Goryeo is isolated in the east of the sea, and its area is about the same as that of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces after the separation of Fujian, and the population is far less than it.

The whole territory has a wide mountainous area, which is located in the Beixian, that is, there are the Hamgyong Mountains, the Fighting Mountains Mountains, the Miaoxiang Mountains, the Motianling Mountains, the Wolf Forest Mountains, the Evil Destruction Mountains, the Maxiling Mountains and so on. The direction of these mountain ranges is either southeast or northwest, continuous, among which there are many rivers such as the Qingchuan River and the Datong River. The mountains and rivers are magnificent, the thousand rocks are showing, the ten thousand ravines are contending, and the grass and trees are covered with it.

Three thousand miles of splendid rivers and mountains, that is, the name of this.

The scenery of the four seasons, such as the clouds in spring, the green cypress in summer, the fragrance of golden autumn laurels, and the water and wood in winter, have a unique flavor.

On this day, the remnant snow melted and the sun shone brightly.

Deng She is in high spirits. Since entering Goryeo, there is almost no day without fighting, no day without fighting, and it is rare to have leisure time to travel the mountains and rivers. Now the situation in Liaodong has been roughly settled, and the various yamen in Haidong Province have also been roughly formed, and they are worth farming and leisure, and there are no important affairs. He remembered that Hong Jixun and Yao Haogu had worked hard for days, and immediately sent people to invite them to climb the mountain and enjoy the scenery.

That's exactly what it does.

Hong Jixun and Yao Haogu, although their personalities are different, they are both full of poetry and books, and it is inevitable that they are literati. When they heard this, they all gladly responded to the call. In addition to the two of them, Deng She also invited several civil officials such as Wang Zongzhe, the champion Lang, and Li Dunru, the left and right division members. As for Wen Huaguo and Yang Wanhu, it is better to call them to visit the mountains than to drink all night, so they didn't call.

Deng She took Zhao Guo and selected dozens of close guards, as well as a few pro-soldiers and protons who served as errands in his brother's team and the proton army. Gathering the people, a group of 100 people, riding light horses, went out of the city gate.

There are many mountains near Pyongyang, large and small, the most famous natural rabbit mountain, there is a tomb of Keizi on it, Deng She has been to once. Rabbit Mountain to the city is less than half a mile, the distance is very close, the mountain is very high, you have to ride lightly and slowly, play with the scenery, it is not as good as the splendid mountain five miles away in the north of the city.

Not too far, not too close, and there are a lot of places of interest in the mountains. Further east of this mountain, there is a peony peak, and the scenery is also good. The king of Goryeo once climbed it, but it was too far away, and he had to walk another fifty miles.

The people marched on horseback and went north. Along the way, see the sky high and the clouds are light, the mountains near and far in front of the front are looming, the Datong River on the right side passes through the east of the city, winding, frozen, Chengjiang is like practice. Along the way, the farmland is open and few people, and occasionally one or two ragged, rickety and thin men and women walk among them.

Yao Haogu sighed: "'Irrigation and dung, grow my corn.'" Food and clothing, the mouth of billions. In the past, Pyongyang was the capital of the Joseon Dynasty. Then Goguryeo was also the capital teacher for more than 200 years. To Goryeo, called Xijing. In the prosperous days of the past, shoulder to shoulder, sweating into rain.

"The hundreds of millions of people in the city are fed by these ragged people. The children of the eunuch family, from birth, carry a golden spoon, pamper and treat well, do not work, do not work hard, do not work hard, and do not distinguish grains. Every day, the food and clothing are beautiful.

"The peasant family has worked hard for a year, and the daily income is not enough to make ends meet, just as the general said a few days ago: 'The body is not separated from the fields, the hands cannot be released to weave the shaft, and the food cannot be leftovers, and the clothes cannot be eaten.' If you meet a child of a eunuch family on the road, you will kneel on the ground in panic and dare not look up. When the children of the rich were slightly dissatisfied, they whipped their horses and kicked them, without using their fists and feet, for fear of staining their hands. Sometimes, they even do it just for fun.

And the peasant family did not dare to say a word to resist, and there was no more docile cow and horse in the world than them. But there are wars, displacements, and the first to die is also the same generation. Du Zimei has a poem: 'Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road'. When he was young, he read books and did not understand his meaning, but later traveled all over the world and saw and witnessed them, especially in poetry. The general 'weeps for every thought of this', so why not be humble? Gogo is endless, and what is the sin of my people? ”

Among the ministers who accompanied Deng She, Hong Jixun was born in a family, Wang Zongzhe was a scholarly lintel, and Li Dunru was the most poor, and he was also a rich child. They have suffered from family feuds, or suffered from national hardships, and have suffered from displacement, and when it comes to the hard work of the peasants, they have not experienced it at all except in the books of the sages.

If they saw farmers who froze to death on the road, they might have pity, but they couldn't understand all the deep sorrow in Yao Hao's ancient sayings.

Deng She was silent, and Hong Jixun disdained to answer. Li Dunru was still apprehensive at this time because his wife had offended Deng She earlier, and he did not dare to speak. Seeing the cold scene, Wang Zongzhe coughed and said: "There is a sentence in the "Prodigy Poem" of Emperor Zhenzong of the former Song Dynasty, which says, 'The Son of Heaven is a hero, and the article teaches Er Cao. Everything is inferior, only reading is high'. Goryeo learned from my Chinese system, but it also has a ,...... imperial examination."

These words reminded Hong Jixun, he remembered something, interrupted Wang Zongzhe, and interjected: "Lord, but there is one thing, you must take precautions in advance." ”

Wang Zongzhe retracted.

Deng She said: "Oh? What's the matter? ”

"Some time before the humiliation, I saw that among the displaced people who came from the west in the city, several soldiers packed their bags and prepared to leave. When asked by humble officials, they were secretive and refused to answer, but it was because Hu Yuan was going to open the imperial examination next year. These people got the news and planned to go back to take the exam. "The so-called exiles from the west are Han people from Liaozuo, Liaoyang and other places, Deng She fought in Liaodong, and many people were affected by the war and fled to Goryeo.

Zhao Guo also said: "Two or three days ago, the last general also received a military report from Gaizhou, saying that the scholars of Liaozuo have traveled far away from the sea. ”

Deng She worked hard to operate, and so far he has gathered very few literati. He is not lenient in treating people, and he is not open-minded in employing people. No matter whether you are demoted, talentless, talented or virtuous, if you have a little talent, you will all be promoted and used. Even so, looking at him, Hong Jixun is just one talented person who took the initiative to vote for him.

Deng She frowned, unhappy in his heart. But he also knew that there was no way to do it.

Meng Yuan has been in charge of the Central Plains for a hundred years, and the Han people regard it as orthodox. Deng Sheping paid great attention to this phenomenon, and combined with the introduction of Hong Jixun and others, he made a slight analysis of the mentality of the scholars.

If we take the terminology of later generations, there is a Yuan generation, and the support of landlords and scholars for the Hu Yuan regime can be attributed to class interests. In particular, the landlords and scholars in the south were resolutely anti-Yuan, and more chose to cooperate. Because the Mengyuan government used the Han rule to rule the Han land, at least it recognized and protected their exploitation of the tenant farmers and the villagers.

Academically speaking, pre-Qin Confucianism advocated "respecting the king and destroying the Yi" and "strictly destroying the defense of Xia", and the main criterion for Yi and Xia was culture, not race.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the country was in a state of weakness and was bullied by foreigners, and a small number of scholars, such as Chen Liang and others, began to think that "China" was the Han people, and had a strong rejection of Yidi. However, this notion is not popular. The remnants of the Song Dynasty are mainly due to loyalty to the monarch, not to the exclusion.

After entering the Yuan Dynasty, Confucianism no longer talked about "the defense of Yixia", but focused on "using Xia to change Yi". "If you can do the way of China, you will also be the master of China." In other words, Yidi can be practiced in Han law, then, they are recognized as orthodox dynasties. The Yuan Dynasty had already followed the Chinese way, so it could be orthodox.

Therefore, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the vast majority of scholars did not respond to the call, but tried their best to be loyal to Mengyuan.

The mentality of the Han doctors, in short, can be clearly seen from an incident more than ten years ago. In the third year of Zheng, Emperor Yuan issued an edict to revise the history of the Song, Liao, and Jin dynasties, and Ren Totuo was in charge.

This history book, Meng Yuan has long wanted to repair, but there is a question, the Song, Liao, and Jin dynasties, who is "orthodox", in other words, whose Taoism did Meng Yuan inherit? Some are orthodox in Song, and some are orthodox in Liao and Jin, at least along with Song as orthodox. The various points of view are not well debated and stagnant, so the decision is delayed.

When it comes to the history of detachment, after all, the Mongolian people are similar to Liao and Jin, they are all Rong Di, and it is unreasonable for Liao and Jin to be orthodox. And the Han people care very much about this orthodoxy, and they can't help but take the Song Dynasty as orthodoxy. As a result, he adopted a compromise viewpoint, with the Song, Liao, and Jin each as orthodox and not subordinate to each other. At this point, the tone of history revision was set.

At that time, there were two well-known Han people, one was named Wei Su and the other was Yang Weizhen. The two of them, one in favor of and the other against, wrote their own views on the orthodoxy adopted by Tokhtar, and they set out their personal views.

Wei Su said: "This dynasty was founded before the Song and Jin dynasties, and there was a country instead of the Song and Jin dynasties. He believed that Meng Yuan was not inherited from the Song and Jin, so he became orthodox. Yuan destroyed the Song Dynasty and replaced it, just like the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Sui Dynasty and the Song Dynasty destroyed the Zhou Dynasty. Needless to say, this is a matter of course.

Yang Weizhen said: "The difference between the clutches of the past dynasties is fixed on the changes of the prosperity and decline of the days, and the unity of the 10,000-year leap is really out of the people's hearts. He believes that whether it is "orthodox" or not depends not entirely on the length of rule, the size of the region, the strength of the strength, and the correctness of the rank, but on the "justice of heaven and people's hearts."

He objected to the orthodoxy of Liao and Jin, and that "Taoism was not in Liao and Jin but in Song."

He believes that the Yuan Dynasty should inherit the orthodoxy from the two Song dynasties, not from the Liaojin Dynasty, nor should it become orthodox on its own. This concept of his is the view of a more orthodox Han scholar, but neither Wei Su nor he objected to the fact that Meng Yuan was not orthodox. What they are arguing about is nothing more than Liaojin's orthodoxy.

Meng Yuan is orthodox, and Xiao Ming Wang, Xu Shouhui and other heroes are natural rebels. Therefore, since the current Yuan Emperor reopened the imperial examination, even if every time the north and south are on the list, there are only a handful of Han people on the list. But once they heard the news, they still flocked to it.

The cold wind blows on his face, Deng She looks up at the sky, the blue sky is thousands of miles, and the clouds are like flocculents. He didn't want to be in a bad mood for this, and said with a smile: "Today's trip, I only talk about Fengyue, not about political affairs." ”

Turn off the avenue and enter the path, the snow has just melted, and the dirt road is muddy. He raised his whip and pointed forward, and said: "I have long heard that Qing Qianxing, He Guangxiu and others have said that there is a Yongming Temple on this splendid mountain, a century-old famous temple, and there are several monks who have attained the Tao. Today, we must wait for us to visit. ”

Wang Zongzhe made fun of it and said: "The Prime Minister is busy on weekdays, and he rarely rests, so it is rare to have half a day of leisure today. If you go to his temple, it is also a blessing for those monks. ”

Li Dunru stole Deng She's eyes, plucked up his courage, smiled heavily, and said: "Mengyuan is a heavy Buddha, and the same is true for Goryeo. In the past, he lived in Liaoyang, and it was common in the temples inside and outside the city, not only the Han people, but also the exiles of Goryeo, who believed in men and women. The Prime Minister wants to visit the temple, and he is bold and speculative, I am afraid that he also has the intention of exploring the people's feelings, right? ”

Roundabout and patted Dunsher's ass. Deng She glanced at him, smiled, and said, "Wailang is so good at talking." "All of them rode on horseback, and they were fast, and they were four or five miles away in the blink of an eye. At this time, gradually approaching the outside of the mountain, Deng She took a deep breath, the air was clear, with the fragrance of pine and cypress.

He has been fighting for many years, and he has never been in the mood today. The subordinates are the prime minister and the lord one by one, even if they are as calm as him, they can't help but feel ripples in their hearts. He couldn't help sighing, looking at the mountains and forests, suddenly feeling something, holding the knife and riding the horse, chanting leisurely, and said: "The mountain is not high, there are immortals and spirits." The water is not deep, and if there is a dragon, it will be spiritual. ”

These are a few sentences from the Tang dynasty Liu Yuxi's "Burrow Ming", placed in this situation, everyone listened to it, and at the same time their hearts moved.

Li Dunru reacted quickly, made persistent efforts, and added: "Although Si is remote, there is justice." "Compared with the Central Plains and Jiangnan, although it is a poor and remote place, with you, the daimyo will inevitably be in the world.

Then he slapped Dunsher's ass around the bush. Listening to too many good things is inevitably boring. Deng She smiled slightly, and said to Yao Haogu: "The mountain road is rugged, Mr. be careful about the road." ”

Li Dunru wiped the sweat from his forehead, Deng She ignored him, and he became more and more uneasy. In fact, Deng She was not prejudiced against him, what was the point of Li Aguan offending him? But Li Dunru didn't think so. Since Deng She broke Liaoyang and killed Guan Duo and his relatives, he has not slept well for a day, he has insomnia every night, and it is a nightmare when he closes his eyes.

Speaking of which, Deng She's attitude towards Li Dunru is no different from that towards Wang Zongzhe and other demoted officials. Unfortunately, Li Dunru didn't see it that way.

He has a timid and sensitive personality, which can be seen from his fear of his wife. At the most powerful time, Li Aguan took advantage of Guan Duo's momentum and told him to go east, but he didn't dare to go east; Tell him to go west, and he does not dare to go west.

Deng She once took the initiative to talk to him, and the reason why he put on an attitude of ignoring him was because of the factor of obeying Li Aguan's orders behind him.

Such a person, if there is no problem, he will also analyze a problem, a typical chasing after the wind and shadows, and worrying about the sky.

Deng She noticed that he was sweating like pulp, and he was a little puzzled, and asked, "Is Master Li unwell?" Didn't you catch a cold at night? Li Dunru thought to himself: "Catching a cold at night? He didn't know where he thought, his face turned pale, and his cheeks were unusually red, and Dunshe was startled.

Li Dunru's lips trembled, and he said: "I don't dare to hide the prime minister, I haven't had sex with a cheap concubine for more than a month." Excitedly, he said that he was a concubine.

His answer was unexpected. Zhao Guo's face was expressionless, Bi Qianniu didn't understand, and Hong Jixun sneered. Wang Zongzhe's face turned red, Yao Haogu couldn't bear to see it, and turned his face to care.

Deng She was stunned at first, then guessed his mind and understood why he was behaving erratically. He invited everyone to travel, in order to get close and promote feelings, not to embarrass people, not to spoil the atmosphere. He looked left and right, and felt that it was time to say something, and he weighed every word and said, "I have long forgotten some misunderstandings and small things. Does Master Li look at me like a person with a small belly? ”

There is no way to explain this thoroughly, as a Shangguan, it is already rare for him to be willing to talk about it to this extent. After finishing speaking, he laughed, enlivened the atmosphere, and said: "I have seen Mrs. Zun twice, and she has a lot of manners, a good match, and a good fortune." ”

Li Dunru was submissive, and subconsciously said: "Yes, yes, there are thousands of manners, and the end is a good match." He paused and muttered, "There are thousands of manners, and the end is a good match." ”

Deng She said a word, no more, as a pioneer horse, galloping on the mountain road. There are many trees on the splendid mountain, although there is no lush scenery in winter, on both sides of the mountain road, faintly see the woodcutter haunting, the sound of Ding ding cutting wood to take charcoal, disperse into the cold wind in the mountain, there is movement in the stillness, moving but not noisy, make people's minds open.

The people went to the heights, and climbed up to the heights and looked far away.

But seeing the confrontation between the peaks on the left and right, the beautiful rivers are pitched, the eyes are inclined to the waterfalls, the temple bells and drums are heard, the wind comes from the woods, and some of the peaks are covered with snow that has not melted, just like a cang's hat. Looking at this clear winter scene, going through the experience, it is like walking on the mountain*, making people overwhelmed.

Yongming Temple is in the depths of the mountain, and there are various historical sites such as Fubi Tower, Qilin Cave and so on near the left. Yao Haogu, Hong Jixun, Wang Zongzhe and others were interested, and they couldn't help but point out the country and chant poems. Deng She does not know how to compose poems, listens carefully and tastes, and if there are good sentences, he claps his hands and praises.

After the tour was finished one by one, the sky was nearly dusk, and everyone returned happily.

On the way back, Hong Jixun sighed with emotion and said: "I don't remember how long I haven't been so happy, and I really stole half a day of leisure when I returned today." ”

Dunshe smiled but said nothing.

In the twilight, the city of Pyongyang stood far away, and he urged the horses, and the officials of the prefectures and counties and the military strength of the wings needed to be decided as soon as possible.

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1, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

"Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Zhongshu Province,...... From the two Zhejiang to the east of Jiangxi, and the territory of Fujian belong to Yan, that is, Jiangsu, the south of the Anhui River, the east of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, and the whole territory of Zhejiang and Fujian. ”

It is difficult to find out how much Goryeo had in the Yuan period. During the Republican period, the population of Korea was about the same as that of Zhejiang or Anhui provinces. Its land area is equivalent to the sum of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and about the same size as the area of Guangdong or Hunan.

2. The Song, Liao, and Jin are each orthodox.

The battle for orthodoxy is protracted. Since the Mongols entered the Central Plains, there have been endless debates, and there are two opposing views, "Should the Song Dynasty be respected as orthodox?" Or should the Song and Liaojin be regarded as the Northern and Southern Dynasties?

"Even the imperial examination at that time involved this question: 'Zhao and Song have been in power for more than 300 years, and the Liaojin Er clan has been with it for more than 300 years. …… The court will compile the book of the three clans, which is not published. What is the genre of Zuo and Shi Qian? How can we distinguish between the right and the right? All the gentlemen are all written in the article, and they are used to choose. ’”

3. The history of detachment and different perspectives.

"First of all, the Confucians discussed the orthodoxy of the Three Kingdoms, and they were indecisive for a long time. So he said: 'Each of the three kingdoms is orthodox, and each has its own era name. The speaker relented. ”

In the thirty-first year of the Yuan Dynasty, Xiuduan's "Distinguishing the Orthodoxy of the Liao, Song and Jin": "The Liao Dynasty has retained the north since the end of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not a usurpation, and it has restored the Jin Dynasty." In addition, the number of people in the world, far from the five seasons and the former Song Dynasty, should be the history of the north. Song Taizu was subject to Zhou Chan, Pingjiangnan, Xishu, Baigou Zhennan, and Xizhu in Song. It was passed on to Jingkang and became the history of the Song Dynasty. Jin Taizu broke the Liao Ke Song Dynasty, and the emperor had the Central Plains for more than 100 years, which should be the history of the north. Since the establishment of Yan, China is not owned by the Song Dynasty, and it should be the history of the South. This is to advocate that each of the three dynasties should be orthodox and that the history of the three dynasties should be compiled in imitation of the history of the north and the south.

Yu Ji proposed: "Now when the three families are each a book, each of them does his best to show the truth, so that it is not wasted, but if it is discussed, it will be the one who comes." This is an argument that each of the three dynasties should be orthodox and compiled separately, and this opinion was adopted by Tokhtar.