Return to the Song Dynasty

Sometimes Zhao Bi feels that he can't see through his younger brother Zhao Ji, and always feels that Zhao Ji is very contradictory.He is obsessed with calligraphy and painting, and looks natural and free.However, the thin gold body he created himself has slender strokes, and the horizontal and vertical strokes are so neat that it looks like it was drawn with a ruler.Others are free to play and sway freely, only he is unique.

Words are like a person, it seems that Zhao Ji's heart is not as unrestrained as his appearance, but very regular, there are always some rules and regulations, even he himself is lost in it and cannot get out. (Zhao Ji: Ninth brother, you are unrestrained from the bottom of your heart, I am willing to bow down to you, brother.) Although he loves Taoism, his calligraphy is not influenced by Taoism, and he does not have the leisurely attitude of Taoism at all.

Zhao Bi loves this younger brother from the bottom of his heart. No one can replace the family relationship that he has known and grown up with since he was a child.He wholeheartedly wanted to find something to do for this younger brother who was bound by something.If you divert your attention, you may be able to liberate your mind.

Therefore, Zhao Bi decisively used the power in his hand to set up a calligraphy and painting academy for Zhao Ji by using power for personal gain, and recruited many talents who were able to calligraphy and love calligraphy and painting from all over the country.This was really in the middle of his wish, and this matter definitely reached Zhao Ji's heart.Zhao Ji is so happy that he personally named the Academy of Painting and Calligraphy "Hanlin Academy of Painting and Calligraphy", and wrote a plaque with his own hand.

In the days to come, Zhao Ji really went to the Painting and Calligraphy Institute every day, watching paintings, splashing ink, learning from each other, and even personally teaching painting skills.The wholehearted devotion made Zhao Ji "live".At least Zhao Bi could see him really laughing, that sincere smile from the heart was so bright and dazzling.

The younger brother is very happy, and the older brother is very pleased.Zhao Bi more firmly supported Zhao Ji's Academy of Painting and Calligraphy.Whatever Zhao Ji asked, he would accept everything, he even withstood the pressure and agreed to allow ordinary people to have the opportunity to study in the Academy of Painting and Calligraphy.You must know that calligraphy and painting are only accessible to nobles.

In fact, this is also in line with Zhao Bi's original intention. He originally hoped to improve the cultural level of ordinary people, and planned to carry out pilot projects and promote compulsory education after a while.This time just to test the waters first.

Thanks to the strong support of the official Zhao Bi, ordinary people can learn to paint, and many people's painting talents can be displayed. Gradually, high-level professional painters have emerged, and many masterpieces handed down from generation to generation have also been born.

Zhang Zeduan's "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival" is a work of this period, and Zhao Ji personally mentioned the title of the picture in thin gold style.Qingming refers to the political Qingming of the Song Dynasty, Haiyan and Heqing.This painting is good, and the meaning is also good.This painting is all about the real scene of Bianliang.The Bianhe River that passes through the city from Bianliang City, the beautiful Hongqiao, the crowds on the bridge, and the various shops on both sides of the street, there are many signboards, bustling with people.

Zhao Bi even saw his own Zhenpinxuan and Mingyue Xiaolou in the painting, and he was even more happy.Zhang Zeduan is an interesting kid. He knows that "Surfing the River During the Qingming Festival" is realistic, but he doesn't know how realistic it is.Zhao Yizai inspected it carefully, and found that the painting on this picture is basically the same as the real shape of Bianliang City, and it is worthy of being a famous painting handed down from generation to generation.

Zhao Ji: Brother, I showed you for a long time, but you only saw this? !What about the beauty of this painting?What about the way of expression?What about color?ah?Where did you see it? !Why don't you look at the map? !

Zhao Bi: ...Well, if you can draw a more accurate map, I prefer...

Zhao Ji ╰_╯: A cow chews peonies!I don't know how to appreciate it!snort!

What they didn't know was that this painting was quite different from the original "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" that Zhao Bi knew.Zhao Ji is no longer Song Huizong, but Zhao Bi has ascended the throne, history has changed, Bianliang City has naturally changed, and "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" has also changed.

There are no city gates that were originally wide open, city defenses were loose, no one was guarding the situation, there were no scenes of merchants hoarding food, and civil and military ministers meeting and quarreling; Courtesy, merchants are harmonious, prices are reduced, and people live and work in peace and contentment. A prosperous capital is also a city with strict discipline. It is contradictory, but full of hope and endless life.

Even if Zhao Bi didn't know how to appreciate it anymore, he was extremely excited when he saw the legendary treasure of the Palace Museum in Beijing, and he had mixed feelings for a while.He resolutely stamped his private seal, first pressing a paw print.Zhao Ji, who was not ahead, gasped, "You, you, you..." "What's the matter with me? Hey, can you still hit me?! You're bullying me if you hit me, don't you know?" Know? Hehehe." Zhao Yu put away his private seal, and yelled at his younger brother.

"Huh!" Zhao Ji snorted angrily, quickly took out his own seal, and subduedly stamped it under the seal of the elder brother of the local tyrant official who had no appreciation.I have to cover it quickly, or I won’t have a chance to stamp it if I don’t get collected into the Imperial Palace (literati’s persistence, I don’t understand!).

However, unexpectedly, Zhao Bi did not directly collect this peerless painting, but offered to lend it to the Academy of Painting and Calligraphy for everyone to learn and appreciate.Zhao Ji was touched by Zhao Bi's actions in an instant, and suddenly found that he, who had been practicing for a long time, was still not as broad-minded as his brother.

When I saw a good painting, I just wanted to collect it and keep it, but I never thought of taking out my collection for everyone to appreciate.Is the awareness of being an emperor so high?No, at least as far as I know, my father and the dead sixth brother have never done this before.

It's not that I haven't been an emperor before, and we don't have that awareness.Brother Nine is still of high quality, although he doesn't know how to appreciate it, but he supports the development of art!Brother Jiu is mighty!Zhao Ji's admiration for Zhao Bi has reached a new level.

Later, Zhao Bi simply established the National Museum, which is open to the public free of charge, exhibits conditionally preserved art treasures, and has made great contributions to cultural prosperity.It was unanimously affirmed by Chinese and foreign historians in later generations: the first emperor who did not take all the treasures as his own.The first golden dragon that didn't pull all the treasures back to its lair. (Zhao Yu: Is that how you evaluate me?!)

You know, the emperor Zhao Bi is still very contradictory, and even his relatives and friends can't explain it clearly, especially when it comes to cultural development.how to say?As an official of the Song Dynasty, his literary level is quite average, limited to the normal use of words to approve memorials (Su Shi ╮(╯﹏╰)╭: Alas, the poor old man has taught for so many years, and his poems and songs are so good No way!).

However, Zhao Bi's free and easy calligraphy is still very good (Zhao Ji: The words are born from the heart, Brother Jiu is chic and heroic, I can't envy you.), and the sketches taught to Zhao Ji are a little bit Children ahead of the meaning.As for appreciating calligraphy and the like, it is completely a layman who walks through the window.

But you said he doesn't know how to appreciate it?He also always showed a bestial instinct, always able to find good work.As Brother Jiu's closest friend and younger brother, Zhao Ji was deeply moved.

A new boy named Wang Ximeng has come to Zhao Ji's Painting and Calligraphy Academy.This child is very spiritual, Zhao Ji likes it very much, and often mentions it.The two of them often muttered and conducted various researches.Later, Zhao Ji went to Zhao Bi to ask for precious pigments such as lapis lazuli, and the quantity he asked for was quite large.

Zhao Bi was quite curious, and when he inquired, he said that Wang Ximeng planned to paint a long scroll of mountains and rivers, and wanted to use cyan as the main color for the color scheme. This idea is bold enough, and it can be said to be unprecedented.Zhao Ji was very excited, but he really couldn't get so many lapis lazuli, so he had to ask his elder brother for help, commonly known as going through the back door.

Zhao Bi agreed very readily.Just kidding, that is "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"!Live forever!Famous paintings through the ages!I will be born in my dynasty (≧▽≦)/? !Zhao Yu was excited just thinking about it.No, I can't sit still anymore, I have to investigate and investigate to see how this painting was drawn.

Zhao Yu is curious because he is curious, but he is also afraid of disturbing other people's painting. If the influence of other people's inspiration is lost and the painting cannot be drawn, will you pay for it? !Therefore, for a period of time, everyone often saw the wonderful scene of officials sticking their asses to the bottom of the wall and climbing the windows in the calligraphy and painting academy Σ(°△°|||)︴.Attract passers-by to watch.Later, it was Zhao Ji who heard the wind and drove Zhao Bi back to save him from embarrassment.

Zhao Ji is often confused by this brother. This guy has a changeable personality and often has convulsions. It's really... hard to describe.But it is he who can always bring surprises to himself, so that he can get out of the haze of the past and start this brand new life journey that is worth cherishing.

Yes, what's so good about Nanjing?Looking at it now, I always feel that Bianliang is home.Sitting in the private room of Mingyue Xiaolou, Zhao Ji looked at the endless stream of people below, with his sleeves swaying lightly, he reached out to pick up the wine glass on the table and drank it down in one gulp.Well, it's delicious!

When it comes to drinking, the most popular things in Song Dynasty are tea and wine.Literati like to fight tea even more, and Su Dashi and Zhao Ji are no exception.One day, Master Su made a full moon wine for his grandson and entertained guests.Zhao Bi and Zhao Ji happily went.After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, a large group of literati and inkmen didn't know what was wrong, so they insisted on fighting for tea.

Among them, Su Dashi and Zhao Ji were the most active.An elderly Su University scholar specially invited out his own collection of Jianyao Rabbit Haozhan. As the host, he also generously brought out two sets of top-grade Mr. Twelve Dou Cha and various tea cakes from his collection for the guests. Doucha is used.

Zhao Ji was even more excited, and specially asked his servants to run back to Duanwang's mansion to bring his Yaobianban Jianzhan.Everyone became interested when they saw it, and rolled up their arms and sleeves one after another, turning the full moon banquet into a tea fighting meeting.Mrs. Wang, the wife of Master Su, was so angry that she wanted to come forward and beat someone up, 'Hmph, old man, just wait! '

The grown-ups present are obviously masters in this way. Seeing them brewing cups, mixing ointments, ordering tea, and whisking, all the soups are evenly distributed and bright white in color, which is top-grade.Zhao Bi squinted his eyes, resting his chin on his slender fingers, feeling bored.He really couldn't see the fun of these tunes, and he couldn't understand that all the old, middle-aged and young officials who were seriously playing with the tea cup and stirring the tea were all his subordinates? !

"Bite the cup! Bite the cup!" Su Zhe roared excitedly, and everyone successfully discovered Zhao Ji, who has a super high technical level.I saw that Zhao Ji's soup flowers cling to the wall of the cup for a long time without fading away. It really is a rare "biting cup"!

"His Royal Highness is really amazing!"

"It's hidden, the old man is willing to bow down."

"No, no, do you have any secrets?"

"Can you tell me?"

... Everyone was chattering, crowding around Zhao Ji like stars.

Zhao Yu really couldn't appreciate it.The younger brothers, teachers, and ministers fought over tea and refused to recognize their relatives, forgetting about the emperor.Zhao Bi was not angry at all, he enjoyed himself, ate fresh steamed fish comfortably, and sipped chalcedony wine from Qingfenglou, "What is there to be envious of? Why do you have to have such a troublesome tea?"

"I think so too. The officials are really smart, unlike those pedantic people who love to be brave." A pot of plum wine that smells so fragrant suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and Mrs. Shi Niang Wang continued to speak with the same hatred : "Taste this wine. That old stubborn brewed it himself. He said that he used some secret method in exchange for it. After brewing many jars, he only got this jar of finished product."

"Gudong" Zhao Yan swallowed his saliva (﹃), the teacher brewed it himself, it must be delicious.Zhao Bi followed Mistress's slender fingers and stared at the white porcelain jug, "Well, Mistress, I just got an altar, this, if I drink all of this... Will the teacher be so angry that he will sever relations with me?" ?”

Mrs. Wang chuckled, deeply feeling that the family is really extraordinary, approachable and humorous, very handsome, and the most supreme existence in the Song Dynasty, really the golden turtle son-in-law once in a century!It's no wonder that one of the ministers in the court wanted to stuff their own daughters and granddaughters into the official harem.

Thinking of Zhao Bi's repeated rejection of everyone's proposal to make a concubine, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but sigh with emotion. It's a pity, Huiji will be hurt, and love will last forever. The official family is a smart and affectionate person.She raised a smiling face, poured a cup for Zhao Yu herself, and poured another cup for herself, raised her cup maliciously and said: "Don't worry, I left him a sip, just one sip! Hmph! While they are busy, let's Hurry up and drink all the good wine in your stomach to be serious."

With the teacher's wife as the guarantor, Zhao Yu immediately let go of twelve distractions, what are you afraid of, the teacher is a famous wife who manages a strict wife, and it is crap to not take advantage of it. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, hurry up and drink it!

So, when Master Su was satisfied with the tea fight with a group of colleagues, he turned around and found... his wife and apprentice were drinking his ancient secret plum wine~~~~(>_ <)~~~~ "My wine!!!"

Zhao Bi not only drank his wine, but also performed a modern tea ceremony for him with the encouragement and support of his wife. In the words of Zhao Bi, "This is how you can taste the true taste of tea." , this tea is brewed directly by adding boiling water, taste it carefully, it is quite delicious, it really is bitter with a little aftertaste, just like life.So far, Master Su fell in love with this method of drinking tea and couldn't control it.It has gradually become the new favorite in the literati circle.