Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 415
With the arrival of the new year, the Central Plains is full of celebrations.

Today is the first court meeting after the new year. After Luo Youdu led all the officials to sacrifice to the ancestral temple, he made a summary of last year's government affairs and began to make a plan for the new year.

Speaking of the annual plan, generally speaking, the discussion mainly revolves around the development of the Guanzhong, Longyou, and Liangzhou areas.

The war in the northwest has come to an end with the compromise of the Uighurs in Ganzhou.

In order to make atonement, Jing Qiong donated a lot of good horses, beautiful jade, amber and martens, and at the same time sent her son to study in Beijing.

This so-called learning is equivalent to being a hostage.

The situation in the west is similar to what Luo Youdu expected.

There are very few pure Han people in Hehuang and Liangzhou, and the city is full of Tibetans, Huihe people, Qiang people, Turkic people and even Tiele people...

They, who are accustomed to nomadic life, have a strong resistance when they learn that they want to change from animal husbandry to farming.

Especially the patriarchs of small tribes or those with status in the tribe who feel that the distribution is uneven, secretly provoking rebellious emotions.

The implementation and promotion of the policy encountered difficulties from the very beginning.

In this regard, Li Chuyun, Li Qianpu, Song Xiong, Lu Duan, Li Fang and others were not sure of Luo Youdu's bottom line at the beginning, and they could not grasp the strength.

But following Luo Youdu's sentence "everything is based on the interests of Zhu Xia", several people instantly understood.

Luo Youdu's bottom line is that there is no bottom line.

As long as it hinders the interests of the imperial court, hinders the implementation of policies, and the unification of China, even the Han people will be killed without mistake.

Not to mention the Tubo people, Huihe people, Qiang people, and Turkic people?

Luo Youdu knows that this situation cannot be delayed, the more it is delayed, the greater the impact will be, and the more dissatisfied and dissatisfied.Then it spread like a weed.

On the contrary, you cut through the mess with a sharp knife, and directly take advantage of the plight of convincing to get rid of those discordant sounds.

On the contrary, the risk of the situation can be minimized.

At this time, the military power in the hands of Li Chuyun, Li Qianpu, and Murong Yanzhao came into play.

With tough means, a group of people who disobeyed the control were suppressed, showing a tough attitude.

Li Chuyun, Li Qianpu, Song Xiong, Lu Duan, Li Fang and others also began to appease and govern the local area.

Among them, Luo Youdu is most satisfied with Lu Duan, who is gentle in manner but extremely ruthless in methods.

As the governor of Hezhou, after he took office, he implemented a series of benevolent policies.

It's just this kind of benevolent government, some people don't buy it.

Lu Duan generously invited the troublemakers to the government office for a banquet to negotiate.

Perhaps it was his benevolence, righteousness and generosity before that made the rioters look down on them, and only brought a few people to the banquet.

There was a disagreement between the three sentences, and Lu Duan directly drew a knife at the banquet and killed the leader of the opponent in front of the hall, and at the same time ordered people to hang his head on the tower.

The scholars of this period did not form a high-ranking group of scholar-bureaucrats, and they still had a bit of blood.

Lu Duan handled Enwei very well, and clearly told the people in the territory that if they want to get the same treatment as the Han people, the premise is to live a down-to-earth life like the Han people, which is the most basic requirement.

Now the common people in the west have generally stabilized, and they are beginning to divert canals to open up wasteland.

When the court meeting was about to end, Wang Pu suddenly said: "I propose to extend the time for celebrating the Shangyuan Festival, but the Shangyuan Festival is too short for the subjects to have fun."

Luo Youdu glanced at Wang Pu unexpectedly, and felt a small sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Feel full and warm.

Only when you are truly worry-free in your life will you be able to have fun and relax.

This Lantern Festival is a day of national celebration. In ancient times, Lantern Festival was better than Spring Festival.

Last year's Lantern Festival had already revealed its clues.

The people in the city are far from enjoying themselves.

As the leader of Qingliu, Wang Pu came forward to ask for an extension of the Shangyuan Festival celebration, which is enough to show that he is still qualified as an emperor.

"Sure!" Luo Youdu laughed and said, "The celebration of the Shangyuan Festival will be changed to three days, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth, three days of celebration."

He thought for a while, the people have been tired for a whole year, why not make some tricks to let them have fun, liven up the excitement, let them indulge, have hope, and said: "In my later years, during the Lantern Festival, the city will be filled with fiery trees and silver flowers, which is very exciting." Bustling and bustling. Beauty is beautiful, but it lacks some fun. When I was a child, I really liked Shefu, so why not stick a note on the lantern and write Shefu for entertainment."

The so-called Shefu is guessing riddles, Shefu means guessing, and covering means covering, covering guessing with the true meaning, so it is called Shefu.

Therefore, guessing lantern riddles was also called Wenhu and Dahu at first.

However, Shefu is an extremely difficult word game of cryptic words and thin words. It originated from "Book of Changes and Eight Diagrams". According to the images, numbers, and principles of the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes, a specific thing can be deduced from infinite possible things.

Without a certain literary background, you can't play at all.

Therefore, Luo Youdu went on to say: "This Shefu is too complicated. What I want is to have fun with the people, not to compare literary talents. It is not called 'Shefu', it is straightforward, and it is called guessing lantern riddles. The test is not knowledge, but flexibility. .”

This real lantern riddle appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. When Luo Youdu said it at this moment, all officials thought it was novel, but they still had a lot of puzzles.

The Shangyuan Festival is not only for the common people to have fun, but also for the officials.

However, most of the officials played very rudely, distributing bonuses, expressing the joy with the people.

There are too few projects that can have fun in this era, and they can only participate in this rude way.

Several prime ministers, Song Qi, followed Luo Youdu the longest, and also recognized his whimsical ideas the most, hurriedly said: "Please show me, Your Majesty!"

Luo Youdu laughed and said, "The simplest example is a hook on the face and a fan on the corner of the head. Four thick pillars and a small braid. Guess an animal..."

Lu Duoxun was well-informed and immediately asked, "Is this an elephant?"

"Correct!" Luo Youdu continued: "Don't use villains, guess a herbal medicine."

"To make a gentleman?"

The one who answered was Song Qi, who was proficient in medicine and was a Confucian doctor in his early years.

Luo Youdu nodded and said: "Ancient prose is the only way to know, guess a word!"

Wang Pu immediately gave the answer: "So!"

Luo Youdu glanced at the dizzy military official, and said: "Sitting is also standing, standing is also standing, walking is also standing, lying is also standing, guess an animal!"

Shi Shouxin immediately shouted: "I know, I know, it's a horse!"

Looking at the guy who looked like a child, Luo Youdu smiled slightly, thought about it, and came up with a few more difficulties.

Everyone can shoot, but there is still a certain difference between guessing and shooting.

Shooting is more a test of cultural skills, while guessing is rich in content, diverse in form, and changeable, and it tests the logic of experience, knowledge and thinking.

As soon as it was said that it was rare, it immediately stumped a group of people.

It's like "born on a cliff, fell on someone else's house, poured cold water on his back, hacked into pieces, and beat what he needs for a day."

None of the learned civil servants in the Manchu Dynasty could guess it.

In the end, Chang Side, who came from a poor background, gave the answer, the whetstone.

This answer can't be found, so it's hard to guess. Once the answer is said, there is a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

A good court meeting unexpectedly turned into a guessing meeting.

Luo Youdu said: "When the time comes, I will order the palace people to make some lanterns, and I will come up with some riddles to have fun with the people. Take them and let the people in the city guess, and there will be prizes for the guesses. Remember, don't say that I made them, lest Cause turmoil, let's talk about it later..."

As he said, he didn't forget that there were still conquest soldiers on the front line, so he asked people to send lanterns to the military camp at Dongting Lake to add to the festive atmosphere.

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