"Boss, come and have a bowl of wonton."

The boss, who was busy in front of the pot behind the stall, immediately responded: "Sir, please wait for a moment, just a moment."

The stall is not big, only four or five tables, and there are some diners next to it, eating and chatting.

This is a long street paved with bluestone. Although it has already seen the dusk, the street is still lively. Next to this stall is a seller of fruits, and opposite is a seller of fish.

Liu Zheng observed it and found that the boss had brought a bowl of wontons.

"Sir, please use it slowly."

"Well, is there any wine? Side dishes?"

Liu Zheng nodded, feeling that a bowl of noodles was not enough.

"Some gentlemen have their own plum wine, and grain wine bought from department stores, and side dishes include tofu, fish shops, and cured meat."

The boss stretched out his finger and said.

"Please serve each dish, how do you sell wine?"

"Let's serve it with a bottle here."

"Okay, add another bottle of wine."

"Okay, you're waiting."

While serving wontons with a spoon, Liu Zheng was drinking a small wine, staring at the crowds coming and going on the street, listening to the words of others.

"...Have you heard that the new party and the old party had a dispute again, about which state the new railway passed."

"How long has this been a hot topic? It is earlier than the news of the triumphal army in the Western Expedition."

"If I want to tell you, it's better for the new party. In the past few hundred years, what is the matter that was not started by the new party's ministers? It's a great thing for both the country and the people."

"The old party is not bad either? Take the Southwest Rubber Company, the largest rubber industry, for example. Isn't it just a matter of the old party? When it comes to opening a factory, the old party is in charge of the steel factory in the south of our country to recruit workers every day, which can provide work for many people."

"This is wrong. The old party can only pick up people's wisdom and has no enterprising intentions at all. Isn't the so-called learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians the slogans first initiated by the new party under the leadership of Xuanzong? The old party is still too conservative. For example, stocks, why can't our Song Dynasty play? Isn't the old party obstructing it in every way?"

"This kind man is wrong. I need to use the method of a saint to govern the country and cultivate myself. My Song Dynasty should still follow the laws of our ancestors to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce. After all, food is the most important thing for the people. Now both the old and the new have gone wrong. Good Confucianism is not advocated and promoted. What is the use of new learning and those strange and lewd skills? It makes people's hearts go to profit now..."

"Okay, a nerd is here!"

"That's right, the ancestors' methods are good, but how can we do it when we see the Western barbarians, southern barbarians and northern chiefs use this new learning and reform to be strong, and we still hold on to the ancestors' methods and not transform them?"

"I'm right, just talk about the new machine... mechanical gear science, can we build muskets without that knowledge? Can our soldiers of the Song Dynasty fight against the Red Barbarians in the West without muskets?"

"The newspaper also said that the iron-clad ship built with new learning can float on the sea, which is more than a hundred times stronger than the warships in the past. The airship built can go to the sky and carry hundreds of people at a time, which is something that I never dared to imagine in the past."

....

Listening to the diners around who turned into the court and gave guidance to the kingdom, Liu Zheng smiled knowingly, took a sip of wine after siping a wonton.

Not to mention, I really gained some insight.

These gourmets ate while chatting, and they had a very good taste and a very positive view.

Of course, we need to reform and strengthen our efforts, otherwise our Song Dynasty would have to enter the same end as Ning and Friends?

Liu Zheng sighed in his heart. After reading history for an afternoon, he became much more familiar with the world.

When Liu Yu was established, the Song Dynasty was the most powerful empire in the entire world and occupied the most fertile and essence on the land at that time.

All the states with institutions have been eliminated by Liu Yu and others, leaving only those mixed races of the sub-humans who are constantly driven to escape to the wild and dangerous land.

As time passed, the emperors of the Song Dynasty were incompetent and indomitable, and those monarchs who worked hard to govern continued to open up the territory of the Song Dynasty, and the barbarians who had been driven away also survived tenaciously, gradually developed civilization and opened up a place of survival.

Later, the Song Dynasty continued to expand its territory and border the living space established by the barbarians. The two sides often met each other, fighting each other every ten years and fighting each other for a big time in thirty years.

Either the Song Dynasty led a group of surrendered younger brothers to teach the disobedience, or the countries formed a coalition to attack the "unrighteous country" of the Song Dynasty.

Most of the results ended with the victory of the Song Dynasty in the war. Those who claim to be famous generals throughout the ages, as long as they don’t want to waste their lives, they have to brush up the copies of these small countries.

However, because the barbarian countries have gradually survived and reproduced in farther wilderness over the past thousand years, there have been too many countries, and they have been destroyed one after another, and they cannot be destroyed all in one breath. Therefore, the war between the Song Dynasty and the barbarians has never ended.

Especially in the past three hundred years, when Zhuyi mastered the new learning and changed the ancient war model, the Song Dynasty began to gradually fall into a disadvantage.

A large area of ​​land has been lost for decades, and many ambitious people have defected to the barbarians to make their own efforts, and some have lands that have been swallowed up by the barbarians.

Fortunately, after recognizing the gap, the Emperor Xuanzong of the Song Dynasty learned his lessons and decided to change the law and change the reign of the dynasty name "Jianwu". He was determined to learn from the strengths of the barbarians to control the barbarians and revive the Song Dynasty.

The entire "Jianwu" dynasty was tolerate the outside world and to implement the reform. Some later emperors, although incompetent, firmly implemented the "Jianwu" path, attached importance to new learning, insisted on reform and reform, and learned from the barbarians' strengths to control the barbarians.

This was the continuation of the Song Dynasty. It gradually moved back to the situation in the defeated war, regained the once lost territory, and allowed many small countries radiated by the Song Dynasty culture to return to the embrace of the "Celestial Empire", presenting a situation where the old overlords and emerging powers were opposed.

In general, the Song Dynasty was not a coward. Although it had a defeat to the outside world, it never gave up. The natural sense of superiority of the government and the people of the people made them not bow to the barbarians, and they had to fight the whole country to raise funds.

After all, Emperor Taizu said: "The Song Dynasty has its own system, and it is a mixture of kings and domineering power."

Just like the last time the Iron Eagle invaded Yan Kingdom, the Yan Kingdom has always been in a state of Qin and Chu. Many ordinary people think that it will be destroyed, and it is better not to have such vassals. But for the sake of face, the monarchs and ministers in the court gritted their teeth and forced themselves to send troops to war. The thoughts and political ideas that shocked the countries were confused.

"Sir, do you want newspapers?"

"Let me see...you guys take it away quickly! Don't hurt us."

"We don't want money..."

"Let's go and stay away from these two ignorant children."

The two students, who seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen, had no choice but to look at each other, and a group of old guys who were given to read the newspaper by the two of them ran away in a panic.

The two teenage girls dressed in student uniforms.

The boy wore a hat on his head, a white shirt and a tie, and looked energetic.

The girl was wearing a pleated skirt, black leather shoes and white socks, full of youthful atmosphere.

When they noticed Liu Zheng, their eyes lit up and they walked over.

"Sir, do you want a newspaper?"

The boy said to Liu Zheng politely and pulled out one from a stack of newspapers.

"Thank you, don't you want money?"

Although I heard it just now, Liu Zheng still asked, keeping the minimum politeness.

"No, as long as you can see it sir."

The girl waved her hands quickly and was a little nervous.

‘Are you afraid of being rejected? These two children...’

Liu Zheng took the newspaper and glanced at it.

The whole newspaper does not look very delicate, and it is different from what the servants in the mansion sends it every morning, and it feels like shoddy.

There are no illustrations or other patterns on the newspaper, only dense small characters, and the title says - Strong Country News!

...As we have seen, the country's system has been improving and progressing. The Western, North and Southern powers have already walked before us, representing the establishment of constitutional monarchy...

Liu Zheng could no longer read, so he slowly closed the newspaper and raised his head.

"How about you, do you agree with our philosophy?"

The girl's big eyes were bent into a crescent shape and looked at Liu Zheng with great anticipation.

Agree?

Liu Zheng was completely in a bad mood. He now knew why the diners just now ran away without looking back.

How could this be a strong country? This is clearly a stolen reward!

“Where did this come from?”

Liu Zheng did not answer the girl's question, but instead asked her in a deep voice.

"You two children don't learn well and do things everywhere. They have scared away my customers and the accounts have not been settled. Now they still want to scare me, a customer?"

The boss ran over to scold him in a hurry, blocking between Liu Zheng and the two students.

Although he sounded very angry, Liu Zheng carefully realized that the boss did not want the two students to anger him, and was protecting them.

"Sorry, boss, we didn't mean it."

The girl bowed, very embarrassed.

"I...we will lose money..."

The boy was also a little guilty, but his face was very red. Maybe the boss really wanted him to pay for it, he might not be able to take it out.

"You guys go quickly, I'm unlucky today, let's go quickly."

The boss looked helpless and kept waving his hand like he drove away a fly.

"Tell me, where did you get these newspapers?"

Liu Zheng narrowed his eyes into a line, and he opened the boss in front of him and stared at the two students and asked.

It is naturally impossible for two poor students to create such a newspaper with great political significance. There must be someone behind them, and there may be deeper water hidden in it!

Constitutional monarchy?

That is the system used by some countries among the barbarians. The Song Dynasty has been centralized and monarchical for more than a thousand years. The contents contained in this newspaper are simply to go against the court and blatantly promote the idea of ​​rebellion!
To be continued...