Chapter 46 I have a dream

The house is all packed up and tomorrow we will return to our fiefdom. Cheng Chumo will also return, but his family’s land is very close to Chang’an, unlike the Yun family, which is fifty miles away. The Lao Niu family is not much farther from the Yun family, separated only by the Ba River. One is on the east side of the river, and the other is on the west side.

The Yun family’s fiefdom is 1,200 mu in size, backed by the Jade Mountain and facing the Ba River. It can be called fertile land, and Li Er is still kind in this regard, not treating Yun Ye unfairly. This is also the only thing he is satisfied with.

Today, he had to ask for leave from the court. The Tang Dynasty attached great importance to spring plowing. According to the usual practice, officials with land were given a month of leave for spring planting and autumn harvesting.

Yun Ye sat on the swing in the garden and planned not to return to the capital this year. He would leave the Ke Wu Academy to Li Chengqian. After all, their main responsibility now was to collect data, enrich the library, and lay a solid theoretical foundation for future development.

Li Gang was right. The foundation determines the height of the future. Yun Ye didn’t want to force the growth of the seedlings. With his knowledge of more than a thousand years, it would be easy to make an innovation. While he was still alive, the Institute of Diligence would not lack new discoveries. But what about after he died? Stagnation is light, but I’m afraid the Institute of Diligence will be lost in the long river of history.

How many brilliant people have appeared in Chinese history, and where are they now? Time flies, and fleeting glimpses are not to be had!

If you want to last long, you must stand firm and move forward step by step. Driving social development is not the work of one person, but the unremitting efforts of a group of people to build the most beautiful prospects.

Yun Ye has a dream. If he were to be arrested as a lunatic in later generations, being in the Tang Dynasty now gives him the opportunity to turn his dream into reality.

Confucius established the great Confucian system of learning, so why can’t I establish an engineering system comparable to Confucianism?

Every time when it is quiet at night, Yun Ye feels a fire burning in his chest, which makes him unable to sleep.

When Confucius founded Confucianism, he didn’t have the conditions I have now, did he? He didn’t have my official position, my abundant financial resources, or my vision that can see through the millennia. I know which direction society will move in, I know when dynasties will change, and more importantly, I don’t have the difficult environment of competing schools of thought.

Dong Zhongshu said that his Confucianism was a beautiful young girl who needed to marry the best emperor in history. He married the doctrine of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues to the emperor he considered the best, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In history, Li Er’s brilliance has shone on the annals of Chinese history for a thousand years, Han and Tang, Han and Tang, two eras that have haunted the soul of our Chinese nation. Their demise has caused many historians to sigh with regret, the country always perished by weakness, but Han and Tang alone perished by strength!

Yun Ye estimated with the darkest of minds that Dong Zhongshu was a beautiful woman, and my variant, like a flower, marrying the ruthless and cunning Li Er should also complement each other, right? You don’t even let go of the things of the Hu people, so you won’t believe that you will let go of the science of things that can make your Tang Dynasty a thousand times stronger?

I will return to the mountains to live in seclusion, I will return to the mountains to wait for the sunrise, I will return to the mountains to train my disciples, and I will return to the mountains to wait for the most deafening sound to be heard by the world. When the Academy of Natural Sciences is born, I want everyone to know that God is dead!

One year? Two years? Ten years? Or twenty years? That madman called Charasutra only had to face the wall for ten years. I have been eating and drinking for three years and I don’t believe that I can’t compare with your ten years of madness.

Three years later, Li Er will raise a bloody storm on the grasslands, and the golden horses and iron chariots of the Tang Dynasty will trample every inch of the grasslands. Xie Li? Just a joke!

I won’t go crazy in the middle of winter on the grasslands. It’s enough to hide behind Li Jing and cheer him on.

Various thoughts surged in my mind like waves, and then spread throughout my body. Huh? Why am I wet all over? Could it be that my brainstorming is making water?

Yun Ye looked up and looked around, but found that the whole family was gathered around him, crying. Grandma was holding a basin of water and crying bitterly. This made him angry. Who dares to bully my family? I’ll cut him into eight pieces! Just as he was looking for a suitable weapon, Grandma grabbed him and kept calling him “sweetheart” and “sweetheart.”

“Good grandson, don’t scare grandma again in the future. If anything happens to you, how will this family live on?” Grandma didn’t give Yun Ye a chance to speak, and kept telling him not to be so upset.

Who wrapped the swing frame in a tent? Are you full of shit?

“My dear grandson, you must not follow the example of those bald-headed monks and chant Buddhist prayers. You are the only child in the Yun family, and we are counting on you to produce offspring. We will never chant Buddhist prayers again. If anyone goes to the temple again, I will break his legs.”

“Buddhist chanting? Whose Buddha? I never intended to become a monk, and I won’t now, and I won’t become a monk in the future. Whoever tells your grandson that he will break his legs if he becomes a monk is wrong.”

What nonsense!

“You’ve been sitting on the swing for two days. Grandma thought you were possessed, so she invited a monk from Ci’en Temple to exorcise you. But the monk said he was in meditation and congratulated Grandma on having a great monk in the family. Grandma chased him away with a broom.” It was my sister who made everything clear.

“Two days? You mean I sat on the swing for two days? I feel like it was only a short while, not even half a day.”

Oh my god! When did I become so powerful that I could fantasize for two whole days?

“Oh, I see, Grandma. My grandson just wanted to understand some academic matters, but he didn’t expect to get so caught up in it that he couldn’t get out. Fortunately, you splashed me with water to wake me up. You’re amazing. How did you come up with that idea?”

You should praise the elderly from time to time, as it is very helpful for their longevity.

Seeing that her grandson was fine and had not become a monk, Grandma put her mind at ease and said, “Master Cheng was going to spank you, but I didn’t want to, so I splashed you with warm water. Fortunately, you woke up, or else I would have gone with you.” Her words were sad, but a smile appeared on her face.

He hugged his sobbing sisters one by one, telling them that he was fine, and then kissed their dirty little faces. The family was finally calmed down by him.

After lying down for a while, Old Cheng’s black face appeared in front of him. He was pulled out of the quilt. He was still groggy, but he asked, “What are you thinking about these two days, you little brat?”

Without thinking, he told him: “How do you plan to marry a woman who looks like Uncle Yuchi to His Majesty!”

As soon as the words came out, he felt that something was wrong. There was more than just Old Cheng in the room. Behind him was Old Niu, and behind him was Li Chengqian, who was grinning like he was constipated. Li Er was sitting in a chair about to drink tea, and next to him stood Empress Dowager Changsun, with her eyebrows standing on end.

I’m finished. I’m dead today. How could I have said what I did? You’re the emperor, and the empress is running around in other people’s bedrooms.

He quickly apologized, “Your servant did not know that Your Majesty and Your Highness had arrived, and did not go far to greet them. Please forgive Your Majesty and Your Highness.”

Li Er didn’t say anything, but looked at Yun Ye curiously. He was probably also shocked.

“Hmph! You’re not yet an adult, so how can I not go to your bedroom? If I hadn’t come, how would I have heard that you were going to matchmake for His Majesty? If I can’t explain it, I’ll give you ten wives who look like that.” This is related to her, so she can go to the court and be upright.

I have to explain it quickly, otherwise I’ll really marry ten women like flowers. I might as well die now.

“Your Majesty, this has been going on since ancient times, and I’m just repeating what others have said.”

“You have such a disrespectful thought, who else has such a talent? I am also familiar with the Six Classics, but I have never heard of this.” The anger of the Empress Dowager has not subsided.

Dong Zhongshu did it, but the women in my hands are not as good-looking as the ones in his hands, but they are stronger, can fight, farm, do business, build cities, and keep the world safe!

Li Er threw away the teacup in his hand and said to Yun Ye, “Such a woman, the more the better!”