Three years after the Battle of Sanyuan.

The world is peaceful and the people live and work in peace. Both Hu and Han families respect each other.

After ten years of innovation, there was nothing wrong in the world. The Lord of the world, Li Chongjiu, then decided to go on a tour and inspect all directions.

Li Chongjiu led the queen, concubine, and princes to lead all officials to inspect various places. However, Li Chongjiu has strictly ordered local governments not to take out the momentum and style of receiving Yang Guang to travel the world. Officials from all over the country could only obey Li Chongjiu's orders.

After the imperial guards and his party paid tribute to the soldiers who died in the battle in Sanyuan, Li Chongjiu continued to go west and came to Heyuan, Longyou.

At this moment, the source of Heyuan in Longyou was calm. Two years ago, the general of Zhao, Xue Wanche, led 30,000 troops to fight against Tubo, and the Tubo king immediately surrendered. Now the land of Heyuan is extremely quiet. The people of the Han people are each keeping order and are in the disputes set up by the Han people. The two families have never raised any more wars.

Above the river source, there are more than a hundred springs, some sloping springs and gurgling water.

The eldest son Li Ying was excitedly riding the war horse along the river, while Li Chongjiu was carrying Caiwei and also traveling on the horse. As for Yang Ehuang, Li Zhiwan, Qu Yanran, and Shi Deyun were preparing dinner with the palace maids.

"Father, Father, what's the name here?" Li Ying asked pointing to the river from afar.

Li Chongjiu and Li Ying rode together and said, "This is Xingsuchuan!"

Caiwei immediately said after hearing this: "Father, I know, I know, this is the source of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River originated here!"

Li Chongjiu touched his daughter's head in a loving manner and said, "Caiwei, you're right."

Li Chongjiu said: "Ying'er, do you know? The two emperors Huang Yan led their tribes from the west river source and down the Yellow River, from a small tribe with only tens of thousands of people to tens of thousands of people today."

Li Ying and Li Caiwei all nodded, showing a leisurely and fascinated look.

At this time, Li Chongjiu raised his whip and said, "Yinger, look at the Yellow River that flows thousands of miles to the sea, but the source is just like this. Do you understand what I mean?"

Li Ying pondered for a moment and said, "My father's teachings are that Mount Tai does not allow soil, so it can make it bigger; rivers and seas do not choose small streams, so it can make it deeper."

Li Chongjiu asked, "It's good to say, but Mount Tai does not allow soil, so it can become bigger; the rivers and seas do not choose small streams, so where can it come from when it is deep?"

Li Ying replied: "Mr. I taught me a few days ago, from the Records of the Grand Historian and the Biography of Li Si."

Li Chongjiu nodded in praise and said, "Your Chinese language has made progress! But I ask you, now my great Zhao has spread thousands of miles and the people are tens of thousands of people, including Hu people and Han people. If you ask you to choose, would you choose to be a Hu person or a Han person?"

Li Ying was shocked. Thinking of what his mother had always told him, the teacher's daily indoctrination immediately replied: "Of course I am a Han man!"

Li Chongjiu laughed and said, "Then I ask you, what is the difference between Han people and Hu people? What is the difference between you?"

Facing Li Chongjiu's inquiry, Li Ying was a little nervous: "Most Han people make a living by farming, while most Hu people make a living by letting go of horses and hunting. For me...for me..."

Speaking of this, Li Ying began to stutter.

At this time, Li Chongjiu patted Li Ying's hand on the shoulder, and Li Ying lowered his head and said, "Father, I, I..."

Li Chongjiu said, "It doesn't matter if you can't answer it, it's okay, do you know? The ancestors of the Han people also lived by nomads!"

"Is that true? Father?" Li Ying asked in surprise.

Li Chongjiu smiled and said, "You forgot that I told you that the first profession of a person is a hunter? No matter nomadism, hunting is the same, and he lives in a place without a fixed place, and migrates from one place to another. There is also a saying in the Records of the Grand Historian that the Yellow Emperor trained the bears, pixiu tigers and tigers to fight against Yan Emperor in the wilderness of Banquan. You also know how if it were not for nomadism, how could they tame large beasts such as bears, pixiu tigers and other to drive away the enemy. So those Hu people are actually living the lives of our Han ancestors."

Li Caiwei clapped her high-high and said, "Father, it turns out that our Han people's ancestors were also Hu people!"

Li Chongjiu smiled and shook his head and said, "It's not possible to say that, but whether it is the East or the West, any agricultural civilization is developed by hunting and nomadic civilization. Many Han ministers in the court feared the Hu people like tigers, saying that the Hu people are cunning and changing. In fact, what's so scary? Our ancestors came from nomadic people, and nomadic people are just a life that our ancestors were unwilling to live."

"Father, is that because nomadism is more difficult? Farming can be self-sufficient. The family has surplus food, so there is no need to migrate everywhere, just settle the soil."

Li Chongjiu shook his head and said, "This is not a greed for comfort, but on the contrary, giving up the nomadic life that has always been inherently established and choosing a new life like farming is a greater sacrifice and courage. You also see that the Han people have today, which is the result of the accumulation of agricultural civilization over thousands of years. The Hu people in Mobei, from the Quanrong in the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Xiongnu in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and then to the Turks today, even if they have been letting horses and sheep for thousands of years, they are still spinning on the grassland!"

"So our ancestors' choices are right. The Book of Changes says that heaven moves forward, gentlemen strive for self-improvement. Our ancestors go from nomadic civilization to agricultural civilization. This is the continuous progress of self-improvement. However, you may ask, why is the agricultural civilization superior to the nomadic civilization, and why is the Western Zhou Dynasty destroyed by the Quanrong? At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the court had to marry the Xiongnu, and the later incident of the Five Barbarians' invasion of China!"

After hearing what Li Chongjiu said, Li Ying nodded, which was also his always doubt.

Li Chongjiu said: "In fact, not only China, but also many farming ethnic groups in other countries in the world have been conquered by nomadic peoples. They either surrendered, became enslaved, or completely destroyed, and their country was destroyed. However, being destroyed and defeated does not mean that farming civilization is not as good as nomadic civilization. If you think that nomadic civilization is superior to farming civilization, it is precisely a denial of the original choice of our ancestors."

"In history, agricultural civilization was destroyed by other nomadic civilizations, which only means that the agricultural civilization itself is not strong enough. At the same time, it has forgotten the martial and pioneering spirit of our ancestors when they were nomadic. I often tell you about the Han Dynasty, what is the Han Dynasty? During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, whenever a noble family was born as a boy, the father would pick up a bow and arrow and shoot an arrow to each of the southeast, west and north to show that the man was determined to be in all directions!"

"We are martial, determined to be in all directions, and the heavens are strong, and gentlemen strive for self-improvement. This is the Han Dynasty! When the Five Barbarians invaded China, it was precisely we who lost the Han Dynasty, so we entered the Central Plains for the Hu people, because it was not because they became stronger, but because we became weaker, so we could not even beat ourselves at the beginning."

"After the Hu people entered the Central Plains, some people were reluctant to live a secret life under the butcher's knife and flattered the Hu people, saying that the Hu people came to invade the Central Plains, which was to help us Han people restore their wolf nature and courage. Just like being beaten, they would thank the person who beat you. You beat me and let me know that I did something wrong. These are all things that people without backbone say, backward conquering civilization, and barbaric defeating the system, which is the regression in civilization."

"As for wolf nature and courage, it is not given to you by others, nor by others' blood transfusions, but by yourself. If you lose the blood nature inherited from your ancestors, you will be eliminated by others!"

"There were also some Han ministers who advised me to destroy the Hu people, or change the Hu people to sinicization, and eliminate future troubles forever. I think it is unnecessary. If we cannot even defeat the ignorant nomadic civilization now, and there will be stronger nations to conquer us in two or three hundred years, the result will be the same at that time."

Speaking of this, Li Chongjiu pointed to the river under his feet and said to Li Ying: "Yinger, look at the world, just like the rolling Yellow River flowing eastward, and will not turn back. The same is true for the nation, if we sail against the current, we will retreat. The path we have chosen is not wrong. We Han people have become richer and stronger. But when we move forward, we should not forget the Han tradition passed down by our ancestors from the time of nomadism, the martial spirit of self-improvement, and the pioneering and enterprising spirit of all directions."

Li Ying couldn't help but feel excited after hearing Li Chongjiu's words.

"I will continue to improve myself and have ambitions in all directions," he recited these words several times and knelt down and said, "My son remembers the teachings of his father!"

"Now do you want to be a Hu person or a Han person?" Li Chongjiu asked with a smile.

Li Ying said without hesitation: "Father, it doesn't matter if you are a Hu and Han people. What's important is how you choose the future. Being obsessed with Hu and Han people, my son believes that this is a kind of narrow-mindedness."

Li Chongjiu happily helped Li Ying up and said, "Yinger, I like the name of your Eagle very much. Eagle always has a long-term vision and always looks far away. You must not forget your original intention so that you can have a beginning and an end!"

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The author Xingfu came to knock on the door, and the manuscript was completed at 17:52 on February 28, 2015.

ps: I finished the book, I finished it again, so excited. Well, this will be the finale, but it is not yet the end, so I will still be the same. I will write a postscript tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. It is my experience of writing this book for more than two years. It has about two or three thousand words. Don't worry, the postscript is free. Let's say goodbye to everyone in the postscript! (To be continued...)
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