The west wind roared and the cold winter came. With a heavy snow general, all things dormant, like dormant hundreds of families, are silently waiting for the arrival of spring and the period of revival.
On the rammed earth official road in liaozhou, Southwest China, a huge motorcade is driving slowly against the cold wind. Although the temperature in Liaoren three states is not low, the cold air is everywhere, which makes people sweat and stab to the bone.
"Shouldn't it be warm in the south? Why is it so cold?" Kong huisuo hugged his hands and shook his teeth on the cableway.
One side of Mo Da also trembled with his legs and said, "Master Kong doesn't know. Most of us are wearing cotton clothes in the north, and there are stoves and heating in the house. When we enter the house, we don't feel the cold at all. You see, although the temperature in liaozhou is not low, the air is very wet and cold, and most of its houses are wooden houses, so we don't keep warm at all."
The purpose of this trip to liaozhou is to make liaozhou rich, and Mo University, which has always controlled the experimental field of Mohism, is the most suitable candidate.
"Then why are the local staff so unafraid of the cold?" Kong huisuo pointed to the curious team of staff children. Even in such a cold day, the staff children are still dressed in single clothes, but still move freely.
Seeing Kong huisuo's eyes, the mother of the Liao child pulled the child back and stared warily at the huge Han team. The rebellion in the three states of Liao people has just been put down, and the previous hatred is not so easy to forget.
Mo Da thought about it and said, "there is a little story circulating in the Mojia village that may confuse Master Kong. It is said that a landlord loved to play tricks on people. Once on a snowy day, a beggar with thin clothes and trembling came to the landlord's house to beg. Seeing this, the landlord couldn't help teasing, so he said: "As long as you can stand at my door all night and still be there the next day, I'll give you half of my possessions."
The beggar looked at the snowy weather and listened to the hungry voice in his stomach. He gritted his teeth and agreed. Soon one night later, when the landlord opened the door again, he saw that the beggar was still at his door. Although he was shivering with cold, he was still alive. The landlord had no choice but to give half of his family to the beggar. The former beggar became a rich man overnight. "
"The landlord really deserved it. In the end, he moved a stone and hit himself in the foot!" Kong huisuo was relieved.
Mo Da nodded and said, "the landlord is naturally unwilling to lose half of his property in vain. A year later, in the cold winter and December, the landlord had an idea and thought of a plan, so he found the old beggar. As long as you stand in the snow for another night, I will give you the other half of my property. If you can't support it, give me back half of my property."
When the beggar heard this, he was overjoyed. Isn't this pie falling from the sky? Last year, he won half of the landlord's property. This time, he didn't easily take back the other half. At present, he nodded and agreed without hesitation. However, when he took off his white fur clothes, took off his warm fur hat and put on his former beggar clothes, he found that this winter was particularly cold, although the beggar did everything He tried to keep warm, but before midnight, the beggar could no longer stand the cold, so he had to return half of his property to the landlord. "
Kong huisuo was silent for a moment and said, "from thrift to extravagance, from extravagance to thrift, one year's rich life has completely made beggars lose their physique to resist the cold, just as we have lived in the north for a long time and enjoyed the warmth of stove fire and heating, but we can't stand this cold wind."
Mo Da said with a wry smile: "what's more sad is that I was like a beggar four years ago. I was naked. However, in the face of the cold winter, I was still calm in my thin clothes. However, who could have thought that I had only had a good life for four years. Now Mo is wearing thick clothes and even feels the cold wind to the bone."
The two men looked at the thin children and Liao people on both sides, and then looked at the thick clothes they were tightly wrapped. They couldn't help feeling.
Kong Hui Suolang said: "it is not the wish of the people to spend the cold winter naked, but a helpless move. The purpose of our coming today is to let the Liao people in these three states wear thick clothes in winter, rather than fight hard with a thin body, accept the Enlightenment of saints in a warm house, rather than running around in the cold wind all day to make a living."
Mo Da nodded deeply. Since Mojia village can live a good life, other villages can follow suit.
Moreover, once the people of the three prefectures of liaomin are put on warm cotton padded clothes and asked to take them off, it is impossible. They can only devote themselves to the Tang Dynasty.
Soon, the team of Mohists and Confucians came to Yazhou, the center of the three Liao states. Niu JINDA, who was responsible for monitoring the Liao people, was stationed in Yazhou.
Although Yazhou is called the state, it is at the same level as the county of the Tang Dynasty. There is only a dilapidated city wall covered with knife wounds and arrow holes, which is obviously a trace left by the last war.
"See general Niu!" Kong huisuo and Mo Datong are bowing their hands.
The Confucian and Mohist families arrived in liaozhou and came to visit Niu JINDA at the first time. The Confucian and Mohist families want to open up a situation in the three Liao states. It is impossible without the support of Niu JINDA.
"It's the great sages of the Confucian and Mohist families who are coming, but I'm looking forward to it!" Niu jindalang said. He is responsible for suppressing liaozhou. The situation here is unstable and there are many contradictions between the Liao people and the Han people. If he really educates the Liao people as envisaged by the Confucian and Mohist families, he can finally get rid of this bitter place and transfer back to Chang'an city.
"General Niu flattered me. Xiaosheng is ashamed of it." Kong huisuo said politely. Although Moda and Kong huisuo pass through, there is no good reputation of Kong huisuo after the Kong family. Kong huisuo is the leader of this trip.
"Where! Where! Master Kong is the successor of Master Kong and inherits the great wish of Master Kong to educate all the people. Although Niu says that he is a rude man and despises the sour Confucian who is full of morality, he admires Master Kong's practical people." Niu JINDA said without blocking.
Kong huisuo couldn't help smiling bitterly, so he had to bow his hands and say, "general Niu will do everything."
Niu JINDA said boldly, "don't worry. If there are any difficulties, just open your mouth and say that Lao Tzu's 10000 troops are not vegetarian."
Kong huisuo quickly shook his head and said, "general Niu, this is not the time to use force, otherwise the imperial court will not send us."
Niu JINDA looked at Kong huisuo meaningfully and said, "then you have to suffer. The Liao people here are not so friendly to the Han people!"
At first, Kong huisuo didn't know what Niu JINDA meant. Only when he began to educate the people did he understand what Niu JINDA meant by suffering.