"It is the seventh month in the seventh month, and the sequence belongs to the first autumn. The water is gone, the cold pond is clear, the smoke is condensed, and the mountains are purple at dusk. I am on the road, visiting the scenery in Chong'a; I am near the Changzhou of the emperor's son, and I am loved by heaven and man. Old Pavilion. The mountains are towering with greenery, and the sky rises above; the flying pavilions flow with elixirs, and there is no ground below. The cranes, pavilions, and fuzhu are the lingering reflections of poor islands; the Guidianlan Palace is the shape of hills and mountains."
"Wearing an embroidered gate, looking down at the carved beasts, the vast plains of the mountains are full of sight, and the rivers and lakes are so vast that they are horrified. The gates of the palace are thrown to the ground, and the bells are ringing, and the food is home; the ships are in the water, and the boats of green birds and yellow dragons are flying. The clouds are gone and the rain is falling, and the colors are brilliant. The district is bright. The setting clouds and the solitary swans are flying together, and the autumn water is the same color as the sky. The fishing boats sing late, and the sound is on the poor Pengli shore; the wild geese array is frightened by the cold, and the sound is broken on the Xiaopu."
Every six steps Yuan Yao takes, he takes a sip of wine to moisten his throat, and then continues to adapt a paragraph. .
The mention of "Lianshui" and "Gejian Mijin" here has already pointed out the location.
Especially the last sentence: "The fishing boats sing late, and the sound is on the poor Pengli shore; the wild geese are frightened by the cold, and the sound is broken on the Liao Po."
Yuan Yao said it in an extremely cold tone, as if he had a deep meaning. After speaking, he glanced around the crowd coldly.
Naturally, everyone suddenly thought of the war a few days ago when Yuan Yao attacked Shangliao City and defeated the Peng clan.
Everyone couldn't help but think of a question at the same time. If they offended Yuan Yao, would they end up with the Peng family being ruined in the future?
Moreover, Yuan Yao said these two paragraphs very lightly and freely.
It seems that just in his spare time while traveling around the mountains and rivers, he turned his hand and wiped out the Peng family, known as the most powerful family in Yuzhang.
Such methods are terrifying to everyone.
Despite the weather, many people couldn't help but shudder.
Fortunately, Yuan Yao quickly continued:
"The distant lapels are smooth, and the joy is flying. The cool breeze is blowing, the slender song is condensed, and the white clouds are suppressed. The green bamboos in Suiyuan, the air in Pengze's bottle; the Zhuhua in Yeshui, illuminate the brush in Linchuan. Four beautiful utensils, The two difficulties are combined. The poor gaze is in the middle of the sky, and the extreme entertainment is in the leisure days. The sky is high and the high is very different, and the universe is infinite. When joy and sorrow come, the number of ups and downs is clear. I hope that Changan will be in the sun, and my eyes will be in the clouds. . The terrain is extreme, but the south is deep, the sky is high, and the north is far away. The mountains are difficult to cross, so who feels sad for those who have lost their way? When we meet by chance, we are all guests from a foreign land. When Emperor Huai disappeared, how old was he to serve as the promulgator?"
Yuan Yao has not changed a single word in this paragraph, but it is very consistent with the current situation and his own situation.
The emperor of the Han Dynasty was controlled by Li Jue and Guo Si in Chang'an, so he was "unseen". The Yuan family of Runan had served the emperor for generations, but in these troubled times, "How old was the Xuan Dynasty?"
Yuan Yao left his hometown in the Central Plains, set out from Shouchun, and went south via Tianzhu Mountain in Lujiang River. He has become a "guest in a foreign land".
Yuan Yao's voice was ups and downs, and suddenly he became sad:
"Sigh! The fortunes are not good, and the fate is misfortune. Feng Tang Yi Lao, Li Guang is difficult to seal. Qu Jiayi in Changsha, it is not without a holy master; Liang Hong in Haiqu, there is no lack of bright time? It depends on the gentleman to see the opportunity and the master to know the destiny. When you are old and strong, you would rather move your white-headed heart? When you are poor and strong, you will not fall into the blue clouds. When you drink from the greedy spring, you will feel refreshed, and you will still be happy when you are in the dry road. Although the North Sea is on credit, it can be picked up when it is swaying; the east corner has passed, and the mulberry trees are not. Late. Meng Chang is noble and has spare time to serve the country; Cai Yong is rampant, how can he cry when he has no way out!"
The four characters mentioned earlier in this paragraph, Feng Tang, Li Guang, Jia Yi, and Liang Hong, are all Han Dynasty figures and can easily resonate with everyone.
It's just that the last protagonist of "Ruan Ji is Rampant" has not been born yet, and Yuan Yao has not thought of a more suitable one, so he can only replace it with Cai Yong, who sighs sadly for Dong Zhuo.
Taking a deep breath, Yuan Yao began to conclude:
"Yao, a seven-foot man, has been blessed by heaven in this world. He has no way to ask for a tassel, and he waits until the end of the army to weaken the crown. He has a good idea and writes, and he uses force to turn the tide. He gave up his hairpin and wat when he was a hundred years old, and served him in the morning and dusk thousands of miles away. It is not the spitting of food by Zhou Gong, Meet the neighbor of the Meng family. He comes to the court day by day and wants to accompany the carp. Now I am holding my armband, happy to hold it at the dragon gate. Yang Yi did not meet, caressing Ling Yun and feels sorry for himself; when Zhong Qi met, why should I be ashamed to play the flowing water? "
After saying the last sentence, Yuan Yao asked his servants to fill a glass of wine, drank it in one gulp in respect of Chen Li and everyone present.
This paragraph is purely self-promotion.
It probably means that I, Yuan Yao, have a high status and my family has been highly valued by the emperor for generations. He wanted to take the initiative to enlist in the army to kill the enemy but never got the chance. When Zhongjun was already twenty-one years old, he had the opportunity to join the army.
I envy Emperor Guangwu's heroic spirit of "turning the tide and restoring the Han Dynasty". Now I have abandoned my wealthy and privileged life and traveled thousands of miles to solve my father's problems.
Although I, Yuan Yao, cannot compare with Duke Zhou in my love for talents, it is a worthwhile trip for me to associate with the virtuous people here. If I meet my father again one day, I will be happy to mention what happened today.
Today I am lucky enough to accompany all the elders, and I am happy to climb the Dragon Gate. If you don't meet anyone recommended by Yang Deyi, you can only pat your own articles and feel sorry for yourself. Now that you have met Zhong Ziqi, what's the shame in playing "Flowing Water"?
After the song "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" was finished, everyone present seemed to be baptized by the sounds of heaven.
From the beginning, everyone’s mouths opened and never closed. Everyone's eyes were wide open and they dared to blink their eyelids. This was a huge disrespect to this ancient and unparalleled parallel prose and to Yuan Yao!
Before the banquet was over, Yuan Yao walked away in a daze, leaving the whole hall stunned.
Bang bang!
I saw Xu Zong, the head of the Xu family, slap him twice.
"I actually suspected that General Yuan was an ignorant person. I really deserve to die!"
The head of the Xiong family also blushed. Like Xu Zong, he didn't take Yuan Yao seriously at first.
Chen Li finally reacted and hurriedly grabbed the head of the Nie family on the side and said anxiously: "Master Nie, how are you? Did you write down everything just now?"
The head of the Nie family was sweating profusely, and the hand holding the pen was trembling.
"General Yuan wrote it in six steps and spoke it in a clear way. I have tried my best to memorize it."
"But the pen and paper came too late, and some of the previous sentences were still missing."
"General Yuan only says one sentence every six steps. You can't remember this. What do you do for food?"
Immediately, other family owners started shouting.
"Thank you, the Nie family, for still bragging all day long about Yuzhang being the first in the work-discussing book. I think we should resign the official position as soon as possible and let someone who is really capable of writing quickly be the chief bookkeeper!"
"That's right, the first few paragraphs of General Yuan are all about the beautiful scenery of Yuzhang, and you can still miss it!"
The powerful clans that could not deal with the Nie family immediately gathered together to attack him.
"The sentence 'The setting clouds and solitary owls fly together, the autumn water is the same color as the sky. The fishing boats sing late, ringing on the poor Pengli shore; the wild geese are frightened by the cold, and the sound breaks on the Liaozhipu' is such a beautiful artistic conception, you have not forgotten this sentence Write it down?"
"It's too shallow, too little knowledge! This article not only describes the scenery of Yuzhang, but also expresses my emotions and aspirations!" Chen Li, who is well versed in literature, refuted.
"Don't be so noisy. If you have the time, why not think about it carefully and complete this parallel essay first."
"That's it, put the article together first, and then slowly appreciate it."
"I want to take such an article home and offer it to the ancestral hall. This is the first time in thousands of years that someone has written parallel prose specifically for me in Yuzhang!"
While everyone was chattering, Elder Yu was already writing furiously, writing the entire preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng in Yuan Yao's edition.
"Lao Yu really has a photographic memory! I almost forgot about this!"
"What is photographic memory? This is called photographic memory!"
In order to be sure, everyone took what Elder Yu had written silently and compared it with what Master Nie had written down.
"Make sure these words are correct, right?"
"Isn't that right? Wouldn't it be enough to go to General Yuan's house and ask directly for advice another day?"
Everyone stopped eating and drinking. They just pushed all the wine and food on the table to the ground, asked the servants to bring bamboo slips and pens, and started copying.
A banquet prepared by the powerful Yuzhang clan to test Yuan Yao turned into a scene for primary school students to copy texts.
Of course, among these indigenous people, there are also people with relatively low educational levels who cannot understand this parallel prose and cannot understand Yuan Yao's lyrical intention.
But seeing that the most knowledgeable elders Yu and Chen Li had extremely solemn expressions, and most of the people present were full of praise for the parallel prose, these bumpkins could only smirk and agree with everyone.
Today is undoubtedly a day of great significance for Yuzhang County!
Anyone who has read books for a few years and has some ink in their mind will not be able to put it down after reading Yuan Yao's version of "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" and praise it better than all parallel prose!
For a while, the "Luoyang Paper Expense" happened in Nanchang in advance. In fact, let alone the already precious paper, even the bamboo slips, which had always been in excess of demand, were sold out in just a few days.
You must know that there is no shortage of bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River, but there are few scholars in Yuzhang, and there is never a shortage of bamboo slips for writing. However, in just three days, there was no bamboo slips on the market.
There were even profiteers who keenly sensed business opportunities and hoarded cheap bamboo slips. They hired a group of poor people to copy the "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng" on more than a dozen carts of bamboo slips, and then immediately transported them to the Central Plains, Jingxiang, and Wuyue in three routes for sale. .
Because Yuan Yao did not name the work at that time, the Yuzhang natives collectively called it "Yuzhang Fu" temporarily.
When everyone asked Yuan Yao for advice, Yuan Yao had no objection. After all, there is no Tengwang Pavilion yet. This beggars version of "Tengwang Pavilion Preface" can only be renamed.
Once "Yuzhang Fu" spread to the circles of middle-earth gentry, it immediately became the focus of all scribes and celebrities.
It is said that among the first batch of profiteers who transported bamboo slips of "Yuzhang Fu" to the Central Plains for sale, the highest price a bamboo slip sold was 10,000 yuan!
Of course, Yuan Yao has not realized yet that this "Yuzhang Fu" will make him famous among the Central Plains gentry and how much it will improve and change his image.
On the night when "Yu Zhang Fu" came out, Chen Li and Xu Zong came hand in hand and took the initiative to show their favor to Yuan Yao.
Chen Li was originally a learned man and the author of twelve volumes of Shuyi.
Xu Zong claimed to be the greatest Confucian in Yuzhang and had good relations with Confucius, the great Confucian at that time.
The two of them are the most diligent people in Yuzhang County except the elder Yu.
Therefore, between Liu Pan and Yuan Yao, these two people prefer Yuan Yao, who is "literary and ink-minded".
Yuan Yao also knew that just being "literary" was not enough to make the clan forces behind these two people turn to him.
He took these two people on a tour of his military camp.
Although Yuan Yao has no famous generals under his command, there is a veteran general who has served as the eighth captain of Xiyuan to give guidance on military training methods.
That is Feng Fang, the right commander of the assistant army!
Lu Dai was already a good general, and with the guidance of this veteran general who had commanded the Imperial Army of the Han Dynasty, it was natural that he would not be far behind when it came to training his troops.
Moreover, Yuan Yao also went to Liu Pan's army. In order to compete for a piece of pork, the soldiers of the two teams on the left and right of the village could fight by themselves.
As long as these two people are not blind, they can tell which army is more disciplined.
In addition to showing that he has soldiers in his hands, Yuan Yao also needs to show that he has a strategic mind.
After visiting the military camp, Chen Li and Xu Zong were dragged into the main tent. After a confidential conversation, the two returned happily.
The next day, Chen Li and Xu Zong visited the camp again.
This time, they also brought people from the Xiong, Nie, Wang, Luo, Zhang, and Mo tribes, and also coaxed the elders of the Yu family, who had always disliked fame, to come.
It was also in his main account that Yuan Yao told what he was going to do next.
That is three points of Yuzhang County!
Yuan Yao planned to divide the huge Yuzhang County into three counties, each with a county governor, county magistrate and captain.
It was divided into the southern part of Yuzhang County, with Luling County as the county government, and Luling County was established.
It was divided into the northeastern part of Yuzhang, with Poyang County as its county seat, and Poyang County was established.
The rest of the northwest is still governed by Nanchang, continuing Yuzhang County.
"My Yuzhang County is a large county thousands of miles away. In terms of vast territory, it is comparable to a state in the Central Plains!"
At this time, Yuzhang County was actually the entire modern Jiangxi. Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou in the Central Plains are almost the same size as a province.
"In terms of the number of households, when our Yuzhang County had the largest population, there were nearly 500,000 households and 2 million people. Except for Nanyang and Runan counties, which county has more Ding households than my Yuzhang County?"
"Furthermore, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, ten households in the Central Plains have been devastated. Most of the people died from natural disasters and man-made disasters, and some of them fled elsewhere. But in our Yuzhang County, there are only plague epidemics in all directions, and there are no man-made disasters caused by war. The population has not How much is the loss?"
"Now if we count the number of households again, I believe that the number of households in Yuzhang County will exceed that of Nanyang and Runan counties!"
“How can the people of such a large county with so many people live and work in peace and contentment if only one county governs it?”
When Yuan Yao said this, everyone understood Yuan Yao's reason for dividing Yuzhang County.
"We were born as people of Yuzhang, how can we be ghosts in a foreign land when we die?"
"That is, when the time comes to compile the genealogy, what should I write on the tablet when entering the ancestral hall? It is impossible that my father was a citizen of Yuzhang County, but in my generation he became a citizen of Luling County?"
People from the Wang family and Luo family immediately stood up to object.
These two people are the county magistrate of Nanchang County and the princess of Yuzhang County respectively, but the family roots behind them are in Poyang and Luling.
The aristocratic families of this era are all good at hedging their bets. For example, the Xun clan of Yingchuan placed bets on both Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
Of course, the most famous one is the Zhuge clan of Langya, who directly bet on Wei, Shu and Wu.
Naturally, powerful families like Yuzhang also bet on both sides.
Yuan Yao smiled slightly, as he expected the objections from these people.
“Nothing in this world is eternal!”
"Just like Yuzhang County, it didn't exist more than 300 years ago. It was established by Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty as a division of Jiujiang County!"
"Further forward, Jiujiang County does not exist. This is just the junction of Wu and Chu."
"Perhaps in a few hundred years, the world will no longer even have government offices at the county level!"
Wang's county magistrate snorted coldly: "The changes in the world have nothing to do with me."
"General Yuan comes from a distinguished family, and the reputation of the Yuan family in Runan is unparalleled in the country! The post of governor of Zhuge Mansion can only be appointed and dismissed with a word of respect from the father. If the general wants to forcibly divide the counties, there is no need to wait with me. discuss!"
The Wang county magistrate regarded Yuan Yao as someone who used his power to overwhelm others.
