Chapter 0389: People Similar to Guangwu (Part 1)

Ruyin County

In summer, although there were several rains, they all stopped as soon as they fell, and the official roads were scorching hot, with very few pedestrians.

Three thousand cavalrymen waded across the river directly, with only their chariots and infantry passing over the wooden bridge. The crystal clear water droplets shimmered and spread far away, startling the lush water grass with the chirping of white egrets, flapping their wings and soaring high.

Ye Qing created a "long carriage", which is a movable house. It only drives in half a circle and can be considered an open-air office. At this moment, she sits upright, meticulously reading documents, while the frames of the Empress Dowager and Ning Ji follow behind the long carriage, only a few meters apart.

Traveling eastward along the Yingshui River, we arrived at Ruyin Commandery, which is located between eastern and western Henan. It was recaptured from Cao Cao's hands this spring and was governed by the prefect Xun You. He was appointed as a political and military commander because Ruyin Commandery borders Jiangdong and needs to guard against Sun Jian. Now, we also need to add Yuan Shu, who has just entered Jingbei.

Now when tens of thousands of troops patrol and return, they will cross the Yingshui River again.

At this moment, Ye Qing was watching official documents in the long carriage, and with a large amount of paper production, bamboo slips gradually withdrew from the stage, which greatly reduced the workload for people.

Zhou, Qian, and Xiao have conspired to rebel in Ruyin County, and General Zhang has led cavalry to sweep them away

Along the way, there were also several local tyrants rebelling, and two branch sects of the Taiping Sect using spells to resist. Qianqian led a team of sorcerers to eliminate them

The Taiping Sect can only keep track of the accounts first, but there aren't enough of these few companies jumping out. It can only be said that they have made some progress. "Ye Qing took out a few copies to read, all in small regular script, densely packed and meticulously written. After thinking for a moment, he criticized them and said," I will arrange for someone to investigate whose secret hands are behind these rebellious companies. This order

After finishing the batch, Ye Qing felt a bit dull. He put down his pen and looked around. Under the vast sky, there was a continuous field with newly built water channels. It looked pretty good, but the water in Yingshui was only a hundred steps wide and relatively shallow.

Seeing this, Ye Qing couldn't help but feel a little worried!

In the back of the Luan carriage, the Empress Dowager paid attention to Ye Qing's movements and followed her gaze. With her eyes, she also saw the dryness of the water flow.

The Empress Dowager remembered the memorials of the past two years, including the severe droughts in Guanxi, Central Plains, Hebei, and Yuzhou.

The world has been suffering from a long drought, and hundreds of rivers are shallow. This is not a good thing.

At this moment, Ning Ji, dressed in Danhong palace attire, was lying at the carved window watching. She felt that there were many people, many people... even the river seemed crowded.

Seeing Ye Qing busy preparing military and political documents, the little girl asked Qianqian in a gentle voice, "Miss Mi, is this the Ying River? It's already summer, why does she only have this little water? Is she sick

Originally there was a summer flood, but the weather was dry, so the water dried up! "Qianqian picked up her small body and held it in her arms, soft and tender, and couldn't help but laugh happily." Ning Ji has good observation skills, but Ying Shui is not sick, she's just lonely

Yingshui felt lonely... Ye Qing, who went back to work from a distance, heard a split breath and paused his brush, leaving large ink stains on the blue paper.

Qianqian glared at her husband... I don't know if this is the new green paper produced by the paper mill. Do you want five wen per piece!

The little girl smiled shyly as she was praised, thinking that this sister was really good... She decided not to disturb her anymore, but sometimes there were new things and she couldn't help but ask. The child's curiosity was always endless.

Or perhaps without a younger sister, Qianqian really likes this clever and polite little girl, patiently answering her various questions.

Of course, Sister Mi is addressed by Qianqian, and compared to a certain imperial uncle who likes to be an uncle, women tend to be called younger.

The nickname 'Aunt Mi' is terrible... Qianqian thought to herself, then glared at Ye Qing.

Ye Qing looked confused and sometimes couldn't understand what women were thinking. Of course, this title was only given to Liu Bei after he became a member of the royal family, strictly speaking, a family, and was limited to the inside. Externally, he was still a servant, princess, and empress dowager.

On both sides of the road are vast fields, crisscrossed by a network of water channels. A type of wheel shaped water wheel pumps water from the Yingshui River, and the rushing river water rushes along the main channel... The water is very shallow, strangely flowing for more than ten miles without stopping.

The empress dowager sat quietly, mostly silent and with dark eyes.

It's not difficult, is it? "Occasionally, she snapped out of her clear childlike voice and followed her daughter's gaze to look around. When she saw some special scenery, the Empress Dowager would chat and say something.

My mood gradually brightened up.

At the same time, she gradually noticed more and turned her gaze to the canal several times.

The Empress Dowager has been in power before, and when she asked more in-depth questions, Qianqian explained in more detail. At this moment, she glanced at the charming Empress Dowager and thought to herself that she was indeed a mother daughter duo with strong observation skills. Soon, she asked the key point.

This water is really confusing for the grieving family. "The Empress Dowager pointed her finger towards the endless blue fields outside the car window. The water channels in the fields were shallow but endless, and at a glance, the fields were covered in lush green crops, with little sign of wilting or yellowing.

On the way out of Henan Yin, the grieving family witnessed firsthand the drought in Guannei and the decline of agriculture. However, when they arrived in Yuzhou, the runoff of various rivers decreased significantly and rainfall was scarce, which did not affect agriculture. Why is this

In order to govern the court, she had to learn a lot of knowledge. The Empress Dowager knew that since ancient times, people have lived by flowing water, and even flat land without rivers is dry land, which cannot support many people... Simply put, the taxes she can receive from paddy fields and dry fields are also very different.

Yuzhou has a complete water channel network, but many towns have not been built along the Ying River, and are even far away from the river.

The artificial river channel brought by the Ying River should have stopped flowing long ago, and the water channels in the fields do not seem to lack water, and even many species have rice.

Most of the elderly and young pedestrians outside the car window have good faces and moist lips... It is completely impossible to see the widespread drought and water shortage in Guanxi, Zhongyuan, and Hebei at this time.

If the weather is not dry, locust eggs will be difficult to survive, and locust plagues will disappear.

This water is very abnormal, "the Empress Dowager took the initiative to narrow down her question and asked in a voice that couldn't help but become smaller:" Ai Jia... can you know the reason

Qianqian glanced at her husband and was given instructions. Her eyes narrowed with a smile, shining with a divine aura: "Of course, it's possible. My husband is entrusted with the mandate of heaven, so farming is peaceful

The Empress Dowager was first taken aback, raised her phoenix eyebrows, and thought this was a reasonable explanation. She nodded in agreement and said, "The sky is dry and the ground is cracked, and the phoenix cannot descend

This sentence literally means' If the earth and sky are dry places, the phoenix will not land and inhabit '- but conversely, it means' when the phoenix lands and inhabits, it will naturally choose land without drought', metaphorically describing why she came to Yuzhou.

The Empress Dowager has a full style and is quite interesting.

Ye Qing lifted his head from the pile of copywriting and glanced at the woman's straight waist. His mouth curved slightly, but he closed his eyes and didn't look.

In Chuanlin's notes, the brilliance flashes continuously, presenting the source correlation of this sentence - "Huainanzi: Ben Jing Xun", Weishu.

Things have become even more interesting - it should be noted that "Weishu" and "Jingshu" are opposite. During the Han Dynasty, alchemists and Confucian scholars relied on the meaning of modern texts to promote the books of talismans, auspicious symbols, and divination. The latitude and longitude were taken from the vertical and horizontal lines of the woven fabric, metaphorically referring to order and structure.

The study of the present world and the study of qi, like the latitude and longitude lines, constitute the Han people's view of heaven and man. Even women at the level of empress dowager and empress dowager deeply believe in them, as evidenced by the Han people's reverence for the mandate of heaven, the Five Elements, and the Book of Changes.

Ye Qing continued to criticize a military grain requisition document and casually responded with the following sentence: "The beast with claws, teeth, horns, and a distance, so it was captured... Liu An's words do have some truth

This sentence literally means "(because the phoenix does not descend) fierce and vicious birds with claws, sharp teeth, long horns, and long toes roam everywhere, hunting and killing creatures" - but Ye Qing's response to the Empress Dowager's previous sentence is to metaphorically describe other states and lords who, due to their lack of virtue, cannot obtain the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager let out a soft "hey" sound. At that time, both civil and martial arts were emphasized, and local customs were quite beautiful. She had been studying literature since childhood and could understand this metaphor.

She couldn't help but look at the man in surprise and say, 'Have you read' Huainanzi '? Uh, sorry...'

Feeling that this question was a bit derogatory, she added, "The Ai family had no other books to read when they were young, only this Wei Shu 'Huainanzi'. But do you remember that Lu Shangshu was a true master of Confucian classics and even taught the maidservant this

There is a reason why the Empress Dowager is so puzzled - books are rare in this world, and many scholars only study one or a few books in their lifetime. Lu Zhi specifically taught two books, "The Book of Documents" and "The Book of Rites". Normally, he would not teach students other books, especially the one compiled by Prince Liu An of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, which was called the "Weishu" and would not enter the eyes of orthodox Confucian scholars.

Ye Qing kept writing and explained, "My teacher hasn't taught this before. Two years ago, I went through various libraries in Luoyang in Beijing and memorized it once... I remember the total number was 204563 volumes, but unfortunately I had to flip through the bamboo slips one by one. Time was too tight and I couldn't finish memorizing them all

Unfortunately, I haven't finished memorizing it yet

The Empress Dowager widened her eyes and said, "I have heard that Zhao Ji, the daughter of Cai Yong's family, is capable of doing this. I heard that this woman is proficient in reading and memorizing the four thousand volumes of books in her family

The Empress Dowager wanted to ask, 'I don't know how much I've memorized,' but when she spoke, she swallowed it.

The current atmosphere, the Empress Dowager is still quite satisfied, respectful, and not too distant. Many times, it makes the Empress Dowager feel dazed - in a royal household, how can there be such a "home" atmosphere?

She doesn't want to destroy this.

It's truly fate that has been bestowed upon me, "sighed the Empress Dowager once again. She couldn't help but recall Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of this dynasty, who was also renowned for his profound knowledge in the study of classics and political affairs.

During the reign of Wang Mang, a large number of classic books were burned. Considering that the official collection of books in the Western Han Dynasty was scattered and lost, while there were many folk collections, Liu Xiu himself came from a scholar background, rode oxen to conquer the world, and was fond of reading. During the war, whenever he went to a place, he would first visit Confucian scholars and seek missing texts to fill in the gaps

Luoyang proclaimed himself emperor and issued a decree to collect books from all over the world. A large number of old classics and new books were gathered in the "Shishi", "Lantai", "Renshou Pavilion", and "Dongguan" libraries, which were stacked and abundant, with a massive collection of books and quantities far exceeding those of the Western Han Dynasty.

Liu Xiu not only loved reading himself, but also encouraged people from all over the world to read. He built the "Taixue" in Luoyang, the highest academic institution, and established a doctoral program in the Five Classics. He also advocated the establishment of official schools in local prefectures and counties, and encouraged private schools such as Xiang, Xu, Xue, Xiao, and Shu. As a result, literary events like the Yingchuan Literary Society continued to thrive.

Liu Xiu himself is a learned scholar and often leads by example, personally teaching the classics to his courtiers and having deep conversations with them until late at night.

Due to his exceptional abilities in both civil and martial arts, Liu Xiu was not afraid of his subordinates' talents and had a gentle temperament. During his 33 year reign, he hardly ever had any conflicts with important officials.

Except for Cen Peng, who was assassinated by the enemy and died early, the other 28 generals of Yuntai all had a good ending, which can be said to have met their masters at the right time - this kind of loyalty is rare among emperors of all dynasties, and the founding monarch is unparalleled.

It is said that 'not a family, not entering the same house', and his chosen empress Yin Lihua is a stunning and magnanimous woman. When they know each other in the slightest detail, their hardships and emotions are intertwined throughout their lives.

The same surname Liu, the same period of two hundred years, compared to the split between Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang and Empress Lv and his wife, Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Ying Bu, the three great generals of the Han Dynasty, all had no good endings, which is a huge contrast.

And at this moment, not far away, Ye Qing, who was instructing the official documents and occasionally looking back and laughing a few words, gave her this feeling.