Chapter 73 Proclamation Chinese and Foreign Part 4
On the fifth day of August in the second year of Tongguang, there was continuous autumn rain.
Lu Deshan stood under the eaves of his house, looking at the misty ponds and rice fields with a frown on his face.
"Why is Third Brother so sad?" Lu Deqian came over and asked.
"It rains continuously. If it continues for months, the harvest will be harvested next month and it may be affected." Lu Deshan said.
"Isn't that good?" Lu Deqian said with a smile: "I won't fight with Third Brother this time. If someone sells the land, I will inform Third Brother in advance and let you buy it all."
Lu Deshan smiled calmly and said: "Qilang, don't underestimate Jinshang. Although he is a warrior who often indulges in women's sex and prostitutes his wives and daughters, he is a ruthless character and a sensible person. Taking advantage of the famine, he annexed fields wantonly,
Is there really a good ending?"
I don’t know how many officials in Yang Xingmi’s era had their wealthy families punished. One of the charges was “plundering people’s land.” How many of them don’t have a long memory?
"Oh?" Lu Deqian looked at his third brother curiously and asked, "How can a person who is addicted to women do great things? I read history books and those who achieve great things are all gentlemen, gentle as jade, humble and polite.
Being strict with oneself will bring you the pearl of wisdom. Is the world really that powerful today?"
"You!" Lu Deshan sighed and said, "In the early years, I asked you to go out with your uncle more often, go to Chang'an and Luoyang, but you didn't want to. You just said that nowhere is as good as Jiangnan."
"The northern land is soaked in the wind and smelly, so I'm too lazy to go there." Lu Deqian sneered and said.
Lu Deshan said nothing.
He is old, nearly sixty years old, and is unlikely to travel far in this life. However, the seventh brother is only forty years old and in his prime. He neither wants to be an official nor does business. He stays at home all day long, writing
Write and draw for your own entertainment.
Jiangnan really nourishes people.
The time when the Lu family took root in Jiangnan is so long that people can hardly remember it.
This branch has lived in Songjiang for generations, and their ancestors can be traced back to Lu Lie of the pre-Han Dynasty. The Songjiang River is one of the three rivers that lead to the sea from Taihu Lake. Together with the Dongjiang River and the Loujiang River, it is also known as the "Three Rivers of Taihu Lake".
During the pre-Tang Dynasty, Jiangnan was undergoing great development. The Taihu Lake Basin was naturally a top priority. Many new fields were cultivated, household registrations increased greatly, business and travel flourished, and it gradually gained the reputation of "the land of plenty".
For generations, the Lu clan has been prosperous in Wu County.
Lu Deshan was born and raised here, and his family was well off when he was young, allowing him to enjoy the prosperity of the world.
When he grew older, his family fell into decline, which made him realize the warmth and coldness of human nature.
His father, Lu Guimeng, failed to succeed in many trials. Coupled with the current chaotic situation, the family situation became increasingly decadent.
In his generation, the family property has not improved a single inch, and he still lives on the more than 400 acres of land passed down by his father, 30 houses, more than 40 cows, and more than ten tenants. It can be said that he lives a "poor" life.
Maybe, this is life.
Lu Deshan is nearly sixty years old this year. When he was young, he traveled extensively with his father and saw great places in various places.
After his father passed away, he returned to his hometown and worked as a minor official under Yang Shihou. When Shihou came to Xia, he resigned and returned home to avoid being implicated.
The seventh brother, Lu Deqian, is the grandson of Lu Xisheng, the former Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty. He is from the same clan and has a fairly close relationship with him. They often interact with each other and call each other by their respective titles.
He has come into contact with many children of the Lu family, most of whom have better family backgrounds than him and have solid knowledge. However, in his opinion, these people are a bit too arrogant for being confined to the south of the Yangtze River!
When the dynasty was established, some people once joked that the Great Xia could not last for twenty years. Now it is the seventeenth year since the founding of the country. It has indeed been less than twenty years, but no one dares to make such a joke anymore.
Ten years is inevitable, or even longer.
In recent years, people have been serving as officials one after another, but most of them are minor officials from the Jiangnan states, which is incomparable with the prosperity of officials and prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty.
There are also students who went north to take the imperial examination, but failed to pass the exam. When they came back, they were angry and full of strange words, saying that the scholars in the North were vulgar and illiterate, and the articles they wrote were not in line with the principles of saints and sages, but they managed to win the favor of the examiners. They were snakes and rats.
A nest with similar odors.
Some people even ridiculed Princess Shang's Jinshi He Ning, saying that he showed off his archery and riding skills during outings, which was degrading to the gentlemen and did not look like a scholar at all.
Lu Deshan could only smile at this.
The atmosphere in the North is like this. After all, it is the people from the North who hold the power in this country. Isn't it obvious what type of articles they like to read?
In the year when you are taking a poetry test, if you use a word that is too beautiful, you will be dismissed immediately.
What they like is the rough and chilling tone of "armies fighting each other in the middle of the night", rather than boudoir readings such as "One Inch of Love and One Inch of Gray".
If the situation is like this, you just have to adapt.
But Jiangnan, this rich and gentle town, makes people miss it, but there is nothing they can do.
"The imperial edict has arrived in Suzhou, and now it has been honored with the title 'Supreme Emperor Jianwen Shenwu'. What do you think?" Lu Deshan stopped looking at the rain and turned around and asked.
"We can talk about 'Shenwu', but where do we start talking about 'Jianwen'?" Lu Deqian asked.
"This article is not that article." Lu Deshan said: "Don't you think it's a good idea to buy a four-wheeled carriage? Your family doesn't use coal for cooking? It's wet and cold in winter, so didn't you also make a sweater?"
"Can this be considered 'literary'?" Lu Deqian was speechless.
"The most important thing in the world is food, clothing, housing and transportation. Why do you read the books of sages?" Lu Deshan asked.
"Cultivation of one's character, organization of one's family, and governance of the country..."
"What if there is any other way to govern the country without reading the books of sages?"
"This... will surely make the people's hearts lose their composure and the country will be ruined."
"Indeed." Lu Deshan nodded and said: "The books of sages do have the effect of stabilizing people's hearts. If you are rude, the world will be in chaos and endless killings. Since the Tang Dynasty was in chaos, the warriors were in charge of the country, killing the generals and driving the commanders, and eating the common people.
It's the lack of etiquette. But relying on etiquette alone, what you get after all is a world with strict hierarchy and orderly hierarchy. It saves trouble, but the future is not good."
"What should we do?" Lu Deqian asked with some subconscious resistance.
Lu Deshan smiled and turned to look at the misty rain and mist.
In the fog, there are cultivators wearing raincoats digging ridges in the fields to drain away the accumulated water.
Farmers are always concerned about their own lives. And their lives are people's livelihood and the greatest "culture" in the world.
"The Han family has its own system, which is based on the overlord's way. How can it be purely moral education and use Zhou Zheng?" Lu Deshan said in a low voice: "Today's does not exclude hegemony. Any party in the king's way has also proposed something new.
."
"What?" Lu Deqian asked.
"I can't tell, maybe it's the Shaw family tradition." Lu Deshan smiled and said, "After thinking about it, the only word is 'balance'."
"What's the explanation?"
"If I just want to build a country where the family is at home and the world is at home, then I can just use moral education. But he is very ambitious. He would rather risk the imbalance of the world and the chaos of the people than just use moral education." Lu Deshan said:
"Have you ever heard of a whaler?"
"Some people compare it to 'Snake Catcher'," Lu Deqian said.
Lu Deshan laughed, laughing so happily that he gradually burst into laughter.
Lu Deqian was baffled.
Liu Hedong's "Snake Catcher" is very famous. Some people compare it to whale hunting. Is there any problem? People who go to sea almost die, and there are countless people who are buried in the belly of fish. Moreover, these people are wild and untamable and difficult to discipline. Today's article
Also encouraging fishing and whaling at sea, doesn’t it create an uncontrolled source of unrest?
What this world wants is stability, and a lot of things can be sacrificed for this. It’s really a mess now.
"We are not forcing them to go out to sea to hunt whales today." Lu Deshan put away his smile and said: "On the contrary, everyone is rushing to go out to sea in the hope of soaring into the sky."
"Isn't this a feeling of despair?" Lu Deqian asked, "Isn't it good that men farm and women weave, working at sunrise and resting at sunset?"
"If you are asked to plow the land for your whole life, will you plow it?" Lu Deshan asked.
"I...I don't farm, but I have land. I just recruit people to farm it and collect rent." Lu Deqian said.
"Isn't that what it is?" Lu Deshan shook his head and said: "Some people don't want to cultivate the land, but the sage gives them a choice, such as going out to sea to hunt whales. Those who come back with big fish will be granted official status. When they meet local officials, they will also
But if you sit and talk, you won't get any shorter."
"Some people are good at business, and saints provide them with conveniences. Those who contribute a lot also benefit from it. Aren't Zhao Zaiqing's two sons serving as county magistrates in Hunan?"
"There are people who fight for their lives on the battlefield, hoping to be granted a wife and a son, and the saints satisfy them. To this day, the saints still limit the number of people admitted to the scientific examination. In the court, there are Jinshi, Yinguan, warriors and even Tibetan people. They have everything, but nothing.
One family."
"Some people are not good at the Four Books and Five Classics, but they can take exams in mathematics, construction and other subjects. Even if they can't become a high official, they will have no problem as a minor official of seventh or eighth rank, and they will have no worries about wealth."
"There are all kinds of things like this. I call them the 'New Dynasty's elegant politics'."
Lu Deqian was silent for a long time and stopped talking.
Lu Deshan stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "I know what you are going to say. Have you read "The Theory of Bloodline"?"
"I've read it a few times," Lu Deqian said, embarrassed to say that he had read the entire text twice.
"You!" Lu Deshan laughed loudly, and then added: "The saints have thought about it for you. I just want to ask, is there any difference between last year's new sweater and ten years ago?"
"It seems - a little softer?" Lu Deqian said uncertainly.
"Of course." Lu Deshan nodded affirmatively and said: "This is the role of breeding, and it is also the core of this book "Theory of Bloodline". Wang Yong, an unknown person, rose to prominence with this book. Now he is a Shaofu prisoner, and in the future
Entering the political hall is not something that is out of reach."
"Actually, the role of this book is more than just wool?"
"Many new fruits and vegetables have been cultivated in the Northland, and the yields are amazing."
“Milk production increased after cows were fed wine lees.”
"Rye and sugar beets are widely grown in the originally bitter and cold areas."
“Even wheat, corn and other crops are being bred with improved varieties from generation to generation.”
"Drawing horses, pack horses, war horses, oxen adapted to different climates and extremely powerful, etc., there are too many."
"What's more, the fish caught from the sea are very cheap, and many people can afford them. If there are fish to eat, there will naturally be less food to eat."
"The saint started from the agricultural reform." Lu Deshan finally said: "He does things step by step, thinks carefully, and benefits thousands of families. How can he be as simple as a warrior who 'harlots wives and daughters'?"
"This..." Lu Deqian was speechless for a moment, and complained after a long time: "The saint only benefits the north, but does not give any benefit to us Jiangnan people."
"I heard that Sinong Temple was breeding rice seeds in Xiangyang more than ten years ago." Lu Deshan glanced at him and said, "After capturing Huainan, Sinong Temple searched for rice seeds in Nanjing, Guangzhou, Annan and other places.
Selection and optimization. If you are interested, you might as well ask your classmates and friends whose families are officials in Nanjing to see if you can get new rice seeds. If so, it will benefit the farmers in your family. 'Cultivate yourself, harmonize your family and govern the country'
, you have accomplished one thing."
"After listening to what the third brother said, do you really believe in me?" Lu Deqian asked.
"The saint must have added a lot of things he liked when he was revising the "Tongguang Complete Book". After the book is completed, I really want to take a look." Lu Deshan sighed and said, "It's a pity, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until that day.
Jianwen Shenwu—why didn’t he come to the world twenty years earlier?”
"Listening to what you said, I really have some skills today." Lu Deqian capital muttered.
Lu Deshan laughed loudly. If he had no means and could not be truly convinced, how dare he be so willful and wanton with his wife and daughter?
"Perhaps I should go out for a walk." Lu Deqian said suddenly: "The Lu family in Wu County has been passed down for thousands of years and has outstanding people from generation to generation. They are not all pedantic people. The pool in Jiangnan is indeed a bit small. Even the Persians are big
Cannibals can cross the ocean and come to the Central Plains, how can we lag behind others?"
"If you think so, the saint's goal has been achieved." Lu Deshan said with a smile: "Go, walk more for me and see more, this world is different from before."
The patter of rain stopped, and the golden sunshine penetrated the clouds and illuminated the earth.
Lu Deshan and Lu Deqian raised their heads and looked at the earth after the rain, which was so fresh and refined, so prosperous.