[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

Cui Song took the initiative to translate the entourage's words:

My own horse deliberately misbehaved and bullied Mi Heng's horse and ran away.

Cui Song took a look at "搦白", the horse's head was raised high, and he snorted happily.

Cui Song looked away.

"Have you sent someone to look for it?"

The attendant said more respectfully: "Wu San and the others rode to look for it."

Wusan and the others were the guards who escorted Cui Song and Mi Heng out of the city.

Cui Song turned to Mi Heng, and asked in a questioning tone: "This horse won't be found for a while, why don't Zhengping ride with me?"

Mi Heng thought of what he said before he tied the horse, and felt that his face was dry and painful from the sun.

"If you don't tie the rope to the tree, the horse will run away later, so don't ride with me."

As a result, Cui Song's free-ranging horse didn't run away, but the horse he was tied up to broke the rope and ran away.

"No need."

He was the one who spoke harshly beforehand, if he rode with Cui Song now, wouldn't it be a slap in the face for himself?

"I'm reading in the house, and I'll leave after the horse is found."

Cui Song said: "Since that's the case, Song will take a step first."

He patted the head of "搦照" which continued to snort, and got on the horse.

After Cui Song returned to the city, he went straight to Sikong Mansion.

After being notified, Cui Song was led into the house, and found that not only Cao Cao was sitting in the room, but also Guo Jia.

After all the salutations, Cao Cao waved his sleeves and ushered in his seat:

"Zicong came just in time, the cooks in the house have made stewed food, come and taste it."

Cui Song promised to take his seat next.

Guo Jia came over with a flagon and poured him a glass himself.

"It happened to be about you, so you came."

Cui Song's heart moved, and he raised his eyes to look at Guo Jia, meeting his gaze.

In an instant, Cui Song received a reminder from his friend, took the wine that Guo Jia had poured, held it flat, and toasted Cao Cao:

"My lord, it's just one thing to take the liberty to see him."

"Why?"

"In the past, Luoyang was not burned, and the scholars copied the scrolls, so many old copies were preserved."

Cao Cao immediately straightened his back: "I heard from Wen Ruo (Xun Yu) about this matter. The Xun family has some replicas, which have been dedicated to Zhonggong Taixue."

"Song also collected a few volumes, and I am about to hand them over to the lord."

"Zicong knows my heart, but I don't know how many volumes Zicong has collected?"

"A total of 560 volumes."

Cao Cao got up abruptly, and accidentally overturned the table and dishes: "Is this true?!"

Different from Cao Cao's excitement and trembling, Cui Song stood up slowly and smiled firmly: "Such a big event, how can it be trifling?"

"Good! Good! Good!" Cao Cao said three good words in a row, strode up to Cui Song, and grabbed his hand, "The sweet rain sent by Zi Cong is just solving Gu's urgent need!"

It turned out that when Dong Zhuo came to Beijing, no matter the aristocratic family or ordinary people with insight, they all smelled uneasiness.Many families fled overnight, but the gentry made two-handed preparations, secretly arranging some of their clansmen to leave Luoyang, leaving only half of them with both ability and political integrity to fight against Dong Zhuo.

For scholars, books are the foundation of family heirlooms and wealth for generations. They would rather throw away a whole carload of gold and silver antiques than lose half of their collection.

Scholars who left Beijing took away part of the family's collection of books, while the other part looked anxiously at the official school and Hongdu.

With the lessons of Afang Palace, Xun Yu, the palace guard who had not yet shown his qualifications and had not yet left Luoyang, joined forces with Cui Song, Chen Qun and others to persuade Situ Huangwan to open up official schools, Biyong, and others at the risk of being accused of crimes. The collections in Hongdu, Dongguan and other places were copied by scholars and scholars in the name of renovation.Dong Zhuo is full of power and money, and doesn't care about these "useless pieces of bamboo".Before the capital was moved, tens of thousands of copies were taken away by many exiles to save them from being burned.

When Cui Song studied hard behind closed doors, he not only carefully re-transcribed his own subset and the copy brought out from Luoyang, but also secretly inquired about the past while seeking medical advice. Students who copied books together.

Later, he took a study tour with his book bag and traveled all over the five eastern states. After several years, he collected more than [-] copies of rare classics.

Including the pre-Qin solitary copy that I transcribed at home, there are a total of 560 volumes, including a collection of classics and history, astronomy and geography, and hundreds of medical and industrial schools.

"For these 560 volumes, due to the inconvenience of transportation, Song only sent people to transport [-] volumes first, and temporarily stored them in a suburb three hundred miles away from Xudu. These [-] volumes have been shipped in recent days. I went to the suburbs to make some statistics, and then I came to report this matter to my lord, so that we can make arrangements early."

While Cao Cao was ecstatic, he still didn't forget to worry: "The Cui family of Qinghe..."

"Don't worry, my lord. Except for the official school and the Han Palace copy, the rest of the volumes are copied from the collection of Song and my father. Song and my father are willing to do their best for the Lord, and please don't refuse."

The reason why Cao Cao asked about the entire Cui family in Qinghe is because the clan will of this era often overrides personal will.Books are family heirlooms, usually the property shared by the clan, and individuals are often not allowed to dispose of them at will.This is why there are so many scholars who serve Cao Cao and worry about the people, but very few people actually donate books.

It has to be said that Cui Song's move accurately hit Cao Cao's needs.

It has only been more than a year since the emperor moved the capital to Xu County. As a newly established capital, Xu County is still very immature, and many places are still in the initial stage of construction.

When Cao Cao first started to cater to the emperor, because there was no palace and supplies were in short supply, he welcomed the emperor into his home, and put the emperor first in eating, drinking, living and living.Enough to see the embarrassment at that time.

Today, after farming and urban construction, Xudu's food and infrastructure problems have been overcome, but the cultural aspect has become a thorn in Cao Cao's heart.

Yuan Benchu ​​made this criticism and asked to "be changed to the emperor", but he could bear it and laughed it off; however, Xudu's literature and forests were withered, and the students of ordinary people in the city had no books to read, and talented scholars were discouraged from waiting and watching, which made Cao Cao very worried. Burning fire, sighing day by day.

Compared with this whole act of righteousness, the reason why Cui Song and Mi Heng went out of the city, and the subtle feelings Cao Cao felt because of getting close to Mi Heng, who was against him, all became insignificant at this moment.

"This is a meager force, the kindness and righteousness in it, I will keep it in my heart."

"My lord, don't break evil spirits. Praises are nothing more than breaking flowers and presenting them. If it weren't for Wen Ruo's (Xun Yu)'s righteousness, it would be rare to praise even if he had the heart."

"You speculate with Fengxiao, even the way of promoting merit is so similar."

Hearing this sentence suddenly, a big question mark appeared in Cui Song's heart who didn't know the inside story.

Guo Jia took advantage of the situation and cleared his throat: "Then you, the priest, are you going to help today?"

"Zhengping was worried about the country, and offered to share the worries of the Lord, and transcribed these 560 copies."

Hearing the word initiative, even Guo Jia, who was already familiar with Cui Song's style, couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth.

Cao Cao couldn't believe it anymore: "You have a heart..."

"My lord, rest assured, you Zhengping have made three chapters with me: you will never say anything in front of others until you finish copying the 560 copies."

It means: He has promised not to speak a word with others during the copying period, which means that he will not be angry with Cao Cao and the officials and generals in Cao Cao's mansion...

Cao Cao felt a little weird.This is not ten volumes, but more than 1000 volumes. With Mi Heng's temperament, this condition is probably more uncomfortable for him than asking him to apologize to himself. How could he agree?