Chapter 10 Whose Flying Swallow Returns with Spring
Throughout the day, Xiaomeng and Chun Jianli were looking curiously at the girl who was running around, both the "eldest princess sister" and the "goddess of goodness".
Compared with the previous eldest princess Luanmei, this newborn little Luanmei is extremely active, as if she has indescribable motivation, but if there is anything different, in fact, they can't say it.
Ning Jiang took Chun Jianli and reintroduced it to Qin Kan, Qin Wuyan, and Qin Xiaoyaer, and after knowing that Chun Jianli would be the granddaughter of their stepfather who adopted them, Qin Kan and the others were also shocked.
Of course, for Qin Kan and the others being her grandfather's righteous son and daughter, purely based on seniority, even Qin Xiaoya, who seemed to be just a little girl, was her "aunt", Chun Jianli pretended not to notice it as much as possible. Fortunately, for Qin Kan and others, the kindness of their stepfather who adopted them and taught them a peerless school is greater than the mountain, and for the granddaughter of the stepfather, they are more regarded as "girls", and it is impossible to really regard themselves as elders.
In the evening, Ning Jiang entered the wind cave and saw Lao Dao sitting alone at the stone table, silent.
He shook his fan and walked over, "Why are you sitting alone here?" ”
The old man said, "I decided." ”
Ning Jiang said: "What did the seniors decide? ”
The old man said, "I decide...... Help the Good Princess! ”
Ning Jiang said: "Good ...... Princess? ”
Then he reacted: "Are you talking about Luanmei?" ”
"The eldest princess" and the "goddess of goodness" are added together to become a "good princess"?
The old man's eyes shone brightly: "Little old man, although I consider myself a Taoist, I am actually the successor of the Mo family, and sometimes, I will also think about why the ideal of the Mo family and love is so great and so noble, but in the end it always ends in failure." In the afternoon, I talked with Princess Shanshan for a long time, and now I finally understand what is wrong with our Mo family. Matter is primary, spirit is secondary, and it is matter that determines spirit, not spirit that determines matter. Our Mohists have always emphasized the noble spirit of love and non-aggression, but the injustice of the means of production has led to the fact that the noble spirit has no soil for survival at all, and only by realizing communism and the great harmony of the world can our Mohist lofty concept be realized......"
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Ning Jiang shouted, "Luan Mei talked to you?" ”
No wonder you can't see them for an afternoon. In fact, Ning Jiang was also thinking about how to move him out of the mountain to help him, but before he could make a move, Luan Mei smashed a communist brilliance and smashed him to her side.
"That's right," the old man slapped the table violently, "Only the glory of communism can save China, only the glory of communism can help the poor people live a truly good life, only the glory of communism can realize the great harmony of the world, only the glory of communism can complete the combination of love and non-attack, and only the glory of communism can ......"
"I know, I know," Ning Jiang waved his hands, "By the way, where is Luan Mei now?" ”
"Let's talk to your sister!"
"Holy!" Ning Jiang turned around and left.
Hurriedly came to the depths of the wind tunnel, and sure enough, I saw my sister kneeling on the futon, Luan Mei standing in front of her, waving her little hand, and saying something loudly. Ning Jiang didn't say a word, rushed over and grabbed his sister and left. Xiaomeng shouted, "Brother, what are you doing?" Ning Jiang didn't reply: "Didn't you see the sun set?" Let's go, let's go take a shower. ”
Sister: "Huh? ”
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That night, Ning Jiang began to ask everyone to pack up their things and prepare to leave Zhongnan Mountain.
Qin Wuyan asked suspiciously, "Master, why did you suddenly become so anxious?" ”
Ning Jiang said: "Don't be in a hurry, if you go on like this, the glory of communism has not yet been realized, and my corner will be dug up first." "Luan Mei has begun to take a cold time, and wants to talk to Qin Kan and Lei He Daoren, Qin Kan can say that Lei He, who has the pain of losing his daughter, was smashed by the communist glory, and he must be going to betray the revolution...... No, she had defected to the side of the revolutionary ranks, and as a reactionary, Ning Jiang could not let her plot succeed in any case.
Ning Jiang began to regret a little, but in order to deal with feudal superstition, he actually sacrificed the glory of communism. What is the feeling of having built an atomic bomb to destroy tanks?
By the next day, Qin Kan and Lei He Dao had already prepared the carriage at the foot of the mountain.
Luan Mei pulled Ning Jiang, reluctant to give up, for her at this moment, Ning Jiang is not only her spiritual mentor, but also her lover, although she has no time to fall in love for that lofty ideal, but she is still reluctant to let him leave her. She originally thought that as long as she took the people around her step by step...... Especially his sister, pull to his side and realize the glory of communism with her, he will definitely stay, but I didn't expect him to give her this opportunity at all.
Ning Jiang knows very well that at this moment, Luan Mei has the strength of the goddess of goodness and the celestial physique of the eldest princess, although she is a little girl on the surface, her real strength is at least the level of grandmaster, or in other words, if she can't even reach the level of "grandmaster", there is no need for Zoroastrianism to spend so much effort to let the so-called "goddess of good" be born. Because of this, he actually has nothing to worry about her.
touched Luan Mei's head, the girl who took it as her mission to save the poor people in the world was as quiet as a lamb at this moment.
Ning Jiang actually couldn't tell, whether she was more Luanmei herself now, or more of a good goddess, or was it meaningless to care about these things at this time?
Luan Mei sent them down the mountain, and when they arrived at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, the two carriages had stopped at the foot of the mountain, Xiaomeng and Chun Jianli and Xiao Ya'er took one together, Ning Jiang took Qin Wuyan to take another car, Lei He Daoren and Qin Kan drove separately, took them around Zhongnan Mountain, and prepared to cross the Qinling Mountains and go south.
After reluctantly watching them leave, Luan Mei also hurriedly returned to the mountain, discussing with the old Taoist how to spread the glorious fire of communism to the earth......
Ning Jiang took Chun Jianli and went around in a big circle to Luojie Mountain to worship in front of Qin Lao's grave.
Then, he continued to go south, passed through the Confucian temple complex, crossed the long river, and in the process, went to Tongzhou to have a look.
Most of the entire Kongshan Mountain has been destroyed, Luoyan Lake has been destroyed, and Luopei Lake and the state school have also been affected.
Xiaomeng and Chun Jianli looked at the broken, concave Kongshan together, and were shocked.
can smash an entire famous mountain like this, if it is such a meteorite, and it is smashed directly into the capital, it will not only kill thousands of people.
Immediately afterwards, Ning Jiang took them back to Linjiang County.
Although he wanted to keep a low profile, but when he entered the county, the whole county was a sensation, and the prefect led the officials of the city to greet him personally, even the champion of the three yuan, which was unprecedented good news for the county, and the whole county was full of lights, just like the New Year.
Ning Jiang just chatted and coped with it, of course, at this moment, Xinke Zhuangyuanlang was overly sad because his beloved eldest princess died in a natural disaster, and even resigned and returned to his hometown, which had already spread all over the world, and even better storytellers compiled commentaries and said over and over again in the restaurant, listening to those girls in the boudoir, one by one. At this moment, seeing that he had no intention of entertaining, no one blamed him, after all, for the death of the eldest princess, even the officials of the Hanlin Academy resigned.
Even so, after all, Ningjiang is the champion of the new department, in today's Great Zhou Dynasty, after the reform, the "official" and "rank" are separated, even if he has resigned from the official position of the Hanlin Bachelor, he still has the rank of the fourth grade, even if it is the local prefect, it is two orders worse than him, even worse, when he wants to open, return to the capital, and then enter the Hanlin Academy, serve by the side of the Son of Heaven, and then enter the prime minister, it is really a simple matter, the local officials, big and small, naturally dare not have the slightest neglect.
After returning to Gaosuo County, it can be said that the whole city came out to welcome him, and the new magistrate couldn't wait to be able to kneel at his feet with a slanderous face to help him lick his shoes, and Ning Jiang could only shake his head at this.
In this Confucian world, where the imperial examination decides everything, he just knows how to read, and he doesn't have to do anything else, and his status is far more than that of those tired local parents. And to a certain extent, this may also be the main reason for the continuous disconnection between the court and the locality, just because, no matter how good the local political performance is, as long as you can't get good results in the field, you can be promoted to one or two levels.
Just like the person who fills the vacancy, no matter how good he is in governing the township and county, at most he can only achieve the same knowledge.
As a result, as soon as these local officials took office, they had already touched the ceiling of their careers, so they simply used all their power and energy to collect money. On the other hand, those jinshi, as soon as they are released, are prefects and guards, and they don't have much experience in governing places to manage a county or even a state, and many times, they are easily overshadowed by the people below without knowing it.
What's more, it is the "Sanding Jia", as the top student with the highest academic knowledge among scholars, he has hardly experienced any tempering anywhere, and he directly entered the Hanlin, went to the court, mixed for a few years, and easily became the group of people who made decisions for the whole world. Because they have no real experience in governing the country, but they must not admit their ignorance, so "righteous punishment and virtue, to go to heaven with things" is what they say most often, "half of the treatise on ruling the world" is something they are convinced of, "heaven and man induction theory" is not so much the most effective theory of governing the country, but the simplest means of shirking, and this is not the most terrible, what is really terrible is that for hundreds of years, those people in the court have even really believed in these things.
When this pathology has become inertia, and no one has the courage or ability to change it, perhaps, it really needs the so-called holy fire, or the flame of revolution, to wash it again, so that it can be reborn.
Just because of him being such a champion, at this time, the entire Ning family has surpassed the other three families in Gaosuo County and has become the largest family in the entire county, even to the point that the servants of his Ning family have committed something and the government does not dare to ask. For this situation, Ning Jiang has no intention of taking care of it, even if he wants to, he can't manage it, it is a waste of time.
During his absence, more and more land was attached to his name, many of which were "turned" together with the poor people who cultivated on the land, and these poor people who bought and sold together with the land were actually "tenant slaves", the law of the Great Zhou Dynasty was to prohibit the existence of tenant slaves, but in fact, tenant slaves had already spread all over the world, they were called people, but they were actually slaves, even if Ningjiang did not have any official rank, killing their own tenant slaves was at most just a trivial silver tael.
Of course, this is not only a phenomenon that is unique to this world, in the Southern Song Dynasty in another world, even the tenants who were theoretically more or less higher than the tenants and servants, and who only had a land lease relationship with the landlord and had no personal dependence, still "human life is light, and the rich dare to kill", and even the law stipulates that the tenants have no right to sue the landlord.
Zhu Xi, a representative figure of Confucianism, even advocated that whenever there is a prison lawsuit, it should first be "discussed on the distinction between the superior and the inferior, the elder and the younger, and the inferior offender, and the inferior offender, although he is upright, he is not blessed." After that, all cases involving tenants and landlords emphasized the "title of the master and tenant", and "one master and one tenant, the name is clear", "the division between master and servant" and so on as the basis for judging the merits.
However, even so, there were still many commoners who vied to cling to him and gave him their land in order to reduce the land tax.
Just because, in the increasingly serious land annexation, a large number of local gentry are exempt from paying taxes for various reasons, but the taxes set by the imperial court are increasing year by year, which makes those commoners who own land even more miserable than the tenants and tenants who are forced to give their land to the squires and serve as slaves.
Even people take the land to attach themselves to those landlords who are exempt from paying land taxes, and they are slaves and servants, although life is not easy, but at least they do not have to face the government directly. In order to ensure that there was enough labor in their fields, their masters would shelter them properly, at least in other respects. Under this sick and distorted unspoken rule, on the one hand, land annexation is becoming more and more serious, and on the other hand, it is becoming more and more difficult for the government to collect taxes.
Just like at this moment, Ningjiang, who has become the champion of the Lang, has a large amount of land attached, and the tax burden of these fields under his name will inevitably be passed on to others, forcing more people to sell their fields and daughters, and his fields and slaves will further expand. In other words, at the moment when he became the champion, even though he did nothing, his property and servants were already multiplied, and not transferred by his own will.
If Luan Mei is still here, basically, Ning Jiang is the object she wants to defeat now...... (To be continued.) )