Song Mu communicated with several people for a long time. Tan Weiyi still stayed with Song Mu to have dinner with them at noon. The conversation was very pleasant, and it was not until the afternoon that they said goodbye with satisfaction.
Song Mu also felt that the trip was worthwhile. Tan Weiyi and others were actually the epitome of students taking the exam. Talking to them, whether it was about the examination situation or the strategies for solving problems in previous years, was very fruitful.
After Song Mu came out of Tanzhai, he immediately headed towards the guild hall.
Back at the clubhouse, Song Mu had just stepped into the room. Tao Fengming was sitting in the room reading a book. When he saw Song Mu push the door open and come in, he immediately waved to Song Mu.
Song Mu quickly put down the things in his hands and walked over. Tao Fengming turned over the pages of the book in his hands and said to Song Mu.
"This book of poems by Wen Rong, the great Confucian scholar, is also of great benefit to you, but I don't know whether it is better for your writing or your martial arts."
After returning from Li Mo'er yesterday, Song Mu first showed this poetry album to Tao Fengming. Tao Fengming was quite surprised to see that it was Song Wenrong's original work.
The Song family has been passed down for hundreds of years and has produced more than a dozen Jinshi. There are countless ancient classics handed down by many Confucian scholars. However, due to the changes in the resumes of the ancestors, most of them were included in the imperial pavilions in various cities, and the rest were originally stored in
The Song Ancestral Hall also lost most of it during the changes.
When the Song family later returned to Shiyang, they only had a few boxes of ancestral books left. When they were passed to Song Mu, there were only one or two boxes of books, most of which were rusty and difficult to read.
But even so, Song Mu also learned a lot from the books of his ancestors, especially Song Wenrong's new method of telekinesis, which was an amazing treasure.
Therefore, Song Mu also had high hopes for this collection of Wenrong poems, hoping to learn something more from the glory of his ancestors.
After Tao Fengming took the booklet yesterday, he studied it with great concentration and made many explanations and judgments about it to Song Mu.
The explanations of poems in this book of poems are not actually representative of Song Wenrong. Most of the poems included were written by Song Wenrong during his years as an official in Chang'an.
However, Song Wenrong was a scholar who had achieved the realm of Confucianism after all, and the content of this casual poem album was still of extraordinary attainment. Tao Fengming and Song Mu explained several poems, and Song Mu also got a glimpse of the style of the ancestors of the Song family.
The poems contained in these poems basically do not contain the kind of nonsense sentences. They mostly express the affairs of the government at that time, as well as some policies for the development of the literary dynasty at that time.
Tao Fengming seems to be quite familiar with these histories, and he can narrate them to Song Mu every time, which is fascinating.
From it, Song Mu can see the achievements of a great scholar who worked hard for the development of the Wen Dynasty.
At that moment, Tao Fengming pointed to a poem above and said to Song Mu.
"The content in this poem may be helpful for your next exam."
"It should be the motto of a great Confucian."
Song Mu looked down at the moment and read the above sentence gently.
"Don't be afraid of snow and wind, farm and harvest in summer and autumn."
"If a family is poor and the fields are prosperous, there is hope for a large number of people."
A very simple five-character poem, the meaning is simple and clear, but it has another explanation from Tao Fengming's mouth.
"This was still when Renzong was in power. At that time, large areas of lost land in the southern border of Shu and Yunnan were returned to the control of our Wen Dynasty, but a large number of fields were abandoned. At that time, the government and the public were debating over the policy of farm people."
"At first, it was proposed to relocate people to farm, but the surrounding area was not overpopulated. The strategy of relocating people not only cost the people and money, but also made the people unwilling and the national treasury unable to do so."
"Wenrong, the great scholar, must have advocated the border army's farming, and then he also used this strategy. After decades, these places became prosperous again, and during this period, the treasury did not spend too much. After the three-year tax-free period, every year grain, cloth
, iron tools, medicinal herbs, and wood are in constant supply.”
Song Mu listened to Tao Fengming's explanation and nodded repeatedly. Tao Fengming looked at Song Mu and said immediately.
"Compared with the college examination and the provincial examination, the competent examination relies more heavily on practical theory. It does not ask you to remember these strategies and recipes, but to remember the things behind them."
"What's behind?"
Song Mu immediately took the thing, looked at it carefully, and thought about it carefully. After a while, he raised his head and said.
"What Master is saying is that this is a way of sparingly using the power of the people and the country, but still achieving great things?"
Tao Fengming nodded with satisfaction, took a sip of hot tea, and continued softly.
"It was difficult for the Wen Dynasty to establish the country. The people from all over the world were growing up, but they were still suffering from floods and droughts, and there were also demons, locusts, beasts and birds, natural disasters and other disasters. The people were already suffering. The Wen Dynasty continued to provide relief, and they felt quite pressured."
"What's more, there is still a huge frontier army to support, which consumes a huge amount of silver every year, and they have to fight for years. The national treasury is not replenished for a day, so the strategy of governing the country is mostly to use small things to make big things."
Song Mu also nodded after hearing this instruction. In the Wen Dynasty, the rule of governing the country was not to choose the best strategy, but to choose the most economical strategy. In order to maintain the overall situation, some things were a lot rougher.
However, Song Mu was still a little confused, so he immediately spoke.
"Master, what if we talk about the strategy of open source?"
Tao Fengming raised his head and glanced at Song Mu. He was a little confused this time, but Song Mu said.
"Master, you also said that beyond the vast sea and sky, there are human beings standing in the world. In the past, Zhang Qian sent the Western Regions. Why don't we open up like this?"
Tao Fengming nodded and explained.
"The strategy of open source has been around for a long time, but at present, the demon country in the northwest is prosperous, and it is not possible on land for the time being. However, there is a way to try it by water."
"only……"
Tao Fengming showed some helplessness on his face and looked at Song Mu. Song Mu took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.
"The disciple also understands the difficulties, but still has high hopes for it."
"If we govern the country by provinces, there are many shackles and it is not a long-term solution."
Song Mu expressed his opinion, and upon hearing this, Tao Fengming smiled and nodded.
Tao Fengming could always see something different from Song Mu.
This disciple of mine seems to have his own unique views on many of these old-fashioned systems.
It is difficult to say the pros and cons of not following the old system, but in today's Wen Dynasty, the old system is not a good solution.
Tao Fengming gave up and said with a smile.
"It's good to have this belief. Let's quickly write an article about this matter of open source. If you have a clear mind, you will have no worries about this test."
Song Mu also quickly stood up, cleared a table, sat next to Tao Fengming, picked up his pen and started writing.
Tao Fengming continued to read the book of poems from the side, occasionally interpreting a few sentences for Song Mu, and then asking Song Mu for his opinion.
The two of them asked and answered questions, and both learned something. Song Mu also calmed down and continued to study.
After traveling for more than a year, Song Mu is now able to keep everything Tao Fengming explained in mind and arrange the articles according to his own ideas.
Although sometimes Tao Fengming still criticizes him for being fanciful, you can also see Tao Fengming nodding his head more often.
In this way, the master and the apprentice continued to work hard for the examination and kept writing.
Every day after Song Mu finished writing the article in his hand, he would flip through the poetry album and look up out of the window when he saw what his ancestors had done in the court hall in the past.
"If it were me, things would be different."
Song Mu murmured, and through a piece of glass, he seemed to see the scene of his plans for the Wen Dynasty in the distant future.