Before you know it, the sun is overhead. Zhao Xiangxiang and Luo Yanran didn't have enough fun, and they had to go shopping, Zhao Xiangxiang's personal maid Xiaoju couldn't help but shout: "Miss, we, let's not go shopping, Yun'er and I can't take it!" I saw that the arms of the two little maids behind the two were full of all kinds of things that their young lady bought, rouge gouache was naturally indispensable, and there were many kinds of gadgets, in short, as soon as the two girls saw what they liked, they all bought it, and unconsciously, the two little maids couldn't hold it.

Zhao Xiangxiang and Luo Yanran couldn't help but smile when they saw the embarrassed appearance of the two little maids, Zhao Xiangxiang said to Luo Yanran: "Sister, it's really not early, let's go back." Luo Yanran didn't want to go back, and said: "Sister, when my little sister was in Yangzhou, I heard for a long time that Tianjing Hotel was a place where the world's delicacies gathered, so why don't we go there for lunch." Zhao Xiangxiang has a supple personality, and when she heard Luo Yanran say this, she naturally didn't have any opinions, so a few people turned east from the street corner not far in front of her and went to the Tianjing Hotel.

When the four of them came to the Tianjing Hotel, they saw that the lobby was crowded with people, and there was no vacancy for a long time. Luo Yanran rushed over, and couldn't help but be disappointed when she saw this scene. Zhao Xiangxiang said with a smile: "The business of Tianjing Hotel is very good, even if you come in the morning, there may not be a seat, let's go back." Luo Yanran sighed, and a few people prepared to leave. At this moment, a maid from the Tianjing Hotel trotted up to catch up, Ying Ying bowed, and then said, "An uncle invited four girls over to drink!" ”

The four of them were slightly surprised, and Luo Yanran asked, "What uncle?" The maid raised her right hand and pointed to the distant window, "It's the old man watching from the window." The four of them looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, they saw a man waving and smiling in this direction. The four girls couldn't help but be happy, because the person who waved at them was none other than Yang Peng, who they had only seen last night. The four girls hurriedly walked over.

Yang Peng smiled: "What a coincidence! ”

Zhao Xiangxiang smiled, Luo Yanran's expression couldn't be seen, she must have smiled too. The two women immediately noticed a person sitting next to Yang Peng, dressed in a red and black warrior costume, leaning on a black sheath horizontal knife on the thigh, with a sharp temperament, but her lips were red and her teeth were very gorgeous, she was clearly an astringent woman dressed as a man, but it was not Chai Yonghui who she saw last night, and the two women thought of one person, that was Han Bing.

Yang Peng pointed to the empty seat and smiled: "Sit down." ”

Zhao Xiangxiang and Luo Yanran sat down, and the two little maidservants put the large pile of things bought by the two young ladies on the floor of the table, straightened up and beat their sour arms, and looked cute on their little faces that were finally relieved. Yang Peng smiled and said, "You two little girls are really hard, come and sit down." Ju'er knew Yang Peng's temper, grinned, and walked to her own young lady and sat down, Na Yun'er was hesitating, but when she saw that Ju'er had already sat down, she did the same, and also walked to her own young lady and sat down.

At this time, the maid walked up, bowed down and asked, "May I ask a few guest officers, do you want to add food?" At this time, there were only a few side dishes and a pot of wine on the table, which was obviously not enough for so many people to eat. Yang Peng asked Zhao Xiangxiang and Luo Yanran: "What do you want to eat?" Zhao Xiangxiang said: "I don't care," turned his head to look at Luo Yanran beside him, and said: "But Sister Yanran is here for the first time, I think, I want to ,......" Yang Peng understood what she meant, smiled slightly, turned his head and said to the maid: "Pick two light ones for your signature dishes, and add two catties of braised beef, a pot of tea, and a pot of good wine." The maid answered and withdrew.

Immediately, a maid brought up the cups, chopsticks and dishes of the other four people, and then bowed and retreated.

Yang Peng smiled and said, "Let's eat first, the wine and food will come up in a while." The two women answered, but did not move their chopsticks. Yang Peng picked up the chopsticks and continued to eat and drink, and the two girls began to taste it in small bites, and the two little maids waited until their own young lady started. Yun'er was the first time to eat with the legendary Yan Wang at the same table, and couldn't help but be very excited, naturally very restrained, a peanut was caught up and fell on the table, panicked, and quickly stretched out the chopsticks to clip it, but the more panicked the more he couldn't clamp it, and the peanut rice actually rolled in front of Yang Peng. Yun'er looked at Yang Peng at a loss. Yang Peng smiled, picked up the peanut rice, put it in Yun'er's bowl, and said with a smile: "Eat it." Seeing this scene, Yun'er was so moved, she didn't expect that she was just a lowly little girl, but King Yan was so good to herself! Thinking so in my heart, I couldn't help but twitch.

Seeing this, Yang Peng asked with concern, "What's the matter, little sister?" Is there anything upset about? ”

Yun'er hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, no, slave, slave is happy!" Yang Peng smiled. The woman in the power suit next to her took out a white silk scarf and handed it to Yun'er, and said with a smile: "Wipe it." Yun'er hurriedly stood up, took the silk scarf with both hands, and said movingly: "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" The woman smiled. Yun'er sat back in her seat.

Luo Yanran glanced at the woman beside Yang Peng and asked, "I don't know if this is ......?" The other three daughters also showed concern, although they guessed that this woman must be a princess of King Yan, but they didn't know which one it was.

Yang Peng and the woman glanced at each other, and Yang Peng said, "This is Han Bing, my general and princess." "The fourth girl suddenly realized and said secretly: 'Sure enough.' Luo Yanran exclaimed: "Only Princess Han Bing has such a temperament!" Princess Han Bing is a heroine among women, the little woman has heard countless deeds about Princess Han Bing, and the little woman is really admired! Han Bing smiled and said, "Miss has won the prize!" ”

Yang Peng said to Han Bing: "These two are my sister-in-law Zhao Xiangxiang, and the other is Miss Luo Yanran, Zhao Xiangxiang's close friend. Han Bing clasped his fists at the two girls and said, "Fortunately! Yang Peng pointed to the little maid beside the two girls again, and said with a smile: "These two little girls, the one on the left is Ju'er, and the one on the right is Yun'er." Han Bing smiled and nodded at them. The two little maidservants were flattered, and quickly stood up and returned the salute in fear, as if frightened. It's no wonder that the two little girls are just maidservants, and they usually see those so-called talents, and they are also arrogant to them, but now Han Bing, who is the princess of King Yan, actually salutes herself, how can she not be honestly afraid.

Han Bing smiled: "Two little girls, sit down." The two girls answered, sat down cautiously, glanced at Han Bing, and only felt that this princess was really good!

The two maids came to the table with their plates, bowed slightly, and then put the same food and wine on the table. Then he bowed again, and one of the maids said, "Guest officers, please use it slowly." Then the two maids withdrew.

Yang Peng stretched out his hand to open the lid of the celadon soup bowl, and a stream of heat and rich aroma came to his face, making people's appetite move. Luo Yanran saw that there were many round and white things like tofu balls floating in the steaming soup, which was really unprecedented, and couldn't help asking, "What is this?" Yang Peng said with a smile: "This is one of the signature dishes of Tianjing Hotel, steamed lion's head." Luo Yanran asked suspiciously, "Lion head?" ”

Yang Peng smiled and said, "Don't you think they look like lion's heads?" Luo Yanran looked at it, nodded and smiled: "It's a bit similar, this ingredient must have nothing to do with lions, right?" Yang Peng picked up the soup spoon and scooped one for each of the four women, and then scooped one for himself and Han Bing. The fourth daughter was really flattered when she saw that Yang Peng, who was the king of Yan, actually scooped vegetables for herself, and panicked.

Yang Peng picked up the chopsticks and clamped the lion's head in the bowl, took a deep breath at the rising heat, and sighed: "The aroma of meat and tofu, as well as the aroma of several other ingredients, is really appetizing!" Then he picked up half of it, took a bite, and sighed while chewing: "Fat but not greasy, the meat is fragrant and delicious!" ”

The four girls had been shopping on the street for a long time, and they were already hungry, but now when they saw Yang Peng like this, they moved their index fingers and moved their chopsticks one after another. I saw Luo Yanran gently open a corner of the curtain with her left hand, revealing her small red lips and smooth chin, and then took a little 'lion head' with chopsticks with her right hand and put it into her red lips, chewed it gently, only to feel that the lion head melted in the mouth, fat but not greasy, and the aroma was rich, it was really wonderful, and I couldn't help nodding in appreciation.

Yang Peng smiled, stretched out his left hand, and opened another blue and white porcelain bowl, only to see that there was a porcelain plate in the blue and white porcelain bowl, the disk was red, green, black, white, colorful, it turned out to be all kinds of precious vegetables, the red is saffron, the green is the green pothos, the black is the cliff fungus, and the white is the snow mountain white fungus, although they are all vegetarian dishes, they are all very precious.

Yang Peng introduced to the women: "This is called Siduan Jin, which is fried with four precious vegetables, except for a little oil and salt, there are no ingredients, all of them are their natural fragrance, taste it." The four girls took a little bit of it, ate it into their mouths, and felt as if they were in nature, surrounded by the fragrance of fragrant grass in nature, and the whole person seemed to float up to the clouds.

Luo Yanran nodded and said, "This dish is so good!" ”

Yang Peng smiled: "If you like it, eat more!" Then he picked up the chopsticks to clip the four pieces of brocade, took a bite, and said: "It's all casual, let go and eat!" Throw all the bullshit rules out of my way! The four girls ate and drank according to their words, and they were a little restrained at first, but gradually they were infected by Yang Peng, and they all let go, and the rules and everything were temporarily put down. The four girls only felt that eating with Yang Peng without any restraints was really a very enjoyable thing.

"King Yan......" Luo Yanran said suddenly. Yang Peng waved his hand while eating, and said, "This is not a formal occasion, you can call me big brother like Zhao Xiangxiang." Luo Yanran was silent for a moment, and then shouted softly: "Big brother! Yang Peng smiled, "Okay, I have another girl!" Han Bing next to him sandwiched a slice of braised beef for Yang Peng and gave him a blank look.

Luo Yanran said: "Big brother, there's one thing that little sister has been unable to figure out? Yang Peng said while eating: "Say it." Luo Yanran paused and asked, "Little sister has never understood, since the eldest brother doesn't use Confucianism, how should he govern internal affairs and handle foreign affairs?" Yang Peng glanced at Luo Yanran with a smile and asked, "My sister has been staying in Yangzhou and has never been to the Central Plains, right?" Luo Yanran shook her head, "I haven't been here." When the Khitan army marched south, our family fled to Jiangnan and returned to Yangzhou only a year ago. Speaking of which, thanks to the eldest brother, otherwise we are afraid that we will never be able to return to Yangzhou. ”

Yang Peng pondered: "I heard that the Dashi clan in Yangzhou was originally not the three families of Zhou Zheng Wang, but the Luo family. This Luo family must be referring to the Yanran family, right? Luo Yanran nodded, "Exactly, but since our Luo family began to get involved in commercial handicrafts many years ago, the Dashi clan in Yangzhou thought that we had lost the virtue of the Dashi clan, so we didn't recognize our Luo family as a family of poetry and books." Speaking of this, the tone seemed a little depressed.

Han Bing said: "I think this scholar clan has always been more than successful and more than defeated, it's better not to be a scholar, Sister Yanran doesn't have to mind!" ”

Luo Yanran smiled bitterly and said: "Little sister is not as proud and free as Sister Han Bing, although I don't want to think about it, but those things always get into my thoughts unconsciously and linger!" Ay! ”

Yang Peng said: "Yanran's family was originally the largest scholar clan in Yangzhou, presumably your Luo family is also proud of this, but now the people in Shilin do not recognize the identity of the scholar clan at all, and naturally feel lost, this is human nature, it is normal, I believe that after a while you will be able to come out of this shadow." ”

Luo Yanran nodded, raised her head to look at Yang Peng, and said angrily: "Big brother, you haven't answered your little sister's question yet?" ”

Yang Peng smiled, took a sip of food, drank a sip of wine, and said, "You asked me how to govern the country without Confucianism?" Governing the country is not a Confucian specialty! The Confucian set is just pretending to be garlic, so how can there be any actual statecraft? Evading human nature for granted, talking about benevolence and righteousness, what's the use! After a pause, "Confucianism is probably most proud of the golden mean!" Hehe, in my opinion, this golden mean is nothing more than mud, fart is useless, and it will never be possible to solve the problem! For example, if there is a dispute between the two sides over the ownership of a piece of land, if it is dealt with in the golden mean, that is, the dispute is shelved and jointly developed, isn't this problem still there, it has not been dealt with at all, but the situation has been temporarily eased, but the situation has been temporarily eased but there is always a day of intensification, and this problem that has been temporarily put aside must be solved! This kind of golden mean, which Confucianism is proud of, is actually just avoiding the problem! ”

"It's been the same in all dynasties, and everywhere there is this inexplicable way of dealing with problems. For example, the Tanyuan alliance reached between the Song Dynasty and the Liao State back then, those Confucian ministers earned face but lost their linings, and the Liao State was the younger brother and the Song Dynasty was the brother, which seemed to be quite beautiful, but in fact, the Song Dynasty had to offer a large amount of military funds to the Liao State every year. This is the typical result of the golden mean, often the Central Plains Dynasty gets a little face, but the benefits are taken up by outsiders. The monarchs and ministers were still proud of this, and Confucian scholars even boasted that the restoration of peace had saved many people! ”

"Hehe, these nerds don't even know the most obvious truth, if the Liao State really had the ability to invade the south at that time, would they make peace? As far as I know, it was the Liao State that took the initiative to sue for peace at that time, because the situation was very unfavorable for the Liao side. All the peace treaties that can be negotiated in history are because the opponent is simply unable to defeat you, and in this case, the peace you have reached at the cost of the boss is actually just in vain, and it is a ridiculous thing to do with your head caught in the door, and this practice is of no use at all except for the enemy. This is the result of the golden mean. And if the enemy can defeat you or even destroy you, it is useless to make peace! Governing the country is not like this! The golden mean, dealing with problems with a self-righteous and balanced concept, or using an attitude of avoiding problems and calming people, is actually nothing more than self-deception! ”

In fact, in many cases, it is not so opposed to the corruption of courtiers, as long as there is an explanation of all aspects of so-so, it can calm people, and it will be a big thing and a small thing, this kind of thing is really fucking ridiculous! Doing everything is looking ahead and looking backward to be comprehensive, so all dynasties and dynasties have had the golden rule that the law of the ancestors is immutable, but they don't know that this will inevitably lead to no enterprising policy, and they can't keep up with the development and changes of the times, so that in the drastic world, there is only one way to lose. ”

Yang Peng glanced at Luo Yanran and said with a smile: "In short, the Confucian golden mean is either to be with the mud, or to use a way of doing things that is divorced from reality to avoid problems. To be honest, it is much better for anyone to be an official than a Confucian scholar! ”

Luo Yanran lowered her head and pondered, and couldn't help but feel that what Yang Peng said made sense, but she also felt that she had departed from the steady and unchanging golden mean of Confucianism, which seemed to be a little confusing. raised his head to look at Yang Peng and said, "But if you don't have a basic idea, Xiaomei always feels like a rootless duckweed!" ”

Yang Peng said with a smile: "Of course, there must be basic ideas, but it is not Confucianism, and naturally it should be the doctrine of any family." There is only one basis for any policy, that is, to make the Chinese people continue to grow rich and strong, and only when the country is rich and strong can the people live and work in peace and contentment, all policies should serve this purpose, as long as it is conducive to this, it will be done, and as long as it is not conducive to this, it will be changed. Confucianism is not like this, it is a kind of servile thinking, it is to serve the rule of the king, the so-called golden mean, in the final analysis, is just to teach people to be smooth and no one can be offended, hehe, if this set is used in national policy, it is completely wrong. In the past thousand years, the Central Plains Dynasty has always been unable to jump out of the cycle of chaos, because the core of the king's use of Confucianism to govern the country is to maintain its rule, not to make the country rich and strong, and the people are happy, and sometimes even take the initiative to castrate themselves in order to maintain imperial power; This kind of thinking is fundamentally wrong, all the emperors are only concerned about the rule of their family and surname, and the farther and farther they go down the wrong road, the country will naturally become weaker and weaker, and in the end there is only one way to perish! ”

"The demise of the country was not caused by the so-called faint monarchs, if you look carefully at the history books, you will find that in fact, many last emperors were much better than many of their predecessors! But why did the nation perish at his hand? The reason is very simple, the wrong road is going farther and farther, it is difficult to return, and perdition is the inevitable result! ”

Yang Peng smiled and said: "Therefore, in order to let the Huaxia clan jump out of the cycle of chaos, we must first start by destroying Confucianism!" Everything that is done in all aspects of the military and government must serve to strengthen the country, and those self-righteous nonsense and very self-righteous ideas of benevolence and righteousness should be thrown away! ”

Luo Yanran sighed and sighed: "After listening to your words, I really feel that so many books have been read in vain for so many years!" ”

Yang Peng smiled. At this time, a secret guard hurriedly rushed into the hotel lobby, looked around and saw Yang Peng, hurriedly ran over, hugged his fists and said: "Master, there is an emergency military situation!" ”

Everyone was moved, Zhao Xiangxiang and Luo Yanran were women from the scholarly family after all, and they couldn't help but get nervous when they heard that there was an emergency military situation. Yang Peng and Han Bing were unmoved, Yang Peng asked while eating vegetables, "What emergency military situation?" ”

The secret guard said: "The Liao State has taken a big action against the Mongols, and the Tubo State has used troops against the remnants of Western Xia!" ”…… Yang Peng and Liang Hanbing strode into the palace hall, and all the civil and military ministers who came to the hall first bowed together: "I've seen King Yan, I've seen Niangniang!" Yang Peng walked to the top and sat down, and Han Bing stepped into the left head station. At this time, the civil and military ministers who were in Tianjing New City came. Yang Peng glanced at everyone, his eyes fell on Jiang Li's body, and asked, "Where is the military report?" Jiang Li immediately submitted two military reports. Yang Peng took the military report and first looked at the affairs of Tubo: Tubo divided its troops into two routes with 150,000 soldiers and horses, one east and one west, and attacked Xuanhua Mansion and Xiliang Mansion at the same time.

Yang Peng put down the military report of Western Xia, picked up another military report, and read it: Mongolia had no time to establish a successor due to the sudden death of the Great Khan in the process of conquering the Liao State, so the three sons and two brothers of the Great Han had already fought for the position of the Great Khan; At the same time, in the name of helping the Mongol Khan to take revenge, he led an army of 500,000 troops out of Linhuangfu to attack the Mongolian hinterland.

Yang Peng put down the report, immediately got up and walked to the map, looked at the map and thought. Chen Xiao asked, "Mei'er, what do you think?" Yelu Hanyu said: "The timing chosen by the Khitans is very good, and the internal chaos in Mongolia is a great time to pacify them in one fell swoop!" It's just whether they can win or not, but it's not certain, if these five Mongol forces work together before the great enemy, this big war will be fought! ”

Yang Peng pondered for a moment and said: "We are short of food and grass now, and it is impossible to take any action even if we want to, so let's wait and see what happens." After a pause, he moved his gaze to the Western Xia and said, "We should first solve the Western Xia problem. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.