Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2155 Flower War (sixty-three)

   "These people are too cunning!"

   Juren was so annoyed that he became Nick's "neighbor" after waking up, and Cao Xi arranged a place for him next door, so that the two of them would not have to go back and forth on who to sleep for in the future.

   To be a "gun substitute" needs to be taken care of from the inside and outside. Otherwise, an old man in his fifties sitting in the dormitory of a "tongsheng" in his 20s would be hard not to be discovered.

   Now both of them have become "turtles in the urn", Nick felt that he was right to quote this idiom, but he was still scolded by people.

  The turtle is not a turtle, although it has a shell like a turtle, which causes many people to think that when they eat turtles, they think they are eating turtles. The Hetu Luoshu is engraved on the turtle shell. The turtle shell is usually used for divination or sitting on some other things. The shell of the turtle is soft and has no obvious lines, so eating turtles is not like killing turtles and snakes and worrying about them. to punishment.

  There is a monster named Three-legged Turtle in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. You can eat it without worrying about Gu disease. It is also recorded in Erya that the Three-legged Turtle was transformed by Dayu's father Gun, just like Emperor Wang turned into a cuckoo after his death.

  The three-legged turtle should be easy to find. For example, it lost a leg due to fighting, or it was born deformed. Nick saw a two-headed snake in India, and it was enshrined by people and regarded as a god.

   How many of these legends about alien beasts can be proved to be credible? How can such a "historical fact" be believed?

   Unless a living creature is found, the specimen may also be forged, and many of the creatures that exist in our imagination are against the laws of nature. However, our understanding of the laws of nature is not necessarily brilliant, and there will always be creatures that exceed our understanding.

The emperor may have the "world", but it is difficult for him to leave the Forbidden City. He can only wait for someone to pay tribute to the rare beasts he wants to see and send them to him. It is possible that they will fly away like swans, leaving only one feather. , it is also possible that when it was transported to him, it was already dying because of the long journey.

In the 53rd year of Kangxi Emperor Kangxi was on his way to visit Rehe for fortune, Yin Si selected two first-class Costumes and sent them to Kangxi. Unexpectedly, when they were delivered to Emperor Kangxi, they had already become two dying. The dead eagle was dead, which made Kangxi very angry, and immediately called up all the princes who were with him, counted Yinsi's various faults, and announced that he would cut off the relationship between father and son.

  Some people may think that making such a fuss about two birds, but "Long Live Lord" is also an old man, and seeing a dying creature may touch his heart, especially Costume is the totem of Jurchen. Although Shanhaiguan and other places are not close to the sea, they are rich in pearls called Beizhu. European kings put gems on their crowns, and Jurchens put pearls on their crowns.

  The picking season for northern pearls is in November every year. Only in this season, the pearls in the mussel shells have the largest particles and the fullest color. However, the Liaodong area in November was already a land of ice and snow. At this time, it was almost impossible for people to dive into the icy deep water to collect pearls. But swans will eat a lot before migrating to the south for winter. They will dive into the water to catch mussels for food, and the pearls will be swallowed together with the mussels. Therefore, those who want to pick northern pearls need to catch the swans, but It is very difficult to catch swans, because they fly very high, and even sharp archers can't shoot the swans down in the strong wind, so people began to train sea dungeons to make them the best helpers in their hunting. .

Liao aristocrats have been asking the Jurchens for costocyanine and beizhu. They also followed the example of the Central Plains regime and asked the Jurchen tribe to pay tribute. However, the costocyanine was scarce and difficult to capture. Many Jurchens died trying to capture Costin.

   At that time, the Jurchen tribe was not a unified whole. The Liao people borrowed this method to let the Jurchen kill each other, which was also weakening the strength of the Jurchen. Jurchen was angry, but dared not speak out. If Kangxi's sons could unite and not kill each other, everything might be very different.

   According to the legend, to raise Gu is to put poisonous insects in a jar and let them kill each other. The last one that survives is the Gu.

  This jar is not an ordinary clay jar, but iron sand is mixed into it, and the lid is made of magnets, so that the lid will be firmly attached to the jar, no matter how Gu tries to overturn the lid, it is impossible to escape.

  It had no choice but to continue tearing and killing until it was the only one left, and the person who raised the Gu would open the jar.

   Lifting the lid is a breeze for humans, but not for bugs.

   And the poison cannot be cured by human power.

   When we encounter something that our strength cannot change, we ask for help, some people pray to the gods, some people find friends and relatives, even strangers with good intentions.

  We need strength and support to fight this feeling of powerlessness and loneliness.

  Perhaps, what is easy to obtain in your eyes is difficult to obtain in the eyes of others.

  Nick's albums are mostly humanities, such as villages, cities and temples, as well as local myths, as well as many local peculiar animals.

"Elephant tortoises" live on islands near the equator. The Spaniards also named the island "Galapagos", which means "Turtle Island". In Chinese mythology, the land under people's feet is covered with tortoises on the back.

   Could there be a turtle the size of an island? It really carries an island on its back. It is also possible that the big tortoise has already died, leaving a tortoise shell. Confucius said that death is not a kind of destruction, but a kind of decomposition, allowing the material to return to its natural and primitive state, and the spirit to return to the sky. "Qi" merges with the air flowing in the sky, and other earthly things become earth and water.

One day, he looked at the hexagram of destruction and rebirth in the Book of Changes with a melancholy expression. A disciple asked him why he was troubled. Confucius said, "I see that everything in the world is only a temporary appearance, and everything related to people is there. Gradually deteriorating, although partially repaired, it will eventually lead to total destruction, and it will be reborn in a new form, and the new form will be replaced by other forms, and it will repeat and repeat, and these thoughts make me a little sentimental."

   From the 11th century, a reformer named Zhu Xi revised the teachings of Confucius. Zhu is called "Zhu Wengong" by the world. He knows all kinds of schools of thought, religious forces, and heresies in China. He began to compare the views of the various doctrines, commenting on the discourses of all the writers of antiquity, who were either approved or overthrown, and after this gigantic project he wrote a commentary on the writers he reviewed , in order to avoid controversy. Later, Zhu Xi compiled the commentaries he wrote into a book and formed a teaching monograph called "Natural Philosophy", which has been regarded as a classic philosophical work by Confucians for more than 600 years. In reading these works, students try to understand the mysterious connection between gossip and nature. Bagua is a symbol invented by Fuxi. The symbols are reminiscent of a system that Pythagoras borrowed from the ancient Egyptians. Because of the obscurity of these symbols, people can come up with a variety of interpretations.

  Since "Chengmen Lixue", Fujian has become an important town for the transmission of Song Confucianism to the south, inheriting and promoting Zhu Xi's theories, and it is precisely because of Juren's explanation that Nick understands another meaning of "gu".

   It means to get rid of corruption, to bring in vitality, and to maintain one's own nobility when sorting out corruption. In the thirty-third year of Qianlong's reign, when there were rumors of poisonous insects from Shanxi appearing in the capital, Juren did not believe them. He preferred to believe that the poisonous insects were candidates from Shanxi.

  Guangzhou and other places have also delivered rice to a certain amount and can get top wear, but during Li Shiyao's tenure as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, not everyone received the reward.

  Li Shiyao was sent to Gansu to sort out military affairs, and soon found that the grain in the warehouse was inconsistent with the account, and there was a rebellion in Gansu that year, and Heshen was ordered to go to Gansu to quell the rebellion, but unfortunately he lost the battle.

   Donating prisons can easily lead to corruption. The premise of Qianlong’s agreement to donate prisons in Gansu is to donate real silver, that is, food, rather than deducted silver, that is, silver. At that time, the price of grain in Lanzhou was 1.2 taels, which seemed to be cheaper than 1.8 taels in Jiangnan.

  Jiangnan is rich, but Gansu is dry and lacks water, and the common people cannot drink water, so their income is lower than that in Jiangnan. 1.2 taels of grain is already sky-high at the local price level.

If Wang Jiwang sells the 800,000 stone of grain donated to prison, according to the rules of the free market, the price of grain may be lowered, so that commoners can also eat grain, but then he will not be able to get so much silver. .

  Why does he want such unsellable rice? He also has three meals a day.

  So, he collected the money, and the various prefectures knew the truth, and they all falsely reported the disaster. This poor and white province suddenly made a lot of money, and became rich with a story.

  If it is a donation to an official, the money will go to the treasury of the Ministry of Households, but the money in the treasury is no different from Qianlong’s own money.

In a sense, Wang Jiwang is also capable of uniting the entire Gansu bureaucracy, but instead of uniting against natural disasters, he is united in corruption. As long as one person rebels, the entire group will be exposed, and everyone All head off.

  When Wang Jiwang’s case happened, Heshen had already institutionalized the “silver for negotiating crimes”. In theory, officials in Gansu could pay money to ask for a lenient punishment.

But they are not Li Shiyao, and what they have committed is the crime of deceiving the emperor, which is "heinous", and they do not even help them. In the disaster situation, it is said that Gansu has suffered from drought, but in fact, it has been raining for years. It seems that there is no other than the newly favored minister He Shen. can save them.

  Heshen was ordered to come to suppress the rebellion in Gansu. Unfortunately, this Luan Yiwei recently lost a battle. Even according to French rules, someone must bear the responsibility for the defeat.

  Georgianna saw this and took out her wand.

   Can she still use God's Guard? Patronus or swan?

   In fact, the lion is also very beautiful, but it is not like her.

   She subconsciously touched her slender neck. Fortunately, her Animagus was a swan, and she didn't inherit anything else, otherwise she would be ugly if she had a goose beak.

  Then she thought of Pomona, short, fat, covered in mud, growing plants in a greenhouse.

   "Who am I?" she asked in a trance, and then she looked at the beautiful woman in the mirror and remembered the gazes of the people around her the last time she followed Bonaparte to the restaurant.

   There will always be someone who attracts attention like a star, but she never thought it would be herself.

   The problem is that she wishes she hadn't changed, like Severus showing Albus his stag-shaped Patronus, what better way to prove it? His love for Lily has never changed.

  Wanning said that the bride is just the shadow and echo of the family. In fact, it is a good thing to have an echo. After all, in Greek mythology, the echo represents love, and a person like her who has no echo is just a shadow.

   "Are you still reading?" asked Bonaparte, returning to his cabin.

   "I just want to know the ending." She said helplessly.

   "Didn't you say you were going to have a meeting?"

   "Yes, I know." She said embarrassedly, "Can you slow down the boat?"

   He laughed, and instead of ordering the boat to slow down, he read a book with her.

   "We can stay in Caledo for two days," he said softly. "You can make them wait."

   "Oh, you say that, I feel like a big man." She exclaimed.

   "Do you think you are?" he asked rhetorically.

   She thought about it, but she still didn't think she had anything special, but she thought she could delay attending the summit.

  Anyway, things will go on without her, and she's not a big deal.

   (end of this chapter)