"Mr. Zhou, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing Zhou Shou's shocked face, Wu Zhi restrained himself and asked naturally.

"Feeling of Painting"...... Good poetry, good poetry! ”

Zhou Shou came to his senses at this time, only to see him clapping his hands and applauding, sometimes looking at the poems on the table, sometimes looking up at the paintings on the wall, and his mouth kept sighing.

"What a question, how can the ditch be as clear as promised? Come to the source of living water! My painting of Wu Daozi, passed down from my father, has been by my side for more than ten years, and today I met you as a martial official, so I can be regarded as worthy of this painting! In ancient times, Cao Zhi became a poem in seven steps, and now there are military officials and you wave in three steps, all of which are also in the name of 'planting', and you are even better at writing as a martial official! ”

"Where, Mr. Zhou praised it falsely, I just did it on an improvised basis......" Wu Zhi said humbly.

Indeed, even if Wu Zhi is modest, he is very shameless... This poem is originally written by Zhu Xi, a famous physicist in the Southern Song Dynasty, called "Reading Books with Feelings", which is in the middle school textbooks of later generations, and Zhu Xi is the apprentice and grandson of Zhou Shou's father Zhou Dunyi.

"Big officials don't have to be modest, it's because of improvisation, so it seems that big officials are unparalleled!" Zhou Shou walked to the picture as he spoke, and continued to say to Wu Zhi: "This painting is dusty around me, it's time to change hands!" Please don't shirk the officials! ”

Saying that, Zhou Shou actually tiptoed to pick up the painting.

Wu Zhi raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Zhou Shou to be so famous, this is the true work of painting Saint Wu Daozi! He actually said that if he gave it away, he would give it away......

"Mr. Zhou, never!" Wu Zhi hurriedly went up to stop Zhou Shou, "Since this painting is a relic left to you by the Lingzun Zhou sage, you can't give it away easily, and you won't want it in the future!" ”

Wu Zhi's words are categorical, he doesn't have any elegant artistic accomplishment in his stomach, and he is not short of money, this calligraphy and painting is not as attractive to him as the Spring Palace picture......

"This ......"

After some shirking politeness, Zhou Shoucai obeyed Wu Zhi, but he didn't dare to call himself a gentleman in front of Wu Zhi anymore, at his request, Wu Zhi called him Brother Zhou, and he also directly called Wu Zhi's name, removing the honorific title, and the relationship between the two became a lot closer.

"Ask how the canal is as clear as it is? Come to the source of living water! After Zhou Shou solemnly put Wu Zhi's inscription poem in front of that picture temporarily, Wu Zhi read the poem "made by himself" again with some aftertaste, "Brother Zhou, I came this time to bring you a canal of living water!" ”

Seeing that Wu Zhi was about to get down to business, Zhou Shou also smiled implicitly and sat down with Wu Zhi first.

"Just four lines of small poems, but it contains the philosophy of heaven and earth, as the so-called stagnant water is a tan, and evil will be born. The living water is clear before the spirit is revealed! The same is true of this knowledge, only by continuously absorbing the strengths of each family, can the energy go a long way! After sitting down, Zhou Shou nodded with satisfaction like an old pedant, "Wu Zhi, do you want to talk about the revival of the hundred schools?" Zhou Shou asked.

"Yes, I just want to talk to Brother Zhou about this in detail." Wu Zhidao.

"Now that Confucianism is flourishing, the rest of the hundred schools have declined, it is caused by the trend of heaven, and the previous dynasties have not tasted revival, why Wuzhi You propose to revive the hundred schools today?" Zhou Shou asked, for new doctrines and new ideas, we must first start with questioning, which is also the proper meaning of the question.

"Brother Zhou's words are wrong! Since the origin of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the hundred schools have never declined, and Zhuge Kongming of the Three Kingdoms, and famous scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties are not Confucian figures. Wu Zhi paused and continued: "Even since the Tang and Song dynasties, there has been no decline, but the scholars and doctors are all Confucians, and the common people still have people who study the hundred schools. ”

Wu Zhi's meaning is very clear, that is, Confucianism now occupies the mainstream among the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty, and the revival of the hundred schools of thought is to let the hundred schools of thought be used in the Great Song Dynasty scholars, in the court, in the field of superstructure to win a place!

Zhou Shou couldn't help but be silent for a while when he heard this, he understood what Wu Zhi meant.

"Wu Zhi, it is true that the hundred schools have always been very prosperous among the people, but after such a long time, they have already developed into three religions and nine streams, do you want to revive the three sects and nine streams?" Zhou Shou spoke earnestly, what he said was right, the three religions and nine streams of the folk came from the hundreds of schools.

At that time, some scholars published articles in newspapers criticizing the revival movement of the Hundred Schools of Thought as engaging in the revival of three religions and nine streams, which was dirty and disrupted the program!

"Brother Zhou, you don't know anything!" Wu Zhi smiled faintly, of course, what he revived was not the three sects and nine streams, so he was not afraid of being criticized by others, "The hundred schools I revived are the orthodox hundred schools of thought, not the deformed hundred schools of thought among the people now." Moreover, in this revival movement of 100 schools, the revival mainly emphasizes practical knowledge content and ignores ideological doctrines. ”

………

After some explanations, coupled with the previous letter revealed, Zhou Shou has gradually understood Wu Zhi's specific content about the revival of the hundred schools, that is, to change the society Everything is inferior, and only the concept of high reading has become useful in everything, and all subjects must be learned!

Zhou Shou pondered for another moment, he looked at Wu Zhi hesitantly, as if he wanted to say something.

"Brother Zhou, if you have something to say, you might as well speak up." Wu Zhi said seriously.

"Okay, then I'll say it!" Zhou Shou took a deep breath and said, "Actually, I still support the revival of the hundred schools in my heart, but ...... Wu Zhi, your family has a lot of money, industries are all over Shandong, and I heard that a big Qingzhou College is about to open, and this 100 revival movement is also related to the college admissions, right? ”

"Not bad." Wu Zhi nodded.

"But listening to your idea of the revival of the hundred schools, it seems that you are planning to set off this wave in the whole Song Dynasty, I'm afraid it's far from being as simple as recruiting students for the college, right?" After speaking, Zhou Shou approached Wu Zhi and said in a deep voice: "What are you for?!" ”

Looking at Zhou Shou's nervous appearance, Wu Zhi suddenly laughed.

It turned out that Zhou Shou was suspecting that he had some bad intentions!

Come to think of it, if you want to make such a big move, anyone will doubt Wu Zhi's motives.

"Brother Zhou, ...... I ask you" Wu Zhi did not answer Zhou Shou, but asked rhetorically: "Is it inappropriate for a literati to study tirelessly all day long, or a good man to practice martial arts and study military books hard?" ”

Zhou Shou was stunned for a moment, and replied honestly: "Naturally, there is nothing wrong with this, practicing literature and practicing martial arts is to have the ambition to serve the country!" ”

"Then Xi Wen and martial arts are to serve the country, why is it that I, a businessman, have become an ulterior motive for the country and the people?" Wu Zhi smiled bitterly.

Zhou Shou was dumbfounded again when he heard this, he said in his heart, not to mention the literati and martial artists, some good officials went to the local government to do their best to educate the people, do things for the people, and win the love and followers of hundreds of people, is this also a plot?

"It's me Meng Lang!" Zhou Shou smiled and apologized.

"It doesn't matter." Wu Zhi shook his head and continued: "Speaking of which, I have spared no effort to revive the Hundred Schools of Thought, and I also have a great motive. ”

"What is it?"

"People's livelihood!"

"People's livelihood?"

"Yes, it's for the sake of my Song people's livelihood." Wu Zhi cut the railway.

"The revival of a hundred schools of thought can make me a great Song Dynasty of all kinds of talents, but for the national economy and people's livelihood, it is ......" Zhou Shou, as an ancient, the limitations of his vision are obviously not enough for him to thoroughly understand the significance of the revival of a hundred schools.

For some abstract questions, Wu Zhicai will not answer directly, that is the most unwise answer.

He asked Zhou Shou rhetorically: "Brother Zhou thinks that my Great Song Dynasty is better than the Han and Tang Dynasties?" ”

This question is naturally difficult for Zhou Shou, who has a university question, and only listens to him succinctly: "Although the military is far inferior to the Han and Tang Dynasties, the prosperity of the people, the prosperity of the state city, and the prosperity of culture and education are more than ten times more than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties!" There was a pride in his words.

In fact, the military is not inferior to the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the surrounding barbarians are not as backward as the barbarians of the Han and Tang Dynasties, like the Western Xia of the Liao Kingdom, which is an empire with a sound political system and a complete social structure, and it is no longer the primitive nomadic tribe that used to be!

As for the others, it is said that ten times is less, and the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty is ten times that of the Han and Tang Dynasties!

"My Great Song Dynasty is far inferior to the Han and Tang Dynasties, why are the people richer than then, and the national tax is more than then?" Wu Zhi then asked.

In the final analysis, even if the Song Dynasty prospered in commerce, in the hearts of scholars, including the emperor, land is the most valuable, and agricultural taxes are the foundation of the world, these are all written into the quotations of the sage.

However, Zhou Shou was the deputy mayor in the end, and after a short pause, he replied: "The prosperity of the people is actually the income from the sale of work, and the national tax is abundant, and it is actually mostly collected by trade." ”

Wu Zhi smiled, and asked an ancient official to admit that the commercial tax was higher than the agricultural tax, which was really bizarre, and he was still a kind gentleman in Zhou Shou, and he told the truth.

"Therefore, the revival of the hundred schools of thought is actually to serve the business, and Brother Zhou is the general judge of Michigan, so I think I should know what is the biggest shackle behind the commercial prosperity of Michigan today, right?"

"Of course I know that." Zhou Shou nodded, "It's the shortage of relevant talents, not to mention anything else, now in Mizhou City, it's hard to find people who can settle accounts and manage accounts, and the wages of merchants are more than my salary......" With a wry smile, Zhou Shou continued: "One of the staff I brought from Bianjing resigned from me last year and went to be the bookkeeper of your proud building!" ”

Wu Zhi couldn't help but laugh, and said in his heart that the shopkeeper of Mizhou Proud Building is quite good at digging people, and the officials have all poached it, and the essence of their big boss is deep!

"Haha, please don't blame Brother Zhou!" Wu Zhi smiled and hugged his fist, and continued: "The revival of a hundred schools, the revival is all the talents needed for commercial development!" With the continuous support of talents, business will be more prosperous, business will be high, not only the people will become richer, but the national taxes will rise! Therefore, Brother Zhou, you said, is the revival of a hundred schools of thought a good thing that greatly benefits the national economy and people's livelihood! ”

"Hahaha! Be! Great! ”

Zhou Shou smiled, smiling brightly, as if the Great Song Dynasty was really full of oil and water because of the revival movement of the hundred schools.

"Then would Brother Zhou be the official initiator of the Hundred Schools Revival Movement?" Wu Zhi asked while the iron was hot, he was still very nervous in his heart, Zhou Shou agreed does not mean that he will agree to be the initiator, after all, there is still a lot of risk in this, if it is not good, it will be ruined and discredited to his father.

But only by taking advantage of Zhou Shou's fame can he really quickly create a sensation in the Great Song Shi Doctor class, otherwise, Wu Zhi will have to make a small fuss and struggle for at least a few years if he does it alone.

"The official promoter? Hmmm......"

Zhou Shou groaned, he had long known Wu Zhi's intentions, but now that he had completely figured out the core of the Hundred Schools Revival Movement, he still thought carefully about whether to take over the torch or not.