The Banzai Hall is more magnificent, but if you talk about the exquisite and gorgeous decoration, it is indeed the Zide Hall. However, Guo Shao didn't understand it very well, and he didn't have the time to carefully study these things...... The Imperial City of Tokyo belongs to him, but he really hasn't looked at it carefully in the past few years since he ascended the throne. It's like a person who gets rich and has a house full of expensive things, but never cares why those things are so expensive.

Guo Shao walked into the Zide Hall and felt that it looked good, so he hurried to meet Fu Jinzhan . Now there seem to be a lot of rumors in the imperial city, and Guo Shao came to say hello to Empress Duanci, which is also an attitude.

Walking into a palace, several women and attendants on the side saluted, "Meet Your Majesty." ”

Guo Shao took a look, there was Concubine Du among the people in the Jinxiang Palace, it was not surprising that Concubine Du was the sister of Du Chenggui, the commander of the inner hall, and she had already taken refuge in Jinzhan and usually walked very close. But the concubine Zhang was also present, which made Guo Shao a little surprised...... The Zhang family originally lived in Wanfu Palace, and later lived in Sanqing Palace, a court lady who had been marginalized earlier; But now her nephew is more powerful, and Cao Bin, the governor of the five armies, is the capital.

Guo Shao returned the salute to the Zhang family, because she had a relatively high status, and she greeted Fu Jinzhan again.

At this moment, Concubine Du whispered knowingly: "The concubine has been bothering Empress Duanci for a long time, and I ask for my leave." ”

Unexpectedly, on the beautiful face of Marigold, the eyes were crooked with a smile, "Your Majesty has just arrived, you can stay and talk." ”

Concubine Du and the others were suddenly a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "Yes." ”

Guo Shao didn't know why, so he sat down on a soft couch, and there was a coffee table next to him and a marigold.

A young woman wearing a purple round neck and a hat walked over and curtsied, and said, "Your Majesty, there is charcoal burning in the house, and the slave maid will serve you to take off your coat first, and it will be hot for a while." ”

"Okay." Guo Shao let her take off the sweater and coat he brought back from the Hebei front.

Zhang said in a low voice: "Your Majesty is diligent and loves the people, but he is very thrifty, which is really a blessing for the people." ”

"Huh!" Guo Shao didn't know what to say to the Zhang family in front of Marigold. However, none of the women present were simple, listening to Zhang's words, they could see at a glance that the fur coat Guo Shao was wearing was a bargain!

However, he has no interest in expensive clothes at all, and now Guo Shao still needs anything outside his body to highlight his value?

It's really strange, Guo Shao thinks that he is a son of heaven, and now he has great power, but he actually feels a little restrained in front of these women. He deliberately avoided the full and round upper body and wonderful body lines of the marigold, for fear of being seen by these women.

At this time, Marigold said in a rhythmic and soothing voice: "And Your Majesty is kind." Fu Zhaoxu wrote to the palace in Xiongzhou that the Liao people burned, killed and plundered the people of Hebei, and now His Majesty captured the Liao people in Youzhou, and thought that they would be slaughtered and retaliated, but His Majesty did not kill them. ”

Guo Shao said: "Benevolence refers to the country, and not massacring foreign civilians has nothing to do with benevolence. ”

"Oh?" Fu Jinzhan looked at him with interest.

Guo Shao pondered for a moment and said, "I am an enemy of the Liao State, so I am not afraid of a blood feud with the Liao people. But my dynasty and the later generations of the Han family, not only with the Khitans.

It is understandable that our country's attack will inevitably kill, and it is intended to benefit its own people; However, preaching the slaughter and extermination of the clan will not only be feared by all the surrounding ethnic groups, but the Han family will be demonized and difficult to cleanse; And with a benevolent attitude, it is easier to be friendly with other countries and be worshiped by people (cultural invasion). Strength is not about shouting, it is about strength. ”

Marigold's eyes were bright, she nodded thoughtfully, and asked, "What is Your Majesty busy with recently?" ”

The words made the women around them also pay a little more attention and listen attentively.

Of course, Guo Shao will not say: I am busy changing the dynasty. He pondered for a moment and said, "Empress Duanci came to power a few months ago and sent someone to get a ship from the Great Cannibal. I was trying to devise a strategy to trade with the cannibals and prohibit them from leaving the port to come into contact with the government and the people.

This time, not only did I get shipbuilding and nautical charts, but also a book by Aristotle, which was very interesting...... This person is a Greek from a thousand years ago, and it is said that Greece is far west of the Great Food Country and is the birthplace of civilization in the Far West. ”

Marigold said: "It turns out that there is a country in the distance. He wrote a book thousands of years ago, isn't he a sage like Confucius and Mencius? ”

Guo Shao said: "For Westerners, they can indeed be called sages and saints. I will find someone to translate it, and I will take a look at it first, and it is forbidden to copy and print by hand for the time being, and it cannot be published, and it must be revised before printing. ”

Marigold couldn't help but laugh and said, "Isn't it that Your Majesty has also become a great Confucian, and thinks that there is something wrong with the books of the sages?" ”

Guo Shao shook his head and said: "How can things in the world be distinguished by right and wrong in black and white? If this is written on the spontaneous thoughts of the Han family, no matter whether it is right or wrong, there is no need to control it too much, I can't burn books and pit Confucianism, and I can't do such things.

But it is a completely different foreign product, and if you don't take precautions, it may cause confusion in the beliefs of the scholars in the long run, and in the end they don't know what to believe, and it is difficult for people not to believe in anything. ”

Guo Shao fully believes in the understanding ability of the world, and can write things such as the Book of Changes that even he can't quite understand, and he can't underestimate the ability of the wise men of the ancients.

Marigold was curious: "How powerful is a book?" If it's translated, let me see it too. ”

Guo Shao said in a deep voice: "Yes, it is indeed not simple. Because I have written too many things about the origin (philosophy) of things, and I have developed a perfect set of understandings of my own. As far as I can see, his remarks are contrary to the understanding of the Han sages.

If it's crazy nonsense, it can't convince people anyway, but this kind of sage's words are set into a system, and there will always be people who want to believe it. If it becomes chaos and there is no perfect theoretical system to replace it, how can the country be governed?

When we don't understand foreign things, we must be vigilant. Therefore, it is for this reason that I strictly forbid the cannibals to leave the harbor. In terms of the original idea, the big cannibal is not the same as the Han family. If we don't understand, how do we know if it will bring serious consequences? ”

When Guo Shao said these words, the women around him couldn't understand them at all, although what he said was official, they could only listen in awe.

The women in this world, I'm afraid that only Marigold can still understand what Guo Shao is saying.

Although Guo Shao ascended the throne as emperor, he found that governing the country was not an easy task...... Perhaps the average emperor just needs to follow the traditional experience. But his independent thinking method is very complex, and even ancient philosophy has to find a way to understand it. At the very least, you must know what the various doctrines say, otherwise I am afraid that you can only be fooled by the scholars, and the emperor himself does not understand anyway.