Cai Ru replied: "Ma Duguan replied, saying that the reason why the Guangnan Money Casting Division also cast silver ingots into round silver dollars this time, instead of minting horseshoe-shaped ingots and silver collars, is because the new machine can't make ingots." Lord Zhao replied: The new silver medal is also called a silver dollar, and each piece is worth a whole tael. Its thickness and size are measured, because silver is soft, and silver dollars are easy to bend by hand when they are minted. As for the teeth next to the silver medal, that's to prevent others from shaving.

Lord Zhao said: In this way, it is easy to identify, but if the side teeth next to the silver dollar are missing, the silver dollar should not be used for one or two silver, and it needs to be weighed and folded.

As for the square hole in the middle of the newly cast copper plate is not stamped, only a square hole pattern remains, Zhao said: That is also Guangnan is afraid of trouble, because a stamping is a round coin, and then stamping out of the square hole needs to be stamped twice, and the square hole is not aligned to deviate from the center, Guangnan is afraid of trouble, so the square hole is not stamped, and it becomes a solid copper coin. ”

Cai Jing waved his hand to let Cai Ru retreat, and walked towards the room depressedly......

Cai Jing was meticulous, and when he saw the newly minted copper and silver coins in Quang Nam, he immediately noticed the difference before others realized it, so he prepared in advance for the Minister of the Political Affairs Hall to inquire about it. It was precisely because of this good professional habit that Cai Jing made himself rise step by step, and finally controlled the government of the late Song Dynasty for decades...... But now, Cai Jing is still a little secretary who writes an edict to the emperor, and the official language is called "Hanlin".

In April, Zhao Xing, who had returned with a full load, rushed back to Guangzhou, and before he got off the ship, the first to board the ship to report to him was Shuai Fan, and he complained when he saw Zhao Xing: "My lord." This majestic Emperor Song, why is it so difficult to recruit a soldier? We have used all kinds of means, and now we have only recruited eighty percent of the soldiers. The forbidden army that the adults want can't recruit enough of 10,000. ”

Zhao Xing was also a little strange: "How many recruits?" ”

Shuai Fan replied: "It's good to say that the Yibing has given the Yibing a five-day vacation." The people who came back were the sons of the leaders of the villages, and they insisted that the original slaves be replaced, and that they would send the nobles of the clan to fill the army, and hoped that we would send the original group of lowly slaves back. I didn't say yes.

Judging from the current situation, the situation in the area where the Yi people have joined the army is very enthusiastic, and we have recruited 5,000 people. There is still a thousand left, and it will be full. But the situation of the Han soldiers is not good, and there are only 3,000 people who have signed up, I picked it, and there is one of the qualified good families, only a little over a thousand, my lord, this is not good. We were going to recruit 10,000 people, but now we have only about 1,000 people. When is this going to be the head? ”

Wan Qiyong next to him realistically shattered Zhao Xing's dream: "My lord." This Guangnan East Road, excluding Guangzhou Prefecture, has a total of only 780,000 people, and counting the 730,000 people in Guangzhou Prefecture, it is only 1.5 million people. If you recruit 10,000 soldiers, that's 100 people to raise one soldier.

My lord, it is a hundred people to raise a soldier instead of a hundred households to raise a soldier, which is already equivalent to ten households raising one ding. Where are there so many good families in the whole Guangnan East Road? I don't think the methods of adults are bad. Basically, people who want to be soldiers have been attracted to the army, my lord. Don't think about it anymore, we can only have so many soldiers in the short term. ”

Zhao Xing smiled bitterly at Shuai Fan: "In such a vast area as the east and west roads of Guangnan, there are less than 10,000 troops...... It is no wonder that Guangnan East Road used to have only 1,200 forbidden troops. ”

Wan Qianyong's words are the truth.

The Song Dynasty was an era of intertwining commercial civilization and agricultural civilization, and one of the distinctive characteristics of this era was that urbanization was obvious. The city and the countryside are two heavens, the city basically operates according to the rules of commercial civilization, while the countryside still retains the remnants of serf civilization. The villagers are envious of the life in the city, and those who can afford it have migrated to the city to survive, which makes Guangzhou a province with 50% of the population of the entire Guangnan, and the urbanization rate has reached 50%.

A city with a large population like Guangzhou, in the local era, was ranked among the top ten famous cities in the world, and it is estimated that ninety percent of the top ten famous cities in the world belonged to the Great Song Dynasty.

As a result of urbanization, the vast rural prefectures and counties in other parts of Guangnan East Road are sparsely populated, and even with the addition of the prefecture capitals and county towns where farmers like to gather, there are only a handful of people left to work in the countryside.

This is the case with Guangnan East Road, and Guangxi is also an urbanization rate of more than 50%. In this situation, not many people in the Great Song Dynasty, where hedonism was prevalent, were willing to serve as soldiers. More than 1,000 good families can be looted in the entire Guangnan East Road, which is already a very good propaganda method.

After smiling bitterly, Zhao Xing stretched out his hand to Chen Buqun, who came with him, and said, "This is a good thing and a bad thing. The bad thing is that we don't have enough troops, but the good thing is ----that you have to use our own people to form the Quang Nam Naval Army, but you are familiar with these people, and they have been trained for many years, which is more convenient for command. ”

Chen Buqun was full of interest: "Teacher, this is not a bad thing for me, I used the teacher's family and sailors, and it was the teacher who suffered the loss...... Hehe, I'm afraid the teacher's big ship won't be able to drive, so it's better to include it in the Guangnan Naval Division, anyway, it's the teacher who approves the payment of the slips, yes. Teacher, I don't need any local sailors in Guangnan, I only need 1,500 people, and the Mizhou family, Hangzhou family, and Yangzhou family are enough, please give me the full amount of 1,500 people. ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "We want to take root in Guangnan, and you must use the people in Guangnan." I will first transfer 300 Quang Nam people to you, they are familiar with the geography of Quang Nam, and are familiar with the local folk customs and hydrological conditions, so that you can communicate with the locals when you go ashore. If we still want Quang Nam to treat the sailors as their own, you have to use some locals. ”

Shuai Fan immediately answered: "I was about to tell you, the language of Guangnan is really strange, we don't understand what the locals say, I heard that the erudite Su Gong, when I was in Huizhou, I also had a headache about this matter." This Guangnan native pronunciation is really untemperable, and some of the soldiers I recruited are five miles apart, but the pronunciation of the words spoken is completely inconsistent. In the past few days, I have been learning their language, and my brain has been hurting. ”

Zhao Xing clapped his hands: "Why do you bother to learn their language, you should let them learn your language, this is the cultural conquest---- Yi soldiers didn't ask us to dismiss those cheap slaves who came in advance, you tell them." We have a rule: whoever can learn to speak 300 official words in a month can stay, otherwise he can speak. Just ask them to go home. ”

Shuai Fan's face was wrinkled, and he replied with a sad face: "We don't have enough soldiers, so you have to eliminate at least half of them at once." ”

"Scarcity. Talent is precious", Zhao Xing said meaningfully: "We only want to train 1,000 soldiers, and the remaining 5,000 are auxiliary soldiers, and everyone can be auxiliary soldiers." Now that 5,000 people have come, it is enough for you to pick up 1,000 regular soldiers, and let them find their own way to go for the rest. One regular soldier and five auxiliaries are serving. Elect the regular soldiers, and let them recruit their own friends. The scarcer the number of regular soldiers, the more they can cherish this honor. ”

Shuai Fan snapped his fingers and said, "What about the general's camp?" We've only recruited 1,141 people now, and I estimate that we'll be eliminated by 30 percent after training. If you eliminate half of them according to your method, it's hard to say whether we can get together a team of 300 people. ”

"Enough", Zhao Xing nodded with satisfaction: "The number of people in the cantonment this year has reached 200,000, and these 200,000 people were originally the establishment of the van army. The people of southern Guangdong are short, but most of the 200,000 soldiers came from the north. It's not a problem to pick five thousand people from the middle...... We have land is time. No hurry! ”

Shuai Fan nodded: "You said that you have time, so I'm relieved." The most urgent thing now is the fleet, but Chen Buqun is here, and I can put down my hand on the part of the fleet. Wait, watch me train those soldiers. ”

Zhao Xing clapped his hands, and Jin Buer appeared in the cabin again, Zhao Xing pointed at Jin Buer and said, "I also found you a head of the Guangnan Forbidden Army." He will teach you my authentic Tang hand in Huaxia. ”

Kim held his chest up. Answer: "I haven't seen the Shuai Jian Si in Xia, but I have heard the name of the Shuai Jian Si. I have followed Da Lang since ten years ago, don't look at me as old, I have been thinking about improving the Tang hand for the battle formation for the past ten years. In Xia Pingsheng, the desire is to let the legacy of the Han and Tang dynasties return to China. Today, Dalang gave me this opportunity, and I have recruited more than 300 apprentices from Goryeo and Japan, and these more than 300 apprentices are my ten years of hard work, and now they are all handed over to Dalang. ”

Zhao Xing stared at Jin Buer, and said meaningfully: "Don't worry, who dares to say that you and I are Ha Ha Ha Gaoli, I can't recognize him even if I beat his mother---- ignorance is not a crime, but because of your ignorance, you dare to threaten you to disband the martial arts hall and abuse those who follow you to learn Huaxia Tang hands, hum......

The commander and the superintendent, the head of the Kim Fuji sect will establish a reserve system for me---- and if there are not enough regular soldiers in Guangnan, we will supplement them with gunmen. I ask you to spend a year to build a complete reserve system in all prefectures and counties in Guangzhou, distribute these 300 men to various prefectures and counties, set up martial arts halls, teach reserves in ordinary times, and watch and help each other in wartime......

Shuai Fan patted his chest: "It will live up to the expectations of adults." ”

After Shuai Fan finished speaking, he pulled Jin Fuji aside, and the two discussed the specific rules. Wan Qianyong stepped forward and arched his hand and said: "Speaking of Po Gong just now, my lord, Po Gong has been idle again recently, he sent a letter to Cheng Xian, saying that Huizhou Fenghu is blocking the people on both sides of the strait, and they often look at the river and sigh. Po Gong saw it in his eyes. We are determined to build bridges and embankments so that people on both sides of the strait can move freely...... Po Gong also donated the dragon skin rhino belt you gave him, and mobilized Mrs. Su Sanzhang (Su Zhe) to donate the thousands of gold coins rewarded by the emperor's palace to prepare to build the East and West Second Bridge on both sides of Fenghu Lake.

This matter was very troublesome, and the rich gentry in Huizhou heard about Po Gong's good deeds, and they also donated generously...... Cheng Xian wrote to ask for the adult's opinion. The adult is not here, I used the adult's seal letter to approve 3,000 yuan in Huizhou, and at the same time transferred two commanded van troops to help, what does the adult mean? ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "Very good, two commanders of the ground box army is not enough, since we plan to form an army here, we will transfer half of the ground box army in Guangnan, let them build a bridge, eliminate the old and weak, and settle in Huizhou." ”

Su Shi couldn't take care of his own food, and his life depended on his disciples to help him, but the incorrigible people in his heart were still not lost... In this regard, Zhao Xingwei sincerely admired.

What can be done about such a person, but to help wipe the buttocks.

Zhao Xing immediately asked again: "How is the construction of the school, the official will be demoted soon, and I need all localities to build the school as soon as possible." ”

Wan Qiyong blinked his eyes and asked: "The demotion is about to take office, is there still a demotion to the official?" Aren't they all settled? In my absence, I used my post to instruct all the prefectures and counties to place them in the most famous monasteries in their localities, and there was no shortage of supplies. ”

Zhao Xing replied with a smile: "This time, I asked Zhang to promise to release the four senior brothers. Soon they will also come to Guangzhou...... By the way, since your school has been built, I will preside over the unveiling ceremony. Go to Lianzhou first, you quietly pass the message, I hope Liu Zhi and Liu Xianggong can meet me. ”

Zhao Xing said very modestly. He said that he hoped that Liu Zhi would receive him, but in fact Liu Zhi was a criminal official, and Zhao Xing should use "summoned" here. Liu Zhi was a little panicked when he received the news, and he rushed to the newly established Fuxue in Lianzhou, accompanied by supervisors, where Zhao Xing was waiting for him to attend the unveiling ceremony.

Liu Zhi is Sima Guang's personal disciple. He appeared in the Lianzhou State School Building, which was enough in terms of talent, but his identity was a little inappropriate, but as soon as Zhao Xing saw him, he performed the teacher's ceremony, and others had to keep their mouths shut.

This Lianzhou State School was built with Zhao Xing's aid, and he only helped build the university hall in front of him. It is a large forum-style auditorium, with fan-shaped tables and chairs raised one after another, and a condescending round platform in the middle. A table is placed on a round table in the middle. Behind the desk is a large blackboard for people to write. The entire auditorium is entirely made of stone. The left and right walls of the auditorium are floor-to-ceiling windows with extravagant glass windows.

There are several houses in the front and back of the auditorium, the back is the backstage, the dressing room and the rest room, and the front is originally the maintenance and cleaning of the auditorium. Thereafter. The university decreed that they would fill all the houses in front and behind. As a result, people like handymen had to move to basements.

The unveiling ceremony was held in front of the school, and in front of this building stood a bronze statue of the Holy Master, which was covered with red silk, Zhao Xing asked Liu Zhi to tear open the silk curtain, Liu Zhi felt that his identity was sensitive, and shook his head to refuse. Liu Zhi refused to do it, and even Li Zhiyi, the governor of Zhouzhou, couldn't reach out to Zhao Xing's face, and as for Lianzhou's scholar, he couldn't intervene in this place.

The officials humbly conceded on the stage, Fang Cipeng couldn't bear it, he muttered: "My lord, let Lord Liu uncover the silk, isn't that causing trouble for the adult." If the adults don't want to uncover this piece of silk, they should come down. ”

Zhao Xingru was granted amnesty and surrendered his hand: "Fang Xue, please!" ”

Fang Cipeng was not polite, and stepped forward to pull open the silk. The bronze carved icon of Confucius is revealed, he is holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, looking ahead, and two lines of words are engraved at his feet: "Apply what you have learned, unite knowledge and action", "Huangzhou Jinshi Zhao Xing Zhao Liren dedication".

Today's unveiling ceremony is very special, the Song Dynasty officials have no experience of this meeting, and after the curtain was opened, they all turned their eyes to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing first gave in to Liu Zhiqian, and then asked Li Zhiyi to come forward to speak, Li Zhiyi shook his head and said nothing. Zhao Xing was not polite, he stepped forward and said loudly: "Then I will say a few words...... Today, I stand in front of this temple and tell you that this temple was built to seek the truth.

Zi said: The use of etiquette, harmony is precious. The way of the first king, Si is beautiful. Small and big reasons, some can't do it. Knowing and making peace, without etiquette, is not feasible. It is not uncommon for people in the world to introduce this sentence by only telling the first half of the sentence and omitting the second half of the sentence.

What does Master mean by this? He said: The application of etiquette is to be harmonious. The ancient monarchs' methods of governing the country are precious here. But no matter how big or small, just asking others to obey their own will, thinking that doing so is called harmony, and sometimes it will not work. This is because it is not feasible to be in harmony for the sake of harmony and not to temper harmony with courtesy.

All this time, I wondered what the Master meant by this ceremony. As we all know, in ancient times, the number of words was small, and often one word represented multiple meanings, so people often said: Master speaks a great word.

In this sentence, the Master specifically emphasized the need to use propriety to control peace, and I had been thinking about the correct meaning of propriety, and one day I suddenly thought of what we call what we call the things that bind people's behavior--- two words: rules. Yes, there is no doubt that etiquette is a rule, a code of conduct, and a model of social order.

On this day, it dawned on me that Master said 2,000 years ago that this rite is a rite in a broad sense, and this rite can be called a rule.

If translated like this, this sentence is easy to understand. The meaning of what Master said here can be summed up as: Only by obeying rules and order can we be harmonious. Only by using rules to restrain everyone can we create harmony.

Think about it. Rules are indeed a courtesy. For example, people often say that the ritual of the five constants ---- the prince of heaven and earth, which is a kind of etiquette that must abide by the rules of life.

What is the gift of reverence for heaven: reverence for heaven. Abide by the moral constraints of the world, always think about what people are doing, and the sky is watching---- I think such a person is a person who keeps etiquette. That is, people who obey the rules of morality.

The so-called gift of respecting the land is to respect the land on which we are stepping on our feet, and always be grateful for the abundant harvest it brings us. Specifically, it is what the Master said: When catching birds, the net is opened; When fishing, do not exhaust the water and fish; When hunting, do not kill Ermao--- that is, do not kill old beasts with white hair and young beasts with fetal hair; Do not cut down young trees when felling; Do not clean the scattered ears of rice in the field at harvest time to feed the birds......

To do all this is to live in harmony with the creatures of this land.

Why did the Master make us so respectful, I will explain it briefly: why don't you kill Ermao, because the old beasts are often sick. It is not good for people to eat them, and they are the prey of some wild beasts, and if we kill them, many wild beasts will inevitably starve. And the reason for hunting young beasts is the same as fishing for all the water, and we will kill the young beasts when they don't grow up, and we don't want to catch wild beasts from now on, because those wild beasts have no chance of breeding.

As for not picking up the seedlings in the field at harvest, this is the case. I had to throw myself to the Holy Teacher. Seventeen hundred years ago. The Holy Prophet knew that the remaining seedlings in the field could feed small birds such as sparrows, and while birds such as sparrows ate grass seeds and grains, they ate more pests of the fields such as locusts.

Some people once said that the locust plague is also one of the five virtues, the locust plague comes from the soil, and the locust plague in the sky means that the soil is lacking, and it means that the construction of the earth causes the heavens to be angry, but I don't know if you have observed it. Why were there so few locust plagues in ancient times? In ancient times, there was a great deal of construction but no locust plague.

Huanqing also often has locust plagues. I've observed it in Huanqing, if you don't clean up the grass seed field too much. If there are many sparrows in the fields, there will be no locust plague. Therefore, the truth is that the locust plague has nothing to do with the five virtues, it is just a bird thing. And the five virtues have never belonged to Confucianism, the master never talked about it during his lifetime, it was Dong Zhongshu's old liar who used it to fool Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was pseudo-Confucianism.

The Holy Prophet was able to perceive this in ancient times, and he showed us the way to live in harmony with the earth, telling us that this land should feed not only us human beings, but also millions of living beings, and that we who obey these rules are those who observe the rites and love the earth.

I won't talk about it. How to prove that you love him is to follow all the laws and do everything you have to do. The ancients called it the etiquette system, which is a series of regulations on the superiority and inferiority, and the rules of conduct.

There are also a series of laws about kinship, but I think this kinship does not only include your own relatives, because your compatriots, your neighbors are also your relatives. How to measure whether someone is polite and how to live in harmony with everyone between relatives is the power of rules, to formulate a rule of behavior that everyone can accept, and everyone acts according to this rule, so that they can live in harmony---- the second half of the so-called Master's words: know harmony and make peace, not with etiquette, and it is not feasible.

Heaven and Earth Monarch ---- get along with each object, and if you want to maintain harmony, you must abide by the law, and the power of the law is above all else. Ignoring the existence of the law, no matter how big or small, he only asks others to obey his own will, thinking that doing so is called harmony, and the Master said that this will inevitably lead to small and big reasons, and something will not work.

Today, this auditorium is for everyone to explore the truth. We need to know a simple truth: a partial truth is not a truth, and an omitted fact is not a fact. If anyone tells you the first half of the Master's words, he says, "Harmony is precious for courtesy." Therefore, I ask you not to raise your hands unanimously to agree on big or small things, this is called harmony and harmony, which is to deceive and fool the people in the name of the Master.

In order to avoid this, we need a temple---- which is the one in front of you, for you to debate, to find out the whole truth, and the facts that are not excerpted......"

Zhao Xing's words are just an exploration of the master's theory, others have not understood the meaning of Zhao Xing's words, Liu Zhi has already understood, but he didn't dare to speak, only clenched his hands excitedly, his face was red, and his ears were red, and he trembled.

He couldn't stop shouting in his heart: Great, it's wonderful, this is simply the best riposte to the old party.

Didn't Wang Anshi say that the "three fears" ---- the sky is not fearful, the law of the ancestors is not fearful, and the words of people are not fearful. In the past, Wang Anshi broke all the rules, just to scavenge the money in the pockets of the people "for the country and the people" into the pockets of his comrades. Therefore, Su Zhe compared Wang Mang with Wang Anshi, saying that these two people are both university scholars at the same time, they are humble and courteous to others, they are very honest and honest officials, and their lives are very simple. There is another common point between the two: they both looted the people's money, and the money was not put into the pockets of the state, and was privately shared by the same party.

The only difference between these two people is that Wang Mang usurped the throne, while Wang Anshi did not, so Wang Anshi is a traitor who is slightly inferior to Wang Mang, even if he is called a great, glorious, wise and correct mentor, he is also a "great traitor and evil mentor".

Wang Anshi has devoted his life to breaking all rules, while Zhao Xing is here to talk about rules and the understanding of the truth. At a time when there were many party disputes, persecution of dissidents, and suppression of speech in the court to "create a harmonious and prosperous world", Zhao Xing talked about "under the constraints of rules" is true harmony...... Isn't this a subtle attack on Wang Anshi's behavior?

This criticism is done too well---- the prince of heaven and earth, and even the "three platforms and five constants" are tied together to talk about the necessity of maintaining the rules, and whoever dares to accuse them easily is a barbarian who does not respect heaven, disrespect, disrespect for the king, and has no father or mother.

After a pause, Liu Zhi thought in disappointment: Zhao Xing is really a Shu party.

He was an incorrigible conciliator. When the old party was in power, he secretly implemented the new law of reform, and when the new party was in power, he criticized the new party for being too radical, but he took the lead in responding to the new law that the new party wanted to implement, but it was just changed beyond recognition.

Isn't this a conciliator?

People say that Su Laopo is "full of stomachs out of place", and I think Zhao Liren is in the same line as master and apprentice, and he is also "full of stomachs out of place".

At this time, is it useful to say this?

Liu Zhi was thinking about it, and found that Fang Cipeng was frowning and looking at him, it turned out that his excitement just now was seen by Fang Cipeng, Fang Cipeng was not a fool, he had already discovered Zhao Xing's implicit meaning with a slight turn of his head, he met Liu Zhi's gaze at this moment, sighed softly, and shook his head imperceptibly.

Zhao Xing's speech is not over yet......