Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1256 Looking for people in mountains and rivers

  Marriage in the Han Dynasty is actually quite interesting. It seems to be in a special era of transformation. It is a link between the past and the future. There are not only the scary-sounding rules and regulations of Confucianism in later generations, but also the behavior pattern similar to that of free women in later generations.

  Fei Qian found this contradictory phenomenon very interesting.

  Huang Yueying was busy wandering around in front of Fei Qian, bringing out the little things she had made during this period of time, like presenting treasures, without being affected by the news of Mrs. Pei at all...

  Before, Fei Qian was worried that Pei's daughter would make Huang Yueying sad, but now it seems that Huang Yueying doesn't show any special emotions, and it doesn't seem like she is trying to pretend to be nonchalant.

  In ancient times, it was not only the privilege of men who hit someone with a big stick and dragged them into the cave. Speaking of which, if the people of later generations really wore the clothes in the primitive society, the white fresh meat, smooth and hairless, at least must have a lot less body hair than the natives. The mother-in-law definitely wants to try something new...

As for the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, it was relatively better. There were still women who were not out of the court who climbed the men's walls that the Confucians of later generations absolutely could not bear. In the eyes of later generations of Confucianism, these women who are shameless and cheating women can explain the problem very well.

In the early Han Dynasty, many women were still quite free, and the concept of chastity was relatively weak. It was not like the requirements of later Confucianism. Even if a strange man glanced at them, they had to cut off their belts to preserve their chastity. …

  Of course, the poor and untouchables can only choose to cut their own, while the rich and powerful can choose to cut others.

  In the Tang Dynasty, huh, huh, women’s freedom was a flashback before they died, and then they were covered in a coffin and nailed with seventy or eighty nails.

Then the current Han Dynasty seems to be in a period of development and change in terms of female restraint. There are such requirements, but they are not very strong. At least Feiqian knows that divorce is not like the rampant Confucianism in the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, only men had the right, and women could also "retire" when they were unhappy, such as poverty in the husband's family, serious illness, bad conduct, and sharp emotional conflicts. Leave".

  For example, classmate Cao was kicked out tragically. Fei Qian even thought maliciously, is it because of this that Lao Cao especially loves to play the role of Lao Wang...

The so-called "preserve the principles of nature and get rid of human desires", "starving to death is a small thing, and being dishonest is a big thing" and other golden slogans, in fact, most of them in the Han Dynasty were the same as those five lectures, four beauties and three loves in later generations, which belonged to the things painted on the wall , It’s very good if you do it, if you don’t do it, you may not be immediately arrested by government servants or something. Dong Zhongshu expressed his support for remarriage of widows, and even when Liu Bian drank poisonous wine, he had to give special instructions to Tang Ji, which shows that widows' observance of festivals was not an ordinary thing in the Han Dynasty.

   "..." Huang Yueying shook her hand in front of Fei Qian's eyes in dissatisfaction.

   "Ah... sorry, I was thinking about something, what's wrong?" Fei Qian came back to his senses and asked.

"...Here, here..." Huang Yueying glared at Fei Qian with her round eyes, then put a model in Fei Qian's hand, and said in a murmur, "This is the model of the latest ballista... Well, what about me , I thought so. At the beginning, I installed it in the crossbow according to the style of the carriage, but later found that if I did this, the shaft would be too easy to break, especially the crossbow. A short shaft was added to the lower plate of the machine, and it was changed to iron, which made it much more convenient, but it turned into a wheel that was easy to break..."

"Then I changed the hub and hub, and replaced them all with iron ones. Although this solved the previous problem, a new problem appeared..." Huang Yueying muttered helplessly. Pointing at the ballista model with his fingers, one or two scratches that seemed to be accidentally cut could be faintly seen on the delicate skin of the fingers.

Fei Qian held Huang Yueying's little hand that kept pointing back and forth, then rubbed Huang Yueying's delicate and smooth back and slightly rough finger belly with his fingers, and said, "Let me guess, um... because it's too It's heavy?"

Huang Yueying nodded, and said helplessly: "That's right! In this way, many wooden components have been replaced with iron ones. Although they are indeed more durable, they also weigh a lot more... Another point is, Once broken, on the battlefield, or on the way, it is more difficult to repair..."

   "Well, this is a problem..." Fei Qian also nodded, thinking about this problem.

As Huang Yueying said, the ancients may not have known that replacing those wooden structures with metal materials will increase the durability of the equipment, but similarly, if the parts are damaged during transportation or in battle, unless you carry extra parts Parts replacement, otherwise it is really not as convenient as wood, at least wood is easier to process temporarily, and metal materials must have a stove and hammer or something...

Holding her hand by Fei Qian, Huang Yueying gradually stopped talking, and her face was a little red. Although they are already husband and wife, it is still quite embarrassing for Huang Yueying to be intimate in public, and she is reluctant to break free from Fei Qian. Qian's hand, so he stared at the servants and servants at the side, like a little milk cat stretching its teeth and waving its claws and blowing its beard, expressing that he is super fierce, stand away from me.

   But the attendants and servants are very eye-catching. After all, no matter how small a cat is, they are still cats, and they are just bugs, at most mice. Therefore, they all bowed their heads silently and retreated quietly.

"In this way, can we try to use two axles and four wheels to distribute the weight?" Fei Qian looked at the ballista model upside down, pointed to the bottom and said, "In addition, it seems that this can also be changed...you can use an iron bearing Try it, um, but iron is still too easy to rust, why don't you change it to copper?"

   Fei Qian was thinking about it while talking to Huang Yueying. This made Huang Yueying very happy, her big eyes squinted into a line, she looked at Fei Qian, she couldn't hide the smile on her face. In Huang Yueying's heart, I am afraid that only Fei Qian will discuss these things she likes with herself, while most of the other gentry will sneer at them. Even Pang Shiyuan, who grew up together since childhood, would shake his head when he mentioned these things.

   "Huh? What's the matter?" Fei Qian turned his head and asked.

  Huang Yueying quickly shook her head and said, "It's okay, it's okay..."

"By the way," Fei Qian thought of something, looked at Huang Yueying and said, "I just heard the rumors from Senior Sister Cai before, but you were crying, and now a girl from the Pei family is coming, and why do I feel that you don't seem to care too much?" ?”

  Huang Yueying frowned, stared at Fei Qian with her round eyes, and said seriously: "Well... don't you like Mrs. Pei too?"

   "Like it?" Fei Qian shook his head and said, "I've never seen it before. How can I like it? It's just a transaction, and Pei's daughter is also a poor person..."

  Huang Yueying exhaled, puffed her cheeks, and said, "What's so pitiful... Isn't it all like this?"

  Fei Qian was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly, and said, "Well, that's right."

As long as it is in a patriarchal society, the more high-level women are, the less they can love freely and marry independently. There are often some factors that may be political or economic. In the eyes of others, it may be regarded as a kind of pity. But it is not.

There are gains and losses. As a enjoyer of the family's wealth and power, if you just want to get it and don't want to pay, you will often be rejected by the whole family. Using marriage as an exchange is actually a kind of transaction in some form, and it is not pitiful. Not pitiful.

  Pei's daughter is like this.

   "Oh, I understand a little bit..." Fei Qian held Huang Yueying's hand and said with a smile, "Because I don't like it, so you don't care, do you?"

  Huang Yueying immediately suppressed her mouth, lowered her head, and muttered: "Mr. Lang really likes Senior Sister Cai..."

  What kind of logic is this!

   Fei Qian was speechless.

  Huang Yueying glanced at Fei Qian secretly, opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say, her big eyes became foggy again...

   Fei Qian suddenly understood the contrast between Huang Yueying's before and after.

To Huang Yueying, the daughter of the Pei family, whom she had never met face to face, was at most just a concubine. She did not regard her as a person or a woman, but more like a tool that could make her husband and son-in-law more A reproductive tool for many offspring. It's like the wife of later generations discovers the wonderful picture album hidden by her husband, the folder hidden in the hard disk, or the inflatable doll. feeling.

  But Cai Yan is like a real person to Huang Yueying. Although Fei Qian didn't do anything, Huang Yueying really felt the threat to herself.

   Fei Qian smiled, then rubbed Huang Yueying's head, and said softly: "Silly girl, what are you worried about, you are my wife and will always be."

   "Really?" Huang Yueying opened her eyes wide, full of anticipation in her eyes, like a puppy who heard that she was going out for a walk, wagging her tail, as if the joy in her heart would burst out in the next second.

   "Really!" Fei Qian nodded and said.

   "Woooooh..." Huang Yueying couldn't help herself, she threw herself into Fei Qian's arms, pierced her head on Fei Qian's chest, and cried out.

   "Ah, why are you crying..." Fei Qian couldn't help crying and laughing, "There are still people..."

  The servants and maidservants serving around the lobby hurriedly wanted to shrink their heads to the ground, and all they had to do was hold up a sign to indicate that they could neither hear nor see anything.

  Huang Yueying jumped up with an "ahhhh", blushing, and wanted to run to the inner room with tears in her eyes.

   "It's okay, it's okay, just wipe it off..." Fei Qian quickly grabbed Huang Yueying, and said, "I still have something to say..."

   "..." Huang Yueying tilted her head and turned her face to prevent Fei Qian from seeing the distressed look on her face, and suddenly said, "...Well, as long as Senior Sister Cai agrees, I...I have no objection..."

   "What!" Fei Qian couldn't breathe, and flicked a brain collapse on Huang Yueying's head, and said, "It's business, what are you thinking!"

   "Ah!" Huang Yueying clutched her forehead.

"Yesterday, I told Zijing that we want to set up an agronomy club..." Fei Qian briefly recounted what he and Zaozhi had said, and then said, "...But it is not enough if only people from the agronomy club teach agronomy Yes... After all, the measurement scales are different in each county. Even if the people who teach the agricultural society teach specific methods, if the measurement is different, there will still be problems. Together with the agricultural society, wherever the agricultural people go, you will go there, and the measurement will be unified, so that there will be no deviation..."

  Huang Yueying was attracted, tilted her head and thought for a while, and said, "Actually, it's not a big problem, because each county has its own measurement, and the deviation is only a little..."

   "That's right, but the problem is that what I need to solve is not just the problem of measurement..." Fei Qian smiled, lowered his voice, and whispered something in Huang Yueying's ear.

  Huang Yueying suddenly opened her eyes wide, and looked at Fei Qian in disbelief.

Fei Qian nodded, and continued to speak softly: "... People who study agriculture must be proficient in farming, but for some other matters, they must be proficient in engineering, so this matter must be led by you... How about it, can you do it?"

  Huang Yueying pointed to herself, and said with some hesitation: "Yes, of course I am willing...but what should I do?"

   Feiqian smiled, pointed it out and said, "Don't you have the order of the elders of the Mo family..." The Huang family and the people of the Mo family temporarily set up the entire surveying and surveying structure, and then slowly supplemented and perfected it later.

  The key is that in this era, geography is too neglected. An atlas can be drawn like a landscape painting, and it can only be used as a rough basis for judgment. What else can it be used for?

How is the surrounding geography, whether horses can be raced, whether there are any military strongholds, the geometry of the garrisons, these things that require surveying, mapping and surveying, agricultural officials who are proficient in farming may not be able to understand, but people from the Huang family and the Mohist family are basically in the field. Moreover, the Agricultural Academy was used as a cover on the surface, and these princes in the Han Dynasty did not have the awareness of this aspect, so Fei Qian would probably take advantage of this loophole...

Think about it, when there is no conflict, the Agricultural Society must be extremely popular, because no one will have trouble with the food in their own fields, and once the conflict is irreconcilable and a battle breaks out, their own side already knows Knowing the terrain of the mountains and rivers on the opposite side and how the soldiers are arranged, this has a huge advantage invisibly!

"That's right...there is an elder's order..." Huang Yueying's big round eyes gradually released brilliance, as if she had found some new toy, and she couldn't even care about the faint tears on her face, "Let me think think…"

The Han Dynasty also had a tradition of appointing female officials, such as female teachers, female historians, and even female ministers, female imperial chiefs, etc. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for women to take up some positions in the Han Dynasty, and Fei Qian would not Rest assured and leave it to other people, after much deliberation, only Huang Yueying is the most suitable.

   As for future questions...

   Forget it, let's take care of the present first.

  (end of this chapter)