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Chapter 0946 White Lies (Tonight Tomorrow

Kou Ji was so tormented by Di Yong that he couldn't stay in the yard any longer, so he carried Di Yong into the study.
In the study room.
Zhao Run is bragging to Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong.
The most delicacies and beauties in Bianjing City kept coming out of his mouth.
He also threatened to invite his two junior brothers Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong to taste it.
He had just received a bonus of 80,000 yuan, and now it was in Kou Ji's hands, and he was not afraid of Empress Cao taking it away, so he was very generous.
Ever since the Cao brothers, Kou Tianci and others left Bianjing City one after another, he hasn't spoken so much for a long time.
Although Yang Huaiyu and others will also play with him.
But when Yang Huaiyu and others faced him, they were always respectful and daring.
Zhao Run doesn't like it.
Although he is naturally superior to others.
But he doesn't like to have this superiority etched on his forehead, making people fear him.
That would make you have no friends and make you feel lonely.
He does not think that if he lowers his status and gets along with people whose status is lower than his own, he will be contaminated with vulgarity and fall into the world of mortals.
His father was the number one person in the Song Dynasty.
I've called him husband for most of my life, and I haven't seen anyone think that his father is tacky.
Yelu Longxu, who was once known as the overlord of the earth and the lord of the four seas, ran to his father to beg for his life when he was dying.
Although his mother always instilled in him some thoughts that he was born to be a nobleman.
But he didn't listen.
He preferred what his husband said.
Superiority is based on fists and money.
rather than based on self-evaluation.
Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong, the two new junior disciples, although they were not from a high background, did not look down upon him because of his status. They only maintained courtesy when in front of others, but they never lowered their heads in their hearts.
Zhao Run appreciated this.
Zhao Run felt that the two of them were qualified to be friends with him, so he didn't mind being generous.
"The soup cakes at Grandma Cao's shop on Wuma Street are the best soup cakes in the city. Other people's soups are made with sheep or pig bones, but hers is made with beef bones.
The taste is far better than others.
The most important thing is cleanliness.
Don’t worry, Grandma Cao can’t keep the shop clean as she gets older..."
"Although Fan Lou is boasted very much, the only thing that can be eaten in it is braised pork. The recipe was passed down from the husband's house... The reason why Fan Lou is famous is mainly because of its good wine..."
"The apricot flower wine outside Tianqing Temple...the water chestnuts outside Kaibao Temple...are all rare delicacies in Bianjing..."
"Other people think that the delicacies in Bianjing City are all delicacies from the mountains and seas. In fact, this is not the case. The delicacies in Bianjing City are all hidden among the people, and we need to dig out them carefully.
You are lucky, I have already found delicious food for you...
You know, in order to find these delicacies, Tianci and I ate all over Bianjing..."
"..."
Zhao Run spoke very seriously with a small mouth. When he got excited, he pounded the table excitedly, without the majesty of a royal child.
Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong listened attentively, and when Zhao Run mentioned something exciting, they couldn't help nodding in agreement.
If Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong hadn't frequently drawn numbers under the table, Kou Ji would have really thought that Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong were interested in the delicacies Zhao Run was talking about.
The world of genius can never be understood by mortals.
For example, two little guys frequently drew numbers with their hands under the table.
Kou Ji watched for a long time before he saw that the two little guys were playing blind chess.
They have a chessboard in their mind.
The number drawn is the number of paths they want to take.
The speed is very fast, indicating that they are evenly matched.
When Kou Jilun saw that Zhao Run was so happy and it was rare for someone to listen patiently to Zhao Run talking about things that they had no interest in, he didn't want to disturb him and was ready to leave with Di Yong in his arms.
It's just that Di Yong doesn't want to do it.
He is not sensible and does not need to take into account Kou Ji's mood.
"eat……"
Di Yong stretched out his arm towards Zhao Run who was chattering endlessly and shouted.
The person who likes Zhao Run the most in the Zhuyuan is Di Yong.
Because Zhao Run always brings delicious food to Di Yong and also likes to talk to Di Yong.
Although Di Yong couldn't understand what Zhao Run was talking about, he had a good impression of this big brother who smelled good and was willing to chirp and coax him.
Zhao Run smells good, but it doesn't mean that he is wearing makeup or powder.
It is the clothes of the royal family, which are put on after being scented with incense.
The same is true for the children of wealthy families in Bianjing City.
However, the incense used is far inferior to that of Zhao Run.
Di Yong has a very smart nose and likes expensive ones.
Di Yong shouted loudly, instantly breaking the scene in the study where one person was giving a speech and the two were distracted.
When the three people in the study saw Kou Ji appearing with Di Yong in his arms, they all stood up and saluted.
Kou Ji carried Di Yong into the study. After sitting down, he asked with a smile: "How is your class?"
When Zhao Run heard this, he shrank his neck in fear.
Wang Anshi acted neither humble nor overbearing.
Zeng Gong's eyes were full of doubts.
Zeng Gong was the first to speak, "Sir, why do you want us to learn Dashiwen?"
Kou Ji did not answer his question. After waving his hand for them to sit down, he asked with a smile: "Isn't it good to learn another language?"
Zeng Gong said frankly: "My Han culture is broad and profound. We can't finish learning Han culture alone. How can we have the experience to learn another knowledge?"
Kou Ji laughed and said: "Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. The knowledge of Dashi has many merits, and there are many unexpected things in it.
Let you study Dashi Wen now just to facilitate your reading of Dashi in the future."
Wang Anshi couldn't help but ask: "Sir, what do you think of the great food knowledge?"
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "The accumulation of countless people and hundreds of years has its merits. You don't think that knowledge is only available in the Central Plains and there is nothing else in other places."
Zhao Run said unceremoniously: "Even if there is knowledge in other places, it cannot compare with my knowledge in the Central Plains."
Kou Ji neither criticized Zhao Run nor praised Zhao Run. He just cast his eyes on Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong and asked with a smile: "Do you think so too?"
Zeng Gong hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Wang Anshi shook his head without hesitation.
Kou Ji looked at Wang Anshi and said, "Tell me what you think."
Wang Anshi said frankly: "There are countless places where our Central Plains culture is far superior to the knowledge of foreign peoples. But the knowledge of foreign peoples also has merits."
Kou Ji laughed loudly, "You guys just don't want to admit that others are better than you."
Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, and Zhao Run pursed their lips and said nothing.
People throughout the Song Dynasty regarded people outside the Song Dynasty as barbarians.
If you expect a bunch of civilized people to admit that the barbarians are strong, isn't that a joke?
Kou Jixiao asked: "How do you treat the medical examiner's office?"
Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong were stunned for a moment.
There was no rush to speak.
They had only heard of the Forensic Clinic but had not studied it carefully, so they did not dare to speak rashly.
Zhao Run had been to the forensic clinic, so he immediately said: "The people in the forensic clinic are all evil spirits. They cut people open to look at them, which is against the principles of human ethics."
Wang Anshi spoke slowly, "I have never been to a forensic clinic, but I have heard that people in the forensic clinic cut people open for examination."
Kou Ji smiled and said, "You also think they are evil spirits?"
Wang Anshi shook his head, "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, so I won't make any comments."
Kou Ji admired: "You are quite rigorous."
Wang Anshi cupped his hand and thanked Kou Ji for his compliment.
Zeng Gong hesitated again and again, and said in a deep voice: "Those who insult the human body will be abandoned by both heaven and man."
Kou Ji put down Di Yong, who was scurrying around in his arms, and let him run towards Zhao Run.
After Zhao Run picked up Di Yong, Kou Ji said with a smile: "Then do you know that he is an evil ghost in the eyes of the world? The medical skills he developed have reduced the injuries of our soldiers who went out to fight in the Song Dynasty by nearly 10%.
Forty percent.
It was also them who developed the art of anatomy, which allowed many people in the Song Dynasty who had been wronged to redress their injustices."
Wang Anshi and Zhao Run frowned and fell into deep thought.
Zeng Gong said without hesitation, "Gong is merit, fault is fault..."
Kou Ji nodded and said, "You are very suitable to be a teacher, to educate students, and to study knowledge."
Zhao Run pondered and said: "If you dissection one person, countless people will survive. You can dissect them."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "From the perspective of pros and cons, your idea is not wrong. But people must always be benevolent and have a benevolent heart, then they are human beings. If they are not benevolent, they are livestock."
"What about dissecting people?"
Zhao Run couldn't help but make up for what he just said.
Kou Ji nodded and said: "It's a good thing to know that there is a problem and know how to make up for it. But when it comes to human life, it's not just about making up for it.
You have been hanging around the market, you should pay more attention to the sufferings of the people."
After Kou Ji finished speaking, Wang Anshi whispered: "Sir, I'm afraid you can't govern the country with only benevolence."
Kou Ji stared at Wang Anshi with a smile, "You are not old, but your heart is not young. Before you become an official, you want to run the country. Even Zhao Run's identity is included in this.
But you should know two things: benevolence is benevolence, and means are means.
The benevolence must be maintained and the means must be used.
You need to know where your bottom line is.
You must know that you cannot do things that are harmful to nature.
You have to know what you are doing at all times.”
Zhao Run was a little confused listening to Kou Ji's words.
What Kou Ji said was so confusing that he couldn't understand it for a while.
Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong already understood what Kou Ji said.
Be benevolent in your heart, be kind when you should be kind, and be unambiguous when you should use thunderous means.
It depends on what you are doing, what persistence you have in your heart, and whether you have regrets in your heart.
Seeing that the three little guys fell into silence, Kou Ji laughed and said, "I'm going too far... Back to the forensic clinic, the people in the forensic clinic are studying the knowledge of big food, as well as some knowledge that I have learned.
There is also the knowledge passed down from our ancestors.
Before the emergence of the forensic clinic, we were faced with broken arms and scars from swords, guns, swords and halberds.
Most of the doctors in the Song Dynasty used methods of burning, applying medicine, and bandaging.
After the emergence of forensic clinics, many methods such as debridement, suturing, and bone scraping were added.
In addition, there are many kinds of medical skills.
Various medical techniques including injection of amputated arm, abdominal retrieval of fetus, etc.
Among them, medical skills such as scraping bones to heal injuries are passed down from our ancestors.
Medical skills such as suturing are the medical skills of Dashi."
After a pause, Kou Ji added: "It can't be said that it's Dashi's medical skills, because as far as I know, a lot of Dashi's knowledge was also stolen.
This includes some medical skills.
Therefore, it should be safer to turn it into a Western medical skill.
The suturing technique in it has a miraculous effect on the injuries suffered by our soldiers of the Song Dynasty with swords, guns, swords and halberds.
If it were in the past, our Song Dynasty soldiers would have suffered many stab wounds on the battlefield, and most of them would have died without a doubt.
Because they can bleed to death just by bleeding.
Military doctors used methods such as burning and applying medicine, but they simply couldn't handle it.
But now, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty suffered multiple stab wounds, which could be debrided, sutured, applied with medicine, and bandaged.
After being sutured, the bleeding from the wounds of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty will be greatly reduced, and the chance of survival will be greatly improved.
Therefore, medical skills such as suturing are desirable to us."
Kou Ji's words make people unable to help but think of them.
In the minds of the three little guys, people covered in blood appeared unconsciously. One was being treated by Chinese medicine, and the other was in the initial stage of Western medicine.
Chinese people have an inexplicable reverence for the human body, so there is a saying that parents who are affected by the body, hair, and skin should not take it lightly.
It is precisely because of this that Chinese people rarely use knives on human corpses.
Using people to study medical skills is looked down upon by all Xinglin doctors.
Westerners are different. They don't have so many moral constraints, so they dare to do anything to people.
So when it comes to surgery, Westerners are indeed a bit ahead.
Of course, this statement only exists among doctors.
Because in addition to doctors, there are also craftsmen and craftsmen who help emperors, generals and ministers make burial objects, so they are not included in this list.
There is no need to say more about the autopsy.
The craftsmen who helped make burial objects for emperors, generals and prime ministers had done everything on human bodies.
What people in the Apricot Grove disdain the most is communicating with these people.
In the eyes of the people in the apricot forest, whether they are workmen or craftsmen who make burial objects for emperors and generals, they are executioners, butchers, inhumane and dehumanizing things.
Yes, they are just things, not even people.
Naturally, Kou Ji would not tell the three of them these things.
After thinking about the results of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine in treating trauma, the three little guys chose to believe Kou Ji's words.
The knowledge of food has its merits.
It’s not that they believe that Western medicine is superior in surgery.
They believed that Koji would not deceive them about this kind of thing.
The forensic clinic is not a military center.
On the contrary, the medical examiner's office is a very open-minded place.
It welcomes all interested parties to learn more.
So the three of them can definitely go to the forensic clinic for verification.
After Zeng Gong accepted the merits of the food culture, he said solemnly: "Even if the food culture has merits in our Song Dynasty, it is not easy to spread.
If I, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, get hold of a book written by The Great Eater, I will definitely discard it like a shoe."
Wang Anshi pondered and said: "Not everyone will abandon it like a shoe. If it is useful to me and the Song Dynasty, I am willing to learn it."
Zeng Gong frowned and said, "But once word spreads, we will face hostility from others."
In terms of knowledge, people of all dynasties are very interesting.
They are both selfish and generous.
If their own people want to learn, they will set up many obstacles and pay attention to what laws should not be taught lightly.
They need generous gifts from their students before they can impart knowledge to their students.
But the core will not be taught.
Only the elites selected by them are qualified to learn the core knowledge.
For example, the scriptures annotated by Kou Zhun.
At present, only students of Wenchang Academy are eligible to borrow books from the library of Wenchang Academy when they receive awards.
But he is very generous to outsiders.
Whenever there are envoys from foreign countries who want to learn the culture of the Song Dynasty.
A large number of people in the Song Dynasty will be open to them reading, as long as they are humble enough.
Only a small number of people in the Song Dynasty did not easily reveal their knowledge to others.
Not only that, they have full confidence in their own knowledge, but they disdain the knowledge of others.
Sometimes there will be fights.
For example, foreign knowledge is heresy in their eyes.
Not recognized by them.
Once someone spreads it, he will be immediately labeled as a heretic and targeted by everyone.
Some people may think this is ridiculous.
But that's the truth.
Any culture that enters the Central Plains can only be assimilated by the Central Plains culture, not that the Central Plains culture is assimilated by it.
After Buddhism entered the Central Plains, it would not have been able to gain a foothold in the Central Plains if it had not gradually promoted Sinicization.
So Zeng Gong's worries are not unnecessary.
Wang Anshi hesitated for a moment and said, "We can make some annotations about it and then publicize it."
Zeng Gong shook his head again.
Lu Jiuyuan was not yet born, and his saying "I annotate the Six Classics, and the Six Classics annotate me" has not yet been regarded as a famous saying.
Therefore, the tolerance of scholars is not that strong.
When Wang Anshi saw Zeng Gong being silent and Kou Ji staring at him with a smile, he gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Then treat it as if it was written by ourselves and publicize it.
We just need to take the useful ones."
In this era where plagiarizing other people's works can ruin your reputation, there is a huge risk for Wang Anshi to say this in front of Kou Ji.
After he finished speaking, he stared at Kou Ji, speculating uneasily.
"Hahaha……"
Kou Ji laughed loudly, "Take the essence, discard the dross, and replace it with peach paste. It's good, good."
Wang Anshi felt relieved when he saw Kou Ji smiling.
Knowing that Koji wouldn't blame him for this.
Zeng Gong frowned when he heard that Kou Ji admired Wang Anshiwen's thieves' behavior.
He is a gentleman and does not like this approach.
Zhao Run was more concerned about whether he could join it, whether he could write a few books, and put his name on it, so that people would think he was very knowledgeable.
Kou Ji ignored Zhao Run's nonsense.
Writing a book does not mean that everyone can write it.
A person who is uneducated and has no status will write books that no one will read.
Only books written by people with academic reputations or high positions will be taken seriously.
Although Zhao Run has status, his status comes from his bloodline, not himself.
And his bloodline also determines that even if he becomes a great scholar, he will still be a dwarf.
Just like in the past dynasties, there are many sons and grandsons of dragons who have made great contributions to knowledge.
But their reputation in knowledge is far less prestigious than that of their ministers.
For example, the two princes of the Ming Dynasty who made significant contributions to botany and phonology.
In later generations, unless they study botany and music, few people know their names.
Therefore, when Zhao Run wrote a book, Kou Ji didn't pay attention at all. He paid more attention to Zeng Gong.
"Do you think that plagiarizing other people's knowledge and claiming it as your own is an act of thieves?"
Kou Ji stared at Zeng Gong and asked.
Zeng Gong nodded almost without hesitation.
Kou Ji asked again: "But if we don't do this, how can we spread that knowledge? I can tell you that in far away Dashi, there is a library with millions of books.
The knowledge inside is the crystallization of thousands of years of wisdom on that land.
Among them, what is useful to me in the Song Dynasty is not just some simple medical skills.
Astronomy, geography, music, arithmetic, blacksmithing, commerce, etc.
Too many to count.
I spent a lot of money to have people carefully select and send one-third of the useful books to the Song Dynasty.
The remaining two-thirds will then be sent to the Song Dynasty.
So far, except for medicine, everything else is still hidden.
Because we know what kind of reaction it will cause when we spread them out.
So I can only hide them.
But guarding the treasure mountain without using it is a waste of time and irresponsible to future generations."
I heard that there is a library in Dashi far away that contains millions of books.
Wang Anshi, Zeng Gong, and Zhao Run all opened their mouths in shock.
You must know that the collection of books in Longtu Pavilion, the imperial library of the Song Dynasty, cannot reach this number.
Having a library with millions of books is not called culture, it is called civilization.
Whether it can compare with China, Wang Anshi and Zeng Gong dare not say.
But they no longer dare to look down upon the culture of Dashi.
Zeng Gong gritted his teeth and said with a gloomy face, "Since there are so many books in the collection, why not just take them out and preach them? Let people accept them?
And there are so many books in the collection that even if we impersonate them without conscience, we still can’t finish them.
A person who writes ten books in his lifetime is called a great Confucian.
He has written dozens of books and is called a great scholar who astonishes the world.
If there are more than dozens of books, it’s a bad book.”
Zeng Gong's family has a long history of learning, so he knows that knowledge is infinite, but people are limited.
A person who studies knowledge intensively throughout his life and can write dozens of good books is a rare genius in the world, and he is also an old man with longevity.
Anything more than a few dozen is just nonsense.
Of no value.
Because people who study hard do not have time to write so much.
You know, some people who are famous in history only live a book in their lifetime.
For example, Taishi Company Ma Qian.
Kou Ji knew what Zeng Gong's words meant.
Zeng Gong told Kou Ji that the less knowledge is, the more valuable it is.
If you write too much, no one will take your knowledge seriously.
Even if that stuff gets spread, no one will take it seriously.
Kou Ji stared at Zeng Gong and smiled: "You are all my students, and I don't want any of you to pay your lives for this matter. So I won't let you just take these books and go out to preach.
So we need to use a white lie to spread this knowledge.
We alone cannot write that much.
But we can proceed from shallow to deep.
I’ll write about the simple stuff, and you’ll write about the deeper stuff.
Your students go a little deeper.
As long as there are enough of us, it will be easy to finish them."
Chapter completed!
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