In the land of Yanzhou, local powerful officials had long been formed as local officials, which served as a bridge between the ruling class of the Liao Kingdom and the people.
Every year, the astronomical amounts of grain and fodder in Yanzhou are collected and distributed through the hands of local powerful people, and finally sent to Xijin Prefecture, the ruling center of Nanjing Road.
Since it was a powerful force who came to collect and distribute grain, the process in the process would not be too particular, such as showering, kicking buckets, hollow weights, and measuring buckets of different sizes. These methods used by the officials in the Song Dynasty were all used by these powerful people.
The display is extremely prominent.
Bullying men and women has naturally become one of the benefits of bullies.
After a full eighty years of this kind of life, the common people are no longer surprised by the actions of the powerful. On that day when these powerful people show their human side, they will wonder if these powerful people are sick.
Or there is a more sinister intention.
It’s not that no one has resisted. There has never been a shortage of heroes in the land of Yanzhao. However, these heroes were killed in their infant state by all the powerful men on the ground in Yanzhou before their wings were full.
After each resistance, the people were brought to more cruel exploitation. Fortunately, after hundreds of years of continuous conquest, the population of Yanzhou has never increased. The people still have a lot of land in their hands. They work day and night all year round.
Constant farming can only satisfy hunger and not starve to death. This is the way of life of slaves.
Accompanied by Kong Yuanda, Li Chang visited all the villages in Zhuolu County. He keenly discovered that there was an incompatibility between the common people and the powerful in Zhuolu County.
Having been a local official for many years, Li Chang naturally knows what this means. If such a situation occurs between the common people and wealthy households in Tang County under his rule, the only thing Li Chang can do is to quickly ask for help from the local garrison and ask the court to send
The army stationed in Tang County, and then calmed down the resentment of the people by dealing with some wealthy households who were extremely angry.
After the public dissatisfaction subsides, we must contact the wealthy households as soon as possible to reduce some of the harsh land rents, and do some appropriate good deeds of repairing bridges and roads, so that Tang County can return to a normal state and county.
Doing these things is difficult and requires great wisdom and skill, as well as a pair of keen eyes to find the root of the disaster.
Military suppression is definitely not a long-term strategy. The civil servants of the Song Dynasty have long summed up a set of effective management methods to deal with various emergencies.
The officials of the Liao State in Yanzhou obviously did not have this level of skills. They grew up on the grasslands and followed the bandit law of the weak and the strong.
When the army is also in the hands of the powerful, the people become completely the weak side, and the grievances accumulated for eighty years need a suitable outlet.
Li Chang even believed that even if the volcano was suppressed for so many years, it would only result in landslides and ground cracks.
Marquis Yun believed that a class must be eliminated in Yanyun. In the past, Li Chang didn't know why Marquis Yun would say this. Now he understands that in Yanzhou, the people and the powerful are completely opposed to each other. Unless one
After the classes are completely eliminated, the entire Yanzhou will become peaceful again, and the dead trees will bloom new buds again.
After seeing the tragic events in the world with a cold eye, Li Chang had already made a calculation in his mind. Because the powerful wanted to live a good life, their numbers were relatively small. Just like in the jungle, the most numerous animals were always the animals that ate grass, and those who specialized in
The number of ferocious beasts that rely on killing prey can never exceed the food they need to eat.
There is no doubt that eliminating the powerful class is the most suitable and beneficial for the Song Dynasty. This will not only win over the people's hearts, but also allow the Song Dynasty's finances, which are already on the verge of depletion, to breathe a sigh of relief and re-inject some new funds.
wealth.
The powerful people occupy the most fertile land here, the most lush mountains and forests, the most beautiful scenery here, and also the most gorgeous houses here.
Seeing the mansions of powerful people comparable to princes, Li Chang often couldn't help but secretly calculate how much wealth such a mansion could bring to the Song Dynasty, and how many refugees and disaster victims could be accommodated in those endless lands.
The more he watched, the redder Li Chang's eyes became. In the end, the unpleasant disease naturally found its way to Li Chang.
Lying in Kong Yuanda's wooden house, his eyes were covered with cold linen cloth. He had been in the army in the west of Beijing for a long time. He knew that boiling the linen cloth in boiling water would make it much cleaner, so he applied ointment to clear his eyes and ears.
While listening to the children reading loudly, he felt that his soul seemed to have become much cleaner.
"...Dragon Master, Fire Emperor, Bird Official, Human Emperor, the beginning of writing, clothes, clothes, promotion, state-owned, Yu Tao, Tang Dynasty, Diao Min, Zhou Fa, Yin Tang, sitting in the court, asking, Chui Gong, Ping Zhang, Ai Yu, Li's chief minister, Fu Rong, Qiang, Xia Nei, leading guests to return, Wang Mingfeng, in Zhubai
The food court is covered with grass and trees, covering all sides. The body and hair of the four great and five permanent members are respected and raised. How dare they harm the chastity of women and the virtues of men?
This paragraph needs to be recited a lot. This paragraph will be used as the title for the next day. Sir, I will focus on it... Since ancient times, only the virtuous have lived in the world, and those without virtue have lost the world..."
In just ten days, Li Chang finally saw the huge educational power of the Kong and Yan families. The retired soldiers of the Western Beijing Army who followed him to Zhuolu helped Kong Yuanda deliver sixty-three letters.
The sixty-three messengers will also become the guards of the sixty-three recipients.
Neither Li Chang nor Kong Yuanda doubted the strength of these people. Kong Yuanda just looked at the gunpowder bombs under the guards' clothes and no longer worried about the safety of his friends and relatives.
A tough soldier armed to the teeth can almost walk sideways in Yanzhou.
He is continuing his great cause of education, and he has even decided to stay in Yanzhou and continue to educate the people here.
In the not-too-distant future, the people of Yanzhou will face an unprecedented storm. After this storm, the Yanzhou they are familiar with will no longer exist. He cannot imagine how confused people will be after the catastrophe. Perhaps
His presence will give the people here a little more comfort.
He is the origin of the storm. He has worked hard for ten years just to start this storm with his own hands. After the storm, he has no reason to return to Tokyo to enjoy the feast of flesh and blood after the storm.
The Zhuolu Mountain where the wooden building is located actually belongs to a family named Chunyu. This family is naturally a very powerful family, otherwise it would not be possible to own such a huge mountain forest.
The biggest reason why Kong Yuanda was able to place the school here was the support of this family named Chunyu.
Back then, a man with an elegant temperament and dressed in plain green clothes walked to the door of Chunyu's house and asked to see the head of Chunyu's family. There had never been such a man in Zhuolu County. Even the most ferocious thug nurse was intimidated by his elegant temperament and went to report it obediently.
He killed the head of his family who couldn't read a single word.
The man and the owner of the house were chatting and laughing in the back garden, and they seemed to get along very well. The man didn't seem to care about the rude language of the owner of the house, Chunyu. The most valuable thing was that he could organize the rude words of the owner of the house, Chunyu, into very beautiful philosophical words.
After rejecting the courtship of Chunyu's widowed daughter, the Chunyu family set aside a very fertile and beautiful place at the foot of Zhuolu Mountain and ordered craftsmen to build a huge wooden building here. Thus, for the first time under Zhuolu Mountain,
There was the sound of reading.
Today is the sixtieth birthday of the Chunyu family leader. Early in the morning, he sent his butler to invite Mr. Kong to have a drink with him.
After the children finished school, Kong Yuanda specially put on an unpatched Confucian shirt and a pair of recently made double-eared hemp shoes. He held a scroll of hundred-year-old pictures he had written last night under his arm and was ready.
Get up and go to Chunyu's house.
Before leaving, Kong Yuanda looked back at the majestic wooden building and patted the thick pillars. The roar of the Chunyu family master is still echoing in his ears: "That bitch dared to fool me about the wooden building.
, I just fooled his whole family!"
Along a green path, Kong Yuanda came to a small door. He stepped forward and gently knocked on the door knocker. A thin man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks bowed his waist and opened the small door. He smiled flatteringly and said, "Mr. Kong is just here."
Come on, my master has been waiting for you at the chess pavilion for a long time. If you don't come, the villain's ass will suffer."
Kong Yuanda snorted and said: "God knows why your master has such a hobby of playing chess. It's fine if he is good at playing chess. But he is a bad chess player. After playing chess with him for ten years, his chess skills have not improved."
, my chess skills have deteriorated. These days when I go out to visit friends, I have been defeated and killed by my former subordinates. I must settle the score today!"
The man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks chuckled and said: "This is a grudge between you and my master. You can't blame the villain. You'd better hurry up. I have already brewed the good tea specially brought from Sichuan. Let's go."
Waiting for you to drink."
Kong Yuanda put the picture of a hundred years of life under his arm into the butler's hand and said: "I'm used to eating and drinking for free, and I'm a bad visitor when I come to your door. But today is your master's birthday, so I specially wrote a hundred kinds of pictures."
Wish him longevity and longevity, find a place to hang it."
The two of them chatted and laughed and walked into a huge back garden. Kong Yuanda turned a blind eye to the women who were flirting with him and strode into a moon gate. He heard a rough voice yelling in the distance.
He said: "Old Kong, I got a new chess record yesterday. I spent the whole night thinking about it. Let's see how I kill you today. You will lose your helmet and armor."
Kong Yuanda walked into the octagonal pavilion with his hands behind his back. He looked at the two crooked words "chess pavilion" on the pavilion. His face couldn't help but twitched twice. He sat down on a huge rattan chair and pulled the chess pavilion from his sleeves.
Pulling out a folding fan and knocking on his forehead, he said: "What kind of chess game can transform you overnight?"
Opposite me, an eight-foot-tall strong man was lying on another wicker chair and beating his chest: "You have beaten me for ten years, why don't you allow me to boast?
I know you like drinking tea. This is the new tea I got from Xijin Mansion. Drink it quickly. After drinking it, you can play chess!" (To be continued)