Chen Jingke laughed when he heard his last words, and complained in his heart: Mud really can't hold up the wall.
Either you don't say anything, or you apologize sincerely. Is this the same as being stepped on?
However, the intelligence he showed was completely consistent with his previous behavior. This kind of person never looks for reasons in himself, but only blames others.
To put it simply, be lenient to yourself and strict to others.
At this time, Jing Hengyan came in from outside and said: "Captain, how is that boy? I didn't make you unhappy, did I?"
Chen Jingke smiled and waved to him.
Jing Hengyan approached carefully and said, "Captain, what are your orders?"
Chen Jingke raised his leg and kicked him. Jing Hengyan quickly turned to the side. But instead of dodging, he caught the kick with his thick butt.
"Bastard, is this what you call a human being? In your eyes, the standard of being a human being has dropped to this low level?"
Jing Hengyan scolded Wu Yuanshuang in his heart, but he said with aggrieved face: "Captain, you can't blame me entirely. No matter what, he is still your second brother-in-law. Do I dare to offend him to death?"
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Chen Jingke also understood his difficulties, and his in-laws could not take them lightly at any time. Wu Zetian hated Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang so much, but when she came to power, the people she trusted the most were their two sons.
Asking Jing Hengyan to teach Wu Yuanshuang a lesson was indeed a embarrassment to him. If the lesson was severe, what would happen if he was retaliated against in the future? If the lesson was light, he would be scolded by Chen Jingke.
Thinking of this, Chen Jingke thought for a while and said: "I will go to see the empress in a few days, so that he can only be a white man for the rest of his life. If he dares to bare his teeth, I will kill him... Now you know what to do?"
Jing Hengyan was also startled by these murderous words, but he completely understood his determination and immediately said: "Don't worry, I understand."
Chen Jingke then said: "Go and teach him well. I will take him away after a while."
Afterwards, Chen Jingke returned to the Taoist Temple and told Wu Shu about Wu Yuanshuang's situation, and also told him his follow-up treatment methods.
Wu Shu said bitterly: "You treat your good intentions like a donkey's liver and lungs. This bastard really pisses me off."
Chen Jingke smiled inwardly, but he could understand her mood and said comfortingly: "There is no need to be angry with this kind of person. Let him suffer more and find an opportunity to drive him out of the capital out of sight."
Wu Shu nodded, but then he said with some worry: "Will the empress blame me for being too stingy, even my brother can't tolerate me?"
Chen Jingke shook his head and said: "Don't worry, my aunt hates me more than anyone else. Do you think she doesn't want to come back with revenge? No, she just doesn't want others to criticize the saint."
"We two don't want to be completely human, so we can do as we please. Don't worry. Besides, we are not trying to kill him. Letting him remain a white man for the rest of his life is already very tolerant."
Wu Shu finally stopped hesitating and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you."
Chen Jingke smiled and said: "Why are you so polite to me? It's right."
Wu Shu smiled gratefully, then turned cold and said, "There are still two beasts, Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun, I can't spare them."
Chen Jingke also said with deep understanding: "Speaking of them, they are the culprits. We really can't just spare them. Have you thought of a way to deal with them?"
Wu Shu showed a disdainful smile and said confidently: "No, I will write a letter to the elder brother. I believe he will know what to do."
Chen Jingke was a little confused, Wu Yuanqing? He listened to you and dealt with these two cousins?
But after he read Wu Shu's letter, he finally figured out the strangeness in it, gave a thumbs up and said: "High, Sister Wu is still tall."
Wu Shu also put on a proud look and said: "If I ask Wu Yuanshuang to write a letter and talk about his experience, I will get twice the result with half the effort."
Chen Jingke immediately said: "Don't worry, you can get as many letters as you want."
The content of Wu Shu's letter is not complicated. It just tells the story of Wu Yuanshuang's actions against the mother and daughter.
It's just that the wording is a little off, focusing on Wu Weiliang and Wu Huaiyun, slightly exaggerating their role in it.
In addition, Wu Yuanshuang's letter of complaint clearly told him to deal with these two people. The worse they were, the less Wu Yuanshuang would suffer.
Based on Wu Yuanqing's feelings for his biological brother, it is not difficult to imagine what he would do.
Moreover, so many things happening at home are directly related to Wu Weiliang and Wu Yuanqing. It is impossible to say that Wu Yuanqing has no objections to them.
For many reasons, I believe he will entertain his two cousins well.
And even if someone pursues the case afterwards, it will be Wu Yuanqing who cleans up the family by himself and has nothing to do with Wu Shu.
From beginning to end, she only wrote a letter describing what happened, without mentioning any mention of revenge.
As for Wu Yuanshuang's punishment in the army, it was because he violated the disciplines of the army. We cannot do anything special. We must be punished if we deserve it.
Besides, she is a weak woman and is incapable of taking care of the affairs of the emperor's personal guards. She is powerless.
Thinking of this, Chen Jingke couldn't help but sigh: She is indeed worthy of being the queen in her previous life. This little trick is really clever. Anyway, even if I beat him to death, I wouldn't have thought that he could still do this.
But he immediately thought proudly: No matter how clever you are, you still have to warm my bed, hehe.
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After the smallpox vaccination work was steadily carried out, the imperial court launched a series of major actions.
First, a enfeoffment team was formed, with Changsun Wuji as the team leader, who was responsible for formulating a complete set of enfeoffment laws, etiquette for princes and kings, the number of honorary fiefdoms for each level, etc.
As for who should be banned first and who should be banned later, these are just private discussions for the time being and are not yet discussed on the table.
These things will not be considered until at least the enfeoffment bill is finalized.
But even so, when things have reached this point, the nobles finally relaxed and began to fulfill their obligations.
With their full help, the academic system and the imperial examination system were restarted again and advanced at an extremely fast speed.
At the same time, land clearing and people's resettlement work were also carried out.
Last year, more than 10 million people were counted, and land must be allocated to them according to the land equalization system. The land in the Central Plains is definitely not enough, even if all the hidden land is counted, it will not be enough.
However, there are large areas of wasteland that can be reclaimed.
But without large-scale machinery and chemical fertilizers, newly reclaimed wasteland would not yield much harvest for three to two years.
But it was not difficult for Li Shimin and his ministers to immigrate.
Chen Jingke was naturally inclined to immigrate, and he had a more specific goal, so he ran to the palace to find Li Shimin:
"The Yangtze River Basin has been developed since the Sun Wu period, and a large number of Han people migrated to the southern crossing of Yongjia to settle there. Afterwards, hundreds of years of development continued, and it gradually became prosperous."
"However, the area here is still vast and sparsely populated, and a group of people can be moved to settle there. By the way, some of the foreigners who have returned will be mixed with the Han people to intermarry and civilize..."
"Gong Guogong presented a map of the mountains and rivers of Lingnan and a yellow book of the people, so that some people can be moved here. In this way, they can intermarry with each other and spread Chinese culture, and the enlightenment can be completed in less than twenty years."
"The land in the south is fertile and has abundant water resources, which is most suitable for growing rice... I don't even tell you about the high yield of rice. Once the south is developed, there will be no worries about food shortages in the world."
"My evaluation of this place is just one sentence: If Huguang is familiar with it, the world is adequate."
Li Shimin couldn't help but be attracted by the pie he drew, mainly because of his sentence about "high yield of rice".
Li Shimin found the most fertile paddy fields to plant the 70,000 grains of rice seeds provided by Chen Jingke, and asked the most experienced farmers to take care of them. He planted four acres of rice seeds.
The yield per mu reached more than 470 kilograms, which can be said to be a miracle in the Tang Dynasty.
Even if the output is reduced due to large-scale promotion in the later period, as long as the yield per mu is 300 jins, it is still 100 jins higher than the normal grain output.
One acre of land weighs 100 kilograms, and tens of millions of acres of paddy fields across the country are an astronomical figure.
If the south is really developed, given the climate there, at least two crops of rice can be grown every year... Anyway, Li Shimin no longer dares to think about it.
So it wasn't that he was deceived by Chen Jingke's big picture, but that there were indeed good seeds out there, and he couldn't believe it.
However, he still remained sober and rational, saying: "It is indeed a good idea to move people here, but what should we do about miasma and insect diseases? As far as I know, schistosomiasis is common in the Yangtze River Basin, especially near Dongting Lake.
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Chen Jingke said: "Schistosomiasis is indeed a big problem. The epidemic prevention manual written by Master has already given out prevention and treatment methods."
"I won't talk about drinking boiled water. This method can only play a certain role and cannot cure the disease. Moreover, only those who commit thieves for a thousand days cannot prevent thieves for a thousand days. It is best to find a way to eliminate them."
Li Shimin asked: "Do you have any idea?"
Chen Jingke nodded and said: "There is no smart way, but there is a stupid way...and this stupid way can be said to be the only way."
Li Shimin saw that his old habit of going around in circles was back again, and he clenched his fist back and forth angrily, but he finally relaxed his grip because he was worried about his own image, and asked:
"What can I do?"
Chen Jing still didn't know that he was almost beaten, so he replied: "The intermediate host of the schistosomiasis is the snail. We must mobilize the entire south to kill the snail. We must burn it with fire..."
"In areas where the infection is more serious, the big rivers will kill the snails and slowly improve. The small rivers will be flattened and a new one will be dug, so that it can be solved once and for all..."
In the previous life, New China used this method, and it took nearly ten years to completely control schistosomiasis. This "stupid method" was also considered the only way.
The key is that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China was very poor and had no mechanized tools, so it all relied on manual labor to do everything.
So it was not impossible to do it in the Tang Dynasty.
Also, don’t underestimate the mobilization power of ancient times. The imperial court’s strict control over the people was beyond the imagination of modern people.
Everyone always says that in ancient times, imperial power did not extend to counties. This view is not accurate.
Under normal circumstances, the imperial court's rule over the grassroots was very deep, at least directly to the village level in terms of system.
Taking the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties as an example, the number of rural cadres is staggering.
The officials in the township include the township clerk, the township assistant, the three elders of the township, the township cadre, the township secretary, Youyou, Lizheng, Lixu, Liwei, Likui, Lizhizhong, Lifulao, Lijijiu, and Lijizun.
, li chief history, president, pavilion chief, drum history, etc.
There are also cadres at the village group level such as neighborhood chiefs and corps chiefs.
Among them, the three elders of the township and the elder of the village, whose names may make people mistakenly think that they are held by the elders of the family. In fact, this is not the case. They are the names of the administrative positions of the country.
Just like the chief executive of a county is called the county magistrate, the three elders of the township and the elder of the village are just names. The person who holds this position is probably a young man in his 10s or 20s.
The reason why people have such misunderstandings stems from another larger knowledge misunderstanding.
We are accustomed to thinking that Chinese villages have been gathered together based on blood and surnames since ancient times. In fact, this is not the case at all.
In other words, the history of forming villages based on surnames and blood lines is not as long as we think.
According to archaeological data, before the Song Dynasty, the state strictly prohibited people from living together on a large scale based on blood ties and surnames.
Nobles from aristocratic families can live together in the same vast area, but ordinary people cannot. The reason is that they are afraid that the people's unity will not be conducive to governance.
Whether it is the imperial court or local noble families, their interests are consistent on this point.
For their own rule, they would artificially adjust the living locations of the people and disperse some families with large populations in different villages.
There are hundreds of households in a village, often with more than ten or twenty different surnames.
According to records in "Hanshu Shihuo Zhi", the village at that time was walled.
People started work and finished work uniformly. The village cadres, namely the neighborhood chief, Lixu and others, sat at the door to supervise the people.
In the morning, I check to see if anyone has not gone out to work, and in the evening, I check to see if anyone has not come back. And when I come back from a day's work, I can't go empty-handed, I have to chop some firewood and come back.
In winter, the people cannot be idle. Women's weaving workload in one month is equivalent to forty-five days of work during the busy farming period. They also need to exchange technical experience with each other.
Do you think this system is familiar? Don’t get me wrong, this is not a collective system, but the state’s supervision of the countryside to the point of expressing its stance.
Ordinary people are not prisoners, and the fields belong to their own families. Logically speaking, I can work if I want to, and if I don't want to work, I can rest at home for a day.
But no, you don’t have the final say whether you want to work or not, the state has the final say.
Want to go to the market to buy something? Wait, there will be more people buying things and go together. You also need a certificate from the village cadre, otherwise you will easily be arrested as a fugitive.
According to the unearthed Dunhuang documents, until the end of the Tang Dynasty, Chinese villages still had many surnames mixed together, and the mixture was very mixed, with more than ten or twenty surnames often mixed together.
It was not until the Song Dynasty that due to the advancement of productivity, production relations changed, and commerce gradually developed, the state's personal confinement on the people was gradually loosened.
People now have relative freedom and can move freely in nearby villages and towns, instead of having everything be regulated and constrained as before.
With the popularity of academies, the number of knowledge flowing to private scholars has increased. And scholars need to study abroad, which further promotes the country's loosening of personal confinement.
With the advancement of productivity and more land being cultivated, the family-based production model has gradually become the mainstream, and the state no longer forcibly breaks up families.
Gradually, villages and towns formed by the same surname or blood ties emerged.
However, the imperial court's control over the people did not weaken at all. For example, the Baojia system was a village group structure re-established after the Song Dynasty in order to adapt to the rural conditions at that time.
Several households jointly provide insurance, and if one family makes a mistake, all will be insured and punished. In this way, people can supervise each other.
Even so, it was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that villages formed by the same surname or blood relationship were common.
The above knowledge misunderstandings were only formed during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
The reason is also very simple. People at that time lacked understanding of history, and many things could only be inferred based on the social status quo in the late Qing Dynasty, which inevitably led to fallacies.
Later, when the country became rich and powerful, it was able to conduct scientific research on ancient history, and with the unearthing of a large number of ancient books, the true situation in ancient times was restored.
Now is the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. The imperial court is very powerful and has very strict control over local areas. It has the ability to mobilize civilian forces to carry out large-scale schistosomiasis eradication operations.