Night, Zhou Mansion.

Now the Zhou family has officially moved into the new house, because there are two entrances before and after, so the female dependents live in the second entrance, Zhou Cai's family lives in the master bedroom, Zhou Zihe also has his own independent bedroom and study, and Lu Chunsheng's Hun's Lu Yuan family accompanies him to live in the west wing of the backyard.

Zhou Ang occupied the four main rooms in the front yard alone.

The two rooms in the west are large bedrooms, which leave enough space for his future wife, the middle one is the living room of the entire Zhou family, and the one in the east is used as Zhou Ang's independent study.

At the same time, the two Lu family members lived in the west wing of the courtyard.

To be reasonable, the current population of the Zhou family is relatively small in the vast majority of similar houses in the entire Guide Fang - normally speaking, the master's family is generally three generations, about ten people, and about five or six servants, so that they can just support such a two-entry mansion.

Living like the Zhou family now, not only the master's family lives in luxury, but even the servants live quite luxuriously.

It's night, and there's a lamp in the study.

Zhou Ang was reading at his desk.

Last time, he borrowed the first ten volumes of the "Book of Han" from the former prime minister Lu Duan, but since the time the book was put at home, he has almost no leisure, first to investigate the Wang Guo case, and then to move, until now, these two things have been settled, and he can finally sit down and read a book.

The Book of Han has a total of 120 volumes, and according to the thickness of each volume, Zhou Ang estimates that each volume should be more than 10,000 words, that is, the text of the entire book should be stable at more than 1.2 million words.

It's definitely a lot of volume.

In addition to the personal biographies of all nine emperors of the Han Dynasty during the Han Dynasty's domination of the world in 204 recorded in the Book of Han, the first volume at the beginning of the book also contains a collection of biographies of three "emperors" who were not emperors when they were alive.

They are all emperors who were "sealed" after the founding of the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty was born in the troubled times, before that, it was more than 300 years of endless wars, and it was obviously a process of accumulation, not the work of a generation.

Even, after carefully reading the first two volumes, Zhou Ang felt that the three posthumous emperors who were merged together to make a record were certainly not as powerful as the founding of the Han Taizu, but if you really talk about ability and achievements, it may not be as good as your own children and grandchildren - the so-called Huanghuang Han has stood for 900 years, and it is these three heroes in troubled times, who have been laying the foundation for decades.

These three "emperors" of the Han Dynasty before the founding of the Han Taizu were named Han Gaozu, Han Xuanzu and Han Mingzu respectively, and they were called the "Three Ancestors".

Han Gaozu started from the acres, it is said that there were many auspicious times when he was born, but in fact, he spent more than 20 years in his life in his hometown to farm, in the words boasted in the "Book of Han", it is "accumulation".

Later, by chance, he was able to enter the county-level government at that time as a small official, and since then he has been like a fish in water, and in the following 30 years, he has been transferred from a small official, repeatedly over-moved, to the death, has been transferred to three places, as the county guard of the "Later Wei" Dynasty at that time, is a serious 2,000 stone members.

It can be said that this is the initial foundation for the birth of the entire Han Dynasty.

After him, Han Xuanzu and Han Mingzu also forged ahead one after another, and almost every generation would rise a lot. Especially starting from Han Xuanzu, looking at his life trajectory, he has been through the dynastic change between "Later Wei" and "Later Qin", not only ascending to the throne, but also beginning to take charge of part of the military power.

By the time Han Mingzu arrived, it was already an obvious development.

Although he did not claim the title of emperor, in the later part of his life, he had actually "Bingguo".

At that time, the Later Qin Dynasty was already under his control, and according to records, he worked hard during his reign to build the Later Qin into the most powerful of the four kingdoms under heaven at that time, and in the last stage of his life, his son, that is, the later Han Taizu, had led the army of Later Qin and annexed another of the four kingdoms, so to speak, the opportunity for the unification of the world has appeared.

Then, Taizu established the Han Dynasty, pacified the world in 20 years, and there was the unification of the Han Dynasty.

The two volumes before and after, I don't know how many words there are, but it is roughly estimated that it should have exceeded 30,000 words, recording the lives and rise of the four emperors, just looking at these, Zhou Ang did not have too much excitement, but, perhaps, from the beginning he read with questions and looking for it, so in the rise of the four emperors who seemed to be just boasting, he quickly found a lot of things he was looking for.

For example, the "Book of Han" records that Han Xuanzu "is good at reading", "You Xi "Mountains and Seas", "Seventeen years old, entered the Dingshan Temple to practice, three years is back", "Cheng Yuan, the word Bo Dao, the former Mingzhou County Shou Cheng Xunzi also, Xuanzu's best friend, classmate Yu Dingshan Guan, good at catching foxes", "Xuanzu is both a phase, but it leads Cheng Yuan to Taibu, and the ghost and the gods".

Another example, "Emperor Qin Gong four years, Ming Zu succeeded as the prime minister, entered the temple in white clothes, out, rejoiced, and established Taizhu Temple, with He Ping as Taizhu." "Five years, spring and March, move Heping as the right divination, to Chengyuan as the Taizhu, and Taibu affairs. ”

In Zhou Ang's own words, translating these words scattered in the biographies of the four emperors, they are probably -

By the time of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the family was already a family of two thousand stones, so Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty had the opportunity to read since he was a child, and it was a wider range of reading.

He likes to read a book called "Mountains and Seas", when he was seventeen years old, he went to Dingshan Temple to practice, there is a buddy named Cheng Yuan, who is also the son of a big official, this person is good at catching foxes, and later Xuanzu took over his father's position and became the prime minister of the Later Qin Dynasty, so he let Cheng Yuan do Taibu, responsible for the country's affairs in terms of ghosts and gods.

When Mingzu came to power, he served as the prime minister, and the family's control over the entire Qin State was already deep-rooted, but at this time, as soon as Mingzu came to power, he first put on the clothes of ordinary people and went to a place called "Temple", or a temple, I don't know what to do, I was very happy after I came out, and then set up Taizhu Temple.

And during that period, it was obvious that the official position of Taizhu Temple and Taibu was parallel, and Taibu was not abolished, and even, there may have been a little internal struggle in it, and finally the old god Chengyuan won and served as the supreme governor of the newly established Taizhu Temple, Taizhu, and He Ping became the right Bu.

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So...... what kind of book is "Chronicles of Mountains and Seas"? Why have I never heard of it? Could it be one of the many notes on "pre-Qin" that Lu Duan said appeared before the "Book of Qin," which was the first of the historians? What does it record? It should be a record of many mysterious and strange things?

Did the first appearance of Taizhu Temple appear in the hands of Han Mingzu in the Later Qin period? Before that, the highest official of the official cultivators under the control of the imperial court was called Taibu?

As soon as Han Xuanzu first took the throne as prime minister, the first thing he did was to appoint his friend Cheng Yuan to serve as Taibu, does this mean that at that time, Taibu's position of "communicating with ghosts and gods" was quite important?

And that Taibu, who later served as Taizhu's Cheng Yuan, the so-called "good at fox hunting", shouldn't he be good at taking hunting dogs out to hunt and catch foxes?

Confirmed by all means, it seems that he can be sure that he is a cultivator?

Also, is the temple a temple, or is it the name of some other institution?

............

A lot of gains, as well as a lot of doubts.

After reading the first two volumes roughly, Zhou Ang couldn't wait to study the ink, and recorded the doubts he had read in the form of a simple word or sentence, ready to wait until the first ten volumes were read, and then systematically sort it out, and when the book was returned, he could take it to ask Lu Duan for advice.

Of course, just reading it once won't work.

After a cursory reading, judging from Zhou Ang's current status as an official cultivator, one will feel that many details hidden in the records of normal history books are very worth playing.

Therefore, in the future, after reading through the whole book, especially after reading all the chronicles, tables, and biographies in the catalog, we should turn back and read it again in combination with the "chronicles" of these emperors.

There will be more to gain by then.

In particular, at present, Zhou Ang is very interested in the character of "Cheng Yuan", but I don't know if he, a figure active in the pre-Qin period, will appear in the biography of the "Book of Han".

Because by the time of "Han Taizu Ji", there were no traces of his existence at all.

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Cleaning up his mood, Zhou Ang continued to lie at the desk, and then read the third article, "Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty".

According to Zhou Ang's understanding, it should be during the reign of Han Gaozu, who finished everything that a founding emperor should do, so it was his son's turn to ascend the throne, and all he needed to do was to "rest with the people", and slowly restore and develop the national strength that had been lost after three hundred years of turmoil in the world.

After reading the three articles, he subconsciously rubbed his eyes, did eye exercises twice, looked back at the doubts he recorded, and was about to continue reading the next one, but suddenly thought of a question, and quickly turned around and went back to check, after combining the two sides, and then combining the year, rough calculation, he found that in addition to the original Han Gaozu, the subsequent Han Xuanzu, Han Mingzu and the founding of the Han Taizu, these three actually lived to be more than eighty years old!

You must know that during the founding of the Han Dynasty 900 years ago, it may not be much behind the current level of social productivity, but it is certainly not advanced!

Against the background of such a level of social productive forces, it is really rare for three generations of grandparents to live to be in their 80s.

And in this case, it seems that Emperor Wen of Han only lived to be less than sixty years old, which seems a little strange!

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