"San Lang." Hearing this greeting, Zhao Jiaren raised his head and saw his eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin standing at the door.

"Big brother ......" Zhao Jiaren was quite surprised for a while. Zhao Jiaren's mother gave birth to five children, three boys and two girls, all of whom have survived to this day. With the population mortality rate of the Song Dynasty, it was normal for the children of the emperor's family to die young, and none of the children of the Zhao family died, which is a relatively rare situation.

Zhao Jiaren's mother didn't want to leave Quanzhou, so Zhao Jiaren's father, Zhao Zhizhuo, took his eldest son and second son to study with him. Leaving his youngest son, Zhao Jiaren, with his mother. Zhao Jiaren doesn't hate his two elder brothers, but he always feels a little angry. At this time, he was also quite surprised to see his eldest brother coming.

"Big brother...... how is your father?" Zhao Jiaren finally expressed the uneasiness in his heart.

"Father is very angry with you. He sent me to take you to Qingyuan Mansion. Zhao Jiaxin answered Zhao Jiaren's question.

“…… It's good. Zhao Jiaren replied briskly.

This time it was Zhao Jiaxin's turn to be puzzled, Dad saw the latest newspaper in Qingyuan Mansion, and after getting the news from Qingliu's friend, he was angry. scolded Zhao Jiaren, a rebel, and claimed to let Zhao Jiaren resign. Zhao Jiaxin felt that his father was angry, but Zhao Jiaren was not ashamed of what he had done, but proud, Zhao Jiaxin felt that his third brother would probably have a sparkling collision when he saw his father Zhao Zhizhuo.

Zhao Jiaxin persuaded, "San Lang, you...... Don't go. I'll give you an idea, and now you write an honest letter, saying that you are young and ignorant, and that you have been calculated by traitors, and now you know that you are wrong. In the future, I will be conscientious and law-abiding. ”

Listening to his brother's words, Zhao Jiaren felt a little crying and laughing. My brother followed his father Zhao Zhizhuo to study, how did he become a nerd in school. The entrance examination is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of horses and thousands of troops, and the same is true after becoming an official. Don't look at Zhao Jiaren as if he has offended people at this time, Ding Daquan's official position is about four or five years stable, no problem. The performance of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty was evaluated every three years, and at that time, Zhao Jiaren returned to the capital for evaluation, and he had an innate advantage.

Of course, in the three years at the local level, Zhao Jiaren also needs to earn money without accidents. Money can be channeled! Even if it is a local political achievement, the filial piety that should be given to all the bigwigs after entering Beijing must not be missing. In addition, you also need to make friends with people from all walks of life in the capital, mix up familiar faces, and expand your influence and popularity.

Combining the above efforts, you have the opportunity to find a better errand for yourself.

The reason why he went to see his father so frankly this time was that Zhao Jiaren didn't want to argue with his father, let alone show his 'eight kings'. In the last life, when he was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of twenty-six, his father Zhao Zhizhuo was already a Beijing official and stood in the main position of officialdom in battle. A few years after Zhao Jiaren entered Beijing to work, his father retired and went home because of poor health. Then the Mongols moved south, and the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed. So much so that Zhao Jiaren didn't know which way his father ate.

This time the situation is special, even if he is scolded, Zhao Jiaren needs to go to Qingyuan Mansion to find out his father's hole cards first. Ding Daquan's use value is basically over, and Zhao Jiaren feels that he can't stand on the battlefield where father and son fight each other.

So Zhao Jiaren smiled: "Big brother." I'm not going to get angry with anyone this time. There are some things that my father knows that I don't know, and there are some things that I know my father doesn't know. At this point, the two of us need to exchange these things with each other. Find the one path that will do the most good for both of us. If this is the case, I must go to my father. ”

From Fuqing to Qingyuan Mansion, Zhao Jiaren also used the fastest speed. It seems that someone is probably behind the scenes, and the official documents given to him have not yet arrived. At this time, I just took advantage of this time to quickly deal with my own affairs. When the two brothers entered the Qingyuan Mansion, Zhao Zhizhuo was still slightly frightened.

After serving as an official abroad for so many years, every three years I have to go through the experience of going from the place where I am an official to Lin'an. Zhao Zhizhuo knows the hardships and speed of the road. The speed of Zhao Jiaxin's back and forth this time made Zhao Zhizhuo suspect that the two brothers had not slept at all, and they spent all their time on the road.

However, he was slightly moved in his heart, Zhao Zhizhuo still let Zhao Jiaxin leave with a straight face, and he took Zhao Jiaren into the study. Sitting down on the chair, Zhao Zhizhuo asked in a deep voice, "Do you know why I asked you to come?" ”

The son guessed that it was probably because his father had some connections that opposed Ding Daquan. The people over there sent people to complain to my father, and even said something threatening. Zhao Jiaren answered his father's question bluntly.

Zhao Zhizhuo was stunned, he thought that his son either didn't know anything, or he was talking nonsense because of timidity. Unexpectedly, the son in front of him actually talked seriously about his speculation about officialdom. These speculations are quite accurate. At this time, Zhao Zhizhuo didn't know what to say. Or rather, he couldn't even get his position right for a while. Whether to use his father's position or an official's position, Zhao Zhizhuo was undecided.

Zhao Jiaren quietly waited for his father Zhao Zhizhuo to speak. In the Song Dynasty, only Jinshi had privileges, such as not paying taxes on acres of land, and providing an umbrella for the family industry through intertwined relationships. After arriving in the Ming and Qing dynasties, even Xiucai had privileges. The result is the production of large quantities of poor acid.

The result of the emergence of poor acid is that the three platforms and five constants have been vulgarized and extreme. The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die for loyalty; The father wants the son to die, and the son has to die, for filial piety. This is the that the famous literary prostitute Ji Xiaolan of the Manchu Qing Dynasty said. And the disgusting "Disciple Rules" was written by a poor scholar in Shaanxi.

In the face of his father's accusations, Zhao Jiaren also wanted to see what level his father's ideological level belonged to. This time I have walked a long way with my eldest brother, and the two brothers have communicated a lot, and Zhao Jiaren's evaluation of my eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin is not low.

"I ask you, did anyone instigate you?" Zhao Zhizhuo spoke.

"If my father refers to me following the path of Ding Daquan, it is all my own idea. Ding Daquan needs immediate credit at this time, and someone has to help. This kind of opportunistic scheme is what I came up with. After saying this, Zhao Jiaren saw that his father Zhao Zhizhuo didn't fully believe it, so he could only add, "No matter how unfilial the son is, he won't deceive his father because he wants to do it for others." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Zhizhuo's face looked a little better, but then it became more gloomy, "You are young, you have no errands at this time, and you just have to wait a few more years." If such a thing is done now, how will the road go in the future? ”

"Father, if you look at things in officialdom, it is indeed as my father said. I'm so anxious for quick success, and something big will inevitably happen in the future. But jumping out of this circle, from the perspective of the world, it is very different. The Mongols destroyed the Jin for about 20 years, and during the 20 years, the Mongols gradually took control of the old land of the Jin Kingdom. At most, five years, Inner Mongolia will go south. We are the relatives of the Zhao family, if the Great Song is gone, we will have nothing. At this time, I was in a hurry to achieve success, just to climb to the official position of contributing to the country before the Mongols went south. When the time comes, if I can contribute to the country, firstly, I will be worthy of my ancestors and ancestors, and secondly, everything I have done before will disappear. Even if someone is unhappy, they will not continue to pursue it. ”

Zhao Jiaren talked eloquently in the face of his father, and he had no scruples at all. From the previous conversation, Zhao Jiaren can see that Zhao Zhizhuo has defined his position as a dialogue in officialdom. This attitude is very different from that of the poor people of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The key to being poor is not that they are sour, but that they are poor. It is precisely because they are poor that they have low self-esteem and try to build a world with themselves as the core.

Although the science of the Southern Song Dynasty also had such serious problems, it was good that these people in the Southern Song Dynasty were not so poor.

Listening to his son's words, Zhao Zhizhuo could no longer maintain his composure. He was furious in his heart, and when he heard it, he said angrily: "Enough! ”

Zhao Zhizhuo watched his son stop talking, and looked up at himself. The deep look in his eyes made Zhao Zhizhuo feel strongly uneasy. Then, Zhao Zhizhuo listened to his son Zhao Jiaren continue: "Father, you and I both know that Mongolia is going south, and my Great Song Dynasty is in danger of destroying the country. None of us want to face that kind of strong enemy. Father, you can shut me up, but you can't let the Mongols listen to you. In that case, why don't we abandon our illusions and face the present? ”

There was something very instinctive that made Zhao Zhizhuo want to be angry with Zhao Jiaren, but the cognition accumulated from long-term study and recuperation extinguished this impulse. Regardless of whether what Zhao Jiaren did was right or wrong, Zhao knew that his anger was entirely out of fear of Mongolia's southward movement. And Zhao Jiaren was right, Zhao Zhizhuo had no way to command Mongolia, and the Southern Song Dynasty could not let Mongolia dispel its ambitions. It was only a matter of time before Mongolia went south.

Since his son Zhao Jiaren chose his actions based on such reasons, Zhao Zhizhuo asked his son Zhao Jiaren to go down to rest first. He needed some time to sort out his thoughts in the context of Mongolia's southward journey.

Two days after Zhao Jiaxin returned to Qingyuan Mansion, he was called to the study by his father Zhao Zhizhuo. Zhao Zhizhuo asked, "Jiaxin, do you want to go to Fuqing with your brother?" ”

In the past two days, there has been no incident of his father Zhao Zhizhuo beating Zhao Jiaren at home, although the father and son are not good-looking, they do not look like they are fighting each other. Zhao Jiaxin felt very happy. But Dad's question made Zhao Jiaxin puzzled again. He asked tentatively, "I don't know what my father sent me to do." ”

"Your brother is lonely in Fuqing, and there is no family to help him, so I'm afraid he won't be able to keep busy. In addition, your brother is sometimes too detached, you have always been steady, and if your brother wants to act recklessly, you, as an elder brother, must persuade him. Zhao Zhizhuo assigned the task to his eldest son.

“…… Then I will participate in the scientific expedition......" Zhao Jiaxin asked tentatively, his most important work in the past 20 years.

"The teacher I found you can't teach, and I can't teach people myself. But I've delayed you. The ancients said that when you travel thousands of miles, you can read thousands of miles. You are also looking for things you like to do in Fuqing this time. It makes no difference in the matter of scientific research in the early years and in the late years. Look at today's Xianggong Ding Daquan, he was only admitted to the imperial examination at the age of 48. You're still young......"

Zhao Jiaxin was sure that he could finally leave his father's side and go out, and he was very happy in his heart. After a moment, an inexplicable fear arose.