344 Horseshoe brings Huai River water (1)
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Wu Weiye sat in a sedan chair, shaking rhythmically, with a lot of thoughts.
The last time he returned to Luoyang, Wu Weiye suffered the biggest setback in his life. He will never forget that day in the Fuwang Mansion, the original picturesque monarchs and ministers enjoyed together, but in an instant, it brought him a catastrophe. To this day, he has forgotten what Luoyang was like a year ago, but he can often think of the cold and majestic face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that day.
This kind of practice of completely smashing people and then piling them up again is really cruel.
Wu Weiye still has palpitations when he thinks about it.
However, later he became the prefect and really got in touch with the general affairs, especially this time in Huaiqing Mansion to fight with the inferior gentry, which really made people grow a lot. At least looking back, I regarded the crown prince's decree as child's play and didn't take it to heart, which was simply self-inflicted. If it weren't for the fact that the East Palace was employing people, it would not be too much to be pushed out and beheaded.
Wu Weiye remembered his unbearable past, and the scene of those inferior gentry kneeling in front of him appeared in his mind, and he was still a little excited in his heart. He didn't know what Shen Jiaxian would do with these people, and he didn't want to know, the thought of dead people would still make him a little uncomfortable.
"Master, Luoyang is ahead." Zhongbo, who accompanied him, pointed to the brick-clad city wall in front of him, and there was some joy in his calm tone.
It's not an easy job these days.
Especially for his age, it was too painful to travel in the winter.
However, only from the perspective of mental state, Zhongbo is much more vigorous than Wu Weiye.
Wu Weiye opened the sedan curtain, saw the towering Luoyang city wall, and then looked at the people coming and going outside the city, all of them were frightened birds. I felt a little regretful in my heart, and somehow I remembered the sentence "The prosperity and decline of Luoyang, and the time for the world to rule chaos".
However, this sadness quickly dissipated. Wu Weiye saw several official signs erected at the gate of the city, on which the official name of Liao Xing, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, was clearly written. Although he and Liao Xing are not good friends, they meet at this moment as if they are reunited with old friends, and they hurriedly ordered someone to catch up.
"Okay, you Liao Longzhi. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an order: Officials at all levels are not allowed to sound gongs and raise signs, shouting and disturbing the people. Do you know what the crime is to be guilty of breaking the law! Wu Weiye stepped forward and shouted, a red tide of excitement appeared on his face.
Where does Liao Xing look like a prefect at the moment? He was dressed in a cyan robe, sitting on a horse at a stall at the gate of the city, blowing noodle soup, like a starving ghost reincarnated, and he looked like he was afraid of being burned, which was very funny.
Hearing Wu Weiye's voice, Liao Xing turned his head. Still didn't put down the notched pottery bowl in his hand, and said, "Brother Meicun, don't you want a bowl?" This mutton soup is so delicious! ”
Wu Weiye smelled the smell of mutton soup, shook his head and said, "I can't eat the mutton gas." ”
"Master, there is also donkey broth here for the small one!" The vendor who set up the stall looked at Wu Weiye with a smile on his face, grinning and revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth: "Come to a bowl, nourish qi and nourish blood, nourish yin and aphrodisiac, calm the nerves and dispel troubles, and ensure that you rise step by step!" ”
Wu Weiye almost couldn't help laughing, and saw Liao Xing beckoning to him. I simply walked over, and felt that it was really indecent to sit on the mazaar. Just standing, let the vendor bring a bowl of donkey broth. He brought it to his mouth and blew the green onion on it, but he felt that the aroma was fragrant, and there was no too heavy fishy smell, and he was about to drink it. Hearing Liao Xing's hissing and drinking, he finally couldn't help laughing, and he couldn't drink anymore.
"You go and ask my family, and if you want to drink, you will give it to them, and you will have money." Wu Weiye said to the peddler.
The hawker saw that it was crowded. Not to mention, there were more than a dozen people, overjoyed, and said: "Master, you are really a bodhisattva!" Buddha and Bodhisattva bless you for generations! ”
Liao Xing put down the bowl, a shallow layer of mutton fat on the side of his mouth, shook his head and said: "Oh, in the end, it's a big family, tsk, it just means that I'm a hard-hearted person." ”
The division between the north and the south of the Ming Dynasty is like two countries. The north side is more conservative, and attaches great importance to respecting and inferiority, even if the Liao family is also generous to the subordinates, they will not let the subordinates eat with the main family, at least until the main family eats well before it is the turn of the subordinates to eat. Some people who are more particular about it can't even use the same stove.
The atmosphere in the south is much more open, Qian Qianyi is treated as a wife, and marries Liu Ru in broad daylight, but he is just a boatload of broken bricks and tiles. If it were in the north, maybe even the ship would have been overturned. As for the family, the treatment of servants is also much higher than that of their northern counterparts, and some housewives will even let their concubines and even personal maids dine at the same table with them.
Although Wu Weiye is much more pedantic than Liao Xing, he is more enlightened than Liao Xing in terms of living habits.
"Where did you get this official badge?" Wu Weiye still cares more about these brands that represent identity.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a special decree." Liao Xing said proudly.
"Why are you allowed to use it alone?" Wu Weiye is even more strange.
"Because Kaifeng Mansion has been ruled in just thirteen days." Liao Xing pretended to be light-hearted: "The "Emperor's Circular" has already sent an interviewer to collect materials. It will be about these two issues that there will be a large page of special articles. ”
Wu Weiye was angry when he heard this, and said: "You are slaughtering day and night in Kaifeng, and you can still publish a special article with such fanfare?" ”
"Wrong!" Liao Xing raised his eyes while drinking mutton soup and argued: "The people I killed in Kaifeng are all people who should be killed, and each one of them is guilty of a crime. Now you go to Kaifeng to see, it is 'men have a share, women have a home, widows, widows, lonely and sick people are all supported'! Hey, I said you sit down and talk, like I'm kneeling to you. ”
Wu Weiye listened to Liao Xing's boasting, and even used the words and sentences in the "Book of Rites" describing the world of Datong to put gold on himself, and he couldn't help but say: "Shameless! ”
"Hey, if you can't do it, don't you want me to do it?" Liao Xing was also unhappy.
"I have to resist stubbornly when I catch a few criminals in the Fuzhi, how can you calm the thirty counties of Kaifeng Mansion within thirteen days?" Wu Weiye only felt that this was simply a fool's dream, and sneered: "How long does it take to go through thirty counties?!" ”
"I'm the prefect, why do I need to bow down to everything?" Liao Xing also stood up, drank mutton soup and said with a smile: "I only need to send my subordinates to implement the county order." As for the stubborn people, hehe, I'm really sorry, Kaifeng is a state of etiquette and culture, and there is really none! ”
"How is that possible!" Wu Weiye shouted: "Haven't there ever been local wealthy clans who built walled forts!" ”
"Haha," Liao Xingdaxiao got up, "what you said is true, but before I arrived in Kaifeng, they had already demolished the wall." ”
"Impossible!" Wu Weiye frowned and said, "Are you a three-year-old child?" Those walled forts are where their families are located, where they store grain and save their lives, but I am afraid that they will not be high enough and not thick enough, so how can there be any reason to demolish them? ”
The defense and determination to resist this kind of walled fort are even greater than those of the county seat. Because that is the lifeblood of the wealthy family. They don't care about kneeling down to Da Ming or Da Shun, but they will never allow the government, rogues, and thieves to move their lives.
"I have issued a notice to calm the people before," Liao Xingzheng said, "to tell them that the Ming officers and soldiers will be successful in sweeping up the rebellion." In the future, Kaifeng is the heart of the Central Plains, and there is a king to protect the people, and there is no risk of thieves. Therefore, where the outer wall of the village is more than three feet high, only a layer of bamboo fence is allowed. Those who dare to use rammed earth walls will be regarded as rebelling against the remnants of the Heavenly Master, and the whole village will be arrested on the spot and sent to the hard labor camp. ”
"They saw the notice and tore down the wall?" Wu Weiye didn't believe it at all.
"How is that possible!" Liao Xing licked his lips and said, "But, what is the guerrilla camp for?" His Royal Highness made it clear at the meeting that day that the guerrilla battalion was going to open the way for us! ”
Using the combat effectiveness of a guerrilla battalion to pull out a village fort is tantamount to killing chickens with a knife. Basically, they fired a shot from afar, and they surrendered obediently.
You don't even have to put the shells in it.
"Those innocent people ......"
Liao Xing's face sank: "Daming has arrived in today's field, who is the innocent person?" These big gentry who only care about their own families, there will indeed be innocent people when they kill them all, but there will definitely be a slip through the net if they kill two out of three. ”
"I won't argue with you about this," Wu Weiye said again, "You have torn down the village wall, how can they resist those thieves when they come?" ”
"Don't resist." Liao Xing said: "I have avenged them." The local elders also came to Kaifeng Mansion to thank me and call me 'Liao Qingtian'. ”
Wu Wei is no longer a simple lecturer in the East Palace that day, he can already see clearly this kind of small tricks to play with people's hearts.
The bandits robbed the people's property, and then exterminated the bandits and ate the "stolen goods" cleanly, which is the first benefit.
For the people, the government helped them take revenge and settle down. The bandits who should have been subjected to a thousand knives have been severely punished, and the prefect is a mirror of the sky, and the people rely on it, which is the second benefit.
It can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Hmm, that's not right!
And the men and horses who exterminated the bandits.
Those people...... Wu Weiye guessed correctly: it was the villagers who were captured by the guerrilla camp.
These villagers just don't want to carry out a tyranny, what is the crime? But he was thrown into the hard labor camp by the officers and soldiers to do coolies, and he was naturally full of despair and pathos. At this time, it was the radiant Lord Fuzun who rescued them from the fire pit and gave them clothes and food.
When this reinvention grace, the lord of the mansion asked them to exterminate the bandits and avenge their fathers and villagers...... Isn't that a matter of course?
It seems to be cruel and brutal methods, but the details are interlocking, even if everyone knows that Kaifeng's "Great Governance" is actually killed, but the bones are buried, Kaifeng Mansion is full of joy, the officials and the people are in Xian'an, what is more important than this?
As for the culprit "Breaking the Wall Order", who can chew out a trace of sin from the righteousness and words?
"Why is Yu Province innocent? Woe to this man! Wu Weiye's face completely darkened, ignored Liao Xing, and turned his head and walked towards the sedan chair.
Liao Xing was still holding the bowl and said loudly behind him: "Dare to ask Bangyanlang, you saw a group of crazy and stupid people about to jump off the cliff." If you don't listen to your good words, do you watch them jump down and fall into meatloaf, or do you stop them with thunder? (To be continued......)