Horses that pull carts, horses that plough fields, horses that pack goods, horses that work as postmen, and even worse, horses that can only be used for meat.

Horses from the civilian sector are almost all used for production and life, and there is no need to expect too much in the military. Even if it is a good war horse seedling, if it is placed in the people for less than a year, it will basically be completely abolished. It's almost the same as the Zhouyu horses raised on the islands in southern Fujian - there are a total of more than a dozen pastures on the outer islands of Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and Xinghua Army, but the horses that are slaughtered can be used as stagecoaches.

After all, it is no longer the era when Wuling teenagers can cross horses.

Han Gang threw aside the information that made people angry.

Now the imperial court, no matter how high or low it is, is a horse to ask for it—there is always a place that can be used, and it is really a big deal to sell it—an official can get 3,000 horses and turn an official. An official who was transferred to Ma Zheng on Xihe Road can be transferred three or five times in a row within one term, and if it is a hard work, it will take three years to move once! Among the middle and low-level officials of the Herdsmen Division, the most popular assignments were in Xihe and Guangxi, and in other yamen, how could there be such a thing.

Because of this policy, the top and bottom of the herd department are basically thinking about how to change their official positions immediately.

Although Han Gang has only been to the Pastoral Division twice these days, he has heard about some things more or less. The officials below are tinkering with the law of horses, requiring each household to raise horses according to their own property, and those who have a household property of 2,000 guan in Fangguo and 5,000 guan in the countryside must raise one horse, and those whose family property is doubled should be increased by one, and no more than three horses at most.

Forcing the rich to buy horses and raise horses is worse than the suppression of convenient loans. The convenience loan or the suppression of the green seedling method is to force the wealthy who do not need to borrow money to apply for a convenient loan when the loan amount prepared in the regular liquidation is not used up, so as to forcibly collect interest, which is the result of the local officials in pursuit of political achievements. The old party scolded the people for this incident, accusing the convenience of the people and disturbing the people, and the DPRK and China repeatedly ordered and reaffirmed that they wanted to ban the matter.

Forcing wealthy families to keep horses, rather than a voluntary application under the Horse Protection Act, is tantamount to compulsory forced labor. Moreover, it is a universal apportionment, at least for the wealthy households in the north who are suitable for raising horses, such as Kaifeng Mansion, Jingxi, Hebei, Shaanxi, and Hedong. It's not like the market law, which only targets a small group of wealthy businessmen; The exemption law is a drop in the bucket for the rich, and allows the middle class of the people to be lenient; Convenient loans only prevent the rich from making money, and by no means directly grab money from the pockets of the rich; Even the Hand Truth Law, which essentially allows the wealthy to make public the concealed property so that the imperial court can fairly collect taxes—those who can hide their property are always the powerful rich rather than the poor—which makes legal sense.

The rich should bear more responsibility, this point, Han Gang absolutely supports, can be directly apportioned, it is too ugly to eat, and the worst will inevitably be counted on the new party and the new law, which makes Han Gang feel even more uncomfortable. Lu Huiqing is now trapped in the hands, no matter how confused she is, she will not make any extraneous branches, I really don't know who will take over this hand.

It shouldn't be Han Jin.

Han Zhen only tried his breath on his side, and was immediately pushed back by Han Gang. You can't mess around, Han Gangming said, it's better to give up early.

And Han Gang listened to Han Jin's tone and found that he was actually a little unsure in his heart, and now that he can't get his own support, most of them will die down.

However, how those low-level officials can drill the camp, Han Gang knows very well, in order to reduce the year of grinding, killing people and arson, it is absolutely impossible for them to give up. I just don't know who they will instigate in the end.

Han Gang sighed. When Wang Anshi was on the stage, he still tried his best to think that 'the people do not add endowments, but the country is self-sufficient', and now the batch of people who have come up only cares about grabbing money and grain to earn political achievements.

As a herd of herdsmen, he will inevitably be consulted about Ma Zheng. For the Huma Law, it is impossible for Han Gang to nod and agree, he must oppose it, so I don't know if he can stop it at that time.

He took a blank piece of paper in his hand, and Han Gang wrote down the sources of several military horses on the paper in turn. Baomafa, Qingtangqiang, Dali, Shayuanjian, Zhouyu, all of them are listed. From the looks of it, each has its own shortcomings, and it is difficult to use it greatly.

Han Gang held the pen, frowned, looked at the black and white words, and pondered for a while, when he suddenly heard someone outside the study shouting: "Long Tu!" Dragon Figure! The fourth master of the Feng family is here. ”

Han Gang suddenly came back to his senses and walked out of the study. saw Feng Congyi standing in front of him. His face was covered in dust, and his cloak was gray.

Han Gang's eyes widened and he said in surprise, "Brother Yi, why are you here?" I received your letter in Jingxi, didn't you say that you will go to Beijing after Qingming? Something happened to Daddy?! ”

Feng Congyi was about to salute, but was grabbed by Han Gang, who was asking hard, and said busily: "Third brother, don't worry, it's not my uncle and aunt's business." The younger brother heard that the third brother had offered a pox planting technique in Longxi, and heard that the seventh prince died of pox, so he immediately set off to the capital. ”

"Oh, I see." Han Gang's expression eased, "Let Brother Yi, you worry, but Brother Fool has nothing to do." The Son of Heaven is a Ming Jun, how can he blame the foolish brother? ”

Han Gang smiled slightly, and went into the study with Feng Congyi to sit down.

"Ah...... Yes, the Son of Heaven is indeed a Ming Jun. So when I walked to Luoyang three days ago, I heard that the third brother was appointed as a herdsman in the same group, and the younger brother was relieved at that time. At that time, I sent a letter back, but I couldn't let my uncle and aunt not be able to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind. Feng Congyi said with a smile, and saw that there were five big and three rough men who came up with the tea, and asked, "Sister-in-law, Brother Zhong, and Brother Zheng, they haven't come back yet?" ”

Han Gang said: "It will take a few days to arrive." What about your brother Lin and eldest sister, are you okay? ”

"It's all good, I can run and jump. Third brother, your brother and sister are now pregnant again, and they will give birth in half a year. …… Now that I have cowpox, I don't have to worry about acne. Feng Congyi looked out the window, leaned closer and whispered, "Third brother, since you have thaumaturgy, why didn't you say it earlier." There is no shortage of cattle on Xihe Road, there is no shortage of people, if you had ordered someone to find it earlier, maybe you would have found it a long time ago, and maybe you could find a horse pox. ”

"It's not that easy." Han Gang shook his head, "I also said that I was looking for cowpox and horse pox on Xihe Road!" Don't expect it at all, isn't there so many diseases in the south? Human pox is too damaging to yin morality, maybe it will cause trouble to future generations, how dare you use it? If it weren't for the foolish brother who happened to find cowpox after arriving at the peak in Guangxi, he would never mention the matter of human pox. After finding cowpox, the foolish brother also dared to make it public only after testing it in Jingxi. Without verification, who would dare to gamble with the lives of their children rashly? Don't dare to talk nonsense. ”

Han Gang's sigh came from the bottom of his heart, cowpox can be found wherever you want to find it, but when he was really desperate enough to prepare to use the Jiaozhi people to make a human pox vaccine, he happened to find it in Hengshanzhai in Yongzhou, "Otherwise, it would have been taken out a long time ago, and Brother Zhong and they had only been planted with pox for a few days." ”

Han Gang explained that in order to dispel the suspicions of his family, some knots had to be untied earlier.

After Feng Congyi listened, Zhengse nodded: "I see, what the third brother said is very true." It is true that you can't do things that damage yin and morality and harm your descendants, maybe Sun Lao Immortal just wants to see if the third brother will do such evil things. If you really do it, most of you will directly accept the immortal recipe that will be passed on to the third brother. ”

Where is this, Han Gang couldn't laugh or cry, and he didn't talk nonsense Feng Congyi's words, "The imperial court has recently established a Department of Health and Welfare in charge of epidemic prevention and disaster relief and people's care, and in the past few days, a Red Protection Bureau has been set up in Kaifeng, which is specifically responsible for the matter of planting pox." The pox seedlings used to plant pox were also sent to Xihe. His voice also lowered, "Actually, half a month ago, Brother Fool had already sent his henchmen to Longxi with pox seedlings, and he must have missed it on the road with Brother Yi." ”

If there are good things that don't stick to his family first, Han Gang is not so poor and generous. And I hid the pox before, so I should make up for it. Although it is only half a month different from the pox vaccine sent by the imperial court, it gives people a different feeling. Presumably, Wang Hou, Zhao Long, and even everyone in Hengqu Academy who happened to be on the road could feel his sincerity. Wang Sunsin was not on the way, but he also sent his cronies. Like Li Xin in Guangxi, and his father-in-law Su Ziyuan have brought cowpox to take care of - he doesn't want outsiders to save him, but he has leaked his own family, and outsiders see jokes, and his own family is a tragedy.

The day before yesterday, Han Gang asked Wu Yan whether he would send the pox vaccine to Xihe and Guangxi, but he was just pretending, as the 'inventor' of cowpox, how could he not have an extra vaccine in his hands.

Han Gang's words made Feng Congyi, who came in a hurry, completely let go of his thoughts. Regardless of his manners, he stretched his waist, and the whole person relaxed, and smiled at Han Gang, "This trip down, I am almost catching up with the speed of the horse, and I am almost tired." ”

"Who told you to be so impatient?" Han Gang's smile was gentle, "I have already arranged for someone to prepare wine and dinner, and after eating and freshening up later, I will go to rest and wake up." ”

"Okay, let's see what good food and wine the third brother has here." Feng Congyi twisted his body on the chair and changed to a comfortable position.

With his cousin's lazy look, Han Gang smiled, pretended not to see it, and asked, "Are your parents okay?" ”

"It's all very good." Feng Congyi said: "My uncle took the lead in donating money to build a Puji Temple, the main courtyard was for the Medicine Master Wang Bodhisattva, and the side courtyard was for General Li, and the old monk Dao'an in the Qinzhou Pufu Temple was invited to be the host, and I usually went to chat with him more. I also go to watch football games every once in a while. My aunt usually takes her younger brother Hun to preside over the housework, and occasionally invites two storytellers to come to the house. Although his uncle was a minister, no one in the city dared not give him face, and in September, Xinzhizhou took office and personally came to say hello. ”