Chapter 5 Towards Unification Section 44
"More than 700 years ago, there was an old man who decided to pass on his thoughts and knowledge to the common people after traveling around the world, and history took a big leap forward at this moment: from then on, knowledge and culture were no longer the exclusive preserve of a few nobles and families, and the fire of civilization was transmitted to the common people and to thousands of households.
More than 700 years later, we commemorate this saint here, and the land is sacred. Without him, there would be no Li people who can read and break words, and there will be no Liu Xuande who can read and break words. In this sense, we call him a 'saint', call him a 'holy teacher', and he deserves it. ”
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of the Han calendar, March 2, 196 AD, the first year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the first year of the second year of the lunar calendar, the martyr's cemetery by the Qinghe River in Guangrao City, Qingzhou, the spring grass sprouted, Liu Bei was presiding over the unveiling ceremony of the bronze statue of the "Holy Master" Confucius and the "Yasheng" Meng Ke.
Looking at everyone's gaze, Liu Bei took a deep breath and said loudly: "Let's recall the scene at that time: a bamboo went through more than 30 processes and was separated into pieces of slips; In order to allow the characters to be passed down for a long time, each piece is polished to be very smooth and hard; It is also necessary to punch holes in the bamboo slips so that the bamboo slips can be strung together; Write up to twelve words on each piece of bamboo slips (a dozen, referring to a punch hole in a bamboo slip), write at least five words, the bamboo pieces are hard, and the words engraved on each piece of bamboo require a strong man to work for half a day; If there is a mistake in engraving, the bamboo piece needs to be discarded or re-polished.
Think about it, a 100,000-word book needs to cut down a mountain of bamboo to make bamboo slips. Think about how expensive and luxurious knowledge and writing are. However, only the 'Holy Teacher', he is unwilling to take knowledge and writing as his privilege, he broke the barriers of knowledge, and spread the fire of civilization to the people, whenever I think of this situation, I can't help but cry, the five bodies throw themselves to the ground, the name of 'the first teacher of the ages', but I 'the most holy teacher' deserves, he is the first teacher of the world's scholars, as long as you are literate, the saint is your teacher. ”
In the spring breeze, Liu Bei said this sentence impassionedly, and all the scholars prostrated on the ground and kowtowed again and again to show remembrance and reverence.
"More than 700 years have passed, and I often wonder if the saints are trying to spread their culture. Could it be that he broke the shackles and passed on knowledge to the common people in order to become a prison and an obstacle to civilization and progress in a few years? ”
The scholars were prostrate on the ground, and Liu Bei's words sounded like rolling thunder across the sky, leaving everyone stunned.
"What is True Confucianism? The essence of true Confucianism is to break through all confinements, pursue the essence of truth, spread knowledge to the public, and tell the truth of the facts to the people of every household. The 'Holy Teacher' has erected a monument for us and laid the cornerstone of our civilization, and he will never ask for it to be regarded by our descendants as an insurmountable obstacle, as a new cultural barrier, as a new shackle, and this is by no means the original intention of the 'Holy Teacher' to spread knowledge.
More than 700 years have passed, time has passed, and the production environment and living conditions at that time have undergone tremendous changes. I believe that our denial, innovation, and correction of some of the theories of the 'Most Holy Teacher' is by no means a denial of the personality of the 'Most Holy Teacher', but on the contrary, this behavior is exactly the embodiment of the behavior of True Confucianism: breaking all shackles and pursuing the progress of knowledge and the true nature of truth, which is exactly what the 'Most Holy Teacher' taught us.
Our descendants remember the great deeds of the 'Holy Teacher', and our duty is to stand on the shoulders of giants and look ahead through the dark night.
The 'Holy Teacher' laid the first cornerstone of civilization for us, and the responsibility of our descendants is to step on the first cornerstone, add bricks and tiles on this foundation, section by section, layer by layer, and build the majestic edifice of our civilization, we enjoy the glory of the sage's popularization of knowledge, and it is our unshirkable responsibility and obligation to contribute to this civilization.
'Yasheng' Meng Ke has laid the second step of civilization for us, and the glory of Confucianism has taken another step forward, so who is the third cornerstone? Who among you is up to it? ”
Liu Bei slowly glanced at the scholars below, smiled and said: "'The world, not the world of one person', 'The place of righteousness is even though thousands of people go to me', 'Sacrifice life for righteousness', these are all 'Yasheng' said, the changes of the times are now our turn to perfect the third step of Confucianism, break it and then stand up, and establish true Confucianism."
So what is true Confucianism? Before the Han Dynasty, we went through many dynastic changes, and each time the dynastic changes were prosperous at the beginning, and then went into decline, according to the 'Five Virtues', it was the turn of another dynastic change. Can we think about the changes of this dynasty in a different way, the corruption of the rule of officials does not have to be solved by changing an emperor, can we experiment with it, not changing the emperor and changing the form of government?
This time, you went to Luoyang to establish the Criminal Department, which is an attempt to reform the political system. Local officials will write a few lines of sour poems, and they can grasp the criminal law, justice, and the army, so that the lack of local supervision power will eventually lead to the rule of officials. And if you go to establish a judicial system that is independent of local power, you will bring the supervisory power to the central government, and you will add another system of checks and balances to the continuation of the rule of officials. The independence of local internal affairs, the military, and the judiciary is a kind of experiment in our internal affairs reform.
Remember, breaking the shackles, pursuing freedom, breaking through the confinement, ignoring the barriers is the original intention of the Master, you boldly move forward, I look forward to this garden, the third statue born from among you. ”
Liu Bei opened his arms, looked up at the heavens, and appealed loudly: "The great era is coming, and a book written by the 'Holy Master' requires more than ten years of hard work to be copied. Nowadays, a book of more than 100,000 words, the printing press can be turned on for a few hours, thousands of copies can be printed, this is an era of rapid popularization of knowledge, everyone has the possibility to become a new saint, break the shackles, pursue freedom, break through the confinement, ignore the barriers, work hard. ”
Liu Bei ended his speech emotionally, and there was silence in the audience, and everyone recalled those words in shock, until Liu Bei stepped down the stage, and they had not had time to react.
"There was no cheering, no applause, not even a voice of opposition could be heard, and the speech was a real failure." Liu Bei muttered depressedly.
Frustrated, his face was solemn, and he replied: "It takes a while for mortals to precipitate the sound that shakes the soul, and the lord's words have shaken my soul, and I am still reminiscing about it. The words of the lord did not come from the population, but from the thunder, and my ears could not hear anything else now. ”
Liu Bei sneered sullenly: "Zizheng, although we know each other very well, I will be embarrassed if you say this." ”
Frustrated with a dumb smile, he changed the topic and asked: "Lord, I am about to step down, and the new military division has not yet been appointed, in your opinion, who is competent?" Xun Yu? Lu Su? Zhang Zhao? Chen Qun? Zhou Yu? ”
Liu Bei snapped his fingers and counted the candidates one by one, and said, "Xun Yu's qualifications are still shallow; Chen Qun, he is a good hand in internal affairs, but he is still lacking in military affairs; Zhou Yu loves to take risks in battle; Zhang Zhaowen also; Lu Su, a little bit. Zizheng and Fu Hao (Tian Feng) are all people with a sense of the overall situation. Tian Chou is meticulous in his work and pays attention to the subsections; Xu Shu has a lot of plans, but he is reckless. The second public and the first retreat, I need a person with an overall concept, so Lu Su is the first choice, followed by Xun Yu and Zhou Yu.
In this way, one person is still needed to preside over the overall situation in the attack of the Japanese State, you and Tian Feng are either selected to go to the Japanese State, and the other person will temporarily act as a military advisor, train the novices, and then retire at the end of the year, how about it? ”
Frustrated and silent for a moment, he said categorically: "In this case, the lord will quickly send people to Xihe and recruit Tian Feng to go to South Korea to preside over the military and government, and I am willing to stay in my post for the time being and preside over the defense of Qingzhou for the lord." ”
Liu Bei nodded again and again, and without waiting for him to speak, he added in frustration: "It seems that the lord plans to personally preside over the attack of the Wa Kingdom, and Cao Mengde will obtain the finance and taxes of my four counties, and it will be recovered in a year soon, and the attack of the Wa State of the Lord must be fought quickly, and it must be ended this year." ”
Liu Bei listened attentively to the sound of insects chirping in the grass, and forgot everything around him intently, and sighed for a long time before he sighed and said: "It is precisely because I am worried about Cao Mengde that I am reluctant to transfer the soldiers of Qing, Hebei, and the front line, Liu Hun has made preparations in Kyushu for many years, as long as the Izumo soldiers and horses gain a foothold on the beach, our remaining task is to establish the local government, with the strength of my Izumo soldiers and horses, there is no suspense in this battle, the key is how to kill his clan and destroy his species, the mystery needs to be carefully grasped, so I have to deal with it personally." ”
After pacing a few steps slowly, Liu Bei instructed: "Zizheng, after you retire, write a memoir." Historically, almanacs have been written by one person, and the truth of history has been tampered with arbitrarily with personal likes and dislikes, you write a memoir, write about how we started our business in the first place, write about the various tribulations we have experienced, and write about how we explored the road of the New Deal, so that future generations can know that the current life is not easy to come by, well, after you write it, I will annotate it for you - history should not be written by one person. ”
Frustrated nodded in agreement, and quickly planned the structure of the entire book in his mind.
Since then, the book has been written in a conventional narrative theme, but after Liu Bei's annotation, the book has become a classic military history work, with a total of more than 100,000 words describing historical events, while Liu Bei's annotation has reached 400,000 words. When Fu Shou described the marching process, Liu Beijia's annotations described in detail the composition of the marching columns, the distribution of scouts, and how the command system of the Chinese army coordinated and commanded; When Frustrated Shou recounted the camp, Liu Bei explained the setting of the camp, the arrangement of the patrol posts, the diet of the soldiers, and so on.
Liu Bei's annotations were not limited to the military, he also quoted some military commendation orders at that time, explained the reward and punishment system in the army at that time, praised some outstanding officers and soldiers, and even recalled in detail the appearance, demeanor and other details of the officers and soldiers at that time. In this way, the book has gone beyond the scope of a memoir and has become a true record of the life of the time. At the same time, in this book, Liu Bei also recorded in detail the discussions and disputes when making political decisions at that time, and made a review of the pros and cons of some political decisions at that time.
After the completion of this book, this realistic reproduction of the memoir genre became a popular historical subject at that time. In the second edition of this book, Frustration added some annotations to Liu Bei's annotations. In the third edition, Tian Feng also participated in it, and as one of Liu Bei's two important ministers at that time, he annotated the account in the text in detail. In the end, the book was expanded to millions of words, and the name was "Ten Years", which truly reproduced the process of Qingzhou's entrepreneurship in the first ten years and became a classic history textbook at that time.
From then on, history was no longer written by one person, and the genealogy of emperors was no longer told......
Frustrated, while reminiscing, on the side of Liu Bei's carriage, the two of them recalled the past time, and at the same time imagined the future, with the poor dagger wars and frequent Qingzhou and Izumo to develop to the current situation, how many hardships have been experienced. Today, Izumo Castle has become the technology center of Dahan based on salt, iron, shipbuilding, and machinery manufacturing; With the establishment of Lei Lou and the development of books and education, new theories and theories emerged one after another, and Guangrao City became the center of northern Chinese culture. With two base points, one in the south and one in the north, every move is affecting the political situation of the entire Han Dynasty.
In the carriage, the two recalled the difficulty of starting a business, and couldn't help but sigh at each other, and when they sighed, the carriage suddenly stopped, and the two people in the car were caught off guard and hit the roof of the car.
Frustrated with anger: "Bastard, how did you catch the car?" What's going on? ”
The guard replied, "Someone stopped the car." ”
Frustrated and angry, he asked: "Under the city of Guangrao, who dares to be so bold?" ”
As if to answer Frustrated Silk's question, a clear voice shouted: "Li Jin, a side branch of the Li clan in Juye County, Yanzhou, has come to pay homage to the head of Lu Bu Lu Wenhou." ”
Speaking of Lu Bulai, Liu Bei's new hatred and old hatred came to his heart, and he gritted his throat and said: "Stop!" ”
Gao Shun and Tai Shi Ci finally got the exact news that Zhang Yan'er had been eaten by Lu Bu's Bingzhou soldiers, and the Bingzhou soldiers led by Lu Bu, the "First Hero of the Three Kingdoms", not only ate the beautiful Zhang Yan'er alone, but they also slaughtered countless Han ladies who looted from Luoyang and swallowed them to satisfy their hunger.
Whenever he thinks that the lively and lovely Yan'er has become someone else's meal, Liu Bei is sad and hateful. And the initiator was the "First General of the Three Kingdoms" Lu Bu, which made Liu Bei swallow Lu Bu's mind alive.
Frustrated with his hand, Liu Bei, who wanted to jump out of the car, asked across the carriage: "Lu Wenhou should have been killed a few months ago, right?" Since the public is paying homage to the head, why is it so delayed? ”
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