynasty is listening with relish, and I don't know if he is listening to the affairs of Japan as a strange news.

"Haha, monk's family, how did you come up with it?" Zhao Ji smiled and asked the monk of the Roast Pig Academy, "Master, who sent this letter?" Is it an envoy of Japan? ”

"No, it's a few Mingzhou maritime merchants who trade with Japan." The monk of the Roast Pig Courtyard replied.

Mi Youren interjected on the side: "This Japan has not sent official envoys to our court, and the exchanges between the two sides are done by monks. ”

"Why is that?"

"Maybe it's because the Japanese government is called the emperor, right?" Wu Haogu said, "This name is too big to deal with." ”

Although the Song Dynasty was quite frustrated externally, it was still a bit desperate to save face. That is, it is an equal national ceremony with the Liao State, and Goryeo, Western Xia, Dali, and Annam are all regarded as subject countries.

And the official family of Japan is the emperor, the emperor of heaven, and naturally he is also a face-saving person, and it is impossible to claim to the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, so it is not very good for the two sides to have formal exchanges.

However, there is no problem with the monks replacing the envoys, anyway, the Song Dynasty and Japan are not big enough for each other, and the officials of both countries are closed kings - the current Japan is not the era of samurai, and a bunch of waste ministers who are unwilling to come out of Heian Kyoto who assist the Emperor of Shirakawain in the government, as for the northern samurai who act as thugs for Shirakawain, they don't have much combat effectiveness, so they can only bully the disobedient ministers, and it is not possible to fight out.

"Da Lang, you know a lot." Zhao Ji smiled and looked at Wu Haogu, "Where did you hear it all from?" ”

"It's all from books." Wu Haogu didn't say what books he read, but changed the topic, "By the way, I also heard about a strange book recently, called "Mengxi Pen Talk". The above content is all-encompassing and contains many interesting things. ”

"Dream Creek Pen Talk?" Zhao Ji doesn't seem to have heard of this book, "Who wrote it?" ”

"It is Shen Cunzhong Shen Longtu, who was also the governor of Yanzhou." Wu Haogu said, "He was demoted after the battle of Yongle City in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, and then he concentrated on learning, and in the ninth year of Xining, he was ordered to compile and draw the "Map of the Counties and Counties of the World", and after the drawing was completed, he moved to live in Mengxi Garden in Runzhou, and it took six years to edit the "Mengxi Writings". It is said that the book is extremely rich and all-encompassing. ”

"Shen Cunzhong," Zhao Ji nodded, "But a strange person, this book ......"

"I'll write to the trust father to ask for it." Mi Youren already understood Wu Haogu's thoughts, and he smiled, "Xiao Yi, when the book comes, let's sort it out and edit it together." ”

"Tidying up...... Editing? ”

Wu Hao Gu said: "This book is said to have 30 volumes, and the content is too complicated and huge. If you want to engrave it, you must organize it, and then divide it into categories, and break down a "Dream Creek Writings" into several or even dozens of books.

In this way, more people can study the knowledge of Mengxi Zhangren. ”

It is very difficult for a 30-volume "Dream Creek Written Talk" to be engraved and printed, and no one needs a whole "Dream Creek Written Talk", even if the university opens it, everyone needs only a part of it.

In addition, Shen Kuo is a big official, and he is not very proud of officialdom, God knows if he will write something that should not be written in "Mengxi Writings"?

If the whole book is published, so that those imperial historians can see it and return it?

Therefore, it must be sorted out and edited, and just in case, there must be a person who is not afraid of the old man of the imperial history to participate in the editing. And in the future Great Song Dynasty, the only one who is not afraid of ginseng must be Huizong Zhao Ji.

As long as he participated in the compilation and editing of "Mengxi Bi Tan", then this book and the books derived from it could not be listed as banned books by the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, Wu Haogu's purpose in compiling and editing "Mengxi Writings" is to use it as a future university textbook. And Song Huizong's participation and even leadership will definitely help the future university - this is the emperor's knowledge, who dares to criticize it? And it seems that it is also appropriate to learn the emperor's knowledge well and be an official......

Of course, in order for Song Huizong to participate in the compilation and revision of university textbooks, we must also pay attention to preventing "dogmatism", but just because the textbooks were edited by Song Huizong, the above content is the truth.

The concepts of science and positivism must be introduced, and Song Huizong must write a preface and add it to the beginning of each textbook.

"Let's take a look at the book first," Zhao Ji thought for a while and said with a smile, "If it's really interesting, let's sort it out and edit it together according to what Da Lang said." ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "If you want to edit it, it is not only "Mengxi Writings", but also Su Weigong (Su Song)'s "Tujing Materia Medica" and "New Ritual Imagery Law", Li Jiangzuo's "Building the French Style" and so on, can be sorted out and edited together."

If this happens, we will go down in history! ”