the next day.
A heavy snowfall started last night and didn't stop until almost noon.
Ju Xian walked on the streets of Yinxian City, the leather shoes on his feet making a crunching sound on the thick snow.
He has not been back for two or three years. The familiar loess road has disappeared and been replaced by a hard road paved with stone slabs.
Last night, his conversation with his son Ju Peng could almost be regarded as an unhappy one. Ju Peng always has a young mind, and he doesn’t know what kind of ecstasy drugs Liu Yu and the Taoist thieves poured into him. He was only thinking about the Qin and Han Dynasties. The homeland cannot be abandoned, and everyone has the responsibility to protect it. This is simply ridiculous. Ju Xian knows that the royal nobles who are now in charge of the world are more incompetent and cowardly than the last. The nobles and nobles in Hengxing Prefecture and County are all wise and jealous of each other. Who can control the situation in the Northern Central Plains? I am also powerless.
Ju Xian only wanted to lead his family south to avoid the disaster, otherwise he might not be able to leave even if he wanted to.
However, Ju Peng didn't listen to his persuasion, and Ju Xian only had one son, so there was nothing he could do for a while.
Ju Xian, the envoys from Luoyang, could move around freely in Yin County, so he simply went for a stroll in the streets to see carefully what changes had taken place in Donglai County today. What happened to his originally obedient son? Variety.
Although it had just snowed, there was still an endless stream of pedestrians on the street as the Chinese New Year was approaching.
The business methods of street vendors in the Western Jin Dynasty were very different from those after the Song Dynasty. There were few shops on the street that opened to the street as was common in later generations. Instead, they were concentrated in the market squares in the city.
Ju Xian came all the way to the market in Yin County. Compared with the outside, there were more people in this market. All kinds of food, cured meat and fish, cloth, groceries and other merchants were full of customers. There are many other small vendors selling goods.
As soon as Ju Xian entered the gate of Shifang, he saw several documents written in large characters on the wall at the door, and many people gathered in front of them and looked at them loudly.
He walked closer and found that this was the kind of newspaper Ju Peng had told him about last night, because the word "newspaper" was clearly written in it.
Ju Xian saw that it was actually written about the events that had just happened in the states and counties around the world. Whether it was rebellion, famine, or war, as Luoyang's bus commander, he often had access to various places to send documents to the emperor for reading, so he knew Most of the things above are true.
What shocked Ju Xian even more was that in this so-called newspaper, all the princes and princes were addressed by their first names, without any taboos or official titles.
When Ju Xian moved to the third big-character poster, he found that there were the most people here, but many of them were illiterate. A man with a loud voice was reading aloud.
When the sound reached Ju Xian's ears, he almost exploded with shame.
"Shocked! Duan Bu and Wuwan barbarians kidnapped eight thousand women from good families, slaughtered Yecheng, and raped eight thousand young women for barbarians at night. In the end, all of them were drowned in the Yishui River."
"Shocking! The Huns who were expelled outside the Great Wall by the Qin Emperor now actually occupy Bingzhou. The Huns' father died and they married a concubine. Their brother died and took his sister-in-law. They led their beasts and Hu soldiers made a hundred-foot stone mortar and threw the Han people into it. ,,,,,,,,"
The person who read aloud to many onlookers seemed to be quite good at this. His voice was loud and full of emotion, and he controlled the emotions of the listeners. Whenever he read about barbarians and stupid officials who harmed the people, everyone would curse in unison. ,regret.
"These barbarians should all be killed by a thousand swords."
"How come the Yidi species of beasts allow them to live in the land of China?"
"Are these state and county chiefs all just wine and rice sacks? Why don't they send troops to kill Hu?"
"Bullshit, the Hu people are the officials from these states and counties who moved into the Central Plains to serve as thugs and minions."
Ju Xian secretly shook his head. The exaggerated narrative in the newspaper on the wall completely described the Huns as two-legged beasts that ate human flesh and blood.
Just say that it’s unreliable, since Ju Xian doesn’t believe it at all.
At least that's not how it's eaten.
He left here and walked into the market.
Although the entire market is crowded and bustling, the streets are very clean and tidy, with few people littering.
From time to time, a group of soldiers in purple clothes patrolled. Anyone caught littering would be whipped immediately.
Ju Xian saw that there were more Guizhou people with buzzcuts in this market, and all of them looked confident. They were not as cautious as the Guizhou people in other prefectures and counties, for fear of inadvertently bumping into some noble nobles.
This should be because Donglai County is now following the Qin and Han military meritocracy. Anyone who is a soldier can get a position in the county. Although there is no title of twenty-fourth Qin and Han Dynasty, there are officers of all sizes in the army. name.
As far as Ju Xian knew, Donglai County was now only a medium-sized county, with a military strength of only three thousand at most according to Ju Xian's estimation.
In Donglai County, there are thousands of people with various titles of corps commander, chief commander, team commander, and brigade commander. It is just like when King Zhao Sima Lun usurped the throne a few years ago and excessively rewarded them, they are all like dogs and minks.
Ju Xian became even more angry when he thought about this.
This military title is an important weapon of the country. No one except the emperor has the power to grant it, not to mention that Liu Yu, a mere county guard, is simply a traitor!
Suddenly, there was a burst of exclamation and ridicule not far ahead, and a group of people surrounded a child in the middle. The child was holding a thick stack of books in his hands, selling them to everyone. The books seemed to be paper paintings, which were popular among everyone. , most of them were sold in just an instant.
Ju Xian was curious and walked up to ask the child.
"Xiao Lang, how much does this paper painting cost?"
Ju Xian had never seen anyone selling paper paintings before, so he had no idea how much they cost.
"One hundred coins." The child didn't even raise his head, he was busy.
The price is not low, you know, one penny is five baht, and one hundred yuan is enough to buy a meat dog in the butcher shop in the market, or buy 20 liters of grain.
But for Ju Xian, who is of high moral standing and comes from a wealthy family in Donglai County, this hundred dollars is really not money.
"Bring me a volume."
Ju Xian paid the money and took the album from the child's hand.
After buying it, Ju Xian felt the difference in the album. The paper was stiff and white, which was very different from ordinary thin paper. But starting with this paper, the hundred dollars didn't seem to be too expensive.
This picture album is not an ordinary scroll, but is stacked one by one and woven with silk thread around the edges.
The first piece of paper is the cover, which simply says "Luoyang Jade Futon" in large characters.
Ju Xian opened the album and found that it was full of simple sketches. Whether it was landscapes, flowers, plants, or people and buildings, they could all be drawn extremely realistically using the simplest techniques.
When he first saw these sketches, Ju Xian felt that this picture album was too cheap for only a hundred dollars. If it had been a peaceful and enjoyable year in the past few years, it would have been no problem to sell this picture album for ten thousand dollars in Luoyang.
Ju Xian flipped through page after page, and he could tell from the beginning that it seemed to be talking about Queen Jia Nanfeng's chaos in the government a few years ago. However, as Ju Xian read more and more, his expression became even more serious. It's wonderful, it turns from red to white, then from white to green, and in the end it seems to be angry.
This picture album is full of pictures of the Sima royal family and the demon queen Jianan having an affair with Feng Xia, oh, that’s not to say the bed, there are also scenes in the court hall, gardens, ancestral temples, and wild mountains.
The Tianhuang nobles of the Sima family of the Jin Dynasty were painted in various obscene shapes. If Ju Xian had not served as the palace's bus commander and knew the real situation in the palace's forbidden garden, he would have been confused by these realistic portraits. No wonder those people who bought the paintings just now were laughing strangely.
Although Empress Jia has been executed and deprived of all her titles, this is still not something that these Guizhou Cangtou can criticize.
How disrespectful! This is absolutely, 100% disrespectful!
This is someone who wants to use obscene pictures to destroy the prestige and reputation of the Sima royal family among the people.
Finally, Ju Xian couldn't bear it any longer and chased after the child selling the picture album. He grabbed his collar and lifted it up. The child's picture album fell to the ground and was stained by the snow on the ground. Blockbusters.
An angry shout!
"You kid, where did you get such filth?"
[In June 2020, the new book "Mountains and Rivers of the Song Dynasty 1161" seeks support, the Song and Jin Dynasties are at war, and Xin Qiji will fight against the Jurchens side by side! 】
