Chapter 52: Science and Childbirth
After arranging the old butler who was happy to go to rest, Yun Zheng sat in the study and continued to look at the map. There was a reason why Changshan Island was chosen to be the base of the Yun family.
Some reasons cannot be told to others, or even to Yun Er. The reasons he said were a bit reluctant, and Yun Er also saw that it was just that he always respected his elder brother, so he did not object.
Yun Zheng never thought of putting the Yun family outside the Han family. If he chose a location in Taiwan or Hainan Island, if he really took over the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, he would agree to it, because as long as he took the whole family along the sea, he would basically eliminate the path of powerful ministers. This is a result that the people of Song Dynasty were willing to see.
Once you are granted a king, you will have to break the soil. This is something that will inevitably happen... Once you are granted a king, the path of a minister will reach its peak. If you are already seventy-eighty, it is not uncommon to be a king. But now I am still in my youth. Once you are granted a king, you will be attracted by everyone's attention. If you want to live happily in the second half of your life, you will either rebel or go to sea.
Speaking of which, the day when Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures was regained was when he was away from the mainland... Perhaps it was the beginning of his own self-exile.
Yun Zheng didn't care about exile. For him, there was no place in the territory of the Song Dynasty that belonged to him. No matter where he went, it would be a new beginning.
Yun Er did not agree with the Song Dynasty, but after years of struggle, Yun Zheng has slowly integrated into this country that made him laugh and made him cry.
It was not the emperor lying on the bed that involved his body and mind, but the person who lived on this land alive.
After thinking for a long time, Yun Zheng sighed, rolled up the map and put it into Wenhai. When he turned around, he found that Lu Qingying had been sitting on the chair behind him for a long time.
"If your troubles come from us, you don't have to. You are the towering tree in our house. We are the vines hanging on the big tree. No matter where you are going, we can only follow you. Without your support, we can only lie on the ground."
"Yun Er has told you? I originally planned to tell you after I thought it through. Yun Er and I were actually two passers-by in a hurry to the Song Dynasty. When the meteors shine, they will silence. Changshan Island is a good place. Only when the Yun family arrives there can you truly live for yourself."
Lu Qingying smiled and said, "The world's general trend is nothing more than the word "separation and combination". After the prosperity is dispersed, it will eventually return to ordinary things. How many people who live like firecrackers in their lives can have a good ending?
Husband, you are a wise man in the world and are well versed in the way of advance and retreat. Since you said this is no longer suitable for us to survive, we will leave with you.
I had a conversation with the old housekeeper of the Shi family for a while and came to a conclusion that there were no aristocratic families in the Song Dynasty. What civil officials hated the most was the formation of aristocratic families. They would not be willing to defeat the aristocratic families. I heard that there is a middle-aged Confucian scholar in the capital who is teaching, and everyone calls him Mr. Hengqu.
I heard that when he was the magistrate of Yunyan County, he was serious in his work. He strictly ordered the government and took the first step in handling political affairs, and promoted moral governance. He attached importance to moral education and advocated the social trend of respecting the elderly and loving the young.
On the first day of every month, the elderly in the village gather at the county government office. They set up wine, food and entertainment, and asked about the sufferings of the people during the meal, and put forward the principles and requirements for admonishing their children. The regulations and notices of the county government offices are always summoned to the villagers. They repeatedly reminded the people who came to the meeting to tell the villagers. Therefore, the teachings he issued were not unknown even to the illiterate people and children.
He also said that Gan was called his father and Kun’s mother, so I despise him, and then he was in a mess. Therefore, the heaven and earth block our body, the heaven and earth command our nature, the people, the people, and the things are with us.
The great king is my parents and sons; the ministers are the ministers and sons of the family. Respecting high ages makes them grow up, kindness is the orphans and young, so they are young, and sages and are virtuous and beautiful. All the world is tired, disabled, and lonely, widowed and widowed are all the confusion of my brothers and their widows and widows and widows. "Protect them at the time" is the wings of my son. "Happy and not worry", which is purely filial. Violations are called contrary morality, harming benevolence is called thieves, and those who help evil are not talented, and those who practice their bodies are only vivid.
The above words were praised by Cai Feng, Wen Yanbo, Ouyang Xiu, and Sima Junshi, who believed that this was the way of human ethics.
Empress Cao also said that this theory can be called "Guanxue" and invited Zhang Zai to the palace to give lectures to the prince. I have read Zhang Zai's remarks and works, and some opinions coincide with your ideas, but you are vague in terms of the views of heaven, earth, kingdom, parents and teachers. He is clear, and these are precisely the most important ones."
Yun Zheng laughed and said, "My wife is indeed the pearl of Shu. Zhang Zai's theory lies in order between the elders and the younger generation, and the difference between the upper and lower classes. It is a matter of making arrangements for everyone. Since his theory has been recognized by most people, I, Yun Zheng, had to escape. If you say I run away, will people say that I am a brave man? I don't even dare to defend myself?"
Lu Qingying smiled and said, "Will you go to defend yourself?"
Yun Zheng shook his head and said, "No!"
"Why? My husband is also a talented person, why don't he establish his own doctrine?"
Yun Zheng gritted his teeth and said, "I think having a few more children is a serious matter."
Lu Qingying suddenly burst into laughter, hugging Yun Zheng's neck, laughing so hard that she was almost breathless. When his laughter stopped, she immediately said: "You are the husband who is the most popular among women. At least Zhang Hengqu can't say such interesting words. I thought about it carefully and found that having a famous Neo-Confucianism husband is indeed a very boring thing.
It’s never been in vain to live with you.”
"You mean your husband is as stupid as possible?"
"That's what you mean, you also said that it's best to get a wife home and you're going to be stupid. I think so too. It's better for my husband to be honest."
Yun Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "We are already two fools in Tokyo. We don't have to pretend that we all know. Zhang Hengqu will do whatever he wants. Even if we are satisfied with the Confucius Temple in the future, it has nothing to do with us. After regaining Yanyun, your husband will take this official to the limit, and then we will go fishing on the Bohai Sea and be pirates."
Lu Qingying smiled and said, "Actually, you are going to fish on the sea now and become a pirate. With the ability of you and your second uncle, you should not waste the power of unifying the seventy-two islands of the Bohai Sea. Then our family will build a palace on the island. Can Zhao Zhen still go to Changshan Island to punish you for your sins?"
Yun Zheng laughed and said, "This is inappropriate. If I didn't go to Lingnan in my early years, I could have taken Jiaziying to pacify 72 islands. People would not cherish what is too easy to get. We must deliberately set some difficulty for ourselves to feel happy."
Of course, the words in the boudoir between the couple cannot be spoken to outsiders, so one morning Yun Zheng took his son and daughter to the mulberry forest to pick mulberries. The mulberries in Dousha Village were ripe, and purple-red hanged all over the woods.
When Yun Zheng came to Dousha Village, the first food he ate was a handful of mulberries given by the mulberry girl. The sour and sweet taste of it can’t be forgotten until now.
Most of the mulberry trees in Chengdu are very short, so it is easier to pick mulberry leaves. The mulberry trees in Dousha Pass grow very tall, and some trees can't be hugged. The mulberry picking girl who climbs the tree barefoot is flexible on the tree like a monkey, which makes Yun Luoluo, Yun Qianqian and Yun Ting envious.
In Dousha Village, the Marquis is not worth much. Any old farmer can call the Marquis to come and do some farm work for his family. This is how everyone lived without being a Marquis. Now, everyone still lives like this when they are a Marquis. It was fresh for a few days at the beginning, but later they basically ignored the title of Marquis, especially when they heard the old patriarch say that the Marquis was disobedient and beaten with a broom, everyone's eyes disappeared from the marquis's eyes. After all, the biggest one in the village was the old patriarch.
When Yun Zheng was climbing the tree to pick mulberries, the three babies looked up under Ge Qiuyan's care and watched their father be busy. Yun Zheng did not allow Ge Qiuyan to climb the tree. This ghost woman didn't know what strange things had been learned in Wei Ming's village. Before the weather got hot, she started to wear underwear. She had two bare legs under her skirt. After being scolded by Lu Qingying, she still refused to change.
The old patriarch has gone out under the mulberry tree several times and is very busy. Now the old man is not only busy tearing the fields and villages with the government after the sacred people left, but also commands the yamen runners in Dousha County to use the borrowed eight-ox crossbow to wrap the simple crossbow arrows with tiny oil and burn all the hanging coffins on the cliff.
This time, the successful expulsion of the sacred people made the prestige of the old patriarch grow rapidly in the villages. Not to mention anything else, the familiar land left by the sacred people is enough for everyone to share for a while. There is too little land in Dousha County, so there is always not enough.
Yun Er came back from outside with Qin and saw his elder brother climbing a tree. When he saw his elder brother climbing a tree, he immediately leaped on the mulberry tree from the horse's back. The three children who were flying across the branches applauded the second uncle, staring at the beautiful and thrilling uncle. As for the father who was lying on the trunk like a bear, they had long forgotten.
Yun Er picked a full basket and sent it down after a while, then jumped to the tree and said to the elder brother who was eating mulberries: "Brother, the Shi family agreed to send three big ships to me for use, but their family has no intention of selling the ship. It seems that they just want to rely on our family."
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "Life and death on the sea are tied to the ship. How can you hand over the lifeline to others? Even those who can trust it cannot be. Only with your own ship is safe. The rudder of the sea ship sailing across the South China Sea is more than ten feet long, carrying hundreds of people in a boat, accumulating food for a year, and can raise pigs and make wine on the ship.
Such ships are called ships. Sea ships with a load capacity of less than 15,000 dan cannot be called real sea ships. Ming, Wen, Tai, Wu and other prefectures in Liangzhe, Qian, Jizhou in Jiangxi, Tan, Ding and other prefectures in Jinghu, and Xigu in Fengxiangfu in Shaanxi, have all become the centers of the shipbuilding industry. The army of the four coastal prefectures in Fujian produces sea ships, and the quality of sea ships ranks first in the country. There are also special places for repairing ships on both sides of the Yangtze River. Last year, the entire Song Dynasty built a total of 2,916 ships, including more than 1,000 ships on Qianzhou and Jizhou on Jiangxi Road. Did the Shi family think that our family could not find a place to build a good ship?" (To be continued)
ps: Chapter 2
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Chapter completed!