In late spring in March, there was continuous drizzle, and it was warm and cold at first.
Outside Shifang County, in the countryside meandering by the Jianshui River and the Shiting River, grass smoke is low on both sides.
The mournful and melodious cries of Zigui turn the trees on the mountains green, reminding us that another year of spring plowing has arrived.
Along the streets, young men can be seen everywhere, wielding whips and helping plows, shouting at cattle to turn over the soil. Elderly husbands and peasant women are hunched over the green seedlings, protecting the hope of having enough to eat this year.
Many young children are not afraid of the cold spring water at all.
With bare feet, sometimes they dig wild vegetables on the mist-like field ridges, sometimes they jump into small puddles to catch loaches. While their clothes and faces are covered with mud, they also sow laughter and laughter in people's hearts.
It was already the second year of Jianxing, 224 AD.
Thanks to the Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's seclusion and seclusion of the people, and the supervision of the prefectures and counties to farm and cultivate the valleys, the sorrowful clouds of the past defeat in the Battle of Yiling and the city-wide decoration of the late Emperor Liu Bei have been quietly buried in people's memories as time goes by.
The fertile Bashu is once again full of vitality.
Hidden in the mulberry forest in the Zheng Family Garden, where a gurgling stream is, Zheng Pu is wearing a green bamboo hat and a green raincoat, holding his summer hat in one hand and fishing with a fishing rod in the other.
Looking from a distance, it seems like an elegant scene with no need to return despite the slanting wind and drizzle.
Looking closer, I saw that he was frowning slightly, his eyes were half closed, and his face was full of thought.
This kind of scene is no longer strange to the people of Zheng Family Villa.
Everyone knows that since Erlang Zheng's death, his temperament has become more elegant and he is no longer frivolous as before. He especially likes to be alone and meditate.
In fact, it is because his soul comes from more than a thousand years later.
The time when my soul passed away was the serious illness I suffered more than a year ago.
After experiencing the surprises, panic and confusion when he first arrived, he reassured himself that he would be content with his arrival and figured out what year it was, but he hesitated about the future.
It's not that I'm worried about the safety of Shifang Zheng's family.
Since his elder brother Zheng Yan served as the magistrate of Hande County in Zitong County, he has been diligent and fair in his administration. He is loved by officials and people, and his official reputation is very good. As long as he perseveres, if he can reach two thousand shi in the future, it will be easy to inherit the Zheng family's official position.
It’s not about worrying about food and clothing in the future.
The Zheng family has lived in Sichuan for a long time, farming and studying. They are a large family in Shifang County and have a rich family business.
Even before Zheng Du's death, he let his eldest son succeed his deceased brother and divided the Zheng family's property. Zheng Pu still had several hectares of fertile land, hundreds of mulberry trees and hundreds of servants and tenants, and his mother's family had the advantage of expelling merchants on his behalf.
, it can be said that there is surplus silk inside and there is wealth outside.
What really makes him undecided is how to choose his future, knowing the trajectory of history.
As the soul of future generations, after thousands of years of Chinese civilization inheritance, we know that the law of dynasty change that will inevitably divide if it unites for a long time, and unite if it divides for a long time, is the wheel of history rolling forward. Whether the Three Kingdoms stand in triplicate or the three families return to Jin, it is customary in our cognition.
We must accept that this is the general trend of history and the final conclusion.
Everything has no possibility of change or distortion.
Whether you admire Wei Wu’s demeanor in whipping Yu Nei, or you admire the fortitude of the late master who never let others down, or you are curious about the perfect transformation of “having a son like Sun Zhongmou” and “Sun Shiwan”. From the bottom of your heart, you are used to it.
Treat it as a kind of conversation material, just for the real nature of laughing and cursing after dinner.
But now, my identity has suddenly changed into a "participant" in this history, and it is inevitable that there will be a psychological gap.
In other words, he is eager to try and look forward and backward.
Men have heroic dreams in their hearts.
Zheng Pu also yearned to be a hero who turned things around during the turbulent years.
For example, relying on the family background of a noble family and the support of his father's reputation to enter the official career, he used more than a thousand years of experience to fight for the restoration of the Shu Kingdom to the Han Dynasty, hoping to "solve the king's affairs in the world and win fame before and after his death."
But his reason also reminded him of a very painful fact.
The biggest reason for the demise of the Shu Han Dynasty was that after the three pillars of the world were established, Cao Wei dominated the country with seven percent of the country's power.
Zhuge Liang, who can be said to be an all-rounder, cannot reverse the pros and cons; in his previous life, he was just an ordinary person who worked all day long for a few taels of silver. Can a miracle be born just by being familiar with the historical trajectory?
Perhaps, wishful thinking is just a joke in exchange for the mantis trying to block the car!
And if you choose to sit back and watch historical progress, you can look forward to the future.
For example, if he could follow the example of his late father Zheng Du, who lived in seclusion and ignored the world, supported his widowed mother in old age, raised his young sister, Hao Shou, studied scriptures and studied in order to gain fame, and drifted with the tide until Shu was destroyed and Wei was conquered, he might be able to keep his family status intact.
In the nine-grade Zhongzheng system, they are divided into middle grades.
If you feel that life is boring, you can invite all your friends to sit down and meet close friends in the mountains and rivers; you can have a study with a green lantern and a long scroll, and write about the world with pen and ink; or you can have a garden with flowers, birds, insects and fish, and spend your whole life under a raincoat. The joy of traveling in the mountains and rivers is to be greedy for food and drink.
If you want, you can make the sound of silk and bamboo, and then use your belongings at home to buy a few more beautiful little maids, and read at night with red sleeves to add fragrance.
It can add honor to the family, it can fulfill the righteousness of filial piety and brotherhood, and it can enjoy a leisurely life below. Although it is mediocre, it can also put its hands behind its hands and raise its head to the sky when meeting people, and say sanctimoniously, "The smoke and fire in the world are the most soothing to ordinary people's hearts."
It is valuable and shows the style of a hermit.
Wouldn’t it be beautiful to live like this?
As descendants of Yan and Huang, why should we become accomplices in the human tragedy of "white bones exposed in the wild and no roosters crowing for thousands of miles" because of a dispute over orthodoxy in the dust of history?
In fact, when he learned about the success of his late lord Liu Bei last year, Zheng Pu was inclined to choose the path of becoming a salted fish for a small rich man.
When he was studying history in his previous life, he felt that the brilliance of the history of the Three Kingdoms lay in the soul-stirring poems written by Wei Wu, the First Lord, Sun Ce, Xun Yu, Zhou Yu, Guan Yu, Zhuge Wuhou and others.
But now, many heroes and heroes have passed away!
If ten years later, after Zhuge Wuhou has hated Wuzhangyuan, the rest of the history of the Three Kingdoms will have many heroes, but he will no longer be in the mood to read it.
Not only because the pearls and jade are in front.
What’s more, the history of the post-Three Kingdoms period was a tug-of-war with a foreseeable outcome.
Zheng Pu secretly thought that he was nineteen years old and started as a junior official according to the official career customs. Calculating the time it took for him to go from a humble position to being qualified to make plans for government affairs and military expeditions, perhaps Prime Minister Zhuge would have passed away by then.
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Anyone familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms knows that without Prime Minister Zhuge of the Shu Han Dynasty, recovering the Han Dynasty has almost become a luxury!
It’s not just the decline of talent and the decline of national strength.
What's more, the successors such as Jiang Wan, Fei Yi and Jiang Wei do not have the prestige of Prime Minister Zhuge!
For example, when Jiang Wan was in charge of the government, he formulated a strategy of sending troops to retake the three eastern counties and open up the Jingzhou battlefield, echoing the strategy of Wu State. However, the imperial court generally held objections, and it was not implemented until his death.
When Fei Yi was in charge (with Dong Yun as deputy), he tended to rest with the people, and the number of troops in each Northern Expedition was only more than 10,000.
After Jiang Wei succeeded to the throne as general, the opposition to the Northern Expedition within Shu Han became even more intense.
For example, Zhang Yi repeatedly argued with Jiang Wei in court meetings, and Qiao Zhou even wrote the "Lun on Qiu Guo", which advocated that Shu should accept the destiny.
Because ever since the late Lord Liu Bei established Shu, the Shu Han people, who seemed to be working together, have been undercurrents.
The root cause is the increasingly acute conflict between foreign scholars and local powerful people in Yizhou.
This point must start with the four forces that constitute the Shu Han regime.
