Unconsciously, after everyone finished discussing, Chao Buzhi and Li Gefei separately found old friends to defend Li Ruobing, Qin Guan and Song An listened to the news separately, and Zhao Xingde introduced Confucianism, in addition to following Song An, he also comforted Li Ruobing a few words, and had no other ability, so he only resigned from the house with Chao Bu.

On the way from the Li Mansion to the Taixue Zhaishe, Zhao Xingde's mood was a little depressed, and he only felt that the evening breeze was sorrowful, with a sense of desolation, and the passers-by who were in a hurry on Bianjing Street seemed small and indifferent.

When I was about to arrive at the Taixue Zhai House, I heard the voice of someone behind me. At first, Zhao Xingde was in a trance and didn't pay attention until the man shouted several times that Zhao Xingde turned around and looked at it, but it was Zhao Bo who was selling gambling tickets by the Jinming Pool.

This person is a cousin of Zhao Xingde in Bianliang, who once had a deep gambling addiction and was almost cut off, Zhao Xingde thought that he had no other relatives in Bianjing, paid off his gambling debts, and advised him to quit gambling. Today, he took advantage of the opportunity of the official family to watch the dragon boat parade in Jinmingchi to sell gambling tickets for a profit, but Zhao Xingde asked him to do it.

Zhao Bo held his hand in his arms, saw Zhao Xingde turn around, and said, "Brother stay." While walking a few steps quickly to catch up, he first looked around vigilantly a few times, and then lowered his voice and said: "Brother's winning method really worked, and tens of thousands of gambling tickets have been sold in the past few days. As he spoke, he was about to take out the hand in his arms to Zhao Xingde.

"Sold so much?" Zhao Xingde took a breath of cool air, the second thing he didn't expect was that this guy who was once addicted to gambling didn't abscond with the money, he raised a hand to stop him, "The money won this time is also your hard-earned money, just take it as a gift from me, go back to your hometown to buy some farmhouses, marry a daughter-in-law, and live a good life." ”

Zhao Bo said: "Brother Hugh wants to drive me, here is a great world of flowers, I haven't seen enough little brother, if my brother doesn't dislike it, my brother is willing to follow my brother from now on, before and after the saddle, I won't give up." As he spoke, he took out the silver money that had been exchanged from his arms and stuffed it into Zhao Xingde's hand. After Zhao Xingde had to accept it, he danced with his eyebrows: "Only this Dragon Boat Festival bidding has made so much money, don't find a reason next time, and sell gambling tickets, with my brother's clever calculation, even if the gold and silver sea will be won back." ”

Zhao Xingde frowned, shook his head and said, "It's better not to do this gambling ticket deal." ”

Zhao Bo was greeted by him with a scoop of cold water, and asked puzzledly: "If you have money, you don't make money, but why?" ”

Zhao Xingde looked at the people of Bianliang who were in a hurry around him, and then looked at the Gaomen mansion not far away, sighed and said: "In this world, how much strength and how much benefit we have, we have nothing else to rely on in Bianjing. We have made a fortune in this successful gambling deal, but if we make huge profits two or three times, I am afraid that some people will have the wrong idea, and even bring great trouble to ourselves. ”

In this era, the emphasis is on "courtesy and punishment". The big ones are in their own places, and the small ones are all in their own places, and the small ones are that everyone's daily behavior has certain rules, some of them are clear, some are vague, and the right to specific explanations is on it.

Because of this, although Zhao Xingde has thousands of years of insight beyond the times, after coming to this world, he can only be an ordinary person who follows the rules, and he has to bury his head in studying hard for a fame. But today's incident has taught him a big lesson, even if it is an official position, it can't stop people with more power than you from attacking you, in the whole world, only the emperor is the biggest, but the emperor's position is the target of everyone, and being an emperor must guard against the people of the world.

Zhao Bo was stunned for a while, and only after a while did he shake his head and sigh: "Brother taught me a lesson." ”

Zhao Xingde listened to his words with unwillingness, and took out a stack from the handover that Zhao Bo handed over to him just now, didn't look at the number, and handed it to Zhao Bo and said: "There are thousands of ways to make money, and you are not in a hurry, you are looking for a proper livelihood in Bianjing that is convenient for inquiring about all kinds of news, and when you go out, you must take care of yourself." ”

He looked up at the somewhat gloomy sky in the distance, as if he was talking to Zhao Bo, and seemed to be talking to himself: "Don't be embarrassed for a while, the road ahead is still broad." There will be no seeds, and men should be self-reliant. ”

Later things, sure enough, not as expected today, ten days later, Bianjing City Zhongda Casino has launched all kinds of gambling tickets, and in order to compete for business, once broke out bloody weapon fight, injured several lives, after the matter reached the imperial court, the official Zhao You and Prime Minister Cai Jingjing for the government to have one more way to collect money and was very happy, since then the gambling tickets have been listed as a monopoly by the government, the previous sale of gambling tickets related people, and there is no effective backer, most of them suffered from prison. And Zhao Bo escaped because of one blow, but he was not implicated, and he also threw himself into the ground because of Zhao Xingde's admiration even more.

After making an appointment with Zhao Bo about the time and place of the next meeting, Zhao Xingde returned all the way back to Taixue Huazhang Zhaishe, but was pulled by Chen Dong and shouted: "Yuan Zhi, why did you come back, there is a big event, a big event, Your Majesty personally gave the topic, and the upper Shesheng made a policy with the title of 'Tongxia All Seas, Huaiyuan Country', and submitted it three days later, and the Son of Heaven personally read and evaluated the grades." ”

"It's just a routine school exam, and there's a lot of fuss." Zhao Xingde shook his sleeves, picked up a scripture book indifferently, and pouted.

Chen Dong shook his head and said: "This time is not ordinary, most of the topics in the past are words in the scriptures, which are not easy to play, but this time it is in line with current affairs, and it is obviously a matter of concern to the Son of Heaven. ”

Zhao Xingde was full of worries, but he heard Chen Dong say again: "When Emperor Taizu visited Luoyang, Zhang Xianqi, who was still clothy, blocked the road and governed the country. My generation of scholars read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles, not for the day of the dynasty for Tian Shelang and the twilight of the Tianzi Hall. This is an opportunity, a great opportunity! Chen Dong said as he hurriedly walked out.

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, but Chen Dong's words made Zhao Xingde think differently, if he can attract the attention of today's son with his strategy, and even be called to face Jun Chen to talk about the pros and cons, does it also mean that he can have the opportunity to exonerate Li Ruobing. Even if it doesn't work, if you can get the attention of the official family and become a leader, you can be regarded as having some capital to stand up, which is better than being a Confucian now, and being powerless when encountering things.

"Where are the rest of my classmates?" After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Xingde looked around, except for Li Rui, who was still holding a volume of I Ching and studying it as if no one was around.

"I went to the Chongwen Pavilion to borrow the chronicles of the sea country." Li Rui smiled, "These guys don't even know about Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou, let alone those unheard of barbarian countries." ”

"Then why is Brother Dongyan still staying in the house?" Zhao Xingde said as he thoughtfully took out his pen and paper, and he was determined to do his best to write this strategy.

Li Rui closed the book, closed her eyes slightly, and said, "I'm not here." When he saw Zhao Xingde's posture, he said with a hint of surprise, "Yuan Zhi used to be so keen on fame, why did he change his personality today?" ”

Zhao Xingde shook his head and sighed: "Don't hide it from Brother Li, I originally had the idea of being a loose person, and even thought about finding a paradise to be alone, but unfortunately, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop." ”

"Really?" Li Rui nodded thoughtfully and said: "If Yuan Zhi has the heart to impress the Son of Heaven with his articles, he must hurry up, most of the history books in the Chongwen Museum are the Central Plains, and there are not many Haiguo Fangzhi, and there are many of them that are false, if you start late, you can't find any books to corroborate." He paused, took out a yellowed volume from the bookcase, and said with a smile: "When I wanted to visit the overseas immortal mountains, I collected and poured a copy of the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" written by Yu Xi, a native of the Xia Kingdom, which lists the names, locations and customs of the 17 overseas barbarian countries, can you see if it is appropriate?" ”

"Thank you." Zhao Xingde took the album, briefly flipped through a few pages, and found that it was of great benefit to him. He had not studied in the Guozijian before, and had planned to seek a meritorious person, and then become a maritime merchant for profit, so he was also familiar with the general situation of the trade between the Song State and overseas countries in this matter, as for the resources and customs of the Nanyang area, as well as the strategy of managing the maritime frontier, he had more knowledge of later generations than others, and what was needed at this time was precisely such a reference book of contemporaries' cognition of overseas countries as a comparative material, and carefully pondered and conceived a strategy that could impress the Son of Heaven.

Three days is not short, but not long, during this period, Zhao Xingde lived in simplicity like other Taixue students. For three days, some of the Taixue supervisors in the same house bit off the pen shaft, scratched their ears and scratched their hearts, grabbed the ground with their heads, and asked someone to catch the knife, all of them were very busy, only Zhao Xingde'an Ruosu, sometimes holding Li Rui's borrowed "Haiguo Tujing" while reading and thinking, sometimes whimsical, handwriting a few strokes and putting it into the letterhead beside him.

He looked so graceful that even Chen Dong, who was also busy preparing for the strategy, couldn't stand it.

"Yuan Zhi, you are conceited and wonderful, but this assessment is not trivial, you should take out some spirit to make a fuss with your heart."

On this day, Chen Dong happened to finish writing the first draft of the strategy, and excitedly brought it to Zhao Xingde to discuss with him, but Zhao Xingde's unfazed appearance really annoyed him.

"Who says I didn't put the spirit into writing an article?" Zhao Xingde raised his eyelids and patted the note beside him, "I was about to ask Brother Shaoyang for advice." ”

"Huh?" Chen Dong opened the sign holder curiously, only to see that there were already eight or nine pieces of paper inside, he picked up a few and flipped through them, and introduced the messy handwriting in his eyes: "Xingtun reclamation, follow customs, the same text, and re-Huayi." Chen Dong said with a smile: "This has nothing to do with 'Tonghai Road, Huaiyuan Country'." Zhao Xingde ignored him, just looked down at Chen Dong's strategy, Chen Dong had no choice but to read it, who expected that under this reading, there was something new and could not stop.

According to Zhao Xingde's strategy, since the sea route is far away and unpredictable, it is difficult for the imperial court to directly control the overseas barbarians, so it is better to detain the sea country by canonizing the vassal state or appointing a governor, which is the policy of "detaining the distant country". At the same time, vigorously encouraging the people in the southeastern region, where there are many people and little land, to colonize overseas places suitable for farming, is a policy of "land reclamation."

According to the different climate and resource endowments, the goods produced by the sea countries are gradually overweighted, while other necessary goods are not self-sufficient, so that they are more and more dependent on sea trade. When the dependence of the sea states on sea trade deepened, it was only necessary to clamp the important sea and land routes, and the Great Song Dynasty could control the trade between the vassal states and colonies to influence the rise and fall of these small overseas states.

If the trade routes were to be suppressed, the Great Song Dynasty had to expand the merchant fleet and build a strong navy, which was the policy of "building sea power". At the same time, the Great Song Dynasty could also use the superior sea power to use the sea as a road to constantly harass the hinterland of the Liao State.

Due to the strange customs of the barbarians in various places, if they were forcibly educated in accordance with the etiquette of the Central Plains in a short period of time, they were afraid that it would cause a big backlash, so Zhao Xingde proposed the strategy of "following the customs". However, they took advantage of the fact that the barbarians did not have a written language, and made efforts to promote the use of Chinese characters and Chinese as the official language by the government and the upper class.

After the implementation of the first two policies, the feudal states bound by the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably have a distinction between people who are closer to the Great Song culture and those who tend to maintain the local culture.

When the vassal state was completely controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty should not engage in unequal tribute trade with overseas vassal states, which seemed to be beautiful but actually suffered losses, but should use the tribute of overseas vassal states to improve the finances of the Great Song Dynasty, and at the same time weaken the overseas vassal states financially, which was a policy of "heavy taxation".

Chen Dong read the several pieces of paper that Zhao Xingde threw in the letterhead one by one, savored them carefully, and felt more and more that the hair had never been sent before, and the ten strategies had their own wonderful uses and were related to each other, and sighed: "With Yuanzhi's "Ten Strategies for Expanding the Sea", my article can be burned!" ”