Chapter 2149 The Flower War (Fifty-Seven)

There is this description in Zhang Heng's "Xijing Fu" of the Eastern Han Dynasty: After a thunderous thunder, a giant beast 180 feet long appeared. Suddenly, a majestic and steep sacred mountain appeared on its back, with bears and tigers fighting each other, and apes on the trees.

Climbing and chasing. Suddenly, another big bird staggered over, and another white elephant with a droopy nose swayed over, as if it was pregnant and about to give birth to a baby. Suddenly, another big fish appeared. When you saw it clearly, the big fish appeared.

The fish turned into a dragon again, meandering around. At this time, the magical auspicious relic beast appeared. It opened its mouth and exhaled, and when the breath dissipated, it turned into a fairy chariot, driven by four deer, and the canopy like Ganoderma lucidum was covered with flowers. In addition,

, toads and turtles appeared again, water people played with snakes, and some people swallowed knives and breathed fire; suddenly a large water appeared on the ground, and the water flow became a river. For a while, the square was shrouded in clouds and mist, and it was fractal, fantastic, and amazing.

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Are there really dragons, relic beasts, and water people in this world?

Even if there were, would they suddenly appear and suddenly disappear in the densely populated Xijing?

Juren thinks that what Zhang Heng wrote should be an illusion, like a mirage on the sea, although many people think that the "fairy mountain" seen in the mirage really exists.

Illusion should have been introduced from Tianzhu first. In "The Biography of Eminent Monks", it is recorded that many eminent monks who came from the East to spread the Dharma would use such tricks. For example, An Shigao performed the decapitation technique, and Tan Wujue once chanted a mantra to make stone

Out of Water, in the Vedanta scriptures, the magician throws the rope into the sky, and the rope hangs down from the sky. A child climbs along the rope and performs a balancing performance at the top, and then disappears and appears in the crowd.

This magic is called "Indian Immortal Cable". Although it is very magical, it is performed by many people. What is more exaggerated is the process of Shariputra's subjugation of demons in "The Sutra of Virtues and Fools". The so-called "demons" are not devils, but what Buddhism means.

Speaking of heretics, this illusion battle lasted for six rounds. Shariputra conjured elephants, vajras, Garuda kings, lion kings, etc., and the heretics conjured pools, mountains, dragons, and giant bulls to defeat them. A similar plot was

Moved into the plot of Monkey King fighting Erlang Shen in "Journey to the West".

Illusions are all fake, but hunger is real. The reason why people took part in the imperial examination in the 47th year of Qianlong's reign was actually because of the famine in Fujian. Of course, "scholars" would not say that they came to the capital to escape famine.

Because of this, compared with the first failure in the imperial examination, the second failure does not have a great impact on the examiner.

He wanted to stay in the capital, so he found the Xilinjueluo family where he had worked before. This time they had no shortage of tutors, but they introduced him to a Mongolian prince-in-law as a tutor.

This Mongolian prince-in-law was not a real prince-in-law, because he was married to the daughter of an idle clan. Kangxi had 24 princes and 123 daughters. 74 of them grew to adulthood, and 50 of them were married to Mongolia. The eldest son of the emperor, Yinti

Of the 11 married daughters, 9 were married to Mongolians.

In order for the princesses to live a better life outside the Great Wall, officials would build brick-and-tile mansions in the interior for their wives, and the money was also given by the Manchu court. This could be regarded as introducing the interior architecture and capital culture and lifestyle to Mongolia.

It was very difficult outside the Great Wall, not the kind of suffering that Wan Ning thought would involve being bullied by her husband's family. By the middle of Qianlong's reign, the princes began to be reluctant to marry their daughters to Mongolia. First, the princes' daughters were nostalgic for the prosperous and well-educated capital city.

, I don’t want to go to the desert, the second reason is that I don’t agree with the customs and concepts of Mengdi, and the third reason is to stay away from my natal family.

This situation had already begun to appear during the Kangxi period. In the early Qianlong period, it was clearly stipulated that the imperial marriage must be arranged by the emperor. However, people always find ways, and Wanning was delayed beyond the age of marriage due to "eye disease".

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In order to maintain the national policy of marrying Mongolia, these princes-in-law can stay in the capital, or they can travel between the capital and Mongolia to work as errands. The "foreign prince" Yunduan Dorji who served in the imperial court is such a "future" important person

Prince Horqin, who often travels between Culun and the capital, and his direct descendant Fujin are the seventh daughters of Prince Yongbi. They got married last year and both just turned 16. In the words of the old housekeeper, neither of these two children have "grew up."

Awake".

Prince Sakdoluo had many marriages with the Qing royal family, and one of them was Princess Gu Lun. When Kangxi put down the rebellion of the Three Feudatories, leaving the capital empty and Galdan wanted to take the opportunity to go south, it was these relatives who helped Kangxi block him.

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Yunduan Dorji's father, Sangzhai Dorji, both parents died when he was young. Because he had no one to rely on, Qianlong brought him up in the inner court. He was once promoted to a prince because of his military exploits against Galdan. At the same time, because of the favorable geographical location, he had a close relationship with the Russians.

The transaction was very convenient, and he was convicted of secretly trading with Russia. He was stripped of his title as a prince and demoted to a county king.

This family is called the "Nine-tailed Fox Family". They are the kind of people whose ancestors and descendants have been convicted of crimes, but they have never lost the title of King of Saktaro County.

Yunduan Dorji was born in the capital, but because he was afraid of smallpox, he was taken to the grasslands to "free range" and grew up. After marrying the county prince, he would stay in the capital for a few years, and then start traveling between Culun and the capital.

Life.

As for Prince Yongbi's seventh daughter, she may have watched the show "The Talented Man" and read too many poems and books. Yunduan Dorji can speak Mongolian, Chinese, Manchu, and Russian, but she still feels that she has nothing in common with him.

language.

Yunduan Dorji grew up on the grassland and likes falconry, horse racing and hunting. Many of the bannermen in the capital are illiterate. He at least knows several kinds, but it is still "a bit" different from what she expected.

distance.

In other words, if one day Dorji is on the same level as Nalan Xingde, then she will be satisfied. This possibility is lower than a monkey jumping out of a stone.

Her own cultural level is not low. After entering the customs, the Manchus also began to like docile, elegant, and ladylike Chinese women. Since Emperor Shunzhi married two Borzigit queens, whether it was Kangxi or Yongzheng,

Qianlong did not marry a Mongolian queen, and the palace rarely accepted Mongolian women as concubines.

People in the Central Plains love jade more than gemstones. In addition to its natural qualities, jade can also be changed by cultivating it. It will become very spiritual, even if it has not been carefully carved by good carvers, or it has some natural flaws.

"Don't you always like to look into Miss Admiral's eyes? What do you think of this poem?"

Juren dipped his fingers in wine and wrote a poem on the table:

The breeze fills the lotus pond, and the hair on the temples reflects in the window. I wear a new Qiluo jacket and put on light makeup in the mirror.

Indigo indigo sweeps the eyebrows, and the skin is like snow and frost. Falling cherry blossoms are dotted on the red lips, and rouge is fragrant on the cheeks.

Holding a fan and walking on silk shoes, the fragrance floats on each step. I go to the hall to worship my parents and bend down on the front porch.

His eyes are like orchids with dew, and his spirit is like bamboo after rain. Everyone praises him, he is unlike anything in the world.

"Have you ever seen an orchid wet with water?"

Nick also drank some wine. He was very interested in the parable of lifting people up and he must read it if he had the chance.

"let me see."

Bonaparte lifted Georgiana's chin, and she slapped his hand away in anger.

He was not angry, but still looked at her intently. The candlelight made the atmosphere very ambiguous. No wonder so many couples love to have candlelight dinners.

"Let's continue watching after dinner." She said a little shyly.

He reached out to her, and she stood up, pulled him up, and then left the cabin together.

It’s really strange. Does a person who has been dead for two hundred years still need to eat?

But people cannot live without eating. It is precisely because they still feel the need to eat that these ghosts are not as "awake" as the ghosts in Hogwarts who know they are dead and still think they are alive.

Living in this world full of all kinds of "illusions".
Chapter completed!