Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 633 Year-end Party
New Year’s Eve, Ganquan Dongxiang.

The night sky and the snow everywhere contrasted with each other, and the black bear sat upright on the stage.

On his right were four people: Shizhong Zhijie, the Colonel of the Imperial Capital Zhong Yao, Shizhong Liu Ai, Shangshu Ling Pei Mao, and Taichang Qing Wei Duan.

The family members were on the left. Sitting in the front was Zhen Mi, who was dressed in elegant formal attire. Next was Ma Yunlu, then Yuan, and at the end were Cai Zhenji and the Liu sisters. The three of them sat in a small compartment.

There is a warm couch in the compartment, and a copper stove for cooking and heating wine on the table.

As for the shogunate's retainers, they could only sit at the bottom, on the right; on the left were the families of the expatriate officials who were held hostage in Guanzhong.

More than 5,000 people sat or stood to watch the first Spring Festival Gala.

Sitting in the first seat at the bottom, Kong Rong was talking in a low voice with Wang Can who had come to join him. Kong Rong was smiling and drinking from his glass from time to time.

Kong Rong trusted his intuition and was not afraid of getting drunk to death.

The shogunate needs him, and the Grand Sima also needs him.

As long as he doesn't touch military power, he will be safe.

As a Confucian heretic, Kong Rong enjoyed his current status and atmosphere.

This winter is the first year without foreign war since Sima entered Guanzhong. Many things that needed to be adjusted in winter had given way to war and had no time to be taken care of.

The Grand Marshal was free, and the military manpower in Guanzhong was also free, so there were gorgeous iron flower performances, powerful dances performed by various warriors, and the order to disperse for five days at the end of the year.

At this moment, two hundred White Tiger Battalion warriors were performing on the field. They held large shields as big as door panels, wore leather pants and combat boots, and sleeveless tiger-skin vests, with grease smeared on their exposed arms and chests.

Amid the sound of drums, the two teams of Ba soldiers held a shield in one hand and a torch in the other, shouting and performing the Ba dance with an excited look.

Not only the Ba dance, but also the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Qiang, Di, Nanzhongyi, Jingshanyi, and Qinhu all had singing and dancing, or music performances.

Of course, there were also war dances of the Han army, and General Taishi Wengong even took the stage himself with a Fang Tian Ji, performing horseback riding.

Yu Fan, as Ma Chao's representative, also sat below and watched.

From time to time, he would take a sip of hot rice wine. Originally, there were other people coming as envoys, but Wu Hou Sun Shao had already moved to Nanshan, and Sun Shao was preparing to move his father and grandfather's tombs to Guanzhong.

The Grand Marshal acknowledged the loyalty and bravery of Sun Jian, Marquis of Wucheng, and also recognized the bravery of Sun Ce... After all, he was the Marquis of Wu conferred by the Jian'an court and the vanguard general in the fight against the false emperor of the Yuan family, so he should naturally be treated with preferential treatment.

If they wanted to move the tombs of Sun Jian and Sun Ce to Guanzhong, the most suitable person to be responsible for this matter would be Yu Fan.

Yu Fan didn't want to come at first, but came after hearing about the mission.

As he was drinking alone, he saw the Han army's war dance retreat, and instead a group of men and women dressed in leather like the Hu people came up and began to perform Suiren drilling wood to make fire and Xuanyuan building a car. In the middle, Chiyou, wearing an ox horn helmet, attacked with an iron-eating beast. After the Battle of Zhuolu, it ended with Huangdi riding a dragon back home.

Yu Fan was well versed in the Book of Changes. He turned his head and smiled at Zhuge Jin beside him, holding the cup: "Zi Yu, we are still one scene away."

Zhuge Jin had few colleagues around him, including his old friends Bu Zhi, Yan Jun, Zhang Cheng, Ge Guang, etc. Zhuge Jin smiled and asked in a low voice: "What do you think it should be, sir?"

"Confucius compiled the Book of Songs."

After Yu Fan finished speaking, he saw that everyone was looking at each other in bewilderment, so he smiled and said, "The dragon bone script contains ancient divinations, records, and poems. Yesterday, the king talked to me. I am on a diplomatic mission to Jiangdong this time. The king hopes that I can invite the old scholars of Jiangdong to go north to Guanzhong to study and decipher the secrets of the dragon bone script together."

The pseudo-dynasty crown prince Liu Jing died of acclimatization on the way to Liaodong. The pseudo-dynasty emperor Liu Fu also killed a lot of people in Jiangdong and began to further centralize power.

Some old scholars who stayed in Jiangdong were of no use. They might be implicated and killed one day.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to bring these old scholars to Guanzhong to decipher the dragon bone script.

As for whether Liu Jing was really dead or fake, since Liu Bei had submitted a petition to apologize and said Liu Jing was dead, everyone just assumed that Liu Jing was dead. Everyone didn't want to talk about "Confucius's poem", so they continued to talk about the topic of deciphering the dragon bone text.

As the cracking work continues to advance, it is no longer something that Cai Xue can be responsible for alone.

Upon hearing the news, Lu Xue and Zheng Xue wrote a letter requesting to enter Guanzhong to participate in the decryption.

Only the false emperor Liu Fu of Jiangdong was killing people so hard that rivers of blood flowed, so he had no time to take care of this matter.

For Yu Fan, deciphering dragon bone inscriptions was something he felt an instinctive affinity for.

In Yu Fan's opinion, steam engines and hot air balloons can certainly be compared with Xuanyuan's car-making and flying on dragons, but they are still a step short of achieving a breakthrough.

The discovery and deciphering of the dragon bone script is the most fatal.

Anyway, his family has been studying the Book of Changes for five generations, so he is naturally suited to the study and deciphering of dragon bone inscriptions.

Leaving this kind of thing to a man named Yu is really in line with the profound principles of the Tao.

Perhaps Confucius did not expect that the bamboo slips could be burned, but the dragon bone inscriptions buried underground from generation to generation would be preserved.

This also gave Yu Fan some other ideas... After thoroughly understanding the dragon bone inscriptions, he could create a batch of them and bury them underground. Thousands of years later, they would be regarded as a guiding principle by future generations.

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The whole party lasted for two hours and ended at midnight.

All staff of the Shangshu Xingtai participated. Hua Xin, who was promoted to Shangshu Lang, walked with his colleagues. On both sides of the road leaving Dongxiang, there stood Qinghua guards holding spears.

There was a campfire every ten or so steps, and people would stop to warm themselves by the fire from time to time.

Wei Ji stopped by the fire and took out the pine nuts he had hidden from his sleeve and handed them to Hua Xin: "Mr. Ziyu, how do you feel?"

"I have long heard that the Grand Marshal is good at entertainment. When he led the army to fight, there were all kinds of games in the army. That is why the officers and soldiers were at ease and did not feel the pain of fighting. Since there is no war this year, we have the opportunity to enjoy this."

While eating pine nuts, Hua Xin took out the dried beef slices hidden in his sleeve pouch and shared them with his colleagues.

Wei Ji held the beef slices and roasted them over the flames. The fat came out and the meat softened. He put them in his mouth and chewed them. Then he asked, "What do you think about drilling through the pillar?"

What does it mean to eat without talking?

This is how you educate your children and subordinates, but it is not important among colleagues or friends, especially after a hearty banquet.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Hua Xin said, "It is very difficult. Throughout the Qin and Han dynasties, everyone wanted to dig through the Dizhu. In my opinion, it will take more than one generation to accomplish this task, exhausting all the manpower and material resources in Guanzhong."

"If we use ordinary means, even one generation won't be enough."

Wei Ji expressed his own judgment. He was from Hedong and knew very well what the Dizhu Project meant.

After a pause, Wei Ji said, "If we use a steam engine to chisel the stone, it will have a miraculous effect."

At this time, a Shangshulang who was in charge of the craftsmanship and related government documents spoke up: "That's right. I saw official documents from Hancheng that showed the merit of using steam engines to draw water from the mine. If it is upstream of the Dizhu, we can install more steam engines to draw water, and then we can dig the roots of the Dizhu during the dry season."

Then he asked: "I wonder how the reconstruction of the Shu Road is going? If it is completed soon, we can also use the manpower from Shu to help dig through the Dizhu in Guanzhong."

They were not interested in rebuilding the Shu Road, they just wanted to quickly dig through the Dizhu and mobilize their fellow villagers to welcome the soldiers from Guanzhong back home.

While they were talking, a carriage stopped nearby, and the Minister of State Pei Mao poked his head out and said, "Get in the carriage."

Everyone didn't even bother to warm themselves by the fire and immediately got into the car.

(End of this chapter)