The spring of the second year of the great cause came early, and in February, Qi County was already full of flowers.

Just when Su You was planting the second season of sunflowers in Yang Ying's Yongye field, he received a letter from Yang Ying from the Eastern Capital, which was nothing important except for saying goodbye, but at the end of the letter, he seemed to inadvertently ask Su You what his plans were in the future.

"Once you enter the Hou Gate, it is as deep as the sea", this is not only about a woman who marries into a wealthy family, but also a scholar who is attached to a wealthy family. As the saying goes, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, men are afraid of getting into the wrong business, and life is like a chess game.

Reaching the destination requires not only speed, but also direction, and history has proven countless times that some people are doomed to doom if they just accidentally take the wrong step. And the saddest thing is that you know you've chosen the wrong direction, but you can't change it.

"Shigu, the water in the capital is too deep, although Su You has the ideal of governing the country and leveling the world, but he has no determination to do it, if he can choose, I am more willing to follow Meng Ke's sentence 'If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world', at least you must leave something like Wen Weng entering Shu." Although Su You thought that he might be able to go and return, he had to plan for the worst, so he killed the chicken and drank wine, and invited Yan Shigu to get drunk.

"Hengbo, this is not like you on weekdays, why are you so disheartened?" Yan Shigu knew that Su You was going back to the Eastern Capital, and he had already explained a few days ago, and he also entrusted Zhang Xutuo, the county prince, to come to the starting point academy to teach martial arts to the children.

In fact, asking Zhang Xutuo to give guidance to the children was not out of Su You's original intention, he preferred to see characters like the Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust who came and went without a trace, rather than taking over the teaching of an officer for seven or eight years after he taught for half a year, planting trees by himself and letting others pick fruits was really a strategy,—— he planted not Gongsun trees.

However, in this era, do you still expect these outstanding children to rely on reading to get a way out? Today's imperial examination system is still focused on "lifting", in the year of Dabi, one person per county, it is already good to be able to take an average of one or two Xiucai every year, Su You is not blind enough to think that he or his students can be admitted to Xiucai.

After careful consideration, in order to prevent Qin Qiong and the four of them from being buried after his own training, Su You entrusted Zhang Xutuo,—— good news is that Zhang Xutuo readily agreed; The bad news is that he can only comfort himself sadly, "Maybe this is the direction of history." ”

"Maybe this is what the Buddha said, right? I wonder what you would say about today? Su You nodded and diverted the topic.

"The Son of Heaven is handsome, fluent in writing, proficient in cavalry and archery battle formations, decisive in killing, can be described as both civil and military, rare." Although Yan Shigu was dismissed by Emperor Yang Guang of Sui and had never seen the emperor with his own eyes, this did not hinder his praise of the emperor, and he believed that this was also a fair evaluation.

When Su You heard him say this, he also kept nodding his head, and couldn't help reminding, "I heard that the Son of Heaven also said, 'If I can compete with the people of the world in the imperial examination, I should also be the Son of Heaven.'" This is his self-confidence, and it is also his heart. When Zhixuanzi wanted to establish Zhibo, do you remember how Zhiguo opposed it? ”

"Yao Zhixian is five people, and one is not caught. Beautiful sideburns are virtuous when they grow up, they are virtuous when they shoot their feet, they are virtuous when they finish their skills, they are virtuous when they are clever and eloquent, and they are virtuous when they are strong and resolute; If so, it is very unkind. The husband acts with his five sages and acts with unkindness, who can treat him? "Yan Shigu is full of poems and books, and he tells the story.

"Yes, now it seems that today Zi and Zhibo imagined it? Undoubtedly, the five sons of the first emperor can succeed not only as a matter of course, but also justifiably, but not as expected. Why? Guan Longmen valve does not want to see it. In fact, whether it is to open the canal or repair the eastern capital, it is to reduce the influence of Guanlong, and even the great imperial examination is also for this purpose. However, what will be the final result of selecting people instead of using them, and employing people without giving them corresponding treatment? The end of Zhibo is not far away. Su You said with some concern, in fact, these bases were all found by him from the conclusion, and he knew more than Yan Shigu.

"It's okay to die at night. The cross-wave talent is also not only a strange and obscene technique! Yan Shigu sighed heartily when he heard him say this.

Su You shook his head and said in his heart, "It turns out that conspiracy theorists are great talents, but scientists have become petty fights." Thinking about it, it was not easy to say this, but said, "Actually, what you do depends on the motive and the result, what you and I do is for the benefit of the public, and the result is also done, that is a good thing." I mentioned that the construction of the starting point academy is also an effective imitation of the meaning of the king and the white bull, and it is not good to say that there is a saying of the king of the east and the west in the "History of Sui" made by later generations. ”

"Yokona, please be cautious. I know what you mean, and I'll keep going, even if the road is full of thorns. ”

Of course, Yan Shigu knew about the Longmen King Bainiu, Wang Bainiu was the "Wenzhongzi" Wang Tong of later generations, although he is only twenty-five years old now, but he also has the ,——name of "Great Confucian", he was twenty-three years old to Emperor Wen to present "Taiping Twelve Strategies", which was deeply appreciated by Emperor Wen, but he was snubbed and excluded when he was discussing the minister, and he also stayed away from the court, and devoted himself to writing books and teaching disciples.

Of course, Su You also knew what Yan Shigu meant when he asked him to be cautious, the revision of history is often the revision of the history of the previous generations, and the "History of the Sui Dynasty" must be revised after the fall of the Sui Dynasty, so he smiled and said, "In any case, readers are all of the same mind, or for the ideal of governing the world, or for the fame of the ages, to sum up a sentence, 'for the country, the people for themselves'." It's just that if you read too many books, troubles will be everywhere, and you will worry about the people when you live in the temple, and you will worry about the king when you are far away from the rivers and lakes. ”

"If you live in a temple, you will worry about its people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about its king. The use of rivers and lakes to describe the deep water of the people is really deafening. Yan Shigu raised his glass and looked at the bright moon outside the window, shaking his head, the moon shadow was hazy, and he seemed to be drunk.

Su You nodded, drank it all, and couldn't help but murmur softly, "Those who know me say I'm worried, and those who don't know me say what I want." Hello sky, who is this! Although it is the same poem as Yang Guang at the beginning, the mood is very different.

Jianghu?

People are rivers and lakes, how do you quit?

When Su You took Xiao Jiu and Qing Jing into the Eastern Capital by boat, Yang Ying greeted him in the heavens and earth near the West City. Heaven and Earth are actually a workshop, in other words, the function of this workshop is the same as that of the notorious Heaven and Earth in later generations.

Su You used to be a poet, not just an attitude towards life, but what he is ominous with those famous poets in history is that he has never been to a place like a teacher's workshop, so at this moment Su You's mind has a stronger feeling of being in the rivers and lakes than ever, as we all know, there are two places where those who are destined to be eradicated by knights in martial arts novels go to the most, except for the gambling house, of course, which is where Su You is now.

Speaking of which, this workshop belongs to a new thing, belongs to a kind of music and dance institution created by the Sui Dynasty, and the main source of these music households, naturally is the children of Zhou Qiliang Chen Lejia, the Sui lord Yang Guang built sixteen courtyards on the side of the dragon scale canal in Xiyuan, the doors are all in the canal, each courtyard is dominated by the four grade of the lady, and the number of palace prostitutes in it reaches more than 20,000 people.

Xiyuan belongs to the management of the palace prostitutes of the inner workshop, in addition to the foreign teaching workshop has four, two in Xijing Chang'an, two in the east of Luoyang, all under the direct jurisdiction of the palace, by the palace appointed by the lieutenant to act as the teaching workshop, in charge of music, singing and dancing, haiyou, miscellaneous arts outside the music, singing, dancing, miscellaneous teaching, performance and other affairs, both men and women, with the majority of female plays. In addition to the internal and external teaching workshops, more are placed by gate valves and wealthy people, such as the heaven and earth where Su You is now.

But the abuse of the teaching workshop may be traced back to Guan Zhong. He once set up "seven hundred women". "Lu" is the door at the entrance of the alley, and "700 female Lu" means that there are 700 prostitutes living on this street, which can really be described as a street of foot therapy and health care. However, at that time, prostitutes were civil servants and were not only listed as businesses, but also under special protection from the government.

Qi was the hegemon at that time, and of course what the hegemon did was imitated by all countries. Yue then became one of the first countries to follow suit, "Wu Yue Chunqiu" contains: "Yue King Goujian once had a widow on the mountain, and the worries of the envoys traveled to entertain him." "The Book of Yue Jue" also contains: "Those who are alone in the mountain, Gou Jian will cut down Wu and put the widow on the mountain, thinking that he is a dead man, and he has not been single-minded." That is to say, Goujian, the king of Yue, was about to attack the state of Wu, and in order to "boost morale" and "labor the army", he gathered the lonely widows who had lost their families and the women who had committed adultery on a mountain to comfort the soldiers and some single men who were far away from the country.

In the Warring States period, cities further emerged, and many of the capitals of the vassal states had brothels called "military markets", mainly to comfort the army, but anyone could go there. Coincidentally, the formal establishment of brothels in the West began with the ancient Greek political reformer Solon, but he was half a century later than Guan Zhong.

"Hengbo, how is the starting point academy? It's really gratifying to hear that you and Yan Shigu are making a lot of trouble over there. Yang Yu patted Su You on the shoulder, and led him and the other person into an elegant room first, and sat down.

Of course, Su You knew that he couldn't care about the starting point academy, otherwise it would be impossible not to go back for more than half a year, and talked a few words about Yan Shigu, and he also said a word about the academy, after all, the academy was too far away from the eastern capital, and Yang Er probably couldn't imagine what the academy was. Su You expressed his gratitude for his concern, and then went straight to the point, "Thank you Your Highness for your concern, I don't know what new plans Your Highness has for the future." ”

"Well, by the way, I almost forgot to introduce you, Su Hengbo in the South China Sea, Qiao Lingze in Luoyang. How close you are. Yang Er used body language to complete the matchmaking between the two as he spoke, and when he saw Su You, Qiao Ling greeted each other, and said, "Ling is a local capable person with a wide range of contacts, and he has done a lot of things recently." ”

Su You originally looked at Qiao Lingze opposite, and had the image of a shrewd man in his mind, listening to Yang Er's vague words, he could probably guess what he was doing, Luoyang was newly built, and the underground forces were originally blank, and all parties would definitely make a difference in this area, and Qiao Lingze, as a local, undoubtedly had an innate advantage. Thinking of this, Su You gave up his hand again, "Then Su You is going to learn more from Brother Qiao." ”

"The ruler is short and the inch is long, you have one article and one martial arts, and you can be my right-hand man. Does Yokobo have any new works recently? ”

Of course, Su You knew what he was referring to, and after saying "not dishonoring the mission", he got up and handed him a drawing.