Chapter 288: The people are like weeds
"Hey! This is also helpless! You don't want to think, what kind of place is this? When you didn't come, the old man was here to supervise everything, and he didn't tell you that life here is not worth anything, and there is no bargaining for a sack of grain for two! Think about it, if they kill the official, won't they find a substitute for the dead ghost to take the initiative to go to the yamen to confess? What's more, under the hands of those leaders, do you think no one dares to do it? In order to eat, in order to survive, they not only dared, if it weren't for the old man being a clean official, maybe the next day after coming to Sinan, the head would be hung at the door of the yamen, one night, there was a dagger on the head of the old man's bed, what do you think it is? That's the warning! ”
Yang Ming never thought that the Sinan people were not as cowardly as he imagined, on the contrary, they were defending this land and their own lives in their own way. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Perhaps, this method is very crude, and it is easy to be wrathed by the rulers of the dynasty and bring them a devastating blow, but ..... Undoubtedly, this method is straightforward and practical!
He couldn't help but think of a poem, leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered. Wildfires can't be burned, and the spring breeze blows and grows again!
Aren't these people's lives like weeds?
Survive in this world!
Use their worthless lives to multiply tenaciously on this land!
"What do you think?" Yang Ming's heart was touched, what he cared about was not that Liu Yi was warned, on the contrary, even if Liu Yi died, there would be no burden on him, what he cared more about was whether these people had been hiding behind the scenes?
Liu Yi smiled, looked at the other side of Qingshan, and said, "Yang Ming, believe it or not, maybe there are at least five people around us watching us right now, of course, these people may be the White Lotus Sect, they may be the people who protect us, or they may be them!" I'm not afraid of these people at all! Do you know? The old man has been an official for thirteen years, and he can say with a clear conscience that he has two sleeves and a clean breeze, not only that, but even the so-called Bingjing. Tan Jing has never received it! ”
After speaking, Liu Yi took out a silver ingot from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Yang Ming.
After taking the silver, Yang Ming looked at it carefully.
Same as regular silver ingots. This ingot of silver is a silver ingot of ten taels of silver, but the difference is that the color of this ingot silver is slightly black, maybe it has been placed for too long, and the surface of the silver has been covered with silver rust, Liu Yi must have looked through it when he got it, so some traces of friction can be clearly seen on it.
"They gave it to you?" Yang Ming was a little curious. Ten taels of silver is a lot of money even for some middle-class and upper-class families, and those people obviously don't have a good life, but they gave Liu Yi such an ingot of silver, not for himself.
"Not bad! On the very second day, the ingot appeared on the bookcase in the old man's room, and at the same time they took the old man's thing! Liu Yi said slowly.
"What's that?"
"That's an undershirt made by the old wife for the old man, I'm not afraid of your jokes, the old man has worn the undershirt for eight years, and the patch on it is only afraid that it weighs half a catty!" He laughed, looked at the silver in Yang Ming's hand and said, "That underwear is the old man's treasure, and it can be used as an outerwear in the spring and autumn." In winter, it becomes a padded jacket! Hahaha! ”
Liu Yi smiled bitterly, and her thoughts walked away.
Yang Ming listened to it a little unpleasantly, and he wore an underwear for eight years! An underwear that can be used as a padded jacket! What kind of concept is this? How many such officials can there be in the entire Ming Dynasty? The real virtue is as clear as water, the clean official! He couldn't help but think that those people might have really identified with Liu Yi when they saw that underwear! Maybe in their cognition, as long as the officials are not greedy, they are very lucky, maybe they are still poor, but at least they still have a way to live!
Yes, their demands are very simple, they just need not to oppress and exploit them! That's all!
You can see it. That underwear Liu Yi values very much, otherwise it would not be possible to wear it for eight years, thinking of this, Yang Ming began to recall some rumors about Liu Yi that he heard when he was in the capital.
It is said that this is a very old-fashioned official. Regardless of integrity, doing things is also on the line, the most rare thing is that he has only returned to his hometown in Gansu once for more than ten years, because he never accepts bribes, so he has no money to bring back, and the place where he lives is a private house by the west gate of the capital, and he lives alone in the rent of 800 big money every month. Even the sedan chair that goes out is nearby......
"Far from it!" Liu Yi laughed, looked back at Yang Ming from his thoughts, and said: "Yang Ming, I won't tell you that the old man is also a child of a Zhuang family, I remember when I was a child, my father and I passed by the private school and looked at the children inside who were very yearning for literacy.... After returning home, my father quit drinking, hehe! He is a drunkard like a life, he quit drinking for me, and then he went to work for Wang Laocai in the village for four or nine days! During the cold New Year, our family drank wild vegetable porridge..... Two years and three months, he used the family's thrifty money to provide for me to go to a private school, and it was at that time that I learned what it means to be human! Head to the sky, feet to the ground! ”
"So you want to be a clean official and ask for the people's life?" Yang Ming looked at Liu Yi and asked, "Haven't you thought about what they are like now?" You have been home once in thirteen years, and your mother, your wife, and your son, have you ever cared about these? ”
Yang Ming looked at Liu Yi deeply with his two eyes, and continued: "Don't mention money to me! Even if you have been a seventh-grade official, although it is a little low, it doesn't mean that you don't even have money to save your relatives, right? ”
"You think everyone is like you? I don't know where you learned your skills, do you know, when I was in the capital, I thought you were from a family at first, people who only read sage books without touching Yang Chunshui, even if I knew what you did in Shuzhong, I didn't believe it! Liu Yi sighed, then looked at Jiang and Yang Ming and said, "So when you make a big statement above the temple, the old man doesn't care about it at all!" It wasn't until the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty seemed to trust you, especially when His Majesty relied on you in every possible way to seal your Yang family's double edict, that the old man felt that you might not be so simple. So after coming down, the old man used all his connections to check your information! ”
After this investigation, the old man lost sleep that night! A bowl of batter can benefit the entire Hongcheng people, and it can also make those big-headed soldiers honest and honest from now on! The old man thought about it all night, coal, the post station, and the old Weng Mountain in Shu..... The old man is really confused about what kind of person you are! Just like the old man, I can't think of you so far from the same Zhuang family, especially if you have a good grasp of people's hearts! Liu Yi's gaze suddenly became deep.
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(To be continued.) )