Chapter 722: The Book of Despair (I)

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Outside, the north wind was howling. The snow was falling, and the hall became so quiet that even the squeaking of grease dripping on the fire could be heard clearly.

Shen Mo obviously gave the steps, but Mr. Xiao did not give up, and his eyes became more and more unkind. Some of them looked at him viciously.

The samurai on both sides didn't know what would happen next, and they all stared at each other viciously, their hands pressed on their blades, ready to fight.

Just when the atmosphere between the two sides became more and more stiff, and it seemed that it was about to be impossible to end, a thin figure suddenly jumped between the two and cut off their sight.

It was the little beggar. Ye'er, I saw him facing Mr. Xiao and stretching out his hand to shake it in front of his eyes. smiled: "How old are you two adults, and you still learn from children to look at each other?" ”

Mr. Xiao's originally condensed aura suddenly leaked and said, "Adults speak, children don't interject." ”

"But you're not talking. The little beggar smiled, pointed his fingers on his chin and said, "Actually, I know, sir, you lost to the master brother twice in a row, and you feel uncomfortable, and you want to get back face, right?" ”

Mr. Xiao cried and laughed: "What do children know? ”

"A little child" The beggar pouted unhappily: "Brother, you come to judge." Is Mr. Xiao a Bu Xinyan? ”

His powerful elder brother didn't know when he stood aside, he didn't say anything when he smiled when he heard the words, but he looked at Mr. Xiao with a pair of eyes, and his eyes were full of warnings, as if to say, "Don't come nonsense."

Mr. Xiao looked at Shen Mo, and then at the young man, and understood what he meant, but he was still unwilling, and smiled provocatively: "Brother, why don't you have some fun?" ”

"What's the fun?" The young man asked.

"Let's have the samurai on both sides put it to the test." Mr. Xiao knew the youth very well, and knew that he liked to let his men fight with others the most, and that they would win every time, often fighting each other, and even causing large-scale conflicts, so he provoked: "See whose samurai is more powerful?" ”

Sure enough, he scratched the itch of the young man, and he said quite emotionally: "How about it, do you dare?" But he said this to Shen Mo.

Shen Mo smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, my brothers are warriors who protect me, not playthings for people to amuse." Even if he rejected the other party's request, he did not lose face at all, and he showed a very high level.

Hearing his words, the young man was thoughtful. As if reflecting on what he did in the past, he is obviously a very sincere child.

At this time, the little beggar protested loudly: "I hate fighting and killing the most, brother, didn't you say that as long as I go back with you, you will listen to me for everything?" ”

Hearing this, the young man touched the back of his head and said, "I seem to have said, forget it, if you don't fight, you won't fight." As he spoke, he stretched and said, "Go back to sleep, you have to go tomorrow." Then he turned and departed. Trying to find trouble twice in a row, but was disturbed by the little beggar, Mr. Xiao couldn't cry or laugh, and asked him, "Who are you with?" ”

"With you. The little beggar smiled and said: "We are close, so I just talk about you, because I am not familiar with the master brother..."

"Forget it" Mr. Xiao couldn't breathe out, so he had to say sullenly: "What kind of interest has made you stir up, are you happy now?" ”

I'm sorry for the little beggar and said pitifully: "I didn't mean it, at most I did bad things with good intentions." ”

"Hey," it was too hard to talk to this kid, and he was confused and angry. Mr. Xiao sighed helplessly and said, "Forget it." I was tired and went back to sleep. Then he patted his ass and got up, and said to Shen Mo: "Thank you for burning the knife." With that, he left.

Silent thought the little beggar. was about to leave, but who would have thought that he sat down beside him and said with a smile: "Big brother, you are really amazing." ”

"How can there be" Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "It's just a small skill of carving insects." ”

"Can you teach me how to guess a riddle?" The beggar said with a flattering face: "There are also poems to be used against, I want to learn them." ”

"This can't be learned overnight," Shen Mo said with a smile, "It takes a long time to accumulate." ”

"I have time," the little beggar pouted, "but I don't have a teacher." ”

"Mr. Xiao's knowledge is very good." He smiled silently.

He said with a sad face: "I don't see each other twice a year, and when I come, I drink with my father Khan all day long, and I can't count on it." ”

Shen Mo said softly: "Actually, it's okay to study by yourself. ”

"Really? The little beggar said happily.

"I'm not liaring." He smiled silently, and told him what books he should start with and then what books he should read. From shallow to deep, from simple to difficult. Gradually, the level is raised. said: "The ancients are familiar with 300 Tang poems, and they can't compose poems and slip. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will be immersed in prostitution for a long time. Poetry pairs come naturally. ”

The little beggar's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he silently read the title of the book given by Shen Mo, lest he not remember it, and took out a small notebook from his bosom and wrote it all down with a thin eyebrow pencil. Tilting his head and thinking for a while, he looked at Shen Mo longingly and said, "If I encounter something I don't understand, can I write to you?" ”

Looking at his innocent eyes, it was difficult to say the words of refusal, and Shen Mo finally nodded. Leave the address of Nian Yongkang's house to him, and say: "My surname is Xu, the characters are clear, you write my name on the envelope and send it to this address." I'll get it. ”

"Is this your home?" The little beggar blinked and said, "Can I go to your house to play?" ”

"This is not my home" Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "It's my friend's home, he will transfer it to me." ”

"That's right, the little beggar was a little disappointed. But he quickly recovered: "I don't know my address yet, wait for me to write to tell you." ”

The silent leader smiled, "Okay." ”

The little beggar pestered him again to ask this and that, and Shen Mo's patience was very good, and he answered them one by one, and there was no perfunctory color, which made the little beggar very useful, and he said to Shen Mo: "You are really a good person. ”

"How so?" He smiled silently.

"I've grown so big, and I haven't met someone who has the ability to tell me so much." The beggar said seriously.

"Hehe" smiled silently: "How do you know that I have the ability?" ”

"They all say that Xiao Kongxuan is capable", the beggar said confidently! "You are better than Xiao Yansheng, of course you are a man, and you are done."

"Hahaha," Shen Mo couldn't help but laugh.

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When the little beggar leaves. It was late, and Shen Mo wrapped himself in a blanket, feeling a little tired.

Tie Zhu leaned over and shrugged and said, "The one surnamed Xiao has wanted to stir up trouble several times." ”

Shen Mo led slightly, and lowered his voice: "He recognized me, this is his rare opportunity to take revenge, but those Mongols don't want to cause trouble, he can only do it in a hurry." "After all, this is in the land of Daming, unless they are sure that they will catch all of their people and not miss a single one, they don't want to return to the grassland.

"What about us?" Tie Zhu asked in a low voice, "Just let him go?" ”

"I haven't thought about it yet," Shen Mo shook his head and said in a low voice, "Besides, now is not a good opportunity to be arrested." "Shen Mo had already calculated, in such a bad climate, even if he went to find reinforcements as soon as he found these people, it would not be possible to arrive tomorrow; Moreover, the mobility of the Mongols was much stronger than that of the Ming army, and if it were not an ambush, no matter how many people there were, they would only eat ashes.

But Shen Mo's heart was really itchy, and he wanted to eat this piece of fat for the soldiers at the border gate: "Let me think about it again and see if there is any good way." As he spoke, he slowly closed his eyes.

Seeing that the adults didn't want to talk anymore, Tie Zhu quietly sat back in his place and whispered to arrange for the guards to be on duty in shifts in the middle of the night.

The other party also had a similar arrangement, and after a commotion, the hall fell silent again, of course, this time for a much longer time.

Of course, Shen Mo didn't have to be on duty all night, just sleep on his sleep, this was not a room after all, there was no warm bed, and in the second half of the night, the fire was not so strong, although it was wrapped in two thick blankets. He was still frozen.

The snoring in the hall echoed one after another. It can even suppress the sound of the wind outside, for some nervous breakdowns, in this cold and noisy environment, once you wake up, you don't want to fall asleep again, so you simply rub your eyes and take out the master's letter from your arms. In the faint flickering firelight. The square and heroic font is even more angular:

"The lover of the apprentice is like a meeting: I make this book and you say goodbye, when you look at this book, my master and apprentice have been separated by yin and yang"

"I have reached the age of knowing my fate, and I know that no matter the emperor or the general, they will all have the same end. No one can escape the day when they turn into loess, and they should face it safely and say no more. However, I am afraid that the world will not notice my intentions, saying that I have "sold my reputation and invited my name" in my life, and I have three or five admonitions that cannot be listened to. Therefore, I wrote this book for my disciples:

"Looking at my life, I am really stubborn and ineffective, and I have been punished a lot. However, he has to be taught by a gentleman. Hearing and seeing, practicing by himself, always having the heart of serving the people, and not daring to sell his false name for himself. Every time I look at myself in the mirror, I see a white-haired old man, I know that my ambition is not paid, and Feng Tang is old, I can't help but cry, and my liver and intestines are broken. However, he abandoned his self-development, and for more than 20 years, he was cautious and cautious. The court is well-dressed, and it is said that there is no blame. The shocking actions in his life are nothing more than the impeachment of the traitorous party, nor is it deliberate, but when he sees the bloody clouds everywhere, the streets are full of wolf dogs, and the sky is hanging upside down, but no one dares to speak, and occasionally acts of indignation

"The ancients said: "The sage was angry and calmed the people of the world." Your master is nothing but a mustard seed, without the ability of a saint, let alone the virtue of a saint, and you have no heart to invite a straight name. All that is said and done is "I should say what I should do." Carry on. I can't pretend to be deaf and dumb because the people of the world pretend to be deaf and dumb, I am a disciple of the saints, the one who upholds. But the saints teach, do what I ought to do. It's not my intention to discredit me."

Seeing this, the silent eyes blurred. A feeling of bitterness and resentment filled his heart, and before opening the letter, he had imagined along the way several things that the master might say, and it might be that he had stopped teaching; It may be a generous statement; It is possible to point out the country and so on" I just didn't expect it. It turned out to be such a confession full of grievances and pain.

In his impression, the teacher is a strict and harsh old scholar in his private acquaintance, a real celebrity who is chic and other on the dockside, a strong order that is inseparable from the traitorous party in the court, and an iron man who generously dies on the execution ground" But no matter what, the image of the teacher is very real, with a contemptuous and stubborn expression on his face, which has never changed.

But now, he finally saw the painful and fragile side of the teacher, and it turned out that the teacher didn't care. His pretense, his arrogance, are all to numb his proud heart, yes. The teacher is proud and has always had a strong sense of self-esteem, but the reality has hit him again and again. has never really stretched his eyebrows, and the only major thing he has done in his life has been criticized by many people.

Yes, there are many villains who criticize him, and Shen Mo has also heard of it, they have the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman, Shen Lian is relying on his two noble protΓ©gΓ©s, knowing that no matter how much trouble he causes. can be safe and sound, and only then dare to take risks. impeached the father and son of the Yan family. Otherwise, why did he go to school first, but he was safe and sound? And Yang Jisheng and others, who followed the book, died and died, and they were crippled, and there was no good result?

Especially this year, after the collapse of the Yan Party, the above has repeatedly let out the wind to reappoint those officials who have been dismissed for violating the Yan Party. Among them, Shen Lian's voice was very high. At that time, I was silent. The teacher just doesn't agree to make a comeback, and he will be happy, so he is optimistic about the change. At the same time, the kind of saying that Shen Lian "sells fame and reputation, and what he seeks is not small" is even more marketable.

Although it is by no means mainstream, it is very harsh. It also reached the ears of silence. According to the silent philosophy of life, no matter what you do, there will always be people who say strange things, if you jump out and argue. It fell into his arms and became the ladder for him to become famous, so Shen Mo kept silent. Hopefully, time will take away these boring doubts. But he finally knew that he was wrong, very wrong! He can be pampered and not frightened, and the clouds are light and light, because he has too many "six champions, protΓ©gΓ©s of the Son of Heaven, the youngest feudal official, and the youngest senior official in the ministry." These dazzling halos accompanied him all the way. So that he doesn't have to care about other people's slander at all. There is no need to defend yourself.

But the teacher is not," he has almost nothing, so he cherishes his reputation for integrity. He couldn't stand the doubts of others, and even blinded himself, couldn't see Mount Tai, and only heard those voices who questioned him, but he couldn't see more people in the words that allowed him. Shen Lian even sent it out. "If you are in the boat, on the execution ground of Beixuan Mansion, will it not attract these questions? , the wail, it can be seen that rumors hurt it. It's been to the point of being ** hard.

A hero destined to go down in history, but before he died, he was struggling to defend his reputation, which is not only his own sorrow, but also the sorrow of this nation, and he knows that as soon as the news of the teacher's death spreads, all doubts and slander will be made. will be replaced by mourning and remembrance and praise, but why do you have to die after the lights go out. Can everyone let go of prejudices and gloom in their hearts? Don't you know that what you say now, the deceased will never hear?

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Thinking about the grievances of the teacher before his death, he regretted his concern for the teacher, which stayed on the surface. I never thought about what the teacher thought, and the silent tears were uncontrollable, wiped them dry and flowed down, and it took a long time to calm down and continue to read.

After all, Shen Lian is Shen Lian's second envoy, no matter how much he is dissatisfied and complains, it is also out of his love for this country, so he used more space to describe to Shen Mo his observations on the situation in northern Xinjiang over the years, and put forward his own views.

He said that before I arrived in northern Xinjiang, I always heard about it. The target is as fierce as a wolf, as vicious as a bee, brutal and lacking in morality, violating the righteousness of the heavens and the earth, and wandering back and forth in the northern frontier like a candle ghost, which has become a great trouble for my heart for a hundred years.

Not only me, but also the scholars and doctors of the imperial court thought so, believing that the Mongols were born enemies of our Ming Dynasty, and that if they had enough food and grass and sufficient soldiers and horses, they would definitely ignite the flames of war and intrude on the border; Even if you knock on the threshold with humble language, and offer gifts to ask for a meeting? It's just hoping to get the opportunity to get the opportunity of the mutual market and take advantage of the Ming Dynasty.

This perception is deeply ingrained and seems to be infallible.

But I have been living in the frontier for seven years, and I keep my eyes open every day, observing what is happening here, and I have some say in the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty, and I want to say that my opinion has changed.

First of all, it is necessary to admit that the Mongols have never lacked bravery. And after more than 100 years of multiplication. It is difficult to hoe it long like a weed, and it is difficult to catch it on the boundless grassland like a swimming fish, even if it is Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, and Cheng Zu's ability, leading the strong army that once pacified the world, it cannot be eradicated, and now I am in decline in the Ming Dynasty, and the generals are as stupid as pigs, and the army is unbearable" I know that the imperial court intends to transfer the army that won in the south to deal with the Mongols, but IMHO, even if two or three generals are produced, with tens of thousands of elites, they can defeat each other on the battlefield, but it is impossible to wipe them all out, Moreover, the border of our Ming Dynasty stretched for thousands of miles, and the Mongols took the opportunity to be mobile and flexible, and as far as I know, among the generals in the south. There are even those who can't ride horses, so I'm going to say. Relying on force will never be able to solve the problem of northern Xinjiang.

But I found out that Mongolians are also people. Genghis Khan's ambitions have long since faded in their blood, and perhaps some princes and nobles still have delusions, but the Mongolian people have long been tired of the difficult life, and they are eager to settle down and exchange their production for living materials, even like the Central Plains. Live a life of abundance. I'm not saying good things about the enemy. Because of the sad fact that after all these years of repeated plundering by the Mongols, our border provinces, as abject as they are, are now being robbed by the Mongols. They couldn't grab what they needed at all, they didn't dare to go deep into the interior, and the imperial court also closed the mutual market, so they have been in a state of extreme lack of supplies.

And I want to point out that it is the Ming army, not the Mongols, who have caused the most damage to the northern Xinjiang and caused the common people to suffer greatly. Those nine-sided generals who raised their own troops and respected themselves regarded the soldiers and the people as their own private property, and did not hesitate to squeeze and exploit them, and the common people said that although the Mongols were like wolves and tigers, they only came once or twice a year, and they could live a peaceful life for a while, but the border troops were there all day long, so that they lived in dire straits all year round.

That's why the common people will ignore life and death and flee to Bansheng. Betrayal is like a landslide and the ground is cracking, the situation is critical like an embankment collapsed, and the people of the Ming Dynasty could not stand the oppression of their own country, so they fled outside the Great Wall and asked for the protection of the enemy, what an ironic thing, and it just proves who is the greatest.

The government army did not repent, but characterized them as "treason", once they were caught, they were connected to the nine clans. I said that this is like the wolf outside and the tiger at home, both want to eat people, the common people can only choose one, eat less, can make them live longer, even if it is treason, it is because this country is not worthy of their nostalgia!

Moreover, although they were wronged, they still wore Chinese clothes and crowns, and their weddings and funerals were all according to Chinese etiquette, and I think they are still Chinese. He didn't betray his country, but he was forced by the situation to flee the court. I think. These people should not be persecuted. It is time to reflect on their mistakes and take gentle countermeasures, especially to solve their own problems, in order to eliminate the resentment in their hearts. that the people may no longer flee.

And I found one. phenomenon, many Mongolian herdsmen, also moved their families to the Bansheng area, and "Ming rebels, mixed together, get along with each other, your wife once lived there for a period of time. As I saw with my own eyes, they herded and farmed together, spoke the same words, and lived in roughly the same habits, so it was difficult to distinguish which was Mongolian and which was Han.

So I now think that the Mongols and the Han people do have a deep hatred for destroying our country, and we have destroyed their country. They have killed many of us, and we have caused countless of their widows, but when will they be retribution? If the people of the two ethnic groups can be allowed to stop fighting, why can't they let go of their hatred first?

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