"Zhong Shuqing, change the prison room!!"

With the clanging sound of the metal steel door, the policeman on duty stood at the door of the small black room with a stinky face that no one owed it two hundred cents.

In this era when the output of steel is not very large, it is not impossible to use metal to make prison partitions and railings like this, but it is absolutely rare, and the first three waves of people were caught in this scene and almost didn't fall off their eyes, and although it is a small black room in the prison, the actual lighting and sanitation are good, and there is no familiar straw on the ground outside, lice and bedbugs are all dark and cold.

Moreover, the cell space is relatively large, and it is divided into several floors, considering that these people are divided into gangs and must not be held together, so the three groups of people are separated so as not to quarrel and fight inside......

"Sir, why do you suddenly want to change cells?" Zhong Shuqing patted the ashes on his body and moved his muscles, which had been lying for a long time, and walked out of the cell and stood against the wall, without the sufficiency and arrogance of an official.

Zhong Shuqing has been in the mountain village for a long time, and has a lot of understanding of the rules and management habits of the mountain village. Because he found that the mountain village did what they said, everyone is equal before the law, and it doesn't matter who you are, you have to deal with what you should do if you break the rules and regulations.

This time, he was fortunate enough to be held in the detention center for three days, and here his contact with the mountain village was added to another level. Here, because everyone was locked up together and had nothing to do, Zhong Shuqing chatted casually with several young people who were imprisoned together, and he gained something new in this exchange process.

Because when he was outside, Zhong Shuqing's identity was the commissioner of the Ming Dynasty, not only did he himself have an inexplicable pride and height when communicating with others, but other people would also involuntarily be in awe of Zhong Shuqing when they came into contact with him, after all, in the thinking of traditional Chinese culture for so many years, the common people should be in awe and avoid officials for three points...... As a result, this unequal exchange cannot go deep at all.

And after everyone squatted together in the number, the gap in identity was invisibly cut and erased in this kind of iron prison and iron prison, no matter how big an official you were before you came in, after you came in, all the faction officials had to bow their heads under high-pressure management, and after the military attachés on their side and several civil officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had suffered because they wanted to resist this high-pressure management in their own ...... Everyone understands that here in the mountain village, you have to follow the rules of the mountain village!

It is precisely because of this that Zhong Shuqing, who was erased from the height of his identity, was finally able to let go of the ** section and began to communicate with his fellow inmates around him and neighbors on an equal footing, and under this exchange, Zhong Shuqing was surprised to find that the terrible thing about the mountain village is not the production of fast guns and heavy artillery, but the agitation and mastery of people's hearts!

Here, even the people who were arrested did not have any complaints about the high-level of the mountain village, on the contrary, they were still full of hope for the high-level and had various visions for their future good life, and some people even said that even if they entered the ** camp to work as a coolie for a few years, they would not leave the mountain village, because the hope that could be given to them here was far greater than any place!!

Three days of squatting in the number allowed Zhong Shuqing to gain a lot of things that he had not known before, and even in the mouths of these villagers, he also knew the attitude of the villagers towards the Ming Dynasty and the attitude of the mountain village, the villagers only recognized the following of the Great Immortal, as for the Ming Dynasty...... No one wants to go back to the life of the Ming Dynasty governing their own lives......

All kinds of true and resolute attitudes made Zhong Shuqing a little confused, could it be that the Ming Dynasty did something wrong? Let these people at the bottom hate it so much? Looking at the current people in the mountain village, they have food, clothing, and books, why did the things that the Ming Dynasty couldn't do have been realized in this mountain nest that was regarded as a rural miasma?

With this kind of doubt, Zhong Shuqing began to look at everything he had learned and everything in the mountain village again, but this kind of stuffy thinking that was almost about ** all his previous views and lack of guidance would only make him more and more unable to figure it out, in just a few days, Zhong Shuqing's whole person lost weight, his eyes were dark and deep, and his hair was messy without care......

"The above arrangement, looking at the way you are now, if we die here, we can't afford this responsibility!!"

The tone of the policeman who answered was quite unhappy, indeed, no matter what dynasty it is, dying in prison is a big or small thing, and the feeling of being pulled by pigtails must be unpleasant. And here in the mountain village, it is a big deal to die in the number, this is already a thing that is explicitly stipulated in the rules and regulations of duties, Zhong Shuqing understands that as long as it is included in the rules and regulations in the mountain village, it must be implemented.

"Sorry for the inconvenience......"

Zhong Shuqing's words of apology made the policeman stunned suddenly, and stared at Zhong Shuqing like a monster for a while, making sure that he was not wrong that it was Zhong Shuqing who was standing in front of him, and his ears were not mistaken, and the words of apology came out of his mouth...... Officials never apologize to the people, although Zhong Shuqing is a petty official, but no matter how he says it, he is also a seventh-grade official, and he apologizes from a seventh-rank official to an ordinary person - I heard it right......

After a while, the policeman recovered from his stunned state, probably accepting Zhong Shuqing's apology, and he took Zhong Shuqing to change cells during the next journey, neither pushing nor using the same harshness as ordinary prisoners, but the rules that should make him squat down or stand against the wall when passing through the cells on all floors must be observed, and Zhong Shuqing did not have the same resistance as before, I don't know if it was the life and thinking of the past few days that smoothed out some things on his body, or burned out his brain excessively......

"Let's go in......"

When he finally came to the new prison room, Zhong Shuqing noticed that he had changed to a relatively clean single room, with bunk beds, toilets and everything, and there was a simple bookshelf on the wall, on which there were more than 20 books of uneven thickness, some short-sighted Zhong Shuqing could not see the text on the side of the book and knew what the book was, and what surprised him even more was that there was already a person in the room, and this person was sitting on the desk inside drinking tea, this person was not someone else, It is Deng Shifeng who Zhong Shuqing has been asking to see but can't see!

"What, it's a surprise?!" Deng Shifeng motioned for Zhong Shuqing to come in and sit on the opposite side of the small table, where a tea set had been set up and was waiting for Zhong Shuqing's arrival.

"Can it not be a surprise? I have asked to see you so many times but I can't see you once, but I didn't expect to see you here instead of me fighting, I knew that I would have found someone to fight earlier......"

Maybe it's because I've thought too much about it in the past few days and let me figure out some things, Zhong Shuqing didn't have the eager and anxious mentality before after seeing Deng Shifeng, he generously opened his shirt and sat down, and drank the tea at the right temperature in one gulp.

"Haha, then you have to see who you fight, if you find our workers and soldiers in the mountains to fight, I will never see you in my life, and you fight with those two groups of people...... I think I really need to meet you......"

Deng Shifeng saw that Zhong Shuqing was so happy and didn't engage in those twists and turns, and directly expressed his attitude towards this matter.

"Why?" Although Zhong Shuqing probably guessed something, he wanted to get a more specific answer from the other party.

"Because you still dare to fight!!"

Deng Shifeng refilled the other party's teacup with tea, and said with a look of three points of approval: "You have been here for so long, we have naturally made some explorations into your identity and conduct outside, knowing that you have been an official in the court for some years, you should know better than me that many officials in the Ming Dynasty only have their own selfishness in their minds, and there are few who dare to stand up when the country is in trouble...... And you, whether you are drunk or impulsive, are counted as one! ”

Deng Shifeng's words were both positive and depreciating, which made Zhong Shuqing unable to answer all of a sudden, and also made Zhong Shuqing feel a little ashamed, after all, he is a scholar, and such a thing like a fight is really humiliating, and although he rushed up to open the film, if it wasn't for his own help, he would have a few military attachés to help, otherwise he would only be abused and humiliated, so he hurriedly used the tea on the table to cover up.

After two cups of tea, Zhong Shuqing felt that his originally somewhat faint head was much sober, combined with Deng Shifeng's words just now, he noticed that Deng Shifeng still praised his position, and hurriedly asked with concern:

"I heard that the Li Thief and the Tartar people were released yesterday, and they came to buy quick guns and ...... from you. You didn't promise them that bullet, did you? ……”

"Yes, they did come to buy quick guns and bullets." Deng Shifeng nodded to confirm Zhong Shuqing's question, but for the latter question, Deng Shifeng spread his hands: "Why don't I sell it!" ”

"You!!" Zhong Shuqing stood up with a snap, but after standing up, he suddenly thought that the person in front of him belonged to a typical example of eating soft and not hard, if he nodded his nose and scolded, the other party would be angry and not only sell fast guns, but even artillery......

"For the sake of the people of the world not to be miserable, and for the Ming Dynasty to no longer be humiliated by the enemy and suffer from civil war, you should not sell fast guns to them...... I don't think you don't know who they are, how many people have been displaced by the Li thieves in the northern provinces, and the Manchu Tartars are burning, killing and looting on the land of the Central Plains. Besides, if these people use these guns to hit you in the future, aren't you setting up your own fierce enemy?! ”

Zhong Shuqing's words have both a wide range of righteousness and a detailed interpretation, if it were someone else, even Qin Er, who hated Zhong Shuqing more, would agree with Zhong Shuqing's words; However, Zhong Shuqing didn't know that the person sitting in front of him was not an ordinary person, he was not only a time-traveler from the next generation, his thoughts and understanding were no longer comparable to ordinary people, but also a combination of dozens of people's memories and thoughts in his brain; Especially after several years of tempering and growth, the youthful childishness and some immature thoughts are fading, and some calmness that is completely inconsistent with his age and the gloom of some politicians and leaders have also appeared in him.

Stretched out his hand to signal Zhong Shuqing to sit down, Deng Shifeng was not in a hurry and filled the other party with tea before he said leisurely:

"You are right, whether it is from the interests of the country or from the hidden dangers of the future, there are good reasons not to sell weapons to them...... But I want to ask, even if I don't sell these weapons, the common people in the world will not suffer, and won't foreign enemies bring disaster to the territory? ”

Zhong Shuqing, who was suffocated by Deng Shifeng's rhetorical question, was speechless all of a sudden, through the exchanges with those ordinary people in prison these days, Zhong Shuqing knew that the people at the bottom were very miserable, not only bandits often scourged, but also to always be on guard against the big landlords and even the government's covetousness of their own one-third of an acre...... Zhong Shuqing had heard of these things before, but this time through real communication, Zhong Shuqing not only obtained more real information, but also vaguely touched the root cause of why the political axe of the dynasty he worked for was so unbearable.

As for the invasion of the Manchu invaders...... It is difficult to resist the enemy, regardless of whether there is a fast gun or not, these Manchu Tartars will still invade the Central Plains, and trace further, as early as a few decades ago, it can be said that the army of the Ming Dynasty has shown signs of rotten bones and rotten roots......

"This ...... This can't be confused, as the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is our responsibility to protect the country, calm the chaos and benefit the Quartet......"

Zhong Shuqing felt that he really had no words to refute Deng Shifeng, and could only use the height of national righteousness to justify it; Deng Shifeng was not surprised that Zhong Shuqing raised such a large plaque to pressure himself, what the other party said could only prove that he had no words. But since he is here today, he must achieve some of his goals, Deng Shifeng mercilessly interrupted Zhong Shuqing's unnutritious generous speech, and hit the nail on the head:

"That's right, as the people of the Ming Dynasty, any people of the Ming Dynasty have the responsibility and obligation to defend the country, and only when there is a country can there be a home! But you can help me answer, our people of the Ming Dynasty pay seventy or eighty percent of their annual harvest and pay so much food money, and we have to go to the battlefield to fight with foreign enemies and shed blood, but in the end, even if we drive out the external humiliation and stabilize the civil strife, what can our Ming people get? Can you live a good life again? ”

"This ......"

In the face of Deng Shifeng's question, if it was a few days ago, Zhong Shuqing would definitely answer loudly in the affirmative, whether it was the scriptures and sermons he had studied or the traditional concepts in his mind, he would answer "yes" without hesitation! It's just that after a few days of real contact and in-depth thinking, Zhong Shuqing was confused about this issue...... The answer is yes? That's a joke, if the people can really live well, they won't be forced to rebel against the people; And the answer is no...... The traditional ideas in my own head do not allow ......

Looking at Zhong Shuqing's tangled expression in front of him, Deng Shifeng knew that his knife had hit the place, and the snake hit the pole and continued to smash the shackles in Zhong Shuqing's heart:

"I'll teach you a word, it's a vested interest! The meaning of this word is a group that already has a grasp of the interests. Think about it carefully, now in the entire Ming Dynasty, more than half of the land is in the hands of scholars, officials, and squires who do not need to pay food and taxes. ”

"There is so much land in the world, and there is so little fertile land, do you think these vested interests will share their own fields to feed the people below?!"

"In fact, in the past few days, you have touched and seen the essence of the problem, the Ming Dynasty from prosperity to decline is not accidental, but from the beginning with the root of the disease gradually let it deteriorate, these root of the disease is you officials and squires who hold interests, you can be said to be the elite of the Ming Dynasty, managing the people of the world, but no one tells you, you do not produce but also prevent production, you have the best resources but still continue to exploit the survival resources of the people at the bottom...... If you don't remove these roots, the gods can't save the Ming Dynasty! ”

Deng Shifeng ruthlessly knocked down the last wall in Zhong Shuqing's heart, the irrefutable fact made Zhong Shuqing's words seem so pale and weak, and after being silent for a long time, Zhong Shuqing muttered:

"That'...... Why are you selling them fast guns? ”

"Why? I won't answer this question now, I hope you can realize it for yourself, or wait for time to prove it. What I can tell you now is that the development of the mountain village represents the beginning of a certain social change that requires blood donations. In order to achieve this goal, I don't mind stepping on so many bones to achieve it! ”

Deng Shifeng suddenly became with a cold murderous aura when he said the last sentence, and the words "Ten thousand bones withered" could not best express Deng Shifeng's inner complexity at the moment; Because Deng Shifeng did not finish this sentence, the hidden words behind it mean that many people will die in this process of change, including enemies and their own people, and there are many innocent people's lives, and it is a tragedy to die a person, but a million deaths are just a string of numbers, in order to reduce the death consumption of his precious students and future hopes, Deng Shifeng can only transfer this blood to the heads of the enemy and even ordinary people outside......

This is the dark side of Deng Shifeng that is gradually emerging in his heart, a qualified leader must not only have the ability to make decisions with a long-term vision, but also have the courage to know how to give up some things; Especially when multiple contradictions and interests are intertwined, and even many lives are entangled, he must learn how to choose how to deal with it at the lowest cost and the most appropriate way, which is the price of growth, and it is a threshold that he has to cross!!

PS: That's all there is to it today. (To be continued.) )