Ma Si once worked as a servant in Jianwei County, Jianwei County, and was naturally literate.

It's just that the literacy is relatively small, and I can only recognize the words used in daily life.

Trembling, he picked up the book that had been thrown in front of him, opened it, and immediately began to cry.

The words on the book, although some of them he did not recognize.

But most of them are still understandable.

He didn't even finish reading the book, so he pounced, knelt down facing the direction of Chang'an, kowtowed, and sobbed: "Xiaomin is guilty!" The small people are guilty......"

At this time, at the intersection of the main roads and markets and streets in Xinfeng County, a huge wooden sign was erected.

One by one, officials gathered the people and read and preached the contents aloud.

In the county seat of Xinfeng County, Hu Jian personally went out of the horse, stood under the flag pavilion of the market, and read out the content on the wooden sign to the businessmen and people gathered on his side: "The righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period lies in the word benevolence and righteousness. And the benevolent only love the people. Dong Zi said: The beauty of benevolence lies in the sky, and the heavens are also benevolent! Therefore, the "book" cloud: Heaven listens to its own people, heaven sees itself as the people, the sky is smart and the people are smart, and the way of the first king is just that! ”

"Today, in the winter and November of the first year of Yuanshuo, the world was edicted: the husband is benevolent and the ancestors, praises virtue and virtue, persuades the good and the cruel, and the place of the three kings and five emperors is also ......."

"Today, Xinfeng has bad habits, and the people do not raise their sons, which is to destroy the way of the first king, destroy the law of the first emperor, and hurt the holy virtue of the son of heaven.

"The prohibition of strict laws is really out of benevolence, providence, and hadith......

Immediately with Hu Jian's proclamation, there were officials who explained the meaning and meaning of these words on the side, and told the people in as plain and straightforward language as possible.

This is the specialty of the Legalists, and when the Legalists were in their heyday, they could even tell the entire Qin Law to an illiterate peasant, and they could also make the other party understand.

Now, although there is no condition of the Qin Dynasty, this ability to eat has not been lost.

And the people around listened and lowered their heads silently.

The residents of Xinfeng City are basically merchants, officials and landlords, or wandering rangers and ruffians.

The most important characteristic of these people is that they are basically servants, hired laborers and retainers of middle-class or wealthy families.

The natural literacy rate is very high, and basically they have a certain cultural background.

Listening to Hu Jian's preaching, and then listening to the explanations of relevant officials, many people lowered their heads in shame.

In Xinfeng City, the driving force for most infantile drowning in the past was not poverty, but selfishness.

The Han family system, the generations are demoted, and there is a push order, so that the concubine can also get part of the family property.

Usually a wealthy family with 100,000 yuan, as long as there are a few more children, a generation can complete the transformation from rich to middle class.

In order to prevent their children and grandchildren from evolving into commoners, many small and medium-sized landlords and small and medium-sized businessmen would choose to drown their sons born later.

This way, although cruel, can guarantee the stability of future generations.

Now, hearing Hu Jian's preaching, the condemnation from conscience finally attacked.

However, outside Xinfeng City, the situation in the vast rural areas, especially in the impoverished Lixiang and Linwei townships, is diametrically opposite.

The people at the bottom, don't care what you do, Confucius.

Their concerns are more practical.

"Ming Gong, it's not that we don't want to raise children, we are really poor!" In the Linshan Pavilion in Lixiang, Zeng Sheng had just explained this notice to the people in the pavilion, and immediately the people said loudly: "There is really no way!" We are already poor, and if we raise a few more, we won't even be able to support our former children! What can I do? ”

Zeng Sheng looked at the people, he recognized that this person was the dilapidated household of this Linshan Pavilion, his wife had just been pregnant for four months, and it was the third child, so he had been included in the key monitoring and observation objects.

"Gu Dalang!" Zeng Sheng called the man's name, stared at his swarthy face, and threatened loudly: "This official sternly warns you: If your son dares not to raise it, I will not only fine you with one time the field tax and five times the mouth tax, but also divide the service to you!" ”

When the man named Gu Dalang heard this, he trembled with fright.

Missionary?

Of all the types of forced labor, this is the only type of forced labor for the Great Wall!

What's even more terrifying is that this kind of conscription can be served for half a year or even a year.

During this period, the service member is responsible for all expenses at his own expense.

Not to mention that he is a broken family like this, it is an ordinary middle-class family, and if he is put on this heavy and terrible conscription, his family will be ruined!

After threatening and intimidating Gu Dalang, Zeng Sheng showed a smiling face, bowed his hand to the surrounding people, and said: "Naturally, there is not only the thunder of strict law, but also the kindness of benevolence and righteousness!" ”

He turned his head, looked at the words on the wooden card, clapped his palms, held his head high and continued to read proudly: "The people are not cured, and there is a crime of the division, and now the new and rich bad habits, do not lift their sons, there are divisions that cannot observe the sufferings of the people, and the kindness of the son of Xu Tianzi is the loss of the division!" ”

"Remembering the hardships of the people's lives and the hardships of nurturing, the Hadith of Benevolent Heart, I hereby tell the Xinfeng father and ......"

"From now on, a family of less than 10,000 yuan, with two or more sons, one of the sons in infancy, can sue the township pavilion officials, or the household registration, the property of the symbol, to the county government to report, there is a division of the name of the detailed record, in the county government documents, every year in August, first to the public land leave, its rent to 30%! There is a priest who came to his house that day to ask about the suffering......"

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar, and countless people were stunned!

Benevolent!

Even illiterate peasants now immediately associate this word with it.

Listen to Zeng Sheng continued: "And if the family is more than 10,000 yuan, has two or more sons, and one of the sons is in infancy, you can sue the company, and the company should take it as the responsibility first!" ”

"If you can have three or more sons, and one son is in infancy, you can be exempted from the field tax of the current year, and there is no oral endowment of the current year, and you can be exempted from the forced labor of the current year!"

"Those who can raise five sons, the head of the family is exempt from old age, and there is a division that should be regarded as an elder, and he will be rewarded by the whole pavilion!"

After Zeng Sheng finished speaking, everyone was dumbfounded, how could they not have imagined that the government would still have this kind of operation?

If it can really be implemented......

Not to mention, the policy of having two or more sons under 10,000 yuan and one of their sons can give priority to renting public land in infancy is a big gift package!

Gongtian, that's Gongtian!

Ueda with a yield of more than three stones per mu!

There is a complete water conservancy irrigation, so there is no need for fallow!

Gu Dalang immediately jumped up, raised his hand, and asked, "Ming Gong!" Ming Gong! My family is under 10,000 yuan, can I rent tenant land? ”

Zeng Sheng glanced at him angrily and said, "Of course you can!" ”

"But you have to wait for your son to be born, and the official will register and make a register!"

"Tell you...... If you are born, not only can you fake public land, but the official can also apply for loans for farm tools, seeds, and cattle, all of which are official loans, with an interest of 11 only, and the principal and interest can be repaid in three years! ”

Gu Dalang's eyes straightened when he heard the news.

He screamed and immediately ran home.

Now, his pregnant wife has changed from a burden in the past to a baby today!

Whether the Gu family can rent a tenant to the public land and live a good life depends on the child he decided to drown!

Zeng Sheng looked at Gu Dalang's figure and shook his head, but he was secretly happy in his heart.

There was a baby drowning incident under his rule, and the county naturally had to investigate and hold him accountable.

However, if you can maintain a year-round drown-free baby, you can make a credit on top of the performance appraisal!

For a Taixue student like him, if he can get a few 'most' evaluations here in Xinfeng, and graduate from Taixue in the future, he can at least start from the position of the county order or even the real power official of Qianshi in the county, and the promotion speed will be unparalleled!

After all, Xinfeng is now the focus of the world's attention.

It is also the base, pilot and specimen of the Han family to build a well-off and prosperous Taiping.

From here, I will go out with a few 'most' evaluations, that is, with a body of honor and aura.

No matter where you are, it will be in the spotlight.

Maybe it will even become the hope of a county.

Before the person arrives, the name comes first.

On the day of his arrival, the county guard went out to welcome thirty miles, and the famous people in the county lined up to welcome him.

The fathers and elders of the whole county are looking forward to it, and the whole county hopes to gather in one.

And a similar situation is playing out in every township pavilion in Xinfeng at this moment.

Strict prohibition, coupled with policy encouragement and rewards, in just a few days, the entire Xinfeng, even the most ignorant people, now know that drowning is wrong, and drowning will be severely punished.

And Tako is now directly linked to Tafu.

The people's desire to have children has never been stronger.

So as soon as the night fell, every household was busy making people.

Whether it is young or middle-aged, as long as they can still have children, they are all working hard.

This is true even for middle-class and landlord families.

Compared with the public land quota targeted by poor people, their goal is naturally to avoid the treatment of old age!

The so-called exemption from old age means that individuals who meet certain conditions as stipulated by the Chinese law can withdraw from the conscription and military service sequence.

It is a necessary precondition for the three elders of the township.

Those who cannot get the treatment of being exempted from old age before the age of 40 are basically impossible to become the three elders of the township.

Therefore, under the influence of this trend, a folk song soon appeared in Xinfeng folk.

In the streets and alleys, inside and outside the village pavilion, there are children singing everywhere: the Son of Heaven, the Emperor's eldest grandson, Shi Renyi, the servant of the middle of the Gong, the living my brother, sue the father: one is too little, two is not much, three people are the forest, four sons are righteous, five sons are concentric, many sons and grandchildren, many blessings and many longevity!

So much later, many, many years later, when the people who had been officials in Xinfeng were dying of old age and returned to Xinfeng.

They found that the road was crowded with people who had come to greet them.

Countless men, women, young and old, led their children and grandchildren, bowed in front of themselves who had a gray beard and a bent back, kowtowed, and said, "The elder lives me!" Elder live me! To have it today! To have it today! ”

And what appeared in front of the old man, who had already fainted, was hundreds, thousands of people.

As a result, the old man, who couldn't even walk, found that his life was so brilliant and brilliant, and his merits were notorious!