Jin Zhixiang took a group of Goryeo envoys to the flower hall of the Goryeo Pavilion for a banquet, and when he walked to the door of the hall, he saw that everyone in the hall got up to greet him, and said very humbly: "Everyone, please sit down, please sit down, we must not be so polite between us." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Sun Li smiled and said: "Yes, Jin Shilang is an envoy of Goryeo, this visit to my Great Song Dynasty, I should be well received!" The subordinate officials of the Goryeo Pavilion also echoed it.

At that moment, Sun Li welcomed Jin Zhixiang and his deputy envoys and interpreters into the flower hall. Jin Zhixiang is naturally at the same table with Sun Li and Zhong Hao, and as for the deputy envoys and translators, they naturally have those subordinate officials of the Goryeo Pavilion as accompaniment. Of course, there was also the translator Li Guangxu brought by Zhong Hao. They were divided into two tables and set up next to Zhong Hao, the chairman of the table.

In fact, Jin Zhixiang, the chief envoy of the Goryeo State Mission, and his two deputy envoys can speak Chinese, and as for the envoy with him, he can naturally speak Chinese! How can I be a translator if I don't speak Chinese?!

In fact, the whole country of Goryeo is proud of knowing Chinese. The upper class of Goryeo basically spoke Chinese.

This Goryeo upper-class person not only knew Chinese, but also wrote Chinese characters. Of course, at this time, the Korean Peninsula did not have its own written language, and it is not surprising that the Goryeo scholars had to read books written in Chinese characters, so it is not surprising that they could speak Chinese and read Chinese characters. Even the imperial examination in Goryeo was based on the Four Books and Five Classics of Chinese.

In fact, the countries of the Korean Peninsula have not had their own written language, and have always used Chinese characters as a cultural carrier and inheritance.

However, because the language of the Korean Peninsula belongs to the Altaic language family, which is not the same as the Sino-Tibetan language family in China, Chinese characters still cannot fully express the pronunciation of the Korean Peninsula language and the thoughts and feelings of the people on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, for more than 1,000 years, the Korean Peninsula has been using Chinese characters as the script for the cultural recording and inheritance of the Korean Peninsula.

However, because Chinese characters and the language of the Korean Peninsula are not completely compatible and consistent with the language in many places, the nobles of those countries on the Korean Peninsula have to learn Chinese, because the Chinese language and Chinese characters can fully carry the culture of the Korean Peninsula.

However, ordinary Korean low-level civilians do not know Chinese characters at all, and only Korean nobles and officials can use Chinese characters, which are called "official reading scripts", while ordinary Korean civilians can only conduct cultural exchanges orally, and their life knowledge and accumulated agricultural cultivation experience and farming methods cannot be passed on for a long time.

In the middle of the Joseon Dynasty, the Lee family of Joseon invented their own script in order to meet the needs of the people at the bottom to learn writing and culture.

During the reign of King Sejong of Joseon of the Lee family, Joseon, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, had achieved certain development in politics, economy, culture, science and technology, and military, so the Korean people's desire to have their own national script was relatively strong, and Sejong was very sympathetic to the situation of the people, as a Korean king who wanted to develop national culture and promote national independence, Sejong began to meditate and dreamed of creating a unique and easy-to-learn and easy-to-understand Korean native script, so that ordinary Korean low-level commoners could easily control the Korean language.

When King Sejong of Joseon invented the Korean script, he was inspired by music and the phonetic script of the northern nomads, and learned that simple musical symbols can record all the music in the world, so that the relatively simple pinyin characters should also be able to record all the Korean phonetics, so as to spell out the Korean script. Therefore, Sejong organized many outstanding scholars of the Korean "Jixian Palace", including himself, and specially sent a well-known Korean scholar to the Ming Dynasty more than a dozen times to study and study the essence of Chinese characters, which lasted for 30 years before finally inventing and creating the Korean script, so that North Korea finally had its own national script after using Chinese characters for nearly a thousand years.

The "Hangul" of North Korea is a folk language like "Proverbs", and due to its low political and cultural status, Hangul is a second-rate script. Only the nobles and officials used the "official reading script" is one of the first-class Korean scripts. The early Korean pinyin script was called "Hangul".

Due to the strong cultural influence of Chinese characters in North Korea, Korean Pinyin has always existed as "Hanyu Pinyin", which is used by Korean women and uneducated Koreans, and is known as the second-rate script "Hangul", while the Korean nobles and officials still continue to use Chinese characters "吏語字".

It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that China itself declined, and the Chinese characters, which had been used for thousands of years, were almost completely wiped out of North and South Korea, and the status of Chinese characters was downgraded from the parent script to the second-rate script of Korean "Hangul". And the Korean script was not popular until then.

Of course, this is all a later story, there are still three or four hundred years before the establishment of Lee's Joseon, and now the Korean Peninsula is still Goryeo! And the Goryeo Kingdom apparently did not have its own script, but used Chinese characters. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Goryeo envoys from the Great Song Dynasty led by Jin Zhixiang knew Chinese and knew Chinese characters.

Since the envoy of the Goryeo Kingdom can speak Chinese, there is no problem in communicating with the chief and subordinate officials of the Goryeo Pavilion, but in fact, this envoy does not have much effect on such occasions.

Of course, this does not mean that these interpreters are completely unnecessary, and they must still be present on official occasions.

After Jin Zhi sat down with their group of Goryeo envoys, Sun Li instructed his subordinates to let the kitchen serve the food.

In the past, when the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo maintained a relationship between the clans and vassals, because the Great Song Dynasty and the Goryeo envoys had relatively close contacts, this Goryeo Pavilion had a lot of cooks on weekdays because it had to receive Goryeo envoys, and these cooks could also cook Korean food.

Although the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo have long since severed the relationship between the clan and the feudal domain, and the funds of the Goryeo Pavilion are tight, because this cook is related to the personal welfare of the officials in the Goryeo Pavilion, although this cook has been abolished, there are still several of them. This cook is not only in charge of cooking dishes and meals for the Goryeo envoys, after all, the Goryeo envoys sometimes only come once in a few years, and these days are naturally to cook dishes and meals for the officials of the Goryeo Pavilion. Therefore, every official in this Goryeo Pavilion has no problem with keeping a few more cooks, after all, this is a matter related to their own interests.

This Goryeo Pavilion has several cooks raised by itself, so naturally there is no need to go to the restaurant outside to entertain the Goryeo envoys, this banquet can be done in your own Goryeo Pavilion.

Today, because I am receiving Korean envoys, the chefs in this Goryeo Pavilion deliberately cook Korean dishes.

Zhong Hao followed Jin Zhi to taste them today, and in later generations, he had eaten Korean ~ Chinese cuisine, but after coming to the Great Song Dynasty, he really hadn't eaten this cabbage.

Of course, in fact, I feel rare when I haven't eaten it, so I'm a little curious. After eating, Zhong Hao felt that this Korean dish was too lackluster than the Great Song Dynasty cuisine, and there were no highlights, so he just ate it once. For the next time, Zhong Hao really has no interest. This Korean dish is so rare that it is really different from the dishes of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhong Hao was indifferent to this Korean dish, but Jin Zhi was really touched by the Korean envoys to them. They had been departing from Ganghwa Island in Goryeo since May, but they were kidnapped by the Goryeo pirates and Japanese pirates at Yeondondo Island shortly after they went out to sea, and they were imprisoned on Yeondondo Island and Cheyo Island all the time. In the past five months, where have they eaten any cabbage?! They haven't been back to Goryeo for so long, and they also miss their hometown and relatives a lot. Therefore, Jin Zhixiang's envoys to their group of Korean envoys couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic when they ate this quite authentic cabbage today.

Tonight, there is a reception banquet in the reception room of the Goryeo Pavilion, and the atmosphere is very good.

Sun Li thought to himself that the envoy of the Goryeo mission this time was served by a high-ranking official like Kim Zhixiang of the Goryeo State Rite Cao Shilang, and the specifications were very high, and he was just a seven-grade official of the Goryeo Pavilion, so he was naturally more polite to a high-ranking official like Jin Shilang.

And although Jin Zhixiang has a very high level, but now he has come to the Great Song Dynasty with empty hands, and he has nothing to take out to make friends with the Great Song officials, so he can only rely on his sincerity to make friends with the Great Song officials. Therefore, Jin Zhixiang also maintained enough respect and politeness towards Sun Li and others, and his posture was very low.

Because both parties lowered their postures to deal with each other, both the guests and the host felt that the other party was very easy to get along with, so this banquet was naturally happy and the atmosphere was good.

Of course, there were no specific things to talk about at this reception banquet, everyone just talked about some scenes in general. As for specific matters, they must be discussed in private, and it is definitely inappropriate to talk about serious matters on such occasions.

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Zhong Hao, who returned to Dengzhou, felt that his heart was finally relaxed. Jin Zhixiang's Goryeo envoy came to talk to the Great Song Dynasty court about restoring the relationship between the clan and the vassal, and Zhong Hao was sent by the imperial court to contact the Goryeo envoy. Now that Zhong Hao has learned about the appeal of this Jin Zhi to their Goryeo envoy to Dengzhou this time, it is naturally considered that the dispatch has been completed. As long as he reported to the imperial court what he and Jin Zhi had learned after contacting their envoys from Goryeo, the errand would be almost complete.

Zhong Hao felt that after sending out the report to the imperial court on the errand, he should have completed the errand and should be able to go home. I'm still on vacation, this errand to Dengzhou, even if it was a volunteer, I have been out on this errand for more than four months, this is my vacation time!

Zhong Hao is now eager to go back to Qingzhou immediately to reunite with Fu Ruozhu, Wan'er, and his aunt. I haven't seen Fu Ruozhu, Wan'er, and my aunt for a long time, and I've only been on vacation for so long, and this errand has taken up almost half of the time, which is really unpleasant.

Zhong Hao actually doesn't have so much intention to show his strength in officialdom, and then do some big things for the country and the people! In fact, he doesn't have much intention of officialdom, and most of the reason why he has come to this point is that he has been pushed forward.

Zhong Hao was actually just an ordinary little person in his later life, although he also loved his own nation, but he could only be confined to his own small world. After coming to the Great Song Dynasty, although he was slightly more successful than later generations, his thinking did not change much, and he still considered himself a small person. His thinking is still to live his own life first, and then he will think about doing something for the country and the nation under the conditions he can. Therefore, Zhong Hao is now very depressed because he is trapped by the errand of the court and cannot reunite with his wife and relatives.

Of course, Zhong Hao also admires those characters who have been determined to serve the country and the people from below, but he is only admired. Zhong Hao actually thinks that in the biographies of those emperors and generals, many characters are determined to serve the country and the people from below, which is not so real! People are selfish, how can there be so many people who are dedicated to serving the country and the public. The reason why Fan Zhongyan Fan Gong is respected by all generations is because there are too few people like him who "worry about the worries of the world first, and enjoy the joy of the world after the world", who are dedicated to the public and do not care about selfish interests!

Zhong Hao actually wanted to do something for the Great Song Dynasty to avoid the catastrophe of the Han civilization seventy years later, but with his people's slight words, this was really too difficult for him. Moreover, in this era, there are too many cattle people, each of whom has his own opinions, even if he is in power one day, he may not be able to "carry out the order", and the policies he promotes may not be able to be implemented. In this regard, there are too many cattle in this era, which is not necessarily a good thing! Even if a powerful person comes out and wants to do something for the Great Song Dynasty, it is very likely that he will be besieged by a group of cattle and herds, which will lead to failure.

Zhong Hao has always regarded himself as a small person, and his first thought is to live a good life as a family. In fact, Zhong Hao feels that this is also the thinking of most Great Song people, the family and the country are all over the world, in fact, the family is before the country. Most of the Great Song people also took care of their own small family first, and then the whole family, and then considered the country of the Great Song Dynasty. In fact, this is also human nature, and in fact, it is understandable. Zhong Hao felt that this was nothing, at least even if he didn't do something for the Great Song Dynasty, he was much better than those who not only didn't do things for the Great Song Dynasty, but were also digging into the corners of the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, saying so much, in fact, Zhong Hao is making excuses for his personal egoism. Because Zhong Hao really wants to go back to Qingzhou, he really wants to go back to his relatives! After all, the things that change the general trend of the country are too far away from him, and he feels that it is only right to live his life first.