The view of first fortune, second fate, and third Feng Shui is very popular among the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty. Since his fate seems to be very good, Yun Zheng thinks he doesn’t need to refute anything. As long as it is good for him, it is not a loss to use anything. He is very murderous when he hears it.

It is a bit boring to always discuss these things on the Lantern Festival. Ouyang Xiu has already recited his masterpiece "Sheng Chazi, Yuanxi", which has attracted countless cheers.

On the night of the Lantern Festival last year, the lights in the flower market were as bright as day.

The moon rises to the willows, and people make an appointment after dusk.

On the night of the year this year, the moon and the lights are still there.

I didn't see anyone last year, and tears wet the sleeves of the spring shirt.

Yun Zheng was also very excited to see the birth of such a poem with his own eyes. The sentence "The moon rises to the willows, and the person makes an appointment after dusk" shines in the Chinese literary world for more than a thousand years. I still think that savoring this sentence can make the room fragrant.

I wonder who this master is missing? His beard is half a foot long. Do you still have the intention to steal fragrance and jade? Stealing jade and stealing fragrance are all things that Tianlangxing, who has a life of peach blossoms, should do. What should he steal?

After accepting everyone's compliments, Ouyang Xiu raised his wine glass and sighed: "I heard that Mr. Yun wrote a song called "The Green Jade Case, Yuanxi" which is also wonderful. I can also say that this is a throwing brick to attract jade. I wonder if Mr. Yun can recite it, so I will open my eyes."

Yun Zheng was sitting in a dark place, and today he didn't want to come out to show off in front of everyone. He was already very hated. If he could be low-key, he would be more low-key. Unexpectedly, Ouyang Xiu would catch him.

The emperor looked at Yun Zheng with a smile and raised the golden cup in his hand. This made Yun Zheng avoid it and had to answer: "That's just a small and medium-sized game in the boudoir. How can it be compared with a masterpiece of a scholar? It's not worth mentioning or worth mentioning."

Zhao Zhen didn't give Yun Zheng a chance to dodge. He took a note from the silver plate next to him and smiled and said, "How can such a beautiful article be locked in the boudoir? Zou Tong, please use it to add a good story to the Shangyuan Festival."

Zou Tong immediately opened the letter, and after a moment of brewing, he opened his mouth and said, ""Qingyu Case, Yuanxi",

The east wind blooms thousands of flowers at night,

It blows down even more, and the stars are like rain.

BMW carts are full of fragrance.

The sound of the phoenix flute moves, the light of the jade pot turns,

A night of fish and dragon dance.

The moths and willows are golden wisps,

The smile is filled with fragrance.

He is searching for him thousands of times,

Looking back suddenly, the man is there,

The lights are dim.

"What a rich and noble poem!" Han Qi gave this poem an attribution before the admiring Ouyang Xiu, and then he no longer appreciated this good poem that has been passed down through the ages.

Zhao Zhen was a little embarrassed and wanted to speak again, so he heard Han Qi say, "When it comes to the magnificence and freshness of poetry, we must talk about the Liu Yong and Liu Sanbian who claimed to be writing lyrics under the order. However, as Your Majesty said, such poems are of no use to my Song Dynasty, and will only make people indulge in the colorful soft red. Liu Sanbian himself said that he would rather replace fame with a light and low singing. Now the past has left. If you want to hear such flamboyant quotes, it seems that it depends on the mood of Yunhou."

As soon as Han Qi spoke, he immediately agreed with everyone. Han Qi, who was always rigorous in the court, would definitely not speak like this. Now he is at a cocktail party, and his arrogance suddenly exploded. He looked down on someone like Liu Sanbian the most. Seeing Yun Zheng also wrote a good poem, he felt very uncomfortable when he remembered his article "Prevention and Rewarding the Country" and the literati's nature came out.

Yun Zheng looked at Han Qi and said helplessly: "Old Han, to be honest, I also think poetry does not have much effect on the national affairs of the Song Dynasty, but it cannot be as unbearable as you said.

Do you know that a country has two types of strength, one is called soft power and the other is called hard power. If you don’t know these, it would be too biased to say that poetry is useless."

Ouyang Xiu was also angry at what Han Qi said just now. He made a living by relying on poetry. Han Qi did this and simply knocked down a bunch of people. However, Han Qi, who has always been tough, would not care about this little bit of details.

When Ouyang Xiu saw that Yun Zheng had said halfway, he was curious and couldn't help asking: "I hope to hear it carefully!"

"The so-called hard power refers to how many armored soldiers, how many cavalry, whether the soldiers are brave, whether the people are abundant, whether the national treasury is full, whether the people are happy, and whether His Majesty's wisdom is also a kind of hard power, which refers to the kind of strength that can be put on the table and can be seen. This is the foundation of a country and cannot be lost."

Pang Ji said, "I understand these things. You just want to talk about what soft power is. I'm listening attentively."

Yun Zheng picked up the jar and took a sip of the wine and said with a smile: "The so-called soft power actually refers to the influence of a country, which is what we usually call the way of education.

People have a sense of likes and dislikes, love and hate, and the five tones make them feel happy. Therefore, when Gentiles accepted the Song Dynasty, the first thing they accepted was the culture of the Song Dynasty.

The culture I am talking about does not refer to the Four Books and Five Classics, but the very popular poems on the Song Dynasty. A beautiful sentence such as "The moon rises to the willows, and people make appointments after dusk" is of course easier to remember than the essays you wrote in Lao Han.

And such beautiful sentences seem to be impossible to write. I heard that as long as the Song Dynasty appeared, it would sing in Xijing, Liao Kingdom in less than half a month. The people there highly praised Tokyo's prosperity and the literati and scholars led by Gao Guanbo. Lao Wen, you have been on a mission to the Liao Kingdom. When you heard those people talking about the Song Dynasty in Liao Kingdom, what was the first thing you talk about about my Song Dynasty?"

Wen Yanbo raised his glass to drink. Yun Zheng raised his wine jar and took a big sip. Then Wen Yanbo laughed and said, "As Yunhou said, they first talked about the famous quotes of my Song Dynasty, and then the fresh things in Tokyo. As for military and national affairs, few people mentioned it. Such a discussion seems useless, but I think that such a discussion can at least narrow the distance between the two countries. My Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom have been in peace for many years, and there may not be no such public opinion behind it."

After thanking Wen Yanbo, Yun Zheng held his wine jar and walked to the battlement of the city wall, pointing to the people dancing fish and dragon dances around countless circles below and said, "Those who are so happy, so excited, and so orderly, look at the world, only the Song Dynasty can do it. For this joy and happiness, even if Yun Zheng dies in the battlefield, he will never regret it if he is wrapped in a horse and a corpse!"

Yun Zheng took another big sip of wine and said in a whisper: "Look, look northward, cross the darkness as heavy as iron, and the people there are living a life of tragedy under Yelu Hongji's tyranny.

Looking west, a yin-like woman in Xixia is creating the most gorgeous temple in the world in an extravagant way, and based on her own appearance, she intends to become a god!

If our eyes could float to the farthest place with the night wind, you would see that the people there lived without any dignity.

Since the Western Roman Empire was destroyed by the Germans, a number of barbarian countries have emerged there one after another. The Frank, Lombard, Odoac, Burgundy, Odoth, Visigothic, Anglo-Saxon and other kingdoms were established. Wars continued between kingdoms, and people lived in dire straits. Such wars have lasted for five hundred years until now, and there is no possibility of quelling them.

Their Holy See is burning the wisest group of people on the land with fire.

When the great cannibals use the blood of slaves to apply their foreheads to gain courage, our people are celebrating everywhere. Perhaps some families still lack food and clothing, but that doesn't matter. As long as they are in the Song Dynasty, they will have hope.

We must spread the reputation of the Song Dynasty's wealth and prosperity to the farthest places, and we must also let the mercy of the Song emperors be fully known to all the people of the world. As long as they know all this, they will learn from the Song Dynasty and long to come to the Song Dynasty. In this way, we can dominate their souls. In my opinion, the souls that rule each person are much more noble than the ones who dominate them.

This is soft power, our poetry, our clothing, and our lifestyle. If people all over the world live like the Song Dynasty, we have already completed the important task of virtue in the world."

Yun Zheng was extremely excited, Zhao Zhen also felt a little moved when he heard it. Romantic people like Ouyang Xiu were also full of longing for the future, and Han Qi's eyes were also a little distracted...

However, the cunning Pang Ji walked to Yun Zheng, took the jar of wine from Yun Zheng's hand, smelled it, took a sip, and frowned and said, "Mr. Yun, why do you drink such a strong wine on a happy day? You are drunk!"

Yun Zheng had no choice but to snatch his wine jar, and clearly knew in Pang Ji's eyes that he had just been in vain. The old man's words "I'm drunk" destroyed the atmosphere he had worked hard to manage.

If he failed to get a blow, it would seem very despicable to come again. Yun Zheng curled his lips and went to find Di Qing, Shi Zhongxin, Shi Daxin, and Cao Rong to fight for wine. So strange wine orders such as two tigers rang in the group of military officers.

Zhao Zhen actually didn't like sitting with a dull person like Pang Ji. Unfortunately, Pang Ji was telling him the origin of various celebrations of the people below, so he had to continue listening patiently.

When two tigers and other games turned into counting the legs of toads, Zhao Zhen finally couldn't help asking Pang Ji: "Yun Qing and the others seem to be very happy. Let's go and see how?"

Han Qi frowned and said, "It's too vulgar. Your Majesty should not listen to it. The elders under the city are about to pray for your Majesty and ask for wine. The time is almost up."

Zhao Zhen had to sit down and continue to listen to the officials of the Ministry of Rites tell him what to pay attention to when waiting for a while to make a piece of grass dragon gold powder. Such activities are available every year, but it is rare to see the scene of Di Qing counting the wrong toad legs and punishing wine, so Zhao Zhen was very annoyed.

Suddenly, the people under the city shouted loudly, and the ministers upstairs turned their attention to the hundreds of meters long grass dragon in the square. The dragon was hovering and rolling up, and the huge dragon head actually reached the city wall, with two eyes flashing without eyes, as if they were eager for someone to enlighten him.

Zhao Zhen smiled and stood up, picked up a huge brush, dipped it in gold powder, and it was heavily dotted on the dragon head. The eunuchs and palace maids around took out countless silver turfs and sprinkled them down hard. All officials also went to help, and the atmosphere was extremely lively.

"Mr. Yun, this thing is for the people, not put into his own pocket..."

"Oh, I'm used to it..." rs
Chapter completed!