Volume 4: Shu Di Wolf Smoke 29: Nine Treatises on the Death of the Country
At this time, the shopkeeper's shopkeeper Xiaoer had been chattering there, so he came over and said, "Second son, are you talking nonsense here again?" Aren't you afraid of offending the nobles from your mouth?! The shopkeeper slapped the shopkeeper on the back lightly, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "The shopkeeper is wrong, I'm going to work, you eat first, and call me if you have something!" β
The shopkeeper went to work elsewhere, and the shopkeeper saluted Yun Xingyan and Xu Mad and said: "The two are objective, that little guy is talking nonsense, don't take it seriously, don't inquire about things here, if you come here to enjoy the mountains and rivers, the little old man can introduce you to a few good places......"
Yun Xingyan and Xu Mad glanced at each other, and the two didn't want to reveal their identities for the time being, so they said: "Then there is a shopkeeper Lao to introduce us to the local good places, my son-in-law and I are like headless flies who don't know where to go......"
So a few people chatted for a while, and after the old shopkeeper left, the two came to the guest room, Yun Xingyan helped Xu Crazy to the bed, and said: "These people are really not light or heavy, you are suffering, I will go to the pharmacy to grab some medicine, you bear with it first......"
Yun Xingyan walked out of the door after speaking, Xu Mad saw that he never despised himself, and he did not hesitate to carry himself to the inn, his heart was moved, in fact, the most difficult thing for a simple person like Xu Mad to accept was that pure heart, and it was precisely because Yun Xingyan carried him to this part of the road, Xu Mad finally did not hesitate to risk his life for him, and his head was different, of course, this is a later story, we will not mention it for the time being!
Talking about Yun Xingyan, he didn't go directly to the pharmacy when he got out of the inn, but walked around the neighborhood, this place is really abnormal, abnormal and terrifying, because this is a grain and grass town, although there are often rebels who have fallen here from the place of rebellion around to rob houses outside the town, but according to this situation, I am afraid that Chen Heng's front line is lost!
"Third brother, third brother, it seems that you have been put on a show!"
According to the military report sent before, Chen Hengzhi's troops at that time went deep into Qingcheng Mountain alone, although there were no reinforcements, but now in the autumn, the soldiers are not hungry, and they can also be self-sufficient with the wild fruits and wild vegetables on the side of the road in the mountains......
Although he was ordered to investigate the case thoroughly, but now he can be regarded as the commander in charge of this matter, if he easily reveals his identity and asks him for the crime, it is estimated that the 100,000 troops on the front line will hate themselves to death, because they have no ability to raise this grain and grass military supplies, and Yun Xingyan also understands that they are waiting for Yun Qiancheng to arrive at the front line before releasing grain, and now Chen Hengzhi's march route is divided into three routes, so there are still 30,000 defenders left in Guizhou to block the back road of the defeated army, and Yun Qiancheng is estimated to take over this army!
Yun Xingyan walked around the town like this and couldn't find some news, it seems that the only breakthrough is the local Mi family, I hope to be able to find evidence of their snake and rat litter of delays, Yun Xingyan, who made up his mind, went to the pharmacy to grab some bone-setting drugs and returned to the inn, at this time Xu Mad was lying on the desk with a bright lamp, after a splash of ink, several Juanxiu's handwriting appeared on the file, and the frontispiece was the subject of this article, named: "Nine Treatises on the Death of the Country"
The previous dynasty was destroyed, the old grain and grass of the non-armor soldiers were not good, the war was not good, the disadvantages were unclear in the military and politics, and the force was unclear, then every battle must be sluggish, or said: The decay of the dynasty is not the fault of the monarch alone, in fact, the government is obscure, the law is unknown, the scholars are numerous, the government decree is difficult to understand, there is a barbarian rebellion outside, there is the trouble of the vassal king inside, but the monarch is slack and the power is sideways, if a mediocre lord ascends the throne, the world will be in chaos...... (I don't have good literary skills, anyway, you should just assume that Mr. Xu has a very political vision!) By the way, let's understand what kind of country the Great Cloud Country is! οΌ
Xu frenzied pen book, and the current political situation and national policy to their own understanding of the book on the volume, ink dots and stars, flying white, today will fly white body literati is not much, this calligraphy technique is the Eastern Han Dynasty writer Cai Yong pioneered, some of its strokes are dry silk parallel, the turning point of the strokes are prominent, in the writing to produce strength, so that the dry pen produces "flying white", and thick ink, rising ink to produce contrast, in order to strengthen the sense of rhythm and rhythm of the work.
After a while, this "Nine Lun of the Dead Country" was sprinkled on the volume with a rudimentary form, Yun Xingyan couldn't bear to be disturbed outside, so he stood outside the door, and waited for Xu to go to the basin before pushing the door in, put the external ointment on the table, and after seeing the handwriting on the scroll, Yun Xingyan couldn't help but sigh: "Mr. Xu is really talented, but he has disclosed the shortcomings of Dayun in just a few hundred words. β
Xu Mad smiled and said: "The Lord really killed Xu, and he has already been banned from the exam for life, so this kind of article can only be written by himself to relieve his boredom, if he shows it to the inmates in the examination room, he will not be able to skin me alive one by one!" β
Although the imperial examination system seems to be invulnerable, in fact, there is too much human intervention, which makes it difficult for talented people to go further.
Although the imperial examination system has benefited the poor students in a certain aspect, but it is never on the same starting line with the wealthy families, the same post-supplement jinshi, the sons of the wealthy families only need to take the old-fashioned 'filial piety' to ascend to the sky in one step, and those poor students do not have such a way but want to go further only to climb the high branches, so there is a protΓ©gΓ© of the old official, and doing so is equivalent to being forced to stand in line, others have opened the door for you to be convenient, but the party has something to do, whether you have a grudge or not, you have to go!
So it has led to the constant disputes in the current court situation, to put it bluntly, it is still the set of the scholar clan to fight for hegemony, for example, the Twilight family, today's first-class wealthy family, even if the Twilight Zhenghao falls, the people are not afraid of starvation, like this family can be described as many prefects as dogs, the governor walks all over the ground, and several nephews of the Dusk Zhenghao are local officials, and they have all achieved the height from the three grades!
Getting back to the truth, Yun Xingyan asked: "But speaking of which, Ben Hou and Mr. Ben have been born and died several times, wandering between dangers, and have never heard of your ambitions...... I mean, if you want to get into the office, then which yamen do you want me to promote you to?! β
Yun Xingyan stared at Xu Mad intently, but Xu Mad casually closed the scroll and put the pen on the shelf, and said with a little discouragement: "As soon as you enter the Hou Mansion, you will be a minister for life!" I've long been disillusioned with the bureaucracy in this country, so why bother with muddy waters? I only hope that the Lord will ascend to the throne of God, so that this country will become what I want it to be, where everyone can be respected, there will be no oppression, everyone will have enough food and clothing, and the government will be truly people-oriented. β
Arrogance and uninhibition are just the protective colors of Xu Mad's way of dealing with the world, and the wine bottle that never leaves his body is just a way for him to escape from reality, because only when he is drunk can he see such a world, say what he wants to say, and do what he wants to do......
"There will be a day!"
Yun Xingyan nodded, and the two tacitly understood each other, but the long night had just begun, and at this time, in the temporary food supervision office in Longju Town, Gou or received two pieces of news, one is that King Yu Chitose has taken over 30,000 soldiers and horses in Guizhou, and ordered him to start transporting military food to the front line, and the second is that Yun Xingyan, the king of living Yama, will come here in the near future to thoroughly investigate the case of the delay in military rations, and ordered him to prepare as soon as possible, so as not to involve the big people in the court!
In the official office, Gou Or had already thought of a way out, to be honest, he dared to do this, he naturally had his words, but obviously the person who came was Yun Xingyan, and he had to deal with it carefully, he thought that his head was not as hard as Zhang Taiwei, so he hurriedly called his master Qian Sanshui to discuss the plan, Gou Or asked: "The news from the capital has arrived, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate has sent the Living Yama King to thoroughly investigate our delay in grain and grass, how can we prevaricate?" β