Handu Xinzheng.

Zheng Guo, who is in his forties and dressed in simple clothes, looks at the locusts flying around the field, and his brows are tightened.

"Xu Zhong, is there anyone willing to exterminate the locusts with us?"

Xu Zhong, whose face was slightly immature, couldn't help but feel bitter when he heard this, and said: "Teacher Hui, the people all think that the locust plague is given by God and cannot be easily hunted and killed, otherwise it will be punished by heaven." ”

"Now it is said that the king is immoral, so that there is a great drought and locust plague in the sky, and the gentry and clan elders from all over the country have written to ask the government to pay tribute to heaven to quell the locust plague!"

When Zheng Guo heard this, he couldn't help but show anger on his face, and shouted: "When encountering drought, I don't know how to build canals for irrigation, and when the locust plague breaks out, I don't know how to hunt and kill and save food, but instead pin my hope on the illusory providence, which is simply ignorant and ridiculous!" ”

Jung Kook is Korea's outstanding hydraulic engineer (official name), who studied under a farmer, and his disciple Xu Zhong is a descendant of the founder of the farmer, Xu Xing.

Although the peasant family was known as one of the nine streams, and tried to persuade the idea of farming to be adopted by other countries, some of the farmer's ideas did not conform to the will of the rulers, so the peasant family gradually declined, and even many peasant works were lost.

Zheng Guo inherited from the farmer's family, and was full of desire to build a country of abundance, and repeatedly wrote to the king of Han, asking the king of Han to dig ditches, build water conservancy fortifications, and accumulate flow for irrigation, so as to ensure that crops can be harvested in drought and flood.

However, King Han thought that the amount of ditch excavation was too huge and would consume too much of South Korea's national strength, so he did not accept it.

Even, in the year when Qin Wangzheng succeeded to the throne, King Han was also ready to send Zheng Guo to Qin State, so that he could help Qin State build water conservancy fortifications, so as to achieve the purpose of "tired Qin".

In history, in order to block Qin's eastward departure, South Korea did send Zheng Guo to Qin to build Zhengguo Canal, originally wanting to "tire Qin", but he didn't expect Zheng Guo to be too dedicated, even as a spy, he still did his job very well.

Under the initiative of Zheng Guo, the Qin State spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a huge scale of water conservancy facilities, but instead made Guanzhong a fertile field, no longer encountering fierce years, Qin was able to become rich and strong, and died and annexed the princes.

Due to the water conservancy facilities built by Zheng Guo, Guanzhong became the granary of the world and was known as the 'Land of Abundance', laying a solid foundation for the Qin State to unify China in the future.

In order to commemorate the merits of Zheng Guo, the King of Qin named the ditch he built 'Zheng Guo Canal'.

The Zhengguo Canal built under the auspices of Zheng Guo is also known as the three major water conservancy projects of the Qin Dynasty with Dujiangyan and Lingqu.

In this time and space, due to the birth of Zhao Jia, it attracted too much attention from the Qin State, and Korea did not have as great pressure as it did in history, so that the King of Han did not implement this failed 'tired Qin' plan in the end.

In addition, Zheng Guo repeatedly wrote to build ditches, which gradually attracted the dissatisfaction of King Han, so that Zheng Guo also began to be coldly treated.

When Xu Zhong heard Zheng Guo's words, he immediately said angrily: "If the king listens to the teacher's words as soon as possible, digs ditches and diverts water for irrigation in advance, even if he suffers from a great drought, he will never reach such a point!" ”

"If the drought is alleviated, the locust plague will not occur."

Zheng Guo looked at the indignant disciple, his heart was suddenly full of exhaustion, and his face was full of decline.

He was full of ambitions, but King Han did not accept it, and now he has only been reduced to an idle person called by officials at all levels.

Obviously able to prevent drought and locust plagues in advance, but watching them break out, Zheng Guo only felt helpless and sad.

"It's a pity that the teacher is full of talent, and no one among the princes can know it!"

Xu Zhong high-fived and sighed, feeling sorry for his teacher.

Zheng Guo sat weakly on the cracked land, his eyes unfocused at the locusts scurrying in the field, and his face was full of helpless wry smiles.

"Teacher, Zhao Guoping, the son of Qijun, is far-reaching, thirsty for talent, as long as there are people with real talents and real learning, no matter what school they come from, they can be humbly adopted."

"Since King Han has no ability to know people and refuses to let the teacher show what he has learned, why doesn't the teacher abandon the official and go to Zhongyang to join Pingqijun?"

When Zheng Guo heard this, a little brilliance appeared on his gray face, but it quickly faded.

Zhao Jia's reputation, why hasn't Zheng Guo heard of it?

He had also considered going to Zhongyang to defect to Zhao Jia, but he thought of Zhao Jia's importance to businessmen, so he quickly extinguished this idea.

The farmer advocated sowing a hundred grains, persuading him to cultivate mulberry and provide enough food and clothing.

In addition to advocating equality for all and hoping that the king and the people would engage in agriculture together, the most important proposition of the peasant family was to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce.

The peasants thought that the merchants were profit-seeking, and if they made it easy for the merchants, everyone would try to get something for nothing, and then there would be no one to farm, and the country would be weakened.

The idea of the peasant family valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce was accepted by the vassal states.

It's just that the idea of making the monarch and the minister cultivate together violates the ruler's rebellion, so it is not reused.

This assertion was contrary to Confucius's idea of 'monarchs and ministers', and in addition, there were two Confucian disciples who abandoned Confucianism and followed the peasant family, so that Confucianism and the peasant family had a grudge.

Mencius even issued a book to fiercely criticize the idea of the peasantry, saying that 'the people are good at herding the world, and this holy king is also good at it.

And the contemptible people think that the holy king who has nothing to do, and wants to make the king and the minister plough together, which is contrary to the order of the upper and lower.

The Confucian criticism, coupled with the fact that its ideas were not liked by the princes, led to the decline of the peasant family.

Today, the farmers who have experienced ups and downs have begun to gradually abandon the idea of joint farming between monarchs and ministers, but the idea of agriculture has never changed.

"Although Pingqi Jun recruits talents, he pays too much attention to the benefits of businessmen and may not be willing to adopt the words of farmers."

When Xu Zhong heard this, he stopped talking.

Zhao Jia's attention to businessmen is well known to the world, and it is precisely because of the convenience that Zhao Jia gave to businessmen that this led to the big businessmen in Kyushu going to Zhao to do business, which made Zhao Guo make a lot of money.

In this way, the master and apprentice looked at the cracked land and the living locusts in the field, and they were a little overwhelmed.

"Ridiculous, simply ridiculous!"

At this moment, the two suddenly heard a fierce reprimand, and hurriedly looked up, only to find two scholars in Confucian shirts, holding a notice, talking loudly as they walked.

"Drought and locust plague are God's endowment, and Pingqi Jun did not think of sacrificing to heaven and cultivating virtue to appease the wrath of heaven, but instead ordered the people to rise up to exterminate locusts, isn't this move a vain killing and against the will of heaven?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"The most unacceptable thing is that this Pingqi Jun actually cooked locusts in public, and ordered the government to ask the people for money and grain to buy locusts, and then launched these locusts as dishes in Tianxianglou, which is simply insulting!"

Zheng Guo and Xu Zhong listened to the discussion of several Confucian scholars, and immediately looked at each other.

He hurriedly got up and stopped a few Confucian scholars, first saluted them, and then asked, "I wonder what you are talking about?" ”

These Confucian scholars looked at Zheng Guo and Xu Zhong's clothes, but they did not despise them because they were dressed plainly, but handed the notice they were holding to Zheng Guo.

"Sir, look, this is a document promulgated by Pingqi-kun in the party, it's ridiculous!"

Zheng Guo took the notice, and after reading the contents, he suddenly felt that his breathing became short.

He suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Zhong and shouted, "Pack up your things, resign and go to Zhao Di!" ”