Section 31: The old man asks about politics

When the emperor arrived at Yun's house, the sun had just risen, and the dew on the tips of the grass had not disappeared, and finally fell and scattered into the earth with the sound of rumbling horses' hooves.

The Son of Heaven was shaking when he traveled, and Yun Ye, who was guarding the side of the road to greet Li Erfa, was stunned in surprise, this was too much, it was just a truffle meal at home, why did you start the drive?

The carriage of the entourage is enough to have eighty-one rides, fortunately, there is no such thing as a chariot in Datang now, otherwise a thousand chariots can fill the Yunjia Zhuangzi, guide covers, basins, dust, spit pots, horseshoe, chairs, furnaces, incense, water bottle knives and leopard tail guns, umbrella covers of various sizes and different systems, shou fans, all kinds of buildings and flags, various styles of Jing, Jinjie, Yu and Lu, Yue, Xing, lying melon, standing melon, my staff, leading staff, red light, no less, until there are five elephants dressed in front of you, Yun Ye had the idea of fainting.

Lao Pei rode on his horse and winked at Yun Ye, he appeared, which means that the whole army of Xiao Cavalry Guards was dispatched, this is the real Ten Thousand Horses. The emperor will only make such a pomp when he is worshipping.

According to the rules, it should be the waiter and the secretary who accompanied the emperor to sit in the car, but judging from Luan Fengqi, Xu Jingzong and they must have been pushed behind. Why does the guy who drove the emperor's car look so familiar? After the helmet was put down, he couldn't see clearly, and it wasn't until this guy lifted his face armor that Yun Ye was surprised to find that it was actually Liu Hongji who was the groom, and it was really rare for the old guy to shoot this kind of Cheng dΓΉ.

The emperor is here to bully people, invite the two of them to come over for a meal, he brought more than 10,000 people, and in the blink of an eye, the Xiao cavalry guard turned the Yunjia Zhuangzi into a military fortress, and Lao Pei also kept ordering the sergeants to strengthen the outermost defense line, not knowing who he planned to defend.

The villagers in Zhuangzi were terrified. Except for the two old men who volunteered to vent the emperor's anger, the rest were crying like their dead fathers and mothers.

Li Er's frame didn't stop until he walked to the gate of the Yun family, Yun Ye followed the frame for a while, covered in dust, and before he had time to wash, he saw the emperor and the eldest grandson getting down from the frame. Liu Hongji, who was sitting on the wheel, flicked the whip, and the six-horse-drawn carriage went to the open space opened up by the Xiao Cavalry Guard.

Yun Ye hadn't spoken to Li Er yet, Li Er and his wife had already started greeting the old grandmother with a smile, and Yun Ye didn't remember until this time that it was the old grandmother who was treated, not himself.

Obviously, I have a thorough understanding of the Yun family, but I want to pretend to be the first time to come, and the grandmother has to lead the way. It was not only the Yun family who was guarding the gate to greet Li Er, but also Li Gang. Although Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling were all wearing civilian clothes, they still saluted the emperor very respectfully.

The emperor sat in the Yun family for a while, and then proposed to go to the village's house with the empress. Because the whole Zhuangzi is full of people from Xiao Cavalry Guards and Qianniu Guards, the emperor and empress walk in the Zhuangzi one after the other, just like ordinary couples.

The old peasant was obviously scared to death by the emperor, so he wanted to lie on the wall of the courtyard and greet them loudly, which was the spring to ask them what they thought of the harvest after the autumn.

"No opinion. Listen to the official's family, what the official family says. Just do it! ”

Hearing the old farmer's answer, Yun Ye immediately laughed, or the people of the Yun family Zhuangzi are smart, this sentence couldn't be better, they all say that learning is in the countryside, and I can't be fooled.

Li Er wrinkled his nose and seemed a little embarrassed. I just want to be prestigious, and while respecting the wishes of the people, I also let them know the majesty of the royal family, this is a vindictive idea, but I didn't expect the majesty to be a bit big. The peasants were frightened into quails, and the whole incident became uninteresting.

When he turned around and saw Yun Ye who was snickering, he finally found a place to vent his breath, and snorted in his nose: "Do you think I made a big fuss about traveling like this?" ”

"No, His Majesty is a holy monarch, and he took out the suburbs to drive to the Yunjia Zhuangzi, and Weichen was inexplicably surprised."

"I'm afraid it's more surprise than joy, right? It has long been recorded in the canon that when the emperor travels, he must announce to the world thirty miles away from Beijing, and he will be thin and dependent, is there anything wrong? ”

Of course, this is no problem, the road from Yunjia Zhuangzi to the capital, after several modifications and straightening, is almost a straight line now, the distance is only thirty-five miles, the emperor has to be more serious, Yun Ye has no way at all, although the emperor used to go to Yunjia or Yushan was light and simple, this time it was grand, and he had to let him.

The emperor is about to be fifty years old, but his temper has become more and more violent, and the palace is now full of violence, and the reason why I say this is because the emperor has been killing people with a rod lately.

Being beaten to death by a board is also an extremely painful way to die, as long as you see that most of the dead are eunuchs who are responsible for purchasing, you will know that the emperor is giving a gag order.

Under normal circumstances, the people were full of curiosity about the mysterious palace and always wanted to inquire about the life of the royal family, so these eunuchs became the only source of information, and since the emperor did so, it showed that he wanted to maintain a sense of mystery.

Yun Ye took the emperor and his wife to visit the cow that almost miscarried, and also tasted the dried fruits of the old Cao family, as for the butcher's pork has been bought by the Yun family, the emperor did not go to see other people's pork again.

It didn't take much effort to go all over the Yunjia Zhuangzi, and some old farmers also dared to talk to the emperor boldly, as for the eldest grandson, he had long been surrounded by a group of old and young mothers-in-law and aunts and didn't know where he went, compared to the majestic emperor XiΓ , the approachable queen mother was always the most popular person in the Yunjia Zhuangzi.

"It seems that the queen is more popular with the people than me!" Li Er didn't look back and didn't find the queen, so he joked with the villagers.

"A man's family still needs some majesty, otherwise he won't be able to suppress the family, and the sons of the old man are afraid of the old man, but they are actually the same reason with their mothers."

Li Er smiled and nodded, very satisfied with this sentence.

As soon as the chatterbox was opened, the villagers saw that the emperor was easy to speak, so they slowly found a word to talk to the emperor, and there were not many times when they had a long face like this.

"So it's not reasonable to say that the imperial court's conscription is not set up?"

"Your Majesty, there is no unreasonable statement, the country also has to build roads, but also to build cities, these jobs always need people to do, although my marquis they have captured a lot of foreigners, but how can the work of building a city be handed over to them to do, our city still needs to be repaired by their own families, the official family said this truth, the old man just thinks, some people can go, some people are not suitable to go.

If you plant the land given by the imperial court, you have to pay taxes and serve labor, and the problem is that the people on our Yunjia Zhuangzi lose money when they go to labor. ”

"Loss? How to say this! Li Er was almost choked by this, and there was a loss in hard labor?

The old man smiled innocently and said: "Yes, a loss, you see, if the old man uses the time of labor to sell dried fruits in the city, he can earn five silver coins in a month, but what about it, the old man can hire a strong laborer with a silver coin, if you let this strong laborer replace the old man to serve the labor, not only do more work than the old man, but also better than the old man, in this way, the old man can also make a net profit of four silver coins, which is not only good for the official family, but also good for the old man. ”

Li Er's eyes are about to protrude, there is no way to answer this question, Cao Laohan's words are no problem at first glance, it is indeed a good thing to have the best of both worlds, but at the beginning of the formulation of the labor system, the dynasty did not expect that there would be such a problem, as long as this problem is thoroughly developed, it is necessary to redefine the tax system of the imperial court, how can this be something that can be completed overnight.

"Your Majesty, the old man's son is a government soldier, and he also followed the Hou Ye to the battlefield a few times, and he also took some military merits, and now he has become a lazy man when he stays at home, and he doesn't do any work, relying on his military merits to lie down and eat, and waiting for His Majesty to call him to the battlefield again, the old man has asked my Hou Ye, the policy of the imperial court in recent years is to recuperate, and no longer use swords, how can you say that he is like this, speaking of which, he is a government soldier, and the soldiers are farmers, and the court does not fight They are farmers. But he doesn't want to farm, he just wants to be a soldier, do you want to recruit him into the army again? ”

Li Er's mouth opened wide, this is another problem related to the national military service system, and it is not a sentence, two sentences can be said clearly, the result of thinking that the perfect treatment will be completely out of shape at the bottom, and it is too biased to replace the thoughts of the whole world with his own ideas.

I thought that the common people could only raise questions such as cows, dried fruits, and pork, but now I found that it was not the case at all, and the policies they formulated would eventually fall on their heads, and they were the ultimate interpreters of these policies.

"Water can carry the boat and can also overturn the boat, and the water nature is the most changeable, the boat also needs to adapt to the changes in the facts, sometimes with strength, sometimes with the trend, sometimes against the current, unfamiliar with the water will be capsized!"

After returning to the Yun family, Li Er and the ministers sat in the hall of the Yun family, and explained to the ministers what they had seen and heard in the Yun family's Zhuangzi, and the problems of the two old men made themselves speechless, there are still so many people in the world, and I don't know how much the problem of savings is, and how many undercurrents are lurking under the seemingly gentle water? ”

Li Gang said with a smile after listening: "Your Majesty doesn't have to be presumptuous, Zhenguan Dynasty has been a rare prosperous era for thousands of years, we now have no external troubles, no hidden worries inside, this is the merit of Your Majesty, Your Majesty will always be in the hearts of the people, and you can naturally cast a generation of saints, the so-called difficult to reconcile is the problem you are encountering now."

A policy, from his introduction to its implementation, needs to take care of the interests of the majority, not the interests of a small number of people, and His Majesty was confused by the appearance of the Yun family Zhuangzi.

That Cao Laohan himself said that he could earn five silver coins a month, did His Majesty think that all the people in the world who sold dried fruits could earn five silver coins a month? If he can afford to hire a strong laborer, can anyone else afford it? Labor is a way for the people to be loyal to the country, not a matter of silver coins, the old man thinks that this kind of thing can only be expanded, not reduced, as for the lazy government soldiers, it is just an example, there is no operability.

The story of the two children distinguishing the sun won't have been read, right? (To be continued......)

PS: Section 2