Opening the jar of wine, Xu Ping poured a small bowl for everyone, and said to Cao Wei: "Taiwei, how about tasting the taste of this wine?" ”

Cao Wei looked at the small bowl in front of him and said, "This bowl is also exquisite, but it is too small!" We soldiers eat wine, which one is impatient to use such a small bowl! ”

Zhao Zi hurriedly said: "This wine is too strong, the big bowl can't be used, and this kind of small bowl is used." ”

Several people drank the wine, Cao Wei reminisced for a while, and said to Xu Ping: "Your wine has some meaning!" ”

The five of them drank a few more bowls, but Cao Wei didn't let Xu Ping pour it, and said: "These are all left, I have to go to a few old friends to taste them." It's not fun to drink with you! ”

This is here, Lin Wensi is a literati, everyone else is a junior, Cao Wei can't let go, he feels very unhappy, he wants to cheer and drink with his old comrades.

Xu Ping put away the rest of the wine, handed it over to the soldiers brought by Cao Wei, and ordered someone to serve the sorghum Daqu.

Cao Wei drank it and commented: "Actually, this wine is also excellent, but it is worse than the previous one." ”

Zhao Zi followed: "In the past few months, the wine here has been getting better and better, the entrance is no longer spicy and rushing, the taste is mellow and fragrant, and the strength in the wine has not decreased. ”

This is because with the extension of time, the wine can be aged for a period of time before being sold, and if the time is enough, those that Xu Pingcun has aged for three years will be even better.

I saw that at noon, several people had a bottle of white wine, and they all had some wine.

Cao Wei and Zhao Zi are okay, they have just aroused the excitement of drinking, but Xu Ping is the best in wine, and Sang Yi is about the same amount of wine as him. Lin Wensi had the smallest amount of alcohol, so he stopped drinking it for a long time, and just replaced it with tea.

At this moment, the soldiers and Shi Yannian rushed over from the capital.

When I went to the "Drunkard Pavilion" to see the ceremony, Cao Wei smiled and said: "I have heard the name of Manqing for a long time, poetry and wine are unique, today is just free, let's fight together!" ”

Shi Yannian said a few polite words, sat down, and everyone continued to drink.

After drinking two more glasses, Xu Ping really couldn't accompany him, and said to a few people: "I'm recovering from a serious illness, I can't drink more, and I can't accompany you." Just have fun! ”

Cao Wei was about to stay, Shi Yannian said: "The little master suffered that catastrophe a few days ago, and he was not lightly ill, so don't force it if you can't drink it." ”

Everyone had no choice but to stop, and Xu Ping sat on the side.

After a while, Xu Ping saw that a few people had eaten wine and meat, and then couldn't get off his chopsticks, so he said, "I'll come when I go." ”

When I arrived at the wine shop, I put two large plates of peanuts, one soaked in vinegar and one fried in oil. I made another shallots mixed with tofu and a cold preserved egg and served them together. This was all made by Xu Ping in the wine shop according to his memory, but unfortunately it was born at the wrong time and did not suit the taste of the people here. Those who come to drink from poor laborers want to eat some meat and other oil and water in their stomachs, and those who pretend to be elegant think that these things are rough and do not sell well.

When it was brought to the pavilion, everyone ate a few bites and said together: "This is good, just for wine!" With such a good thing, why didn't the little master come in the morning? ”

Xu Ping just smiled bitterly. Serve it in the morning, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat it, this thing is used to grind your teeth after you have oil and water in your stomach, and you will be tired and panic if you keep eating it.

Today's wine was drunk until the red sun fell, and Cao Wei, Zhao Zi and Shi Yannian went back drunk and with a group of pro-soldiers.

In addition to the less than two jars of wine, Xu Ping also made several large jars of sorghum and Daqu for a few people to take back. Shi Yannian never dared to bring more for fear of violating the alcohol ban, every time it was just a gourd, Cao Wei was a high lord, who dared to check him before entering and leaving the city gate! Stained with this light, Shi Yannian brought a large altar back to enjoy it.

Although Xu Ping refused to accept the money no matter what he said, Cao Wei still threw a large ingot of silver to him. Anyway, he is also a big man who has done the work of signing the Privy Council after staying in the festival, how can he make this little cheap.

Watching Cao Wei and his entourage leave in a majestic manner, Sang Yi sighed: "If the eldest husband can be like Cao Taiwei, it can be regarded as worthy of this life!" ”

Xu Pingqi said: "Since Xiucai has this ambition, it is better to abandon the pen and follow Rong." With Xiucai's talent, it is not necessarily difficult to rise to the top in the army. ”

Sang Yi sighed: "Wen is not enough to climb the gold list, and he can't pull off his skin when he joins the army, and he can't do martial arts, so I'm talking about characters like me and Shi Manqing!" ”

Xu Ping was silent.

The Song Dynasty implemented a conscription system, and there was always only one word for the army, money. You have to pay for the expedition, you have to pay for the victory, and you have to pay for the defeat. The emperor has to give money for his birthday, for marriage, and for children. Money should be given for national celebrations, and money should be given for funerals. This money word wrapped around the soldiers also gave the impression that the people of the time were greedy for martial artists.

Yue Fei famously said: Wenchen does not love money, Wuchen does not hesitate to die, and the world is peaceful. This sentence is often overplayed, but in fact, it is just the basic policy of the Song Dynasty. Treat the ministers with courtesy, and the ministers should be loyal to themselves, and treat money as dung. Treat the military ministers not by courtesy, but by money, take the money should do things, and don't be greedy for life and afraid of death when you use it. Therefore, embezzlement is a felony in Wenchen, and Wuchen is just a trivial matter.

However, historical facts have proven that neither of these two can be done when the government is in chaos.

In the hearts of people at this time, joining the army is greedy for money, fighting bravely is for promotion, and promotion is still for getting more money. This notion has been passed down from five generations and is almost deeply rooted.

The literati abandoned the pen and followed the Rong, and everything else was a trivial matter, but the fact that the gentleman was willing to be in the company of the villain could not turn a corner for many scholars who cherished their reputation. Song Taizu once said that if he wants to make the world's military ministers study, reading is not to read and write, but to know etiquette and righteousness, so that the army can climb out of the quagmire corrupted by money, but after all, it has become an empty word. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Wenchen cherished his name, and the military generals loved money, and the general direction did not change.

Shi Yannian started as a jinshi, but in the sequence of military ministers, he was engaged in the work of a civil minister, which is a typical example of a martial artist who cannot succeed in martial arts. The low official position and the meager are still secondary, and the disgraceful aura on the military ministers really makes the people who promise themselves poetry and books depressed.

Although Xu Ping also knows a little about this era, he still can't deeply feel the characteristics of this era. The Song Dynasty inherited the Tang Dynasty, but it was deeply influenced by the turbulent times of the Five Dynasties, which not only had an impact on the rulers when formulating policies, but also deeply penetrated into all aspects of society.

People like Sang Yi and Shi Yannian, who not only read poetry and books in the hope of fighting a Jinshi's formal background, but also fight sword rangers to promise themselves with their will, it is the character that is torn apart by the legacy of the five generations and the reality of the times. This kind of person Xu Ping will continue to meet later, which makes him understand the huge difference between this era and books.

The literati of the Five Dynasties often turned from literature to martial arts, and ranged in the countryside, submitting letters and suggestions to the rulers in the hope of being reused. This legacy still existed in the early Song Dynasty, and if scholars were not recruited by the rulers, they often traveled everywhere, calling friends and companions, and became the ruler's henchmen.

The perfection and prevalence of the imperial examination system are closely related to this background, and the earliest purpose was just to recruit these people from the people into the imperial court, so it is really common for Song Taizu to wrestle to decide the champion, and it cannot be said that he looks down on the imperial examination and the literati. With the development of society, the purpose and means of the imperial examination have been changing, but at least in the Northern Song Dynasty, it has not been reversed, so there will be a Luodi Juzi Wang Lun in "Water Margin", and the Luodi Juzi often became the leader of the rebellion in the Song Dynasty. At this time, the imperial examination was very different from the later one, which aimed to consolidate the ritual order of the ruling class, and the process of the imperial examination was very different from that of later generations.

Xu Ping wants to fight for a background, he needs not only to be familiar with poetry and books, but also to understand the difference between the means and goals of the imperial examination at this time and later generations, and he still has a long way to go.