Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 402 I am the Torch!
In October of the first year of Zhangwu, Huangmen Township was established as a county.

The spring of the second year of Zhang Wu.

If you overlook the entire Huangmen Township from Pozi Mountain in the south of the Shahe River to the north, you will see an incomparably spectacular view.

To the north is the endless farmland. Farmers walk in the field carrying manure and water. There are canals on every ridge of the field. The water flows slowly along the Shahe River to the south, irrigating this vast and fertile land.

Clay houses built with rammed earth and covered with black tiles are everywhere. Courtyard houses are scattered all over the place, surrounded by fences, and a few vegetable fields are cultivated at the back door.

Herds of cattle and sheep are driven to the east by the hillside, river and grassland, and the forest farther away is lush and beautiful.

Looking further north, it looks different.

To the north of the Shahe River, a street market with a length of four or five miles was built along the river. In the earliest days, the street market was only outside the Huangmen Manor, but it was only more than 100 Zhang long.

But now it extends all the way to the north. Two long streets have been drawn horizontally from east to west, and three short streets have been drawn vertically from north to south.

Although most of the buildings on the river bank are bungalows, there are also buildings with two or three floors. There are many signboards in the shop, and all kinds of merchants and porters shuttle among them, bringing it a unique prosperity.

Huangmen Township is not a county based on agriculture, and the development of agriculture here is actually not particularly good, because the Shahe River is not a big river, and if it encounters a drought, the low water flow will easily lead to a decrease in grain production.

Therefore, its agricultural upper limit is relatively small, and it can reclaim less than [-] mu of land at most, which is still far from the hundreds of thousands of mu of land that can be reclaimed in an ordinary county.

But its unique advantage is that it is relatively rich in land resources and mineral resources, and it is relatively close to Tongbai Mountain. Shen Chen took advantage of the unique terrain here to develop ceramics, brewing, and iron smelting industries in the earliest days.

After more than ten years of prosperity and development, a large number of handicraft practitioners gathered here, such as porcelain craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers, etc., turning it into a small city with a permanent population of more than 4.

If the population engaged in agriculture in the wild is counted, the total population of Huangmen County is about [-], which is about the same as the total population of an ordinary county in the peak of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, it is also reasonable and reasonable for it to set up counties from townships.

Only and only so much.

The geographical location plus the location environment can at most turn it into a regional commercial county, but it cannot form a large-scale commercial center like Xiangyang, Chengdu, Xiakou, and Jianye.

The size of the Shahe River makes it unrealistic to run large-scale merchant ships. If there are too many handmade products, they have to be transported by land.

The cost of land transportation is much higher than that of water transportation, so the development of a county under the disadvantage of transportation has been overwhelming.

But even so, Shahe Huangmen Pavilion, which was originally just a wilderness, has now become a county without city walls, which is enough to prove the prosperity and prosperity that Huangmen Township has brought to this place.

After Shen Chen was appointed by Liu Beixin as the governor of the western metropolis, the governor of Yizhou, Liangzhou and Guanzhong military, he did not set off for Xiliang immediately, but returned to Huangmen County, bid farewell to his parents, and reunited with his relatives for a while In time, I will gather many disciples and teach a few lessons.

Time flies and the years change. More than 20 years have passed, and many clan elders who followed them to the south have died of illness or old age, such as clan elders Deng Mao and Deng Kai, who have died long ago, and even Deng Hong is 54 years old.

Now Deng Hong is the new governor of Jingzhou. Although the governors of the state and the county guard have been separated from the military and the government according to the new system, they no longer have military power, and a large number of adjutants such as the governor of the state, the governor of the state, the governor of the county, and the governor of the county have been added. The power of the chief official is divided, but he is still the head of the local civil affairs, and the power is also very large.

The new magistrate of Huangmen County is Li Qiu, one of Shen Chen's disciples. He was only 12 years old when he was studying with 14-year-old Shen Chen in Longzhong Township.Now he is 37 years old, at this age he is considered to be walking slowly, because many of Shen Chen's disciples have already held the fifth and sixth rank official positions.

Among them, Zhou Buyi, because of his outstanding performance on Yuliangzhou, blocked the ban for more than 20 days and covered the retreat of the people. He was first promoted to the prefect of Nanyang, and then the governor of Jingzhou Prefecture. The most recent trend is that he may go to Jingnan The area serves as the state pastor.

Yes.

Now Jingnan is going to draw out.

The original Jingzhou territory was too large, which was not conducive to management. Therefore, the three provinces proposed to divide Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou into two, and establish two large states in the north and south.

This suggestion has been approved by the prime ministers Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, the heads of state affairs of the three provinces. The imperial court is still surveying the terrain division. It is expected that in the second half of next year or the first half of the year after next, Dahan will have at least three more states.

Shen Chen took over a new job at the end of the first year of Zhang Wu. Seeing that the end of the year was approaching, he went home to celebrate the new year. It was not until the spring and February of the second year of Zhang Wu that he was about to officially set off for Xiliang.

Apart from the [-] Huangmen soldiers led by Shen Tao, there were about [-] people from Zhao Yun's and Pang De's troops who followed him. Yu Jin was the deputy general who did not lead the troops.

A large amount of supplies, ordnance, and equipment have been loaded, and everyone is ready to go, waiting for orders.

However, at the end of the eclipse in the morning of February [-]nd, when the spring breeze was blowing the ground, Shen Chen did not move with the boat, but gave the last lesson to the students on a huge grass field in the southeastern outskirts of Huangmen County.

This is the lower reaches of the Shahe River, close to the Tongbai mountain area, with dense forests and luxuriant vegetation. On the south bank of the Shahe River, there is a large cypress tree with branches and leaves that block out the sky and have a history of hundreds of years.

Under the cypress tree, Shen Chen sat cross-legged on the ground. There were thousands of disciples in front of him. Everyone was close to each other, forming a big circle around the city. The disciples inside could hear him when they got closer, but the disciples outside In fact, you can only watch from a distance, and you can't hear clearly.

In the age without loudspeakers, it was unrealistic to take such a large class. Therefore, in ancient times, a teacher taught a class with a maximum of thirty or forty students. The three thousand disciples of Confucius did not mean that 3000 people attended the class together, but he taught three times. Thousands of students only.

All the students have a book in their hands, which is Shen Chen's newly completed "On Man", which explores the relationship between human beings in the world and all things in philosophy, and a new theory about the laws of thinking in terms of logical dialectics.

In fact, it is not a new theory. The logic of Confucianism is not rigorous, and Confucius and Mencius are not high in this area. Only Xunzi's "Rectification of Names" formally explored logical issues. Constructed the Chinese classical logic system among the three major logic systems in the world.

But in the face of materialist dialectics, it is still slightly inferior.

The reason why Shen Chen's classic debates are victorious is that the emergence of dialectics is a dimensionality reduction attack. Compared with the Han Confucians who have not understood logic, it can be said to be a slap in the face.

During this period of time, he has been talking about dialectics, and put forward concepts such as benevolence, etiquette, filial piety, justice, rule of law, humanism, fraternity, welfare, fairness, justice, honesty, trustworthiness, eradication, innovation, civilization, harmony, and reverence. Constructed a Shenxue thought that combines the essence of a large number of schools and discards the dross.

"Respecting the gods and ancestors is not to tell everyone that there are ghosts and gods in this world. There are demons. It is to tell everyone that the ancestors and gods themselves represent the root of human beings and the reflection of human nature. With us today."

"And what kind of thing is a god? It is a kind of imagination of people about unknown things, or a projection of their inner desires. Even any image in mythology is a person in itself, and even the human side. It is a concrete image. The expression of culture. Therefore, the so-called gods are the other side of us who are reflected through a mirror.”

"In myths and stories, the gods save the world, the god of rain brings rain to the earth, and the god of fire allows us to eat cooked food. The god of grains makes us have good weather and eat crops that can nourish us. But these are gods Is it a gift? No, it is the law that the ancestors looked for in nature."

"So the gods are actually the condensed goodwill of human nature. I ask you to revere the gods and ancestors, respect the gods and ancestors, not to tell everyone that the gods really exist, but to let people have a sustenance in their hearts, so that the goodwill represented by the gods Can refract it to us."

"It's like when someone is about to commit a crime, if he can think of his parents and ancestors, who taught him to be a man of integrity, and remember that there are gods standing above his head, the gods will watch his actions in heaven, and finally choose in awe. Like stop crime."

"This is the comfort and faith brought to people by the sustenance of the soul. People should have faith. If I am your teacher, I will teach you to have all the good things in the world. When you want to do evil one day, think of me. , I am afraid that if I know that you have done evil deeds, I will expel you from the teacher's school, and if you give up doing evil, then my responsibility has been fulfilled."

Shen Chen looked around at the disciples around him, trying his best to speak in a low but bell-like voice.Each of the disciples in front held a pen and paper in their hands, and quickly copied down every word Shen Chen said, and then quickly passed it on to the students behind.

Everyone didn't speak, and listened silently. If they really couldn't hear, they waited for the senior brother in front to pass on what Shen Chen said. Some would copy it, some would study it, and some would continue to pass it on. Within a short period of time, hundreds of notes can be copied out of a single sentence, and each of the thousands of disciples can see it.

There were endless whispers, and Shen Chen continued to wait for a quarter of an hour. After all the disciples heard this passage, he continued: "The existence of human beings lies in thinking, thinking It’s constantly changing.”

"During the Shang, Zhou, and Spring and Autumn Periods, most people had no surnames. They didn't know anything in their lives. The only thing they could do was to grow food, and then obey the orders of "scholars" and follow the princes to fight."

"Aren't they human? But in terms of behavior, they are like a group of ants who cooperate with each other. They only follow orders from above and don't know how to think."

"What's the source of thinking? It's knowledge and education. So the upper class dignitaries have mastered knowledge and educational ability, and they become dignitaries. The reason why aristocratic families have been able to exploit the lower class people is that they have their own family education. , so that the members of the family can enjoy the knowledge forever.”

"I think that tens of thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Han people should be a group of savages who drank blood. Like wild animals, they were ignorant of everything and formed tribes to survive together."

"But someone slowly learned to think, so a group of people found a way to build a house to let people out of the nest, found a fire to grill food, found seeds to grow rice, and found medicinal materials to cure diseases and save people. The origin of the five ancestors of the humanities, the Chao family, the Suiren family, the Fuxi family, the Shennong family, and the Xuanyuan family."

"Nowadays, the Han people have formed a brilliant civilization. But this is not enough, because the level of thinking is not enough, the concept of thought is not enough. After knowledge is mastered by a few people, they stand on the heads of all people and start Give orders, do things according to your own likes and dislikes, regardless of the people of the world."

"The people at the bottom are human beings, just like us. Many of my disciples were born in Qianshou. If you don't have knowledge, you will spend your whole life in a daze. But I take you as disciples and teach you knowledge. You know this is For what?"

Shen Chen looked around at the crowd, and the disciples were silent for a long time.

Deng Ai said seriously: "It is to have more insightful people to spread the thoughts of the master together."

"Yes and no."

Shen Chen shook his head: "If a country wants to bring about change, there should be more people who understand the truth and move towards a great goal together. Whether it is teaching the people or governing the place, one should have knowledge. But this is not the case. I want you to be officials, but I want to tell you, come from Qianshouzhong and go to Qianshouzhong. I hope that since you are born in Guishouzhong, you should continue to think about doing things for the people after becoming the owners of knowledge. If you have some light, you will shine, and if you have a fever, you will have a fever. It is not to help you complete the class transition, so that you can become officials and dignitaries, so that you can stand on the heads of the people and domineering. This is not mine. The original intention, if someone goes against my original intention, and my disciple wants to become a nobleman of the family by mastering knowledge, then this is my dereliction of duty, and he is not worthy of being my disciple."

"Yes."

Everyone bowed their hands together.

At this time, several boats were slowly driving on the Shahe River not far away.

Shen Tao was standing on the boat, looking at the crowd in the south.

Today is the time to set off. They will enter Feishui from Shahe, then go south to Xiangyang, and then enter Sichuan and Sichuan by waterway.

Shen Chen slowly stood up from the ground.

When he got up, all the disciples beside him and in the distance also got up, and the crowd automatically parted a path.

"Master!"

The disciples bowed their hands in salute at the same time.

Shen Chen nodded his jaw slightly, then stepped into it, looked around at the crowd, and left a sentence.

"May the common people of the Han Dynasty get rid of the air-conditioning and just go up. Don't listen to the words of those who give up on themselves. Those who can do things do things, and those who can make a sound speak out. There is a light and a heat. Like a firefly, you can also emit a little in the dark Light, no need to wait for the torch.”

"Master, what if there is no torch?"

"I am the torch."

Shen Chen boarded the boat, leaving behind a tall and generous back to his disciples.

The fleet sailed slowly towards the west.

All the disciples watched him leave silently, until the fleet disappeared at the end of the Shahe River, and they were unwilling to leave for a long time.

If the big man doesn't have a torch, he is a torch.

Like a bright light in the dark night, it illuminates the way forward for everyone!
　Today is just one chapter, I have some things to go out tonight, I beg you all, if you can book all the books, if you can give a reward, if there is a part of the light, there will be a part of the light, and if there is a trace of heat, there will be a trace of heat, so that my income will be higher , Write better works for everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)