A pot of tea and a cup of wine, half a lifetime of floating and drunk a thousand times.

Invite you to learn from the world's affairs, and give up who Mingyue will be.

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A few dishes and a pot of tea are lined up on the clear table.

Su Jing sat alone in this restaurant called "Tianxiangju" and poured himself a drink, and through the window in front of him, he enjoyed the bustling street scene with endless crowds.

Suddenly, there were a few greetings and greetings in my ears, as well as the sound of several men laughing happily.

"Brother Guan Zhang is in the dust, but he is from Yanmen in the north?"

A tall man in a black short-fighting suit asked another middle-aged man in gray with a burly figure and a majestic face.

The middle-aged man had been out for a long time, and a smile flashed on his weather-beaten face. Pu Fan's big palm stretched out, and the thick bone knuckles raised the wine glass vigorously, and raised his head to drink it down.

Chapped lips, slightly smashed a few times. Fang Cai replied,

"A certain family is returning from Yanmen. ”

"Your Excellency has returned from the Northland, can you know how the war is going in the North?

At this time, not far from the table of the Great Han, there were three or four Confucian scribes sitting at a table, and a young scribe with an elegant appearance, sparse eyebrows, and a calm face asked.

The middle-aged man, hearing the inquiry, turned his eyes and saw that it was several scholars from the local county, and he didn't dare to hold it up.

Hurriedly arched his hand and said: "A certain family has been going north from Taiyuan County in the north all the way out of the Sai, crossing Taihang, and going north with the proprietor. ”

Hearing this, the faces of those scholars showed a little joy and pride.

The man took a sip of tea and continued: "Speaking of the results of the battle, according to the business travelers who went south from Yunzhou, the 200,000 Xiaoguo warriors of the Wang Division are facing off against the 350,000 people under the command of Han Zai, the right privy envoy of the Northern Wei Dynasty, in Yanzhou and Ulzhou. From the beginning of summer to the present day, between March and April, the two sides have fought many battles, attacked each other, and each suffered casualties, and since a certain time, there has been no victory or defeat. ”

When those scholars heard this, their brows were furrowed, especially a white-clothed young scholar with a delicate face and a Confucian scarf on his head, hearing that the big man opened his mouth to the Son of Heaven of the Northern Wei Dynasty, closed his mouth to the Northern Wei Dynasty Privy, and his sword eyebrows were upside down, and he shouted: "The other generation Yidi, if you don't educate the sages, you dare to call yourself the Son of Heaven!"

There is a strong tone in this tone.

The big man smiled and didn't answer, just lowered his head and took a sip of the wine cup.

Among the scholars, the tall and calm-eyed young scholar who had asked earlier coughed,

He said slowly: "The northern Yidi genus, the generation of Ru Mao and blood drinkers, does not know the prestige of the Han family, and acts like a monkey. It shouldn't be true, so why should Brother Zijian be angry. ”

There seemed to be a calming and heart-warming power in the man's voice, and the young man who was called Zijian heard this, and his face was slightly relieved with anger.

"It is hateful that the lord of Beidi dares to call himself the Son of Heaven, but the most disdainful thing is that Han Zai is a traitor! If Han Wenzheng knew that there were such unscrupulous descendants who had no king and no father, I am afraid that under the Nine Shadows Jade Que and the Great Qiantaizong, he would hide his face and cry. ”

Su Jing held a blue and white porcelain tea bowl and took a small sip of slightly hot tea. While in the high-minded talk of the group of scholars, they recalled the humanistic history of this world that they had made up for in the past few days.

The Northern Wei Dynasty mentioned by Na Shizi and the northern man is a northern nomadic people who have risen in the grassland in the past 20 years, and their name is Xianbei.

The northern nomads, it is said that the Qingyang clan, a descendant of the ancient saint Wang Li, at the end of the ancient ancestors' martial arts, the early rise of Shinto, split a branch of the clan to the north, and in the thousands of years of history, in the extreme north of the abundant water and grass gradually multiplied and grew, with a tribe similar to the physique of the ancient ancestors.

These tribes developed silently in the grassland, and have not been connected with the Central Plains Dynasty, only in the previous generation of the Dayu Dynasty, gradually known to the people of the Central Plains. At that time, its leader claimed to be the sun and the moon, and the gods were bells of Da Dan Yu, integrated the grassland tribes, and sent troops to attack and confront Dayu in the north for nearly a hundred years.

It can be said that a large part of the reason for the demise of the Dayu Dynasty is due to this matter. It is precisely because Dayu and the grassland tribes consumed and contained a large number of materials and military forces in the century-long confrontation that they were powerless to suppress when the peasant rebels rose up, and then lost the mandate of heaven.

Therefore, the Central Plains Dynasty has never relaxed its vigilance and surveillance of this group of unfriendly neighbors who are active in the grassland, and the Son of Heaven of all dynasties and dynasties will generally implement the strategy of dividing and winning over the grassland peoples unless they are extremely mediocre, and weaken their tribes. In order to prevent a voice from appearing, when the Central Plains Dynasty was weak, it entered Kou Shenzhou.

In the thirty-first year of Tianyou, Emperor Qiandi also sent five colonels of the forbidden army to go out to conquer once, and achieved some victories, but did not completely solve the border troubles in the north.

Just because, their generation lives on horseback, living in pursuit of water and grass, and when they see that the war is unfavorable, they will flee to the depths of the grassland, and it is easy to defeat, but it is difficult to annihilate them all.

And in the thirty-fifth year of Tianyou, Qiu Yuju, the lord of the Xianbei tribe of Beidi, unified the five Xianbei tribes, and successively defeated and encroached on several small tribes of the Di and Qiang tribes secretly supported by the imperial court to balance the power of the grassland.

At that time, the secretary of the imperial court was busy discussing such a major event that shook the foundation of the country, such as the abolition of the crown prince, and the auxiliary political scholars of the Chongzheng Yuan and several governors of the three provincial cabinets all agreed: "The disaster of Beidi is just the disease of scabies, and it is enough to send a division to weaken its subordinates, and there is no need to go on an expedition." ”

Although Emperor Qian's intentions were arbitrary, he was forced by the ministers to discuss things, and the deposition of the crown prince was urgent, and the seven sects of Xianmen were also ready to move and were eager to try. Therefore, he had to shelve the proposal of Chen Xin, the left privy envoy, to dispatch the left and right military guards and the left and right Wei Wei to conquer the north.

But in just three years, most of the Xianbei quickly unified the grassland, the horses and horses, in the thirty-eighth year of Tianyou, the Xianbei left general Tan Shi shot more than 50,000 horsemen, went south to invade the Yanyun area, the border guards were caught off guard, and were captured by the Xianbei cavalry several passes. The people of the counties along the way were killed and looted countless times, and the situation at the border was once eroded.

When Emperor Qiandi heard the report, he was furious, and he sent the left and right military guards in that year, and the left and right Weiwei foot soldiers and more than 20,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry of the five schools of the forbidden army, and merged 200,000 Xiaoguo soldiers to form the Youzhou camp.

The right privy envoy of the Privy Council, the chief secretary of the Marquis of Zhiyu, and Li Li, the Marquis of Wuxing, served as the head of the camp in Youzhou. The five schools of the forbidden army were under the right command, and Guo Xing, the Marquis of Wuding, served as the Marquis of Yu, the camp of Youzhou, gathered the army from the upper party, and drove towards Youzhou.

The reason why Emperor Qiandi was so angry was that the killing of the people of the border counties was only one of them, and the most important thing was that as a qualified emperor, Emperor Qiandi felt that an inexplicable crisis and conspiracy were brewing.

In the past, there was no precedent for the steppe tribes to invade the borders of the Central Plains Dynasty and plunder them, but not once was it so disturbing as it is now. Gain, the Xianbei of the grassland actually had a clear strategic purpose, instead of plundering and leaving like the Di tribes in the past.

What is even more terrifying is that in Yinshan, they chiseled mountains to make stones, cut trees to make beams, established the capital, and called the Great Wei. On the land occupied, the households were organized to gather the people, and the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty was imitated.

It is said that among the nobles of Xianbei, the nobles of the Tuoba clan, who have the most noble and pure bloodline of Xianbei, even changed their surnames and called themselves Yuan, which means that one yuan is renewed, and Vientiane is renewed.

What are these Yidi going to do? Could it be that they are still wishful thinking and stealing my Shenzhou Dingqi?

This kind of thinking is almost constantly amplified in the hearts of the Manchu ministers and the Qiandi.

After talking for a while, the scholars gradually stopped talking, and somehow led the topic to this year's autumn festival, and one of them, a handsome young scribe named Zijian, chuckled: "Brother Yun thinks that when this year's autumn festival, who can win Wenkui?"

The young scholar surnamed Nayun had not yet spoken, and among the group of Confucian students, a Confucian with a thin figure and a strange face said: "This year seems to be very different from previous years, it is said that this year's county examination questions will no longer be asked by Yang Xuezheng of Jincheng County, but by the county Shouchu Lord himself." ”

The young scholar with a calm bearing also bowed his head slightly: "What Brother Xu said is not bad, this junior master is not only a famous scholar, but also a famous scholar with a good reputation for poetry and literature, and he is also outstanding in writing and quite capable of learning. He also served as a lecturer at the Hanlin Academy. ”

When the young scholar said this, he paused for a moment, took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said loudly:

"Since Lord Jun Shouchu personally came up with the question, it must be different from Master Yang, who is dedicated to the teachings of the sages in everything he says and does. ”

"Looking at my Pingyang County, one government and six counties, four academies, more than 500 scholars, it is the time of this autumn county examination, there are more than 200 people who have won the talent and fame, Yun thinks that the one who can win the championship this time should be in Bailu Academy and Songyang Academy. After all, these two academies are especially good at poetry and songs, and their literary style and rhetoric. ”

After hearing this, the rest of the Confucian scholars all nodded their heads in agreement.

Su Jing couldn't completely agree with what this young man surnamed Yun said. In Su Jing's opinion, although the words of the young man surnamed Yun do not speak of insight, he still has some insight.

Bailu and Songyang two academies, Su Jing also knows, he is still a student of Songyang Academy, but because of his frailty, he rarely goes to study there.

These two academies are really like what the young man surnamed Nayun said, they are proficient in poetry and songs, and they have been immersed in them for many years.

But Su Jing thinks that this young man surnamed Yun is still a little biased, after all, the county test is different from the state test, and the county test is just a Confucian child who is familiar with the scriptures and can correctly understand the moral words of the sages.

For poetry and songs, after all, it is just a trail. Generally do not do exquisite, after all, it is far more important to first understand the sage principle of being a person than to learn clever words and whitewash first.

However, I heard that the state examination and the temple examination level 1 are not only to be able to express the subtle words and meanings in the sages' scriptures, but also to move people's hearts with words.

Only if you have both, can you call it a splendid article. But the county examination is just to select talents, and even if this junior high student wants to be different, he has to take care of the imperial court's examination strategy.

Therefore, Su Jing thought that this year's autumn festival would still be roughly the same as in previous years, and perhaps there would be some more layout changes, which would have nothing to do with the overall situation after all.