Da Wei Chun

Chapter 287 Entering Beijing
The scorching sun was in the sky, and the heat wave was rolling.

The banks of the Yellow River are mighty, and the fertile fields are boundless.A gust of wind blows, and the waves of wheat cover the sky and cover the sky, like a golden sea with tides, which is extremely magnificent.

After leaving Tongguan, it seemed as if the world had changed, and the temperature rose several degrees out of thin air.As long as it is sunny, Li Chengzhi feels that his body has never been sweated since the sun rises and sets.

He wished he could take off his underpants, and only wore a silk dress from top to bottom, and rode on the horse with half-exposed arms and bare feet.

A dozen riders and three carts followed closely behind, driving on the ancient Yellow River road without rushing.

Today is the [-]st of May, and it is the seventh day since he set off from Jingzhou. At this time, he has already left Dingcheng County (now Tongguan County).

Seeing the cars and animals in the fields like dragons and the voices of people, Li Chengzhi was in a relaxed state of mind.

It's summer harvest time again!
It's cold in the pass, and it's time to harvest the fields in about ten days.When the tens of thousands of acres of fertile land are harvested, Zhang Jingzhi and Li Shixian will rush to Hexi with tens of thousands of shi of grain and [-] to [-] refugees.

Hope nothing goes wrong...

Thinking in his heart, Li Chengzhi raised his head subconsciously when he noticed a chill on his body.

Has it changed?
A gust of cool wind blew, and Li Chengzhi was thrilled, feeling indescribably refreshed.Even the war horse under his crotch felt the coolness, and he shook his head for a while, and his hooves became much lighter.

He looked at the sky and shouted to Li Rui who was driving, "It might rain, hurry up!"

Li Rui hurriedly agreed, and quickly called back twice.I also saw a dry and thin old man riding a horse from the end of the team and approached Li Chengzhi.

"Lang Jun, since the wind is blowing, it must be much cooler in the car, how about getting off the horse and taking a ride?"

This is Li Xie, the uncle of Li Rui and Li Cong. Li Shixian and Guo Yuzhi were afraid that Li Rui would not do anything, so they let Li Xie go to Beijing with Li Chengzhi.

Li Chengzhi agreed without thinking.

Riding a car is much more comfortable than riding a horse.

He jumped off his horse and got into the second car.

In the nearly six-foot-wide and ten-foot-long carriage, except for a narrow aisle near the window where Li Chengzhi could lie down, the rest of the place was full of books, piled to the brim.

One-third of them were collected by Li Chengzhi in the past few months, such as Hu Baozong, Guo Cunxin, Zhang Jingzhi and others sponsored.The other third is Li's collection, and the remaining third is a gift from Yang Shu.

Five classics and four books, Confucian classics and Taoist classics, hundreds of schools of thought, astronomy and geography... there are all kinds of books.

Regardless of the rest, half of Li Chengzhi's reputation as a good fighter comes from the knowledge of later generations, and the other half is due to those military books.

Don't think that Taoist books are useless, just look at what Li Chengzhi saw in the book.

"Baopuzi·Inner Chapter·Golden Elixir": Hydrating stone, alum, cinnabar, stone sulfur... amalgamated with fire, you can get golden elixir!

If the Taoist priests of the Tang Dynasty hadn't made gunpowder by mistake based on this alchemy practice method, Li Chengzhi would have dared to chew this book alive.

Or "Baopuzi Golden Chamber Prescription": hold Artemisia annua, soak it in two liters of water, wring it out to get the juice, take it all, and malaria can be cured...

Isn't this the first artemisinin to win the Nobel Prize in Science in Chinese history after 500 years?

It's still "Baopuzi · Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription · Cholera (Cholera) Repellent Prescription": moxibustion, bamboo smoke to burn the house, marble (quicklime) to pave the floor...

Are you still using it during the new crown?

There is not only one Ge Hong's "Baopuzi", but also the immortal Tao who is still alive.That is to say, Tao Hongjing, who was hailed by the Southern Dynasties as a genius who had not been born for 500 years, recorded in "The Collection of Materia Medica":

The gourd is called garlic, and the garlic is called small garlic, because its gas is similar...soaked in wine, it can kill the poison of fish, mutton, and fish...

Only then did Li Chengzhi know that allicin, which made him so proud and self-satisfied, had been researched during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

But why is it that one generation is not as good as the next generation, and most of the good things are lost?

Just because "everything is inferior, only reading is high!"

Anyone who can understand Taoism and read medical books, who is not a scholar?Instead of studying and managing a lowly career, it is better to learn a few more articles to be an examiner.

The money is decent and comfortable, why not do it?
Li Chengzhi sighed, and dug out the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription".

In another month, around the beginning of autumn, it will be the hottest time in Hexi.Li Chengzhi was going to study it, figured out some methods of epidemic prevention in military camps, and sent them to Li Song and Li Liang, so as to be prepared.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Li Chengzhi felt that the commotion outside was much louder, so Li Chengzhi put down his book and took a look outside.

It is a county town, and there are three or four soldiers dangling under the gate, and Li Xie is negotiating with him.The wall is not high, more than two feet at most, and there are two big characters written in seal script on the door opening: Hu County!
This county already belongs to the boundary of Sizhou, and it is less than five hundred miles away from Luoyang.If it is quicker, it will arrive in at least three or four days...

It rained heavily that night, and we stopped in Hu County for a day the next day, and only set off on the third day.After another four days, they arrived at the city of Luoyang.

In Li Chengzhi's memory, besides the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties, Luoyang is most famous for Mudan.

It's a pity that it's too early, if I come half a month earlier, I'm afraid I can see the grand scene of "only Mu Dan is really beautiful, and the flowers move the capital when it blooms".

But it was a worthwhile trip, Li Chengzhi's eyes were opened as soon as he entered the city gate.

They came from the west, so they naturally entered the city through the west gate.There are four gates in the west city. Afraid that the two gates in the middle would be too crowded, Li Chengzhi deliberately chose the northernmost and relatively secluded Chengming Gate. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered Guocheng, it was full of people.

Just like the famous scenic spots after the big holiday in the later generations, people are next to each other, shoulder to shoulder, and the heads are as dense as canned sardines, which makes people feel numb.

Look again, good guy, at least half of the heads are bald and dazzling.

The Dharma platforms on both sides of the official road are next to each other, and the colorful flags fluttering on the platforms have their own names, such as "Dajue Temple", "Yongming Temple", "Rongjue Temple"... At a glance, only Li Chengzhi can see There are more than ten poles for the temple flag of Qingzi.

Half of the stage is either monks preaching scriptures or serving porridge.A small part of the stage was full of nuns, issuing talismans.

The most lively ones are jugglers doing somersaults and climbing bamboo poles.

Counting the most people in the audience, there are three floors inside and three floors outside.In addition to the spectators, many monks and nuns shuttled through the crowd with their bowls, each followed by a young novice monk who was no more than ten years old with a pocket on his back.

At most, within ten steps, the bowl will be filled with copper coins, and monks and nuns will pour them into the pockets on the monk's back...

Li Chengzhi was surprised and surprised.

The strange thing is that monks can not only draw Taoist talismans, but also be so fashionable, inviting jugglers to gather popularity?
What surprised me was the generosity of these ordinary people in the audience.

The Great Wei has been in the state of bartering for more than a hundred years since its founding, so you can imagine the extent to which the country is short of copper.

In the whole of Wei Dynasty, there was Han five baht circulating around Luoyang, but it was not so expensive. At least one penny of copper money could be exchanged for a catty of grain, and the purchasing power was more than ten times that of the middle and late Sui and Tang Dynasties.

But when these good men and women throw a lot of them into the bowl, they don't see the slightest bit of distress?
(End of this chapter)