Qian County is a large county, with more than 700,000 people before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and more than 500,000 people after the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the system of the Han Dynasty, counties with a population of more than 400,000 had two places for raising filial piety a year, and this year's two places were Xu Song and Cao Ju, and the news was quickly deliberately spread from the Taishou Mansion.

Xu Song is Situ Xu Xiang's nephew, it is normal for him to be promoted to filial piety, and Cao Ju is definitely a dark horse. But thinking about Cao Ju's elimination of the Beishan Yellow Turban Thief who had endangered Qian County for three years, no one dared to say that he was not convinced, and the news quickly spread throughout Qian County.

The news of Cao Ju being raised to filial piety soon spread to Caojiabao, and it caused a sensation in the entire Caojiabao, in the Han Dynasty, where the social hierarchy was strict, the people of the third class of society were actually raised to filial piety, except for a group of people who appeared during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Ju was definitely the first person in the Han Dynasty in the past three years.

Filial piety is the probation system, filial piety is filial piety to the elders, the meaning of honesty and integrity, is the Han Wu Emperor period set up the probation examination, in order to appoint officials of a subject. In addition, there is the system of annual examination, which is a formal examination method, and the latter is a top-down system of selecting officials.

During the Han Dynasty, there were four strata, the first layer was the core layer of power, the core was naturally the emperor, the core layer included meritorious officials, royal families, relatives, eunuchs and senior bureaucrats, among which the eunuchs entered the core power layer in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the people at this level were able to decide the central decision-making.

The second layer is the sharer and reserve army of power, and the power of this layer has no chance of central decision-making, and is the backbone of the society, but also the stabilizing force, including local officials, rangers, wealthy merchants, and the noble class, as well as the officials of the Pengshi clan.

The third layer is the middle and lower strata of society, basically without power, but with personal freedom, including farmers, doctors, alchemists, handicraftsmen, small traders, butchers, street soldiers, and some Yimin Gaoshi who have studied but do not want to be officials, Cao Ju belongs to this class.

The last layer is the lowest level of society, they have no power, and the difference from the third layer is that not only does not have room to rise to the power level, but also has no land of their own, lacks property, and even has no personal freedom, including hired farmers, tenant farmers, doormen, tribesmen, slaves and maids, and vagrants.

After getting the news, the happiest person was Cao Xu, and the first thing she reacted to was to ask Cao Ying to open Cao Ju's father's mourning hall and offer incense to pray for blessings.

Cao Xu knelt in front of the spirit card, looked at Cao Ju's father's spirit card, and muttered to himself: "Ah Ju his father, Ah Ju was raised by Lord Taishou to be filial piety, and he will be able to become an official soon, it must be you who blessed Ah Ju in the spirit of heaven, so that Ah Ju has such an opportunity, and our Cao family is finally raising their eyebrows." ”

Cao Ying secretly thought in her heart, her father died early, and her brother didn't have a chance to practice martial arts, but he just learned a few rough kung fu, how could he kill more than 300 yellow turban thieves in Beishan alone, could it be that his father has a spirit in the sky?

At this moment, Cao Ju came back from chopping wood, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "Mother, A-Ying, I'm back." ”

"Quick." Cao Xu immediately stood up and shouted, "Ah Ying, quickly let your brother come over." ”

As soon as Cao Ju entered Caojiabao, he had already received news from Cao Lun, and he was quite surprised, he didn't expect that as a person from the third class of the Han Dynasty, he would still have the opportunity to be a leader, and it seems that Cao Cao proposed it first.

Entering the mourning hall and kneeling on the futon, Cao Xu said excitedly: "Ah Ju's father, do you see, this is our son Ah Ju, with your blessing, he is fighting for our Cao family." ”

Of course, Cao Ju didn't think so, and secretly thought, what is blessed or not, if it weren't for Master's Taiping technique, five hundred of me would go to Beishan to save people, and it would only be a dead end.

asked Cao Ju to put on three incense sticks, and then chattered for a while, Cao Xu took Cao Ju and Cao Ying to the courtyard, and asked Cao Ju to kneel in front of her for the first time.

After taking a sip of the boiled water brought by Cao Ying, Cao Xu rolled his eyes and said: "Ah Ju, Lord Taishou will raise you to filial piety, and it is already a matter of time before you enter the official career, you can no longer do this rough work of chopping wood, but fortunately, you have a little savings for your mother over the years, and life will not be a problem in the short term." ”

Cao Ju nodded and responded, he understood what Cao Xu meant, and was promoted as filial piety, and his identity suddenly entered the second class from the third class of society, and the rough work of chopping wood naturally could not continue.

Cao Ying was still young, so she didn't know much about what filial piety meant, so she immediately asked: "Brother, will you be like Cao Cao and Cao Chun in Cao Mansion, and you are going to Luoyang as an official?" ”

Cao Ju thought for a while, shook his head and said: "This shouldn't be, at that time, Lord Cao Song was ranked as the third prince in the court, so he could let them enter the court as officials, and it is estimated that I can be a petty official in the county at most." ”

Cao Yingxi said: "Great, brother, I'm really worried that you will go to Luoyang to be an official, and you won't be able to come back for a year and a half, leaving me and my mother at home, I'm really scared." ”

Cao Ju said with a smile: "The Beishan Yellow Turban has been removed, and we have fort guards in Caojiabao, what is there to fear." ”

Cao Xu asked: "Ah Ju, your father died early, and he didn't have time to teach you martial arts, who did you learn kung fu from, is it Cao Lun?" ”

It was time to tell Zhang Jiao about it, and Cao Ju immediately replied: "Mother, there is a Taoist living on the mountain where the child chops wood, and when he saw that the child was kind, he accepted the child as a disciple and taught the child a martial arts. ”

Cao Xu immediately said: "Ah Ju, you are too rude, why don't you invite your master to live in our house?" ”

Cao Ju smiled and said: "Mother, my master is a master in the world, but he is tired of the noisy life and likes to be alone, so he moved into the mountains to live, and the disciple has invited him several times, but the master refused." ”

Cao Xu thought for a while and said: "Ah Ju, there is Ah Ying at home to take care of your mother, don't worry, what your mother means is that it is better for you to move to the mountains to live, and you can take care of your master." ”

Cao Ju's heart moved, and said: "No, mother, my master calculated that his limit was approaching, and specially asked his daughter, who is also my senior sister, to rush over, and it has been a few days." ”

"The deadline is coming?" Cao Xu was stunned, opened his mouth, and before he could say anything, Cao Ju took the opportunity to say again, "Mother, yesterday my master revealed to me that he intended to marry his senior sister to his child as a wife. ”

"What?" Cao Xu was taken aback when he heard this, and was completely stunned.