Jingzhao Ji Li, who was originally sitting with Xun Yu, immediately stood up and gave up his seat. Seeing that Liu Ba was not sitting, he glanced at him and said tactfully that he was going to chat with a few old friends and asked Liu Bakuan to sit down.
Without waiting for Liu Ba to speak, he picked up the wine glass and ran away.
Xun Yu saw it and couldn't help but smile and said, "Zichu, you, the Grand Secretary, are really domineering."
Liu Ba smiled. "Some people can't give a good face too much, otherwise they will become arrogant because of their favor. I don't have the murderous aura of the emperor, so I can be arrogant without being angry and have to put my mood on my face."
"You, it's not embarrassing to be disdainful of being a commoner. Why do you have to find so many reasons that even the emperor dares to make fun of it? Zichu, a minister should still have a sense of awe."
Liu Ba smiled and nodded, but looked dissatisfied. "Then tell me, how did you maintain this awe? I heard that after you met the emperor, you have been studying in Lantai. Is it the emperor's order?"
Xun Yu turned his head and looked at Liu Ba, raised his wine glass, and touched Liu Ba lightly. "Do you need the emperor's orders to study?"
Liu Ba raised his neck and drank the wine in the glass. "If the emperor had not given the order, I really couldn't have thought that Xun Wenruo would have said something like "The Art of Star Locking and Positioning" is higher than "The Five Classics Chapters and Sentences and Determinations".
Xun Yu's eyes moved slightly, his movements were slightly stagnant, and then he returned to normal. He slowly poured the wine in his glass into his mouth, closed his eyes, tasted it for a moment, and then swallowed it slowly, letting it breathe.
"A good wine, although it is light in the mouth, but the aftertaste is long, and it is worth savoring."
Liu Ba picked up the wine pot and added wine to Xun Yu. "Then you taste it slowly. Anyway, it's time to stay up to the New Year, and at worst it can taste it from this year to next year."
Xun Yu couldn't help laughing, and held his arms around Liu Ba's ear and said, "I didn't expect that you, Liu Zichu, could not hold back. I was thinking just now, when will you come to inquire? Is this year or next year? You still couldn't wait until next year.
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Liu Ba looked at Xun Yu quietly for a moment, and raised the corners of his mouth. "I didn't expect that you, Xun Wenruo, would have such a relaxed time. I thought you were now broken by the wall picture on the front. So, these few
Is there a lot of rewards in reading in heaven?”
"Actually, it's nothing, it's a stone from another mountain." Xun Yu said lightly: "Where can you compare with my Chinese orthodox?"
Liu Ba's eyes flashed slightly. "Do you mentioned the orthodox Chinese, including the teachings of hundreds of schools of thought like Taoism, Dharma and Mo?"
"Of course, the teachings of hundreds of schools of thought were also born for the Tao, but they had different opinions."
Liu Ba immediately asked, "Is there any difference compared to the Confucian school?"
"If a person is wise and stupid, how can academics be without superiority? As a Confucian school, aren't there also gentlemen and villain Confucianism?"
Liu Ba pondered for a moment. "In your opinion, how good is the stone in another mountain? Which one is comparable to that of the other philosophers?"
Xun Yu took another sip of wine. "Your question is too broad, how can people answer it? Although Greece and Rome are barbarians, there are dozens of famous sages. How can you count them all? Since you and I are officials, it is better to follow
Start with the benefits of its governance, take the essence of it and use it for my own use.”
Liu Ba smiled bitterly. "You Xun Wenruo, I'll ask you seriously. Why are you talking to me like a simple conversation? The clouds and mountains are surrounded by mist, which is not as good as the original meaning. Can you still say something useful? I really don't want to say it, so I won't bother you, go find it
Others drink alcohol.”
As he said that, Liu Ba was about to rise up.
Xun Yu reached out and pressed Liu Ba. "Zichu, don't be anxious. I'm just thinking about what to say to you, not intentionally neglecting."
"This is almost the same." Liu Ba sat down again. "To be honest, when I was in Chang'an, I often went to Tongwenguan and lingered with Mao Xiaoxian (Mao Jie). It was just that I was busy with official business and couldn't calm down to discuss, so I could only
Understand some rough and superficial theories. Although there were many sages in Greece and Rome, only a few of them could enter my heart. One with the surname Su and the other with the surname Bai was the most pleasing, and no one else could make sense."
Xun Yu was stunned for a moment before he understood who Liu Ba said the surname Su and who was named Bai, and he couldn't help but laugh.
"What about the one with the surname Ya?"
Liu Ba also smiled and raised his glass to meet Xun Yu. "Although the surname Ya is well-educated and can be called a generalist, his level is far less than Su and Bai. He barely wrote it, if Su is my son,
Bai is Confucius, and Adam is Mozi."
Xun Yu thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
He also had a similar feeling, thinking that Aristotle was not as famous as Socrates and Plato, and the reason why he gained a name was probably related to his disciple Alexander. Just because of his academic purity and high level, he was still slightly inferior.
The two of them talked for a while, and Xun Yu got back to the point.
He told Liu Ba that Greece was a small country with a narrow territory and a small population, so it was not easy to do business, cross the Mediterranean and become a dominant person. It was not easy to do business. Its systems and customs are mostly related to business, and there are many worth learning from.
place.
Liu Ba was appointed as the Grand Secretary of the People's Republic of China, but most of the affairs he was responsible for were related to doing business, especially the business routes in the Western Regions, and often dealt with merchants in the Western Regions. Although Greece was dead, merchants in the Western Regions still respected Greece and always called them Greek.
Even the text is respected by Greek. Learning more about Greek history will be beneficial to Liu Ba’s interactions with merchants in the Western Regions and will also be helpful to managing business and merchants.
China has a long tradition of doing business and is very clear about the pros and cons of business. For the needs of stability, most people adopt the national policy of focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce. However, years of facts have proved that suppressing commerce is just a suppression problem, not a solution to the problem, nor sufficient.
Give full play to the value of business.
Under the premise that the emperor values industry, re-understanding and developing business has become a reality that officials led by Liu Ba must face.
Avoiding is not a solution to the problem. Facing difficulties, using Greece and other countries as stones, and formulating commercial policies suitable for the Han Dynasty is the correct choice for those who are determined to do politically.
When Liu Ba heard this, he couldn't help but be amazed.
"Wenruo, you have not spent the past few days in vain. This book is worth reading. Although I have an understanding of Greek theory, I still linger in the Tao and did not think of this. After you say this, I have some ideas."
“For example?”
"For example, we should strengthen the construction of the navy." Liu Ba smiled and said: "The Greeks used to do business, but their power was limited to the surrounding area of the Mediterranean. The reason was that the water transportation cost was the lowest. Although the Western Regions' commercial roads are smooth now, the Western Regions' commercial roads are smooth.
However, it takes too long to carry horses and transport costs too high. Moreover, due to the geographical limitations of the Western Regions, there is only so much food that can be provided, and the caravan scale is limited. If you can walk on the sea route, you can carry food on ships,
The consumption is much smaller. Wenruo, is it because of this consideration that you advocate the throne positioning technique?”
Xun Yu smiled. "To be honest, there is really no. I advocate the stamina of star positioning..." He paused for a moment, remembered the emperor's expression at that time, and couldn't help but feel cold on his back. After a while, he came back to his senses.
Come, and said lightly: "I advocate the art of tying the star positioning, but I don't want too many Confucians to draw the ground into prison and limit their attention to the Five Classics. It should be noted that although the Five Classics are works by saints, they are just expounding the Tao, not Tao.