sweeping the world

Chapter 513 Wang Meng's Daily Life

"There are very few people in the world who are as talented as Wang Shangxiong, and they can sit high in the face of difficulties." Wang Meng is now the county magistrate of Nanpi County. He has been in office for less than a year and manages a population of more than 7000. County of people.He looked at the scholar on the opposite side, and said with a smile: "The northern faction and the southern faction of the country have become clear, isn't it the king's deliberate action?"

Nanpi County is the capital of Bohai County. Being a county magistrate in the capital has never been an easy task. You have to face tens of thousands of people under your rule, and you have to face the sheriff and many officials in the county who are close at hand. Any trivial matter may involve people who cannot be offended.

I can't afford to offend because compared to people without strong or special backgrounds, Wang Meng was originally a poor family in a poor family. The resume of the king's personal secretary Lang is enough to rely on, even the county guard dare not make a mistake.

Wang Meng was sent down from the central government to serve as a local official. He once served as a county magistrate in Yuzhou, and became the county magistrate in Nanpi, which was regarded as his second local public office.With the resume of the king's personal secretary Lang, no local officials dare to underestimate it. It can even be said that local officials are treated with caution when they go down to the head of a pavilion and go up to the capital of a county. His experience as a local official is very rare. What trouble.

Because of his special background, Wang Meng has political convenience, and it is inevitable that some people of all kinds will deliberately make friends with him, such as the scholar sitting opposite him now is one of them.

The scholar is not from Bohai County, but from Lecheng, Hejian County. His name is Wei Kang.

The Wei family has naturally produced many celebrities, such as Wei Qing during the Western Han Dynasty. However, Wei Qing's family suffered heavy losses in the late Western Han Dynasty. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the great calligrapher Cai Yong chose his son-in-law. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, traces were seen in many families who supported Cao Cao.

Nowadays, making friends pays attention to clarifying one's own background when introducing each other. This is influenced by Cao Wei's establishment of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system.Wei Kang introduced his family background and mentioned the Wei family in Hedong, so his origin became very clear.

Wei Kang did not leave any traces in history, but one of his family is quite famous, that is Li Ju's wife, Wei Shuo who is known as Mrs. Wei in the world.

The reason why Wei Shuo left traces in history is not because of her excellent calligraphy, but because she was the first teacher of calligrapher Wang Xizhi.She herself was a student of Zhong Yao, and Zhong Yao's teacher was Cai Yong, a great calligrapher in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.Her son Li Chong is also a great calligrapher, but he has little influence in the literary world.

Wei Kang's background determined one thing, that is, his calligraphy is quite good, and he came to Wang Meng with a lot of handwriting in the name of asking for advice.

Wang Meng has read books, but it is not necessarily true that he has any research on calligraphy.

The study of calligraphy is something that can only be done by wealthy families. After all, learning calligraphy not only requires a family environment, but also requires collecting the handwriting of many calligraphers. Among them, the inscriptions handed down from generation to generation are the most precious. Not everyone can collect celebrities. handwriting.

Wei Kang is a very winky person. After talking for a while, he realized that Wang Meng didn't study calligraphy, so he started talking about romance.Then he found that Wang Meng was just coping with Fenghua Xueyue, and before Wang Meng showed any impatience, he changed the topic to current affairs.

The Central Plains has been ruled and ravaged by the Hu people for decades, and the earlier aristocratic families have basically "traveled southward in clothes", and even if the aristocratic families stayed in the Central Plains, they only left some side branches.Decades of unbearable looking back have ruined countless people. It is not easy for the offshoots of the family to survive in the Central Plains. Only a very small number of offshoots of the aristocratic family have developed.

There is no Wei family among the developed families. From their national reputation, they first fell to the prestige of a county. In the modern age, except for the main family who moved to the south, their lives are not bad. It's just barely sustainable.

Wei Kang was able to see Wang Meng because of Wang Meng's modest personality, and because Wang Meng didn't have too heavy official duties recently, in fact, the most important thing was that Wei Kang offered a strategy of farming.

When talking about current affairs, we are talking about the situation faced by the Han Kingdom. Wei Kang can’t and dare not talk about things that are too high-end. , How to deal with Tuoba Daiguo and Zhangshi Liangguo who showed hostility.What he can talk about is how the Han Dynasty faced the recovery of the people's livelihood, and according to Wang Meng's administration, he could do what he liked.

As the magistrate of a county, what Wang Meng should do most is to appease the people to resume production, and the prerequisite for doing this is to measure the land and perform population registration.

The land measurement and population registration had already been done by Wang Meng before the summer, and in the autumn it was to investigate the private land holdings, but not for the tax after the autumn harvest, but for the government to make reasonable purchases according to the market price.

Wei Kang presented the method of farming, which is actually the method of farming in Cao Cao's period. Later, Zhong Yao made some improvements, and when Sima Yi presided over it, some water conservancy methods were added.

There is no need to deliberately mention how important farming is in a country. Wang Meng accepted and said that after submitting to the central committee at the meeting, Wei Kang at least has the qualifications to be on the Tianting.In this way, Wei Kang has the qualifications and must show his talents.

The foreign wars of the Han Dynasty did not give Wei Kang much to comment on, and the faintly emerging faction disputes became one of the topics that could be discussed.

Wang Meng didn't know if Wei Kang really had an opinion, or if he wanted to sensationalize the public, so he ended the topic before Wei Kang could say anything more, vaguely expressing that it was related to the king's strategy, whether he could not talk about it or not.

Wei Kang was actually quite embarrassed. Seeing that there was no topic to improve his relationship, he got up and was about to say goodbye, but the county government officials came to report that a monk who called himself Shi Dao'an asked to see him.

"I know this person." Wei Kang said to Wang Meng: "This monk is a teacher of Buddha Tucheng, and he is a person who helps willows in Changshan."

Wang Meng didn't know who Shi Dao'an was, but he knew that Shi Hu attached great importance to Buddha Tucheng, and he heard that his supernatural powers often showed some strange tricks (probably some magic tricks that can deceive people's eyes).He is a person without much curiosity. Because of his special status and background, he is often asked to see by some strange people, including monks. I vaguely remember that Shi Daoan asked to see him at least three or four times?

"Among the monks in Shijie, Hu Jin is the most evil. Fotucheng often advises Shihu not to kill too much. Shi Dao'an's teacher, Fotucheng, must be such a person." Wei Kang didn't want to leave. But it is not easy to sit down again, so I can only stand and continue to say: "Hu Jin is a descendant of Huaxia. The killing was about this man."

Fotucheng is a native of Kucha from the Western Regions. He walked among the people in the early days when he came to Middle-earth, and was invited to Xiangguo by Shihu later.After he was valued by Shi Hu, he began to take the road of spreading faith from top to bottom, and really let Shi Hu promote Buddhist beliefs, but Shi Hu and those Hulu who believed in Buddhism did not become kind, which once made him think The thought of leaving is that it is difficult to say goodbye.

To say that Hu Jin is an evil monk is to stand on the standpoint of Chinese Miao descendants.

Shi Hu had always taken pleasure in killing people, and he used countless cruel and weird methods. He had wanted to exterminate the Chinese Miao descendants under his rule for a long time, but he didn't have a name that could be taken.

Hu Jin saw what Shi Hu was thinking, so he said to Shi Hu, "The Jin people in the Central Plains have begun to recover their vitality. One day the Great Zhao Dynasty will be destroyed by the recovered Jin people. The king of heaven should kill the Jin people as soon as possible." Light", if history had not been changed by Liu Yan, it would have been the beginning of the planned, strategic, and premeditated killings of the Jin people in the Central Plains from [-] A.D., and the killings continued for seven or eight years. Only when Hu died of illness did Ran Min have a chance to rise.

The background of why Ran Min was able to rise is a bit weird. First, Shi Hu lied that he would make Ran Min the crown prince to inherit the throne. After Shi Hu died, it was not Ran Min who ascended the throne, but Shi Shi who became the king of Zhao.After Shi Shi ascended the throne, he continued to implement the national policy of exterminating the Jin people in the Central Plains. By this time, the Jin people in the Central Plains had actually reached the verge of almost no way out.

Liu Yan changed history. After the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu Han Dynasty, a Han Dynasty appeared again on the Eastern Land.Of course, it is recorded in the history books that the title of "Han" will never appear in the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, but will be officially recorded as the Xiongnu Zhao Guolai.

The Han Kingdom already has Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Sizhou, Jizhou, Liangzhou, and Yizhou. The various places in Guanzhong and the southern states are also recovering at an extremely fast speed. Let’s not talk about things like people’s livelihood. In terms of military and territory, Han is definitely the most powerful country in the East.

The great missionary work of Samana in the East was interrupted when Shi Hu led his people away from Bingzhou, and then the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which had a little foundation, was also destroyed in sight.The Samana has not had time to preach in the Murongyan Kingdom, the Tuobadai Kingdom, the Huns, the Rouran Tribal Alliance, and the Dongxigaoche Tribal Alliance. It is tantamount to a good situation being shattered with the rise of the Han Kingdom.

"Shamana's missionary heart is firm. I heard that there were monks who traveled around with the king's chariot and asked to see him many times but were not allowed to see him?" Wei Kang seemed to know a lot of things, and said: "At that time, the county priest accompanied the king, so there must be something. know?"

Of course, Wang Meng knew that there were such things, and he also knew that Liu Yan, the ruler of the Han Dynasty, would not accept Buddhism even though he had no malice.

Everyone in the world thought that it was because of Hu Jin that Liu Yan did not accept the Samana. Of course it was due to Hu Jin's factors, but it was more because Liu Yan knew what kind of influence and damage the Samana would have on Dongtu.

If the history has not changed, the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties is the era of the strong rise of the Samana, no matter how many of the Samana have good or evil thoughts, the fact is that the Samana occupies a lot of land and wants to build temples. The amount of land and wealth held has reached a very astonishing amount.

What's more, the monks at that time also grasped the trends of courts in more than one country, that is, the country's national policies and foreign negotiations were decided by the monks. If they were willing to build a Buddhist kingdom on the ground, it would never be difficult.But it must be said that the great cause of building the Buddhist kingdom on the ground was destroyed by the monks themselves. The reason is that they are so greedy that they can’t be added. They have done a lot of things to kill the emperor. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were several incidents of extermination of Buddhism.

"There is a 'Tao' in the country, which is dedicated to worshiping the gods of the eight directions and the martyrs of the country. It is not a day or two that the monks are nervous." The 'Tao' Wei Kang said is not the Taoism of later generations, nor the state religion of the Han Dynasty, but Liu Yan One of the products of the system.Of course he didn't know that much, he just said what the world knows about the current situation: "The recluse is determined to preach, and he keeps meeting with the king and important ministers, and he doesn't stop preaching."

There are also activities of Samana monks in various parts of the Han Kingdom, including Nanpi County. Even though the Han Kingdom did not explicitly prohibit the Samanas from spreading their beliefs, the existence of Hu Jin made it difficult for the Samanas to spread their beliefs.It is estimated that this is the reason why some Samanaites are eager to break the deadlock from the top of the Han Dynasty, and it is also the all-out rescue measure before the "Tao" was recognized as the state religion.

Wang Meng is very sure of one thing, that is, Liu Yan will never let the Samana develop in the Han Kingdom. There is no movement yet. It is not because the Han Kingdom does not do it, but because the Han Kingdom has too many things to deal with, and the matter of solving the Samana is not on the list for the time being. The sequence that must be processed.

Wei Kang is still developing his own opinions, but the Yawei just now came back.

"Your Majesty, the monk who asked to see me was beaten by the people outside the government office." Yawei saw that he had transferred from the army. Sanskrit, no counterattack."

Sanskrit is probably a kind of slang in many states in modern India, and Shi Daoan can read Sanskrit, which shows that he is well versed in Buddhism.

"What kind of system is it!" Wang Meng was somewhat angry, but it was not because of other things: "Fighting in front of the government yamen, is the law of the Han Dynasty ignored? Not all of them have been taken down!"

It was because of this that the Yawei came to sue, and he went down when he got the order.

"Hehe." Wei Kang immediately said with a smile: "The county lord's action made the monk's wish come true."

Wang Meng is not stupid, he has repeatedly refused to see Shi Daoan, and it seems that Shi Daoan's willingness to see him is extremely firm, and it is normal to use some strategies after repeated attempts, because after being arrested, there will definitely be a process of going to court to decide the case, regardless of whether it is See you on any occasion, isn't it always a meeting?

"Sir, Meng still has many matters to attend to." Wang Meng actually wanted to see off his guests, and Wei Kang seemed to have already intended to say goodbye, but something like that happened and he was delayed.He stood up first, saluted and said: "The strategy offered by Mr. will definitely be forwarded to the center. Before the center responds, can you temporarily live in Nanpi?"

Wei Kang naturally agreed to everything, why else would he come to offer advice?

Wang Meng sent Wei Kang away, and finally showed a wry smile when he was alone. The special background naturally has many benefits, but it is really distressing to be often used by some people as a ladder for advancement.

(End of this chapter)