Many of the restaurants in Lin'an have the dish of 'West Lake vinegar fish'. Choose the West Lake grass carp, the fish is not more than a foot long, the weight is not more than one and a half catties, after slaughtering and cleaning up the wo to boiling soup, cook that is, start the pot, thicken and adjust the juice, pour it on the fish, you can serve it.

As for whether the fish is a grass carp from West Lake, it is difficult to say. But most of the food tastes similar to those of the 21st century, but it's salty. At least in Zhao Jiaren's taste, it is salty enough. Of course, Zhao Jiaren will not say this publicly. I saw that Sima Kao on the opposite side served fish with rice, and he ate very quickly, and it seemed that Sima Kao had no intention of criticizing.

After three rounds of drinking, Sima Kao put down his chopsticks and asked, "I don't know how long Brother Zhao has been in Lin'an?" ”

"It's done, I'll leave tomorrow." Zhao Jiaren replied honestly.

"Tomorrow?" Sima Kao was stunned, and couldn't help but show a disappointed expression on his face.

Zhao Jiaren felt happy in his heart, with the relationship between the two, Sima Kao would not make so many meaningless requests if he learned that Zhao Jiaren would leave tomorrow. Of course, if Sima Kao's request is not excessive, Zhao Jiaren is not ready to refuse.

Sima Kao sighed: "Brother Zhao, you always come and go in such a hurry. I remember that we met in Suzhou, and so did you. The other day, I saw the blacksmith over there. I can't help but feel like time flies. ”

Zhao Jiaren just smiled, and the blacksmith master in Gusu made him feel that the world was unpredictable. The blacksmith sat back and watched his apprentice Zhou Xing be driven away, which led Zhou Xing to defect to Zhao Jiaren twenty years ahead of schedule. The military ships purchased by the imperial court this time all need to be equipped with artillery, which needs to be completed by the iron mold pouring technology that Zhou Xing learned from Zhao Jiaren. This technology was not completed by Zhao Jiaren, but was developed by Zhou Xing in the previous life under Zhao Jiaren's ideas. The twists and turns in the meantime were absolutely unimaginable before Zhao Jiaren experienced them.

Sima Kao didn't know the many thoughts that flashed in Zhao Jiaren's heart at this time, and he continued: "When Jia Xianggong first entered Ezhou, I saw that he could tolerate and be fearless. I didn't expect that Ezhou would have some meaning of retribution. Hehe, I didn't see that he was still a fan Sui. ”

"It's hard for Brother Sima ......, it's hard for Jia Xianggong to think that Brother Sima doesn't respect him enough?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

Sima Kao sighed and didn't answer immediately. Zhao Jiaren was not surprised, he also felt the change in Jia Yidao. What Sima Kao said made Zhao Jiaren sure that this feeling was not unique to him.

"Fortunately, my time for grinding has come, and Jia Xianggong is just a right minister, and he is not in Lin'an." Sima Kao gave an explanation. Although the words look pitiful, they are actually making very severe accusations against Jia Yidao.

Zhao Jiaren was silent and gently stroked the wine glass. He was in no position to criticize it, so he simply did not speak. In the previous life, Zhao Jiaren was not so calm, and he tried to promote the solution of the problem by running and appealing. The problem was not solved, but Zhao Jiaren had a fierce conflict with Jia Nidao, Zhao Jiaren still remembered that Jia Nidao pointed at him and said angrily: "You want to rebel!" ”

Perhaps feeling Zhao Jiaren's calmness, Sima Kao suddenly let out a long sigh, as if he wanted to completely vomit out the depression in his chest. Then he smiled and said, "I heard that the boat built by Brother Zhao is excellent, and General Lu is full of praise. Brother Zhao is so young and so knowledgeable. It's really enviable. ”

"I don't know a lot, I just like to ask a few why." Zhao Jiaren tried his best to pull the topic away from criticizing Jia Nidao.

"Knowledge?" Sima Kao asked. Nowadays, science is the core content of the imperial examination, and one of the most famous concepts of science is to learn from things.

"Brother Sima, do you think we see the sun first, or the sun is there first, and we only see the sun after we are born?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"This ......" No one had ever asked Sima Kao this question, Sima Kao couldn't say it for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, he replied: "Of course the sun came first." ”

Hearing the lack of confidence in Sima Kao's words, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but smile slightly. After the beginning of the People's Republic of China, China entered the era of large-scale education. Through school education, students learn about the existence of the solar system, what the solar system is like, and the fact that the sun and the earth have existed for billions of years. With this knowledge as the foundation, we can easily and without hesitation answer 'the sun existed before me'.

Scholars like Sima Kao did not have these basic knowledge, and they could only determine that the sun had existed for a long time through historical records. As for how long the sun has existed, where the sun exists, and why there are dark nights where the sun does not exist. These readers don't know. For things that are not clear, human beings naturally have no way to make logical judgments.

"Brother Sima, I don't know if you've heard of a saying. The ground beneath our feet is a huge ball. Zhao Jiaren continued to ask.

“…… Seems to have heard of it. Sima Kao replied.

"Your family lives in Gusu, and I want to see the sun rise under the lake. You've probably been to the other side of Taihu Lake, and are you seeing a flat or somewhat curved area? Zhao Jiaren continued to ask.

"I never thought about this ......." Sima Kao's brows furrowed, and a distressed look appeared on his round face.

"I don't want to criticize Zhu Xi, but he thinks that learning from things is to be poor in heaven, to be enlightened, to speak holy words, and to cause accidents. Keli has done very little in the study of the poor heavenly principles. It's all about humanity, holy words, and accidents. If there is no heavenly principle as the foundation, everything that is said is empty to empty. Zhao Jiaren made a rather harsh criticism.

Sima Kao gave Jia Yidao a very severe accusation, and when he heard Zhao Jiaren's severe accusation of science, he couldn't help but be unhappy. He frowned and asked, "How can so many masters of science write books and speak up, how can they be called little researched." ”

Zhao Jiaren raised a bamboo chopstick, "I'll cut this chopstick in half, and then cut half of it in half." Just cut it in half and half, what is left in the end? ”

"Tiny chopsticks?" Sima Kao frowned, and thought for a while before replying, "Is it a very small piece of bamboo?" ”

"How do you know that it's a tiny piece of bamboo, and it's hard to cut it into something indivisible?" Zhao Jiaren continued to ask.

Sima Kao frowned and thought for a while, his puzzled expression turned into a very unhappy expression, and he said in a very unhappy tone: "Brother Zhao, no matter what you say, you can't actually do it. Anyway, if you can't do it, then let someone talk about it. ”

"That's right. That's it. In many things, Rigaku never says that he doesn't know, and when it encounters such things that he doesn't know, Rigaku avoids it. This is not a poor reason. If it's really a poor heavenly principle, then I don't know it now, but it may be possible to know it through research in the future. Zhao Jiaren used Sima Kao's words to express his attitude.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Jiaren actually played a trick of attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son, and Sima Kao's face was even more difficult to look at. He felt that the science he respected had been insulted, but he couldn't come up with a set of arguments to refute it.

At this moment, Sima Kao listened to Zhao Jiaren continue: "Brother Sima, have you seen Kong Ming Lantern? ”

"I've seen it!" Sima Kao replied in a vicious voice, his round face also full of malice.

"If the Kong Ming lantern is big enough, there is a bamboo basket underneath that people can sit in. Do you think people can ride this kind of big Kong Ming lantern to the sky? Zhao Jiaren asked.

Sima Kao had really seen Kong Ming lanterns, and he liked this delicate thing that could fly into the sky. After listening to the design ideas proposed by Zhao Jiaren, Sima Kao suddenly felt that this kind of thing was not impossible. But when he thought about it, Sima Kao was confused. If this can be done, it means that people can fly to the sky. But if people really fly into the sky, a lot of common sense in the past will be broken.

After thinking for a long time, Sima Kao frowned and said, "I don't know. ”

"Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is knowing. Science only mentions knowledge, but rarely ignorance. Not to mention how to deal with the relationship between knowing and not knowing. I don't like it very much. Zhao Jiaren put a close to everything he wanted to say.

Because he was about to go to Quanzhou to take up his post, Zhao Jiaren made a lot of ideas for the future in the days he was waiting in Lin'an. Destroying the Pu family is only the first step, and there are many more enemies after the Pu family. For example, the countries of the South China Sea, such as the future Yuan Dynasty. The weapons used to destroy the enemy must be not only material, but also ideological. In many ways, science is like the enemy of science. The purpose of talking about this with Sima Kao this time is to see how well the intellectuals of the Great Song Dynasty accept the ideological system of science.

Judging from Sima Kao's reaction, Zhao Jiaren is not optimistic.

After separating from Sima Kao, Zhao Jiaren rushed home. After Daddy Zhao Zhizhuo saw the appointment paperwork, he couldn't help but sigh with joy. After seeing it, the old lady was moved to tears. Wiping away her tears, the old lady read the appointment document several times before putting it down.

"Fortunately, I took San Lang away to educate myself back then, and let him follow you, when will you become the governor!" As soon as Mrs. Zhao opened her mouth, she couldn't help choking.

Zhao Jiaren hurriedly went up and took out a handkerchief and handed it to the old lady. When the old lady took the handkerchief and wiped her tears, Zhao Jiaren peeked at his father. Seeing the helpless expression on his father Zhao Zhizhuo's face, although he was ridiculed by his wife, Zhao Zhizhuo couldn't argue in front of the facts. Zhao Jiaren followed his mother and was admitted to Jinshi at the age of thirteen. At the age of twenty, he became a governor. The two sons who followed Zhao Zhizhuo were older than Zhao Jiaren. Now the eldest son, Zhao Jiaxin, looks like he has given up the imperial examination. The second son, Zhao Jiali, is still studying hard.

was slapped in the face by the facts, Zhao Zhizhuo also had a scientific attitude, and he kept silent. While protesting with silence, it also acquiesces in the existence of facts.

Mrs. Zhao calmed down for a moment, and then asked, "When are you going to take office?" ”

"I want to leave tomorrow." When Zhao Jiaren said this, he couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart, he was worried that his mother would be unhappy.

"That's great!" Mrs. Zhao replied decisively. After finishing speaking, she turned her head to look at her husband and said with a smile: "You didn't see your father back then, if it wasn't late and there was no boat, he would have left that night." You and ...... After all, you grew up with me, better than your father! ”