When Li Rui brought Zhao Xingde's letter to the Baoyi Marquis Mansion in Luoyang, it was a few days after the South China Sea sailors had set anchor and set sail.

Li Ruoxue took the letter bag from Li Rui's hand, but felt that her hand sank, she tried her best to keep her face 'color' unchanged, hurriedly thanked Li Rui, and then stood on tiptoe and walked into the study quickly, and opened the letter bag with a trembling hand, only to see a russet 'color' stone lying in the package, and the white 'colored' paper card was written in block letters "Iron stone, produced in Changhua County, Lingnan". In addition to this there is an epistle.

"Lang's heart is like iron stone?" Li Ruoxue frowned secretly, "Or is the rock not transferred?" ”

She picked up the iron stone and gently stroked the lines on it. A long time ago, when Zhao Xingde went on an expedition to Lumei, he would search for rare local things everywhere, and sent back to Dunhuang with the letter. These days, Zhao Xingde's letters were sent to Luoyang one by one, Li Ruoxue was still angry with him, although he was suspenseful because of the battle of Guangzhou, he still ignored it, until after the war in Guangzhou, the South China Sea fleet was about to sail away, and the mail on the route was very inconvenient, so she sent a letter to Zhao Xingde in the midst of the contradiction, with no words on the white paper, only wrapped in a strand of green silk cut out. "Is it a love entanglement? Or is it a one-size-fits-all? "It made Zhao Xingde feel a little worried. Therefore, this time he also attached a piece of iron and stone at hand to the letter in return, and the specific words were clearly written in the letter. However, Li Ruoxue did not open the letter, and had to guess what he meant.

Li Ruoxue was looking down and thinking about it, and the maid 'girl' passed the Luoyang regiment to make Mrs. pass the house, and Mrs. Chen entered the study with her hind feet.

When Zhang Caiwei saw the unpacked post bag on the table, she asked with a smile: "Is it from Guangzhou again?" ”

"Hmm." Li Ruoxue nodded, wrapped the iron stone and the letter with her bare hands, and put them aside.

"Presumably General Zhao regrets it now, right? Alas, if you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place. Zhang Caiwei took Li Ruoxue's hand and said softly and comfortingly, "There is no overnight feud between husband and wife, when this expedition to the west is over, General Zhao will come to bear the guilt, and then you will send him down, don't drag it out, lest both of you regret it in the future." Li Ruoxue looked at Zhang Caiwei with some surprise, Zhang Caiwei's expression darkened slightly, and she said in a low voice, "Li Sihai and Lin Jingwan have been awkward for so many years, and I have seen that both of them are sad. It is rare for Li Sihai to write a letter asking Lin Jingwan to leave for Kangguo. Here let Chen Zhong send people to protect all the way, and over there let Chen Kang take care of Jingwan. In the past, I didn't know that Li Sihai was so concerned about his wife, and the awkwardness of the past was just a fight for leisure. ”

She shook her head, as if with some emotion. Li Sihai will become the new "king of kings", as long as this matter is publicized, I don't know how many guns and arrows will rush at him. He didn't worry that Lin Jingwan would stay in Luoyang alone, so he asked Chen Chong first, and then asked Chen Kang to take care of his family. At this time, Lin Jingwan also let go of her reserve, and did not bet with Li Sihai about this, but prepared to pack up and leave. And the Xia court was also happy to see it. Lin Jingwan is the 'daughter' of Southwest Yi, and she is also an out-and-out Xia country, the more precious Li Sihai is, and even the more she will pass on the status of the king of kings to Lin Jingwan's heirs in the future, the more the alliance between Bai Yiguo and Xia will be consolidated. Regardless of whether it is public or private, Chen Zhong will agree to Li Sihai's request. However, Zhang Caiwei came here for another purpose.

"My hand-copied "Moral Arguments"?" Li Ruoxue looked at her in surprise, "How does my sister know ......?"

"Is there really one?" Zhang Caiwei held Li Ruoxue's hand, sympathetic and loving, "Good sister, I'm sorry." This manuscript was borrowed for Jingwan, and I don't want her to go to Da Shi, and after a few years, she will become the same as those 'women' who eat Da Shi. She is the queen of kings, and the ordinary version is not solemn, and it is convenient for her to carry the transcript you have recorded with your own hands. ”

"Would Jingwan be interested in the Moral Debate?" Li Ruoxue said suspiciously.

The book "Moral Debate" is Zhao Xingde's restatement of the Zhou people's way of "matching heaven with virtue", and the debate between "heavenly way" and "human morality" is "the way of heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for ruin", what Zhou people said is to match heaven with virtue, and virtue is the ethics, program, and system of people. The Tao is the sky, the virtue is the earth, the Tao is dry, and the virtue is Kun. The avenue has the same life as heaven and earth, and human virtue can be replaced with dynasties, and there is even a saying that the five virtues are always the same. The way of heaven is as great as it is simple, like water flowing underneath, fire generates heat, food can relieve hunger, clothing can relieve cold, and it cannot be changed by human beings. And human morality can change from time to time, one generation, the Central Plains and the four Yi, may be different. If people in the world only know human virtue but do not know the way of heaven, and think that human virtue is as immutable as the way of heaven for a long time, there is a risk of reversing the 'yin' and yang, which is the foolishness of seeking a sword for the sake of carving a boat. These scriptures and theories, even Li Ruoxue is not too interested. It was only because it was written by Zhao Xingde that he copied a copy and kept it at home.

Zhang Caiwei sighed: "Even if she is not interested now, when she arrives at the big food, she will be interested." ”

"There are ready-made manuscripts, but they are not booklets." Li Ruoxue took out a stack of writing paper from the bookshelf, Zhang Caiwei took it and took a look, only to see that the font was graceful and delicate, all of which were Mrs. Wei's hairpins 'flower' Xiaokai, and couldn't help laughing: "It's enough to have such words." She hugged the manuscript in front of her 'chest' and said solemnly, "Originally, a gentleman does not win people's love, but Jingwan is thousands of miles away, and it is not worth when we can meet." The gift we gave her, this copy of "Moral Defense", plus a copy of Mr. Xie Su's "Doctrine of Destiny" is the best. ”

"Mr. Xie Su's "Mandate of Heaven"?" Li Ruoxue became more and more suspicious.

Mr. Xie Su Han Chang is a native of Xia Guohe, and he and Mr. Lu Er of Guanzhong are known as the two masters of the East and the West. In the Xia Kingdom, the farther west he went, the more prestige Han Chang became. And in Kanto, his reputation was much lower than in Kansai. "The Theory of the Mandate of Heaven" is only occasionally quoted when the old party attacked Wang Anshi's words that "the Mandate of Heaven is not enough to fear". Except for people like Zhao Xingde and Li Ruoxue who have read articles a lot, the people of Kanto almost don't know the name of Xie Su, but Mr. Su Da in Shu is known as a 'woman' in Kanto. Li Ruoxue has also had contact with Lin Jingwan, and feels that she is simple-minded, loves singing and dancing, and has probably never heard of scriptures such as "The Theory of Destiny" and "Moral Debate".

"My sister was born in the Kanto region, and the Confucian 'gate' of the Song Kingdom was far more powerful than that of the Tang Dynasty," Zhang Caiwei explained, "I have always taken it for granted that 'Zi Bu Silent Strange Power' and 'God' chaos, so I don't know much about Mr. Xie Su and the Mandate of Heaven, and it is understandable." However, for the people in the river, if Mr. Xie Su had not explained the mandate of heaven, the people would have been "disturbed" by the dispute between the major sects and sects, and the river would not be stable. When I was born, this "Mandate of Heaven" had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the people in the river were all regarded as the right path. But I heard my father say that a few decades ago, the hearts of the people in the river were in turmoil, and even the scholarly 'door' had many devout believers in gods and Buddhas. The magistrates and sergeants can kill the 'rebellion', but they cannot control the hearts of the people. It wasn't until Mr. Xie Su restated the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven that the Confucian 'gate' re-corrected the hearts of the people in the river, and today it can fight against the major sects of the Inquisition with one enemy and many enemies. ”

"I see." Li Ruoxue looked at Zhang Caiwei's palpitating look, and she understood a little in her heart.

The court and the sergeants can control people, but they can't control people's hearts. Zi Bu said that the strange power was 'chaotic' to the gods, however, this era is an era of ghosts and gods. Especially in the sparsely populated western Xinjiang of the Xia Kingdom, people work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and in the dark night, there are all kinds of ghost and god legends in almost every place, and children are raised in all kinds of ghost and god stories. There are ghosts and gods in people's hearts, awe, envy, and 'superstition', which undoubtedly cultivates 'fertile' soil for Zoroastrianism, Taoism, Great Food Sect, Lumei Sect, Buddhism 'Gate' and many other sects in the western border of the Xia Kingdom. The Inquisition occasionally forbade some evil cults, which in itself could not only restrain the spread of the major sects, but would even add fuel to the fire. The people's hearts are converted to the major sects, and the increase in the influence of each sect is equivalent to the decline of the influence of the imperial court, but the Xia court never wants to see such a trend evolve. Because of this, the Xia State as a soldier as the country, in the support of the Confucian 'door' Taoist system is sparing no effort, when Mr. Xie Su Liu Chang's restatement of the Mandate of Heaven came out, the imperial court immediately funded a large number of printing, and even in front of Mr. Xie Su, the Bachelor's Mansion compiled the Mandate of Heaven into the scriptures of the official school.

At that time, all the major religious 'sects' said that the Chinese people had no faith, and the people's hearts were a blank sheet of paper, which could be easily proselytized. Mr. Xie Su's "Theory of the Mandate of Heaven" is a-for-tat confrontation with it, bluntly saying that the people of China not only have a belief in the Mandate of Heaven for a long time, but have never broken it off since ancient times. The Mandate of Heaven in the Analects of "A Gentleman Has Three Fears, Fear of the Mandate of Heaven, Fear of the Great, and Fear of the Words of the Sage" is to confirm the existence of the belief in the Mandate of Heaven, "worship ghosts and gods and stay away", and "the son does not say anything about the strange power of 'chaos' God", which is the Confucian theory of "Mandate of Heaven" to expel the strange power of 'chaos' gods. It's just that my Chinese belief in the Mandate of Heaven is more pure than the 'gate' of the Xiyi Sect, one does not call it by name, the second does not set up idols, and the third does not pass on its affairs. It is said that in the dark, there is a destiny. Lao Tzu said, the avenue is nameless, and the avenue is invisible. Therefore, the sages only say "the Mandate of Heaven", and do not call any god name, and the laymen even call it "God", although the name of this "God", what he looks like, and what ability he has is not to be tested, but the piety and reverence in our hearts is no less than that of any sect. Therefore, the pure belief of our Chinese really has only one "Mandate of Heaven", the so-called Mantian God and Buddha, the idol worshipped by the Chinese who burn incense when they see the temple, and their status in the Mandate of Heaven belief is only similar to the various angels and prophets in the Xiyi Sect's 'gate', and it is far from being comparable to the only supreme existence represented by the "Mandate of Heaven".