Chapter 195 The death of the society, scraping the bones to heal the wound
After the businessmen left, Li Han asked about the matter.
"They were inspired by my sincerity." Yang Xuan said shamelessly.
This man is shameless, even thicker than King Wei... Li Han said: "Businessmen love money, and they love to play both sides, but I think they want to take root in peace. Why?"
The old thief just laughed.
Naturally, Lang Jun’s clever idea cannot be shared with others.
Of course, the second child is an exception.
Li Han gave up his efforts to explore the matter, "Zitai came back just in time, take me to the county school someday."
Yang Xuan was surprised, "I told you last time, if you want to go, just go..."
Li Han said dissatisfiedly: "The steward in the county school is domineering, has an ugly face, and is difficult to get in. He said that no one else is allowed to enter unless they have your handwriting."
"That man is a madman." King Wei also went there that day. "After I reported my identity, the madman became even more indifferent."
"Let's go tomorrow. I'll take you there tomorrow."
Yang Xuan was exhausted from traveling.
After dinner, Yang Xuan took a bath. Seeing that he was tired, Yi Niang ordered: "Four ladies, hurry up and make the bed. By the way, Sir, I have your letter."
The letter turned out to be from Bao Dong.
Yang Xuan entered the room and fell on the bed to read the letter.
Bao Dong mentioned the Imperial College and his current situation in the letter.
The attitude of the imperial court towards the Imperial College was gradually changing and became much more indifferent. Moreover, the official positions of the Imperial College students were getting worse and worse.
Bao Dong complained in the letter, saying that if things continued like this, he would definitely choose to do business.
The sales volume of the Rejuvenation Pill in Chang'an is pretty good now, and Bao Dong was quite proud when he mentioned this.
Yang Xuan thought about the workshops in the city. They should be almost ready now, but the people who bought the medicinal materials haven't come back yet, so they can only wait for the time being.
Compared with the rejuvenation pills in Taiping City, the one from Baodong is like a child's play.
hehe!
Yang Xuan chuckled and received the letter.
He yawned, pulled up the quilt, and turned his head to blow out the candle, when he happened to see Zhang Siniang standing beside him.
The candlelight flickered, and Zhang Siniang's face looked flickering, as if...
"There's a ghost!"
Get up the next day and wash up.
Zhang Siniang handed over the things with a wooden face.
"Didn't you sleep well?"
"Um."
"Why?"
"I dare not say it."
"Say it."
Yang Xuan almost said the words he heard in the scroll: I will pardon your innocence.
Zhang Siniang lowered her head, "I was guilty of scaring Mr. Lang last night."
Yang Xuan was not that timid. Last night he thought Zhang Siniang had gone out, but suddenly he saw a face that flickered in and out, and all the ghost stories and ghost movies in his mind suddenly came out.
"No one heard it?"
Thinking that he had screamed out in surprise last night, Yang Xuan felt a little ashamed.
Zhang Siniang hesitated, "Probably not."
Cao Ying came out of the bedroom, "Mang Jun got up so early."
"yes!"
The old thief is out.
"Good morning, Mr. Lang."
"morning."
Yi Niang also came out.
Everyone looked as usual.
It seems that I didn't hear it last night.
Yang Xuan felt relieved.
The same goes for Zhang Siniang.
Wang Laoer rubbed his eyes and left the bedroom.
"Yiniang."
"What are you doing?"
"I had a nightmare last night."
"What did you dream about?"
"I dreamed that my husband hit a ghost and screamed."
Yang Xuan, who died in society, took Li Han and King Wei to the county school. Zhang Siniang rushed into the bedroom, lay on the quilt and muttered, "I have no shame in living."
"Get up." Yi Niang came in.
"You all heard it."
"Um!"
"Yiniang, do I look like a ghost?"
"It's not like that."
Yi Niang comforted her with a few words, walked out of the bedroom, and sighed: "If it were those women in the palace back then, when they heard Lang Jun's exclamation, they would have pretended to be a little bird and pounced on him. Alas.
!Still don’t have the talent to win favor.”
Yang Xuan and the others came to the county school.
Li Wenmin heard the news and came to welcome him.
"I've seen the Ming Dynasty."
He saluted Yang Xuan very respectfully.
"I have met the king, and I have met Li Langjun."
Then it seemed a bit perfunctory.
Damn it!
King Wei held the handle of the sword and really wanted to kill this madman half to death with the back of the sword.
"I'll take them in and have a look."
"Mingfu please."
The four of them entered the county school together.
"It's more luxurious than the place where I live." The place where King Wei lives can be said to be simple.
Li Wenmin held back the harsh words he was about to say, "The Ming government said that the school building should be more luxurious than the government office."
What's wrong! King Wei glanced at Yang Xuan.
He has accepted a concept since he was a child: the world belongs to the emperor, that is, the royal family. After arriving in Qianzhou, he learned that the same is true for officials... This place belongs to the official, as does the land and the people.
But Yang Xuan told him in this way: what belongs to the people belongs to the people, and what belongs to officials belongs to officials.
He vaguely felt that there was something in this attitude that made him feel throbbing. While Yang Xuan and Li Wenmin were talking in front, he asked in a low voice: "What does Yang Xuan mean? Why do I feel this way?"
Is he belittling officials?"
Li Han nodded, "Yes and no. I think... think about the conditions he gave to those businessmen this time."
"It's not a problem to pay taxes, it's not a problem not to pay rent for shops, he has prepared those industries for businessmen, hiss!"
"Understood?"
"He regards officials as a group of people who work for the people and businessmen!"
The sound of reading was loud in the school building.
Li Wenmin said in a low voice: "Nearly all our children in Taiping are illiterate, so we have to start everything from scratch, including literacy and interpretation, and we can only teach others after knowing hundreds of words."
"good."
Yang Xuan stood outside the school building, feeling very pleased as he watched the children inside chanting along.
This is his inheritance!
After the children are literate, they can then slowly teach those knowledge.
Li Han was a little disappointed as expected, "I'm just about to learn how to read. I'm afraid I'll have to wait half a year."
"You want to teach?" King Wei saw through his plan at a glance, "With your temper, I am worried that you will teach a bunch of foxes."
"A fox is better than a fool."
King Wei said coldly: "There are not too few smart people in the Tang Dynasty, but too many. If there were more stupid people, I believe that the Tang Dynasty would not be what it is today."
After looking around, Yang Xuan returned with satisfaction.
King Wei returned to the next door.
Huangping is waiting for him.
"Your Majesty, there is news from Qianzhou."
King Wei took the envelope and opened it.
After a long time, he raised his head, with a sarcastic look in his eyes.
"Aye spends money lavishly. Even Han Shitou beside him has become a rich man. Now he has a mansion near the palace."
He handed a few pieces of paper to Huang Ping and said, "Read it!"
"Someone wanted to come to Taiping to replace Yang Xuan. He sought some connections and thought he would succeed." Huang Ping thought this was a fool. "Luo Cai, the Minister of Civil Affairs, scolded: The former magistrate of Taiping pretended to be ill, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs arranged for someone to go there.
When I took over, one was sick and the other was crazy, so I avoided them. But now they flock to them like ducks.
I am asking you here today, do you dare to go to Taiping to serve as county magistrate for three years? If you dare, I will propose a toast immediately."
"That man was from the Chunyu family. He immediately looked ugly and said, "Let's do it."
"Luo Cai was so angry that he threw a tea cup at him and scolded this person for being shameless. That's all. But in his rage, Luo Cai actually wrote a memorial and bluntly said that Chun Yu was shameless."
When Luo Cai's memorial came into the palace, the emperor was noncommittal and even said with a smile: Luo Cai was a bit angry.
Luo Cai immediately took off his hat and begged to go. The emperor's face was ashen and he was about to scold him when the left minister stood up to persuade him.
Luo Cai left a sentence: "The people I manage for your Majesty are officials of the Tang Dynasty, not servants with five surnames in the family!"
"How magnificent!" Huang Ping sighed, "It's a pity that I'm not here, otherwise I would have cheered for Mr. Luo."
Chun Yu was furious when he heard the news, and there were rumors in the market that Chun Yu would definitely want Luo Cai to look good.
A few days later, Luo Cai's grandson was discovered to be having an affair with the woman.
The Tang Dynasty did not have the same restrictions on men and women as Chen Guo, and was very loose. However, people still called for beatings for such things that corrupted morals.
Chunyu's people sent a message, hoping to make Luo Cai bow his head.
Luo Cai did not reply.
The next day, he personally took his grandson to the door of the victim's house and broke his grandson's legs with a stick.
Chang'an was shocked.
Just when everyone was shocked by Luo Cai's righteousness to kill off relatives, he appeared outside the gate of Chunyu's house.
One person is sitting outside.
"It's just death today!"
All the eyes of Chang'an were gathered here, waiting to see the four surnames of the family slap the emperor hard on the face.
——What does the emperor think when his loyal ministers are suppressed by the powerful?
Chunyu stayed behind closed doors, and the emperor sent people to persuade him, but Luo Cai only said that he was guilty.
He is guilty, but what about Chunyu?
He sat outside for a day, but Crown Princess Chunyu Yanjiao couldn't sit still anymore and asked someone to go home and send a message.
——Everyone in the palace is saying that the Chunyu family is going to usurp the throne!
Chunyu family sent a steward and swore that this matter had nothing to do with Chunyu family.
Huang Ping finished reading.
King Wei: "What a talented person!"
Yang Xuan received the news from Zhao Sanfu's letter two days later.
"Someone wants to do gold plating, haha!" He smiled contemptuously.
"Luo Cai can be regarded as a man who knows people well and makes good use of them." Cao Ying said with emotion: "When Luo Cai was a local official, a wealthy family annexed the land, and the local officials took the benefits to cover it up. Until some people went to the outside of the county before fleeing.
Howling, Luo Cai found out about this."
"Then there was a major case, and almost no official in the county was spared. Someone asked for mercy, but Luo Cai was steadfast and took down the person who asked for mercy."
this……
Such a person did not die in officialdom? This is unscientific!
Yang Xuan wondered, "No one did anything to him?"
"Yes." Cao Ying said with a smile: "Someone tried hard with the officials, and the officials were ready to drive Luo Cai to southern Xinjiang. When the late emperor found out about this, he slapped more than ten people, and then recalled Luo Cai.
Chang'an asked."
"The late emperor asked Luo Cai, you have wiped out all the officials in the county and there is no one to do anything. Why don't you keep some people who made only small mistakes?"
"Luo Cai said: "Keeping small mistakes is telling the world that it doesn't matter if you make mistakes or violate laws. As long as the government needs me, you will be safe. Your Majesty, this is encouraging officials to make mistakes."
"His Majesty said with emotion at that time that although Luo Cai was a bit sharp, after hard work, he could become the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Only then did Luo Cai have a safe journey. Later, during the reign of Emperor Wu, he was promoted to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel until today."
It turns out that Luo Cai was still so stupid when he was young... Yang Xuan couldn't help but think of that kind old man, "In the future of the Tang Dynasty, I will have to have a bone scraping to heal the wounds."
Yang Xuan said: "I discovered a problem when I was reading history books. The more people were in trouble, the more unscrupulous the officials were. I thought about it for a long time...but I couldn't figure out the reason. Later I saw the small nest under the eaves.
Watching the raindrops falling inside, I finally realized..."
He said slowly: "It takes more than a day's work to pierce the stone. The same is true for corruption in officialdom. Moreover, corruption in officialdom often coincides with the decline of a dynasty... When the country was founded, it was incorruptible, but gradually deteriorated. Finally, it became corrupted. The same was true for the dynasty, which had just begun to grow strong.
, then flourished, then declined, and finally collapsed, in sync with the rule of officials."
…
Yang Xuan and Cao Ying were discussing the relationship between officialdom and the rise and fall of dynasties, while Yue Laoer was guarding his own cloth stall.
As Taiping City became more and more prosperous, there were more and more merchants, and Yue Laoer's business was getting better and better. His wife was busy at home all day long, leaving Yue Sanshu completely to him.
Yue Sanshu was sitting in the back, blocked by the trolley. He looked like a very stupid child. If you look closely, he looked exactly like Yue Er's expression.
Two men came over.
Yue Er took a look, but remained dull and didn't speak.
The leading man picked up the cloth, looked at it carefully, and asked, "What's the price of this cloth?"
The two parties bargained for a while, and the man pointed to the shop under construction on the side and asked: "How long will it take to repair it?"
"It will probably take another month or two."
"Tsk tsk! I really want to rent a room." The man scratched his head, "I'm afraid the price is too high."
The man next to him said: "Someone said last time that if you do business that Taiping does not currently have, the rent can be reduced a lot! Brother, why don't we take a look?"
The man sighed, "You have to think about it carefully. By the way, husband, what kind of wood are you using? If it's not strong enough, we won't dare to do business."
"Brother." The man next to him shook his head, hinting that he should not reveal the secret.
The shopping mall is like a battlefield!
Yue Er turned around and took a look at the shop, "It's good wood."
The man asked again, "Do you know what kind of wood it is?"
Yue Er shook his head, "I don't know."
If you don't buy anything and ask around, unless you are extremely bored, no one will have time to talk to you.
The man smiled, cupped his hands and said, "Excuse me."
"polite."
The two went forward, and Yue Er asked: "What did Erlang hear?"
Yue Sanshu was only six or seven years old. He leaned against the cart and thought for a moment, "They want to deceive Aye."
Yue Er smiled with wrinkles all over his face, "Good son. By the way, you go along and listen to what they said."
"oh!"
Yue Sanshu then stood up from behind the car and followed.
He followed the two men, not too far but not too close.
This section of the road is bustling with many stalls. From time to time, the two men looked at the goods and asked a few questions.
A man suddenly turned around with sharp eyes.
Yue Sanshu was still walking.
It wasn't until he bumped into the man that he looked up blankly.
The man asked: "Who are you looking for?"
Yue Sanshu said dullly: "I'm not looking for anyone."
"Why did you come out?"
"Ye mother is fighting, she's fighting so hard, no one cares about me."
The two men looked at each other.
If we fight, I'm afraid it's going to be a fight between goblins.
If a six or seven year old child is left outside, are you not afraid of being abducted?
"Who won?" the man teased.
Then I felt a little regretful and felt that this was an extraneous incident.
Yue San said in a dull tone: "Aniang won."
In such fights, the men will lose in the end.
The man smiled and said, "How do you know?"
I talked too much again... He patted his forehead gently.
Yue Sanshu said: "There was a lot of blood on Aye's head."
Later, Yue Sanshu returned to the stall.
"Aye, they asked about the wood and paint, and why no one was looking at the shop."
Yue Er, who had only wrinkles and no blood on his forehead, said with a ferocious smile: "This bitch is not a liar, I'm afraid she just wants to set fire to her!"