It is said that Qin Shihuang was controlled by a daughter

Chapter 82 [Grand Ear] Everything comes naturally·Zheng Guo

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When I was very young, I felt that the world was not good.

Famine, war, killing.

The average life span of a person is only 31 years.

Many people never had a bite of clean wheat rice until they died.

The most devastating thing is a disaster.

Floods hit, and the mountains and plains were filled with wailing; drought and locust plagues, and the despair of no harvest;

"Zuo Zhuan·Xuan Gong 15th Year" once recorded: "The widower sent Yuan to complain about his illness, saying: 'I will change my son to eat, and I will dissect the bones for cooking.'"

When people are in famine, they cannot be called human beings. How can they still care about courtesy? All morals have become corrupt and they are worse than dogs and pigs.

White bones are exposed in the wild, and people die of hunger everywhere.

How can a person become a person?

Why do we have such a hard time?
Isn't there a solution?
I started thinking about this when I was very young.

I don't like complexity.

So it was easy to figure it out.

——Since people will starve to death, it must be because they don’t have enough food.

——Since there is not enough food, it must be that there is not enough land to grow food.

——Since there is little fertile land, there must be insufficient irrigation.

And on a sunny afternoon, I read the bamboo slips from Qin State, on which were written some sacrificial texts praising the virtues of Dayu.

Dayu is the common master of the world, and he is also the master of water control that turns sparse water into blockage.

It is said that he visited his house three times and never returned. It is said that he changed the face of flooding in the Yellow River Basin. It is said that his projects benefited tens of thousands of people.

Tens of thousands of people have been given new hope and improved by the success of flood management.

As I was scrolling down the page, a person's name caught my eye.

Li Bing.

Accompanied by his deeds

Li Bing set up a stone man's water gauge, excavated shoals, dredged waterways, built irrigation and navigation projects such as Wenjing River, Baimu River, Luoshui, Mianshui, repaired cable bridges, and dug salt wells.

I am fascinated by the Dujiangyan water conservancy project built by Li Bing, the governor of Shu County, and his son Li Yu.

The hot wind blew in front of me, and the swaying light and shadow of the slender leaves created a river on my bamboo slips, and the knot of the bamboo slips was like a dam.

I have never been to Qin, but now Dujiangyan in Shu has become a symbol calling me.

I immediately found the teacher, but he told me: Li Bing has been dead for 20 years.

It turns out that 20 years have passed since King Qin Zhaoxiang came to power.

Li Bing changed the irrigation of the entire southwest water system to the plains, benefiting not just tens of thousands of people, but affecting thousands of future generations. His Dujiangyan Irrigation System transcended the significance of the times.

I watched the fellow disciples and brothers around me who were obsessed with politics, respected in writings, willing to expound their own theories, and traveled among countries in search of an ideal country and world.

But I could never get involved.

I couldn't listen to the knowledge my teacher Xunzi told me.

In order to persuade students like us who seem to be confused all day long, he also wrote "Encouraging Learning".

To be honest, I didn't listen at all.

I don’t understand politics, I don’t understand scholars, let alone which doctrine I belong to.

I was like the kind of student in a class who strayed from serious teaching.

My senior brothers once thought that I was not yet enlightened, so they wanted to teach me to become their fellow travelers.

Perhaps in modern terms, I may look like a fool, but the senior brothers who took care of me were all Xunzi's proud students and famous figures in history.

I have three senior brothers who are very close, one is named Han Fei, one is named Li Si, and the other is named Zhang Cang.

It is no exaggeration to say that they have influenced an era and even the future.

Senior Brother Han Fei, he is from South Korea like me.Maybe because we are fellow students, he naturally thought that I would go back to Korea with him after I completed my studies in the future, so he took great care of me.

I like Han Fei for a very simple reason. He is so good-looking, and he is a member of our Korean royal family. His innate noble temperament looks soft and unique in him.I would naturally be very happy for a nobleman like Han Fei to be my friend.

Han Fei said that I seemed to be easily deceived, and told me not to stay with that senior brother named "Li Si" for too long.

Li Si, this senior brother from Chu State, is an eloquent person and has a pair of extremely beautiful and breathtaking eyes.His eyes always held the mystery of Chu Di's water system.I naturally shy away from people who are eloquent because I can't clearly see what his next sentence means.

If I want to understand anyone in this life, it must be Li Si.

Han Fei was a top academic figure when he was studying.And Li Si is a dark horse. He uses his actions to demonstrate what it means to be the last to come first.Later, his arguments were so sharp and profound and highly practical that even my teacher noticed him.

He carries the most exciting inspirational story with him, just like his life, step by step he was promoted from official to prime minister, from the bottom to the top of a functional station in an empire.

My other senior brother is named Zhang Cang. He is a very smart person, and his personality is much more low-key than Li Si.His favorite thing to discuss with me is how to take care of himself after school.I'm not interested in this thing at all.For a man, it was a bit too much for him to be tall and white.In terms of appearance, if you look at the first two senior brothers, he can be regarded as a middle-aged man.

I can guess something from his name.Cang: White means longevity.

Zhang Cang is the kind of person who listens to thunder in silence.

When Li Si and Han Fei were debating, Zhang Cang always appeared as a passerby-like onlooker. He was the kind of person holding flowers in the traditional sense.

Later I realized that while he and I were happily watching the two senior brothers arguing, I simply didn’t understand, but he had real wisdom.

If I had lived longer, to put it more sadly, I could understand why he was the one who lived the longest and ended the best among us.

Because when you are studying, you may already have a foundation for the future.

My senior brothers teased me and said that I should not study with Xunzi, but should study the art of mechanism with Mozi.

My water conservancy project has nothing to do with their political ambitions.

Li Si and Han Fei admire Shang Jun, and I admire Li Bing.

The only thing in common is that they are both from Qin.

But I have always felt that I am a very lucky person.

Because when I was studying, when I was a teenager, I found the career I wanted to fight for all my life.

I saw in Li Bing's eyes a paradise that I wanted to realize.

Because it is located deep inland and far away from the sea, the northwest region has become an arid region with the lowest annual precipitation.

In a troubled world, politicians are needed to stabilize and rejuvenate the country, and even more so, doers like me are needed to decorate the stars.

I am not for any king, nor for any grand ambition.

Just so people can live.

In the face of flood disaster, we can live like a human being.

But the world is so difficult, and there are so many deceits and conspiracies that even my senior brother was trapped and left in pain in the chaos of the world.

I'm scared.

But Han Fei, whom I envied so much, said to me: He envies me.

Han Fei said: Because you have found your own strength.

He said: My whole life I have been trapped by contradictions.

But Li Si, who was so afraid of me, said to me: Don't be afraid.

Li Si said: It is a pleasure to have only one goal in life.

He said: After seeking fame and wealth, and then seeking wealth and wealth, I can't resist the flowing desire in my life.

Zhang Cang didn't say anything to me.

He just smiled at me and waved to me, asking me to quickly cross the creek at my feet.

When I woke up from this very confusing and distant dream.

The bright moon shines on me, and I feel that the moonlight has never been like the clear water source of the ditch.

On the difficult journey forward, I thought of the words of my teacher Xunzi again.

"Therefore, if you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't reach a river or sea."

"If you don't climb a high mountain, you don't know how high the sky is; if you don't go to a deep stream, you don't know how thick the earth is."

Years later, I stood next to the completed aqueduct.

There are trees on both sides of the bank.

King Yingzheng of Qin named this canal after me.

So I pioneered the diversion of water from Jing River for irrigation, which had a profound impact on later generations.

"Historical Records: Book of River Canals" records: "When the canals were formed, water was injected to fill the silt, and more than 110 hectares of land (100 million acres in today's dollars) were irrigated and brine. The harvest was one minute per mu ([-] kilograms in today's dollars), so Guanzhong was In fertile fields, there were no bad years, and Qin became rich and powerful, so it merged with the princes and named it 'Zheng Guo Canal'."

　1. Every year from June 6th to 5th, when the sun reaches 7° of the ecliptic longitude, it is the Mangzhong solar term. It is the only solar term among the 75 solar terms that directly guides agricultural activities.The weather is getting hotter and the days are getting longer. The wheat with awns will be harvested quickly, and the rice with awns can be planted. It is named because it is homophonic to "busy planting".

　　2. Li Bing’s son.Li Erlang has three names in total, namely Li Yu, Li Tai, and Li Zhao.

　　Li Ji of the Yuan Dynasty wrote in "The Monument for the Creation of the Two Gods' Inspired Temple in Baiyun Palace": "Lang Jun Tao Yu was the second son of Li Bing, the governor of Shu County. This article uses Li Yu.

　　3. Zhang Cang, censor of the Qin Dynasty, prime minister and almanacist in the early Western Han Dynasty.Put down the rebellion of King Zang Tu of Yan and correct "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic"

　　Chanting the Twenty-four Qi Poems on the May Festival of Manzhong
　　Don Yuanzhen

　　Looking at the awns today, the mantises should be in season.

　　The red clouds are high and the shadows are reflected below, and the sound of birds coming and going is heard.

　　The lotus flowers bloom in Lumarsh, and the wind and rain are strong.

　　When we met and asked about silkworms and wheat, I was fortunate to receive a favor.

　　
　
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