Three years after the Battle of Mihara.

The world is peaceful, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the Hu and Han ethnic groups are all respectful.

After ten years of innovation, there was nothing to do in the world, and Li Chongjiu, the lord of the world, decided to go out on patrol to inspect the Quartet.

Li Chongjiu took the queen, the imperial concubine, and the princes to lead hundreds of officials to inspect everywhere. The same patrol, but now Li Chongjiu has strictly ordered the local government not to show the momentum and style of receiving Yang Guang to tour the world. When officials from all over the country saw Li Chongjiu's strict orders, they could only obey.

After the royal driving party mourned the soldiers who died in the original battle in Sanyuan, Li Chongjiu continued to the west to the source of the Longyou River.

At this moment, the source of the Longyou River is calm, two years ago, the Great Zhao general Xue Wanche led 30,000 people to defeat Tubo, and the lord of Tubo immediately surrendered. Now this place of the source of the river is extremely quiet, and the people of the Han Dynasty keep the order, and they exchange with each other in the field opened by the Han people, and the two families have never fought again.

Above the source of the river, there are more than 100 springs, or springs or muds, and the flowing water is murmuring.

The eldest son Li Ying excitedly drove a war horse along the river, and Li Chongjiu also rode a horse with Cai Wei in his arms, as for Yang Ehuang, Li Zhiwan, Qu Yanran, and Mu Deyun were preparing dinner with the palace maids.

"Father, father, what's the name of this place?" Li Ying asked, pointing to the distant river.

Li Chongjiu and Li Ying rode side by side and said, "This is the Xingsu River!" ”

Cai Wei immediately said: "Father, I know, I know, this is the source of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River originates here!" ”

Li Chongjiu touched his daughter's head lovingly and said, "Cai Wei, that's right." ”

Li Chongjiu said: "Ying'er, do you know? The second emperor of Huang Yan back then. that is, to lead the tribes from above the source of the river on the west side. Along the Yellow River, by the original small tribe of only a few tens of thousands. Tens of millions of people have multiplied to this day. ”

Li Ying and Li Caiwei both nodded, revealing a leisurely expression.

Li Chongjiu raised his horsewhip at this time and said: "Eagle, you look at the Yellow River, rushing to the sea, but the source is just such a river, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Li Ying pondered for a moment and said: "Father's teachings and ministers, Mount Tai does not let the soil, so it can become great; The river and the sea do not choose a trickle. Therefore, it can be as deep as it is. ”

Li Chongjiu asked: "That's a good point, but Mount Tai doesn't let the soil, so it can become big; The river and the sea do not choose a trickle, so where can it come from in terms of its depth? ”

Li Ying replied: "Mr. taught a few days ago, from the historical records, Li Silie's biography. ”

Li Chongjiu nodded approvingly and said, "Your Chinese language has improved!" But I ask you, now I have a great Zhao Tuo land of thousands of miles, and there are tens of millions of people, including Hu people. There are also Han people, let you choose, will you choose to be a Hu person, or be a Han person? ”

Li Ying was excited. Remembering what my mother had been admonishing, the teacher's usual indoctrination immediately replied: "Of course I am a Han!" ”

Li Chongjiu smiled dumbly when he heard this: "Then I asked you." What is the difference between the Han and the Hu? What's the difference for you? ”

In the face of Li Chongjiu's inquiry, Li Ying was a little nervous and said: "Most Han people make a living from farming. Most of the Hu people make a living by herding horses and hunting, as far as I am concerned...... ...... to me"

Speaking of which. Li Ying began to stutter.

At this time, Li Chongjiu slapped his hand on Li Ying's shoulder, Li Ying lowered his head and said, "Father, I, I ......"

Li Chongjiu said: "I can't answer, it's okay, you know?" The ancestors of the Han people also lived as nomads! ”

"Really? Father? Li Ying asked in surprise.

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "Have you forgotten that I told you that people's first profession is hunters? Whether nomadic or nomadic is the same, there is no fixed place to live, and they move from one place to another. It is also said in the historical records that the Yellow Emperor taught Xiong to fight the Pixiu Tiger in order to fight with Emperor Yan in the field of Hanquan. You also know how to domesticate large beasts such as bears, pixie, and tigers if you are not nomadic to drive away enemies. So now those Hu people are actually living the same life as our Han ancestors. ”

Li Caiwei high-fived and said: "Father, it turns out that the ancestors of our Han people are also Hu people!" ”

Li Chongjiu shook his head with a smile and said, "I can't say that, but whether it is the East or the West, any farming civilization is developed from nomadic hunting and nomadic civilization. Many Han ministers in the court are afraid of the Hu people like tigers, saying that the Hu people are cunning and changeable, in fact, what is so terrible, our ancestors came from nomadic people, and nomadism is just a life that our ancestors are unwilling to live. ”

"Father, is that because nomadism is harder? Farming, you can be self-sufficient, your family has surplus food, you don't have to move around, you just need to settle down. ”

Li Chongjiu shook his head and said: "This is not a covetousness for comfort, and on the contrary, it is a greater sacrifice and courage to give up the nomadic life that has always been inherent in it, and choose a new life such as farming." You also see that our Han people have today, which is the result of thousands of years of agricultural civilization, and the Mobei Hu people, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Huns in the Qin and Han dynasties, and then to today's Turks, even if they have been herding horses and sheep for thousands of years, they are still spinning on the grassland! ”

"Therefore, our ancestors chose to be right, I Ching said, Tianxingjian, the gentleman with self-improvement, our ancestors from the nomadic civilization into the agricultural civilization, this is the progress of self-improvement. However, you may ask, why the agricultural civilization is superior to the nomadic civilization, so why the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by the dog Rong, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court had to make peace with the Xiongnu, and later the Wuhu chaos in China! ”

Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, Li Ying nodded, which was also what he had always wondered.

Li Chongjiu said: "In fact, not only China, but also many other countries in the world have many farming peoples, who have been conquered by nomads, and have either surrendered and become enslaved, or completely perished, destroying the country and destroying the species. But being destroyed and defeated does not mean that the agrarian civilization is inferior to the nomadic civilization. To think that nomadic civilization is superior to agrarian civilization is precisely to deny the original choice of our ancestors. ”

"Historically, the agrarian civilization was destroyed by other nomadic civilizations, which can only show that the agrarian civilization itself is not strong enough, and at the same time forget the martial and pioneering spirit of the ancestors when they were nomadic. I often tell you about Han Tong, what is Han Tong, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, whenever a noble family was born as a boy, the father would pick up a bow and an arrow, and shoot an arrow at the southeast, south, northwest, and north, to show that the boy was determined in all directions! ”

"Shangwu, ambition in all directions, Tianxingjian, gentleman with self-improvement, this is the Han Dynasty! And when the Wuhu was chaotic, it was precisely because we lost this Han unity, so we entered the Central Plains for the Hu people, because it was not they who became stronger, but we who became weaker, so weak that we couldn't even beat ourselves at the beginning. ”

After the Hu people entered the Central Plains, some people endured stealing their lives under the butcher's knife and flattered the Hu people, saying that the Hu people came to invade the Central Plains, which was to help the Han people regain their original wolf nature and courage. It's like being beaten, but I thank the person who beat you, it was you who hit me, and let me know that I did something wrong. These are all the words of spineless people, backwardness conquers civilization, barbarism defeats the system, this is the regression of civilization. ”

"As for the wolf nature and courage, it is not given to you by others, nor is it given to you by blood transfusion from others, but from yourself, if you lose the blood inherited from your ancestors, you will be eliminated by others!"

"There have also been Han ministers who persuaded the Hu people to be exterminated, or to change the Hu people to Sinicization, and never suffer in the future. I don't think it's necessary, if we can't even defeat the ignorant nomadic civilization now, and in two or three hundred years there will be a stronger nation to conquer us, and the result will be the same. ”

Speaking of this, Li Chongjiu pointed to the river under his feet, and said to Li Ying: "Eagle, look at the world, just like this rolling Yellow River flowing eastward, there will be no turning back." The same is true of the nation, if the boat does not advance against the current, it will retreat. There is nothing wrong with the path chosen by our ancestors, and we Han people have become richer and stronger, but as we move forward, we must not forget the Han unification passed down from our ancestors from the nomadic times, the martial spirit of unremitting self-improvement, and the pioneering and enterprising heart of the Quartet. ”

Li Ying listened to Li Chongjiu's words and couldn't help but boil with enthusiasm.

"Strive for self-improvement and aim in all directions," he repeated these words several times and knelt down, "Son, remember the teachings of the emperor!" ”

"Now are you going to be a Hu or a Han?" Li Chongjiu asked with a smile.

Li Ying said without hesitation: "Father, it doesn't matter if you are a Hu or a Han, what matters is how you choose the future." And obsessed with Hu and Han, Erchen thinks that this is a kind of narrow-mindedness. ”

Li Chongjiu happily helped Li Ying up and said, "Ying'er, I like your name Eagle very much. The eagle always looks long-term and always looks into the distance. Don't forget the original intention, in order to have a beginning and an end! ”

End of book

The author came to knock on the door with happiness, and the manuscript was completed at 17:52 on February 28, 2015.

PS: I'm done, I'm done again, I'm so excited. Well, this will really be the finale, but it's not the end yet, it's still the same, write a postscript tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, it's my experience of writing this book for more than two years, about two or three thousand words, rest assured, the afterword is free, and I'll say goodbye to everyone in the afterword! (To be continued......)