The fifth tyrant didn't just talk about it, he got up on the spot and scolded him, and directly picked up the tongs next to him to beat the fifth lun.

Fifth Lun only ran a little slower, and he was hit with two tongs on his legs, which was called a pain.

He hurriedly slipped away, the small cane was accepted, and the big cane was gone.

Fortunately, there are many people in the kitchen, from cooks to big slaves, all of whom have relatives and relatives come to stop them.

"Old master, you can't beat it!"

"If Xiao Langjun is broken, who will inherit the ancestral hall of the Fifth Clan?"

"That's right, this little vertical is determined to kill the old man so that he can inherit the family property!"

The fifth tyrant is really angry, and scolded: "I actually gave the Taixue quota that the old man worked so hard to ask for, this master's business fell into his hands, I'm afraid it will also be quickly lost, it's better to kill it as soon as possible, there are a lot of my cousins!" Are you afraid that no one will give me a funeral? ”

Having said that, but when he was stopped, the anger disappeared a lot.

That's right, his two sons and one grandson all died in the epidemic many years ago, and only the fifth lun is left. Besides, the fifth tyrant has always doted on his grandson, and his nose and face are swollen, and he feels distressed afterwards.

In the end, the fifth tyrant did not say such cruel words as "expelling the fifth clan", but only threw the iron tongs in the direction where the fifth lun slipped away, and then sat on the edge of the well and gasped.

Fifth Lun then cautiously came back, the old man is short-tempered, and it doesn't work to say anything when he is angry, but he can still talk after calming down.

He offered the tongs with both hands: "Father, you listen to your grandson's explanation, and it's not too late to fight again after listening to it." ”

"I don't listen!"

With a plop, the fifth tyrant threw the tongs directly into the well, he turned his face, he didn't want to talk to his grandson, but he was angry again when he thought about it, so he turned around and pointed at the fifth Lun and scolded: "No wonder in the past half a month, you haven't even opened the book once, and you have pestered the old man every day to learn the art of hand-to-hand combat, or you will go to the county town to make friends with the Kanto Jia people and light heroes, and you are not doing your job, it turns out that your mind is no longer on the scriptures." ”

"Yes." The Fifth Lun Dynasty made a gesture to the Fifth Tyrant: "My grandson thinks that reading the Five Classics is useless. ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, with complicated emotions in his eyes, he sighed, patted the edge of the well, asked Fifth Lun to come and sit down, and said earnestly:

"Lun'er, more than fifty years ago, when the old man was the same age as you, he thought it was useless to study, so he followed his companion as a light chivalrous and evil boy, teasing the vulgar, and taking off their high crowns to make urinals."

"Later, I was arrested by Jing Zhaoyin, so I could only run to the border to be a soldier, thinking of following Fu Jiezi and Zheng Ji, sealing the marquis with military merits, and returning to my hometown in fine clothes, wouldn't it be happy?"

The fifth Lun nodded, the war that the old man participated in was the last battle between the Western Han Dynasty and the Huns, and the fifth tyrant, as a pawn, followed Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou to expedition to Kangju, and killed Zhi Zhishan Yu, leaving behind the arrogance of "those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away"!

The eyes of the fifth tyrant are full of memories of the eventful years: "It is a pleasure to fight with the Marquis of Yicheng Zhuang and Captain Chen, we have crossed the snow-capped mountains and deserts, walked to the country of Kangju, slaughtered the five cities, seized the banner of the Marquis, beheaded the Zhizhi, and hung thousands of miles away!" The Western Regions City was not afraid of earthquakes, and the orchids lined up to let us sleep, and everyone also got a lot of money and exotic treasures. ”

His gaze dimmed: "But do you know, after returning home, what awaits us?" ”

Fifth Lun shook his head, he didn't know what was going on.

But he heard the fifth tyrant say hatefully: "There is no people to welcome him, let alone a reward for the marquis." As soon as the army entered Yumen Pass, Captain Sili issued a document, saying that Captain Chen was corrective and should be arrested, and asked the officials along the way to check the property we had seized from the Xiongnu Kangju and confiscate all of them! I am afraid that there are Hun spies in the court, and they want to strictly investigate us to avenge Zhizhidan! ”

"Captain Chen played a famous grievance, and Emperor Yuan let people entertain the army of the class teacher, but after returning to Chang'an, the reward was delayed, and the feudal titles of the two captains of Gan and Chen were only obtained a few years later, and our ordinary soldiers almost got nothing!"

In the eyes of the fifth tyrant, this is still a traitor in the court! There were anti-war civil officials and Confucian scholars who got in the way, and Prime Minister Kuang Heng and the eunuch Shi Xian of the Inner Dynasty colluded to obstruct the reward, and later dismissed Chen Tang's officials. Captain Chen is greedy for money and lustful, but he can't hide his flaws, as for holding on to small mistakes.

Since there was no reward, the soldiers who participated in that battle could only return to their hometowns in disgrace, and found that a certain little Confucian student in the township who was teased by him back then had already flourished in Beijing, exempted from forced labor, and had a bright future. And he was born and died for the Han in a foreign land, and he was injured and sick, but he didn't get anything.

Why!

Since then, the fifth tyrant has never been famous, he has been a pavilion chief and a township tour, and has cracked a lot of cases, but no matter how good his performance is, every time it is his turn to be promoted, the county Gongcao will ask: "Can you pass through the scriptures?" ”

Of course the fifth tyrant won't, let alone the Five Classics, he hasn't even learned the Analects of the Book of Filial Piety, and he was busy fighting bravely when he was young. Emulating the prime minister of the former dynasty Xuan and the Yuan dynasty to be self-taught halfway through Dingguo? He doesn't have the perseverance or talent.

In fact, he also went to the county primary and secondary schools to listen to it, and those masters shook their heads and turned over and over those few sentences, and they didn't teach the way of governance. But how can a military official like him have no hopeless career, and he can only be a petty official in his life. And the Confucian students who have entered the Taixue gilded can directly become Lang officials and doctors after passing the shooting strategy exam, and then occupy a high position of 2,000 stones? Even the townsfolk no longer come according to the law when they judge the case, but have to consult the Confucian scholars to do something about the "Spring and Autumn Prison Break".

So the promotion is over, the fifth tyrant wasted his life, and he was promoted in the position of the township tourist, on the other hand, those colleagues whose ability and qualifications were not as good as him, but because they had studied the Confucian scriptures to meet the above requirements, they were promoted one after another.

Why!

It doesn't matter if you can't figure it out, but the Han family uses the general trend of Confucianism to learn scholars, and the old man finally understands that regardless of civil and military affairs, learning a scripture is the premise of being a big official and making a fortune.

So, in order to prevent future generations from suffering like him, the fifth tyrant put a lot of effort into the education of his grandson, and at the age of seven or eight, he sent the fifth Lun to the "primary school" in the county, and hired Confucian scholars to open a small stove at home, and finally cultivated a talent who has the ability to pass the Taixue exam.

Compared with the Han family, this new room attaches more importance to scripture, the number of students has expanded to 10,000, and the status of Confucianism has been unprecedentedly elevated - who made the emperor Wang Mang himself a scholar.

Looking at this posture, we should continue to let the children of the family deeply cultivate the Five Classics, which may be the only way for the Fifth Clan to achieve transformation and Nirvana to take off.

Unexpectedly, his grandson was as ignorant as he was back then, can the fifth tyrant not be angry?

"If you can't beat it, you can join?"

Wu Lun appreciates his grandfather's approach to following the trend, thirty years earlier, so there is no problem, and twenty years later, it is understandable.

But when he met the short-lived dynasty of Xinmang, he went the wrong way. Although I don't know much about this history. But after the new dynasty is the Eastern Han Dynasty, the change of dynasty, it must be the chaos in Kyushu, the people are not happy, it is impossible to be as peaceful as Wang Mang every time.

Because Fifth Lun was very interested in marching and fighting these days, the Fifth Ba thought that he was interested in joining the army, so he only lowered his voice and persuaded his grandson: "It won't work to join the army and seek meritorious service like I did back then." At present, although the emperor is provoking everywhere, he is not only fighting the Xiongnu, but also fighting the Western Qiang, the Western Regions, and the Southwest Yi, and what else is Goguryeo......"

"Xia Ju Li." Wu Lun smiled: "I heard that the emperor has issued an edict to change Goguryeo to this name. ”

It's another antonym, this one is very reckless.

In short, it has only been ten years since the establishment of the new dynasty, but it has turned against all the subject states like crazy and sent troops from all sides. Although there were frequent "good news" on the front line, we could hear those who had gone to serve in the Xiongnu in the north and the southwestern-Yi in the south and returned from injury crying, saying that hundreds of thousands of troops were exhausted in the border fortress and suffered heavy losses, and the war seemed to have reached a stalemate.

The fifth tyrant is worried about this: "In the past few years, the imperial court has levied more and more, and the conscription has been apportioned to the heads of various clans, and my fifth clan went to three people last year, and this year there will be six!" Do you want to increase the number of troops? ”

"The year before last, I went to the Western Regions to quell the rebellion, saying that it was a great victory, and I also gave the general who led the troops a son and a man. But a few of the people of my Fifth Clan who were recruited never returned, and may have died there. There are also rumors that the capital of the Western Regions has been killed by the Hu people of the Western Regions, and the reinforcements have also been defeated by the Chengguo coalition army, and the remnants are trapped in Qiuci, and the contact with the DPRK has been cut off. ”

After all, after a few years of struggle in the Western Regions, the fifth tyrant still cares about that side, and only sighs: "Today's emperor and Captain Chen Tang are friends who have forgotten their years, and they are quite praised by Captain Chen. But how did the battle come like this, it didn't have the majesty of the Wuhu enemy of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions back then......"

To tell the truth, the combat effectiveness of the new army is indeed very good, and the defeat rate of these foreign troops is pitifully low. So at this time, it's not good to take the military general's route, and you accidentally lose your life.

Wu Lun interrupted his grandfather: "Father, the reason why I don't want to enter Taixue to study the Five Classics. It is because of the progress of reading and learning that it is only possible in peacetime. ”

"But if you encounter troubled times, those complicated Five Classics meet sharp swords, I'm afraid they will be useless!"

"Troubled times?" The fifth tyrant was shocked and looked at the fifth Lun: "What do you want to say?" ”

These words could not be leaked, and he followed his grandfather to the south wall of the dock fort, and stood in the vegetable garden, looking at the world in the evening, and the fifth Lun expressed his judgment.

"Father, I think this world is going to be chaotic!"

……

"What nonsense are you talking about, you!"

Hearing this, the fifth tyrant was taken aback, although he went to the Western Regions to see the world when he was young, he was still essentially just a small landlord, and his eyes were limited to Guanzhong, and even the small lieutenant county Changling County. Lack of sensitivity to subtle changes in the outside world.

In the eyes of the fifth hegemon, although the new army has been defeated and embarrassed by repeated defeats in the four borders and barbarians, those things are too far away, the country is still relatively stable, and the days are far from being impossible to rise up.

But Wu Lun is different, because he doesn't know the historical details of this era, he is more concerned about collecting intelligence. A few days ago, he ran to the county seat if he had nothing to do, and even sent people to Jingshi and Hedong to investigate, and the news he received made him worried.

"Last year, there were droughts and floods in the eastern part of the country, and there were melon fields in Yangzhou in the southeast as thieves, and there were rumors that half of Huiji County was in chaos."

"There is also Xuzhou in the east, there is a woman named Lu Mu, because her son was unjustly killed for the county governor, she gathered hundreds of poor teenagers to capture the county seat, kill the county slaughter, and specialize in activities by the sea, it is said that tens of thousands of people have been gathered."

"There is also what happened in the summer and autumn of this year, Jingzhou has been in drought for many years, and the people are hungry and poor, so they are thieves, gathering in Lulin Mountain, and the number of people is increasing......"

The term "green forest hero" has been heard by Wu Lun in his previous life, and he is afraid that he will be a big force in the future.

That's all he heard about for the time being, but the turmoil that was concealed by the imperial court was only afraid of more. It looks like it's all a spark, but will it be a fire in a few years?

After all, the restructuring of the new dynasty is full of slots, and all walks of life have great complaints. And Wang Mang was fighting all over the border. Even the fifth Lun, who doesn't understand history, can see that the new room is currently in internal and external difficulties, and it is in danger.

"It's just a few thieves and thieves, Lun'er, you really haven't seen the world, such a little thief, which dynasty, which year?"

The Fifth Tyrant didn't take the rebel army in the Kwantung region seriously, which made the Fifth Lun speechless. By the way, Wang Mang and the people in power in the court, could it be that they also have this mentality?

It's also relieved to think about it, unless you know like him that the new dynasty will fall quickly, it's hard for normal people to believe that this fairly peaceful world will suddenly collapse in just a few years.

The fifth tyrant still didn't quite accept the alarmism of the fifth lun, so he didn't mention this stubble and asked about the point of the whole thing.

"Lun'er, even if you don't want to enter Taixue, then you just don't want to study, why do you want to give up the place to the Eighth Clan? Isn't it cheaper for his family? ”

Fifth Lun was about to say his reason, but there was a commotion in the distance, and the grandfather and grandson saw a group of men and horses along the west avenue to the south gate of the dock courtyard, and the family guarding the door also came to report: "The head of the family, the head of the eighth clan and his son the eighth Jiao are visiting!" ”

The fifth tyrant was a little surprised: "Didn't the eighth clan have a grudge with my family?" How could that old man come to the door today? ”

"Of course they have to come."

Fifth Lun was not surprised, he knew that it was his own official school to promote the quota to the eighth clan.

"It's just a few moments faster than I expected!"

……

On the other hand, in the county seat, the county magistrate Yu Bao has also prepared a night banquet to entertain Huan Tan and Liu Gong, two doctors from Beijing.

At this time, Liu Gong thought of the afternoon, and turned his head to ask Huan Tan, who was carelessly picking up fish bones.

"Junshan."

"Do you think that today's Fifth Lun gave up the quota of Taixue to his clan brother, is he really humble and good? Or do you just want to gain fame and fortune? ”