Biography of the Han Empire

Author: Scarlet Polyp

The Ninth Legend of All Beings

Jiangnan Scholar (9)

Seeing several green forest heroes lined up outside the car, Li Wei was in a panic, but when he saw Xie Ming as if he had seen something interesting, he became excited, pulled out his sword from the side, and muttered: "I've been looking forward to it all the way, and I finally have a chance to let my sword come out of the sheath and drink blood." ”

Li Wei was overjoyed: "It turns out that you are proficient in swordsmanship, that's good, I thought you were just carrying a sword for decoration." ”

"Oh, hehehe, Zhong Yuan underestimates me too much, I have been practicing swords since I was a child." Xie Ming stroked the scabbard, "But this is the first time to do it with someone." ”

Li Wei's heart suddenly cooled for a while, and he immediately lost confidence, and hurriedly grabbed Xie Ming, who was eager to try: "That。。。。。。 It's really relied on, but I think it's best for us to find a way out first。。。。。。 ”

The two were entangled, and they could only hear "Ah!" outside the car! The two thought that the coachman had been killed, and hurriedly jumped out to see, only to see the coachman holding his head and shrinking on the side of the road, and a "good man" on the road was hit by an arrow in the throat, and fell to the ground with his back facing the sky. Both groups were stunned, and only heard a neighing of horses, and rushed out from behind the car, and in a blink of an eye they killed the bandits, and immediately the knights slashed at one of them.

The bandit didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly raised his axe to parry, but the knife suddenly paused strangely in the air, changed direction, drew a beautiful arc, and bypassed the axe and cut off the hand holding the axe. The man let out a scream like a pig, covered his severed hand, turned around and ran, and his two companions seemed to be frightened by the knife that looked like an antelope hanging on its horns, and fled without regard to the corpses of their companions on the ground. The knight snorted, took a horned bow from his side, and shot his arrow.

Li Wei hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Thank you for the help of the strong man, but as the saying goes, you can be forgiving and forgiving, these people don't seem to be habitual offenders, today I saw the strong man's magic skills, I guess I won't dare to do evil in the future, so I will spare their lives,"

"Hmph, you Central Plains people just don't do things simply, this is called Tiger Vertical Mountain。。。。。。 No, it's called the tiger returning to the mountain. The knight was ruthless, and he was not very proficient in Chinese, but his voice was quite crisp and pleasant, and he seemed to be a young man who had not changed his voice, but he hid his face with a cloak and could not see his face. Listening to Li Wei's words, he seemed to be quite disdainful, looked at the corpse on the ground, and slowly put down the bow and arrows, "But these are not tigers, just a few poor ghosts, they have nothing on their bodies, and they have wasted my feather arrows。。。。。。 ”

The two of them were shocked when they heard this, could it be that the front door rejected the wolf and the back door came to the tiger, and the robber came to a horse thief? ! Xie Ming put his sword horizontally, but his expression lost his usual chic, and even his speech became vague: "Strong man... Could it be ... Is it also seeking wealth? ”

"Haha, you Central Plains people are so timid, don't worry, people are not robbers." The knight saw Xie Ming's nervous hands trembling, and smiled straight like a yellow warbler out of the valley. I saw that he took off the cloak on his face, and when the two of them saw it, it was a very beautiful girl, about 16 or 7 years old, with a slight dust on her face, but she still couldn't hide her delicate face. The delicate little mouth, the big eyes as deep as a waterhole, and the smile like a spring breeze seem to be embellished with colorful scenery; With a pair of slender sword eyebrows and a towering nose bridge, in addition to the beauty, it adds a rare heroic vigor to the beauty of the Central Plains women, like an ordinary fairy. I only heard the fairy Zhu lips spit lightly: "Hey, are you two going to Luoyang?" ”

The two of them were stunned for a while, and they forgot to answer, the girl smiled, didn't care, and raised her voice: "Hey, this girl asked if you are going to Luoyang, nerd." ”

Li Wei instantly regained his clarity and said busily: "It's rude, girl, the two of us are going to Anding County, Liangzhou, but we are from Luoyang." ”

"Huh? So where is Luoyang? The girl was so startled that she almost fell off her horse.

Li Wei pointed to the way he came: "Go east from here, go to Chang'an, and then go east for ten days, and you will arrive at Luoyang." The girl must have gone the wrong way. ”

"That's right, people came out of Shuofang County and wanted to go to Luoyang, but they went all the way to Chang'an, and then ran out of Chang'an City for a few days and lost their way. The girl was a little embarrassed, her face flushed, "It's all your Han people who are not good, every road is almost built, and every city is almost the same, so people can't figure it out... Scratching your head. ”

Li Wei suddenly realized, it turned out that he had met a road idiot, so he hurriedly went to the carriage to find a simple map and handed it to the girl, "Girl, as long as you press the map, and then keep walking east along the road, you must not get lost again." ”

The girl was so overjoyed that she didn't even bother to thank her, so she flew on her horse and went away, and soon became a point in the distance, disappearing, as if she had never appeared, and only the "battle record" on the ground proved her existence. Xie Ming couldn't see the beautiful woman anymore, so he recovered from the sluggishness just now, and said to himself: "I can't imagine that there is such a delicate place in the bitter cold land of the north. ”

Together with the coachman, the two buried the bodies of the bandits on the ground before continuing westward. After a short time, he came to Linjing, the seat of the county seat of Anding County, Liangzhou.

Linjing City is an important town in Xiliang, guarding the east-west traffic arteries of Liangzhou, it is a strong city, and the planning is also quite large. But now there is a shortage of soldiers and no merchants, so although the day is empty, the streets are quite deserted, and pedestrians are rare, only a few local vendors sit on the side of the street and shout weakly. The two found an inn, and after settling down hastily, they immediately asked the waiter where Wang Jian's mansion was, and the waiter looked the two up and down with strange eyes, and asked, "Who are the two gentlemen from Mr. Wang?" ”

Li Wei hurriedly said: "I am the doorman of the late Mr. Wang, passing by here, I came to meet Mr. Wang." ”

"The doorman? Now that there are any people in the Wang family, aren't they all dismissed? The waiter was quite strange, but he still pointed out the location of the palace for the two of them.

Li and Xie ate something, carried the book on their horses, and went to the door according to the waiter's instructions. It didn't take much effort to find the Wang family's mansion in the west of the city. I saw that the courtyard was very large, with high walls and deep courtyards, which looked quite magnificent at first glance, but on closer inspection, the two sides of the doorway were overgrown with weeds, the doors were covered with thick dust, and the walls were quite detached, obviously uncared for for a long time, and dilapidated.

The door was just hidden, and the two knocked for a long time but no one answered the door, so they pushed open the door and walked straight in. Walking through a long corridor and turning a few times, there is an open courtyard in front of which can accommodate hundreds of people. In the center of the courtyard there is a stone platform half a person high, several zhang long and wide, obviously it was originally a place for scholars and scholars to lecture and debate, but now it has other uses, drying a lot of grains, dried vegetables and the like, and the two of them shook their heads.

At this moment, a deep male voice came from the side, "Who are you?" The two of them turned their eyes and saw a middle-aged man in his early forties, with a handsome face, slightly white temples, wearing a coarse cloth dress, holding a bundle of dried vegetables in his hand, and a lovely girl about ten years old beside him.

Li Wei stepped forward and said: "Student Li Wei, the word Zhongyuan, is a protégé of Luoyang Zhu Jun, this is a good friend, Zhusheng Xie Ming Xie Zhizhi, this time the student went to Xiliang to take office, and on the order of the family teacher, he sent the thirty-six volumes of the revised Qianfu Theory to the house, only to see that no one answered, so he trespassed in, and asked Haihan to take the liberty of it. May I ask if Mr. Wang Jian is the elder of Mr. Wang Jian's family (the name of the doorman and servant)? Is Mr. Wang at home? ”

The man smiled slightly, "I didn't expect Zhu Gongwei to be so attentive that he still remembered the words of the old man." Seeing the two people on the other side, they were stunned, pointed to themselves and said, "I am the son of Wang Qianfu, Wang Jian." ”

The two hurriedly bowed down and bowed to the teacher, Wang Jian supported the two and said with a smile: "The Wang family has long been ruined, and I have long stopped teaching and accepting disciples, and the men and servants have also been dismissed, so I really can't afford the two big gifts." After that, he turned his head to the girl who was behind him and looked at the two timidly: "Fu'er, you have a distinguished guest today, and I told your mother to make some good tea for the guests." The girl nodded, and ran to the inner house with a puff of smoke.

The three of them sat on the ground, Li and Xie took off the book and spread it on the ground, Wang Jian immediately picked up a book, read it quickly and hungrily, and then ignored the two. After a meal, a middle-aged woman came out of the inner house and poured tea for the three of them, and Wang Jian breathed a sigh of relief and said to the two: "I'm sluggish, I can't help myself when I see this book." Zhu Gongwei is really talented, and this school has done its best to get the true essence of his father's hidden husband, which is enough to be passed on to the next generation. ”

The three of them drank a cup of tea and began to talk. Li Wei looked at the dried vegetables on the podium and asked, "Uncle Wang studied Guanxi Liang, and he was the first scholar in Liangzhou, why did he do this himself... Toil? ”

"Hehe, what Zhong Yuan wants to say is a vulgar and despicable thing, right?" Wang Jian looked at the embarrassed Li Wei and said with a smile, "Okay, Xue Qin once said to Chen Fan at sunset, if you don't sweep a house, why sweep the world?" Today, I take this opportunity to say, now the west is in chaos, the people are hungry, if I can't even fill the belly of a family, how can I dare to say that the world is full of learning? ”

Li Xie and Xie glanced at each other, and they were both convinced, and Xie Ming asked again: "Now that the war in Xiliang is settled, why doesn't Mr. gather disciples and reopen the lecture hall?" Otherwise, wouldn't you lose Mr. Wang's purpose of 'husband for the country, based on enriching the people, and based on correct learning'? ”

"What I said is very true, as long as there is the slightest possibility, I also want to reopen the lecture hall. But in today's Xiliang, the people are in danger, and the scholars have no intention of learning, and the situation is so erosive that people are really helpless. Wang Jian's words changed sharply, and suddenly the wording became stern, "Besides, when today's scriptures are studied, they often focus on the last and suppress the basics, and scholars seek to study, often indulging in the words of the sages, and do not know how to make good use of them; He often bothered with the wit of arguments and stayed in clear talk. ”

Wang Jian looked at the two people opposite and nodded slightly, thoughtfully, and then continued: "Today's preference for resignation, calligraphy and other miscellaneous studies is understandable. Even if it is a miscellaneous school, it can be regarded as opening another door for the world's poor people, which is not a bad thing. However, now the appointment of such miscellaneous scholars as officials is the way to chaos the country, and in the long run, the Han Dynasty will have no officials who can govern the world. Nowadays, people in the world often respect the so-called easy to learn everyone, thinking that they can know the destiny of heaven and the blessings and misfortunes, and even worse, they do not look for a doctor when they are sick, but go to kneel and worship the witch and the god, how ridiculous it is. In such a world, even if you open an altar to give lectures, what is the use? ”

Although Li Wei and Xie Ming also had some thoughts about these things in the past study process, they did not consider them as problems that could bring disaster to the country and the people. Today's Han Dynasty does not have a proper style of learning, and scholars like to delve into easy learning, miscellaneous learning, the end of learning and even the study of charms, and even the royal family respects it. From top to bottom, the entire Han society was controlled by a superstitious idea of ghosts and gods.

The two of them were busy asking if there was a solution. Wang Jian smiled bitterly: "Since I stopped school, I have often thought about the solution, and now I am afraid that only by cleaning up the source and ordering by the government can we slowly change this poison." But I think it is difficult for the Han Dynasty to have this determination and courage now. I thought that maybe it would be easier to implement it in one state and one county first, so I visited the county guards and the officials of the county to sacrifice wine, but there were very few people, so I am a little disheartened at present. "Said that, his expression was gloomy.

Li Wei and Xie Ming didn't know how to persuade them, and the three of them chatted about some scriptures and history, which was quite speculative. Chatted until the time of the lamp, after dinner together, Li Wei and Xie Ming said goodbye, Wang Jian sent out the door, Li Wei held Wang Jian's hand and said: "I hope that the master can be a big man, for the world to keep his will not change, if he can be in charge of a place in the future, he will try his best to realize his wish for Mr. and re-correct the style of study." ”

Wang Jian smiled indifferently: "Of course, it is best for Zhong Yuan to have this ambition, but the governor needs to be able to do something and not to do it, now Xiliang ****, Zhong Yuan is going to Hanyang as an official, everything is careful." ”

The two left Linjing for the south on the second day, and arrived at Jicheng, the county governor of Hanyang County, three days later.

When he arrived in Jicheng, Li Wei called Xie Ming to arrange all the luggage, carriages and horses, and went to Taishou Mansion to report in a hurry.

After passing the communication, he came to the door of Fu Xie's room, stood by the door and waited quietly for the summons, and suddenly heard a loud shout inside: "You waste, useless things, get out of here!" It scared Li Wei, who had just arrived, into dissipation