In the next few days, Wu Haogu put all kinds of chores and mundane affairs away, and stayed in his own Pear Blossom Courtyard to discuss with Su Dongpo, Zhang Lei, Chao Buzhi, Su Yu, Su Guo, and Lu Hao about discussing Taoism with a few of them.

It doesn't get much better than that!

According to Wu Haogu's meaning, he wanted to wait for a few or ten years to wait for the big stones to grow up, and then criticize the new law and new policy to seize the unification.

But now that it's here, I can't let it go. The authenticity of Confucianism must be in the vein of Su Wu (Su Shi, Wu Haogu)!

With the Taoist system, those "universities" run by Wuhao can really become bigger! In this way, the obvious learning is a new learning, and the actual learning will not be able to recruit the ideal students, and it will be difficult to become big in the future. The most important thing is, what about those people after graduating from college? You can't all go to the doctor's group, you have to have a way out!

If there is a way out, someone will come!

And Wu Haogu now feels that he is likely to find a way out of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as he can train enough positivist doctoral students, he may be able to talk to the "daring" of the Wanyan family about the truth that national unity is as great as the sky.

……

In the Nanxun Gate of the South Chamber of the Outer City of Kaifeng Mansion, the three schools under the supervision of Guozi are like a temple fair today. Early in the morning, the "school gate" was opened, and the guards were ordered to no longer stop the idlers and others, and anyone who saw them wearing official uniforms and Confucian clothes could be released. Because from today until May 15th, the Guozijian will hold a sermon here for several days in a row!

According to the statement of Zhou Chang, the priest of the Guozi Priest, and Liu Kui, the secretary of the Guozi Eunuch, this is an unprecedented event in Confucianism for decades, and it is the embodiment of the prosperity of the dynasty!

This Confucian discourse not only attracted Confucianism and scholars from all over the Great Song Dynasty, but also attracted many Confucian scholars from the Great Liao, Western Xia, Goryeo, Dali, Japan, Annam and the Great Food Country!

What the? And the Confucian students of the Great Food Country?

Not to mention, there was really a Bai Fan wearing a Confucian shirt and a Dongpo scarf with a few entourages who also arrived at the gate of the Guozijian, and when he was looking curiously, there was immediately a green robe junior official of eight or nine grades who greeted him very warmly.

"A few of you must have come from afar, right?"

"Yes, we're from the Great Food Country......"

First, a "big food Confucian student" replied in a mouthful of Fujian official dialect.

"The Confucian students of the Great Food Country are also here?" The little civil official of the Guozijian didn't know how far away the big food country was, and whether there were Confucian scholars there. Anyway, as mentioned above, there will be many Confucian students who come to listen to the Tao today, and they will all be treated as guests!

"I don't know the name of Mr.?"

"The late surname is Bai, Bai Siwen."

It's actually Bai Siwen who came! He's here to send horses to Wu Haogu! It's not from the Great Food Country, but I went to Tianzhu and got some horses with pointed ears and rolled inwards, pretending to be a big food horse and trying to give it to Wu Haogu...... Because they are all "special horses" with a shoulder height of more than five feet, Bai Siwen did not dare to lead them into the city, for fear of being "bought" into the palace to be royal horses, which would be a blood loss. So he left his horse on a village outside the city, and he entered the city first with a few white retinues.

Who knew that as soon as he entered the Nanxun Gate, he saw a sea of people at the gate of Guozijian. Bai Siwen felt strange, this is not yet the Spring Festival, where did so many people come from? So I squeezed forward to find out.

As a result, the officials guarding the door were regarded as Confucian students sent by the Great Food Country - that's okay, the Great Food Country knows the Confucianism of our Great Song Dynasty, so hurry up and invite it inside.

"Please, sir, please." This official dared to slack off, and with a smile on his face, he wanted to invite Bai Siwen in.

Bai Siwen also wondered, when did he, a businessman, let an official be so courteous? If you don't go in, it's like you don't want to give your face! If you go in...... You won't take money, will you?

"No money, no money...... This is the Guozijian, and it doesn't take money! Come in, for the debate between Mr. Ikawa and Mr. Topo will begin soon. ”

Mr. Yichuan and Mr. Dongpo discussed?

Bai Siwen took a breath and thought: This opportunity is too rare, I must listen to it!

So he didn't care if his Confucian student of the big food country was fake, so he took a few followers and followed him into the Guozijian in a big way.

The Guozijian was very lively, and there were men in Confucian shirts everywhere, some of them were old and some were not yet under the weak crown. Most of the people had no official status, so they stood in chaos on the square of the Confucius in the Guozijian, and a large-character communiqué had been posted on the walls around the square, on which was the topic of today's discourse. According to the plan, there will be a total of four questions in this discussion, two of which are from Sumen and two are from Chengmen.

Because Cheng Yi initiated the discussion of the Tao, he first discussed the topic of Cheng Yi, then discussed the topic of Sumen, and then discussed the topic of free play, and then discussed it for a few days, which ended on May 15 - sitting and discussing the Tao is not an examination, so there are no very strict regulations, and there is more room for free play.

If you sit and talk about the Tao, you will naturally sit and listen to the Tao. Not everyone can sit, but Bai Siwen, a big eater, can still sit. He got a waist card, and was led into a large hall, where he was placed next to an old monk with kind eyebrows and a little dark skin.

The old monk saw Bai Siwen's appearance, and smiled and saluted him: "Poor monk Dali Chong'en Temple Kurong monk, this is polite." ”

The monk of Chong'en Temple in Dali!

Bai Siwen is also a well-informed person, of course he knows that Dali Chong'en Temple is a royal temple! And he also knew that the emperor of Dali liked to abdicate the throne and become a monk, and he practiced in this Chong'en Temple.

"Baghdad University of Philosophy, Lower Food Country, Bai Siwen."

Of course, Bai Swen didn't dare to say that he was a businessman of the Aladdin Chamber of Commerce, otherwise he would be kicked out, so he reported the name of Baghdad Philosophical University (that is, the Palace of Wisdom, the stronghold of the Heavenly Sect of Reason). This is no worse than Chong'en Temple in Dali!

"Philosophical University?" The old monk of Dali had never heard of it, but he still saluted respectfully and recited: "Amitabha." ”

Bai Sven also saluted and said, "Allah is greater." ”

At this time, someone chatted in Bai Siwen's ear, all in stiff Northland Chinese, and Bai Siwen could understand it.

"Did you hear that? This discussion was actually started because of a new disciple of Mr. Dongpo, named Wu Haogu. ”

"Wu Haogu, I know, the first person in the painting, the head of Jiehe Shang City, is he it?"

"Yes, yes, that's him...... Brother Tai is a Liao person, so he should go to the Boundary River Market, right? ”

"I've been there, why haven't I been to Jiehe Commercial Market? I also ate Kaifeng cuisine in Wanda Wazi, and I will pass Yan Niangzi! ”

"Then do you know about the Yuntai Academy?"

"I know, Wu'er Tie Niu is now studying for a doctorate in the Yuntai Academy......

"Doctor, that's amazing! So you must know about positivism? ”

"I've heard it for a while...... I don't know what that means. ”

"This is what Wu Haogu proposed, and Mr. Yichuan is going to discuss it with Master Sumen......"

What the? What is Wu Haogu's theory, and he has to discuss it with Cheng Yi? Bai Siwen couldn't believe it: he had the ability? Didn't you give money to buy Cheng Yi, right?

"Mr. Ikawa, Mr. Dongpo, Mr. Kaihe (Wu Haogu), please ......"

Suddenly, a neutral voice interrupted the discussion in the hall, Cheng Yi, Su Dongpo, Wu Haogu, these great Confucians are about to appear on the stage!

Let's hear it! Bai Siwen cheered up, he must hear what kind of degree this guy has.

……

When Wu Haogu appeared on the stage, the audience was a sensation!

Not because he is particularly attractive, nor because he is likely to be the richest man in the Great Song Dynasty (not counting Song Huizong), but because he came on the field with a sword!

A new "Valyrian" style sword was attached to his belt along with its scabbard. And he is not the only one like this, Su Dongpo, Su Yu, Su Guo, Lu Haowen, everyone has a long sword!

In order to convince these four with swords, Wu Haogu didn't know how much saliva he had spent in the past few days, and finally sent out four famous real pen notebooks, and the four of them reluctantly appeared with the sword.

It is not surprising that Confucian scholars in Liao, Goryeo, and Japan went out with a sword or sword, and it was normal for Confucian scholars to go all over the world with swords before the Song Dynasty. The seventy-two sages of Confucius plus Confucius himself, who didn't carry a sword and a bow to spread the avenue?

But Song Ru pays attention to other people's swords, and I have a pen like a knife. Chen Zhuangyuan (Chen Yaozhi) shot an arrow, and Ouyang Xiu wrote an article and joked...... Now Su Dongpo's four disciples actually brought a sword to discuss the Tao!

Do you want to assassinate Mr. Ikawa with a sword if you can't say this?

It's so insulting!

"Mr. Dongpo, why do you still have swords?"

The Guozi priest Jiu Zhou, who presided over the discussion, was a little unbearable, and asked with a frown.

"Why can't the old man and a few students serve the sword?" Su Dongpo asked with a smile.

Zhou Chang said: "Hasn't Mr. Dongpo heard the saying 'others have a sword, but I have a pen like a knife'? ”

"Wang Dewen's child's words, how can they be enough?" Su Dongpo said, "The old man is a Confucian student, so he naturally has to act according to the "Book of Rites". Shaoyi records: The clothes of the gentleman, the sword, and the horse. The teachings of the sages did not dare to disobey the old man, so everyone under the old man now serves the sword. ”

Wang Dewen is Wang Zhu, who was a prodigy when he was a child, and made many popular poems, including a "Prodigy Poem" that has been widely circulated, including "Others have a sword, I have a pen like a knife", and the "Everything is inferior, only reading is high" is also from his "Prodigy Poem".

However, this Wang prodigy is not very good when he grows up, and he always fails in the imperial examination, and he didn't get a jinshi until he was a big old man in the third year of Yuanfu (and Wu Haowen), and he is still famous, and now he is a professor in Mingzhou. So Su Dongpo had every reason to ridicule him.

And the Book of Rites. Shaoyi records the standard dress of "gentlemen" (including Confucian scholars) during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, that is, to carry a sword.