Be an official!

Or a civil official!

Still lacking in fat!

Or is it the old business that Wu Chengzhi loves......

Therefore, it is impossible to "not just", even if Wu Haogu objected, Wu Chengzhi would not listen.

So early the next morning, Wu Haowen went to the palace with his father's reply. However, he can't see the official family anytime and anywhere in this Chongzheng Palace, and he has to wait until the "Chang Ju" and "Chongzheng Hall ask right" are over, and it is possible that it will be his turn to work with Su Yu.

The reason why it is "possible" is because Zhao Ji does not like "listening to books" very much. What Wu Haowen and Su Yu said is not a fun commentary, the two of them are talking about the big truth, do Zhao Ji, the first saint in the universe, still need to listen?

The Five Classics of Confucianism also include "The Book of Rites", "The Analects", "Mencius", "Xunzi", "Tianli Shuo", and "Positivism". And he is a genius who has only been produced once in hundreds of years, and his memory is super strong, and he can memorize those famous Confucian texts.

In addition, Zhao Ji is also a little annoyed by Su Yu and Wu Haowen now. When the two of them got together, they couldn't listen to what they said, and they were all armed with guns and sticks—it was clear that the two had major differences between the two on the "Theory of Heavenly Principles" and the "Theory of Positivism".

Su Yu is the compiler of these two works, so naturally he has to do his best to defend them. He used the position of "credible hypothesis" to expound the Confucian classics, including the "Theory of Heaven", and said that Confucian sages are still human beings after all, and if they are human beings, they will be wrong, and if they are wrong, they must be corrected...... Therefore, the "Positivistic Theory" can be used to test all Confucian principles!

Moreover, empirical evidence is not contradictory to "faith". For true "faith" is not superstition, nor is it full faith.

Wu Haowen's view is in conflict with Su Yu's, he believes that the theory of "faith and proof" is not applicable to the "Code of Ethics". This is because the "Code of Ethics", such as whether it is better to be "left" or "right", whether it is better to "grow hair" or "baldness", whether it is better to have a "single wife" or "four wives", and whether it is better to worship heaven and ancestors or to worship ghosts and gods rather than ancestors, these cannot be verified at all. And these are precisely the key to the "distinction between Huayi", so the theory of "faith and proof" has a scope of application......

At least the Confucian ethical guidelines and moral standards are truths that can only be believed but cannot be proven and do not need to be proven.

In short, Wu Haowen and Su Ji debated together, and no one could convince anyone, so Zhao Ji was a little annoyed to hear it, so he simply let the two of them enter the palace every other day to tell stories, and they could also have a clean ear.

Today happened to be the day when Wu Haowen was telling stories, and he waited outside the Chongzheng Hall for a while, and when the important ministers who asked the right questions had dispersed, Wu Haowen was allowed to enter the main hall, and he heard the sound of Lehehe.

"Erlang, did your father promise to go to Jiangnan to buy calligraphy, painting and antiques for me?"

"Your Majesty, my father has already agreed."

"Okay, okay." Zhao Ji smiled and instructed the internal officials who were preparing to serve him to eat, "Add another pair of dishes and chopsticks, and I will eat with Wu Qing." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wu Haowen hurriedly saluted and thanked him.

He is not Wu Haogu in the end, and he is not so familiar with Zhao Ji, so today Zhao Ji asked him to have lunch together, which belongs to the "feast", a great honor!

"Sit down," Zhao Ji seemed to be in a happy mood, "Since your father is willing to go through this experience, then I will let Hanlin draw up the decree tomorrow."

After the Shangyuan Festival, let him and Mi Fu set off together. ”

At this time, Xiao Huangmen, who was busy in the hall, had already brought a pestle to Wu Haowen. Wu Haowen sat down, but he didn't dare to learn from his brother so casually, he only dared to sit on half of his ass, a bit like a student who was being trained.

Zhao Ji looked at Wu Haowen's sitting posture and frowned, "Can your father still draw now?" ”

"Yes, my father is only in his forties, and he is in the prime of life." Wu Haowen replied.

"Then does your father know Wu Dalang's garden architecture painting skills?"

"A little bit," Wu Haowen said, "my eldest brother's painting methods have been passed on to my father." It's just that he is a little older and slow to learn things, so he doesn't paint as well as Mi Youren, Du Wenyu and Zhang Zeduan. ”

"It's enough to be able to paint," Zhao Ji said with a smile, "I heard that there are many gardens in Suzhou and Hangzhou, although they are not rich, but they are very charming...... Go back and tell your father to draw it, and show it to me. ”

He sighed softly: "Although I am an emperor, I have no chance to travel the world, let alone appreciate the beautiful landscapes of the south of the Yangtze River with my own eyes, so I can only look at the pictures." ”

Zhao Ji wanted the pictures of the Jiangnan gardens not just to see, but to "move" the gardens and landscapes in the south of the Yangtze River to Kaifeng Mansion...... However, it is inconvenient to tell Wu Haowen about this, Wu Haowen is not very old, but his brain is a little old-fashioned, and he is becoming more and more like his teacher and master. If you want to talk to him about building a garden, you will probably get some advice.

Think about it, it's still good to be martial, not only to be able to do things, but also to experience the sacred heart, and to play together.

"That's right," Zhao Ji remembered something again, "Your brother has recently made a great contribution and recruited envoys from Japan, and he will follow Mi Youren to Kaifeng Mansion in the next few days."

I'll send you a messenger to accompany you back to the Embassy. ”

Wu Haowen was stunned for a moment, "Is the minister an envoy?" But the minister is only the selection of the nine products......"

"It's not a serious envoy who came," Zhao Ji said with a smile, "It's just a Confucian student who came to us to learn the "Heavenly Doctrine" on the order of the Japanese Dazaifu. You are a disciple of Chengmen, you know "Tianli Shuo", and you happen to be an escort of the pavilion. There was no embassy in Kaifeng Prefecture dedicated to receiving Japanese envoys, so I decided to place the Japanese envoys in the Qionglin Palace.

In addition, your brother also said in the recital that Japanese Confucian scholars are more martial. If you want them to be convinced, you have to show the peak of our dynasty's martial arts. Therefore, you have to arrange for the Japanese envoy to observe the martial arts performance of Mu Daogang......"

Zhao Ji mentioned Mu Daogang's martial arts, and his face was filled with an excited expression. After being an official for a few years, he felt that his cultural rule had reached an unprecedented height, but his martial arts were still a little behind. It will be three years since he came to power, not only did he fail to open up the territory, but he also lost the land of the river that the first emperor had brought down, which is a bit regrettable.

But now the martial arts are finally getting a little better...... Gao Yu's recital has been sent to Kaifeng Mansion a few days ago. In the recital, Gao Yu praised the knights in front of the palace, saying that they were the elite comparable to Tang Zhixuanjia!

If what Gao Yu said is true, then the Great Song Dynasty finally has a cavalry that can really fight. Next, it will depend on whether four or five thousand available "Song Mengshi" can be selected in the Mu Daogang martial arts exercise in January next year.

In order to select the "warriors" as soon as possible, Zhao Ji ordered the state armies to post the emperor's list as early as the middle of last year and recruit strong men.

In his mind, the Great Song Dynasty has 400 military states and hundreds of millions of ordinary people, as long as a military state can pick out ten warriors, wouldn't there be 4,000 Song warriors comparable to Wei Wushu?

Four thousand warriors plus one thousand knights, that is five thousand elite soldiers. Although the number of people is not large, it should be enough to deal with the Tubo tribe of Hehuang...... Didn't the ministers of the court and the central government all say that Hehuang is located in a remote area, the transshipment is unchanged, and it is difficult to maintain the expedition with a large army? Then send 5,000 troops, there is no problem in logistics, right?

……

Accompanied by Wu Haowen, the two brothers and sisters Muto and Abiyuyu who will visit Kaifeng Mansion will visit. Under the escort of Mi Youren and Hua Manshan, he has arrived within the boundary of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The two Japanese are still dressed in fancy clothes, especially Abidyuyu who wore a "pot costume" along the way. That is, the "Ichijo Kasa" with a hanging silk sewn on the top edge of her head, and a "sling" on her body that looks very fat, and a "suspender" on her shoulders, looks really like a sake jug, so it is no wonder that it is called a "pot costume".

Muto was dressed in the sash costume of a military attaché, with a sword inserted into the body (at this time, Japan was not yet popular with ribs, so he usually carried a knife), and he also carried a "flat beard" for arrows, and in one hand he also carried a Fuchitake bow with exquisite maki-e on the surface, an astonishing length, and a short lower bow arm and a long upper bow arm - the length of this bow was more than eight feet, and it was almost the length of a carbine, so it could not be loaded into the bow bag, so it could only be held by Muto in his hand.

A woman who "pretends" a wine jug, a small man with an extra-long bow, and rides a rabbit horse with a height of only four feet, walking on the official road in Kaifeng Mansion where the flow of cars and horses is endless, how can she not attract attention?

And while people were looking at each other curiously, Muto was also observing the Song warriors who were on the way!

A samurai indeed!

After entering the Kaifeng Mansion Boundary, Qin Yi found that there were more samurai hurrying on the official road. And all of them were tall and mighty, all in groups of a dozen people, some on horseback, some on foot, all with bows and arrows, spears and straight knives, as if they were in a hurry to fight.

"Mi companion envoy," Muto couldn't help but ask Mi Youren, who was the companion envoy, "Is the Great Song Emperor ready to fight?" ”

"War?" Mi Youren didn't understand, "How can you see it?" ”

"There are so many warriors on the road, all of them are on the same road as us, they should be going to Kaifeng Mansion, right?"

Mi Youren smiled, "They are the strong men who will go to participate in the Mu Daogang martial arts exercise in January next year, and they are all heroes selected by various state armies." ”

"Martial arts?" Muto asked, "Why do you want to hold such a martial arts exercise?" Can you participate in the following? ”

Mi Youren glanced at Muto himself, shook his head and said, "Yan Wu is naturally to choose warriors for the official family's dragon guards!" However, it is better not to participate in the envoy, because although the reward for this exercise is rich, the assessment is extremely strict, and it is necessary to wear the armor of the three genera, exercise a strong crossbow and a hard bow, and carry fifty negative arrows.

This is not something that ordinary people can test! ”

So strict? At this time, Muto Keichi came up with the "iron-clad samurai" he saw when he was in the Yuntai Academy - those people were probably selected according to this criterion, right?

The Great Song Dynasty is really the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and their samurai are all so powerful, Japan can't afford to provoke them!