Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 486 Journey to the West ([-])
another six months later

Spring of the second year of Duke Yan 240 (452)
Jiangzhou
Chaisang City

It used to be the place where Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, raised his troops, and the land of Longxing in Soochow, and now it is the governing place of Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou was separated from Yangzhou, roughly equivalent to today's Jiangxi Province + Fujian Province.

Chaisang City is relatively close to today's Jiujiang City, and it is also a strategically important area.

The new governor of Jiangzhou is named Liu Jun, the third son of Emperor Liu Yilong. He also has a stunning six-year-old daughter named Liu Chuyu.

Xu Xiake stayed in Jiankang for more than two months, and then wandered around in the Sanwu area, and traveled in East Yangzhou (northern Zhejiang), and saw the traces left by the pirate king Sun En when he ran across Kuaiji County, and even Up to the current Liu Song dynasty, there are still many pirates active in the Zhoushan Islands, but these pirates are weak and have no ability to corrupt several counties like Sun En. At most, they rob a certain noble manor on land.

In the past few months, Xu Xiake has gradually gotten to know some of Liu Song's descendants, and he has become famous because of this. Many Liu Song dignitaries know that a noble descendant from Yan State is traveling the world, and now he has traveled to their Song Dynasty. country.

During this period, a generous and well-known son of an aristocratic family killed the beautiful maid in the mansion and made a meal for him, but he declined.

The son of this aristocratic family has a very good reputation because he often entertains guests with the maids in the house and is very generous. Everyone praises him for being informal, humble and courteous, and he is a genius who can accomplish great things.

As for the life and death of those maids, it doesn't really matter. After all, in the eyes of the rich and powerful, maids are just talking animals, belonging to the best animals among livestock. Killing maids to entertain guests is actually the same as killing pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep to entertain guests. The difference is that when a person kills his own livestock to entertain guests, others will only appreciate the generosity of this person, but will not think that this person is too cruel to kill livestock.

Who gave future generations the illusion that maids in this period had human rights?

Livestock is their true status. Slaughtering livestock to entertain guests is not only not cruel, but also very benevolent and humble. It is a gentleman's behavior that does not care about property loss, and it is a noble character that must be recognized and appreciated by children of other aristocratic families.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the moral concepts of the Central Plains have gradually collapsed, and no new moral concepts have been re-established until now.

The old moral concepts were destroyed during the war, and the new moral concepts would have to wait for more than a hundred years to be slowly established. At this time when the old and new morals alternated, many insane things happened.

It is also at this time when the old and new Confucian moral concepts alternate, Taoist metaphysics and body poison Buddhism can take advantage of the void and occupy people's hearts.

People always have three views. If the three views established by Confucianism collapse, metaphysics and Buddhism will naturally replace them.

There is no vacuum in power, and the same is true for thought. When Confucianism cannot occupy the position of public opinion, metaphysics and Buddhism will naturally occupy it.

Come to Chaisang City, which is far less prosperous than Jiankang City. There is only one brothel in the whole Chaisang City, and the scale of the market is not large. The main commodities are cloth, mage, mulberry leaves, and silkworm babies.

In this society where men farm and women weave, weaving is a relatively large source of income. Men work in the fields and women weave at home. When it is sold in the market, there will be merchants who will buy it uniformly, and then these merchants will carry out dyeing and other processing, and finally sell it to the dignitaries.

Because it is not near the sea and has relatively little contact with Yan, the people here use Song Wuzhu. Most people have never seen what Yan Wuzhu looks like in their entire lives.

Moreover, it is a little farther away from Jiangzuo, so Gangchang Ethics is preserved more, and there are not as many strange things as Jiankang City.

At this time, an army entered the city. Although the leading general was handsome, his nose was rosacea, that is, the nostrils were thick and the pores were thick and black, which detracted from his handsome appearance a lot.

In the army, countless heads were pulled by carriages.

"What is this?" Xu Xiake stood on both sides of the road with the people of Chaisang City, and asked an old man next to him.

"That's Governor Liu who came back from exterminating bandits." The old man replied, this is not the first time this happened, so he asked Xu Xiake again: "Listen to your accent, aren't you from Chaisang?"

"I come from the north." Xu Xiake replied.

"Oh." The old man didn't continue to ask more questions. He came from the north, so he should have escaped from the northern front.

Inspector Liu is referring to Liu Jun, the governor of Jiangzhou.

For more than a year, because of the failure of the imperial court's Northern Expedition and the loss of soldiers and generals, some aborigines in Jiangzhou began to take the opportunity to rebel.

These Jiangzhou aborigines were called Shanyue and Danyang at the end of the Han Dynasty. They had a relatively deep Sinicization and intermarried with the Han people for generations, but they did not obey the orders of the Han Chinese court, nor did they obediently obey the corvee military service.

Some Han people who could not bear exorbitant taxes would be deemed barbarians by the court after fleeing into the mountains.

After Liu Jun took office as governor of Jiangzhou, he chose to strike hard. He believed that he must hit the rebels hard and send them all to heaven.

Therefore, every once in a while, he will lead the army to conquer these so-called "barbarians" in person, and to kill them, the sword must be overfire, the grass must be overspear, and the people must be changed. These are the basic operations. How Liu Jun slaughtered the people of Song Dynasty, how Liu Jun slaughtered these troublesome people in the mountains.

In this era, no one is nobler than anyone else. It is nothing more than the law of the jungle, unable to defeat the Wei State, so he was slaughtered by the Wei State, and finally pointed the butcher knife at the weaker ones, doing the same thing as the Wei State.

Xu Xiake wandered around Jiangzhou for more than a month, saw a lot of local customs, learned a lot of local folk customs that he didn't know before, and heard a lot of local folk ghost stories and myths and legends. After recording these, he originally planned to Continue west to Yingzhou.

Yingzhou was separated from Jingzhou, roughly Jiangxia County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and also one of the capitals of Chu State.

From Yingzhou to the west to the north of Dongting Lake is Yunmengze, where there are swamps all over the place, but with Yiguan’s southward crossing, many of these swamps disappeared, and the area is not as large as that in the late Han Dynasty. Some Yunmengze The swamps were reclaimed and turned into arable land by the northerners who moved from the south.

There are some legends about wizards from Chu State, so Xu Xiake wanted to find out.

However, his little fame eventually reached the ears of Jiangzhou Governor Liu Jun and Liu Chuyu's father and daughter.

His daughter Liu Chuyu likes to read those story books of Yan State very much, and now she heard that a descendant of a nobleman from Yan State has traveled to Chaisang City, so she asked her to summon Xu Xiake.

The little girl wants to learn more about the real Yan Kingdom, the country of her dreams, from a real Yan Country population.

(End of this chapter)