Chapter 814 On the Relevance of Self-cultivation and State Governance
After entering Yanjing, the Liao Dynasty's bureaucrat of the Ministry of Rites "can't afford to get sick", so the team had to stop moving forward.
Gao Fangping knew that the little official did it on purpose and was considered to be a quit.
Because he no longer dared to preside over this diplomatic matter, he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the trouble. If he did not pretend to be sick, he could not suppress the clans like Dashi and dared not strip Gao Fangping of his face. Then all those with a strong gunpowder smell would be in trouble sooner or later.
So before the important officials came to deal with it, he pretended to be sick first.
Fortunately, due to Gao Fangping's accident, the people who went to the capital to report to Xiao Xiang had already set off. Xiao's lizard would definitely send someone to preside over the meeting again, so it should be soon.
This situation seems familiar to Gao Fangping. Once he is polite, once he is a Chinese, once he starts to govern the country, these are actually inevitable things. In terms of diplomacy, the small bureaucrat who is not counting, he absolutely has no nationalist tendency. He is all harmonious first and respects diplomatic etiquette. As long as he or his department is not involved in the matter, he will win.
So even if the current diplomacy of Song and Liao, the Liao Kingdom is a powerful country, and the Liao Kingdom's diplomatic bureaucrats will also have many behaviors of "losing power and humiliating the country" towards them. This is why Yelu Dashi especially dislikes the diplomatic words. He felt that the Liao Kingdom's face was completely discouraged by these people. So he called them the takeaway office.
Khan. In fact, just like the diplomatic bureaucrats of the United States in later generations, they would definitely give face to the Iraqi regime, but they stripped the hawkish soldiers of their face. Diplomacy, or the officialdom, is the virtue of this. The world of complaining about the stick is the virtue.
Not to mention anything else, the Song Dynasty itself also faced such problems. For example, the Ministry of Rites is very gentle and respectful to the Western Xia, but their tone for Liu Guangshi, who was stationed in the Western Xia was similar to that of the grandfather and grandson. With the nature of the Song Dynasty, if Liu Yanqing was not the person of Tao Jiefu and Cai Jing and Liu Guangshi was the person of Gao Fangping, they had been killed by the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Rites.
It seems that what the literary youth or the philosophical school said, "the biggest enemy of a person is himself", makes sense.
In a coordinated and complete human body, "all departments" will cause conflicts. For example, some things nourish the mouth but hurt the stomach, while some things nourish the heart but hurt the liver. The brain feels that "exercise" is beneficial to health, but the body parts protest because they are too lazy to move. That is because of lazy thinking.
Drinking, smoking, and nightlife make people feel happy. However, just like Zhang Shuye scares Zhao Ji, some "human body departments" will tell "Zhongshu" that this is not good for the health.
It seems that these philosophies are common. People say that the enemy is in the first three rows, not only in governing the country, but also in physical health. Many enjoyment at the brain level are the great enemies of the whole body, but the "will" of the brain has the final say. Then, the body cells are like the people of a country, crying and blindly.
When Gao Fangping suddenly opened his mind to this place, he felt that he was a philosopher.
However, I do not intend to write a policy for this. Because there are already policy for this: to cultivate oneself, manage the family, and govern the country. I just say that their literary and youth disease has an attack, and it is not as easy to understand as Xiao Gao, but the core is the same, and all roads lead to Bianjing.
Zhao Ji in history was not completely stupid. He knew the benefits and disadvantages of Cai Jing.
Zhao Ji was correcting his mistakes several times when he stopped the preface, just like a smoker forcing himself to quit smoking. However, later Cai Jing made a comeback, which means that Zhao Ji "failed to quit smoking."
Yes, in fact, for the emperor with a weak will, it is really similar to quitting smoking. He knew that not quitting would be harmful to "health", and then Cai Jing would make him happy. So although he quit for the time being, he found that others were not easy to use. When he found that Zhang Shangying's snack could not replace Cai Jing's cigarette, Zhao Ji let Lao Cai out and enjoy it.
Zhu Baba was so powerful that he wanted to touch his chest with his hand, so he cut off his hand directly. This is the difference between a hero and a good old man with a weak will...
Since the Liao diplomats pretended to be sick, they also wanted to visit a foreign land. So they waited for the time when the Liao court came to visit. Gao Fangping took Sister Liang and Jujing to wander around in Yanjing.
There were fierce men Xiao Gan, who accompanied the guards throughout the whole process.
This guy is a hooligan, not as gentle as Song State. Basically, Xiao Gan will put martial law wherever he goes, and kicked him away if he dares to be curious.
When entering an ordinary shop, Gao Fangping, who was wearing casual clothes, looked approachable. He swept away the snowflakes on the bearskin cloak and took off the hood.
Xiao Gan didn't know what he had to do in such a chicken feather shop, so he slapped the table and said, "Hurry up and open good wine and meat, otherwise grandpa will smash your shop."
The shopkeeper was a Han woman, who was in the store with her eleven-year-old daughter. They both became so scared that they were busy.
Shaoqing brought the wine and meat up. Xiao Gan drank two big bowls and ate a few pieces of beef. After the drug test, he clasped his fists and said, "It's safe to use Gao Xiang."
So Gao Fangping started eating and drinking, and the food made the girl and Xiao Gan in the civilian shop want to fall?
Gao Fangping really likes to eat beef, but in order to show off, he has never eaten it in the Song Dynasty.
Seeing Gao Fangping happy to eat, Xiao Gan was of course happy, so he took out a gold and threw it at the woman and said, "No, I'll give you a reward."
How dare a woman ask for so many people? She hurried over and knelt down and said she would not accept it. She didn't know who Gao Fangping was, but Xiao Gan was one of the generals of the Si Shi Army stationed in Yanjing.
"Hahaha, everyone said that grandpa was happy and said you would not be vain. Take it and leave it and don't eavesdrop on it." Xiao Gan stuffed the gold to the woman again, then slapped her on her butt, and asked her to go.
After taking a few more mouthfuls, Gao Fangping laughed and said, "It seems that General Xiao is easy to make money. It's so big to give a tip. If you have too much money, will you bite your hand?"
Now, Xiao Gan clapped his hands with a vulgar smile, and immediately his "guardian" came over and handed over a gift box. Xiao Gan smiled and said, "The youngest one is the direct descendant of the King Xi Mansion, and he has a lot of family background. Please accept these filial piety with a smile."
Gao Fangping used chopsticks to open a corner of the gift box and looked at it. It contained some things like Beizhu, rhino horn jewelry that were even worthy of the table.
So Gao Fangping glanced at Ju Jing and nodded slightly.
"Hi." Ju Jing walked up to receive the gift here.
Xiao Gan became even happier and hurriedly accompanied Gao Fangping to drink and show his attention.
These gifts are not expensive for Xiao Gao, but are actually worth a few thousand chunks. They can basically be regarded as accessories for Mrs. Gao Fangping, so of course they dare to accept them.
If it is a huge amount of money, it means that Xiao Gan is just an agent. In fact, it is Niu Wenshu, the money sent by patriotism is big, which is a major issue that needs to be dealt with in national policy. Just like Gao Qiu bribed Xiao's Litchi, receiving a lot of money is basically a stolen country.
At this point, Gao Fangping smiled and said, "There must be an insider when you have nothing to do. I think General Xiao doesn't want to be a job in Yanjing, do you want to go back to the capital, right?"
"Yes, please ask Gao Xiang to deal with him and make some good words in front of Xiao Xiang. I am grateful whether he succeeds or not." Xiao Gan smiled, "Everyone knows that you and Xiao Xiang are the best friends. There is news from the humble position. After hearing that you personally accompanied the delegation, Xiao Xiang had sent Lord Ma Wang to Yanjing to lead the team. You have such a great face. Lord Ma is the current left minister of the Ministry of Rites. Who will come here, no one will be treated like you."
Sister Liang thinks that "the circle is really messy". How can Gao Fangping be like the prime minister of Liao?
However, the helpless thing is that the so-called "diplomatic achievements" are also present in the Liao Kingdom. Xiao Gan really bribed the right people. Just like the envoys of the Song Dynasty, Lin Rong and Liu Zhengfu, who bribed the diplomatic relations between Liao Kingdom, and then the diplomatic relations between Liao Kingdom replied to the Song Dynasty court that "Song envoys understand etiquette", and then the envoys would be promoted.
As one of the main characters in receiving Gao Fangping, if Gao Fangping said to Xiao Fangping, this guy is sensible and served me well. Then, without mentioning the promotion, Xiao Fangting would really think that Xiao Gan is a smart talent and could move back to Beijing.
"Okay, I know how to say a few good words to Xiao Lidi. But I don't guarantee the result." Gao Fangping said.
Xiao Gan said gratefully: "No one can guarantee this result. He is very grateful for his humble position."
"A group of bastards, the officialdom is probably ruined!" Sister Liang thought so.
Because the weather was too cold, the wine level in Liao Kingdom was not high. Gao Fangping also drank a few sips to keep warm and asked again: "When will Mr. Ma arrive?"
Xiao Gan shook his head and said, "It's all because of the heavy snow, and they are traveling in a team again, which is a bit delayed, but his nephew Ma Zhi has arrived in Yanjing at a close horse."
puff.
Gao Fangping squirted out a sip of wine and said, "Ma Zhi!"
Xiao Gan couldn't help but be stunned, wondering, why did you know that grandson?
After thinking for a while, Gao Fangping suddenly said, "Tell me what kind of urine nature is this horse plant?"
Xiao Gan thought his words were too weird, but he could roughly know the meaning. The difficulty lies in the need to analyze whether Gao Fangping supported Ma Zhi or hated Ma Zhi?
It's a difficult problem.
"Tell the truth." Gao Fangping also discovered Xiao Gan's problem and hurriedly corrected it.
Xiao Gan then clasped his fists and said, "This grandson is not a good thing. Speaking of which, although their Ma family has been a great family in our Liao Kingdom for generations, they are not favored. If they want to rise and make a difference, under the policies of these years, the Ma family is the Xiao family who defected to him."
Gao Fangping nodded slightly. The territory of the Liao Kingdom is so large, but speaking of it, it is basically the world of Yelu and Xiao. Yelu is the royal family and Xiao is the descendant family. If you hold your thighs, you basically have these two ways.
But now it is obvious that Xiao's family is more awesome. Xiao's lithograph is the uncle of the current queen of the Liao Kingdom.
However, what is strange is that if this Ma Zhi family embraced Xiao’s inner bottom thigh, then Xiao’s inner bottom policy was to curry the Jurchens. Why did Ma Zhi become a matchmaker of the Joint Financial Policy in history?
Chapter completed!