Wu Haogu and Mi Youren took Zhao Ji to the Roasted Pig Courtyard. As soon as they found a private room to sit down, the monk from the Roasted Pig Courtyard opened the door and came in.

It has been several days since Wu Haogu returned to Kaifeng Prefecture, but it was the first time he met the monk Shaozhuyuan.

The monk held a letter in his hand and said to Wu Haogu when he saw him, "Dalang, it's really time for you to come. The letter from Linzheng has just arrived."

"Monkey Fu's letter? Did he come to Japan?"

Wu Haogu quickly asked.

"It's been here, it's been here long ago." said the monk Shaozhuyuan. "The letter was sent from Heian Kyo from Japan. In the letter, Lin Zheng said that he also met the monks and officials from Japan."

"Monk's official family?" Zhao Ji stared at the monk Shaozhuyuan for a while and found that he was the "drunk arhat". He heard what he said interestingly, so he asked, "What's going on? The Japanese monk became an official family?"

"It was the official who became a monk," said the monk Shaozhuyuan with a smile, "called the Emperor of Shirakawayuan, but the power of Japan is still in the hands of this monk. The boy Linzheng did not recite scriptures well on weekdays, but now he can become a guest of honor for the monk's official family. It seems that he is really destined to be my Buddha."

Wu Haogu took the letter from the monk Shaozhuyuan and opened it and read it. In fact, he didn't write anything. He wrote about his experience in Japan except for some greetings.

He set out from Haizhou and went straight to Japan. The process went smoothly. He encountered no storms, but was very seasick. After arriving at the Japanese Daizaifu Hakatazu, he rested for a few days, and then he sold the silk he had to Japan for exchange for gold and continued on his way.

Although Hakatatsu is a Japanese port, most of the residents are Song people, and most of them are maritime merchants in the Mingzhou area. The Song people were called "Tangfang" in the settlement area of ​​Hakata. Although it is now the world of the Song Dynasty, the Japanese seem to have not forgotten the Tang Dynasty. They called the Song people "Tang people" and the Song people's residential area is "Tangfang", and even the goods produced in the Song Dynasty are called "Tangqu". And Monk Fu is naturally also a "Tang Monk"!

"Tangfang" is right next to the port, it is the most prosperous area in Hakatatsu. Large areas of buildings are filled with very gorgeous buildings. On the streets of Hakatatsu, Song Dynasty merchants wearing Song Dynasty costumes and speaking in Zhejiang dialects can also be seen everywhere.

Most of these merchants are extremely rich, and there are many people with millions of family resources! Near Hakatajin, there are many magnificent temples, which were built by the Song Dynasty Merchants Association. Fu Linzheng, along with the old monk Jiejue, also became a guest of honor for many Song Dynasty merchants, and received a large amount of donations, enough to build a small Xiangguo Temple in Ping'anjing.

The Japanese yamen that manages Hakata is called Dazaifu, and the trade between the Song Dynasty and Goryeo and Japan is also managed by this yamen. However, the monk Jiejue was a monk named by the Song Dynasty officials, and was also a monk and official from the original Japanese yamen, so the Japanese officials in the Dazaifu were released without collecting taxes from the Fu Monk.

After staying in Hakata for a few days, Mr. Fu took a merchant ship from the Seto Inland Sea to a port called Namba. Namba is very close to Heiankyo, the capital of Japan, and is therefore also a prosperous port city. However, there are no Song people, they are all Japanese own merchants.

Before he stayed in Namba for a few days, he set off in Heianjing. Heianjing is the largest city in Japan and the most wise place. At the same time, it is also a "Tang-style" city with a city wall like the Song Dynasty. The scenery outside the city is beautiful, the mountains and waters are beautiful, the streets in the city are neat, and the market is bustling than Hakatajin. There are many Buddhist temples and shrines inside and outside Heianjing, and the residents worship Buddha, so they are polite. Most of the nobles in the city can speak "Tang language". They often hold songs and tea parties, like to recite poetry, study calligraphy and painting, and cultivate sentiment - it is estimated that Monk Fu and a group of otakus and nobles were mixed together.

In the imperial palace in the capital of Peachian, Monk Fu really saw a shaved Japanese monk official. Then Monk Fu presented gifts on behalf of the Daxiangguo Temple in Kaifeng, namely Wu Hao's ancient paintings "The True Face of the Arhat", "Vishamon Heavenly Map" and "Flying Sky Map". The old Japanese monks also knew the goods, and immediately realized that these three paintings were "priceless treasures". He wrote poems and sealed them on the paintings and collected them into the palace treasure house as national treasures.

When the Emperor Shirakawa Court was very happy, Monk Fu made a request to establish a Xiaoxiangguo Temple in Japan to spread the Dharma. The Emperor Shirakawa Court immediately agreed to the request of Monk Fu and generously assigned a piece of land north of the Heian Kyoto Imperial Hall to Monk Fu, asking him to build a Heian Kyoto Temple there. At the same time, Monk Fu also appointed Monk Fu as lawyer Quan and the Temple Building Authority of the Xiangguo Temple.

In the letter, Mr. Fu also explained what "Lawyer Quan" and "Mitemaster" mean. The former is the official position of the Japanese monk, which is rated as a fifth level, which is equivalent to a fifth-rank. "Mitemaster" is equivalent to a "official official", which is the official responsible for building the temple, and the Samgoji Temple is responsible for building the Samgoji Temple in Heian Kyo.

"Foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures" is indeed the truth!

Monk Fu is just a little monk who cooks in Kaifeng Prefecture. Now he is so awesome when he goes to Japan. He actually becomes a big monk from the fifth grade. It is simply a step to reach the sky!

Wu Haogu read the letter from Monk Fu word by word, but his eyes kept looking at Zhao Ji. The Duan of the Song Dynasty was listening with relish. I wonder if he was taking the affairs of Japan as strange stories.

"Haha, how did the monk's official family come up with it?" Zhao Ji asked the monk Shaozhuyuan with a smile, "Master, who sent this letter? Is it an envoy of Japan?"

"No, it's a few Mingzhou maritime merchants who trade with Japan." The monk Shaozhuyuan replied.

Mi Youren interrupted: "This Japanese country has not sent official envoys to our dynasty, and the exchanges between the two sides are done by monks."

"Why is this?"

"Probably because the Japanese government is called the Emperor?" Wu Haogu said, "This is too big and difficult to deal with."

Although the Song Dynasty was quite frustrated to the outside world, it was still a little worried about face. That is, it was to perform equal national rituals with the Liao Kingdom. Goryeo, Xixia, Dali, and Annan were all regarded as vassal states.

The Japanese government is the emperor, and the emperor in heaven is naturally a person who wants to be face-saving. It is impossible to surrender to the officials of the Song Dynasty, so that it will be difficult for both sides to have formal relationships.

However, there is no problem with monks to exchange with each other. Anyway, the Song Dynasty and Japan are not big enough for each other, and the officials of both countries are closed kings. Japan is not the time of the Wu family. There are a bunch of waste ministers who assisted the Shirakawa Court and the Emperor of the Shirakawa Court that Heian Kyo is unwilling to produce. As for the northern samurai who serves as thugs for Shirakawa Court, they do not have much combat power. They can only bully the disobedient ministers. It is not possible to fight it out.

"Dalang, you know so much." Zhao Ji looked at Wu Haogu with a smile, "Where did you hear it?"

"It all comes from the book." Wu Haogu did not say what books he could read, but changed the topic. "By the way, I recently heard of a strange book called "Mengxi Bitan". The content above covers everything and records many interesting things."

"Dream of Dreams and Bi Tan"?" Zhao Ji had never seemed to have heard of this book, "Who wrote it?"

"It was Shen Cunzhong, the former governor of the Fuyan Road and the governor of Yanzhou." Wu Haogu said, "He was demoted after the Battle of Yongle City in the fifth year of Yuanfeng. He has been focused on his studies and was ordered to compile the "Picture of the World and County" in the ninth year of Xining. After the drawing was completed, he moved to Mengxi Garden in Runzhou. It took six years to edit the "Mengxi Bitan". It is said that this book has a lot of content, all-encompassing and everything."

"Shen Cunzhong," Zhao Ji nodded, "It's such a strange man, this book..."

"I'll write to my father to ask for it." Mi Youren already understood Wu Haogu's idea. He smiled and said, "Xiao Yi, after the book is requested, let's organize and edit it together."

"Sorting...Editing?"

Wu Hao Gu Dao: "This book is said to have 30 volumes, and the content is too complicated and huge. If you want to engrave, you must sort it out and then sort it out, and divide it into several books or even dozens of books.

This will allow more people to study Mengxi’s father-in-law’s knowledge.”

It is very difficult to print and distribute a 30-volume "Mengxi Bitan", and no one needs a whole "Mengxi Bitan". Even if the university is published, everyone needs only a part of it.

In addition, Shen Kuo was a high-ranking official and was not very proud in the officialdom. God knew that he would write something he shouldn't write in "Mengxi Bitan"?

If the whole work is published, would it be better for those censors to see it?

Therefore, it is necessary to organize and edit, and just in case, there must be someone who is not afraid of the censor and participate in the editing. In the future, the only person who is not afraid of ginseng will definitely be Huizong Zhao Ji.

As long as he participated in the compilation and editing of "Mengxi Bitan", this book and the books derived from it would not be listed as banned by the Song Dynasty court.

In addition, Wu Haogu is now compiling and editing "Mengxi Bitan" to treat it as a future university textbook. The participation or even leadership of Song Huizong will definitely help future universities - this is the emperor's knowledge, who dares to criticize? It seems that it is appropriate to learn the emperor's knowledge well and give him an official...

Of course, we must pay attention to preventing "doctrinism" by allowing Song Huizong to participate in the editing of university textbooks. It cannot be because the textbook was edited by Song Huizong, and the content above is the truth.

We must introduce the concepts of science and positivism, and let Song Huizong write a preface and add it to the beginning of each textbook.

"Look at the book first," Zhao Ji thought for a while and said with a smile, "If it is really interesting, let's organize and edit it together as Dalang said."

Wu Haogu Yixiao: "If you want to edit, it is not just "Mengxi Bitan", but also "Text and Materia Medica" by Su Weigong (Su Song) and "New Etiquette and Fa Yao", and "Creation of the Fa" that Li Jiangzuo is editing, etc., which can be compiled and edited together.
Chapter completed!