North of Wuguan, near Lantian.

The long camp spread out, like white steamed buns among the thin snowflakes.

Fei Qian was sitting in the Chinese military tent. The fire basin on the side provided heat, so that he did not feel too cold in the military tent.

Fei Qian was looking at several new versions of Hussar coins on the table.

I don't know why, but when I play with these jingling coins in my hand, I feel a sense of pleasure, even though Fei Qian knows that these coins have no actual use for me at the moment.

Does Fei Qian need to go to the market and spend money to buy anything?

Obviously not necessary, but when holding this Qiusi coin, it still makes Fei Qian feel that he is a rich man. There is even a sense of reality that has changed the world.

If we look at it from the perspective of future generations, these coins are crudely made and the handwriting is somewhat blurry...

Moreover, these coins delivered to Fei Qian for review are all parent coins, which are relatively refined and even carefully polished. When the coins flow to the market, there will be various misprints and defects due to manual and mechanical reasons.

Taste, of course, is indispensable.

However, these coins still have cross-epochal significance.

China's gold and silver mines are indeed not as rich as copper mines, and even iron mines are worse. However, when faced with such a problem, the rulers of the Chinese feudal dynasty chose to make do with it.

If there is no gold or silver, wouldn’t it be okay to use copper?

The quality of the iron ore is not very good, but then it can occasionally be used to make some "treasure swords" as tribute to the emperor, isn't it okay?

Of course, this can't all be the problem of these feudal rulers. After all, these people are limited by their vision and knowledge. Sometimes they can indeed be good poster craftsmen, which is already very remarkable, but the problem here is that Fei Qian is not good.

As a time traveler, if you just learn the pasting techniques from history and get rid of current problems, as long as there are no more problems during your term of office, then what is the point of accumulating knowledge over the past thousand years?

Dahan has many shortcomings, and there are many things that need to be improved...

Many times, just like the current weather, the snow is flying, everything seems to be covered, everything is unified into one color, all pure and flawless, it looks so pleasing to the eye, but when the snow melts, it will change again.

If it goes back to its original state, it will even be even dirtier!

"Lord!" A scout reported outside the tent, "The chariot of Duke Zheng from Chang'an has left Lantian and will be arriving soon."

Fei Qian put down the coins in his hand and said loudly, "I understand."

It is the basic virtue of an official to push beyond the limit, and this kind of push into the limit is very cruel.

The same goes for adapting to the wind.

As soon as the army arrived, the riots among the refugees in Lantian were like sages who had taken off their anger. They were all docile and kind as if they were beautiful. They calmed down in a blink of an eye. There was no big movement. They were like flying snowflakes.

The emergency military report also seemed to disappear among the snowflakes, never to be seen again.

Didn’t we say before that the riots in Lantian and the ferocious refugees were causing harm to the four townships?

Aren't the hungry people manic, looting markets, and causing local disorder?

And now, as soon as the Feiqian army arrives, it disappears?

If there is no movement, does it mean that there is nothing going on?

These ridiculous things are happening, and they are happening openly and openly under Fei Qian's eyes.

After being stationed in Lantian, Fei Qian ordered several surrounding county magistrates and magistrates to come to see him.

Then something more interesting happened. Several county magistrates actually hung up their crowns and left, saying that they were tired of writing documents and couldn't bear the burden, so they wanted to live in seclusion in the mountains and never come out again!

Since he has left his post and has no love for the powerful, he is naturally a master hermit who has obtained the "Tao" and understands the "Principle". He is in line with the original moral concept system of the Han Dynasty and belongs to a person who transcends the mundane world. Therefore, he naturally cannot be regarded as such.

The requirements of the mundane world affect his transcendent artistic conception.

When Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu ​​hung the crown on the east gate, the whole world applauded.

Nowadays, although these county magistrates are not as famous as Yuan Benchu, but to leave with their crowns is still a kind of transcendental state, and they have the demeanor of some celebrities.

Among them were Zheng Xuan's disciples.

Well, Zheng Xuan’s disciples are not just the few who follow him. After all, the disciples Zheng Xuan has accepted, if you include the nominal and unnamed ones, there are at least more than a thousand, and these people are more or less known as

To promote themselves in the name of Zheng Xuan, these people will also say that they learned from Zheng Xuan when accepting disciples...

There are relatively few places in Guanzhong, but in the Jizhou area, it is said that wherever there is a voice of Confucian classics, there are disciples of Zheng Xue, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands.

On the one hand, this is because Zheng Xuan himself is a master of Confucian classics, so you can learn many Confucian classics at Zheng Xuan. You don’t have to look for someone to learn "Shang Shu" or someone to learn "Book of Changes" like before.

Find another one. The key is if these people’s explanations are consistent with each other, that’s fine. What if their explanations are mutually exclusive?

Zheng Xue is much better. It has unified annotations, making it very convenient to learn and teach. Zheng Xue has naturally become the largest school at the moment. Most of the lectures on the classics use Zheng's annotations. Many Confucian scholars and scholars are from Zheng Xue.

Shocked by his broad and comprehensive knowledge, he turned to advocating Zheng's studies. A large number of economic students fell in love with Zheng's annotations and no longer sought advice from other schools.

Therefore, it is not surprising that some of those who left with their titles claiming to be Zheng Xuan's children.

Logically speaking, Zheng Xuan could have completely ignored these people, or even said that these people had nothing to do with him. However, Zheng Xuan did not do this. Instead, he took the trouble to rush from Chang'an to Lantian, and then from Lantian to Feiqian.

here……

You must know that Zheng Xuan is already sixty or seventy years old. According to the average life span of the Han Dynasty, he may die at any time, but Zheng Xuan still drags his old body here just for these so-called "Zheng Xuan"

"Students".

Regarding this matter, Fei Qian really didn't know whether he should praise or sigh.

In the wind and snow, Zheng Xuan arrived.

Fei Qian asked Hua Tuo, who was accompanying the army, to go and get a diagnosis and treatment first. After confirming that the old man Zheng Xuan was fine, he felt relieved...

Zheng Xuan was wrapped in a big cloak, tremblingly drinking ginger soup, and then warming the brazier. After a long time, he seemed to have some energy and blood, and his face looked relatively better.

Elderly people are prone to cold in their limbs. When the weather is cold, they are like four pieces of wood. The difficulty in turning is relatively mild, and sometimes they even experience soreness and pain...

"Mr. Zheng, why bother..." Fei Qian shook his head and sighed.

Zheng Xuan put down the bowl of ginger soup, and then did not directly answer Fei Qian's question, but also sighed, "General! Why is this?!"

Fei Qian pretended to be stupid, "What did Mr. Zheng say?"

"If the general wants to rectify the administration of officials, he can just speak out. Why use this method?" Zheng Gong pouted his beard and blew wildly.

Fei Qian laughed, and then showed some mother's money on the table to Zheng Xuan, "Mr. Zheng, let's ignore this for now... Let's see how this money is? Is it eye-catching?"

"I'm ashamed of myself!" Zheng Xuan glanced at him and became more and more angry, thinking that Fei Qian meant to use money to bribe him to solve the problem.

"Haha..." Fei Qian gestured to Huang Xu, "Do you have any coins for daily use? Go get some and give them to Mr. Zheng to compare..."

Huang Xu nodded, took some out of his pocket, and placed them on Zheng Xuan's desk.

"..." Zheng Xuan glanced at Fei Qian, then looked at the coins, thoughtfully, "The meaning of the hussar..."

Although mother money is not as good as the coins of later generations, compared with the coins commonly used, it is still much more exquisite, and its luster and brightness are beyond the comparison of ordinary coins.

Obviously they are based on the same mother coin as a template, but the coins produced are different. Of course, it may also be due to wear and tear due to this or that reason during use.

"Is this a metaphor for the current situation?" Zheng Xuan said with a frown.

Talking to smart people saves trouble.

Smart people always hope to speak less themselves and let others speak more.

"I heard that when Zheng Gong was young, he was sitting on the royal banquet, and he often said heroic words, "It's not what I want, it's not what I want"..." Fei Qian tilted his head slightly, "But why don't you hear more of it now?

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Zheng Xuan glanced at Fei Qian, with a calm and calm expression on his face, "General, do you think that I am especially a teenager? When I was young, it was not wrong to regard the world as nothing. When I am such an old man, I don't know how to advance or retreat, do not understand the reason, and do not avoid it."

Isn't it true that one's life is in vain if there are interests and harms? A gentleman has a right way and should practice it diligently."

Fei Qian nodded and said, "A gentleman can be deceived."

Zheng Xuan stared, "Not necessarily!"

"May I ask Mr. Zheng, in this world, how many gentlemen are there? How many boys are there?" Fei Qian laughed and said.

"This is the harm to the world! Gentlemen are like lins, outstanding and rare, and young men are like carps, clustered together in many groups." Zheng Xuan shook his head and sighed, "People in the world tend to treat gentlemen as villains! People's hearts are not ancient, what can be done about it?"

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"What Mr. Zheng said is not unreasonable..." Fei Qian nodded and said, "But this world... may not be what Mr. Zheng wants..."

Fei Qian pointed to the flying snowflakes outside the tent and said, "Does Mr. Zheng know this place? Under the white snow and loess, there are a hundred thousand souls!"

Every time I look at the vast land and feel a strong sense of history, Fei Qian always sighs in his heart, "In the battle of Lantian between Qin and Chu, there were only 300,000 people in Xianyang. They even conquered the land of Nanyang in Hanzhong, and the Chu Dynasty later conquered it."

The power of the country stopped at Lantian... After the First Emperor unified the world, millions of people lived in Xianyang. The daily needs of money, food, firewood and fuel were piled up like mountains, and the water for washing was turbid... However, the emperor Gaozu only had more than ten thousand people, but he took it lightly.

Wuguan, then conquer Aoguan, go straight to Lantian..."

"Are there not enough soldiers? Fifty thousand soldiers, and the pass was surrendered with soldiers and armor! There are not many people? Millions of people, standing between Taoist temples, Ziying's country is destroyed!" Fei Qian pointed to the direction of Xianyang, Chang'an, "Three hundred thousand people can

Working together, millions of people will fall apart! Mr. Zheng, how can the four words "people's hearts are not old" be explained?"

"When studying political systems in ancient and modern times, we start with the Qin Dynasty, and look at the rise and fall of dynasties from the Han Dynasty to the present! The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, so it can be said that the Han system came from Qin and was adapted from the Qin system." Fei Qian said slowly

He said, "The Han Dynasty knew how to avoid the shortcomings of the Qin Dynasty, but it failed to cultivate its moral character. How can we learn from the shortcomings of the Han Dynasty today?"

In ancient China, when tribal alliances emerged, the political system came into being.

In the beginning, the leaders were elected based on very simple standards, one based on moral character and the other based on ability, and obedience was not mandatory. Even the Yanhuang people advocated by Confucianism relied on force to persuade the four armies. At that time,
To be continued...