"What do you think, father?" Sima Yi asked in a deep voice.
He is young, but he has a stability that other teenagers don't have.
Sima Fang said: "If you want to go, you can go and have a look. Just think of it as a trip. If you don't like it, come back. You are still young and there will be opportunities in the future."
Sima Fang also knew his eldest son very well. If he had not recognized Wang Ding very much, he would never have invited Sima Yi to Chang'an now.
This was also the first time I met Sima Fang. Sima Lang told so many things about Wang Ding in his letter.
Even he himself is full of curiosity about Wang Ding now. If he were not old, he would also like to visit Chang'an.
Sima Yi said: "I'll go to Chang'an to have a look."
Even though Sima Yi is young and calm, he is also curious.
As Sima Fang said, just treat it as a trip to Chang'an.
He really wanted to think about what a person who was only three years older than him, but was respected by his elder brother, was really capable of.
When he was still thinking of giving birth a few years earlier, Wang Ding, who was really only born three years earlier than him, is now a chariot and cavalry general.
Sima Yi believed that if he had been born three years earlier, he would never have been able to reach the stage of Wang Ding.
If he wants to become a chariot general of the Han Dynasty, Sima Yi estimates that he needs to be born ten years earlier.
Sima Yi was also a decisive person. Since he decided to go to Chang'an, he packed up his clothes that day, took a few guards with him, and set off directly from Hanoi towards Chang'an.
However, when Sima Yi was on the road, he was not in a hurry. Every time he reached a city, he would stop and rest, at least for one night, and at most for two or three days.
Along the way, Sima Yi was also observing.
In these years to avoid chaos, Sima Yi almost always stayed at home and never traveled far.
Regarding the current situation in the Han Dynasty, Sima Yi also heard about it from other people's mouths.
What he hears from other people's mouths is naturally incomparable to what he sees with his own eyes.
Sima Yi observed very carefully.
Even if he encounters merchants and pedestrians on the road, he will quietly observe and figure out their living conditions.
Whether you are rich or poor, whether you are playing or on a journey.
What kind of business do merchants do, how much profit do they make, and whether they encounter robbers on the road.
It took Sima Yi nearly a month to finally arrive in Chang'an.
In order to avoid Dong Zhuo, the Sima family left Luoyang, first went to Hongnong, and then returned to Hanoi.
It was already five years ago.
When he left Luoyang, Sima Yi had already seen the decline of Luoyang, and along the way he could see the corpses of the people exposed in the wilderness.
But this time, his journey was more peaceful than before.
He didn't see any corpses on the road, and he didn't encounter any robbers.
Sima Yi has never seen even refugees.
It really surprised him.
Wang Ding's territory is in Guanzhong, mainly the land of Sanfu. The three counties of Feng Yi, Fufeng, and Jingzhao are completely under Wang Ding's control. However, the four counties of Hongnong in Hanoi, Henan, and Hedong are in Luoyang.
The influence is very limited.
Sima Yi visited Luoyang and found it increasingly dilapidated.
But at this moment, standing in Chang'an City, he seemed to have returned to Luoyang City five years ago.
It is more prosperous than Hanoi where he has been in the past few years, and even more prosperous than Luoyang five years ago.
Cars and horses rustled...
Sima Yi, who was young and rich, was walking on Baihu Street. It was not called Baihu Street before, but was named after Wang Ding.
Sima Yi didn’t know what Chang’an was like in the past.
But he has seen the changes in Luoyang after Dong Zhuo came.
Dong Zhuo also stayed in Chang'an for two years.
Sima Yi could guess what Dong Zhuo would do to Chang'an at that time.
The vendors on the street could tell at a glance that the handsome Sima Yi must be a wealthy young man. When Sima Yi walked past them, the vendors' voices would get louder, hoping to attract Sima Yi's attention.
Visit their business.
Most of the hawkers on the street were small vendors, and the things they sold were small items. Sima Yi was not interested, he was looking at these vendors.
Walking through Baihu Street, Sima Yi didn't see a rogue, nor did he see any officials exploiting traders.
Whether it was Luoyang in the past or Hanoi where he had lived for several years, Sima Yi always met rogues every time he went out.
On the way from Hanoi to Chang'an, he passed through eight counties, and the scoundrels never disappeared.
But now, in Chang'an City, he actually didn't see a single rogue.
Sima Yi: Very unreasonable.
(Everything in front of you is an illusion.)
How good is the public security in Chang'an City?
In the past, when Cao Cao was the captain of the northern part of Luoyang, the security of Luoyang City was not necessarily like this.
Sima Yi was not in a hurry to see his brother, so he took his guards and wandered around Chang'an.
Tired of walking, I randomly found a restaurant.
While eating Chang'an delicacies, I listened to the chats of the diners around me.
Occasionally hearing someone talking about Wang Ding, Sima Yi listened more seriously.
It's just that he was disappointed. He didn't hear anything bad about Wang Ding from these diners. They all praised Wang Ding and were grateful to Wang Ding.
"I heard that a second elementary school will be opened soon. Would you like to send your children there?"
"Go, you must go. Even if you have to collect money, I will send my child there this time." Another man said.
The elementary school run by Cui Jun has now been accepted by the people of Chang'an City.
Not only because the school provides free meals, but also because the children who attend the school can now help their parents count when they go home.
The purpose of elementary education is to enable children to read and develop their intelligence. Wang Ding definitely wants these children to be able to master simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Most ordinary people think literacy is not important, but simple arithmetic can help them understand how much they have earned and how much they have lost today.
And after returning from elementary school, their children may be able to work as accountants in the future.
In their eyes, the accountant is already a very great person. At least he can live a good life and marry a beautiful wife in the future.
Those who can come to the restaurant will have good conditions at home.
Even if their children do not go to elementary school, they will be taught by another private school teacher.
However, now that they have seen the knowledge taught in the elementary school, they are more willing to send their children to the elementary school to study instead of hiring other private teachers.
Most people's concepts are gradually changing.
In the first period of elementary school, a thousand children were enrolled. After school, they would communicate with other children in the city.
It makes those children who have not entered elementary school very envious.
The more I talked about it, the children who met the age requirements but failed to enter school began to beg their parents to send them to elementary school after returning home.
"Checkout."
Sima Yi put down his chopsticks and came out of the restaurant.