Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Since coming to Yecheng, Zhuge Dan has met this famous cousin several times.

However, if we count the number of times they sat down and talked for a while, this is still the first time.

The tiny tea leaves like gardenias rolled in the pot with the boiling water. As the color of the water in the pot changed, a faint fragrance swirled up and lingered in the room.

This faint fragrance also touched Zhuge Dan's nose, reminding him of the way his father interacted with the local villagers in Xingyang.

They praised each other's county, praised each other's reputation, told each other about their sufferings, and asked each other for some exchanges.

These exchanges were often mixed with yellow and white things, and it was accompanied by the faint fragrance of such real tea that they were not so clichéd. Now, my cousin...

"Guoguo, let me see your homework."

Although the words were accompanied by a slightly warm smile, the content immediately made Zhuge Dan's heart hang up, and he was slightly relieved until he heard "excellent grades, worthy of praise."

But after he heaving a sigh of relief, the first thing that came to his mind was disbelief.

Because for more than a month, he felt that the military strategy was the fastest progress, but compared with Jiang Boyue, it was still far behind.

In mathematics and engineering, when talking with Zhuge Guoguo and Zhuge Qiao, who could be called nephews, although he could understand the words they said, he could not understand them when they formed a sentence.

In the end, it can be called "excellent" and "worthy of praise" when it is so hungry?

All these expressions were seen by Kong Ming, so his shallow smile became more helpless.

In the two years when he entered Yizhou and transferred to Guanzhong, because everything was uncertain, his family stayed in the strong city of Jiangling to avoid the hardship of running around.

Although he did not bring his two children with him, he had always corresponded with his wife, so Kong Ming was also well aware of Guoguo's intelligence and Qiao'er's talent in mathematics.

Needless to say, little Jiang Wei, his master taught him attentively, and this Tianshui Qilin child also studied hard. He was able to dabble in various fields like him, and he could also comment on recent wars with new insights after reading the changes of wars for thousands of years.

In this way, Zhuge Dan's self-harm was justified in a sense.

However, there was no need to explain these words in detail. He lightly stirred the tea soup and divided it into two cups.

Gently shaking the more transparent tea, Kong Ming picked up the pages of paper in front of him, and while reading, he talked about another thing at his leisure:

"Your Majesty will return to Beijing soon, and the rise of the new Imperial College can be expected."

The implication was also very clear, and Zhuge Dan did not hesitate about it.

From being the leader in Xingyang to knowing the world in Yecheng, from being able to argue with young men without losing to knowing peers of the same age, and from hearing the constant "You are the brother of Zhuge Military Advisor" since he followed Master Lu Su, all these urged him not to indulge in comfort.

Seeing this, Kong Ming, who raised his head from a stack of pages in his hand, also smiled more:

With sincere friends who share the same ideals, and descendants who inherit the same ideals, what else can I ask for?

The conversation like spring breeze, the light fragrance of tea, and the bright praise made Zhuge Dan relax unconsciously, and he couldn't help but feel closer to this cousin.

After relaxing, the eloquence that was praised by his fellow townsmen in Xingyang finally had some effect here.

He told several small things about studying in the countryside in a funny way, and he used his eloquence to imitate the storytellers in Yecheng to recite a scene of "Lu Zijing's powerful artillery attack on Cao's army at Hulao Pass".

Seeing that his cousins ​​were all laughing, Zhuge Dan felt relieved, so he couldn't suppress his curiosity:

"What did you read just now?"

The question was about the pages of paper in Kong Ming's hand. From Zhuge Dan's perspective, the quality was excellent, and the seal was also quite exquisite. Of course, what made him feel a little rude and asked about it was the simple four words on the seal: "Taixue Chuanchao".

Although it was an inquiry, in fact, from the name, and thinking about what his cousin said just now, Zhuge Dan had already made some guesses.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, prefectures and counties have set up residences in the capital to inform the capital of the announcement, the emperor's announcement, and the feelings of the world.

Those who work in the residence, whenever they hear the imperial edicts from the capital, the promotions and demotions in the court, and the anecdotes, they compete to copy them, compile them into reports and send them back to the prefectures and counties, which were once called palace gate copies or gate copies.

Most of the Imperial College copies are similar. Recalling again, it is said that Lord Xuande has absorbed many talents from the people in Jingzhou, and after entering Yizhou, he has promoted schools in Chengdu, Hanzhong, and Guanzhong.

And now, Jiang Wei and others have taken the initiative to discuss learning at the gate of the Yecheng Academy. Although it is said that there were some unpleasantness at the beginning, in the past two months, Hebei students have praised Lord Xuande, and his intentions can be seen.

Considering this, it is normal to have a copy of the residence report.

Kong Ming smiled at this:

"Since you already know, why do you still ask?"

Then he simply stuffed the thing in his hand into Zhuge Dan's hand:

"Take a look at it, I hope I can publish articles and promote my learning in the future."

Seeing that his cousin began to enjoy the tea, Zhuge Dan also took it and carefully flipped through it.

This copy was not bound with thread, but cut into a beautiful long shape and folded in half in the shape of a "Z". In addition to the four big characters on the cover, there was a line of small characters in the lower right corner: "Spring copy of the 20th year of Jian'an".

"Spring copy?"

"It is not easy for schools to communicate with each other, so it is temporarily decided to divide the year into four copies according to the four seasons, and at the end of the year, the essence of the four copies will be selected as the annual copy."

Zhuge Dan nodded silently, thinking that this arrangement was reasonable, but when he turned to the next page, he felt familiar again.

In short, there are only two things that can be read smoothly, one is the title of each article, and the other is the author of each article.

"Using water to cut off materials and borrow water to extract oil, the outline of the reform of the water conservancy workshop" - Xiangxiang Jiang Wan

"Shangshu Qixia Jieshui Dingliangcang New System" - Donghai Mi Zhu

"What is money? "The Millennium of Shells, Gold, Grain, Cloth and Paper Since the Xia Dynasty" - Lingling Liu Ba

"Reading Zhoubi Suanjing's Theory of Measuring the Sky from "A Day Travels a Thousand Miles and a Difference of One Inch"" - Chengdu Zhang Song

"A Brief Discussion on the New Interpretation of the Printing of Seal Script and Official Script in Jinshan Tao Ming" - Fufeng Fa Zheng

"Comparison of the Three-Meshing Method of Gears and the Mathematical Advantages and Disadvantages of Lubrication Gap" - Miannan Huang Yueying

...

A quick read shows that many of them are names that he had heard of when he heard about Liu Huangshu. From these articles that were difficult to read, Zhuge Dan clearly knew how big the gap was between himself and these contemporary talents.

When he turned the page, several familiar names came into his eyes and made Zhuge Dan's eyes widen:

"The Essentials of Building a Glass Greenhouse and the Best" - Zhuge Guoguo of Longzhong

"A Brief Description of the Skills of Calculating and Analyzing the Skills and Customizing the Rules and Regulations" - Zhuge Qiao of Langya

"On Horse Administration" - Jiang Wei of Tianshui

Compared to the previous ones, the articles written by the two nephews are very easy to understand, and both have illustrations, which are brief descriptions of teaching people to build a greenhouse and making new mathematical tools, and both have advantages and disadvantages compared to the improved past, which is quite comprehensive.

On the contrary, the article written by Jiang Wei is the most fluent for Zhuge Dan to read, firstly because he has a rough understanding of military strategies, and secondly because Jiang Wei's words are not twisted, so it is quite easy to read.

Therefore, it was the biggest shock to Zhuge Dan. He originally thought that military strategy was about changing strategies on the battlefield, but an article clearly explained what it meant to win with more strategies. The difficulty of raising horses was just revealed now, which made Zhuge Dan a little discouraged.

Seeing a boy who was only thirteen years old frowning, Kong Ming found it very interesting, but Zhuge Dan quickly adjusted himself and turned his head to ask Kong Ming:

"Brother, if I enter the Imperial College, the books that Bo Yue used to read..."

"I can read them all."

"That's good!"

Kong Ming could understand this mentality. For young people, they like to compare everything, not to mention people of the same age.

The copy in his hand turned to the end, and the copyist seemed to have made an intentional bend here, so that he could turn over the four pages together.

Reading from left to right, the first page is a poem named "Sadness and Anger". The simple "Han Late lost power, Dong Zhuo disrupted the world" firmly captured Zhuge Dan's mind.

He was born in the seventh year of Jian'an, when Dong Zhuo had been executed for ten years, but the chaos at that time still had no end in sight.

Since childhood, people have been telling him what a chaotic world is, what the Han Dynasty is, what a well-governed world is, and what peace is, but Zhuge Dan did not understand the meaning of the text when he read it. The poem in front of him is like a woman's slender hands reaching into the blood, showing him the cruel twenty years.

He only knew that in the twelfth month, Cai Wenji entered the academy as a woman and debated with Jiang Boyue to save the last bit of face for Yecheng, but he never thought that her life story was like this...

Keep the name "Cai Yan of Chenliu" firmly in mind, move your eyes to the left, page 2 is like the earliest Yuanmen copy, with the revival of Han Dynasty, and it is also very literary, especially when placed next to the grief and anger poems, the intention of the end of the chaotic world is also quite straightforward.

Looking to the left, an article also signed by Cai Yan of Chenliu, "Three-point loss and gain of five-tone scale, using numbers to determine the traces of music theory", made Zhuge Dan open his eyes slightly.

With the revival of Han Dynasty as a partition, one side is poetry and prose recording grief and anger, the other side is a new review of music theory, one side is the pain of separation and chaos, and the other side is the joy of studying, Zhuge Dan was speechless.

He could only twist his neck to look at the end of the copy, where there was no manifesto, no poem, and no profound article, only a simple sentence.

"To know the most of the people, to know all the beauty in the world, to be virtuous, to apply it to the outside world, to preach virtue and return friendship, this is the result of peace."

Sniffing lightly, his fingers gently stroked the page, Zhuge Dan wanted to try to say something:

"This is also what my brother wishes..."

Patting the cousin's shoulder gently, everything was said without words, and then Kong Ming talked about another thing:

"Since you grew up with your father in Xingyang, you must be familiar with the Yellow River. Would you like to follow me to see the river?"

Zhuge Dan was immediately moved. After all, which young man didn't want to know the world? But to be safe, he still asked:

"Only the river?"

"That's not the case. There are also... old friends in Langya in Jiangdong."