The ministers scattered the banquet and left in twos and threes

Some are smiling, some are solemn and reserved, some are pretending to be contemplative, and some have a gloomy face

Zhuge Xuan walked behind with his ten-year-old nephew, and at this time, a palace maid rushed over and presented a brocade box to the young man behind him: "This is a gift from Liu Yuanjun to Mr. Xiao." ”

"Me?" the young man blinked and glanced at the brocade box, "May I ask what it is, I don't accept it if it's not a book."

The palace maid covered her mouth and smiled, and handed it over: "It's a book." ”

"Take it. Zhuge Xuan pulled his nephew, estimated that it was a unique book of scripture and history, and saluted the palace: "Thank you for the gift of the lord." ”

After returning home, the starlight shone, the wind moved the branches, and there was a burst of coolness, and there was a fine house, which was Zhuge Liang's bedroom.

This room is not large, but it is elegantly furnished, a wooden couch, in addition to which there are two rows of bookshelves, the books on the shelves are densely packed, and the wooden desk is placed with inkstone paper and pen.

Zhuge Liang lit the lamp, the bronze lamp emitted a soft light, he nodded with satisfaction, returned to his seat, and opened the brocade box.

There is a book in it, five feet long, and each word is the size of a thumb cover, but the font is beautiful and graceful.

"Yunshui Jitu, how can it seem to be written by a woman?"

Browsing under the lamp at the moment, a trace of aura condenses from the surrounding heaven and earth, washes the veins around the body, and condenses the clear mind.

"It turns out that there is really an immortal ......" After a long time, Zhuge Liang raised his head in a daze and said distractedly.

Xunfu

Xun returned home, changed out of his official uniform, and wandered in the courtyard for a while, the night was as cool as water, his family was lighting up, and Xun looked up at the starry sky.

It was really a clear night, the whole sky was pale and blue, oblique with the Milky Way, and the stars of different brightness were bright and extinguished, and they were divided into Kyushu star fields.

I found Yuzhou, only to see the stars dense, flickering, some hanging, some dim, just the middle core, but there are two stars, one bright and one dark, but this is not cyan, just red with a hint of blue, light and dark complement each other, the brilliance does not flash or shimmer, it is very stable.

"Twin cores?" he stared at for a while and smiled: "But it's not that it's the emperor and queen who are double grids, and it's really weird that the etiquette is incompatible." ”

But it's stable, and that's enough, enough to suppress local disobedience.

As for whether there is an inside deal between the two royal families, it is all the Liu family's own business.

Xun doesn't want to explore privacy, all he wants is the stability of the handover of the Han Dynasty, and compared with the interests of the overall situation, all the details are floating clouds.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile: "Come on, serve tea, I want to admire the moon today"

At this time, someone suddenly came to report that Master Xiao Xun and Master Xi came to visit.

The nephew Xun You came from Yingyin County in eastern Henan yesterday, and his friend Xi Zhicai just returned from Jingbei today, and he hasn't seen him for more than a year, so it is impossible to say much at the banquet, and now he wants to reunite in private.

The reunion of old friends is another lively meeting.

Xun asked Xi Zhicai with concern: "I've seen it when I go home, the boss is okay, things are going well in Jingbei?"

"My father and mother are fine. Xi Zhicai drank a cup of tea first and burped: "Jingbei is a little troublesome, but it's still under control." ”

"This is a little weird for you to laugh, there are big fish?" Xun You felt it, and his eyes flashed.

"Heh, Gongda, you guessed it, don't talk about this...... It's a pity that Feng Xiao was busy with the war against Cao in eastern Henan and couldn't come back. "Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia are out of the same family, acting uninhibited, with similar temperaments, and they have a deep friendship.

Xun toasted him: "It's good to come back safely, your body is still suitable for the water and soil of your hometown." ”

After three rounds of tea, talking about the past, Xi Zhicai asked Xun with a smile: "In the past, Dong Zhuo was in power, and Duke Xun abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown, and he once persuaded his hometown that Yingchuan was the land of four wars, and if there is a change in the world, he will often suffer from military disasters, and he should leave early and not stay for a long time, what about now?"

"When the lord arrives, he is different. Xun said with a smile: "This is the great virtue and great luck of the lord, the luck of the world is in the people, there are saints, how can you not change?"

After that, he said, "If you drink more, I think you still have to have more fun."

So in the music, he continued: "For two consecutive years, there has been a great drought in the world, and the thieves have been flocking, but Yingchuan County has had a bumper harvest for two consecutive years, and even western Henan has been a bumper harvest since last year. ”

Xi Zhicai smiled: "Xun Gong forgot Luoyang?"

"Military affairs are not my forte, and it is inconvenient to say whether I can take it or not. Xun said meticulously.

After a few drinks, Xi Zhicai asked: "I was seriously ill in Jingbei last spring, and I entrusted Wen Ruo with the future to ask you to hand it over to the lord, is this letter still there?"

"In. Xun found a silk book on a neat row of bookshelves and handed it back to him, after a year, the brocade bag seal was intact: "I heard that the lord personally rushed to Jingbei for treatment, there will be no need, wait for you to come back and hand it over in person." ”

Xi Zhicai pinched the brocade bag and smiled: "Xun Gongguo is a loyal gentleman, but now this letter is useless." ”

As he spoke, he took out the silk book and put it in the brazier.

Xun didn't care.

Xun You realized something, and his eyes flashed: "It's useless at this time, you confessed that it was related to the Queen Mother."

Xi Zhicai shook his head: "You guessed half right." ”

Among his friends, they are all extremely smart, Xun didn't hide it when he thought about it, and he laughed out loud: "Son of Heaven?"

Xi Zhicai stopped answering, and said some gossip again, looking at Xun: "If the lord welcomes the Son of Heaven...... I'm not talking about the young emperor, not the emperor, not even the clan that I found in Luoyang now, but the Son of Heaven, what does Duke Xun think?"

Xun pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "I respect the Son of Heaven." ”

"Are you not afraid of death?"

"Those who seek the country do not have time to seek their lives, if they stand up and usurp. Xun frowned and thought for a while, and sighed: "Losing faith in the sky, the fortunes of the clan will be ups and downs, and it will be the children and grandchildren who will die in the future." ”

Xi Zhicai smiled and said nothing, in this secret letter at the beginning, he had two suggestions to the lord, one is to never welcome the Son of Heaven, and the other is that the situation is so bad that it must be welcomed, and he will be punished in the future.

Everyone has their own path concept, and the outstanding one is even more firm in his concept, not easily shaken by external things, even friendship cannot be stopped.

Xi Zhicai was seriously ill and was unlucky, and the only glimmer of life left was to transfer the trust from Xun, and the choice was left in Xun's own hands.

But this letter never seemed to have been opened?

The silk book turned into embers in the brazier, and after the silk material burned, it emitted a burnt smell, and the atmosphere was solemn for a while, Xun You immediately smiled: "You guy is extravagant."

"Heh, the lord has set up sixty-three paper mills to popularize papermaking, what ......are you afraid of?" said Xi Zhicai, and all three of them laughed.

"The lord did not forget the literary affairs, and asked the families to read the private collection of books on the grounds that Yingchuan County had been attacked by the rogue and the books were scattered, which was really an imitation of the old affairs of Guangwu......"

This move is characteristic of the times.

The local style of study in the Eastern Han Dynasty is far better than that of the previous generation, not to mention that there are really many famous libraries, the Central Plains is a gathering of the world's book collections, when this time papermaking is not popular, most of the books are still in the form of bamboo rolls, which are built by the door valves.

The richness of the book is closely related to education, and the official and private schools of the Han Dynasty are also all over the Central Plains, especially in the heyday of Yingchuan, many famous scholars and great Confucians have set up museums to teach apprentices, mainly to law, scriptures, and occasionally to teach political experience, which is the continuation of the tradition of external Confucianism and internal law since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

For example, Chen Yan, the head of the "Four Chiefs of Yingchuan", is famous for being a generous elder, and the allusion to exhorting and influencing the "gentleman on the beam" with a respectful attitude is from him, but it is a pity that the lord came to Yingchuan two years late, and he did not have the opportunity to meet, when Chen Yan died four years ago, "there are more than 30,000 people in the sea, and there are hundreds of people who control the decline and hemp", which shows the style of study of the entire class.

In the past two years, all parts of Yuzhou have transcribed the scrolls on lightweight white paper, which is provided free of charge by the government, with only one condition - to copy one more copy and transfer it to the large library built in Xuchang.

After Kaichun Po Cao recaptured eastern Henan, this book donation activity reached its peak, and the Xuchang book collection exceeded 100,000 volumes, which is said to have reached one-third of Luoyang.

At this time, the world was in turmoil, and it was rare to be able to not destroy books, and the people on the ground didn't care about the cultural preservation of the soil, and only Liu Bei's family insisted on expanding the book collection.

Originally, the wait-and-see gate valve was also excited, thinking that Liu Bei paid equal attention to civil and military, heroic and heroic, and could be called a hero in the world, with the atmosphere of the Sanxing Han Dynasty.

Xun and Xun Yu took refuge in just a weather vane last year, and what really attracted people to convince was the invisible luck under the torrent of civilization.

also talked a few words around this matter, but Xi Zhicai has always despised the gate valve, so he looked at Er Xun and a few other people: "Speaking of which, I haven't heard from Lord Zao recently, how did he do about Tuntian?"

This is talking about the jujube who served with Xun last year, Yingchuan Yang Zhai Mingshi.

With Ye Qing's support, he first took the barren ownerless farmland into the ownership of the state, recruited a large number of displaced people, organized them into groups according to the establishment of the army, and the state provided land, seeds, cattle and farm tools, and they cultivated and cultivated the land, and the harvest obtained was divided proportionally between the state and the farmers in the tuntian.

This matter was initially hated by most of the landlords, but it was carried out under Ye Qing's tough methods.

Yingchuan claimed in the list of the imperial court and the state list released: "The fundamental plan for stabilizing the country is to strengthen the army and have enough food." In the past, the rulers of the Qin State unified the whole country because of the importance of agricultural production, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty consolidated the border defense of the Western Regions because of the implementation of the Tuntian policy, which is a good experience left by the predecessors. ”

Of course, Dong Zhuo ignored this article, but it caused a sensation among the princes and people of insight at home.

Xi Zhicai also became a little interested: "Last time, I heard that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao recruited him many times, and Xu Yitai kept his position

He refused, and in the first year of the implementation of Xuchang's trial of Tuntian, he had to pay a million Hu, and three days ago, he had been appointed by the lord as the governor of Tuntian, presiding over the affairs of Tuntian in Quanzhou. Xun said, remembering the last time he saw him covered in slimy, he couldn't help laughing: "He has always liked farming, this kind of talent is unique in the world."

Xi Zhicai raised wine: "No matter what temperament, concept, expertise, or background, it is really fortunate to be able to meet the lord, follow the Sanxing Han family, go down in history, and shade the descendants." ”

Xun You shook the wine in the cup: "Jingbei and eastern Henan don't need to be said, even western Henan is also indispensable to rats, resist in light and dark, just kill a batch." ”

In the past two years, the political group of Yuzhou Mansion has taken shape, with a gathering of heroes, a new look, and vigorous, and the most important group of wolves has survived the crisis, and it can rise steadily, which has exercised the self-confidence of sweeping the group.

Xi Zhicai was glad in his heart, but fortunately, the lord was not the Son of Heaven......

The identity of the queen mother, and the lack of the mana of the ancient Wa Emperor, relying solely on the system, is destined to be impossible to hold power alone, which makes the main public group unprovoked internally.

Otherwise, this political group is afraid that there will be a real split.

On the contrary, as long as you unite as one, let alone some internal places, even if Cao Cao, Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, and Sun Jian are external...... Anyone who stands in the way of this emerging group is their enemy.

Xun thought about it and said: "The queen mother is coming to inspect, and there will be another expense in the cost, and now although the financial plan is tight, this sum has to be squeezed out, which is to make the local people's hearts return to Han." ”

"I don't think so, some local tyrants are used to being local emperors, and they ignore the state government reform decrees, do you want him to be willing to have one more queen mother on his head?" Xun You believed in the evil theory of human nature of the ancestor Xunzi, and drank all the wine: "Wait and see, it is indispensable to jump out and die." ”

"Hehe, what you're talking about" Xi Zhicai sneered and drank the wine: "But the lord had expected it, at the end of today's banquet, even my cold hair stood on end."