sweeping the world

Chapter 996 Virtue comes first!
Teenagers or inexperienced people don't understand, but anyone who has reached a certain age or has experienced vicissitudes of life, the world in his eyes will become more and more complicated.

Material wealth can be priced, but spiritual wealth is priceless.

Liu Yan was 26 years old when he just crossed, and he was 14 years old when he was 42 years old in Yuanshuo. In terms of age, he was only middle-aged, but in terms of status, he definitely saw more than anyone else. Destined to know the level higher than anyone else.

When everyone believed that the sky was round and the earth was round, Liu Yan knew that there was actually a planet under his feet.Later, he believed that the round sky and square place still emphasized the word "rules" and should not be used to understand the earth under your feet and the sky above your head.

Countless careerists...that is, the so-called heroes and tycoons. They think that the so-called world is a place as big as the palm of your hand. Liu Yan already knows that even if he unifies the earth, it will only be part of the endless dust in the infinite universe. One grain.

There are too many broad and empty things. Liu Yan has heard the saying that only light objects can float on the water more than once. When the minister also mentioned it, he ordered someone to bring an iron washbasin to put it On the surface of the water, he laughed wildly at the stunned minister.

There is a sequelae of placing the latte washbasin on the water, that is, after knowing that iron can also float on the water, more than one person has played it many times, thinking that an iron-clad ship should be built.

Liu Yan knew that there was no matching power, and the ironclad ship could not float by wind alone, but he still approved the construction of the ironclad ship.

Not only did Liu Yan believe that the steam engine would be developed sooner or later, but the other purpose was to satisfy them from unknown to understanding.

Everything is slowly explored from the unknown. Even if it is something that is obvious at a glance, who can be sure that it has no inner meaning?

After a lapse of several years, the emperor went on tour again.

The emperor's destination was not concealed, but he did not make it public. He headed southeast along the national highway, and he heard that he was going to witness the launching of an iron boat.

Of course, going on tour is not a matter of one horse and several people. There are several types of emperors going on tour, and even the simplest etiquette is not that simple.

When the first emperor went on a tour, covering the road with loess was a necessary procedure. Before arriving at a place, spies had been deployed long ago. Not to mention people, even a dog was stared at the place to be reached.The gangsters in those places were waiting to die if they didn't escape, and the people with a bad reputation were thrown into prison even if they didn't break the law.

Liu Yan couldn't do anything to cover up the loess on the national highway, and it was even more impossible to block the entire national highway. The biggest limit was the space within ten miles of the emperor's chariot.The so-called headroom is just to allow vehicles and pedestrians on the national highway to temporarily retreat to the side, as long as they don't occupy the national highway and don't come within one mile, that's all.

Before leaving Chang'an City, there was no one nearby, but there were dark crowds in the distance. Their purpose was very simple, just to see the emperor's chariot and the phoenix flag.

As long as they can see the emperor's chariot or the phoenix flag with their own eyes, for many people, their life is not in vain, and they can show off the pride of being old and dead from the moment they see it.

It is difficult to estimate how many people would have thought "he can take his place" if they could watch the emperor's patrol of ceremony, but one of them would be so excited that he could hardly control himself.

After leaving Chang'an City, the surrounding area was still crowded with people. Waiting for the emperor's phoenix flag to leave the city, the shout of "Emperor is ten thousand years, the great man has no boundaries" sounded from behind.

Liu Yan likes to listen to the blessings of thousands of people, but he knows that he cannot live for 1 years. He is not sure how long the empire he created will last, but he really hopes that the nation he saved in advance will not sink. The living space can be vast and boundless.

At the beginning of summer, there is no abnormal climate, and the weather is not too hot when the weather is good. The fields are moistened by spring rains, and the plants are at their most lush.

There are trees on both sides of the national road, and the types of trees vary from region to region.

Most of them will be some fruit trees, and the beginning of summer is the time to bloom. At a glance, the trees are decorating nature in their own way, giving the world more colors, and the flowers will turn into fruits in autumn.

There are trees on the side of the national road but they will not become forests, showing two narrow and endless fruit tree barriers.

If you walk on the national road in autumn when the fruits are ripe, those fruit trees are contracted to the people.Pedestrians are thirsty and hungry, they can pay the caretaker, they can choose the fruit they have picked long ago, or they can pick the fruit themselves and eat it.

There is Chidao on the edge of Chang'an, which extends for a hundred miles to the northwest and two hundred miles to the southeast.

There are very few people who use Chidao to travel, and generally they need to pay a lot of fares if they want to take a ride.Its existence is mainly used for cargo transportation. Every day, the vehicles come and go one after the other, and the horses pulling the rail cars can be seen running wildly at all times.

Of course, the Son of Heaven is going on tour, so there should be delays.That's the way it is a lot of the time, there's always room for compromise.

The existence of the national road itself allows Chang'an City to continue to expand outwards, and the towns within the scope of the road will increase rapidly in a short period of time. Perhaps it will not take another 20 years for those towns to automatically connect together, and finally make the city of Chang'an It's "fat" again.If this cycle continues, the city of Chang'an will continue to expand, and one day it will become a city with tens of millions of residents.

Since it was a formal tour, except for the Son of Heaven, only Zhongshu Ling Ji Chang stayed in Chang'an, and the other chief officials followed.

Naturally, Liu Yan didn't take the rail vehicle, so there must be a supplementary car for the suspicious formation.It's not about whether he's afraid of death or not, it's about the norms and arrangements of etiquette.

"Your Majesty, Xiaomin heard that there is a son named Meng who sleeps naked next to his parents at night, and his body is covered in buns during the day..."

When the patrol team reached Xuchang, Liu Yan stopped to rest.

Xuchang City was naturally taken over by the accompanying forbidden army, but Liu Yan did not choose to enter the city, but camped in the northeast ten miles away from Xuchang City.

This time on the tour, Liu Yan not only brought hundreds of officials, but also famous doctors and people with prestige among the people, among them were the sixteen famous people in the field that day.

Liu Yan will not stop immediately until they play their role.If he played a big role, Liu Yan might as well leave an elegant deed for future generations to show his generosity.

It was Gan Bao who was talking just now, and he told a story about a child named Wu Meng.

The child's family was poor and could not afford mosquito nets. There are many mosquitoes in the south. Every summer, the big and black mosquitoes bit the family so that they could not sleep well.

Wu Meng felt sorry for his parents who had worked hard all day. In order to let him have a solid sleep, he thought of a way.

Every night, Wu Meng slept naked next to his parents.A child's skin is delicate and tender, and the mosquitoes gather on him, and the number of mosquitoes gathers more and more.Wu Meng allowed the mosquitoes to bite and suck blood, and did not drive them away at all.

Liu Yan is very curious about Gan Bao who wrote "Sou Shen Ji", and his attitude is different from the other 15 people.

After listening to Qian Bao's story, everyone was silent for a while, and then congratulated Liu Yan.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites should reward those who are even filial!" Sang Yu didn't even ask if there was such a person as Wu Meng. Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations for the great man!"

Liu Yan naturally agreed, and also regardless of whether there was Wu Meng, he greatly praised the child for being sensible. When it comes to filial piety, people should have blessings and a smooth life.

Zhu Xia has always advocated filial piety, and believes that a filial person is not so bad even if he is bad.

Of course, there must be people who are filial but extremely cruel, and perhaps there are not a few people who are extremely vicious.But in order to promote a certain thing, it is usually possible to ignore it and just praise the good side.This is a necessary step for publicity.

While admiring, Liu Yan glanced suspiciously back and forth at the minister, suspecting that Gan Bao was just a babysitter who was kicked out.

That's a bit wronged the minister. They have made some preparations, but the babysitter they are looking for is really not Ganbao, but someone else.

"Your Majesty, I also have a rumor." Lu Yi said slowly: "In the place where I was originally from (Jiangxia), there is a son named Zong, who lost his father. His mother is old and sick, and he wants to cook soup in winter. Zong has nothing to do. , I went to the bamboo forest, hugged the bamboo and wept. I felt filial piety to the world, and in a moment, the ground cracked, and a few shoots came out, and I took it back as a soup to serve my mother. After eating, I recovered."

Liu Yan was about to nod with a smile, but his neck stiffened when he thought of something.

It's not that he wondered why crying can make the bamboo shoots appear regardless of the season, but that Liu Yan finally remembered how it sounded so familiar.

Of course, "24 Filial Piety" has not yet been written. Gan Bao's "Mosquitoes Filled with Blood" is one of the "filial piety" that is closer, but Lu Yi is talking about "filial piety" that happened in the Three Kingdoms period.

When Qian Bao was talking, Liu Yan didn't hear anything strange. He was a sensible child who would rather be bitten by mosquitoes than let his parents sleep well, but what happened next.

The neck stiffened for a while, but Liu Yan still nodded with a gratified smile.

To advocate filial piety, you have to do what is reasonable, maybe exaggerate, the owner of the story is stupid, and the people prefer to listen to it.As long as the people like it, they will spread it. They will also ignore the irrationality in the story, and make up the reason for the irrationality in their own brains. They may even think that the irrationality is correct.

Liu Yan continued to listen, fearing that someone would say, "If you want to eat raw fish, it's freezing cold, so undress and lie down on the ice, ask for it."

It is necessary to be filial, but can't we be smarter and be filial?For example, instead of clumsily melting the ice with our body temperature, wouldn't it be more beautiful if we smashed the ice and went home happily with the fish?
Or is it difficult for a smart person to be filial?Only stupid people are filial?Maybe it's just that people prefer dumb people to smart people.

"Your Excellency..."

Liu Yan heard a few more, and three of them were related to tigers, ranging from eight years old to 14 years old. Although they are young, they are extremely brave. Their father or mother will be hurt by tigers, and then they rush to strangle tigers desperately. It's understandable, but can you kill a tiger by pulling its beard?
"Heh, heh heh.... The big man is indeed a chosen people, and children have such courage. It's just something that you need to know, and you must tell the people about the danger of the tiger, so you can't take it lightly."

Liu Yan was smiling, but his face became more and more livid.

It is right for parents to help each other desperately when they are in danger, and there is nothing to be held accountable for extolling virtue, but don't let children or teenagers think that tigers are easy to deal with, so that children and teenagers will be sent to the tiger's mouth one after another.

Every one of the ministers looked confused, but the doctors and celebrities accompanying him secretly looked at Liu Yan with strange eyes.

Of course they knew that some things were unreasonable, such as where a child would have the strength to strangle a tiger to death, or what kind of tiger should be pulled to death by pulling its beard.

They know all too well that no good will come of a child who pounces on a tiger, and the plausible story is that the tiger patronizes and eats the child, and the adult escapes, or dies with the child.

"Parents whose body, hair and skin are still taken care of, why would they spare their lives to save their loved ones?" Liu Tan took it for granted, "What kind of unfilial person, who sees his loved ones about to die in the tiger's mouth, can remain indifferent?"

Liu Yan doesn't like this guy with the same surname very much, not only because Liu Tan has a good skin, nor because Liu Tan has the title of the most romantic celebrity in the south of the Yangtze River, nor because Liu Tan doesn't hide his arrogance in front of him, it's just that Because I don't like it.

But what Liu Tan said is right, reason should not appear when relatives are hurt, that is not reason, it is cold-blooded.

When a loved one is hurt, they should lose their minds, and even if they know they will die, they should take action for it.

If Liu Tan had the slightest offense against Liu Yan because of other matters, there would be many people present who would jump out with swords to defend the emperor's majesty.

But at this moment, most of the ministers' faces were stiff.

The general jumped up, looking as if he was about to pounce on him and kill him, but he had been posing for a long time, and his feet didn't move.

The Son of Heaven is of course unique and the most honorable figure in the world.

However, even the Son of Heaven cannot destroy the family affection of people!
If there is a time when you should not stand up and defend the emperor unconditionally, then this moment is definitely the time.

Reasonable... or correct things, there is absolutely no danger to relatives and should be indifferent or even run away, it should be done knowing that things cannot be done!
Liu Yan really didn't like Liu Tan, it could even be said that he had an unreasonable dislike.At this moment, he ordered Cui Zong: "Because of the saying, 'Why would you sacrifice your life to save your loved ones?', hold a glass of wine for me."

The person who had been holding his breath immediately resumed inhaling and exhaling.

Liu Tan drank the wine given by the emperor in one gulp, and thanked the emperor.

The atmosphere at the scene was restored, and various reasonable or unreasonable stories began to be told again.

Their conversations will be specially recorded, including the fact that Liu Yan was almost reprimanded by Liu Tan, and then communicated to various places in Han territory through various channels.

(End of this chapter)