Early the next morning, Li Luo and Ma Zhiyuan went on the road together. Ma Zhiyuan has only one scholar and an old servant. With such a shabby lineup, it is indeed very unsafe to travel far away.

On the other hand, on Li Luo's side, there are not only eight guards such as Du Lie, but also ten newly collected guards such as Zong Day, and the eighteen people are all brave and good at fighting, and everyone carries knives and bows, which is very difficult to mess with at first glance.

Although it is also the "ancient road west wind" now, Ma Zhiyuan is not riding a "thin horse". He is now in a new career, full of ambition, and has never written the state of mind of "the ancient road is west wind and thin horses, and the broken intestines are at the end of the world".

"Brother Zhongzheng was just weak in his youth, so he became a town guard official, the military and political affairs of a state, and he was really a young man in the city, and he was a talent in the country." Ma Zhiyuan and Li Luo saddled up and walked together, half envious and half praised.

In his opinion, Li Luo "is not a Han Chinese", and he has become a Daru Huachi, not only is he not arrogant at all, but he also folds his knots, and he sees that Li Luo Yinghua is introverted and talks well, and suddenly changed his opinion that "this person suddenly ascended to a high position at a young age, and it should be because of his background".

Think about it too. Daru Huachi, generally only Mongolians and Semu people can do. The Han people certainly can't do it now. Although the Korean people are not completely unable to do it, but the number is also very small, this Li Luo is a "Korean person", and he can be this official, and he is bound to fail without some real means.

Li Luo and Ma Zhiyuan talked several times, and they also knew that the other party was quite knowledgeable, and his talents were far more than just literary talents.

In a few years, Ma Zhiyuan will run into walls everywhere in Mengyuan officialdom, and Huai Cai will not meet, and when the time comes, he and his Shilin friends may defect to him.

Li Luo knew from Ma Zhiyuan's later works that Ma Zhiyuan's inner Han family plot was very strong, and the reason why he wanted to be the official of Meng Yuan was mainly to change the status of the Han people and contribute to the sinicization of Meng Yuan.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there were many Han literati with this ideal. Since the Han people have completely failed in military force, they can only rely on indoctrination to infect the Hu rulers and change the situation of the Han people as slaves.

If you can really turn Mengyuan into the Northern Wei Dynasty, it will be a success.

Such a Han official must not simply be said to be a "traitor". It can't be said to be a "bad thing".

Many people, it still depends on their true intentions.

Li Luo smiled: "Brother Qianli is too famous. It is also luck to be the keeper of this town. Brother Qianli is a provincial Confucian scholar, and he has the heavy responsibility of education, and his responsibilities are even greater than mine. ”

Ma Zhiyuan suddenly felt like a bosom friend, Li Zhongzheng, he is really sharp-eyed. can see through his intention to do Confucianism.

He did everything possible to obtain this Confucian promotion through his teacher Zhang Yi, in order to set up academies and schools in Zhejiang, cultivate the seeds of reading, and use the literary atmosphere of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to cleanse the northern Hu style.

It's on the ground.

In the central government, the teacher Zhang Yi and other Hanchen have been planning to promote the Yuan court to reopen the imperial examination and use Confucianism to win scholars. This major event, once the crown prince ascends the throne, will be a matter of course.

At that time, the Han people passed the imperial examination and entered the court and local officials in large numbers. In a few decades, the world will be "not Han but Han, Hu Fei Hu", and the Han people will no longer have to be so bitter.

Li Luo could almost guess what Ma Zhiyuan was thinking, but he didn't think so.

It is undoubtedly naïve to want to save the country through the cultural curve.

Force is the most reliable at all times. Military power is always the power of power. If the enemy reads the scriptures, is he not an enemy? Maybe the front of the book is down, and the back is raised. Without force, what's the use of you getting the right to speak?

Li Luo and Ma Zhiyuan met for the first time, although they admired him in their hearts, they couldn't talk deeply.

Along the way, Ma Zhiyuan pointed to the dilapidated village on the side of the road and said: "The people's livelihood is so withering, how can it not be worrying." Nowadays, most of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei rivers are like this. ”

Li Luo asked: "Before the imperial court, the imperial court issued an edict to revitalize agriculture and mulberry and reclaim the land. The emperor also set up the Great Si Nong Temple for this purpose, and rectified the world's agricultural mulberry fields, why is it not implemented? ”

Compared with his understanding of the reality of the Yuan Dynasty, he is certainly not as good as Ma Zhiyuan, an ancient native.

Ma Zhiyuan said: "Brother Zhongzheng is a native of Korea, and he came to Dayuan for the first time to be an official, so he didn't know about this folk situation. Before today's son ascended the throne, the Great Khans of Wokotai, Guiyou, and Meng Ge all implemented the law of the grassland. ”

"At that time, most of the northern land was reduced to pasture, and gradually became a grassland. It is only after the current accession to the throne that the Han law has been introduced to stop this trend. In recent years, the pasture has also achieved a lot of results, but there was too much land turned into pasture back then, so it became a half-farming and half-pasture. ”

"Today, this ranch is divided into government camps and casting. In fact, a lot of government-run ranches were withdrawn and converted back to farmland, but most of the fiefdoms cast by the big and small lords were still pastures. ”

Li Luo understood. Although Kublai Khan developed agriculture, he only stopped the trend of continued pastoral agriculture in the northern economy, and did not complete the restoration of farming. The reason for this is very simple, many pastures are the territory of the Mongol nobles, and if Kublai Khan really wants to force them to "return to farming", it will trigger the interests of the entire group and will inevitably shake his throne.

After all, the Mongol aristocracy was not interested in farmland, they preferred the grassland, and wished that the entire Han land had become a grassland, so how could they support Kublai Khan's policy?

In addition, in recent years, Kublai Khan has gradually become conservative and has begun to resist sinicization, and it is difficult to return to agriculture after returning to agriculture.

At noon, Li Luo saw a large manor on the side of the road, and he walked for more than ten miles without leaving the range of the manor. There are many farmers working on this huge estate, and it seems that it is very busy.

Not only were there a large number of peasants, but one could also see overseers on horseback and armed with weapons, and occasionally these overseers shouted and whipped the peasants working in the fields.

"Brother Qianli, whose manor is this?" Li Luo couldn't help but ask.

Ma Qianli was obviously no stranger to this area, and replied: "This is the second queen's cast (territorial food). The land and households in this vicinity are the property of the Second Queen. ”

Meng Yuan did not have a concubine, but was called the second queen. Li Luo knew that the second queen's name was Nanbi, and unlike the virtuous queen Chabi, Nanbi was a very greedy woman.

"Brother Qianli, how many percent of the land households in the north belong to the Mongolian officials?" Li Luo asked.

Ma Qianli smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid that Brother Zhongzheng won't believe it." Nowadays, the states and counties north of the Huai River account for fifty percent of the land, all of which are the private property of kings, clans, concubines, concubines, and dignitaries. As long as you pay some taxes every year and send troops if necessary, the other imperial courts will not care. ”

Li Luo almost scolded.

Maternal...... Fifty percent of the landed households are the private property of the aristocracy!

Half of it!

In this way, he can still rule the north for one hundred and forty years, and Li Luo is really convinced.

However, after thinking about it, Li Luo understood the power of this kind of slavery distribution.

This is equivalent to Meng Yuan turning half of the landed households into a small feudal state, becoming a nail in the Yuan court, densely nailed throughout the country, and it is difficult for anyone who wants to divide and rebel.

The most powerful thing is ...... Send troops for the imperial court if necessary!

Each of them was a relatively independent manor or ranch, and the lords wanted money, people, and soldiers. There were not many soldiers in each family, and it was impossible to rebel. But once the imperial court was recruited, it was assembled into a considerable army.

This is a large army hidden under the regular Yuan army.

Li Luo asked again: "Isn't the surrender of the lords managed by a special cast official of the imperial court?" ”

Ma Qianli shook his head: "That's just a formality." The Casting Officer only checks the taxes and the number of people voted by each family, and does not have the right to govern the territory. Each family casts its territory, and it is the master who appoints Daru Huachi to manage it. ”

Li Luo didn't expect that Daru Huachi would also be set up in the cast territory. It can be seen that the lord has a strong control over the cast, which can basically be said to be a private fief.

The two chatted while walking, and Ma Zhiyuan gave Li Luo a deeper understanding of this era.

In the afternoon, we finally arrived at Haijin Station (Tianjin). Haijin was a maritime privy, and the Liao Dynasty began to prosper.

Although the Yuan Dynasty was forbidden by the sea, the north-south shipping was not cut off, and it was a supplement to the north-south canal. This Haijin Port was already a famous port in the north at this time.

Ten years after the Yuan Dynasty, the first sea ban in Chinese history will be implemented, and the sea ban in the Ming and Qing dynasties is the Yuan Dynasty. But now, going to sea is still free.

The funny thing is that now in charge of the shipping of the Yuan Dynasty are two pirates: Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan.

Of course, the two of them have been recruited and become ten thousand households, and the officials have done a good job, and they are no longer pirates.

Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan were both famous pirates in the late Song Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty was able to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, which had the advantage of a naval army, thanks to the work of these two people: the Water Leading Party.

Everyone set off on a passenger boat at Haijin Port, all the way without incident, and landed on the Qilu Peninsula early the next morning.

Cui Xiuning was obviously a little excited. This Qilu Peninsula is her hometown in later generations.

Not long after abandoning ship and landing on shore, Li Luo had not completely recovered from the symptoms of seasickness, and encountered a large group of displaced people.

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