Volume 2: The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 111: Buried You Alive
"But having said that, if I can really get such a woman as my wife, it would be great to think about it!" Looking at the sachet on the desk, Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh.
"Master Hou!" Just when Lu Chen was thinking about it, Liu Jing ran in from the study door.
"What's wrong?" Lu Chen quickly put the sachet into his arms, looked up at Liu Jing, and looked at Liu Jing with some displeasure on his face.
Although Lu Chen's hands were quick, Liu Jing still saw the sachet that Lu Chen was carrying in his arms. However, seeing Lu Chen's unkind expression, Liu Jing quickly averted his eyes, bowed to Lu Chen and said,
: "I would like to inform you, Lord Marquis, that the vegetables in the greenhouse in the back garden have sprouted!"
"Oh?" As soon as he heard Liu Jing's words, Lu Chen suddenly became energetic. In the past few days, Lu Chen had been wandering around the greenhouse for fear that his experiment would fail. Unexpectedly, sprouts sprouted today. This is a good thing. It is so far away from Lu Chen.
Chen has taken a big step forward by eating green vegetables in winter.
"Go and have a look!" Lu Chen got up and hurried to the back garden with Liu Jing. The Beiwei Guards soldier who was responsible for guarding the greenhouse was just about to salute Lu Chen. Lu Chen waved his hand and stopped the two of them.
After getting into the greenhouse and looking at the small green seedlings that had just emerged from the ground in front of him, Lu Chen felt relieved.
"At this rate, there will be vegetables to eat in a while! That's great!" Lu Chen leaned down to inspect the vegetable seedlings, gently brushing the young shoots with his fingers, as if he was afraid of being damaged. After a long time, Lu Chen finally got pregnant with
I left the greenhouse with excitement.
"Keep an eye on this place for me. If anyone dares to damage my vegetables at will, I will chop off his head!" Lu Chen decided to supplement his cultivation knowledge. For the sake of his own green vegetable plan, he must not treat it carelessly.
"I obey the order of the Marquis!" the two Beiwei guards responsible for guarding the greenhouse responded with clasped fists and cupped hands.
"Yes!" Lu Chen nodded with satisfaction, and then turned back to the study. He was going to start writing the "Three Character Classic" and "The Thousand Character Classic"!
"Liu Jing, go find Du Yanliang and bring him to the study to see me!" Lu Chen told Liu Jing and entered the study.
"Yes!" Liu Jing took the order and turned around and left the study.
After about a cup of tea, Liu Jing brought Du Yanliang to Lu Chen's study.
"Mr. Du, how about reading these two books to enlighten your children?" Lu Chen pushed the "Thousand-Character Classic" and "Three-Character Classic" he had copied in front of Du Yanliang.
Du Yanliang directly picked up one of the books and started reading. After finishing one, he picked up the other and started reading. In fact, "The Thousand Character Essay" also existed in this era, but it was expensive. Many gentlemen also
Professor from memory.
"What a book! What a book!" Du Yanliang naturally praised not "The Thousand-Character Classic" but "The Three-Character Classic". "Can I borrow this book to read at home?"
"So what if I give it to Elder Du?" Lu Chen said with a smile, "I invite Elder Du here this time because I want to ask Elder Du whether this "Three Character Classic" can be used as an enlightenment reading for children."
"Of course it's excellent, but the things in the study are extremely expensive now, and there are so many children in Zhuangzi. I'm afraid these books will be a problem by then!" Du Yanliang can naturally see the benefits of these two enlightenment books, but
The main problem now is textbooks. No matter how good the books are, they are useless if they cannot teach children.
"Mr. Du, there is no need to worry about this. I will naturally take care of the paper issue!" Lu Chen said with a confident smile, "I also know a little bit about the art of papermaking, and I will establish it soon.
Papermaking workshop! As for the problem of books, I will also solve it for you! Just the candidate for the teacher, Mr. Du, can you recommend him?"
"I have recently written a few letters to my old friends. I believe there will be responses after the Chinese New Year!" When Du Yanliang heard about the problems he was concerned about, his own princes had solutions, so naturally the teacher had to do it himself.
Come and try harder.
"It's so good, I have Lao Du!" Lu Chen was very satisfied with Du Yanliang's answer.
"This is my duty, what's the point? Please don't offend me, Mr. Hou!" As he got in touch with Lu Chen, Du Yanliang also understood who his Mr. Hou was. As long as he didn't touch Lu Chen's bottom line,
Lu Chen is also a very easy-going and easy-to-talk person.
"I will go back and continue to study the "Three Character Classic" now. This book by Lord Marquis can be said to be a classic!" Du Yanliang stood up impatiently, bowed to Lu Chen and saluted, and then became excited.
After leaving the study, Lu Chen looked at Du Yanliang's leaving figure and couldn't help but shake his head and smile. This old man was really impatient.
Suddenly, Lu Chen gathered people and started digging holes on the workshop land. No one knew what Lu Chen was going to do, but since Lu Chen asked to dig holes, let's dig them.
"This hole was not dug casually, but it was dug for the children in Zhuangzi!" Lu Chen stood aside and pointed to a large hole that had been dug.
"What?!" After hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Lu Chen blankly. Some dealers even knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Chen while crying: "Master Hou
, Our family is diligent and has done nothing to offend Mr. Hou. Why is Mr. Hou so cruel to trap and kill our children!"
"That's right! Master Hou, even if you let the villain die, you have to let the villain die clearly!"
"That's right! Lord Marquis, you have to die if you want me to die, and if you humiliate me to death, there is a reason. You are indiscriminate and have to dig holes and bury those children alive. I can't stop you from doing this.
!" Looking at the wailing farmers on the ground, Fang Qi threw the shovel in his hand directly to the ground, and looked at Lu Chen with resentment. Killing people on the battlefield is a place where the enemy and I want to see each other, and are extremely jealous. It is a life-and-death situation, but this pit digging
Fang Qike couldn't bear to bury him alive.
Not only did Fang Qi quit, the other soldiers also put down the shovels in their hands and looked at Lu Chen quietly, as if they were trying to force him into the palace.
"Ouch!" Lu Chen was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him. Lu Chen also knew that the ambiguity of what he said just now was a bit too ambiguous. In this era, these bankers would say that they are Lu Chen's servants if they say it is good, but they are Lu Chen's servants if they are not.
Most of them are Lu Chen’s domestic slaves, especially those in the imperial village. Most of them are the descendants of the criminal officials of the previous dynasty. These criminal officials themselves committed crimes, and their families were moved to the imperial village to work, so these people are slaves.
This is not only the case for the imperial village, but also for most of the other princes and princes.
Therefore, the lives of these people are not valuable. Although they are not valuable, they can farm and work. Therefore, it is rare for the owner to casually kill farmers. After all, they are still expected to work and farm. Of course, when encountering arrogant and lewd people,
That kind of owner is a person whose life is like a piece of grass. Those farmers can only hope for their own blessings.
But even so, I haven't heard of any family burying all the farmers' children alive. Wouldn't that force the people to rebel?
"Where are you thinking!" Looking at the large group of bankers kneeling in front of him, Lu Chen said with a bitter smile. Unfortunately, the wailing was so loud that he didn't even hear what Lu Chen said, and he was still wailing.
"Shut up!" There was no other way. Lu Chen could only yell. Not to mention, with such a roar, the wailing sound disappeared immediately, but the kneeling banker still shrugged his shoulders and sobbed.
"Are you stupid?" Lu Chen angrily kicked Fang Qi on the butt, "Is this prince a murderous person? He still buries children alive! You really think about it! Those children are my treasures.
I have to go to school next year! Why, I dug these pits to bury my children alive, do you want to turn the school into a mourning hall? If I want to bury people, I will bury you first!" Lu Chen could not attack the banker, so he could only arrest him.
Fang Qi scolded him, "I asked you to study culture with Su Dingfang every day, but you ended up learning it like a dog!" Lu Chen was not relieved and kicked Fang Qi's butt again.
Seeing Lu Chen kicking Fang Qi, all the farmers who were still sobbing were dumbfounded. The Marquis didn't dig the hole to bury the child. So what did the Marquis mean?
"Master Hou! I know I'm wrong! I know I'm wrong!" Fang Qi was kicked by Lu Chen and screamed, begging for mercy.
"Keep digging the hole for me. You can dig such a big hole yourself. You are not allowed to eat or sleep until you finish digging!" Lu Chen pointed at the large hole that had been completed in front of him and said angrily to Fang Qi.
"Master Hou, I can't dig such a big hole by myself!" Fang Qi said with a grimace as he looked at the huge deep hole.
"You can't dig it all by yourself, can you?" Lu Chen looked at Fang Qi with a sneer, "Did you have the same idea as him just now?" Lu Chen turned to look at the Beiwei guard soldier who had also put down his shovel just now.
"Yes!" These soldiers knew that if they didn't answer honestly, they would probably end up worse than Fang Qi, so they could only answer in a low voice with their heads lowered.
"You guys dig together with him! If you can't finish digging, don't eat or sleep!" Lu Chen pointed to a new piece of land next to him, and Fang Qi could only lead a group of Weiwei guards to start digging.
"Everyone, please wake up. You have misunderstood what I just said!" Lu Chen came to these farmers and stretched out his hand to lift up the middle-aged farmer, the oldest among them. "I dug these holes to provide schools for my children."
It's paper, don't listen to that guy Fang Qi's nonsense!" Lu Chen said and turned back to glare at Fang Qi who was struggling to dig a hole on the other side.
"Does the County Marquis want to make paper?" Just when Lu Chen said these words, a young man in his thirties wearing coarse linen clothes asked.
"Yes! I am indeed preparing to make paper. Cai Jing, do you know how to make paper?" Lu Chen looked at Cai Jing who was wearing coarse linen clothes and asked. The reason why Lu Chen could remember his name was entirely because of his name, Cai Jing.
Jing has the same pronunciation as "Cai Jing", the great traitor of the Northern Song Dynasty, so Lu Chen remembered his name after asking last time. In fact, Lu Chen has been walking around Zhuangzi in the past few days and remembered the names of many people.