Chapter 482 The Old Legalists Finally Made It

It was clear that he had just received the victory report against Tuyuhun ten days ago.

But at this moment, Li Shimin was already thinking about how to use military force against Gaochang.

This was not because he wanted to be like Emperor Wu of Han and be aggressive, but as later generations concluded, if he wanted to manage the Western Regions, Gaochang must be firmly in his hands.

And he did not give Gaochang a chance.

After Jie Li performed the dance, Li Shimin had already expressed to the envoys of Gaochang in the Yuanzheng Grand Court Meeting:

In the fourth year of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang established three counties, Shanshan, Qiemo, and Yiwu, to manage the Western Regions, and established the Xirong Schoolmaster Office in Gaochang to deter the Western Regions. The King of Gaochang also wanted to marry Emperor Yang's daughter, Princess Huarong, which shows that Gaochang was a servant of the Sui Dynasty.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has inherited the Sui Dynasty and ruled the world for thirteen years, Gaochang has turned a deaf ear to it. What's the reason?

The King of Gaochang was unwilling to come and call me the Khan in person!

The meaning of the words was very clear, but the King of Gaochang seemed unmoved.

Last year, he said that he was ill and would send his legitimate son to Chang'an next year to show his respect.

This year was even simpler. The only people who came to Chang'an were the envoys, who brought the unsurprising news:

The father and son of the King of Gaochang, Qu Wentai and Qu Zhisheng, were both ill.

This completely wiped out Li Shimin's last bit of patience with Gaochang.

Although Li Shimin didn't quite understand, it was clearly recorded in the history books that Qu Wentai went to Chang'an in person to congratulate the Tang Dynasty on destroying DTZ.

Why did he only see the envoys of Gaochang?

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“The great-grandson of Huangfu Song?”

Liu Bei was startled, and then sighed:

“Huangfu Song has been dead for nearly 20 years, and I only regret that he could not end his life with honor.”

These are all vivid memories for Liu Bei-after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were many ambitious people inside and outside the court, and those who were powerful came and went. Among them, Huangfu Yizhen could be said to be dedicated to the public.

But now that I think about it, Huangfu Yizhen’s achievements are almost all for suppressing the Yellow Turbans. Thinking about the fact that later generations called the Yellow Turban Rebellion an uprising, Liu Bei didn’t know how to evaluate it for a while.

But fortunately, it seems that his relatives have not yet declined, so the old general will not lack blood and food.

“Huangfu Yizhen is from Anding, and this great-grandson should be found in Anding County.”

Fa Zheng is very familiar with the geography of this place, and he is not unfamiliar with Anding-this place happens to be located in the north of Xiao Jiang Wei’s hometown.

"Now Anding County has returned to Yongzhou and is temporarily led by Lord Xuande. It is appropriate to comfort the descendants of good ministers, praise the descendants of loyal people, and teach them to enlighten the old general to maintain his sincere heart for the Han Dynasty."

Fa Zheng's words made Liu Bei nod slowly, and then he instructed Fa Zheng to do it, which also made Fa Zheng very happy:

Let Fa Zheng do it, then with a little effort, wouldn't it be easy for Huangfu Mi, who is both a scholar and a doctor, to be accepted as a disciple?

Thinking about the little Jiang Wei who was fought over by the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix, Fa Zheng felt tears in his eyes for a while - our old Fa family finally made it!

No one knew Fa Zheng's sigh, and Zhang Zhongjing was more focused on Huangfu Mi's achievements and pondered.

There is a chapter on acupuncture in "Su Wen", but Huangfu Mi's work is called the "opening of acupuncture and moxibustion", and I am afraid that the book he wrote is more comprehensive, so there is this statement of founding a school.

But he could do it. If he added a chapter on acupuncture to Treatise on Febrile Diseases, would it be considered as stealing the name?

Otherwise, it would be better to wait until Huangfu Mi was found, and then see how old he was and how good his medical talent was, and then train him a little.

For Kong Ming and Pang Tong, what they cared more about was the beekeeping method.

Although they could not see the beekeeping method in Tiangong Kaiwu, they could now skip the step called "ancient beekeeping" by later generations and try to learn and study the beekeeping method of later generations.

There are two key things among them - movable frame beehive and honey shaking machine.

Thanks to the pictographic meaning of Chinese characters, the two of them had a general direction for trial production just by looking at the name of the movable frame beehive. The honey shaking machine is more difficult, but they can still try it from the shaking character.

However, there is a key person in these things, that is, the person mentioned casually by later generations - Jiang Qi.

"This Jiang Qi, could it be the Jiang Qi from Tianshui?"

Jian Yong asked curiously, and the two of them caught his words sharply. Feeling the gazes of the two military advisors, Jian Yong said calmly:

"The Jiang family all live in Tianshui, and this Jiang Qi is also from Tianshui. In his early years, he was forced by the governor to serve as an official to help Cao, but he would rather die than go out."

"Later, after Jiang Qi's mother died of illness, he completely retired to the wilderness. People at that time said that he was now accompanied by bees and pigs, and occasionally someone followed him."

Kong Ming and Pang Tong looked at each other and were very happy.

The loss of Li, the decline of maltose, the method of making wine, etc. mentioned in later generations were too far away for the two.

But this other living talent was right in front of them.

Jian Yong saw the expressions of the two military advisors and laughed and volunteered:

"In this case, I will return to Shanggui tomorrow and go into the wild to look for the remaining talents!"

Kong Ming and Pang Tong laughed immediately, overjoyed.

[The topic returned to the New Year.

Now that we know that there is a difference in the time of the Little New Year between the north and the south, it is easier to guess the "Twenty-four House Cleaning" in the ballad.

To put it simply, it evolved from the custom of worshipping the five family gods in ancient times.

It was only after the Qing Dynasty changed the procedures to save trouble that the process of worshipping the family gods was split, the kitchen god became more prominent, and the remaining four family gods were gradually simplified to cleaning the house.

In this regard, the ancients have always done not too bad.

The Book of Songs records the method of fumigating rats in a dome-shaped room. The Zhou Li also records that on festivals, something called mirage ash should be used to sweep the walls and houses to repel insects.

According to current textual research, the mirage ash recorded in the Zhou Li should be crushed shells into ash, which is a lower-level substitute for lime in coastal areas.

However, in ancient times, due to the limitation of manpower and material resources, cleaning the house in this way was mostly enjoyed by the rich and powerful, so it was difficult to reach the scale of eliminating rats, bedbugs, flies, mosquitoes and other four pests in the country after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In addition, although limestone was used in ancient buildings very early, the ancients mostly used it as decoration at that time, and it was almost until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that lime was applied to repellent, war, and people's livelihood.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, metallurgical technology developed rapidly, and the skill point of "high-temperature kiln" was quickly pointed out. In addition to being used for iron smelting, this technology was also quickly used in the mass production of lime.

It is also for this reason that the Tang Dynasty could easily cast the Daming Palace of "Nine Heavens Helu Open Palace".

Similarly, after the Ming Dynasty, the technology of mass production of lime was further developed, and the discussion of this in "Heavenly Creations" is still relatively complete.

However, judging from "Heavenly Creations", even in the Ming Dynasty, the understanding of lime was still lacking. Song Yingxing's record that the limestone was located "two or three feet inside the soil" is now completely wrong. Limestone mines are both exposed and deeply buried, and are not limited to a specific depth.

The most typical example is the border between Hunan and Jiangxi provinces and places near the south, where exposed limestone mines are everywhere, and even stand like a stone forest. 】