Ye Qing still found Bai Chun and Jinse at the Broken Bridge. It seemed that the two of them were not affected by Fan Niande's difficulties. They still had food and drink. Some vendors on the roadside had been visited by the two of them several times, and the Broken Bridge, which was not long, had also been walked back and forth by them several times.

Taking the backpack from Bai Chun and Ye Qing carried it. Now such a thing is a normal thing in their family. Whether it is Bai Chun or the little girl Jinse, there is nothing wrong with asking the only male in the family to help them carry the bag.

"It's not easy to find. This West Lake is much bigger than what I remember. It's just like Dongting Lake." Ye Qing stood in the middle of the broken bridge, looking around, and everywhere he saw, he was crowded with people, so he complained exaggeratedly.

"Didn't you say you haven't been to West Lake? And here is not as exaggerated as you said, and you're about to catch up with Dongting Lake." Bai Chun pointed to the direction ahead and refuted Ye Qing's words.

In order to wait for Ye Qing, she and Jinse were already a little bored here, but one advantage was that they finally figured out where the scholars of Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan discussed the truth.

The Southern Song literati who taught and preached everywhere enjoyed a high reputation among the people of the Song Dynasty, which was naturally related to the court's emphasis on literature and suppression of martial arts.

However, in the peaceful and prosperous era, the lack of spiritual and cultural conditions of people is also an important reason. Naturally, some scholars, including romantic prostitutes and actors from the brothels, were needed to enrich the wealthy Southern Song society at this time, and to provide for consumption from high-ranking officials and nobles to peddlers and pawns.

What's more, martial arts are not as good as the Jin Kingdom in the north. Those who were beaten by others could only ask for peace, bow their heads and surrender, and offer tribute every year. The court kept giving each other step by step, giving silver and silk every year.

Therefore, at this time, the literati naturally became the spiritual food for the people of the Southern Song Dynasty to fight against the Jin Dynasty, and became the spiritual belief that the people who were looking at the sky and deceived themselves most liked.

Just like Ye Qing's previous life, when the Chinese nation was unable to gain an overwhelming advantage over Japan in terms of comprehensive national strength, and when we were unable to avenge national hatred, we often started looking for a sense of superiority from a cultural perspective.

For example, this one comes from China, and we have never played with it for a long time. It is regarded as a treasure by the Japanese. In fact, it is the one leftovers of our ancestors who play with it. They picked it up after no one wants it.

But when we met the real Japanese in society, most people were proud to have a Japanese friend and study in Japan. This scene is not much different from what Ye Qing saw and heard in West Lake now.

Anyone knows that whether it is the Liao Kingdom at that time or the Jin Kingdom that has driven the Song Dynasty to the south of the Yangtze River, they are now learning Chinese culture in everything, and even in daily life, they are also Chinese everywhere.

Even during this period, the Jin Dynasty had begun to regard itself as an orthodox Han and Han culture. The Jin Dynasty merchants or envoys who traveled to and from the Southern Song Dynasty often called the people of the Southern Song Dynasty barbarians.

Nowadays, most literati are yelling loudly to recover lost territory and fight the Northern Expedition, but when they see the Jin people, they immediately return to their flattery and fearful of power.

Along the way, Bai Chun was like every angry young man he met on the road, especially when he met a passionate and tear-jerking scholar Zishi, who talked about how the court should attack the Jin Kingdom in the north, Bai Chun was full of admiration and looked at him with a small star on his face.

In Ye Qing's eyes, these are just keyboard warriors and verbal tricks in the previous life, and they are often powerful in words. In real life, they are probably similar to cowards.

"You disdain their ideal of actively expeditioning the Northern Expedition, why?" Bai Chun couldn't stand Ye Qing. Whenever he saw a passionate literati shouting loudly, he turned around and asked seriously.

Ye Qing tightened his ponytail. He never wanted to wear the hat that Jinse gave him, so he liked to sway across the market with his head bare head. Even if Jinse bought a flower and wanted him to wear it on his head, he shouted disgusting and then hurriedly refused.

So now Jinse's head is topped with a flower that Ye Qing can't call her name, and she is still beautiful there.

"I'm asking you very seriously." Bai Chun's bright eyes looked very good in the eyes of passers-by, but in Ye Qing's eyes, they were looking for murder.

"Oh... have you heard a word?" Ye Qing sighed helplessly. He didn't want to argue with Bai Chun, but his sister-in-law was a slander.

"What do you mean?" Bai Chun asked calmly.

"A literati is useless to ruin the country, but he is a scholar." Ye Qing looked at Bai Chun in a relaxed tone and said with a shaking head.

"You... a literati ruined the country. I think it was because you were ignorant of learning and ignorant." Bai Chun could not have expected that Ye Qing would open his mouth and put such a big hat on the people of the world. He was a little angry and gritted his teeth.

"If you love to believe it or not, sooner or later, you will never understand what I say in your life. In fact, although what I say is a little bit unpleasant than what those sour scholars say, it has been tested by time." Ye Qing said lightly.

Then he ignored Bai Chun who was a little stunned and walked alone to the place where Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan spoke Taoism, and walked to the Fenghe River, one of the ten scenic spots of West Lake.

In Ye Qing's opinion, the Southern Song Dynasty could have survived for a few years and even continued to resist a wave of Mongolian cavalry, but it was because of the pedantic character of the literati that the Yashan tragedy was staged.

What are the biggest characteristics of literati? In Ye Qing's view, their biggest characteristics are that they are not strong-willed, pedantic, stubborn, like to be stubborn, stingy, stingy, too hard, and difficult to accept the result of failure.

Whether it is Zhu Xi or Lu Jiuyuan, after being dismissed from office by the court, he began to become disheartened and had no intention of career, and then he blindly pursued another ideal on the road of learning.

Are they sure that they preached after being dismissed from office and giving lectures was their original ideal? Obviously not. It was obviously another path of life that they chose after experiencing various blows in the court and were depressed and unsuccessful.

Of course, no one knows which cloud has rain, so one person may not have the only way to succeed.

But no matter what, whether it is Zhu Xi or Lu Jiuyuan, when they encounter difficulties and face setbacks, they are often not as good as Tang Situi and others. They can endure dormant, their hearts are as firm as iron, and they are waiting for the next life trend.

If Tang Situi was like Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan and others, after being dismissed from office by the court, he chose another way when he was depressed and even refused to call them back when the court was interested in recalling them, what would the situation be like for the Southern Song Dynasty?

Since Ye Qing came to the Southern Song Dynasty, he often thought, especially in the Battle of Yashan, the literati Lu Xiufu took the young emperor and jumped into the sea to sacrifice his country with tens of thousands of people, which made China completely fall into the hands of foreign tribes in history for the first time. What would have happened if it were not a literati but a military general? Will the ending be rewritten?

Zhang Shijie, who was also one of the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty, was not a literati, but at the last moment of his destruction, he was obviously much stronger than Lu Xiufu and others.

After Lu Xiufu and his young emperor joined the sea to die for his country, at least Zhang Shijie served Empress Dowager Yang, so he found the descendants of the royal family and then pursued the future to restore the idea and feat of the Song court.

"What are you thinking? You're always confused these days." Bai Chun said to Ye Qing with a dazed look.

"Uh... nothing, I just remember the records in a book." Ye Qing smiled, and inexplicably remembered the article "Fan Jin Zuo" by the Qing Dynasty novelist Wu Jingzi.

Although it is a novel, the literati he satirized can be said to be bloody and shattered to the bone.

Seeing that Ye Qing had no intention of saying anything, Bai Chun gave Ye Qing a blank look, then pulled Jinse wearing flowers on her head and planned to continue walking forward. At this time, at the bridge of Fenghe in Qu Yuan, Zhu Xi and his book boy were chatting and laughing with his friends there, and at a glance he saw the tall and slender Ye Qing.

Almost at the same time, Liu Qingyan and the old woman who helped them to cure the aftermath that night gradually shifted from Zhu Xi's surprise face to Ye Qing and Bai Chun's eyes as Zhu Xi's eyes.

"It's him? Why did he come here?" Liu Qingyan was stunned. She thought the two would not meet again, but unexpectedly, she met by chance here.

Looking at Ye Qing's faint smile on his lips, he was leisurely and contented in the crowd. When he walked forward with a woman wearing plain clothes and skirts but looking like a fairy, he forgot to answer the question from the old woman next to her.

"Why, do you know that person?" The old woman asked several times, but Liu Qingyan just looked at the tall and slender young man with cold eyes, and her silver teeth were clenched from time to time, as if she had an irreconcilable hatred with that person.

"This little brother, I don't want us to meet again here. Last time I was in a hurry, and before I could ask my little brother for the name of Gao, I hurriedly bid farewell to my little brother. During this time, I have been caring about this matter in my heart, hoping to meet with my little brother again one day." Zhu Xi strode from a group of people, blocked Bai Chun, and then said to Ye Qing with a smile after talking to Bai Chun with apologized.

"You... who are you here? You look familiar, but...oh, the one you made a bet last time, I remembered it, haha, hello." Ye Qing was about to scratch his head and recall, but after seeing Bai Chun's disgusting gaze, he suddenly remembered the old man in front of him with dark skin, like a farmer. Isn't it the old man who fought with him to buy books last time?

"The little brother remembered it? Haha, I missed it last time after parting, and I regretted it very much that I couldn't talk to my little brother. No matter what today, I can't refuse anymore. By the way, I have been studying the book "Dream Xi Bi Tan" for many days. I wonder if I have any experience? Can I share it together later?" When Zhu Xi saw Ye Qing, his tone and expression were much more relaxed, unlike before, and he was still holding the airs of a great scholar in front of everyone.

Ye Qing was stunned for a moment. When he heard the four words "Dream Xi Bi Tan", he really reacted. So he replied without thinking: "Hi, take it back and turn it over for two pages. If he didn't understand, he threw it aside."

When Bai Chun heard Ye Qing's answer, his face turned red and he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into it. The people who were watching here were not dressed as literati and Confucian scholars. Why didn't he think it was embarrassing if he didn't think about it?

Zhu Xi was also stunned. Unexpectedly, Ye Qing was so happy. Then he laughed, not knowing whether what Ye Qing said was true or not. He laughed and said, "I am so funny, I have a kind of temperament. I answered like this, but it is similar to the last time you put it in while the lion was not paying attention."
Chapter completed!