Mr. and Mrs. Wei rolled his eyes, not quite understanding what Huo Guang meant, and asked blankly: "What is pyrite? I've never heard of it!"
Never heard of pyrite?
Huo Guang thought for a while and then clarified his thoughts.
The name pyrite should have only started in modern times, and it is very different from the ancient name.
After thinking for a while, Huo Guang said to Mr. and Mrs. Wei, "Pyrite is the nirvana stone. Oh, no, no, no, according to you, it should be called fool's gold. Well, that's what it should be called."
Why is pyrite called fool's gold?
Very simple.
The implication is that foolish people would mistake this mine for gold.
Because the shape and color are so similar to gold.
"Nirvana stone? Fool's gold?" Mr. Wei repeated it in his mouth, then shook his head and said, "I still haven't heard of it. Is this thing difficult to handle?"
Mr. and Mrs. Wei didn't understand anything.
Huo Guang understood that it was unnecessary for him to ask this question.
Immediately!
Huo Guang waved his hand and sighed: "It's not a question of whether it's difficult to solve, it's a matter of not solving it!"
"never mind."
"It seems that we are going to form a caravan and find a way to buy some sulfur from the Western Regions."
Hearing this, the little fat Mr. and Mrs. Wei suddenly became energetic and said, "Go to the Western Regions? Okay, okay, cousin, let's go together. I heard that the Western Regions are very popular, and I have been yearning for them for a long time."
Yearning for it?
Ah!
Although there are some good things in the Western Regions, the conditions there are not much better than those of the Han Dynasty.
Even the prosperity was far less than that of Chang'an City at this time.
after all.
Chang'an City is the capital of the Han Empire, how could it be worse than the barbarian land in the Western Regions.
Moreover, there are many dangers on the road to the Western Region.
Wei and his wife are usually lazy and rarely exercise. If they encounter gangsters blocking the road and robbing him, and something goes wrong, he will have no way to explain it to his uncle Wei Qing.
immediately.
Huo Guang scolded him directly: "No, the Western Regions are not that good. Give me some peace of mind. On this three-acre land in Chang'an, my uncle can protect you. If you go to the Western Regions, the bad guys there will not care about you, the Marquis of Yichun." identity."
However.
Faced with Huo Guang's warning.
Mr. and Mrs. Wei waved his hands nonchalantly and said, "Ah, old cousin, why are you just like my father?"
Rory?
Hearing Mr. Wei say this about himself.
Huo Guang frowned immediately and didn't bother to care about him.
later time.
He ordered Bu San to recruit people and prepare a caravan heading to the Western Region. When the time comes, we will exchange things for things and bring back more sulfur.
The currency of the Han Dynasty did not circulate in the countries of the Western Regions.
But silk from the Han Dynasty was a best-seller wherever it went, and could easily be sold at a good price.
As for sulfur.
Although there is no pyrite to refine, there are still many natural sulfur ores in nature.
Just a pity.
The Central Plains has always lacked such natural sulfur minerals.
otherwise.
With the popularity of Chinese alchemy, things like gunpowder will only appear earlier.
Because of the matter of forming a caravan, Huo Guang spent another busy day.
The next day.
Huo Guang got up early and prepared to go to Mengxue to listen to the last lesson. In a daze, Huo Guang felt as if he was attending the graduation ceremony of the school in his previous life.
Or maybe.
Is everything we have experienced just the reincarnation of time?
But times are evolving.
The environment is just different.
The early winter days are already a bit chilly. But it is not that cold today. Perhaps the cloudy weather caused changes in atmospheric pressure and caused the temperature to rise.
The speed has increased somewhat.
Huo Guang took off his clothes and entered the elementary school.
Seeing the familiar heirs of the powerful people in this big room, Huo Guang knew without thinking that if there were no changes in the future, more than half of the people in this room would become his future colleagues. .
Take a closer look at history.
You will find that the children of powerful people will always be powerful people.
perhaps.
We can see that a few scholars from poor families have risen to great heights, but when we look at the family tree, we suddenly find that they were just in decline.
If you really want to give an example.
It seems that only Chong Bago started with a broken bowl and opened a new chapter in his life.
Unfortunately.
The ending for the descendants was not so good, and the glorious family history ended with a rope.
Huo Guang knelt down in his seat and quietly closed his eyes to rest. I woke up a little early this morning and was still a little sleepy.
The students around him did not focus on their studies. Instead, they talked about various recent anecdotes in Chang'an City.
in.
The most popular one is the Chang'an Le Restaurant fire incident.
A big fire.
The businesses of several families were reduced to ashes.
This has made the business here in the past two days much better than before.
beside.
The little chubby Dunwei couple was still chattering away like a chatterbox. From time to time, they even asked Huo Guang how the preparations for the caravan to the Western Regions were going.
seem.
He is still obsessed with going to the Western Regions.
But seeing Huo Guang ignoring him, he closed his mouth angrily.
It wasn't until Dong Zhongshu arrived that the noise in this elementary school room stopped.
At this time, Dong Zhongshu changed his previous sternness and said kindly: "Okay, although today is the last day for me to educate you, you will still have to study hard in the days to come. Only by hard work can you succeed. Take it to the next level.”
"alright."
"Actually, I have already taught you most of the things that need to be taught."
"So this is the last lesson for today."
"In this lecture, I will not talk about "Gongyang", nor will I ask you to learn the Six Arts. I will only give you a brief introduction to Yin Yang, Five Elements and the art of praying for rain!"
I heard Dong Zhongshu talk about Yin Yang, Five Elements and the art of praying for rain.
These elementary school students in the room suddenly became lively and began to whisper to each other and chatter non-stop.
If it were the past.
Dong Daru, who has always been serious, will definitely hold a ruler and knock on the chopping board to make the students quiet down.
But today is different.
Dong Zhongshu ignored the noisy children, but said with a faint smile on his lips, "Yin Yang and the Five Elements, it means that everything has two mutually opposing but interrelated reactions, and this kind of induction, It can turn into the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water."
"The five elements are created by yin and yang, and at the same time they restrain each other."
"Human beings are created after the five elements are harmonized, so the five elements gather in the human body to release the yin and yang."
"When praying for rain, close all the yang and let go of the yin, sensing the sky and getting its rain to irrigate the earth."
"When it stops raining, just do the opposite."
After listening to Dong Zhongshu's words, a student below didn't understand and asked: "Lecturer, what does it mean to close all the Yangs, and what does it mean to allow all the Yins?"
Hear this.
The smile on Dong Zhongshu's face did not change, and he explained: "Closing Zhuyang is a method. In addition to closing the Yang Qi in the human body and releasing the Yin Qi, it can also be external. For example, burning boars and roosters to replace the dead Bury the bones."
"You can dig ditches, open mountain springs, and so on if you let go of all the yin!"
"At the same time, it should be noted that when Zhuyang is closed, men are prohibited from going out on the streets or drinking and partying. Women are required to be cheerful, lively, and run around in the streets..."
Dong Zhongshu stood on the stage and spoke eloquently.
Huo Guang looked confused when he heard this.
Forget about the previous one, why do we still prohibit men from going out on the streets and drinking and partying when praying for rain?
A woman running around on the street with a flushed face?
He tried to imagine such a picture in his mind, and Huo Guang felt bad.
No wonder the ancients used the word "cloud and rain" to describe the movement of love between a man and a woman. It turns out it came from you.
Immediately.
Huo Guang stood up and said, "Teacher, I don't agree with what you said. Didn't my Confucian ancestors emphasize that "the son should not speak of strange powers and confuse the gods" and "respect ghosts and gods and keep them at a distance"? Your method of praying for rain is somewhat similar to Alchemy. "
Confucianism in the pre-Qin period had one theory and another, which is more worthy of further study than the Gongyang theory.
because.
It is very advanced in its thinking.
But by the Han Dynasty, the so-called Confucianism had been tampered with by some people.
It is said to be Confucianism.
It is better to say that it is Confucianism, the Confucian teachings that make people keep to themselves and follow them blindly.
for example.
Confucius said, the king is the king and the ministers are the ministers, the father is the father and the son is the son. Not only is it required that the king should be like the king, the minister should be like the minister, the father should be like the father, and the son should be like the son, in order, but also the king should be like the king, and the minister should be like the minister. The responsibilities and obligations are two-way.
But Mencius said it even more simply.
He said.
The people are the most valuable, the country is the second most important, and the king is the least important.
Simple translation.
That is putting the people first. This statement is not outdated even now.
And in the Han Dynasty.
Dong Zhongshu's Confucian teachings are that the king is the guide for the ministers, the father is the guide for the son, and the husband is the guide for the wife.
These are the three cardinal principles.
From then on, the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules were established by the rulers. No matter whether the monarch did something right or reasonable, his ministers could only obey unconditionally; sons must also obey their father unconditionally, even if his father is deliberately harming you; wives must obey them unconditionally. Obey your husband, and be disobedient at all is a violation of your husband's code.
perhaps.
The declining status of women in ancient times must have started with their husbands!
Also for this reason.
As a result, Huo Guang would look at everything Dong Daru said with colored glasses.
And it's not just Huo Guang.
Even the ancient Wang Anshi scorned this ancestor of the Han Dynasty.
certainly.
They are not from the same era, so I won’t go into details here.
Dong Zhongshu, who was speaking heartily on the stage, was naturally a little dissatisfied when Huo Guang interrupted him. At this moment, he looked at his disciple, his eyes were very angry, but in an instant, he calmed down and said: "I can lead a country without getting what I want!"
While talking.
Full of pride.
This summer, there was a severe drought in the northwest. Someone in the court asked Dong Zhongshu to go to the northwest to pray for rain for the people.
Dong Zhongshu went.
I really begged for rain.
This is exactly the same as his performance when praying for rain in Jiangdu, and it is also magical.
Huo Guang suddenly frowned and said, "Teacher, although your technique of praying for rain is magical, it shouldn't be done by Confucians!"
Faced with Huo Guang's questioning.
Dong Zhongshu said calmly: "If you don't learn, someone should learn from it. Pre-Qin Confucianism is only one of hundreds of schools. Through my hands, I absorbed the strengths of hundreds of schools and retained only one."
"The country does not have hundreds of schools of thought, but only Confucianism, which is still in short supply."
"This time is different from the pre-Qin period. We, the Confucians, should absorb the theories of hundreds of schools of thought for our own use."
"Since these hundreds of schools of thought can be introduced, as long as the theory of alchemy is feasible, why can't I use it?"
It was as if he had not brought up the matter of deposing Baijia.
If you say that hundreds of schools of thought are not good, you will destroy all of them.
He also said that it would be difficult to support Confucianism alone, so it was necessary to absorb the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought.
Good guy.
Anyway, you are right.
Huo Guang thought for a while and decided to let it go. He raised his hands and said, "You are right. The boy has learned a lesson."
Hear this.
Dong Zhongshu was quite impressed and immediately said with a smile: "Since some people don't believe it, I will use the technique of praying for rain for you today."
The words fell.
Suddenly the room became more lively.
What could be more exciting than praying for rain on the spot?
It’s just that Huo Guang is not that excited!
Looking at the gloomy sky outside the house, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "With this weather, it will rain without praying for rain, right?"
"No way."
"Whenever the old man prays for rain, he always chooses this kind of water day to do it?"
Although Huo Guang was not very interested, it was the last day of elementary school after all, so he followed him out.
Look at how Mr. Dong "dances to the gods" to pray for rain.
only.
The expected scene of Mr. Dong "dancing like a god" did not appear. Instead, someone caught a boar and several roosters and burned them.
at the same time.
Some women found from nowhere danced a blushing dance around Dong Zhongshu.
As for Dong Zhongshu himself?
He was sitting cross-legged in the middle, closing his eyes and recuperating, as if he was in a Taoist state of concentration.
According to what Guan Zhuyang said before, men should stay at home when praying for rain and should not travel. But Mr. Dong just said that it is cloudy today, so it is convenient to pray for rain, so there is no need to hide.
actually.
Huo Guang felt that if men were allowed to avoid him.
Then none of the disciples in this group are female. How can they watch you praying for rain if they all avoid it?
because this.
You just said you don’t need to avoid it, right?
Anyway, after performing an operation similar to the alchemist's technique, the rain really started to fall.
only.
Unexpectedly, the rain became heavier and heavier. In the end, I had to stop praying for rain.
Elderly people also need to take shelter from the rain.
Huo Guang saw this.
He quickly shouted in front of everyone: "Teacher, it's raining too hard. Can you use your magical power to stop the rain?"
However.
Dong Zhongshu, who was soaked in the rain, replied at this moment: "It was supposed to rain today. When I prayed for rain, I already sensed some anger from God, so I can't stop the rain by force."
"Otherwise, God will be angered and impose unimaginable punishment."
"Just let it rain."
"When God's anger is gone, the rain will stop."
Say it.
The great Confucian hurriedly went to change his clothes, and the last day of his apprenticeship ended in this absurd and bizarre situation.
Looking at Dong Zhongshu's back after leaving.
Huo Guang smiled helplessly.
Why does the so-called great Confucian look like a magician?
As for this act of praying for rain, he didn't believe a word of it.
Shaking his head, Huo Guang also got wet in the rain and got on the carriage back to the Le Restaurant.
It rains heavily today.
But the business here is very lively.
But what Huo Guang didn't expect was that when he returned to this place, all the descendants of the Li family would also follow him in.
perhaps.
After the fire in Chang'anle, there was no way to continue business. They came here to celebrate the end of elementary school, right?
Just like some students have to eat their meal after graduation.
only!
Li Ling and others were originally descendants of the Li family. They relied on their family's power to act arrogantly and domineeringly in Chang'an City.
Enjoy this place.
Li Ling and others didn't restrain themselves at all. They banged the table and shouted: "Where are the drinks? We came to the restaurant to drink. Why, you guys who run a restaurant don't you know you have to prepare drinks?"
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