Zhu Lihua didn't say a word, walked straight to the stove, shook the old man next to the stove again, and said:

"How long is the meson? Hua'er is polite. ”

"Hmph, you are a good deed, and when you leave, who cares if the teacher lives or dies?" Jie Ziyan said.

This Jie Zi is named Jie Yuan, and he is also a nobleman of the Qin State, and his ancestors received the title of five doctors, which can be said to be the highest level of the doctor's title.

The Qin State emphasized martial arts and light literature, but Jieyuan was good at reading when he was young, and he practiced the six arts and emphasized etiquette, music, books, and light shooting, and royalty, so he was not treated by other nobles of Qin.

Moreover, Jieyuan has a crazy temperament, does not like to succumb to the powerful, and has repeatedly written to impeach the nobles for all kinds of impolite behavior, and finally in the 569th year of the Zhou calendar, he offended Yong Shuzhao, who was then the right watch, and was transferred by the monarch from Xijing to Yuanzhou as the chief senator.

Although nominally he is the second person under the general state secretary, in fact he has no real power, and it can be regarded as exile to the border in disguise.

From then on, Jie Yuan was disheartened and ignored political affairs, but concentrated on collecting ancient folk books, traveled to the customs of Qin Lan and Sumeru, and witnessed the Rongdi invasion and resistance to the battle in 570 and 579 during the battle against Rongdi.

After repelling the invasion of Rong Di, he returned to Yuanzhou and wrote what he saw, heard, and felt into ten volumes of the "Pingrong Book".

It was also in 570 that during the anti-Rong period, Jie Yuan was found and chased by the Rong team outside Xiaoguan City, and at the last moment, Zhu Lihua's father Zhu Liying found that the five doctors and his party were besieged by the Rong people, so he stepped forward and rode into the Rong team to rescue Jie Yuan from the Rong people's stick, but he was seriously injured.

As a pampered mandarin from a young age, even though he had experienced dangers in his previous more than ten years of travel, most of the time there had never been anything life-threatening, and even he felt that there was no possibility of survival at that time.

In addition to being grateful for the grace of saving her life, he learned that Liying was also a nobleman and held the position of the five hundred lords at the time, and he suddenly burst into tears, because the five hundred lords have at least fifty guards, if they were not eager to save themselves, then Li Ying would not have to worry about her life.

"A few people came back to fight in ancient times. The five doctors don't have to worry about it, but after my death, my only son was left unattended, and this is the only thing I have to worry about. She said.

Jieyuan understands that Liying wants to entrust her only son to herself.

In this era, worshipping a higher-level doctor as a stepfather or teacher is undoubtedly a broad road to the future of politics.

Although it is reasonable but unreasonable, it is too expensive to gamble on her son's future.

Besides, Jie Yuan also laughed at himself in his heart, and his five doctors were just a false appearance.

Liying was seriously injured and was about to die, so Jieyuan agreed to take Liying's son as an apprentice.

It just so happened that Lu Lihua, who was five years old at the time, was also visiting his father with his mother at that time, and was in Xiao Pass, so he was invited by a servant to meet Jieyuan.

In the soft sobs of Lihua's mother and the last laughter of her father, Lihua bowed to Jieyuan three times and bowed nine times, which was regarded as completing the apprenticeship ceremony.

Then Liying left with a smile, and Lihua also returned to the mining village in Yuanzhou with her mother.

After the end of the war, Jieyuan returned to Wonju City, and after taking Lihua from the mining of the Zhuli family, he took Lihua to his office and began to teach Lihua.

And Zhu Lihua also lives up to the careful professor of Jieyuan, who has been smart and studious since he was a child, and the six arts he has learned have been comprehended quite quickly except for archery and royalty.

Jie Yuan found that Xiao Yuli and his own preferences for the six arts were exactly the same, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he became more and more attentive to educating Xiao Yuli.

From auspicious, fierce, bin, military, and Jia Wuli to Yunmen, Daxian, Dashao, Daxia, Dahui, and Dawu six music, and then to the fingers, pictograms, shapes, sounds, understanding, transfers, and pretending to borrow six books, and finally to counting, Xiaoli knew it in less than a year.

The ancestors of the clan sacrificed to the family, and the six-year-old Xiao Li volunteered to dance the big and the martial arts, which made the old people in the clan breathtaking.

In the following ten years, in addition to traveling, Jieyuan would teach Xiaoli the Zhou royal family and the Four Kingdoms ritual calendar, astronomy, rivers, marching, and music theory, and taught his own painstaking work "Pingrong Book" ten volumes.

Xiaoli not only learns quickly, but also has a relatively quiet mind, and likes to think quietly alone since he was a child.

He once asked Jieyuandao:

"In the six musics, the "Cloud Gate Scroll" is used to worship the heavens; "Da Xian" sacrifice ground; "Da Shao" sacrifices four hopes; "Great Xia" sacrifices mountains and rivers; "Da Hui" sacrifices to the ancestors; "Dawu" sacrifices to ancestors.

But when I danced this music, I always felt that it was inconsistent with Yao Junping's deeds in the world, as if I was talking about other wars.

Hua'er is stupid, can Jie Zi solve Hua'er's doubts. ”

After hearing this, Jie Yuan was very surprised that Zhu Lihua was so young, and he couldn't help but be really happy that he could think about this layer in his mind.

He touched the head in the little tree and said:

"Six music is an extremely important component of the Zhou ceremony, Yao Jun set the Zhou Li to sacrifice heaven and earth, sacrifice mountains and rivers, and sacrifice ancestors, in order to let the people of the world work together, know that we are born in the same mountains and rivers, and also respect the ancestors who gave birth to us.

In this way, the people of the world can be different from Rong Di's generation, this is the use of etiquette, knowing etiquette and virtue, in order to be able to learn from things, not to be biased.

As for what exactly is shown in the six music, I don't know, I only know that Yao Jun created it, I'm afraid only Yao Jun knows the reason. ”

If this incident can only show that Xiao Lili is studious and intelligent, then an incident that happened when he was twelve years old made Jie Yuan completely change his understanding of Lihua.

In the autumn of 577, the Duke of Qin ordered the people to garrison the border and conduct training for the people who had completed the harvest of crops in preparation for the Rongdi invasion that would soon break out.

In the months that followed, guards from six counties and two states across the country came to the border one after another.

The guards have not yet begun training, and there is no military discipline at all, and in addition to the practice of guards, there are also some guards who have been hired by wealthy families to serve, and these guards are generally local ruffians.

Therefore, wherever they went, they often crossed the border like locusts, robbing property and robbing homes and houses from time to time, and it was not uncommon for people to kill and rob money.

At that time, most of the men over the age of 20 in the family also went to serve in the service, and there were only men and women under the age of 20 and over 56 years old in the family, and there were only more than 80 men who could carry weapons.

In the past few days, everyone has been very nervous to guard against the crossing guards.

One day, there was a sudden noise of people barking in the east of the village, and there was no need to think that someone must have broken into the village and plundered the property, and the men all took up arms to protect the east of the village.

The rest of the women and children are all concentrated in the largest house in the family, that is, the house of Lihua.

Soon after the men left, more than 30 people broke into the west of the village, they searched for property from house to house, and the people sent out to guard quickly came back to report to the women and children left behind.

Zhu Lihua's mother, Fan, as the head of women and children, was also at a loss.

At this moment, a child shouted "Silence! ”

Everyone looked for a sound, and it turned out to be Xiaojiao.

I saw Zhu Lihua say to Fan:

"Mother don't panic, even more offenders my home is just to seize wealth, and if it is not persecuted, it will not kill, and the mother and everyone except the children are holding bamboo poles and farm tools, leaning against the wall, and the equipment must leak out of the wall, and ten people are dragging artemisia grass and running back and forth in the courtyard, and no one is allowed to make loud noises."

Fan was the widow of a military martyr, and he immediately understood Lihua's intentions, and there was no other way to think about it, so he immediately ordered him to do what Lihua said.

In a moment, more than 100 bamboo poles and farm tools were erected on the wall of the mansion, and the courtyard was suddenly dusty and noisy.

Sure enough, this group of more than 30 guards immediately discovered the abnormality of the Yakuri Mansion, so they packed up the looted belongings and left in a hurry.

Seeing that the guards left, everyone in the palace breathed a sigh of relief, some people directly sat on the ground, and some women cried and muttered "Ancestors bless, Yao Jun blesses".

Only Zhu Lihua didn't say a word, hurried into the inner room, and hurried out again.

Fan looked strange and asked:

"What does Hua'er think is wrong?"

Zhu Lihua hurriedly said: "Please mother quickly arrange for everyone to evacuate to the east of the village." ”

Fan asked, "The strongman has already left, why do you want to evacuate?" ”

樗里誅 says:

"If the strongman does not leave, he can hold out until the men of the guards return, because they are indeed only for plunder, and do not dare to gamble with their lives.

But the strongman is gone, but it is a bad thing, the strongman finds out that more than 100 people in my house will let more than 30 of them calmly retreat, and no one comes forward to recover the property, they will understand that there is no power in my house to resist them, so they are very likely to turn back again, and then we will not have time to leave. ”

Fan felt justified and hurriedly led everyone to withdraw to the east of the village immediately.

Sure enough, when the guards saw that no one was chasing them, they immediately became suspicious, and sent two people back to investigate, and when they saw that there was no one in the mansion, the guards looted and left.

When the people came back, they felt a little sad when they saw the mess, but fortunately, everyone was happy again, and they praised Lihua for her calmness.

Some of the old men in the clan also looked at Yu Lihua with admiration, and said behind their backs: "This son is unlimited."

At this time, Zhu Lihua said to everyone again: "Elders of the clan, tomorrow I will go to Yuanzhou and ask for everyone's belongings back. ”

When everyone heard this, they all thought it was incredible, and there were thousands of people who were stationed in Wonju, and the thousands of people who found the looted property were simply looking for a needle in a haystack.

But Xiao Yuli dared to say this, and everyone was also curious, and they all wanted to see how he could do it.

But at the same time, they also prepared for the worst, saying that even if they couldn't get it back, they should do it, and the so-called ruined wealth and disaster were eliminated.

On the second day, Zhu Lihua and more than a dozen men in the clan came to Yuanzhou City, found Jieyuan, and told him about yesterday.

Jie Yuan laughed and said:

"The soldier is plotting, my apprentice is only twelve years old, that is, he knows how to use strategy, haha, the children can be taught, the children can be taught."

Jie Yuan was very happy, and after praising Lihua again and again in his heart, he asked:

"Just now you said that you want to recover your property, there are too many pawns, and there are more than 1,000 pawns registered in each daily register, how to find it?"

Lu Lihua smiled and said: "My house is in the south of Yuanzhou, and the guards who invaded my house yesterday will enter the state city from the south gate."

Sir, can you ask the guards of the South Fourth Gate to gather the guards who entered the city yesterday to register? ”

Jie Yuan said: "When the soldiers enter the city, they will be concentrated in the temporary resettlement camps outside the gates, which is not difficult to do." ”

Immediately, Jieluan led Lihua and his family to the camp in Nancheng.

The 2,500 masters of the battalion are also called 1,000 people named Yang He, who is a general who specializes in training guards, and he did not dare to slack off when he saw that Jieyuan came to the camp, so he hurriedly ordered the guards to conduct an inventory, and concentrated a total of 386 guards who had registered into the city yesterday in front of the camp.

介鸳向樗里誅 said:

"Hua'er has seen yesterday's strongman, if you still remember your face, quickly recognize it."

Zhu Lihua said: "Yesterday, Hua'er could only look at the strongman from afar, and he didn't remember the strongman's face.

But according to Hua'er's observation yesterday, the strongman mostly wears straw sandals, and some walk barefoot, so before I escaped, I took out the shoes that my mother prepared to wear during my crown ceremony and placed them in a conspicuous position in the hall, and when I returned to the hall, I found that the shoes were taken by the strongman, if I was not mistaken, Hua'er's shoes must have been worn on the strongman's feet.

If you wear shoes to serve the guard, the soles of the shoes will definitely wear out, but our house is only thirty miles away from Yuanzhou, and the soles of the shoes will be as good as new.

I also asked Yang Qianren's life guards to check the shoes of the guards and recover the property for our people. ”

Sure enough, as Lihua expected, it didn't take long for the guards to find out the four guards wearing new shoes.

The Qin State was extremely poor, the people's livelihood was difficult, and almost everyone wore straw sandals, which were worn by the nobles and ordinary people.

So after a simple inspection, it was found that one of the four people was wearing the same shoes as Zhu Lihua.

As for the soles and uppers made by his mother, she only needs to glance at them to know whether they are or not.

Seeing that the matter had been revealed, he suddenly sat on the ground with his legs and feet limp.

Yang He immediately arranged for the guards to take the guard down for interrogation, and finally confessed more than 30 accomplices one by one, and found the looted property in the woods more than ten miles outside the city, and handed it over to the Lihua people after the pointing.

After this incident, Zhu Lihua has become famous in the clan and even in the former state capital.

Jieyuan was also proud of his apprentice from the bottom of his heart, and then consciously focused on cultivating Lihua's military studies.

Jieyuan handed over the ancient and Yao Jun's expeditions that he had been looking for for many years, many military deeds in the Shikoku era and the remnants of the search, and all the solitary books to Zhu Lihua and asked him to sort them out.

And he suddenly felt that he should go back to Xijing again, this time he returned to Beijing not for himself, but also for himself, specifically to see how far the apprentices carrying his dreams could go, and hoped that the old people in Xijing had not forgotten themselves.

Although Jie Yuan is crazy and has offended many people, he still has some connections in the middle of the country and people who have been in the aristocratic circle.

Now that his goal has been set, he began to plan his plan to enter Beijing.

In the following years, Jieyuan wrote letters to the officials in the capital who had been friends with him one after another to inform him of his desire to return to the capital, and then he went to the general government to discuss with the then general state secretary for a practical important position, specifically in the general government to supervise the officials to handle official affairs.

When he was eighteen years old, he entered the general government on official business, but Jieyuan never interfered with Lihua, he wanted to see this child's ability to deal with practice.

At the age of eighteen, it's time to be on your own.

In the nearly five years since he joined the General Administration, Jieluan was pleased to see that his apprentices also had a very high talent in dealing with practice.

In particular, it can analyze some shortcomings that others cannot detect through some trivial judgments.

Gradually, for some indecisive lawsuits in the government, everyone also went to Lihua to discuss first, and he, the general senator and political supervisor, was gradually "hollowed out" by his own obedient disciples.

In 585, the state of Qin counted the county governments as usual.

The so-called "upper plan" is to report the "plan", requiring the county and state to write down the household registration, land reclamation, tax increase and decrease in the past ten years in the jurisdiction on the wooden tablet, compile it into a book, report to the dynasty, accept the assessment, and the monarch will reward or punish according to the merits of the government.

Jieyuan put this burden on Zhu Lihua, and made him fully responsible for leading the left and right councils to verify the household registration, land reclamation, tax increases and decreases from 575 to 585, as well as the expenditure of money and food for resisting Rongdi and disaster relief within half a year.

After receiving the order, he did not shirk it, and immediately handed over the statistics of civil items such as household registration, land reclamation, and taxation in the past ten years to the officials of the cold door of the left council hall, and arranged the military and disaster relief money and grain expenditure items to the nobles of the right council hall to count.

At the same time, Zhu Lihua further refined the civil and military statistics, and in the civil aspect, several people were grouped, and special statistics were made on household registration, acreage, agricultural tax, commercial tax, forced labor, litigation and other matters;

In terms of military affairs, it is divided into eight groups, namely Xiaoguan and Qisanguan, which respectively count the number of casualties and the consumption of money and food in order to resist the various passes of Rongdi in the past ten years.

In addition, it is divided into three groups for disaster relief, and the disaster relief expenditures of the six counties under the jurisdiction of the original state are counted respectively.

Another group counts the money and grain spent on suppressing the Qingchuan Rebellion in 582.

Gao Yunce, Liang Qingshu, and Wei Yuanqi, the most capable of the officials of the Hanmen Gate, worked with themselves to classify and calculate the statistical data and make a book, and to divide the expenses from the income to obtain the detailed rules for the annual surplus and loss.

Yuanzhou is a war zone, because Xiao Pass has never fallen when the Rong people invaded the pass, most of the times can only go deep into the six counties of Yuanzhou and the northern counties of Shubei Province adjacent to Yuanzhou, and then there is a risk of being pinched by the Qin State, so the disaster of war is also the most severe in the Yuanzhou area, and the tax revenue of the rest of the provinces, including Lingzhou, is stronger than that of Yuanzhou.

Whenever before the outbreak of war, the Qin State invited the people of all counties and states across the country to carry out wars, not to mention the regular and border garrisons that exist in peacetime, so the military pressure in Yuanzhou was high and the expenditure was large, but the daily agricultural work was very poor.

If the economy of Qin is weak, then the economy of Yuanzhou is even more stubborn.

The whole Qin State understands this truth, so every time the time is counted, the Yuan and Ling Prefectures are excluded from the evaluation separately, but the symbolic form also has to go, so that the most direct effect in hundreds of years is:

Every time it is counted, it is the time when the governor of the two states of Lingyuan is replaced.

For the 585 year, although Yuanzhou still ranked last among the six counties and two states in the evaluation, the statistics of Yuanzhou made the ministers of the DPRK and China dazzle and amazed, and even the monarch Yonggong praised Yuanzhou Secretary Fang Xie and the general system senator Jieyuan in the court.

The statistical book reported by Yuanzhou is not only detailed, but also the detailed income and expenditure listed in each item is also clear at a glance, and at the same time, the income and expenditure of the six counties in Yuanzhou are also compared, and the reasons for the length of the foot and the short inch are annotated.

After the end of the plan, Fang Xie, the secretary of state, was rewarded by Yongjun with a knighthood, promoted from guest secretary to Zhengqing, and was given five fiefdoms, ten acres of residential land, and fifty stones of Yulu, and entered the court to be in charge of civil affairs.

Jieyuan rewarded the first level, promoted from the five doctors to the guest secretary, and gave five fiefdoms, ten acres of residential land, and fifty stones.

In addition, Yonggong sent Zhengqing Zhao Zhize to Yuanzhou to serve as the new state secretary.

Jieyuan is still the general senator.

Both of them received the gift and made a big show in the court, and they couldn't help but rejoice in their hearts, especially Fang Xie, when he resisted Rong Di in 580, there was Lord Yongluan who was in command, and he was just doing some things to prepare grain and grass behind his back.

When Rong Di swept through the six counties, although he was trapped in Jingyang, the southeasternmost area, and was scared half to death, he still insisted until the reinforcements of his patriarch Zuo Gengfang Yuanheng arrived, and the grain and grass in his detention were not lost. After the battle, he was praised by the right greater.

This time, a man suddenly appeared in his general palace, and he won the praise and reward of the monarch for nothing.

He suddenly felt that it was not because he had cultivated good and accumulated virtue in his previous life, and that there were always nobles to help him in this life, and he couldn't help but feel grateful to Zhu Lihua.

But Zhu Lihua is just a low-end doctor, although he is Jieyuan's apprentice, but with his own status, there is no need to deliberately go to be grateful.

So he casually praised Jieyuan a few words, and said a few painless words of "cultivate well" and "have a bright future" and then ignored it again.

For the officials of the Hanmen of the General Command, this plan has greatly increased the status of Zhu Lihua in their hearts and has become a mainstay-like core figure.

But for the children of the aristocracy, especially the children of the nobility in the general government, their attitude towards Lihua slowly changed from envy to jealousy and then to resentment.

They always feel that the reason why Lihua can have today is entirely because there is a teacher like Jieyuan behind them.

In the years that followed, she often found herself occasionally losing one or two volumes of the files she was working on;

The civil lawsuit he handled was about to be solved, but suddenly there were things such as the death of a witness and the repentance of the bitter owner, which made him scolded by Zhao Zhize.

Moreover, some aristocratic children are waiting for the opportunity to continue to add fuel to the state secretary to slander Lihua, and even fabricate trumped-up charges to accuse Lihua of misdeeds.

Although Gao Yunce, Liang Qingshu, Wei Yuanqi and other officials from the poor family helped Lihua explain the reason every time, after all, they were not listened to by the state secretary.

After each false accusation and thorough investigation, it was found that Fei Lihua was at fault, but because of the close relationship between Zhao Zhize and the families of the nobles, he never delved into the responsibility of the false accusations of these nobles.

Jie Yuan was very clear about what was happening, but he also understood the truth that "Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind", so he deliberately let Yu Lihua himself experience the complex situation between these interpersonal relationships, and he himself never came forward.

You can't just carry it around every time something happens.

No matter how noble the eaglet is, she always has to try to soar into the sky by herself.

But he also understands that once things go out of the bottom line, as the master of Zhu Lihua, he will never be indifferent and stand by and watch.