At the beginning of March of the third year of Tian'an, Chang'an in the Central Plains was already bright and sunny in spring, but Beihai was still in ice.When the Han envoy came to the mouth of the Anhou River, they had changed into thick cotton felt hats, and the cotton from the Western Regions was stuffed in a sturdy hemp undergarment, and then wrapped in a layer of fur coat to endure the extreme cold.Feeling the chill, Su Wu couldn't help but touch the location full of chilblains in the past through the fox skin gloves: "Beihai still hasn't changed." ”Almost all the rivers in Mobei flow into the North Sea, the water source is abundant, the mountains are densely forested, rich in black foxes, silver foxes, minks, gray squirrels and other precious furs, Su Wu came here that year, in order to survive, he also practiced a good archery, if only rely on the herd of rams in the free-range, he would have starved to death.He can also weave nets to fish, but although the North Sea is a lake, it has the characteristics of the sea, not only swimming on the shore, but also often setting off huge waves more than two people high, afraid of hitting the cliffs and cliffs on the lakeside, coupled with the unclear undercurrents and tides, it is easy to dare not sail into the sea.Once it enters the deep winter, the whole lake surface is frozen, the lake ice is extremely thick, people and animals can walk on it, shuttle back and forth without hindrance, as long as you are careful not to run to the broken ice area, the gas is also frozen in the lake, the pure ice body color is like a sapphire, like a dream.At this time, the "deer people" living in the forests north of the North Sea would drive the felt carts drawn by the reindeer to the south to trade with the nomadic Dingling."
There are also deer people in the northeast of Jiankun."
Su Tongguo grew up in Jiankun, and Li Ling's son, Li Jiankun, the current king of Jiankun, is still friends.It's a pity that Zhizhi won the battle of Jinwei Mountain by relying on the mourning soldiers, and ran to Kangju, and now he has become the son-in-law of King Kangju, conquering Xiancai for Kangju.Unlike Zhao Han'er, who was interested, Su Tongguo was not interested in the scenery of the North Sea, but he was startled by the loud noise coming from the lake!
I saw the waves surging and the ice and snow bursting, and I thought that a giant beast was breaking through the ice.Su Wu pointed to the abnormal movement in the lake and smiled: "It's melting ice." ”After entering the third month of the summer calendar, the ice and snow began to melt gradually, and when the ice broke, it made a huge popping sound, bursting into unfathomable cracks on the ice, as if the whole world was cracking.He had listened to this kind of climate and such a sound for nineteen years.King Ding Ling heard that the Han envoy came to Beihai to worship the Son of Heaven, and also respectfully came to visit, he also knew Su Wu, said that when he followed his father to meet the brother of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, King Yu Jing, he saw Su Wu living by the lake, shepherding sheep on the Han Festival, and holding it in daily life, so that all the hair on the festival fell off.As he spoke, King Ding Ling looked at the new scepter in Su Wu's hand, and now the yak tail was very rich, as if the Han Dynasty was extremely powerful, and he didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.At the beginning, it was Ding Lingren who stole Su Wu's cattle and sheep, making him poor again, for fear that this old man would still hold a grudge.Although the Xiongnu who enslaved Ding Ling have been divided, Mobei is now in the Three Kingdoms, and each side hopes to get the support of the Han Dynasty and the Duhufu, and they dare to be angry and dare not say that the imperial court let Zhao Han'er, who forced Shan Yu to die, be the protector of the capital, just to let his prestige deter the various tribes of the grassland.Su Wu was tired of traveling thousands of miles, and he didn't want to bother with Ding Lingren, so he only prepared for the sacrificial ceremony.He himself was wrapped in his coat, gazing at the crystal clear blue ice on the shore of the North Sea, listening to the violent ice cracking in his ears, as if reliving those years.People in such places on the edge of the world always think about many things, such as life and death.Death was very close to the eighty-year-old Su Wu, who had been quietly following him for a long time, and Su Wu suddenly thought of the longing of those Futu believers when he passed by Guyan Mountain.In the past five or six years, the Xiongnu have suffered from wars, 13 people have died, 16 animals have died, and they are always struggling on the line of life and death.After hearing the rumors that the Han land was stable and rich, and after witnessing the majesty of the Han cavalry team when they patrolled Mobei, the low-level Huns naturally had the idea of "wishing to be born in the Han land in the next life".This has become the greatest motivation for them to heed the advice of Milanda, accumulate good deeds, and endure poverty and the desire to plunder and kill.As long as he is reborn in the rich and warm southern man, he will no longer have to suffer.Su Wu knew that although the Han Dynasty won the war, the border was peaceful, and most of the expenses used to raise soldiers and horses to garrison the army were cut by half, and they were used by the Son of Heaven to improve the domestic system and people's livelihood, but it was just starting out, and it was not as perfect as the Xiongnu thought.In more than 100 counties, there are poor people who can't survive, and there are natural and man-made disasters everywhere.It's just that the Han people who escaped from the fortress at high and high times, don't they also imagine that the Hu people are free and can eat meat every day, but, from the perspective of the Han Chen, the Huns can go from thinking about who to rob after the autumn every day, to enduring the pain and pinning their hopes on the next life, it is really a huge change, and it is very beneficial to the capital to be restrained, who doesn't want the free-range livestock to be obedient?
Su Wu began to understand why Ren Hong asked Anbei to protect him secretly.This kind of religion of reincarnation and karma is indeed very attractive to the poor and poor who have lost hope, or the small Xiongnu nobles who look forward to continuing to be human beings in the next life, but it is completely different from the beliefs of the Han people.At least for Su Wu, it is unattractive.Su Wu remembered that what Emperor Xiaowu pursued all his life was to ascend to the immortal realm.Obsessed with the doctrine of immortals, he not only listened to the lies of the priests many times, sent people to overseas sacred mountains to find the elixir of immortality, but also built a number of towering mansions so that the Queen Mother of the West could come and go, although she was always deceived.When he was a lang by Xiaowu's side, he served on the side, and when he heard Xiaowu and the warlock Gongsun Qing wittily talking about the Yellow Emperor's casting of the Ding and ascending to the immortals, Han Wu was very envious after hearing it, and said: "Huh, I am as sincere as the Yellow Emperor, and I regard my wife as if I was a detached man!"
”Even if he doesn't become an immortal, Xiaowu's attitude towards his wife and eldest son is similar to taking off his old shoes.Even Xiaowu is so tormented, he can't fly to the immortal realm to attract souls to the sky, let alone ordinary people.Immortality is a luxury, and the Han people generally believe that it is still the soul of the world, and it is said that it will return to Mount Tai after death.Su Wu has witnessed the death of many people, his father's, his brothers', when Emperor Xiaowu died, he cried in Beihai and his eyes were bleeding, as well as Xiaozhao's, Huo Guang's, and Zhang Anshi's.And his eldest son Su Yuan was involved in the Shangguan Rebellion and was executed by Huo Guang, which made Su Wu the most unforgettable, he sent the white-haired man to the black-haired man, and personally arranged Su Yuan's tomb.I still remember that the town tomb coupon is written like this: "Miss the bitterness, hurry lovesickness, life belongs to Chang'an, death belongs to Mount Tai!"
”This is the Han people's view of life and death, more than 100 years ago, the Qi people sang: "Who is the land in Artemisia?"
There is no virtuous or foolish soul to gather. ”Artemisia is the entrance to the Yellow Spring under Mount Tai, it is said that the grandson of the Emperor of Heaven lives in it, is in charge of the command, the Lord summons the soul of people, and knows the length of life.Su Wu is very traditional, he doesn't believe that people have an afterlife, let alone any karmic reincarnation, he only thinks that people have to do things that make themselves have no regrets in their only life, and the history book Danqing will record your words and deeds, and after going down to Huangquan, facing the monarch's father, you can straighten your chest and have a clear heart!
After the completion of the fasting, according to Ren Hong's proposal, a copper pillar was erected in this place to mark the northern boundary of the Han Dynasty, originally the Son of Heaven wanted to imitate the bull that Qin Shi Huang bragged, so written: Within the Liuhe, the land of the Han Emperor.The west wades through broken leaves, and the south ends in the north.There is a whale sea in the east, and Ding Ling in the north.Wherever people go, there are no subordinates.But at the suggestion of the Marquis of Xi'an, Liu Xun finally decided not to fix the four solstice, but instead of another sentence, which was engraved on the front of the bronze pillar: "Where the sun and the moon shine and the rivers go, they are all Han soil!"
”After the tall bronze pillar with the basalt pattern stands, Su Wu told King Ding Ling in Ding Lingyu the meaning of the inscription on the back: "If the Xuanwu pillar is broken, then Ding Ling will be destroyed!"
”In the respectful promise of King Ding Ling, the Han soldiers shouted long live, Su Wu raised his head, the familiar sky, first there was nothing, but after a long time, a lonely wild goose flew in The Huns said that Su Wu was dead, thanks to Chang Hui told the Han envoy that the Han Tianzi shot into the forest garden, and got the goose, which was enough to tie the silk book, and said that Su Wu was in the Beihai wilderness, he was able to go home.Therefore, Su Wu is particularly fond of geese, looking up at it fixedly, listening to its voice, it is a little sad, it is an old goose, and he can't help but feel sad in his heart."
It's like me."
But I saw that it hovered over the North Sea like a slender blue eye, this old goose is the pioneer of the north?
Or is it the rear team that goes south too late?
Where did his companions go?
It's all gone.It wasn't until a long time later that a wild goose fluttered and floated down, landing at Su Wu's feet, he wanted to pick it up, but he couldn't bend down, he could only hold on to the scepter and endure the pain, and finally his son Su Tongguo did it for him, gently put the feather in Su Wu's hand, and carried the weak old lady to the side of the car.When lying in the car, Su Wu was speechless, and he only looked at Yanling for a long time, and he suddenly laughed.He stubbornly asked for orders to go north, but he was vague about the reason for coming north, and even he didn't quite understand it.Now Su Wu knows that he is coming here to tell Beihai, who has accompanied him for nineteen years, a word."
Beihai is also the land of the Han Dynasty!"
Su Wu also wanted to retrieve the nineteen years of his life that had fallen here, and he would pick up a part of the soul frozen by the frost here, hold it tightly in his palm, and then bring it back.Su Wu raised his head, his wish was over, his body was extremely weak, but his eyes were fixed in the direction of the southern Han land, Emperor Xiaowu, Huo Zimeng, his father Su Jian, two brothers, and his son Su Yuan were all waiting for him in Mount Tai."
Wu has no regrets in this life, I don't hope to have an afterlife, I only wish that my soul will return to Mount Tai, and thousands of souls will bless my Han forever!"
In the extreme south, opposite the North Sea, the southernmost boundary of Ninan-gun, which is thousands of miles away, is extremely hot.Outside a dense tropical rainforest, in the open space where the blue South China Sea can be seen, the Han soldiers and the local Linyi people and Jiaozhi people erected the "Vermilion Bird Pillar" representing the southern solstice of the Han Dynasty, which was fixed with stone inlay, and the inscription on it was similar to the Xuanwu Pillar erected by Su Wu.And not far away, a coolly dressed Han scholar avoided the scorching sun in the shade of a tree, wearing a distant travel crown, his body was so familiar, and his beard had not grown much, the only difference was that his belly was larger than five years ago, and he couldn't hold it back when he tried to inhale.After the sacrifice was completed, looking at his stomach, Ren Hong, who was middle-aged and blessed, was also very troubled, and encouraged himself: "Ah Hong, Ah Hong, although your achievements have been built, it is not an exaggeration to blow a sentence that there is no one before and no one after you, but this is no longer a resurrection of hips, but a hyperplasia!"
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