The doors of the shops in Qifen Alley are open.

But there are also few pedestrians on the streets and alleys, which seem very deserted.

Li Chenan sighed at this time and said:

"Brother, I do want to do something for Ningguo and the people of Ningguo. It's not mercy, but this damn conscience!"

"What I mean is not physical fatigue, but... mental fatigue!"

"A large number of officials in the court were chopped off their heads and their homes were raided. A small number of officials were all capable ministers, but I came here, many of them could do what they could do, but they were subjective and active.

Too bad!”

As if worried that Hua Manting could not understand the word subjective initiative, Li Chenan explained again: "I mean, including the six ministers, they have become accustomed to following the steps and lack the initiative, planning and forward-looking work.

wait."

"Of course, the reason why they beat a stick and jumped a step may be the result of Ji Tai's rule over the past twenty years. They are worried about making mistakes, begging for responsibility, be afraid of offending people, and be worried about losing their black hat."

"This kind of official can be successful, but he is less determined."

"There are also officials from all over the world. The Imperial City Department has the details of them, but I have no one to use them, so I can't do anything to them for the time being."

"So I plan to add an autumn examination next year to select a group of young officials. However, I am very likely to be no longer in Kyoto during the autumn examination. Who will preside over this matter?"

"One is not good. I killed a group of corrupt officials, and another group of corrupt officials were replaced!"

"For the people, this is a bit worse for a person who has been peeled off and a person who has made oil!"

"How can the world be peaceful?"

"In fact, the so-called world is what the king values. For the people... they just want to have a home that can protect themselves from wind and rain, and live and work in peace and contentment."

"They just have this ideal, but it's hard to realize it."

"In the eyes of many rulers of all dynasties, they are sheep that supply unlimited wool!"

"It's okay to get the wool, but at the end of the dynasty, the rulers disliked the wool that it would not win, so they simply raised their swords and slaughtered the sheep!"

"Do they have people in their eyes?"

"No."

"The only authority they have in their eyes is that unforgivable authority!"

"While they sucking the blood of the people, they tell the people that this is your honor!"

Hua Manting turned his head in surprise and looked at Li Chenan, then saw Li Chenan laughing, "Why do they dare to be so unscrupulous? Because the people are easy to bully!"

"The people are at the bottom of the social structure. They are the cornerstone of a country, but the cornerstone is the weight of the building built on it!"

"It is difficult for those who stand at the top of the building to see the pain of the cornerstone."

"Everyone in this building cannot understand the hardships of the cornerstone, and they all think that this is a matter of course!"

"So, when social wealth is distributed, from top to bottom, the benefits are not the cornerstone."

"They are forever trampled at the feet of the ruler!"

"As far as the current national scientific examination system is concerned, studying is a luxury. It is almost impossible for the cornerstones to climb up by relying on the imperial examination."

"They even had three meals a day, so where would they have extra money for their children to enter the government through study and study?"

"This door is closed to them and is difficult to push open."

"But when the country is facing danger, those sitting in this building will think of the cornerstone below, so they tell them that it is time to defend their country!"

"A government order to draw children from the people and send them to the front line. The people who die are still the lowest-level people, and those who enjoy the fruits of victory are still the men in the building!"

"How many of the officials in the court have the noble idea of ​​living in the high temple and worrying about their people, and living in the far world, worrying about their king?"

"How many people have the great ambition to worry about the world first and then enjoy the world after the world's happiness?"

Speaking of this, Li Chenan shook his head and raised his lips, and Hua Manting looked shocked: "It's gone,"

He suddenly stopped and pointed to his right:

"Your side."

Hua Manting turned around, and just by the streets and alleys, in the wind and snow, there was a thin-dressed charcoal seller standing!

It was a hunched old man wearing a hat.

He put his hands in his sleeves, hugged them tightly on his chest, and his feet kept paced on the ground, shrinking into a ball of coldness.

In front of him was a ox cart, full of charcoal.

The charcoal was covered with heavy snow, which means that he had been standing here for a long time and had not sold any charcoal for a long time.

But even if he was so cold, he didn't have a pile of charcoal fire to keep warm.

Seeing that it was getting late, he seemed to have no intention of going back.

Li Chenan took a deep breath, with a hint of sadness in his low tone:

"This is for life!"

"Life, and live hard!"

"It's clear that prices have risen a lot this year, and it's clear that this winter is colder than before, but his charcoal cannot be sold... because there is no spare money in the people's pockets!"

"As long as people are not cold, everyone will wear clothes tightly and get through it."

"So, it's even harder to sell his charcoal."

"But he is still selling, even if it's going to be late."

"Maybe he needs to sell the cart of charcoal and buy some miscellaneous grains for his family, or maybe he wants to survive this cold winter to buy a cotton jacket for his family."

"Looking at Ningguo, how many people are there like him?"

When the three of them walked to the charcoal seller, the old man had already raised his head.

A light of hope had already emerged from the old eyes on his dark face.

"Master, Master, do you want to buy some charcoal?"

"The charcoal is very good for the villain to burn, and it is cheaper to sell it to you. How about it?"

Li Chenan nodded, turned around and ordered Amu: "Take him to the plum garden."

"What do you do?"

"I'm fine."

"……good!"

Li Chenan smiled at the charcoal seller and said, "Old man, please let him go. I'll ask for all your charcoal. Go to my house to check out the bill."

This little old man obviously didn't expect to meet such a big buyer. He was very excited, his body trembled, and his speech became stuttering:

"So much, thank you young master!"

He knelt on the ground!

He kowtowed three times to Li Chenan!

"Young master, little old man, little old man wishes you a hundred years of life!"

His barren language could not express his excitement at this moment, but what he did made Li Chenan feel extremely sad.

Li Chen was at peace with the old man driving the ox cart who followed Amu in the wind and snow.

Suddenly blurted out:

"The man who sells charcoal, cuts firewood and burns charcoal in the south of the mountains.

His face was covered in dust and fireworks, his temples were gray and his fingers were black.

What is the money you earn when selling charcoal? What is the food in your body, clothes and mouth.

I feel sorry for the cold weather when I am wearing a single body, and I am worried about the charcoal being low."

He walked forward.

Hua Manting followed his back, and then listened to him and read:

"After a foot of snow outside the city at night, I drove a charcoal cart to the ice rut at night.

...

A cart of charcoal, more than a thousand kilograms, the palace envoy was reluctant to drive him.

Half a piece of red gauze and one foot of silk tied it to the cow's head and filled with charcoal."

"Brother, the people are suffering, the people are suffering, the people are suffering!"

"Who are the people going to provoke whom?"

"Why should you suffer?!"

"Fuck, the old society of the egg!"
Chapter completed!