In a blink of an eye, it came to the spring of the second year of Jingde, when the grass grew and the warbler flew, and the inside and outside of Luoyang were prosperous again.

Hebei is basically pacified, Kong Chang has been escorted to Luoyang, beheaded in the city, the imperial court in all counties and counties of Jizhou are ordered to obey the order, and send grain to help the displaced people, even if there are still a few thieves, I believe that it will soon be completely peaceful.

The rest of Jiangnan and Bashu, in the eyes of the Central Plains, those remote and remote places are simply the same as foreign countries, and there is no need to consider them at all - unless the other party has the strength to launch a full-scale attack on Henan. After decades of turmoil, it is finally ushered in the peaceful world, and the people in the countryside may still sweat between the ridges and acres, even in the good years, they may not be able to get food and clothing, but in the eyes of the scholars and residents in the capital, it is like heaven.

It is to play one after another, singing praises of virtue, saying that the Son of Heaven is chasing the three emperors and five emperors, and even inviting the Son of Heaven to tour the east and go to seal Mount Tai...... Pei Wei and the others were worried that Pei should be affected by this, so they really fluttered, so they met one after another and admonished him. In this regard, Pei Gai smiled and said: "The world has not yet been decided, how dare I be complacent? And even if Jiangnan and Bashu are peaceful, I also know that I can settle the world, and may not be able to feed and clothe the people. This was the case during the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and the same was true during the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty. What can I do to dare to emulate the sages? ”

Not only is the Son of Heaven coming out of the bloody battle in the troubled times, but also has the insight of nearly 2,000 years later, and has a clearer and systematic understanding of social reality, Pei Gai naturally understands that even if he unifies the world, and even restores the old Han Dynasty, it does not mean that the world is peaceful, and the people will definitely be able to live a good life.

It is true that "people in troubled times are not as good as dogs", but in the feudal era, even if the world was governed, most ordinary people may not be able to live better than the dogs of your family...... In later generations, there were often people on the Internet who praised the prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty and the abundance of the people, saying that although the Zhao family was aggrieved by foreign wars, they were able to apply the energy of recovering the land and establishing the territory to civil affairs, so that the treasury was full and the market was prosperous......

In fact, it may be true that the treasury is full, and the prosperity of the market may also be true, but the prosperity of the era only exists in a few central cities such as Kaifeng and Daimyo and their surrounding areas. What else do the boasters say about the peasant uprisings that swept the country in the Song Dynasty...... That's because before he got to that point, Song was destroyed by external troubles first!

Do you think Wang Xiaobo, Li Shun, Zhong Xiang, Yang Mi, and Fang La are not counted as the number of peasant uprisings in history? Do you have to sweep the world and finally destroy the old dynasty, so that the common people are poor and hungry and can't survive?

From ancient times to the present, how can a regime that has no internal troubles, has abundant officials and people, has millions of soldiers, and has advanced military science and technology for a while, be so easily defeated by foreign enemies?

This is the norm in the feudal era, only the ruler's eyes only focus on the city and often ignore the countryside, and the countryside only pays attention to the gentry and the so-called "village sages" and often ignores the small people, so that the picture of prosperity will be created. The so-called "reminiscing about the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Xiaoyi still hides thousands of families, the rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant", this private family must at least be a small landlord, and it is a fluke that small farmers and tenants can eat half full!

Guo Lao's book "Li Bai and Du Fu" was ridiculed by later generations, but Pei Gai also read that book in his previous life, in which he accused Lao Du of being the spokesman of the landlord class and lashing out, I believe that even if Shaoling is underground, he can't reply a few words. The mistake in that book is not to scold Du Fu, but to praise Li Bai - Li Bai is actually more landlord than Du Fu!

Since Pei Gai understands this, he does not have the luxury of hoping that through any drastic social reforms, everyone will have enough to eat. In the huge China, basically we have to wait until the post-industrial era to get rid of poverty, and even if we engage in "equal wealth and poverty, and equal wealth and lowness" in the pre-industrial era, it will not be possible to save the common people from hunger and cold -- and that kind of thing is contrary to social laws and cannot be done at all.

Therefore, on the premise of ensuring social stability, he can only slowly carry out some technical and social experiments, strive to increase the speed of development of productive forces, and expand the coverage of education as much as possible, so that this thousand-year-old car will go a little faster, so as not to fall behind in the future. As for what the future holds, he will certainly not be able to see it - no matter how hard he tries, it is estimated that it will take at least a thousand years to enter the industrial society - he can only do things according to his conscience.

In this case, self-pride is basically no longer related to Pei Cai, but when he sees the performance of singing praises to virtue, he only feels disgusting, and the person who plays on it is basically even if he enters another book, and then he wants to be promoted, it is even more difficult.

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March 3 is the first day of the festival, which is a traditional festival.

The ancients used to go to the water's edge to bathe and repair on the first day of March, that is, to use clean water to pray for disasters. But by the time of the Wei and Jin dynasties, the third day of March was first stipulated as the festival, regardless of whether it was a day or not, and then the purpose of the festival was gradually replaced by a spring tour and entertainment - to put it bluntly, it evolved into a national spring outing day.

There are Luoshui in the south of Luoyang City, and Yishui, and there are Qili Stream in the north of the city, and there is Jingu Stream, which are all the best spring tours. However, during the Jin Dynasty, most of the powerful built villas near Jingujian - for example, the most famous Shichong Jingu Garden - and gradually formed an unwritten rule, that is, only those who were from families and officials could enjoy the water system in the north of the city, while the common people could only go to Luoshui and Yishui in the south of the city to go to the Qingqing.

On this day, Li Ju, the servant of the door, also brought his wife Wei, his son Li Chong, and nephew Li Shi, etc., arranged carriages and horses, and planned to go to Jingujian to go to Qingqing, but the two guests in the family - Wang Xizhi and Yu Yi - refused to follow.

The two teenagers said that we have been to Jingujian, there is nothing interesting, and the famous Jingu Garden is occupied by the Liang family, and it was given to Pei Gong (Pei Wei) not long ago. ”

Li Ju wanted to persuade again, but Mrs. Wei secretly pulled his sleeve, and then smiled: "The so-called 'benevolent people enjoy the mountain, and the wise people enjoy the water', since Yi Shao is childish and respectful, the husband can make himself." ”

Li Ju had no choice, so he sent a few servants to serve the two young men, and sent several soldiers to escort them, so they went to the south of the city.

When the two sides parted ways, Mrs. Wei lowered her voice and said to Li Ju: "Yi Shao and Zhigong want to climb the mountain to the south of the city, what is the matter, doesn't the husband know what he means?" ”

Li Ju was a little dazed, so he asked: "For the foolishness of the husband, please also ask the lady to exonerate." ”

Mrs. Wei sighed softly, and said: "Now the north and south are divided, the Yangtze River is separated, he is in Luoyang, like a hostage, like a prisoner, his father and brother are all in the south of the Yangtze River, on this day, how can you not want to hope for it?" I want to climb the mountain in the south and overlook the Yangtze River, although I can't see it, it's good to talk about my thirst. ”

Li Ju suddenly realized, and couldn't help but sigh: "Between Pei and Wang, there was a marriage, and it was originally a family, but it was separated from the north and the south...... With Wang Maohong's wisdom, don't you know that the general trend has been decided, and Jiangnan cannot be defended? Surrender early, Li Shu will be safe, and the family can also be reunited - this must be Wang Chuzhong's greed for power and deliberately obstructing it! ”

At the time of the old Jin Dynasty, Wang Dun's taste has always been higher than Wang Dao, but if it is about reputation, it is far from - everyone thinks that Wang Dao is a loyal person (in fact, it is not necessarily), and Wang Dun is a careerist (not wrong), Wang Dao is gentle and polite, and Wang Dun is difficult to get rid of vulgarity. Therefore, Jiangnan does not obey Wanghua, and most of the culprits are not Wang Dao, not Sima Rui, but Wang Chuzhong, who has strong troops and is unscrupulous!

Besides, the reason why Wang Xizhi and Yu Yi insisted on going south was indeed as Mrs. Wei expected, because they missed their relatives and wanted to take advantage of the festival to climb high and look into the distance. To say that in the north of Luoyang, there is also Beimang Mountain, but the distance is relatively far, and the mountain is relatively steep, so you have to go back and forth in one day, and you may not be able to climb how high, so the two teenagers can only go to Weisu Mountain in the south of the city.

If this Weisu Mountain was more than ten years ago, it is estimated that it would not be allowed to climb, because there is a mound built on it, which is where the suburbs of the Son of Heaven worship on the winter solstice are located.

However, the earliest suburbs of Cao Wei were in the Shouzen platform on the north bank of Luoshui, until the first year of the early Jing Dynasty, Emperor Wei Ming began to build a mound on Weisu Mountain, and at the same time built a square mound (also known as Fang Ze) in the north of the city. Ordered to worship the emperor on the winter solstice day in the mound, with the ancestor Emperor Shun to enjoy; On the summer solstice, the emperor and queen are sacrificed to Fangqiu, and the Shun Concubine Yi is worthy of enjoyment; In addition, there is a suburb ritual sacrifice to the god of the emperor and heaven, and the ancestor Cao Cao is worthy of it; The suburban rites are sacrificed to the emperor's land, and the Bian family is worthy of it; Worship in the Ming Hall to worship God, with Emperor Wen Cao Pi to enjoy......

In short, the young Cao Rong likes all kinds of flashy flower work the most, and he is not tired of making a lot of national-level sacrifices of the same level...... Fortunately, after the beginning, the authority gradually shifted to the Sima clan, and it was difficult for the Son of Heaven to leave Luoyang City, so these sacrificial activities were all stopped.

After the establishment of the Jin Dynasty, the ministers discussed, thinking that "the suburbs of the mound are not different", so the two suburbs of the ceremony and the mound sacrifice to the sky, the square mound sacrifice to the ground, since then there are only three high-level national sacrifices left, namely: sacrifice to the sky, sacrifice to the earth, sacrifice to God, the place is Yuanqiu, Fangqiu and Mingtang.

The main reason is that Cao Rong was inclined to Zheng Xue when he was engaged in that set, and the simplified version of the Jin Dynasty was Wang Xue's "fallacy".

Old Master Zheng Xuan believes that there is a God in heaven, and there are also five emperors standing side by side, and he also deliberately gave the five emperors awkward names: Lingwei of the Eastern Cangdi, Red Emperor Chi Yan Fury of the South, Yellow Emperor Han Hub of the Central Empire, White Emperor Bai Zhao Rejection of the White Emperor of the West, and Juice Guangji of the Black Emperor of the North; At the same time, he declared that the mound festival in the Zhou ceremony was not the same thing as the suburbs. Wang Su must be screwed with Zheng Xue, he advocates that the Five Emperors are God's support, just like the three princes in the world, how can they be qualified to be sacrificed at the highest level of the country? And "the suburbs of the mound are not different", the mound festival and the suburbs are just colleagues and different names.

Now that Pei Gai seems to be inclined to Zheng Xue and disgusted with Wang Xue, naturally led by Dong Jingdao, the Confucian scholars jumped out one after another, asking to separate the "Qiu Jiao" and worship the five emperors. In this regard, Pei Gai refused to give in - damn, doing so much work, in addition to wasting energy and money, is there a dime of benefit to the national society - the edict is still from the Jin system.

However, the mound on Weisu Mountain, the Mingtang in the southeast of Luoyang City, and the square mound in the north of the city have long been dilapidated. Therefore, in line with the principle of frugality, Pei Cai only repaired the Ming Hall and the square mound on the original site, but moved the mound to the Shouzen platform - the platform foundation is ready-made, and the construction on the platform is much cheaper and less laborious than mountaineering.

That is, the mound is sacrificed to the sky, the square mound is sacrificed to the earth, and the Ming Hall is sacrificed to God - Pei Gai deliberately made the gods and the earth virtual, and equated God with the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of humanity, and swept all the so-called five emperors of Zheng Xuan into the garbage heap of history. And on the winter solstice of last year, the first national sacrifice of the Chinese Dynasty was held - the Yuanqiu Sacrifice to the Heavens.

Pull back and say that there is no mound on Weisu Mountain, and the common people can climb the mountain to enjoy the scenery, so Wang Xizhi and Yu Yi two young men went to Weisu through the Luoshui pontoon bridge under the protection of the soldiers and the service of the slaves.

The Weisu Mountain, which separates Yiluo - the two rivers converge at its eastern foot - is actually just a small hill, but it is more than ten zhang high, because the mountain has been built on the mound, so there are roads and steps, you can climb the steps, there is no need to use your hands and feet to climb. Although the two teenagers are polite and polite, they don't usually exercise much, but after all, they are in their prime and their physical strength is still healthy, so they easily reached the top.

Looking north on Weisu Mountain, crossing the pontoon bridge, is the tall city wall of Luoyang; The water is surging in the west, and the Mingtang can be seen in the east; Only look south, past Yishui is the vast plain, Qianmo vertical and horizontal, direct sky - where is the south of the Yangtze River? How can you see it when you travel thousands of miles?

Both of them couldn't help but feel a little gloomy, and then they looked at each other, their lips together, and they wanted to say something, but they couldn't open their mouths after all. A gentleman's heart is the same as my heart, why bother to say it? The second is also surrounded by the servants and even soldiers sent by Li Ju, called service, but in fact it is surveillance, it is called protection, and it is actually care, although the two sons of Wang and Yu are quite lacking in political sensitivity, they are not stupid after all, in this situation, how dare they speak recklessly?

But it was inconvenient to remain silent all the time, so that the surrounding atmosphere seemed to be solidified, so after a while, Wang Xizhi first opened his mouth and asked Yu Yi: "How does Zhigong look at this mountain?" ”

Yu Yi pouted and said, "Where can this be called a mountain?" It's just a small knoll. Luozhong has its own mountain, and it is also ...... in the north of the city" This refers to Beimang Mountain, of course, "However, in my brother's opinion, although the mountain in Luozhong is lush, it is not as majestic as the mountain in Guanzhong, and it is not as beautiful as me...... It's not as good as the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River - this trip is very boring. ”

The implication is that I want to look at the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, and even if I was in Chang'an in the past, I was much more comfortable than in Luoyang now.

Wang Xizhi couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and said in his heart that you are not talking nonsense - in the past, we were waiting in Chang'an, the Chinese Dynasty had not yet been established, and the north and south still belonged to the same country. Now it's different, Luoyang and Jiankang have become enemies, and we have become hostages, how can this mood be comfortable.

So he comforted Yu Yi and said: "It's not far from the southeast, it should be the old home of Zhigong." ”

The "old hometown" he refers to Yanling County, Yingchuan County, Yu's hometown - in fact, there are three or four hundred miles of land, but compared to Jiangnan, it is indeed "not far".

Yu Yi asked casually: "Young Brother Yi is still impressed with the scenery of his old hometown?" ”

(Battlefield Literature)