Chapter 550: Understand the sentiments of the people
Little Jinbao was only eight or nine years old, and some people went crazy. Little Jinbao kept jumping up and down while Taoist Taiping was talking to him over tea. While Taoist Taiping comforted little Jinbao, he apologized apologetically, saying that he was not good at teaching and was neglectful.
Discipline made little Jinbao lose his etiquette.
Smile and wave your hands, just say that children are children after all, and there is no need to be too harsh on them.
He said this not out of etiquette as a guest, nor because he had obtained the Dharma Collection of Right Eyes and Notes on Conquering Demons written by Xiao Jinbao in his previous life, but because he seriously believed that there must be a process for human growth, and he could not use the standards required of adults.
Ask the children, otherwise it will be unfair to the children.
Everyone likes to hear good things, especially children. He did not criticize himself. On the contrary, little Jinbaoer restrained himself and took the initiative to run to the kitchen to help his mute mother-in-law light the fire. When the food was ready, he helped serve porridge and vegetables.
When I left, I brought some fruits and snacks and gave them to little Jinbao'er to eat. The terrain here is remote and fine snacks and fruits from the Western Regions are rare. After getting the fruit snacks, little Jinbao'er ran to the side to select and distribute them, "This is Master's.
It belongs to the mute grandma, this is mine..."
After little Jin Baoer walked away, he asked Taiping Taoist about his next plan. Taiping Taoist only said that he would still live here, live peacefully and take care of himself.
Hearing Taoist Taoist Taiping's words, he nodded. As the saying goes, people who are not from my race must have different minds. This does not mean that aliens must be bad, but that aliens have many different ideas from humans. Different ideas create different people.
With different acting styles and different ideal pursuits, most of the heterogeneous practices are just to prolong life.
Taiping Taoist knows that he is not only a Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain, but also a prince of the imperial court, but he does not mention temples, officialdom, and people's livelihood, nor does he take the initiative to ask, because he does not care about these things at all. Those are things that human beings should care about.
And it's just an anomaly.
I was indeed hungry, so I talked to a Taiping Taoist while eating. The Taiping Taoist had a lot of knowledge about health preservation. When he saw that he was losing weight, he was worried that he was not doing the right thing, so he kindly discussed with him the way to keep healthy.<
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From the beginning to the end, he never told Taiping Taoist the real reason for his weight loss, because he chose his own path, and if he accepts its advantages, he will suffer its disadvantages. He is a very human minister, and when he is appointed king and prime minister, he should think about the price he may one day pay.
, there is no need to show off your achievements to others, and there is no need to tell others about your difficulties.
It was almost four o'clock after dinner, and he did not refuse the Taiping Taoist's earnest invitation to stay, so he stayed overnight at the Taoist temple.
Sandalwood was burned in the Taoist temple. Sandalwood has the effect of calming the mind and calming the mind. After lying down, he fell asleep quickly. The light aroma of sandalwood made him feel at ease and familiar. This familiar smell came from Longhu Mountain but did not
Not only from Longhu Mountain, but also from somewhere further away.
Because his vitality was not restored, he fell into a deep sleep. It was already midnight when he woke up. Taiping Taoist was very grateful and sincerely hoped that he could stay for a few more days. However, it knew that it was entangled with trivial matters and insisted on leaving. It was not convenient for it to stay. The area near the Taoist temple was occupied by it.
He buried a large amount of treasure, and even though he knew there was no shortage of silver, he still dug out two bags of horseshoe gold from the Han Dynasty and offered him money for payment.
Exhausted mentally and physically, he has never recovered. He likes the tranquility of the Taoist temple and wants to rest here for a few days, but there are still a lot of troubles waiting for him to deal with outside. Moreover, he is also very worried about Zhang Shan and Zhang Mo, so he can only go as soon as possible.
Make some moves.
After leading the horse out of the view, Taiping Taoist came out with little Jinbao to see them off. He had already mounted the horse and was about to leave, but suddenly remembered something, turned around and praised little Jinbaoer a few more words, saying that although he was young, he was extremely smart, just like yesterday.
At critical moments, you can stay calm and inform Taiping Taoists of their location in a timely manner.
The reason why he praised little Jin Bao'er was that thanks to little Jin Bao'er last night, he didn't know where Taiping Taoist was. If little Jin Bao'er hadn't told him in time that Taiping Taoist was holding it in the iron pot in the backyard, he wouldn't have been able to
Before the first thunder falls
Rush over.
Little Jin Baoer did not mention this detail to the Taiping Taoists, and he might have even forgotten it, but he had to mention it. He had to let the Taiping Taoists know that thanks to Little Jin Baoer, the contributions of others could not be buried at any time.
He left Taiping Temple and rode back on horseback. Since he was not in a hurry, he did not fly across the sky, but rode quickly. He could not just do this one thing on his way out. He needed to observe the people's sentiments and inspect the real people's livelihood in various places on the way back.
Places like Qianzhong Road, Jiannan Road, and Lingnan Road were originally very poor, and the people's lives were already very difficult, but this year it was more difficult than usual. There were few refugees along the way, but most of the villagers were not fully clothed.
There are vegetables on the side.
During the rest stop on the way, the villagers mostly talked about three things. The first was how brutal the Xichuan War was. The second was the soaring prices and the shortage of rice. The third was what kind of monster appeared somewhere.
Hearing the villagers talking, all they could do was sigh silently. Xichuan was part of Jiannan Road. It was originally a separate kingdom of Wang Jian. Long Haotian captured Xichuan some time ago, but Long Haotian did not return to the court with his troops, but directly
He stayed in Xichuan and replaced Wang Jian. The court spent a lot of time and effort, providing money and troops. In the end, not only failed to quell the rebellion, but instead made a wedding dress for Long Haotian. The reason was that the emperor was afraid of his relationship with Longhu Mountain.
, was worried and handed all the 300,000 troops into Zhang Shan's hands, thus laying the root of the disaster.
The so-called starting over and starting over are all lies, because everything including life has continuity. Everything you have done before will add up to each other and have an impact on the final result. All wrong decisions will have consequences.
The adverse consequences would affect the final result. The emperor had been coerced by the eunuchs in his early years, and it was understandable that he was fearful and suspicious. However, his method of dividing his troops into three groups resulted in a serious waste of manpower and material resources and a large loss of regional soldiers.
I have talked with Song Cai before, and I know that prices have skyrocketed this year, and that prices have more than quadrupled compared to previous years, but only through personal experience can I understand
We can truly feel the negative impact of soaring prices on people's livelihood. In fact, gold, silver and copper coins themselves have no value at all. The reason why they are valuable is that they can be easily exchanged for rice, grain and cloth needed for people's livelihood. If farming is not prosperous, everything will be wasted.
, not enough food is the main reason for soaring prices.
As for the talk of monsters in the market, it is not surprising, because similar things have happened a few years ago, but it seems that there have been more recently. The large number of monsters has made people everywhere panic.
The harm caused by ghosts themselves is not great, but the impact is extremely bad, because everyone knows that when a country is about to perish, there must be monsters, and the large number of monsters and ghosts has made the world generally believe that the Tang Dynasty is going to die.
Qianzhong Road is located to the west of Jiangnan West Road, and to the north is Shannan East Road. In the evening, I arrived at Huazhou, which borders the three roads. I calculated the time and found that there were still two days left of the three days that Chong's servant told me when I left. There was still time.
Since he had enough money, he wanted to make a short detour to the east to see how far the plague was in the states south of the Yangtze River.
Due to the loss of both Qi and blood, he gets tired easily. After some hesitation, he decided to rest in the city for one night and then head east tomorrow at four o'clock.
Huazhou is located at the junction of three roads. There are many merchants coming and going. I just sat down in the lobby of the inn and before the food was served, I heard a very important news. A few days ago, someone saw a large number of Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain heading north overnight.
It was so vast that there were tens of thousands of people.
After listening to the discussion among the vendors, I suddenly realized that the news should be true. All the Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain had indeed come out of the mountain. The previous rainfall on both sides of the Cao River was most likely caused by the joint efforts of the Taoist monks from Longhu Mountain. However, the number of people in the rumors was not high.
That's wrong, because the total number of Taoist priests in Longhu Mountain is only 3,000, and there are many old and weak among them. Only about 2,000 are able to practice Dharma, so how can there be tens of thousands of them.
When the food was served, he had no appetite at all. Although he had never personally led the troops, he could feel the tremendous pressure that the Zhang Shan brothers and sisters were under. In order to capture Luoyang, they even gave up their last possessions...