"Your Highness might as well go and talk to the three elders in Yangli, the three elders are all elders, and they may have some different opinions......" Zhang Yue said softly to Liu Jin.

Liu Jin nodded when he heard this.

So they waited in the corridor in front of the hall for about two quarters of an hour.

The old man in the hall also seemed to see something, so he got up slightly, walked to the door, looked at Zhang Yue and his party, and asked, "Where did you gentlemen come from and where are you going?" ”

Liu Jin and Zhang Yue hurriedly stepped forward to salute and bowed: "Don't dare to hide it from the elders, I will come from Chang'an, and I want to collect the wind between Xinfeng......"

"Oh......" The old man bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "The old man has lived for more than sixty years, and since Yuanguang, I have never seen a young man like you who came to collect wind with sincerity and sincerity ......."

Liu Jin listened, his face was slightly uncontrollable.

Since Yuanguang, the world has become more and more extravagant, especially the noble children of Chang'an City, who are competing to show off their wealth.

A dancing girl from Handan, with a slightly better appearance, can be sold for as much as 100 gold!

The slaves from the Yu country are even more priceless.

At the beginning, Wang Shi conquered Sanyue, took the land of Jiaozhi and Panyu, and set it as a county.

Then, the nobles of Chang'an began to love to eat specialties such as lychee and longan in South Vietnam.

There are even businessmen who have opened up a special courier channel to satisfy the appetite of Chang'an Xungui.

The children of the liehous and the children of their relatives are basically either cockfighting lackeys or losers.

A few years ago, his grandfather was even furious because of this, mobilized the army to close the gate of Chang'an, and for more than ten days, he raided and severely cracked down on the extravagance of the nobles and ministers.

A lot of people were arrested and a lot of fines were imposed.

But the result only made the nobles of Chang'an fade for a few months, and then continue to do the same.

As for the original obligation of the nobles and ministers of the Han family, it was completely reduced to public funds for travel, eating and drinking.

Along the way, under the banner of collecting style, there are not too many nobles who bully men and women, and fish and meat places.

"Elder Miao praised it......" Zhang Yue came out in time to relieve the embarrassment, and said to the old man: "Dare to ask the elder your surname?" ”

"Old man Xu Rong!" The old man wiped his beard and said proudly: "Meng Tianzi will not give up, he once worshiped as the captain of Jiuquan, granted the right to hold the festival, and paid it between the west of the river!" ”

Recalling the eventful years of the past, Xu Rong's eyebrows jumped: "At the beginning, Da Sima also drank with me!" With a look of pride, it seems that he can drink and talk with Huo Qu in his life, and he has no regrets.

Zhang Yue was also in awe when he heard this, and bowed: "It turned out to be the old general in person!" ”

"The younger generations are waiting for Xinfeng to come to the new Fengcaifeng, and I want to ask the old general some questions, I don't know if the old general is willing to appreciate his face?" Zhang Yue bowed again.

"Of course you can!" Xu Rong looked at the juniors in front of him and said very happily.

As a military attaché, he has not moved his muscles for too long.

Now, he can meet a few wind pickers from Chang'an, and these young people are quite appetizing to him, so he is naturally happy to have someone to talk to him.

So, he took Zhang Yue and his entourage into the backyard of the township school.

After the guests of honor were seated, a maid brought melons, fruits, snacks and wine.

"Everyone...... taste," the old general introduced very enthusiastically: "These are the courgettes and pomegranates grown by the old man himself...... It's a good time for you to come, just when the courgettes and pomegranates are ripe......"

Zhang Yue saw that it was the cucumber and pomegranate of later generations.

Both of these crops were imported from China not long ago, and the Han dynasty at this time was very rare, and generally speaking, ordinary people were afraid that they had never even seen it.

Zhang Yue and the others were not polite, picked up a cucumber and nibbled on it, the crisp and sweet taste made Zhang Yue also sigh, recalling the deliciousness of cold cucumbers.

After eating a cucumber, Zhang Yue got up and said, "The junior has something to ask the elders ......."

"Say ......" Xu Rong was in a very happy mood now, and waved his hand when he heard the words.

"The younger generations came from Chang'an, and saw Yangli Township School, which is the middle of summer, and there are also children enrolled in it, and there is almost nothing left, and the work of the elders is called the best!" Zhang Yue bowed lightly and said: "The book says: If you are right, you will also have holy merit!" What the elders do can be called holy merit......"

Listening to Zhang Yue's words, Xu Rong was fluttering all over, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The old man is just doing his duty and doing some of his duty......

In his heart, he was so happy that he couldn't find the north, and he worked hard in this yang to build this township school, so that the whole pavilion was convinced of him and obeyed him, and it took me an unknown amount of time to do this thing well.

Isn't it just that one day, he can show off in front of others and let people praise his reputation?

But after waiting for many years, Xu Rong had never heard of any literati praising his virtuous name in Chang'an City.

This made the old general very unhappy.

Now, these noble sons from Chang'an, if they can help him publicize and publicize after they go back, it will not be bad.

"But ......," Zhang Yue asked, "The younger generation is waiting outside the sun, and among the fields he sees, there are many slaves and maids working, but there is no figure of the farmer in this pavilion farming...... I don't know why? ”

When Xu Rong heard this, he laughed and said: "This matter is easy, the people of Yangli, who are more than twenty-three years old, are not officials or scholars!" ”

"The old man's four sons are now on the border of Juyanshu!" When he said this, the old general's face was full of pride.

To be able to raise all four sons to adulthood, and all of them inherit their mantle, this is the greatest honor in his life!

The family can produce military generals from generation to generation, which is the basis for evaluating the family of military generals.

"As for farming...... Xu Rong sighed lightly: "Good man, how can you plough in the field, there are great achievements in this world waiting for good men to take it, so there is no farmer up and down in this sun!" ”

"Even if it is an orphan or a lost child, the villagers will adopt it, treat it as their own, and send it to my township school for training!"

"When he was a child, he learned to read and count, and when he was a child, he learned the art of marching and the method of battle, and he was recruited in the imperial court at the age of twenty-three...... Only a few people who do not become talented will become officials......"

"And all the people who go out of the sun, although they are thousands of miles away, will also care about the well-being of the villagers, and take their salaries and military salaries for eleven years to entrust me, to support orphans and widows, and to rejuvenate the ......township school."

Listening to Xu Rong's narration, the faces of Liu Jin and the others changed greatly.

If it is really as Xu Rong said, this Yangli is not a village at all, but a barracks!

All men are labelled as military at birth.

They don't even study how to farm, and they don't bother to do it.

The only goal of all people's lives is to train, enlist, become a soldier, and eat the emperor's food.

And men from Yangli are indeed more likely to be selected into the elite of the Han army under the same conditions.

The children of the Elm Society! After Emperor Gao's pro-army! There is no more label to impress the officers of the military.

So much so that here, even the eliminated and defective products can be easily done......

Zhang Yue was even more dumbfounded when he heard it, this Yangli pattern made him feel inexplicably familiar.

It's as if I've seen it somewhere.

Take me as the foundation, feed on others, and make the benefit of the false policy, and the benefit of the private village.

It seems like there are a few places where he has been thundering.

I just can't think of it, and I don't dare to think of it.

But in any case, this model in this yang seems to be successful now.

And it can be a virtuous cycle.

From childhood, everyone was indoctrinated with martial ideas, and everyone aspired to military exploits.

When they enlisted in the army and became middle and high-level officers in the Han army, they began to give back.

Then, like a snowball, as long as the policy remains unchanged, the country will remain martial and tough on the outside world.

This pattern in the yang cannot be attenuated.

This made Liu Jin's heart feel a little uncomfortable.

The countryside he fantasized about was once a carefree and harmonious pastoral area described in books, where 'chickens and dogs smell each other, and people do not get along until they are old and die'.

At least it's a normal world where the sun rises and the sun sets.

But Yangli's situation completely shattered the illusion in his heart.

"Why don't the elders proclaim the matter of culture and education, so that all the children follow the way of the sages......" Liu Jin couldn't help but worship: "After all, there are many ominous exchanges between swords, and in the world of culture and education, there is no such concern......

"Hehe......" Xu Rong seemed to be very disdainful of civil officials, and he smiled: "Just like those Confucian students? People who have been working all day long also ask about mulberry crops, but they don't know three questions, and they don't even know when an acre of corn fields will be watered, when they will be jointed, and when they will be harvested? ”

"Since the old man Zhishi, Xinfeng County has changed four county respects, but none of them have ever been to the township pavilion, all of them sit in the county office, shaking their heads, and the officials below will believe whatever they say......

"The channels and roads in Xinfeng County have not been managed by anyone for five years......"

"It's okay for the Yuyu Society, my generation has the ability to repair it by itself, but the other township pavilions are miserable!"

"Descendants, where did you come from, the slave and maid in the yang?" Xu Rong got up and asked.

was sprayed by Xu Rong, not only Liu Jin, but even Gong Yu, Wang Ji and others, who were originally indignant, lowered their heads.

Before Confucianism came to power, he still felt very good about himself.

From Dong Zhongshu to the disciples below, they all feel that as long as the country can govern the world with its own principles, then the world will definitely be governed, and three generations can be expected.

However, after decades of Confucianism in power, even the ruling Ram School fell into deep self-doubt.

Since Yuanguang, the world has suffered twenty or thirty major natural disasters.

Millions of people have been displaced, and millions of people have been caught in the fire.

However, the ruling Confucian scholars couldn't come up with any good solutions, so they had to lie to themselves and say that 'there is a disaster in the sky, but it is a police man, and he should cultivate virtue to thank him'.

Then, looking back, the Confucian scholars found that in many places, the impact of disasters was relatively much less weakened in the places where some remnants of the Huang Lao school were governed or where the Legalists were in charge.

It's embarrassing.

If you change to a Confucian school and sit high on the temple, you may be blind and deaf with your eyes closed and your ears covered.

Not when the Ram School.

In the book "The Spring and Autumn of the Ram", Confucius used different words to describe an event, which would be thought to have a special meaning.

What's more, the shame of the Ram School is particularly strong.

When they encounter setbacks and failures, they wonder why?

Therefore, quietly in private, the great Confucians and giants of the Ram School began to deliberately guide their disciples to read "Guanzi", "Lü's Spring and Autumn" and even "Shangjunshu".

Externally, the explanation of the Ram School is that 'the stone of the mountain can make a contribution to the jade', but in fact, it wants to find a way to solve the dilemma.

After all, in fact, the Ram School never thought that Confucianism could dominate China for 2,000 years!

Now that they were reprimanded by Xu Rongyi, Gong Yu and the others immediately felt deeply ashamed, and a deep sense of shame ignited in their hearts.

It's a matter of course to be scolded for not doing things well.

At least that's what the Ram School scholars at this time had in mind.

"Then dare to ask the elders, in the opinion of the elders, if Xinfeng wants to govern well, where is the first place?" Zhang Yue raised his head and asked, he was very aware of one fact - it was wishful thinking to want Yangli to give up the slaves and liberate the slaves.

Not even today!

So put this matter aside for the time being, and then find a way to solve it later.

"Hou Sheng...... Xu Rong glanced at Zhang Yue with a straight face, and said: "The old man has retired to Yangli for more than ten years, and the later life is the first person to ask the old man this question......

"If you want to govern Xinfeng County well, it is difficult to say, and it is easy to say ......"

The old general looked at the north and said, "If you can dig the Wei River, divert the water of the Wei River into Xinfeng, and irrigate the land, you can almost make the people rejoice......

"If you can add three small rivers and several streams in Xinfeng County to others, this will be a great merit!"

"Just ......"

"This thing can't be done by Xinfeng County alone...... Xu Rong sighed.

As a Xinfeng person, he naturally knows the crux of Xinfeng's problem.

The bankruptcy of yeoman farmers and the increasing burden have led to a large number of people having to sell their land, their children, their daughters, their wives and themselves.

Because Yangli does not rely on agricultural production to live, there are no such problems at all.

But the other township pavilions are just a lot of mourning.

Every autumn and August, the road in front of Yangli will be crowded with people begging Yangli to buy their poor.

They are already nowhere to go.

Only this last path remains.

I don't know how many husbands say goodbye to their wives and children, and how many parents say goodbye to their children in tears.

said: After a few years, I will redeem Xijun (A'er).

But in reality, it is far away.

Unless they can take the risk and do something that doesn't cost them.

Otherwise, by farming, they will not be able to redeem their wives and children for the rest of their lives.

Even, some people have to sell themselves to the sun.

What a way of the world! It's broken!

I think that back then, when he was young, the people of Guanzhong lived a rich and healthy life.

Although there are occasional bankrupt people, the government will soon be able to borrow money, and as long as they are not lazy, they will be able to get rich again in more than ten years.

A situation like this, when he was younger, was something that only happened in times of nightmares.

At that time, the treasury of the state was full of copper coins, and the ropes used to string the coins were rotten, and no one cared for them.

The official warehouses in various places are full of grain.

In Aocang alone, there are seven million stone corn and millions of stone wheat beans stored all year round.

But now, it's become this situation.

Xu Rong didn't understand what was going on!