When they came to a cell, the prisoner was facing the fence with his back to the fence and his knees crossed. The left and right attendants retreated knowingly.

No one could have imagined that Shangshu of the Criminal Department and this death row prisoner were close friends. When the case was exposed, Wen Xunzhi escaped from the imperial court's sea arrest, and once hid in Jin Hongfu's house for a month, learning words day and night, and defending morality. It's just that the two of them held very different ways, and later, Wen Xun flew straight to Huang Tengda, and Jin Hongfu was even more disdainful of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, and the friendship between them faded. After Jin Hongfu was imprisoned, Wen Xunzhi tried his best to save his life, but unfortunately the court law was extremely strict, with checks and balances from top to bottom, and checks and balances from left to right.

Wen Xunzhi sighed and said in a low voice, "Hongfu, Brother Jin? ”

After a while, Jin Hongfu turned around, his face was pale, his long hair was messy, his robe was full of stains, he looked at Wen Xunzhi, and said with a slight smile: "Seeing off Jin?" Wen Xunzhi's face was gloomy, and he said in a low voice: "The situation is pressing, Chen Shaoyang can't be pardoned extralegally, Brother Jin, forgive me for not being able to catch it." ”

"Ah, it's okay, it's okay." Jin Hongfu's face was as usual, as if he had expected it, and said with a smile, "All things are born with qi, and they die when they are dispersed, and they return to the way of heaven." Life is like a white horse, and Jin is just going for a moment. They said I was going to hell, and I was in this prison for many days, but I never saw half a demon come up and bite me. Seeing that Wen Xun was ashamed, he shook his head and said with a smile, "Brother Wen, I have discovered a secret of the prison of the Criminal Department, do you know?" ”

"What's the secret?"

"Salted vegetables and soybeans are eaten together, and they have a great taste of walnuts." Jin Hongfu smiled and said: "This law has been passed on to you, and I have no regrets." ”

"Do you still have the leisure to criticize the food in the prison of the Criminal Department?" Wen Xunzhi couldn't cry or laugh.

"Brother Wen, you're just too serious." Jin Hongfu closed his eyes slightly and said slowly, "I told you back then, everything has a natural principle, such as water flowing to the place, transpiring into clouds, and fire can generate heat, which can be called 'physics'. And the principle of the heart, like to be easy and disgusting, beautiful and ugly, if you encounter tyranny and abuse, you may have anger or avoidance. The normal feelings of these people can be called 'psychological'. The spirit of all things, with its true spirituality, cannot be deceived by others. The set of things that you have built up is precisely the things that deceive the true nature and bind the mind, and they are not even 'human principles', but can barely be called 'human ethics'. There are often things that are today and yesterday is not, or we know what is today and not what is tomorrow. But he still wants to call himself 'science'. Isn't it ridiculous that the evil purple snatches the Zhu? ”

"Ethics is also reason!" Wen Xunzhi blurted out, then stopped and sighed, "Wu Zilong and I also have different opinions. ”

"Fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter." Jin Hongfu said mercilessly, "Do you still have to share the Tao with Wu Zilong?" ”

"You?" Wen Xun surged upward, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice, "Brother Jin, you boast of being open and indulging in your innocence. But you know, do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If everyone does whatever they want like this, wouldn't it be a cause of chaos in the world? If we treat ethics as nothing, we are not even as barbarians. When you accept calligraphy and paintings from others, do you know that the bribe giver will ask for something? You like to sleep on the lap of the proprietress and do you know how long the liquor shop owner put up with you? If it weren't for the long-standing grudge, even if someone instigated it, how dare he sue you? If people have no ethics, they are beasts! ”

"Do whatever I want? I'm sorry, but compared to you, it's only a stunt. If you want to do whatever you want, you are only allowed to set fires to the governors, and not to light lamps for the people. The Master said, "Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you." That's right. However, you so-called Taoist gentlemen, you are doing to others what you want, and you are very wrong. When you prostitutes, you can be said to spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. ”

Jin Hongfu shook his head violently and said loudly: "It's like Wu Zilong has a madness, but he forces people in the world to take the same medicine as him, isn't this ridiculous?" His voice began to be a little hoarse, and then he began to talk about sex, and his voice echoed through the cell. The jailer cautiously avoided two more steps into the distance, standing behind the shadow in the corner.

"You say people are crazy, but I think you're crazy! What is the result if everyone indulges in recklessness? Wouldn't this person's actions cause dissatisfaction among others? Without etiquette, everyone can only fight to win, and in the end, it is not just the law of the jungle, and we are cheating. Wen Xunzhi was also angered by him, and said in a fierce voice: "The Ministry of Rites has allowed people to choose their own laws, and it is not imposed on you. Etiquette, although it restricts everyone, it also protects everyone. Especially those ordinary people who can't compete with the powerful on their own, only the etiquette, not the authenticity of your old man's sexual spirit, only the practice of etiquette can protect their dignity and interests as a good person! This last meeting ended with a quarrel as before.

"Can't a good man be evil?" Jin Hongfu simply closed his eyes and whispered, "You can't teach your son!" ”

"You!" Wen Xunzhi easily suppressed his anger, and the cell fell silent again.

The quarrel between the two people just now was heard by the prisoners in several cells in the distance, and they knew that it was a big man, and they didn't dare to speak. After a long time, Wen Xunzhi sighed, he stood up, and wanted to say "take care", but after thinking about it, what do you take care of when you are about to die? wanted Jin Hongfu to eat and drink well these days, and it was like sending people on the road, thinking about it, he was speechless, he looked at Jin Hongfu's words deeply, and turned to leave. At this time, Jin Hongfu opened his eyes.

"Brother Wen, thank you." Wen Xunzhi's body froze slightly, he didn't turn around to say goodbye, and walked out with a low step.

It was bright outside, and Wen Xunzhi's eyes couldn't help but squint. The market adjacent to the prison is particularly lively. The bustling flow of people, all kinds of sounds filled the eardrums, and the officials who escorted the prisoners and the relatives who visited the prisoners had to feast and drink nearby. Over time, it has become one of the most lively street markets in Ezhou.

The palace maid Peony stood next to a small stall, frowning and urging: "Can you hurry up, your family."

The stall owner was so busy that he was sweating profusely, and he didn't know who she was, so he looked up and smiled: "I'm fast, the fire is not fast, your family." "The decoction soup and tea of this stall are known as a must in Ezhou City. But the boss is a dead eye, and would rather be busy from morning to night than accept apprentices. When Zhao Huan heard about it, he specially asked the peony to come out and buy it. Who knew that the peony had just queued up to the boss, and the hot water for making soup and tea could not be renewed, so he could only wait. When others saw that this beautiful girl was anxious, they only looked at it with a smile.

"Hurry up, your house." Peony was so anxious that she even sweated.

For the palace maid, it is a big deal to let the eldest princess and his wife eat on time. Peony was born poor, and before entering the palace, this meal in the morning was either vegetable soup or thin vegetable porridge. She glared at the people around her fiercely, and secretly complained: "Early in the morning, don't eat at home." Could it be that all the money was picked up? ”

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"Whoosh-" The long arrow drew a perfect arc, and the "tie" sounded and pierced the target.

In the mansion of the Marquis of Wuchang, Zhao Xingde put down his bow and arrows and paced back to the side of the school.

Zhao Huan stood quietly beside him, his pretty face slightly red. Zhao Xingde got up before the time to boil his strength and practice martial arts. Zhao Huan got up early every day to watch him practice archery, and she always stood quietly next to her, as if she was very nervous, which made Zhao Xingde cry and laugh, and she couldn't really ignore her. Fortunately, archery was the last lesson of his morning practice. Once Zhao Huan came too early, and when she met Zhao Xingde after taking an ice bath, she never dared to arrive at the school so early after both of them were red-faced.

"I asked Peony to inquire on the street, and although there is a war in the north, the price of food has not risen, and it has dropped even more than before."

"Oh?" Zhao Xingde nodded and said in a low voice, "As long as the price of grain is stable, there will be no chaos." However, the strange thing is that it stands to reason that now is the time when there is a shortage of green and yellow, and as long as there is a war, the price of grain will inevitably rise. The court's Chang Ping and the Yi Cang in the countryside do not have the ability to push down the price of grain. He picked up the handkerchief and wiped his sweat, then put the handkerchief back on the bow frame. Before Zhao Huan moved into the Hou Mansion, there was no Jinpa next to the bow frame.

"I also let Peony inquire clearly," Zhao Huan's eyes flashed with a hint of pride, and said with a smile, "There are a lot of grains from the Nanhai Sea on the market, during the Jingkang period, Chen Xianggong organized immigrants to cultivate grain in the Guangzhou Bosi, there are a lot of fields there, and the climate is good all year round, and you can plant up to three ripe rice, so in the past two years, more and more rice has come from the Nanhai Sea." Originally, they only went to Guangzhou, but after the official army recovered Jiangning and Hangzhou, the grain ships could already trace the river to Ezhou. Most of the grain on the market now comes from the South China Sea. ”

"I see." Zhao Xingde nodded and smiled: "Sure enough, the reason is clear." ”

He was slightly surprised. First, I was surprised that the Song State had achieved such a quick effect in the resettlement of people in the South China Sea, which must have a lot to do with the war in the Central Plains. Second, I was surprised that Zhao Huan, a woman who grew up in the deep palace, actually had the leisure to find out the source of food on the market. Grain and other things were the easiest things for the Song settlers to produce, and there may have been some gold and iron deposits, but the land also needed to buy a large amount of cloth, iron tools, and even weapons, armor, and gunpowder from the mainland.

"yes." Zhao Huan stuck out his tongue a little mischievously, and his face was suspicious, and asked, "Yesterday I asked the imperial brother for peace, he was looking through a copy of the horse breeding book, it's strange." I used to go to my father's side, and the local recitals were against the people's horse breeding, and in the end, the imperial court's horse protection law was almost abolished, but this time, why? These state and county school politicians actually want to take the initiative to let the people raise horses? "When Cai Jing was in power, the state and county gentry rebelled against the Baoma Law and the Fangtian Uniform Tax Law, both of which were listed among the ten evil policies of the imperial court.

"Is that so?" Zhao Xingde was also very strange, lowered his head and muttered, "You talk about it carefully." ”