Xiahou Mao tied the horses, stopped, looked up at the city gate of Xiangyang in the distance, and was silent for a long time.
He doesn't want to come, but...
It's only him.
Although it is winter, the city of Xiangyang is still consumed very much every day. Even if you store firewood, coal and other things before winter, you still need to add some in the clear weather to prevent any need from happening. Therefore, there are still many people on the road outside Xiangyang City.
Either give it to your own home or to others, brave the cold wind to come out to pick it up.
Most of these people were wearing single clothes, even exposed their bodies in the cold winter, in order not to allow rough hemp ropes or wood to scratch the clothes. The dark skin was stained with mud and water, and then solidified into marks, as if they were about to imprint the coldness deeply into the annual rings, or like some evil creature attached to it and sucking the yang energy, causing these people to tremble, but they had to grit their teeth and move forward.
Xiahou Mao looked at the fur on his body, was silent for a while, raised his head, "Entering the city."
Obviously someone had reported the news. Three miles outside the city gate, the Cao Military Academy was waiting on the road with a small team of people. When they saw Xiahou Mao and others, they went forward to salute.
Xiahou Mao nodded, "Take me to see the general."
With the Cao soldiers leading the way, everything is unobstructed.
On the road, those woodcutters hurriedly hid to the edge of the road, and even accidentally caused the firewood that had finally collected and tied up fell and fell apart because they were hiding...
The Cao soldiers did not react in any special way to these situations, nor did they deliberately collide, but if there were those who stood in front of them, they would whip, use gun handles, or even use knives to cut them directly. Just like a person driving on the road, they would not deliberately avoid it because there were any ant on the road.
This situation seems to have been like this since eternal times.
Cao Ren met Xiahou Mao.
Xiahou Mao bowed down and touched the ground with his head. "Thank you, my uncle, for your hard work, Xiahou will never forget it."
Xiahou Mao didn't say anything to maintain, and Cao Ren didn't ask.
Cao Ren just asked: "Is it Brother Yuan Rang who asked you to come?"
Xiahou Mao lowered his head, "My father is seriously ill...I came here myself..."
『Hmm…』 Cao Ren was silent for a while, 『I understand…you are a good kid…go…』
Xiahou Mao thanked again, then stood up, and walked out of the general's mansion with his own guard, and then went to the Xiangyang prison.
When Xiahou Zizang saw Xiahou Mao, he rushed to the fence with ecstasy, "Second brother! Second brother! I am here! Here! Let someone let me go out, let me go out!"
Xiahou Mao looked at Xiahou Zizang in front of him and could hardly recognize him.
Not to mention the disheveled hair, Xiahou Zizang seemed to be stained with a lot of mud. Although it was already dry, it still emitted a stench. Xiahou Zizang didn't look like a child of aristocratic family at all, but he looked like those woodcutters on the road outside the city.
Xiahou Mao took a step back, endured the disgust, frowned, "Come, take him to wash..."
Although Xiahou Mao's uncovered disgust made Xiahou Zizang feel a little unhappy, the urgent need to remove the filth on his body made Xiahou Zizang not have time to care about these things, so he followed the people out of the cell happily and went to take a shower and wash.
About an hour later, Xiahou Mao's guards came back, but there was no Xiahou Zizang behind him.
"Why didn't you come?" Xiahou Mao asked.
The guard lowered his head, "Sanlangjun fell asleep."
『Sleep…』 Xiahou Mao closed his eyes and let out a long breath, as if this would make his tone still stable, 『Wake him up and bring him over.』
When is it time to fall asleep?
Xiahou Mao sighed, and then the expression on his face became more and more firm.
"Second brother! What are you doing?!" Before the person arrived, an angry voice came first, "I finally fell asleep, why did I wake me up?"
Xiahou Mao looked at Xiahou Zizang who was simply wearing a cloth robe, and suddenly felt that he was very strange, as strange as if he was not a brother, but an ordinary person who had nothing to do with him. "Do you know... my father... is seriously ill?"
"Ah?" Xiahou Zizang was obviously stunned for a moment, and then for a moment, he looked a little guilty, maybe he was also panicked, "I'm sick? My father is sick? Why are he sick?"
Perhaps in the eyes of some children, parents are strong men and superhumans. They can all be omnipotent, and will never get sick or die. In this way, they can protect and love them forever, work hard for them, be cows and horses, and forever.
Xiahou Mao was silent for a while, "Why are you sick? Of course, after knowing that you set fire to escape..."
"This...Second brother, don't joke, what does this have to do with me? Besides, I didn't let this fire go... I just let it go!" Xiahou Zizang refused to admit it, and subconsciously wanted to leave it alone, "I just came to Uncle Zixiao to play here for two days... Wait until the brothers Boren come back, and then go to Youzhou...
"Go to Youzhou?" Xiahou Mao couldn't help but sneer, "Do you still remember to go to Youzhou?"
"Ah! What's wrong?" Xiahou Zizang seemed to be very strange, "Isn't it?"
『…』 Xiahou Mao couldn't help but sigh again, 『You don't have to go.
"No need to go?" Although Xiahou Zizang was a little confused, he brought some joy in his tone, "Really? You don't need to go to Youzhou anymore? I... can I go back? Haha, that's great! Let's go now!"
Xiahou Zizang stood up, then turned around and left, but after walking two steps, he saw Xiahou Mao sitting quietly, then looking at him with a very strange look. He couldn't help but stop, and then asked carefully: "Second brother... what are you... doing? Are you not going back?"
"No." Xiahou Mao said in a deep voice, then waved his hand, as if he let the guards come in, "You don't have to go anywhere."
The guard walked in, holding a paint plate in his hand, and placed it on the table beside him.
There is a pot of wine and a cup on the lacquer plate.
On the edge of the wine pot, there is a roll of white silk.
"Originally there was a knife..." Xiahou Mao said slowly, "But I think... you shouldn't have the courage to choose which one, so you don't need it. And it's a bit too much, just a little bit more decent... Although you..."
"No!" Xiahou Zizang kicked the table and kicked the table with the icing pan, staring wide, "What are you going to do?! I am Xiahou, I am the son of General Xiahou! I am going to see my father! I want to see my father!!"
The wine pot fell on the ground, and the dark wine poured out and stained it on the ground.
Xiahou Zizang Ru shrank aside with a scorpion.
"See your father?! Do you want to let your father bear another bad reputation for taking on the food?!" Xiahou Mao gritted his teeth and said, "Uncle Miaocai is afraid that you will suffer, so he asked Boren to walk with you, kindly entrust him, and give him all his heart to give him advice. What did you do?! What did you do?! You actually burned Boren's barracks! Burned his food and grass! You are lawless, this is the crime of the chaos of the army! He harmed Boren and implicated Uncle Miaocai!"
『I...I, I...I don't know! I don't know this will happen...』 Xiahou Zizang subconsciously denied, 『I have never commanded the army, I don't understand military law...』
"Don't understand?" Xiahou Mao sneered, "Xiahou clan has gained military merits. You said you don't know. Do you don't talk about those military laws and regulations. It's just that this kind of morality is loyal and filial. You always have to understand it! My father has worked hard to temper you and cleanse you from all over the body. As a result, you act like this? Repay like this?! Uncle Miaocai cherishes you, uncle filial uncle treats you, brothers Boren believe in you, and so on, what are you?! You... you kicked over this table, have you ever thought about how to deal with it? You disregard the reputation of the Xiahou clan and acted recklessly, but have you ever thought about your father and brothers' ethics?! Have you ever thought about it?! Do you have right and wrong in your heart? Are you loyal and filial?!
"I...I..." Xiahou Zizang couldn't answer.
If he said he had thought about it, then he couldn't answer why he had to do it. If he said he had never thought about it, he couldn't answer why he didn't even think about such basic things, the standards of good and evil. So he was used to being silent, and then subconsciously changed the topic and rushed to pull Xiahou Mao, "Second brother! I was wrong, I really know I was wrong! I am willing to go to Youbei! I am willing! Second brother! Really!"
"I only know now..." Xiahou Mao stared at Xiahou Zizang and shook his head, "It's too late... Please, at least in the end, you can really be like Xiahou's children...just go on the road!"
'No! I don't want it!' Xiahou Zizang burst into tears and pulled Xiahou Mao, 'No, no... let go of me! Let go of me! I don't want it, don't... let go, let go...'
The guard stepped forward and pulled Xiahou Zizang away from Xiahou Mao.
Xiahou Mao stood up and reorganized his clothes that were pulled by Xiahou Zizang, then stepped over the blood-stained mark on the ground and walked out of the hall. A violent flapping sound came from behind him, knocking on the floor.
Then, he fell silent.
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Chang'an.
There are two important waters in Chang'an, Jingshui and Weishui.
On the border of Jingwei, Fei Qian and Fei Zhen were watching the two rivers gather together, and then flowed forward without distinction.
"Did you see it?" Fei Qian asked, pointing to the dividing line between Jingwei and Wei.
Fei Zhen looked at it, nodded, "See it!"
Although he was not very clear about why his father brought him here after seeing the theory of merits and demerits he had finally written, this did not prevent Fei Zhen from being happy like a huh who was released from a cage, laughing and joking.
Then this simple happiness became an obvious dividing line in Jingwei...
"So... why?" Fei Qian asked faintly.
"Ah, ha?" Fei Zhen's eyes widened and her mouth grew. "What's the reason?"
Fei Qian laughed and said, "The poem says, "The Jing is turbid and Wei is turbid, and it is turbid." In ancient times, this was the water of Jing and Wei, how clear or turbid?"
Fei Zhen stretched her head and looked at the Jingwei Water again, "Of course, the Jing Water is turbid!"
Fei Qian shook his head, "This is the present... I am asking about the time of ancient times. In ancient times, there was no trace of you and I, even the great man. It was the time when Yanhuang was the beginning... Is the Jing River clear or turbid?"
"This Jingshui... in ancient times..." Fei Zhen's eyes rolled over twice, "It should be clear... Well, because if they were all turbid, you wouldn't ask that, my father..."
Fei Qian was slightly stunned and then laughed, "This is nothing wrong... but is it clear that it actually determines whether Jingwei is clear or not..."
If everything is just to determine the water quality according to Jingwei itself, then the Jinghe River is clear and the Weihe River is turbid.
Jing River is the longest tributary of the Wei River. It travels from northwest to southeast on the Loess Plateau and flows into the Wei River in the middle of the Guanzhong Plain. Jing River cuts through the loess layer like a knife, reaching the hard bedrock under the loess, and most of the river sections are stone riverbeds.
In summer, the upper reaches of the Wei River basin enters the rainy season earlier, and the increase in flow increases silt and sand caused by the increase in flow, so the Jing River is clear and Wei River turbid. When the upper reaches of the Jing River basin also enters the rainy season, both rivers are turbid, but the upper reaches of the Wei River are more precipitated, there is more silt and sand, and the water is more turbid. In winter, both rivers enter the dry season. The geology of the Jing River is long, and the river bed is cut to bedrock, and the bottom texture rolls up when the river flows through is still the Jing River clear and Wei River turbid.
But in the Han Dynasty, it became different.
The Book of Han records that "one stone in Jing River, several buckets of mud are there."
At this time, the Jing River was already turbid and the Wei River was clear.
"The water is muddy and clear, but the amount of mud and sand is just the amount of mud and sand." Fei Qian said to Fei Zhen: "In ancient times, the water plants and vegetation were not damaged by cattle and sheep, so the Jing River was clearer than the Wei River. Now the Jing River is turbid, which is the place upstream of the Jing River. The water and soil are not solid, flowing into the river, so it appears turbid..."
The reason for the turbidity of Jing River is naturally soil erosion, while soil erosion is caused by a large amount of livestock overdrawing the vegetation upstream of Jing River.
In the middle of Emperor Wen of Han, the Xiongnu attacked Beidi County from the Hetao area, broke through Xiaoguan, and shook Guanzhong. Then the Xiongnu soldiers divided into two groups, one along the towering Liupan Mountain and Longshan Mountain, conquered and returned to the Central Palace, and set fire to the fire. The second route plundered the upper reaches of the Jing River, and the cavalry and sentry arrived near the Ganquan Palace. For a moment, the cavalry and sentry were everywhere, and the Han Dynasty sentry was in urgent need of emergency, and the alarms were dozens of times a day.
Although the Han Dynasty finally barely drove away the Huns in this war, the disadvantages of the cavalry were fully demonstrated. Emperor Wen of Han decided to build a horse farm, carry out animal husbandry on a large scale, build 36 gardens, and store 30,000 people to raise horses. By the time Emperor Wu of Han ascended the throne, more than 400,000 horses were retained in the 36 gardens. The upper reaches of the Jing River were one of the main horse farming areas at that time. Such a huge animal husbandry industry quickly overdrawn the aquatic plants and vegetation, and the mud and sand in the upper reaches of the Jing River increased. Therefore, whether it is the Jing River or the Wei River, its essence has not changed, and what has changed is only external factors imposed by people.
"So, is it clear or the Wei River? Is it better if it is clear or if it is turbid? How can it be transformed?" Fei Qian asked slowly again.
Fei Zhen couldn't answer for a moment. Fei Zhen knew that the question his father asked was not just a river, but it was not that simple for him to summarize the appearance in front of him into the concept in his mind.
Fei Qian looked at Fei Zhen with frowning, and knew in his heart that this was a very abstract concept, which made it difficult for Fei Zhen to understand. It was like a child who could understand that one apple plus one apple was equal to two apples, but if one plus one was equal to a few, he might not be able to get the correct answer.
Yes, this is difficult, but it cannot be said that you give up because of the difficulties. From reality to concreteness, and then to concepts, sublimation into "Tao", this is what Chinese culture pursues, just like Kuafu chasing the sun, and he will not stop until death. If there was no ancient Kuafu chasing the sun, there would not be a desire for the starry sky and universe in the future.
Perhaps people who do not have any self-persistence or think flattery are more important will choose answers similar to Fei Qian's answers that are clear and turbid, and so on. But for Fei Zhen, if he becomes such a person, it is equivalent to Fei Qian's failure in his education.
People who go with the flow can never become a good leader.
A monarch without a position will often bring disaster to his subjects. Although a monarch with a position may not bring much good luck, it will eventually be slightly better than a monarch who has no idea. In the feudal dynasty of China, countless emperors, generals and ministers all went from mediocrity to decline. Without exception, once they accepted mediocrity, it would be equivalent to chronic death.
Therefore, Fei Zhen must have his own ideas and choices, and then consider how to do the best from the most basic standpoint, instead of changing the bottom line at any time and floating up and down as she pleases.
One plus one, under universality and objectivity, is equal to two, rather than wanting to make one plus one equal to several.
After all, this world is applicable to universality and objectivity in most cases.
"Whether clear water is better or turbid water is better depends on how it is used." Fei Qian said slowly, "Would you care about whether your own water is clear or turbid?"
Fei Zhen shook her head, and then said with some insight: "Water is not clear and turbid, only people have clear and turbid."
Fei Qian nodded with a smile.
Everything is good or bad, depending on people. Just like humans often praise the mother of rivers, mother of earth, etc., how many people will actually respect the "mother" that they say every day? Mothers deserve to eat toxic excrement, be digging up with holes, and then they have to work hard and not be flooded, otherwise they will be cursed and abused?
"There is such a clear and turbidity, so what about the merits and demerits?" Fei Qian asked again.
『Master...fathers...』 Fei Zhen is like a computer with a large number of programs installed. It seems that she can hear the whistling sound of the fan in her head. Even the output on the display is one card and one card.『Master...fathers...fathers...a...
In the past few days, Fei Zhen can be said to have racked his brains, just like a poor Party B, who changed the policy theory from the first draft 1.0 to the first draft 1.1.7, and then changed it to the final draft 2.0, and then changed it to the final draft 1, Party A's final version 2, final version 1, final version 2, final version 2, final version 2, final version 2, final version II, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise, resolutely not revise
Chapter completed!