Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 465 Competing in the Central Plains (28)

five months later
The winter of the ninth year of Yanhou 190 (409 years)
In the coldest season of the coldest year in the Little Ice Age, Liu Yu completed the mobilization of troops and officially announced the launch of the Northern Expedition. The first target of the Northern Expedition was Murong Chao (Nan Yan), who openly went south to rob people a few months ago. .

[-] infantry and [-] cavalry, under the command of Liu Yu, are gathering on the school field outside Jiankang City.

"Since the Yongjia South Crossing more than 100 years ago, the Central Plains have been lost and the people have been ravaged by the barbarians. Now, this general will lead his brothers to recover the Central Plains homeland. All soldiers will be famous in history. Those who make military exploits will be rewarded. Military commanders will be punished!"

Liu Yu was full of voice and emotion, and gave a speech on the high platform of the school field to inspire the morale of the soldiers.

"Kill all the barbarians and regain the Central Plains!" Liu Muzhi, Liu Yu's heavyweight aide, shouted.

Afterwards, the [-] soldiers raised their weapons and shouted loudly:

"Kill all the barbarians and regain the Central Plains!"

"Kill all the barbarians and regain the Central Plains!"

"Kill all the barbarians and regain the Central Plains!"

After the speech, Liu Yu shouted: "Let's go!"

Rumble!
Bang bang bang!
Boom boom boom!
The flags cover the sky, the military drums vibrate, and the sound of footsteps is orderly.

A few years ago, they followed Liu Yu to wipe out the rebels everywhere in the country of Jin, and now they are going to follow Liu Yu in the Northern Expedition.

At this moment, an unremarkable thing happened. An aide came to Liu Yu on horseback and said to Liu Yu, "Da Sima, Tao Yuanliang (Tao Yuanming) refuses to become an official."

Liu Yu didn't pay much attention, just frowned slightly, and then replied lightly: "Don't worry about him."

Tao Yuanming was Huan Xuan's staff member. After Huan Xuan fled to the Liaodong Yan Kingdom, Liu Yu conscripted Tao Yuanming as an official to show Huan Xuan's other subordinates that he only targeted the Huan family and not the rest of the people. They surrendered with peace of mind.

This is the standard horse bone bought by a thousand dollars, and there is nothing to say.

At the beginning, Tao Yuanming also became an official. In fact, he himself admired Liu Yu for eliminating the treacherous atmosphere in the Qing court, and thought Liu Yu was a wise master.

But later, after discovering that Liu Yu had ambitions to usurp the throne, Tao Yuanming voluntarily resigned from office, unwilling to continue to serve Liu Yu.

Tao Yuanming wanted Huo Guang to save Da Jin, not Sima Yi to usurp the throne.

Or it can be said that both Tao Yuanming and Liu Yu want to change the status quo of Dajin’s corruption and incompetence, but Tao Yuanming is a reformer who only wants to change Dajin so that Dajin will no longer be corrupt, but does not want to destroy Dajin. It is the rebels who want to completely bury the corrupt and incompetent Da Jin in the grave.

Liu Yu didn't care too much about Tao Yuanming's refusal to become an official. He had already achieved the effect of buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars. As for whether the horse bone was willing to become an official, it didn't matter. take a stand.

"Tao Yuanliang is too arrogant, let him continue to live in his peach blossom garden to entertain himself, haha!" Another staff member beside Liu Yu mocked Tao Yuanming.

Peach Blossom Spring is a fantasy short story "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" written by Tao Yuanming a year ago. It describes that in a remote place in Wuling County, there is a paradise far away from intrigues and wars in the world. The people there live and work in peace and contentment without war. There are no corrupt officials, no intrigues, no intrigues, and everyone is simple, kind, and hospitable.

There are also many fantasy short stories of this utopia in Liaodong Yanguo. Wang Miao wrote a lot when he was young, and followers of Hongyan Dao also wrote many utopian fantasy novels similar to "Peach Blossom Spring".

Fantasies of a better world seem to exist all over the world.

Therefore, everyone is not surprised by Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring". Similar fantasy worlds, the Buddhist Paradise, should be more perfect in theory, and the Taoist fairyland is equally beautiful. Wang Miao's Utopia, It can even be logically justified.

A month later, Tao Yuanming, who was living in seclusion in an old forest in a deep mountain in Wuling County, heard about Liu Yu’s Northern Expedition. He just looked at the blue and white clouds, and couldn’t help but compose a poem: “Planting beans under the southern mountain, the grass is full of bean sprouts and the bean sprouts are thin. Dirty, take the moon lotus and hoe back. The road is narrow and the grass and trees are long, and the evening dew stains my clothes. It is not a pity to stain my clothes, but my wish is not violated."

Tao Yuanming was born in a gentry family. Although his family background was average among the gentry, at least he had no worries about food and clothing.

He had lived in seclusion once before, but that time in seclusion was not formal, and every day the maids from the house would come to the mountain to deliver food to him.

So this second time he lived in seclusion, he forbade the maids in the mansion to deliver food every day, and ordered them to only deliver food once every three days. He wanted to do his best to support himself by farming himself.

No matter what era, living in seclusion is costly. It is not possible to live in seclusion if you want to live in seclusion. Reclaiming wasteland and farming is more tiring than most people imagine. Otherwise, the Jiangnan area would not have required thousands of years of dynasties to develop and mature.

He has already seen that Liu Yu has the ambition to usurp the throne, so he is unwilling to join forces and become an accomplice of the usurper.

I also thought about going to Yandu with Huanxuan before, but going to Yandu required a lot of money, and he was not a genius doctor or craftsman, and Yanguo would not take the initiative to find him.

There were many reclusive scholars like him in the Sima Zhao period. Some scholars did not want to be the accomplices of the Sima family usurping the throne, so they lived in seclusion all day drinking and living in their own world. Xian.

another two months later

Spring of the 200th year of Queen Yan (410)
New Year
New Year
Yandu
Bang bang bang!
call out!
Whoosh!
One hundred bamboo tube fireworks were ignited at the same time, and only [-] sparks rose into the sky. Compared with the one more than ten years ago, the technology of bamboo tube fireworks has once again improved, and the success rate of launching has increased a lot.

Yan Houlan is sitting on the throne, and the back chair of the throne is inlaid with a mercury glass mirror, which is the highest embodiment of craftsmanship in this era.

Yan Houlan is very satisfied with the current state of Yan. The only thing she is dissatisfied with is that she proposed the plan of expedition to poison. Seven of the Nine Ministers disagreed. When the parliament was held, only a dozen representatives of the parliament voted in favor. The remaining [-] or so parliamentary representatives disagreed with the Laoshi expedition.

Huan Xuan, who has not long been a native of Yan, also participated in the [-]th anniversary celebration of Yan. He also met Sima Yuanxian, who was kicked out of Jin by him many years ago.

"Tsk tsk tsk, the usurper of the throne is still here today." Sima Yuanxian sneered at Huan Xuan.

"To usurp the throne or not to usurp the throne, that's all in the past, now I'm just an ordinary rich man in Yan Kingdom." Huan Xuan replied bitterly.

Sima Yuanxian was even darker than before when he was tanned on the Spice Islands plantation.

"I have to say that this Yandu is more prosperous than Jiankang City in the Central Plains, and there are so many weird tricks." Huan Xuan looked at the gorgeous fireworks in the sky, and at the scene of the celebration. That [Waterwheel].

This [Waterwheel] was invented by the craftsmen of the Yan State. Just fill the iron furnace with clean water, and then boil the water under the iron furnace with a high fire. A set of gears drives the wooden wheel to roll.

However, because the temperature of the iron furnace is not very high, the heat generated is not enough, and the sealing of the iron furnace is not good enough, and the lever planks are not flexible enough, so the speed of this water wheeler is extremely slow, and the strength is not as good as a child pushing it, so it is not suitable for the time being. There is no practical significance, the only function is to be used as a toy at the celebration.

(End of this chapter)