Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 58
The study room is huge, with books stacked up to the ceiling on the bookshelves on both sides.

It seems that Lao Cai rarely meets people in the study, so there is no so-called guest-host seating arrangement here.Instead, he ordered a chair to be delivered temporarily, and brought tea.

When Cai You sat down, he got straight to the point, "Sit down, don't be restrained. Your article, your serialization of "Lanruo Temple", and your repair of the river defense. Together, these three small things are rare in recent years that can impress me." Official people and things."

Zhao Cheng was stunned. He was also a straightforward person. What was interesting was that he also knew these things?

This is the benefit of starting small.Sometimes viewed separately, each segment is average for a big character, but the so-called dripping water wears away a stone, the impact of multiple small event segments combined is great.

Cai You also started his encounter with King Duan (Emperor Huizong) from the period of Zhezong, and he got up step by step.To a certain extent, Cai You's official career is related to Cai Jing, but it is also relatively independent.A mediocre person who relies entirely on his family would definitely not dare to wrestle with the prime minister's father, but this guy will really dare to wrestle with his prime minister's father in the future.

As a treacherous official in history, there is a view that the existence of this guy also has its meaning, and its biggest role is to add obstacles to those like Tongguan Wangfu.Without Cai You, the biggest scourges in the late Northern Song Dynasty would have been even more unscrupulous.

Under the rule of Huanhuan Huanjun, the whole environment was basically rotten at that time, and those who were not adulterous really couldn't enter the temple.But this product can get in, and it can also form a certain balance against several scourges.

To a certain extent, the restoration of the Yuanyou Party (Li Daoxue) marked by Sima Guang began with the fall of Cai Jing and Cai You.Although there was already this tendency under Zhao Ji's rule, it was the Cai family who checked and balanced it.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuanyou Party became popular.

What happened to the Yuanyou Party?To put it simply, chanting poems is about drunk life, dreaming of death, loosening outside and tightening inside, seeking peace and ceding the country outside, and being as cruel as Neo Confucianism inside.Yuanfeng party (Wang Anshi) deadly rival.

Once Wang Anshi, the Prime Minister, said, "Singing a good poem is useful", so he deleted the subjects of Fu in the imperial examination.Old Wang's roughness is a bit rough, which roughly means that consuls don't need to be able to recite poems, but need to know how to behave.

After entering the great prosperity of the Yuanyou Party in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was the pinnacle of the reputation of Su Shi, who was so talented and amazing throughout Asia. How far has he reached?Children in the market would say "Su Wenshu, eat mutton. Su Wensheng, eat vegetable soup".

Mutton was synonymous with high-end meat in the Song Dynasty. In the words of later generations, it means, "If you recite poems, you will be tender, and if you don't recite poems, you will be on the street."

If Da Song had [-] strategic bombers endorsed by the Bandit Eagle during World War II, it would be a good thing to play this game, although it is a bit funny.However, half of the country fell at that time, and the Jin people burned, killed and looted in Jiangbei.

Grandpa Yue said in "Feelings of Climbing Yueyang Tower" that "the barbarian killed my Han baby as a two-legged sheep, but the whole society was drunk and dreamed and recited poems and played against each other."What he criticized was actually the "Yuanyou Culture" advocated by Song Gaozong.

This was the first time Yue Fei violated the taboo. In the Song Dynasty, criticizing culture was more serious than criticizing the emperor.For example, there are not many problems in criticizing Zhongnanhai policy in later generations, but try criticizing Tianlong culture.The rule is that the King of Hades likes to be haunted by ghosts, Wen Zong's master Wang Anshi can't beat the Yuanyou Party, and the whole family demonizes it. Yue Fei, a temporary worker in the Song Dynasty, can make people happy?
From this point of view, Wang Anshi's almost perfect style is almost included in the record of traitors.Then it is inevitable that Cai Jing, who is more powerful than Wang Anshi and corrupt, will be listed as one of Huizong's great thieves.

But just as the role of the Eunuch Party at the end of the Ming Dynasty was to check and balance the Donglin Party, in fact the role of the Cai family at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty was similar.And objectively speaking, the Cai family is much gentler than the eunuchs.

The Yuanyou Party is just better at killing the Tartars, but it is really weak against foreign races. They can beat people as awesome as Wang Anshi and Lu Huiqing, but they will cede their land when they meet mere Dangxiang people (Xixia) summation.For example, Grandpa Yue can hang up the Jurchen wild boar skin and beat it until shit comes out, but when he encounters the Yuanyou Party, he will rush to the street.

While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard Cai You ask with a smile: "What are you thinking about? Are you thinking about your own studies and official career?"

Zhao Cheng didn't say anything after recovering.People in the Cai family definitely love to listen to Zhao Cheng, but they also have knowledge in their performance, and they can't just open their mouths. Assuming that Zhao Cheng is now a Jinshi who graduated from the Imperial Academy, he can mention the Yuanyou School, but now a mere elementary school student, It is wrong to say.

I also need to know more about this guy. For Zhao Cheng, Cai You is currently the most likely person to bring Zhao Cheng to the capital and to the emperor.

Cai You smiled again, "Don't think too much, I know you too well, you are a scholar (graduating from primary school) in Chongning for three years, right?"

Anyway, that's what was written in the school records, so Zhao Cheng said, "It's true to be honest."

Cai You said, "Then you don't need to think too much about it. Don't be too ambitious. This kind of foundation is far from the point of mentioning the official status. From small things, this is very important."

"Thank you for the reminder," Zhao Cheng said.

Cai You twirled his beard for a while, "Zhao Cheng... What attracts the most attention to you in this state is not the popularity brought by your papers and books, but that you have the status of a scholar and are willing to work on the river defense construction site. And it works out. That's the key."

Zhao Cheng secretly called it a fluke, maybe at the level of this guy, all kinds of suggestions and ideas and Jingxiu articles have been numb, and all kinds of ways of expressing flattery are also used to it.

Cai You suddenly said again: "I ask you, do you really believe in the carp jumping over the dragon's gate?"

Zhao Cheng thought for a while and said: "Maybe there will be, but if it really happens, it can only be regarded as a matter of course, and cannot be interpreted as a miracle. Everything needs to be accumulated and boosted by multiple variables. If the water is not in the water, it will not be successful. In my opinion, the level If you don’t reach the dragon’s gate, the fish can’t jump over it. If the water level is reached, the fish can swim passively without jumping.”

Cai You laughed and said, "Sounds interesting, I finally know why you can be followed by more people."

Zhao Cheng was noncommittal.

Cai You said again: "You were also present at the academy's public forum that day. Do you have any ideas about the banditry in Chizhou mentioned by Mr. Su?"

Zhao Cheng thought for a while and said, "Minggong sees clearly, this is really not something a low-level scholar like me can think about, so I have no opinion."

Cai You's expression became strange, "Then what you imply is that Mr. Su is so lofty and arrogant?"

Zhao Cheng was sweating, sure enough it's easier to talk to a treacherous and smart person.

Miss Cai, who was eavesdropping outside the study, was so angry that she felt that this kid was really a traitor, and he was belittling the talented Su Zaifang together with the treacherous father?
A nest of snakes and rats!
It's just... After thinking about it for a long time, Miss Cai was also quite speechless towards Su Zaifang, feeling that he was really out of place, a little brazen and didn't do anything.As for this Zhao Cheng, apart from his book "Lanruo Temple", it seems that he has done a lot of things now...

(End of this chapter)