After Liu Chang rewarded Liu Wu, he hurried to the Tang Palace to attend the banquet. Guan A was the last among the sages to get married. At this banquet, the sages also discussed how to hold the wedding. Now that they are old
Now that we are older, we no longer need to obey the arrangements of our elders, but have to make our own decisions.
They drank wine and made up their mind that they would be lively and lively, singing, dancing and laughing all the way.
This is a good opportunity to gather talents. However, it is still difficult to get all the talents to attend. Not to mention others, Zhou Shengzhi and Mr. Fan will definitely not be able to come back. Zhou Shengzhi still has
Liu Chang's graffiti is looking for body poison everywhere, while Fan and his wife are watching monkeys showing their teeth on the Japanese island.
They all have a bright future.
After the celebration, Liu Chang, accompanied by Lu Lu, returned to the palace again. While walking on the road, Liu Chang suddenly let out a long sigh, looked at Lu Lu, and said with emotion: "I never thought before that I would really do this without you.
Nothing is convenient. From now on, you'd better follow me and never leave."
Hearing His Majesty's sincere words, Lu Lu felt warm in his heart. Although His Majesty always extorted money from him, beat himself up when he was angry, blamed himself for things that didn't go well, and always made himself bear the bad reputation, but
Putting all this aside, Your Majesty is still very kind to me.
At the very least, His Majesty regards himself as his absolute confidant and must take him with him wherever he goes.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. No matter where you go, I will always be by your side, even if it's mountains of swords and seas of fire."
Liu Chang patted Lu Lu on the shoulder happily, "That's good."
"By the way, Lu, my money has been a bit tight recently... mainly because I just rewarded Liu Wu, and now I am very poor and penniless."
Lu Lu patted his chest, Your Majesty just asked, how much did you reward him?"
"Fifty gold!"
Fifty pieces of gold is nothing to Lu Lu. Lu Lu's family property, Yanfeng and Wuding Tower, has been opened to South Vietnam. Various industries are getting bigger and bigger with the trend of business development. He
In a textile factory in Xiting Kingdom, the tax paid to Xiting every year accounts for 20% of the entire country's tax revenue.
Lu Lu probably didn't know how much money he had now. Anyway, everyone in Chang'an said that when it was completed, he could use gold to build a mansion for himself. In the early Han Dynasty, the abuse of gold was very common. They used a large amount of gold to bury themselves with each other.
Create all kinds of luxury goods yourself.
This resulted in China being in a state of severe lack of gold, and gold also changed from real gold to brass...
Lu Lu waved his hand and borrowed it directly. Liu Chang was even more moved and held Lu Lu's hand tightly. "With a wise minister like you, what else do I need to worry about? Even if I send troops to attack Shendu, I am not afraid. As long as I
As long as you are here, I can defeat all poisons in my body!"
If other ministers heard these words, they would definitely be extremely excited and salute, but Lu Lu felt a little harsh when he heard it. He asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty is not going to raid my house and beat me to death, right?"
"
"We are brothers. What's yours is mine. How could I raid your home?"
"That's right. Why does Your Majesty need to raid the house? Your Majesty rewards the Marquis of Huaiyin every year. The Marquis of Huaiyin's house is worse than the one that was quarreled. Your Majesty really doesn't need to raid the house. You can just take it."
"By the way, I haven't seen the teacher for several days, and he also disappeared. Didn't the teacher drag him outside the city and bury him?"
"He went to pick up his wife... It seems that Huaiyin Hou is with Qu Nihou. There are some old dogs in the court. They can't see that Huaiyin Hou and Qu Nihou are on good terms. They are talking about them. They are worried about Zhun Yin all day long.
Hou colluded with Qu Nihou to rebel..."
"Are these old dogs really out of business?"
Liu Chang was a little angry, and then he asked: "Speaking of the old dog, I suddenly remembered that Xia Wuqi is back?"
"Not yet. It is said that the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials he cultivated elsewhere have changed, so he decided to change his strategy, divide the plantations according to special products, send his disciples to plant them on a large scale, and reduce the price of the medicinal materials..."
"Well...if he comes back, remember to tell me."
Lu Lu pursed his lips. He felt that this old man
There is a high probability that he is going to die outside.
"By the way, send someone to protect that guy Wu so that they don't trouble him again."
"only."
Liu Wu came to the gate of Taixue and watched the scholars coming in and out. He was filled with emotions. It turns out that he hated reading the most and even took pleasure in teasing the scholars. When he was young, he ordered that his father's
Several diners beat each other until one of them died.
When the guests refused, he asked the soldiers to hang him on a tree and beat them with whips. Later, his father found out about this and wanted to beat him severely, but his mother cried and begged for mercy, so he was punished for him and was whipped.
Liu Wu had never experienced the feeling of being whipped. Until these four years of hard labor, whenever he worked a little slower, the whip would hit him. He didn’t know how many times he had been whipped. If it weren’t for his special status, he would have been whipped every time he was sick.
Zhongdu was healed, and he died long ago while doing corvée work.
When he was first whipped, Liu Wu just thought about knocking back the whips. From then on, he just kept silent. Until the third year, when he stroked the healed wounds on his body at night, he felt inexplicably guilty in his heart.
, it turns out that this is what it feels like to be bullied and whipped.
All the past events made him regretful.
He has experienced a lot and seen a lot. He saw that some people were frozen to death for doing corvee work. Although the temples were subsidized and officials were punished, the subsidies were not as good as the money Liu Wu spent on a trip. He saw
Some people volunteered to do corvee labor because they had no food to eat.
There are people who have committed crimes and served as corvees for five years. Their whole bodies have become like skeletons, as numb as a dead person, completely empty, unable to talk or negotiate. They will only obey the orders of officials and continue to do things until they are dead.
Liu Wu felt unprecedented fear at that moment, and for the first time he understood the power of criminal law.
Now, he stood in front of the Imperial Academy, looking at those enthusiastic people walking together happily and laughing. There were no officials holding whips, no ruthless soldiers, no wailing civilians, and no people falling to the ground.
Prisoner, what a wonderful place this is.
Liu Wu took a deep breath and walked into Taixue surrounded by several soldiers.
The Taixue is very large, with a scale that exceeds four square meters. It is probably the largest building in Chang'an City besides the imperial palace. There is a Northern Military Academy in the suburbs, which may surpass it, but there are no others.
The scholars inside seemed to be busy, and there were no officials to receive them. Liu Wu had experienced a lot, and was not afraid of unfamiliar places. He directly looked for someone and asked where to report.
Under the guidance of the enthusiastic students, he quickly found the place to report.
The person in charge of registering new students is a gray-haired old man. His hearing is not very good. He has to repeat questions two or three times in one sentence. If Liu Wu's original character was true, he would definitely be humiliated. But at this moment, Liu Wu is very skillful.
Talk to him, Liu Wu knows how to communicate with such people.
Because there were many similar people among his original companions.
After the old man learned Liu Wu's identity, he couldn't help being surprised. He raised his head and looked at Liu Wu, and said a few words without invitation. Liu Wu nodded with a wry smile.
The soldier could not hear the old man's words clearly, but Liu Wu heard them clearly.
The old man took out a few wooden signs and placed them in front of Liu Wu. These are all courses that can be chosen. The classification is very complicated, including Mohism, Huang Lao, and Confucianism. Of course, each one has detailed time divisions, and
There are music, military, yin and yang, five elements, medicine, agriculture...
Liu Wu originally wanted to get a farmer's sign, but he suddenly noticed a brand-new wooden sign beside him. He picked it up and looked at it, "What is this for?"
On that wooden sign, there were two words written, "Kanyu"
The old man said vaguely: "The Kanyu family... look up at the sky, observe the geography, Luo, Sun, Xuan, burial, shape..."
"That's it."
The old man was stunned and then said: "There aren't many people...it's hard to learn..."
"No problem, that's it."
Soon, Liu Wu found the teaching place. It was indeed relatively remote and close to the courtyard wall. He stood at the door and looked inside. There were only three or four students inside.
Student, there is also a middle-aged man with a trembling beard. The middle-aged man is very short in stature, his eyebrows are almost connected together, but his beard is very long. His beard keeps trembling when he talks.
The man was talking hard when he suddenly saw someone standing outside the door. He stopped talking and walked up hurriedly, grabbing Liu Wu's hand and saying, "Well done, well done. I'm just talking about this."
The beauty, come and listen, listen!"
Several students in the classroom suddenly woke up, raised their heads, and looked at the door, their eyes full of sadness. Good guy, another unlucky guy has been caught.
Before Liu Wu could speak, he was dragged directly into the classroom by the man. The man was not tall but very strong. The soldiers took a step forward suspiciously, and the man looked at the soldiers again, "Oh,
There are so many people, come, come, you also come in and listen!”
He went forward to catch the soldier again, but the soldier was stunned.
"No... I'm here to protect you... I'm not a student..."
"No problem, no problem, you can better protect yourself if you come in. And who said only students can learn? Come on, everyone!"
The teacher enthusiastically pulled them in, with a smile on his face. He stood on top again and looked at the people below, with some relief in his eyes.
It's great, it's the first time there are so many people in Kanyu's church!
As soon as Liu Wu sat down, the student next to him sighed in a low voice, "Jun, you shouldn't come near this place. I just came here to study. When he found out, he dragged him in and refused to let me go. I will be here in the future."
I'll never go anywhere near this place again..."
"Why would he do this?"
"This Mr. Luo is also a strange person in Taixue. He picks up whoever he sees. A few days ago, a servant brought food to their young master. Because he got lost and came here, he dragged him in and studied for two hours.
Kanyu, when he heard that the servant was about to cry, Lord Luo let him go..."
"The Kanyu family was quite famous in three or four hundred years ago, but now, who is still studying them? For astronomy, there is the Five Elements family, for construction, there is the Mohist family, for geography, there is the Yin-Yang family. Which one is not more famous than the Kanyu family?
?Which one is not better than them?"
Moreover, if you study the Mohist family, you can enter Shang Fang, and if you study the Yin Yang family and the Five Elements family, you can also go to Shaofu. What do you think you can do if you study the Kanyu family? Where can you go? How about doing corvee work??"
Liu Wu frowned, "Corvee service is also very important. When it comes to running a country, how can we do without corvee service?"
The student was stunned and ignored him.
Suddenly so many people came, and the teacher was very happy. He danced and talked about it. What he was talking about was geography. Their geography was completely different from the geography of the Yin-Yang family. The geography of the Yin-Yang family was
The division of regions, the understanding of the world, etc.
And their geography is based on Feng Shui, where they can break ground, where they can be buried, where they can build a city, and where they can dig ditches... The teacher was very serious about what he said. He even took out several maps and explained them in detail.
, "Actually, the Five Elements Masters learned from us. They said that warehouses should be built on dry land..."
This is because warehouse contents can easily cause fires and can be extremely harmful..."
The man's mouth was dry as he spoke, but the students below just lowered their heads and were distracted. They were not here to learn this, and they had no interest in it.
Only Liu Wu frowned and listened carefully to his analysis.
He then talked about the project again, and the example he used happened to be Longxi. He used the map of Longxi to explain the Feng Shui of various places in Longxi, and then talked about his own cleanup plan. If it were made by him, how would he repair the roads?
Wait, the more Liu Wu listened, the more it made sense.
The teacher talked for more than two hours, and the soldiers who accompanied Liu Wu were in a daze. This was too eloquent. Seeing that everyone could no longer hold on, the teacher just finished without saying anything.
courses, and then persuade the students one by one.
"Remember to come in the future. Our course is also very good... In fact, there are many things you can learn. By observing astronomy, you can know when to start construction, and you can know how to avoid disasters. By observing geography, you can..."
Tai students are still talented, even though they were forcibly brought here, even though they feel very sad
He was unhappy, but at least when facing the teacher, he managed to smile and nodded in agreement.
There is still respect, but it's hard to say whether we will come again next time.
The teacher finally looked at Liu Wu, held his hand, and said the same thing. "You have to come here more often in the future, our school..."
"Teacher... I only chose this course for my purpose."
Liu Wu took out the wooden sign. However, it seems that this certificate of study is no longer needed. The teacher doesn't care whether you have the wooden sign or not. Once you come, you can't leave.
When he saw the wooden sign in Liu Wu's hand, the teacher was stunned. He hurriedly took the wooden sign and looked at it carefully. He looked at it for a long time, and then asked uncertainly: "Did you choose this course?"
class??"
"Yes, I am very interested in this and chose this course specifically."
"Then you will come again in the future?"
"I may have to stay at Taixue for two years, and I will definitely come to study with you during these two years..."
The teacher's expression changed from surprise to surprise, then to sadness, and finally to surprise again. His expression changed very quickly and he adjusted quickly.
"Okay, okay...I thought the Kanyu family was going to end in my hands..."
"My name is Luo Rong, and I am the contemporary leader of the Kanyu family."
Liu Wu paid a serious visit to him and said, "Student Liu Wu is the Prince of Chu. He made mistakes before, but now he has corrected them. He will definitely study hard in the future."
"Prince Chu??"
"Okay, okay... In this world, everyone will make mistakes. The most important thing is to be able to correct your mistakes. From now on, you will be my disciple..."
"First disciple??Teacher...How many people are there in the Kanyu family now?"
Luo Rong was silent for a moment and said bitterly: "There are many people out there, but they have all gone astray, because many of their learnings have collided with other sects, so they have given up and started to specialize in tombology with less competition.
Specially selecting favorable burial places for nobles..."
"But they have given up on the astronomy, geography, and engineering that we regard as fundamental... I am the only one who is still studying these."
Liu Wu heard a deep sadness in the teacher's mouth.
There are still many schools of thought today, some are prospering and some are declining, but he has never seen the ones that are truly on the verge of extinction. No wonder he is always eager to attract everyone to join in and learn...
"Teacher, don't worry. Many people despise engineering, but they don't know that it is the basis for governing the country. I have not seen the knowledge of Mohism, but I have seen the people in charge of the corvee. Many of them have not
I’m not skilled and don’t know how to save effort..."
"Such a useful school of thought will certainly never die out."
"Hahaha, okay... just wait a moment..."
Luo Dao dug out a lot of books. Most of these books were bamboo slips. They were dated at first glance. He handed all these books to Liu Wu and said, "Go and read these. These are the classics of our school."
, you must go back and see more..."
"only."
"You'll come tomorrow, right?"
"Teacher...I will definitely come..."
"well..."
When Liu Wu left here, the two soldiers had already picked up the thick bamboo slips. Their expressions were not very good. They would rather go to Xiting Kingdom to fight than listen to the old man's verbosity here. This is too much.
Damn it, I have to try to rotate with someone else tomorrow.
Liu Wu frowned, still thinking about the knowledge that Teacher Cai just said. He had been to those places in Longxi personally. After thinking about the teacher's analysis, it seemed that it was really the same thing...
As for Luo Rong, after finishing today's class, he left here with a smile. Along the way, almost all the Tai students who knew him would hide their faces and avoid them, because these people had promised him to attend the class again, but they
None of them went.
This situation is very embarrassing. Every time a Taipei student goes there and sees the teacher sitting alone, and then greets them with a smile, they have no choice but to sit down and listen. They are really embarrassed to leave.
open...
Luo Rong ignored these dishonest people and returned to the mansion happily. He couldn't help but take out his best wine, then sat in the study and gulped down the wine.
He laughed very loudly, laughed for a long time, and then lowered his head and began to cry.