Sun Ce sat in the spacious and bright cabin, looking through the manuscript in front of him. Yu Fan sat opposite him, drinking tea slowly.

Cai Yan said that he would be true and sent someone back to Wancheng to get the manuscript of "Lunheng". This manuscript is not complete, but it only has four more articles than Yu Fan's manuscript, which makes up for some missing contents. However, the most valuable ones are Cai Yong and Cai Yan's annotations. Especially Cai Yong, as a contemporary encyclopedia-style scholar, his understanding of "Lunheng" far exceeds Sheng Xian and others.

With this manuscript, Yu Fan's task has been basically completed. Although the missing manuscript may never be completed, Yu Fan has already been satisfied to achieve this step. After this part of the manuscript will become a monument in the academic community in Jiangdong.

This is what Sun Ce said. Yu Fan did not recognize it before, and he still has some doubts now. "Lunheng" has been written for nearly a hundred years and has been obscured and unknown. It is not only related to Wang's unpopularity among the villagers, but also to his thoughts. Confucianism was the only one to respect during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, and Confucianism had become an unsupported official academic in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Confucius became a saint. What he said is unquestionable, but Wang Chong disagreed with this. He wrote a special article "Ask Confucius" to refute Confucius. It would be strange if such an article could be recognized by others.

But Sun Ce said that Wang Chong may be wrong in some places, or in some places, but if you can't refute him, you should recognize him, or find evidence to refute him, instead of ignoring him. When doing academic research, you should be realistic, talk to yourself, and deceiving yourself is not a method of doing academic research. Even if such a book is [updated quickly], it is not as good as a sentence in "Lunheng".

Yu Fan was very knowledgeable and had excellent eloquence, but he could not argue that Wang Chong's doubts about Confucius, unless he denied that the books that recorded Confucius' words were fake books, but this was impossible. So although he was a little reluctant, he finally admitted that Sun Ce's words made sense and postponed the book he had prepared to print indefinitely. That book was compiled by Yi Xue, a family of Yu. Yu Fan spent a lot of effort and was originally planning to print the world, but after listening to Sun Ce's opinion, he decided to slow down.

The article has been passed down through the ages. After the article is printed, you have to face the evaluation of fellow practitioners in the world. He does not want to be full of loopholes. He is only in his early thirties this year and is deeply trusted by Sun Ce. He is already famous all over the world. He does not need to rely on his works to support his face. He can spend some time to consider it.

Sun Ce closed the manuscript and patted it gently. "Zhongxiang can keep it well, this manuscript is worth a thousand gold."

Yu Fanwan'er put the manuscript into the wooden box and patted it gently. "Don't worry, General, you will never make any mistakes, and there will be no shortage of a single edge."

"We will arrive in Xiangyang tomorrow. After Pang Tong's wedding, we will discuss matters. Are you ready?" Sun Ce looked at Yu Fan with a smile. "So far, I have not disclosed your plan to establish a country in Yangxian, and you can take it back at any time."

"Why should I take it back? If they want to deny it, they have to come up with reasons. I can at least see how they see it."

Sun Ce didn't say anything else. He did not agree with Yu Fan's plan, but he also felt that there was no problem with discussing it. It was good to express his opinions and test everyone's thoughts. Wherever he set up is the same thing, and whether he praised the establishment of a country was another thing. At this point, he couldn't wait for the imperial court to get promoted step by step, but he was not sure whether he could show the division of the big flag. It was not impossible to use Yu Fan's plan to test it.

Footsteps came from outside the cabin. Ma Chao poked his head at the door and shrank back. Yu Fan said angrily: "What are you doing sneakily? Come in if you have something to do, go away if you have nothing to do. If you want to compete, go outside and wait."

"Hehe, it's not about to compete." Ma Chao walked in with a smile and rubbed his hands. "General, Chief Secretary, are you... not busy?"

"Is there anything wrong?" Sun Ce said.

Ma Chao's laughter became even brighter. "Uh... if I'm not busy, I want to talk to the general." After that, he nodded to Yu Fanxiao again. Ma Chao has always been proud and usually doesn't laugh with others, but he is a little scared when he sees Yu Fan. Yu Fan's mouth is smelly and curses 18 times are different. Ma Chao is really afraid of him, and he wants to beat him up when he hears him. However, Yu Fan's martial arts is not weaker than him. If he really takes action, he may not be able to get a advantage.

Yu Fan snorted disdainfully, lifted up the wooden box containing the manuscript, and got up and went out.

Sun Ce held back his laughter and signaled Ma Chao to sit down and talk. Ma Chao sat opposite Sun Ce, first mentioned the teapot on the case, and added some tea for Sun Ce. Then he took out a letter from his arms and sent it to Sun Ce with both hands. "General, I just received a letter from Chang'an. I don't know what to do. I want to ask the general to have an idea."

Sun Ce looked at the letter from his family and did not move. Ma Teng wrote a letter and Ma Chao asked him to help him make a decision, so he must need his help.

"Want you to go back?"

Seeing that Sun Ce was not moving, Ma Chao had to say, "Yes. The emperor just hired Lu Bu's daughter Lu Xiaohuan as a nobleman, and seemed to be interested in improving the status of Bingzhou Army. His father and Uncle Han were a little nervous. Ziyi died in battle, and Yanming was in Luoyang again. Uncle Han had too much contact with the general, and it was probably difficult to compete with Lu Bu. They hoped that I could rush back as soon as possible and discuss major plans together, so that people in Bingzhou could not gain the upper hand."

Sun Ce raised the corner of his mouth slightly. "That's true, General Han has a deep relationship with me."

When Ma Chao heard this, he was very embarrassed. "General, I don't mean to be an enemy of you, I just..."

Sun Ce raised his hand and signaled Ma Chao not to explain again. "I know what you mean, I feel idle and uncomfortable. Don't worry, I will never go back on my word. The things that should be prepared are ready. The reason why I have never arranged your departure is because I have taken your affairs as a condition and negotiated with the court together. Do you understand what I mean?"

Ma Chao blinked his eyes and seemed not to understand. But Sun Ce knew that he understood, but he just pretended not to understand.

"You Ma Mengqi, you pretend to be stupid to me again. OK, since you are in a hurry to go back, I won't stop you. What I promised you is in the Nanyang Arsenal. I'll give you a handwritten warrant, and you can just go and collect it."

"Thank you, General." Ma Chao bowed to thank him, but did not leave. "That... General, can I... buy some more?"

Sun Ce glanced at him. "How much do you want to buy?"

"Two thousand sets of cavalry equipment. If the general agrees, I want to buy some more equipment. Don't need too many, just thirty sets."

Sun Ce smiled, straightened his body, and looked at Ma Chao. "You have a big appetite? You can have two thousand sets at the beginning. Are you enough spoils? Are you not going to bring some earth characteristics back?"

"Hehe, my Ma family is based on martial arts. Equipment is fundamental. It doesn't matter if you have more or less local products. It's not too late to buy them when you have money. There is no place to buy this equipment except Nanyang. Of course, I have to take advantage of this opportunity to buy more. Maybe once the general gets kindness, he will give me some discounts. I don't know how many local products have come out."
Chapter completed!