The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

In late autumn in October, the sky is high and the clouds are white, the wind blows from the endless fields, most of the leaves of the trees have fallen, and there are a few places in the green fields and sparse trees. When I woke up in the morning, there was a layer of cold frost and dew on the ground in the pavilion. I walked on it and wet my shoes. When the sun rose, the frost and dew gradually evaporated and disappeared.

The merchants from Wu County didn't stop there, but after filling up the water, they continued their journey and headed east. Although they were gone, the loss left to Xun Zhen did not disappear for several days. This morning, he was squatting under the tree, looking at the dewdrops, and sighing about life. Two county officials on horseback and knives came from outside the front yard door: "The county magistrate has an order, and Xunzhen, the chief of Fanyang Pavilion, is summoned to the official temple. ."

Xun Zhen has been serving as the head of the pavilion for almost two months. The county magistrate has never summoned him. Including the "Xu Zhong murder case", Du Mai reported the situation. Now he can't go to the village or the store Yes, there is no major event in the pavilion, and it is not the time for the annual performance assessment, but why is it that someone is suddenly summoned at this time?

Xun Zhen hurriedly packed up, took the horse out of the house, went to the official road with the two county officials, and inquired from side to side.

Officials in the Han Dynasty were roughly divided into two categories, one was "the county court officials", and the other was similar to "guests and people". The former were appointed or promoted through formal channels, while the latter were "self-appointed" by the chief officials. Although they all received salaries and were named in the official book, their close relationship with the chief officials was different. The former can be called "public officials", while the latter can be called "private officials".

The two officials in front of them are both "private officials" and have a very close relationship with the county ruler. The so-called "official in the family, the second generation is the master, and the third generation is the king", if two successive generations serve the same family, then for the servant, the family is the "family master"; if three successive generations are the same family. If a family serves, then to the servants, the family is not only the "head of the family", but also the "sovereign".

Although the family background of this Yingyin county magistrate is not comparable to those of today's famous families, such as the Yuan family in Runan, it is far from the level of "disciples and old officials" all over the world, but he is also an **** from generation to generation, who came to Xun Zhen The two officials who sent the order have served their families for two consecutive generations. In terms of closeness, they are closer than Qin Gan, who is a confidant of the county magistrate. Therefore, they are very strict and refuse to disclose the county magistrate's call. Why did he go to the official temple? He just smiled and said, "Don't worry, Xun-Jun, it's a good thing, not a bad thing."

Since they all said so, and refused to answer directly, Xun Zhen stopped asking questions, changed the subject, and pointed out the scenery along the way and commented on the local customs with them.

Although he has been on the job for less than two months, on the one hand, he has traveled all over the jurisdiction of Benting, and is very familiar with the local situation. On the other hand, he grew up in Yingyin since he was a child, and he is also very familiar with the story of this county. Familiar, whether it is from Ben Ting or Wai Ting, they are all right and right, as far away as the Warring States Period, celebrities born locally in the former Qin Dynasty, and some allusions that happened, they are all casually spoken and picked up.

These two county officials were not from Yingyin, but came with the county magistrate. Before I knew it, I had arrived at Yingyin County. The county official watched the sky, and when he saw that the time was just passing, he said, "Hurry up, hurry up, it's not too late. The county magistrate should be waiting in the temple now, Xunjun, please come with us."

Be the first to lead the way, enter the city gate, and take Xun Zhen to the "Official Temple".

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The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the planning of the city was orderly and roughly divided into three parts.

One is "Luli", the place where the common people live.

One is the "market well", that is, the market, where things are bought and sold.

Another one is the "official temple".

Just as there are walls outside the "inside", there are also walls around the "official temple", and the walls are taller. If the entire Yingyin County is called a "big city", then the "guansi" is a "small city". In the former Han Dynasty, the location of the "official temple" in the city was not fixed. Some were in the city, and some were in the east of the city.

In order to save labor and materials, many "official temples" will be built in the northwest or northeast corner of the county seat. In this way, using the existing city walls, it is only necessary to draw out two walls to surround the "official temples". Among them. The "Official Temple" of Yingyin County is located in the northeast corner of the city.

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Xun Zhen and the three passed through the market and crossed Luli, and reached the northeast of the city. They faced a stone tower and faced the main road. Behind the stone tower is the gate of the "Official Temple". The gate of the temple usually faces south, taking the meaning of "the sage faces the south and listens to the world, and he rules towards the Ming Dynasty", which is the case with the gate of Yingyin Temple. - There are also some "official temples" that do not have a stone tower in front of the gate, but instead have two huan tables, both of which are used for solemnity and conspicuousness.

On the edge of the gate or Huanbiao, there is a drum hanging on the wood. When the officials, people and the county have affairs, they beat this drum to let people know. Although Xun Zhen had never seen the "Jiangu" thing in her previous life, she had seen it a lot in film and television. It seems that until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there was this thing in front of the yamen gate, so it is not surprising to see this thing after crossing the road. .

Just like the "School" beside the gate of the pavilion, there are often one or several rooms on both sides of the gate of the temple, which are connected to the surrounding wall and the door opens outward. This is for officials from other places to change their clothes. They can also rest there if the chief is not free to see them for a while. At this moment, in the "School", there is a small official who has just arrived from other places. He is packing his clothes, tidying up his crown, and preparing to meet the Shangguan.

Xun Zhen was summoned by the county magistrate. Hearing what the two magistrates said, the magistrate was also waiting for him. Naturally, there was no need to wait in the school. He followed the two magistrates and entered the temple respectfully.

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There are two guards at the entrance of the temple. The county ruler was very strict, and the two guards both held halberds and stood on both sides of the door, standing relatively upright. If Xun Zhen had come alone, he would have been questioned a few times, but at this time, the two county officials were guiding them, and the guard let them in without asking a word.

Entering the gate of the temple, there is an earthen fortress in front of you.罘罳, that is, the screen. The top is splashed with ink and dyed green, and two large and tall trees are drawn. The trunk is thick and the horned branches are circling. The trunk is black and the leaves are dark green. Two lines of characters are inscribed on the upper right, and it is written: "Mu Lianli, the king is pure and harmonious, and all directions are one family, then Lianli is born". Confucianism advocates benevolent governance, and these two sentences are in line with the teachings of the sages.

The two county officials had been in the temple for a long time, and they were too familiar with this painting. When Xun Zhen was the head of the pavilion before, he also visited the temple to get the body document and saw this painting. The three of them didn't stop, and went straight to the court.

The courtyard is both wide and deep, with a hall in the middle, with flying corners of the eaves, majestic and tall. There are steps in front of the hall, extending to the courtyard. - The county magistrate is not promoted every day to do things. The more diligent and diligent are two or three days, and the lazy one is promoted every four or five days. Today is not the day when the county ruler ascends to the hall, the hall door is closed.

The two county officials paused a little and said, "The county magistrate is in the back room. ... Xun-jun, please go to the 'comfortable seat' to sit and rest for a while, and wait for the two of us to report." The layout of the official temple, Office in the front, living in the back. "She" means "dormitory", and the county magistrates, prime ministers, and captains all live in the dormitory at ordinary times.

Xun Zhen Zuo bowed and replied, "Yes."

The two county officials returned a salute, passed the Shizi Road in the courtyard, bypassed the "Tingshi Hall", and went to the "house" behind. Xun Zhen watched them go away, and then turned around until the figure disappeared.

"Sit", that is, the room around the "Tingshitang", there are small officials on duty every day, responsible for handling small daily matters. At this time in the afternoon, when it was busy, there were many foreign officials sitting in each "bath", watching their clothes, there were Xiang Qiangfu, and there was the same pavilion chief as Xunzhen, and the li chief, and sometimes There are people. Noisy and noisy.

The other two or three servants may have come late, the queue is relatively late, and they are impatient and noisy, so they did not wait indoors, but stood under the tree in the courtyard. One held the trunk, bowed his head and frowned, wondering if he was thinking about business or something else. The other two, facing the stubble, knelt under the tree, holding a scroll of bamboo slips to watch carefully; the other stood by the tree and stared blankly at the east wall of the "Official Temple".

The one who looked at the east wall was facing Xun Zhen, and the one who was looking at the bamboo slips was engrossed, but did not notice that Xun Zhen and the two county officials came in. The frowning one probably saw him out of the corner of his eye. He looked up at them before, maybe he didn't recognize him, and lowered his head again.

There were people in the "Sit", but Xun Zhen didn't go in, but walked along the corridor behind the hut, and came to stand under a jujube tree by the west wall. A proverb goes: "Jujube 15th in jujube red circle, and August 15th dried". The ripening season of jujubes was early, and yellow leaves were left on the trees and leaves fell on the ground. For some reason, although the courtyard was lively, Xun Zhen felt a little desolate under the independent tree.

He laughed at himself and said to himself, "Just listening to the businessman tell a little story about Sun Jian, I can feel 'lost' for several days. Sun Jian is known as the tiger of Jiangdong. What about the 'lost'? - If Sun Jian was me, if he could have known in advance that the Yellow Turbans would rise, he would never have been as frightened as I was. I can't say, but he would have jumped and rejoiced, thinking that the opportunity to make a name for himself and be famous for later generations would be soon. come."

Even though I think about it, look at myself at the age of "weak crown". After serving as the pavilion chief, I was busy with those "trivial" little things every day. Zhongwai was summoned by the county magistrate, but that Sun Jian had already killed pirates and suppressed big bandits as early as seventeen or eighteen years old, and he was famous for moving a county. This strong contrast had to make him feel moved and sighed.

He walked around the tree with his head lowered, sighed with emotion for a long time, and finally stood still, holding the ring knife around his waist with one hand, slapped the jujube tree with the other, and sighed: "For the rest of my life, the sun will be in the morning." Falling, like a yellow butterfly dancing, some landed on the ground, some landed on his shoulders.

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One hundred and fifty years ago, Emperor Guangwu said: "People are suffering and not satisfied, that is, Ping Long, look back to Shu", but it is precisely because "Long and look back to Shu" that there is "Guangwu Zhongxing", only Unify the world. Xun Zhen's mentality at this time was similar to that, and it was also "after calming down Long, and looking forward to Shu again".

If he is not the head of the pavilion now, if he has not made friends with local heroes such as Xu Zhong, Jiang Qin, Gao Su, etc., if he has not organized more than 100 people in the "One Village", even if he has heard ten stories of Sun Jian , he certainly will not have this sigh. And it is precisely because he has done a good job in the pavilion, has made friends with many local chivalrous men, and has gradually developed from the earliest "one person" to the current "growing wings", that is why he was touched by Sun Jian's story. So there is this feeling. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

It has been more than ten years since he traveled to the Han Dynasty. Although he is still a "later generation" in essence, he will inevitably be influenced by the fashion of the time.

Whether young, middle-aged, or old in old age, the people of the Han and Han Dynasties all have "big ambitions and great words", have a strong mentality, a positive and enterprising spirit, and are eager to make achievements and become famous, just like Cheng Yan and Chen Bao. , Du Mai, Huang Zhong and other rough country people sometimes call themselves "gentlemen", not to mention the literate scholars and Confucian scholars like Xun Zhen?

Runan Chen Fan, the "protector among celebrities" who died more than ten years ago, made a bold statement when he was fifteen years old, "When a man is in the world, he should sweep the world." At the age of fifteen, he considered himself a "big man", and in the end, he also sacrificed his life for his ambition. Runan is close to Yingchuan, and the story of Chen Fan has been heard by Xun Zhen since he traveled.

After years of being nurtured by such an environment and subtly, his character and interests will be different from those before the crossing. After two months of hard work, with a certain "team" and a certain "life-saving" grasp, he began to look forward to Shu.

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Just as he was sighing, the two previous county officials came back, and upon hearing what he said, one of them asked, "Why is Xun-Jun sighing?"

When the two of them came over, Xun Zhen had her back to the Tingshitang and didn't see it. Hearing the words, she turned around. He definitely wouldn't say what was on his mind, and replied, "..., seeing the leaves Xiaoxiao, I feel moved."

The county official said: "Xunjun is weak just now, just like the red sun rising in the east, like the green sunflower in the garden, the good days are waiting, why do you have to learn to be old and make such a sigh!"

The county official who spoke was in his forties, and his tone was a little old-fashioned. Xun Zhen was not angry, and replied respectfully, "Yes."

Another county official was more tactful, changed the subject, and said with a smile: "Xunjun, you just quoted the phrase 'Dawning Dew Sun Xi', do you know who wrote this poem?"