The carriage drove straight out of the city from the slanting wind and drizzle building, and Jia She, who was driving, stopped at a place where there were fewer craftsmen on the outer city wall of Yangzhou, Ye Qing took the lead in jumping out of the carriage with a smile, put the horse down with Jia She, and then walked down from the carriage with Lu Yanlun in his arms.

Holding a cane in one hand and looking up at the city wall with no end in sight, Lu Yanlun waved his hand to Ye Qing, so the old and the young began to stroll along the endless city wall.

Xiao Zhen, who came from afar, looked at the backs of the two, and then looked at Jia She, so he waited with Jia Sheng for Ye Qing and his husband by the carriage.

"You kid really made the old man look at him for three days, and now the old man can't believe it, you are a small envoy of the Great Song Dynasty when he was sent to the Jin Kingdom. It's only been a few years, and your kid has just recovered the Beidi Fourth Road and established a place above the Song Dynasty. Lu Yanlun was the first to speak, and said with heartfelt emotion.

"What you said makes me wonder if you're praising me or hurting me." Ye Qing shook his head and said with a smile.

Hearing Ye Qing's words, Lu Yanlun laughed cheerfully, and then stopped and said to Ye Qing: "Since your kid said so, then it proves that the people above the court are not less involved in deceiving your kid." If you are a person of good character, you naturally think that I am praising him, and if you say so, it means that you are ....... Lu Yanlun stretched out his index finger and pointed at Ye Qing in the air: "But this is the case in the court, people with good conduct and noble conduct cannot go far above the court." The old man built Yanjing City by himself, and later resigned, because the old man knew his own family's affairs, and the old man was not suitable for being an official. If you want to live longer, you have to stay away from the court. ”

"What is right and what is wrong? Is there a right or wrong in the court? The court, after all, is a place where only struggle can last, whether you have the people of the world in mind, or the society of the country, in short, as long as you reach a certain height and want to display your ideals and ambitions, then you will inevitably fall into the party struggle in the court. People have their own ideas, how can they all have the same ideas as us, there are so many dissidents like a carp crossing the river, no one can convince anyone, and naturally the next thing is to fight openly and secretly, weaken and suppress the other party's forces, so as to retain their will in the court. Ye Qing broke the cement on the city wall, and after picking it for a long time, he couldn't pick out a large piece as he wished.

Lu Yanlun looked at Ye Qing's actions with a smile, now the outer city wall of Yangzhou City, in his eyes Lu Yanlun, even if it is the strongest iron horse of the Jin people, it is difficult to break through it.

"Yes, it's convincing. It seems that the old man is really not suitable for the court, and he always asks for a black and white, right and wrong, which is also a common problem of scholars, too rigid and easy to break. Maybe it's okay to send any one in various places, but once you enter the center of power above the court, you can read it...... It's almost like you, who are like people who are crawling out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and who have no sages in their hearts, and who are not constrained by the sages in their hearts, will undoubtedly hit the stone with an egg. Lu Yanlun continued to say with emotion.

In his opinion, Ye Qing was able to get such a high position, but it was completely through his solid step by step and hard work.

Although the court battle is not a battlefield with open swords and guns, its undercurrent is more dangerous than the battlefield, and if you don't notice it, you don't even know who your enemy is, and you have been dismissed from office, or you are still being used as a knife and you don't know it.

"The book of sages is too idealistic, I have not personally experienced the sinister of the court, but I just pursue the perfect world in my heart, and I can easily depict a beautiful and peaceful world without war, and the world is rich and well-fed, but if you want to implement it, it is not so simple. The book business is angry at the book, and the court is worried about the ambition of the court. It's always easier to talk than to go into battle in person, after all, practice is the only way to know. Ye Qing also said with emotion.

Compared with the verbal and written criticisms of Zhu Xi and others, including the perfect ideal world they depicted among literati, court officials are like thankless sinners, or the kind that has to be innocent.

Looking back at the dynasties and generations where military generals founded the country and civil ministers ruled the country, it is not difficult to find that with the death of those heroes and nobles of the contemporary country, as the new empire begins to enter the prosperous period, the wheel of history will gradually turn to the era of the country by the civil ministers, and the new empire will gradually begin to decline at this time after the prosperity and prosperity of the peace.

Whether it is because of the merits of Wenchen is obviously not easy to draw this conclusion, but it is always difficult for Wenchen's idealized strategy of governing the country and fighting against foreign enemies to reach a tacit understanding with reality, so it will form such a thing as self-deception to resist Jin and Jin to resist Mongolia and Mongolia.

The reason for this, in fact, will be found that the mystery is very simple, it is nothing more than the spirit of the literati scholars, the gentleman's virtue of the sage book shackles their flexibility, insidious and cunning, in short, in the flexible national policy, the Wenchen will always lose their freehand and willfulness, become passive everywhere, often tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, and then watching the Jiangshan Sheji continue to decline until it perishes.

"Practice makes sense!" Lu Yanlun muttered the truth that Ye Qing blurted out, his eyes were a little bright, and he said with disbelief: "Your kid is now more and more like a minister of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and he can say such thought-provoking words casually. ”

"It's rare that Old Lu, you can praise me so much." Ye Qing smiled and said, "Then when do you plan to leave Yangzhou?" ”

In his opinion, it is enough to have Xiao Zhen in Yangzhou today, and he doesn't want to listen to Ye Qing's will and stay in Yangzhou, which is becoming more and more prosperous, so he naturally wants to leave Lin'an and go to another city that can still make him have some interest.

"It's past the first day, these days, the old man will sort out Yangzhou City again, and explain what should be explained, in short, I can't leave regrets for your kid." Lu Yanlun continued to move forward again, while telling Ye Qing about the advantages and disadvantages of the outer city of Yangzhou, and all kinds of plans that he was quite proud of.

"Have you figured out where to go? Shall I proceed to arrange for you? Taking advantage of Lu Yanlun's narration, Ye Qing followed behind Lu Yanlun and began to walk back.

"It's nothing more than Jingzhao Mansion and Jinan Mansion, it depends on what you mean, in your opinion, where is it more useful for you in the future? Or is it Kaifeng Mansion? The tone of Lu Yanlun's last sentence was a hint of tentativeness.

Even now, the imperial court has not shown interest in the Kaifeng Mansion that has been recovered, but it does not mean that Ye Qing now has the right to easily get his hands on everything in Kaifeng Mansion.

So I'd rather watch Kaifeng Mansion become a deserted city and a ruined city, but at this stage, Kaifeng Mansion is like a red line specially drawn for Ye Qing, and it can't be touched.

Looking at Ye Qing, who was frowning and thinking, Lu Yanlun seemed to be aroused by curiosity, and asked with interest: "You kid won't really be interested in Kaifeng Mansion, right?" ”

Ye Qing glanced at Lu Yanlun, who looked curious, shook his head with a smile, and then said: "I'm not interested, if it's the Central Plains, I'm more interested in Taiyuan Mansion, but unfortunately, it's still under the control of the Jin people, and I can't do anything now." ”

"Taiyuan Mansion?" Lu Yanlun once again showed a thoughtful look: "Taiyuan Mansion is no longer the Jinyang City of the past, why are you ...... You don't want to sentence Song Zili, do you? At the end, Lu Yanlun's eyes were about to fall to the ground.

Taiyuan has the reputation of the dragon city, Taizong Zhao Guangyi in the year in the Han Dynasty, Taiyuan as the capital of Liu Jiyuan, because of the hatred of the Taiyuan people's stubborn resistance, as well as the hatred of Taiyuan reputation Dragon City, so after the city was broken, he ordered a fire to burn down Jinyang City, and then again led the water of Fen and Jin into Jinyang, and finally made Jinyang a ruin.

And today's Taiyuan Mansion is just like the poem contained in Yuan Haowen's "Passing the Ancient City of Jinyang": the Fen River breaks into the Great Xia Gate, and the government moves to Tangming Village...... When did I go to Chengping, and I revisited the official family to build Jinyang.

So when Ye Qing talked about the importance he attached to Taiyuan Mansion, the first thing that Lu Yanlun thought of was naturally Zhao Guangyi, who was angry and ordered the burning of Jinyang, the ancient city of more than 1,000 years.

Ye Qing shook his head and said: "You can't see it, people are not old, and they still have this ambition, but I don't have it, if this word reaches Lin'an, it is indispensable for Yushi to impeach me." ”

"With your status today, are you still afraid that the impeachment of the imperial history will not be successful?" Lu Yanlun said with a smile.

Ye Qing values Taiyuan Mansion, naturally because of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and Yanmen Pass, but at this time, it is obviously impossible for him to tell Lu Yanlun about this matter, after all, it is not only too early to start guarding against the Tatars now, but it may also be considered nonsense in the eyes of others.

Maybe it's because she's been supervising the construction of the city wall on weekdays, so Xiao Zhen looks dirty all over her body, but Ye Qing doesn't care at all, and after thanking Xiao Zhen several times, when patting Xiao Zhen's mud-stained shoulder, Xiao Zhen's embarrassment and indifference to Ye Qing still made Lu Yanlun, who was smiling and silent next to him, feel quite relieved.

The four of them got into the carriage again, the difference was that under Ye Qing's courtesy, Xiao Zhen and Lu Yanlun were let into the carriage, after all, the Yuan Day was coming in less than a month, and the two of them should get together more.

Ye Qing and Jia She, who were sitting on the wheel, personally drove the car and began to return to the city, and Jia She, who was on the other side, began to whisper: "King Qing and Liu Dexiu happened to go to the Slanting Wind Drizzle Building when we came out, as for what they talked about, it is not clear. ”

"Where's Wen Wan?" Ye Qing was stunned.

"Because Liu Dexiu often visits the Slanting Wind and Drizzle Building on weekdays, Miss Wen didn't care at all, and she didn't know that it was King Qing who came with him." Jia Shi said.

Ye Qing sat on the wheel and frowned, thought for a while and said, "Let's start borrowing a knife." ”