People and affairs undergo metabolism, and exchanges become ancient and modern. The Zhangwu plague will eventually become an insignificant speck of dust in the vast river of history. Wucai Zhenren, Fan Tingnan, Fan Guanbei, and Li Yanfeng, a string of names that are well known to the world, will also fade into the dust and be forgotten. In the long river of time.
After the fifteenth day, the snow and ice melted away, and the scenery became brighter and brighter.
The Fan Guanbei poisoning case has just concluded, and the sad melody has not yet ended, but early spring has quietly arrived.
The fields are moist with grass, the wind is blowing warmly, and there is peace and tranquility everywhere.
On February 2, we worship the village community; the dragon raises its head to pray for a good harvest!
The so-called "On February 2, the dragon raises its head", the dragon here does not refer to the emperor and the emperor, but actually refers to the seven stars of the Eastern Canglong among the stars in the sky. On this day every year, the "Dragon Horn Star" rises from the eastern plains, so it is called "the dragon raises its head". ', which means rising to prominence and displaying one's virtues.
On this day, Yang Qi grows, rain increases, and all things are full of vitality. Spring plowing begins in various places.
In the north, there are many customs on this day, such as shaving dragon heads, frying fried cakes, eating pig heads, hoarding grain, and attracting dragons from the field. There are also many taboos such as taboos on needlework, taboos on carrying water, taboos on building houses, taboos on tamping, and taboos on grinding noodles. , When in town, do as the Romans do.
On this day, in order to catch up with the delay caused by the great plague and avoid death, Fan Tingnan, who was "reborn", made various requests and finally persuaded the Mohist family to help make farm tools for spring plowing. Of course, all the agricultural tools used by hundreds of thousands of people in a county and its subordinate counties and villages were made by Hanli. Naturally, Hanli was dumbfounded. He understood the meaning of Fan Tingnan's words, so he summoned all the outer disciples in Bozhou, a total of nearly two thousand people!
While the governor of Fanda was happy, Fan Tingnan was troubled by food, clothing, housing and transportation.
On this day, Shi Chen received a reward of one thousand taels. He drove a bullock cart full of gold out of the city. He secretly found his gang brothers and, in accordance with the rules of the gang, transported half of the gold back to his headquarters, Duyuan County, Huaxing County, Quzhou. . Then, through Fan Tingnan, he asked Hu Cao for the registration records and distributed the other half to the people who had lost their relatives in the plague. Those with more were given more and those with less were given less. This was considered as a knight's way.
On this day, our protagonist Liu Yi, who is still a teenager, got into the small scripture library of Gongsun's family. A few days ago, the Red Feather Golden Eagle sent a brief letter from his father Liu Quansheng. , The foundation for a thousand years depends on the people's support and is safe." Liu Quansheng replied, "Nurturing the people will benefit the world; the way to nourish the people is to cultivate your mind and learn. Don't think about it'.
The contents of the messages sent by the father and son were quietly changing.
After this incident, Liu Yi's state of mind changed greatly. He no longer talked about his "great ambition" to watch the south tower, but put away his thoughts and concentrated more on studying. During the days in the Sutra Library, he set nine daily tasks for himself: worship, meditate, get up early, read, study history, write down notes, carefully speak, write posts, and strengthen his body. He read classics all day long, worked hard on paperwork, and strived to learn. I want to understand it, and also want to find out the reason why it magically summoned birds to attack the enemy that day.
On this day, Dongfang Chunsheng used the money he got from reciting books to spend some time with Xia Qing at the largest wine shop in Zhangwu City, Spring Breeze Ten Miles, where they had a great time, grilling meat and drinking wine. Dongfang Chunsheng could not control his mouth. After drinking for three rounds, he casually said, "The Han Empire has a territory of tens of thousands of miles and a family sitting in one county is not scary. What is scary is the family that wins the hearts of the people, just like princes." .”
Xia Qing was also a little incoherent. She put her arms around Dongfang Chunsheng's shoulders and continued, "Old man, as you get older, you should let the cycle of heaven and earth come over and over again. If you care about heaven and earth all day long and care about so many things, aren't you just growing in vain? Trouble. Come on, come on, old man, don’t use this to avoid drinking, drink!”
The old man and the young man began to fight with each other with words and wine in the spring breeze.
On this day, Yi Xian walked slowly toward the east of the city with a thick stack of scriptures on his back, a red-feathered golden eagle in his arms, and the two big yellow dogs behind him.
Before leaving, Yixian said to Liu Yi, "He has always had the same dream these days. In the dream, the sky above the solitary grave a few miles east of the city is scary and dark. Countless figures are floating in the sky. Those figures want to Flying in the sky, but frightened by the thunder, trying to land, but being forced back by the fire of the earth, unable to go up or down, wandering around the world, full of desolation."
Yi Xian said, "Buddhism always talks about cause and effect. Since these lonely souls who died in vain due to the great plague have found him as the 'famous' abbot of Wanfo Temple in Wanfo Mountain, there is no reason why he should not go. Even if he saves one person in a day, ten people will be saved." Years are enough. After this, he will definitely enable those 'lonely souls and wild shadows' to be reborn in the Pure Land and reach bliss as soon as possible."
On this day, a young man with one eye and one arm, wearing a plain hat and a plain robe, quietly walked out of Shuihe Temple. He erected the grave of the 'eldest father' Wucai Zhenren in the back mountain among the green pines and cypresses, and picked up the hammer. , destroyed the alchemy furnace that was once a treasure, and rebuilt the statue of Laojun that was broken into pieces. Yesterday, he knelt in front of Sanqing Tianzun, with a solemn look on his face, and solemnly swore, "I am empress of heaven, Sanqing is above me. From today on, my disciple Li Yanfeng will follow Shen Zun far away, do three good deeds every day, and do ten thousand deeds every year, in order to repay the kindness of raising him and redeem him." If there is any violation of the crime committed the day before, the body and head will be in a different place."
On this day, the playful Gongsun Haojin and the lively Dongfang Yu got entangled with Han Li, a Mohist saw who was making farm tools.
Since the time of Mozi, the Mohists have been especially good at craftsmanship and production. Farm tools are only a glimpse of things and have little technical content. The Mohist disciples are the best in the world in the production of city defense and siege equipment. There are no fewer than dozens of large-scale offensive and defensive equipment recorded in the book "Mozi" alone.
Among them, the most famous one is the allusion of "stopping Chu and attacking Song". The defensive equipment made by Mozi allowed his disciple Qin Huayi and others to defend Song City with only 300 people and resist the attack of Chu. From then on, the Mohist organization The power of his technique is so powerful that no prince dares to disobey him.
After the Han Dynasty was reunified, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, established five ministers and twelve ministers. Among the twelve ministers, the permanent guard was the chief, and it became the core organization for the development of military, industrial, and agricultural tools in the Han Empire. Since it was no longer needed, the Mohist family The overbearing mechanism skills gradually faded out of people's sight, and the daily inventions of the Mohists' outer sect gradually transformed into some pleasing things based on strange and ingenious skills.
Beliefs, hobbies and work responsibilities are two different things. Compared with the simple work of the end, the Mohist family has attracted more people from the world who love invention, creation, belief and non-attack. Just from the perspective of mechanical skills, the Mohist family He has always been able to win the battle with other Jianghu gangs, no, several gangs!
After hearing the anecdotes about the Mo family told by Dongfang Chunsheng, Dongfang Yu planned to go and see the miraculous tricks of Master Saw. However, due to gender constraints, Dongfang Yu had an idea and hooked up with the idle Gongsun Haojin. .
In the next two months, the two of them chatted around Han Li. After getting acquainted with this well-known and gentle man, they began to ask questions. When Han Li answered well, he praised him as a true hero in the world, and when he answered poorly, he praised him as a true hero in the world. The good thing turns into a shameful reputation. Han Li is always at a loss. He has no choice but to love these two innocent, clever and weird boys and girls.
What none of the three people expected was that because of Dongfang Yu's unexpected move, Han Li and Gongsun Haojin formed a long-lasting friendship. This good relationship directly changed the structure of the Mohist family and the general trend of the world a few years later.
Everyone is busy working on their own without disturbing each other!
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As we all know, there is not only the Fan family in Zhangwu County, but also a Gongsun family.
Since the death of Gongsun Xiu in battle in 295, the Gongsun family has not produced a powerful and elegant figure for forty-six years. Gongsun Haojin's father Zhang Daruo died in indulgence, which caused a serious break in the Gongsun family. , there was a situation of inconsistency. If it weren't for the meritorious service of the dragon, the kindness of the emperor, and the strong external force, the Gongsun family would have been annexed by the Fan family, which was in full swing.
Gongsun Qiaomu, the widowed mother, the second daughter of Gongsun Xiu, and the current patriarch of the Gongsun family. Although she has a fairy figure, gentleness, kindness, support from her relatives, and insight into knowledge, after all, she is a weak woman and has passed her middle life. It is quite difficult to run the family. As time went by, the connections Gongsun Xiu had accumulated during his lifetime gradually withered away. Coupled with the Han Dynasty's suppressive policies against noble families in recent years and the rapid development of the Fan family, the Gongsun family's official, business, and chivalrous ways all showed varying degrees of slowness.
Today's Gongsun family is already declining at the same age as Gongsun Qiaomu.
According to Gongsun Haojin's unintentional words, Gongsun Mansion has not renovated the residence for three years and has not replaced the furniture for two years. Last year, even the children's New Year's money was reduced by half. It is not an exaggeration to describe the situation as declining.
There are hundreds of hectares of fertile land, not one acre. Frustration leads to frustration, after all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Moreover, judging from actions such as sealing off the city in the name of mourning, fighting the plague together with the Fan family, and being the first to entertain guests from afar, the Gongsun family still has a profound heritage. The Gongsun family members He is extremely passionate and unrestrained, loves vanity, and is also mixed with some emotions. Those who want to sit back and watch the fall of the Gongsun family may have to wait for good news!
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When sailing against the current, don't slow down even a single pole; when dripping water penetrates a stone, don't let a drop stop. Liu Yi did not feel lazy or sleepy because he was alone. Instead, he enjoyed studying in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
In mid-February, a woman appeared in this three-story building. The sun was rising at noon. Liu Yi, who was quoting scriptures, was shocked when he saw this woman for the first time. This woman had eight-color eyebrows, red lips and peach petals, and her eyes were full of spring water. The green-haired phoenix hairpin, the luxuriant clothes, the graceful figure, the fragrance wafting as she walked, and the orchid manner, the two looked at each other, Liu Yi blurted out the phrase "beauty in the prosperous age", in exchange for the woman saying "Langlang..." .Dangdang, Zi”.
No one is perfect, and such a flawless woman actually stutters.
That night, Liu Yi found Gongsun Haojin for questioning. It turned out that the woman who stuttered was Gongsun Haojin's eldest sister, Gongsun Ling. Apart from being in the boudoir, even when she is alone in the Sutra Pavilion, in terms of knowledge, I am afraid that his eldest sister is the number one person in Zhangwu.
That night, the stars were twinkling and the sky was vast. Liu Yi murmured to himself in the pavilion, "Dad once said that my mother is the seventh most beautiful woman in the world. How beautiful she must be!"
From the next day, Liu Yi and Gongsun Ling became close friends in the book, often writing about the truth and praising and criticizing current events. Liu Yi regarded the three chapters of his father Zhang Daruo's "Sophistry" as a wonderful art of intellectual debate. Gongsun Ling also regarded the only "Seventeen Treatises on Shu Jia" written by Liu Quansheng when he was young as a unique book in the world. In just half a month, although the two could not fall in love, they were book friends and close friends. Liu Yi was in love for the first time, but he preferred a lively and hot-tempered woman like Dongfang Yu. She called Gongsun Ling her sister, and she was a kindred spirit.
However, in Gongsun Ling's casual glance, Liu Yi can often see a lot of loneliness and unwillingness. Every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite, and it was not easy for Liu Yi to delve into them.
At the end of February, just as Liu Yi and his party were preparing to continue their march north, a group of cavalry soldiers rushed from Lingyuan.
A secret letter sealed with yellow wax was placed on Fan Tingnan's slip; another letter on yellow paper was delivered to Liu Yi. It was sent through official channels after Ying Cheng asked his father Ying Zhi in every possible way. A private message from a friend.
After opening it, Liu Yi read with emotion. The content of the letter was, "My brother Liu Yi, after my brother left, Li Erniu found Mr. Da and asked for it for a long time. Finally, he went to Huaxing Military Preparation with Mr. Da's recommendation letter. He served as a cook under General Deng Yan! Before Li Erniu bid farewell to his parents and set off, Huangfu Lu, Wang Sanbao and I said: When I become a school captain, I will lead my troops to burn down Qingheju to retaliate for my elder brother.
Wang Sanbao received a salary increase of twenty stones and became an auxiliary officer under Mr. Da, who also served as a Confucian scholar. Recently, this boy has been a little distracted from his regular job. He has been studying some side projects such as Qimen Dunjia and disguised assassination. He also has some strange behaviors. I'm afraid I'm obsessed with always writing and drawing on Qingheju.
Huangfu Lu hid in Zigui Academy and studied all day long. He said he wanted to become a doctor of Liangyi Academy at the age of thirty, but one time I opened his homework and all the words written on it were "Qinghe Old Dog". Huangfu Lu He is truly a "loyal and honest" person!
As for me, I want to be a hero who can shock the rainbow with my sword. Although my father doesn't allow me to travel far, he has also obtained the middle-grade swordsmanship secret book "Jade Withering Forest" for me. When I am done, if you don't come back, I will find it. Brother, if you return home, you will protect your brother.
This letter is written to my brother to express my longing for him and hope that "Zi Gui Wu Primary School" will be reunited as soon as possible. Hands should be solemn. "
Liu Yi took a seat by the window in the corner of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. Before filing the case, various scenes of studying, hunting birds, going down to the river, stealing food, practicing, etc. came to mind. He took the private letter and read it over and over several times. I wish to capture every bit of emotion between the lines.
After missing her, Liu Yi looked at Ying Cheng's crooked handwriting and became stunned. He had only been away from his hometown Lingyuan for more than three months, but he felt as if he was separated from the world.
During this period of study, I thought a lot. My father is not a mediocre person. Why has he pretended to be an alcoholic for so many years? Is it just to secretly plan to overthrow the Liu family? On the day when my master assassinated Liu Desheng, my father could have left it alone. Why was he so determined to let me go north? In the Lingyuan Mountains, growing old injects thoughts into me. What is it for? I have no great ambitions, but everyone around me hopes that I will succeed. Where will my future go? There are too many doubts in my heart, I don’t know whether to be happy or worried.
When Liu Yi was "moaning for nothing", Gongsun Ling held the slip in her hand and moved lightly with lotus steps. Seeing Liu Yi in a daze, she stopped disturbing him. Liu Yi heard the sound of subtle footsteps coming from far to near, from near to far, and laughed at himself: There is a saying in the book that hundreds of flowers, one hundred fragrances, one hundred people and one hundred natures are true. If the person just now was replaced by Yu Mei, he would definitely jump. Come and ask for details!
Five days later, in early March. General Lu Ling, a lieutenant in Yulin, led five hundred Hu cavalry guards to clear the traces of spring in Zhangwu County, revealing all Gongsun Ling's loneliness and unwillingness.
As an internal guard, stationed in the capital, or executing secret orders, he rarely appeared in the public eye unless ordered to escort special envoys.
On the day we entered the city, the streets were empty. Scholars, farmers, businessmen and merchants stood on both sides of the main street, looking forward to it. Firstly, I wanted to appreciate the majesty of this royal guard, and secondly, I wanted to see the great-great-grandson of the former Soochow General Lu Xun.
The end of Si hour and the beginning of noon hour. A burst of horse riding roared from far to near. Lu Wenyou, a tall man with a big horse and a Confucian robe wearing a scarf, took the lead in passing through the south gate. Behind him, five hundred horsemen in red clothes, jujube horses and red armor followed in neat steps. , the Han flag is majestic, the military flag is fierce, and the grace of the Celestial Dynasty can be seen at a glance! Won the praises of the people!
Liu Yi and his party were among the people, whispering at this moment.
"The twelve inner guards of the Han Dynasty each have their own merits. The Hu Qi Guards were built by the naturalized Qiang and Hu border troops in the early years. They have light armor and light cavalry, equipped with Hu knives and arrows to quench poison. They are good at riding, shooting and attacking, and their arm strength is amazing. The Hu Qi Guards There was one Hu Qizhonglang general, four Hu Qizhong lieutenants, and eight sergeants, with an establishment of about 15,000 people. On weekdays, half of them were trained in northern Xinjiang in rotation, and the other half were stationed in important places in Chang'an City for dispatch. 325 , His Majesty ascended the throne and redesigned the quantity, stipulating three pounds per stone and thirty stones per dose, simple and clear. The basic requirement for the selection of Hu Qiwei soldiers was that they could draw the forty stone bow ten times. Successive Hu Qizhonglang generals They are all martial arts masters in the city-breaking realm, and they can fire the hundred-stone bow nine times in a row. They are truly proving the Tao through their strength!"
Death Shichen folded his hands on his chest and explained softly to Dongfang Yu and Gongsun Haojin who were chattering beside him, regardless of whether the two children heard it or not. Then he wandered thousands of miles away, as if he missed the Changshui Guard and the one he often talked about. The emperor, who was determined to create a prosperous and peaceful age, was infinitely sad.
"The scenery lingers with just a few fingers, and in the blink of an eye, the kid Lu Ling can take charge of his own business! More than ten years ago, Han passed by Poyang County in Liuzhou, and it happened that heavy rains and swamps came out for days, flooding the county and displacing the people. At that time, there was a shortage of craftsmen. , The manpower is not enough, this child’s father, Lu Yun, the governor of Poyang County, asked me for help, so I summoned nearly 8,000 people from the outer sect and inner sect of Liuzhou to fight against the flood." Han Li began to answer.
"Unexpectedly, this child actually wrote an appeal and read it out to me. Its literary talent is no less than that of the "Advocate against Cao Cao" written by Chen Lin back then. In the appeal, 'Form parties and gather groups, use skills to control; I still remember this sentence in my heart, which urges me not to do anything like this. Later, the imperial court sent people to provide disaster relief, so I planned to continue traveling. Because I know a little about the art of fortune-telling and like to judge people, I left a comment for this child, 'a rare genius with world-renowned articles'. Unexpectedly, after not seeing him for more than ten years, he has become the emperor's favorite!" After saying this, Han Li also began to sigh about his youth.
Everyone watched the excitement and chatted. Only Liu Yi, after listening to what the two said, his eyes became colder. He put his right hand on top of his left hand and drew random strokes on the palm of his hand. If a careful person sees it, he will know that the result of the random strokes is the cross of "Confucianism disrupts law with literature, and chivalry violates prohibition with force."
