"I will be a hairpin for a lifetime. If I can live in seclusion in the mountains and manage my garden when I am old, it will be a pleasure." Lu Zhi said nonchalantly on the bronze bird stage, looking at the white clouds and yellow grass in the distance.
Shao Xun personally moved two deck chairs and secretly thought that Lu Zhi was really discouraged and was severely hit.
This blow was caused by many reasons, the most direct being the complaints caused by Du Tian.
Although Shao Xun later limited the scope of his farmland to the twenty counties of Liang State, the negative impact had already occurred.
In addition, the scholars in Hebei were not close enough, so they were full of hesitation and always felt that they were being suppressed.
If a person from Hebei has never competed with a person from Henan for the same position, even if there is no shady background, just because the talent and learning are not as good as others, the person from Hebei may feel that he is being targeted and feel resentful.
In addition, it is also an objective fact that people from Henan suppress people from Hebei.
This is not a conclusion that can be overturned by citing the presence of officials from Hebei in the court.
People from Henan joined the group early, occupied many key positions, and were powerful.
Which of the Wang family, Yang family, and Yu family is not a noble family in Henan?
It is normal for the Hebei system to be suppressed.
In addition, the well-preserved aristocratic families in Hebei in the past few years also made Shao Xun quite wary. He also had the subjective intention to suppress the people of Hebei, although the intensity was very light.
Taken together, Lu Zhi, as the only representative of the Hebei system, is under great pressure on the remaining hills.
Because of his personality and his short-mindedness, he was very depressed inside.
After Hebei was hit by disasters for three consecutive years, seeing a large number of officials being held accountable, and the reputation of Hebei scholars getting worse, Lu Zhi showed signs of being unable to hold on any longer. He could survive to this day and implement the disaster relief work in general.
He has a sense of responsibility.
"Why did Zidao have the ambition to live in seclusion?" Shao Xun waved his hand to Huang Zheng to leave, then sat down and asked.
"Don't you want to see the birds flying among the mulberry trees in Yecheng?" He poured salt and pepper into the boiling water in the stone cauldron and said casually.
“Don’t you want to see golden corn and wheat covering the fields of Anyang?”
"Don't you want to see the giant deer girl picking lotus flowers?"
"Don't you want to see the young man from Quang Binh, the white horse Zephyr, stepping into the fallen flowers?"
"Don't you want to see the Qinghe scholars roaming in the woods and springs and singing to the moon?"
"Don't you want to see Fan Yang galloping behind the mountains and returning home after shooting vultures?"
After saying these words, Lu Zhi looked fascinated.
"There are so many generous and elegiac people in Yanzhao. What does a few years of catastrophe mean? Are you tired? Are you discouraged? Are you sad for spring and autumn?" The tea in the stone tripod boiled for the second time, Shao Xun couldn't help but
He hurriedly scooped out a ladle of water, then took out the ground tea foam from the paper bag and poured it in, stirring slowly.
"How can Hebei really recover as before when people are starving and dying?" Lu Zhi asked softly.
"Yes." Shao Xun said with certainty: "Han Guangwu relied on it to achieve great success. If Yuan's sons don't act randomly, even one more Cao Cao can't defeat him. Otherwise, do you really think that I came to Hebei with nothing to do? With this
Time, wouldn’t it be nice to go back to Pingyang and enjoy the wine and wine?”
Lu Zhi laughed silently.
The tea in the stone cauldron has boiled for the third time. Shao Xun carefully scooped out the tea foam and poured in the water he just scooped out.
After doing all this, he poured a bowl for Lu Zhi with his own hands, put it in front of him, and said: "If I don't have a disciple, how can I easily conquer Hebei? If I don't have a disciple, how can I enter Youzhou?"
Lu Zhi blushed a little after hearing this.
He said these words to others in private when he was proud, but he didn't expect that the King of Liang would know about them.
After all, the King of Liang was not Cao Mengde.
After hearing this, he laughed it off and even made tea for him with his own hands and chatted with him.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhi felt that all the grievances he had suffered in the past were gone.
He did so many things for King Liang, and King Liang remembered them all.
King Liang appreciated his kindness very much.
King Liang respected him very much.
"People in Henan used to have a hard time." Shao Xun poured himself another bowl of tea, placed it on the table next to the recliner, then lay down comfortably and said: "The most difficult period was when people died of hunger all over the field, and there were mountains of bones.
All the mulberry forests were destroyed. That time in Xuchang, I lamented all day long and was so worried. But things in this world only depend on people. If you do it with your heart, God will reward you."
"Henan has come out. It is like the granary of the Jin Dynasty, with countless living people. The land in Hebei is more fertile, so what do you have to worry about? There are floods in one year, and floods in two years. It is almost over."
"A few days ago, I inspected Gaoyang, Hejian, Boling and other counties. I collected some wheat in May. One county only needs hundreds of thousands of grains and rice to provide relief. I will not save people who cannot survive. I will save them.
You can survive. Maybe many people will starve to death in other places, but compared to last year? The disaster has not been reduced much, but many fewer people have died."
"Zidao is concerned about Yan and Zhao. He sent manpower to push winter wheat, and his pen is written as bald. If the summer harvest can go smoothly next May, it will be all your fault. I will order people to lay stones to record the merits, so as to show your virtue."
He kept saying nice things that were free of charge, and they were full of emotional value. Lu Zhi felt much better after hearing this.
He knew that his life was short, and at this time, he needed someone to affirm his life more and more.
Shao Xun lay gently, looking at the sunset on the horizon, and said: "Hebei will not be chaotic."
This is his bottom line.
The small chaos in Hebei has become a fact, but it cannot be completely chaotic.
The porridge restaurants in Xiangguo, Anping, Bohai and other places have killed many people. Their existence has eliminated large-scale rebellions invisible.
Deaths are inevitable, but there are indeed fewer deaths this year than last year. This is progress.
There may be a wave of people starving to death next spring, but the number will definitely be greatly reduced.
As long as there are no floods, droughts or locust plagues next year - after a flood, it will be difficult to think of locusts - everything else will not matter.
As long as we spend a year safely, these difficult days in Hebei will be over, just like Henan back then.
Lu Zhi couldn't fall down the night before.
"If I hadn't met the king back then, maybe I would have died in Luoyang." Lu Zhi sighed: "When I was about to be buried, things turned around. Isn't this God's will?"
"If you hadn't met me back then, where would you have gone?" Shao Xun asked curiously.
"Maybe he will go to Jinyang and join Liu Yueshi." Lu Zhi said: "However, after all, Liu Yueshi lacks too much. If he is not a successful person, what can he do?"
That means the world line has been closed, Shao Xun secretly thought.
Liu Kun and Zu Ti are equally famous, but upon closer inspection, their abilities are really not on the same level. They are too far apart.
Shi Le and Shi Hu are said to have unified Henan and Hebei, but Henan is actually a mess and there are too many people who are secretly colluding with Jiangdong. As long as the army goes north, it will definitely win the grain and shadow followers, but it is a pity that Zu Ti did not get enough support from Jianye
, so that the success fails.
Today's Henan is not the Henan under the rule of Hou Zhao. Not many people secretly defected to Jiangdong. Zu Ti is destined not to reach the heights in history.
The simplest thing is that the wealthy families in Henan under the rule of Hou Zhao would provide food, grass, equipment, and soldiers to Zu Ti, but the Henan under Shao Xun would not. This is the biggest difference, and the people in Jiangdong should also know this.
"What does the king want to do next year?" Lu Zhi sat up, picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, and asked.
"The biggest thing is to immigrate and merge with the state." Shao Xun said: "Zidao, I keep my word. If the wealthy people in Hebei are willing to raise their own food and grass to merge with the state, I will happily give it to the officials and will never break my promise."
"Your Majesty, are you still preparing to attack Tuoba Xianbei?"
"This is just one of them." Shao Xun said: "In the long run, we still need to educate the barbarians and organize households to bring order to the people. Swords and guns can only quell temporary chaos, and king transformation is the strategy for long-term peace and stability."
In fact, they are short-term goals and long-term goals.
The short-term goal is to enrich Bingzhou's household registration, produce supplies, and prepare for the future attack on Dai.
The long-term goal is to digest the vast number of Hu people in Bingzhou and turn them into Han people. This must not only focus on military, political, and economic aspects, but also work hard on the cultural aspect.
"The Liu family of Pingyuan, the Hua family, the Cui family of Qinghe and other wealthy families were not severely affected by the disaster. Why are they crowded in Jizhou?" Shao Xun said: "There are so many children, how many are filial and honest in one county per year? One state per state.
How many young talents are there? Why not ask
It would also be beneficial to preserve the family if they moved out of town. It doesn't matter if there are families of poets and writers who are suffering from disasters and cannot afford money or food. As long as they are willing to come to Pingyang, Xihe, Taiyuan and Kelan counties in the Luliang Mountains, I will find a way for them.
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"The Hu chieftains actually admire the aristocratic families for their behavior, and there are too many people who are trying to curry favor with them. They bathe in the splendor and practice, and they will always have results."
"As long as the world remains unchanged, they will slowly become people in clothes. What they are most afraid of is that the situation changes repeatedly, assimilation is forcibly interrupted, and even the barbarians are allowed to climb on top, which will have no effect. I am afraid of the situation.
Come and stabilize it, it's up to you to turn Hu into summer."
"This will take decades or even hundreds of years." Lu Zhi said with emotion.
"Success does not belong to me." Shao Xun said nonchalantly: "I have laid a good foundation. After decades of doing this, I don't believe this ship can turn around."
Lu Zhi chuckled.
Shao Xun was actually right to ask him to do this.
He just said that if he had not met Shao Xun, he would have gone to Liu Kun, not to Liu Cong, or to Shi Le, which explains the problem. Lu Zhi is willing to do this well in his heart, and he is very motivated.
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In addition, Shao Xun actually gave Hebei scholars a way out: to come to Bingzhou to serve as an official.
After three consecutive years of disasters, the gentry in Hebei suffered heavy losses, and many of them really couldn't survive. If they were allowed to stay in Hebei without any care, something might happen.
A simple refugee army is not scary at all. There was no successful refugee army in the Jin Dynasty because the social environment did not allow it and there was no soil for the long-term survival of the refugee army.
But if the refugee army merges with the gentry, the threat will be greatly increased. Instead of rushing to suppress it at that time, it is better to give the Hebei scholars a way out, slightly tilt the policy, and appoint more Hebei people to serve as officials in Bingzhou, so as to drain the bottom of the migrant army and let them
Can't make a fuss.
Through economic relief, political appeasement, military suppression, and using his prestige to patrol, Shao Xun was able to eliminate the possibility of large-scale rebellion in Jizhou.
In mid-October, he brought more than 10,000 Hebei elites and tens of thousands of captives, men, women, and children to Bianliang for food, because he wanted to reduce the loss of food during transportation.
Yin Qiang camped in the center, while Yi Congjun rested on the spot - the former settled in Bianliang, and the latter in Liyang, which is very close.
The left battalion of Yinqiang was ordered to be transferred to Pingyang, and the right battalion was sent to Hedong to replace the left battalion of Heijian.
All the soldiers of the government were dismissed and sent home, and each man received two pieces of cloth as a reward.
At this point, the entire northern land came to a standstill.
After the disaster, the people were in distress but also had some hope, hoping that next year they would have a good harvest.
Intensive disasters have put Hebei in a state of collapse, and Henan has also entered the brink of collapse.
How can a child cry every day? How can he lose every day when betting on dogs?
Chapter completed!