The county priest Xian Yubao was quite happy.

Today's affairs are very dangerous. If the Sixth and the Seventh clan really make a fuss to the county and county, their political enemies say that "the struggle between clan brothers is because the county priest is incompetent in education." Then, according to convention, Xianyu county priest will be scolded by the county magistrate, which will affect his career.

Fortunately, the fifth reunion reported in time and volunteered to follow the water officials of the capital to solve the problem. Soon after, the seventh Biao and the sixth duke obediently came to the county temple and apologized to Xian Yubao.

This is not a lawsuit, absolutely not! Xian Yubao repeatedly emphasized this point, saying that he was just persuading the two of them as a county magistrate. The characteristic of moral judgment is that no matter whether it is right or wrong, the winner is uncertain, and the final goal is to reconcile between the two parties.

At the suggestion of the county magistrate, Xian Yubao also imitated the story of Han Yanshou during the former Han Dynasty and performed a play.

Qibiao is an acquaintance of the county magistrate and has given him many benefits in the past. However, Xian Yubao completely ignored his begging eyes and asked the county magistrate to order Qibiao to take off his shirt in public and bare his body with the sixth calf. In full view of everyone, he worshipped in the courtyard of the county temple.

The surrounding officials whispered and pointed at Di Qibiao. Di Qibiao always felt that they were laughing. Although he was reluctant, in order to protect the pavilion chief and his family, he could only bear humiliation.

The sixth calf was willing to accept this matter. With this guarantee, at least during the reign of the county magistrate, the seventh family should not dare to compete for water.

But the sixth calf's gratitude eyes were more focused on the fifth person who arrived later and mixed in the crowd. This child became a filial piety and brotherly love at a young age, and was appreciated by the county magistrate, and his future was unlimited.

According to the county magistrate's eyes, the two of them looked at each other in a straight manner according to the agreed script and said loudly that their family was confused and had a dispute, but under the influence of the county magistrate's virtue, they deeply regretted themselves and would never dare to fight again in the future.

"In the future, please use water first! Seven to six!"

"No, no, it's better to use the Sixth Family first! Your family moved here earlier than my family and is older than me."

It's so funny. In the morning, there were group fights and fights to the death. In the afternoon, this guy is so handsome and respectful. However, their acting skills are not good, so they can't even go up and beat each other with their lines and eyes.

At this time, the county priest Xian Yubao appeared. He coughed and opened the pavilion to see him at the right time. He bought food and drank the two of them. He was a witness to their understanding and promoted the matter to the county.

Needless to ask, the final result was that the county was in the same place, and all the officials rushed to spread the virtues of the county magistrate. The people would reflect on themselves after hearing about this incident. This autumn, there must be no one who came to the county to sue.

Of course, there will be no! If they cannot reach the gate of the county temple, they will be persuaded by the three elders and filial piety and other minor officials to go back.

In short, bad things turned into good things. Xianyubao gave up his political qualifications and had a better impression of the fifth ethics. He decided to report it to the county as a "supporting role" in this story for commendation - the reward of filial piety and brotherhood at the end of the year, from two pieces of silk to three pieces.

However, the fifth reunion was out of the matter, and he felt a lot of emotion when he looked at this absurd scene.

"The Master said: I am just a man who will not be able to make any lawsuits."

No lawsuits are the ideal state of Confucian governance. If it can be resolved with morality, it will never be sued to the law. In the Han Dynasty, there was a tendency to prohibit the son from suing his father, slaves and masters, and the government is unwilling to interfere in the clan disputes, so that the three elders can only mediate filial piety and brotherly love.

It is even more absurd to be in the new dynasty. The number of lawsuits in the jurisdiction has become one of the criteria for promotion of officials. If there is no one who complains, it is a political achievement worthy of writing.

What if the lawsuit cannot be curbed?

Then let’s deal with the lawsuit and be unlucky.

"But no lawsuit means resolving the conflict? Just keep the conflict for the time being?"

This made the fifth reunion even more determined. When Xian Yubao summoned him alone, he stepped forward and handed over and returned half of the seal: "Thank you to the county lord to love, send someone to eliminate the fifth reunion and give me the post of filial piety and brotherhood in my hometown."

"Lun was originally a young man with a weak talent and a shallow knowledge, so he was not enough to be an official position. But when he saw the seventh and sixth clan brothers fighting each other, Lun was deeply ashamed of him as his fellow clan and did not dare to turn a blind eye. So he was volunteered by Yin and persuaded them by the county magistrate's handwritten letter."

"Now the two families have repented and kowtowed to reconcile, and their fifth responsibilities have been fulfilled. They think they are young and have little morality and cannot persuade the villagers and help them become more and more prosperous. They should resign deeply!"

This means that the reason why he became this official was purely to use this identity to persuade the fight. Now that the matter is settled, my ability is limited, so the official will not do it.

It was so sudden that Xian Yubao was stunned and immediately spoke out to keep him, but the fifth reunion was very determined. After worshiping again, he left the county temple. According to the rules, the officials could not force him to stay, and they could only go with him.

Xian Yubao looked at the half-tongue seal left on the desk of the fifth reunion, but he couldn't react for a long time, and couldn't understand why this child wanted to resign. After a while, a thought flashed.

"Maybe he... think this position is too small?"

...

Although it is a lust for the lust, it is rare to praise this "corrupt official with a bottom line" who is half guessed.

The fifth relationship is indeed too small for filial piety and brotherhood.

He had already found out that the position of filial piety and brotherhood did not receive the salary of the court, nor did he have the power to govern the people, nor even a subordinate. He was even a commander-in-law and had to be dispatched by the three elders in the village to help him take charge of the education.

In the special national conditions of Confucianism in the New Dynasty, when the government was unwilling to accept lawsuits, the workload of the three elders and filial piety increased dramatically. From the separation of brothers to the neighbors throwing chickens, from cutting ashes to raising brothers, everything has to be taken care of. The three elders are generally older and can rely on their seniority to slim down in the villages. Young filial piety and filial piety have to take on the responsibility of running errands and run around to solve all kinds of trivial matters.

If a rare moral example is found in the village, one or two pieces of cloth will be rewarded as a reward. However, if education is not conducive to the opposite, brothers fight for land and neighbors fight to kill people, the superiors will "count it for the crime of disloyalty, and let the three elders filial piety and brothers fail to teach the faults."

In short, there is no real power at all, there are a lot of troubles and it is easy to take the blame.

Of course, the fifth reunion doesn’t mean such a fool: “I don’t even pay my salary, and I want to take the blame? I dream!”

In addition, the Fifth Reunion resigned with a firm heart, and he discovered a hidden crisis in peace through the drama he watched at the county temple today.

He looked up and saw that he would pass many lilu on the way home. In later generations imagined that the environment two thousand years ago must have been excellent, with primeval forests and yellow sheep and elk running around the mountains. In fact, it was not...

At least in Zhuling area north of the Wei River, the edge of this Loess Plateau has been under low vegetation coverage after hundreds of years of development in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Many hills and plateaus have even been cut down to only a pile of withered tree stumps.

Fortunately, some villages could not pick up firewood for more than ten miles away, and the axe could only cut into the forest further away. In the "Four Seasons and Monthly Order", the government demanded that random cuts and logs were not allowed, and it could not stop the people's urgent need for developing new land and chopping firewood.

The environment in Guanzhong has become much weaker than in the early Han Dynasty, and the Jing River is getting more and more muddy. In the past two years, it was congested and diverted to Changpingguan north of Changling, and a large number of victims left their hometowns.

Not to mention the Yellow River, it was a major concern of the New Dynasty. I heard that the fifth reunion had not been blocked for several years, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were generated in the Central Plains.

Looking at the mountains where the trees had gone, there were some tiny and turbid water in the canal, as well as the farmland that was expanding more and more outward, I knew it in my heart.

"Today's sixth and seventh two companies compete for water is by no means an isolated accident, and there are far-reaching reasons behind it."

Although there are disputes in places where there are people, behind the frequent water struggles is actually the contradiction between the increasingly saturated population of the Guanzhong Plain and the limited resources - after all, the population in the world has exceeded 60 million at this time, which is the limit that productivity can support in this era.

The specific household registration in Changling is a secret of the government, and I don’t know the fifth relationship. But according to my grandfather, this county is a large county, with almost 200,000 people, which is as good as two or three counties on the border. With so many people, crowded in such a small area, is all that water shortage?

The fact is that the people not only lack land, food, and daily fuel, but also lack work. There is not enough land, businessmen are suppressed, and workers... Do you have that skill? No wonder there are mostly idle and idle boys in the villages. They can't survive in the villages and can only go around the city to ask for food, or rely on Haoyou as guests.

In order to compete for resources, conflicts among counties and townships in Guanzhong are increasing. The bureaucrats of the new dynasty do not think about how to develop productivity and overcome the crisis, but blindly hold these disputes in pursuit of no lawsuits to maintain the superficial "rule".

Then just cover it. Undercurrents surging under the calm water surface. I don’t know when a big wave will appear, giving Xinmang a big surprise.

"The contradictions accumulate so much, and when the rivers collapse, there will be many injuries."

Thinking of this, the fifth reunion felt a sense of crisis again. Seeing that it was getting dark, he couldn't help but wave his whip and speed up.

"People at that time always thought that the Ming king ruled the world with filial piety."

"However, relying solely on filial piety and brotherhood cannot save the world!"

...

The Seventh Biao, who played the show at Akatsura, did not return home until the next morning with her tired body.

The sudden realization that he had been in the county temple was gone immediately. He was so angry that he threw the bottles and jars on the table to the ground, his eyes full of resentment.

Can you not hate it? What is the most important thing for the gentleman? It is not life, but face!

For the sake of face, they can draw their swords toward each other because they look at themselves more on the road, cut their necks, cut their livers and lungs, and corpses cross the way.

For the sake of face, they can pretend to be fat, buy good knives and swords that they can't afford, and wear them all day long to sway.

Face is the basis for the Qingxia family to settle down. What will happen if they lose it?

Di Qibiao felt that when he returned home, he found that everyone was disappointed, like a defeated rooster. The young man who was originally dependent on his family had already scattered. A slow-moving man was leaving with his baggage, but was stopped by Di Qibiao and asked.

Although the young man was ashamed, he still wanted to leave. He bowed to Di Qi Biao and said, "Everyone in the village said, the fifth time he beat Zhongjun with his seventy-year-old body. The fifth Boyu shouted, and the Bojun suddenly fell to the ground and barely barbed. The seventh clan was not as far away as the fifth ancestor and grandson."

"We are ashamed to be guests under the Seventh Sect again, so we left last night. I... I told a marriage at home. We can't be a gentleman anymore. I hope you don't blame me."

After saying that, he was about to leave, but the Seventh Leopard rushed out. The kick he was kicked by the Fifth Domineering, and he was drunk again. He walked staggeringly, wielding his sword to chase and kill the young man who betrayed the Seventh Clan. Fortunately, the Seventh Biao stopped him.

"If you kill him, can my reputation come back?"

The seventh leopard howled and cried: "Brother, the fifth child has caused you to be humiliated by this great shame. I am unwilling to accept it. When I recover from the wounds, I will take people to the fifth mile and use the blood of the fifth domineering and the fifth reunion to avenge the shame..."

In fact, the county magistrate was the county magistrate, but the two brothers did not dare to have any dissatisfaction with him. They only blamed everything on the fifth reunion that seemed to be "better messing with".

Qibiao was still awake: "My family has experienced this difficulty and lost all their faces, which has become a joke on the villagers. In addition to the followers of the tribe, dozens of young and gentlemen scattered. How can they fight against the famous Fifth clan? What's more, he is appreciated by the county magistrate, so he should not be moved easily."

"Wouldn't you just forget about this? How can you walk in the village in the future? You will definitely be ridiculed by the county people for a lifetime." The Seventh Leopard touched his collapsed nose and meddled with the fifth family, but this time he earned his prestige. In the future, the object of admiration for the young men in the future may turn from their brothers to the fifth family's grandchildren.

"My brother has been in the village for more than ten years. When did he suffer such a loss?"

The Qibiao had already made a plan: "Looking at the white whiteness of the fish outside, "I will go to the village first to tell the village man No. 1 Liu about this."

The First Family is undoubtedly the best family to move westward. It has a large family and a large business. It has more than 200 hectares of land and hundreds of servants. It is the only "country tycoon" in the township. The network of relationships is no longer limited to the county, but to the county. As long as the First Family can be pulled down to the front line, the Biao and Leopard brothers only need to hide behind them as dogs and bark at the fifth family.

When Qibiao left, he carefully reminded his younger brother who was drinking and relieved: "You should stay at home and never provoke the Fifth Family!"

"only."

The Seventh Leopard agreed well, but as soon as his brother left the house, he immediately changed his clothes, wore a ring knife, and stabbed his head. After going out, he reluctantly rode his horse, but did not go to the fifth mile, but went straight west.

His goal is a hundred miles away.

"I promised my brother not to provoke the fifth family and grandchildren... not to go in person!"

The Seventh Leopard drank another drink and gritted his teeth and said, "I want to find the hero Yuan She from Maoling, and beg him to send his subordinates to kill the fifth reunion!"

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