Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 763

Zhao Chang smiled wryly and shook his head: "I don't want to make contributions in this life, otherwise I'm not far from death. I just hope that I have an idea, so that I don't spend my whole life in vain. In the future, there will be no name in history; Yes, it's just the notoriety of a dandy king."

Du Jinning nodded.

She asked again: "Then what do you think of today's tea ceremony?"

A smart person can know the elegant meaning by hearing the stringed songs.Zhao Chang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked, "The goal you mentioned is the tea ceremony?"

"Do you like it?" Du Jinning didn't answer the question, but said again, "Only if you like it from the bottom of your heart, can you indulge in it and enjoy yourself. Just like I study farming, others find it boring and boring, but I enjoy it , unable to extricate themselves."

"I like it." Zhao Chang's eyes lit up, changing from his depressed mood just now.

He took out his own article from his pocket and handed it to Du Jinning: "I just like it, so I spent several hours writing this article today." The corner of his mouth curled up, "This is the best I think I wrote Great article."

Du Jinning opened it and read it carefully.

Zhao Chang's articles are full of literary talent, extremely gorgeous diction, and quite parallel prose style.He described today's scene, and then talked about the way he realized, and quoted many Buddhist words in it.It can be seen from the article that Zhao Chang also has a lot of research on Buddhism.

The article is indeed exquisitely written, and there are many words that make Du Jinning applaud.This also shows one thing, Zhao Chang likes today's tea performance from the bottom of his heart.

Du Jinning was relieved, and praised: "This article is so well written, the writing is gorgeous but the true feelings are revealed, and the feelings in it can really touch people's hearts. The prince alone can be passed down through the ages with this article." I commented on the good sentence in detail.

Being praised and affirmed by Du Jinning made Zhao Chang happier than being praised by ten Lu Jiuyuans.

His face was flushed, his eyes sparkled, his whole body was filled with happiness and pride, and he said with a smile, "Thank you Jin Ning for your compliment."

Du Jinning put down the article, withdrew his smile, and said sternly, "Perhaps the prince thinks that tea is just a small way, not enough to be the goal of lifelong efforts."

Zhao Chang's lips moved, but he didn't speak in the end.Obviously, Du Jinning spoke his mind.

Du Jinning said: "Guan Yu is called the sage of martial arts, Wu Daozi is called the sage of painting, Lu Yu is called the sage of tea, Du Kang is called the sage of wine, and Wang Xizhi is called the sage of calligraphy... The ancients also said: the best is the best. According to me, regardless of the road, only The one who has achieved the top in this industry is a great achiever, and his name will last forever. For example, Lu Ban, he is just a craftsman, but he is the ancestor of craftsmen, who dares to underestimate him?"

Zhao Chang's eyes, which had been dimmed before, gradually brightened up again.

"Lu Yu is just an outcast raised by a monk. He has no fame in his life, but he is ranked with all saints. Why? It is because he changed tea from a physical need to quench thirst into a spiritual enjoyment, and he raised the value of tea. Artistic conception. Although he put forward the theory, he still has not risen to the 'Tao'. And if you put forward the theory of 'Tea Ceremony' and further perfect this theory, you will be on par with Lu Yu, or even surpass him."

"No, you proposed the tea ceremony, how can I take your credit?" Zhao Chang waved his hands again and again.

Du Jinning smiled: "Let's not talk about this first, I just ask you, if we both promote the tea ceremony throughout the Song Dynasty, will you have the greater influence or mine?"

"This..." Zhao Chang concluded.

If Du Jinning still stays at the Imperial Academy in the capital, and after that, he will rise to the top and become a great official, then it is natural that Du Jinning's promotion effect is good.But now that Du Jinning went to stay in such a small place as Runzhou, after staying for a few years, she gradually faded out of sight of the dignitaries and scholars in Beijing, so her influence was naturally not half that of Zhao Chang.

"Anyway, it was proposed by you. I snatched it up and took it as my own. What have I become?" Zhao Chang insisted.

Du Jinning nodded: "It doesn't matter, I propose that you promote the greatness, the two are not contradictory."

After Zhao Chang thought about it, it made sense, so he nodded in agreement: "That's fine."

"Obtaining the same reputation as Lu Yu is just one of the small achievements. If it is not beneficial to the country, I would not spend so much time persuading you to be its promoter; and I myself would not spend so much Time and energy to do this." Du Jinning said.

"Apart from this, what else?" Zhao Chang asked curiously.

Although he also recognized Du Jinning's point of view, he felt that it was good to achieve the same achievements as Lu Yu.But he still felt that a small tea ceremony was nothing more than a way for idlers to pass the time when they were full and had nothing to do.It is even more incredible to say that it is beneficial to the country.

Du Jinning stretched out his hand and pointed: "Our Great Song Dynasty went out of the country and went east. What kind of country is there?"

"Island country, Bangzi country." Zhao Chang said. (To prevent being 404, let's use code words.)
Du Jinning raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the Pacific Ocean: "Sailing from the sea, and then continuing to the east, do you know any other countries there?"

Zhao Chang shook his head: "I've only heard people say that beyond the sea, there is a large piece of land with many countries. The people there are blond and blue-eyed, and they look like demons."

In this era, navigation technology has also been developed, and long-distance voyages can be carried out.There are always people in this world who are curious and not afraid of death to go out to explore.As the prince, Zhao Chang naturally knew a little about this.

Du Jinning smiled, and there were so many things in his smile that it seemed very complicated: "So, you thought of selling our tea from the Song Dynasty to island countries, Bangzi countries and even further countries, and use tea ceremony to guide them to drink tea Become a fashion, and thus indispensable, so as to obtain their gold and silver, and make our Song Dynasty rich and strong?"

"What?" Zhao Chang was dumbfounded.

He didn't expect that Du Jinning's vision was so far away and his ambition was so great.

But what happened to his heartbeat?

Speaking of this, Du Jinning's mood was also difficult to calm down for a long time.The humiliating history of her previous life flashed before her eyes one by one.

Tea is produced in China. In the Song Dynasty, the monks introduced it to the island country and the Bangzi country. The tea ceremony of the later island countries actually copied our tea ordering method.But the ancestor of the tea ceremony was not a Chinese, but an islander.Thousands of years later, tea learners will go on a pilgrimage to the island country.This is the same as the Dragon Boat Festival is obviously our Chinese festival, but Bangziguo said we should learn from it. Although the nature of the two is different, Du Jinning is still very upset.

Now that she travels through the Great Song Dynasty, she can change all of this, so naturally she has to change.

In addition, during the Ming Dynasty, it took only 200 years for the empire on which the sun never sets, and the whole country fell in love with tea crazily.For this reason, they did not hesitate to create flying clippers, and spent a huge price to buy tea in China.Not resentful of the large amount of silver that bought tea into China, that country guy dumped opium to China in the [-]th century. After being stopped, he did not hesitate to start a war, which accelerated the ruin of the disaster-ridden country.

If you feel unhappy after spending money to buy something, you have to grab it. This f*cking robber logic also made Du Jinning drunk.So now, taking advantage of the prosperity of the Song Dynasty and the rise of those countries, she always has to persuade Zhao Yu to plunder a little wealth there to balance her mind.Of course, she is a civilized person and never steals other people's things. She just advances history and dumps tea on that land.

You bully me when you are strong, and you will naturally bully me back when I am strong.This is called indecent etiquette.

"Can this be done?" Zhao Chang asked.

"Why not? Isn't your majesty planning a long-distance voyage? When the time comes, bring our tea together with your tea ceremony book and guide people in that country to like tea." Just like the empire on which the sun never sets asked India to help it Planting tea is like cultivating the people of this country to drink tea if the tea leaves cannot be sold out.

(End of this chapter)