Chapter 8 The Debate on the Rise of Fame in the Li Mansion

"This poetry meeting, there are a lot of masterpieces, we have been appreciating by ourselves, and selected three poems as the top three of the poetry meeting, first of all, this is an example, the third place is Feng Hong, Feng Yongcai's seven-word quatrain.

The majestic imperial city rises from the ground, and the mighty king sets Yanyun.

Thousands of miles away to fight in the northern Xinjiang, if you don't break Nanjing, you will not return.

The scholar holds the pen and settles the world, and has never gone out to know the past and the present.

He sought social support in the court and assisted the holy dynasty to Anli people.

This poem shows the revenge in the chest of my readers, bold words, and magnificent, ranking third. “

"Congratulations, Brother Feng." "Congratulations to Feng Yanei." Everyone clasped their fists and congratulated.

"Although I didn't get the first place, this result is also good," Feng Hong thought in his heart, and glanced at Xu Hui not far away, "Look at how arrogant this guy is for a while, today's humiliation and today's snow will definitely make you have no face to entangle Yan Ru's little lady." Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Yan Ru's beautiful face, and Yan Ru showed nervousness on his face, and he couldn't help but feel even more proud.

"Ahem," Luo Congyan cleared his throat and continued: "Today's second place is the son of Governor Li, Li Du, Li Jichang. An article "Bodhisattva Man" writes the aspirations of our generation of scholars to serve the country and take the world as their own responsibility.

The blood on the battlefield of Yanyun is like water, how many robes and tears are there in the middle? Scholars view the world and step through thousands of mountains. Mountains and rivers look for clear roads, muddy water boats. The Son of Heaven needs my generation to advise the people. ”

"Good words." "Brother Li is talented." The voices of praise were endless, and Li Du returned the salute with a smile.

"Okay, all the talents, today's first place is still commented by the teacher, Mr. Kameyama." Mr. Yuzhang turned around and bowed. Yang Shi got up from the Taishi's chair, shook his sleeves, and didn't see anything in his hand, and said loudly: "Today's first place, it can be said that the essence is deserved, today's situation is not optimistic, the Liao light war, the implementation of unwise, now the traitor in the DPRK and the Chinese government is in charge, the old man has also directly admonished, how can the traitorous party be powerful." Alas, consciously serving the country is not conscious, but our generation must always make unremitting efforts to face difficulties, to show Confucianism and righteousness, Xu Hui Xiaoyou's "Breaking the Array", to write such a magnificent and sincere and tenacious words at such an age, it is not easy.

Drunk to pick up the lamp to look at the sword, dreaming back to blow the horn company camp. Eight hundred miles of fire, fifty strings turned over the outside sound, and the battlefield was an autumn soldier.

The horse-made Lu was fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt. But the king of the world, won the name before and after his death. Poor white happens! ”

After listening to the first paragraph, I felt the urgency of the battlefield and the solemn feeling of the battle, and after listening to the latter paragraph, I felt that a scholar was full of talent, but it was difficult to display, and an indomitable spirit, is it true that the current Great Song Dynasty is not like this?

There are only two people in the field who are not thinking about this poem, one is Yan Ru, the other is Feng Hong, Yan Ru heard that Ai Lang won the first place, and his heart suddenly bloomed, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked at Ai Lang with even more tenderness.

And Feng Hong, at this time, felt a buzzing in his head, opened his mouth, panted heavily, and his heart was depressed. It is true that a person, especially a narrow-minded person, can endure the defeat of the battle of words, but how can the resentment in his heart be calmed when he is defeated in the place where he is most proud.

Feng Chu looked at his son's ugly face, but said that his son's heart was very high, and he was inevitably depressed when he finished third, but he didn't care much. Standing up with a smile, "Young Junyan, a banquet has been set up in the house, let us drink happily and feel the elegance of this literary style." ”

Xu Hui, Li Du, and Feng Hong were invited to have a banquet at the first table with Yang Shi and others, and Feng Hong took advantage of being unwell and went home to rest first.

During the banquet, Xu Hui had a very happy conversation with the big figures, talking about poetry and songs, Confucian and Taoist classics, and relying on the insights of later generations, he always had unique words, which made people's eyes shine.

After being full of wine and food, he went home, Li Miao invited Xu Hui to go back to the mansion for a while, Xu Hui confessed to Yan Yi, and followed Li Miao.

In the study of the Li Mansion, the servants retreated after serving tea, and only Li Miao's father and son and Xu Hui were left in the room, "Xu Hui, today's song "Breaking the Array" is really a blockbuster, such a masterpiece is afraid that it will soon be famous all over the world, remember not to be impetuous." ”

"Xiaomin wakes up, poetry and poetry are not the road in the end, Wen Tao Wu strategy, Kuang Shi Ji people, is the lifelong pursuit of my generation."

"What a Wen Taowu strategy, Kuang Shi Jimin, Xu Hui, I hit your father at first sight, and we are friends on an equal footing, you and I are called uncles and nephews." Li Miao stroked his beard and praised.

"Yes, Uncle Lee."

"The thesis is only strategic, Zhongyuan's family history is unknown, not to mention the virtuous nephew, but I don't know what the vision of the virtuous nephew is? Well, now that I am in the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, Lianjin destroyed Liao, I don't know what the virtuous nephew thinks? Li Miao paused and continued to ask.

"Uncle Li, the little nephew has some opinions on this, but it is superficial, and I hope that my uncle will correct it." Xu Hui said modestly.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"The current imperial court's policy of linking gold to destroy Liao is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, and this way of self-destruction is really not advisable." Xu Hui's words were astonishing.

"Xu Hui, now my Great Song Dynasty has millions of soldiers, and with the power of the Great Victory over Western Xia, and the Jin soldiers are sandwiched between the north and the south, and the sixteen states of Yanyun can be recovered in an instant, and at that time, I have the Great Wall in the north of the Great Song Dynasty as a barrier, and there is a rich land in the south of the Yangtze River for money and food, and the glory of the Tang Dynasty is just around the corner, how can it be self-destruction?" Li Du heard Xu Hui's astonishing words and retorted.

"Uncle Li, Brother Ji Chang, my Great Song Dynasty has three redundancies, redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses, which leads to bureaucratic corruption, the treasury is empty, and what is even more terrible is that the army's combat effectiveness is low. Some time ago, I heard from people who ran business in the north of my family that the elite of the Western Army led by Master Tong was defeated by the remnants of the Liao State with a weak victory, and now they are afraid to avoid the war and cannot hold out. Xu Hui analyzed.

"Fighting, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and if you can't stick to it, you can use static braking to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun with a contract, and achieve your goal, and there are fewer lost soldiers, wouldn't it be better." Li Du retorted again.

Brother Li said this. What are the Jurchens? Barbarians won't tell you anything about benevolence, righteousness and morality at all, and that contract is probably a piece of waste paper in their eyes. Having said that, without the support of strong force, the contract itself was a dead letter, and it was only by virtue of military victories that Kolai Gong was able to have an alliance with Liao in exchange for more than a hundred years of peace between Song and Liao. Now that the reality of the low military strength of my Great Song Dynasty is naked in front of the Jurchens, when the Jurchens destroy Liao, how can they not covet the flowers and rivers of my Great Song Dynasty. Xu Hui said.

"However, it was my Great Song Dynasty that possessed the sixteen states of Yanyun, repaired the Great Wall, and trained male soldiers to say that it was not so easy for the Jurchens to go south." Li Du is also striving for.

"Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures? Great Wall? Not to mention what the sixteen states of Yanyun will be broken into, let's just say that the Great Wall is guarded, throughout history, when did the Great Wall really block the iron cavalry of the northern barbarians, and the strong Han Sheng Tang Dynasty did not rely on the strength of its own military strength Yang Weisaiwai. Even if we train in the army, it is difficult to become an army in a few years, will the Jurchens give us time? Soon after they destroyed Liao, they attacked Taiyuan all the way, attacked Yanyun all the way, and then went straight to Bianjing. Xu Hui sighed.

"This, this ......" Li Du didn't know how to argue for a while.

"Okay, you two don't have to argue, in the early years, I told Master Tong not to do the strategy of destroying Liao, the Great Liao has been Mu Han for a long time, and I am a brotherly state of the Great Song Dynasty, the peace situation is not easy, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, the Jurchen wolf ambition will invade my Great Song Dynasty after destroying the Liao. Why, Master Tong couldn't listen to it, and said like the official family said that I was hindering the plan to destroy Liao, and the official family had already issued an edict to reprimand me, and I wanted to resign from the official position, and I wrote the resignation. Li Miao said quietly, her face full of sadness.

"Uncle Li, no, the more you can't resign at this time, you should rectify the real armament, train the soldiers, even if the Jin army goes south, you must check a nail on their way." Xu Hui knew that in history, Li Miao resigned because of this, and it was not activated until the Jin army went south, and he was promoted to the envoy of Hebei West Road.

"Yes, Daddy, what Xu Hui said is reasonable......" Li Du also tried his best to persuade him.

"Okay, let me think about it again, Xu Huixian's nephew is talented, Ji Chang, you have to be closer in the future." Li Miao said to the two.

"Yes, uncle." "Yes, father."