Zila, zila......

Seeing that the locusts were fried little by little golden and crispy, exuding an attractive aroma, Huang Zongxi couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and then the deputy took out some salt noodles from his pocket and sprinkled them, and the taste suddenly became more attractive.

Huang Zongxi overcame his own heart and did psychological construction for himself, locusts have been eaten since ancient times, Tang Taizong Li Shimin once ate locusts, and even said: "Locusts eat the people's grain, I eat locusts, this is called blood for blood, tooth for tooth." ”

I also thought that a noble person like Li Chaosheng had eaten locusts, and he couldn't let go of himself as a scholar, so he ate it.

Thinking about it, Huang Zongxi closed his eyes, took a freshly fried locust sent by his deputy, threw it into his mouth, and feasted on it with a big mouthful, looking at death as if he were at home, as if he had swallowed fresh meat with blood alive.

As a result, after chewing and handing, Huang Zongxi's eyes opened, savored the aftertaste in his mouth, looked at the smiling deputy and said, "You give me another one to taste." ”

The deputy smiled: "It's not as unpalatable as I thought." ”

Huang Zongxi nodded and said, "It's still ...... Okay, but weird. ”

The deputy said: "It's nothing, just try more." ”

Huang Zongxi threw another worm into his mouth, and continued to eat it in a big gulp, the taste was really good, Huang Zongxi ate several more, and finally let out a sigh: "It would be nice to have a sip of wine." ”

The deputy smiled and took down a wine gourd from his horse and said, "This wine is strong, drink less." ”

Huang Zongxi smiled when he heard this: "Don't underestimate me, I still drink well." ”

Saying that, he took a sip of the wine gourd: "Ah~ This is the sweet potato roast brewed by the Song family wine shop in Lantian, the old cellar of the Song family!" ”

The deputy said: "It's amazing, you can drink it." ”

Huang Zongxi said: "Gu Yanwu and I often drink it, although this wine is strong, it is comfortable to drink it in the abdomen. ”

The deputy smiled and took Huang Zongxi's wine gourd and said: "Zhongli Chief, you can just take a sip, this wine can be saved, and the wine is not counted in the supply of Lantian , after drinking, we can only ask the caravan to bring us some, and the price is almost twice as expensive as in Lantian locally." ”

Huang Zongxi smacked his lips and said, "You give me another sip, and I will pay for the wine next time." ”

The deputy said painfully: "That's it, that's it, another bite, a small bite." ”

Huang Zongxi took a sip of the wine gourd, smacked his lips with satisfaction, and his spirit recovered a lot, along the way, the bad situation on the Gansu side overwhelmed Huang Zongxi, and then he could finally calm down and think about what he was going to do next.

Huang Zongxi watched his deputy put the wine gourd away, and then said, "What happened to one of the counties around us?" ”

Hearing this, the deputy said: "Most of them are similar to us, but Kaiyuan County is said to have gathered the local people and has begun to prepare for the second spring sowing." ”

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Huang Zongxi was curious when he heard this: "Kaiyuan County, who is the chief among them, who is so capable?" ”

The deputy thought for a while and said, "It seems to be the nephew of the county honor, the son of General Li Chaolong, Li Dezong." ”

Li Dezong, the son of Li Chaolong, grew up with Li Chaogu since he was a child, Li Chaosheng was only eight or nine years old when he first crossed, but he is already twenty years old this year, and graduated with the first place in his studies at Lantian Political College this year, and was assigned to the first line of Gansu as the head of the middle school.

In fact, according to his identity, he can be regarded as a princeling with roots in Lantian and Miao Hong, according to his identity, he can find a noble job if he stays in Lantian, but Li Chaolong was influenced by Li Chaosheng, and resolutely opposed Li Dezong going through the back door, and repeatedly asked the Political Department to review him with the strictest review, if he personally does not meet the distribution standards, Li Chaolong's original words are that he would rather stay at home and raise him for a lifetime than go out to trouble the people.

But Li Dezong is really good, his political sensitivity is also very good, his administrative ability is also very strong, and his personal consciousness is also very high, and he took the initiative to come to Gansu, a bitter cold place, to develop here and improve his political performance.

In this regard, Li Chaolong approached the Political Department, thinking that it was too much for the Political Department to assign Li Dezong a position of lieutenant chief, and hoped to demote him to the position of lieutenant chief, and the Political Department was also very difficult, because according to the most normal process, with Li Dezong's achievements, a lieutenant should also be assigned, but Li Chaolong interfered with the Political Department.

The Political Department had no way to report this matter to Guo Bao, and as soon as Guo Bao heard this, he directly found Li Chaolong, but this old stubbornness couldn't make sense, and finally Guo Bao found Li Chaosheng in a fit of anger, saying that this job could not be done, Li Chaolong forcibly interfered in the work of the Political Department, not to mention, but also wanted to arrange the first place in the Political College as a lieutenant chief, if the first place in the Political Academy can only be a lieutenant chief, then how can other colleges be arranged.

When Li Chaosheng learned of the cause and effect, he personally found Li Chaolong, and severely criticized Li Chaolong for relying on his authority to engage in specialization.

Li Chaosheng said: "Engaging in specialization, it is not that you use your rights to obtain benefits is called specialization, you use your rights to suppress others, it is also specialized." ”

"County Zun, who am I suppressing?"

Li Chaolong was still not convinced, Li Chaosheng said: "Li Dezong, the first place in this year's Political Academy. ”

Hearing this, Li Chaolong's face suddenly collapsed: "County Zun, Dezong, this kid is still young, he needs more experience, how can he directly take on the big responsibility?" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Cousin, you have to have confidence in your children, when I was twenty years old, I also became a county honor, and you are also the first head of our Lantian regiment, right?" ”

"But how can this kid Dezong be compared to you as a county honor?"

"Why not?"

Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Our old Li family is still very competitive, especially the younger generation, Chaogu, the first in the Law School, the first in the Dezong School of Political Science, this is the blessing of our old Li family, let's be happy, he learned a belly of culture in the academy, you and I are still from a peasant and can still be in a high position, why can't my eldest nephew?" ”

Hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "If virtue is not matched, it will cause trouble, especially our old Li family, who is a county-honored family, if one does not pay attention, it will definitely attract people's handles, and when the time comes, it will be detrimental to the prestige of the county!" “

Li Chaosheng laughed and said: "If it is for the sake of my reputation, and I dare not let the capable descendants of the Li family get the reuse they deserve in Lantian, what reputation do I have, Lantian's reputation is not a virtuous person to avoid relatives, but to be fair, as fair as possible, to let people who are not from the Li family, but people from the Li family, get the reuse they deserve, this is what we Lantian people should do." “

After this enlightenment, Li Chaolong relented about this matter and agreed to Li Dezong's trip to Gansu for training.

I didn't expect Li Dezong to really have the ability, when he arrived in Gansu, in the face of such a difficult situation, he did it very easily, and completed the gathering of the people of Gansu at the first time, improved the credibility of Lantian at the first time, and formed an effective rule over Pingyuan County.

It has become the first county in Gansu to complete the containment of the people in the county and carry out summer sowing, which still needs to be highly affirmed.

Huang Zongxi looked at his deputy and said, "Li Dezong, princeling??" ”

When the deputy heard this, he smiled and said, "Where did Lantian come from?" And you seem to have a lot of disdain for the Lantian family? ”

Huang Zongxi said: "Since ancient times, the emperor's relatives have only relied on the resources of the emperor to achieve results, didn't Li Dezong of Pingyuan County rely on the resources of Lantian to carry out work quickly and complete the unification of the county?" ”

The deputy shook his head when he heard this, ate a locust and said: "You really guessed wrong this time, Li Dezong really didn't rely on Lantian's resources to tilt, and even Lantian's resources restrained him to a certain extent. ”

The deputy said: "Pingyuan County, the geographical location is the most remote in Gansu, the situation is even worse than here, and Li Dezong in order to show that he did not rely on his ancestors to achieve today's results, but also deliberately picked the worst resources in the county, he can do today's extent, it can only be said that he is indeed a capable official." ”

Huang Zongxi frowned and said, "Pingyuan County is more remote than us? ”

At this time, the deputy took out a map from his arms, pointed to this location, and said, "Look at this place, it is Pingyuan County." ”

Huang Zongxi looked at his deputy in a daze, and then frowned even tighter, it turned out that Pingyuan County was indeed more remote than his own here, and there were many mountain roads, and the roads were not very smooth, no wonder the resources could not keep up, and the transportation of some materials would also be restricted by the roads.

Huang Zongxi looked at the map and said, "How did he do it?" ”

The deputy said: "I really know this, because of his successful experience, our political department also sent a notice, you know?" ”

"You can do the things of the government in the name of bandits, and everything is based on the people, don't cherish feathers and don't do practical things."

Huang Zongxi said very accurately the content of the document of the Political Department that he had just received today, and his deputy said: "That's right, this guidance document of the Political Department is based on the successful experience of Pingyuan County, and you can also see one or two from it, but I have the channels to get the first-hand information over there." ”

"Oh, tell me about it."

Huang Zongxi was very interested, and the deputy said: "Okay, when it comes to this, I have to admire Li Dezong, he is indeed a capable talent, after he arrived in Pingyuan County, he found out about the situation there for the first time, and the people were afraid of the government like a tiger and wolf, so he changed his strategy at the first time, and did not play the banner of the government, but directly hung the bandit flag, known as the bandit Zhang Mazi to the outside world." ”

"When the people heard that they were bandits, they were not so afraid and resistant, after all, they have been used to coexisting with bandits over the years, and the bandits are still reasonable, at least more reasonable than the government, so they will not abandon their families and businesses and run into the mountains and forests."

"Li Dezong went to the village to raise a banner and asked the people to catch locusts for him, saying that three catties of locusts and one catty of grain, the people began to disbelieve that the locusts everywhere can still be exchanged for food, and the excuse given by Li Dezong was that he contacted a big herbalist who needed locusts for medicine."

In this way, the people began to catch locusts for Li Dezong when they were skeptical, and the locusts didn't want money anyway, and Li Dezong successfully sent the relief food down, and the people got the food, so they naturally believed in Li Dezong even more.

Immediately after Li Dezong announced to the outside world that Kaiyuan County would be used as his bandit cottage, from now on, the people here will be under his rule, and the most basic right of the people under his rule is to exchange locusts for food.

When the people got the benefits, they naturally had to listen to Li Dezong, and Li Dezong began to issue tasks next, such as turning over the abandoned land again, giving thirty catties of grain to one acre, such as helping to sow seeds, and giving ten catties of grain to one acre, anyway, Lantian is not short of food, and their purpose is to complete the sowing in Kaiyuan County and establish the basic credibility of the government.

And when the grain is out, they will slowly put things right, and finally say that they have taken refuge in Lantian and accept the land in the name of the Lantian government, so that Kaiyuan County can slowly get on the right track.

Now that the exchange of locusts for food has been completed in Kaiyuan County, it has now been carried out to hire people to reclaim wasteland and sow seeds, which is a very good stage, and the next step is to re-establish the credibility of the government.

Huang Zongxi listened to his deputy's explanation of Li Dezong, and from the very beginning, he thought that Li Dezong was a princeling, an incompetent person who lived by the shadow of his ancestors, and slowly changed his opinion, and finally was amazed.

It turned out that the disaster relief work he was at a loss for help was completed so easily under Li Dezong's policy, and he was thinking, what made him unable to think of such a solution?

Is it wisdom?

No, it is likely to be a position, or the education he received since he was a child, what he received since he was a child is courtesy, righteousness and shame, it is a Confucian classic, so that the way he thinks about problems has become very solidified, and in the Confucianism he learned, he played the role of a bandit to break the situation, this kind of world situation itself is unacceptable and does not conform to Confucian morality.

The people of Lantian University, especially these political students of Lantian Academy, do not seem to be affected by this, and they often start from the essence of the matter and find a solution.

No wonder when I was in Lantian Academy, in the political class, I always mentioned Li Chaosheng's words: Don't let the feudal etiquette shackle your thinking, politics is not etiquette, but practical learning, all administration should start from the perspective of the people, not from the perspective of Confucian gentlemen, and you can't use etiquette as a tool to cover up your male thieves and prostitutes.

In the past, Huang Zongxi didn't believe it, and he didn't want to admit that what Li Chaosheng said was reasonable, but today's events made him feel as if Confucianism was not as great and righteous as he imagined, and he felt that he would have to think about what Li Chaosheng said in the future.

The deputy looked at Huang Zongxi's thinking appearance and asked, "Chief, what are you thinking?" ”

"The problem of helping the people of our county."

"Do you have a plan?"

"Just copy Li Dezong's method."

"Ah, the middle chief is also going to be a bandit?"

"If the bandits can save the people, what if they are bandits!"