Chapter Ninety-Eight: Seeking Fame
"Cicada, play the guqin for your husband to relieve boredom, it annoys me to death."
"Well, I don't know if my husband wants to listen to Yayin, or if my husband taught it to Cicada...... New sound? ”
Yayin refers to the ancient music that has been handed down since the Qin and Han dynasties, and Xinyin refers to the music of later generations taught by He Bai. He Bai saw that Diao Chan had nothing to do on weekdays, and was afraid that she would be bored, but he saw that she liked musical instruments and was good at singing and dancing, so he taught her many later music.
Among them, there are military songs, love songs, folk songs, pop songs, and children's songs, only lyrics and singing, but no music scores. Unexpectedly, Diao Chan only relied on He Bai's half-bucket water teachings to restore most of the music scores. There was something wrong, but all in all it was good. So when he is usually free, Diao Chan has become He Bai's humanoid singing platform.
"Fidriness is naturally listening to soft music. Let's play the guqin song of "Castle in the Sky". ”
"Whoa." Diao Chan adjusted the strings, cleared his throat, and began the guqin accompaniment, and the beauty sang "Sky City".
He Bai paced around the room irritably, with Diao Chan playing the guqin softly beside him, and his beautiful voice sang a moving song, gradually eliminating the turmoil in He Bai's heart.
It's been a month since I came to Ruoyang, but I still can't open the door. It's okay to visit the unknown people in history, but the famous people in history will often eat a closed door and be politely rejected.
Everyone has their own social circle, and it is difficult to get their meeting if they are not in their circle, and if they have no reputation and no one to introduce them. He Bai could have gone to visit Yuan Shao, but he didn't want to go like this, otherwise he would definitely be underestimated by Yuan Shao and others, and he would really become a companion with a knife and a halberd.
He Bai then asked people to buy off the rangers in Luoyang City, and spread his martial arts deeds everywhere. It was also given the nickname of Qin Qiong, and it was changed to "Loyalty and righteousness are like Su Wu, making friends with Meng Wei, God Fist is invincible, double whip general, horse stepping on both sides of Taihang, whipping Baibo Black Mountain, Lingling He Bai He Tianming, who is half of the sky in the north of the sky." ”
Within a few days, some people in Luoyang City began to spread that He Bai abandoned his wife in Youzhou to return to the country for loyalty, and made Wuhuan and the Han family reconcile for righteousness. In Baibo, the west town of Bingzhou, the thieves are in turmoil, the east is deterring Montenegro, tens of thousands of thieves are broken, and the daughters visit the virtuous, according to the good deeds of the displaced people.
He Bai has so far had a martial name, a heart of loyalty and a name of benevolence in Luoyang City, but there is still no literary name. I had the intention to copy the famous articles of later generations, but in later generations, because I read too little, I couldn't remember half of them at all. In the end, when he was pursuing the girl he liked at school, he copied the vernacular version of "Luo Shen Fu" that he specially recited.
And because the vernacular version is different from the form of the text at this time, I am embarrassed to take it out for people to taste. In the end, under the pretext of the spring outing, a few were posted in the official pavilion next to the road. I hope someone can see it when they are resting in the pavilion. So that one spread ten, ten spread hundreds of the world. Although vernacular writing can also make beautiful fuwen, He Bai also happened to become the founder of vernacular fuwen.
It's just a pity that more than 20 days have passed, and there is no half of the person who preaches the vernacular "Luo Shen Fu".
He Bai was a little annoyed in his heart, there were a few people who could come to Luoyang as officials. I'm afraid that after reading my handwriting just now, I don't have the desire to continue reading. Even if you don't like your own handwriting, when you look at the beginning of the vernacular, I'm afraid I don't want to read it anymore. The style is simply not right.
He Bai thought about it again and again, what else can spread the fame? Make a poem? It's still not good, making poetry is just a small way for literati, and I do it in my spare time, and no matter how much poetry I do, it's not good. It seems that it is better to write an admonition to the court, right? It must not only have something to say, but also not offend people too much, and the writing needs to be good.
Luo Pei helped to polish the text and copy it himself. But what's the theme? He Bai became a little irritable again. Finally, think about why the Eastern Han Dynasty was in turmoil? In addition to the political aspect, there are all kinds of natural disasters. Let's just take the topic of natural disaster prevention.
For example, in terms of sanitation and epidemic prevention: pay attention to environmental sanitation and personal hygiene, catch and eliminate flies, mosquitoes, rats, cockroaches and other "four pests", prohibit eating rotten food, prohibit drinking sewage, cold water, and disinfect with lime. If there is an epidemic, you can't pay too much attention to filial piety, and you need to send special people for treatment after isolation, etc.
Drought and flood resistance: dig more wells during drought, build more keel waterwheels to draw water, and build more canals for irrigation and flood discharge. In times of drought, the river channel should be deepened and the embankment should be reinforced, so that it can be safe and worry-free in times of flooding.
In terms of locust control: raise more chickens and ducks and other natural enemies of locusts, prohibit worship of locust gods, and fight locusts together with the locust plague. When there is no food, it can also feed on locusts.
Seismic resistance: build more Zhang Heng's ground motion instrument, one per state on average, and preferably one per county. In particular, the post-earthquake treatment work has been strengthened. It is best to build warehouses in various places specifically to fight disasters.
Finally, after thinking about it, I added the issue of population growth and land annexation, which could not be prohibited in ancient times, and population growth led to a large increase in landless people. If you want to completely solve this problem, the answer He Bai gave is to lead to disaster.
Through continuous foreign conquests, victory will take the enemy's land to support the people, and defeat will reduce the population of the people. This is a purely militaristic idea, but it is also a good way to solve the problem of large numbers and small land. Even if He Bai himself is not successful, he must let the Han nation embark on a martial path.
Through Luo Pei's editing, the total number of admonitions is tens of thousands of words. After He Bai carefully copied it, he went to the Prime Minister's Shangshutai to submit a letter. This is not a political battle, but I think it will spread in the future. It is also good to prove that he is not only a martial artist, but also a good official with the ability to govern.
Within two days, the whole court, including the common people, began to spread He Bai's 10,000-word admonition. The first time I heard it, I was absolutely deafening and stunned. Legend has it that a disaster fell from heaven, and it was because the Son of Heaven and the court were at fault in their governance, or that the Son of Heaven and the Three Princes were immoral, so that there was a disaster.
However, Yilang He Bai was not afraid of God's punishment, and wrote tens of thousands of words of disaster prevention methods on the topic of disaster prevention. Looking at He Baiyan's chiseled appearance, it seems to be very reasonable, which makes people puzzled.
This makes the idealists very frightened, especially some famous Confucian virtues, who like to use virtue to advise the Son of Heaven to govern, and often accuse the Son of Heaven of being immoral on the grounds of disasters. Now that He Bai's disaster prevention advice says that disasters can be prevented, it is not a question of morality or not at all, but a big problem of famous Confucian virtues taking the opportunity to bully the king.
Before the famous Confucian masters in Luoyang City began to think about finding He Baifa, the ten permanent servants in the palace also came back to their senses. On the surface, He Bai's edict seems to be a good policy for the sake of the country, and whether the court uses it or not, it is He Bai's loyalty.
However, the focus of He Baizhi's exhortation is to refute the theory of heaven and man induction that the great Confucian Dong Zhongshu specifically expounded in his reply to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The idealistic doctrine of the relationship between heaven and man in Confucian theology was completely overthrown. In particular, it refers to the sympathetic correspondence between providence and personnel, the theory that heaven can affect personnel and foreshadow disasters, and human behavior can also sense heaven is all overturned.
This exhortation is no less than a fierce blow to the entire Confucianism that has flourished in the world since "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone". But for the Ten Standing Attendants, it is a big killer. If the Ten Standing Servants use it well, maybe the third disaster of the party will come again.
He Bai didn't know anything about this, and was only complacent about the fact that the entire Luoyang City was circulating and discussing his own admonitions, and it seemed that he was already famous. Even if "Luo Shen Fu" is useless, he can also be famous all over the world.
Just when He Bai was happy in the mansion, suddenly the housekeeper Gongsun Fu sent a worship post and an invitation, which was posted with a letter to Chen Chen and Cai Bojiao, and the invitation was to respectfully invite He Tianming, the speaker of the house, to go to Cai's mansion to discuss academic issues with him.
He Bai was first surprised, and then happy. Cai Bojiao, isn't this the famous writer and calligrapher Cai Yong? His name has finally reached the ears of such celebrities. Invite yourself to discuss academic issues? Looking at it, this can be regarded as a book of fame. If you answer well, you can learn the scriptures and texts under Cai Yong's name, and then use Cai Yong's disciple to intersect with others, which will be extremely smooth.
He Bai waited anxiously for the night to fall in the mansion, until the midway point of the evening, and without any entourage, he went out of the mansion and rode his horse to look at Cai's mansion. Cai's mansion is in the south of Luoyang City, according to the invitation card, it is only three or four miles away from He Bai's mansion, and it takes ten minutes to ride a horse.
It is said that Luoyang City is a metropolis with a population of more than 300,000 in this world, and with the Yin area of Henan, there are as many as one million people. The city wall is more than nine miles from north to south and more than six miles from east to west. But in later generations, it was only the area of a county seat. It's quite majestic to others, but for He Bai, except for the ancient style and ancient taste, there is nothing else, but the most important thing is that there are more people in the narrow land.
Cai's Mansion is just a small courtyard in the official residence of a group of officials, only about 200 square meters, which is several times smaller than He's Mansion. For people who used to use small rooms in ancient times, this courtyard is enough to accommodate more than a dozen people.
After He Bai dismounted, he straightened his clothes, and then stepped forward and knocked on the door of the void. Not long after, an old servant came to greet him, "Is it Lingling?" ”
He Bai stepped forward and bowed, and said: "Exactly, I didn't enter He Tianming at the end of school, and at the invitation of Mr. Cai's uncle, I came to Cai's mansion to meet him." ”
The old servant also bowed deeply and said, "Please wait a while, let the old slave go to the master of the house, and ask the master of the house to come and greet the honored guest." ”
After speaking, he closed the door again, turned around and went inside to find Cai Yong. He Bai shook his head with a wry smile, it is so troublesome to have a relationship with scholars, everything is polite, if you are rude, he will not let you enter. If it is in the Hereafter, how can it be made to wait outside the door?