Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 54: The Wasteful Prince Chao

"Where are your guards?" He Bo asked him.

Gongzi Chao said, "I asked them to go somewhere else!"

"I'm so tired of following you every day!"

He Bo said "Oh" and thought that this kid was very brave to wander around the wilderness alone.

Then he asked, "Now that you've found the turtle, what are you going to do?"

Gongzi Chao became excited and rubbed his hands, saying, "I plan to invite you back to Nirvana City!"

"I happened to be expanding the city, so I had someone build a palace to raise... No, to worship you!"

"If I refuse, will you bring people to arrest me?"

The young master's face fell, and the excitement disappeared, "How is that possible? I can't beat you!"

say nothing else,

He Bo splashed water on everyone's face, which was enough to make them dizzy.

Besides,

How can mortals have the courage to actually attack ghosts and gods?

Gaolang is a remote place, and the customs of the people are a hybrid of Ye County and Tongdi.

Both superstitious and unrestrained.

It is a place with a strong wild color.

Apart from the small city of Nie, there were many barbarians and Rongdi living happily in the land of Gaolang.

When Gongzi Chao first arrived, he said he wanted to catch the sacred turtle in Guanhe River. Judging from the wild attitude of the villagers here, they might be able to become precious raw materials for sacrifice.

As for the fact that he is a member of the royal family of Zhao State?
snort!
The sacrifice is done.
Why think so much?
"do not want!"

He Bo clearly rejected Gongzi Chao's enthusiastic invitation.

"Being worshipped high up in the world, with my every move being subject to demands... I might as well just keep dragging my tail in the mud!"

Gongzi Chao was puzzled, "Isn't it good to be superior to others and be worshipped by others?"

“I feel very comfortable!”

"You feel comfortable because you don't understand the price you should pay for sitting there."

He Bo asked him, "Have you ever handled the affairs of a city?"

"Yes, Niecheng is my fiefdom!" Gongzi Chao said complacently.

This time, he no longer disliked the fact that Nie City was shabby and small.

"How wide and long is Nie City? How many people are there in the city? How much grain is stored? How much land is cultivated? How much silk is woven into cloth?"

“If there is a famine and food production decreases, how should we deal with it?”

"If a neighboring South Korea attacks, how should we respond?"

Gongzi Chao was confused by this series of questions.

He waved his hands and said in a panic, "Others will take care of these!"

"All I have to do is drink and have fun, right?"

"You don't know anything. Is this what you call handling affairs?"

"Although Jin has been divided up, the Marquis of Jin still guards the ancestral temple of the Jin family. Why don't you go and ask him one day why the three families divided Jin?"

He Bo splashed water on his face to sober him up.

The young man retreated and fell down, and finally sat on the ground in a mess.

The straw hat was useless, so he simply took it off and held it in his arms.

"Am I incompetent?" Gongzi Chao fell into self-doubt, but then became confident, "This is impossible!"

"My father always said that with my talents, I don't have to do anything and everything will be fine!"

He Bo was almost tickled by him and ran away.

"Have you read any classics?" he asked Gongzi Chao.

"I have read the Book of Poetry."

"Recite two songs for me."

"Oh!"

Gongzi Chao cleared his throat and sang "Guanju" in the tune of Sanjin.

"Guan Guan Jiu Jiu, in the river island. A graceful lady, a gentleman likes to fight."

"The water flows around the uneven water chestnuts. The beautiful lady is sought after day and night."

"I cannot get what I want, and I think about it day and night. I am so carefree, and I toss and turn."

"…This is a love poem. Please recite a poem praising the emperor!"

Although the emperor's authority had declined, it was still acceptable to recite the Zhou Songs because the Book of Songs was a compulsory course for the nobles.

Gongzi Chao, however, did not know how to do this. “I don’t understand these poems very well, but I can recite another poem, “Shuo Ren”, for you.”

"Shuo Ren" is a chapter in "Wei Feng" in the Book of Songs. The wording is very open and directly praises the beauty of women, which is in line with the customs of the Wei State.

"... Is your father's only son?" He Bo looked at Gongzi Chao for a while and suddenly asked him. "Yes, he loves me very much!" Gongzi Chao began to be complacent again.

then,

He Bo sighed, "I know why Prince Huai is determined to be a wise man and refuses to covet the throne."

"With an offspring like you, what else does he have to pursue?"

The driving force of progress,
It is also divided into many types.

Today, Prince Huai's character is recognized by his elder brother, and his status is supported by all the ministers. Fame and fortune are enough for him.

If you want to make further progress, you have to consider whether you can bear the consequences of failure.

If his offspring is capable and can hold on to his position, he may have the urge to "give it a try."

But obviously,

Gongzi Chao can't do it.

It would be better to retire cleanly, become a meritorious official in preserving the Zhao family's fortune, and preserve wealth for his incompetent descendants.

Gongzi Chao didn't understand what was going on, he just realized that the reason his father was "virtuous" was because of him.

So he became happy instead, "I said, how could I be incompetent?"

He Bo glanced at him speechlessly.

"Your guards are on their way. You should go back to the city and read more books and do more things!"

After he finished speaking, he turned into a stream of water, flowed along the Guan River, and returned to the Zhang River.

……

Xi saw He Bo and stepped forward to report, "The black pottery jars are broken."

"It's okay, they just malfunctioned and collapsed. I'll take care of it later."

He Bo said to Xi, "Don't touch it, it's very harmful to the ghost."

He had experimented with other ghosts. The jar itself, because it was mixed with some power of "Tu Bo", was very effective in suppressing and destroying ghosts.

Now He Bo only has one subordinate, Xi Niu Ma, so he naturally has to cherish him well.

After all, it is rare to find someone like Xi who is not too obsessed with life and death.

Among the ghosts He Bo met, there were also some who had not done any great evil in their lifetime, but once they saw the gods, they could not help but beg him to allow them to live longer.

If He Bo agrees, then as there are too many ghosts, his magic power will not be enough, and he will have to give up some of it.

He gave them life and caused them to die.
He Bo didn't want to make such a choice.

If you do not agree, even if you have not committed any serious evil in your life, after death you will create bad karma with your words against ghosts and gods out of fear of complete extinction.

The rare people who take life and death lightly will not force the gods and ghosts to carry them and become the next "joy". They just ask the gods and ghosts to let them seize the last chance to send a dream to their descendants and finish the unfinished words.

Once they have given their last words, they will have no regrets.

Therefore, He Bo has not added any more labor to himself until now.

some things,

It is better to wait until you have fully mastered the power of "Tu Bo" before doing it carefully.

Xi nodded, "I know!"

So He Bo put the matter of Guanhe behind him, went to Tongdi Mountain, picked up the jar again, and tried to obtain the complete authority of "Tu Bo" as soon as possible by sacrificing more ghosts.

But Guanhe River cannot be left behind either.

Guanhe is the northern source of the turbid Zhang River. If he can capture this place, the three sources of the Zhang River will be under He Bo's control, which will also be beneficial for him to attack Fajiu Mountain later.

Moreover, the water system on the Guanhe River is also very complicated.

The source of Guanhe River flows out of Bafuling in the Taiyue Mountain Range, and the latter is also the place where the western source of Qingzhang River flows out.

The Qieguan River is long. After flowing out of Bafu Ridge, it passes through Hutou Mountain.

This mountain is not only dangerous and a military stronghold, but also the watershed between Zhangshui, Fenshui and Qinshui.

If He Bo could use Guanhe River to take in all the surrounding mountains through which the water flows... then at that time, it would be very likely that he would be able to succeed in unifying the major tributaries of the Yellow River, engulfing the nearby mountains, and then rebelling against the mother river together.

Therefore,
He Bo still overcame all difficulties and made his presence felt in Guanhe River, so that this tributary would accept him as soon as possible and create a progress bar unique to Guanhe River.

After learning that Gongzi Chao was essentially just a pure and foolish member of the royal family, He Bo would occasionally show up and play with him.

Anyway, Ximen Bao hasn't come back yet.

He Bo decided to choose another destined person to be his daily partner.

But over in Guanhe, He Bo planned to use the "divine turtle" form to the end, as many things were not convenient to do with his claws.

But sometimes, if you choose to save face, you have to sacrifice other things.

However, the divine tortoise was inconvenient, but Gongzi Chao was nimble and skillful.

After he became familiar with He Bo, he ordered people to use a horse-drawn carriage, filled with bamboo slips, and go back to the Guan River.

"I've reflected on it. I really didn't study hard enough. I can't even compare to you. I'm not as studious as you."

Gongzi Chao said to He Bo, "So, I plan to read more classics in front of you and let you be my teacher!"

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　　(*︶*) Wei Guo Notes:
　　Duke Xuan of Wei committed adultery with his stepmother and took a daughter-in-law to Xintai (this woman first gave birth to two sons with Duke Xuan of Wei, and then married Duke Xuan of Wei's concubine's son)
　　Duke Hui of Wei attacks the King of Zhou
　　Duke Yi of Wei favored cranes

　　
　
(End of this chapter)