Chapter Ninety-Five: For Myself (II)

Shi Quan was not annoyed, he was right to say this, when he was assigned to the agricultural class to go to the farm, he believed this sentence. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info If you think it's wrong, then what you said in the dining hall will become ridiculous.

"Li Da, that's what I said, but it's still different. Ji Xia also said that some people are obviously a piece of iron ore, and it is said that this stone is used to build a house and it can be regarded as a brick for Xia Guotian, but it can also be smelted into iron. ”

"Obviously, it can be used as a piece of iron, but it can be used as a brick, this is not for, and it can't be filled in by the mountains."

"Isn't it better for you to plant your land well, and to obey the rules, and to go over there to be a lisi and teach those who have just come to Xiadong County than you to farm in Xia County? You planted fifty acres of land in Xia County, but if you go over there to teach the rest, you can give us an extra five hundred acres in Xia Kingdom, how can it be the same? ”

This head is deducted into dedication to the country, and Li Da can't refute it, but he knows in his heart that this is right.

After thinking about it for a long time, he muttered in a low voice: "If I don't go, it's not that no one else will go, and it may not be that without myself, our Xia Kingdom won't be able to have more than five hundred acres of land." ”

After saying this, he felt a little embarrassed, and sure enough, he listened to Shi Quan say a little angrily: "How can you say that? If everyone thinks like you, won't Xia Guo be finished? This is the case, then if there is a war, you also think so, I don't go, anyway, there are others who go, they all think so, don't we want to be treated as slaves? ”

This is a bit heavy, Li Da hurriedly said: "I didn't say that, if there is a war, I will definitely follow Ji Xia on the expedition, whoever doesn't go will be able to give birth to seven or eight in a litter!" ”

A group of people next to him laughed, and Shi Quan also smiled: "Yes, if you really want to fight, no one can not go away." But isn't this time the same as fighting? Fighting a war is fighting with people, farming is fighting with heaven and earth, is it possible to fight with people is fighting, and fighting with heaven and earth is not fighting? Open up one more acre of land, let one more person be familiar with the rules of our Xia country, and one more person will be able to take a spear to protect us in the future. ”

Li secretly pinched the man, knowing in his heart what kind of temper his man was, and pinching it meant not to let go at this time.

Li Da was already shaken, and when he was pinched by a woman like this, his heart shrank back, bowed his head and didn't speak, and secretly moved his uncomfortable buttocks, which were already hot.

Shi Quan said again: "Speaking of fighting, you also know that now those who are fourteen to eighteen years old are going to be soldiers, and after Ji Xia trains them out, where is the need for you to fight?" Let's not talk about those people who have to rely on us to farm for food, and don't say anything about Xia Guo or anything like that, let's just say something that can be used. ”

"As you know, the knighthood system is now in place, but it's not the same as before. You are now a public servant, and Ji Xia also discussed with everyone at the National People's Congress, and it was previously decided that the public servant only relied on farming to pay taxes and did not exceed the laws and regulations, and he could be boiled into a high school in four years. Now that there are so many Chinese people at once, it will take six years to boil it up, and it will take 12 years to make it up, and everyone agrees. ”

"Now, unless it is easy to improve the rank of knight after military merit, either after finishing the academy, do something great to make the clansmen live a better life, or Ji Xia proposes that the National Council should not object to promoting a person alone. It's hard to get all three. ”

"Ji Xia also said that this lord is now only sharing the income of the public property, not the public land, etc., because everyone also saw it a few days ago, and everyone knows what will happen if these things are divided."

"But Ji Xia also said that when he is about to die, he may give everyone more land and small workshops according to the ranks, because the place will be too big at that time, and even if the Planning and Statistics Department is exhausted, it will be impossible to take care of every inch of the land, and it will not be able to ensure the income of public property, and he does not believe that the people he will distribute after his death may be given to everyone some small workshops and land."

"There is no division of large workshops, and everyone can't manage them well, but land and small workshops are good things. In the future, there will be more and more people, and when Dongyi is laid, those people will have to rent our land if they want to farm, and then according to the rules of inheritance, you can leave the land you deserve to your sons and daughters. ”

"Even if Ji Xiade's ancestors have lived for a long time, do you know how much public property can earn in a year? You haven't been to Yucheng, but you don't know how many things we can exchange for a smelting workshop, and you'll know when the spring equinox is next year, and you don't believe what I'm saying now. ”

"I've heard we're going to build a bunch of new houses, and they're all big houses, with doors and windows, and supposedly things that let sunlight in but can't get in the wind and rain. These are to be distributed to the countrymen according to the priority of the knighthood, and everyone will be the same at that time, how long will it be your turn? ”

"If you go to Xiadong, you will save two years of time, and if you are well educated, more people learn the rules of farming, etc., it is a meritorious service, and the people in the Planning and Statistics Department have a record, which I can guarantee that will never be left behind."

"When I went to Xiadong, it was nothing more than suffering for two or three years, but now that there are cows, horses, ploughshares, and iron tools, no matter how difficult it is, it can be more bitter than when we used stones? Ji Xia always said that let's look far away, how can we just stare at the thing in front of us? When a new house is built in the future, you will definitely regret it. ”

Li Da was dizzy when he heard it, and quickly patted his face, but he still didn't let go.

At this time, it was already time for lunch, Shi Quan waved his hand and said, "Let's go back to eat, think about it, and talk about it in the evening." I've got twelve people left on my side......"

Li Da stood up at this time, went home with his own woman, poured a few scoops of cold water with a bang, and saw that the woman was holding firewood and preparing to cook, and couldn't help shouting: "Eat something cold, my ass is almost ripe, I will live in the livestock shed tonight, and I will feel uncomfortable looking at this kang." ”

The woman also laughed, took out the corn porridge left over from the morning, made half a piece of pickle, and ate it for a while, and both of them put down their bowls.

"Shi Quan is right, if you don't go, how can there be so much food to feed soldiers and build workshops? If you want me to say let's go? It's nothing more than two years of suffering, which is much stronger than when we were in the mountains, how can we forget who took us out to live this life? The sheep still know how to kneel down and drink milk, let alone us as human beings? ”

The woman looked at the house and sighed, "I went to the house to be built new, and it is said that it was all made of wood and mud, and my child will soon go to school......"

My children are different from our children, but there are many such cases in Xia City, but there is nothing about it. Li Da sighed and said: "The child goes to the school, isn't that the money from the public property?" Not to mention one meal a day, there are so many children, what Ji Xia said is always right, everyone for others is everyone for themselves. According to your idea, those young people in the school only said that if they want to go to school, they need 100 catties of wheat, so why can they go to school as long as they are Chinese? If that's the case, can you still keep the child from going? How can you only think about yourself? ”

The woman tapped the man with chopsticks and said with a smile: "Do you really think that without you, there will be no one in our Xia Kingdom?" ”

Ji Xia said, no matter how big a house is, isn't it built of bricks and mud? Thinking so, the house collapsed soon? ”

"But I can't be forced to build a house, I'm a brick, why can't I go to build Xia Qu?"

"Xia Qu's bricks are enough, you have to build a house!"

The two of them talked for a while, but there was no result, after eating, Li Da took the shovel to dig cow dung and prepared to send it to the compost place, and the woman went outside to change the hemp embryo and prepare to come back to spin the thread, thinking that it would be spring ploughing soon, and she had to get some thread to sell some money to buy some wine, and it would be good for her man to come back and drink wine when he was tired from work.

Li Da shaved for a while, made some mole crickets, and scolded the general to trample to death these half-dead insects that had bitten the leek roots in his yard.

When he was scolding, he heard the woman hurriedly run over and shout: "Alas, go and see, the group of people from the construction department are really building a house there, Shiquan didn't say nonsense, that house is big, I also heard those carpenters talk about the windows, it's really big." ”

"How can Shiquan say that he is also a farmer, can he still talk nonsense? Nonsense is punishable. This is the letter, right? Hurry up and get a hand, I have to get to the compost before dark, and I'll have to listen to Shiquan at night. ”

The woman pulled her over and said, "Go and see, go and see." ”

Li Da had no choice but to follow the woman out, there were already a lot of people around, a few deliberately made out of the large window frames put aside, obviously not to build the house, but there were already slaves moving bricks here, the ground was painted with lime A big circle, a few people were comparing things there.

Beside it stood a very large cloth with charcoal ink on which a house with high eaves and hooks was drawn from the point of view of the momentβ€”worthy of these eight words compared to a low adobe house with few windows.

The group of people in the black pressure pointed at the window and asked, "This window is so big, it's good in summer, but what can I do in winter or when it rains?" ”

"How do I know? If only I knew I was Ji Xia. Ji Xia let him do it, just do it, could it be that what he said is still wrong? There must be a way. ”

Everyone nodded, saying yes, but it would be nice if the house had such a window. A few people who came back from Yucheng had seen the kind of windows made of polished large shells, and they even boasted indiscriminately to show that they had seen the world.

When they said this, they asked the person who was responsible for preaching the rules.

"What's the point of this house? Or do you want to sell it? ”

These preacher of the rules seemed to the crowd to know a lot more than they did.

"It's both divided and sold. Now they are busy with farming, but they can't build it on rainy days, and they can't build it in winter, so they can't build it. ”

"What do you mean by both sharing and selling?"

"You may not be able to buy it if you have money, you have to get a license according to the knight's rank, you can buy it with a license, and the money can be deducted from the public property, but as long as you buy it, you can live in it." Wait a minute, I preach here every day, I want to get one for myself, and I don't know when it will be my turn. ”

Everyone chattered and discussed, and Li Da and the woman glanced at each other, and they had a tacit understanding.

Originally, the seesaw had been shaking from side to side, and at this time it was finally overwhelmed.

In the future, the lord will divide the land and inherit too far; Dedication to the country is too famous; Single-mindedly for the public is too tired to care about the individual; The crowd praised the children for worshipping the vanity; In the end, it is still the closest to one's own food, clothing, housing and transportation that is the most convincing.

There are too many public scholars, too few Shangzhi, and even fewer Shangzhi, how to look at Shiquan's words are now more convincing.

After going back, he made an exception and ate a piece of cured meat, and looked at the traces of the blackened smoke that had lived in the house, not long ago, the fourth brother was still eating and living in this house, and now he has followed Ji Xia to Yucheng, leaving only the ugly words on the wall that were written with ochre, patted his thigh and said: "There are people who are home, call it Xia Jun and Xia Dong." ”

It was a little cold outside, so he put on a wool felt jacket, which was brought back by the reward entrusted by the second brother in Yucheng, and scolded with a smile: "This time I went with sheep felt, and it has nothing to do with me how hot the kang is burned by that kid in Shiquan." It's a pity that there is only light wine in the brewery, otherwise I would have bought some steamed wine to drink, and it wouldn't be hot for me anyway. ”

He went out with the stars on his head, looked back at his house, and suddenly thought of his three younger brothers who left Xia Cheng and were in Yucheng, and said in his heart that he didn't know if they could live in a new house earlier than himself.