Chapter 3: The Hazy Valley
Located in a low depression between two tall and majestic peaks, the Hazy Valley is relatively private, and because the mountains are too high for the sun to shine in the valley, it still feels a little cool, and it is definitely a great place to escape the heat in summer.
There was a "squeak", and the door under the plaque was opened by the grass. "Ah Piao, look at who I brought here, you can't guess if you scratch your head." Xiaocao pretended to say mysteriously, but no one paid attention to her.
The first thing that comes into view is a small, spotlessly clean courtyard, very empty, and there are not even any superfluous furnishings. In the middle of the courtyard was a small wooden house, thirty or forty square meters, the wooden house was very exquisite, not like it was shoddy, at least the wooden planks exposed to the outside of the wooden house were planed smooth. There is also a small terrace on the chalet.
"Xiaocao, you built this wooden house?" Green House wondered who built this exquisite cabin.
Xiaocao shook her head, and pointed to a young man who was meditating in the far corner, "It's him, Tang Apiao!" â
The boy turned his head and grinned at the Green Club, not as enthusiastic as he had imagined. This is a sunny boy of about twenty-three or four-year-old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and wears a neat and clean coarse cloth clothes. He didn't give Midori a very special feeling, but the way he was thinking about something on a plate attracted Midori to it.
"You stinky Ah Piao, I usually see your saliva foaming flying around, but today I saw a beautiful woman pretending to be reserved?" Xiaocao saw that Ah Piao didn't look very enthusiastic, and she was a little angry. As he spoke, he followed the green club over.
Green Hui leaned closer and carefully studied what Ah Piao was doing. Hey, isn't this one the wooden chess? The ancients that I saw on TV played Go a lot, and although Xiangqi also appeared very early, it was not as popular as Black and White Go, and the origin of Xiangqi has always been a bit controversial. I didn't expect this teenager to be interested in this as well. It turns out that he is playing chess with himself.
Midori bent down and moved a red piece on the board. The young man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked urgently, "Will you go down?" â
"Well, I'm not only a good player, but I'm also a master." Green Hui succeeded in fooling the teenager. For it was evident from his ecstatic look that he believed.
He quickly brought a small stool from the side and patted the dust on it, "Sit down, you're welcome, I'm missing an opponent to play chess." Ah Piao swept away the haze just now, and even laughed as if he had a temperature.
"You two, hmph, I'll cook." Seeing that they bullied her for not being able to play chess, Xiaocao left her to dry and ran to cook angrily.
In this way, the two did not say a word until the whole game was finished. The winner was quickly divided, and Green Hui won. Originally, Green Hui was not a master, but he usually liked the next game or two when he had nothing to do. Tang Apiao is probably because he has just learned and his chess skills have yet to grow.
Piao stretched and stood up. Although he lost, he still couldn't hide his joy on his face. Because I will no longer have to play chess with my left brain and right brain.
"Haha, I can't imagine that you are a little girl at a young age, but your chess skills are very good, disrespectful and disrespectful." Ah Piao shook his hands.
Green Hui almost laughed, it seems that this kid really thinks she is a master, this feeling is very fluttering, like walking in the clouds. This kid seems to be a good fool.
As soon as Lu Hui wanted to say something, Xiaocao shouted at them to go in and eat. It is said that people who play chess have no concept of time, no, Lu Hui raised his head, the black sky was low, and the bright stars followed, and it turned out that it was already night.
Lu Hui followed Ah Piao into the cabin, and suddenly his eyes lit up, almost all the furniture in it was wooden, including wooden kangs, round tables, stools, rocking chairs, etc., all of them, and the workmanship was good.
Autumn nights are starting to get a little cooler, and this chalet keeps you warm. The lights are bright, the rice is fragrant, and it is very warm. It makes people feel for a moment that the daytime is just a dream.
Turning his head, Lu Hui smiled at Ah Piao and said, "You did all this?" That's pretty good, wow! â
In the face of the sudden compliment, Ah Piao coughed a little embarrassed. "Well, that's just so!"
Xiaocao next to him glanced at Ah Piao and shouted: "He is usually not like this, usually his arrogant flame will burn to the valley next door." â
Lu Hui was a little puzzled, looking like he was watching a good show with Erlang's legs crossed.
At this time, Ah Piao unconsciously bumped into Xiaocao and signaled her not to be rude.
Xiaocao is even more energetic now, "I'm right, don't you often say that this small valley traps you, the eagle who is about to fly high, you know astronomy and geography, comparable to Zhuge Liang's reincarnation, in this Chongye Dynasty that is a hero of knowledge, I am afraid that there will be a great achievement as soon as you come out of the mountain." â
Ah Piao's head was getting lower and lower, and he was already embarrassed to raise it again. Unexpectedly, Xiaocao Hula told him all the troubles at once, and he only blamed him for being too arrogant in front of her. This is a lot of injustice, and you will kill yourself.
Listening to the flirting and scolding of the little couple in disguise, Green Hui suddenly felt very warm. If so, stay away from vendetta and fall asleep listening to the sound of quarrels every day, she knows enough in this life.
It's just that the Chongye Dynasty mentioned in their words dragged her back to reality, and she became more and more curious. This dynasty is not any dynasty in Chinese history. So in what way does it store zĂ i?
We have heard the idea of parallel time and space before, but there may be different spaces at the same time in history. It sounds quite unreliable, but even such an unreliable thing as crossing has been touched by her, what is impossible.
At dinner, Xiaocao introduced the identity of the Green Hui to Ah Piao. Green Hui specifically mentioned what happened during the day, as well as the Chongye Dynasty. Finally, in the patchwork of Xiaocao and Ah Piao, I got to know a rough idea.
The Chongye Dynasty was a "prosperous" dynasty, and the strong smell of books could even rival the famous hundred schools of thought in history. Here worship literature rather than martial arts, and compete in the world with knowledge.
The most representative schools are the Zaiwu School in Dongli (mainly studying ancient physics), the Langhua School in Nanzhi (mainly studying ancient chemistry), the Manshu School in Xiyue (mainly studying ancient mathematics), the Guya School in Beiyi (mainly studying ancient languages) and Yu Liang's Guiyuan School (comprehensive research).
The Chongye Dynasty spanned the entire Mia Continent, and the places of Dongli, Nanzhi, Xixun, and Beiyi were also entrenched in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions of the Mia Continent as they were named, and Yu Liang was surrounded by them in the center.
Of course, in addition to those few representative schools, there are some other small schools that are constantly emerging, striving to be among the few schools. It's just that the five major factions have formed a trend of resistance for a long time, and it is no longer a matter of a day or two to shake their position.
It is reasonable to save zĂ i, but there will inevitably be advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, natural selection, other small schools covet the position of the five schools from time to time, in order not to be replaced by rising stars, the five schools can only strive for perfection and continue to work hard to reach the peak. To measure the length of the short, you must have a ruler, and the Guozijian came into being!
Guozijian is an institution composed of some more knowledgeable people elected by the people to supervise the various schools, and they are responsible for recording some of the contributions made by the various university schools and primary schools to the whole country, especially for some natural disasters**, the national economy and people's livelihood and other major events (such as which school contributed more in a plague disaster, etc.), in their opinion, only the great contribution has the meaning of survival, and knowledge will eventually serve the people of Li.
Every five years, they would convene a general meeting to report on the results of the recording, and the schools would engage in a heated debate on the results, and the Guozijian would make decisions based on the debates, and the final winning school would receive a large amount of money allocated by the Guozijian (this fund is not equivalent to the funds allocated by the state to the localities, but was additionally rewarded by the Guozijian), and the school could use the funds for further academic research and for the economic development of the region under their rule. Economically, the armed forces will inevitably be strengthened, and as the military power grows stronger day by day, it will threaten the dominant position of the central government. However, this era is also an era when all localities can raise soldiers privately, and even support soldiers for themselves.
The emperors, of course, were aware of these potential threats, and successive emperors tried to abolish these regulations in order to maintain their rule. However, it is not easy to abolish it. This regulation is inherited from the ancestors, and it has been in existence since the establishment of the Chongye Dynasty and has a history of hundreds of years.
For the winning school, not only can it win the funds allocated by the Guozijian to develop the economy and strengthen the armament, but it can also lead the academic cause of the entire Chongye Dynasty in the next five years, and students all over the world will have to learn the academic knowledge of the school in these years, which is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to promote their school to the world, and it is a supreme honor.
The result is so tempting that the schools of thought can only use all their skills to stand out and come out on top. It is precisely because of the competition between various schools of thought that they almost crowd out and suppress each other. The more attractive the result, the bloodier the process.
However, although it is said to be fair competition, almost all of them are won by the Guya faction, and there may be a few times when the Manshu faction and the Guiyuan faction win, but it is only a flash in the pan, and the occasional victory really can't do anything big, and the main position of the quaint faction is still unshakeable.
There are a lot of objective reasons for this, a long, long time ago, the ancients mainly went to school to learn the Four Books and Five Classics and ancient Chinese and so on, plus the study of history and philosophy is also included in the ancient language, which can be described as all-encompassing, while some other disciplines such as ancient mathematics are only auxiliary teaching, and physics and so on have not even been compiled into the textbooks, but there are some people in the folk who spontaneously study this subject.
Moreover, many ancients were prejudiced, believing that mathematics, physics and other disciplines were only sideways compared to ancient languages, and that it was okay to study them in their spare time, but they should never become the leading cause of ancient academic research. This is also an important reason why the other four schools of thought have not been able to compete with the Quaya school.
In ancient times, this was the case, nothing was forbidden, novelty was forbidden, the more novel it was, the more it was rejected, and the more ancient it was, the more respected.
With a solid and large mass base, the Guya School has always dominated the academic research of the entire Chongye Dynasty. Even if several other schools of thought gradually developed later, they could not shake its foundation for a while. However, as long as time passes, the achievements of other schools will surely catch up with the quaint school, which is the general trend of social development.
Take the current Guiyuan faction as an example, the Guiyuan faction advocates taking the golden mean, taking the strengths of each school and then comprehensively seeking development, as modern people, we all know that there is no distinction between good and bad academics, only by integrating the strengths of each family can we really seek development, and the proposition of the Guiyuan faction has indeed brought great improvement to the life of Yu Liang, and the contribution to the national economy and people's livelihood is better year by year. For the gradual emergence of the Guiyuan faction, the fears and worries of the quaint faction are getting worse year by year.
The Chongye Dynasty is already more "prosperous" than all the ancient Chinese dynasties, at least it still has this kind of scene of various schools competing for glory, which has never been seen in China's 5,000-year history. In ancient China, there were not even these schools of thought that specialized in the study of a certain discipline, and the research of various disciplines did not form a systematic research system like the Chongye Dynasty. Moreover, for such a commendation of the best school, it can be said that the Chongye Dynasty's admiration for scholarship has reached its peak.
It is also strange to say that the development of this Chongye Dynasty is very close to the Ming Dynasty in ancient China. Some of the things that appeared during the Ming Dynasty in China also happened to appear in the Chongye Dynasty. Moreover, the geographical and climatic characteristics of the entire Mia continent are also very similar to those of China during the Ming Dynasty. Could it be that these two dynasties are two different spaces in the same parallel time and space, and even the pace of development is the same?
Lu Hui suddenly remembered Cai Ye, and Tang Ah Piao told her that Cai Ye was the head of Guozijian. In a dynasty that admired knowledge so much, he had the country and the people to escort him, and the consequences of offending him can be imagined.
Does this also mean that as soon as she gets out of this hazy valley, she will fall into Cai Ye's net and live a life of outlaw from now on?
Until now, LVHUI still doesn't know what kind of hatred there is between himself and Cai Ye.
Regarding Danqing Palace, it turned out that this was a killer organization exclusive to the Chongye Dynasty, and the scale was very large, with a total of several hundred to a thousand people in the entire Danqing Palace, specializing in some assassination missions, usually directly under the orders of the supreme leader, that is, the emperor. Of course, as long as they can use it, it is also their duty to defend the royal family, quell the rebellion, etc.
The killer's vocation is absolute obedience, and the killer is the most afraid of having his own thoughts. Therefore, Danqing Palace has always been restricted from receiving intellectual baptism by the Chongye Dynasty, and no one can study. In order to train them like puppets, so that they can be ruined by the dynasty.
Green Hui suddenly felt how ridiculous this must be, without the inculcation of knowledge, there would be no human thoughts. The human mind cannot be stifled by anything, because it exists objectively. Besides, what a humiliation it is to respect knowledge so much here but not let Danqing Palace have access to it.
This night, Green Hui tossed and turned, and it was difficult to sleep. During the day, he wanders in front of the ghost gate, and at night he is so comfortable and away from the hustle and bustle. It was the first day she had traveled to this Chongye dynasty. What fate awaits her next? Is it fate or calamity?
Can't withstand the fatigue of the day, the green club finally fell asleep.