Chapter 18, Saying the Rhyme

Regarding the establishment of Cao Ang as the son of the King of Wei, as Guan Jing said, Cao Cao reserved a foreshadowing, or more accurately, buried a hidden danger, but this hidden danger was mainly caused by the situation - who told Cao Ang to anger his father for a time, so that the matter of establishing an heir was delayed, and the brothers thought that there was an opportunity? Who called Mrs. Ding to hang, Mrs. Bian will inevitably be on the throne in terms of qualifications, and she has three adult sons? Therefore, Cao Ang's heir may not be as stable as Mount Tai, and there are still infinite variables.

Therefore, Guan Jing asked: "The lord has nothing to worry about, so he is not very happy?" "Just now, Zhou didn't question you, why did you encounter such a good thing, but you weren't very happy when you looked at it, you should have taken this into account, but-" Didn't Emperor Xi Xiaojing love King Linjiang? And finally abolished it and replaced it with Emperor Xiaowu. People's hearts are fickle, and love is not long, how can it be reversed? ”

The first queen of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty was his cousin Empress Bo, who had no children and no favor, and was deposed after six years. At that time, Emperor Jing's favorite side room was Li Ji, and Li Ji also gave birth to his eldest son Liu Rong, so he was established as the eldest son without a grandson, and Liu Rong was the crown prince. However, after a few years, Li Ji fell out of favor, and Emperor Jing canonized Wang Meimei as the queen, and immediately deposed Liu Rong as the king of Linjiang, and Liu Che, the king of Jiaodong, who was born to the queen, as the crown prince - that is, the later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Guan Jing's meaning, love is difficult to keep for a long time, even if the Bian family is not made queen, and her sons are not eyeing each other, can you guarantee that Cao Ang's throne will always be safe? People's hearts are fickle, and I don't know what will happen in two years.

Therefore, when it comes to the establishment of the reserve, it is of course related to the national etiquette. You must also listen to the opinions of the important ministers, but the final decision is still in Cao Cao's hands, and you are thinking too far ahead. Does it really make sense? Let's focus on what's in front of us first-

"Xi Hongyu wants to make the lord say that the Son of Heaven is also, can he do it if he doesn't know?" Have you come up with an idea? Ready?

Shi Xun bowed slightly: "Everything is ready, just wait for the east wind." ”

This is another new word that I don't know where it came from, but the general meaning, Guan Jing and Zhou Budo can still understand it. Zhou Budo hurriedly asked, "Is it possible to teach disciples?" "How are you going to lobby the Son of Heaven, can you tell me about it first? Shi Xun smiled and waved his hand: "Don't say, don't say." ”

Zhou Budo then asked again: "What is the so-called east wind?" "Listen to you, teacher. The preparations have been completed, and the reasons for Zen have been thought out clearly, just waiting for an opportunity. It's going to lobby the Son of Heaven - so what's the opportunity?

Shi Xun replied: "If you say that you will move the Son of Heaven, or immediately issue an edict to let you go, if you don't get along with each other, how can you really refuse?" "If I really moved the Son of Heaven. Maybe he will give the edict on the spot. I want to give the Zen position to Cao Cao, but if the time is not right, the conditions are not met, and the usurpation will do more harm than good at this time, what should Cao Cao do? There must be refusal, so you have to give up three ways, don't you? But that's just a superficial article after all, and it's impossible to delay it for too long. Could it be that the Son of Heaven wants to Zen, and Cao Cao really rejected it because the situation was not there? When the situation is appropriate, please Son of Heaven, will you Zen again? There is no reason!

So I'll have to wait and see, it's almost time. It's good to lobby the Son of Heaven. And this so-called time-" Lu Bu will go west, and things can happen. ”

I had already received the news from Jiang Gan before. said that he scolded Qin Mi, who was sent by Liu Bei to persuade Lu Bu to join forces to attack Cao, and told Lu Bu the planned plan, Lu Bu was quite moved, and planned to wait for Jincheng County to stabilize and accumulate enough grain and grass, so he immediately waved his army westward and went to the Western Regions to claim the king and hegemony. Probably after the beginning of spring this year, as long as the news comes, I can go to lobby for the Zen position of the Son of Heaven - if Lu Bu doesn't leave, it is really inconvenient to change the dynasty immediately.

Just like that, months passed in a hurry, ushering in the spring sowing season. One evening, when Shi Xun had just returned to the mansion from Lantai, Guan Jing greeted the general and handed over a letter: "This Kong Ming is fast and urgent, it should be a matter of Liangzhou." ”

Shixun didn't have time to enter the house, so he opened the seal and watched it directly in the courtyard. Jiang Gan's contact with the Cao family is that Xun has entrusted it to his apprentice Zhuge Liang since he left Anyi - whether he is in Tanxian County or in Xudu, it is too far away from Xiliangdu, and this back and forth letter transmission, I am afraid that even the daylily will be cold, if there is an emergency, there will be nothing to take care of. Therefore, let Zhuge Liang, who was in Anyi, contact Jiang Gan in a single line, and look at the situation, whether to report to Cao Cao, Xun You, Jia Xu and others first, it is up to Kong Ming to make his own decisions.

There are two letters in the envelope, one is written by Zhuge Liang, and the other is written by Jiang Ziyi. It was Xun who unfolded Zhuge Liang's letter first, glanced at ten lines at a glance, and then hurried to the study, while opening Jiang Gan's letter, he copied the letter "Saying Wen Cut Rhyme" that had been placed on the table for many years.

So what was written in Jiang Gan's letter? The opening is -

"The so-called sageless traces of the stingers, the salty brigade, the Shen Mai, the longing for the pigskin, the ......"

What is this? In fact, it's not worth a penny, this is the password.

I want to recruit Jiang Gan back then, and I want to make it cool, and I will have a face-to-face teaching with Xun You, Jia Xu, etc. Originally, everything was almost said, and Jiang Gan was about to go down to prepare for the westward journey, but Shi Xun suddenly had a flash of light in his mind, and quickly called Jiang Gan - "Ziyi cut slowly." Then he looked at Xun and Jia, and said solemnly: "Ziyi is in the west, and he must secretly pass on the news with us, if it is detected by Lu Bu, I am afraid that there is a risk of his life - don't you hear about Zhang Ziqiao in Shu?" ”

Zhang Ziqiao is Zhang Song, and his character is Yongnian in the romance (in fact, Yongnian is Peng Yi's word), whether in the original history or on this timeline, he is a big traitor who turned his back on Liu Zhang, and welcomed Liu Bei's great hero, but its ending is also similar to the original history, it is not a secret matter, and Liu Bei's personal letters were intercepted by Liu Zhang's cronies, and even his head is different.

So it's Xun who asked, do you know what happened to Zhang Song? We can't let Jiang Ziyi encounter that kind of danger.

Jia Xu said that I have a cronie doorman, who was originally from Liangzhou, alert, and good at fighting, and happened to follow Ziyi to the west, passing letters back and forth. Xun You also said that you can use the strategy of yin charms to agree on the code in advance to facilitate the concealment of the true meaning in the letter.

What is a yin charm? Speaking of "Liutao", Jiang Taigong said to King Wu of Zhou: "The lord and the general have a yin symbol. Where the eighth class: there is a great victory against the enemy, one foot long; The talisman of breaking the army and capturing the general, nine inches long...... The Eight Runes. The Lord will have secrets, so Yin Tong Words, do not reveal the art of knowing each other outside and foreign countries. Although the enemy is wise, Mo can know. To put it bluntly, there are eight kinds of deeds between the generals and their lords, representing eight different meanings such as winning a city, defeating the enemy, asking for food, and asking for help. When the time comes, the general will send someone to present one of the talismans, without saying a word. The lord knows what it means, and outsiders have no way to guess that it is a "yin symbol".

But for Xun and Jia's suggestions, Shi Xun shook his head. It's not reliable. First of all, no matter how clever and clever Jia Wen and your doorman are, after all, two fists are invincible to four hands, in case they are targeted by people who frequently travel to and from Hedong. Can you promise that you won't be caught? Besides. The information that Yin Fu can convey is too limited, just like a beacon, it can also report whether there is an enemy invasion, and what the approximate number is, and as for who the enemy will be, equipment, and morale, it can't be reflected through such a simple predetermined symbol. The military situation in Xiliang is a little more complicated, which is beyond our expectations. How do you call Jiang Gan to pass it through the "Yin Fu"?

Jia Xu understood that it was Xun, so he asked with a smile: "Hongfu said so." It is expected that there is already a clever plan. Shihoon nodded: "'Password' is available." The three people present glanced at each other, and they all saw endless doubts in the eyes of others - what is "Mima"? Do you hide secret letters in horses?

Cryptography is said to have originated in ancient Greece BC, but it has not yet reached China, and as far as is known to Xun, no one has yet invented a native cipher in Chinese. Why? Probably because the pinyin alphabet is easier to shuffle and mix, and there are too many Chinese characters, it is difficult to play with flowers.

But this is not important, with the knowledge of Xun two thousand years later, it is not difficult to make up a set of Chinese passwords. He lowered his head and thought about it, then stood up, took out a letter of "Saying Wen Che Rhyme" from the bookshelf, and showed it to the three of them: "Have you ever read this book?" ”

Xun You nodded and said I have read it, Hongfu Dacai, this is really a set of exegesis.

Shi Xun smiled slightly: "You can use this to make a password, although it is a long article, it can also be passed on secretly." ”

I thought that Xun had nothing to do in Hedong back then, so he gathered the doormen and wanted to create Hanyu Pinyin, but this job was easy to conceive, and when I really got started, I knew that it was extremely difficult. First of all, you have to compile all the commonly used words into a book, so that you can analyze the pronunciation of the characters, classify them, and determine the initials, finals and tones.

So he set his sights on the only dictionary of the class in those years - "Shuowen Jiezi".

"Shuowen Jie Zi" was written by Xu Shen, a great Confucian scholar and scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor An, Emperor Yin, and Emperor He, and created 14 categories, 540 radicals, and collected more than 9,300 characters, which were included in it. In a sense, that is the "Xinhua Dictionary" of this year.

However, "Shuowen" cannot really be used as a dictionary, because it has three drawbacks: first, seal script is used for the collection of characters and compilation, and for the gradually popular official script, errors abound, and many new vulgar characters are not included; Second, it cannot be retrieved by pronunciation; Third, not only the pronunciation cannot be retrieved, but even the search system for radicals and strokes is also lacking. This can't be retrieved, how do you find words? How do you use it as a dictionary?

But this book can be used as the basis for a dictionary, and after all, it is much more convenient than collecting words all over the world. So he first ordered the guests to edit the "Shuowen", correct its errors, add its omissions, and each seal character is marked with official scripts (including different writings); Then the second step is to redraw the radicals with the glyphs of Lishu, and reduce the radicals from 540 to 320 radicals; The third step is to summarize the pronunciation and compile "pinyin" - the tentative name is "cut rhyme"; Finally, three sets of retrieval systems were made using radicals, cut rhymes and strokes.

This is also a big project, fortunately, Xun only grasped the outline, and the specific work was handed over to the doormen, so it took a whole decade, until before the scientific expedition last year, it was officially completed, and it was named "Saying Wen Cut Rhyme". Shixun originally wanted to use this book as a compulsory reading material for the imperial examination, but unfortunately he was one step short and couldn't catch up......

But it doesn't matter, it is estimated that by the second imperial examination, few scholars will dare not carry this dictionary compiled by Lao Tzu with them.

Shi Xun immediately asked Xun You and Jia Xu to sit apart, and then asked Xun Gongda to quietly say a word casually, he flipped through the "Saying Wen Cut Rhyme", wrote down ten numbers, and handed it to Jia Wenhe. Jia Xu took it and took a look, what is this? I recognize every word, and it's not a sentence at all. Shi Xun then told Jia Xu the password rules, that is, to search for a certain word in the book, and take the first three words as the code.

For example, the word "have" belongs to the "month" part of volume 7 of "Shuowen Cut Rhyme", and after it is searched, the third word after it is "Ming". If you write "Ming", it is completely impossible for outsiders to know what you want to say "Yes", but if you know the rules, you will be able to understand its true meaning as soon as you turn the book.

After Xun, Jia and others experimented, they were all overjoyed: "Hongfu is ingenious, it seems that this is the secret book obtained by Lu Bu, and it is difficult to know its meaning, and Ziyi is safe!" ”

So today, Jiang Gan wrote it, and the letter that Zhuge Liang forwarded to Xu Du was written with this kind of password, and Xun immediately flipped through the "Saying Wen Che Rhyme" on the book, and Guan Jing was also helping by the side, and soon copied the original text. It turns out that what is "the so-called" is actually "Jiang Gan's words", and the "stubborn traces" behind it are: "Books and newspapers are public, and since the journey to ......the west, they will suddenly be a year old."

Yes Xun frowned when he saw it, and said that I had already warned you, this thing of intelligence, the simpler the text, the better, not easy to misread, and it is convenient to pass back and forth, you should write to me seriously, and greet me first, and then tell the past? Hurry up and get down to business, man!

The stinky habits of people who read books these years really can't be cured...... (To be continued......)

PS: Sorry, it's not the weekend, it's still so late...... Mainly today to study "Shuowen Jie Zi", many years have not looked at it, a little rusty, I thought it could be used as a dictionary, only to find that not only is it difficult to retrieve, but also many words are confiscated at all...... In the end, there is no way, let the dictionary of the current compilation department come out and use it......