Chapter 26 Four, big wind song
After Yingbo fled, Liu Bang's class returned to the court, and the journey passed through his hometown of Pei County.He decided to stay in Pei Palace and hold a banquet to honor his ancestors.
Since ancient times, returning home with wealth and honor has been the most basic feeling of every Chinese.Xiang Yu said, riches and honor do not return to their hometowns, it is like traveling at night in brocade.Xiang Yu is like this, Han Xin is like this, and Liu Bang is like this.For a long time, Liu Bang did not return to his hometown to show off, mainly because he was busy with work, really busy.The feeling of hometown is even more timid. At this time, no one knows what kind of body Liu Bang is dragging back to his hometown.
Peixian County is the place where he has been living for more than forty years.Forty years have passed by, wearing a fashion-leading bamboo hat all day long and swaggering around the streets.Here, he used to be a well-known bachelor in the village, and he was once the biggest hooligan and rascal.If Qin Shihuang didn't take drugs and died of illness, if Chen Sheng and Wu Guang didn't rise up, he would continue to spend the rest of his boring life in this swamp.However, everything was broken by heaven.In just a dozen years, he surpassed Xiang Yu with the most brilliant achievements in the world and returned to his hometown.At this time, he had gray hair on the temples and was in his twilight years.
Once a person becomes a wealthy person in this world, there are three kinds of people who become more valuable.One is a childhood friend, the other is a neighbor's aunt and aunt, and the other is a childhood teacher.Because, only these three kinds of people can preserve the years and memories of his innocence and beauty for him.
At this time, almost all the teachers and aunts and aunts who watched Liu Bang grow up have passed away, and only his childhood playmates are alive in the world with their eyes open.Sitting together with these rural partners, Liu Bang sighed with emotion.Time is like a rocket soaring into the sky. It seems that yesterday we were wading in the swamps of Pei County to catch birds and insects, or to pick peaches from trees and fish in the water. In the blink of an eye, we were transported to another aging world.
Almost every Westerner has a common dream, to work hard when they are young, and to sit by the sea and watch the setting sun quietly when they are old.Throughout Liu Bang's life, he seems to have gone backwards.In the first half of my life I had nothing to do, but in the second half I was on the go.This is not a trick of fate, it is the inevitability of God writing legendary history with human beings.Hey, the years are easy to get old, but the mountains and rivers are still there.Raise your glass, let us drink this glass of wine and fulfill this friendship, no matter the heaven on earth, we will still be partners forever.
When Liu Bang drank happily, he couldn't help but sing.Zhu is a lost musical instrument in ancient times.The highest state of artistic interpretation is not that you control artistic emotions, but that you are completely controlled by emotional art, just like the upper body of a ghost.This artistic situation, Nietzsche called Dionysian spirit.At this time, Liu Bang, who had fallen into the state of Dionysus, led the singing:
A band composed of 120 children and personally trained by Liu Bang harmonized with Liu Bang.The singing is impassioned, like the high-pitched singing of herdsmen on the prairie, passing through the vast land and hitting the iron chest of the universe.Alcohol and music are really good things. They can not only vent stagnation, but also drain emotions.Liu Bang was so drunk that he couldn't help dancing lightly, a sense of sentimentality that he had never felt before spontaneously emerged, tears slowly overflowed from his eyes and dripped down his face.
These tears are the water of grief that wanderers have tasted bitterly.Confucius said: Parents are here, if you don't travel far, you must travel well.Those who leave their hometowns are either forced to stay away due to the troubles of the local water and soil, or they are called and tempted by distant ideals.But God is fair, He gives you some and has to take some from you.At this moment, prosperity and wealth are all things outside the body.When the yellow robe is taken off, when the truth is restored, when the clothes are lifted, it turns out that your back is deeply branded with the imprint of your hometown, and your heart is deeply entangled by the love of your hometown.
Oh, hometown.At first, you were just a bird's nest in the geographical sense.However, as I walked farther and farther, as I drifted longer and longer, this bird's nest became a spiritual habitat unconsciously.In the end, no matter how big a business I become, no matter how great a man I become, I am still a little bird flying out of this bird's nest.
The birds love the old nest, Huma looks north.This is an instinctive impulse in the animal kingdom.At this moment, Liu Bang vividly interprets it as the instinctive impulse of human culture.
Therefore, Liu Bang said to the fathers and villagers of Pei County with emotion: People who travel far away always miss their hometown. Although I have established my capital in Guanzhong, my soul will still like and miss my hometown after I die in the future.In order to express my thoughts on Peixian County, I decided to make Peixian County my Tangmu City, exempt the people of Peixian County from taxation and corvee, and do not have to pay taxes and serve for generations.
This is a wanderer's most primitive and beautiful return to his hometown.The people in Pei County were all happy when they heard this.They continued to kill cattle and sheep, and strongly urged Liu Bang to stay and play for a few more days.After playing this game, more than ten days passed.
There is no permanent banquet in the world. Even today, the Spring Festival holiday is only ten days away.This trip back to his hometown to visit his relatives, Liu Bang took a break from his busy schedule, so he couldn't drink endlessly like this.So, Liu Bang said to the people of Pei County: "Okay, let's end the party here."There are many people along the way, and they can't afford it, so I'd better go back.
Can't afford it, Liu Bang's words are half polite and half sorry.However, when this word reached the ears of the people in Pei County, it was a different interpretation.Don't worry, Your Majesty, if you can afford it, of course we can afford it.You have been fighting in the north and south for more than ten years, and finally passed by your hometown once, is it easy?
Come, come, kill cattle and sheep for fun, and advise you to drink more wine!Therefore, when Liu Bang had just left Peixian County and walked to the west of the city, Peixian County came out empty and offered fine wine and fat cattle to force Liu Bang to stay.
Liu Bang had no choice but to stay, set up a tent, and drank heavily for three days.
Three days later, two pieces of good news came.One was brought by Wu Chen, and Yingbo was successfully beheaded; the other was brought by Zhou Bo, and Chen Xi was also beheaded, and all the rebellious places were rehabilitated.People are in a good mood on happy occasions, Liu Bang decided to let Fengyi enjoy the same treatment as Peixian County, and not pay taxes for generations!
Now, Liu Bang is really going back to Chang'an to work.Because, he has to rush back to do an important thing.That is: abolish the crown prince Liu Ying, and replace Liu Ruyi!