Zhang Shihua and his entourage rode out of the city, walking on the road to Dazhang Village, looking at the people on both sides of the road who were yellow and thin, picking wild vegetables in the fields, and the children who were skinny and skinny because of malnutrition, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but sigh. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the Yuan and Mongolian courts repaired the Yellow River, it is a good thing for both the present and the future. But isn't Qin Shi Huang's construction of the Great Wall and the opening of the Ling Canal a good thing for future generations? Isn't Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty's digging of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal a good thing for future generations?

However, in a feudal society with low productivity, the more good things that are beneficial to future generations, the more bad things will become bad things that are not conducive to this world, because the more large the construction and war, the greater the burden on the people at the bottom.

And looking at this group of poor people, Zhang Shihua can not help except sigh their poor fate now, although Zhang Shihua and his family are very rich and powerful, but no matter how rich and powerful their Zhang family is, it is just a strong and powerful county town, and now to help this group of poor people with kindness will only make the Zhang family disappear completely.

Because the Zhang family is also a landlord class, and there are rules among the landlords, if the Zhang family helps these people, it is to break the rules, after all, the bureaucratic landlords in the county have waited so long for a good opportunity to annex the land, but in the end this opportunity has been destroyed by your Zhang family, and the fate of the Zhang family can be imagined.

Besides, even if the Zhang family is not afraid of the retaliation of those people, it is really impossible for the Zhang family to help the people of the county! Not to mention the people of the county, even if it is just the people of a township, it is estimated that the Zhang family will go bankrupt.

Therefore, Zhang Shihua could only hold back and not look at those poor people, and hurried towards Dazhang Village.

Fortunately, Dazhang Village is not far from the county seat, and Zhang Shihua and they are riding horses, so it was only about half an hour, and Zhang Shihua and they rushed to Dazhang Village.

"Dazhang Village" just by looking at the name knows that the people who live in the village must be surnamed Zhang, and Zhang Shihua and his family actually walked out of Dazhang Village, so let's put it this way, the ancestral land of the Zhang family is in Dazhang Village, so the Zhang family has a manor in Dazhang Village as an ancestral home, and also has hundreds of acres of land in Dazhang Village.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Shihua will let Brother Lu and them take the remaining seventy archers and station them in Dazhang Village.

Compared with other towns and villages in the county, the people of Dazhang Village are the best, at least the villagers have no problem eating their stomachs, after all, if you talk about it carefully, every family in Dazhang Village is related to the Zhang family, and in this era of valuing blood clans, the Zhang family, as a first-class strong in the county, will naturally take extra care of their relatives.

Although a small half of the villagers in Dazhang Village are tenants of the Zhang family, the rent collected by the Zhang family here is the lowest in the county, which is more than 10% lower than that in other places in the county, and even if the villagers really can't afford to buy land, the Zhang family will never lower the price of the villagers in Dazhang Village, and they will all buy according to the market.

Of course, these policies of the Zhang family are only aimed at the villagers of Dazhang Village, but because of this, the Zhang family has gained a very high reputation in Dazhang Village, so when Zhang Shihua took Shi Shisan and them into the village, those villagers would stop when they saw Zhang Shihua and greet Zhang Shihua respectfully.

And when Zhang Shihua met these villagers who greeted him, he also smiled and nodded in greeting.

The Zhang family's manor is in the innermost part of the village, but even if it is in the innermost part of the village, it is not far away, and Zhang Shihua and they arrived after a while on horseback.

There were two men dressed in black at the gate of the manor, and when these two saw Zhang Shihua and them, they immediately bowed to Zhang Shihua and said: Meet the eldest young master.

There are many subordinates of the Zhang family, but the only ones who will salute Zhang Shihua like this are the group of archers from the previous inspection department.

Zhang Shihua and the others also turned over and dismounted at this time, and after dismounting, Zhang Shihua also waved his hand to the two and said, "Excuse me." ”

When the two men heard Zhang Shihua's words, they straightened up and walked forward quickly to lead the horses for Zhang Shihua and them.

Zhang Shihua casually gave the reins to one of the men, and opened his mouth to ask the man, "San Lang, are the brothers all in the manor now?" ”

The black-clothed man named Liu Sanlang heard Zhang Shihua's question, lowered his head and said to Zhang Shihua: "Back to the young master's words, an hour ago, Zhao Pai and Zhang Pai took the brothers of the manor to train, and now there are only Uncle Zhang, Second Brother Yang, Xu Langzhong and Brother Wang Nineteen in the manor. ”

Yes, now all the men who follow Zhang Shihua know that Wang Shijiu is protected by Zhang Shihua, and the men are undoubtedly very moved by Zhang Shihua's behavior of sheltering Wang Shihua, because in the eyes of this group of men, Wang Shijiu is undoubtedly innocent, and Zhang Shihua was removed from office for sheltering Wang Shihua, which made this group of men feel that Zhang Shihua is a righteous person, which makes this group of men respect Zhang Shihua more and more.

And Zhang Shihua had already thought of this result, after all, a person like Wang Shijiu, who was born poor and had a tragic and rebellious spirit, would definitely be recognized by the people at the bottom, and this was actually one of the reasons why Zhang Shihua decided to protect Wang Shihua.

Besides, Zhang Shihua, after listening to Liu Sanlang's words, nodded and didn't say anything, just took Shi Shisan and them into the manor in great strides.

At this time, the other people in the manor also heard the movement outside the door, and guessed that it must be the eldest young master Zhang Shihua who came to visit them again, so they also went out of the door one after another and rushed in the direction of the door.

The structure of Zhang's Manor is similar to that of the Inspection Division, but it is smaller than the Inspection Division, but it is also a courtyard with two courtyards in front and back, and a lobby and a wing room, and Zhang Shihua and they walked straight towards the lobby.

As soon as Zhang Shihua arrived in the lobby, other people in the manor also arrived, and after they saw Zhang Shihua in the lobby, they also saluted to this Zhang Shihua one after another: Meet the eldest young master.

After Zhang Shihua asked everyone to be exempt, he smiled and said to everyone in the hall: Everyone sit down, it doesn't matter if I come, just just look at everyone and chat with everyone, come, everyone sit down.

When everyone in the hall heard Zhang Shihua's words, they all found a seat to sit down, and after everyone sat down, Zhang Shihua also opened his mouth to chat with everyone. In fact, what Zhang Shihua said was also the truth, he really didn't have anything important to do this time, after all, he came every seven days, and he was not a court official, and there were so many things to say.

He came so often only to deepen his relationship with the archers, to bring them closer together, and to show everyone stationed at the manor that he still valued them and did not alienate them.

In short, if Zhang Shihua's behavior is to be described in one sentence, it is "pushing food and undressing", and he is absolutely concerned about this group of men who follow him.

And Zhang Shihua's image of a peerless good boss has undoubtedly achieved great success, coupled with Zhang Shihua's righteous act of protecting Wang Nineteen when he lost his official position, Zhang Shihua's positive image was infinitely raised. It can be said that even if Zhang Shihua wants to be a robber now and go out of the court, this group of men is willing to follow Zhang Shihua to work hard.

As for the imperial court, I bah! That's something.

For example, if there was no Lord Zhang for the summer tax this time, his family would have become landless tenants and went outside to dig wild vegetables.

For this court that will only lie on them and drink blood, they have long had enough.

Of course, the change in the attitude of this group of men also has a certain relationship with Zhang Shihua, because when Zhang Shihua trained them, he would spread some nationalist ideas to these men from time to time.

For example, how glorious the culture of the Han people is, how brilliant the history is, how ignorant the Yuan and Mongolian people are, how pitiful the common people are, and so on.

In short, under the subtle influence of Zhang Shihua, all the men who follow Zhang Shihua now believe that Han talents are the orthodoxy of the country, and Zhang Shihua prevents this group of men from becoming corrupt, and will also spread some military spirit and military duties for this group of men, such as the duty of the army is to protect the family and defend the country, protect the weak, and the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, because most of these men are from the bottom, so they extremely accept Zhang Shihua's words and thoughts.

And these ideas have gradually become their new values, but the more this happens, the more hostile they are to the imperial court, because now the actions of the Yuan and Mongolian courts are all contrary to their values.

And this also planted a seed for Zhang Shihua to successfully lead these people to revolt in the future.

However, the changes of this group of men are not only these, Zhang Shihua also attaches great importance to the cultural quality of this group of men, for example, now, people like Zhou Tie and Li Erniu who hold positions above the rank of senior, as well as people who are absolutely loyal like Wang Shijiu and Yang Er, Zhang Shihua will arrange training for them to make them literate.

After all, once he raises troops in the future, then Zhou Tie and these people will naturally become their backbone, so it is also necessary to make them literate and have a certain cultural foundation, after all, Zhang Shihua does not think that only a group of reckless men who can kill people can survive in the troubled times.

And Zhang Shihua's training does have some effect, such as Yang Er, perhaps because of his own disability, so that Yang Er is particularly hard at reading and recognizing, as early as when Zhang Shihua was still inspecting, Yang Er began to learn literacy and arithmetic from Thursday Jiu and Li Chongsan.

After a long period of study, Yang Er has now become the most educated person except for the four of them, and Yang Er also has a good grasp of arithmetic, so Zhang Shihua handed over the logistics procurement of dozens of people in Dazhang Village to Yang Er, which can be regarded as an affirmation of Yang Er's hard work.