Chapter 369: A Hundred Years of the Red Mansion

From the previous dynasty to the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River overflowed, causing the displacement of people in 15 prefectures and counties including Shandong, Henan, and Xuzhou.

It happened that Zhou Ziwang raised an army against the Yuan, and the war was pervasive, and the Liu family in Xuzhou had to go south with the displaced people to avoid the military disaster, and entered Jiankang to join distant relatives.

In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty, after more than a year of hard work, the Liu family, who were proficient in business, had a small family asset and re-established the family business in Jiankang.

On the eighth day of August of the same year, at night, the five-color light penetrated the purple micro, and Liu Xi, the only son of Liu's foolish fifteen years, suddenly woke up overnight.

In the eleventh year of Emperor Shun's reign, Han Shantong, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, buried the stone man, engraved "Mo Dao stone man has one eye, this thing is out of the world to rebel", and prepared to rebel, but the matter was revealed, and Han Shantong was killed.

In May, Liu Futong, Du Zundao and others raised troops against the Yuan, called the Red Turban Army, conquered many states and counties, the world was shaken, and under the clouds in all directions, there were anti-Yuan righteous soldiers.

Yuan Ting was shocked and ordered provincial officials to suppress the rebellion. The officials of the Yuan Court of Jiankang took the opportunity to loot on a large scale, and the Liu family, who had been a member of the Jiankang clan after more than ten years of operation, was accused of rebellion by corrupt officials.

Liu Xi was not angry with the persecution of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, united with several clans in Jiankang, and rebelled against the Yuan in early winter, and in June of the following year, he had captured Jiankang, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou and other eleven prefectures and counties.

In the first month of the thirteenth year, Liu Xi had already owned Jiangnan and Huguang provinces, with 300,000 troops. On the first day of the first month, the Great Xia was established, Kang was rebuilt as Jinling, and the capital was set as the capital division, and the Yuan Wulong was established, and the emperor was enthroned.

In the twenty-first year of the front yard, the ninth year of Wulong in Great Xia, in July, Great Xia conquered Dadu, Yuan Ting fled north, Kyushu was unified, and the world was peaceful.

In the tenth year of Wulong, the emperor ordered the master craftsman to make gold books. On the seal immortal text, hidden in front of the shrine of the ancestral temple of Jinling.

In the eighth year of Taiping Xingguo, Emperor Taizongwen moved the capital to Yandi, and the golden book went north with the ancestral temple to Tianlu Mountain to worship.

Since the golden book was made, no one can know the meaning of the immortal inscription on it.

After Jia Cong only looked at the seal characters on the homepage, he had already determined that Liu Xi, the emperor of Taizu Gao, was also a person who was "born with wisdom".

Emperor Liu Ji saw Jia Cong's abnormality, this kid has always had a big heart, and he didn't take everything to heart, but his hands trembled with excitement just by looking at the golden book.

"Can you read the immortal inscriptions in the golden book?"

Jia Cong stroked the words on the golden book and said excitedly: "This is not an immortal script, just a special kind of text, and I may be the only one in the world who can understand it." ”

"Really? What was said above? ”

This time, Liu Ji was also excited, after a hundred years, someone could finally decipher the contents of the golden book.

He was so excited that he felt a trance in his head, and he almost fell down.

Jia Cong hurriedly held him up: "Sage, don't worry, let's sit down first, let me take a closer look, and translate the content of the golden book for you." ”

The two of them directly held the golden book and sat on the futon in the hall. Jia Cong pointed to the words on the homepage and said with a wry smile: "This sentence means that after forty years, I really want to drink Coke!" ”

"Coke? What is this? ”

"A drink is something that doesn't belong in this world."

"Not of this world, not of this world......"

Liu Ji's gaze became dull, and he muttered, "Could it be that Taizu is really an immortal who descended to the earth?" ”

Jia Cong shook his head: "Sage, I have drunk Coke, or rather, I have drunk it in my previous life. ”

Liu Ji suddenly sobered up and grabbed Jia Cong's wrist: "Past life? You mean past lives? You and Taizu are from the same world? Is it the fairy world? ”

Jia Cong shook his head again, appeasing the excited Emperor.

The emperor is old, and he is really afraid that the old man will be too excited.

"It's not the fairy world, it's like being reincarnated and reincarnated, forgetting to drink Meng Po soup, and after being reincarnated, it still carries the memories of the previous life......"

Jia Cong thought about it carefully and didn't hide this. However, he changed the story of soul piercing to reincarnation.

"The Tao Te Ching begins with a saying that the Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, and three to all things. As I understand it, the world we live in is not the only one in the world. ”

There is a sentence in the Book of Changes, the movement of the six pillars, and the way of the three poles. The three poles are the three talents of heaven, earth and man, and all the yin and yang changes of the hexagram are in these three talents. ”

"Just like the Taiji diagram, yin and yang are blended and yin and yang are separated, but there is always a little interconnection between the two."

"The realm is called the underworld, and in the Taoist concept, after the death of a person in the yang world, the soul will fly to the underworld, waiting to be reincarnated in the yang world again after the judgment in the underworld."

"According to the Tai Chi concept, the underworld refers to the black fish, and the corresponding yang world where the living person is located is the white fish. Ordinary people are in this continuous cycle between yin and yang, with no end. ”

"The celestial realm is the connection between yin and yang, and Taoist practitioners ascend from the yin and yang worlds. It is out of the cycle between yin and yang, but it is interconnected with the two worlds of yin and yang. can be full of his body, live without death, and become a pure yang true immortal above the heavens. ”

In the end, Jia Cong scratched his brain and grinned: "Of course, I don't know if there is a heavenly realm or an immortal in this world." I only know that when I was four years old, I suddenly awakened the memories of my past life, just like drinking Meng Po soup mixed with water when I was reincarnated, which lost its effect, and I was able to remember my past life when I was four years old. ”

Liu Ji suddenly said: "It's like Taizu suddenly woke up at the age of fifteen......"

"Don't scare me, can I compare to Emperor Taizu? My previous life was only eighteen years, and I was a student when I was reincarnated. ”

Jia Cong explained to the sage master about his "reincarnation", while flipping through the golden book, pointing to one of them and saying: "This is Emperor Taizu Gao talking about his previous life, his old man was an official in his previous life, and the official was a high-ranking official in a province. Well, it's probably our political envoy of Great Xia. No wonder Grandpa Tai was able to defeat the heroes and drive out the Tartars in the last years of the previous dynasty, his old man had experience in governing politics in his previous life. ”

Complimenting the ancestor of the Liu family and slapping a sycophant, Jia Cong secretly looked at the emperor's expression, but was knocked heavily on the brain by the old man.

The old man of the sage scolded angrily: "Emperor Taizu and Ling are both born wise people, and I have already guessed about this matter. I didn't say you were going to rebel, where is there so much bullshit. Keep talking! ”

"I'm still a kid, I'm scared......"

Jia Cong muttered, but his heart was calm.

It seems that it is right to "confess" some, if you quibble on this matter today, even if it will not attract the disaster of killing, it will put a thorn in the heart of the two saints.

Turning another page, it is the major events that occurred during the establishment of Bactria and the governance of the government by Emperor Taizu, which have been recorded in the living notes.

I hurriedly turned the pages again, and finally reached the last few pages. According to the Golden Book, after Emperor Taizu established Great Xia, he did not hastily copy the policies of his previous life, but only made changes in subtle ways.

For example, the system is based on the system of the middle and late Ming Dynasty in the previous life, the establishment of the cabinet, increased the power of the cabinet, so that it can check and balance the monarchy to a certain extent.

Increase the power of the three legal divisions and strengthen the supervision of court officials. Abolish the old system of not punishing doctors and implement the legal system.

Establish a metropolitan governor's office, at the same level as the cabinet, to prevent an imbalance between civil and military. At the same time, he started to take action on the matter of land annexation, and wanted to implement the equalization system, but he quickly withdrew his will.

According to the explanation in the golden book, it was not that he did not want to nationalize the land, but that the power of the local gentry and clans was too great.

He thinks that he is not a great man in his previous life, and the army under his command is not the red army in his previous life, and he hurriedly copied the land policy of his previous life, and it is very likely that Wang Mang's old story will be repeated.

Therefore, they could only settle for the next best thing, and set up large areas of imperial villages and official fields in various states and counties to accommodate the displaced people.

According to Emperor Taizu's idea, Huangzhuang and Guantian would be the nurseries for him to gradually implement land reform, and when the productivity reached a certain level, he would nationalize the land of the dynasty at the first opportunity, completely ending the tragic situation of farmers starving to death without idle land in the four seas.

Originally, after more than ten years of recuperation, Great Xia already had a certain strength, and Taizu was preparing to lift the sea ban and establish an ocean-going sailor to cross the ocean in search of new grains, but encountered an unbelievable strange thing.

There are immortals in this world!

One day, Taizu left Beijing to live temporarily in Huangzhuang outside Beijing.

At night, into the dream fairyland, its name is away from the hatred of the sky, there is a female fairy, called the police illusion. The police illusion warned him, saying that Taizu was an outlier in the world, and he was disgusted by the way of heaven.

Reading Taizu has the merit of securing the world, and he can avoid the punishment of scattering his soul, as long as Taizu follows him to ascend to heaven and practice penance.

Today, at this time, it is the time for her to return to heaven with a strange number in the way of heaven. When Taizu learned that this person's name was Police Illusion, he immediately understood the essence of this world, and he was quite suspicious of the words of Police Illusion.

When arguing in the dream, Jia Yan, the Duke of Ningguo, and Jia Yuan, the Duke of Rongguo, received the news that the scouts had come to report that there were mysterious monks outside the Huangzhuang, and they seemed to be doing it.

The two of them quickly went to the monk's path, wanting to kill him, but they didn't want this monk to be extremely miraculous, and he could escape strangely in the hands of the two founding generals, leaving only a straw man.

"Sage, according to what Grandpa Tai said, that monk appeared in the Wulong period, and they will be tired of the art of victory, and they can escape in the hands of the two founding generals."

Emperor Taishang's face is very bad, there are records of immortals and gods in the royal family's secret collection, but most of them are old things from the previous dynasty.

I didn't expect to see the gods and ghosts again in the Golden Book of Taizu today, and that monk appeared a hundred years ago......

"Go on!"

"Yes!"

Jia Cong turned another page, and this was already the penultimate page.

Although the second duke of Ning Rong did not kill the demon, he also interrupted his demon method and pulled Taizu's soul back to reality from Lihattian.

However, after this incident, Taizu's qi and blood were lost, and his body deteriorated. Taizu knew that the police illusion and others were not decent immortals, and he urgently recruited the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain to enter Beijing.

Later, under the guidance of the contemporary heavenly master of Longhu Mountain, he went to the Huangling Tomb in Shaanxi to worship Xuanyuan, recast Jiuding, and stood in front of the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum to suppress the luck of the human race.

He also sent an edict to the Jia family, ordering the two governments to lead the army to eliminate the world's obscene temples and evil temples and cut off the demon incense. And enshrined Taoism as the state religion, and enshrined Longhu Mountain as the head of the world's Taoism, specializing in the world's demons and evil affairs.

The sacrifice of the emperor was recast, the fortune of the country of Great Xia was prosperous, and under the broken altar and punishment of the temple, most of the world's obscene temples were destroyed.

Subsequently, the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain, with the luck of the Humane Emperor, seriously injured the so-called Heavenly Goddess Policewoman in a dream, and for a time the world was peaceful and the world was stable.

It's a pity that Taizu hurt his soul because of his dream, and in April of the eighteenth year of Wulong, Taizu died in the Jinling Emperor's Palace, and his life was fifty-five.

Before his death, he ordered someone to take a gold book, and warned future generations that if there is a person in the country who is born with wisdom, he can take the gold book and let him see it. Do not hurt those who are not guilty of great treachery and have different intentions.

The golden book did not directly state the matter of the Red Mansion, nor did it mention what might happen to the Ningrong Mansion in the future.

On the contrary, because the first generation of Ning Rong's second duke saved Taizu by mistake, and the Jia family was loyal at that time, he took good care of Ning Rong's two mansions.

And at the end of the golden book engraved a line of Chinese characters: Ning Rong Erfu is the founder of the country, and has the merit of saving the driver, and then offended the demon fairy because of the punishment of the altar and the broken temple, and his descendants cannot be killed unless the crime of great rebellion.

Jia Cong deliberately put this sentence in front of the Emperor Taishang, and was knocked on the head again by the old man: "Small body, full of hearts and eyes." I already knew this, otherwise why do you think the royal family has trusted your family so much for a hundred years. ”

suffered a brain break, but Jia Cong grinned. It seems that the merits of Ning Rong's ancestors have raised the old Liu family's trust in the Jia family to the extreme. Over the past hundred years, the two mansions of Ningrong have been endlessly glorious, and it is estimated that it is also the old Liu family's act of repaying their kindness.

However, because of their loyalty, the two mansions of Ning Rong also left a huge hidden danger to the Jia family. For example, the police illusion demon has a hatred for the Jia family for a hundred years.

The so-called story of the Red Mansion is estimated to be a warning fantasy in order to repay Ning Rong's ancestor for ruining her big event, and to cut off her sacrificial incense hatred, so he took the Jia family and set up a bureau to destroy the Jia family in their generation.

Fortunately, he wore it again, and after Emperor Taizu and his two traversers flapped their wings, the plan of the Warning Demon was afraid that it would be completely bankrupt.

It's a pity that there are not many records of the so-called heavenly realm and police illusion in the golden book, and when he has the opportunity, Jia Cong plans to go to Longhu Mountain to inquire about these things, and maybe he can also inquire about some things in his past and present lives.

This is not the time to think about this, Jia Cong still has a doubt in his heart.

He put away the golden book, sighed and said, "It's a pity that Taizu's talent through heaven and earth collapsed because of the middle way of obscenity and demons. Sage, the golden book says that Taizu once left the "Great Ceremony of Governing the World" to the emperors of later generations, how come I have never heard of this, and I have never seen anyone carry it out? ”

"This matter is related to Shi Guopei's old affairs, when I was not in power, Shi Guopei's power leaned towards the government and the opposition, Shi Guopei forcibly read the "Governing the World" on the grounds of teaching me to govern the government......"

After the old man's narration, Jia Cong also understood why this strange book, which was full of Emperor Taizu's experience in governing politics in his past and present lives, had not been handed down.

Because Shi Guopei, who was in charge of the government at the beginning, was frightened by the policy measures in the "Governing the World", and thought that the policy of governing the country mentioned by Emperor Taizu was the source of the troubled times and hurt the foundation of the scholars.

Therefore, before the young emperor could read and study, he burned it with the hands of the eunuchs.

This incident is also the regret of Emperor Taishang's life, and he only remembers that his father, Emperor Taizongwen, often mentioned to him that one day he would implement the strategies in the "Great Ceremony of Governing the World" one by one.

At that time, Great Xia will create a prosperous era through the ages, and the Liu family will be a lineage for all generations......

Not only is the emperor like this, but even Jia Cong is also full of regret. That was the experience of a high-ranking official and cadre in his previous life, and he was more than a dozen floors stronger than him, a high school graduate.

He also wants to see how this veteran will deal with the contradictions between monarchy and democracy, and how he will solve the troubles encountered in the reform of the law.

An old man and a young man held a golden book, sitting on a futon and sighing.

In the end, it was the old man who suppressed his regret and curiously asked about Jia Cong's memories of his previous life.

"What does that high-ranking official of Emperor Taizu look like? Who was that World Emperor you were in your previous life? What? There is no emperor anymore! ”

"Oh, I see. This is indeed a great man of the ages, and I admire him, but it is a pity that I can't meet him, which is a pity. ”

"The soul of the Han is immortal, and the revival of the Han is good!"

"You said the emperor, if it's gone, it's gone, it's just a title. The Great Wall is still there, and Qin Shi Huang is not seen. How can there be a dynasty in this world that is 10,000 years old? ”

"Is that Coke really that good? I really want to try it, can you make it? No, forget it. ”

……

The old man listened to Jia Cong tell him about the world in his previous life, he was shocked and emotional, and finally said in a broken heart: "The world is rich, the people are happy, it is really a desirable prosperous age." It's a pity I can't see it. ”

Finally filled the hole, went to sleep, and continued to code when he was full of energy. Good night~ No, good morning!

(End of chapter)