Xuande

Chapter 552 Give Civilization Inheritance
One night, some of the people in Luoyang City died down, and some were aroused to fight. At this critical moment when the situation in the world has not yet completely calmed down, a new storm is actually brewing again.

But Liu Bei, who was in the center of the storm, felt a little heartless. After discussing the matter with Jia Xu and Xun You, he lay down and fell asleep. He slept very comfortably from night to day, and woke up early in the morning. Refreshed, then hungry.

Yesterday's banquet had a lot of drinking and little food, and it was too late to eat a few mouthfuls of food. The toasters lined up one after another. Their stomachs were full of wine and they didn't eat anything at all. When he woke up, Liu Bei felt that he was so hungry that he could eat a cow.

Fortunately, there were quite a few people who drank too much last night, and there were also quite a few people who vomited after drinking. The fire fighters were very foresighted. In addition to the hangover soup, there were some more filling staple foods and hard dishes in the morning.

So Liu Bei got half a pot of soup cakes, and half a pot of boiled mutton. He ate soup cakes and mutton at the same time, and his mouth was full of oil.

After eating all the food, Liu Bei patted his stomach, nodded in satisfaction, and then began to arrange for the ceremony of presenting prisoners in the afternoon.

Although Yuan Shao's momentum was relatively strong, Yuan Shu was the son of the Yuan family, with a higher status and a stronger symbolism, so the court cared more about Yuan Shu's capture.

After Yuan Shu was caught, he was tied up by Wuhuada, and a rag was stuffed in his mouth. The way he came to Luoyang was sitting in a prison car and being pulled.

In order to punish him, Liu Bei also arranged for the soldiers to eat meat around him, so that he could smell the meat and see the meat, but he couldn't eat it.

This was a cruel torture for Yuan Shu, who was well-clothed and well-fed since he was a child, and only Liu Bei could think of such a cruel torture.

It is said that when Yuan Shu was asked to drink water, the guards removed the cloth that gagged his mouth, and Yuan Shu looked at the meat and let out a burst of emotion.

"The sky has no eyes!! Will Yuan Gonglu be reduced to this point?"

While sighing with emotion, he swallowed his saliva and stared straight at the roast lamb.

Of course, he didn't eat a bite of mutton until the end, because he was a prisoner and he didn't deserve it. He could only watch the soldiers escorting him eat, but he couldn't eat anything.

Yuan Shu was tortured enough, and when it came to the prisoner offering ceremony, his whole body was already numb.

Under the watchful eyes of the officials, Yuan Shu was sentenced to be torn apart, and more than 300 members of the Yuan clan were sentenced to beheaded, none of them were forgiven.

Until the last moment of their lives, the Yuan clan was still crying and begging for mercy, hoping that the emperor would spare their lives.

But Yuan Shu didn't beg for mercy at first, but just looked numb. It wasn't until ropes were tied around his neck and limbs that Yuan Shu seemed to feel frightened. He begged for mercy loudly while struggling, hoping that the emperor would spare his life.

In fact, it's quite out of character to do it this way, the tone is so high, even the king of Zong killed two of them, it's strange that they can survive.

No one objected to the execution of Yuan Shu, even the guy who drank and danced with Yuan Shu before would not say even a good word for Yuan Shu, they all hoped for his death, wanted to see the famous scene of his limbs spurting blood, and then remembered it for a lifetime .

Liu Bei had no interest in this. When Yuan Shu was wailing and screaming, he closed his eyes. He opened his eyes only when the sound of limbs breaking came, looked at the bloody scene, and shook his head slightly.

No matter how arrogant a person is, after being reduced to a prisoner, he will be very miserable. The higher the status, the worse the death. This seems to be the fate of people in high positions for thousands of years.

It doesn't matter how long the family lasts, it's the same.

In the whole history, it seems that only the old Kong family can last for a long time without being liquidated. No matter how long other families last, in the end, there will inevitably be a generation of unworthy descendants, and then the whole family will perish.

In the end, the secrecy of the door is a handful of loess, 300 years, 400 years, 500 years of arrogance, and in the end, it is still a handful of loess.

Of course, people have enjoyed it for several generations, and it's worth it. Even if they die, the posterity will pay for the ancestors. It's no big deal.

There is only one Kong family and no other branches. No other family should try to copy the legend of the Kong family, and the old Kong family also has the ability!

He has full survival skills, a soft body, and Schrödinger's integrity. He can kneel down to anyone, and he kneels smoothly. It doesn't matter who you are, your origin or race, there is no old Confucius who dare not kneel.

The situation of the old Confucian family has been changing like a mountain for thousands of years, relying on a "I will kneel if you dare to win". In all fairness, is this easy?

That's why Liu Bei found it boring, very boring, because he felt that no matter how shameless a person was, it would be difficult for him to reach the level of the old Kong family.

There are always people who like to tie family and civilization together, thinking that inheriting a family is inheriting civilization, but a civilization that needs to be passed down by a family is so narrow.

It is enough to pass on the civilization, as for the family, it is irrelevant.

However, it is very difficult to pass on civilization. History is the history of civilization and also the history of war. War can destroy all civilizations. Therefore, if you want to preserve civilization in countless wars, you need to survive as much as the old Confucian family. technology technology.

After Yuan Shu's five limbs were separated, Liu Bei was thinking about what to do in order to better pass on civilization when dealing with daily affairs.

According to his limited memory, although the era he lived in had inherited many civilizations, in the process of inheritance, many, many civilization carriers disappeared in the flames of war.

For example, the Luoyang fire at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty that was supposed to happen destroyed too many civilization carriers. For example, the "East View of Han Ji" written by Cai Yong and others, which Liu Bei had read, lost most of its chapters.

For this matter, Liu Bei is not happy. He doesn't like these imprints of civilization being destroyed by barbaric wars, so he wants to preserve all these things and pass them on to future generations, so that future generations can learn more about them. ever happened.

Going forward, there is also the matter of Confucius deleting books and Qin Shihuang's burning of books, which have destroyed many traces of civilization. .

He avoided the Luoyang fire and preserved the ancient city, but he could guarantee that these things would be preserved when he was alive, but he could not guarantee that these things would not be destroyed by some barbarians after his death.

So after thinking about it, he suddenly thought of a way.

He remembered that during the Xiping period, in order to try to quell the dissent between modern and ancient Chinese, Liu Hong once ordered Cai Yong and others to engrave the Five Classics family law on a stone tablet and make it public.

Although it failed to quell the debates between modern and ancient prose and the disputes within the modern and ancient literature schools, the Xiping stele has survived to modern times due to its excellent material.

Liu Bei felt that if he recruited a large number of masons with his own power, spent some manpower and material resources to carve some important official rare books into stone tablets, and then processed them and buried them deep in the ground, he might be able to survive the ever-changing data. In the long history of thousands of years, these precious solitary copies that cannot exist in future generations have been preserved, leaving the imprint of civilization on future generations.

In this way, when future generations discover this wealth of civilization, they will be very happy.

He felt that it should be very meaningful to do so.

Just do what you say, when others are busy with intrigue and scheming, Liu Bei issued an order from the General's Mansion to recruit skilled stonemasons in Luoyang, give them relatively favorable treatment, and sign a long-term employment contract.

Then, Liu Bei went to Dongguan in person, found the person in charge of the royal collection, explained his purpose, and said that he wanted to engrave all the royal collection on the stone tablet, so he needed to borrow these lonely copies from time to time.

The officials in Dongguan were very puzzled by Liu Bei's behavior, but they would not embarrass Liu Bei in such a matter.

There are no books in the big man that Liu Bei can't borrow or read, and even if he borrows them and doesn't return them, it doesn't matter.

Throughout October, apart from preparing the army for war, Liu Bei was tossing about these things.

He specially built a yard outside Luoyang City for the stonemasons to live in, collected high-quality stone materials for them, asked them to carve isolated books on the stone tablets, and from time to time even went to personally inspect their work.

Then there is site selection, choosing a suitable place where these steles can be buried, and preserving all the imprints of these civilizations for future generations to discover.

As the great general of the current dynasty, Liu Bei's words and deeds are in the eyes of countless people, and his words and deeds will be infinitely magnified and interpreted in various ways, but no one knows what Liu Bei's purpose is for this matter.

What does it mean to find a group of masons to carve books on stone tablets?
Is it going to resume the Xiping Stone Book?
Is it related to the dispute between modern and ancient Chinese?

At the beginning, some people were nervous and asked about Liu Bei's purpose for doing this, but soon they learned that Liu Bei didn't deliberately target certain books, but all the books he could get were engraved, and even some books were carved. Miscellaneous books are all engraved correctly.

Is there any need to engrave those idle books?
This confuses some people.

(End of this chapter)