My name is Chu Shaosun, the author of the Journey to the West you have seen.This account records what I saw and heard in the river, in the poison and the Ptolemaic kingdom during the Liuhe period of the present day, as well as the battles and experiences between the great Sima hussar general Hou Rengong of Xi'an and Caesar, the regent of the Great Qin State in Haixi.After the young grandson wrote this book, he couldn't decide on the title of the book for a long time, and finally got the Xi'an Hou to assign it and named it Journey to the West.Xi'an Hou Zhen is worthy of being the first person in the Han Dynasty to write poetry in the past two hundred years, which can be described as a wonderful pen, which makes the clumsy work a lot more brilliant.If it is strange why the Han people's travelogues are vernacular, and the words are crude, and there are often some words that only exist in later generations, it must be due to the poor translation of later generations, and has nothing to do with the original author.The young grandson was originally from Yingchuan County, and later lived in Pei County with his parents, and studied in the Confucian prince of Donghai County.Wang Gong style, is the East Dusk Hou He when the king of Changyi when the prince, because of the poem 300 exhortation, the king of Changyi was exempted from offense, and then taught in Donghai County, participated in the meeting of Shiqu Pavilion in the Tian'an period.However, because Dr.
Lu Shi was narrow-minded and excluded, Wang Gong left Chang'an in anger, and was disheartened by academics and no longer taught.Because I stayed in Beijing, together with my friend Kuang Heng, a native of Donghai County, I entered the Jingzhao Yin Zhang Gongzhi Open Door and learned the legend of the Spring and Autumn Zuo clan after learning Shiqu Pavilion.In the first year of Yuankang, 55 years ago, the old prime minister Boyang Dinghou Binggong died, and Zhang Gong was promoted to the imperial history doctor, with Kuang Heng as the imperial historian, and recommended me to be a waiter.I don't like to be an official to deal with cases, I only like to read, especially the Taishi Gongshu, but unfortunately after the death of the Taishi Gong, the historical records were deleted and lost ten articles.In the early years of this dynasty, Yang Yun, the grandson of Taishi Gong, added a few articles and added the biography of the Western Regions, so that the history of the countries in the Western Regions was complete, but it could not be completed, so that it was convenient to follow the great Sima Hussar General to the west during the five-star year and did not return.During my time as a waiter, I went in and out of Shiqu Pavilion, sorted out the historical records, visited celebrities and bachelors, and went through great pains to get the seal book of the previous dynasty.However, in the matter of scenery and martial arts, although the age is far away, but for the Venerable, I am timid and dare not write in vain.Recently, I heard that Yang Gong has completed all the articles in the West, and has made historical records of foreign biographies to record the historical events of the country over the past thousand years, such as rest and poison.I was itchy and wanted to have a look, but I felt that I was not knowledgeable enough, and the words were ugly, not as much as Taishi Gong and Yang Gong, so I still had to continue to learn.took the opportunity of the envoy to go to the Poison Capital Protectorate, hoping to get Yang Gong's guidance.In the autumn of 50 B.C., in the second year of Liuhe, I left Chang'an and traveled west with Wei Sima Guji, the envoy of the festival who had gone to the poison.This is the fifth era name after Benshi, Jingning, Cheonan, and Yuanyasu.Yuankang's meaning is to take "the people also work, and the people can be well-off", hoping that the Han can achieve the rule of "well-off".And Liuhe followed, there are two meanings, one is to take "the Spring and Autumn Period, so the unifier, the six contract winds, Kyushu coherence also".The second is that the Han Dynasty already has six major capital protectorates, in addition to the previous Western Regions, Beiting, Anbei, Hezhong, and other countries, and added the body poison capital and the Andong capital protectorate, which is also in line with the meaning of Liuhe.The scenery and folk history of the four counties of Hexi and the capital of the Western Regions have been recorded by many people in the past 20 years, and there are many legends.From Yandun Valley to Birdfly Valley, high beacons are repaired on both sides, there is a disposal place every thirty miles, and the road is much smoother than when the hussar general marched west more than ten years ago.Han and Hu merchants kept coming and going, transporting tea and silk to the west, and carpets and spices to the east.What interests me the most is the changes in the river, Dawan does not have the slightest feeling of exoticism, and Khotan, Luntai and other places are similar, half Hu people, half Han people, more than 70 cities, and a small half has been assigned to the commander of meritorious soldiers.The ruler of Dawan is the deputy lieutenant of Hezhong, the Marquis of Guishan, named Ren Bai.As the eldest son of the hussar general and Princess Anping, he owns hundreds of miles of land in Guishan City and Shayechuan, and has more than 100,000 Han and Wusun people under his direct control, and more than 20,000 horsemen with bows.I heard that he and Zhao Duhu, the Marquis of Tangyi, led an expedition to Xiancai, but I didn't see him when I passed through Guishan City.And the wife of the Marquis of Guishan is surnamed Wang, the name Zhengjun, is the sister of Wang Feng, the Marquis of Guannei, I heard that the envoy of the festival came, let people set up a banquet to entertain, I saw at the banquet that she was only in her twenties, already the mother of three children, and the hospitality was generous.The appearance and demeanor of Mrs.
Guishan Marquis, I rashly described it as too rude, so I will use a poem in Longxi Xing to describe it."
Treat the north hall and sit on the guest felt.The innocence is different, and the wine is sparse.Drink wine and hold it with guests, and talk to the host.But he knelt down a little more, and then held a cup.Before talking and laughing, he looked at the Chinese kitchen.Urge the order to make coarse rice, and be careful not to keep it.Waste gifts are sent out, and Yingying is trending in the house.The send-off is not far away, but it is not enough to reach the door.If you take a woman like this, Qi Jiang is not as good. ”I spent the winter in the river, and in the third year of Liuhe, in 49 B.C., when the snow melted in the spring, I continued southward, passing through the five kingdoms of Sogdia and the Great Yue, and the interesting stories of this time are recorded in another book.Here I will only talk about what I saw and heard in the Protectorate of the Poison Capital, and the reason why I later followed Captain Chen Tang to the Ptolemaic Kingdom.The boundary between the river and the body is a dangerous pass called "Gao Fu Pass", and when I arrived, it was different from when the hussar general went south ten years ago, and now there is an additional pass here.The long wall with stone on both sides is said to be to guard against thieves, but it is said that it is to guard against the five kingdoms of the Otsuki clan, which used to go south to plunder the body poison, but now the body poison is already the land of the Han Dynasty, and the shore of the land can no longer allow people to come and loot.We passed the high attached pass, and arrived at the boundary of the body poison capital Popin Dao, which is also called Gandhara, in the north of the high attached pass, the city is empty and sparsely populated.After entering the popper, the grains are abundant, and the flowers and fruits are luxuriant.When we passed, we saw that sugarcane grew in the local farmland, and I heard that the poisonous people began to extract stone honey thousands of years ago, and after the arrival of the hussar general, the number of sugarcane fields was expanded, and it was transported back to the Han Dynasty from land or sea every year.At this time, I listened to the guide, a small official named "Gao Wutong", talk about the family name system of the poisonous country.He said: "There are four castes in the body, and the first one is called Brahmin, who is a monk.The second is called Kshatriya, a general of the royal race, and has been a king in all dynasties.The third is called Vaishya, and he is a merchant who sells goods.The fourth is called the Shudra, a peasant and a slave who works hard to cultivate the land, plant and harvest crops, and provide for the brahmins and Kshatriyas. ”These four castes, which are distinctly pure, are all married within their own caste, and the broad and the poor are not married to each other, nor can they change jobs, all from generation to generation.Gao Wutong also taught me a way to distinguish between high and low surnames in addition to looking at occupations: "The ones that look black are generally the low family names, and the slightly whiter ones are the high family names." ”I saw that the people who were working in the fields of sugar cane and wheat and rice were indeed dark-skinned and ugly-looking, some of them with a little lighter complexion, who looked like the overseers of the plant, and when they saw the Han envoys from afar, they prostrated themselves on the ground and saluted.Gao Wutong said: "Since the hussar general went south, the Yueshi, Wusun, and Kangju people have also become Kshatriyas, and there is one more caste in the body, that is, Aurora. ”Aurora is the name of the body poison for the Han people, and it is also the meaning of the Han people, and now the yellow-skinned and delicate Han people have become more noble than the woman and the brake.The climate of Zobin is mild, similar to that of Yingchuan County, and after a day's walk along the avenue, you will arrive at the location of the Imperial Palace.This was originally the capital of the Pop Bin country, named Xunxian, ten years ago after the hussar general conquered the Popbin, the name of this place was changed, called "Ba Tiecheng", I don't know what the meaning is, maybe because there are iron mines in the nearby mountains.It was a big city, with more than 1,000 households, and the streets and alleys outside the city were crooked, and the streets were full of shops, and butchers, fishermen, prostitutes, playmakers, executioners, and scavengers, all of whom lived in special signs, and who were excluded from the city.When they encounter Han Chinese, Brahmins, or Kshatriyas, who live in the city, they must avoid the roadside.But the clothes of the nobles were very simple, and the men wore a cloth around their waists up to the armpits, and placed their scarves horizontally, with one end on their left shoulder, and their right shoulders exposed.The woman wears an apron that covers both shoulders and hangs loosely.The walls of Pakistan are mostly made of bricks, and the walls of the houses are sometimes made of bamboo and wood.The roof is made of wood, plastered with lime and covered with bricks, and the walls are painted with cow dung from Wagyu beef.Because the poisoner thinks that the cow is holy, cow urine and cow dung can be used to save people, and even bathe, and it is absolutely impossible to kill the cow.After hearing this, Gu Ji told me: "I thought that the Han Dynasty established a law to prohibit the killing of cultivated cattle, but I didn't expect that the poison was even worse. ”I only replied to him, "It's too much." ”There are some Futu temples and Brahmin temples in Waiguo District, Futu Temple has a round tower, it looks very simple from the outside, and there are trees planted in the courtyard, which is very secluded.The Brahmanical temples are very tall, with bright colors such as blue, red, and green, and are carved with strange gods, such as elephant trunks, six hands, and even men and women, who are openly molded and unsightly, huddled together as if they were about to fall.When approaching, there was a strong smell of spices, and the temple was knocking and beating, and the poisonous people were huddled together and shouting.Gu Ji said that he only felt a little pain in his head, and I pinched my nose and walked by.Fortunately, these smells and noises disappeared after entering the inner city, and the inner city gate was erected with Han Que, which was full of Han-style buildings, and the streets were full of Chinese clothes, making us feel like we had returned to our hometown.It was in Ba Tiecheng that I met Yang Gong, who I had not seen for a long time.I met Yang Gong, before the meeting of Shiqu Pavilion, I had the honor to go to his home, please read the Taishi Gongshu, at that time I was just a small Confucian student of the Lu poetry school, I thought that Yang Gong had an arrogant reputation, would ignore it, who knew that he was elegant and easy-going, and he was very enthusiastic about me.After more than ten years, Yang Gong, who is already the deputy lieutenant of the Protectorate of the Poison Capital, is still as talkative as he was back then, and he is even more courageous when he is in trouble, which makes Wei Sima Guji a little unhappy, and privately said that if Yang Gong is in the court, I am afraid that he has been killed.After Yang Gong read the articles I made up for the historical records, he praised me and said that I had historical materials.He also took out his own historical biography and said that he hoped to send these contents back to the Han Dynasty for publication, so that the world would know the vastness of the world."
Zou Yan's Great Kyushu Doctrine is right, the Chinese are only Chixian Shenzhou, one-ninth of the world."
This book also recounts the conquest of the hussar generals in the ten years after their southward march and the establishment of the Protectorate of the Poison Capital, and I will only briefly mention it here.Since 59 B.C., the first year of the Five Stars, the hussar general defeated the queen of Zongbin in the Gaofu Mountain Pass, and soon destroyed the Zongbin country and set up the Zongbin Road.The following year, he made the northern country submit to Kashmir.Five stars three years ago, 57 went south to subdue the Southern Bactria states of Punjab, and set up the Southern Xia Road.55 years before the first year of Yuankang, the hussar general took the old king to rest and died, and when the two little kings were fighting, they went south along the body poison river to attack the rest of the state Wuyi Mountain and left the country, set up the Xinde Road, so far all took the north body poison.Yuankang two years ago 56, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to set up a poisonous capital to protect the government, and it has been seven years now.Yang Gong talked to me: "The body is only slightly inferior to China, with a radius of more than 90,000 miles.It is bordered on three sides by the Great Teaching, and on one side by the snow-capped mountains.It is wide in the north and narrow in the south, and has a triangular shape.The weather was very hot and the place was very humid.There are many mountains in the north, and the hills are mostly saline-alkali land, the eastern rivers and fields are very fertile and moist, the southern part is lush with vegetation, and the western land is thin, but the Ganges River in the middle is the richest. ”And the body poison is accounted for by the Protectorate, which is only one-fifth of the entire body poison, and the northern body is poisonous.I stayed in Batiecheng for half a month, but I never saw Xi'anhou.Yang Gong did not respect the Marquis of Xi'an, and often referred to him as "he": "He, or with Wusun Xiaokunmi, led the soldiers to the east to the west and the middle of the body, but he did not want land, only extorted money and silk to pay tribute, and occupied some southern poisonous harbors so that the ships of the Han Dynasty could rest, just like a thief."
But I didn't see half of the benevolence and etiquette that he kept saying, and sure enough, those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished. ”Princess Anping has been named "Wusun Little Kunmi" by the Son of Heaven, and stands side by side with Da Kunmi Dale.The wife is the king and the husband is only the marquis, which is indeed a bit inappropriate.Yang Gong said again: "Actually, the princess is looking at Xi'an Hou and not letting him find those Brahmin maids who are white and beautiful." ”I smiled with it, I only felt that what Gu Ji said was not bad, and it was only the Hou of Xi'an who could tolerate Yang Gong, and whoever else had already pulled out his tongue and beheaded him.Yang Gong continued: "What's more, since the year before last, since the crown prince and young master Liu Gengsheng were born with poison, the master and apprentice have often lived in the mountains north of Zhengbin, indulging in the art of alchemy and cultivating immortals.The Dangong sulfur obtained from the poison in the south and the islands in the South China Sea was transported into the mountains one by one, and iron-casting craftsmen were hired at high prices from the Central Plains. ”"Xi'an Hou is only more than forty years old, and he has never been infected with the poisonous epidemic, and it is still too early to die, so he is in such a hurry to make alchemy and medicine, I think there is another need."
Hearing this, I was timid, and I didn't dare to sit anymore, and wanted to get up and say goodbye.But Yang Gong was already drunk, so he pulled me and continued to scold: "Ren Hong kept saying that the country was going to die, and listened to God, but now he has forgotten everything, there is a country that is not governed, and all the chores are thrown to me, and he is not doing his job, and he doesn't know what he is doing day by day!"
”PS: Chapter 2 is before 0:00.Chu Shaosun is one of the completers of historical records, and the "Mr.
Chu Said" that he often sees is him.