Han Dao world

Chapter 1222 The Book Without Words
Not long after, two knights came galloping.

They belonged to Yanran's Protectorate, and their scope of inspection originally took Langjuxu Mountain as the east boundary. This time they traveled so far, they even brought clairvoyance, and they came here specially to find Zhou Yu.

Among the news from the Protectorate of the Western Regions, there was a private letter from Jiang Gan to Zhou Yu. Cao Cao, the Protector of Yanran, attached great importance to this matter and specially arranged for rangers to cruise around.They got news from the local tribe that Zhou Yu was coming, so they took the initiative to greet him.

Zhou Yu was overjoyed. After receiving the letter, he invited the two knights to drink and gave some exquisite gifts.

The knight was very satisfied, and besides thanking him again and again, he also mentioned some news that he had just heard from the mansion newspaper.

The Son of Heaven toured the south and went to Changsha. The conquest of Jiaozhou may be accelerated.Everyone is guessing that after Jiaozhou is pacified, the Western Expedition may be put on the agenda, and the Yanran Governor's Mansion may also provide some cavalry.

The most active of these is wolf riding.

The wolves have been sweeping the grassland for several years, and they have almost killed the nearby tribes. The rest either fled or surrendered, tame like lambs.There was no place for the wolf riders to be used, and Lu Bu was too idle to panic. After returning from Nanyang last year, he was talking about going west with the emperor.After hearing that her daughter Lu Xiaohuan had given birth to a prince, this idea became more and more vigorous like grass on the grassland.

Some people said that Lu Bu was born too poorly and had a bad reputation, so it was meaningless to stay in the Central Plains. He would not only have the opportunity to fight with the emperor, but also be with his daughter and grandson. It would not be a problem to become a king in the future.

The Western Region is so big, anything is possible.

Zhou Yu couldn't help but be moved when he heard this.

He has traveled twice in northern Xinjiang, and he knows that the living conditions here are too poor, and the population is even more sparse. For the Central Plains, it will always be a frontier and cannot become the core.It is different in the Western Regions, where there is a large area of ​​land and a household registration that is almost the same as that of a big man.After the conquest, it was a matter of course for the prince and clan to be named king, and the officers and soldiers to be named marquis.

After seeing off the knight, Zhou Yu immediately opened Jiang Gan's letter.

Strictly speaking, although this letter was written by Jiang Gan, most of the opinions in it came from Shen You.

Shen You explained the situation of the Kebineng Department, focusing on the introduction of several nearby large lakes called seas, and believed that the navy is very useful.Ke Bineng neither has this ability nor is he reliable, and the navy can only be dominated by the Han people.The candidate he is most optimistic about is Zhou Yu. He hopes that after Zhou Yu completes the task assigned by the emperor, he will rush to the Western Regions as soon as possible to preside over the preparations for the navy.

After reading the letter, Zhou Yu thought about it for a long time.

From the eagerness of Jiang Gan and Shen You, he could feel that the situation in the Western Regions was very good.Even if the Son of Heaven hadn't set off yet, with the strength of the Protectorate of the Western Regions and Ke Bineng Department alone, he was able to make a name for himself in the Western Regions, so much so that Shen You had enough energy to consider the establishment of a navy.

This is not only an opportunity for the big man, but also an opportunity for Yangzhou people.

Especially considering that Yu Fan presided over the martial arts lecture hall and the emperor visited Jiangnan again.

As the weather gets colder, the center of the Central Plains will move south, and the entire south of the Yangtze River, including most of Yangzhou, will usher in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This may be the consensus of people of insight.

Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou will be the three states that benefit the most.

Jiang Gan and Shen You obviously realized this, that's why they were so eager to send him a message through Yanran's Protectorate.

A gentleman does what he sees, and does not wait until the end of the day.

Early the next morning, while having breakfast, Zhou Yu said to Kong Rong, "Is Duke Kong really in a hurry to return to the Central Plains?"

Kong Rong glanced at Zhou Yu, and instead of answering him in a hurry, he took a sip of wine in an orderly manner. "I heard that someone sent you a message yesterday, may I ask what kind of message it is?"

Zhou Yu took out the letter and pushed it directly in front of Kong Rong.

Kong Rong was taken aback, looked at the letter on the case, then at Zhou Yu, stroked his beard and pondered.

Zhou Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry about it, Duke Kong. It's not a secret, it's just some news from the Western Regions."

Kong Rong thought for a while, then opened the letter and read it.Halfway through, he laughed. "It turns out that you wanted to go to the Western Regions earlier, not for my sake."

"My mission was to find waterways, not the survivors of the Yin and Shang Dynasties." Zhou Yu smiled. "Escorting Duke Kong to the north is not part of my mission. I was entrusted by the elders and had to do it. If Kong Gong is reluctant, he can stop here and don't have to go to the ice and snow to be frozen. Anyway, those people have already survived there. Hundreds of years, not bad for these few years."

Kong Rong took a deep breath and let it out slowly, hesitating.

Zhou Yu said again: "Forgive me, with Kong Gong's current state of mind, even if he meets a real Yin Shang survivor, it may be difficult to achieve anything. Rather than this, it is better to wait for scholars who are interested in this in the future..."

Kong Rong's expression changed. "Boy, do you know what you are talking about?"

Zhou Yu's expression remained unchanged. "of course I know."

Kong Rong stood up and said angrily: "Then tell me, what kind of mentality I am, and why it is difficult to achieve anything."

Zhou Yu stared at Kong Rong for a while, then nodded. "Since Kong Gong is so straightforward, I will open my heart and say a few words of my heart to Kong Gong. If there are any deficiencies, please ask Kong Gong to teach me."

"Hmph!" Kong Rong sneered. "If you can't explain why today, I will go back to the Central Plains in the future, and I will have to ask Zhou Jiamou to clarify."

Zhou Yu waved his hand to signal Kong Rong to take a seat.He picked up his chopsticks, dipped them in some wine, and wrote freely on the case.

"Dong Kong traveled all the way north. He neither intended to understand the language of the local tribes, nor did he have any intention of inquiring about their customs. It was already rare to be able to listen to them tell the legends of the tribe. In my opinion, you probably think that these have no words and no classics. It is impossible for the tribe to have any culture, let alone Yin and Shang classics, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t listen to it.”

"Is not it?"

"Kong Gong, is the enlightenment of the saints only on the bamboo slips? If you think so, I don't think you need to go any further. Because even if there is a Yin Shang suicide note, it must have been hundreds of years ago. Rotten. Have you seen Jianbo from hundreds of years ago?"

Kong Rong's gray brows were tightly frowned, and a trace of uneasiness flashed in his eyes. "According to what you say, isn't the Yin Shang suicide note just empty talk?"

"If you're talking about Jianbo, it's indeed empty talk."

"It's not Jianbo, what else could it be?"

"If there is a Yin Shang posthumous book handed down to the present, it must record the eternal Dao. The Dao is simple, and the people use it every day without knowing it. Naturally, it is the daily necessities of the people. Language, customs, and sacrifices may all be carried. The wordless book of the teachings of the sages cannot be perceived by anyone who has a heart."

Kong Rong sneered. "Then tell me, you caring person, what did you find out?"

Zhou Yu thought about it. "I don't know if Duke Kong noticed it, but most of the tribes we saw along the way had fair skin, golden hair, and blue eyes, and the farther north we go, the whiter the skin, the more golden the hair, and the greener the eyes."

"so what?"

"This shows that they are probably local people who have lived here for thousands of years."

Kong Rong pondered, thoughtful.

"However, some tribes have black hair and black eyes, similar to people from the Central Plains. I asked them, most of these tribes migrated from the Central Plains, and the oldest one was only a hundred years old. After intermarrying with local people, their skin color did not change much. But the hair color and eye color are obviously different from those of the Central Plains people."

Kong Rong understood a little bit. "So, those Yin Shang adherents you saw..."

"They all have black hair and black eyes. There is only one possibility. They are from the Central Plains, and they do not intermarry with foreigners."

(End of this chapter)