After this conversation, Zhao Xing and Cai Jing did not communicate again.

That night, when Cai Jing sent the design drawings he had created this year to Zhao Xing's mansion, Zhao Xing was asking about the students' learning progress in accordance with the practice of the Winter Solstice Festival.

Cheng Shuang replied first: "Teacher, this year I am more interested in the poems of Ouyang Taishou (former Yangzhou Taishou Ouyang Xiu). I heard that "The Story of the Drunken Man's Pavilion" was written in Yangzhou, and I am still learning Ouyang Tai's ability to cherish words like gold......"

The story of Ouyang Xiu's cherishing words like gold, Shen Kuo also recorded it in "Mengxi Pen Talk", he wrote: When Ouyang Xiu was serving in the Hanlin Academy, once, when he was traveling with three subordinates of the same hospital, he saw a galloping horse on the side of the road trampling a dog to death. Ouyang Xiu proposed: "Please write about this matter separately." ”

One of them was the first to say, "There is a yellow dog lying on the road, the horse is frightened, and it comes galloping, and its hooves die."

Another man continued: "There are yellow dogs lying on the thoroughfare, and they are killed by the hooves of horses. ”

Finally, the third person said: "There is a dog lying in the thoroughfare, and the lying dog is killed." ”

Ouyang Xiu smiled after hearing this: "If you cultivate history like this, you can't finish writing 10,000 volumes." ”

The three of them hurriedly asked, "Then what do you say?" ”

Ouyang Xiudao: "Yima kills dogs in the road, six words are enough!" ”

The three of them blushed and laughed at each other after hearing this, comparing their own redundancy, and were deeply impressed by Ouyang Xiu's conciseness.

However, Zhao Xing remembered that when later generations commented on this account, Ouyang Xiu's brevity was far inferior to the description sentence that Shen Kuo inadvertently used when describing this incident: "There is a galloping horse trampling a dog to death."

Cheng Shuang said these words with a tone of admiration that was inferior to self-sighing, which attracted Cheng's disciples to echo him. At this time. Zhao Xing flipped through Cai Jing's manuscript, listened to Cheng Shuang's words absentmindedly, and shook his head regretfully when he saw the attitude of the students. Ask: "Simplicity – is it really good?" You know: the truth omitted is not the truth, and the excerpted fact is not the truth.

For example, yesterday I saw such a military situation in the newspaper of the imperial court: On 13 October, Jinzhou came out of the navy by water, and Hu Lu took the commander, with a total of 10,000 horse troops, 30,000 infantry troops, and 600 naval warships, and crossed the sea to Dengzhou. How do you try to describe it in an abbreviated way? ”

Cheng Shuang pondered for a moment and replied: "I thought of four words: soldiers out of Jinzhou." Is it good for the teacher to read these four words? ”

Zhao Xing gently closed Cai Jing's sketch and replied, "Bullshit! When such a military report is passed into the hands of the officers, it will only be at a loss. This military situation was written in history. It's even more of a mess. When, where, who, what...... There are several elements of things that you have not expressed.

You said that the soldiers went out of Jinzhou - whose soldiers? Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty? Soldiers of the Han Dynasty? Or the Song Dynasty soldiers? The soldiers of the Liao State, the soldiers of the Western Xia, and the soldiers of the Khitan, what is the purpose of their dispatch/who is the commander? What is the class allocation? What is the route of the march? What are the possible goals of the army? None at all! According to this information, it is difficult to fight a war, and it is difficult to not lose the country.

Okay, let's talk about the phrase Yima kills dogs. It is said that the origin of the controversy of this sentence lies in the fact that Ouyang Taishou believes that recording history should be concise and concise. However, it is concise and to the point. Most of the time it is equated with disregard for the facts. For example, if there is no indication of the time when it happened, how do you know what dynasty, that era, and which month it happened - if there is no time record, then what is the point of recording this sentence?

For example: Yima kills the dog in the Dao, and the Yima in the Tang Dynasty kills the Song dog in the Dao. That's a time-traveling story; A horse kills a group of dogs in the road, which is the animal world of the weak and the strong; The bullying Di Yima killed the poor dog Yu Dao, that is a social record......

Also, did you ride someone on this horse? And who are you riding? If the ride is a fast-paced and fast-paced vehicle that transmits military information, then we have to ask: what is a dog? If it is a starvation escape, it is only an ordinary event, as ordinary as the sun must rise every day; But if the dog is someone who deliberately released it. to disturb the military situation. That's a spy story......

But what can you see from this sentence that Yima kills dogs?

Nothing can be seen!

And also. The phrase is gray, it doesn't have any color. For example: what color of the horse, what color of the dog, and what season does this happen? All these elements are not expressed in Yima Killing Dog Yu Dao, and this sentence presents you with a world without color - so, don't learn anything omitted, learn to be concise and to the point. In a word, the most important thing is to explain all the elements of the earth and things I just said and avoid causing ambiguity to others. ”

Who is Ouyang Xiu, Teacher Su Dongpodi.

Zhao Xing's words made Cheng Shuang speechless in shock, Zhao Xing looked at the other party's mouth open, and explained with a smile: "Ouyang Taishou is not wrong, in the past, people used to use simple scripts to engrave words on bamboo pieces, which was troublesome and laborious, and a piece of bamboo could not write many words, so the ancients tried to speak briefly. However, with the development of the times, people are exposed to more and more information. For an effective piece of information, it must be explained as well as possible.

And Ouyang Taishou is just playing with words here, he looks at this printing era with the mentality of simple words, and in this printing era, it is wrong to cherish words like gold. Lin Lei Ouyang Taishou did not feel this change of the times, and what he emphasized here was the tradition of the ancients. However, the times have changed, and we should adapt to this era and adjust our knowledge, so that we can move forward with the tide of the times.

Ouyang Taishou is not wrong in this matter, you have to put his thoughts in that era to measure. And my rebuttal is not wrong, you have to put my rebuttal in today's era, which is called: time passes, advance with the times. ”

Zhao Xing explained like this, Cheng Shuang understood, and he arched his hand: "Thank you for the teacher's teachings, I understand, the more detailed the military information transmission, the better...... Well, it seems that the same is true for the transmission of business information, the bulk manifest, each time a copper plate is omitted, the whole year adds up to 100,000 errors. ”

There was a pause. Cheng Shuang said: "The teacher is right, it seems that family affairs cannot be omitted at will, if you live a big life, you will not be able to live a good life." For example, we are Cheng Jiaao. Isn't it because of careful planning? I think that at the beginning, we just collected the mountain goods that we usually couldn't eat and had to throw away, and then calculated the amount of labor of each person in detail, which made everyone diligent and made everyone live a good life.

If we ignore those details of life at the beginning, we will not be able to get out of Chengjiaao...... It can be seen that life cannot be omitted, and it should be exhaustive. It will be exhaustive. ”

Zhao Xing slapped the table and laughed: "Life can't be omitted, that's a good thing." I didn't expect my family to become a philosopher. ”

Cheng Shuang asked rhetorically: "Teacher, what is philosophy?" ”

"Philosophy", Zhao Xing said with a sloppy eye: "It should be a speculative science." But if you're not careful, it can turn into a science of fraud...... We won't talk about it, you just need to remember that the truth does not need to be omitted, and the omitted truth is a deception. So, when you describe things, the more information you give, the better. When you understand things. The more detailed and comprehensive the information obtained, the more likely it is to prevent intentional deception and fraud by others. ”

Zhao Xing's words were just feelings, but he didn't expect him to say a prophecy. He had just finished communicating with the students and mentioned that military intelligence should be exhaustive, and then the Israelis inside the court came with the news that he might be transferred to the Western Xia front.

The messenger is Chao Buzhi. He was appointed as the general judge of Yangzhou in the "Autumn Division". When he took over, he felt that the situation in the capital was not good, and as soon as he received the appointment, he left Beijing ahead of schedule and rushed to Yangzhou in advance to prepare.

Cai Jing and juniors like Chao Buzhi don't seem to deal with each other very well, and the official banquet held in Chao Buzhi's place was very hasty, he raised his glass and toasted a glass of wine, and then turned to the back hall. And the governor of Yangzhou was not there, and the rest of the people also lost interest. Everyone drank a few glasses of wine in high spirits. And the feast was hastily dispersed.

Chao Buzhi has no industry in Yangzhou, but Zhao Xing takes care of him. He didn't worry, the snub of the banquet didn't make him feel uncomfortable, he walked out of the official office side by side with Zhao Xing, and said with a smile: "It's just right, my alcohol addiction happened to be mentioned, so I went to leave the house to continue drinking." ”

A Du Yu chased after Zhao Xing and quietly handed over a note, Chao Buzhi recognized this Du Yu as Cai Jing's companion, he smiled and watched Zhao Xing take the note, and was in the mood to ridicule: "People say that Cai Jing is difficult to get along with, and he doesn't want to get along with him so well." Look, you both don't say anything to your face, and you have to hand over a note in private. ”

Na Du Yu glanced at Chao Bu and retreated silently, Zhao Xing raised the note in Chao Buzhi's hand, there were only four words on it: "Pre-planning!" ”

Later, Zhao Xing lovingly folded the note and stuffed it into his arms, Chao Buzhi looked at Zhao Xing's cautious appearance, and suddenly remembered something, and said: "You asked the teacher to write the words "Chibi Fu" and "Dajiangdong Go", the teacher has already written, in my bag, just go to your house to take it out." ”

Zhao Xing beckoned, called a small boat, and carried the two of them towards Jiangdu County. The scene along the way was a bit dull, both of them didn't know how to speak, so they had to stand at the bow of the boat and look at the scenery along the way, Chao Buzhi looked at it for a long time, and exclaimed: "It is said that the land that has left people will produce gold, and now I look at it, sure enough, it is only a year, Yangzhou is prosperous, and the expressions on the faces of people in the past are different, and they seem to be full of expectations for next year." ”

Zhao Xingyi sneered: "Next year's reclamation work has been allocated, and when the reclamation is good, the sale of cooked land will be up to others...... Hmph, it's such a big piece of fat, I don't know whose mouth it fell into. ”

Chao Buzhi clapped his hands and said, "Who else can there be?" Me and the teacher. You can rest assured that next year we will operate in accordance with the regulations you have set, and we will not let the people suffer losses. ”

Later, Chao Buzhi asked in a low voice: "It is rumored in the capital that this reclamation, Yangzhou officials privately divided 80,000 acres of land, and it is said that Cai Jing got 30,000 yuan, is there such a thing?" ”

Zhao Xing raised a finger and said sullenly: "Senior brother asks, I'll tell you the total." I got 10,000 acres under my name, of which 3,000 acres were used to reward subordinate officials, what's the matter, hasn't the imperial history been here? ”

Chao Buzhi smiled: "It is rumored that there is such a thing in the government and the opposition, but none of the officials in Yangzhou have reported the news, and the imperial history of the imperial court has been investigated several times, but nothing has been found...... So this time, His Majesty decided: to remove all the officials in Yangzhou.

You are considered good, you were assigned to a Zhizhou, promoted to the sixth grade, and the rest of the officials were still transferred from the original product. They were assigned some bad states. Come on, leave people, don't cry with a sad face, you put 7,000 acres of land in your pocket. It made Yangzhou officials monolithic, and they were greedy from top to bottom - if others did this, they would have been degraded a long time ago. ”

Zhao Xing gritted his teeth and replied, "It's all Cai Jing's fault!" Originally, this matter was a matter of the people's happiness, the officials' happiness, everyone's hello and my good land, but he had to re-establish the land, which made the Yangzhou landlords panic, and then there was an accident. This guy ......"

Zhao Xing paused, immediately skipped this topic, and asked knowingly and rhetorically: "The teacher is a minister." If you do a good job, why do you want to go out of Beijing? ”

"Jia Yi!" , Chao Buzhi explained: "The teacher left his post from Hangzhou Zhizhou to go to Beijing, and he just arrived in Beijing. Jia Yi was promoted to the rank of imperial envoy......"

Zhao Xing has been paying close attention to Su Shidi's dynamics. After Su Shi returned to Beijing, he found out about Jia Yi's existence, and in view of the entanglement with Cheng Yi in the past, he immediately said that Jia Yi was Cheng Yi's sworn friend, and he had declared personal vendetta many times, especially resentful of our Su brothers, and was afraid that he would suffer if he stayed in the capital. begged the Empress Dowager to grant her a county position to avoid being plotted. There were a total of seven recitals of this kind of content, but the Empress Dowager Xuanren resolutely disagreed with Su Shi's request for foreign appointment.

On the second day of the first month of August, Jia Yi really got into trouble, and he teamed up with the imperial envoy Zhao Junxi to impeach Su Shi. The main crime is a small poem inscribed by Su Shi in Zhuxi Temple above Yangzhou, "I have felt nothing in this life, and I am still a big year this year, and I am happy to hear good words when I return from the mountain temple, and the wild flowers and birds are also happy." Jia Yi and others impeached and said that Su Shi's poem was written when Song Shenzong died, at that time. Our wise leader is dead. The people of the whole country are very sad, but Su Shi is the only one who has this leisure and elegance. Seeing the scenery of Shanhuashan Temple, I felt that it was beautiful, which was a great crime......

The Zhuxi Temple poetry case is still unresolved, and Shi Jiayi, the servant, has made more efforts to impeach Su Shi for dividing the relationship between the Taiwan officials, and believes that Qin Guan Ren is the secretary of the province Zhengzong and Wang Ren Hanlin is completely Su Shi pulled up by himself. Su Shi's move was suspected of being a friend. And Qin Guan lingered in the flowers and behaved inappropriately......

After that, the Empress Dowager Gao asked the ruling ministers to discuss Jia Yi's impeachment of Su Shi, and the ruling ministers of course had to look at the face of the Empress Dowager Gao, and said in unison that Jia Yi's performance was inconsistent and full of loopholes, and its purpose was nothing more than to shake the ruling ministers and vent their private anger. And Lu Dafang was forced by the pressure of public opinion and proposed a compromise plan: Su Shi and Jia Yi were dismissed together.

The Empress Dowager approved this proposal. So the imperial envoy Jia Yishou knew Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), and later changed to Yizhou; Hanlin bachelor Cheng Zhi Su Shi Zhi Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui); Qin Guan resigned the orthography, and still stayed in Beijing to proofread the Huang book (royal collection).

However, the sage (Queen Mother) later called the teacher into the palace, and told the teacher that Yingzhou was only temporary, and the teacher would be given a change of position afterwards, and the sage said that your reclamation in Yangzhou must continue, Yangzhou reclamation can resettle 350,000 displaced people a year, and it does not cost the court a money, let others take over, I am afraid that it will become a disaster for the people, only the teacher to preside, she can rest assured.

The sage also said that the court's discussion is too big, and you Yangzhou officials will have to be replaced, and I am afraid that you will not be able to stay without people, so I asked the teacher, he planned to take the disciple to Yangzhou, and the teacher mentioned me, and the queen mother sent me in advance to fight the front war for the teacher. ”

Before the Song Dynasty, serving as the Taishou of Yingzhou was a great honor. Because the Yingchuan area was once the humanistic center of ancient China and the birthplace of civilization, countless literary giants, talents, and scholars all came out of it. Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan both cried and cried to settle in Yingzhou before their deaths, and it was for this reason.

In addition, the Northern Song Dynasty also had a debate between the southerners and the northerners. Because the southerners have always been cowardly and not physically strong, it was clearly stipulated in the Song Dynasty army that southerners were not allowed to use southerners. In addition, Taizu also had the ancestral motto of "southerners can't be prime ministers", and finally came up with a few southern ministers, such as Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing, but these people all messed things up.

Due to the above reasons, the Yuan period can be said to be the pinnacle of discrimination against southerners, and Su Shi also learned from Ouyang Xiu, although he was born in the south, but he liked to boast of being a northerner all his life, and asked to be buried in Yingchuan after his death. Yingchuan is close to the capital, this position has always been the honorary position of the Great Song Dynasty, many people are here to make a transition, and immediately promoted to the official, so Su Shi served as the Taishou of Yingzhou, which also means that the promotion appointment of Xindi can be reached in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Xingxing excitedly discussed with Chao Buzhi the significance of the position of Yingzhou Taishou, and sighed: "Yingzhou has a large population, tens of millions of people, many people and few places, just guarding the land. I didn't expect it to be a big favorite, but I don't like it there, if possible, I'd rather choose a barren coastal state......"

Chao Buzhi looked up and smiled. seemed to be laughing at Zhao Xing's arrogance, he laughed, and then revealed: "This time, your new appointment has actually arrived in the political affairs hall, but the political affairs hall has not yet been posted, I estimate that the official appointment should be issued in February next year, and when the teacher is appointed, your appointment will be at the same time."

It is said that your appointment was personally selected by His Majesty - in the past few years, Xixia has been making a lot of trouble. In September, the Western Xia soldiers retreated, and His Majesty once said: A tiger must be used to defend the western county. In November, Qiu Si checked the Beijing officials and talked about your exploits in Mizhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou. His Majesty suddenly said: Gyeongju has been repeatedly warned, and the people are uneasy, since Zhao Liren is known as a golden hand, why not let him go to Gyeongju to run a business.

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers in the political hall claimed to be good. So, the matter was decided...... Leave people need to be prepared in advance. ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "There are still two months to go." I'll start early and pack my bags...... By the way, I have 7,000 acres of land, and on these lands, how about building a garden for you and your teacher? ”

One of the Chao Bu waved his hand. Le Hehe replied: "If someone else promises me, I will be humble, and I will not be polite if I leave what someone gave me." Haha, I don't need the garden in Yangzhou, you will tidy up the waterway here very smoothly, my home is in Hangzhou. Easy to get around. I don't need to buy another property in Yangzhou, you can buy a house in the city for me. I heard that your concubine's printing workshop is very good, so I bought a house for me before the shop and the house behind the house, I plan to open a shop in Yangzhou when I am old in the future, and watch the spring and autumn go by guarding the house, which is also an elegant thing. ”

Zhao Xing nodded and agreed: "It just so happens that the Yuan family plans to host the Peony Flower Festival next year, and promised me two houses." These two houses live next to each other, and you and the teacher happen to be one for each other...... I'll buy it tomorrow. ”

Chao Buzhi looked at Zhao Xing and said casually: "The Yuan family is bribing you, leave people, you have corruption - there will be no Peony Club next year, the teacher once said that this matter is laborious and costly, and it should be abolished." When the teacher becomes the governor, I am afraid that the Peony Wanhua Association will be abolished. ”

Zhao Xing retorted angrily: "How can it be a waste of money and labor, the inns, transportation houses, and hostels that advertised at the Peony Flower Festival this year have all made a lot of money, not to mention that each of the wild honey flowers exhibited by my family has been sold for 100 yuan." But it's enough. Now, the four major families such as Zhu, Xu, Yuan, and Lu are rushing to host the flower party, and next year's flower party has almost been prepared......

You go back and tell the teacher, this Yangzhou flower meeting has a long history, from the Han Dynasty, the Sui and Tang dynasties, there are countless poems to praise, but it can't be buried in the hands of the teacher. ”

"Huh!" Chao Buzhi asked in surprise: "Can you make money by hosting a flower party?" …… The four major families are rushing to undertake? What's going on? You talk about it. ”

"Advertising – Advertise it too! Generally speaking, people who sell goods are afraid that others will not know. And the Yangzhou Flower Festival will be watched by all the people, which is a good opportunity for others to know...... It's a pity that the space of Wanhuayuan is limited, and there are too many advertisements, which makes people distracted, so I limited it last year: Wanhua Club is only allowed to make 100 advertisements, and the advertisements made by flower farmers for their own flowers are not allowed to exceed the size of the flower shed, but also to be placed in front of the flower pots.

In this way, advertising space becomes a scarce resource, and scarce resources are places that can be exchanged for money. The organizers of the flower party can use this scarce resource to sell money, and part of the money from the sale will subsidize the flower farmers, and part of it will be put into their pockets as the cost of organizing the flower party...... That's a lot of money. ”

Chao Buzhi high-fived and praised: "People say that leaving people is a golden hand, sure enough, it was originally an activity that disturbed the people, and it also allowed you to give birth to money, let me confirm again: Don't pay for people who watch flowers?" People who go into the garden to do business don't have to pay? The people took a fancy to the flowers of the flower farmers, bought them on the spot, and did not have to pay taxes? ……”

Zhao Xing denied them one by one, and then said meaningfully: "This is called the exhibition economy - meetings, which are very profitable." Wan Garden provides the venue for free, but there is one that is not free, several attics in Wan Garden can be allowed to go upstairs to write poems, but to hold a banquet upstairs, wine and food have to pay, and the restaurant that sells wine and food upstairs also has to pay to rent the venue. Forty terraces in the garden of ten thousand can accommodate forty restaurants to compete at the same time, Yangzhou flowers will bloom for a month, they can have a month of business, the people who come and go are celebrities, these people inscribe a poem, the restaurant is suddenly extraordinary......

This year, I held the Flower Club just to test the water, and after testing the water, all industries in Yangzhou have woken up. Do you know how much the rent of a building in Wanhuayuan is a month, and now the land price is 100 guan - more than 40 buildings, this month is 4,000 guan income, think about it, how much income is this, and the four major families have not broken their heads. ”

Chao Buzhi snickered and asked, "So the Yuan family will give you two houses." ”

"It's not a gift, it's a transfer, I paid for it, and it was paid at the current price. As you know, this year, Yangzhou has arranged for 30,000 displaced people, saying that there are 30,000, but in fact there are 50,000, and the remaining 20,000 women, children and children have already entered Yangzhou to learn to work and farm in Yangzhou. Now Yangzhou has become a trend to open workshops, and the official family has sold 100 workshops, so Yangzhou is hard to find, and people with a little spare money have opened a small workshop in their own homes, and now Yangzhou is rich and can't sell land.

The four major families have lived in Yangzhou for a long time, and they have a lot of idle mansions in their hands, if it weren't for his request for me this time, he would not have sold those two houses, after all, he just rented them to others to open a workshop, and he could have a lot of income a year. ”

Chao Buzhi frowned slightly: "According to what you say, a property in Yangzhou has to be up and down thousands, and his annual income will be more than 100 yuan." If you steal the job of holding a flower party and don't earn a thousand yuan at a time, will he sell your house? ”

Zhao Xing jumped on the dock at the door of his house, tied the boat to the ground cow at the door with his own hands, and replied while reaching out to help Chao Buzhi landing: "A thousand times - more than that, the biggest benefit of holding this flower party is that the organizer has grasped the right to speak for a year." People from all walks of life in Yangzhou, at this moment, have to ask for the organizer, as long as the organizer is a little sophisticated, this year, he will be invincible in business. This is the biggest benefit for the organizers. ”

Chao Buyi landed on the shore and replied: "According to this, the Yangzhou Flower Festival is not a disturbance to the people. I'll talk to the teacher about ......."