The imperial envoy Yu Gui tasted the grace of heaven in Yang Chu, the king of Wudu, and his intention was moved, and an envoy was sent to call the basket. Luliang Prefecture Nanzheng, Ming King Banquet. The envoy in the banquet said that he was the envoy at the beginning, the general of Zhengnan, the assassin of Yongzhou, and the prince of Qiu Chi. King Ming was angry and drove him back to the revenge pool.

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After Zeng Hua sent Yu Gui back to Nanzheng, he no longer returned to Chuyang, where everything was working normally, and the production capacity was amazing. Now the raw materials can't keep up, not only ore, but also horns, topwood, cow tendons, tung oil, lacquer glue and other items can not be supplied, so we have to send people everywhere to step up mining and purchase.

Zeng Hua couldn't help but start to live a relatively "corrupt life" in Nanzheng, with a big banquet every three days and a tea party every day, but this was all held in the Liangzhou Thorn Shi Changshi Mansion, and he only sighed again and again: "This main media is not so easy to be!" If it weren't for Zeng Hua's later "conscience discovery" and everything from the Assassin's Mansion, Che Yin is estimated to become the first Assassin Shi Changshi in the Great Jin Dynasty to beg on the street because he was poor.

Everyone understands Zeng Hua's intentions, and he is willing to eat and drink happily in Chefu.

On this night, it was the fifteenth day of November, the day of the full moon. Zeng Hua set up a tea party in Chefu and invited Che Yin, Mao Muzhi and others to enjoy the moon with the Fan family brothers and sisters. Anyway, in this era, it seems that there is no rule that people who have made a marriage contract but are not yet married are not allowed to see each other, but they can no longer live in the same house, and the people invited here are not outsiders.

Everyone happily admired the moon and watched the scenery, Che Yin, Mao Muzhi and others couldn't help but make a poem, thinking that they were in love.

But Zeng Hua only saw Fan Min'e, who was sitting on the side, with an uncomfortable face, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, and a faint cloud of sorrow on her white jade-like face, and couldn't help asking, "Miss Fan, why are you so sad?" ”

Fan Min raised his head when he heard this, and when he saw Zeng Hua looking directly at him, he suddenly couldn't help blushing, turned to a reluctant smile, lowered his head and said, "Seeing this beautiful scenery, I can't help but think of my father and my hometown." ”

Zeng Hua couldn't help but nodded, and said gloomily: "I know, the moon is my hometown Ming!" ”

Zeng Hua sighed, and then said: "I will wait for the western expedition and die to become a Han, and you can be regarded as a person whose country is ruined and your family is scattered." ”

Everyone couldn't help but change their faces, and they all stopped and turned to Zeng Hua.

Fan Min couldn't help but be anxious, his face was full of hesitation, and he hurriedly raised his head and said, "My lord, I ......"

Zeng Hua waved his hand and said, "Miss Fan, I know what you mean. I don't have any bad intentions, I'm just making an analogy and telling an explanation. ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Hua couldn't help but raise his wine glass and said sadly: "You still have your parents to miss, but I can only miss it, you still have your hometown to look back on, but I can only dream of distant exploration." ”

With the strength of the wine, Zeng Hua stood up, pointed to the people present and said: "Actually, what I said is not right, not only the brothers and sisters of the Fan family, but everyone here is a person who has broken the country, but for the time being, they are just keeping it safe." Where is our capital? In Luoyang! It was there that Emperor Sejomu ascended the throne! There are still millions of people of the Jin Kingdom, as well as the tombs and foundations of our ancestors! Now it's all in the hands of the Hu people! ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Hua felt a sad and miserable feeling welling up in his heart. He is different from the Jin people of this era, he has a strong sense of nationality and deep national feelings. The longer you stay in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which is partial to the south of the Yangtze River, the more profound the feeling of the country being broken.

Zeng Hua is a hot-blooded young man, and his feelings for the country, the nation, and his relatives are very deep. Coming to this lonely and strange world, seeing that one's country and nation are bleeding and struggling in the ravages, and then thinking that one's relatives will never see each other, that feeling of grief and grief may only be expressed in "Jiang Yingyue" (Erquan Yingyue).

Therefore, Zeng Hua worked hard, desperately wrote down the knowledge he remembered, desperately planned and strategized, desperately enriched his military knowledge and experience, desperately fought wars, desperately engaged in creative reforms, desperately busy, desperately uninhibited, just to forget all this.

Tonight, Fan Min's words aroused the deepest sorrow and grief in Zeng Hua's heart, and it may be that the sorrow of a beauty can resonate with others the most.

Zeng Hua stood there, letting the tears flow. Everyone had never seen Zeng Hua so sad, and they were all at a loss, and Fan Min was even more panicked, Cherry's mouth opened slightly, and his face was surprised. She didn't expect her words to cause such a big reaction from Zeng Hua.

Zeng Hua stood there, wiped away the tears on his face violently, and shouted loudly: "Take my piano!" ”

Others hurriedly handed over the prepared piano, because Zeng Hua often came to this kind of gathering, so he always had it. But Che Yin, Mao Muzhi and others breathed a sigh of relief. Since Zeng Hua has the heart to play the piano, this shows that he has no major problems in his heart, and he can express his grief and anger through the sound of the piano.

Zeng Hua sat there, holding the erhuqin, the first thing that came to mind was Li Yu's "Poppy Beauty", maybe this song is not very suitable for his mood and current environment, but this eternal swan song that tells the sorrow of the world is so deeply touching every sensitive and sad heart.

Zeng Hua recalled Teresa Teng's song singing, recited it silently, and then began to play the violin. In the sound of the piano, Zeng Hua sang gloomily: "When is the spring flower and autumn moon, and how much do you know about the past." Xiaolou had another east wind last night, so the country could not afford to look back at the moonlight. The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there, but the face has changed. Ask how much sorrow you can have, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward. ”

As soon as Zeng Hua finished singing, Che Yin, Mao Muzhi and others couldn't help but shed tears, and muttered in their mouths: "The old country is unbearable to look back at the moonlight!" The old country is unbearable to look back at the moonlight! In the end, I couldn't help but cry!

It was night, and everyone was full of tears and covered with clothes.

The three years of Yonghe will soon pass, and the celebrities and Qing officials in Jiangling began to sing sourly, "Ask how much sorrow you can have, just like a river flowing eastward." And like the wind, it spread to Jiankang and other places. Many people who have heard this "word" can't help but be moved by its far-reaching artistic conception, the words that express the sorrow and indignation of the world, and Zeng Liangzhou, who wrote this poem, can't help but be jealous of seven points but three points more admiration.

At this time, Zeng Hua no longer has that kind of indignation and sorrow, indignation and sorrow are not more effective than grief and hatred, and it is enough to lament when the moon is full, and the rest of the time has to return to reality to continue living.

Zeng Hua now discusses "philosophical" issues with Fan Zhe.

What are people made of? What are you born for? Who was I born? Do people have a past life and an afterlife? Where do you go after death? Zeng Hua first raised a series of questions about the origin of life, which immediately made Fan Zhe dizzy.

As the Xth generation descendant of the Heavenly Master Dao, Fan Zhe can be said to be well-read and knowledgeable. He was not only familiar with Taoist scriptures, but also familiar with Confucian books, and he had even touched on Buddhist scriptures from the West (probably because he wanted to know himself and his opponent). But he was asked by Zeng Hua, the true meaning of life that he had been searching for before.

Fan Zhe tried to answer these questions with his previous knowledge, but was refuted by Zeng Hua using the "basic principles of modern philosophy". Fan Zhe couldn't, so he had to "deign" to ask "Wufu" Zeng Hua for advice, and as a result, he was slowly instilled with a relevant worldview and outlook on life.

When Fan Zhe seemed to understand or not, Zeng Hua asked again, do people have souls? If there is no soul, then how can one feel the world, how can one feel others? If there is a soul, where does it come from and where does it go?

Fan Zhe still has some experience in these questions, and answers them one by one, but he was criticized by Zeng Hua with idealism plus materialism and dialectics. Looking at Fan Zhe, who was stunned and bloodless, Zeng Hua was secretly proud on the side. For example, how much effort Lao Tzu spent and how many books on philosophy and religion he read in order to be a "natural speech agitator" and "the best debater", if it weren't for the fact that you are my brother-in-law, I would have directly dismissed you to vomit blood and die.

Zeng Hua didn't let go of Fan Zhe, and continued to ask, is human nature inherently good or evil? How did the world start? Where will it go? Where did humans come from? How did it come to be about thousands of cultures?

After listening to Zeng Hua's question, Fan Zhe was completely mad, hiding in the study and desperately flipping through the books, looking for the true meaning.

Zeng Hua didn't care about him anymore, or continued to set up banquets and tea parties in Chefu, or met to play around, sometimes picking plum blossoms to send each other, expressing love, sometimes playing the piano and singing, telling his feelings, and digging out his heart to make Fan Min happy.

watched Zeng Hua come out of all sorts of tricks, just trying to please himself. Fan Min's heart was even more pounding, and he actually forgot his brother who was suddenly working hard in the study, and a wisp of his daughter's thoughts was all on Zeng Hua.

A few days later, Fan Zhe suddenly walked out of the study, and his appearance suddenly startled everyone. I saw that his face was full of beard, his face suddenly thinned, and his body was in a trance. Seeing Fan Zhe like this, Fan Min's face changed greatly, he was shocked and ashamed, he grabbed his brother's sleeve and didn't know what to say, but he burst into tears.

And Zeng Hua was also taken aback, there is still a little bit of Zhou Lang Tannu's demeanor, and the whole thing looks like a down-and-out scholar. Could it be that the truth really has such a great magic power, and tortured a handsome guy who is so dignified, angry with Zhou Lang, and ashamed of Pan An to be like this? But Zeng Hua felt a little gloating in his heart, who called you more handsome than me, planted in my hands!

However, Zeng Hua still admires Fan Zhe's spirit of curiosity, this is the awakening person I fancy to the world, otherwise how can I be worthy of the heavy responsibility I will let you bear?

I saw Fan Zhe walk up to Zeng Hua, bend down respectfully and bow his hand, "Please also teach me!" ”

Zeng Hua hurriedly helped Fan Zhe up, looked at his eyes eager for true knowledge, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what a good young man in the new era, the faith enlightenment of the big guy will fall into your hands.

Zeng Hua didn't dare to hold it anymore, and hurriedly took out a booklet. This is a great record of Zeng Hua's thoughts on this world and life in the past three years, and a large record of the "spark of thought" full of "modern philosophy", and more importantly, Zeng Hua's review and summary of the monotheistic religious teachings of his time, all of which were compiled into one volume by Zeng Hua. Then he said meaningfully: "Our ancient legends have tens of millions of years from Pangu to the Yellow Emperor, can't we create our own monotheistic religion?" ”

Zeng Hua deliberately tortured Fan Zhe to the point of serious doubts about his past beliefs and thoughts before pulling out the book. His intentions are really "sinister", and now is the time when Fan Zhe is "most shaken" and "most confused", and it is also the best time to brainwash him.

Fan Zhe took this booklet, took a cursory look, and immediately indulged in it, regardless of his sister-in-law's call, he went back to the study directly, and continued to "I will go up and down and seek". Zeng Hua saw Fan Min standing at the door of the study like a pear flower with rain, and immediately stepped forward to comfort him: "Miss, don't worry about Brother Wen Chang (Fan Zhezi), he is thinking about some very important issues. With his intelligence, it only took him time to figure it out. ”

Just as Zeng Hua continued to work hard to please Fan Minmeimei, Che Yin unceremoniously sent someone to disturb Zeng Hua's plan to pick up girls (are they already his wives still using bubbles?). The protagonist replied very seriously, precisely because it is a feudal marriage, the wife has to soak even more, otherwise the fun of "free love" will be lost. He said that another VIP had arrived, and asked him to return to the assassination mansion as soon as possible.

So, Zeng Hua held a feast in his Liangzhou Thorn History Mansion located in the north of Nanzheng City, but the person who entertained him was Yang Xu, the envoy of Yang Chu, the king of Qiuchi (Wudu).

Emperor Hui Yuankang six years (AD 296), Qiu Chi around the Di people leader Yang Mao Sou self-named auxiliary general, the right Xian Wang, Di tribes support the king, the founding of the country, called Qiu Chi Gong, its jurisdiction has Wudu, Yinping two counties, the country is strong for a while. In the first year of Emperor Yuan's martial arts, Yang Maosou's eldest son Yang Nandi succeeded to the throne, called Zuoxian Wang, and Tunxia distinguished. His younger brother Yang Jian's number one right virtuous king, Tunhechi (now Hui County), and then his brothers fought infighting, and was once defeated by the former Zhao Liu Yao, once intercepted "more than 1,000 of its baggage vehicles, 6,000 scholars and women", and the national strength is weakening day by day. But now its land is still east to Hanzhong, south over Guangyuan, north to Tianshui, west according to Tangchang, there are more than 200,000 people (the history records its heyday there were 400,000 people), tens of thousands of foot riders.

The current King of Qiu Chi Di is Yang Chu, the grandson of Yang Nandi, when he received Yu Gui, who went to Xiliang to proclaim the decree, he knew that the Jin room in the east gave Xiliang Zhang Chonghua a high hat, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

Although the Zhang family occupies Xiliang and is an out-and-out "separatist warlord", their loyalty to the Jin family can be shown to the sun and the moon, and they are "as loyal" as Zeng Hua, who returned to the dynasty for thousands of miles. not only continued to use the Jianxing era name of Emperor Chu, but also often called the Jin family. Later, Li Shou turned his face with the Jin room, and the Xiliang Zhang family did not hesitate to pay tribute to Li Han in order to be able to contribute to the Jin family. Every time the Xiliang Zhang family expresses their loyalty to the Jin room, they have to pass by Qiu Chi, so even with Qiu Chi they tend to be in the Jin room, and they have always been promoted to the Jin Dynasty.

This time, Yang Chu heard that Zhang Chonghua had been sealed, and he immediately had a little Jiujiu in his heart: Xiliang and I are also courtiers to the Jin family, Xiliang has meat, and I have to gnaw on the bones of Qiuchi, so I sent Yang Xu, an important minister of the kinship, to go to Liangzhou to Jiankang to make offerings, pull the relationship, and ask for a title by the way.

With the support of a piece of historical knowledge of Qiu Chi that Che Yin made up for his evil just now, Zeng Hua looked at the old Yang opposite and felt the bottom in his heart.

"Lord Yang! You went to court to claim the domain, and the road is far away, so it's really hard for you. Hanzhong is remote, coarse tea and light rice, it is really snubbing you! Zeng Hua said respectfully with a smile.

"Lord Zeng is polite! You and I are both courtiers and neighbors, so you don't have to be so polite! You don't have to be so polite! Yang Xu didn't dare to hold up in front of Zeng Hua. When Zeng Hua took up the post of Liangzhou Assassin in the east of Qiu Chi, Qiu Chi carefully inquired about this new neighbor, and of course he knew his great exploits in the Western Expedition.

For the Cheng Han who has been destroyed, the Qiu Chi Yang family has a special affection for it. At that time, Qiu Chi had internal strife among his brothers in China, and his national strength was declining, and he was beaten by the former Zhao Liu Yao in the north, and he had no choice but to pay tribute to Li Xiong, the monarch of the Cheng Han Dynasty at that time. Later, Cheng Han also began to fight, and the national strength began to decline, but Qiu Chi was slowly recovering, and the two were at peace. Later, Li Shou went to Jin Lian Zhao, and the relationship between Qiu Chi and Cheng Han suddenly became cold and never abandoned. But Qiu Chi was still a little afraid of Cheng Han's "strong" national strength. In the end, this seemingly powerful southern neighbor was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty's Western Expeditionary Army, and Qiu Chi's heart was still very complicated.

For a small force that is trying to survive among various forces, what they hope most is that everyone will contain each other and be safe with each other. The last thing I want is to have a strong neighbor next to me.

The history of the Liangzhou thorn next to him is very violent, and Qiu Chi believes in the "legend" at this point. So they courted the Jin family and asked for a reward; On the other hand, it stepped up contact with its ally in the west, Tuyuhun.

Qiu Chi was in the case of a sinister relationship with Hou Zhao in the north and an unclear relationship between Cheng and Han in the south, so in order to protect himself, he pulled Tuyuhun to the west. Zeng Hua also knew a little about this from the news he got from some sources.

After a few glasses of wine, seeing that Yang Xu blushed a little, Zeng Hua asked tentatively: "Lord Yang, I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of Qiang tribes in the west of Qiuchi, and now they are all under the jurisdiction of a tribe called Tuyuhun, I don't know if it's true or not?" ”

Yang Xu squinted at Zeng Hua, thinking about it in his heart, knowing that Qiu Chi and Tuyuhun couldn't hide it, so he simply said it clearly. Moreover, Yang Xu also wanted to brag about his ally Tuyuhun in order to suppress this fierce neighbor in the east. Don't move, there's someone behind me.

"Indeed, Tuyuhun has now subdued more than dozens of Diqiang, with more than 200,000 people, and the territory extends to Bailan (now Dulan County, Qinghai Province, Balong County) in the west, Angcheng (now Aba Realm, Sichuan Province), Longqian (now Songpan County, Sichuan Province) in the south, Xihai (now Qinghai Lake) in the north, and I Qiuchi in the east, and there are tens of thousands of iron horses." Yang Xu said "proudly".

Blow, blow hard, there are more than 200,000 people, tens of thousands of iron horses, if there were so many people who would have fought with you a long time ago, what would be the alliance with you.

Zeng Hua's face was silent, still full of smiles, and he added a little surprise and surprise, and continued to ask: "This Tuyuhun is so strong, I don't know if there is an attempt against Qiu Chi?" If you are in trouble, just say that you and I are neighbors, and I should do my best to help each other. ”

"Lord Zeng is so righteous, Yang has thanked my lord on my behalf. However, this Tuyuhun has been allied with my family, and its Khan Tuyan has hired the second daughter of my family for his son, Sha Xi, and he has been married in July this year. Yang Xu said triumphantly.

"That's good, that's good! Lord Yang, come, I'll toast you! Zeng Hua raised his glass and said.

Seeing that under his boasting, Zeng Liangzhou, who was "famous", was so humble and polite, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and his emotions became more and more high. Under the respect of Zeng Huacheng, who was becoming more and more humble, he drank while blowing, and drank more than ten cups in a row.

At this time, Che Yin, who was accompanying him, said: "This time Lord Yang enters the court, the court will definitely reward your lord and father-in-law, and even adults are afraid that they will not be able to run away from a great fortune." ”

When Yang Xu heard this, he rolled his tongue and said: "The king of my family said that this time the imperial court must give an envoy, a general of Zhengnan, a history of Yongzhou assassination, and the official position of Qiu Chi Gong, otherwise my Qiu Chi will never agree." ”

Hearing this, Zeng Hua and the others present changed their faces and looked at each other, and then Mao Muzhi, who was still full of smiling faces just now, suddenly said coldly: "Lord Yang, this is a bad word, and grace comes from above, how can anyone show himself to his duties?" ”

Yang Xu didn't feel the change in the atmosphere yet, and still said with a big tongue: "I enmity the Chi Kingdom in the west and Tuguhun, the north and the west are cool, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, how can the imperial court not seal it?" If I don't give it, my lord will call himself king! ”

Zeng Hua, who was very "humble" just now, couldn't help but be furious when he heard this: "The rat dog dares to call himself the king!" Come, put this thief out of me, where did you come from to coax me back there! ”

It's really faster to turn his face than to turn a book, Yang Xu didn't understand what was going on, he was set up out of Liangzhou Assassin's Mansion, and then escorted out of Nanzheng City with his entourage, passing through Yangping Pass and Fu County, and out of Wuxing Pass (now Luoyang, Shaanxi). The gift of entering the court will be left and used as food money.