The two took the map drawn by Cui Bai, walked around the deserted garden, and then sat down to drink water and talk on a large rock in a clearing.

"This time, the official family recruited you back, what are you sure about?" Chen Ke took a sip of wine and said.

"I have already faced the saint, and ordered me to supervise the army in Guangxi and fight against Jiaozhi."

"I see," Chen Ke said with a smile, "This is a great thing." ”

"What's so good?"

"Let you and not let anyone else go."

"How?"

"Because I built the Dongchuan Army single-handedly." Chen Ke smiled faintly.

"You mean?" Zhao Zongji said with a grim gaze.

"Maybe the official family is just to make sure that nothing goes wrong......," Chen Ke shook his head and said, "But it's a good thing anyway." ”

"Yes," Zhao Zongji nodded, and said with a worried face: "In terms of river workers, I can't argue with Zongshi, instead of arguing there all day long, it is better to go south." It's just that without me pressing the progress, they will close the dragon earlier in order to show their ability. ”

"The wood is already in the boat, and none of us can change it." Chen Ke sighed and said, "Try to reduce the disaster." ”

"There's no need to worry too much, the people of Hebei Road are afraid of being flooded, and when they hear the wind and grass, they will hide north."

"What does Wang Yuanze think?" Chen Ke asked.

"What the hell ......" Zhao Zongji hesitated for a moment, and said, "Let me wait and see what happens." ”

"Although no one is a little more like this," Chen Ke nodded slowly, "but it is true." ”

"He also has a strategy for me, which he is going to present to the official family when he meets the saint next time."

"What's the strategy?"

"It's about the use of soldiers. Let Sun Tshuai attack Jiaozhi in Guangyuan Prefecture, and then I will land from the coast with a naval division and raid its national capital. Zhao Zongji said with some excitement.

"What?" Chen Ke was surprised: "Sea and land pinch? ”

"Yes." Zhao Zongji nodded and said, "Although it is a bit risky, if it is done, it will be a miracle!" ”

Chen Ke fell silent. Liang Jiufang looked up and said, "It's not appropriate." ”

"What's wrong?"

"There are three inappropriate, one is that Jiaozhi has 100,000 armor in China. It is also located in the miasma barbarian. If you lead your army deep into it, I am afraid that before you can fight, you will have lost two or three out of ten. Chen Ke said in a deep voice: "Therefore, it is not Tang Zong Han Wu." When the national power was at its peak, the Central Plains was beyond the reach of Jiaozhi. Now the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are depressed, how can they have the ambition to punish those who offend our Chinese even if they are far away? If you rashly send an army against its own land, you are afraid that there will be many evils and few good fortunes. ”

"Hmm......" Zhao Zongji's face became grim, although Wang Yan was scheming, he was more willing to believe in Chen Ke. What's more, Chen Ke has also stayed in Guangxi for two years, so he naturally understands the situation there.

"Both, even if you defeat Cochin or even incorporate it into the territory, it doesn't mean much." Chen Ke smiled bitterly: "I don't believe you look at the reaction of the imperial court after Dali was annexed. Although the monarch was very excited at that time. But the hot cháo soon passed, because Dali was too far away to threaten the Central Plains. For the zhōngyāng regime, nothing but boasting about martial arts is useless, but rather a heavy burden. That's why Zhao Kuangyin didn't go south after taking Shuzhong.

If it weren't for the continuous output of Yunnan copper, I am afraid that the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty would not agree to continue to garrison troops in Dali.

"Although Jiaozhi also has copper mines, the imperial court already has Dali ......," Chen Ke explained for Zhao Zongji, "so even if you eat Jiaozhi, it won't give you too many points." And I'm afraid it will give the officials and ministers the impression that you are reckless. After a pause, he said, "Who dares to entrust the country to you?" ”

Zhao Zongji's face became ugly.

"There is a third one. If you fail, you're all about it. It's not enough to give it a go! ”

"I was almost mistaken by Wang Yuanze!" Wait for Chen Ke to finish. Zhao Zongji stumbled and said, "Then what should I do?" ”

"Now that the imperial court is in financial difficulties, and the southwest is not the focus," Chen Ke said in a deep voice: "So this is doomed, the smaller the cost of solving the problem, the more you can make the officials and ministers look high." ”

"Not bad." Zhao Zongji nodded and said, "Why teach me?" ”

"In military matters, you can just listen to Sun Wei, he has fought in Guangxi for many years, even if he can't win, he won't lose too badly." Chen Ke said: "I only have one suggestion, that is, in fact, the reason why the clown dares to repeatedly violate the border is because the imperial court regards Yongzhou as the last line of defense, and the area south of Zhizhi does not care." The barbarians living there could not get the protection of the imperial court, so they had to endure the invasion of the Jiaozhi people, and even became embarrassed with them. ”

Zhao Zongji nodded and listened intently to what he said.

"After you arrive in Yongzhou, you should try to gather the forty-five tribal leaders in the Zuojiang and Youjiang regions to discuss important matters in Yongzhou." Chen Ke said in a deep voice: "For example, please ask the imperial court to set up a general, recast the seal to these people, and exempt each mountain from paying taxes, but the price is that each mountain has to send Ding Zhuang to form a Guangyuan Prefecture army to resist the invasion of Jiaozhi." As long as these tribes can be united, the Jiaozhi people will not be able to take advantage of it, and can only obediently retreat. ”

"If you can bring them together, everything will be fine." Zhao Zongji thought about it for a moment and hesitated: "But if it were that simple, I'm afraid someone would have done it a long time ago." ”

"Yes, they don't have that, but you do." Chen Ke pointed with his chin at the bald guard standing in the distance and said: "In the Dongchuan Army, there are children of every tribe, how many years have they been robes, and they are naturally close...... If you let some people keep their military status, return to their own tribe, convince their elders, and then let them form their own escort team, it shouldn't be difficult to twist into a rope, right? ”

"It turns out that you formed the Dongchuan Army, and there is such a use!" Zhao Zongji couldn't help but admire: "This will definitely be no problem." ”

"These guards of mine are from the Dongchuan Army," Chen Ke said with a smile: "I'll give you ten people and let them help you communicate with the whole army." ”

"Great!" Zhao Zongji's worries were swept away, and he laughed and said, "In this way, why worry about the big thing? ”

A few days later, Zhao Zongji went south to Guangxi and left Bianjing City. By the time I received his letter again, it was already autumn......

At this time, the autumn championship kicked off, and 64 jīng English teams fought against each other, single-elimination elimination, stronger teams, more exciting games, and more exciting wins and losses, all of which firmly attracted the hearts of the people of Bianjing.

Five miles outside the Nanxun Gate, a stadium like a behemoth was erected in the eyes of people at this time. Although its appearance is still very rough due to the rush of work, it can accommodate more than 20,000 people to watch the battle, which naturally creates an unparalleled atmosphere on the spot.

In each round of the competition, the organizing committee will select a key battle and place it in the stadium. Because there are too many people who want to enter the stadium to watch the game, the organizing committee 'can only' adopt the method of selling tickets and allowing the audience to enter with tickets. The venue is still full, and the income is very considerable.

The stadium has also built a VIP area that can accommodate hundreds of people, and the price is dozens of times higher than that of ordinary tickets, and it is still difficult to find a ticket. Chen Ke has long figured out the psychology of rich people, and knows that these people don't care about money, but they are willing to spend this money if they can show themselves in front of others and show that they are superior.

According to the Jewish accountant of the tournament, if enough stadiums were built, the ticket revenue, together with the revenue from the sale of goods in the stadium, would cover all expenses.

The ball game is in full swing here, and it's time for the autumn feast over there.

This year's banquet speakers included Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong and Chen Ke...... Lecturing with three of the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties made Chen Ke feel a lot of pressure.

In fact, he doesn't have to be presumptuous, because a book of "Shangshu Apocryphal Scripture Examination" has established his status as a master of scriptures. There was an endless stream of scholars who came to ask for advice or challenges, and some even wanted to worship him as a teacher, but Chen Ke was too busy to have a deep conversation with them.

Last year, he became popular by talking about fakes, and this year everyone wants to know which classic he is going to continue firing against. However, Chen Ke did not destroy it this year, he extracted two articles in the "Little Dai Li Ji", "The Mean" and "University", and listed them alongside "Analects" and "Mencius", calling them "Four Books".

Those who have read the "Examination of the Apocryphal Scriptures of Shangshu" know that he admires "The Mean" and "University", and now seeing that it is listed as the "Four Books" alongside "Analects" and "Mencius", Zhao Zhen asked: "Why do you want to take out the "Four Books" from the Thirteen Classics? ”

"The Thirteen Classics are extremely complex, with rituals, history books, poems, and divination, all of which are soaked in the jīng gods of the sages, but for scholars, it is really difficult and ethereal to understand the way of the sages from poetry or history books. The mixture of classics is probably my Song Ru. To this day, it is not possible to accurately describe the important reasons for the way of the saints. ”

"Therefore, it took many years for Weichen to find out these four articles from the Thirteen Classics that specifically talk about self-cultivation and Qi family's rule of the country and the world, and the scholar first concentrated on studying the "Four Books", and then read other classics after he understood the way of the sage, and naturally its meaning will be self-revealed, and there will be no misunderstanding."

"Oh, that's kind of interesting." Zhao Zhen smiled and looked at the ministers and said, "Let's listen to him talk about how the sage cultivated Qi Zhiping." ”

The ministers also nodded.

So Chen Ke began to talk about "The Mean", saying: "What is not biased is the middle, and what is not easy is the mean." The middle is the right way of the world, and the theorem of the mediocre is heaven. ”

Chen Ke is not the first to emphasize "The Mean", in fact, Ercheng admires this article very much, but before the two of them can produce results, he took the lead.

The so-called golden mean is not the 'neutrality and mediocrity' that modern people generally understand, but the main purpose of the Confucian method of cultivating people - erudition, interrogation, prudence, discernment, and practice.

It also includes the introduction of Confucian norms of human life - monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, husbands and wives, brothers, friends and wisdom, benevolence, courage, etc.

The highest level of cultivation pursued by him is sincerity and virtue.

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The next update will have to be sent tomorrow morning. (To be continued......)

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