Needless to say, the city of Tokyo is lively, with brilliant lights, crowds of people, and laughter everywhere.

Yuan Xi's Fan Tower, but it is not so lively, tonight is the Yuan Xi Poetry Club, it is the scene of literati.

The grandest poetry meeting of the year belongs to Yuan Xi, the main poetry meeting place is Fan Lou, the poetry meeting of Yuan Xi is stronger than the Mid-Autumn Festival, the entertainment atmosphere is stronger, and naturally the commercial atmosphere is stronger.

In the palace of Runan County, there is no poetry meeting tonight. But most of the people in the palace of Runan County just went out in the evening, visiting the lights and enjoying the scenery, once a year.

Street jugglers, lanterns and snacks, storytellers and singers, and lantern riddle stalls will probably make a lot of money.

It is not appropriate for the whole city to celebrate tonight, or even the whole country, or even the whole country, because even the Liao Kingdom will celebrate this festival.

Today's Khitan Liao State is no longer the original, the degree of sinicization has long been extremely high, and even the emperor of Liao has personally said a sentence: My cultural relics are not different from China.

The Khitan nobles also began to familiarize themselves with the sages, and they also began to speak Chinese and celebrate Han festivals.

Since the alliance of Tanyuan, the history of the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty, a hundred years without a war, when Renzong ascended the throne, the two countries are even better, just ascended the throne for only two years of Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji, but also frequently sent envoys to ask for the portrait of Renzong Zhao Zhen. Hongji was the Han name of the Liao Emperor at this time, and his Khitan name was Chara. This Taoist emperor can even write poems with Chinese characters.

At this time, the Liao State did not want to start a war with the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty at this time did not want to start a war with the Liao State. Everything in the Liao Kingdom began to learn the Great Song Dynasty, and even the names of the official positions of the imperial court began to learn the Great Song Dynasty. There is another point that the Liao State has also learned, that is, drunkenness and slow decay.

The warlike Khitans came down from the mountains and forests of the Great Khing'an Mountains, occupied the entire grassland, and even expanded their influence all the way to West Asia. The influence of the Khitans is so great that even after thousands of years, the Russians still call the Chinese "Khitan", and the Chinese pronunciation of Russian is "Khitan".

It's just that today's Khitan Liao State has also begun to go downhill, and the bloodline of brave and good fighting is getting less and less, and in a few decades, a small tribe of thousands of people will come out of the Great Xing'an Mountains, and it is these thousands of Jurchens who will easily destroy the Khitan Daliao with millions of soldiers.

The mountain range of the Great Khing'an Mountains is truly a miracle. The people here have been recorded in the Shang Dynasty, called Donghu, the Han people beat away the Xiongnu, the Tang Dynasty beat away the Turks, and since then, the grassland is the stage of the Great Xing'an Mountains.

Xianbei walked down from the Great Xing'an Mountains, Rouran walked down from the Great Xing'an Mountains, Khitan walked down from the Great Xing'an Mountains, and then the Jurchens walked down from the Great Xing'an Mountains, and then there was the Mengwu Murwei, and the Mengwu Murwei was the Erjin Temujin, the Mongolian golden family, the Mongolian word is the Mengwu, and it also came down from the Great Xing'an Mountains, and finally there was a Manchurian who also started from the Great Xing'an Mountains.

Located in the northeast of China, this is not a very large mountain range, and for some reason there are so many people who can fight well, maybe it is the monster house of East Asia, and the monsters run out again and again.

Since the Turks, the steppe people are nothing anymore, and there are never many people who come out of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and often even the army of 10,000 people is not enough, but they can ravage the steppe again and again, and also lead the steppe people to rise again and again.

Later generations say that the eternal enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty is the grassland, but this is not true. The enemy in the first half of the Central Plains Dynasty was the grassland, and the enemy in the second half was the Great Khing'an Mountains.

The drunken gold fans in Tokyo, Gan Qi sees it in his eyes, how many crises are hidden under the elegance of the Great Song Dynasty? In the era of masters, how much sorrow is hidden that cannot be looked back?

But just a few decades later, maybe at that time, Gan Qi, who has white hair and a rickety body, can still see the scene of the horse stepping on the Bianliang.

Gan Qi sat in the crowd of people talking and laughing, but he was not sad, but he remembered a lot from this festival carnival that was celebrated all over the world.

Gan Qi had never thought about the purpose of his life before, and during this time, whether it was revenge, making money, or selling fame, it was just to make his life better and more comfortable.

Now, the money has been earned, the fame has been sold, and there is no revenge to be avenged.

It is only at this time that Gan Qi is allowed to think about what he should do in his life.

This is also the reason why Gan Qi is not even interested in pretending to be a word filler today.

Su Shi drank a few glasses of old wine, and his words were full of words, which attracted bursts of applause and more wine glasses.

Some people even looked at the sword Su Shi was carrying at his waist and boasted: "Su Zizhan, a swordsman in the literary world!" ”

Su Shi, whose face was full of wine red, looked down at the sword on his waist, and said with a smile: "This name is good, I, Su Shi, am the swordsman in this literary world, as well as Ziyou, and Dao Jian, we are the three musketeers in the literary world." ”

Gan Qi smiled and looked at Su Shi, who was already swaying from side to side, and replied: "Zizhan, I should be the swordsman of the court." ”

Gan Qi said that he figured out what he should do, not to say anything to save the country, but he wanted this country, this nation, still like the Han and Tang Dynasties, is a sharp sword, and can still stab wolves and kill tigers.

In fact, Gan Qi has been doing this subconsciously, but this moment is completely transparent.

Su Shi, who was full of alcohol, just nodded again and again: "Okay, what Zizhan said is very good, you and I will be the swordsman of the court." ”

Perhaps this statement also completely changed Su Shi's life.

Su Shi's generation, born in a wealthy family, became famous at a young age, and became famous all over the world at the age of 20. The second half of his life was very ill-fated and depressed.

Su Shi is heroic, open-minded, straightforward, and even more complacent and self-righteous than proud. The reason why the young Su Shi has these personalities is precisely because the first half of his life was too smooth and there was no bit of ups and downs.

Such a Su Shi, in Gan Qi's view, is not impossible. But Su Shi still lacks one thing, and that is sharpness. There is no problem in being prouder than anyone else, but it is also necessary to have edges and corners that are sharper than anyone else in order to make Su Shi truly stand out. Because of this great Song Dynasty, it can accommodate the sharpness of the people. Sharp as a bag, it's not impossible.

Coincidentally, in addition to those personalities, Su Shi also has a kind of literati sentimentality and indecision. Both proud and soft, that's what the tragedy is. On the contrary, it was Su Zhe, without the pride and self-righteousness of Su Shi, who stayed up for years, step by step, and walked into the center of power, and briefly worshipped the phase.

As a courtier in the Great Song Dynasty, he was either soft to the point of being cunning and cunning, or he was so sharp that he was indomitable. In this Great Song Dynasty, only these two kinds of people can stand out and become officials in the Great Song Dynasty, there is no such thing as being rigid and easy to break. Su Shi can't learn to be cunning, so he can only show his edge and point at the emperor's nose and scold.

Gan Qi stood up suddenly, poured a glass of wine, got up and drank with Su Shi, and said, "Zizhan, remember your words today, and be the swordsman of the court." ”

Gan Qi finished saying this, but he thought about himself again, and thought about which path he should be?

Is it a cunning man? Or is it sharp?

Is there a road that is both cunning and sharp?