Chapter 25: The First City Under Heaven
Lucheng is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery is beautiful.
Especially here, it is a holy place for talented people from all over the world to study!
Although Xiang Ning is the great son of Chu, it is the first time he has left the territory of Chu.
At this moment, the emperor's guard of honor could see the head of Lucheng from a distance, and Xiang Ning was already excited.
"Good mountains, good water, good city!" Xiang Ning couldn't help but admire.
As soon as she finished speaking, a familiar voice came to her ears.
"Mountains and rivers and cities are good, but this kind of goodness is built with money."
Xiang Ning's good mood was quickly discounted.
She glanced at the man beside her, Fan Li.
This guy dared to ride the dragon chariot, and he didn't have the permission of his own emperor!
Fan Li didn't care what Xiang Ning's mood was, the honor guard came all the way, did he have to endure the torture of the journey?
With Fan Li's current status, he doesn't have to be wronged at all.
The emperor's chariot is very comfortable.
Of course, Fan Li can also pay out of his own pocket and use the huge financial resources of the Fan family to build a frame that is more comfortable than Longren.
It's just that time is a little tight, Fan Li just thinks about it, and just does it.
What about Xiang Ning's dragon chariot?
As the first power traitor of Da Chu, this is obviously just a basic operation, mistake 6.
"Mountains and rivers are generated by heaven and earth, and Lucheng is prosperous because of its culture. Jin Gong only commented on Lu Cheng with a vulgar copper smell, didn't he feel that he was too shallow? ”
Xiang Ning was already sulking with Fan Li, so he would seize the opportunity and immediately make sarcastic remarks.
Fan Li listened, but he was not angry at all.
"Your Majesty still needs to read more."
He didn't wait for Xiang Ning to get angry, and continued to explain.
"The ancestor of the Lu family, the first generation of Wenxin Marquis, was the world's richest man at that time, and his financial resources were even far superior to those of ordinary vassal states."
"After the fall of the previous dynasty, the Lu family migrated here and built a city. It took a hundred years for the city of Lu to be completely completed, and during this period, no country in the world attacked this city, does Your Majesty know what the reason is? ”
Xiang Ning was stunned when he heard it.
She doesn't like to read, especially history books, where does she know the origin of Lu Cheng?
Xiang Ning shook her head in embarrassment, and Fan Li didn't laugh at her.
"Lucheng was actually a place of death back then. The land is barren and the mountains and rivers are exhausted. The princes of the world abandoned it like a shoe, and it was a waste to even send a soldier and a pawn. ”
"It can't be!"
Xiang Ning immediately retorted.
"Looking at the mountains and rivers of Lucheng, a radius of 100 miles can be described as a land of fish and rice, which is enough to cultivate fields, store people, and raise soldiers."
"The mountain of Lucheng, I have also heard that it is rich in treasures, and you can regularly pick precious elixirs. For today's cultivators, half of the medicinal herbs needed for alchemy come from the mountains around Lucheng. ”
After Xiang Ning finished speaking, he looked at Fan Li triumphantly, and his eyes seemed to say that I still have some knowledge.
Fan Li nodded and shook his head again.
This little girl is actually more knowledgeable than herself?
Although he is a traverser, the original owner Fan Li is a real scholar, reading through the scriptures, histories, children, and collections of the world.
Fan Li said: "In the early years, Lu Cheng was indeed a dead land. But the ancestors of the Lu family came here to build a city, and it was precisely because it was abandoned by the princes of the world that the Lu family could build the city with peace of mind. ”
"The Lu family built the city, mobilized millions of people, and cultivated 10,000 acres of fertile land."
"On the barren mountain, there are cultivators hired by the Lu clan to cultivate it personally, and they set the rule of not taking a single grass or tree for a thousand years, and finally raised a barren mountain into a treasure mountain full of spiritual roots and different grasses."
"As for the construction of Lücheng, its specifications and standards are completely modeled after the capital of the previous dynasty. The cost of building the main city alone was enough to open another country in the world when the princes were divided! ”
"After the main city was built, the first generation of city lords immediately began to give lectures."
"With the family biography "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period", the Confucian students who came to the Lu family to study practiced Haoran Qi several times faster than ordinary Confucian and Taoist practitioners."
"Gradually, countless Confucianists and Taoists came to Lucheng to study."
"A few hundred years later, almost all the Confucian and Taoist practitioners in the world have studied the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Lu Family", and the Marquis of Wenxin of the Lu Family became the teacher of Confucianism and Taoism in the world, and Lu Cheng was prosperous because of this!"
Fan Li explained in detail, and Xiang Ning was already dumbfounded.
Fan Li looked at her with an unfinished look, and he also had the intention to show off, so that this girl could see her erudition, so she continued.
"I also heard that "Lü's Spring and Autumn" was not written by Lü's Taizu, but Lü's Taizu invited famous Confucians in the world at that time to write this book with a huge amount of wealth."
"Therefore, Lu Cheng and "Lu's Spring and Autumn" are all piled up with money."
Xiang Ning couldn't help but ask, "Where did the Lu family get so much money?" ”
She completely forgot that she was laughing at Fan Li's copper smell just now.
Fan Li said with a smile: "Thousands of years of praise, is it that the world's first wang clan is injected with water?" The cost of building Lu Cheng is only less than one-tenth of the Lu family's savings. ”
"And I also heard that the cost of compiling "Lü's Spring and Autumn" back then was more than the construction of Lü City."
Xiang Ning grew his mouth and couldn't say a word for a long time.
To a practitioner, worldly wealth is of little value?
On the surface, it may seem like this.
But if wealth accumulates to the point where you want to be a terror, after all, no matter how high a great cultivator is, I am afraid that you will have to bend your waist in the end!
Xiang Ning was completely convinced.
It turns out that money can really do whatever you want?
She, the empress of the rich Chu world, is like a bun who has never seen the world in front of the Lu family?
Fan Li said that he had enough money and began to talk about culture.
"There is a saying: There is a total of one stone in the world, and Lu Cheng has eight buckets. Chu, Han, and Ming are divided into one bucket, and the hermits in the world's rivers and lakes are divided into another bucket. ”
"When we came to Lucheng this time, we can see the style of contemporary Wenxinhou."
Xiang Ning was already very weak-hearted.
She asked confidently, "I ...... I don't read much, if Wen Xinhou wants to test my literary talents, please ask Jin Gong to help me. ”
Fan Li nodded: "This is natural, Marquis Wenxin said that Potian is only a marquis, why should he test the Son of Heaven?" ”
Wow!
Xiang Ning was moved when he heard that, and his good impression of Fan Li 'rubbed' several notches in a row!
Suddenly, someone came to report.
"Five miles away from the city, there is a guard of honor for the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty."
"Emperor Han sent an envoy to inquire if His Majesty would like to enter Lücheng with him?"
Xiang Ning didn't dare to call the shots, and glanced at Fan Li, who nodded imperceptibly.
"Rectify the team, move closer to the Han Emperor's honor guard, and march into the city in parallel." Xiang Ning immediately ordered.
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Lü Cheng, the Mansion of the Marquis of Wenxin.
The main hall of the huge Hou Mansion is luxurious and wide, and it does not lose the palace.
The servants and guards all retreated, except for two men of similar age, who looked to be in their mid-fifties, standing and staring at each other.
One of them wore a bright yellow dragon robe, with a wide face and a wide forehead, and was dignified and majestic.
The other man wore a headscarf and a Confucian robe, and was very civil.
The Confucian scribe arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty has solicited Lu Chunqiu very honored. It's just that I haven't seen the two emperors of Chu and Han yet......"
Emperor Jiajing was smiling, but he always gave people a condescending majesty.
A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and he said slowly: "Wen Xinhou, doesn't he think that I am a commercial commodity for people to choose at will?" ”