After thinking that the fifth relationship was not simple, Jing Dan couldn't help but observe him a little more.

Although they are all called Hao, the Hou family of Qiongcheng and the Fifth clan are undoubtedly one in heaven and one in the underground.

Take the place where you stay, Jing Dan has been to the Fifth Lun House, but it is just a small small yard, which can accommodate forty or fifty people.

The Changping Pavilion of the Hou family in Qiongcheng was a palace in the previous dynasty, three miles from east to west and four miles from north to south, and one can catch a small city. There are countless houses, and the houses are all wandering and connected, with heavy pavilions and corridors, and the courtyard walls are decorated with silk paintings and lacquer. They can't be found all day long.

There is also a garden in the middle of the courtyard, where the rapids flow into the ditches, the flat ground is dug into ponds and swamps, and the structure is a mountain, several meters high. All the strange trees and plants are planted. It is September, and all the flowers are withering, but the yellow chrysanthemums in the garden are blooming in full bloom.

Jing Dan only remembers that when he was invited to come for the first time, he was shocked. Logically speaking, young people from small families like the Fifth Reunion have never seen any world, so they should be stunned and obsessed.

But Di Wulun had no surprise on his face. After entering the Changping Pavilion, he just looked around casually without any envy. This calmness is rare in young people from poor families.

Jing Dan didn't know that for the fifth reunion, the sightseeing trip of the Qiongcheng Hou Mansion was fresh, but shocking but not.

As a modern person, the most common thing he saw was the "big scene". I won't mention Gao Xiali. He also visited many ancient palace wonders when he was traveling in his previous life. What's more, this garden carefully built by the Hou family of Qiongcheng with financial resources is indeed very ordinary in the eyes of the fifth reunion. In the future, you can just carry a county people's park to beat him.

But looking at the family background of Qiongcheng Hou from the outside to the inside, the fifth reunion is still a bit envious. There are eight or nine hundred servants alone, and the clans and only the guests are attached to them, and there are two or three thousand people. With Wang Yuan's status and fame, it will be too easy to call on tens of thousands of people in the county to gather under his command. The fifth lime is too small. If he also has such a big foundation, he can do more things and save more people in the future.

Jing Dan, who was walking with him, observed the fifth reunion all the way. He saw that he was mostly calm and gentle. He stopped until he passed by a small garden and glanced in.

Jing Dan also looked at it, but saw that there were several slaves, who were dressed in silk and silk, and his maid was also beautiful and luxurious. Could it be that he had a young mind?

But the fifth relationship is not about people, but dogs.

Several shiny haired dogs were lying on the top mat and chewing fresh meat.

That's the good meat that ordinary people in the fifth mile can only eat three or four times a year.

Wu Lun didn't say anything. It was someone else's business. He couldn't control what he liked to eat. He just paused for a moment and followed everyone to the courtyard hall of Changping Pavilion.

The guests sat down the hall according to their level, and the seats were on the hall. The fifth reunion was about to sit in the yard, but the Minister of the Family of Qiongcheng Hou hurried over and bowed to him: "The old servant was stupid and did not know the noble name of a gentleman before. The head of the family told Doctor Wei, please ask the gentleman and Jing Cao to sit on the table!"

Then I will follow the arrangements. The fifth reun only followed the Jiacheng to continue walking in, but saw the main hall with a tall and magnificent hall. The bronze lamp stand was like a big tree with lush branches and leaves. It was still bright outside, but the candles on it burned like money.

There were more than ten people sitting in the main hall, mostly Fan Zhu and other "old old men of the previous dynasty". When they saw that the fifth reunion could continue, they all showed envy or dissatisfied eyes.

Located at the innermost part is a small hall that is connected to the hall, divided into east and west seats, with the east seats where the Qiongcheng Hou Wang Yuan, and there is also a young man with a childish face, who should be his nephew Wang Long, who is famous for his literature in the county.

The head of the western seat was Wei Xiang, followed by Xiao Yan, the legitimate son of the Marquis of Xiaoxiang. He was chatting with Wei Xiang in a low voice and looked up at the fifth reunion. It could be seen that Wei Xiang seemed to admire Jing Dan very much, and he was a confidant of the county magistrate, so he was promoted to the position.

Fifth Lun took the last place in the Western Conference, and said to himself: "I'm afraid it's thanks to the national teacher Liu Xiu's words, "There are few virtuous things."

Above the banquet, the fifth reunion felt more intuitively the gap between the rich and the poor between the rich and the ordinary people.

The tables in front of him were made of precious cinnamon wood, painted with black paint and carved with dazzling patterns. The mat was not ordinary, and I didn't know what precious plants and trees were used. They knelt on and were soft, not like the straw mats in the homes of ordinary people.

The servants have skillfully arranged the tableware. They cannot name all the lords, cups, cubes, cubes, and cubes. There is also a steaming bronze tripod in the center of the hall, which is the home of Zhongming Ding Food.

On the table are metal cups and plates with silver mouths and yellow ears, wine pots with carved lacquer, and exquisitely crafted Yushang lacquer cups from No King, Hanoi. When you look down, you will see that the three words "Jun Xing Wine" are in the cup with a red wooden body.

Think about it, their family only has a few lacquerware, and they have to use it with distinguished guests. They use pottery and gourds on weekdays, which is not much different from farmers.

As for food, there is nothing to say, it is nothing more than the overlapping of the slaughter and roasted table. In addition to the meat, pigs, cattle, sheep, chicken, ducks and geese that we see in daily life, there are also fish, turtles, deer feces, quails, Chu oranges from the south, and wolfberry sauce sold in Shu. In the eyes of Jingdan and others, it is considered a rich and delicious food.

Think about the Fifth Domineering, it was just bean soup and yellow rice. The ones served with the meal were often only one sauce and one meat. When they were happy or guests added dishes, they were not just fish sashimi, and they did not catch all the people who were flying in the water flying in the sky and the ground, and all the beautiful things from all over the world were stewed into delicious dishes.

The fifth reunion can only sigh one thing, this is the boring life of rich people.

At this time, the host Wang Yuan stood up and raised his bottle and smiled, "The Book of Songs says: I have guests who play zithers and qiu. Today, the surname of the Wei County is right at Changping Hall. How can there be no music of silk, bamboo, drums and zithers?"

He clapped his hands, and the musicians on both sides of the hall sat sideways, either beating a zither or drumming a zither. A group of beautiful dancers from Qiongcheng Hou's homes came to the hall, waved their sleeves, and were in a free manner. They were dancing the graceful dance steps of Zhao Di Zhongshan, which was the hometown of Zhao Feiyan, the "demon queen" of the previous dynasty.

Wu Lun glanced at Wei Xiang. He didn't have any strange colors. He just enjoyed all this with a smile, obviously he was used to it.

Everyone in the hall was drinking and smiling. Before entering the table, Wei Xiang had announced the policy of Confucius in Chang'an seriously, the simple journey led by Emperor Wang Mang, and the crime of drinking. He had long forgotten the fact that only Xuzhou officials set fire.

This new dynasty is indeed a strange thing. The government issued an edict and thought it would be the same as the other. The people below pretended to be simple in the carriage and horse, but when they closed the door, they did the same. I wonder Wang Mangxiao didn’t know how to disobey this kind of lip service, and what kind of expression would it be if they knew it?

There was nothing worth talking about at the banquet, so Wang Yuanxian introduced the fifth reunion to everyone. At this time, the fifth reunion caught a glimpse of Xiaoxiang Houzi sitting in the second place in the western seat. Xiao Yan, the prince of Xiaoxiang, was laughing among the house, but he had a stern face. Occasionally, his eyes met the fifth reunion, and he moved away in disgust.

Jing Dan, who was sitting next to Xiao Yan, wanted to raise his wine toast him, but Xiao Yan only raised his title with one hand, which made Jing Dan a little embarrassed.

Yes, the Xiao family, which has been passed down from the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Han, has been a noble family for more than ten generations. Although the dynasty has changed, they are still the best and can be regarded as a "family family". How can they be willing to share the same seat with poor children like the fifth family? For him, this is simply a great humiliation. If it were not for the face of Wei Xiang and Wang Yuan, Xiao Yan would almost leave.

The Fifth Lun family is a small landlord. It has been declining from generation to generation, and has stepped on the mud land and is in line with the people of the country. The Xiao family has been a marquis for more than ten generations, and they have long been flying high in the clouds, without any trace of earth.

After eating for a while, everyone was full of wine and food. Wang Yuan stood up and invited everyone to hold the most important event of the Double Ninth Festival banquet - climbing the high place with dogwood.

But I climbed not the mountain, but the high platform in Changping Pavilion. The platform was built on a small plateau and could stand dozens of people.

After climbing to the stage, the autumn wind blew across the plain. In addition to the coolness, it also brought the fragrance of chrysanthemums in the garden. All the guests wore dogwood on their heads and followed Wei Xiang and Wang Yuan, looking down at the endless Qiongcheng Hou Manor in the west and south, flattering some flattery and praise.

But Wu Lun was attracted by the scene in the northeast, and walked over involuntarily, then stood on the edge and widened his eyes.

This is the first time Jing Dan has seen him since entering Changping Pavilion, and the fifth reunion showed a look of surprise and shock.

He saw a split world!

...

If I had just been wandering in a world full of luxury for most of the day, I had now stood on this magnificent and majestic platform and witnessed the truth about the other half of the world.

To the east of Changping Pavilion, outside a towering embankment, there was the surging Jing River main stream in the past, but now it is completely dry, leaving only a cracked riverbed under the scorching sun, like a twisted and ugly scar, dividing the world into two.

This turbid river comes from the Loess Plateau. It has always been known for its violent floods and large sand delivery. It changed its route two years ago because of Yongshu and turned to the northeast.

I heard from my grandfather about this, but I didn’t feel it deeply at the time. It was not until today that I saw it with my own eyes that I realized how severe the flood was.

The northeast was originally a wealthy farmland, but it was invaded by the Jing River that was diverted. With the flood, dozens of villages and thousands of hectares were destroyed. Now the only thing that can be seen in the fifth reunion is a messy ruin and fields submerged in mud. The reeds by the river grow tall.

At this time, Jing Dan also came over. Seeing Di Wulun like this, he knew that he had never been to the north of the county, so he said: "The autumn of the previous year, it was raining heavily, and the capital was more than 100 meters high, and the Jing River overflowed, and several counties in the north of the county were affected."

He lowered his voice: "But the eleven families including Qiongcheng Hou, Xiao, Fan and others were not damaged. They built land walls on the riverside in advance and the flood could not enter, so they swept over the poor households without the protection of the embankment, and tens of thousands of people were displaced."

"At that time, the imperial court of Zhang Jun first arrived in the county, and his ex left a deficit. The grain in the county was less than 5,000 stones, so he could only plead with the house to persuade them to give them some food and fodder, but..."

"Da Yin didn't even come here in person?"

Jing Dan nodded and said, "The family of Hou Qiongcheng gave out 1,000 stones, Xiao gave out 500 stones, and the rest of the family had two or three hundred stones. As for Fan, he was only willing to take out more than 100 stones, and there was not much Yicang from Boyu's family."

More than a hundred stones, then Fan Zhu's clothes are worth the money!

This little grain is a drop in the bucket, and a huge gap in relief appeared. Just as the hungry people were so hungry that they pulled out the bark of trees and were about to go into exile, the wealthy families seemed to find their conscience and sent people to wander among the affected poor with their grain, expressing their willingness to lend them the food.

The fifth reunion understood: "That grain is high interest, credit loans."

"Yes, borrow one and pay two, or even three!"

Jing Dan said: "The court was attacking the Xiongnu in the north, attacking Jucheng in the south, and pacifying the Qiang Rebellion in the west. There were 200,000 people stationed on the border, and the price of grain in Guanzhong was extremely high. The county magistrate had already tried his best to deal with it, but the relief of food and fodder was delayed. In order not to starve to death, the victims had to borrow food from various families."

"The flood has destroyed the land and the family headed by the Marquis of Qiongcheng. The families are unwilling to work together to contribute money and return the river channel to its original position because they are afraid that the river channel will affect their fields again. The Great Yin reported to the court, but he was unable to defeat the connections of the family of Qiongchenghou, and could only maintain the status quo. To this day, there are still floods in the north of the county from time to time."

"So the people who lost their homes and had to borrow money had to sign contracts with each family and become tenant farmers."

Of course, it is not a slave. This is bypassing the order of Wang Tian’s private rank, without any transaction, but it can annex the population in disguise. After all, the land of the Hou of Qiongcheng and Xiao is too vast, with hundreds or thousands of hectares, and tenants as consumables cannot be exhausted to death every year, and must be replenished continuously. Looking back at the disaster victims and county magistrates, they have to thank these "righteous actions" of the noble right!

No wonder they refused to provide relief grains, they were planning to make money from the national crisis.

Those old or thin and sick farmers, without taking in them, could only survive in their broken homes. From a distance, you can see someone moving in the autumn-floor field of the Hou family in Qiongcheng, bent down to pick up something.

They are gnashers. Because their family lacks food, they bring their children to the field to find some ears of millet that they accidentally left when harvesting. If they are lucky, they can pick up food all day.

But in just a moment, he was driven away by the big slave from Morita's dog. A short figure who seemed to be a child fell to the ground and was thrown up by the evil dog and bitten fiercely. Seeing this, Di Ren couldn't help but clench his fist and wanted to kick the evil dog away, but unfortunately it was too far away.

Fortunately, the child finally stood up and limped back, not knowing whether he could survive.

Wu Ren witnessed this scene and looked back at the luxury of the Qiongcheng Hou Mansion. The pavilions and pavilions rose in the courtyard walls, which were shocking.

It's really like it. The tall buildings are adjacent to the slums. Here they are extravagant and desperate, while there is struggle to die.

The ancients said that the rich are connected to the fields, and the poor are not allowed to stand in a cone. Dogs and pigs eat people without knowing how to check. This time he has experienced it personally.

Mergers and expanding one's wealth are the instincts of the rich, and even the fifth clan wants this. But he feels that in life, one should still have some conscience and bottom line. To be rich and unkind, it is unfair!

"Do you know why I was quite surprised after going to the fifth mile?"

Jing Dan said: "In this world, it is difficult to find a family of Luyou that is as kind as your family. The Yichuang Cang does not charge interest and is willing to borrow iron tools for the poor. The rent for tenants is not high, which is rare."

I am ashamed that the original intention of the fifth relationship was actually to win people's hearts. However, after that autumn society, as he further integrated into this era and the people around him, he even took these things as he did, and even he himself took them as he did.

After all, he was the stupid grandson of the landlord family in this life and the exploiting class.

But in his previous life, he was just an ordinary worker.

Their generation is very lucky to live in a hopeful era, and have been influenced by some things, and their views have basically been fixed. The history of studying books and those inspiring and passionate slogans have been subtly imprinted in the depths of their souls. So much so that they are realists when doing things and speaking, but they are idealistic in their bones.

Jing Dan was still sighing: "If all families are willing to share grain and reduce interest rates like yours, treat the people well, why worry about the uncontrolled county? Why worry about the uneasiness of the world?"

Hearing this, the fifth reunion subconsciously blurted out: "If you don't want to, you have to make them willing!"

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