After reporting and receiving an errand, Li Zaixing left Qingxing Palace. Hestia led the horse and waited outside. Seeing Li Zaixing coming out, she begged with a little excitement: "Master, are you in a hurry to go back, shall we go shopping?" ”

Li Zaixing glanced at her, wanted to laugh but didn't laugh, is this girl wild?

"Where do you want to see, Higashi?"

"No, no, I want to see Daming Palace." Hestia stuck out her tongue and said embarrassedly: "I have heard about Daming Palace for a long time, but I have never had the opportunity to see it with my own eyes. I've walked to the door today and I'd like to take a look. ”

Li Zaixing turned his head to look north, in fact, there are still two or three city squares away from Daming Palace, but he can already see the roof of Daming Palace. The terrain of Chang'an City is uneven, and it is generally six high slopes in the east and west, and the dragon head where the Daming Palace is located is the commanding height of the first high slope in the north. Li Mi once said that standing in front of the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace, he overlooked the entire Chang'an City.

"Okay, let's take a look." Li Zaixing turned over and got on the horse.

Hestia was excited, glanced at Li Zaixing with a red face, and kicked the horse's belly lightly, half a horse behind Li Zaixing.

From the west gate of Xingqing Palace to the north, after three intersections, came to the northeast corner of Chang'an City. There is a big mansion that looks inconspicuous here, but Li Zaixing can't help but look at it twice, as if he is looking at a huge rare zoo. Not for anything else, just because this is the most honorable prison in the Tang Empire.

Sixteen royal residences, Baisun Courtyard. Here are Tang Xuanzong's own sons and grandchildren, and a group of people closest to the imperial throne. They are clothed and fed, but they have no freedom, no edict, and they can't just go out of this courtyard. When the Son of Heaven goes out on patrol, whether they want to or not, they must accompany him, not for anything else, but to monitor nearby.

"Hestia, would you like to be such a person?"

Hestia bit her finger and thought for a long time, then shook her head: "I'm going to be crazy." People are not animals, how can they be confined in a yard for the rest of their lives. ”

Li Zaixing laughed silently. I don't know how many people break their heads and want to get into this circle. There is no need to worry about food and clothing here. Although Hestia was just a maid, she didn't have to worry about food and clothing. When she is facing the dilemma of starvation, let alone a circle, even if it is a cage, she will get into it.

In the face of survival, how many floors are unbreakable? Li Zaixing suddenly felt a little weird. If death is nothing more than another rebirth, is death still terrible? If death wasn't terrible, what would the world become?

From the sixteen kings' mansion to the west, you came to the south gate of Daming Palace. At this time, there are four gates, the easternmost gate is called Yanzheng Gate, and to the west is Wangxian Gate, Danfeng Gate and Jianfu Gate. The gates are not far from each other, the city walls are tall, and the gatehouse is majestic, as if they are about to be pressed down from the sky, which makes people feel a sense of intimidating power.

Blocked by these tall city walls and vermilion palace gates, not to mention the palace in the Daming Palace, even the roof can't be seen. Li Zaixing was a little regretful, but Hestia opened her eyes, tilted her head, looked at the west from her head, looked up so that her neck was sore, and she grinned. The guards in front of the door saw the military uniform on Li Zaixing's body, and knew that he was the guard of the Zuolong Martial Army, so he didn't dare to be presumptuous, but he didn't have much respect for Hestia, watching a beautiful orchid with a sore neck because of watching the gatehouse, some whistled, and some laughed.

Hestia was not annoyed, leaned next to Li Zaixing, and said coquettishly: "This city tower is really high, I can see that my neck is sore." Datang is really strong, no wonder so many people want to come to Datang. ”

"It's only temporary." Li Zaixing burst out laughing, "Do you know, in the north of this city......" Li Zaixing scratched his head, he didn't know the specific location of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty and Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, only knew that it was probably in this area. "There used to be a city called Chang'an, which was also the largest city in the world at that time, but it was destroyed in the war, and now only a few remnants of the wall remain. Before Chang'an City, there was another city called Xianyang City. The master of that city swept away the six kingdoms and unified the world, and once dreamed of passing it on to all generations, but it only passed on to the second life and perished. ”

"You mean Daqin?"

"You know that, too?"

"Of course I do." Hestia pursed her lips, her eyes smart: "A long time ago, we knew that there was a Great Qin in the East, and until now there are still people who call the Great Qin of the Great Tang." They called the Tang Dynasty Qin Na. ”

Hestia said a nonsense word, and Li Zaixing's heart moved. How does this sound so much like Chinese in English?

"Hestia, you Rites are the most business-savvy, and have traveled the most. What do you think the world is like? ”

"The world?" Hestia blinked and smiled shyly: "Master, you better go and ask the high priest, I don't have that much knowledge." However, the world you are talking about must be bigger than the world we know, and I have never heard of that America. Master, isn't this America beautiful? ”

Li Zaixing was speechless and urged the horse forward: "You don't know what you said, maybe one day, I'll take you to see it." ”

"Yes, yes, let's go together and spread the gospel of Ahura there." Hestia chased after her, stretched out her arms, and made a big circle: "Establish the kingdom of Ahura on earth." ”

Li Zaixing glanced at her and shook his head helplessly. Then I thought, maybe it would be a good choice to go to the Americas, where there is no particularly strong civilization yet, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, which is very suitable for statehood. This idea just came to mind, and then I felt ridiculous, the Americas are good, but how to go, don't think about crossing the Atlantic, to the east through the Bering Strait, thousands of miles of uninhabited ice fields, but also an adventure of nine deaths. With this energy, it is better to go to Japan to be the emperor.

……

Back at Bodhi Temple, Li Zaixing told Xie Guanglong the news, and asked him to immediately find a way to inform Nan Jiyun. Xie Guanglong was overjoyed, Li Mi promised to help them contact him, but then Li Zaixing and Li Mi somehow turned their faces, and he was embarrassed to ask again. Now that Li Zaixing has reconnected with him, it feels good to have regained this kind of loss.

Li Zaixing immediately asked Wei Yingwu about his whereabouts in the past two days, and learned that he had not been in Pingkangfang for the past two days, so he asked where his family lived, and took Hestia out of the door. It was only now that he realized that he didn't know where Li Yu lived, and to fulfill the Li family's request and kill Yang Xun, he needed Li Yu's staff officers. In this regard, he considered himself inferior to Li Mi.

Wei Yingwu's family lives in Lanlingfang, and when Li Zaixing arrived, Wei Yingwu was standing in the courtyard being criticized. His father, Wei Luan, was standing in front of a bookcase, spitting and scolding, even when he saw Li Zaixing walking in, he did not ease his face.

Seeing this scene by Li Zaixing, Wei Yingwu was very embarrassed and embarrassed.

"These are the friends you're talking about?" Wei Luan shouted with a calm face: "How many times have I told you, don't associate with people who don't mess around, get close to people who are full of learning, don't ......"

Li Zaixing also felt that this scene was embarrassing, and he wanted to ask the address of Li Luan's house and leave, but when he heard Wei Luan's words, he laughed angrily, turned around and walked in front of Wei Luan, and arched his hand: "Dare to ask Wei Gong, what kind of person are you who are so-called well-educated people?" ”

When Wei Luan saw it, he was angry. He didn't like Wei Yingwu's fox friends in the first place, but when he saw that Li Zaixing was so rude, he was even more angry. He glanced at Li Zaixing and laughed disdainfully: "Anyway, it's not a person who wields a knife and a gun like this." ”

Li Zaixing smiled slightly, he was originally a person who danced knives and guns, and he couldn't match his knowledge, so he didn't feel angry about such words. But he didn't have a good impression of a self-righteous scholar like Wei Luan.

"Dare to ask Wei Gong, what is the purpose of studying, and what is the purpose of learning?"

Wei Luan was stunned for a moment, and then responded: "Reading is naturally for the sake of reason, and learning is to seek true knowledge from the scriptures of the ancients, and it is also for the sake of reason." ”

"Reason is the goal, and reading is just a means, can it be understood in this way?"

Wei Luan thought for a moment and nodded helplessly, he couldn't refute Li Zaixing's explanation.

"In this case, reading is not the only way to be reasonable, so why do you have to read?"

"Jokes, if you don't read, how can you be reasonable?" Wei Luan sneered, his eyes full of contempt when he looked at Li Zaixing, he glared at Wei Yingwu viciously, eager to step forward and slap him twice. Dealing with a rough person like Li Zaixing, who is neither educated nor rude, is simply a shame to be thrown home.

"If you don't read, why can't you be reasonable?" Li Zaixing continued without humility or arrogance: "Reason lies in things, and knowledge is based on things, so why do you have to study." Isn't there no reason without books? ”

Wei Luan choked suddenly, and didn't say anything for a long time, he rolled his eyes, but he didn't know how to refute Li Zaixing's argument.

"Wei Gong is very knowledgeable and well-versed in Danqing, so dare to ask Wei Gong. Is the Han family mausoleum mentioned in the book real, or is the Han family mausoleum outside the city more real? Reading thousands of Han Fu articles, can you see it with your own eyes? ”

"You ......" Wei Luan was speechless by Li Zaixing, his face turned red, and even his fingers trembled. But he couldn't refute Li Zaixing's words. Reading the thousands of Han Fu articles, you may not be able to imagine the appearance of the Han family mausoleum, if you want to know what the Han family mausoleum is like, go outside the city to take a look.

Li Zaixing took advantage of the victory to pursue, and pointed to the half-painted painting on the case: "No matter how wonderful Wei Gong's Danqing is, it is just a talk on paper, except for people to enjoy, there is nothing to do." If Wei Gong wants to live for a hundred years, it is better to go to paint Daming Palace, a hundred years later, when Daming Palace is not reckless, future generations can see the style of Daming Palace with Wei Gong's masterpiece, and they will be grateful to Wei Gong inexplicably. These strange mountains, rivers, plants and trees, hehe, don't paint them. No matter how good you draw, can you still surpass Wang Maha and Wu Daozi? ”