"Why has my son been sullen since he came back?" Chen's mother looked at her son, and since he came back, he looked worried, which made Chen's mother very worried.

"It's nothing, it's just that there are some things I can't figure out." Chen Mo shook his head, before he figured it out, he didn't want to tell his mother about it for the time being.

"Oh?" Mother Chen looked at her son when she heard this, and said with a smile: "It's better to listen to your mother, but what happened in the city this time?" ”

"Well, sort of." Chen Mo nodded and said, "Mother, have you heard of the collusion between officials and bandits?" ”

"Naturally, I did." Mother Chen nodded.

"Isn't it the right of a ruler to do things for the people? Why do you want to collude with the bandits who are causing trouble to the people? Chen Mo asked.

"There are many reasons for this." Chen's mother is not like coaxing a child, she knows that her son has a lot more burden than other people's children, and he is more sensible than other people's children, some things, since he is thinking, it must be a similar problem, and thought about it carefully: "But it is roughly divided into three types." ”

"Oh?" Chen Mo hurriedly sat up straight and looked at his mother.

"The first is nothing more than profit, the officials provide some convenience for the bandits, and the money looted by the thieves will give the officials a part, which is the simplest, but also the most despicable."

Chen Mo nodded, this was also what Chen Mo had always known, but this was not the answer he wanted.

"But it's also the most complex and common." Mother Chen seemed to think of something from the past, and sighed leisurely: "Although people despise it, most people are doing it, and the difference is only that some people do it secretly, while some people do it too obviously." ”

The young Chen Mo couldn't understand it, and Chen's mother didn't explain much, many things, before they really encountered it, it was difficult to really have cognition, and he hoped that his son would never encounter this kind of thing in his life.

"As for the second option, or rather a compromise." Mother Chen smiled: "Those thieves who fall into the grass are difficult to get rid of." ”

"Why is that?" Chen Mo was puzzled.

"There are three types of thieves in this world, one is without a fixed place, and the places they pass through are like locusts transiting, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and this kind is also the object of the government's efforts to exterminate; The second type is the bandits, they gather in the mountains and forests, have their own place, although they also loot, but they will not be as murderous as the rogues, and even sometimes help the surrounding people, these bandits are not very harmful, and there is a convenient location, if the official army comes to clear the payment, it will be scattered in the four fields, but if the official army goes, it will regather, the general county does not have the power to suppress the bandits alone, but if the heavy troops are gathered, the food and people are consumed, and they may not be able to clear the money, so as long as these people do not do too much, the government office will ignore it, this is a compromise. ”

"This kind of bandit sometimes makes some deals with various villages." At the end, Chen's mother smiled and said: "As for the third type of collusion between officials and bandits, that is, raising bandits for self-respect, and asking the court for military rations and horses, I don't need to know too much about this for the time being, and I usually can't meet it." ”

Chen Mo nodded, the thieves they encountered should be this second category, and he breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, after all, there was no way for the government office, and Li Zheng was not a bad person when he made a deal with them.

"Mother, what are the three types of thieves and bandits you mentioned earlier?" Chen Mo untied the knot in his heart, looked at his mother and asked curiously.

"This kind of general is not called bandits, they hide in the people, and even have a deep relationship with the government office, they look at the serious traders on weekdays, but in private they do some evil things, such as selling people, selling illegal salt, and weapons." Mother Chen was also a little heavy when she said this.

"What is a little selling population?" Chen Mo asked, he felt that this was related to what happened to him in the county.

"The law of our dynasty actually allows the sale of human beings, every disaster year, some people who can't live will sell their sons and daughters, this kind of selling the law, generally recognized by the government, can be called and sold, but after all, the disaster year does not happen every year, and it does not happen everywhere, but human trafficking is quite profitable, and therefore, there will be people secretly coercing and luring, it is called a slight sale, and some will be directly tied up, this is called plunder, which is slightly different from plunder, but its meaning is similar, all of which violate the law."

"Mother, you know so much." Chen Mo was a little amazed.

Mother Chen just smiled when she heard this, no matter how down-and-out the Chen family is, it can be regarded as half a scholar, and after living for half a lifetime, it naturally knows more than Chen Mo, an ignorant child.

"Mother, I remember you once said that our Chen family is also a scholar?" Chen Mo asked suddenly.

"It used to be." Mother Chen sighed when she heard this, they are related to the Chen family in Hepu, this relationship is not far away, there are only two generations, but the distance between these two generations is so far away that it is almost impossible to have any more contacts.

"Is that mother literate?" Chen Mo's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Recognize some." Chen's mother nodded and said, "My son wants to learn?" ”

"Hmm." Chen Mo nodded hurriedly, reading and literacy is a very sacred thing, Chen Mo has always wanted to learn, but it was difficult to make a living in the past, and his young shoulders had to bear the livelihood of his mother and son, and he didn't have the energy at the same time, and he didn't understand where the sacredness of reading was.

But with the increase of knowledge, the desire for reading in his heart is constantly improving, and the situation at home is getting better and better, after seeing the beauty of the outside world, and knowing the past glory of the Chen family, Chen Mo is naturally unwilling to live a mediocre life, so at this time, Chen Mo is more eager to learn more and see the world more clearly.

"Your father has taught my mother a little, but my mother has not learned much." Mother Chen didn't know what she thought, sighed and said, "If my son wants to learn, my mother will teach you." ”

"Thank you, mother!" Chen Mo was overjoyed when he heard this.

"You kid ......" Chen's mother shook her head with a smile and said: "Before tomorrow, I will teach you a sentence for my mother, you only need to memorize this sentence and write it." ”

"Yes!" Chen Mo nodded excitedly.

This night, Chen Mo didn't fall asleep, thinking that tomorrow he could not only learn from his mother, but also learn martial arts from Uncle Wang, Chen Mo was full of excitement, tossing and turning all night, and didn't fall asleep until late at night......