Chapter 265: The Chang'an Grain Plant is on Fire (2 in 1)
"Haha, it doesn't have to be like this, it doesn't have to be like this!"
"Ma Cheng is dedicated to repairing the canals. I am really happy, so how can I blame him?
Moreover, I and my tiger and leopard mounted guards often did this when we were in Zheng Guo Canal.
Otherwise, how could he be so skilled..."
"This time I led the tiger and leopard cavalry here in a hurry because I learned about Ma's deeds from Wen He's report.
After learning about it, I couldn't stay any longer and just wanted to come over and see my horse in action.
At first sight, I was not disappointed!
If I can do it on horseback, it will be like... having more wings than a tiger!"
Liu Cheng stepped forward, grabbed Ma Jun, whose face turned red because he learned his true identity, and apologized to him again and again, and said this.
Originally, Liu Cheng wanted to say something to Ma Jun to win Ma Jun, just like Gaozu wins someone.
However, after thinking about it for a while, I didn't expect that there was a famous talent similar to Ma Jun around Liu Bang.
Therefore, when the words came to the lips, they were changed to be even more powerful.
"I, I, I..."
Young Ma Jun, where has he seen such a battle?
He already had a stutter, but Liu Cheng's operation made him even more speechless.
After saying "I" for a while, he simply stopped talking and solemnly saluted Liu Cheng.
Liu Cheng took Ma Jun's hand and said to Ma Jun: "After hearing from Wenhe that Ma Jun is engaged in your affairs, I am really happy!
I am very happy to have such talented people under my command.
I learned from Wen He that Ma's ambition was to study Confucian classics, which I thought was unnecessary.
There are so many good people in this world who are good at studying classics, it is hard to find just one.
On the contrary, there is too little talent when it comes to gewuyidao.
We need an extremely talented person like Ma Zeng to study in this field and contribute to the national economy and people's livelihood.
The investigation of things is not a small road, but a royal road!
You don’t need to look too far, just look at this time. Because of Ma’s suggestions, how many people and material resources have been saved, how many people can benefit, you can know how important it is to study things together!
How rare it is to be able to work on your talent!"
"Ma Zheng, if you look around, what we wear, what we wear, the food we eat, the houses we live in, the ox-carts and carriages we ride on when we go out...aren't these all the result of the investigation of things?
Without these things, how can you imagine what life would be like now?
It seems that men and women are naked, living together like apes.
Collect wild fruits to satisfy your hunger.
Endure the wind and rain...
The study of saints is internal, and the investigation of things is external.
The two complement each other, and neither can do without the other.
The study of studying things has no end.
In the past and now, it has played a great role.
In the future, it will surely shine.
This is what I said, and it will definitely happen.
Ma Zheng, since you have the talent in this area, you don’t have to delve into the Confucian classics where there are already many people. You might as well take advantage of Ma Zhi’s strengths and turn around and come to the study of things.
If you follow the horse's instructions and develop your intelligence, you will become a great talent over time!
This does not mean that you should completely abandon the study of Confucian classics by not letting horses do it, but in the days to come, you should supplement the study of Confucian classics and focus on studying things.
People who don't know etiquette, justice and integrity, and don't know right from wrong, have mastered the powerful art of investigating things.
Not only will it not benefit the country and the people, but it will harm the country..."
After Liu Cheng spoke with great sincerity and full of emotion, Ma Jun, who was originally anxious to speak, now seemed quiet.
Just a pair of eyes, looking at Liu Cheng getting brighter and brighter.
What Liu Cheng said can be said to have hit Ma Jun's heart directly.
In fact, Ma Jun himself was full of entanglements and difficult choices about studying things and classics.
To be fair, Ma Jun has a strong interest in investigating things.
Moreover, he is indeed very talented in these matters and has his own unique opinions on many things.
He enjoyed and loved these very much.
However, in today's general environment, things like investigating things are all heretical.
The right path is to study Confucian classics and seek enlightenment.
It is something that is generally recognized by the world.
Although my family is not rich, my father, who is illiterate, has been frugal and tried every means to educate me. Isn't it because he wants to become an official and get ahead through studying?
Therefore, Ma Jun had no choice but to put a lot of energy into studying.
Although he was smart since he was a child, he really devoted himself to the study of Confucian classics and discovered that there are too many evildoers in the world!
Moreover, studying to become an official depends on more than just studying.
Family background is the most important thing!
Those with good family backgrounds can easily become high officials without any need to study.
He has reached a height that even a person like him cannot reach even if he breaks his legs.
In addition to family background, wealth, various relationships, and various abilities beyond books are also extremely important.
Many of these are things that Ma Jun does not have or is not good at.
Ma Jun, who was from a low background and suffered from a stutter, felt as if a heavy burden had been placed on his body when faced with all this.
Make him feel that he will be unable to bear the burden and will be crushed.
However, the current environment is like this, and Ma Jun has no choice but to work hard and move forward with a heavy load.
He was walking hard on this road that made him feel very painful and saw little hope.
For the rest of my life.
But now, someone has given a different view!
Some people say to themselves that their talents and hobbies in investigating objects are not a plaything to lose one's ambition, nor is it a heresy, but a real and correct path!
It is a great thing that can benefit the people and the country!
It can be compared with the study of classics!
Once you can persist and persevere, you will become a name in history!
The role he played and the achievements he made were no worse than those of the great Confucians!
Ma Jun, who has always been in conflict between studying things and studying, and because of the world, has to suppress his original intention and work hard to study the Confucian classics that he doesn't really like. When he heard such remarks, Ma Jun felt so sad in his heart.
You can imagine how excited it is!
The most important thing is that the person who said these words to him is not a person without knowledge or status.
But Uncle Liu Huang, who is now famous all over the world!
If this were said by an ordinary person, Ma Jun would probably just smile bitterly and continue to carry the burden of studying the classics that he was not good at.
But now, the person who made these shocking remarks is Uncle Liu Huang!
When Ma Jun heard this, he immediately felt that it was very different.
I just felt that the fog in my heart suddenly dissipated completely.
Everyone suddenly became enlightened!
All the entanglements and pains of the past disappeared, and the whole person became extremely light.
After looking at Liu Cheng with bright eyes for a while, he took his hand out of Liu Cheng's and saluted Liu Cheng with great respect.
"The emperor, the emperor's uncle, with one word, ordered, ordered the horse, the horse suddenly became enlightened, and it became clear that if there are any achievements now and in the future, they are all given by the emperor's uncle!
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When Liu Cheng saw this, he was very happy.
His main purpose in what he said just now was to win Ma Jun's heart and win Ma Jun's favor.
But it was indeed inspired.
Coming from a later generation, he has a very profound understanding of the role and significance of the investigation of things.
Historically, Ma Jun spent most of his first half of his life struggling with the study of things and studying Confucianism, and he never devoted his energy to the study of things.
Under such circumstances, it still left such a big name in history.
Now, come here by yourself, clear the doubts in Ma Jun's mind in advance, remove the fog, so that he can put down his worries, study hard on the investigation of things, and he will definitely be able to make more achievements than in history!
Liu Cheng is full of expectations for Ma Jun's possible achievements in the future.
He stretched out his hand to help Ma Jun up and said with a smile: "Ma Jun's achievements from now on are not due to me.
It is the result of your own efforts.
I'm just a guide at best.
Even if I don't say these words now, you will still wake up in the future..."
Liu Cheng stayed here in Feng Yi County for three days.
For three days, Liu Cheng worked with everyone in Longshou Canal.
It attracted many people, rushing to see Uncle Liu Huang.
As for Ma Jun, he treated Liu Cheng with even more respect.
Whenever Liu Cheng's name is mentioned, he must first bow to the west and stand up to treat him.
Such changes made Jia Xu sigh with emotion.
There are real differences between people.
The time that I have been in contact with Ma Jun is not short.
Ma Jun was promoted by himself.
His treatment of Ma Jun was not bad.
As a result, it was not as good as Uncle Liu Huang's mere three days here.
Although Jia Xu was full of emotion about such a thing, he did not feel uncomfortable and did not feel that Ma Jun did something wrong.
Because when the emperor's uncle gave Ma Jun a lesson by the canal, he was by his side and heard everything.
The emperor's uncle's words and the attitude he showed were undoubtedly re-creating for a young man like Ma Jun who came from a rural background!
Ma Jun treated Liu Huangshu with such respect, Jia Xu understood it very well.
The emperor's uncle is the emperor's uncle!
The insights are always unique, yet very reasonable.
He has a broad mind, and many things that many people find difficult to accept are always tolerated by the emperor's uncle, used in the right place, and play the right role.
Not to mention Ma Jun, even Jia Xu, the more he came into contact with Liu Huangshu, the more he admired him.
If Dong Xiangguo also has such magnanimity and insight, wouldn't it be...
When Jia Xu thought of this, his expression couldn't help but change.
Then it slowly eased down.
Fortunately, Dong Xiangguo did not have such magnanimity and insight, otherwise, this big man would probably have the surname Dong soon.
Not long after this emotion lasted in his heart, Jia Xu's complexion changed again, and his whole person seemed nervous...
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The night when Liu Cheng returned from Feng Yi County to the Zheng Guo Canal which was being repaired.
Not too far away from Chang'an, there were dots of firelight flickering.
After the fire started to flicker, a dark figure took advantage of the gap between the fire and the cover of night to quickly leave the scene and sneak away elsewhere.
And the original spark quickly burned and turned into a raging fire!
"It's gone! It's gone!!"
Soon, someone discovered the fire here and screamed.
At the same time, carry a bucket or shovel and go to the fire place.
As the fire spread and people shouted, more people discovered the fire here!
After discovering that there was a fire here, these people immediately panicked!
Because the place where the fire was burning was not an ordinary place, but a place where grain was stored in Chang'an!
More than half of the grain and grass materials used for work-replacement activities are stored here!
Now, there is a fire here, how can this not make these people panic?
Whether it was Dong Zhuo's nephew Dong Huang who was ordered to lead some soldiers and horses to live here and guard the food and grass, or the soldiers and horses he led, as well as the surrounding villagers who saw the light of the fire, everyone was going crazy!
Food!
This is food!
Used to distribute food to the villagers who worked in front of them!
That’s it now!!
"Fight the fire! Put out the fire!!"
Dong Huang looked at the blazing fire and the food burning in the blazing fire, his eyes turned red!
A large number of soldiers, as well as the people who came spontaneously, rushed towards the fire regardless of the burning pain caused by the blazing flames.
Pour water in various containers onto the fire.
There were many people who kept using shovels to scoop up sand and cover the burning materials.
However, compared to the blazing flames, these are really just a drop in the bucket!
Although the flames were contained to a certain extent, it only slightly hindered the progress of the fire.
As time went by, the fire inevitably burned.
It illuminates an area of more than ten miles!
Thick smoke billowed up, and the air was filled with the strong smell of burned food.
Some people were buried in the flames.
Some villagers who came to work looked at the food that was devoured by the fire and couldn't help crying...
What this fire burns is not food at all, but their hope and their lives!
Because of Uncle Liu Huang, the government took out so much food for the first time to provide relief to them. However, the food was burned by fire!
After burning so much food at once, even if the government wants to continue to rescue them, it will be unable to do so...
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"What?!"
In Chang'an City, Dong Zhuo was woken up by Li Ru while he was sleeping. After hearing the news, he couldn't help but be shocked!
He wanted to stand up, but his increasingly fat body did not allow him to do so.
The two ladies from the palace who were sleeping on the same bed with him quickly helped him from left to right.
It doesn’t matter whether he is wearing clothes or not, or whether Li Ru will see him...
