Liu Yuchong accidentally got an ancient war book .. translation.

Liu Yuchong is from Cangzhou, and his name has been forgotten now. My great-grandfather Houzhaigong used to sing with his poems. He is withdrawn and likes to pay attention to the ancient system. In fact, they are all pedantic and unworkable theories. He once asked Dong to paint for him, and asked Hou Zhai Gong to write poems on the painting. Among them, there is a photo of Lin Qiu reading. The poem is: "Sitting on the tree root in autumn, I don't know what to read, but I see an old man." Just hold it in your hand, or the spectrum of the minefield. "This is the advice given to him by Houzhai Gongshi.

He came across an ancient war book and studied it on his desk. He felt that he could lead hundreds of soldiers to the front. It happened that there were bandits in the village at that time, so Liu Yuchong personally trained the village soldiers to fight against bandits. However, the whole team was defeated and he was almost caught by robbers. I accidentally got an ancient water conservancy book and studied it on my desk for several years. I thought I could turn a thousand miles of wasteland into fertile land. I drew a map and went to the state government to lobby for advice. The state official is also a nosy person, so I asked him to try to transform a village. As soon as the canal was built, the flood came, and the people in the village almost drowned and turned into fish.

So he was unhappy, always walking alone in front of the court steps, shaking his head as he walked, and saying to himself, "(How could the ancients lie to me! In this way, I mumble to myself thousands of times every day, that is to say, these six words. Liu Yuchong soon died of depression.

Later, every night when the wind is clear and the moon is white, people often see his soul walking under the pine and cypress trees in front of the tomb, shaking his head and listening. The ghost still said these six words. Sometimes people who hear him laugh at him, and the ghost will disappear immediately. When I went the next day, I still saw the ghost muttering alone. People who cling to ancient books are a bit dull, but how can they stay until now?

Lord Qin once taught me: "Reading classics is not conducive to judging things, and not reading books is not conducive to judging things. Great chess players will not abandon the ancient chess manual, but they will not be very attached to the old one; Smart doctors will not stick to the prescriptions handed down from ancient times, but they will not deviate from the ancient prescriptions in their own experience. Therefore, it is said:' What can be done super well depends mainly on the people who do things'. " He added: "You can teach people the standard steps to do anything, but you can't make them smart."