Wei Yan rolled his eyes, he didn't really understand what Huo Guang meant, and asked blankly, "What is pyrite?" I've never heard of it!"

Haven't heard of pyrite?

Huo Guang thought about it and cleared his mind.

The name pyrite should have only started in modern times, and it is too different from the name in ancient times.

After pondering for a while, Huo Guang said to Wei Yan, "Pyrite, it's Nirvana, oh, no, no, according to you, it should be called Fool's Gold, well, it should be called that."

Why is pyrite called fool's gold?

Very simple.

The meaning shows that stupid people will treat this kind of mine as gold.

Because in terms of shape and color, it is too similar to gold.

"Nirvana? Fool's Gold?" Wei Yan followed along with the recitation in his mouth, then shook his head again, and said, "I still haven't heard of it, is this thing difficult to do?"

Looking at Wei Yan, he didn't understand anything.

Huo Guang understood that he had no need to ask this question.

Immediately!

Huo Guang waved his hand and sighed, "It's not a question of whether it's difficult or not, it's not a matter of whether it's difficult or not!"

"Forget it."

"It seems that we are going to form a caravan and find a way to buy some sulfur from the land of the Western Regions."

Hearing this, the little fat man Wei suddenly came to his senses and said, "Go to the Western Regions? Okay, okay, let's go together, I heard that the style of the Western Regions is good, and I have been longing for it for a long time."

Longing?

Scold!

Although there are some good things in the land of the Western Regions, the conditions over there are not much stronger than those of the Han Dynasty.

Even in terms of prosperity, it is far less than Chang'an City at this time.

After all.

Chang'an City is the capital of the Han Empire, how can it be worse than the barbarian land in the Western Regions.

Moreover, on the road to the Western Regions, there are many dangers.

As far as Wei Yan's kid is usually lazy to eat, he rarely exercises physically, if he encounters gangsters blocking the road and robbing him, and something happens at that time, he can't explain to his uncle Wei Qing.

Forthwith.

Huo Guang directly scolded: "No, how can the Western Regions be so good, you give me a good life, in Chang'an, this acre and three points of land, my uncle can protect you, go to the Western Regions, and the gangsters there don't care about your identity as Yichunhou."

However.

Facing Huo Guang's warning.

Wei Yan waved his hand absently and said, "Ah, old watch, why are you like my father, Rory."

Rory, huh?

Heard Wei Yan say this about himself.

Huo Guang frowned suddenly, and didn't bother to care about him.

Later time.

He instructed Busan, to prepare to recruit men, and prepare a caravan to go to the Western Regions. When the time comes, barter and get more brimstone back.

The currency of the Han Dynasty was not in circulation in the Western Regions.

But the silk of the Han Dynasty, which went there, was a bestseller, and it was easy to sell for a good price.

As for the sulfur.

Although there is no pyrite to refine, there are still many natural sulfur ores in nature.

It's just a pity.

In the Central Plains, there has always been a lack of this natural sulfur mine.

Otherwise.

With the popularity of Chinese alchemy, such a thing as gunpowder will only appear earlier.

Because of the formation of the caravan, Huo Guang spent another busy day.

Following.

Huo Guang got up early and prepared to go to Mengxue to listen to the last lesson. In a trance, Huo Guang had the feeling of going to the graduation ceremony of the school in his previous life.

Or maybe.

What we have experienced is nothing but the cycle of an era?

It's just that times are evolving.

It's just a different environment.

In the early winter, there was already a bit of a chill. But today is not so cold, perhaps, the cloudy weather, the atmospheric pressure changes, making the temperature

The degree has risen a little.

Huo Guang loosened his clothes and entered Mengxue.

Seeing the familiar heirs of the powerful people of the dynasty in this big house, without thinking about it, Huo Guang knew that if there were no variables in the future, more than half of the people in this room would become his future colleagues.

Take a closer look at history.

You will find that the children of the powerful will always be the powerful.

Maybe.

I can see a few scholars from poor families flying bright, but when I look at the family tree, I suddenly find that people were just in the middle of the family road before.

If you really want to give an example.

It seems that only the heavy starling started with a broken bowl and opened a new chapter in his life.

It's a pity.

The end of the descendants of the future generations is not very good, ending the glorious family history with a rope.

Huo Guang knelt in his place, quietly closing his eyes and recuperating. I woke up a little early this morning, and I was a little sleepy.

The surrounding students did not focus on their studies, but instead discussed various recent anecdotes in Chang'an City.

Thereinto.

The hottest is the fire incident at Chang'an Le Restaurant.

A fire.

Turning the business of several families into ashes.

This has made the business of the past two days much better than before.

Side.

The little chubby Dunwei couple was still chattering, like a chatterbox, and even asked Huo Guang from time to time about how the caravan to the Western Regions was being prepared.

Seem.

He still has a thief's heart for going to the Western Regions.

But seeing that Huo Guang ignored him, he also closed his mouth stupidly.

It wasn't until Dong Zhongshu arrived that the noise in this Mengxue room stopped.

At this time, Dong Zhongshu changed his previous strictness and said with a kind eye: "Okay, although today is the last day for me to learn for you, you still have to study hard in the days to come. Only by working hard can we reach a higher level."

"Alright."

"Actually, most of the things that should be taught, the old man has already taught you."

"So this is the last lesson for today."

"In this lecture, I will not talk about "The Ram", nor will I ask you to learn the six arts, but I will talk to you about the five elements of yin and yang and the art of praying for rain!"

As soon as I heard Dong Zhongshu say that he wanted to talk about the five elements of yin and yang and the art of praying for rain.

The Mongolian students in the room suddenly became lively, and they began to talk to each other, chattering non-stop.

If it were the old days.

Dong Daru, who has always been serious, will definitely take the ring ruler and knock on the board to make the students calm down.

But today is different.

Dong Zhongshu didn't care about the noisy children, but a faint smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and he said to himself: "The five elements of yin and yang mean that everything has two opposing and interrelated senses, and this kind of induction can be transformed into the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water."

"The five elements are born of yin and yang, and at the same time restrain each other."

"Human beings are created after the harmony of the five elements, so the five elements converge in the human body and can release yin and yang."

"When praying for rain, close the sun, indulge the yin, sense the heavens, and get its rain to irrigate the earth."

"When the rain stops, it's the other way around."

Listening to Dong Zhongshu's words, there was a student below who didn't understand and asked, "Lecture, what is the closed yang and what is the yin?"

Hear this.

The smile on Dong Zhongshu's face did not change, and he explained, "Closing the Yang is a means, in addition to closing the Yang Qi in the human body and releasing the Yin Qi, it can also be external. Such as burning boars and roosters, and burying the bones of the dead."

"If you are in the shade, you can dig ditches, open mountain springs, and so on!"

"At the same time, it should be noted that when the sun is closed, men should not go out on the streets, drink and gather. The women should be full of spring breeze, lively and lively, running around the streets..."

Dong Zhongshu stood on the stage and spoke at the head of the road.

Huo Guang listened to it with a confused face.

Even if you don't have to worry about it, why do you want to prohibit men from going out on the street and drinking and partying when praying for rain?

Woman running around the street with a flushed face?

I tried to imagine such a picture in my mind, and Huo Guang's whole person was not good.

No wonder the ancients would describe the word "cloud and rain" as a man's love for women, it turned out to come out of you.

Immediately.

Huo Guang stood up and said, "Teacher, I don't agree with what you said. My Confucian ancestors, didn't they pay attention to "the son is silent, the strange power is chaotic", and "the ghosts and gods are kept away"? Your rain prayer technique is a bit like the likes of always."

Confucianism in the pre-Qin period has one theory, which is more worthy of in-depth study than the ram theory.

Because.

It is very advanced in its thinking.

It's just that in the Han Dynasty, the so-called Confucianism has been tampered with by some people.

It is said to be Confucianism.

It is better to say that it is Confucianism, which makes people keep to themselves and blindly follow the Confucian teachings.

Such as.

Confucius said, the monarch and the minister, the father and the son. Not only is it required that the king is like a king, the minister is like a minister, the father is like a father, and the son is like a son, and there must be an order, but also the king does his best, and the minister does his best, and the responsibilities and obligations are two-way.

Mencius, on the other hand, said it even more simply.

He said.

The people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light.

Simple translation.

That is people-oriented, and this statement is not outdated even now.

And in the Han Dynasty.

Dong Zhongshu's doctrine of Confucianism is that the monarch is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the wife.

These are the three outlines.

Since then, the Three Principles and Five Constants have been established by the rulers, and regardless of whether what the monarch has done is right or reasonable, his courtiers can only obey unconditionally; The son must also obey his father unconditionally, even if the father is deliberately harming you. The wife is fully obedient to the husband, and the slightest disobedience is against the husband's outline.

Maybe.

In ancient times, the status of women was declining, and it started with the husband!

Also for this reason.

As a result, Huo Guang will look at everything that Dong Daru said with a kind of colored glasses.

And it's not just Huo Guang.

Even the ancients, Wang Anshi, scoffed at this ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

Of course.

They are not of the same era, so I won't delve into them here.

And Dong Zhongshu, who was speaking heartily on the stage, was interrupted by Huo Guang, and he was a little dissatisfied. At this moment, he looked at his disciple, his eyes were very angry, but in an instant, he still retracted his temper and said, "I am going to a country, and I can't do what I want!"

Between words.

Full of pride.

This summer, there was a severe drought in the northwest, and someone in the court asked Dong Zhongshu to go to the northwest to pray for rain for the people.

Dong Zhongshu went.

I really begged for rain.

This is exactly the same as his performance when he begged for rain in the land of Jiangdu, and it is also magical.

Huo Guang suddenly frowned and said, "Teacher, although your technique of praying for rain is magical, it shouldn't be done by Confucianism!"

Facing Huo Guang's questioning.

Dong Zhongshu said lightly: "If you don't learn, you should be learned. Pre-Qin Confucianism is only one of the hundred schools, and through my hands, I absorb the strengths of the hundred schools and leave one of them."

"There are no hundred schools of learning in the country, only Confucianism, and there is still a shortage."

"At this time, unlike the pre-Qin period, I Confucianism should absorb the doctrine of a hundred schools of thought for its use."

"Since these hundred schools of thought can be introduced, as long as the theory of magic is feasible, why can't it be used by me?"

This is said as if the matter of deposing the hundred schools of thought was not brought up by him.

said that the hundred schools of thought could not work, and destroyed the hundred schools.

He also said that it is difficult to support Confucianism alone, so it is necessary to absorb the strengths of a hundred schools.

Boy.

Horizontal and vertical are all your reasons.

Huo Guang thought about it, but he gave up, and said, "You are right, the kid has been taught."

Hear this.

Dong Zhongshu was quite useful, and immediately said with a smile: "Since some people don't believe it, today, the old man will perform the technique of praying for rain for you."

The words fell.

Suddenly, the room was even more lively.

What could be more exciting than praying for rain on the spot?

It's just that Huo Guang wasn't so excited!

Looking at the gloomy sky outside the house, he couldn't help but sigh a few words in his heart: "This weather, it will rain without praying for rain, right?"

"Moh."

"Bad old man, every time he prays for rain, he has to choose this kind of water day?"

Although Huo Guang was not very interested, after all, it was the last day of Mengxue, so he also went out.

Look at how the old man "jumped the god" and prayed for rain to come.

It's just that.

The expected scene of Dong Lao's "dancing god" did not appear, but he just let people catch a boar and a few roosters came to burn it.

Meantime.

Some women who came from nowhere danced blushing dances around Dong Zhongshu.

As for Dong Zhongshu himself?

He sat cross-legged in the center, closing the closing to recuperate, as if the Taoist had settled down.

According to what Guan Zhuyang said earlier, when praying for rain, men should take refuge in their homes and should not travel. But Dong Gong just said that today is a cloudy day, and it is convenient to pray for rain, so there is no need to dodge.

In fact.

Huo Guang felt that if men were to avoid it.

Then none of these disciples are women, and they all avoid it, how do you see you praying for rain?

Because of this.

You don't need to dodge what you said, right?

Anyway, after an operation similar to the Fang Shi's technique, the rain really fell.

It's just that.

What I didn't expect was that the rain was getting heavier and heavier. In the end, the act of praying for rain had to be suspended.

The elderly also need to take shelter from the rain.

Huo Guang saw this.

Hurriedly shouted in front of everyone, "Teacher, it's raining too much. You're about to get your powers, stop the rain, right?"

However.

Dong Zhongshu, who was drenched in soup, replied at this moment: "There should have been rain today, but when the old man prayed for rain, he had already sensed some anger from the heavens, so he couldn't forcibly stop the rain anymore."

"Otherwise, it will anger the heavens and bring unimaginable punishment."

"Let it rain."

"When the wrath of the heavens is gone, the rain will cease."

Let's talk.

The great Confucian hurried to change his clothes, and the last day of his studies ended in this absurd and bizarre situation.

looked at Dong Zhongshu's back after leaving.

Huo Guang smiled helplessly.

The so-called Great Confucian, how does it look like it has the feeling of a god?

As for this act of praying for rain, he did not believe a word.

Shaking his head, Huo Guang also got drenched in some rain and got into the carriage and returned to the Le Restaurant.

It rained heavily today.

But this happy business here is very lively.

It's just that Huo Guang didn't expect that when he returned to this room with his front foot, the heirs of the Li family also followed.

Maybe.

After the fire broke out in Chang'anle, there was no way to continue to operate, and they came here to celebrate the end of Mengxue, right?

It's like some students have to eat a casual meal after graduation.

It's just that!

That Li Ling and the others were originally the children of the Li family, relying on the power of their families, they were used to being arrogant and domineering in Chang'an City.

It's fun here.

Li Ling and the others did not restrain themselves in the slightest, slapped the table, and shouted, "What about the wine, we came to the restaurant to drink, what, you guys who opened the restaurant, don't you know to prepare the drinks."

Is it?"