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

Chapter 487 Journey to the West ([-])
Governor's Mansion

"Mr. Xu, can you tell me the story of those female ancestors in Yan Kingdom?"

Liu Chuyu, a six-year-old girl, looked at Xu Xiake curiously. She had heard it said a long time ago that there had been many generations of female monarchs in Yan Kingdom, and some of them were still famous in history.

Women don't give way to men, women may not be inferior to men, what men can do, women can't do?
According to the version of Yan State's foreign history books, Xu Xiake told the little girl the stories of the female ancestors of Yan State.

But the little girl is not interested in the female ancestor's conquests and wars, but only pays attention to the matter of the female ancestor's acceptance of male favors.

"Can women have so many men? I thought that in this world, only men can have many women, and women can only be owned by men. It turns out that my knowledge is shallow."

Liu Chuyu seemed to be looking forward to such a thing, her eyes were full of envy.

Xu Xiake didn't continue talking on this topic, so as not to spoil the children. In that case, Governor Liu might be angry.

Although the Yan people are used to the fact that women can have male pets, it is still too lewd for Zhongyuan.

This is different from the power structure. Women in the Central Plains are essentially the property of men. Even noble women are only the property of noble men. If the property is in turn owned by the owner, this will naturally subvert their three views.

In the King Yan's family, both men and women are of the blood of their ancestors, they are all parliamentary nobles, and they have hereditary quotas. Naturally, nobles cannot own another noble. Beheaded in public.

Of course, the equality of men and women in Yan Kingdom is limited to the nobles of the parliament, because the nobles of the parliament have hereditary quotas, so they are forced to be equal to men and women, otherwise it will trigger a civil war among the nobles, but ordinary people of Yan Kingdom, they do not have any hereditary quotas, so they are naturally the same as the Central Plains , but the property of men of the same class.

However, due to the influence of monogamy and the same property, the status of women in Yan State is slightly better than that in Central Plains.

Strictly speaking, the equality of men and women among the nobles of the Yan Kingdom is not gender equality, but the hereditary power equality derived from the hereditary system of parliamentary nobility.

You have a hereditary quota, and I also have a hereditary quota, so naturally there is no need to be inferior to you.

However, even many Yan people don't understand these things. Most Yan people themselves don't understand the system structure of their own country, and the Central Plains people don't understand it even more.

(To be honest, we are now in the information society, and most people still don’t understand the operation of their country’s power structure. In ancient times when information was not smooth, the common people probably didn’t understand what their country’s power structure was like. .)
So Xu Xiake couldn't explain to Liu Chuyu, should you tell her that unless your princess of the Central Plains has a legal hereditary right to inherit the nobility, and there is a permanent fixed quota, it is impossible to succeed in imitating the Yan Kingdom.

After some exchanges, Xu Xiake became Liu Jun's temporary guest and taught Liu Chuyu for a month.

Originally, Liu Jun wanted Xu Xiake to stay by his side to teach his daughter, but Xu Xiake devoted himself to traveling around the world and didn't want to be a tutor for a little girl all his life.

"Human life is limited. I want to travel to more places with my limited life, so I can't stay in Jiangzhou for long."

During this month, Liu Chuyu became more curious about Yan, and felt more and more that Liu Song did not have enough freedom.

And the northern Central Plains also came with great news, that is, Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao was assassinated by Zhongchang Shi Zongai, and Wu King Tuobayu was proclaimed emperor.

Due to the assassination of Tuoba Tao, the state of Wei was in turmoil. Liu Yilong, the emperor of Liu Song, was overjoyed and ordered to prepare for the Northern Expedition, taking advantage of the internal turmoil in Wei to recover the Central Plains.

At this time, Xu Xiake was about to leave Chaisang City on a brown horse under Liu Chuyu's reluctant eyes.

"Teacher, will you come back again?" The little girl Liu Chuyu pulled Xu Xiake's sleeve, her eyes were full of reluctance.

"Yes." Xu Xiake stroked the girl's head and smiled gently at her: "When I arrive at Rome, the place in the far west described in "Long Night Journey to the Western Regions", I will naturally return to the Central Plains. By then, it may already be Ten or 20 years later, I hope that as a teacher, I will have the honor to attend your wedding with your sweetheart, and watch my student marry her sweetheart with my own eyes."

After leaving Jiangzhou, Xu Xiake first came to Yingzhou according to the previous plan, and searched for the traces left by the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. He heard the story of Qu Yuan's throwing himself into the river and the myth of the god of Yunmengze. , such as Donghuang Taiyi, Di Jun, Da Siming, Shao Siming, etc. These myths have been circulated for a long time, but only the local version is more authentic.

After that, Xu Xiake came to Dongting Lake again and wrote a poem for the beautiful scenery here.

Later, he went south along the Xiangshui River and came to Wuling County. He visited the thatched cottage where Tao Yuanming lived in seclusion, and saw the original version of "Peach Blossom Spring" on a local stone tablet. Xu Xiake copied the original version of "Peach Blossom Spring" into into his own "Journey to the West".

After that, they went upstream along the river, and first came to Yiling. Even now, they can still see some traces of Lu Xun's burning of Yiling.

Then came to Baidi City, standing on a pavilion in Baidi City, Xu Xiake seemed to have seen the scene when Liu Bei was alone, and Zhuge Kongming devoted all his life to fighting for the gracious monarch. In the eyes.

Continuing to walk westward, when we arrived in Chengdu, we saw the dilapidated city wall, perhaps because Yizhou was safe enough, so there was no need to waste manpower to repair the city wall.

There are some temples of Zhuge Kongming in Chengdu. Xu Xiake came to visit, wrote a poem for Zhuge Kongming, and then began to wonder where to go.

There are two roads before Xu Xiake, the first road is also the most mainstream road, that is to enter the Guanzhong area of ​​Wei State first, then enter the Western Regions along the ancient Hexi Silk Road, and finally head west all the way to Rome.

The second road is the "Tea Horse Ancient Road" discovered during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and investigated during the period of Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han Dynasty. It goes all the way to the southwest, and you can enter the legendary Shendu, then enter Guishuang from Shendu, and finally go all the way from Guishuang to Guishuang. West, can also reach Rome.

The second road is full of miasma, and there are many cannibal tribes along the way, and the forest is densely covered, it is very easy to get lost, there are many earthquakes, and there is no way to go back after getting lost, so few people venture to take this road.

I heard that there was a General Huwei in the Han Dynasty who completely lost track of him after he entered the Southwest Yi area. No one in the Central Plains knew what happened to this General Huwei.

However, Xu Xiake did not take the usual route. He neither took the Hexi Silk Road nor the dangerous ancient tea-horse road in the southwest.

The straight line between two points is the shortest. Whether you are taking the Hexi Silk Road or the Southwest Tea-Horse Road, you will inevitably need to detour. Only walking on the snow-covered plateau is the shortest distance.

(End of this chapter)