Before going out, Lu Zhi seemed to inadvertently mention: "The Holy Lord asked the palace people to go up to the roof and check the roof tiles today, the building you built is too high, and the palace people dare not climb it." Xuande, you send a few craftsmen to the roof tomorrow and take down three tiles for the emperor. ”

Liu Bei blinked his eyes and asked in confusion: "Good roof, take three tiles, what are you doing?" ”

Lu Zhi replied briefly: "The sky is not complete. ”

Liu Bei was stunned.

"Heaven is not perfect" is an important theory of the I Ching doctrine, which means that God likes or advocates cutting corners and incomplete things. Based on this theory, when building a house in the Han Dynasty, the etiquette system stipulated that when building a house, the roof should be covered with three fewer tiles to allow wind and rain to leak on rainy days, so as to please the heavens (it was recorded in Sima Qian's historical records). Later, the Forbidden City in Beijing was less than half a house, and the Forbidden City Gate was less than a copper nail, all of which were based on one of the theories.

Liu Bei said disdainfully: "The absurd statement of the Book of Changes has no credibility. The teacher doesn't dissuade either? ”

Lu Zhi smiled bitterly: "It was I who told the Holy Lord that the things produced in Qingzhou advocate perfection, and the spokes of the carriage will never be missing a spoke, the armor will never be missing a few nail pages, the crossbow will never be missing a screw, and the horseshoe will never be deliberately missing a hoof nail (now, some of my horseshoe shops in Shaanxi still retain this custom), and after the Holy Lord knew, he resolutely asked the palace people to remove the three tiles." ”

Liu Bei looked at Zhou Yu who was standing on the side, and Zhou Yu was expressionless.

Liu Bei asked thoughtfully: "Teacher, what do you think about this?" ”

Lu Zhi had a helpless expression on his face: "The sage said: Respect the ghosts and gods and stay away." The ghosts and gods say that it is better to believe in it than to believe in its none. The Holy One insists, let it be him. ”

If it was just a few less tiles on the roof, Liu Bei wouldn't be too lazy to worry about other people's roofs. However, the I Ching doctrine of "the sky is not complete" has developed to the end, which is almost absurd, and even in matters related to the survival of the country, our national elite at that time also did a lot of absurd things, which has made Liu Bei intolerable.

For example, when building the city wall, you should also deliberately leave a little flaw, indicating that you dare not do everything perfectly, so as not to anger the heavens. For example, the ancient city wall of Xi'an, which was built in the Tang Dynasty and is the most complete preserved in later generations, fully reflects the consistent Chinese idea of fortress architecture: one flaw is not enough, at least two defense holes are needed.

The south gate of the ancient city wall of Xi'an, called Yongning Gate in the Ming Dynasty, deliberately does not build defensive equipment such as city towers on it, so as to form a defensive dead end; And the weakest point of the entire ancient city wall section is in Wenchang Gate - in order to prevent the enemy from attacking from this weak section, Wenchang Gate specially built a Kuixin Temple with no military use, in order to use the power of the gods to resist the attack of the enemy, but unfortunately, the god has never blocked the attack of foreign races, nor has it blocked the attack of bandits of his own nationality - such as Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty.

They don't believe in this god, what should they do?

Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general of the Ming Dynasty, in his military book, once required that when camping in the field, the camp could not be coherent and unblocked, and two breakpoints must be left to reflect the guiding spirit of "the sky is not complete". These two breakpoints are called "sinus gates".

In addition, when Lin Zexu, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, set up the Humen Fort, he also specially placed a squib on the fort, forming a shooting blind spot, indicating that he did not dare to do things perfectly, so as to anger the heavens.

It is estimated that the most appalling pursuit of the spirit of "heaven is still incomplete" lies in the Beiyang Naval Division. Because the British and Germans paid attention to quality, the warships were built to perfection, which made the officers and soldiers of the naval division panic, and they invited feng shui masters to chisel through the naval guns at the location of the Shengmen according to the eight directions of the gossip, in order to show that they did not dare to kill the enemy and anger the heavens. As a result, this naval fleet, which was the largest tonnage in Asia at that time, encountered the Japanese fleet in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle and was wiped out by the Japanese Navy.

In order to respect the tradition and cover up the truth, when explaining the fact that the Beiyang Naval Division encountered the enemy and some of the ship's guns did not fire, the movie Jiawu Fengyun specially made up such a plot: Deng Shichang, the pipe band, angrily asked the soldiers why they didn't open fire? The soldier replied that the shells were filled with sand.

However, the fabricators obviously ignored the fact that the shells of these naval guns were produced by Britain and Germany on the assembly line, and in order to produce a few shells loaded with sand, a special feeding conveyor belt for transporting sand and soil had to be added, or they were made by hand, so that the sand shells were more expensive than normal shells......

After Liu Bei thought about it, he felt a strong sense of powerlessness in his heart.

This absurd and bizarre traditional thinking does not change, even if they are given cannons and let them fight spearmen, they will still be insiders in civil wars and laymen in foreign wars.

After thinking for a long time, he couldn't speak, Liu Bei could only snort viciously from between his teeth: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, let him go......"

On November 30, Liu Bei, who could not bear it anymore, resolutely decided to withdraw the whole army to Qingzhou despite the courtiers' false intentions.

At Luoshui Wharf, Cao Cao bid farewell to Liu Bei, Xun You looked at the shadow of the sail that was gradually moving away, and asked Cao Cao in a low voice: "Lord, Liu's six sparse items have only been announced now, so why doesn't Liu Xuande explain the sixth article?" ”

Cao Cao looked at the sail shadow in the distance and said leisurely: "I know, he is talking about religion. Now Buddhism flourishes in Xuzhou, Taipingdao (Taoism) flourishes in Hanzhong, and monotheism flourishes in Qingzhou and Izumo. Liu Bei wanted to use monotheism to break the ghost and god idea of I Ching metaphysics, but he also believed that religious belief was purely personal freedom, and the government should not interfere with it, so although he had this idea, he was unwilling to understand the initiative by himself. ”

Xun You asked tentatively: "What does the lord think of Liu's six sparse?" ”

Cao Cao stroked the beard under his chin, and said proudly: "The prime minister's cabinet system, we are implementing it." The preparatory work required for the imperial examination system is extremely complicated, and now that the war is still raging, Liu Bei and I have reached an agreement that each locality will implement it independently. Wait until the world is peaceful, and then the imperial court will plan it uniformly.

The separation of powers among officials and the independence of justice and supervision still need to increase the number of officials, and wait for Liu Xuande to send officials to gradually promote it. During the war, each region implemented it independently. The power of meritorious and meritorious supervision is just used to reward soldiers, and the imperial court does not need to bear half of the cost, I promised Liu Xuande, Yanzhou and Sili will be implemented next year.

Encourage industry and commerce and exempt agricultural taxes, but I Yanzhou and Sili are temporarily unable to do it, and I promise Liu Xuande to implement it at a later date.

Attaching importance to private property rights, this is a strong military policy, even if Liu Xuande does not ask for it, I also plan to promote it in Yanzhou, and this time it is just to be promoted.

Religion is to do what Liu Xuande wants: no restrictions, no encouragement, no support, no connivance......"

Xun You was beaming with joy and said with far-reaching eyes: "Lord, just pay attention to private property, you can let my Yanzhou soldiers have the courage to fight, in order to get more property, the people of Yanzhou will be full of expansion, with the financial and tax support of Qingzhou, I Yanzhou ten years of life and gathering, calm the chaos in the world, and return the people to a bright future, it will be easy." ”

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes, and his face became gloomy: "Ten years, ten years later, what will Liu Xuande develop into?" Now that he has a conscription order, Qingzhou has suddenly become a large barracks, give him ten years, let him educate another generation, what will become of Qinghai, Hebei, Youzhou, and the four states? It is said that Xuande went back this time and was about to prepare for a full-scale attack on the Japanese kingdom at sea. In the past few years, he has joined forces with Ma Han to plunder, and the Japanese state has become weak. Under the order of Qingzhou's military merit awards, there will be no war for three years, and the soldiers will not be promoted, and they are dissatisfied. When Xuande returned, he planned to open up a naval battlefield.

Listening to Liu Xuande, the area of the Wa Kingdom is as large as Qingzhou, and in ten years, Liu Xuande will add another Qingzhou territory, how strong will he be? ”

Cao Ying's generals and ministers were shocked, looking at Liu Bei's sails disappearing into the sky, and their hearts were heavy.

At that time, no one saw the importance of the agreement between Liu and Cao, and even the two parties did not expect how amazing its influence was. The agreement between Liu and Cao introduced several political neologisms for agrarian civilization: cooperation; team spirit; the concept of the state; Compromise. It was at this moment that history got rid of its inertial trajectory and entered a new track.

Since then, the political conflict of ideas does not have to eliminate the other party's ** as the only choice, the two sides can negotiate and trade, reach a compromise, cooperate and develop in national affairs, and the whole nation will condense into a team and unanimously expand and develop outward. At this moment, the fate of the Chinese nation has truly changed.

With the competition between Liu and Cao, society is changing rapidly, and the influence of this agreement is gradually demonstrated......

On the same day, after a long journey, the Qingzhou navy led by Wen Ping finally arrived at the sea of Dishi Harbor in Vietnam, and 20 warships of Qingzhou spread out in a half-moon shape, faintly surrounding the weak Roman fleet on the surface of Dishi Harbor. On the command platform of the flagship Zhiwu, Wen Ping put down the binoculars and muttered to himself: "Barbarian, my Han Sailor is here." ”

On the sea, Zhiwu, Renwu, Yongwu, Xinwu, Yanwu and other Wuzi-class warships led their respective fleets, showing off their military might. The fierce class battleships Folding, Guanwu, Herong, Anlei, and Fierce followed the flagship, and bed crossbows, catapults, and fire bottles were ready to fight, demonstrating the most powerful attack capabilities; gallop-class battleships Kedi, Pingyu, Qiuyi, Pingdi, and Weirong; The Yingyang-class battleships Fengzhong, Shouyi, Hongxin, Yanghua, and Liyi also put on an aggressive posture to suppress the weak defenders in the port.

The Qingzhou Navy that went south this time also has five Weizi-class warships second only to Wuzi-class warships, namely Zhiwei, Renwei, Yongwei, Xinwei, and Yanwei. They remained in Qiongzhou (Hainan Island), on the one hand, as a response to the entire fleet, and on the other hand, to take care of some of the Qingzhou merchant ships that had finished selling their goods in the South Seas and wanted to go home for the New Year, and these merchant ships were all loaded with local special goods.

Seeing Wen Ping's eagerness to be carried out, Qin Lun, a merchant of Daqin who was the general officer of Qingzhou at the time, hurriedly came and persuaded: "The great, invincible, and invincible naval commander, Qin Lun, the general officer of Qingzhou, salutes you!" ”

Qin Lun bit the words "Qingzhou General Officer" very hard. Wen Ping understood what he meant, and Qin Yan wanted to tell Wen Ping that he was communicating with him as an official in Qingzhou. Wen Ping casually gave a military salute and replied: "Your Excellency, the sea is windy, and our army is about to enter Hong Kong, what do you want?" ”

Qin Yan smiled respectfully, even flatteringly, and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, frankly, you have to admit that I am now a Qingzhou nobleman, and for me, comparatively speaking, my sense of belonging to Qingzhou is even higher than that of the Great Qin Empire. The supreme city lord, the actual ruler of the four prefectures of Qing, Hebei, and You, and the benevolent Lord Liu, before I came, had asked me to communicate and trade with the lords of the Great Qin Empire on an equal footing, so I beg you, in the name of you and my master, to put away your swords and guns for the time being, and show your smile to show your benevolent and generous heart. ”

Wen Ping stroked his forehead with his hand and shook it: "Qin Fatty, I can't stand it, are you businessmen of the Great Qin Kingdom talking like this?" Tell me simply, directly, and clearly, what do you want to do? ”

Qin Lun said simply: "Drop anchor, drop the sails, and wait for the pilot ship." ”

Wen Ping raised his binoculars, looked at the crowd running around in the harbor, and replied disdainfully: "What do barbarians know?" Communicate on an equal footing, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, understand? There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two masters in the country, understand? What kind of equality do my big men talk about with these barbarians? ”

Qin Lun's face was red, and he said angrily: "Your Excellency General, I am also a nobleman...... Qin Lun's voice suddenly lowered, and he said quickly and incoherently in an inaudible voice: "...... I ask for a duel with you. ”

Wen Ping waved his hand in his ear, and said disdainfully: "Qin Fatty, although the sea is windy, I can hear what you said clearly, and after this mission is completed and we return to Qingzhou, we will have a good fight." ”

Qin Lun oozed out of the greasy sweat on his forehead, endured it and endured it, and still mustered up the courage to say: "General, the whole world is not the king's land, this may be true, but there is more than one king in the whole world. There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two lords in the country, this may be true, but there is more than one country in the whole world. How can you be sure that he is your subject? Why does he have to accept your rule? General, we are here to seek wealth, and force is only to ensure the safety of property and the fairness of transactions. General, you and my master, the supreme lord of the city, once confessed: The most meaningful moment in history is the moment when the two civilizations meet. At this moment, you and I are both historical people, please don't let this historical meeting be covered with blood for personal reasons. I strongly ask you, General, that, as Special Envoy for this meeting, I ask you to make an immediate gesture of reconciliation. ”

Wen Ping sneered: "The lord once told me: The dialogue between powerful countries should start with the sword first. Only equal strength can be traded equally. So be it, you do yours, I do mine. I will order the Renwu to take you into the harbor, and you will go ashore to negotiate with them, and tell them that they want to fight and make peace, and that they have made up their minds. ”

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