Fortunately, the moon is also powerful tonight, exceptionally bright, and the moonlight shines on the path through the treetops, so that everyone can hurry at night.

After the ten coachmen had finished unloading the food, the ten coachmen left first, leaving only four cavalrymen to follow Wu Yong.

When Wu Yong patted the door of Fuwangli, and the escort mission of the four cavalrymen ended, they offered to leave.

Zhu Lidian asked them to wait for a while, then brought a basket of steamed buns, handed them to them, and said with a smile: "The generals escorted the little nephew, the journey was hard, it was late today, and the hospitality was not good, please forgive me, please take these relief buns, and use them on the way to fill your hunger." ”

Then he took out a small bag of copper coins and handed them over, "These money are some of my intentions as a lidian, and I ask the generals to accept them." ”

The leader nodded expressionlessly, accepted his things, said a word of farewell, and took the other three to get on the horse and leave.

The two watched the horses run away, and then closed the inner door.

At this time, Wu Yong found that in addition to Zhu Lidian, there were several people standing behind the door, namely Zhuo Wenxuan, Li Tiandian and Cheng Zhao.

After Wu Yongyi finished saying hello one by one, he just wanted to say goodbye, but was interrupted by Zhuo Wenxuan, "Xiao Zhao, you go back first to report your safety and tell your grandmother that Yong'er is going to sit with me for a while." ”

Cheng Zhao naturally didn't dare to object, glanced at Wu Yong, and then bent down to say goodbye and leave.

Wu Yong was non-stop all day, he was already tired, and he just wanted to go home to rest, which would be stopped by Zhuo Wenxuan, and he was a little unhappy, and he couldn't help but ask weakly: "What is my uncle looking for me, my nephew has been busy all day and hasn't eaten yet." ”

Zhuo Wenxuan scolded with a smile: "What? I can't look for you if it's okay! You kid hates your uncle now. ”

Seeing that he looked tired again, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Didn't you go to Wancheng to find Liu Zongzheng to ask for food?" How to get this virtue is like not eating for a few days. ”

Wu Yong sighed and said: "It's hard to say, my nephew doesn't even have the strength to speak now, my uncle should ask Uncle Zhong, he has been with me today, and everything is clear." ”

Zhuo Wenxuan looked at Li Zhong, but he didn't want Li Zhong to smile embarrassedly: "Master's house, many places don't allow villains to enter, and the villains don't know the specific details, but Xiao Langjun is running around all day." ”

At that moment, Li Zhong said that he encountered homeless people in Wancheng, went to Xuanmiaoguan to ask for a doctor, taught the homeless people to make food, and discussed changing food in Taishou Mansion.

Of course, there are many things that he doesn't know very well.

Everyone looked at Wu Yong with curiosity, they didn't expect him to go out for a day and do so many big things.

Wu Yong looked at his face full of curiosity, and couldn't help rolling his eyes, he was so hungry now, and he was in no mood to explain, "Uncle, are you trying to starve your nephew to death?" ”

Zhuo Wenxuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Let's go, go to my house first, and I'll ask your uncle and aunt to get you something to make up for it." ”

After speaking, he invited Zhu Lidian and Li Tiandian: "If the two virtuous brothers have nothing to do, they will go to a certain house to sit together." ”

Both of them were more curious about Wu Yong's experience, and they didn't refuse, so a group of people went to Zhuo's house.

Zhuo Wenxuan asked Li Zhong to put away the carriage, and then instructed the maid Chen to cook some meals and send them to the living room later.

The four of them came to the living room of the Zhuo family and sat down, and the Li family also got the news at this time, and when serving mint water to the others, they specially brought Wu Yong a small plate of snacks.

Watching Wu Yong gobble up snacks, Li Shi said with some distress: "You kid, no matter how important things are, you can't compare to your own body, don't be like this in the future, you are the time to grow your body, you can't be hungry!" ”

Wu Yong ate two kinds of snacks, took a sip of honey mint water, and felt a little less hungry, so he said to Li with a smile: "So that my uncle and aunt can know that in fact, my nephew has eaten food several times today, and it may be that he is constantly running, which causes his digestion to be very fast, so he is easy to get hungry." ”

Li Shi said angrily: "There are so many big people in Wancheng, it shows that you have the ability, right?" They are now worry-free, but they make you a young man busy and worry about your own family in the end. ”

Zhuo Wenxuan listened, waved his hand and drove away: "Go, what do you know as a woman, how many people want to do things for Taishou but can't, today Yong'er rescues the homeless, raises food, invites a doctor, serves the Taishou, and circulates between the homeless people and the government, I don't know how many people are impressed by it, with this matter, Yong'er's future is unlimited." ”

Then he thought of something, and said to Li: "Starting tomorrow, you let Tao'er follow Yong'er out to gain more knowledge, so that you don't have to know how to revolve around your two sisters all day long." ”

"Ahem" Wu Yong heard that Zhuo Wenxuan asked Zhuo Tao to follow him in the future, and he was almost choked by the water, seeing that everyone was looking at him, Wu Yong was worried that they were thinking nonsense, so he had no choice but to say truthfully: "Don't hide it from my uncle and aunt, tomorrow Taishou will have a banquet for the powerful gentry of Wancheng, and I need my nephew to do food, I'm afraid I can't take my brother with me." ”

Everyone knew that he made food, and no one could match him, and they didn't care about Taishou asking him to do food, but they didn't understand why Taishou went to banquet the powerful gentry when it was critical to relieving the homeless.

Wu Yong hesitated for a while, and said: "Everyone present has watched the kid grow up, and he is the elder of the kid, so the kid naturally doesn't dare to hide it. ”

Seeing that everyone still didn't understand, Wu Yong had no choice but to use the simplest analogy, "This bean food can be compared to meat, and even more beneficial to human health than meat." ”

Shocked, in addition to shock or shock, Zhu Lidian, Li Tiandian and Zhuo Wenxuan and his wife all stared at Wu Yong with big eyes, motionless, this is really shocking.

You know, this bean can be grown in every household! At this time, the people can not taste the taste of meat a few times a year, and many people are weak and sick.

After half a ring, Zhuo Wenxuan and the others came back to their senses, and looked at Wu Yong's eyes changed, especially Zhu Lidian, who managed Fuwangli, and understood the meaning of this method of bean food the most. At that time, most people were not optimistic about soybean beans, and they were always commensurate with cheap food, if this method of bean food was passed out, it would be a subversion of the whole world's diet.

Zhuo Wenxuan asked with a serious face: "What does Lord Taishou mean?" Why don't you pass on this bean food to the people of the world like pasta? ”

Wu Yong shook his head and said a little depressedly: "If you want to keep your lordship, since this bean can't be eaten as a staple food, it's better to let the powerful gentry monopolize its practices, so as to exchange for food relief for the homeless." ”

Zhuo Wenxuan frowned and pondered for a while, and sighed: "It is not unreasonable for Lord Taishou to think about it, the people can not eat soy food, but they can't not eat food. ”

Zhu Lidian interjected at this time: "Did the virtuous nephew ask Lord Taishou if we can use this bean food method in Fuwangli." ”

Wu Yong was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand what Zhu Lidian meant, this method of bean eating was invented by him, can't he even use it himself?

Seeing his dazed expression, Zhu Lidian had to explain: "Although this bean food was invented by you, but now Lord Taishou wants to use this bean food method to exchange food with the powerful gentry, naturally he doesn't want anyone to destroy his strategy. ”

Then he said in a somewhat lonely tone: "That is, our five-surname family is now down, how brilliant our five surnames were back then, and the marquis worshiped the prime minister, not to mention a county too guarded, even the emperor also respects our family." ”

Li Tiandian also sighed at this time and said, "What's the use of talking about this now!" If we want to restore the glory of our ancestors, for now, we have to rely on Wu Yong. ”

"When the Zhuo family went to Jue, the three families of Zhu, Wu, and Ren declined, and only the Li family did not return to its former glory. Our five surnames have been friends for generations, and the heads of the family discussed the establishment of Fuwangli.

But after so many years, not only did it not prevent the decline of the family, but our Fuwangli often had a gradual decrease in population due to lack of food. ”

"Hey!" Zhuo Wenxuan also sighed, "Although it is said that our five surnames are in the same spirit, but now the situation of each family is not optimistic, and the heads of the family are also focusing on the interests of each family, and sometimes there are even conflicts between our five surnames!"

In the past, there was an outlier of Wu Yong, and our five surnames could still be consistent with the outside world, but now that people's hearts are scattered, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse! ”

Zhu Lidian and Li Tiandian glanced at each other, and they didn't know what to say for a while, what Zhuo Wenxuan said was also true, not to mention the head of the five surnames, even if there were often contradictions between different surnames in Fuwangli.

At the moment, everyone didn't speak, and they were all recalling and lamenting the rise and fall of the five surnamed families.

Like the Li family, the ancestor Li Tong advocated as a commoner to help Emperor Guangwu achieve the imperial cause, and later married Emperor Guangwu's younger sister Liu Boji, the eldest princess of Ningping, as his wife, and was greatly favored, and the Li family was extremely glorious for a while, but time has passed, and now the Li family is no longer in the past except for a solid title, and it is even rumored that the current head of the family, Li Huang, often withholds the rations of domestic servants to subsidize the family's daily expenses.

For example, the Wu family, the ancestor Wu Han, was born in a humble background, started as a pavilion chief, and then led the people to return to Liu Xiu, the king of Xiao, and loyally supported the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu to be the emperor, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, now the Wu family has a title of Pingchun Hou, and most of the clansmen's lives are no different from ordinary people, and even the head of the family, Wu Xu, lives a tight life on weekdays.

There is also the Zhu family, the ancestor Zhu You has known Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu since childhood, the relationship between the two is very good, since Liu Xiu started the army, he has been following the left and right, and has been rewarded by Emperor Guangwu many times, and he is favored. However, the time changed, and the third generation of descendants were implicated in the royal witch Gu incident and were exempted from being concubines, or later the Empress Dowager Deng remembered the kindness of the ancestors and renewed the title of the descendant as the marquis, so far the Zhu family did not continue to decline, but it also hurt the vitality of the Zhu family, and once became the bottom of the five surnames.

Then there is the Ren family, the ancestor Ren Guangyuan was a small official in Wancheng, after Liu Yan, the brother of Emperor Guangwu, broke through Wancheng, surrendered to the Han army, and then offered Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu many times, made outstanding contributions to the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and sealed the territory, what a glory. However, after three generations, the family declined, and now the Ren family only has the title of Marquis of Beixiang, and the food is not enough for the daily expenses of the Hou Mansion, let alone the people of the Ji clan.

Finally, the Zhuo family, the ancestor Zhuo Mao was reused by Emperor Guangwu because of his talent and learning, and was appointed as the first Taifu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, making outstanding contributions to the social stability of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, he was made a marquis because of his talent, and when he died, Emperor Guangwu was buried in mourning clothes, what a glory. However, most of the people of the Zhuo clan are indifferent to fame and fortune, and after three generations, they will go to the lord and dismiss the official, and now the Zhuo family is no different from the common people, and the first goal of the ambitious clansmen is to restore the lord.

Wu Yong was a little stunned, how to talk about it, Zhuo Wenxuan and the three of them looked decadent.

How did he know that the reason for all this was because of the rise of the Shi clan, which impacted the imperial power and was suppressed by the imperial power, which was the reason for the decline of the five surname families.

Because the scholars and the imperial power were opposed to each other, the scholars not only united in the center to oppose the emperor's authority, but also competed for power with the imperial court at the local level.

The main manifestation is that economically, the scholars have more and more extensive land, resulting in the people having no land to cultivate and not being able to collect more taxes;

Politically, the scholars entered the political field through means such as inspection and requisition, monopolized the court officials, and became the ministers of the past generations to control the court.

Culturally, local education was also monopolized by these scholars, forming a succession of scriptures, resulting in no upward channel for the common people.

Just like why can the Runan Yuan clan achieve the level of the fourth and third dukes?

It is precisely because they are scholars that a large number of officials are recommended through the inspection system, and these officials and the Yuan family are both prosperous and lossy, even the emperor does not dare to offend the Yuan family easily.

Therefore, the development and growth of the scholar clan posed a great threat to the imperial power of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was inevitable that they would be attacked by the imperial power.

As the old saying goes: "Only the instrument and the name, you can't be a dummy, and the king's office is also!" ”

It means that if you fake the clothes and titles to others, this is giving the power to others, and you will not be far from the death of the country.

It was the emperor who realized this, and in recent years he reused eunuchs to suppress the scholars.

I don't know how long it took, Zhu Lidian was the first to break the silence.

"In recent years, the life of our down-and-out scholars has become more and more difficult, during the period of Emperor Huan, the eunuchs were reused to fight the scholars, but the big clan was not affected, and our down-and-out scholars suffered and were targeted by various kinds, and now the court is still controlled by eunuchs, when will I have a bright future."

Zhuo Wenxuan also smiled bitterly at this time: "Hey, I don't want to think about it when I am the emperor, if there is no support from our scholars, how to govern the world." ”