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Chapter 120 Passionate since ancient times(2/2)

"Okay! Great words!" Someone shouted at the top of the screen made of the carriage. The original intention of this cheer was to meet the people in the pavilion and talk about poetry and essays - this was the custom of the literati of the Song Dynasty, but Zhao Xing had no intention of removing the screen of the carriage. He raised his glass and gave wine to Zhou Bangyan before he could feel it.

"Brother Zhou is traveling far away, I have nothing to give you, so I will accompany you with this song "Farewell"!"

Zhou Bangyan drank it all in one drink. Zhao Xing brought high-quality white wine this time. The hot wine made Zhou Bangyan's blood boil. He grabbed the wine pot and poured a glass for himself. He held the wine glass and repeated the song wildly: "The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, half of my friends fell. A pot of turbidity sprinkled with the rest of my joy, let's go to the night of the dream cold...

Brother Li Ren, we are together, thank you for giving me this good song. Come and sing again, 'A pot of turbidity sprinkles all the joy'."

Liao Xiaoxiao, who was sitting there, widened her eyes in surprise: "Originally, when will the bright moon come to you? "A river of spring water, I thought that the 'slow adjustment' would stop there, but I didn't expect that there would be such a good sentence... Zhao Daguanren, what kind of lyrics are this?"

The opposite Li Gefei also shook his head and said in an old-fashioned manner: "I heard from my mentor that Li Ren is good at reading a new song. Today, when this song is released, there will be no more songs in the world."

The word "teacher" immediately made Zhao Xing put away his contemptuous attitude. He first bowed to Liao Xiaoxiao and asked her to forgive her negligence. Then he turned to Li Gefei: "The 'teacher' mentioned by Brother Li...?"

Li Gefei smiled and replied: "It is Mr. Dongpo. I once asked for a teacher and a bachelor's degree. You and I were the same teacher."

Zhao Xing quickly greeted Li Gefei again. After the two of them exchanged simple greetings, Zhao Xing turned around and said a few humble words to Liao Xiaoxiao. Then, the melodious music sounded again, covering Zhao Xing's humble words - this is a re-singing of "Farewell" by the Japanese girl.

In the music, Li Gefei repeated Liao Xiaoxiao's question just now: "I don't seem to have heard of this music. Did Brother Li Ren do it? What kind of rhythm is this? It's so sad and not hurt?"

"It's not me!" Zhao Xing firmly denied it. Just kidding, the original work of lyrics is Japanese dog boy Qiuxi, and the original music is American John.p. Odway, it has nothing to do with Zhao Xing. He honestly admitted: "This is a Japanese waka song, isn't it a lyrics, music..."

When Zhao Xing said this, he choked. Because the United States does not exist yet, he had to vaguely say a few words in his mouth, muttering the English name of the United States quickly, and sloppyly over it.

After saying that, he felt a little ashamed - how did I bully the ancients and didn't understand English?

Li Gefei also wanted to ask in detail, and there was another cheer outside the carriage. It seemed that the man was eager to ask for a meeting.

Zhou Bangyan was very happy to see such things. When he left Beijing, only two classmates came to see him off. Zhao Xing suddenly came and presented him with a beautiful Hu Xuanwu and a farewell song, which gave him a lot of "face". If passers-by come to see him off again, then he will have a "little" in his heart.

Zhou Bangyan immediately asked Zhao Xing to let go of the carriage and invite the cheering people outside to come in. When the carriage screen was opened, the people in the pavilion were startled. The carriage was quiet outside, but before he knew it, there were already three layers of people surrounding him. When these people saw a crack in the carriage, they first discovered Liao Xiaoxiao's existence and immediately shouted: "Okay! Xiaoxiao, do it again."

Liao Xiaoxiao was so embarrassed that she was about to get into the cracks in the ground. She wanted to tell everyone that the song was not sung by her, but in a blink of an eye, the group of Japanese girls had already put away their instruments and got into the carriage. Apart from a few empty cushions, the only ones were she and Mrs. Song.

This made her unable to argue.

Zhao Xing seemed to have intentionally caused this misunderstanding. He did not explain, but just looked at the crowd outside through the cabin: "Who is there, who was shouting just now?"

This sentence is extremely rude. The other party is not "shouting" but "cheating". The two words are very different, especially in the identity of the user. The former is a peddler and the latter is a "cultural person".

The crowd outside had a little unhappy face and was silent. Several people wearing blue melon-shaped hats walked out of the crowd, and they bowed and replied: "Zhao Daguan Ren, Bai Dawei, 'One Gift of Job', I, Li Weisi, is polite here. We went to the mansion to ask for a meeting many times, but we didn't wait for the Grand Official, so we had to follow us today outside Nanxun Gate. We didn't expect to hear such a wonderful sound, and we couldn't stop applauding, it's evil, Grand Official."

"E" is pronounced here, meaning offend.

The other party was saluting Zhao Xing, but Zhao Xing seemed to be unsuccessful. He looked at the little blue hats on the heads of the people in a daze, and felt familiar.

Zhou Bangyan heard that they were looking for Zhao Xing and chased him all the way here, and was a little disappointed. He was powerless to explain to Zhao Xing: "This is a 'Yi Given Leiye' person. When Taizu founded the country, they came from overseas and paid tribute to the court for Western cloth. Taizu said to them: 'Go to China, abide by the ancestral style, and leave it to Bianliang.' and granted 17 surnames: Li, I, Ai, Gao, Mu, Zhao, Jin, Zhou, Zhang, Shi, Huang, Li, Nie, Jin, Zhang, Zuo, Bai, etc. Then they lived in Bianliang and called themselves the 'Yi Given Leiye' person'.

They worship gods every week and wear blue hats when worshiping, so they are also called 'blue hat Huihui'. Because they do not eat the tendons under the legs of animals, they are also called 'string picking Huihui'. The temple they worship is called 'synagogue'..."

"I understand," Zhao Xing suddenly interrupted Zhou Bangyan's words. He pointed to the little blue hat on the other party's head and said, "'One gift of joy'! Isn't it Israel? You are Jews in Israel, and you are wearing Jewish hats on your head - no wonder I am so familiar with it. The church you worship is called 'Zinagaoga' - isn't it 'Mountain Zion (Shien Hill)', you are Israel."

Mount Zion is a small hill outside the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the original site of David. In the hymns, "Zion" is synonymous with Jerusalem and the entire holy land.

Zhao Xing suddenly recited a Jewish song he had heard: "On the banks of the Babylon River,

We sat down and thought of her,

When I think of her, I can't stop crying, Ah Zion!

Willows on the shore,

Hang our piano,

Because the supervisor wants to listen to a song,

Those who plunder us are for fun:

Come and sing us a song of Zion!

Ah, fell into a foreign country,

How do we sing the song of the Lord?”

This is a hymn. Zhao Xing once occasionally heard church choirs chanting during Christmas. At that time, church choirs sang modern Chinese, so he sang modern Chinese songs.

After he finished reciting, the Jews were a little dazed. They were confused and seemed to not understand what Zhao Xing was saying.

In fact, Zhao Xing's guess is correct. These people are indeed Jews - Chinese Jews. But they have been away from the land of Israel for a long time. Modern investigations have found that these Jews do not even know about the Jews' subsequent newly-designed festivals.

It is said that this Jewish group escaped from Palestine after the destruction of the temple of King David. Modern archaeological discoveries that they may have been slaves for thousands of years now, and then spent hundreds of years fleeing to South Asia and moving to China.

The Jews are a nation with strong cohesion. A thousand years later, when the Jews re-established their country, those tribes who left their birthplace and drifted in foreign lands for thousands of years have returned to their country one after another. No matter where they are, no matter how harsh or difficult the environment they live in, they still have not lost their faith after thousands of years.

But the only migrating tribe was the exception: because this tribe unfortunately moved to China.

Among the millions of migrant tribes around the world, this Jewish tribe that migrated to China has a unique place and will never return to its ancestral land. Modern archaeology has found that after they left Palestine, they had communication with Jews scattered around the world in Babylon and in the isolated islands of South Asia, but when they arrived in China, they had no communication with the outside world.

Even the strange nations with super cohesion such as Jews were unable to resist the subsequent "ethnic integration" in China and completely disappeared on China's land. This shows from one aspect how frequent national wars were. And the obstruction of Chinese Jews also shows that even in commercial society like the Song Dynasty, the information exchange between ancient China and the outside world was almost zero.

Since this nation eventually disappeared, Zhao Xing never knew that the Jews had traveled so far. When he saw that the other party had no response to the hymn he sang, he sighed secretly - in fact, there was the second half of the poem, "If I forgot you, Jerusalem,

May my right hand shrink!

May my tongue stick to the upper palate,

If I don't miss you,

Not attached to Jerusalem,

It's better than my greatest joy..."

But now it is useless to say that these are, forgetting is sometimes a kind of happiness.

Zhao Xing waved and asked the other party to enter the pavilion, closed the carriage screen again, and asked with a smile: "Three, you are so eager to find me, what's the matter?"

Among the three people, Li Weisi was the leader, and "Li Wei" was actually the transliteration of the Jewish tribe leader "Li Wei". After he arrived in China, he changed his surname to "Li". The Li Wei lifted up his robe and took out a thick piece of cloth from under the robe. He looked around and found that there was no one else in the pavilion, so he raised the cloth with one hand and handed it to Zhao Xing.

It was a piece of canvas - it turned out that the Western cloth they offered was canvas.

After Zhao Xing carefully looked at the cloth, he held the cloth tightly in his hand and looked up at the three Jews in front of him.

The Jewish man is indeed worthy of being a shrewd reputation. Zhao Xing's expression changes when he watched the cloth, and he could hide it from the silly scholars present, and Liao Xiaoxiao, who was good at observing words and expressions, but not Li Weisi on the opposite side. A smile appeared on the corner of his lips and said, "More than a hundred years ago, we presented this kind of cloth to His Majesty the Emperor, but then the court officials thought that this kind of cloth was thick and hard, and could not be used as clothes, and it was useless... Today, I finally found the person who knew it."

"What to change?" Zhao Xing immediately showed the businessman's face when he encountered the transaction. His eyes were burning, and his eyes were red with excitement.

"Cloth - the Grand Official is selling four-color cloth printed and dyed everywhere in the capital city. The cloth workshops in the capital city are almost crushed by you. We hope that the Grand Official will give us the right to distribute the four-color cloth and let us jointly distribute the four-color cloth."

Li Weisi talked to others about "distribution rights", but others may not understand it, but Zhao Xing understood, but he wanted more: "I heard that Jews are proficient in arithmetic. I need a large number of math teachers and a large number of accountants. How many people can you provide?"

Zhou Bangyan shook his head and sighed. He did not expect that Zhao Xing was like a great poet with great literary talent just now, but now he is like a hawker. Li Gefei, opposite him, watched coldly with a smile. Liao Zhengyi was dull, and he could not tell anything abnormal in his expression.

Zhou Bang was young and energetic, and his mind was full of the beautiful dance of Hu Ji just now. Although he sat there, his heart had already flown to the carriage, and he frequently looked at the carriage that Hu Ji was riding, without paying attention to the conversation here at all.

Liao Xiaoxiao and Song Xiaozi lowered their eyebrows and looked at Zhao Xing, rolled up their sleeves, and put on an unyielding attitude to negotiate with each other. When they saw Zhou Bangyan's look lost, Liao Xiaoxiao pursed her mouth and picked up the wine pot to pour wine for everyone. Song Xiaozi looked at Zhao Xing, laughing secretly, and reached out to help Liao Xiaozi take care of him.

"We have seventeen surnames in the 1910s, with a total of more than 1,000 households. There are more than 100 people who can settle accounts - adults, unmarried, and not yet professionally," Li Weisi replied.

"There are also this kind of canvas. You provide technology, I provide manpower and venues, profits are 37, you three and I seven, sales - everyone shows their magical powers," Zhao Xing continued to ask.

"There is a 30-seven-seven ratio, which can be used as a high-ranking official? "

"Isn't it enough for more than one hundred people to find employment... Well, I'll add a little more weight - I have a wasteland in Hangzhou, and you 17 surnames can partially move to my territory... It's not enough, so how about I add another Bible? The new Bible brought back from 'Mount Zion'.

I have a trade route to Jerusalem. Or I will find a 'rabbi (Jewish bishop or high priest)' for you, and I will find one for you in Jerusalem...this is enough, right?"

When Zhao Xing mentioned the word "rabbi", Li Weisi's eyes suddenly glared like a bull's eyes - this shows that this guy was pretending to behave just now. He understood what Zhao Xing said, he understood what the two words "Israel" and "Jew" meant. He also understood what "Zion" meant!

"Okay, this condition is heavy enough! We can do nothing, just rabbi. However, I want to declare that we 'one gift of joy' people can be slaves--we move to your land, you can deprive us of our freedom, our dignity, our lives, but not our faith.

We leave our hometown, wander in the seven seas, we have nothing left, we only have faith. The world can make us surrender, but our souls belong to God! This is an enduring promise!”

"I respect your faith. After I move to my land, I allow you to build churches and believe in your own gods. The Song Dynasty is a country of freedom of faith, and you can keep your faith. If you serve me for fifteen years, I can give you the land you live in, and write your names on the land deeds, but you can still believe in the Lord on the land of the Song Dynasty under my protection!"

The name "Jehovah" finally made the Jews cry. They hugged each other and cried in words that Zhao Xing could not understand. The word "rabbi" was repeatedly mentioned in the words. Zhao Xing guessed that they were cheering: "We will have a new rabbi!"

Zhao Xing didn't know, they were still saying: "We have a 'promised' land! We have a new lord, and he will not treat us as slaves. He knows our King David and respects our faith..."

Under Liao Xiaoxiao's consolation, Zhou Bangyan's glass of strong wine went on. Except for Zhao Xing, the rest of the people present were already fumigated. They didn't pay attention to the conversation. They didn't know that they had witnessed a piece of history at that time.

Several years later, when Zhao Xing was in the most difficult situation, almost all people deviated from this "rebel". Only the "one-giving pleasure" people, even if they were surrounded by a siege, even if they died without life and had no hope tomorrow, they were still silently managing the logistics and managing the industry for Zhao Xing. They would rather starve to death than touch Zhao Xing's grass - even if the latter did not pay them any salary.

People in the world were amazed at the financial management ability of "One Gift Job" people, and they were wondering why any price could not lure a "One Gift Job" person to leave the "rebel" - originally, the four students present at that time could answer this question, but they did not pay attention to the conversation at all.

Or: Although they were on the scene at that time, they didn’t understand what Zhao Xing and the others were saying, and they couldn’t understand the meaning of the conversation!

Zhou Bangyan's memory only reached here. When the "Yi Ci Leiye" people hugged each other and cried, he was already drunk. When he woke up, he found that he had returned to the city - no, he was back to the Xiangguo Temple wharf, a unique loach boat was shaking and sailing off the shore. Before Zhou Bangyan asked, an old man came into the boat and grinned at him: "Zhou Taixue, little old man Jiao Chu. Brother Xing arranged for you to take this boat. We head straight to Luzhou. Taixue can go to Luzhou wharf and get off the boat."

No boat can drive straight to Luzhou, because when you go to Luzhou, you have to go to Guazhou and turn to the Yangtze River. Under the jurisdiction of Wuwei Army, you go to Chaohu Lake, pass through Chaohu and then flow back into Feishui... What Jiaotu calls "direct sailing" means that the ship needs to turn around and go around a big circle.

Zhou Bangyan was grateful to Zhao Xing's righteousness and couldn't help but tidy up and bow to the east.
Chapter completed!
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