Today's Han Empire spans thousands of miles of territory.
In the vast and deep land, green hills are stacked on top of each other; grasslands are on top of grasslands, and the green grass is as far as the eye can see; there are golden grain fields next to each other, not a single barren piece of bare land, and the sound of cocks crowing and dogs barking And wisps of cooking smoke often appear in the fields of the empire. It can be said that although the Han Empire today has internal and external troubles, it is indeed the most prosperous golden age that the Chinese nation has experienced since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
However, the more land and people there are, the more ideas there will be, and the number of things that cannot be sorted out will become chaotic.
Just like today's secret meeting in the East Palace, there were five or six people, sixty or seventy ideas, seventy or eight hundred intentions. In the end, sending troops to destroy Goguryeo became the common denominator among everyone's different ideas, and it also made everything complete for what happened tonight. Land preparation came to an end.
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In Chang'an City.
While Liu Huai and others were discussing matters, in the Wentong Pavilion where the stars were everywhere, an old man named Liu stayed up all night. He hugged his heart and looked at the cold moon, watched the stars all night, and was about to return to the pavilion to rest. .
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Wentong Hall, Wencheng Hall, Wutong Hall, and Wubei Hall were affiliated to the clan of the Twelve Qing Dynasty in the Han Dynasty. The collections of the four libraries include nine out of ten sages' classics from ancient times to the present. Because of their huge size, With their huge collection of books, these four libraries are collectively known as the "Pearls of the Empire" by the world.
The Wentong Pavilion, the Wencheng Pavilion, the Wutong Pavilion, and the Military Bei Pavilion are the four imperial pavilions that collect unique and fragmented volumes in the world. Their collection contents can be said to have their own origins.
The Wencheng Museum mainly collects unofficial histories of the past dynasties, hundreds of schools of thought, folk talks and important research results;
The Wutong Museum mainly collects works by masters of military art from past dynasties, maps of mountains and rivers, battle formations, and weapon samples;
The armaments museum mainly collects martial arts secrets, detailed explanations of sects, and updates the list of masters above the realm of immortality;
The Wentong Hall mainly collects official histories of past dynasties, biographies of characters, royal memorials, edicts and almanacs.
The four masters of the Wencheng Hall are all gorgeous people. The contemporary master of the Wencheng Hall is Liu Yan’s second master Shen Qiong, while the master of the Wentong Hall is the one in front of him who is wearing rags and has only a few hairs on his head. Old Man Liu.
At this moment, he had been watching the stars all night and was very sleepy. His clothes and hair were messy, and Old Man Liu looked a little sloppy.
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The annual rings of time never stop turning, and the people in the palace are constantly changing one after another. Only Old Man Liu is still strong in Wentong Hall, unchanged for decades.
It is said that up to now, no one knows how many emperors Old Man Liu has served, and no one can tell clearly when the old man named Liu took root in Wenchengguan. What is my son's name? It's so long ago that everyone only knows that his surname is Liu.
Legend has it that one of the generals under Xiang Chong's command was named Liu Xu, and he was originally an unknown general. Later, Zhuge Liang went north to Hanzhong. Before leaving, he wrote the "Departure List", which mentioned that "General Xiang Chong, with a good nature and good military skills, tried to use it in the past. The late emperor called him Neng, so he was elected as the governor by consensus."
About after Xiang Chong was promoted to the leader of the Central Army, Liu Xu, a partial general, was promoted to Yamen General. At that time, a rebellion broke out among the barbarians in Hanjia County. Liu Chan ordered Liu Xu to lead his army to pacify it. During the Battle of Hanjia County, , Liu Xu must take the lead in every battle. Under his leadership, the barbarian rebellion was quickly put down, effectively ensuring the stability of the Shu Han's rear area. However, this Liu Xu was seriously injured and unconscious.
After the war, Liu Xu never appeared in the military again. At that time, someone in the palace claimed to have seen Liu Xu in Wentong Pavilion. Because of this rumor, many people in later generations believed that Old Man Liu was the Liu Xu of that year. General.
However, many people do not agree with this statement. There are two doubts: First, according to the soldiers who retreated from the battlefield with General Liu Xu, General Liu Xu was hit by several arrows and his chest and back had been chopped off. He was reduced to a pulp, and even before he reached Chengdu, he was already out of breath. According to this suspicion, General Liu Xu probably died of anger after returning to Chengdu.
Secondly, General Liu Xu had an old man and a young man at the time, so how could he
After recovering from serious injuries, what about abandoning his wife and children to cultivate his moral character in Wentong Hall?
The second statement, on the other hand, is quite convincing among the people.
Some chatty regular attendants in the palace often said in private that this old man Liu was originally a 400-stone minister under the command of the Shaofu during the reign of Emperor Xiaoren and Liu Chan. After the reunification of the Han Empire, there were many civil and military talents. At that time Politically clear and young, Old Liu felt that officialdom was hopeless and boring, so he went to Wentong Hall to live a semi-official and semi-hidden life of study.
Time is like water. In the blink of an eye, a hundred years ago, Emperor Xiaoren left, Emperor Shenwu left, and the new emperor Liu Yan has also reached the age of great prosperity. But old man Liu is still alive and kicking, and can eat three bowls of rice at a meal. Many old people in the palace They all say that if this continues, Old Man Liu may become a saint within a hundred years.
However, these are just some palace rumors, half true and half false, you can judge for yourself.
The book returns to its true story.
The Wentong Pavilion is much higher than the other three pavilions. The upper part is constantly lit day and night. Old Man Liu lives here, learns, thinks and practices, and watches the stars and does divination.
Every few days, Old Man Liu, the master of hundreds of schools of thought, would climb to the top of Wentong Hall to watch the stars. Firstly, he could deduce the general trend of the world, and also report to Liu Yan to fulfill his duty as a minister. Secondly, A night of pure mind and few desires, in order to rectify the mind of cultivating the Tao.
In the early hours of the morning, Old Man Liu, who had been stargazing on the roof all night, was about to return to the house to sleep. Suddenly, two stars flashed in the sky, one from the south and one from the north, colliding with each other, creating a beautiful spark, and then quickly disappeared.
When Old Man Liu saw this, he was very surprised. He immediately stopped, pinched his fingers to make a decision, and muttered something in his mouth. After some calculations, he sighed with excitement, "The twin stars are colliding with each other, and the energy is like a bullfight. There is no way to win, and both sides will lose! It seems that the Great Qin Dynasty Fighting against the two mighty Han men will end in losing both sides!"
At this time, a young man with a height of seven feet and a dashing appearance quietly appeared behind Old Man Liu. Old Man Liu nodded lightly after seeing him.
That young man was none other than Lu Ling, who was sent by Liu Yan to be the fourth librarian.
Back then, Lu Ling's cleverness was mistaken for him. He thought he could suppress the clan, but he caused trouble. Liu Yan asked him to hide here temporarily in order to give an explanation to the clan who came to Beijing to complain and to save Lu Ling's life.
From then on, Lu Ling disappeared from the political arena of the Han Dynasty. He concentrated on studying. Counting this year, Lu Ling has stayed here for four full years.
According to Old Man Liu, Lu Ling is a tireless little yellow swan.
In the past four years, Lu Ling wandered among the documents. As the saying goes, reading can calm down. After four years of accumulation, his temperament and temper have changed greatly. His brows gradually revealed a mature and steady demeanor, and he lost a lot of aggressive energy. .
Of course, during his four years of study in the Fourth Hall, he also formed a lifelong friendship with Old Man Liu, who was only separated by a wall.
According to the established convention between the two of them, Lu Ling would come to the house to talk to the sleepy Old Man Liu for a few games every day after he went stargazing. Only when Old Liu gave up would Lu Ling be content to let the old man go to bed. This routine, It has not changed in four years.
But early this morning, Lu Ling waited downstairs for a long time, but did not see Old Man Liu coming downstairs to play chess. After the tea had cooled down, Lu Ling finally couldn't hold himself back anymore and strode to the top of the building, just in time for Old Man Liu to perform stargazing. Then study quietly.
"Hey, hey, hey! Old man Liu, what have you figured out after you've been gesticulating for a long time?" Lu Ling saw that Old Man Liu had finished his work, and he went up and said carelessly.
"No big, no small!" Old Man Liu gave Lu Ling a hard chestnut, blew his beard and glared, scolding, "This is a secret, how can you kid know it? Give me a hand quickly, I have to go back to the house to make up for it. Sleep."
"Look, look, look! Are you kidding me?"
Lu Ling stepped forward to help Old Liu, but he was not idle and said with a smile, "Old Liu, are you tired of losing at chess? Are you starting to escape under the pretext of stargazing? Huh? Hahahaha! It's okay. There’s no shame in it at all, hahaha!”
Old man Liu didn't fall for Lu Ling's provocation. He immediately retorted, "You kid will take advantage of me. You have to come to play chess every time when I'm depressed. Who can bear this? Go, go, give it to me quickly. I want two bowls of heat
Porridge, I drank it and fell asleep. "
"Porridge! It's been prepared a long time ago!" After Lu Ling mixed Old Man Liu into the house, he smiled and opened the small clay pot on the brazier in the ground, where fragrant hot porridge was simmering.
After four years of contact, Lu Ling regarded the old man Liu as a close friend mentally, but in life, he regarded the old man as a father, taking care of him in every way and feeling sorry for him in every way.
No, as soon as Old Man Liu sat down, a bowl of hot porridge from Lu Ling was brought to Old Man Liu.
Old man Liu smiled with satisfaction.
After eating a bowl of hot porridge, Old Man Liu suddenly felt full, stretched his waist, and was about to fall asleep.
Seeing this, Lu Ling hurriedly pulled it up and started to bargain, "As the saying goes, 'It's easy to borrow and repay, and it's not difficult to borrow again. Old man Liu, if you drank the porridge I cooked for half the night, you must pay it back." I'll order something, otherwise, if I want to drink next time, I won't be able to."
"Hey, you kid, are you going to play with me in this world?"
Old Man Liu started to blow his beard and glare again, pulled up the quilt, and said in a hurry, "Please let me sleep for a while, and I will tell you when I wake up!"
After saying that, Old Man Liu fell down and fell asleep.
"No! No, no, no!"
Lu Ling was very stubborn. He pulled a corner of the quilt and started to pull with Old Man Liu, saying, "Today's work is done today, one thing after another. When you wake up? When you wake up, can you still let me in?" "
The two of them were in the attic. One was pressing the quilt tightly with his body, and the other was pulling the quilt tightly with his arms. His face was red and his neck was thick from holding it in.
In the end, it was Lu Ling who let go first and looked at Old Man Liu with resentment.
The older a person gets, the more stubborn his temper becomes. This is true!
