Chapter 22: The Unknown Place 3
Seeing that Zhao Hongyin is still in the secret room, there may be other things that Zhao Xiaozhao hasn't known yet-maybe, the answer is about to be revealed today-
These secret rooms are all dark places with no fingers, if Zhao Hongyin hadn't prepared an oil lamp in advance, maybe he would have stumbled and had to fall on his heels. At these moments, Zhao Xiaozhao didn't care if it was dark or not, he was just looking forward to what Zhao Hongyin was about to say next, and walked behind his grandfather unhurriedly, with the two big words "expectation" written on his face.
When he came to the end of this secret room, he encountered a stone wall again, and like before, Zhao Hongyin also used the jade pendant as a key to open the door of another secret room, and the two entered it together.
The situation here is also different from the previous one -
This secret room was much smaller than the previous one, and Zhao Hongyin lit the candle in front of the table, and the candlelight found that many tablets were placed on this hall. Zhao Xiaozhao didn't have to guess to know that there were nine out of ten people enshrined in this secret room, and it was not 100% the ancestor of the Zhao family.
The more closely I looked, the more eerie and terrifying it became, after all, the room was full of these tablets, and other people would have this feeling when they saw it, a creepy feeling.
This secret room enshrines the tablets of the ancestors of the Zhao clan in the past dynasties. Hundreds of tablets, densely packed, close together. Zhao Xiaozhao took a general look around and found that the tablet at the bottom of the front that looked very new was written on the tablets of Zhao Hao, Zhao Ting, Zhao Jing and other ancestors. There are many names on them that Zhao Xiaozhao can't see, and some can't read either, but these are not important.
At this moment, Zhao Hongyin knelt down on the pu fan, and saw his grandfather kneeling in front of the ancestor's tablet, and Zhao Xiaozhao knelt down like his grandfather.
"The sky is above, the ancestors of the Zhao family are above, today I, Zhao Hongyin (Zhao Dezhao), come to worship the ancestors!" Both said at the same time.
"The ancestors have spirits, and my Zhao family has a queen! Thanks to the blessing of God and our ancestors, I now have three sons, one daughter and one grandson, this is my grandson Zhao Dezhao! β
"Zhao Dezhao, a descendant of the Zhao family, greets the ancestors......" Zhao Xiaozhao folded his hands and knelt down reverently.
"No, the descendants of Zhao Hongyin to meet the ancestors......" After speaking, Zhao Hongyin pulled his grandson again and bowed his head, and after getting up and worshipping, he continued:
"The ancestors are above, Dezhao and my son are below, in the past I followed Emperor Zhuangzong to conquer the world, the south and the north, and collected Yiding, extinguished Yan, Pingshan Shandong, and Ding Weibo, which can be described as high-spirited, and thought that it was with the decision, such a talented and strategic master. Everyone in the world said, 'Emperor Zhuangzong raised the river and Fen with his ambition, and pacified Bian, Luo with a strong battle, and the family feud was both snow, and the country was prosperous. Pity a generation of heroes, success and defeat Xiao He, forget the difficulties of Mu Mu, and the desolation of the birds. On the outside, the servants are chaotic, and on the inside, they are in the morning. Jin was stingy with goods and wealth, arousing the resentment of the six divisions; Collect public opinion endowments, and exhaust the fat of thousands of surnames. 'Alas...... As a result, the country died and laughed for the world.
However, the world is impermanent, after the death of the Tang Dynasty, I entered the Han Dynasty again, during the Han Qianyou period, with the army to conquer Wang Jingyu Fengxiang, was shot in the left eye by the enemy's arrow, fought hard to resist the enemy, and was later promoted to the commander of the Holy Capital. Now the Han Dynasty died and entered the Zhou, which was for the Zhou ministers. I don't know what will happen after today, but I was born in troubled times, and human life is like a mustard! Alack! Zhao Hongyin told the past one by one.
Listening to what his grandfather said, Zhao Xiaozhao suddenly thought that at that time, with the military genius of Li Cunqiao in the Later Tang Dynasty, as long as he had even half of Zhou Shizong's Chai Rong's political talent, it was possible to complete the great cause of reunification, after all, the reunification situation at that time was relatively clear. Ten points in the world, Li Cunqiao has at least seven points, and there are only five or six small separatist regimes left, and their strength is relatively weak; if Li Cunqiao can "attack the weak and attack the enemy," it will not take a few years for the world to be unified.
As the saying goes: 'Sorrow and hard work can rejuvenate the country, and Yiyu can die'. It's a pity! Some people also said that it was not his pleasure, pleasure was just a disguise, he wanted to use the servants and eunuchs to control the military leaders under him, but later those military leaders saw the signs (sample, the eunuch politics in the late Tang Dynasty were there, and they still wanted to yin us), so the cup was later. Although the tragedy of Li Cunmiao's "defeat due to arrogance" and the tragedy of Qin Fujian's "defeat due to leniency" are different in nature, there is one thing in common, that is, their failure is actually the failure of character, they are actually very simple, but simple people often encounter strong resistance in the competition for survival in society.
Wang Fuzhi of the Ming Dynasty commented on Li Cunmiao: "Cunmiao can endure defeat, but it is not enough to win, so victory will fall." If you lose, you will only die, and if you win, you will be arrogant and extravagant. This point of view is very correct, the reason why Li Cunmiao failed was not because of his intelligence, but because of his measurement: to be the measure of the co-master of the world, so Wang Fuzhi said that he was "wise and immeasurable".
People are simple, but society has never been simple. Character determines fate, that's the truth.
Then Zhao Hongyin said:
"Today, Shangyi Xiping Pusaka, Beizhen Yetai, there is the labor of domination, showing the amount of heroism. The total tiger brigade is not without shame in Shenjing; Ascended to the throne with a dragon map, and then explained the imperial style. Today's heroes are strategic, pro-virtuous ministers are far from villains, advocating frugality, benevolence and love for the people, can be assisted, we are the two fathers and sons of the Zhao family are Zhou Chen, Fang Jin's troops are refined, the instrument is used, the group knows the law, and the generals use their lives. β
After Zhao Hongyin finished speaking, he got up and stood up from the futon, then pulled up Zhao Xiaozhao beside him, and said earnestly:
"Zhao'er, you are now a member of my Zhao family, grandpa, I am now old and decrepit, as a descendant of the Zhao family, I should shoulder the heavy responsibility of continuing the family and prospering the family, there are some things Grandpa wants to tell you the truth, and then you should listen carefully, don't listen to a word."
Zhao Xiaozhao felt that his grandfather was going to move seriously, so he hurriedly withdrew Fang Cai's distraction, and tried to calm his mentality, "Zhao'er obeys orders!" β
Zhao Hongyin asked his grandson to kneel in front of the ancestral tablet, then cleared his throat and said:
"The sky is above, the ancestors are below, and the descendants of the Zhao family should establish a family with civil and military affairs, abide by the Confucian principles of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, gentleness, courtesy, and frugality. Self-cultivation and family governance, peace in the world. β
At the beginning, Zhao Hongyin said this, and then said:
"In the past few decades, the Tang Dynasty lost its way and lost Wu and Shu, the Jin Dynasty lost its way and lost its seclusion, and then the world was divided, and the countries went their own way, and the Qin and Twilight Chu were in the Later Jin Dynasty, and the thieves of the Later Jin Dynasty recognized the thief as their father, and secretly cooperated with the Khitan and this thief split the sixteen states of my Chinese homeland! Such acts are pointed out by thousands of people, and it is difficult to write about them. Later, when Jin won the world, many feudal towns were not obeyed, there were many soldiers, the treasury was empty, and the people were poor, but the Khitan was still insatiable. Although the person who cut my homeland has died, the land of the sixteen states is still in the hands of the Khitan, and the remnants of the homeland are all under the ravages of the Hu people. I often feel this when I read this, and I collect the sixteen states of Guanshan! β
"Since my ancestors three generations are civil officials, the ancestors of Yin De and my generation and my son are military attachΓ©s, my Zhao family is still the family of the eunuchs, today under the division, but the troubled times are officials, the day is not safe, the world is disturbed, the soldiers are not appeased, the so-called 'governing the world with literature, troubled times with force', since my Zhao family has been standing in the land of Hebei for more than 100 years, but my ancestors have been lost in the hands of the Hu people, in order to protect my Zhao family's foundation, to establish a family with martial arts, this is the move of the world, I hope the ancestors do not blame. I hope that my ancestors will bless my Zhao descendants with endless life and peace! β
"Children and grandchildren should take the recovery of the lost land as their own responsibility, and the whole world as the unification of the important task, Zhao'er, you must remember these points!"
Then after listening to Zhao Hongyin's instructions to himself, Zhao Xiaozhao nodded and said, "Zhao'er must abide by the family motto of the ancestors and the teachings of the grandfather!" It is our duty to regain the lost land, and it is our important task to unify the whole world! Then he bowed down and bowed to the ancestral tablet a few times.
Zhao Hongyin was sincerely pleased with his grandson's behavior, nodded approvingly, and then took his grandson to another hidden place.
ps. The sixteen prefectures include: You (present-day Beijing), Jiji (present-day Jinjixian County), Ying (present-day Hejian, Hebei), Zhuo (present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei), Mo (present-day Renqiu, Hebei), Tan (present-day Miyun, Beijing), Shun (present-day Shunyi, Beijing), Xin (present-day Zhuolu, Hebei), Concubine (present-day Guanting Reservoir), Confucian (present-day Yanqing, Beijing), Wu (present-day Xuanhua, Hebei), Yun (present-day Datong, Shanxi), Ying (present-day Yingxian, Shanxi), Huan (present-day Northeast Shuo County, Shanxi), Shuo (present-day Shuo County, Shanxi), Wei (present-day Wei County, Hebei). The whole area is about 600 kilometers long from east to west and about 200 kilometers wide from north to south, with an area of 120,000 square kilometers.
Xue Juzheng, the author of "The History of the Old Five Dynasties", once commented on Li Cunmiao: "With the heroic plan to rise the river and Fen, to fight and calm Bian, Luo, the family feud is both snow, and the country is prosperous.