Chapter 8 Floating Clouds Hang Empty Name

"There are no rules, you can't make a circle, since my science club takes Kuangfu as its own responsibility, how can we let go of the loose atmosphere. Joining and leaving the company, what a big deal, and it's not a teahouse, how can you come and leave when you say it? ”

In the process of discussing the constitution of the Science Society, Zhang Bing was quite dissatisfied with Deng Su's so-called "friends of the same path and freedom to come and go" of Deng Su, who was in charge of the "Yue Li Zhai", but Deng Su said: "The society is just a place to learn the science and scriptures, and it is not an official office, how can it restrict the direction of the same way?" The rule that it is not allowed to quit the company at will is too arbitrary. Zi said, gentlemen are not the same, according to Brother Zhang's view, people with different opinions can't ask for it, which is against the way of the master. ”

Zhang Bingdao: "If you only learn the scriptures, it is indeed as Brother Deng said. However, if someone in the future will be in a high position with the strength of our society, but he will betray the purpose of the society, withdraw from the society to seek glory, and take refuge in the power traitor, how to deal with it? He looked at Deng Su with burning eyes, as if he was the one who was going to do such a thing.

Deng Su was a little embarrassed by him, and replied loudly: "Naturally, it is to attack it with the strength of the gentlemen of the world." But what does this have to do with ordinary scholars quitting the company? Everyone has their own ambitions, why should Brother Zhang be strong. Moreover, if this rule is made that no one can withdraw from the society at will, will it not make the scholars who have a heart for the Tao fear and stay away. ”

Zhang Bing replied coldly: "The heart of the Tao is not strong, and the disciples at both ends of the first rat don't want it." Originally, there are so few gentlemen in the world and so many villains. ”

Seeing that the two of them were fighting with red faces, Chen Dong, He Fang and others, who were watching the battle, were busy playing a round. Zhao Xingde muttered: "What the two brothers said is reasonable, in my opinion, the so-called gentleman is polite, and the villain is afraid of punishment." If there is a scholar who has committed a crime or violated the saints, the society will report his bad deeds to Shilin and expel him. If a person asks to leave the company because of a difference in his or her heart to the Tao, he or she will be removed from the company and notified to the members of the company to avoid misunderstanding. If you betray the company and take refuge in traitors and mislead the country and the people, then the company should gather the power of the world's gentlemen to attack it. What do you think of this? ”

When Deng Su and Zhang Bing heard him put forward an operational plan, they both pondered the pros and cons of it, and there was no quarrel for a while. After thinking for a while, Chen Dong agreed: "Yuan Zhi is discussing great goodness," he paused, and said: "It's just that it seems inappropriate to assess the character of the covenant Zhai alone, I propose that the two classmates of each Zhai jointly recommend two people, and these twenty-four people will evaluate each person's moral exercise every year, which is divided into upper, upper, middle, lower, middle, lower, lower, a total of nine grades. Among them, the lower three grades are announced to Shilin, exposing their bad deeds, that is, the removal of the company, regardless of the middle three grades, and the upper three grades are praised by the monarchs of our society. ”

As soon as Chen Dong came up with this discussion, Zhang Bing immediately said: "Good! In this way, we will not be a place to hide filth and dirt. Zhao Xingde also nodded yes, he asked himself that there were not too many bad deeds to be exposed. And the other scholars at this moment, but it is not good to be weak enough to object. Several people who are usually a little inappropriate can't help but secretly complain, knowing that the science club still has this rule, so they don't come to participate, thinking in their hearts that after the limelight gradually calms down, they will ask to quit the club because of their different opinions. At this time, the prestige of the literati has a great relationship with their careers, and if they take the name of the Science Society as their own reputation, the effect must be excellent.

Not surprisingly, all the scholars unanimously agreed to the method of evaluating the nine products, and Zhao Xingde because he belonged to one of the proposers, and after being loyal and good, he naturally became an evaluator, although there were only two people in the "governing soldiers" Zhai, but Meng Yuan felt that his father had a very bad reputation among the scholars, so he took the initiative not to be the evaluator, plus the rest of the Zhai also had a stalemate, and finally determined seventeen evaluators, and the conduct of these evaluators was evaluated by other evaluators, and then recognized by the scholars of Benzhai, and supervised by all the scholars of the Society.

Meng Yuan immediately patted Zhao Xingde on the shoulder and said, "As far as I can see, Brother Zhao deserves to be of the highest quality." Although he likes to be lively and social, he has little interest in the politics of the DPRK, and at this moment he secretly regrets joining the Science Society, and only hopes that Zhao Xingde can withdraw with dignity under the care of Zhao Xingde.

After the constitution of the Science Society was discussed, the scholars invited them to go to Jinmingchi outside the West Water Gate to watch the dragon boat race of the forbidden army in Beijing. Chen Dong and others had already sent servants and hired idlers to the Jinming Pond to occupy a place where the willows were still in the view, the brocade mattress was paved, and all kinds of plum red boxes were filled with sweets such as sugar yuanzi, crystal horns, lychee paste, plum ginger, and apricot slices, and Pan Lou also prepared wild duck meat, dripping crystal tus, winter moon pan rabbit spinning, fried slots, brain meat and other miscellaneous chewing food, together with the newly brewed plum wine and apricot wine, all of which were packed with high-quality silverware.

The place where the students occupy this viewing place is a hill next to the Jinming Pond, and when you look out condescendingly, you can see that the Jinming Pond is full of brocade tents and feasts of officials, businessmen and gentry, and there are children and servants and maids everywhere. The bustling people of Bianjing form a lively circle around the tricks, watching the iron sword, playing puppets, spitting five-colored water, spinning mud balls, miscellaneous plays, scripts, pianos, flutes, drums and flutes, going to the knife mountain, playing monkey plays and other tricks, in addition to the fortune telling, charades, and medicine sellers, making the Jinming Pond seem very lively. More ordinary people, three or five people found a big tree, facing the water of Jinming Pond and sat on the ground at will, with a bamboo blue snack in the middle, and some stood on tiptoe by the Jinming Pond and looked at the waterfront hall on the opposite bank.

In the past, the empty waterfront hall is even more grand at this moment, countless flags cover the sky and the sun, the soldiers of the forbidden army in front of the hall are dressed in red brocade robes, hats and hairpins are blooming flowers, swords and guns are sheathed and shining, and they are reflected in the sun. The cavalry garrisoned the horses, and the infantry troops lined up neatly beside the temple. In the Linshui Palace, the Huangluo umbrella cover, the golden chair and other royal utensils are impressively visible, which shows that His Majesty Zhao You is coming here to participate in the Dragon Boat Festival celebration today, the palace is full of royal relatives, and there are countless eunuchs and palace maids, holding gold and silver spittoons, white jade fruit plates, peacock tail feather fans, jade handle dust and other royal things, although it is broad daylight, there are two hundred palace people carrying red gauze lanterns and glazed palace lamps in the periphery of a circle.

There is a large open space next to the Linshui Palace, before the soldiers of the forbidden army officially start the dragon boat race, the army discharged all kinds of tricks and juggling into the house of the officials, some are singing, some are lion and leopard dances, some are dancing waist drums, some are climbing bamboo poles, some are doing somersaults, some are naked sumo wrestling, some are fighting with rattan waist knives, some are spitting fireworks, because it is deliberately prepared, it is a hundred times more wonderful than the juggling watched by the people opposite Jinming Pond, and there are hundreds of musicians in the palace music club next to it to harmonize with orchestral silk and bamboo, it is really a carnival.

Emperor Zhao You of the Song Dynasty is the minister in his left hand, the prince's family in his right hand, and the beauties and princesses of the harem behind him. Zhao You looked out, only to see that the hundred officials outside the Linshui Hall were crowned with court clothes, outside the ranks of the hundred officials, the front division of the palace specially selected the tall Zhendian warriors to be powerful and extraordinary, and set off the envoys of the Liao, Xia, Dali, Zhenla, Sanfuqi, Goryeo, and Dongying countries next to them were very respectful.

"I don't know how many of the 800,000 forbidden troops of the Great Song Dynasty are juggling?" Yelu Dashi said softly, and his voice could only be heard by himself and Li Ruobing, the supervisor of the Xiyi Station of the Imperial Palace, who had just been transferred back to Beijing.

"How many of the so-called elite soldiers in your country have been given to the monks of Buddhist temples?" Li Ruobing replied-for-tat, the nobles of the Liao Kingdom worshiped Buddha and became obsessed, and many princes and nobles actually gave to the Buddhist temple the people of the leather room who had followed them for generations, which was also a joke in the Song Kingdom.

Zhao You's eyesight is very good, and when he saw that Yelu Dashi, the envoy of Liao, dared to look up, he couldn't help but snort softly at the end of his nose, remembering what Deputy Prime Minister Zhao Zhifu had mentioned, instigating and supporting the Jurchen vassal in the northern part of Liaoguo to harass Liaoyang, but it was worth a try.

The guards and the pro-army infantry military secretary Du Yu Hou Tong Guan came to report that all the troops were ready to stop, Zhao You signaled that the dragon boat race could start, after the three horns sounded, in the deafening cheers of hundreds of thousands of Bianjing residents, nine dragon boats slid off the starting line, each dragon boat had twenty-four big men, naked and naked, under the hard rowing, the dragon boat seemed to be speeding on the water.

"Keep it up! Fast! Fast! Fast! Han Shizhong, the captain of the Iron Cavalry Academy, was shirtless, revealing a tattoo of a white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes, and struggled to beat the drum, but his own voice was more than the drum, and there were short and thick green tendons on his neck, and the elite soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Army selected by his subordinates did not dare to slack off, and after a while, they were sweating profusely, but their arms did not dare to relax at all, with Han Shizhong's drumbeat, the frequency of paddling became faster and faster, the splash brought up was getting bigger and bigger, and the cheers of the crowd watching the battle on both sides of the strait were getting stronger and stronger.

"Buy and leave, buy and leave! Now it's fifty dollars a piece, fifty dollars a piece! "Zhao Bo, the ruffian of Kaifeng Mansion, shouted loudly to sell the gambling tickets in his hand, before the start of the game, the strength of the armies was not shown, so a gambling ticket according to the victory of previous years ranged from ten to thirty yuan, if he won he lost one hundred yuan, at this time the armies have been divided into order, belonging to the guard pro-army infantry division of the Tiger Wing Navy led half the hull, naturally there are many people who buy the Tiger Wing Navy, and the price has risen to fifty dollars accordingly, to Zhao Bo also estimated that the Tiger Wing Navy won, he will no longer sell gambling tickets.

However, the final result was very satisfactory to Zhao Bo, and a dragon boat of the Iron Cavalry Army, under the leadership of Captain Han Shizhong, came from behind, and actually surpassed the Tiger Wing Naval Army, and took the lead in breaking the silk ribbon that fell across the water, and a boat swung in a circle in the center of Jinming Pond.

Han Shizhong proudly ripped off the red scarf around his neck, and commanded all the soldiers to shout: "Long live, long live, long live my emperor!" The dragon boats of the various armies who have arrived at the front of the Linshui Hall shouted together, and the guards of the royal front class next to them echoed in unison, the sound shook the heavens and the earth, and Zhao Youlong's face was happy, and with the dragon boat race, the guards and pro-army Du Yu Hou Tong shouted: "Look at the reward!" ”

Hundreds of palace people will tie the red silk flowers when the heavy ten copper coins fell into the water of Jinming Pond, causing all the soldiers to jump off the dragon boat to salvage the reward, after the success of the string of copper coins hung on the neck, some back to the dragon boat to rest, some of the neck hung several strings of money still in the water to keep salvage, and even some soldiers fought with each other underwater, causing the concubines and princesses on the water hall to laugh coquettishly, these deep palace women rarely see such a strong man, at this moment to take advantage of the opportunity to reward, While throwing all kinds of silver coins into the water, he blushed and watched the sturdy men wearing only a pair of calf pants burrow into the water.

On the other side of Jinmingchi, there are a bunch of women who are looking intently at the soldiers of the dragon boat race, they are greased and powdered, their demeanor is enchanting, looking from afar, like fairy sisters, but there are many evil Bianjing scoundrels around them staring at those ordinary people who are intent on approaching, these women are famous prostitutes and singers in Bianjing.

"Hongyu, the strong officer who succeeded, isn't it your good look?" One of the women in the make-up joked about the other. The girl called Hongyu bit her lower lip with her teeth, looking at the Jingchi officer who was swimming like a dragon and a tiger in the water of Jinming Pond, a blush appeared on her face, "I didn't expect him to be so strong." She said in her heart, looking at the rogue boys around her, and a trace of sadness floated between her eyebrows.

Han Shizhong seemed to be a dead man who wanted money, and he kept making money in one breath, and hung more than a dozen strings of copper coins and small gold and silver ingots around his neck, almost weighing dozens of catties, until there was nothing to fish, he returned to the dragon boat, and raised his arms with a smile on his face and shouted: "Long live, long live, long live!" ”

Seeing that there were such brave people in the Song army, even Yelu Dashi, the envoy of the Liao State who had always had a disdainful look on his face, praised: "I have watched all the heroes of the north and south, this is a real hero!" The face of Guo Baoyi, the Han general behind him, moved, and he was a little unconvinced. Yelu Dashi noticed the expression of this subordinate, but he only smiled slightly, and did not say anything.

Emperor Zhao You likes such a straightforward military general the most, and likes his bravery, and he will reward him with two hundred silk silks, and then turned back to Tong Guan, who is in charge of dragon boat racing, and instructed, such a brave general, must be treated well, Tong Guan Weiwei nodded yes.

"Your Majesty, since the sailors are available, please build a big ship to go to sea, visit overseas countries, and bring envoys from all countries to the court." Prime Minister Cai Jing took the opportunity to push the boat down the river, and the Liao State and the Xia State almost tacitly mastered the land passage for the Western countries to come to pay tribute, and the Tubo, Khotan, Shule, Gaochang, and Black-clothed Dashi countries that had come to the court in the early years of the Dynasty had even been destroyed by the Xia State. Now the vassals who come to Bianjing to pay tribute are much inferior to those of the previous dynasty, and most of them come from the sea.

The guards and the pro-army infantry secretary Du Yu Hou Tongguan and Cai Jing had a tacit understanding, and when they heard the words, they also knelt down and said: "What Cai Xiang said is very true, Weichen is willing to lead the boat to the sea, and the country is powerful in all directions!" ”

Tong Guan is proud of the great merit of the current emperor, serving as an important position such as the Marquis of Yu, the guard and the pro-army infantry army, but he is always despised by the people in the Qingliu, Shao Wu even directly accuses the eunuch of leading the army, which will inevitably lead to the disaster of the eunuchs of the former Dynasty Shence Army, and even many people call Tong Guan "eunuch" behind his back, because of this, Tong Guan's expectations for making immortal miracles are particularly urgent. Leading a sea ship to bring envoys from distant countries to the DPRK is precisely such a major event, and there is no room for opposition from others. Listening to those envoys who took the sea route, there are still countless countries overseas, greedy for the prosperity of China, as long as a little understanding of the reason, the temptation to profit, can reproduce the prosperous scene of the tributes of the envoys of the fanbang.