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I pity the grass growing by the stream, and the oriole singing in the deep tree above.
The spring tide comes with rain in the evening, and the boat is drifting alone at the wild crossing.
The West Stream of Chuzhou described by the poet is located at the foot of the scenic Langya Mountain. It is shrouded in mist and waves, and is vast and distant. Due to the relatively high terrain of the lake, it is like a basin of water above Chuzhou's head.
The time by the stream is particularly old, leisurely passing from the Tang and Song dynasties, like an old man with flowing beard leaning on a cane, too old to walk, so he sits down by the deserted wild ferry;
Listen to the sound of the late tide, listen to the birds singing on the branches, and perhaps even hear the drunken governor chanting from the Drunken Pavilion. The chanting sound passes through the smoke of time and floats on the rippling lake...
A gentle breeze blew from the blue sky above the treetops, rustling the grass in the wild, and falling to the ground brought a thousand-year-old coolness.
Qin Mu smiled at the warm sunshine. Lady Hong was dressed in red. She was depressed because she couldn't go to the battlefield this time, so she took out her anger on the prey in the forest. The red cloak was flying like a piece of colorful clouds on the side of the mountain. The sound of horses' hooves clanged and all the beasts ran away in fright.
Moreover, she did not go far, but galloped back and forth near the wild ferry where Qin Mu and his friends were drinking, as if she was deliberately not letting Qin Mu get any peace.
Little did she know that in Qin Mu's eyes, she had also become a scenery, with a long and graceful red makeup, and would never age.
The scene was so beautiful that Gu Junen and others dared not look at it.
Qin Mu picked up the wine glass and invited Gu Jun'en, Yu Dayou, Jin Lei, Sima Kai and others to drink. Everyone raised their glasses in response, except the abbot of Langya Temple, Monk Leshan, who drank tea instead of wine.
The lake was surging in the evening, the pine trees on the shore were rustling, and the snow on the mountaintops was blown by the wind, dancing like white smoke. A few people sat under the pine trees, enjoying the warm winter sun.
Qin Mu looked at the kind-looking monk Leshan and smiled, "It is said that the benevolent love mountains, and the wise love water. Although I am not wise, I like water more."
Monk Leshan was moved, and he clasped his hands together and replied, "Governing the world is done with benevolence. Creating the world is done with wisdom. The King of Qin is the founder of the world, so it is natural for him to enjoy water."
Qin Mu laughed and raised his glass again, saying: "For society to develop and people's livelihood to be prosperous, wisdom is indispensable. However, both Buddhists and Confucians tend to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests. It is true that there are streams in the mountains and forests, but how much wisdom can a gurgling stream contain
The sea embraces all rivers, and the greater it is, the greater it is. In my opinion, the sea is the place where all kinds of wisdom are hidden. However, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are mostly confined to the mountains and forests, and they regard the sea as a daunting journey. This is inevitably a closed-door approach, which is a loss of wisdom!
Jianzhen traveled eastward and laid the foundation for the thousand-year-old Buddhism in Japan. Zhang Qian held the imperial seal and spread the Qin and Han styles for 30,000 miles. However, all of these have become masterpieces. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the great Chinese nation has been curled up in the mountains and forests, with morning bells and evening drums, and humming in a low voice, losing its wisdom!
When I was in Jiangyin, I heard that there was a man named Xu Xiake in Jiangyin. He had aspirations to travel all over the world, and he never avoided wind, rain, tigers, wolves, and was accompanied by the wind, clouds, and fog. He had traveled all over the land of Kyushu. He was a rare and extraordinary person. I am reading his travel notes. It is a rare and good book. I am planning to print it with my own money. "
After hearing what Qin Mu said, Gu Jun said with emotion: "I understand the King Qin's painstaking efforts, but the sage said: Do not travel far away while your parents are still alive. Serving your parents is the filial duty that a son should fulfill."
"You're taking things out of context!" Qin Mu said bluntly.
"While one's parents are still alive, one should not wander far away." This sentence comes from the Ren (Ren) chapter in "The Analects of Confucius". Confucius' original words are: "While one's parents are still alive, one should not wander far away; if one travels far away, one must have a purpose and reason." To put it simply, what Confucius meant is: With parents at home, one should not hang out in society; if one travels far away, one must have a certain purpose and reason.
That is to say, Confucius was not against people traveling far away, but he was against those who wandered around without a purpose. However, this sentence is often castrated, and people only pay attention to the first two sentences, so they feel at ease and stay in their own little world.
"Don't you know that there is a difference between minor filial piety and major filial piety in this world? Serving your parents all day long is filial piety, but that is minor filial piety. People like Zhang Qian and Ban Dingyuan, although they did not serve their parents, served their country and the people and brought glory to the world, which is a major filial piety."
After Qin Mu finished speaking, he suddenly frowned and thought deeply. Don't underestimate the saying "While your parents are still alive, don't travel far away". For thousands of years, it has had an immeasurable impact on the behavior of the Han people.
In the thought advocated by Confucianism, filial piety is the most important of all virtues. The idea of not traveling far away while one's parents are still alive has been used by the world as an important criterion for judging filial piety or unfilial piety.
It is precisely because of the idea that one should not travel far away while one's parents are still alive that most Han people have become chickens in the fence and ponies hitched to the shaft of a cart, staying at home and doing nothing.
It seems that it is not enough to just advocate that people go out and broaden their horizons and gain more knowledge. After all, as children, taking care of parents is indeed a responsibility and obligation.
Therefore, in addition to vigorously advocating people to go abroad, perhaps we should also establish some more humane systems to ensure that the elderly have a place to rely on and be taken care of in their old age, so that their children who go abroad will have fewer worries.
The reason why China is gradually falling behind the West is that others have gone out, but the Chinese have not.
Whether to go out or not is a question that determines whether the Chinese nation can always stand proudly in the world.
Therefore, expelling the Tartars is important, but these problems cannot be ignored. Solving these problems cannot be achieved overnight. It requires long-term efforts and some preparation in advance.
Qin Mu is considering whether to launch a pension system. There should not be much resistance to launching this system, as it is related to the source and management of pensions.
It may not be feasible to completely copy the pension system of later generations. In this era, especially in times of war, many families cannot even get enough food to eat, so where do they get the money to pay pensions
Should we also implement the coverage in batches? Start with cities, and then gradually expand to rural areas... ... ..
Fishermen sing and drink in the evening on the lake, with golden lights shining brightly.
Hongniangzi and several of her female soldiers returned from hunting, with their horses hung with prey, including pheasants, hares, and even a young tufted deer captured alive.
Qin Mu then called off the gathering by the lake and rode back to the city with everyone. Along the way, the setting sun shone and the winter scenery was chilly. Although there were no colorful mountain flowers, there were gusts of pine wind. Qin Mu was inspired to write a poem and chanted on his horse:
"The dust of war has formed into a battle array, and travelers meet each other, and they all think that the building is an illusion. Pointing at the eaves, waves are rolling and clouds are floating. This year, peace is spreading all over the country, and the Changhuai River has been stopped, and thousands of cavalrymen are coming to autumn. Looking over the railing, there is the good air in the southeast and the divine land in the northwest.
I miss Songshan thousands of miles away, and I should laugh at myself, I am at the end of Chu and the beginning of Wu. Look at the bows and swords, the carriages and horses are flowing on the road. From now on, the only things to enjoy are wine and poetry. Huaxu dream, I wish every year, we can be like the old days. "
Hong Niangzi automatically ignored the rest, and only felt that the phrase "this year is a peaceful year" was particularly harsh, and could not help but sarcastically said: "The King of Qin is wise and powerful, and when he opens his eyes drunk, it is naturally a peaceful year."
Qin Mu looked at her angrily and couldn't help laughing: "Ying'er, the ministers are hoping that I will be more obedient, but you can't bear to see me have a moment of leisure. What's the reason?"
"Hmph!" Hong Niang snorted coldly and turned her head away, not bothering to answer him.
Surrounded by guards, Qin Mu and his entourage stepped onto the wide moat bridge. There were many people in the city fleeing from the war. Chuzhou governor Meng Qinian did not dare to relax for a moment. He was busy resettling the fleeing people with his officials in the sunset. A long row of porridge shops was set up on the open space in the west of the city.
Seeing Qin Mu entering the city from afar, Meng Qinian hurriedly brought a few of his officials to greet him on the left side of the road, bowing and greeting him.
Qin Mu went to check the porridge pot, praised Meng Qinian a few words, kept one of the rabbits hunted by Hong Niangzi for himself, and gave the rest to Meng Qinian to make porridge.
After returning to his residence on the east side of the state government, Qin Mu first summoned Yan Gaofei to inquire about the battle situation ahead. Yan Gaofei replied, "Reporting to the King of Qin, Commander Liu's army has safely arrived at Dingyuan City and will rest in Dingyuan City for two days as planned.
Governor Meng's 30,000-man army is advancing steadily along the west bank of the Fei River. Apart from sending a small group of troops to harass, Qing General Ashan has shown no signs of heading south to meet the enemy. Today, Governor Meng has advanced to Wujiapu, two days away from Shouzhou. No news has been received from Xuzhou today."
Qin Mu nodded and asked him to leave. In fact, Qin Mu was just asking out of habit. If there was any urgent information, Yan Gaofei would have rushed out of the city to report it long ago.
According to the current strategic deployment, among the three attack points of Xuzhou, Fengyang and Shouzhou, Xuzhou on the eastern line strives to win a quick victory, and Fengyang on the central line is where the Qing army is currently gathering heavy troops. Liu Meng and Su Jin will mainly focus on harassment, and the main force will temporarily stay in Dingyuan, creating an overwhelming momentum, but there is no rush to attack Fengyang.
On the western front, Meng Ke and Li Guo's 30,000 troops advanced step by step and steadily attacked Shouzhou. Ashan in Shouzhou had only 7,000 to 8,000 troops. Once Duoduo in Fengyang sent troops to help, Liu Meng in Dingyuan would go north to attack Fengyang, making the enemy lose sight of the other.
Before the war really started, Qin Mu called Gu Junen and others and told them about the pension system he had roughly conceived.
After hearing this, Gu Junen and the others were still in shock, as Qin Mu had already gone back to the backyard to have dinner.
He felt that, as a king, he should just come up with such a system and then let his subordinates refine and improve it. If he did everything himself, he would be exhausted to death.
Gu Junen and the others quickly thought of what Qin Mu said by the lake. It is not difficult to guess that Qin Mu’s idea of a pension system was conceived in response to the saying “While your parents are still alive, don’t travel far away.”
Qin Mu could come up with such a novel idea in such a short time. Gu Jun'en, Yu Dadian, Jin Lei and Sima Kai looked at each other with deep emotion...
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ps: I dreamed last night that with the support of my brothers, I got back on the monthly ticket list, but when I woke up and looked, I was still three votes short!
Well, wash your face with cold water and continue to fight. Heaven will not fail those who work hard. Sleeping on straw and tasting gall, 3,000 Yue troops can conquer Wu.
Inspire your fighting spirit and keep chasing, brothers, hold on!
Please give me a monthly ticket! Gritting my teeth, begging for a monthly ticket!
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