The boat stopped at Haizhou Port, Hao Kang and Mu stood side by side on the side of the boat, looking at Mu's serious expression, Hao Kang knew that Mu was very nervous. Hao Kang was also nervous, but not because of fear. After many times from birth to death, he has long ceased to fear life and death. What he is worried about now is whether Mu will not be able to bear the pressure.

"Let's get off the boat." Mu said.

Hao Kang picked up the luggage of the two and walked in front. There were already people waiting for the two of them at the port, and when they saw Classmate Mu coming down behind Hao Kang, Classmate Mu's parents rushed to the two of them first. Classmate Mu's mother looked angry at first, and looked at the tall and beautiful Hao Kang in a pure Jiangnan dialect mixed with the taste of school Mandarin: "Uncle, aunt, hello." I'm Hao Kang. Mu's mother suddenly couldn't get angry.

Seeing that his wife was confused by this bastard boy who gave people a good impression, the father of classmate Mu, who also couldn't help but feel good, stepped forward and pushed Hao Kang away, took classmate Mu's hand and shouted: "You will know that you are fooling when you go out." I'll never let you go abroad again! ”

Next to them were the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who had already prepared the carriage, and stepped forward at this time to let Hao Kang and Mu and his family sit in two carriages respectively. The two young men and women did not resist, but they both looked at each other and exchanged glances before getting into the car. When everyone got on the bus, the two carriages started and went straight to the train station.

In a hurry, these people took the train on the road and went straight to their destination, Kaifeng. The Japanese landowners did their best and sent more than 100,000 Japanese laborers. Each person dug three cubic meters of soil every day, and in August, the railway was paved from Haizhou (Lianyungang) to Kaifeng. The importance of the railway itself has been indescribable, Kaifeng to the sea does not need to walk a few days of canals, take the train more than a day to arrive. Zhao Qian was overjoyed and encouraged by this, the intervention of the Great Song Dynasty in the Wa Kingdom finally reached its destination after several years of development. After having a solid point of convergence, the Great Song Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom were finally able to truly cooperate in the use of the Wa State labor force.

Daddy's idea of the Wa Kingdom has been very clear since decades ago, and it still takes a long time to work step by step. Zhao Qian, who only participated in it in the last few years, saw with his own eyes the drastic changes in the last few years, and there is no doubt that the world has laws. But the regularity is not what people think. Again, there is no doubt about it. Sun Tzu said that those who make good use of soldiers, cultivate the Tao and protect the law, so they can be the government of victory and defeat.

Cultivating the Tao and protecting the Dharma is really wonderful. Zhao Qian, who participated in it, recalled the hardships in the past few years, and was really full of emotion. With his father here, Zhao Qian doesn't have to worry about the general direction at all, and his father's general direction has never changed. The word 'protecting the law' needs to be firm in implementation, no matter how the other party changes, Zhao Qian's side can't let the change go in the other direction. The direction is correct, the implementation is firm, and there is no rush for quick success and quick profit, only for results. In the end, this thing will succeed.

When the conditions of war are determined, the requirement for commanders is firmness. After the success of the matter, I looked back and felt that every step was reasonable. Only those who have walked that road themselves understand how much confusion, unease, dissatisfaction, and even want to start over.

Can you be as determined as your father? Zhao Qian wanted to summarize this matter, but he had to get involved in other people's love and marriage. This made Zhao Qian a little annoyed. Seeing that he was in love, Zhao Qian was not too happy in his heart, anyway, his love failed. And I don't know who poked it out, and the impact is not good. There was no way, Zhao Qian ran to his father again for help.

"This is a case, and it is also a special case, let's solve it according to human feelings." Zhao Jiaren replied lightly. He didn't expect that things had developed to this point, the emperor himself had the highest right to vote, and Zhao Jiaren didn't want to put things on the line again.

"Will the exception be used as an example in the future?"

"Then it depends on what you think of the exception." Zhao Jiaren said with a smile. At the age of almost 60, Zhao Jiaren feels that he can see the world more comprehensively, and enjoy the fun of the elderly relying on the old and selling the old from the perspective of letting go of many things.

"Please tell me about it." Zhao Qian was very interested in this.

"First, whether there are minors in this, and if there are minors, it is a crime. Second, whether there is an offence of coercion. Third, whether there is deliberate deception between the two to hide things that can affect the outcome of the marriage. Fourth, whether foreigners are barbarians. His country, his own education, whether he can speak Chinese, whether he can read and how many ancient Chinese books he has understood. Fifth, whether their understanding of marriage is in line with Chinese tradition. Sixth, do the people on the side of the Great Song understand the personal rights and rights that have been deprived because of this marriage. ”

Zhao Qian had already taken out a small notebook and started to record, and after his father finished speaking, he asked clearly what he hadn't had time to record before. After memorizing it, he read it again, and Zhao Qian praised: "Wonderful." The official family, this special case is much stricter than the marriage of the Song Dynasty's own people. ”

"This is what special cases are, they must be in line with reason and human feelings. If the exception is extrajudicial favor, making the illegal become legal, then don't make the exception. ”

Zhao Qian nodded again and again, and then said: "Official, as far as I know, these are not a problem for those two people. ”

"What are the two of them, both of them are college students from the Great Song Dynasty. In the mainstream society, it already belongs to the group of people who are more knowledgeable and experienced. Not to mention nationality, they are a strong combination, and they are probably happy with each other. I'm making them a special case. The common situation is that there are Great Song women who have been taken captive on the border, and the newspapers will not discuss what to do with each other, but ask when the Great Song army will go to crusade against the barbarians. ”

"Official, isn't there any consideration for supporting this matter?"

"Zhao Qian, you must remember clearly, no one is stupid. The reason why people are willing to cooperate is because we have room to cooperate on the interests we face in front of us. Cooperation is not someone else who has become our slave, and we have been completely controlled since then. If we think so, it's not that others are incapable, but that we are stupid. Cooperation is cooperation, business is business. Reasonable, beneficial, and responsible. ”

Zhao Qian agreed with these views very much, he plucked up the courage to himself, and asked loudly: "Official, I am involved in the matter of the Japanese Kingdom, and I only feel that the official family has seen countless times farther than us. When I was doing this, I always felt like I had reached the end of the line and that it should be over. The official family will not. The official still feels that this matter should continue to move forward, and this matter must continue to move forward. Now that it's over, I can already see it's over. Now it's just a matter of putting in place what was laid out before. As a result of my reflection, everything that the official family has done in the past thirty or forty years has been seen by the official family. It's just that according to the strength of the Great Song Dynasty at that time, choose what you can do at that time. So the official family has earned every step. If I am asked to do it, it will be to go straight to the end, and no matter how good my thinking and understanding is, it will fail. I want to know what the government knows about the development of the world, pointing out this way, and I don't have any doubts anymore. All that's left is to get dry. ”

Zhao Jiaren felt that he should be happy, but he was not happy at all. In the past, Zhao Jiaren felt strange why the ancients were not the present. From a biological point of view, there has been no essential change in the human brain for thousands of years, but even subtle changes are limited, let alone any changes in the time period of 700 years. The brains of the Song Dynasty people are no different from the new Chinese people of the 21st century. The only difference is 'common sense'.

History has changed, Wen Tianxiang has changed, but it's not big enough. Among the newcomers strongly cultivated by Zhao Jiaren, there are finally people of the era who dare to ask the core questions to Zhao Jiaren's face. This made Zhao Jiaren sure that he was not wrong. It's just that this question involves Zhao Jiaren's own roots, and everything about him comes from what he has learned and seen.

If you want to save the Great Song Dynasty, you have to destroy the Lin'an Imperial Court, if you want to save China, you have to destroy the private ownership of land, and if you want to promote social progress, you have to eliminate the feudal system and the sentimental party. This is not the result of Zhao Jiaren's painstaking search, but the historical facts he learned through study. Even so, Zhao Jiaren was still looking forward and backward when he was reincarnated for the first time, and the reality of his entire family being killed made Zhao Jiaren understand that looking at the cold and correct conclusion is itself benevolent. If you want to save China, you must sacrifice some people, and this sacrifice is insignificant compared to the cost of China's destruction.

Zhao Jiaren could understand these things, but Zhao Jiaren didn't know how to tell his son. There is no essential difference between the two people in intelligence, and there is not much difference in personal effort. The reason for the damned chasm between two people is 'common sense'.

Looking at his father's expression, Zhao Qian was also a little worried in his heart. He loves his parents, and the more he understands the world, the more fortunate Zhao Qian feels. In this era, too many parents regard their children as their own private property, and their parents never see them that way, their children are the product of their lives, so they do their best to raise their children to be able to cope with the world on their own. Even if Zhao Qian is a child of the Heavenly Family.

What Zhao Qian is doing now is asking his father for the foundation of his life, and getting this treasure means getting everything that his father has. Not to mention an emperor, even the father of an ordinary family probably can't accept it. This means that the son has all the ideas of his father, and it is by virtue of which the father can lead the family.

When I was nervous, I heard my father say, "It's going to be a very hard study." ”

"I'll do my best." Zhao Qian said happily.

"It's going to be very cruel, and it's going to have to change your common sense. If you want to really turn this common sense into your stuff, you're going to have to do a lot more hard work. On paper, I finally feel shallow, and I never know that I have to do it. ”

"I'll do my best!" Zhao Qian can understand his father's worries.

"Also, when you have power, you feel your own evil. Looking back now, the starting point for killing so many people over the years was my personal malice and fear. Although I tried my best to resolve the negative impact of these memories on me, I couldn't. ”

Zhao Qian was stunned, he also felt this way, many times there were very dark and negative motives behind the things that had to be explained with high-sounding reasons, and the cruel impulses born of anger and fear made Zhao Qian often feel regretful. I didn't expect someone as powerful as Daddy to be like this.

"More importantly, if you want to understand this, you need to build a faith that serves the people wholeheartedly. Without the support of such ultimate faith, your own conscience will crumble. You are likely to become a person with great power and will have to prove that what you are doing is right by satisfying your desires. ”

"Official, what is the ultimate faith?" Zhao Qian had heard this word, but he couldn't understand it.

"The ultimate belief is that I can't prove it right and inevitable now, but I just believe that he is right. And to perfect this ultimate faith as you move forward. It is because I can't do it that I have faith. It is precisely because it is the ultimate that I do not hesitate to pursue it. ”

"I ...... I don't understand. Zhao Qian replied. As soon as the words came out, Zhao Qian felt that it might not be correct to say this, and his father was Zhao Qian's ultimate belief. Because what Daddy did was something that Zhao Qian believed he couldn't do no matter what, so Zhao Qian did his best to follow Daddy, hoping to see the scenery Daddy saw. The happiness gained from this pursuit was beyond the happiness that Zhao Qian had obtained from other places. Dad said that it was a feeling caused by the body's brain peptide reward mechanism, but Zhao Qian was willing to believe that it was a joy similar to the soul shock. The joy is not limited to one moment, the more Zhao Qian feels, the more confident he feels, the more fearless and doubtful he feels.

"That's because you've seen too little. But...... Forget it, I'll teach you the world in my eyes, and it's exactly the world in my personal eyes. You prepare before you listen, that's my personal opinion, it's my personal basis. You don't imitate this, because it's a purely personal opinion. This is just my foothold on the coordinate system, not the entire coordinate system. When you don't feel where you really are, try to compare yourself with me to find your own place. Even if you learn everything from me, you are still you, whether you want to or not, you will only have your own coordinate points. You are you, I am me. ”

Zhao Qian felt that this passage was so ordinary, and decent teachers would tell this passage from various textbooks to the students, not to mention that it would be cocooned, anyway, Zhao Qian was already familiar with it. At this time, he had a flash of inspiration and replied, "Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going?" ”

"Hmm." Zhao Jiaren nodded, very happy. Logic has the advantage of not making people smarter, nor does it give people supernatural abilities. Logic is only a very useful tool, and its function is to make it possible for those who have received logical training not to deviate too far from the basic principles without understanding it at all. Even if the son in front of him was reciting the textbook, he said the correct direction that the textbook told. Satisfied, Zhao Jiaren continued, "I have to prepare for class, you wait first." You can deal with Hao Kang's affairs. ”

"Does the official family want to include Mongolia in the economic frontier of the Great Song Dynasty?" Zhao Qian also let go of heavy thoughts and analysis, and dealt with more relaxed specific work.

"The Wa Kingdom and the Eastern Roman Kingdom are also considered civilized countries, and the characteristic of civilized countries is that they have institutions. Just like China, the core system that started with Zulong has not changed much to the present. Eastern Rome was invaded and briefly lost, so it appeared that the system was chaotic. As for the Wa Kingdom, it has been very stable since its establishment. When we talk about the system, we can evaluate it in terms of advanced and backward. Because the system itself has such qualitative values and standards. Mongolia's culture could not support a system, and there was no way to communicate with Mongolia except by force. They have traditions and practices, but they don't have institutions. To put it simply, when we finally came into contact with the Japanese state from the institutional level, the system of the Japanese state providing labor to the Great Song Dynasty was established, and the next thing we had to do was to discuss and maintain this system. What kind of system can we establish with the Mongols? ”

Zhao Qian nodded again and again, feeling that a certain fog in front of him had been cleared by real experience and the concept proposed by his father. The economic control of the Wa Kingdom and Eastern Rome was based on the fact that the other side also had a civilized bottom line, and everyone could interact with each other in a civilized manner. The Great Song Dynasty benefited from trade, and the Wa Kingdom and Eastern Rome also benefited from trade. As long as any agreement with Mongolia produces benefits, Mongolia will want to monopolize those interests by force. So the basis of institutional exchanges with Mongolia was to get rid of Mongolia. If Mongolia cannot be defeated, any system is nonsense, and it is all meat and discouragement.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was true and true, and Zhao Qian was even more full of expectations for the lesson that his father was going to teach. Standing at such a height, what is there that cannot be seen clearly?

Zhao Jiaren is also thinking about similar things, the Russian tradition of Mongolia and even the encroachment of Mongolia is what Zhao Jiaren heard when he was drinking and chatting with a buddy in the 21st century. After the signing of the Soviet-German peace agreement, Germany turned to deal with Western Europe, and Uncle Iron Man formulated the thunderstorm plan, which was based on the protracted war between Germany and Western Europe, which greatly consumed their strength. At a time when both sides were exhausted, millions of Soviet Red Army troops set out from occupied Poland to take out Germany from behind and bulldoze Western Europe.

It's normal for the otaku of the keyboard Politburo to talk and go off topic, and that buddy told that there is no system in Russia, and their tradition is intimidation. From the point of view of the war, after Germany eliminated France and leveled Western Europe in a month, the Soviet Union had to consider a defensive posture to deal with it. But Russian tradition led Uncle Iron Man to put his troops on the offensive in the Polish regions that the Soviets had carved up. The intention is to scare the mustache by arranging heavy troops.

Unexpectedly, the mustache saw through Uncle Tieman's trick at a glance and launched an attack without hesitation. A heavy thunderstorm confronted Barbarossa, and the mustache knocked the Soviet army to the ground.

Zhao Jiaren only felt suddenly enlightened when he heard this. He didn't think about it this way before, but he had read many other books, in which Zhao Jiaren read two views and historical materials, first, Russia is actually the inherited Mongolian culture. Second, many German soldiers did not want to fight the Barbarossa Plan before it was launched. At that time, although Germany was not full of good feelings towards the Soviet Union, at least it felt that it had killed the traditional enemies of Western Europe, and Germany should also recover greatly, and everyone should go home to enjoy the dividends of the war. Was the Soviet Union an ally of Germany, at least at that time?

As a result, after the Battle of Barbarossa, the views of the German front-line soldiers changed. In an interview with German soldiers in World War II that Zhao Jiaren saw, the German soldier who was questioned by the Chinese biographer firmly stated, "The distribution of the Soviets' troops was not defensive at all, but offensive." I am a soldier, and after seeing so many Soviet military arrangements, I am convinced that the Soviet Union is going to attack us. I'm a soldier, I understand. ’

The combination of these materials and the arguments put forward by this buddy made Zhao Jiaren suddenly enlightened. The information that used to puzzle him instantly became the content that made him understand the truth. These cognitive 'common sense' have now even become the basis for the analysis of the Mongol Empire.

Thinking of what he was going to tell his son, Zhao Jiaren felt even more pressure in his heart. The foundation of so much common sense is countless histories, and it is still much more advanced than the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty. The creation of Zhao Jiaren's own power is these histories and the learning and cognition of history. Is his son and the current Great Song capable of accepting these ideas?

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren remembered a passage he had read before. Funerals, countless funerals, noble, lowly, mournful, obscure...... All these funerals have just ended, the bells of mourning are still reverberating in the air, and people have begun to dance.

It's not just about dancing, it's about working, studying, falling in love, getting married, having celebrations, and having fun...... This is the people, the people who are won over, used, sacrificed, protected. They are like dirt that will not be tarnished no matter how trampled it is, and how much blood can penetrate it can produce flowers. Looking at them, you will feel that everything is worth it, no matter how turbulent and strife, how many wasted lives of geniuses, and the blood of heroes, it is worth it. All people will die, only they will live forever.

That person also struggled with how China should get out of the cycle of history, but he chose to study, and after carefully reading the 24th History, that person said that he had found a way out of this circle, that is, people's democracy.

Zhao Jiaren was a little moved when he read this history, because he thought that person was a member of the people. But that's all there was to it. Now Zhao Jiaren found that if he could not base his ultimate idea on the basis of the "people are the masters of the country" and "serve the people wholeheartedly" that the people were trying to propagate to the people in the midst of such a buzzing social movement, Zhao Jiaren would not have found a way to withstand such a powerful backlash.

The strong will also be afraid, and the strong will be uneasy. If you can't serve the people to get a foothold, then you can only devour the people to get peace of mind. Both barbarism and civilization can produce strong people, and this is where the difference between barbarism and civilization lies.