One night, some people in Luoyang City stopped their flags and drums, while others ignited their fighting spirit. At this critical moment when the world situation has not yet been completely calmed down, a new storm is brewing again.
But Liu Bei, who was in the center of the storm, felt a little heartless. After discussing the matter with Jia Xu and Xun You, he lay down and fell asleep. He slept from night to dawn and slept very comfortably. When he got up early in the morning,
Feeling refreshed, then hungry.
There was a lot of drinking at yesterday's banquet and not enough food. There was no time to take a few bites of the food. The toasters lined up one after another. Their stomachs were full of wine and they didn't eat anything at all. When they woke up, Liu Bei felt that he was hungry enough to eat.
a cow.
Fortunately, there were not many people who drank too much last night, and there were also quite a few people who vomited after drinking. The fire-head soldiers were very foresighted, and in the morning prepared not only sober soup, but also some relatively filling staple foods and hard dishes.
Liu Bei then brought half a pot of soup cakes, and half a pot of mutton. He ate the soup cakes and the mutton at the same time, until his mouth was full of oil.
After eating everything, Liu Bei patted his belly, nodded with satisfaction, and then began to arrange the prisoner presentation ceremony in the afternoon.
Although Yuan Shao had greater momentum, Yuan Shu was the legitimate son of the Yuan family, with a higher status and stronger symbolism, so the court was more concerned about Yuan Shu's capture.
After Yuan Shu was caught, he was tied up with five flowers and a piece of rag stuffed in his mouth. He was dragged to Luoyang in a prison car.
In order to punish him, Liu Bei also arranged for the soldiers to eat meat around him, so that he could smell the aroma of the meat and see the meat, but he could not eat it.
For Yuan Shu, who had lived well since childhood, this was really a cruel torture. Only Liu Bei could imagine such cruel torture.
It is said that when Yuan Shu was asked to drink water midway, the guard removed the cloth from his mouth, and Yuan Shu sighed as he looked at the meat.
"The sky has no eyes! Will Yuan Jiujiu also fall to this point?"
While sighing, he swallowed his saliva and stared straight at the roasted lamb.
Of course, he never had a bite of mutton until the end, because he was a prisoner and he didn't deserve it. He could only watch the soldiers escorting him eat, but he couldn't eat anything.
Yuan Shu was tortured so much that by the time of the prisoner presentation ceremony, he was already numb.
Under the watchful eyes of all the ministers, Yuan Shu was sentenced to death by having his chariot broken apart, while more than 300 members of the Yuan clan were sentenced to beheaded, and none of them was spared.
Until the last moments of their lives, the Yuan family members were still crying and begging for mercy, hoping that the emperor would spare their lives.
Yuan Shu did not beg for mercy at first, but looked numb. It was only when ropes were tied around his neck and limbs that Yuan Shu seemed to feel frightened. While struggling, he begged loudly for mercy, hoping that the emperor would spare his life.
In fact, it was quite unsightly to do this. The tone was so high that even the sect king killed two people. It was strange that they survived.
No one objected to Yuan Shu's execution. Even the guys who had drunk and danced with Yuan Shu before would not say even one kind word for Yuan Shu. They all looked forward to his death and wanted to see the famous scene of his limbs spurting blood and remember it for the rest of their lives.
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Liu Bei had no interest in this. When Yuan Shu was wailing and screaming, he closed his eyes. When the sound of broken limbs came, he opened his eyes, looked at the bloody scene, and shook his head slightly.
No matter how arrogant a person is, they will be miserable after being imprisoned. The higher their status was before, the more miserable their death will be. This seems to be the fate of people who have held high positions for thousands of years.
No matter how long the family lasts, it's the same.
In the entire history, it seems that only the old Kong family has been able to last for a long time and avoid being liquidated. No matter how long the other families last, in the end, they will inevitably have a generation of unscrupulous descendants and then the whole family will be destroyed.
In the end, a family's private plan is just a handful of dirt. Three hundred, four hundred, and five hundred years of arrogance and domineering, in the end, is still a handful of dirt.
Of course, people have enjoyed it for several generations, and it’s worth it. Even if you die, your descendants will pay for it, so it’s not a big deal.
The Kong family has only one branch and no other branches. No other family should dream of replicating the legend of the Kong family. Moreover, the Kong family is also capable!
With full survival skills, a soft body, and Schrödinger's integrity, he can kneel down in front of anyone, and he can kneel smoothly. No matter who you are, or what your origin or race is, there is no old Kong who would not dare to kneel.
The old Confucius family has undergone thousands of years of unchanging changes, relying on one thing: "If you dare to win, I will kneel down." To be fair, is this easy?
That's why Liu Bei found it boring, very boring, because he felt that no matter how shameless a person is, it would be difficult for him to reach the level of the old Kong family.
There are always people who like to tie family and civilization together, thinking that passing on family means passing on civilization, but a civilization that needs to be passed down by a family is so narrow-minded.
As long as the civilization can be passed on, as for the family, it is irrelevant.
However, it is very difficult to pass on civilization. History is the history of civilization and war. War can destroy all civilizations. Therefore, if you want to preserve civilization in countless wars, what you need is no less than the survival of the old Confucius family.
Technology of technology.
After Yuan Shu's five limbs separated the family, Liu Bei was thinking about what to do to better pass on the civilization when dealing with daily affairs.
Judging from his limited memory, although the era he lived in also inherited many civilizations, many, many civilization carriers disappeared in the flames of war during the inheritance process.
For example, the Luoyang Fire that was supposed to occur at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty destroyed too many carriers of civilization. For example, most of the chapters of "Dongguan Han Ji" written by Cai Yong and others that Liu Bei had read were lost.
Liu Bei was not happy about this matter. He did not like the marks of these civilizations to be destroyed by barbaric wars, so he wanted to preserve all these things and pass them on to future generations so that future generations can know more about them.
Things that happened in the past.
Going forward, there are also the deletion of books by Confucius and the burning of books by Qin Shihuang, which have destroyed many traces of civilization. It is difficult to trace the past, so at least we must start from the present and preserve everything that can be preserved.
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He avoided the Luoyang Fire and preserved this ancient city. However, he could guarantee that these things would be preserved while he was alive, but he could not guarantee that these things would not be destroyed by barbarians after his death.
So after thinking about it, he suddenly thought of a way.
He remembered that during the Xiping period, in order to try to quell the objections to modern and ancient writings, Liu Hong once ordered Cai Yong and others to engrave the Five Classics family method on a stone tablet and make it public.
Although the disputes between modern and ancient literature and the disputes within the modern and ancient literature schools could not be settled later, the Xiping Stone Stele has survived until modern times due to its excellent material.
Liu Bei felt that if he used his power to recruit a large number of masons, spend some manpower and material resources to carve some important official orphan books into stone tablets, and then do some processing and bury them deep underground, he might be able to survive the ever-changing data.
In the course of thousands of years of history, these precious and unique copies that cannot exist in future generations have been preserved, leaving the mark of civilization on future generations.
In this way, when future generations discover this civilizational wealth, they will definitely be very happy.
He felt that this should be very meaningful.
Just do what you say. While others were busy with their intrigues and scheming, Liu Bei issued an order from the General's Office to recruit skilled masons in Luoyang, provide them with relatively favorable treatment, and sign long-term employment contracts.
Then, Liu Bei went to Dongguan in person, found the person in charge of the royal book collection, and explained the purpose of his visit. He said that he wanted to carve all the royal books on the stone tablet, so he needed to borrow these unique books from time to time.
The officials in Dongguan were very puzzled by Liu Bei's behavior, but they would not embarrass Liu Bei on such a matter.
There were no books that Liu Bei couldn't borrow or couldn't read. It didn't matter even if he didn't return them once he borrowed them.
Throughout October, Liu Bei, in addition to arranging his army and preparing for war, was busy with these things.
He built a courtyard outside Luoyang City for the masons to live, collected high-quality stones from everywhere for them, and asked them to carve unique books on the stone tablets. From time to time, he would personally inspect their work.
Then there is the matter of site selection, choosing a suitable place to bury these stone tablets, and preserving all the marks of these civilizations for future generations to discover.
As the general of the dynasty, Liu Bei's words and deeds are in the eyes of countless people. Every word and deed will be infinitely magnified and interpreted in various ways. However, no one knows what Liu Bei's purpose is in this matter.
What does it mean to find a group of stonemasons to carve books on stone tablets?
Are you going to start the Xiping Stone Scripture thing again?
Is it related to the dispute between modern and ancient literature?
Some people were nervous at first and asked around about Liu Bei's purpose of doing this. But soon they learned that Liu Bei did not deliberately target certain books, but that he wanted to have people carve all the books he could get, even some.
All the miscellaneous books are still engraved.
Is there any need to engrave those miscellaneous books?