In August of the 19th year of the Celestial Empire, it had been more than two months since Masara and Wang Zhi reached a trade agreement, and it was about to usher in an important autumn harvest season. During this period, the surrounding wealthy names seemed to be very calm. Even the Shimazu family and the Ganfu family, which were about to fight in the Mian Kyushu area, had not taken specific actions. Such a calm environment naturally gave the Luo family the opportunity to develop vigorously, and Masara was relatively free.

Just half a month ago, Yui Hatano gave birth to his fourth child for Masaru (the ones born before this child were the legitimate son Tang Wangmaru, the second son Song Wangmaru, and his biological daughter Shunhime). The child was nicknamed Yuanwangmaru. According to the agreement with the Masaru clan, the child would inherit the position of the Masaru clan as the family governor of the Masaru clan, so he was named Masaru Takanobu. Since then, the Masaru clan of the Masaru clan has been continued. Masaru has also received their absolute support.

On this day, after spending a trip with the girls in the backyard of the city, Masayoshi summoned his legitimate son Tang Wangmaru to his study. The reason he summoned him was because this little guy got into trouble at his grandfather Dongxiang Heiji's home. Today, he was specifically complained by Dongxiang Heiji. After Masayoshi knew the whole story, he also felt that he had to teach his legitimate son himself.

"My father." After entering Masara Liang's study, the eight-year-old Tang Wangmaru respectfully saluted Masara Liang.

"Yeah." Zhengliang nodded, and then said, "Today I will teach you how to practice calligraphy for my father. You can bring the table in the corner."

"Yes, my father!"

In this family, there were only two people whom Tang Wangmaru feared the most, one was his sister Meiji, and the other was his father Shirago. After receiving the orders from Shirago, Tang Wangmaru brought a simple desk over. The two sat silently opposite each other. Just like yesterday, the weather was very clear today, with the shadows of trees swaying on the window paper, and the shadows of birds appeared from time to time.

"Before I have something to ask you. Did you explain it in your grandfather's mansion yesterday?"

"yes."

“Why do that?”

"I don't know where the toilet is, and I'm not convenient to ask others."

"Oh, why not ask?"

"The person who is familiar with it is not aware of it, and the person who is not familiar with it is inconvenient to speak."

"Oh. Do you think about the consequences?"

Tang Wangmaru shook his head innocently with his expression. It seemed that he really didn't think about it.

Masara still nodded gently, "Your grandfather hates rude and rude people very much, and he is very angry. However... other generals praised you for being so bold, and even applauded you." The day when Tang Wangmaru was in the Dongxiang Heiji Garden, it was the time when several generals from the Military Pavilion such as Isono Tomokazu visited Hiroji Tomoka and discussed with Hiroji Tomokazu to increase the scale of the ranch.

The territory has strict regulations on the consumption of all teams, workshops and other daily institutions and facilities. The Interior Government must also distribute relevant materials to various places regularly in accordance with such regulations, otherwise the relevant retainers will be severely punished. Once the regulations exceed (such as expanding the scale of the ranch this time), the relevant institutions need to discuss and submit it to Zhengliang for decision-making. Otherwise, all affairs in the territory, regardless of size, must be handed over to Zhengliang for the whole process. Then Zhengliang will be extremely tired at that time.

That day, while several people were discussing, they were suddenly told by their servants that Wangmaru Tang was in the garden outside. Isono Shin-ho and others laughed immediately. The reason why they laughed at Heiji Donggo is mainly to take the opportunity to vent their mood. They have been only concerned about marching and fighting for a long time, and have always been considering how to build a stronger military force, and will not consider the consumption caused in this process. However, the inner government cabinet under Heiji Donggo is always stuck in terms of material and food when considering the overall consumption of the territory's materials and food. This made the people of the Military Pavilion very depressed. They had long wanted Heiji Donggo to be teased. Now this wish has finally been realized by the young master. They couldn't help but sigh that the young master is indeed worthy of being the lord's legitimate son!

Heiji Togo, who has always valued politeness and rules, this time he lost face in front of Isono Hoshimatsu and others. He naturally had no good face to the grandson of Tang Wangmatsu. Not only did he scold Tang Wangmatsu on the spot, he even ran to Masara today and told him in detail what he should do as the heir to the Luo family's governor. The implication is to let Masayoshi educate Tang Wangmatsu.

And this time, Tang Wangmaru really didn't understand these things. Maybe he found that Tang Wangmaru really didn't understand them, but Masayoshi turned to ask:

"You are actually taking this to take revenge on your younger brother Song Wangmaru... Are you doing this on purpose?"

"No."

"Um?"

"Yes." Feeling his father's serious gaze, Tang Wangmaru finally admitted his little thoughts. This time he did this on purpose, and indeed to avenge his younger brother Song Wangmaru. Because when Song Wangmaru was taught to learn calligraphy the day before, Song Wangmaru was too playful and not focused on learning, he was punished by Donggo Heiji, who had always been known for his seriousness in copying. On that day, Song Wangmaru, who lost time to go out to play because he was punished to copy, started to cry while copying, but was finally coaxed by his mother Tsuruhi and Kikumi and others. Seeing that his younger brother was punished, Tang Wangmaru, as his elder brother, naturally wanted to avenge him. So this prank happened.

As the two sons grow older, their personality traits are also reflected. The eight-year-old Tang Wangmaru looked gentle and elegant on the surface, and he looked both easy-going and serious. However, since he had been playing with Miki, Naoshima, Honta Masato and others since he was a child, he actually had a stomach full of bad water. Heiji Togo was smeared by him this time. The seven-year-old second son Song Wangmaru, who was still young or did not like reading and writing, showed boredom in this aspect, but he was particularly interested in those weapons and a bit honest. In the past, because of the busy military affairs and government affairs, Masaru really had to teach according to his aptitude according to his children's characteristics, but now he has to punish the legitimate son who made mistakes in front of him first. Let him know. If there is any mistake, he must be punished. The rewards and punishments must be clearly distinguished. So Masaru said:

"Since you have admitted to making a mistake, you will be punished to clean your garden for a month. Do you have any objections?"

"Yes, my father." Tang Wangmao received the punishment very barely and did not raise any objection.

"Well, given that you did this to protect your younger brother II, this is worthy of praise. So you are allowed to take your younger brother with your mother and others to the giant boat on the sea outside the city tomorrow." Masayoshi said the lucky ship that had just followed Li Huamei to play in the territory of the Luo family, and was stationed by Li Huamei at the naval dock not far from Xuefucheng City. Tomorrow, at the invitation of Li Huamei, all the wives of Masayoshi in the backyard were invited to play in the boat. Only Masayoshi's legitimate son and second son would stay in Xuefucheng City because they wanted to study with Dongxiang Heiji.

"Yes, my father." Tang Wangmaru immediately politely said. Although the answer was just right, it could not conceal the excitement in his voice. After all, it was still a child's character.

"Okay, that's all for this matter. Remember, you must not anger your grandfather again in the future. Let's talk about what you have learned during this period, right?" It's shameful to say. After Masayoshi handed over to several important officials to teach, he almost didn't ask much about it. He is really not a qualified father. He still has expectations for his two sons. As for Miki? Well, anyway, she was present to supervise her two younger brothers to study hard, and then use this to exchange for Masayoshi's support for her women's guard. Don't expect her to study hard. As a few retainers in their normal school, they also know the situation, so they basically have no requirements for Miki.

"Four Books, Five Classics, Analects of Confucius..." Tang Wangwan seemed to enjoy this feeling of being cared for by his father, so he answered well at this time.

"Yes, not bad." As the legitimate son reported the results of his study, Zhengliang nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "Let's start today's course."

"yes."

"Do you know the saint Confucius?"

"Knowing Confucius, who wrote the Analects of Confucius."

"Yes. He has a disciple named Zigong."

"Zigong..."

"One day Zigong asked Confucius what a great governance meant. Confucius replied: "Fine food and enough soldiers, and the people will believe it."

Tang Wangmaru straightened his body, stared at Masayoshi, and listened carefully.

"Zigong asked again: If you have to remove one, which one can you give up?"

Tang Wangwan said nothing.

"Food is to fill your stomach, and soldiers are to defend the country. Nobunao everyone trusts each other. Take our family as an example. If people in the family do not trust each other, they will eventually collapse..." Masayora looked at Tang Wangmaru's serious eyes and couldn't help but smile, "Let's listen to your thoughts first. What do you think can you abandon the three conditions mentioned above first?"

"Food, soldier and letter?" Tang Wangmaru said to himself again, and then replied carefully: "Soldier."

Zhengliang was surprised and stared at Tang Wangmaru for a long time. Ordinary people must think that martial arts are the best. In this chaotic era, martial arts are better than anything else. "Why should we abandon the army first?"

"This..." Tang Wangwan said tilting his head, "Tang Wangwan felt that among the three, soldiers are the lightest..." He seemed to think of something and said, "A man cannot survive without food, but he can still survive if he throws away the gun."

"oh?"

Zhengliang deliberately opened his eyes widened in surprise: Confucius' answer was the same as that of Wang Wan of Tang!

Tang Wangmao nodded with a smile.

"But Zigong asked again. If you had to give up one of the remaining two conditions, what choice would you make?"

"There are leftover food and faith...abandon faith. Because there is no food, you cannot survive." Tang Wangwan replied confidently.

Zhengliang smiled again: "You seem to be particularly interested in food. Do you often go hungry at home?"

"Yes. Song Wangmaru and Heitaro will feel depressed and irritable as long as they go hungry." Heitaro was the only son of Togo Heitaro after becoming a retainer of Masara and was given the name of Togo Chongtai by Masara. He was now nine years old and is the little surname of Masara and is usually the closest attendant of his legitimate son Tang Wangmaru. Not only Togo Chongtai, but also Togo Kosushi Nobuka, Ken Ken, Seimatsu Nobuka, Shin-chan, Shin-yao, Shin-fu-an, Shin-kiku-maru, Shin-kiku-maru (i.e. Wakara-jinxing), Wanman-maru (i.e. Satori Yoshiyang), Imakawa Buren, are also closest attendant of Togo Wangmaru while being Masara's small surname.

Zhengliang nodded. In fact, the "hunger" mentioned by Tang Wangwan means that when they want to eat delicious foods such as pastries, they are not really hungry because they have nothing to eat. In order to avoid their children's habit of being greedy and lazy, their daily diet is strictly customized according to three meals a day. Apart from these three meals, they are not allowed to eat casual snacks (you know, even ordinary people from the Luo family may not be able to eat three meals a day, so they must be informed of the sufferings of the people).

"So, if you get food then, how did you make it?"

"First let Song Wangwan take it."

"What's next?"

"I. Because I don't eat it, Hirataro insists on not eating it."

"Oh, if you don't eat it, Heitaro won't eat it?"

"Yes. But later, Song Wangmaru stopped eating it. He learned from Heitaro. Therefore, after getting the food, I divided it into three parts and took one of it myself."

Zhengliang smiled again, and he prayed secretly in his heart. The scene where Tang Wangmaru was seriously thinking about the food when it was lured in front of him was as if it was in the present, "You did a good job. It's good to do this. But... the saint did not answer that way."

"Don't give up food?"

"Yes. He won the faith and gave up his food."

Tang Wangwan wondered and whispered carefully: "Don't throw away food can control the world... Did Saint Kong make a mistake?"

"Tang Wang Wan."

"Um."

"I hope you can think about the next question. Why does Confucius say that faith is more important than food?"

"Yes, my son will consider it."

"But, your words just now actually contained this truth." After hearing this, Tang Wangmaru looked at Masayoro in confusion.

"You first gave Song Wangmaru food and then Heitaro, but Heitaro refused to eat first."

"yes."

"Why doesn't Heitaro eat? Moreover, why did Song Wangmaru learn from Heitaro?"

"They... are..."

"Why did Song Wangmaru imitate Hirataro? Do you understand?"

"this……"

"You can carefully consider Confucius' choices, let me talk about my thoughts first."

"yes."

"Because Song Wangwan was young, he might feel... if you finished eating the food, he would be gone." Tang Wangwan's expression was very serious after hearing this, and he nodded vigorously.

"But Heitaro knows that you will never eat all the food. He trusts you. Because you have faith, you don't eat it, and he won't eat it..." Masayora was silent for a moment. He realized that he had forgotten the age of Tang Wangmaru, and his eyes became severe. "Later, Song Wangmaru began to trust you. He realized that even if he was silent, even if he didn't have time to compete for food, you would not be alone. Song Wangmaru did not imitate Heitaro, but trusted you and trust Hitaro. Because of faith, that little bit of food would unite you three. But if you don't believe, what would happen..."

Masara regained his gentle eyes: "If Heitaro swallows the food alone, you and Song Wangmaru will be dissatisfied. In other words, if you or Song Wangmaru swallows the food alone, the result will be the same. That little bit of food, because of "faith" can avoid the disagreement between the three people, but if people lose faith, food will become the source of struggle and bring people into the hell of fighting."

Tang Wangmaru suddenly realized. His body unconsciously plunged onto the desk, his eyes wide open. But Masayora did not immediately ask Tang Wangmaru to answer the previous question.

"The most important thing to avoid is to know only a little bit of understanding in your knowledge. You must learn to think about the problem carefully."

"yes."

"To put it more accurately, the heart of mutual trust is because mutual trust can be trusted, and people become human beings. People form family and country. Only in this way can we form our family... However, we cannot be foolish. We must be trusted when dealing with your family and loyal to your retainers; we must be foolish when dealing with your enemies. We must be trusted by the occasion and object..."
Chapter completed!