Twenty miles apart, the crowd in Bianjing City is full of people, the festive atmosphere is in full swing, but the courtyard of the Lingzhou people is still in order, if it is not for the fact that many houses have been cleaned and replaced with new peach charms, and the busy people in the courtyard have joyful emotions jumping in their eyes, it is impossible to see any atmosphere related to the New Year's Festival.

The influence of people's charm is sometimes huge, with a professional soldier like Luo as the commander, all the people around him will be involuntarily affected and constrained, not only the guards who have followed him for a long time, but even the locals recruited by Helton after arriving in Kaifeng Mansion have been greatly affected.

The guards don't need to go into details, only talk about the locals of Kaifeng Mansion who were recruited.

These Kaifeng locals are generally divided into two categories, one type of people is the largest number of 84 peasant households who were originally responsible for land cultivation, these people originally thought that the land had changed owners, and their fate was not much different from the past, but after the real change of rent stickers, they found that everything was very different. Not to mention anything else, the epidemic prevention and control and the literacy education of the children in the family are two things that every household has, and they are far from being comparable.

When Luo led the team to arrive, although he didn't dare to say that everyone was in his heart, at least no one would betray the new master for the sake of the small profits in front of him.

The other type of people are some of the market rangers who have been recruited, these people are now very honest, especially the people who were forced to commit themselves in Xingyang before, most of them have no complaints, but feel that they have gone to a good place to live because of misfortune, as for other people such as Pan Ge'er Dong Wu'er and the like who helped the "Junyi Eighteen Lang" to help the fist, the original habit of relying on is also restrained - no way, they are all scared, according to Pan Ge'er's original words behind his back, "Those tall and big men are big worms without hair, and they can't be provoked", One can imagine how well-behaved the so-called "rangers" have become.

Of course, the changes in people's hearts are far from being covered by one or two sentences, and the subordinates who are trained completely according to Luo's vision are a huge impact on people of any era, and every bit of it makes the so-called "Bianjing people" jaw-dropping.

Whether it is the team that goes out every morning, or the defense project that is constantly improving, or the various modes of receiving and transporting goods that simplify the process, and even the various trainings for all farmers, all the "Bianjing people" are busy, and this kind of busyness is not the kind of "hard work" they knew before, but the "ability" to effectively improve their own survival skills - self-defense skills, labor technology, and hygiene habits...... And so on, either of which is beyond their imagination.

This is the case with the so-called environmental impact on people, even if it is just a small environment created by artificiality.

In the nearly 18,000-acre village courtyard in the south of Bianjing City, it is a self-contained small environment, although it is not as prosperous as the outside, but it has its own charm that infects people.

Therefore, when Du Yan hired a donkey cart and hurried over, he saw a busy scene completely different from that in Bianjing City.

The original owner of this village was surnamed Zhang, after Helton bought it, he did not change the original wooden archway pattern, but found someone to re-inscribe the plaque according to the Song people's formulation, and there were only two big characters of "Lingzhou" on it.

As soon as Du Yan's donkey cart crossed the wooden archway, it was difficult to continue moving, because the short journey from the archway to the main gate of the village was filled with a large convoy of grain.

Helpless, Du Yan had no choice but to settle the coachman and wait on the side of the road, and got out of the car and walked by himself.

Bypassing the crowded and messy grain convoy, within a few steps, a man wearing a green coat and a small hat with a knife hanging from his waist came forward to block the way, and asked: "Young man, please stop, the front is the Lingzhou Zhuangyuan, outsiders are not allowed to enter!" ”

Du Yan was very stunned, the Song man in front of him, who was about forty years old, and his appearance was obviously just that of a peasant who had just stood out of the mud, but he dared to speak without humility or arrogance in front of a person dressed as a student, this was not the kind of timid and fearful farmer that he could usually see.

After being stunned for a moment, he replied in a hurry: "This ...... Uncle, I am a student of Taixue, and I have important things to ask to see the person in charge of your village, and please be accommodating. ”

"Something important?" The man held on to the handle of the knife, looked at it quite vigilantly, and then asked carefully: "There are many things to be done by the master of a certain family, and there are more people to see than fish and shrimp under the river ice, and the young man does not want to call a certain person who guards the door......"

"Your lord...... Is it ...... Eishiro? Du Yan asked tentatively.

The gatekeeper's face was a little strange, there were too many visitors in the past two days, and there was an endless stream of market rangers coming to challenge them, could it be that this young man dressed as a scholar was too? However, this is not something he can speculate at will, but he replied casually: "Exactly, the young man is ......."

How eloquent is a farmer's gatekeeper? Lingzhou people have such ability? Can you train a small farmer like this in such a short period of time? Or are Lingzhou people lucky enough to be able to recruit a lot of talents?

Du Yan is a calm-hearted person, and he can't help but think about a lot of things at this moment, but he can't be allowed to think about it carefully at this time, and after a little pondering, he calmly replied: "Uncle, I don't know how you speculate, but what I said involves tens of millions of lives, and it is not nonsense!" I'm afraid that the uncle can't afford to make a mistake...... Please also summon your lordship, just say that Du Yan, a student of Taixue (1), has something important to ask to see! ”

"Taixue...... Student? The gatekeeper muttered in a low voice, looked at Du Yan's description again, and said in a deep voice: "Shaolangjun wait a while, don't walk around, wait until someone asks!" ”

Although he changed his name, he didn't mean to be respectful, and the gatekeeper didn't pay attention to Du Yan, and called a person from the side to come over and keep an eye on the so-called "Tai Student", so he pulled a horse on the side of the road and rode on horseback and ran towards the courtyard.

It's not a crazy life, Du Yan also felt very speechless, but what can he do if he is under a low eaves?

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the gatekeeper to return with another man who looked like a guard.

"Shaolangjun, a certain master wants to see you, this is the master's guard Hesar, he will take you to meet the master!" The gatekeeper just explained, then ignored Du Yan and went to take care of himself.

The man called "Hesar" was a strong man with brown hair who stood up straight, this guy was at least half a section taller than Du Yan, he casually pulled the reins of the horse beside him, and said angrily in a not very fluent Chinese urn voice: "Shao Langjun, get on the horse, follow behind you!" ”

There were no polite words, and the voice was more like the friction between pig iron and leather, Du Yan didn't have the slightest way, he wanted to open his mouth but found that the other party was not Han Jiazi at all, and he wanted to use the skills of survival before? Turning his hand to look at the white fist, and then at the guy on horseback, he was suddenly discouraged.

I had no choice but to stumble on the horse's back, but fortunately in front of Hesar holding the reins, this horse is not difficult to control, and Du Yan, a scholar, is not really weak, so he will not fall off the horse.

Moreover, Du Yan's mentality as a scholar is really good, and he has adjusted his mentality after not traveling far, and he even has time to look around.

Du Yan is not a country boy who has never seen the world, and the rich man who supported him to study behind him has a large manor at home, but it is a winding path and secluded scenery in the style of a garden in the south of the Yangtze River...... However, none of the places is as vibrant and ...... as the scene in front of you Orderliness.

It is obviously a newly built straight passage, and although there is no bluestone paving, there is no usual dustiness; The passage was full of people and grain carts, but they did not affect each other, and no one even shouted loudly and indiscriminately; The passage that could accommodate several horses was lined with neatly dug tree pits, and in the distance there were either fields that had begun to be ploughed, or schoolyards that had been rammed as smooth as mirrors, on which not even a finger's size of gravel could be seen......

In addition to the old white-headed old man, the busy people on the road or on both sides of the road each have straight waists, like the spears held by the soldiers at the entrance before, and what is even more unusual is that even ordinary farmers, even ordinary women, have a waist knife obliquely inserted in the belt around their waists - if you look closely, you can easily see the traces of the new system on it, that ...... It's not the equipment that ordinary Song people should have.

When Du Yan wanted to take a closer look, a crisp and childish voice read, "One go to two or three miles, four or five Yan villages, seven or eight pavilions, eighty or ninety flowers." (2) "It came from afar, with the pronunciation of the northern official dialect, although it was immature, it had a childlike taste.

The horse's pace quickened, and Du Yan swallowed back his words as soon as he wanted to ask a question, because another scene of life and tiger came to his eyes.

Dozens of burly men were shirtless, holding spears in both hands, waving in a series of drumbeats, shouting in unison after every five stabbing blows, the sound was loud, and the bursts of martial might were as dignified and solemn as the substance.

And Du Yan, who passed by along the way, even if he didn't know any martial arts, could clearly distinguish the clumsiness of the movements of several of them, and those people were clearly farmers who had just put down their hoes like the previous gatekeepers!

What do Lingzhou people want to do? Want to intimidate with these farmers? Or is there a plot against the Song court? Or did he already know about the plot of the Shi family and tried to stop it? Still is......

has not seen "Wei Shilang" himself, and Du Yan, a student of Sanyin, has been dazed by what he has seen and heard.

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Note: (1) Taixue, the institution of higher learning in the Northern Song Dynasty second only to Guozi Jianxue, was subordinate to Guozi Jianxue at this time, but the enrollment model was much larger than that of Guozi Jianxue, but it was still limited to the outstanding talents among the children of officials above the eighth grade and the common people. Du Yan is actually not a formal student who is too academic, at most he is an auditor, and his words to the gatekeeper are just "pulling the banner of the tiger".

(2) One goes two or three miles, taken from the Northern Song Dynasty Shao Yong's poem "Mountain Village Yonghuai", this poem has not yet appeared at this time, but it is an enlightenment poem suitable for cultivating children's learning, and it is not a profound thing for pig's feet.

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