202 The Crazy Honest Man
When Ma Tianchang talked about the Song family residence, he directly said that the Yang family would rather die than surrender. This should be wrong.
After all, the Yang family was not originally a subject of the Song Dynasty. They were only used by the emperor of the Song Dynasty after they surrendered.
But when she looked back and saw Lan Lao's face, she didn't see his approving smile.
Instead, Mr. Lan frowned slightly and said, "You are right. The Yang family did surrender to the Later Han and Later Zhou Dynasties during the Five Dynasties period, and finally surrendered to the Song Dynasty.
However, Ma Tianchang was not talking about history. What he was talking about at that time was: 'The Song family's residence is full of loyalty and the style of the God of War family who would rather die than surrender'.
This sentence itself is not wrong. After all, what is promoted in the Song family house is the loyalty of the Yang family.
And the words "rather die than surrender" only describe Yang Ye's behavior and spirit after he was captured. These are all words that can be used when talking about the Song family residence."
Lan Lao looked at Zhan Mengmeng and encouraged him again: "Actually, you are already very close if you look for it this way. It's just a little bit close. Can you look for it again?"
Guo Jingting in the audience stopped immediately when she heard that Mr. Lan actually asked Zhan Mengmeng like this.
When Mr. Lan gave Zhan Mengmeng a second chance just now, she was already very uncomfortable, but Mr. Lan had already spoken out at that time, and she didn't say anything more because of his status.
But now he wants to give Zhan Mengmeng a chance for the third time? How could this happen? Our Ma Tianchang got her right about Zhan Mengmeng’s mistakes the first time.
And what about Zhan Mengmeng? She has already said it wrong twice. If she is given a chance, what will she say if she finds it a third time? Is it still a tie? This is too unfair, right?
She immediately stood up and reminded: "It's almost twelve o'clock now, Mr. Lan, just say it directly.
To be honest, even I didn’t hear anything wrong in Ma Tianchang’s introduction, and it’s even more impossible to find Zhan Mengmeng. Let’s not waste time!”
But just after she finished speaking, Zhan Mengmeng responded to her immediately: "I thought of it, this time I really thought of it."
After saying these two sentences, Zhan Mengmeng almost jumped up with excitement.
She immediately bowed deeply to Mr. Lan and said, "Thank you, Mr. Lan, for giving me this opportunity. Without your reminder, I would not have been able to find his words that almost everyone ignored."
Lan Lao smiled and said: "Did you really find it this time? Let's talk about it, then?"
Zhan Mengmeng was very confident this time because she really thought that Ma Tianchang said something she shouldn't have said when describing the scenic spot.
This time, she also imitated Ma Tianchang and asked him: "If I remember correctly, when you introduced the scenic spots in Qifeng, you said something like this, 'Qingtian Mansion tells the story of a generation that is impoverished, has a breeze on its sleeves, and is selfless.
"The Life of a Famous Official," right?"
Hearing her ask himself this, Ma Tianchang suddenly felt that this girl was very interesting.
The tone and tone of this question were exactly the same as when he asked her just now. He was simply copying the gourd.
Ma Tianchang has learned from Zhan Mengmeng several times on stage today.
He originally thought that this kind of scholarly talk was something that proud people like Zhan Mengmeng wouldn't bother to use.
Unexpectedly, at this time, people would not be ashamed to learn from him.
He nodded with interest and replied: "Yes, that's what I said. Is there anything wrong with this sentence?"
Guo Jingting heard these two conversations between them in the audience and knew that something was going to happen to Ma Tianchang.
Originally, when she first heard Ma Tianchang talk about this, she had a slightly inappropriate feeling.
But at that time, Ma Tianchang explained everything in one go and did not give her much time to think about it.
But now, when Zhan Mengmeng asked Ma Tianchang this sentence alone, Guo Jingting heard what the problem was.
But when she heard it, she was helpless. Ma Tianchang had already said these words, and she wanted to take them back, but it was impossible!
Ma Tianchang didn't realize there was anything wrong with his words. He was smiling and waiting for Zhan Mengmeng to express his opinion.
"Of course, everyone knows that the famous official of the generation that Ma Tianchang is talking about is Bao Qingtian. You say that he has a clean sleeves and a selfless face. There is really no problem, but you say that he is impoverished? Not only does this not make sense, it is even contradictory!" Zhan Mengmeng was very worried.
The way of confidence.
After saying this, she looked at Mr. Lan and said, "Old Lan, I think Ma Tianchang must not be convinced by my words.
How about you tell him why Mr. Bao is not penniless this time, okay?"
Before Mr. Lan could speak, Ma Tianchang said first, "You want to say that Mr. Bao's family was not impoverished before he became an official, right?"
After asking this question, he immediately imitated Lao Lan's tone and explained to Zhan Mengmeng:
"But I am talking about Mr. Bao whom I saw in Qingtian Mansion. At this time, he has become the governor of Qingtian Mansion.
Master Bao, who became a high official, never accepted bribes and was always selfless.
Of course, it can be said that he has a breath of fresh air. Excluding the money he brought with him, he must have been impoverished when he took office in Qingtian Mansion. Is this wrong? "
After saying this, he glanced at Zhan Mengmeng triumphantly and secretly shouted for himself!
Because he felt that it was really not easy and very witty for him to learn Lan Lao's thinking and argument so quickly to refute her!
But she didn't see the embarrassment he suspected from Zhan Mengmeng's face. Instead, she saw her playful smile:
"Ma Tianchang, I just realized now that you are really interesting."
Seeing her expression and comments like this, Ma Tianchang suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly turned back to look at Mr. Lan on the other side.
But Lao Lan smiled and nodded to Zhan Mengmeng this time: "This time you really heard where Ma Tianchang went wrong. But is Ma Tianchang still a little confused?
Then let me tell you why Zhan Mengmeng said it was wrong for you to describe Mr. Bao as poor."
Having said this, he sorted out his language slightly and said again: "The Northern Song Dynasty was founded in 960 AD, and Mr. Bao was born in 999 AD.
And the year he became the governor of Qingtian Mansion was actually more than fifty years later.
At that time, Qifeng City in the Northern Song Dynasty had developed into the largest city in the world.
At that time, the country was wealthy, the cities were wealthy, and even the people were wealthy.
So, as the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, is Mr. Bao rich or not?
Don't talk about anything else, let's just talk about salary.
According to data, Mr. Bao's annual income when he was governor, plus various subsidies, was converted into the price of rice in 2019. Taking into account the issue of purchasing power, it was about 6 to 12 million yuan.
In other words, Mr. Bao's annual salary is at least more than 6 million yuan now.
The idea of the Song Dynasty government at that time was to use high salaries to maintain integrity. This was to prevent officials from taking bribes in important positions.
The salary of a high-ranking official is around 10 million yuan. Let’s all think about it. Who would accept a small bribe worth tens of thousands of yuan?
Why risk losing your job by taking bribes and opening a back door for others?
Let’s go back to Mr. Bao. His annual salary is around 10 million. With this figure, can you still describe him as being penniless?
Of course, there are still people who are qualified to say this, such as Jack Ma, Ma Huateng, and yes, Ma Tianchang.
It shouldn’t be too much for these few wealthy people to say this to Mr. Bao!”
When the audience in the audience heard the always serious Mr. Lan suddenly say such a joke, they immediately laughed kindly.
"How could Mr. Lan actually make such a joke? Can he be so naughty?"
"Do you think Mr. Lan is just an old scholar? That's because you don't understand him very well.
In the early years, his humor was also famous in the travel circle.
He is an old veteran in the tourism field. When he is serious, he is the same, but when he is humorous, it is like a different person!"
"I like when this old man shows his sense of humor. He and Ma Tianchang complement each other perfectly. It feels like they are from the same origin."
At this moment, Ma Tianchang was so embarrassed that he just wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it!
Not only was he embarrassed, he also regretted it: the four words "poor" were added on his own whim.
That's not what Yan Min's tour guide says at all.
I absolutely shouldn't, I shouldn't think of Mr. Bao as having a breeze on his sleeves, and I shouldn't think that Mr. Bao is a poor man who even has his clothes patched up. Haha.
It's all the TV dramas that are causing the trouble. Haven't you seen that the honest officials in most TV dramas look like that?
This is the consequence of not understanding history and characters.
It seems that when I become a tour guide in the future, when I explain the tour guide words, I should be down-to-earth and follow the instructions compiled by the books or veteran tour guides.
Such self-righteous and irresponsible adjectives should not be added so casually unless you are sure of its correctness!
Now, Guo Jingting in the audience is very anxious. She knows that it is impossible to change the result of Ma Tianchang's mistake being found out by Zhan Mengmeng.
But if you do something before the judges give their ratings, there should still be a way to make the judges tend to favor Ma Tianchang when rating.
She picked up the microphone at the judges' table again and interjected slightly impolitely:
"Before giving the score, I would like to ask the judges and teachers to pay attention to the fact that Ma Tianchang immediately found Zhan Mengmeng's fault.
However, it was only the third time that Zhan Mengmeng revealed Ma Tianchang's mistake.
Who is taller and who is lower? The audience is watching from below, so it shouldn’t be difficult to judge, right?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard a drake roaring behind her:
"Guo Jingting, you are seriously interfering with the judges' scoring. You are no longer a judge. What qualifications do you have to hold a microphone and speak nonsense in the judges' box?"
In this rage, the guy whose voice turned into a drake voice again was none other than Zhai Yingxiong, who had calmed down for a while.
Guo Jingting protects her calf, why doesn't Zhai Yingxiong not protect her own calf?
Moreover, if the judges really follow Guo Jingting's thinking in scoring, then today's first place will definitely change hands?
Chapter completed!