July is hot and dry.

The official road in the southeastern suburbs of Luoyang, which should have been lively, is now bleak.

This is not to say that there are fewer dignitaries and nobles on the road, but that the word 'lively' cannot be supported by dignitaries alone. You must know that this is an agrarian society, so even in the suburbs of Luoyang, Beijing, if there are no peasants working in the fertile fields on the roadside, and if there are no plainly dressed peasant women carrying clay pots to deliver food, it will definitely make people feel that something is wrong.

And if all the peasants in sight can only sit under the bare trees and sigh, it is not just a matter of something wrong.

"Plague of locusts!" Don't talk about other people, even Lu Fan, who had just gotten engaged, shook his head again and again. "Fortunately, it's in Luoyang."

"Brother Ziheng, what do you say?" Liu Bei on the side was puzzled. "Wherever there is a plague of locusts, right? I still remember that a few years ago, Hebei was first hit by a great drought, and then by a large number of locusts. Although I was young at that scene, I still have palpitations when I think about it...... You don't know, there is a big mulberry tree in front of our house, and I don't know how old it is, and it was gnawed clean overnight......"

"And then?" Lu Fan asked. "What happens after the mulberry tree is gnawed?"

"After that, of course, the mulberry tree sprouted new shoots and survived!" Liu Bei said with emotion. "Our villagers say that the mulberry tree that grows in front of my house is miraculous, not to mention that it is five feet high, and when the branches and leaves are flourishing, it looks like a car cover from a distance......

"I'm not asking you mulberry trees." Lu Fan was speechless. "Are there any bandits after the locust plague? Are there homeless? Can there be big families encroaching on middle-class homes? Can there be a popular uprising? ”

Liu Bei's face was dazed.

"How old was he then?" Gongsun Yue laughed. "How is it possible to know these things?"

"Brother Yue is not much older than me!" Liu Bei said angrily. "If I don't remember, do you remember?"

"Of course I remember." Gongsun Yue replied proudly. "You are from a small family, but I am from the Gongsun family. I still remember that it was only the previous year, when there was a great drought, and the clan built a ditch under the persuasion of my aunt, and led Luan water to irrigate the fields left and right, so that there was still a lot of harvest that year. And when the locust plague came in the second year, there were no locusts in our local area, but a group flew over from the side of Youbeiping, and then my aunt warned the clan, and finally the clan led people to line up to kill, and even taught people to eat locusts......"

"Locust-eating?" Liu Bei's face was shocked.

"I remember it too!" Han Dang also suddenly interjected. "In the city of the day, each family shared several catties of locusts, and although they only ate it for a few days, the taste was indeed unforgettable...... However, eating locusts is always better than eating people, it seems that when eating locusts, I heard people talk about your Zhuo County, it is said that there are already hungry people there who have begun to eat people, and then after two months, in the autumn, there are homeless people who have returned to their hometowns and lost their land in Yuyang to rebel, and the county has also sent reinforcements to crusade. ”

"That's what I mean by 'lucky.'" Lu Fan took advantage of the situation and shook his head. "Lingzhi's side is where Brother Xun's Gongsun clan is based, so the Gongsun family will never sit idly by and watch Lingzhi suffer, and other places may not be so lucky, which has homeless people, thieves, cannibalism, and even military disasters."

"I understand what Brother Ziheng means." Liu Bei looked at the surrounding situation, rode on the horse and sighed. "After all, this Henan is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, not to mention that the Son of Heaven will not sit idly by and watch the disaster in the capital, even the dignitaries and nobles around Luoyang are categorically not allowed to cause chaos around their manors, so although these victims have lost a season of harvest, they will not starve to death...... This is indeed more 'fortunate' than elsewhere. ”

"And there's terrain barriers." Lu Fan continued to explain. "After all, there are Yellow Mountains in the north and Songshan in the south, and locusts will be locked in the territory of Yin in Henan Province. If it really starts from Hebei and the Central Plains, I'm afraid it will be another catastrophe! ”

This did make sense, so everyone bowed their heads.

And just when everyone was talking and unconsciously came to the foot of the Qi Mountain, at the intersection, several servants of the Gongsun clan who were waiting here quickly greeted them, and then stopped a few people.

It turned out that Lu Zhi came down from the mountain a few days ago and lived in the courtyard of the Gongsun brothers at the foot of the mountain...... Specifically, it was in the courtyard vacated after Gongsun Chan left, and then the lectures from time to time were also placed there.

And the servants waiting here were actually instructed by Lu Zhi, saying that they would let Gongsun Xun and the others go directly to the courtyard to find him after they came back!

"Did the teacher actually live at the bottom of the mountain?" Gongsun Xun, who had never spoken, frowned slightly, to be honest, he really didn't want to get along with Lu Zhi day and night, because this person really made him feel frightened.

Lu Fan glanced at Gongsun Xun, and hurriedly reminded him quietly: "It's a good thing that the teacher can be around to teach from time to time. ”

Gongsun Xun immediately straightened up: "That's right, let's go quickly, don't let Lu Shi wait for a long time." ”

However, after Lu Zhi met a few disciples, he didn't say anything else, but just asked the reactions of the high-ranking Confucian officials over there in Runan, and after hearing that all the people who received the letter were firm, he directly let everyone rest. And he himself officially announced that he would borrow Gongsun Zhan's small courtyard to bathe, change clothes and fast for three days, and then go to the book again!

Gongsun Xun actually wanted to ask the other party about the locust plague, but after all, he was a little timid, so he had to retreat sullenly.

However, this depression did not last long, and it was only in the evening of the second day that a good news suddenly came - Jia Chao was back!

In other words, Jia Chao was sent home by Gongsun Xun to deliver the letter.

After all, as soon as the news of Lu Zhi's return to Beijing came last time, Gongsun Xun learned that his three brothers had inadvertently fallen into a dispute between modern and ancient texts...... I don't mean anything else, I just want to ask the other party if there is any impression of the Xiping Stone Scripture, what is the result? And then who will win and who will lose in the struggle between ancient and modern texts, and how should they deal with it? And between Liu Kuan and Lu Zhi, how should I deal with myself?

In any case, you old man can't watch his son 'study hard behind closed doors' in Luoyang...... Read, read, read a Ph.D., what does that look like?

Of course, the traffic level is too poor in these years, and this Lu Zhi came too fast and too fierce, Gongsun Xun returned here in the afternoon to finish writing the letter, and then asked Jia Chao to take people to Liaoxi to send it quickly, and in the evening, Mr. Lu slapped the wooden bowl on the table directly in the opposite Yishe.

Then, the next day, they called Liu Kuan to sign an unequal treaty.

From this point of view, it seems that there is no need for an answer to the question of how to deal with themselves between Liu Kuan and Lu Zhi. However, after all, my wife holds the 'truth', and her letter will definitely be valuable...... Besides, after being away from home for so long, my mother has a letter, even if I say two words of nonsense, it is also happy!

Therefore, Gongsun Xun, who was lying in his small courtyard blowing the wind, almost couldn't wait to let Jia Chao in.

The letters were written on silk and then packed in a brocade bag wrapped in a lime sandwich, which was said to prevent the ink from falling out due to moisture...... Needless to say, this 'trick and second strategy' is also the 'invention' of Aunt Gongsun, and she always has a lot of inventions.

However, now that the letter has been obtained, Gongsun Xun, who sat up from the recliner, is not in a hurry: "You get up, does my mother have anything to say to me?" ”

"The mistress doesn't have any advice." Jia Chao replied after straightening up. "She said that all she had to say was in this letter......"

"I see." Gongsun Xun nodded. "Have you seen anything about this trip?"

"It's nothing else, but there's one thing I heard when I was passing by my hometown of Julu when I came, and I think Shaojun might want to hear about it."

"Julu ......" Gongsun Xun's eyelids jumped. It can't be Zhao Zhong's nephew, right? ”

"That's not it." Jia Chao shook his head again and again, and then replied. "It's that Taiping Dao who suddenly rebelled!"

Gongsun Xun was dumbfounded, and then after coming back to his senses, he felt that his heart was pounding, and his head was suddenly hot, and finally he was unstable and fell directly on the rocking chair behind him.

The three Han maidservants who were playing fans next to them, the disciples who were standing at the gate of the courtyard far away, and Jia Chao in front of them, almost all of them were in a hurry to help...... was reprimanded by Gongsun Xun again:

"It's okay! It's hot, it's just a little hot, stay away from me, let me lie down and breathe! ”

Everyone hurried to their respective places.

"This ...... This Taiping Dao ...... "Gongsun Xun lay on the chair and looked at the sky, grabbing his mother's bag, only to feel that he was sweating profusely and his mouth was dry. "Why is this Taiping Dao reversed?"

"That's what makes this suspicious." Jia Chao replied cautiously. "This Taiping Dao has a high reputation in Jizhou during the day, not only the people are convinced, but the religion advocates the horn ......."

"Ahem...... Ahem...... You go on, seriously! ”

"That sect advocates horns are also the celebrities of our great deer." Jia Chao glanced at the other party secretly, and only after seeing that the other party was indeed okay did he dare to continue. "He has always been considered to be very virtuous, and he has traveled extensively, and it is said that he has dealings with the great members of the imperial court and the famous Confucian at home...... Therefore, his sudden rebellion this time really made the whole Hebei feel inexplicable. ”

Gongsun Xun, who was lying there, nodded...... He believes this, because in the entire Han Dynasty, Taoism is actually orthodox academics, and it is even considered to be a kind of scripture, and if you have to say anything about gods and ghosts, it is the official science of the court today, that is, in the Confucian modern scriptures, the theory of prophecy is particularly widespread!

Therefore, in the eyes of the world, this Zhang Jiao is not so much a scholar as a partial scholar. It's a bit strange that this kind of person suddenly rebelled.

"Why didn't you say it?" Gongsun Xun was thinking about it, but unexpectedly, Jia Chao had already shut up.

"What else to say?" Jia Chao was puzzled. "It's this corner that leads the Taiping Road to the opposite, everyone thinks it's strange, and I also think I should talk to Shaojun about it......"

"What about the other way around?" Gongsun Xun turned his head speechlessly and asked. "How many men and horses have been mobilized, how many cities have been conquered, and how many people have responded? You are a native of Julu, and you happen to pass by Julu on this trip, so you always know something, right? ”

"Please forgive the young gentleman," Jia Chao looked embarrassed. "I really don't know this, because this Taiping Dao rebellion was all in April, and it is said that it was taken down by the county guard in less than three days, and now the horn has returned to Julu to preach again because of the amnesty. I...... But...... I just couldn't help but go home on the way and listen to my brother. And I heard my brother say that now this Taiping Dao has changed the way of preaching, what kind of 'square' to be established, and then eight proud disciples have been sent to set up a 'square' to preach together throughout the country, as if they want to base themselves on thirty-six 'squares' or something...... Thinking about it, the sect leader was also confused for a while, this is to change his mind and be a new person, right? ”

Gongsun Xun was stunned again, and then immediately speechless...... Feelings are accumulating experience, or the reason why they can achieve great things later is because of this lesson, so what are you bothering about here?!

As soon as he thought of this, he snorted and sat up refreshed.

"For the way of the general, the heart should be cured first. Mount Tai collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged, and the elk was on the left and did not look instantly, and then it could control the interests and harms, and it could treat the enemy. —"The Art of War". Psychic Chapter

PS: Thank you for the unbridled red...... This should be an old friend...... What's the name of the group?

By the way, Zhang Jiao did reverse once during the Xiping period, and he was pardoned for the kind that didn't even make waves.

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