In the spring of March, in the southwest of Zhuo County, in the upper reaches of Yishui, General Wei Gongsun Xun and his eldest son Gongsun Ding walked side by side, just crossed the small bridge on Yishui, and was stepping on the mountain flowers all over the mountains, and walked slowly to the south.

Among them, the former is a white horse with an extraordinarily powerful horse, and the latter rides an extraordinarily vigorous half-sized green horse.

In other words, the little green horse is also a white horse in a sense, because in addition to albinism, most of the white horses in the conventional sense are actually evolved from the little green horse with black and white hair as an adult...... As they grow older, many green horses will have less black hair and more white hair, and at this time, the green horse or white horse at its peak, with a skilled knight, constitutes the world-famous white horse.

On the other hand, white horses are so rare and rare, and the formed white horse troops themselves represent a huge reserve of war horses and cavalry strength, not just a beautiful color.

These two 'white' horses had just come from the Murong Department as a tribute, and they had not been paid for a month...... After Gongsun Xun withdrew from the boundary bridge, he mainly inspected spring ploughing, participated in the spring society sacrifices, and condoled the local elders and former officials in the two places where Zhao Guo and Zhongshan had personally ruled; In February, he turned to Daijun and Shanggu in the north, and it was there that he met Mo Huqi and others, who had heard of the great victory in the south and had come to the city from Gaoliusai and other places to meet and congratulate him.

And it may be because the Yuwen Department is obviously behind now, or it may be because there has been no chance to see Gongsun Xun after the war in Western Liao, and it is more likely that because of such a big victory in the front, Hebei has been decided for Gongsun Xun...... In short, after Mo Hu paid tribute to the white horse of the god horse and congratulated him, he did not rush back, but offered to lead the knights of his headquarters to the south and inspect the guards with the general to show his loyalty.

Unexpectedly, Gongsun Xun not only agreed, but also asked Mo Huqi to gather a full 3,000 cavalry from the headquarters outside the Saiwai and Zahu that depended on the Great Wall, and then turned east to inspect the Changping land.

However, after the general met and comforted Zao Yi and other hard-working officials in Changping, and received a letter from his wife Zhao Yun, who went to Liaodong to urge the troops, Gongsun Xun went directly south and came to Yishui...... Only when he came to Fanyang, after gathering 2,000 people from Zhang Bai's cavalry department from the direction of Taihang Mountain, he did not rush south to the front line between the rivers, but suddenly asked about the whereabouts of his teacher Lu Zhi.

The local officials did not dare to slack off, and directly pointed out where Lu Zhi was - it turned out that the former Cao Shangshu, the great Confucian of the Hainei, and the three brothers of the Gongsun family, who were the common teachers of the three brothers, actually abandoned the family's wealth, house, and property, and took the only surviving young son alone to the wild valley in the upper reaches of Yishui, cultivated the farmland, and went to cultivate his own land.

And Gongsun Xun is also speechless...... He actually led 5,000 paces, 200 righteous followers, and a son, who broke away from the road south to the river, and came directly here to find his own teacher.

"You, don't always care about the strength or weakness of the soldiers," Gongsun Xun was riding on a horse, chatting and laughing with his own son. "How can you only talk about soldiers and horses in the world? Moreover, although the strength of the soldiers and horses is useful, it is always temporary, for example, when a strong army encounters plague and famine, it will collapse without a fight; When the cavalry encounters rivers and swamps, it will be difficult to move an inch; It was at the boundary bridge before, if we hadn't gone to the fence by ourselves for the sake of the shield array, then Xu You rushed over and asked the striker to throw in a handful of hay and a fire, where could our father and son laugh here today? ”

"Your Excellency...... What is the right thing to talk about? After spending a few months alone with his father, Gongsun Ding couldn't help but be much bolder.

"That's a lot to say, but in this season, the biggest reliance and fundamental thing is, of course, food." Gongsun Xun held the reins in his hand and replied with a slight straight face. "Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the world's agriculture has been worse day by day, Emperor Ling's Tianfu, the powerful merger, and the plundering of officials, so Li Shu, who was serious about farming, found that no matter how much he farmed, he would starve to death, so he abandoned the land and became bandits, although there was a lot less oppression in the mountains, but how much food could be produced in the ravine? So they have to go back and plunder, so that the surrounding people who are good at farming will not be able to farm...... There are so many people, and the total amount of grain that was originally planted together is also so much, and then suddenly there is less food, and the people have not changed...... What to do? ”

Gongsun Ding grew up in Youzhou after all, and he simply blurted out: "I will starve to death!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Sheng and Mo Huqi, who were deliberately several positions behind him, changed color together, but they were speechless.

"Not bad!" Gongsun Xun nodded without hesitation. "Will starve to death...... I don't know who, I don't know where, or what time of year, but people will starve to death anyway! And in order not to starve to death, these people will go to rob other people's food, so that others can't plant the land, so the food is getting less and less, and the world will become more and more chaotic...... Since the Yellow Turban Incident...... You were only three years old that year...... This world is not as good as a year, the millions of Taishan Yellow Turbans in the Central Plains, the millions of Taihang Mountain bandits in Jizhou, the white wave thieves in Hedong, the Quanzhou rebellion in Xiliang and Jiaozhou, the Huns in Bingzhou, and the Wuhuan people in Youzhou, all rose up to make trouble, why? Maybe the one who provokes trouble among them does have ambitions, but since so many people can be gathered, in the final analysis, from the perspective of the whole world, without food, everyone will not be able to live according to the rules! ”

"That's why the adults will leave the previous war and come back to supervise the spring ploughing? Because having food is the root of adults defeating others? ”

"yes!" Gongsun Xun glanced at his son slightly, and couldn't help laughing. "Having food is the foundation of defeating others...... If it weren't for the fact that there was so much grain in Changping, not to mention Yuan Benchu, even if he fought Dong Zhuo before, I am afraid that it would be a mirror, and it would be great to be able to get to Taiyuan, where there are so many things later? ”

"So to fight for the world is to store food, and then raise a strong army?" Gongsun Ding finally came to a seemingly logical conclusion.

"It's good to be able to talk about this layer." Gongsun Xun smiled helplessly. "The princes of the world, some people are as stupid as Yuan Shu and warlike as Sun Jian, and they don't even know how to store grain, one just relies on looting, and the other only relies on others to supply and sit on the empty mountain...... You're already stronger than these two, but you can't stop there. ”

"Please give me advice!" Gongsun must have been praised, but he became more and more reluctant to end the communication with his father.

"Where in the world is it so simple?" Gongsun Xun sighed for a while. "Fighting for the world is essentially fighting for the hearts of the people, and then gathering the hearts of the people to fight for the soldiers, and take them from the war...... But the people's heart is too difficult, and now the world is in collapse, it is the bleakest time, and everyone can't even eat, so at this time, if you can take out food, you can win the hearts of the people the most, but what about being full? You always have to dress warmly, right? ”

"So there is still cloth?" Gongsun Ding's face was stunned. "No wonder the gentlemen in the Changping school say that farming and weaving is the foundation of the country, and my grandmother also said that we must hold the grain and cloth channels in Liaodi, so that there will be no accidents in Liaodi......"

"What does your grandmother mean...... Almost! Gongsun Xun, who was riding on the horse, was a little embarrassed, and then quickly returned to the topic. But what about when you're well fed and clothed? Where is the human heart? ”

"In ......" Gongsun Ding raised his head and thought, but he was at a loss for a moment, he was still too young after all.

"If you are well fed and clothed, you naturally hope to have a house to live in, furniture to use, and then eat a bite of meat during the New Year, and use a glass of wine during the Spring Festival; After all these can be enjoyed, I also hope that when I go out to visit relatives, I will not encounter bandits, and I can have pavilions and shops to rest...... This is food, clothing, shelter and transportation. ”

Gongsun Ding's busy jaw.

Gongsun Xun knew that his son was still young, and his attention had begun to drift to this point, and it was difficult to keep up with his thoughts, but he still couldn't help but say a few more words: "And after food, clothing, housing and transportation, it doesn't end here, because people who have spare power in the family can't help but want their children and grandchildren to go to school and be more productive than themselves in the future; And those who have read books and become officials always want to study the subtle words of the sages and discuss what is the principle of governance; Even if you are still a teenager, don't you always want to wear silk and silk with jade ornaments and gold carvings, and ride such a vigorous pony...... Don't argue...... It's human nature! In fact, don't talk about you, it is the Mohu head man who gave you horses behind you, when he just had hundreds of tribes and was still wearing dirty sheepskin jackets, he couldn't help but exchange the best horse in the tribe for a step crown that could not be eaten or used...... Why? It's pretty! The little girl we met in the Tundian Village community before got a piece of broken gauze from her mother, and couldn't help but go to the wild to find wildflowers and dye them into a red cloth that would fade in two days, and then put it on her head, why? It's also beautiful! And this is also the human heart! Fighting for the world is fighting for people's hearts, but people's hearts are the most complicated things in the world, and they may not be able to get one or two in their lives. ”

"But adults don't have to be exhausted, do they?" Although Mo Huyun couldn't help but shout non-stop along the way, every time he spoke, he still caused Zhang Sheng next to him to frown. "Compared with adults, Yuan Shaobing is weak and powerless; What Sun Jian and Yuan Shu don't even know about food...... As for the adults, for so many years in Youzhou, they have gathered the displaced people to accumulate food, opened mines and built workshops, and have strong military armor, and have mastered almost all the horse channels in the world, and have built so many schools and opened so many trading companies...... Compared with adults, those southern princes are like children playing with wooden knives! How can this world not return to adults? If you want me to say, those princes seem to be noisy for a while and have a vast territory, but for the lords, at most, it is Yuan Shao's end, and it will be difficult to get up once they are defeated! ”

"Father...... Is that so? "Probably because he was robbed of the power to be called 'adult', Gongsun Ding regained some attention a little.

"Yes and no." Gongsun Xun didn't look at Mo Huyun, but just smiled to himself. "The princes of the world are not only people like Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao, and Sun Jian, but also heroes like Cao Mengde and Liu Xuande...... Moreover, even Sun Jian and these people are only confused for a while because of their birth experience, if they have the heart, they will realize their mistakes after a long time, and then gradually correct them. ”

"But...... Isn't that what Yuan Shao said Mo Hutou said? Gongsun Ding couldn't help but scratch his head on the pony. It seems that there are so many soldiers, but he can't help fighting at all, and he doesn't know that his mother has gone to Liaodong, and his grandfather will send troops from Liaodong; I don't know that we have so much food in Changping and so many soldiers who can be recruited at any time; He didn't know that Mr. Cheng had exchanged so many letters with his father......"

"Yuan Shao is a special case." Gongsun Xun can only say this. "I just took a fancy to him as a person who was arrogant, stupid, and inferior, but he pretended to be outstanding on the surface, and it was easy to fool people, so I specifically picked him as an opponent...... I have been preparing for five or six years, and since that time I have asked your grandmother to help build a ship in Liaodong, but what about him, from the time he made up his mind to wage war against me after seizing the territory, it was only less than a year, why should such a person not lose? Why should I not win? ”

Gongsun Ding put down his hand scratching his head, and stopped talking for a while.

"What do you want to say?" Gongsun Xun didn't care.

"I just want to ask my lord," Gongsun Ding couldn't help but ask seriously. "Although this Yuan Shao is incompetent inside, according to what his father said, he is also a person who is majestic on the surface, and those people along the way say that he is the biggest prince in the world, and now even he has lost to his father and handed over Hebei, so who will dare to be an enemy of adults in the future? Is it possible to send a letter and ask all the tribal leaders who are swinging outside the fortress to kneel down to you, as you did in Daijun? ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone around laughed...... Gongsun Xun laughed silently, Mo Huqi laughed for a while, and Zhang Sheng, who was tall and thin, laughed as if he remembered something, and Zhang Ji, Yang Xiu, Fa Zheng and others were also snickering.

Gongsun Ding was a little blushing from laughter.

"Ah Ding!" Gongsun Xun smiled and smiled, and only turned his head to inquire after a long time. "Have you ever seen someone who is not afraid of death?"

"The boy has seen many ......," Gongsun Ding replied earnestly after a moment's thought. Not to mention anything else, there were so many people in the shield by the Sun Boundary Bridge, and all of them were not afraid of death! ”

"yes!" Gongsun Xun looked at the picturesque mountains and let out a long sigh. "There are too many people in this world who are not afraid of death, not only Gao Shun is outstanding in raising soldiers, soldiers are willing to die, aren't there also rangers who give up their lives for a promise? We still have a lot of swallows! ”

"The boy has heard of these things!" Gongsun Ding's eyes couldn't help but shine.

"And not only the rangers, but also the people of Li are not afraid of death...... I have seen tens of thousands of Li Shu commit suicide and are unwilling to surrender! Gongsun Xun's voice became louder and louder, and many of the cavalry soldiers who followed behind him also began to stop and wait, and the righteous servants listened attentively. Not only the common people, but I have also seen officials who are not afraid of death, Confucian scholars who are not afraid of death, and even bandit leaders and evil people who are not afraid of death...... Then I ask you, if these people are not even afraid of death, then why are they afraid of me? Because I have mastered half of the world?! I have mastered the world, can I still kill them twice?! ”

After asking a rhetorical question, Gongsun Xun couldn't help but beat his horse and speed up slightly, because he had already found a slightly populated place on the side of the valley in front of him from his field of vision, which was extremely small in scale, but only a few households...... I think this is where Lu Zhi lives in seclusion.

"But my lord, why aren't they afraid of death?" Gongsun Ding hurriedly clamped the pony under his crotch and tried to catch up, and at the same time, the righteous servants who had not yet stopped behind him also started again, and the accompanying five thousand horsemen stopped here at the signal of Zhang Ji, ready to set up camp.

"Didn't you say that?" Gongsun Xun couldn't help but laugh when he heard the question in front of him. "Because of the human heart! for their hearts are not mine! And if the people's hearts don't belong, don't say that a mere Hebei is in hand, believe it or not, since someone holds nine and a half of the thirteen old states in the world, and the opponent only has one county, but his opponent still has to draw his sword against each other and swear to fight to the death! ”

"Isn't this a sure defeat?"

"Who knows, maybe what if it happens?"

"But how can there be such a powerful person?"

"Your lord, I!" Gongsun Xun raised his voice and laughed. "Believe it or not, if I retreated a little and returned to Liaodong that day, and it turned out to be Yuan Shao, a person I don't look down on the most, who won the whole world, then even if there is only one county, my lord and I must draw my sword and fight him to the end, or the blood will be exhausted on the battlefield, or I can really win a point or two!"

Gongsun Ding was finally stunned.

In this way, the father and son no longer gossiped, but trotted forward and backward to the wild village in the valley ahead, while Zhang Sheng and Mo Huqi followed the two hundred righteous servants a hundred steps behind them...... As for the remaining 5,000 cavalry, they were ordered by Zhang Ji to camp on the spot so as not to disturb them.

And just a moment later, at a flashing intersection, Gongsun Xun had already seen the familiar figure of the strange tall and thin figure, the latter was wearing a very shabby Jinxian crown, full of wind and frost, and was grinding noodles in the open space in front of a few houses, and a child who was smaller than Gongsun Ding, but with a thinner body, was carrying a broom in his pocket and struggling to help by his side.

"I guessed it was you when I saw the horses, but how did you get here?" Lu Zhi stopped pushing and grinding and wiped the sweat on his forehead, but he couldn't help frowning at the visitor. "When the pavilion chief came here during the spring ploughing before, there were words, didn't he still say that he was fighting?"

"Returning to the teacher," Gongsun Xun hurriedly dismounted and stepped forward, facing each other from afar. "It's in the first month, the front has already won, and the students are barely in the north of the big river, and they can slowly administer and establish a new system, so they have no interest in participating in the follow-up pursuit and raiding places...... It is also the meaning of giving credit to those subordinates. ”

"That'll be fine." Lu Zhi was expressionless and slowly bowed his head. "War is something that can't be avoided now, but it's still the worst thing in the world...... It's also good to play faster. ”

"That's what Master said." Gongsun Xun walked up to him and bowed, and this title and action immediately caused Gongsun Ding on the side to be stunned, and the latter quickly gave up the posture of looking at the child opposite, and then bowed down, calling him an adult.

"I've been cultivating the land here since last year, and I've already harvested a season," Lu Zhi glanced at Gongsun Ding and then at the many white horse cavalry behind the father and son before continuing. "But the land is poor, and the family can barely make ends meet. But since your father and son have come, there is always a bite to eat with you, and as for the others, I cannot afford to invite them, nor let them disturb the neighbors, for there are only a few families here, and they are all poor and weak people who have come with me to cultivate...... Let the kids play, and you will help me grind. ”

With that, he turned around and took the broom made of the pocket and sorghum head in the young son's hand.

Gongsun Xun bowed slightly, then directly took off the outer robe, untied the inner armor, and then stepped forward to grind...... The whole process was without a word.

Behind them, Zhang Ji, Zhang Sheng, Mo Huqi and others couldn't see it clearly, so Yang Xiu, Fa Zheng, Liu Zhang and other originally excited righteous officers could hardly bear it...... But it was only almost, and no one in the army dared to say much, so they could only retreat one after another, setting up a small camp outside the settlement, and hurrying back again and again, stopping to watch.

However, Gongsun Xun and Lu Zhi really didn't say much, the two of them first pushed and grinded the noodles, and then burned the fire and led the stove and the noodles underneath...... In the end, they really took their respective sons to sit down and eat noodles in front of a stone platform in front of the door!

But even when they were eating, the two of them only chatted about some seasonal changes, agricultural affairs and the like, and there was nothing related to politics, military strategy, or learning.

After eating that day, it was dark, and Gongsun Xunfu took his son to stay in Lu Zhishe and slept on the ground.

Early the next morning, as always, after breakfast, Lu Zigan was going to take his son to the field to hoe weeds, and Gongsun Xun was still with him...... Nearby Mo Huqi, Zhang Sheng and other officers, plus two hundred righteous servants, in the distance there are 5,000 paces to ride, at this time I heard Gongsun Xun personally went to the ground to hoe grass, but was shocked, one after another out of the camp to watch.

Righteous servants are near, all at a loss, five thousand steps riding in the distance do not dare to get close, but they are curious and look into the distance, stunned and indescribable.

There was no lunch, and there were no superfluous words, Gongsun Xun and his son accompanied Lu Zhi and his son to muffle for most of the day...... In the afternoon, after the weeding was completed, Gongsun Xun's white satin shirt was already covered with dust and stained with grass juice, which was extremely dirty, but he turned to a clearing in front of the ridge and began to dig a pit according to Lu Zhi's instructions...... A small shallow pit one zhang long, half a zhang wide, and three feet deep.

It didn't take much effort, but it was done quickly.

And when the shallow pit was completed and was about to return to the settlement, Lu Zhi finally stopped on the ridge and spoke: "There is little food at home, and your father and son eat a lot, so I really can't stay, let's leave today!" ”

"Whoa." Gongsun Xun opened his mouth to agree, but he didn't move.

"Several families in this settlement have only heard of my reputation, almost all of them are poor and weak, after I die, you have to let the pavilion chief here move them to the serious village......" Lu Zhi paused, and then spoke again.

"Whoa!" Gongsun Xun still didn't move.

"After Dong Zhuo's chaos, I walked north along the way, and I was trapped for a while, and I saw frequent wars everywhere, and the lives were devastated, so that the white bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crying for a hundred miles...... This is due to my inability to stabilize the situation as a minister, so don't put a monument on me after I die! ”

"Whoa!"

"It's not just that you don't want to erect a monument......," Lu Zhi continued with a hoe. After seeing so many dead people, I know that the so-called etiquette and mourning are just vain, in the troubled times, food, utensils, everything is precious, and people die like lights going out, but they can no longer let the dead enjoy the things of the living, so after I die, I don't need a coffin, you say hello, and let the local pavilion chief come to pick up the local residents and bury me in this pit by the way! And if you dig this pit for me today, you will fulfill the greatest filial piety of a student, and don't do anything else! ”

"Whoa!" Gongsun Xun exhaled slightly, but still did not move, as if he had expected it.

"And Ah Yu...... is too young, after all, I can't bear him to suffer with me anymore, and I don't have much time, it's not a year and a half, when you leave today, take him away with you, and feed me well! ”

"But what do you want me to convey in the future?" Gongsun Xun glanced at the open space in front of the settlement, and after finishing the farm work, his mentor and young son were already playing with the familiar son of his own family, and as Lu Zhi said, this child was really too young.

"To borrow an old phrase from your mother...... Don't take evil as small, don't take good as small...... If this can be the case in the future, I really don't have to worry about it! ”

"Whew...... Does the teacher still have words? Gongsun Xun obviously wanted to speak and stopped.

"Personal things are really gone, it's just a candle in the old age." Lu Zhi looked at his student and replied reluctantly. "However, although I don't want to mention political affairs, there is one thing that I feel very about, and what I don't say when I see it is always wrong......

"Please teach me."

"Although the military tun and the people's tun are effective, they are not long-term methods...... The people were confined to one place, forced to work, paid too much harvest, the famine had not been cut off before, the war had not subsided, and it was reasonable, but now that you have regulated the north of the river, you might as well let go of the ban and change it to a household! ”

"That's exactly what the teacher said." Gongsun Xun nodded hurriedly. "I have already had a case in this matter, here in Changping, after this season, it is time to change the tun into a household, take the opportunity to divide the land equally according to Dingkou, and reward the soldiers...... However, the newly acquired land in the south should take advantage of the war to collect the real estate, and then regather the people in the name of Mintun and Juntun, and then follow the example of this place in two or three years. ”

"Yes, Juntun and Mintun are also good means to take the opportunity to seize the powerful land for redistribution in troubled times, since you know it in your heart, I won't say more." Lu Zhi was slightly stunned, but immediately bowed his head.

"Does the teacher have anything else to say?" Gongsun Xun continued to ask questions.

"It's gone," Lu Zhi's face remained unchanged. "Give me the hoe, go."

Gongsun Xun slowly bowed his head, handed over the hoe in his hand, and then turned around and walked away from the two hundred Yi who had been waiting for a long time. But after walking a few steps, the person suddenly woke up, turned around again, raised his hands and foreheads towards Lu Zhi, who was still looking at him without moving, bowed to the ground, got up and bowed again, and bowed three times.

Lu Zhi was a little stunned at first, and wanted to step forward to help him up, but he suddenly woke up, and finally stood on the ridge with two hoes and received the full salute from the other party...... He knew that after this time, he would not have any position as a student, nor would he have any opportunity to bow to himself.

Teachers and students are a teacher, and their grievances all die with the decline of the Han family, but kindness and righteousness cannot be broken until death.

In this case, even if this person becomes the supreme position in the future, why not accept his courtesy?

——————I am the dividing line of the last worship——————

"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Empress Zhao returned to Liaodong with the imperial court envoy and said that after her father sent troops across the sea to break Shao, not a few, Taizu made a great success by himself, and returned to the north with his son to patrol the spring, and from February to Changping, it coincided with the queen's book to inquire about the war and ask if he could return. Taizu Nai replied: 'The flowers on Mo are blooming, and the old road in western Liaoning is beautiful, and it can be returned slowly. —"The World Speaks New Language". Pampering

PS: Does this chapter say it's back now? Wholehearted...... I'm going to suffocate.