[Comprehensive Mythology] Asking about the beginning

Time forward to the fifth year of Chunhua in the Great Song Dynasty, the current emperor, um, that is, the official family, is still the Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi who came out of the shadow of the sound of the ax and candle.But this body is not as good as before, and Jiang Ning has grown from the little Taoist boy in the past to a handsome and handsome young man.

The white and round bun has a long face, elongated figure, gentle brows and elegant figure, and a handsome face.There is often a gentle smile on his mouth, and anyone who sees him can't help but praise him.

At that time, in the Song Dynasty, the country had not been established for a long time, and those old masters and great saints who shouted "preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires" and "starving to death is a small matter, but injustice is a big matter" did not know which road they stayed on.Although the control over women is not as relaxed as it was in Tang Dynasty, it is not to the point where they do not stay out of the door as they did later on.

A young man like Jiang Ning is naturally very popular with women.

Since leaving Mount Hua, traveling here and there with Zhang Yong, the years have changed, and the memory of the old Taoist Chen Tuan has become increasingly blurred.Jiang Ning also seemed to be a different person, and began to work hard to learn how to deal with people, grasp the knowledge, regardless of martial arts, and tried his best to adapt to the world.

It was as if the child on Huashan Mountain with a small bun face suddenly opened up, crying, laughing, and paying attention to everything around him.But it is no longer with a mentality of being out of the world or playing games.

He is beginning to really integrate into this world.

And the future famous minister that the old Taoist Chen Tuan talked about, Zhang Yong and Zhang Guaiya, who had no impression in Jiang Ning's previous life, did not live up to the entrustment of Chen Tuan's ancestor.She has always done her best to take care of this child.

The sky is high in September, and the boat is sailing on the water, and the cool wind on the water is blowing slowly, carrying a bit of a cold breath.For the people on the boat who just came out of the Three Gorges, it couldn't be more refreshing and peaceful.

Different from the romantic feelings of the "Wushan Mountain" of the Chu people, travelers who have never experienced the treacherous scene can't imagine the uneasiness and depression before.

This is the ninth year that Jiang Ning has been with Zhang Yong. The child at that time has grown into a ten-year-old boy.The old Taoist Chen Tuan passed away seven years ago.When Xian passed away, Jiang Ning was not by his side.It is said that on that day, there were clouds of five colors above Mount Hua to respond to the light of the sky.

When I heard this rumor, Jiang Ning was practicing calligraphy. The little man who was at the junction of a child and a teenager, on his fair and round bun face, he could already see the demeanor after growing up. His dark eyes were like a pair of indistinct deep eyes. The pool is extraordinarily quiet and eye-catching.The fingers with well-defined joints are not as big as those of ordinary people of the same age, but are exceptionally slender and smooth.

The words under the pen were messed up for a moment, and then it seemed as if a flood of water had opened. The white paper and thick ink were stained by the rolling tears. .Only on the paper, there were blurred ink marks left behind.

But in the end, he didn't cry out.Just like a stubborn little beast, clinging to the last pride.

Also always, remembering the last words that the old Taoist priest left him, and his promise to the old Taoist priest:

There are neither immortals nor saints in this world, it is the end of the world.The law of heaven is reincarnated, and all living beings have a predestined relationship. The old Taoist priest lived his life in accordance with the destiny, but he could not escape the intrusion of the cycle of life and death.

When he was dying, he didn't ask for the mercy of the heavens, and promised him what would happen in the next life; he didn't ask for the number of fate, but left a glimmer of life; he only hoped that Jiang Ning, the little Taoist boy he adopted, would walk out his own path in this dharma-ending world.Prove to the sky and this numerology that not everyone is like this, and there is nothing they can do.

"Although your soul belongs to this world, it doesn't belong to this world. The sky is changing, so there is no chance of survival"

What the old Taoist said before he left that day, Jiang Ning, the soul of future people, may be the variable in the eyes of the old Taoist.

Chen Tuan, an old Taoist priest, was a true seeker of the Tao. He never gave up his search for the Tao of Heaven at the moment of his final death.But at this time, luck was endless, and he couldn't take that last step after all.So he pinned everything on the child Jiang Ning.

This is what Jiang Ning only knew when he said goodbye for the last time.

There is no malicious seizing, no mysterious karma, no conspiracy full of traps.Some are just the great expectations of a forerunner on the road of seeking for the younger generation.

This is something Jiang Ning never thought of.Because of this, Jiang Ning found his purpose and value in this world for the first time after so many years.

Following Zhang Yong was only because of the old Taoist priest's last confession, and the care of the future famous official of Song Dynasty for so many years.

In that poor and not very clear memory, there is no record of this future famous official of the Song Dynasty.The rebellion from the Shu region a few years ago made Jiang Ning feel at a loss. He didn't even know whether the so-called history was deflected here.

At least in his impression of the Great Song Dynasty, apart from threats from the northern minorities and peasant uprisings in Liangshan and Fangla, there were not many other internal disasters.Just like the famous officials of the Song Dynasty in his impression, except for Kou Zhun, Bao Heizi, and Yue Fei, there was no such thing as Zhang Guaiya. The peasant uprising in Sichuan came so quickly and suddenly.

In my impression, the Land of Abundance and the Chengdu Plain are the places where the common people are still supported even in the thousands of years of later generations.During the Great Song Dynasty, did peasant uprisings break out?

Jiang Ning didn't know, but it really happened.Just when Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty was still in power, just this year ago.The peasants in Shu, represented by Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun, under the banner of "equalizing the rich and the poor", had more than ten thousand followers, and occupied and controlled most of the Shu.

That is to say, in April, the prime minister Wang Dan and Wang Xianggong recommended Zhang Yong to the officials as the magistrate of Yizhou and ruled in Shu.It's just that the city of Yizhou was not regained by the government until May.Because of this, the process of Zhang Yong's entry to Sichuan was delayed again and again, and it was not until September that the itinerary was put on the schedule.

This is an inconspicuous cargo ship. Of course, if you consider the people on board who come from all over the world, it will be a little different.

Apart from Zhang Yong, who is about to take office as the magistrate of the Shu region, Jiang Ning is a romantic figure who came from a young man thousands of years later. To Jiang Ning's surprise, there are still many foreigners with high noses and deep eyes who speak fluent Song mandarin. .

Ci Leye people, also called, blue hat Huihui.

There is not much difference from those foreigners Jiang Ning saw in later generations.

Well, of course, it may also be that in Jiang Ning's view, those foreigners all look the same.

This is a group of aliens from far away overseas. Their unique customs and lifestyles, as well as certain customs, make it easy to associate them with certain ethnic groups in memory:

Jewish.

Such a discovery made Jiang Ning very excited, like a traveler who has been in a foreign land for a long time, in a strange place, he finally found something that could prove its existence.

Zhuang Zhou dreams of a butterfly, a butterfly dreams of Zhuang Zhou, who knows who is Zhuang Zhou and who is a butterfly?

After living in a strange dynasty in this strange era for so long, is the memory from a thousand years later real?Did Jiangning in the 21st century really exist?

All this can no longer be proved, at least for the current Jiang Ning, it cannot be done.

Because of this, Jiang Ning was particularly interested in this group of aliens who left their homeland and fled to the Great Song Dynasty.

Jiang Ning is not the only one who is interested.

"Since ancient times, China has been valued and barbarians have been despised. I only love Ruyi."

The scholars of the Song Dynasty, adhering to the thoughts since Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, had a tolerant, tolerant and generous attitude towards this foreigner who came from afar and admired Chinese culture, and it did not change because of the Khitans who plundered the northwest.Shangguo's tolerance is not just an empty talk.

Ci Leye, who has settled in Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty, since the founding of the country, is a born businessman.And this time their idea of ​​entering Shu, of course, is for wealth.

The land of Shu is closed and remote, but the suitable climate, fertile land, and Dujiangyan, which is suitable for floods and droughts, have created the reputation of the land of abundance.

But the natural disasters since the official ascended the throne changed all this.

People are living in dire straits, starvation is everywhere, heavy taxes and the encroachment of local wealthy families and corrupt officials make everything develop in an uncontrollable direction.

The uprising broke out, and quickly swept through the land of Shu with the force of a prairie fire.

And under such circumstances, this group of Cileye people who have a keen sense of smell actually want to go to Sichuan to do business?

This made Zhang Yong, who was about to take office as the magistrate of Shu, had to be very interested in it.

Obviously, this group of blue hat Huihui who speak fluent Mandarin and have lived in Bianjing for a long time, although they have completely different customs, culture and appearance from the Song people, they have an extraordinary understanding of certain aspects of the Song Dynasty. understand.

Like the economy.

The history of division since the end of the Tang Dynasty has not been resolved with the efforts of the two emperors of the Song Dynasty. The economy of the Song Dynasty, driven by the wheel of history, has developed beyond the previous dynasties, and there is a shortage of currency. Big question on the bill.

People in the Song Dynasty didn't have a clear concept of currency, but Jiang Ning, who came from later generations, knew clearly that once there was a problem with the currency used as a tool for commodity circulation, it would have a terrible impact.

Of course, it is not clear how this affects the current emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty.In other words, due to limitations of one kind or another, although they put this matter on the agenda, they failed to come up with a good solution.

In the era before the gold standard was established, copper, the basic unit of national currency, was extremely scarce in the Song Dynasty.Not to mention, there are also a large number of old coins that are handed over to the Khitan people every year.So the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty since the founding of the country thought of an idea that was not an idea:

Prohibition of copper mines entering Shu.

And has been unswervingly implemented.

This is inhibiting the economic development of Shu.

In a place that lacks enough currency and is located in a remote place with blocked traffic, how many merchants would be willing to operate here?What's more, among the taxes of the Great Song Dynasty, commercial taxes also accounted for a huge part.It is self-evident who the local officials will turn to when they are unable to profit from the businessmen who spend a lot of money for the sake of political achievements.