Chapter 640: There Is Envy but Not Much

"How is this... different from Cao Cao?"

In Luoyang City, Zhang Fei, who couldn't sit still, stood up and walked back and forth twice, but still couldn't get rid of the depression in his heart, so he simply asked repeatedly:

"When you raise an army in chaos, you should aim to pacify the people!"

"With such tolerance, it's no wonder that you lose the hearts of the people in Yizhou, and there are righteous soldiers!"

Zhang Fei had no reason to get angry with his elder brother and military advisor, so he still faced the light curtain, and the light curtain would not give him an answer.

Liu Bei patted his thigh silently, thinking of the fertile fields of Yizhou Tianfu. Although its people were thousands of miles away from the capital, they still risked their lives when they heard about the national disaster. How many people handed their sons and daughters to him, hoping that he could make the world as stable as Shu as soon as possible.

Later generations also said that three million Sichuan troops fought against the invaders and saved the country, and hundreds of thousands of them were buried in foreign lands, which shows the integrity of the people here.

But it was precisely because he walked through the Jinniu Road in person that Liu Bei understood the dangers of Yizhou better.

If there is chaos in the Central Plains, there will be people with clear ambitions who will cede Yizhou to establish themselves; on the contrary, if the Central Plains is cleansed of peace, those who disturb Yizhou will probably need to be pacified in the end.

And how to solve the problem of Yizhou... Liu Bei looked at Kong Ming.

Kong Ming blinked, and then guessed:

"My lord, do you want to follow the example of later generations and use that cement to build a smooth road that connects Yizhou to Guanzhong?"

"Kong Ming knows me."

Kong Ming shook his feather fan. It was not surprising that the lord had this idea, because after the cement formula made of iron slag was finalized, the first places to use it were Jinniu, Baoxiang, and Qishan.

The road surface is still ordinary rammed earth, but the road will be filled with cement in dangerous and vulnerable places. In this way, the repaired Shu Road can still be used in heavy rain, so that the two places will not be completely cut off. However, if you want to gallop on horseback without hindrance, it is still a bit difficult, and it is reasonable for the lord to have this idea.

But...

"Such a...spectacle is difficult to achieve at the moment."

After using a phrase that is often used in later generations, Kong Ming sighed and said:

"My Lord, this idea is necessary to make Shu a great governance, and the manpower and material resources consumed are far beyond what we can imagine at this time."

In the final analysis, if it is true that Zhuya is the only place around China with volcanic ash as later generations said, then slag can only be used to make cement in the Central Plains. At present, when there are not enough people, there are not many iron mines, so how can there be enough iron slag?

Therefore, in order to realize what the Lord wants, either look for large iron mines to mine, set up iron smelting offices across the country, smelt iron ore for engineering and agricultural tools, and use slag to make cement.

Or build a fleet to visit Zhuya to check whether the volcanic ash is convenient to use.

But the premise of both is obvious, and both require the world to be pacified.

Liu Bei also obviously understood the meaning, so he nodded, and his eyes became firm again.

On the other side, Lu Su's face was full of interest:

"Yide didn't question Zhao Da and Zhao Er?"

"Hey..." Zhang Fei shook his head and sat down again:

"What else can I say? Zhao Da's reputation for 'forgiveness' will be known for a thousand years. People in the past two thousand years will know that he will massacre the city and protect the cannibalistic relatives. It may be passed on for thousands of years in the future, so that future generations can learn from it."

"If I scold him a few words, he will feel happy again. What should I do?"

I only heard Zhang Yide speak clearly and leisurely:

"Instead of scolding him a few words, it is better to return to Zhuo County and recruit the Han Chinese men surnamed Zhao to join the army."

"Let me lead them to imitate the champion marquis to drink the horses in the vast sea, which is the best of both worlds."

[The first stage of the Song-Mongol War from entering Luoyang in Duanping to the death of Cao Youwen.

Then to Meng Gong's three-line defense against the Mongols, and Yu Jie's governance of Shu with numerous mountain cities.

One of the figures that cannot be avoided is Song Lizong.

Because when it comes to famous generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, people often compare Meng Gong with Yue Fei.

Yue Wumu was suspected and was murdered by the monarch and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time; Meng Gong was trusted by Song Lizong and took charge of defense for nearly 15 years. The comparison between the two is inevitable.

However, there are also claims in the history of the Song Dynasty that Meng Gong was not just thinking about defense. In 1246, Fan Yongji, a Mongolian official in Henan, hoped to return to the Song Dynasty and was willing to help the Southern Song Dynasty recover Henan. He took the initiative to hand over his son as a hostage to show his sincerity.

Meng Gong was overjoyed, but the Southern Song Dynasty was still dreaming that Mongolia would not go south. It did not realize that Mongolia’s temporary cessation of war was only a temporary end to the first stage of the war, so Lizong finally rejected Fan Yongji’s request to return to the Song Dynasty.

Meng Gong was so angry that he vomited blood and lamented that "I have been cleaning up the people of the Central Plains for 30 years, but now my ambition cannot be fulfilled." He died of illness in less than half a year.

Fan Yongji, who offered his son as a hostage, was rejected by the Southern Song Dynasty and was soon executed by the Mongols.

From this point of view, even if Yue Wumu knew Meng Gong, he would not be too envious.

Another thing that is more common is the temple name of Lizong.

Most of the temple names of the emperors of the two Song dynasties are quite special. Except for Taizu, Taizong, Gaozong, and Xiaozong, the others are unprecedented in the previous dynasties, such as Zhenzong, Renzong, Shenzong, Yingzong, Zhezong, Qinzong, etc.

At first glance, it seems a bit messy, but because the temple name is different from the posthumous name, it is not necessary to follow the posthumous name law, and the Song Dynasty is not short of scholars, so basically there are sources, here are two examples.

For example, if Song Shenzong follows the posthumous name law, it is "the people cannot name it a god", but Confucius said in the Analects, "Great is Yao's king! So majestic, only the sky is great, only Yao follows it; so vast, the people cannot name it", and we are not familiar with it in modern times, but for the ancients, Shenzong is a proper noun for Emperor Yao, so it is definitely a compliment.

Another example is Ming Rangzong, whose temple name was originally Shenzong. If this temple name really contained derogatory meaning, it would not have been removed.

Others, the temple name of Zhezong comes from "Three Generations of Philosophical Kings", and Yingzong's is "The Great Way, and the Three Generations of Heroes".

Similar to these two is Minghuaizong, whose original temple name Sizong also comes from "Qinming Wensi" in "Shangshu", one of the four virtues.

Therefore, there is a saying that Neo-Confucianism grew during the reign of Lizong, and Lizong himself also liked Neo-Confucianism, so he was given the name Lizong by the literati, which is definitely a bit out of context.

The records of the Southern Song Dynasty stated that when discussing the temple name, there were five alternatives: Jing, Chun, Cheng, Yun, and Li. The final one agreed upon was Song Lizong, but someone stood up and said that Jin Aizong's private temple had the name Lizong, and it was too unlucky to use the same name, so it was changed to the homophonic Lizong.

As for Lizong's love for Neo-Confucianism, this is the least important.

Moreover, Neo-Confucianism during the reign of Song Lizong had already suffered a blow, and it can only be said that it was still recovering, but it would be a fantasy to say that it could influence the emperor's temple name.

The most powerful period of Neo-Confucianism in the Southern Song Dynasty was in the later years of Zhu Xi. Zhu Xi, who was a top scholar at that time, got in touch with the retired emperor Song Xiaozong, and successfully made the School of Mind, Yongjia School, Yongkang School and other schools of thought stand under the banner of Neo-Confucianism, ready to eliminate corruption and eradicate diseases.

But we all know what happened later. The queen of Song Guangzong made trouble, Song Guangzong went crazy, and Song Xiaozong died of depression due to lack of love.

The reform that could have become a turning point in the Southern Song Dynasty was stillborn. 】