Chapter 15: The Consequences of Innocent Learning (Part 1) (This chapter is free)

Drinking at night, Dongpo woke up and got drunk again - was this old man also done it?

Zhao Xing's feet softened and rolled into Xishui. Cheng Zhuo Chengxia saw the teacher suddenly fall into the water and hurriedly jumped into the water to rescue him. Huo Xiaoyi didn't care about the boat and jumped into the water. When he salvaged Zhao Xing, he heard him talking to himself as if he was crazy: "What a god! I have no shame to see people-I actually patted Su Dongpo's shoulder and praised 'What a good poem'."

Is it the Chinese who can’t know who Su Dongpo is - an unlucky man in China’s political arena. An immortal idol in Asia for thousands of years.

A thousand years later, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese historians recorded with an extremely humble attitude: In the second half of the eleventh century, the entire Asia was in the era of Su Dongpo.

Such a person, Zhao Xing actually patted the shoulders of a thousand-year-old idol and praised the other person's good poems...

What's the matter?!

Perhaps, this moment will be recorded and become a thousand-year joke. Zhao Xing is the protagonist in the joke.

On the shore, two Japanese men were already picking up the bamboo baskets quickly, and the wooden clogs made a crisp sound, and trotted to follow Su Dongpo.

Zhao Xing passed through Huangzhou Pier half ashamed and half shocked, and followed the boat towards the entrance of the lake.

After entering the lake mouth, the river surface suddenly became clear, with sails dotted and white cranes flying, which was a scene of fisherman singing late.

This is the Great Song Grain Store, where the rice produced here bears more than 50% of the Great Song Grain production.

After the Tang and Song dynasties, due to excessive cultivation, there were signs of desertification in the northern region. For example, in Shandong, in 2700 BC, the forest coverage rate in the territory was 46%. By the Northern Song Dynasty, there were nearly 260,000 hectares of arable land on Jingdong Road, which means that the entire Shandong region was fully reclaimed. Guangshan Naked Rock has appeared in many places - Shen Kuo said: "Now the pine forests between Qi and Lu are gone, and gradually reaching Taihang, Jingxi, Jiangnan, and Songshan Taiban are all children!"

It is estimated that in 1700 AD, Shandong's forest coverage rate was only 1.3%, ranking last in the country.

At the same time, the development of the Poyang Lake area is in full swing.

Poyang Lake was called Pengli Lake in ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, its lake had reached more than 200 kilometers. By the Northern Song Dynasty, Pengli Lake quickly went eastward and spread southward, approaching Poyang County, thus becoming known as "Poyang Lake". Compared with Pengli Lake in the Yuan Dynasty, Poyang Lake in the Yuan Dynasty had expanded into a "blue and vast, boundless" Poyang Lake. The plain alluvialized by the Poyang Lake water system was about 20,000 square kilometers.

During the Yuanyou period, Dujie wrote "Seven Talks on Poyang", "talking about the profit of fish on the lakeside, the fertility of pussy fish on the lakeside, and the prosperity of soft mulberry and silkworm cocoons"; "talking about the abundant wood plants at the foot of the forest, the growth of fruits and fruits of water, plants, vegetables, and livestock." Hongzhou, Jiangzhou, Raozhou, Nankangjun and other places in the lake area are all important areas for rice production. "The fields should be kept in the slums, and the dividends of millet were the best in the world."

The formation of grain production bases in the Poyang Lake area in the Song Dynasty was mainly due to the instruction of war. The Song Dynasty fought a long war with Vietnam at that time. After the victory of this war, the spoils were "Chancheng Rice". After this rice that was ripe three times a year entered the Central Plains, it greatly increased the grain output, making the Song Dynasty the only dynasty in ancient China that could not be banned from wine. The main planting area of ​​"Chancheng Rice" was the Pengli Lake area at that time.

The development of Poyang Lake had a far-reaching impact. As the place became the world's granary, the subsequent rice planting spread throughout the south. By the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that "the lake is ripe and the world is full."

Poyang Lake in the Song Dynasty was the richest area in the entire Song Dynasty. From the moral level of boatmen on the lake, they can see their satisfaction of adequate food and clothing. The ships coming towards them, whether they are familiar or not, sing and shouting each other, and their sings are long and meaningful, quite like the modern boatman's horn.

Wrong, it should be said that the modern boatman's horn originated from the "Fishing Boat Questions and Answers" of this era.

Zhao Xing could not understand the fishermen's dialect and feeding, but he liked the kind of rhyme. The leisurely singing reminded him of a famous advertisement - a century-old sesame paste. The old man's vicissitudes of voice echoed in the alleys, traveling through countless times and the history of the entire nation.

The Jiang Zhou walked along the wind and walked very quickly. Ten students in the cabin were busy tying wooden bows. The Song Dynasty was an era of worshipping literature and suppressing martial arts. At this time, if a literati walked into the street market with a sword, it would cause great panic and even cause social unrest. In this case, the court particularly restricted the people from walking with weapons, especially long-range attack weapons - bows and arrows, which were even more restricted.

It has become a habit for the mountain villagers in Chengjiaao to walk in the mountains and forests with weapons. This time, they even brought the best equipment in their homes. However, because they had to pass the Huangzhou checkpoint, the bows and arrows they carried were all released and disguised as wooden sticks, concealing the eyes of the checkpoint officials. Now they entered the vast lake, and in order to deal with possible thieves, they secretly hung the bows and arrows and armed themselves.

This was also Zhao Xing's idea. He had no idea about the situation in Poyang Lake before, and thought that it was as described in martial arts novels. It was a nest of bandits who were rampant in all dynasties, so he was so cautious. But when he arrived in the lake area, he realized that it was completely unnecessary.

A fisherman was driving a boat and passing by Zhao Xing's river boat. The fisherman rushed over the boat and nodded while tidying up the fishing nets and singing fishing songs. The lyrics of the fishing song were clear. Zhao Xing understood it. It was a poem: "The sky is evening in Pengli Lake, and the water is in spring. The birds fly thousands of white dots, and the sun is not half red. Why bother to be a migrant? It is a sick person. But when you look here, there are few people who don't worry about it."

This poem is Bai Juyi's "Late Return from Pengli Lake", but Zhao Xing didn't have a few elegant bones on his body. He felt that the old man's singing posture was extremely elegant, but he didn't know that this was not the elegance of a fisherman, but Bai Juyi's elegance.

"Good poetry, good poetry, such a masterpiece, can be chanted with such a good work, which is incredible!" Zhao Xing sighed casually.

As the son of the patriarch, Cheng Xia was qualified to stand behind Zhao Xing. When he heard Zhao Xing's feelings, he said with deep emotion: "Yes, teacher, when I read this poem before, I just felt that the lyrics were beautiful. Today, I was in this situation and I felt like a god among immortals."

Cheng Xia had read it before... Zhao Xing immediately closed his mouth.

He was ignorant of learning - he sighed in his heart. Even Cheng Xia, who was fifteen years old, remembered that he didn't know who wrote this poem, which was too embarrassing. It seems that he would have to be "careful of words and actions" in the future.
Chapter completed!