"Why did Yi'er say that?"

"Father, haven't you ever thought about who the vast majority of the sect members of this Taiping Dao are?"

"What does this have to do with provoking the Taipingdao?" It's no wonder that Wu Ke can't keep up with Wu Yi's topic rhythm, it's really that he is busy with many chores of the family industry on weekdays, how can he have the heart to pay attention to the problems of Taiping Dao. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The corners of Wu Yi's mouth raised a sneer: "The child has come all the way from Yingchuan to Chenliu, and found that in recent years, due to frequent natural disasters, hundreds of people's fields have not been harvested, and these troubled people have been bewitched by the Taiping Dao, and they have put the target of hatred on the imperial court and families like us. And these disaster victims, who occupy seven or eight out of ten of the Taiping Taoist congregation, may not be able to enter Luoyang City for a while and a half once they follow Zhang Jiao to raise the banner and revolt, but in the face of a family like us who has surplus food but does not have much resistance power, what does my father think they will do? ”

"The calamity from heaven didn't just affect those people, didn't the fields of our family clan have the same calamity? The reason why there is surplus food is also because of the hard work of several generations, is it possible that these guys will come to rob us of our food? Wu Ke, who had lived in peacetime all his life, obviously couldn't think of what kind of evil deeds those desperately hungry victims would do.

"Robbery of food? If there is a day when the door of our house is broken, I am afraid that not only food, but also all the belongings of our family will be taken away. And that's the best result, if it's more serious, I'm afraid that even my mother and sister will have bad luck. ”

A hint of fierceness flashed in Wu Yi's eyes, in the past few years, he has already regarded his parents and sister as the most precious existence, and Wu Yi is willing to use all means to protect them! seemed to sense the murderous aura in Wu Yi's heart, and Wu Amaranth's little Lori, who was already asleep in Wu Yi's arms, couldn't help but hug Wu Yi tighter.

Wu Ke was silent, although he had never seen the scene Wu Yi said in his life, he knew that Wu Yi was not alarmist, because he had heard that in some places that were seriously affected, the people were so hungry that they even did terrible things like eating their children. Under what circumstances would you put your child's life in the hands of someone else? And the people who can do this kind of thing, can you expect that they won't break down the door of your house and simply take a little food and leave?

Because the scene Wu Yi said was too terrible, and Wu Ke's silence also made the atmosphere more solemn, his mother Tao couldn't stand this depression, got up and took Wu Yuan from Wu Yi's arms, and retreated to the back hall to rest with her.

Looking at the back of Tao's departure, Wu Ke gritted his teeth, got up and shouted: "Even if you fight for your life as a father, you will never let those people hurt you!" Yi'er, you're right, no matter how huge the power of this Taiping Dao is, we can't let them develop in Chenliu County! If I really don't act as a father, I went to the Wei family in the east of the city and the Li family in the south of the city to discuss, with the strength of the three of us, and then cooperate with the county guard Zhang Miao, not to mention anything else, if you just clear Chen Liu's Taiping Road, it will be absolutely no problem!! ”

Wu Yi was very satisfied with his father Wu Ke's attitude, but at this time he laughed instead: "Father, don't be impatient, since the child's teacher has realized the harm of Taiping Dao, he will naturally not just sit back and watch it develop and grow." In addition to sending me to Chenliu County to bring a letter to Lord Zhang Miao, the teacher also sent many other disciples to Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and Yangzhou. It is conceivable that the life of Taiping Road will definitely not be easy during this time, and we will never fight alone. ”

Hearing that Chen Yu had also arranged a backhand, Wu Ke's nervousness was also relieved a lot, and after relieving himself, he couldn't help but smile and scolded: "Since your master has already made a plan, why didn't you bastard say it earlier?" ”

Wu Yi smiled: "If you don't make the dangers of Taiping Dao clear, can my father be as full of fighting spirit as he is now?" Furthermore, if we are not prepared in advance, it is not easy for us to entrust our lives and deaths in the hands of others. No matter how much preparation the old man made, after all, the initiative was in the hands of those state assassins and county guards, and there were some mediocre and stupid people among them, and it was still unknown whether they could successfully solve the Taiping Dao forces in their jurisdiction. ”

Wu Ke sighed: "In the past few years, there have been eunuchs in the imperial court, and they have actually sold their official beards to collect money, so that many profiteers who are full of copper smell have become officials of the imperial court. Speaking of which, with the ancestral property of the Wu clan that I left behind, if it weren't for the fact that your uncle Wu Kuang served under the command of the general, how could I say that I would be able to donate a position as a county guard. ”

In the first year of Guanghe, in 178 AD, the current emperor Liu Hong, under the instigation of the Empress Dowager Dong and the ten permanent attendants, tried to sell his official position to accumulate wealth. The imperial court publicly announced that it could spend money to buy positions in departments such as Huben and Yulin under Guangluxun from the Marquis of Guan Nei to Guangluxun; The rules for selling officials are: the price of a magistrate is twice as high as that of a court official, and the price of a county official is different; Officials must also be promoted according to the price. The person seeking the position can evaluate the bid, and the person with the highest bid will win the bid. In addition to the fixed price, it can also be increased or decreased at any time according to the value of the seeker and the property he owns.

Generally speaking, the price of an official position is calculated based on the annual salary of an official, for example, the price of an official position of 2,000 stone per year is 20 million yuan, and the price of an official position of 400 stone is 4 million yuan, that is to say, the price of an official position is 10,000 times the annual income of an official. Although Duan Cheng, Zhang Wen and others have great merit and high prestige, they all paid enough money before ascending to the public position. Later, when an official was transferred, promoted, or a new official took office, he had to pay one-third or one-quarter of the price of his official position, that is, an official had to pay the equivalent of his legal income for more than 25 years before taking office. Many officials were so frightened that they could not pay such a high "official fee" and left their official positions.

Seeing a hint of unwillingness and jealousy in his father's tone, Wu Yi couldn't help but wonder: "Is my father envious of those wine bags and rice bags who rely on spending money to sit in official positions?" How many people in the world are convinced of the guys who are in the position in that way? ”

"Do you want this kind of truth to teach you bastard to be a father? It's just that people are not for fame and fortune in this life, when my father was young, I also studied martial arts with your uncle and read books, but because I was the eldest son to inherit the family business and missed the opportunity, as a result, your uncle He has now become a powerful general under the command of the general, and his father is obviously better than him in all aspects but he is still only a white body, I really don't know what face he will face under Jiuquan in the future to see the ancestors of the Wu family. Wu Ke was a little jealous of his younger brother Wu Kuang's encounter, but more of a feeling for his own talent.

"As the so-called blessings and misfortunes depend, misfortunes and blessings lurk. Uncle is under the command of the general, although he is easily in charge of tens of thousands of forbidden army tigers, but he has also become a thorn in the eye of the eunuchs and some people who harbor evil intentions, and now the general is cited by the hundred officials as a weapon against the eunuchs, when the uncle is still worry-free, and once the general is defeated by the eunuchs or abandoned by the hundred officials, the uncle, who is the confidant of the general, will be the first to suffer.

Looking at the fact that my father is now in charge of the Chenliu Wu clan, although he does not have a formal official title and lordship, he can use and distribute all the products of this family completely freely. If he can make meritorious achievements when he encounters ****, how can the court sit back and watch the meritorious ministers without reward? Disasters from heaven are coming, and it's time to seize fame! ”

Wu Ke was stunned by his son's bold words, remembering the news that the escort Cheng Xun had brought to him when he returned, and his eldest son used all kinds of grace and righteousness to entrap a ranger with extraordinary swordsmanship as his retainer on the way back to Chenliu. Looking at the high-spirited young man in front of him now, he couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart: "It's really my unicorn!" ”