Chapter Forty-Eight: Don't Be a Hero

In fact, life is constantly going through one difficulty after another, and sometimes it is inevitable to take care of one or the other, and you can only choose the most beneficial way to do it after weighing it.

Before Li Bing and his son excavated Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Plain, now known as the "Land of Abundance", was a place where floods and droughts were very severe in ancient times. In this famous poem, Li Bai's sighs and tragic conditions of "silkworms and fishes, how blank is the founding of the country" and "people or adult fish and turtles" are the true portrayal of that era.

The Dujiangyan water conservancy project makes full use of the local geographical conditions of high northwest and low southeast, according to the special topography, water vein, and water potential at the mouth of the river, takes advantage of the situation, diverts water without dams, and irrigates artesians, so that embankments, water distribution, flood discharge, sediment discharge, and flow control are interdependent and co-existent, and a common system ensures that the comprehensive benefits of flood control, irrigation, water transportation, and social water use are fully utilized. After the completion of Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Plain is fertile for thousands of miles, "water and drought from people, do not know famine, there is no famine year, called Tianfu"

As a scholar in Shu if you don't know the role of Dujiangyan in water conservancy, you will be ridiculed, this is the pride of the people in Shu, but also the backbone of the scholar in Shu, now the water conservancy officials of the Great Song Dynasty, sixty percent of them are from Shuzhong, Li Bing's achievements are not only glorious through the ages, but also blessed the scholars in Shu.

The surging Minjiang River has plagued the Shuzhong Plain for tens of thousands of years, and only after human beings have opened their wisdom, they have turned harm into treasure by Li Bing and his sons, and wisdom is undoubtedly the supreme magic weapon of human beings to defeat nature and transform nature.

Xiaolin himself felt an extreme lack of wisdom, in the argument between Hua Niang and Yun Zheng. He reluctantly retreated, for he found that he could not understand what they were saying.

Why did the Tangut people buy silk? Why do you need a horse to sell a jar of wine? Why did the war horses of the Tangut people suddenly become worthless after having Su Hexiang, and why did the silk sold in the mainland not very expensive become sky-high when it arrived in the Tangut? When will a piece of silk be exchanged for a horse and two sheep?

"You don't go to Silver Star and the city to join in the fun, just because you look like this bun, you can't be taken away by Li Yuanhao's dog when you go there, that guy is a well-known pervert. You can't go! ”

Yun Zheng didn't care how Hua Niang begged, he just didn't want to take her to Yinxing and City to make a fortune, but he reluctantly agreed to her request to buy shares, as a machismo, Yun Zheng hates to use things like beauty tricks, those Xixia people have long been supported by the merchants of the Han family and are as shrewd as monkeys, beauty tricks? It is estimated that the Xixia people like it the most, and if the beauty who swallows you doesn't help you, you can't do anything at all.

"You just wait in Chengdu Mansion and wait for the money. I went with Xiaolin, and if I could, I would even like to play the role of a robber. Actually, I like to be a robber the most. This is the real no-cost business.

Xiaolin, let's be a robber in Xixia and not violate the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, right? ”

Yun Zheng turned around and found that Xiaolin, who had listened very seriously just now, had disappeared.

"I like the process of making money, I don't like money!" The righteous words that the flower girl said.

"Give me all your money, you don't need it, I need money urgently, it's not enough!" Yun Zheng naturally stretched out his hand and asked Hua Niang for money. A person who likes the process of struggle does not need to take so much money.

Xiaolin leaned against the bottom of the tree house, looking blankly at the blue sky, there was still no sign of rain in Chengdu Mansion, although there was clear water flowing in the ditch, and it didn't rain. The acres of land on the heights are still dry.

It is a disadvantage to be friends with smart people, not for anything else. There are some jokes that people can understand, and it is a big loss if you don't understand the meaning of them, because Yun Zheng and Hua Niang laughed in the house again.

Xiaolin's ears are very pointed, although they are ten zhang away, he can still vaguely hear them telling the story of the cow and the camel, I don't know what's so funny about this, the camel uses the hump to store water to drink? Cows have four stomachs, eat violently during the day, and then spit out the grass in the stomach at night and ruminate? These are not funny, they have nothing to do with Li Yuanhao, why did Hua Niang say the three words Li Yuanhao, and the two of them would laugh like crazy people?

Xiaolin now has a thorough understanding of one thing, it is a mistake for the senior brother to let him spy on Yun Zheng, he has no ability to monitor him, if he just monitors Yun Zheng's whereabouts, it is very simple, but if he wants to monitor what is going on in his head, he finds that he can't do anything.

Xiao Lin's hands trembled, these hands can tear apart tigers and leopards, can hold strong bows, and can kill enemies outside the country, but today, he feels deeply helpless, and he is useless in places that cannot be reached by force.

"What we said is simple, in fact, they are all flowers in the mirror, the moon in the water, I don't have the ability to turn these things into reality, unless Xiaolin helps me, not only Xiaolin, but also Cang'er them, Han Niu, and monkeys all need it, only if we form a whole, can we make money in Silver Star and City, in the final analysis, my execution is not enough."

Yun Zheng's flowers came out of the room, and Xiao Lin, who was still self-pitying just now, suddenly felt much better, Master said that life is destined to be useful in the world, whether it is a good person or a bad person, this passage Xiao Lin felt that he was about to forget it, and he didn't expect it to appear clearly in his mind at this time.

"It's still useful," Xiaolin laughed at himself, and when he raised his head again, he saw Su Shi lying on the platform of the tree house looking down at him.

"Can you teach us light exercises?" Su Shi looked at Xiaolin with expectation,

"What is light work? Who sued you? ”

"Yun Er said, he said that your senior brother's method of jumping over the wall and crossing the ridge when he walked from home is light work, can you teach me?" Su Shi climbed down awkwardly from the wooden house and continued to ask.

Xiaolin shook his head and said, "Follow Yun University's skills well, and when you learn the skills well, you will find that martial arts is a very useless skill." ”

"If you don't want to teach, just say it clearly, why insult martial arts? The way of civil and military affairs is a relaxation, it is the principle of heaven, just like the yin and yang of heaven and earth, the alternation of the sun and the moon, one is indispensable, the Book of Changes says, the only yang is not born, the lonely yin is not long, this is the wisdom of the saying, our Great Song Dynasty is because there are too few people who can do martial arts, too many people who are literate and literate, so they will be bullied by others, if there are 10,000 heroes like you, as long as the army is formed, it is easy to reply to my old view of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

In ancient times, Huo Qubing led an army of 10,000 to step on the mountains and stones, what a hero, but there is no such hero in the world today,"

Hearing Su Shi say this, Xiaolin suddenly thought about taking the school entrance examination, and said with a smile: "Isn't Di Hanchen a hero?" He was brave and good at fighting, acted as a pioneer many times, led the soldiers to seize the pass, successively conquered Jintang City, Youzhou and other places, burned tens of thousands of grain and grass in Western Xia, "collected 2,300 accounts, and 5,700 livestock", and commanded the soldiers to repair the city in the strategic Qiaozi Valley, and built Zhao'an, Fenglin, Xinzhai, and Dalang forts, "all of which are key to thieves".

He wears a cloaked hair in every battle, wears a bronze mask, takes the lead, invincible, Di Qing has made a lot of military exploits, and his reputation is spread far and wide, can't such a person be regarded as a hero? ”

Di Qing's achievements were widely publicized by the Great Song Dynasty, and the name of "General Mian Ni" in the Great Song Dynasty was truly a household name, and Su Shi should have heard of other people's names.

Unexpectedly, Su Shi shook his head and said: "Yun Da said, put Di Qing at the border, he is an invincible tiger, but it's a pity that the court tied up a tiger with an iron chain and put it at the door of the house as a guard dog.

It is the dragon that should be churning in the sea, the tiger should roar and make the beasts panic, and the barking of the dog can only attract the dog stick, and his fate has been determined and cannot be changed. ”

Xiaolin frowned and said unhappily: "Di Hanchen is still a regimental training envoy in Huizhou, and the commander of the deputy department of the Ma Army, and he is a watchdog there, and the kid is talking nonsense." ”

Su Shi clapped his hands and smiled: "Shouldn't such a fierce general be sent to Yan'an Road to fight with Xixia, or transferred to Shanxi to guard against the invasion of the Liao, why is it placed in Huizhou, you can understand it by looking at where Huizhou is, it is by the sea, what is the use of a fierce general going to a comfortable place, is it to catch a thief?" ”

The depression that had just dissipated in Xiaolin's chest was aroused by Su Shi's words, this kid was right, Di Qing, the tiger, was indeed placed in Gentle Township.

"Su Shi must not talk nonsense, how can you be a yellow-mouthed son who can be honest with the court, Di Hanchen has contributed to the country, and there is nothing wrong with enjoying a few years of Qingfu now."

Seeing that Su Shi was arguing with Xiaolin, Yun Zheng hurriedly came out to scold.

"What is there to scold, what the child said is not false at all, Gentle Township is the hero's mound, as long as the hero does not go to the battlefield for a few years, he will not fight, Liu Bei also said that he has not fought for three years and his spleen is born, and a regimental training will become a waste after a few years." Hua Niang hugged Su Shi, retorted indignantly, and after refuting it, she also whispered to encourage Su Shi to tell the truth like this in the future, tell the truth, and be a good man.

"Are you trying to kill this child, his tutor is already square, and the road in the future is destined to be very difficult, I plan to let him learn more tactfully, so that he will have a lot less disasters, you encourage him like this, don't you want him to open his mouth and say everything, in that way, won't he become the most taboo big mouth in officialdom, once he becomes such a person, no matter how talented he is, the road in the future will be bumpy and abnormal, and it will attract the jealousy of villains.

The people around me don't ask him to make contributions, I just wish him a long life, the children of the Yun family are not heroes, nor are they ministers, as long as everyone can spend their lives happily, I will be satisfied. ”