Chapter 170: Teach a cultural lesson to all Asia

Li Gonglin's album is an illustration of the "Book of Filial Piety". He did not illustrate the ancient version of the "Book of Filial Piety", but collected some stories of "filial piety" in the Song Dynasty and used similar comic strips to tell stories of filial piety. Most of them were women who gave their dowry (those who violated the laws of the Song Dynasty) to their parents-in-law after marrying into their husband's house, and then allowed their parents-in-law to distribute the property to their brother-in-law and sister-in-law, and then asked their brother-in-law to use themselves as a cow and horse...

Many of the contents violate human nature to the point of being outrageous, and Zhao Xing was too lazy to tell them one by one.

Liao Xiaoxiao disagreed with Zhao Xing’s accusations: “It’s great, my husband, the stories written in this book are very attractive, and I feel moved when I read it…”

Zhao Xing cut off the other party's words: "You are moved by the way because you don't have in-laws on your head, so you consciously bring yourself into your in-laws' identity, but what do you think if you are asked to give out all your money?"

Liao Xiaoxiao avoided Zhao Xing's question: "Look at what my husband said..."

Zhao Xing mocked: "As a man, if you don't have the ability to support your wife and children, don't get married. Thinking of marrying a woman and getting rich, he is just a soft man, and he has to praise him. If such books are spread, it will be a poison forever!

This makes me feel that the ancient filial piety scriptures were written by Phoenix men. This is a kind of fraud, which is specifically designed to fool others into handing over their own property for themselves to enjoy... Perhaps, it can be called the art of fooling the people.

This Song Dynasty should have been a commercial society - contract, and the idea of ​​fair trading should be popularized... Ah, I know, because the influence of commercial culture was too short. Go and write a letter to scold Li Gonglin. Tell him to study the erotic pictures I gave me, that thing is more interesting than the "Book of Filial Piety"!"

Chen Yiyi smiled gloatingly, and Cheng Azhu hurriedly stopped him: "Don't, official, Mr. Li sent me the gift for the coming year, but you went to write and scolded people. There is no reason."

Zhao Xingyu was still angry and replied in silence for a moment: "Hide this book in a place I can't see, and I feel disgusted as soon as I see it!"

Liao Xiaoxiao reluctantly handed out this book... From a business perspective, this book is very valuable for publishing because it praises traditional ideas - traditional ideas for making money. Once printed, this book can even be sold for hundreds of years. In this sense, publishing this book can not only bring great reputation to the publisher, but also bring endless wealth.

Unfortunately, Zhao Xing was determined to oppose it. How could Liao Xiaoxiao have no choice but to obey orders.

Zhao Xing spent the rest of the year while receiving gifts. People kept sending him gifts, and he kept sending him gifts. Even Pan Dalin, who was far away in Shaanxi, also sent him a New Year gift. The target of Pan Dalin's pursuit is Zhang Shangying. After Zhang Shangying was demoted from the capital, he went to Wutai to worship Buddha. Pan Dalin, a fanatical star-chasing clan of the Song Dynasty, followed Zhang Shangying all the way, like a bee with flowers...

After the festival approached, it was time for the holiday again. The annual holiday for officials of the Song Dynasty was twice as golden week. In nearly half a month, officials of the court could not go to the government office and enjoy the Spring Festival holiday leisurely.

This period was also Wang Zishao's last time in office. He presided over the tax refund work in Mizhou as a magistrate. The location was on the Chaoran Pavilion built by Su Shi that year.

"Spring is not old, and the wind is fine and the willows are slanted. Try to look at the Chaoran platform. There are half a trench of spring water and a city of flowers. Misty rain and darken thousands of families.

After the cold food, I woke up and sighed. Don’t think about my old friends and the country, and try new tea with new fires. Poetry and wine to take advantage of my years..." Wang Zishao sat on the Chaoran platform, watching the scenery around him with nostalgia, and sighed: "I remember when Su Shi served as an official position, leaving a Chaoran platform for Mizhou for eternal chanting. I don’t know what future generations would like to pay attention to me in this position."

Yes! Wang Zishao really has nothing to be commemorated by Mizhou. His former wife Fan E built a Goryeo court, which caused half of the people in Mizhou to flee. After Wang Zishao took over, Xiao Gui and Cao followed him, which also made the people of Mizhou very difficult. After finally building the Mizhou Maritime Warehouse, the people of Mizhou should enjoy the dividends of foreign trade, but he was promoted to the capital.

The people are superficial and blind. They will not remember the benefits brought by Wang Zishao, but will only remember the credit on successor officials. Therefore, although Wang Zishao was promoted, he felt very disappointed.

Zhao Xing shook his head, feeling infinitely emotional.

In the Song Dynasty, officials also paid attention to "a term of an official and benefiting the people". No wonder the Song Dynasty was called the evil one. How could the moral laws of officials be so embarrassing in this era?

Zhao Xing has renovated Chaorantai. In this Zhengdan, in order to prevent the guests from feeling the cold weather, he built a row of houses next to Chaorantai. There are walls on three sides of the house, but there is an open low wall on the front, which is covered with thick cotton curtains. People sit in small houses, and the fire makes the house warm. The merchants observe the performances outside through the half-covered curtains. Although it is cold outside, it makes everyone feel as warm as spring.

Seven or eight large copper tripods were piled up on the Chaoran platform, and the copper tripods were burning red, making the platform a little cold and fierce, but the people who were steaming in the pavilion could not wear thin furs.

This Chaoran platform is a small mound slightly higher than the ground. Wang Zishao stood on the stage and looked down for a while, continuing his feelings: "Li Ren, your teacher left a platform for this Mizhou. You don't plan to leave a building that has been famous for all ages... However, after your reconstruction, it has been considered to be a complete success of the Chaoran platform left by Master Ling. Even if you are not doing anything else, the world will remember that your master and apprentice built this scenery for two generations."

Suo Wen said that the ice had also begun to melt. After Wang Zishao left, before the new official took office, he was the agent of the affairs of Mizhou. Now he was observing the scenery outside the Chaoran platform in his master's posture, and joked: "A long platform and two rows of viewing sheds. I see how it looks like a temple fair, but it will be possible to hold a temple fair here in the future - look, even the stage is ready-made."

Suo asked right! The scenery renovated by Zhao Xing refers to the later temple fair-style structure: a large stage for performing dramas, two rows of curved, similar to private rooms, making the scenery here look like a modern public amphitheater.

After sighing, Wang Zishao pointed at Zhao Xing and said, "Li Ren, I heard that you collected sponsorships from the merchants you participated in. What is this? The imperial court held a large banquet every year, and it was originally from the grace of Taizu. How do you collect money from others? In this way, where is the court's decency?"

Wang Zishao said it later and said in a stern tone: "Leave people, look back. When I refund the tax, you should quickly return the money, otherwise the censor will find out, and it will inevitably be an impeachment..."

Meetings to extort money from merchants - what's the matter?! Can the banquets held by the government have been successful without forcing merchants to pay? Officials worked hard for a year and had to work overtime to reward these merchants at the end of the year. Are the merchants not grateful and quickly paid the officials a sum of overtime pay?

However, Wang Zishao brought out Taizu, which made Zhao Xing realize that this was the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was not as shameless as the power to rent was forced to praise. He endured it and explained: "Master, this money was not in vain. The performance required clothing, and the rehearsal of the group trainers also needed some rewards. The sponsorship of these people was not in vain. Looking back, I will ask the soldiers to announce the sponsor..."

The Song people had a good sense of advertising. Zhao Xing said so vaguely that Wang Zishao had already understood his intention, but he immediately said: "Taizu ordered that this big banquet cost 300 jin per state. Although the money is not worth the money now, the money allocated by the court is enough. Moreover, the treasury of this state also subsidized the feast. Let's give back the money - the court has more than that money."

Wang Zishao said: The court's credit is more than a few hundred trump cards. It is really unethical to ask the Song Dynasty taxpayers to pay extra money to participate in the year-end tax refund with the court's credit... Well, Zhao Xing, as a modern person, is really not suitable for the "republic" of the Song Dynasty.

At this moment, on the Chaoran platform, the sound of drums buzzing, which symbolized that the third hour of noon and also meant that the year-end feast began. During the intervals of the drums, Suo asked and approached Zhao Xing and helped persuade him: "Li Ren, please return the money. This example cannot be opened in Mizhou first. I think that when Taizu held this year-end feast, it was a year of understanding of the hard work of merchants. At this time, collecting money from merchants - what kind of style is it."

The other party said this. Zhao Xing consciously had a little different approach than this era. He raised his hand and waved his hand and whispered a few instructions. The latter took out a book of accounts and reported to Zhao Xing quietly.

Han Wei, a great merchant from Mizhou, came on stage first. As the first taxpayer in Mizhou, he took the first year-end tax refund from Wang Zishao with a smile. The officials present stood up according to the practice and bowed to the first taxpayer repeatedly, expressing sincere gratitude to him for his annual tax payment - this is a rule left since the Song Taizu's time; the officials present also walked out of the theater at this moment and bowed to all the parents of food and clothing - this is a tribute to the rules set by Taizu of the founding country.

Immediately afterwards, the maritime merchants came to the stage one after another to accept Wang Zishao's thanks. Among them were from Mizhou, people from Mizhou who came to Mizhou to do business, and even foreign merchants. Suo Wendao was also saying thanks beside him. Zhao Xing took advantage of the chaos to pull Han Wei aside and stuffed him a wallet to the other party, and said embarrassedly: "Han Gangshou, this is your sponsorship. I will return the life of the magistrate. I am reckless in this matter. I am sorry."

Han Wei looked at the purse where Zhao Xing used to hold money. The purse was made of deer skin, and a few gold coins were jingling inside. Han Wei raised the purse and laughed, and said, "Then I can take advantage of it. This purse alone is worth three to five cents... However, the purse signing does not need to refund my money. As long as you relax your Mizhou team, you will be in love with me."

Zhao Xing forced the money bag in his hand to the other party. Han Wei suddenly lowered his voice and whispered: "Sir, I heard that the court is preparing to mint new coins. Is there any such thing? Is the money bag containing new Japanese money?"

Zhao Xing laughed hoarsely, Han Wei put his purse on his pocket, bowed to Zhao Xing meaningfully, and walked off the Chaoran platform.

Those who came to attend the conference and received tax refunds on the stage were all big merchants, because according to regulations, small merchants all went to the government office to collect them. For example, when Zhao Xingcai was doing business, he went to the Huangzhou government office to collect his tax refunds. In this era, Mizhou had just opened a port, and there were not many big merchants. In the blink of an eye, all local merchants had returned all the refunds. Foreign merchants were led by the magistrate and sent to the theater one by one. At the same time, they also had to say some thanks to the other party, and hoped that the other party would continue to do business in Mizhou next year...

The vassal merchants had no fixed place, so the money given to the vassal merchants was basically either a tax refund or a holiday money. Modern times called it "red envelopes". If you meet and greet each other, modern times also evolved into four fixed words: Congratulations on getting rich!

There were not many vassal merchants who enjoyed tax refunds. Wang Zishao was very efficient here. When he returned to the stage, he was beaten by the drums, and the maids began to give wine and food to the sheds - the long-awaited year-end songs and dances also began to appear.

Originally, this song and dance were about to reflect the characteristics of the Song Dynasty, including Song Dynasty dramas, juggling, etc. But after Zhao Xing took over, he turned it into a performance showing the Yanhuang culture. The first one to appear was the drum music "Huangdi Yan".

Two hundred strong men wearing Tang-style armor had waist drums hanging from their waists and walked into the field in neat steps. They learned from the posture of the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, knelt on one knee, and yelled in a loud horn. There were bursts of rushing drums on the Chaoran platform, as dense as horses' hooves. The entire venue was silent, and everyone was waiting for the exciting beginning.

However, the mighty men did not move. The drums stopped quickly, and a team of radiant officials dressed like fairies in the Moon Palace. They walked into the venue with a big sign with a fluttering belt. When Wang Zishao saw the words on the sign, his feet softened and his eyes almost glared to the ground.

The sign reads: "The armor used in this performance was sponsored by Japanese merchant Nagato Busi, and there is a large amount of inventory. If you are interested, please go to Room No. 6, A, and contact us."

Suo asked a little trembling—selling armor, so brave, selling armor publicly, and fearing that people would not know. He jumped up and said sternly: "Ship the sign up, hand it over."

Several people rushed out of the viewing sheds on both sides. The leader was Han Wei, the first taxpayer just now. He stumbled to the front of the stage, pulled the others down, and was the first to snatch them up and threw the wallet to Zhao Xing: "Master, you said that this is common, how can you take back the money you gave? I sponsor it, and I firmly demand that you sponsor this banquet. If you refund my money, you just don't treat me as a friend."

"That's it." As Han Wei spoke, countless hands held their wallets and handed them to Zhao Xing, and countless voices followed.

These people rushed to the stage, but let the licensed official prostitutes fall behind. She wandered in the audience for a long time, but the steps were full of people. She couldn't find the opportunity to come up. At this time, Suo asked and found that there was a line of small words on the sign just now, and he didn't see clearly. The appendix written on it: "This transaction is only for military officers, and it's useful!"

"Forget it!" Suo asked, waved his hand and signaled the official prostitute to return to the team.

At this time, a thunderous drum sound on the Chaoran platform stopped the noise of the merchants. These people threw down their wallets and slipped faster than anyone else. Zhao Xing looked at the pile of full wallets in front of his feet and smiled helplessly at Wang Zishao.

Wang Zishao also knew that Zhao Xing had paid for the money just now. He smiled bitterly and said, "Lie, remember to remember that he must call a few officials to testify and send them to their mansion one by one."

Soon, wearing a gorgeous Tang Dynasty robe, white face, red lips, and handsome and charming Yuanye flat clothes floated onto the Chaoran Platform. He waved a red flag in his hand. This red flag was the military flag of the Han Dynasty, the military flag of the Tang Dynasty, and the military flag of the Song Dynasty. Yuanye flats danced violently, shouting in a loud voice that was not in line with his body shape: "Discharge!"

These two hundred people were trained very neatly by Yuan Yeping. The people in the back row took a step forward to help the front row unbutton the buttons on the shoulder armor. Then, the front row turned neatly and began to help the people in the back row unbutton. The unbuttoned armor was neatly folded and placed at the feet of each person. Then, they revealed the most expensive clothes in the world - a Song Dynasty-style tattoo embroidery.

Yuan Ye Pingping raised the banner and shouted "Rise". Then he waved the banner to the highest point, and four hundred flower arms were raised into the air. As Yuan Ye Ping's banner fell, a dull drum sound, the performance began.

The note of this muffled drum traveled through two thousand years of space and came to the Song Dynasty. It was the sound of the Yanhuang people commemorating their ancestors. When the ancestors ate raw meat and drank blood, they created a modern civilization on the Loess Plateau. If we, the descendants, commemorating them, then we will ring the "Yellow Emperor Yan"...

On the way to the "Yellow Emperor Yan", it turned into a Qin army song, and then into a "Song of the Stone Engravings of Langya" left by Qin Shihuang climbing Mount Tai and at the top of Mount Tai. The soldiers sang and danced while beating drums: "In the Liuhe, the land of the emperor.

The west faces the quicksand and the south faces the north.

There is East China Sea in the east, and Daxia in the north.

Wherever people come, there are all those who are in charge of their ministers.

The instrument is measured, and the same text is written.

The sun and the moon shine, and the boat carriage.

All of them ended their lives, and they were all satisfied.

It is Emperor Wei who acts in time..."

...

Finally, with the sound of drums, the army sang together: "Sage, wisdom, benevolence and righteousness, show the truth.

All under the world is the king's land.

Is it the king's minister in the shore of the land?"

The Korean Japanese merchants were shaken by their hearts. The Song merchants were crazy and crazy. The Japanese merchants were the most active. They first jumped out and sang with the melody: "All the kings under the world are the kings. Are the kings in the shores of the land?!"

In the Song Dynasty, Qin songs had been lost. Zhao Xing used the tune from the movie "Ode to Qin". The simplicity of crossing the Loess Plateau came with the vicissitudes of history, which was indescribable.

After the song was sung, the sound of the drums gradually became sluggish. With a burst of broken drums, the Mizhou group trainees dispersed and formed the Six Flower Formation created by Li Jing, a pharmacist in the Tang Dynasty.

Suddenly, another heavy drum sounded, and everything was quiet.

Then, the sound of the drums became louder and louder as the six flowers formed, and the group trainees danced while playing "The Music of the King of Qin (Li Shimin) Breaking the Formation"...

The drum sound changed three times and became a Song army song: "The song is played by Huaihe,

Legong Yan Stone,

Promote triumph.

Yushu,

Flower robe squarely removed,

Colorful clothes are in urgent need of

Both loyalty and filial piety are complete.

The purity of virtue is the only one who is tall,

The simple notes of the Emperor's Heart,

The swallow's syllable fragrance is red and red.

The king asked,

Record the last name of the screen,

Interesting in the Golden Luan.”
To be continued...