Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 879 Letters from afar
The damp hair on the back of Mi Zhen's neck was tangled together, as if the world was chaotic and uninvited. Yuan Xi took his arm away from the panting Mi Zhen and whispered to her: "You should sleep a little longer first."

Mi Zhen nodded weakly, Yuan Xi tucked her in with a quilt, stood up and put on her clothes, then put on her clogs and walked downstairs.

Although he had been wearing these clogs for many years, he still couldn't get used to them. The soles were too hard and it hurt his feet. The only advantage was that they had teeth underneath, so he could walk on muddy ground without getting his feet wet.

He couldn't help but lament that his body was a bit pampered. Most of Youzhou's elite soldiers were from hunting and farming backgrounds, and the soles of their feet were covered with thick calluses. They could walk dozens of miles a day wearing straw sandals. If it were him, he would have lost his entire foot. .

After leaving the small building, it was ten o'clock in the afternoon. Yuan Xi walked towards the courtyard. After many years of fighting, his ears had become more alert and alert, and he could gradually hear subtle sounds in the distance. This time he came out just to listen. The carriage carrying information has arrived.

To be honest, Yuan Xi also suffered from some sleep problems that Lu Lingqi had. This was also a common problem among generals who marched and fought all year round. It was mostly caused by extreme nervousness and excessive worry.

As a commander of an army, when camping at night during a war, even if he falls asleep, he is always on precarious alert. All the noises around him that should be ignored by the ears are collected into his ears and processed through the brain to determine whether they are harmful to him. threaten.

This kind of animal-like vigilance can certainly allow people to respond in the shortest possible time, but the corresponding price is insomnia and anxiety.

For the coach, sleep is very precious. Yuan Xi guessed that Cao Cao, who personally led the troops, probably also had this problem. Therefore, when his sleep was disturbed in later generations, he would violently kill people. However, this approach was quite extreme. That’s it.

Yuan Xi's symptoms are not that serious, and Yuan Xi has her own way of relieving tension, which is to be a woman. After all, this kind of precarious military life is really torturous.

"As the woman she knows best, you can guess it, not to mention me. She thought she was hiding it well."

Mrs. Du hurriedly followed upstairs. Yuan Xi first put the bamboo slips on the table, then turned to Mrs. Du and said, "Is Mrs. Lu hiding something from me now?"

"Is she secretly training dead soldiers?"

He entered the building holding the bamboo slips, and the sound of stumbling and staring alerted Mrs. Du. She came out and said, "My husband is here?"

Mrs. Du quickly knelt down and said, "I didn't mean to hide anything from my husband. Mrs. Lu did not tell me, I just guessed it."

Yuan Xi pulled her up and said, "I'm not blaming you, this matter has nothing to do with you."

He heard that there was no voice from Lu Lingqi upstairs and said, "Mrs. Lu went out again?"

A maidservant stood up quickly. Yuan Xi shook his head and motioned for her to continue taking care of the child. Then he turned around and left the house and walked to the third floor.

Yuan Xi nodded and said, "Where is the child?"

After hearing this, Yuan Xi left her clogs outside the house, and the two of them entered the house one after another and went upstairs. Yuan Xi went to Mrs. Du's room first and saw the baby sleeping soundly on the bed inside, with a round smiling face that was white and rosy, which was really cute.

Yuan Xi sneered and said: "She is such a straight-laced person, it is too difficult to hide things. I tried a few words, and her expression immediately revealed the flaw."

Yuan Xi looked back at Mi Zhen's small building, thought for a while, turned around and walked to another small building. Even though Mrs. Du married him, she still lived on the second floor at Lu Lingqi's insistence. Yuan Xi thought to herself that Lu Lingqi was really a bad person. Is it so fun to listen to the corner?

Yuan Xi often wonders whether Cao Cao, Liu Bei or Sun Quan were obviously more irritable and arbitrary in their later years. Is it related to this factor?

After hearing this, the two maids did not dare to say anything more. They put the bamboo slips in Yuan Xi's arms with red faces and walked away backwards.

Mrs. Du whispered: "Just fell asleep."

Just as he was thinking about it, two maids were already walking towards him holding seven or eight scrolls of bamboo slips. When Yuan Xi saw them, he stretched out his hand and said, "Give them all to me first."

Mrs. Du nodded, and Yuan Xi saw this and said, "Come up with me."

Mrs. Du hesitated and whispered: "I haven't asked, but..."

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "But it's not normal, right?"

Mrs. Du was shocked, "How did your husband find out?"

"She even went to find Yang Feng, fearing that she wanted to take advantage of the Taiping Taoist alchemists. After all, they both have a grudge against Cao Cao."

Mrs. Du was also very smart, and she immediately guessed Lu Lingqi's intention, and said in surprise: "Mrs. Lu, what do you want...?"

Yuan Xi nodded, "She can't get involved in this matter. This is playing with fire." "I think she might have been inspired by Yuan Shang's assassination to use dead soldiers to deal with Cao Cao, but she also didn't want to think about Cao Cao's kind of People with enemies all over the world are very vigilant about this matter, and they are surrounded by masters and attendants, so it is not easy to deal with him."

Mrs. Du said softly: "Mrs. Lu also has good intentions. If Cao Cao dies, my husband will be able to unify the Central Plains, right?"

Yuan Xi was silent. He had to admit that what Mrs. Du said made sense. This idea was actually very tempting to Yuan Xi. If Cao Cao's power collapsed, how many fewer people would die in the world?

But Yuan Xi didn't think this was easier than defeating Cao Cao in battle.

As a superior, personal safety is the most important thing, and so does Yuan Xi. Even though Yuan Xi's house is peaceful now, in fact, from the grooms and gardeners to the vendors and lackeys on the street, many of them are his spies pretending to be abnormal. As soon as someone gets close, there is nowhere to hide.

Just like the guards around Liu Bei, apart from the protection of Zhang, the guards around Cao Cao are also top-notch generals such as Dian Wei and Xu Chu. How can it be so easy to get close?

Thinking of this, he shook his head and said: "Yuan Shang was assassinated, which was more or less an accident. This has a lot to do with his young age and lack of understanding of people's hearts. He dares to be a white-eyed wolf like Yuan Yao who is unjust and unjust. If you use it, there are actually early signs of backlash."

"Lingqi is also free. If you have this time, you might as well go practice training and stop thinking about these crooked ways."

"And those people at Taiping Road won't mention it."

Mrs. Du pursed her lips and smiled, "A few days ago, my husband said that it was not easy for Commander Yang to come here."

"Those are two different things." Yuan Xi casually opened the bamboo slip and found that it was the information sent by Yang Feng. "It is indeed not easy, but it is also very overdone."

He looked carefully at the words on the bamboo slips and found that, as he expected, Yang Feng led Taiping Taoism and Xuzhou Buddhism Taoism into conflict.

Buddhism and Taoism were first introduced to China in the first century from the Central Plains. According to records, it was Liu Ying, King of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty, who first began to believe in and promote it. This is reasonable. After all, the spread of foreign culture mostly started in remote areas far away from the mainstream culture of the Central Plains.

After passing through the Han Dynasty, it has begun to take shape, but it is still on the rise. It was in Xuzhou that later generations first opened up, and then there were 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties.

Buddhism has a strong ability to adapt and transform. In the process of development, it absorbed the theories of Taoism and Confucianism, and gradually developed expertise in debating scriptures. It is extremely capable of deceiving people's hearts. It also used people's fear of death to evolve the theory of reincarnation.

Later, when Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed Buddhism, eminent monks took turns to curse him and send him to hell. Then Emperor Wu of Zhou expressed disbelief. Then Buddhism was almost uprooted in the Central Plains and they fled to the south.

At its peak, there were two million Buddhists and more than 30,000 monasteries, accounting for one-tenth of the population of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Samanas were known as one of the Five Hengs. Buddhists invaded farmland, gained something for nothing, and were able to evade rent and labor. When Emperor Wu took charge of the government, there was a drought in Guanzhong, and he ordered the households to sell their food rations, but the monks took advantage of the famine and made usury loans. There are also people who hide under the dharma of the monks and plot to rebel. Therefore, Emperor Wu of Zhou brought the blame upon himself for destroying the Buddha.

However, Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty did not completely destroy him, and he eventually came back. Yuan Xi certainly did not allow this to happen under his rule. Moreover, Buddhist sermons in Xuzhou today are mostly deceitful and verbally deceitful. In contrast, Taiping Road encourages planting trees and paving roads. He is simply a good person, that's why Yuan Xi agreed to Yang Feng's fight with Buddhism.

When the commotion got serious, Yuan Xi had an excuse to step in and take control. Then he issued several bans, prohibiting temples from occupying land, and prohibiting the collection of incense money. It would be interesting to see how long these people can persist.

Yuan Xi was so happy that he even thought about the wording. When the time comes, he slightly changes Han Yu's most famous admonition, "Admonition to Welcome the Buddha's Bone Table", and spreads it based on the name of the poem he wrote earlier. Wouldn't it be a big deal? device?
It is said that it was after Han Yu was demoted that he wrote the popular poem about moving to Languan from the left to show his nephew Xiang, a letter written in the morning to Nine Heavens, and demoted to Chaozhou Road in the evening. But in the final analysis, this is also a poem in praise of the saint. Just poetry.

Although Yuan Xi believes that exclusive respect for Confucianism and the imperial examination system has great disadvantages, it is undeniable that Confucianism initially played many positive roles in the centralized system, and many patriotic people who cared about the country and the people emerged. Without these people, Do we want to replace those bald donkeys to govern the country and emulate Tianzhu?
And Taoism is not that much smarter. It can't beat Buddhism with its words. There is clearly a great opportunity created by the three martial arts and one sect to destroy Buddhism. Their reward for the emperors is to send them to heaven as soon as possible with lead and mercury pellets made from heavy metals that exceed the standard. It can be said that Extremely ironic.

Yuan Xi could somewhat understand the crux of this. Underdeveloped transportation led to barriers to information dissemination. Many times, some remote mountainous areas rebelled. After a year, the Central Plains had not received news, which naturally led to the emergence of various chaotic thoughts.

Yuan Xi's response was to vigorously develop water transportation, build roads, connect rivers, and increase the speed of information exchange in various places. Only exchanges can promote cultural and national integration. Otherwise, it will only be a mess and breed conflicts among all parties.

Yuan Xi's idea became feasible with the conquest of Qingzhou and the complete connection of the territories. What he now wants to rely on is to rely on the coastal routes of the East China Sea as a guide to turn the territory under his rule into an unbreakable whole.

This idea needs the talents of the Three Kingdoms under Yuan Xi to work together to realize it. If so many talented people fail, Yuan Xi can only say that he tried his best.

He turned over the bamboo slips one by one. Except for Yang Feng's writing, which was sloppy and difficult to read, the other people's handwriting was very neat, and the messages they sent were all good news.

Zhuge Liang, who is in Qingzhou, is now getting better and better at doing things. The reason why it is so smooth is because he has the grain seeds he had previously reserved and the autumn planting is carried out smoothly. The people have confidence in their hearts and know that the food for the coming year is at least guaranteed. Naturally, Willing to cooperate.

Of course, for the local nobles, Yuan Xi and Zhuge Liang also used some means to win over some and attack some. For those who actively donated land, Yuan Xi also gave some benefits, while for those who were stubborn and unruly, they used thunderous means. , uncovered the black evidence of his previous evil deeds, and severely punished him.

With a two-pronged approach, the appearance of Qingzhou today is completely different from when Yuan Tan was there.

(End of this chapter)