Two days later, Shen Qingyi went to the Daomen.

Xiao Yan and the fourth brother sent her out of Hezhou City.

Shen Qingyi and the two sisters sat in a blue-painted four-wheeled two-horse carriage, which was newly launched in the first month of this year, called the fifth generation of four-wheeled vehicles - the Moxing Society claimed that the bronze four-wheeled vehicles manufactured by the Mo family in the Spring and Autumn Period were a generation of four-wheeled vehicles - added steel axles and new shock absorbing springs, as well as new front wheel steering devices, in terms of flexibility, it finally did not lose the two-wheeled carriage, and the ride comfort was strengthened compared with the fourth generation of four-wheeled vehicles, however, the output was not high, because the new shock absorbing spring skills were demanding, and they needed to be made by hand. So the price is very expensive, but there are many rich families and sects in Datang, and Daomen is definitely one of them, in order to make these "delicate and expensive" pharmacists in the Medicine Hall not be discouraged from being discouraged from being turned upside down, it is necessary to configure the most advanced carriage.

When Xiao Yan saw this car, he also bent down to look at its shock absorption and steering device for a while, and respectfully asked the Daomen Cave True Realm Grandmaster, who was temporarily acting as a driver and guard, a few questions, and then turned back to Xiao Cong and said, "Brother, as long as the road conditions are not too bad, this car will not be very bumpy, don't worry." ”

Xiao Cong smiled and said, "Okay." He knew that this was his sister's concern for Qingyi, but he was worried that he would be misunderstood in front of outsiders, so he acted in his name.

Sent out more than ten miles outside the West Gate, Shen Qingyi said to the two of them: "Shilang, seventeen, you don't have to send it again." Sending you a thousand miles, you must say goodbye in the end, so don't live here. ”

Her voice was light, but Xiao Yan felt as if the wind was blowing in Youzhu, with a rustling sound, but it was Youzhu's whisper to the wind, she didn't understand, but she could hear it, it was a feeling, she couldn't understand.

She knew that Shen Qingyi was unhappy.

But her eyes were too deep for Xiao Yan to understand. But I know that in it, there must be a lonely and lonely mood like "more quietly immersed in the ripples and cold blue".

Xiao Yan felt sad when he thought of this.

She watched the carriage drift away, her expression was stunned, and her heart was sullen.

She looked up at the sky, the sky west of the river was very high, and the autumn sky was also very blue.

She suddenly felt that it was actually good for her sister to go to the Daomen, and there might be her Dao.

The fourth brother's Tao is in the Xiao family, but the sister's Tao may not be in the Xiao family.

Xiao Yan had such a vague idea in his heart, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the fourth brother, and suddenly wanted to ask him: Brother, do you like Wei Zijing?

Xiao Cong was also looking at her, Qingjun's eyebrows and eyes were stunned, and there was a slight sadness, sighed, and said, "In another three months, I will send Ah Yan away." ”

Xiao Yan didn't like to see his brother so sad, so he laughed and said, "It's not like I'm not going back, what is my brother doing like this?" He deliberately said briskly, "Brother is thinking about it now, what gift he likes." When she came back from Tibet, she also brought gifts to her fourth brother, mother, and grandmother, which were not very valuable, but they all took great pains.

Xiao Cong remembered the Tibetan poems she had collected with great effort, and asked the Tibetan monks to translate them into Tang, she was overjoyed, and the gloomy color between her eyebrows disappeared unconsciously, and she looked at her and smiled: "Ah Yan, just collect some interesting anecdotes about Chang'an, come back and tell me." ”

"Okay." Xiao Yan replied with a laugh.

The brother and sister turned their horses around and returned to the city with the guards.

Early the next morning, Xiao Yan went to Rui Si Tang to greet his father as usual, and after the father and son finished their morning meals, they went to various places, and Xiao Yan took Xiao Yan to Zongmiao Mountain to meet his uncle Xiao Xian.

Xiao Xian, dressed in a cyan robe, stood on the square in front of the temple, which was as thick as a mountain, and said to Xiao Yu: "San Lang, you go by yourself." 17. I will take it to the Sutra Hall, and I will return in the middle of December. ”

"There is Fourth Uncle Lao." Xiao Yu raised his hand and saluted, turned to look at Xiao Yan, his eyes were deep and gloomy, and said, "Ah Yan, after going to the Dao Hall, you must be careful to appreciate it." There are no martial arts, all of them are used to carry the Tao, and the spirit of the Lanling Xiao clan is stored in the Tao. ”

"Yes, father." Xiao Yan responded solemnly and saluted.

Xiao Yu patted her on the shoulder as she got up and left.

Xiao Xian took Xiao Yan out of the city.

Out of the west gate to the west gallop out of more than ten miles, you see the ditch in the vertical and horizontal, the field is even Qianmo, there are orchards and mulberry forests, as well as melon fields and cotton fields introduced from Gaochang. After several generations of reclamation in Hexi, the grassland here has become a farming land rich in rice mulberry, not only Han farmers, but also Xianbei, Hui, Tiele, Qiang, Di, Xiongnu, Tuyuhun tribes here to turn herding into farming, settled in the village. Villages of all ethnic groups have intermarriages, and many of the Hu people's language, name and customs have been sinicized, and only some of them retain the language and customs of their ancestors. It is difficult to identify the ethnicity of the farmer who appears in the field, and if a farmer is called a "Hu man", he is likely to pick up a hoe and fight with you.

Because "Hu, Yi, Barbarian, Fan" is the name of the Han people for the barbarians.

However, the Hu descendants who turned herding into farming thought that they were "farmers" in the "Shi Nong Industry and Commerce", and their status was higher than that of "Industry and Commerce", and they even called me a "barbarian", and they had to beat you up.

"There is no more Hu in Hexi." Xiao Xian said this sentence in the gallop.

He took Xiao Yan along a main canal, and both of them were very clever in riding. The horse is also one of the best horses in a thousand, and it is no problem to run along the winding canal.

He slowed down his horse, and while moving forward, he spoke to Xiao Yan: "This canal is called Lai Canal, which was built by the ancestor of Hexi and the first generation of Liang Guogong. - Do you know why it's called 'Laiqu'? ”

Xiao Yan heard the fourth brother talk about the deeds of the ancestor Xiao Cheng, and replied: "Lai, recruit Lai." The ancestors named Laiqu, which is 'to attract the people of all ethnic groups and make things the foundation' - farming is the big foundation. ”

Xiao Xun said: "Not bad. ”

The horsewhip pointed into the distance, "There, there...... There is Yongding Canal outside the west city, Xiao Canal outside the north city, and Lanling Canal outside the east city. The first four generations of Liang Guogong, each generation spent a lot of effort on farmland and water conservancy, digging from the canyon of Huolan Mountain to the big river, forming a tributary to irrigate into the west of Huolan Mountain, and then meeting with the river on the grassland, only then there are four main canals in the southeast, northwest and northwest. ”

The horsewhip pointed to the other side, "There is the Qin Canal, the Han Canal." Both the Great Qin and the Great Han Dynasty used the rivers on the grassland as canals, enclosed the soil as fields, and moved military households to grow rice; The Xianbei people of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty were also doing this, but they were all used to control the border with the military and the people. Only after my Xiao clan moved to Hexi, after more than 150 years, digging new canals, dredging old canals, successive servants, educating and governing the tribes to divert water and plant rice, plant mulberry and silkworms, plant poplars and willows, cultivate plums and peaches, promote farming skills, agricultural weaving tools, so that this land has truly become a place of farming, Hezhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Liangzhou have become 'Hexi Jiangnan', Guazhou, Gaochang is also known as 'Oasis Pearl'. ”

There was pride in his deep voice, "In the seven counties of Hezhou alone, there are 180,000 farming households, with a total population of 900,000. There are 52 state capitals with more than 100,000 households in Datang, and we have nine in Hexi—each with 100,000 households, that is, a population of 500,000. There are 400,000 households in Hezhou, 300,000 households in Ganzhou, and 250,000 households ......in Suzhou. When our Xiao family first arrived in Hexi, the population was less than one million, and now, it has exceeded 10 million. ”

As they spoke, they had gone up a slope along the Lai Canal, and looked on their horses, and the fields were connected to the fields, and the villages were connected to the villages, the roads were connected, the chickens and dogs were smelling each other, the grassy slopes in the distance were touching the sky, the sheep were fetishing on the hillsides, and the red and yellow fruits in the orchards were weeping down from the trees, and the fruits were abundant, and the ears of rice in the fields were golden. This is a field where a harvest is about to be harvested, and it is a peaceful and peaceful idyllic scenery.

Who would have thought that this is a thousand-year-old border stopper, and there are Huqiang everywhere? Is it a border desert where "there are plants and trees that are not glorious in spring, people are like beasts and eat smelly", "clothes are different and gorgeous, and people are vulgar and unjust"? Is it the place where "the north wind is fierce and solemn, and the horses are roaring", "the beacon fire of the border city invades Hu Yue", and "the yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles"?

Just one hundred and fifty years ago, this was still the place of the "messy" west in the hearts of the subjects of the Tang Empire!

Now sitting here, looking at this river and canal idyll, who would have imagined it?

Xiao Yan's heart overflowed with pride.

This is Hexi!

Xiao Xian's voice was deep in the wind, "Our Xiao family's blood and sweat are sprinkled here." One hundred and sixty years, Hexi Yingdao Monument Hall, there are nearly 3,000 of my Xiao family disciples recorded on it, some died for Hexi, and some died of exhaustion for Hexi: there are here, tired to death on this canal......"

Xiao Xian remembered the ancestor of their lineage, Xiao Si, the master of Fang Yu who planned the route for the construction of the Lai Canal, who was forty-two years old when he built the Lai Canal, ten years of hard work, white hair and pale face, and passed away with a smile on the day the canal was completed. His ashes were deposited in this ditch.

Xiao Xian's voice couldn't help but contain feelings, "The fourteen states of Hexi Province, every state, every city, every river canal, and every fertile field all condense the hard work of our Xiao family. ”

"Yes." Xiao Yan said with reverence in his heart.

This is the Hexi of the Tang Dynasty and the Hexi of the Xiao family.

It is easy to build a city, but it is not easy to change customs; It is not easy to cultivate a fertile field, but it is even more difficult to educate and educate.

Xiao's not only created Hexi Jiangnan, but more importantly, made it "Huaxia".

Xiao Xian's horse moved forward, "In ancient times, the defeated tribes migrated, the west was Xihu, the north was Donghu, the south was barbaric, and the east was Yiyi, so there were Huyi barbarians. If we talk about the origin of our ancestors, like our Han people, they are all from the three ethnic groups of Yan, Huang and Chiyou. But our Han people know how to cultivate, grasp knowledge, create etiquette, build morality, establish ethics, and have a program, so they have become civilized and civilized, and they are Chinese. The migrating tribe takes looting and killing as the way, and takes the weak and the strong as the reason, ignores the etiquette of benevolence, righteousness and etiquette, and is no different from wild beasts, so it is a wild fang.

"But when you are born, you have to eat and dress, and Hu Han is no different. Therefore, when people are not full, most of them will be like wild beasts. Those who live in poverty and hunger and can still keep the festival are not people, but also scholars; But there are few people, but there are many people. Hu Yi has no etiquette and morality, so how can he come to be a person of will? When they are hungry, they will plunder and kill, because they cannot afford to make themselves 'sufficient,' but to rob others. The Central Plains wants to completely solve the Hu trouble, it is useless to expel them, and they will make a comeback if they are driven away, either this year or the year after tomorrow, not this decade or the next decade, there is no end time, so the Hexi millennium is plugged, the beacon fire is not extinguished, the Guyin Hu people can not feed themselves, do not go to the east to rob, to the south, they will have to sweep the west, in short, to rob to occupy the way to live. ”

Xiao Yan followed the horse, she had heard these truths from the fourth brother, but she had never felt so intuitive and profound as today, riding a horse and walking in this fertile countryside. She listened intently.

"When people have food and clothing, who wants to shout and kill? You see, we Han people, as long as we have a piece of land, we can't afford to rebel. Why did Chen Sheng and Wu Guang oppose Qin, it was because they were forced to have no way to live. Why did the Yellow Turbans rebel at the end of the Han Dynasty? It's also forced to have no way to live. The Hu people are the same, give them a way to live, and they will be as diligent as the Han people. We have a population of 10 million in Hexi, of which the Hu descent accounts for 50% or 60 percent, without them, there would be no Hexi today. Kill all the Huyi who live in this land, who will build Hexi? What's more, you can't kill it all. Emperor Gao Wu was indeed wise, not to kill and expel him, but to return to Xia. first beat them up severely, then gave them land, taught them agriculture, and then practiced education, let them be righteous and honest, and followed our clothes, which is Huaxia. ”

Xiao Yan nodded, the fourth brother of this history book has talked about it in detail. The Tang Dynasty History Museum has "Examination of Chinese Ethnicity", which was compiled during the Gaozong period, this Tang Dynasty Majesty Xià fought all his life and laid down the Quartet Hu clan, but he is the most admired saint of the descendants of Zhuhu, and she must be called "Saint Gaowu" when she mentions her, because this Majesty Xià proposed "Hu Yi returns to Xia" - "Migrate all Hu are Chinese ethnic groups, when Muhua returns to China"; Of course, there are many Hu people who hate her, because this national policy will inevitably make many Hu people sinicized, and even lose their own clan names, especially the Hu people who only have language and no writing. It is said that Emperor Gao Zongwu suffered the most assassinations during his reign, because those Hu masters who were afraid that their tribe would die out wanted to kill her, but of course no one succeeded.

The fourth brother said: "There are no Di people, Qiang people, and Xiongnu people in the Tang Dynasty, because their descendants have been completely sinicized. The former Xianbei tribes Tuoba clan, Dugu clan, Murong clan, Changsun clan, Yuchi clan, He Lai clan, and Buliu Gu clan are already our Han surname families, and Dugu and Murong are even more into the Tang Dynasty family with a surname - not because they are loyal to the Tang Dynasty and Shiqing Shilu, but because they are courteous and studious, their customs are compatible, and they are the way to restore Huaxia's clothes, so the Tang Dynasty recognizes them as the well-dressed clan. ”

Xiao Xian took Xiao Yan out of the ditch on horseback, went to the southwest, and chanted a poem in the wind with the fragrance of rice and fruit:

"The rice and fruit of the Hechuan Plain are ripe, and the south of the Hexi River is now famous."

Xiao Yan read this poem, which was written by Wei Zhan, who was the assassin of Hezhou.

Uncle Zu's voice came into her ears: "Wei Gong's original sentence was 'plugged into the name of Jiangnan today', and later changed to two words, do you know why?" ”

Xiao Yan's Qingyue voice smiled in the wind: "Because Hexi is no longer 'plugged', here, it is the Central Plains: Shuimu Wanjia Zhuhu, Renli Qianshu Wenyuan." ”

Xiao Xian laughed and waved his horsewhip, "Let's go." ”

Gallop south.

Go 30 miles to the south, enter the southwest branch of Huolan Mountain, this majestic mountain range standing on the grassland of Hexi, like a group of horses galloping, rushing out of an anti-zigzag: north of the Eilechuan, the mountain range is as horizontal as the word "one", from the east to the west for 200 miles; Then from top to bottom, the pen falls "乀", to nine hundred miles; It bends west at the southern end again, and goes to the horizontal stroke, stretching for one hundred and twenty miles, and this horizontal skimming mountain range is called "Xiao Mountain".

Because Xiao's Jingdao Hall is on this branch mountain, over time, it was called "Xiaoshan" by the people of Hexi.

There are rivers, irrigation canals, farms, fruit forests under Xiao Mountain, and the pastoral fruit trees near the mountain are all owned by the Xiao family, and there are tenants and hired farmers who cultivate them, as well as the children of the Xiao family.

When Xiao Yan rode by, he looked over and saw: there was an old woman in a skirt carrying a fishing basket and singing "Xiaoshan Continent is like a screen painting, and fish soup and rice are often eaten"; There are Confucian scholars who ride on the back of oxen and herd sheep and hold books in their hands; There is a middle-aged uncle who is wearing a robe and squatting on the edge of the rice field to write and draw; There are young people with high sleeves, measuring with rulers in the keel waterwheel, and writing with a pen; There is also an old man who pulls his trouser legs and takes turns in the fields to change into iron ploughs and ploughshares, but wears a veil.

Xiao Yan was surprised.

Xiao Xian smiled and said: "The one who sings the fishing song is your grandmother-in-law, who is the author of "Lao Tzu Note" and "Zhuangzi Explanation". ”

Xiao Yan was in awe, "But Mr. Shigu? ”

Xiao Qing, the word Wenying, the name Shigu, is a famous Taoist master in the Tang Dynasty, known as "Mr. Shigu", one of the books of the Tang Imperial Examination "Tao Te Ching", is based on her "Lao Tzu Note" as the official note.

Xiao Yan's "Lao Tzu" and "Zhuangzi" are all annotations of this cousin's grandmother, and Xiao Yan likes the incisive explanations and the free and easy tone.

Xiao Xian's chin smiled, and the horsewhip pointed down the hillside, "The one who reads on the back of the ox is your uncle Xiao Zhu, the head of the Bingchen Branch and the Ming Jing Branch." ”

Xiao Yan was dumbfounded, the head of the Ming Jingke is herding sheep here? “…… Uncle Zhu didn't go to Hanlin Yuan, secretary province? ”

Xiao Xian, while riding forward, said with a smile: "Your uncle of the Zhu clan stayed in Hanlin Yuan for a year, and then resigned, and traveled in the prefectures and counties of Jiangbei and Jiangnan for four years, went to the academy to listen to and lecture, and only returned to the Jingdao Hall half a year ago to be a master in the Confucian Jingtang. After two more years of precipitation, you can go to Shouren College to be a mountain chief. ”

Shouren Academy is a academy built by the Xiao family in Hexi, and each state has one, which teaches scriptures and Confucianism; There is also Qiaoshan Academy, which focuses on the study of instrumental benefits.

Xiao Xian's chin was raised again, and he said to the middle-aged man who was painting in Guansui: "That's your uncle Xiao Ji, the master of agriculture." He smiled back and said, "The one who tried to plow in the field was your ancestor Xiao Hao, the master of Mo Xue; Next to the waterwheel is your brother Xiao Jin, and another brother of yours who has studied mechanical arts, who has been tinkering with the construction of a water-powered iron wrought iron machine in the past few years. ”

Xiao Yan was equally awe-struck when he heard it, "Skillful, almost Tao." ”

Xiao Xian looked at her and smiled, and took her to ride up the mountain.

After riding along the carriageway up the mountain for less than a quarter of an hour, he heard a fierce argument in front of him, and Xiao Yan followed the prestige, and it was a pavilion in front of him, where several young men in shirts were debating.

Xiao Yan listened to it for a while, and was arguing about "whether the family should limit tax-free fields", and it seemed that the majority was in favor...... She blinked, was it really a Xiao family disciple in that pavilion?

Xiao Xian only smiled and said, "Which master is it, and the after-class strategy topic is assigned." ”

Xiao Yan touched his head, "Aren't we a family?" "How are you talking about limiting yourself?

Xiao Xun said: ""Zhou Yi" said, 'In the middle of the day, the sun is bright, and the moon is eclipse', which is the truth that the moon is full and the water is overflowing. Things in the world are like easy hexagrams, too much will go too late, and things will decline if they are prosperous. The same is true of the family, if it occupies too much, God will take it back. The rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty is a lesson: how many powerful clans fell under the Yellow Turban? ”

Xiao Yan contacted his uncle's previous words and understood.

I listened to my uncle's deep voice and said: "Look at the big rivers, they have been flowing for hundreds of years and thousands of years. Our family has to be a big river with a long history. Water will go in and out. Don't do that lake, keep encircling the dam, only go in, not out, one day, the lake and the dam will be gone - either the lake water rotted and raised a bunch of stinky fish and shrimp, or it was dug up by those who had no water. ”

"Yes." Xiao Yan was carefully taught.

"The same is true of the Jingdaotang, if you learn something full of things, you have to pour them out, whether it is educating people, writing books, or researching skills, you must always let the things you learn go out, so that they will not be soaked in the stomach and become fertilizer." Xiao Xian's words were funny, which made Xiao Yan laugh.

"What my uncle said is that the text carries the Tao and the learning is put into practice, right?" She said.

This is Wendao, but what about martial arts?

Xiao Xian left this question to her to ponder.

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