Chapter 289: Loving the People

The taste of flirting was so heavy, everyone couldn't help but be a little stunned when they saw this, Kong Ping was so angry that his face turned red, and just as he was about to have a seizure, Kong Jingyun took the lead.

"The general said that he was laughing! In fact, the concubine already understood that the general didn't come to ask for guilt, so what did he come from?" Kong Jingyun said softly.

What a bright and clever girl! Afraid that her father would lose his temper and cause trouble, he diverted the topic first.

Lei Shaoxuan said: "Since ancient times, great disasters have been followed by major epidemics. I see you waiting here for the funerals of many relatives and friends, presumably these deceased have recently died, and I have come to inquire why they died?"

Kong Jingyun's face changed slightly when she heard this, and she looked at Lei Shaoxuan in a daze and asked, "Are you afraid that they died because of the epidemic?"

"Exactly!"

Hearing this, everyone behind Kong Jingyun was also slightly restless, and they were nervous for a while, although the plague was extremely rare and had not appeared for many years, but everyone knew the horror of the plague.

Kong Jingyun thought for a moment, and said in a slightly trembling voice: "Among the six deceased, one of them drowned, one may be old and frail, unable to withstand many days of wind and rain, and died of physical failure, and the other four died of illness. ”

"Before death, could he have diarrhea, high fever, chills, headache and body pain, etc., or is there any similarity between the symptoms of the four people?" Lei Shaoxuan frowned and asked in a deep voice.

Kong Jingyun turned her face to look behind her and asked, "Is there one?"

"Liu Lao Er had a fever and a headache before he died......"

"Sister-in-law He had diarrhea, high fever, and died in a few days......"

"Uncle Zhang has been sick and bedridden for a long time, and he also had diarrhea before he died, and his body was in unbearable pain......"

"The concubine husband has always been frail, occasionally cold, and has a fever all the time, and she used to vomit and diarrhea......" Speaking of her husband, Kong Jingyun couldn't help but show a sad look and burst into tears.

"The deceased is gone, the body is important, don't be too sad, madam!" Seeing this, Lei Shaoxuan's face was a little unbearable.

Lei Shaoxuan looked at these villagers and said, "Although it is not completely certain that they have a flood epidemic just from the superficial symptoms, we must not be careless. Therefore, anyone who has been in contact with these deceased people must be properly isolated, try not to have physical contact with people, and keep a certain distance. In addition, the bodies of the deceased need to be buried or cremated. ”

Hearing this, everyone was restless again.

"Also, from today onwards, you need to collect some herbs and decoction them to prevent diseases. I have a recipe here: a total of five flavored medicinal herbs: litsea cubes, raw licorice, woody incense, small-leaf horseshoe incense, and valerian, which are decocted into a medicinal soup in equal amounts. ”

Although Lei Shaoxuan is not Langzhong, when Guozijian studied civil administration, the prevention and control of plague was also a very important part of it. Plague prevention and control medicine convenience is one of them, these plague prevention and control prescriptions, after careful selection, the selection of medicinal materials is mostly common in the countryside, even if it is ordinary people, there are many people who can identify, the amount used is also equal amounts, it is in order to allow the people to prevent and control themselves, as long as they can identify and collect medicinal materials, they can be dispensed without going through the pharmacy to weigh them finely.

"Lycium cubeba, a chrysanthemum, mostly grows in hills, plains, and fields, and raw licorice, resembling beans, and grows mostly in loess hills......"

"Your Excellency will not care about this matter, we have our own way to prevent and control the plague. A voice was out of place, and it was Kong Ping who made it.

Kong Ping took a step forward, looked at Lei Shaoxuan and said coldly: "At the moment of the catastrophe, the matter of disaster relief and epidemic prevention has been arranged by our imperial court, and there is no need for your country to worry about it. If you come to ask for sin, you will be killed, and if you do not come for sin, please leave. Your Excellency led an army deep into our country, the intention is unknown, although we are a grass people, but we also know the word loyalty, we will never cooperate with the enemy country, to be the traitor and rebel against the king. ”

When everyone behind Kong Ping heard this, their faces turned pale, and they all leaned together, Kong Jingyun wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end she also took a step back, only to feel chills all over her body.

Kong Ping's words were like a gust of cold wind, and the chill permeated the surroundings for a while, hitting everyone's hearts.

Lei Shaoxuan sighed in his heart, these words were like a ravine, completely separating the distance between the two sides, and also made Lei Shaoxuan deeply realize for the first time that such a thing as the people's heart is so difficult to grasp, but then he was a little annoyed by Kong Ping's words, in the name of loyalty, and kidnapped these villagers with morality, and he was even more unhappy that his good intentions were let down.

"If Your Excellency is loyal to the king, how can you stay away from the temple? But there is a trace of concern for the people in your heart, how can you resign and go into hiding?" Lei Shaoxuan said with a sneering look on his face, and his voice rose up, "At the moment of the catastrophe and plague, at the moment of life and death, the people lack clothing, medicine, food and clothing, and they are about to starve to death or die of disease, but they are talking about loyalty and patriotism, why did they go earlier?"

There was a moment of silence in the field, and Kong Jingyun couldn't help but take a step forward.

"My lord's words are wrong! The king is mediocre, the officials are incompetent, corruption is rampant, and the people are living in misery, and my father is unwilling to go along with the same stream, so he resigned and went into hiding, teaching and educating people, how can he say that he has no heart to worry about the country and the people?" Kong Jingyun argued.

"Hehe!" Lei Shaoxuan looked directly at Kong Jingyun and smiled slightly, "You regard the officials of the imperial court as incompetent, so your father is very capable?"

"Naturally!" Kong Jingyun's face showed a touch of pride, "My father taught and educated people, and founded the Hengyi School, although it cannot be said that it is famous in South Vietnam, but it is also famous in the hometown, and the garden ......is full of peaches and plums."

"It's just a deserter!" Lei Shaoxuan said flatly.

Lei Shaoxuan looked around at everyone, stopped his gaze on Kong Ping's face, and said: "Since the officials are incompetent, you are capable, you should climb to a high position, squeeze them down, and take the opportunity to replace them with capable people; As for the people living in dire straits, won't you be more greedy and ruthless, and let those corrupt officials live in a sea of boiling soup and fire?"

Lei Shaoxuan said with disdain: "The sages and ministers of the past dynasties are all capable ministers, all of them are temporarily burdened with a temporary infamy, living in the temple, assisting the king, rectifying the rule of officials, reforming the old law, creating a new policy, and opening a peaceful and prosperous world." ”

Lei Shaoxuan's eyes became sharp, he looked straight at Kong Ping, and said coldly: "Your Excellency said that the court is corrupt and unwilling to go along with it, I don't think it's a willingness or unwillingness, but the ability is not enough to gain a foothold in the court, and he was forced to resign by being excluded, but he is just a deserter." Deserters in the army are punished by military law, and they are guilty of a capital crime! Deserters in the officialdom shamelessly boast of being clean and self-loving, shameful!"

The crowd was dumbfounded!

Lei Shaoxuan was still not satisfied, and shouted: "Teaching and educating people, founding the Hengyi School, it's just for you to entertain yourself, yes or no?"

Kong Ping was angry at first, then stunned, and finally his face darkened, speechless. Only I understood my own situation, and I wanted to refute it, but I couldn't argue for a while. A few words have already shown Lei Shaoxuan's excellent insight, but I am afraid that strong arguments are just self-inflicted humiliation.

It is rare to see a father who can speak well for a while, Kong Jingyun showed a look of surprise, and she didn't feel disgusted in her heart, but she was a little lucky, for her father's pedantry, Kong Jingyun has always been quite dismissive, and now it is rare for someone to wake up and drink, which is a good thing. However, Kong Jingyun still disagreed with Lei Shaoxuan's words.

"As the adults said, those who are not in the same stream are deserters, and if they retreat, they will not be loyal to the king and love the people?" Kong Jingyun looked at Lei Shaoxuan with wide eyes, a little unconvinced.

"The ancients said: The people are only the state, and the country is solid; The catastrophe is at hand, and the plague is about to break out. Since your father was a former official and boasted of being highly educated, when he knew that once the plague spread, the land would be thousands of miles away, and all the households would be wiped out, and the people would all die at that time, what was the point of not cooperating with our army in the name of loyalty and righteousness? If the people were all dead, where did the society come from? Where did the king come from? Where did the loyalty come from? If loyalty and righteousness really came first, then you should actively participate in disaster relief and self-help, and prevent and control the plague, so that you can be said to love the people. Didn't you ask you to send food and water to our army, lead the way and build bridges, where are the traitors and rebels?"

The more Lei Shaoxuan spoke, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but shout: "The gentleman has the affairs of the king, and the official has the official responsibility, since you claim to be a grass people, you should be a good grass person who takes care of your relatives, friends and neighbors." Originally, he was just a grass people, and he talked about being loyal to the king and loving the people, and in the name of this, he allowed the plague to ravage his neighbors, wouldn't he be a man who sought fame and reputation? Can you bear to see your relatives and friends die next to each other? In this way, you can't do it well even if you are a grass people!"

When Kong Ping heard this, he was ashamed, and suddenly his face was a little red, and he sighed: "Although Your Excellency is young, your knowledge is really good, and you must have come from an extraordinary background. Today, I don't talk about friends and enemies, but only about learning, and I don't know who Your Excellency has studied with? I have many contacts with famous people in your country, but few are like Your Excellency!"

Lei Shaoxuan was secretly happy in his heart, putting aside the enemy and me, and turning to only learning, which means that Kong Ping has the possibility of cooperation, not blindly pedantic.

"Teacher, Shen Lun, Guozijian. Lei Shaoxuan said confidently.

Strictly speaking, Shen Lun is not Lei Shaoxuan's teacher, Yuan Wenbo is. However, Lei Shaoxuan never cared about pulling the banner as a tiger skin, not to mention that as long as he was a student of Guozijian, he could be called a student of Shen Lun in Guozijian, but no one outside Guozijian dared to do this, because only a real disciple could be called a student in front of people. Shen Lun is famous all over the world, and his name is not in vain, Lei Shaoxuan has no scruples about these rules.

"Sure enough, it's a generation of Confucians!" Kong Ping sighed, Shen Lun was famous all over the world, and Kong Ping had naturally heard of it.

"I did not deliberately refuse Your Prescription for the Prevention and Treatment of the Plague, but most of the medicinal materials in Your Recipe are produced in the Wei Kingdom, and several medicinal herbs such as licorice are suitable for growing in dry land, and it is extremely difficult to find them near the Heng River. ”

Kong Ping glanced at the people behind him and said, "I have a side, and most of the medicinal materials used are born by the water, which is suitable for the people of my Nanyue country on the bank of the Heng River." Peppermint, honeysuckle, forsythia, Chuanxiong, skullcap, angelica, and red peony are also boiled into soup in equal amounts. The medicinal materials used in this recipe are mostly grown in wetlands, and are only suitable for the use of the people of South Vietnam on the banks of the Heng River. ”

Kong Ping emphasized that his recipe was only suitable for the people on the banks of the Heng River, and he was clearly telling the people behind him that this was just for the people of South Vietnam, not for cooperation with Lei Shaoxuan. This kind of act of wanting to cover up made Lei Shaoxuan feel a little funny, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he glanced at Kong Ping, who looked at Kong Ping with a little weakness and blushed.

Suddenly, a baby cry rang out.

Lei Shaoxuan saw that it was the baby in Kong Jingyun's arms who was writhing and crying, as if he was hungry, and kept arching Kong Jingyun's chest to feed, Kong Jingyun's haggard face dripped tears again, after the flood, there was a lack of food and drink, where did the (milk) water come from?

Seeing this, Lei Shaoxuan was a little distressed, and shouted: "Come on, leave them twenty bags of rice." After thinking about it, he added, "Go, find a few air-dried pig's trotters and leave them for Mr. Kong." ”

Hearing this, Kong Jingyun raised her head and looked at Lei Shaoxuan in disbelief, everyone understands that pig's trotters are mostly used to promote milk, where is this left for Kong Ping, it is clearly reserved for Kong Jingyun.

"There's a mountain temple over there, and it's very effective. The general has a good heart, and when there is a good reward, he might as well go and pay his respects to protect the general's safety. Kong Jingyun said gratefully.

As soon as the words fell, a sound of "quack, quack......" sounded.

Looking in the direction pointed by Kong Jingyun, I saw a lonely ruined temple located on the waist of the hill, a few crows chirped in the dark night, five or six crows, like a little fragment floating up, disappeared into the night.