Chapter Eighty-Four: The Family

Zhu Jianjun said to go.

With more than 100 guards, he rode a tall horse to Yun's house.

As soon as I passed the Biling, I saw that the farmland and water conservancy measures in this area were much stronger than those in the land just now. After all, Zhu Jianjun has presided over water conservancy projects in the northwest, and he still has the most basic knowledge. He could tell that many of the ditches in the area were freshly dug.

Of course, the amount of work to be done in this newly dug trench is not large.

But Zhu Jianjun estimated that it would take hundreds of laborers to work for more than half a month.

Zhu Jianjun asked Yu Mian and said, "Has Wujin County repaired water conservancy recently?" ”

Yu Mian shook his head and said, "No, the Wujin County Commander has also been busy cooperating with our Qingzhang recently." ”

Qingzhang land can be said to be the most important thing in the imperial court today. Therefore, everywhere it is affected, the magistrates are busy with their feet facing the sky, some want to cooperate with the Qin Cha and make political achievements, and some want to smooth out the things they have done and wipe their butts clean.

So some of the projects in the county were stopped.

For example, water conservancy projects.

Zhu Qizhen repeatedly ordered to persuade the peasants, and called on the local officials to build water conservancy, and there were also many small projects in the local area, in principle, only the prefecture and county had the financial resources, and the above would not be allowed.

However, most of the county orders are to send the people of Qingzhang in the future, and it is not too late to repair the water conservancy.

"Who fixed this?" Zhu Jianjun said.

Yu Mian said: "I inquired, it was the old man Yun who gathered all parties in the Yun family before, and everyone came forward to help renovate the canal in this area. ”

Zhu Jianjun secretly said in his heart: "It's the Yun family again." ”

Whether you want it or not, whether you want it or not, it's a fact.

That is hundreds of prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it is not the people who really manage it, but such large and small families, or gentry.

There is also a big slap in the county seat.

On the whole, the current land annexation is not serious, but it is still impossible for the county order to directly manage tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, and can only rely on the management of these family gentry, who manage the people on their behalf.

When the people want to talk to the government, these people go to the government to talk about it, and if the government has something to do, let these people explain it to the people.

Why is that? Zhu Qizhen has been cultivating the Xungui Group, but on the whole, the Xungui Group is still weak in the face of the Shidafu Group.

Because the scholars represent this class.

It is a class that the emperor cannot shake and can only cooperate.

Almost every big family, or the local gentry and celebrities, has to assume some social responsibility, or public duty. For example, building bridges and paving roads, repairing water conservancy and so on.

After the further collapse of the Ming Dynasty's finances in history, too much social responsibility was ceded to these gentry.

Zhu Jianjun is closer to the place where the old man of the Yun family is located, the closer he is to Shangdian Village, the more he sees the good deeds of the Yun family, there are many stone tablets and stone carvings on the side of the road, which shows how much money Yun Moumou spent in a certain year, with the help of so-and-so, repaired the road here, or repaired the bridge, etc.

Zhu Jianjun also asked the guards to inquire.

There are already a lot of people with the surname Yun here, naturally there is no Yun family is bad, and even some people with foreign surnames also say that the old man of the Yun family is benevolent and righteous, but it is said that when there was a big flood last year, Wujin was also flooded here.

There is no grain in the county, and the old man of the Yun family has already taken out the grain of the Yun family and put the grain to the people, which can be said to be countless living people, and Wu Jin does not know how many people are grateful to the Yun family.

Zhu Jianjun's heart is very complicated.

On the one hand, Zhu Jianjun had to admit the merits of the Yun family.

In many ways, the Yun family has helped the imperial court maintain the situation, and it can be said that it is one of the right-hand men of the Ming Dynasty to rule the world.

But Zhu Jianjun also saw one thing.

That is, there are dozens of miles around here, not so much the Ming Dynasty, but the land of the Yun family, or the Yun family, with the title deed.

This kind of local power is entrenched, but it is not what Zhu Jianjun wants to see.

Not to mention anything else, Old Man Yun gave an order, and the nearby Zhuangzi was inside. It shouldn't be a problem to pull out hundreds or thousands of strong men.

When he arrived in Shangdian Village, Zhu Jianjun heard the sound of reading from a distance.

The childish sound of reading sounds very pleasant to Zhu Jianjun.

Without him, although the emperors of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the promotion of schools, most of the policies failed.

There is only one reason, and that is that there is no money.

It takes a lot of strength to feed a scholar, and most people can't afford it. Therefore, in addition to Confucianism in Qifu County, Zhu Jianjun has few other schools.

But it was here that Zhu Jianjun saw the Yun family's school.

There is a row of rooms in front of the tall ancestral hall, and at this moment someone is teaching the people below to read, judging from the age, from the age of five or six years old, the snot has not been dried in Beihai. There are also half-sized children who are half as tall as a person. Their reading progress is not the same, and all the teachers have grasped it.

Many people are probably accustomed to teaching class by class in later generations, but in this era, it is the norm for students of all ages to be taught together in private schools.

"Where did you come from?" Just as Zhu Jianjun and the others entered the village, stopped outside the private school, and listened to a few sentences of explanation of the Analects, someone came to ask.

Zhu Jianjun doesn't know how many great Confucians have been taught, and it may not be necessary to study Confucianism in depth, but it can also be seen that the level of this teacher is not high.

It can even be evaluated by Yamano Villager.

But it's also very normal. If you think about it, you will know that people who are really good at studying will either become officials, and even if they don't become officials, they can't settle down somewhere, so they come to this little Yun family.

Although today's Yun family is good, after all, there is no official body. However, scholars who are well-read have fame.

Zhu Jianjun heard someone asking, and turned around to see an old man with a few sticks asking.

"Yun Gong, this is Lord Qian Lishi." Qian Jun is the pseudonym of Zhu Jianjun, Qian is naturally the queen's surname, as for the name of the calendar, it is the system of the student calendar.

According to the original system, the Tai students from the Guozijian had to go through the six departments, which was called the calendar, which was just like the intern system.

This is also Kou Shen's resume compiled for Zhu Jianjun.

said that he was the son-in-law of a big man in the DPRK, who had no talent in reading, and Yin Sheng was imprisoned, but now he came out and was sent to Jiangnan.

It's not a complete lie, either.

You must know that compiling and practicing the Yellow Book is the responsibility of the students. Even because of the heavy workload of Qingzhang Tianmu this time, many students participated.

As long as no one is serious, they can generally fool the past.

After all, most of the people who really have the ability to be more true know Zhu Qizhen's identity to a greater or lesser extent, and those who don't know will also not have the ability to be more truthful.

After all, this is the territory of the Yun family, and most of the entire village is the Yun family, and even the ancestral hall of the Yun family is here.

In this way, villages abound in the land of Daming, and they seem to be unimpeded, but there is one more outsider in the village, and the people in the village will know it immediately.

That's why Old Man Yun came to take a look.

After all, looking at the tall horses of the people who came, there were many followers, and these horses were all good horses that could not be seen in Jiangnan, and they looked bigger than the pomp and circumstance of the county master, where could the old man Yun sit still.

And the gold coin listened to the officials from the capital, and they were even more attentive.

For Old Man Yun, even if it is a seven-rank official, it is worthy of the Yun family's solemn treatment. Old Man Yun immediately saluted and said, "I've seen my lord." ”

Zhu Jianjun said: "Why does the old man have to be like this, no courtesy. ”

It stands to reason that Zhu Jianjun is an official, and Old Man Yun is a citizen, and Old Man Yun should make a big salute, but China has a tradition of respecting the old and loving the young, and generally the old man in his sixties and seventies, even if he sees an official, does not need to kneel.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while.

Only then did the old man Yun lead Zhu Jianjun into the ancestral hall and sit down.

The ancestral hall of the Yun family is not one, but two courtyards, the back is dedicated to the ancestors, but the front hall is also used for family discussions.

If there is a big matter, Old Man Yun is also here to gather people from all rooms to discuss a countermeasure.

Old Man Yun received Zhu Jianjun here, and it was naturally the most solemn.

As soon as the two of them sat down, a little boy came in with tea, and after serving tea, he didn't come out, standing in the corner behind Old Man Yun.