Xi shan.

When the rows of blue bricks and tiles here, and the people of the Han family wearing yarns, poured into He Kegang's eyes, He Kegang smiled heartily as if he saw gold and silver all over the ground.

Dressed as a merchant in Liaodong, on the order of the ancestor's birthday, he came here to inquire about the truth of the imperial court, but he didn't expect that after going to the periphery of Xishan, he would find that the people here were living so well!

The key is that He Kegang found that there are many rich and solid residential areas like this in the entire Xishan, stretching into a piece, and there is no end in sight, and there are many people, almost one residential area exceeds the population size of a big fort outside his pass, and there are free medical centers and social studies in these residential areas.

"I didn't expect the people of Xishan to be so rich, and they are better dressed than my family!"

He Kegang sighed because of this, and said to Wu Xiang: "Brother Wu, you say, how did the imperial court do it, it was able to let so many homeless people live and work in peace and contentment in just a few years, and they still live in brick houses, the windows are all glass, the streets are paved with terrazzo versions, the main roads have railroad tracks, running big carriages, saying that they are buses, many children go to and from school to take such a big carriage, not afraid of wind and rain." ”

After He Kegang said this, he couldn't help but muttered in his heart: "It would be nice if our people in Liaodi would live such a life in the future." ”

"Seize the benefits of weaving and smelting in the world, and now by providing arms to the imperial court and providing arms to the West Factory to help the Xilin people carry out changes in the south of the Yangtze River, the wealth and national funds of the Jiangnan gentry are earned to Xishan, do you say that the people of Xishan can not be rich? Back then, the Jin merchants who earned the wealth obtained from the looting of slaves through smuggling were not also rich enough to rival the country? Not to mention the West Mountain! ”

Wu Xiang said with a smile.

After hearing this, He Kegang said: "Even so, this also shows that the forces behind Xishan, such as His Majesty and Uncle Guo, are still different from the Jin merchants, at least they did not monopolize their profits to make their lives more extravagant, and even used them to squander." It's about enriching more people. ”

"It is precisely because they use the use of the world's powerful bureaucrats to benefit the people, not to squander, that they are even more terrible!"

Wu Xiang said.

After hearing this, He Kegang couldn't accept this, so he asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Wu Xiang said with a calm face: "So many benefits, almost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, are not used to squander, but to benefit the people, train and train a large number of strong soldiers and generals belonging to the imperial court, and even Ning invests a lot of energy in research and development of various skills, including firearms!" For what? In order to win more profits in the future! ”

"It shows that they are not satisfied with the status quo and are not satisfied with taking the benefits of the Jiangnan gentry!"

"In this way, they want to make the cavalry and archery advantage of Guan Ning soldiers and even the Tartars outside the gate no longer exist, and it will be more difficult for the family clan to confront the imperial court!"

"Because when the technology is improved to the point that an ordinary peasant soldier can obtain a high-quality and inexpensive firearm and can easily kill a general's disciple who has been proficient in riding and archery since childhood, or even a common person is so rich that any ordinary person knows to speak for himself, then where is the advantage of our generals of the big family? Why should people rest assured that they are slaves and tenants of our family? ”

"If the common people can be prosperous and peaceful and live with dignity without first becoming human masters, then it will be difficult for us, the children of the big families who live above ordinary people, to be treated favorably by the imperial court. You say, is it terrible for such an uncle and His Majesty to be terrible? ”

When Wu Xiang said this, he said: "It is precisely because of this that the powerful bureaucrats such as Yuan Zhongcheng and Jiangnan Gorilla Chengbo in the past are desperate to get rid of Uncle Guo, and they don't even want the prince to become such an emperor in the future." ”

"So, on the contrary, it is His Majesty and Uncle Guo who care about the people, so they are not tolerated by the world?"

He Kegang sneered.

Wu Xiang also sneered: "That's exactly the truth! If he, Uncle Zhang Guo, relied on the holy grace, ran rampant, oppressed the people, wantonly annexed the land, and let His Majesty protect him, except for a few people who read rotten books who will be dissatisfied, no one will really treat him badly, and will even rush to slap him! Even if he is ten times more than the relatives of the former Xiaomiao Dynasty, no one will really do anything to him. ”

But one of his relatives still cares about his people and the community! And today, we must be the son of heaven for the people of the world, not the son of heaven for the world's powerful men and doctors! Who can tolerate such a scourge? ”

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

He Kegang smiled helplessly, but he didn't agree in his heart, he didn't expect Wu Xiang to see it this way, he would feel that a relative who cares about the society and the common people is abnormal, and even feels that the emperor who cares about the people of the world is not normal.

But He Kegang was not in a hurry to refute, because he also had to admit that Wu Xiang's reasoning was not unreasonable, from the perspective of the family, it was true that the people were rich, but the wealth of his own powerful bureaucrats was meaningless.

However, He Kegang doesn't know why, maybe it's because he has lived a life of fine clothes and food for a long time, and after being satisfied with the extravagant life of drunken dreams and death, wives and concubines, he loses his pleasure, and he will unconsciously think of becoming a member of the ancestral family, and even relying on the relationship between the ancestral family and his own efforts to step by step to become a high-level military minister of the Ming Dynasty.

So much so that He Kegang is now unconsciously thinking that if the Liao people can be as rich as they are now, will there be no more Liao boys like himself and like himself, he has to live the days of licking blood on the tip of the knife in order to survive, and even has to live like a dog in front of the main family before he is revealed, even now he has to dare to straighten his waist and speak in front of his benefactor for some affection and interests.

How so?

He Kegang suddenly thought very much, and he really wanted to make other descendants of ordinary people in Liaodong not have to live like himself.

Because he knows that although if he lives like himself, he will be very beautiful after coming out, but in fact, there are very few people who come out, and it is more difficult than one in a hundred.

Wu Xiang, who was originally from a Jiangmen family, didn't have such thoughts, he kept frowning, especially after seeing that the militia in this Xishan also looked better than his Guan Ning soldiers and even looked more well-trained, and said: "Today's imperial court has indeed become terrible under the scourge of today's son and the uncle of the dynasty!" Even if the country is ruined, such a Ming cannot be allowed to exist! ”

He Kegang looked back at Wu Xiang in shock, his eyes seemed to breathe fire.

But in the end, he still suppressed his hatred.

Wu Xiang walked over and asked an old man in a robe who was selling rock sugar gourds to his grandson with a piece of broken silver: "Please forgive the younger generation, I don't know where the old man is from?" ”

"Liaoyang, Liaodong."

The old man replied.

He Kegang was shocked when he heard this: "Since you are from Liaoyang, how did you come to Guannei?" ”

The old man said with a smile: "The Jianzhou Tartars are in turmoil, our family originally ran to Ningyuan, but the Liaodi military masters didn't give me a way to live, robbed my second daughter-in-law, not to mention, but also robbed my granddaughter, and charged us an extra 20% rent for those of us who came from outside, and forced us to repair the city wall, we could only flee to the pass, and we fled here." ”

He Kegang felt a little heavy after hearing this, and asked, "I guess I have a good life here." ”

"Of course! Here, the imperial court still cares about our life and death, so that our family has settled down, several sons are now married to daughters-in-law, the eldest son has also become a senior technician, began to take apprentices, and grandchildren have begun to go to school here. ”

As he spoke, the old man said: "It's just that the military masters and Tartars outside the gate don't want us to live a good life, and they have recently entered the customs, which has made us really worried for a while!" Fortunately, Uncle Guo and Lu Shangshu commanded well, killed all the Tartars, and also scared the robbers like Guan Ningbing back! Now I heard that even Li Sanye in Liaodong was suppressed because he wanted to rebel and was killed by the nine clans, which is really happy! ”

He Kegang heard the old man say that these Guan Ning soldiers were robbers, and his face was a little unbearable, and after hearing that Li Ruzhen was chopped, he looked at Wu Xiang in shock.