On the roads leading in all directions in Sili, there appeared this strange pair of two people, one old and one strong. They were talking and looking around along the road, not knowing what they were looking for. Among them, Liu Qu was chatting with Haha Da every day.
Laugh, this old man is definitely the funniest old man Liu Qu has ever seen. Liu Qu has also heard that some people in the court, such as Cao Situ in the past, and Sun Xiaowei of the Southern Army, all have funny words.
But they are not as good as Handan Chun.
Handan Chun took Liu Qu with him. According to Handan Chun's own account, he had studied under the great Confucian scholar in the early years, studied the classics and righteousness, and had quite some achievements. This is why Zheng Yi could tolerate it that day. If someone else came up, even if the other party told him
No matter how wonderful the performance is, it will definitely attract scolding, but Handan Chun is different. He is a great scholar. When Zheng Yi saw him, he had to bow his hands in front of him. Therefore, although Zheng Yi was dissatisfied with him for treating the ceremony as a child's play, he still didn't
The method is to accuse him face to face.
However, the strange thing is that this old man does not like reading. His status as a great scholar was completely forced by his family. He loves to walk around and see the different customs in different places. In the past few decades,
During those days, in the name of studying, he visited various areas of the Han Dynasty, except Kushan, overseas and outside the Great Wall. Therefore, he had a special understanding of the customs and customs of different areas.
He also collected jokes and folk anecdotes from various places, and even compiled several books.
In the past few days, Liu Qu enjoyed listening to Handan Chun talk about the situation in various places, especially because Handan Chun also made accurate evaluations of some evil things that he didn't know about. For example, every time the emperor wanted to inspect the surrounding areas,
At that time, how did the officials in various places prepare themselves for the situation? Handan Chun wrote a ballad for this purpose, and the title was "The Official is Coming". Every time Liu Qu listened to him sing it softly, he would not only laugh out loud.
, there is always a trace of anger at being deceived in my heart.
"Your Majesty, do you think the crops here are growing very well? This continuous crop is growing gratifyingly. It is really the best portrayal of a good harvest year!" Handan Chun pointed to the farmland in the distance and said,
Liu Qu looked at those prosperous crops and felt happy, with a hint of pride on his face, "That's natural. The Sili area is the richest area in the world!"
"That's the richest area, with the richest people and the richest officials. For example, these crops in front of us are the best gifts presented to His Majesty by the You Fufeng Order here. All these crops are
is his..."
"No! Han officials are not allowed to own such property!"
"Yes, he thinks so too, but his brothers don't seem to agree... Relatives in the family are running these farmlands. They belong to them in name, but in fact they are the family property of You Fufeng Ling."
When Liu Qu looked at the farmland again, there was only anger in his eyes. He felt a greater sense of ridicule. He looked behind him. Suddenly, Yuan Shang, who was pretending to be a follower, came to their side. Liu Qu sneered.
Said: "What is the name of You Fufeng?"
Yuan Shang was stunned and said without thinking: "Call me Yuan Chang."
"Yuan Chang? Are you related?"
"Same race."
"Then you should investigate this member of your race carefully, and don't let him take the entire Yuan family to hell..." Liu Qu squinted his eyes, lowered his head, and gave serious instructions. Yuan Shang was under great pressure.
He hurriedly bowed his head and said yes. After Yuan Shang had gone far, Liu Qu just sneered and secretly said to Handan Chun on the side: "I must find a way to eliminate all these great rats in the country. When I return to the court, I will supervise the government."
It must be turned into a supervisory station, specially responsible for supervising all officials for me!"
Hearing Liu Qu's words, Handan Chun did not answer.
In this way, the two of them continued on their way. In addition to the problems of officials, Handan Chun also made Liu Qu see many problems that existed in the Han Dynasty. Of course, the problems of officials were still the most important. All kinds of corruption, big and small, were
Apart from this, the biggest problem still comes from the ranger. This ranger problem is not what Zhuge Liang and the others see. What Zhuge Liang and the others see is that Yu Ding has no livelihood, so he becomes a ranger. He considers the general direction.
And they ignored a small problem, that is, what problems will so many rangers cause among the people? There are many rangers, and they make friends with each other and form many factions. Then they fight with each other, and even squeeze ordinary people and ask for money from them.
, especially those traders, they are even more vicious. If they don't hand over money to them, the business will not be able to continue. If they report to the government, if the government arrests those people, there will be other rangers to avenge him, which makes the traders
Neither dared to act rashly.
These rangers are also smart. They never provoke the government or anger the big businessmen. They just look for the lower-level businessmen to bully them. Many officials even condone their behavior because they also uphold the idea of focusing on agriculture.
, believed that merchants were the cancer of the Han Dynasty, and whatever the rangers did to them was all their own fault, and the government should not get involved in their actions.
This kind of conniving behavior made the rangers become more and more rampant, shifting their targets from merchants to farmers, and even some students. Not long ago, there was a murder case of a student. At that time, the rangers teamed up to defraud a student and framed him.
He insulted women and asked him to give money to avoid disaster. Unfortunately, they did not know that this imperial student was Gongyang's apprentice. At that time, they got into a fight with each other, killed four knights, and were arrested by the government.
If it weren't for Handan Chun, Liu Qu would never have even imagined that a ranger would be like this. In Liu Qu's mind, he had always admired rangers, and he himself had always wanted to be a ranger. But now, from Handan Chun's
After hearing these things, Liu Qu felt as if his heart was broken for an instant, which he couldn't bear. On the way, Liu Qu didn't say anything. He frowned and became silent.
Although Handan Chun was still telling his jokes, Liu Qu could no longer laugh.
Is this really an unprecedented prosperous age?? Liu Qu looked at everything around him suspiciously. What he came into contact with was the increasing grain production of the Han Dynasty. One after another talented people were serving the country. He looked at the Han Dynasty.
The most powerful North-South Army, but now, he found that he had never seemed to be able to see this big man clearly. The big man was not as perfect as he thought. There were still countless hidden dangers, and many people were still suffering.
But he, the emperor of the country, had never heard of these things at all.
"Elder, tell the truth, am I a very failed emperor?" After the two of them walked for a long time, Liu Qu finally asked what he was thinking. Handan Chun laughed and said: "Your Majesty has a bad temper.
He is free and easy, playful, dislikes government affairs, and shows off his anger. These are all different from many previous emperors..." After hearing his answer, Liu Qu was furious. He wanted to defend himself, but failed.
He still held back and didn't say anything.
"Hahaha, but, although His Majesty has a free and easy temper, he has a heart of benevolence and righteousness. He can be happy because of the people's harvest, he can be so hostile to corrupt officials, and he can care about the lives of these low-level Guizhou leaders. This is unlike many of the late emperors.
In the same vein..."
"Then am I a failed emperor?"
"Your Majesty, what kind of emperor can be considered a successful emperor?"
"Emperor Xiaode told me that the emperor who makes his family strong and his people prosperous is the successful emperor."
"You are worthy of being a filial and virtuous emperor... So what if your Majesty is free and easy by nature? What if you don't like government affairs and are playful? As long as it can make the man better, your Majesty has ten thousand bad habits. Your Majesty is also a
The successful emperor..." Handan Chun said this. Liu Qu seemed to wake up and nodded in a daze. He didn't say anything more. However, next, he took out a book and wrote what Handan Chun said.
Many things were recorded one by one.
Sometimes, he was too lazy to record it himself, so he asked Handan Chun to help him record it. Handan Chun smiled and asked him for pen fee, but he still recorded his words and handed them to the emperor.
The emperor is still the same careless and naughty character. He has not changed, but he has also begun to pay attention to some things.
The two of them were sitting in a roadside restaurant. The owner of the restaurant greeted them with a smile and asked them to sit down. The decoration here was simple, but it was still very clean. Liu Qu looked around and couldn't help but nodded.
They smiled and asked: "Is this an official restaurant?" The shopkeeper was busy not far away. Hearing their inquiry, the shopkeeper hurriedly got up and replied with a smile: "Jun, I opened this place myself...
How much I admire Emperor Xiaode..."
Liu Qu nodded. In the past, restaurants and bars were opened by officials and sent people to take care of them. These people would receive salaries from the temple and were regarded as working for the officials. During the period of Emperor Xiaode, they were completely open to the public.
After all this, private restaurants and wine shops were allowed to be opened. This was a big move, but it did play a very good role. The people thanked the emperor for his benevolence and righteousness, and these people still remember him today.
Liu Qu was listening to this man's words. Suddenly, seven or eight strong men appeared in the distance. These men were wearing long swords. It was obvious that they were all rangers here. They walked towards here carelessly. Yuan Shang
Just as he was about to step forward, Liu Qu grabbed him. Liu Qu shook his head at him. Yuan Shang then stepped back. The ranger came over and sat down directly opposite Liu Qu without coming to Liu Qu's side.
They were noisy and casual, and the shopkeeper stepped forward to serve them carefully.
"Zou Store...have you not paid this month's offerings?" the leader of the rangers asked with squinted eyes. The old store owner said fearfully: "A few days ago, my son went to the military academy.
, I paid him the fee...there really isn't much left..."
"Oh?? Threaten us with your son who is studying in the military academy? Hahaha, would we be afraid of a mere military student? Do you think it is his sword that is faster, or mine..." The leader suddenly stood up.
, directly grabbed the old man's neck, the store owner trembled in fear and hurriedly begged for mercy.
"I guess you will die soon..." Liu Qu said coldly and stood up slowly.
The ranger turned his head and looked at Liu Qu seriously. After looking at him for a moment, he smiled and said, "Sir, I was just joking with him. Don't worry about it..."
At that moment, Liu Qu didn't answer. He picked up the chair beside him and threw it towards the man. The solid chair flew out, and in an instant, it hit the person's head.
They hit each other hard, and the ranger's head exploded like a melon, with blood splattering everywhere. At that moment, the store owner fainted, Handan Chun's face turned pale, and the rangers looked at the exploded head blankly and shouted.
With a sound, he rolled and crawled away and fled backwards.
Liu Qu roared angrily, leaped forward, grabbed the body of the ranger, and threw it towards those people. Three more were knocked over immediately. Liu Qu rushed forward, grabbed one, and punched him in the face.
After three punches, the man's face could no longer be looked at directly. He remained motionless and tilted his head. He had been beaten to death. Yuan Shang stared in front of him in shock. Just when he reacted and pulled out his sword, those
The rangers had been subdued by Liu Qu alone, and five of them were killed. The rest were lying on the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
Liu Qu wiped the blood on his face, turned around and looked at Yuan Shang behind him.
"What are you doing standing still?"
"Uh-huh?"
"Help that shopkeeper up."
“I’d like to… I’d like to… I’d like to!!”
ps: Brothers, I'm sorry. I've been feeling an inexplicable tingling sensation in the upper part of my heart for the past few days. I don't know the reason, so I delayed the update. I'm much better today, so I'll make up for the past two days tonight.