As for how to make the Khitan people like elegance, Zheng Lang didn't say anything more. There are many methods, such as sending literati to communicate with each other and sing harmony, or going one step further, encouraging the Khitan people to believe in Buddhism in disguise, and so on. As long as the ministers approve of this method, it is not a march and a battle, and they are helpless one by one, these dark and harmful skills happen to be good at literati, and I believe that Lu Yijian and others will have many strategies.

I only have the leading opinions later, and the same is true of Confucianism, and no one can reach the commanding heights of the station, but when it comes to the details, it is not as good as many people. If Confucianism hadn't been studied hard behind closed doors for five years, even if it had a commanding height, it wouldn't have been able to show off. Politics is so tender that there is no way to be more tender.

Therefore, I will only name one general direction and why. Then he said, "Your Majesty, can you give your ministers the tools and materials for painting and writing?" ”

"Zheng Jieyuan, are you going to ......" The little emperor thought in his heart, could it be that he took the initiative to write and paint for me?

Dare to think about this good thing.

"Your Majesty, since the Khitan Emperor likes it, start with the ministers, draw a few pictures, and write a few words to him."

The little emperor was a little disappointed, but as he rejoiced again, people were thinking about state affairs, and he couldn't be selfish, and said, "Do you want the Khitan Emperor to become Li Yu?" ”

"That's unlikely, but as long as he becomes a small half of Li Yu, the Khitan will no longer be afraid. In addition, the minister took the initiative to write and paint to him, which also saved him from thinking about the minister's words, and often stole and stole them, and in the end he thought that the minister was an important talent in our dynasty, and maybe even the minister's surname could not be saved. ”

The little emperor was happy.

Most not, but it's always better to take precautions.

He began to paint and write, that is, the paintings and words on the four cylinders, and now he has turned the three-dimensional carving into a flat paper calligraphy and painting, and only two of them have been selected. But at this time, Zheng Lang's calligraphy and painting have made great progress, and at least one stroke of writing is very impressive.

The main government was in the hands of his mother, and the little emperor had nothing to do, so he sat and drank tea and watched him write and paint. I thought in my heart that it was really too small, the beard on my mouth was just a few hairs, and my face was childish. I don't know how this talent is born.

It took a long time to finish the two paintings.

The little emperor smiled again, he was thinking, tomorrow he will send someone to hand over these two paintings to the Khitan envoys, what will be the expressions on the faces of these four envoys? Wouldn't it be ashamed?

Seeing that it was almost the same, Yan Wenying finally spoke: "Zheng Jieyuan, I heard that you like elegant things, do you want to fight tea?" ”

Tea fighting originated in the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty, and was the "elegant play" of many scholars. Look at the color of the soup, the whiter the brown, the better, and the green and white are better than the yellow and white. Second, look at the soup flower, if the soup flower is fine and even, you can bite the mouth of the cup, gather for a long time, on the contrary, it will spread quickly, the soup flower is scattered, the place where the soup and the pot are connected will reveal water marks, the early one is negative, and the late one wins.

If you want to win the tea fight, not only the tea leaves, but also the temperature of the water, the strength of the flush, are very particular, another key factor is the water itself, not only the water should be good, but also the water quality and tea quality should be consistent. Therefore, there is a section of Wang Anshi's tribula Su Dongpo in "Warning to the World", Wang Anshi asked Su Dongpo to take water from Wuxia, but Su Dongpo forgot to sleep and took the water from the gorge to deal with the matter. Wang Anshi drank and asked, He Xiashui, Su Dongpo replied, Wuxia Shui. Wang Anshi said that he came to deceive the old man again. Su Dongpo wondered, the Three Gorges are connected, and the water is different. Wang Anshi said, the water in the upper gorge is urgent, and the taste of cooking tea is too strong. The water in the lower gorge is slow, and the taste of tea is too light. Only the water in the middle gorge is suitable.

When it came to "Dream of Red Mansions", Miaoyu invited Lin Daiyu and them to tea, Lin Daiyu said that it was the rain of the old year, Miaoyu sneered: "You are such a person, you are a vulgar person, you can't even taste water." This is five years ago I lived in the Xuan Tomb Panxiang Temple, harvested the snow on the plum blossoms, and got a flower urn with a grimace, I was always reluctant to eat, buried in the ground, and it only bloomed this summer. I've only eaten it once, and this is the second time. Why can't you taste it? The rain of the next year is so frivolous, how to eat? ”

Zheng Lang knows that different materials will also have an impact on water quality.

But what is the difference between snow water and snow water on this plum blossom?

In his previous life, he was running around for a living, and he couldn't take care of it, but his life was stable in this life, so he experimented curiously, and he was more scientific than Cao Dashen. The water in the snow was not collected, after all, there was dust in the air, and the snow at that time was stained with dust and was not very clean. For the sake of effect, the snow on the plum blossoms was deliberately swept away and the snow was accumulated.

Then the snow water and the snow water on the plum blossoms are hidden in two urns, one large and one small, and they are full of tamping, and the seal of the absolute surname. Otherwise, don't want to drink it until the second year, the water in it will stink. As for Miaoyu's water that has been hidden for five years, how to hide it, Zheng Lang is enchanted and can't figure it out. It just doesn't smell inside, and that bacterium will multiply horribly. Two urns of snow water are then buried in the ground. The next day, I took it out and tried it, whether it was tea fighting or drinking, I didn't feel any difference. It is even possible that because of the long time, the effect of the living water that has not been taken is good.

I know I've been fooled.

As for the difference between the water of the Three Gorges, there is no such condition, and there is no time to test it.

This made him quite depressed when he thought about it.

But the little emperor hesitated, originally to discuss with Yan Wenying, and the little pit Zheng Lang.

However, what he said just now made the little emperor value Zheng Lang even more and didn't want to cheat.

For the time being, Zheng Lang didn't know the strangeness in it, but when he thought of the little emperor's good fortune and his tragic life, he felt compassion in his heart, and replied: "At home, the ministers also occasionally fight with the two little maids, if Your Majesty likes it, the ministers will accompany you." ”

The little emperor was beaming. This is something you agreed to, not something I asked you to do.

In fact, he also liked it, and in his heart he knew the same as the great monk, and knew that it was wrong, but he suppressed the surname for a short time, and said happily: "So good, I fight with you three times." ”

"Accompany you." The little emperor has very few happy times in his life, and the right to make the little emperor rarely happy.

Yan Wenying said again: "Either there is another small lottery." ”

"Little Lottery."

"Yes, Your Majesty, if Zheng Jieyuan wins, Your Majesty will take a calligraphy and painting from the secret pavilion and give it to Zheng Jieyuan, and if Your Majesty wins, Zheng Jieyuan will also write a word for Your Majesty."

Zheng Lang still didn't think about it, and said: "The calligraphy and paintings in the secret pavilion are all rare treasures, and the words of the ministers are not worth it." ”

Just waiting for him to say this, Yan Wenying immediately said: "Then Zheng Xie Yuan will add another color head, add a long and short sentence to each word, how about a painting in the secret pavilion?" ”

"This ......" Zheng Lang was a little unhappy, he could write words, but he couldn't write well, or he had to plagiarize, and he was reluctant in the end. However, seeing the little emperor's expectant eyes, his heart softened again, and he said, "If Your Majesty likes it, please accompany me." ”

The meat show is coming.

The palace maid brought tea, water, teapots, wood stoves, and two rabbit lamps for building kilns. It is not the porcelain bowl produced by the five famous kilns of Ding, Ru, Guan, Ge and Jun in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the black porcelain from Jianzhou. Because the water marks should be inspected when fighting tea, the white water marks can only be seen most clearly in the black tea cup, so the Song people respected the black tea set. The quality of Jianzhou black porcelain in black porcelain is the best, and the black porcelain in Jianzhou is famous for "rabbit hair", "oil droplets", "Yao change" and "partridge spot".

Of course, many things in the palace are what Zheng Lang wants to treasure. But that's also impossible.

Since the tea fight is the same as the tea set, the tea and water are necessarily different. Yan Yingwen came up with another idea and threw copper coins to choose tea. Zheng Lang can't throw it, he is a courtier, so he can only let the little emperor throw it. As a result, I chose tea and water, and began to fight tea. The temperature of the water and the strength of the tea are not words, Zheng Lang is not very familiar with them, and he does not control them well. The little emperor is about the same. The two of them are half a pound and eight taels. It can only depend on the luck of the two. The tea cakes are mashed separately, ground into very fine tea powder, and then mixed into a paste and placed in a tea cup. It's time to start filling with water.

The utensils used by the royal family are good, the tea is good, and the soup flowers are long-lasting. But Zheng Lang was unlucky and lost the first game first. I had to come again, or lose. In the third game, he also lost.

The little emperor looked at Zheng Lang happily and wrote.

I was willing to lose the bet, so I had to choose three suitable poems from the elegant words written by Zhou Bangyan and write them on yellow silk with a pen. Anyway, Zhou Bangyan is not a very good courtier, and there is no guilt for copying him. Zheng Lang saluted and said: "Then Your Majesty, the minister will retire." ”

The little emperor was holding the silk and looking at it, muttering: "Good words, good sentences." ”

I've been looking forward to it for a long time, and I'm very excited to finally get it. He didn't even look up and said, "Okay." Go ahead. ”

Zheng Lang shook his head and glanced at Yan Wenying, who followed. Zheng Lang said: "Your Majesty is rarely happy, and the minister is also happy." It's okay to teach Your Majesty this kind of two-sided trick again. ”

Lose three games in a row, only to see the hell. In the third game, I paid attention, kept my eyes on it, and finally saw through this little trick. You are not Di Qing, and I am not a soldier under Di Qing.

"So you know everything?" Yan Wenying opened his mouth in surprise.

"Well, why don't you say it?"

"I said that it would be rare for Your Majesty to be happy, so why do you need to say it?" After Zheng Lang finished speaking, he walked outside the palace.

Yan Wenying hurriedly ran back and said, "Your Majesty, it's not good. ”

The little emperor was still holding this silk, admiring the words and three new words on it, and he didn't raise his head, and said, "Yan Duzhi, what's wrong?" ”

"Zheng Jieyuan knew that we had minted two-sided money, and deliberately lured him."

"What?" The little emperor was so frightened that he let go of his hand, and the yellow silk cloth fell to the ground.

Yan Wenying said while picking it up: "He said that he asked the ministers not to come up with these bad ideas in the future, just to enjoy His Majesty, so he pretended not to know." ”

The little emperor couldn't be happier. After all, it is the eternal Renjun, and it is not mature yet, but there are already some embryos of Renjun. I don't know, just pretend to be stupid, I know, it's not right to partner with the eunuchs in the palace to trick a future important minister of the Song Dynasty.

said frustratedly: "This kid of the Zheng family is too smart." ”

"Not really."

Then he thought, and then said, "Go and call him back." ”

"Whoa." Yan Wenying trotted all the way, caught up with Zheng Lang again, and said, "Your Majesty will send you back." ”

Zheng Lang came to the hall again, and the little emperor said, "I'm ashamed to have done something wrong. ”

With this sentence, it was enough to make Zheng Lang's heart warm, look, it was really Mingjun, and said: "Your Majesty, it doesn't hurt to relax once in a while, the minister didn't feel bad." ”

The more Zheng Lang said this, the more the little emperor felt sorry and uneasy, and said, "Yan Duzhi, you go to the secret pavilion ......."

"Your Majesty can't, the previous mistake is one, if it is because the minister admonishes for the Khitan matter, the reward is clear and the reward is clear, if it is only because of the words and long and short sentences, the minister is worried about setting this precedent and delaying the descendants." Zheng Lang interrupted the little emperor's words. In fact, Zheng Lang wanted it very much, but he was afraid that the Qingliu and the Gentlemen Party would make a big fuss about it in the future, so he didn't dare to ask for it. I had to say something high-sounding. In a sense, I also vaguely know that I am overspoiled, and the more I do this, the more humble I must be.

"Then use the ...... just now"

"Things have changed, I didn't reward it just now, but now I reward it, and when it is passed out, others still think that it is because of the words and long and short sentences, and your majesty, the ministers will not accept it. As long as Your Majesty concentrates on the country and occasionally has a good time, what does it matter if the minister composes a few long and short sentences? ”

"Zheng Xie Yuan......" The little emperor's words warmed Zheng Lang's heart, Zheng Lang's words warmed the little emperor's heart even more, and after the little emperor shouted, a thousand words were stuck in his throat and couldn't be spoken!