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After Mira went back and invited Sakura over, it was officially determined that Saburo, who had only had brief contact with the feudal swamp village, was the enemy that Ryunosuke was looking for.

The rest of the people, who had confirmed that Ryunosuke's side was not hostile, also joined them to receive some assistance in resupply. Although a certain distance was still maintained due to a series of accidents, it can be regarded as a release of vigilance and not to be tense.

And just when everyone thought that the coincidence was over, the former Chinese began to tell about the past, which made the faces of the young lady in the team darken.

Saburo is a scholar and has the same roots as Aya.

The division of labor in the society of the people, which has been stable for thousands of years without much fluctuation, is strictly clear, the royal family dominates the world, and the Chinese and the scholar clan act as the two arms of the royal family as both civil and military sides. The aristocracy firmly held the real power to form an unshakable class, while the people at the bottom toiled and labored, feeding the entire vast empire.

In addition to agriculture and farming, there are only three types of occupations that can be employed by civilians in the society: business, business, medicine, and scholars. Among them, the highest status and the least cost are the last scholars.

The universal education promoted by the powerful Moon Country with its huge national power has enabled the vast majority of ordinary people of the Japanese ethnic group to have basic literacy and writing skills. And if there are children from poor families who want to go further in this area, then the state will also subsidize academic education, but once you decide to go down this path, then you have to give up a lot of things.

"Those who obey the emperor's orders, bow to their best, and be the face of the crescent. He shall not marry, nor enter the world, but shall observe the precepts and read poetry and books. Purify your mind and calm your mind to get rid of distracting thoughts, and concentrate on only reading the sages. In other words, the scholars of the Crescent are the same as the monks of the White Church of the World in Rigal.

The supreme authority took control of the treasure trove of knowledge, gathered it and made it freely available to those who were willing to learn. Scholars do not have to worry about food and clothing, although there is no big fish and meat, but the state will ensure the basic living needs, so that they can study with peace of mind.

On the surface, it looks like a precious kingdom of heaven that values the transmission of knowledge – but like the White Church, these things always dig a little deeper to see that the inside story is not so rosy and simple.

Those who become scholars are not allowed to marry and leave offspring, and they are forbidden to leave the major academies for most of their lives, except for serving as staff members around the Chinese. Aya's Shinkyo Tenkaku Grand Academy is the largest and most prosperous in the entire Tsukino Country, but there are actually small-scale seowon in various places.

Ostensibly, it is to eliminate distractions, so that those who are dedicated to learning can concentrate on reading only the books of the sages. In fact, it was the means by which the royal family firmly controlled the knowledge in their hands and did not pass it on - the literacy rate of the country of the moon is high, because the land area is vast, and the accents of the northern and southern dialects are different, and the transmission of speech is not necessarily convenient. But there is no accent in the text.

Everyone knew the same script, which made it easier for Shinkyo to promote his ideas, and it was the scholars who did it. They are the façade of the crescent moon and the tongue of the god-emperor. If you can't marry and leave offspring, then naturally you can't turn your knowledge into a certain family's private goods and pass it on.

Knowledge is the stuff of the royal family, after learning it, you can't just leave it, you want to rely on this knowledge to make a name for yourself, all your learning can only be used to serve the royal family and serve the whole society.

And even this new Kyoto still thinks that it is not enough, and they set up a law that strictly stipulates that scholars are not allowed to interfere in social affairs, and these people who are rich and wealthy will always be only staff members, and will always have reference value, but no decision-making power.

This is a system that seems to be glorious, but in fact it is full of shackles.

Commoners think this is an opportunity to get ahead, and the position of a scholar does have a respectable position in society.

But this esteem does not come entirely from their knowledge and status, but from who they serve. Scholars of high status can speak on many important occasions as staff members, so in the eyes of the people, they seem to be on an equal footing with the big names.

Teenagers and girls who are looking forward to becoming scholars and changing their fate, when they finally find that the higher they climb, the more they are constrained, the mood is probably very complicated.

They are not free to use what they know, and even if the Chinese assigned to serve as staff members are incompetent, their opinions are not taken seriously.

Some scholars once laughed at themselves that their class was like a thick ancient book of the 4,000-year-old history of the Land of the Moon, full of all kinds of strange things and magnificent history, but some people used it as a stepping stone on the table.

This situation of being full of knowledge but having nowhere to show its strength is exactly what Xinjing deliberately did - they can't let knowledge be cut off, so someone needs to learn and someone to continue to innovate. But if a person who has academic success and outstanding ability has two intentions to change the country by himself, what should he do?

Xinjing did not allow the people to have their own thoughts, and the scholars who had been trained could only say what those in power were willing to let them say, and the people were only allowed to hear what they could hear.

They could not control the military power, could not be involved in the government affairs, and could not leave heirs or even pass on the texts in the academy privately. Everything is just for maintenance.

The eternal reign of these four thousand years of empire.

But after all, the scholar class is full of poetry and books, and the more developed the thought, the more difficult it is to control. Although there are many people who are grateful for the opportunity given by Xinjing and are loyal to the royal family, there will always be people who are stubborn and arrogant. Wouldn't it be more efficient and brilliant if the Chinese people he thought he served were incompetent, and that everything was controlled by a man like him, who had read poetry and books.

Saburo's story is probably a little bit like this, but it's not entirely like that.

When talking about all this, Ryunosuke's expression was not full of hatred and resentment, and he was a little lonely.

Ryunosuke recounted: He was once his own staff, and at that time there were no more than 10,000 households in Pingshan County, and he himself was only a county magistrate. San Lang was also born in Pingshan County, and he returned after completing his studies. Outstanding ability and was a white-faced student at the time, with a gentle and gentle voice, often with a spring breeze. Zuo is full of scriptures, knows astronomy and geography, and when he takes office as a staff member in Pingshan County, he is often surrounded by warblers and swallows.

Although scholars are not allowed to marry, they are ordinary people and not eunuchs after all. It is inevitable that there will be a love between men and women, and many people will want to go to the place to become a lord after they have learned something, and it is inevitable that they will have the idea of having such peach blossom luck, not to mention that Pingshan County is still the hometown of San Lang. His father died early, his mother was still there, his family was poor, he became a scholar and returned to become a county magistrate's staff, no matter how he thought about it, he returned to his hometown in fine clothes and was very popular.

The Chinese and the scholars are unattainable, but Saburo is of civilian origin and highly respected. Even if you know that you can't be a marriage partner, there are countless women who are approached with various ideas or simply attracted by him personally. But it is precisely because of this that he has developed an increasingly unsatisfied appetite.

Whether it is the nature of this or the rapid degeneration of unsophisticated scholars under too much stimulation, it is no longer clear to Ryunosuke today.

The basic salary of staff work is 6 taels of silver a month, which is equivalent to the income of ordinary people for more than half a year. Although it is not rich and expensive, there is basically no additional cost for room and board, and it is still possible to save some assets by being thrifty.

But the vast majority of scholars will spend it after they start, for the simple reason that they have no future.

Scholars who are unable to start a family have no descendants to pass on their assets even if they have accumulated, so most of them choose to spend them all, after all, they do not need to worry about food and clothing, and even if they are dismissed by the Chinese and lose their staff jobs, they can still return to the academy to live a poor life.

At that time, Saburo was not much different from others, because his mother was still alive, he would give out some salary every month to support his mother. And that's when events take a turn for the better. After serving for more than half a year, San Lang cried bitterly on the grounds that his mother was seriously ill and Ryunosuke raised his salary, seeing that he had made meritorious contributions to improving the local economy and his filial piety was commendable, Ryunosuke, who was still the county magistrate at the time, also generously gave him a rise of 4 taels in one breath, making up 10 taels.

After that, Saburo did this twice, and the price finally rose to 15 taels of silver a month - due to the frequent application for salary increases, Shinkyo only approved 11 taels of silver, and this deficiency was still carved out by Ryunosuke from his own money.

You must know that as a county magistrate, his monthly income is only 20 taels of silver, which is almost equal to his income.

Even though he later knew that Saburo did not give all his salary to his mother, but indulged in fireworks and willow alleys all year round and later contracted a bad habit of alcoholism, Ryunosuke still retained the greatest kindness, only thinking that he was too sad for a while because his mother was seriously ill, and he would sober up after a while.

But this kind of thing intensified, and the 15 taels of silver only lasted half a month before it was spent. In the end, I had to advance every month, and I paid 13 months in advance.

owed such a large amount of debt, but Ryunosuke didn't bother with him too much. However, what is terrible is that Saburo's excessive alcohol addiction and excessive indulgence have ruined his body, and his original white and spring breeze appearance has gradually become unkempt, thin and with dark circles, like a living dead, and his work has become more and more casual.

Ryunosuke, who regarded him as a friend at that time, went to visit, thinking that he was too worried about his old mother at home, so he proposed to let him leave the county government for the time being and return home, and his salary was reduced to 3 taels a month, and in the name of "caring for the old and the young", he did not have to act as a staff member to take care of his mother at home and get paid.

But who knew that such a proposal touched Saburo's sensitive heart, and he almost roared that he wanted to hire money to do it for his mother, and how could he be tired of Ryunosuke's high-minded charity, anyway, he would run the same way with or without the county government, and the scholar without real power was just a decoration, and Ryunosuke just treated him as a slave.

The conversation ended unhappily, and after that, Saburo did not show up for a long time, and the county magistrate did not go to him. If he didn't come to work, he didn't pay him, not to mention that he still owed 13 months' salary, and he cut off his salary for Saburo. So 3 days passed, 5 days passed, and a week passed. Two weeks later, just when Ryunosuke thought that he was probably going to resign and return to the academy like this, Saburo, who had cleaned up, returned to the prefectural government, and knelt down to Ryunosuke with tears in his eyes and said that he was going to reform himself.

Ryunosuke gave him that opportunity, and it seems that Saburo has indeed changed since then.

Originally, he only served as a staff member above the hall, and he began to walk the countryside more often, and the fireworks and willow alleys and alcohol were completely abstained. He became a bridge between the people of Pingshan and Ryunosuke, conveying public opinion to Ryunosuke so that he could revise policies according to the will of the people. After 5 years, the entire county has developed and grown, and finally settled in more than 10,000 people and became a wealthy county. And Ryunosuke was also promoted to the county magistrate, and his power and power rose.

Many people are grateful for Saburo's running, and when he showed a green smile under the praise of the people, Ryunosuke was also grateful from the bottom of his heart that he had such a friend.

But the reality is not so naïve. Saburo, who is running around, unknowingly has a higher reputation among the people than Ryunosuke, and people feel more and more that this staff scholar is a more charismatic leader than the prefectural magistrate who has been staying in the mansion and not going out to handle official business.

Not only that, but because of the relationship between private friends, Ryunosuke's wife and daughter's family are also very close to Saburo, and when he was busy with official business, he came back to his senses and noticed that he found that his identity and status seemed to have been taken away by Saburo.

There are fewer and fewer common topics between husband and wife, and compared to Saburo, who knew astronomy and geography and was as young as a little boy, Ryunosuke, who was simply a model samurai at the time, treated his family strictly and harshly. Even his own daughter is always smiling in front of Saburo's brother, and once he appears as a father, he is so frightened that he sits upright and doesn't dare to speak.

When the samurai under his command reminded him that Saburo had done more than a scholar should have, Ryunosuke found that many of the affairs of the territory were inseparable from his cultivation.

How sluggish I am, I always noticed something was wrong. But after all, it is a friendship for many years, and Ryunosuke is worried that Saburo, who is a scholar, will be too popular and attract bad comments, such as his intention to plot chaos, etc., so he sent his subordinates to spread the word in the hope that he can keep a low profile.

But the villager didn't know how to shout loudly in front of the villagers whether San Lang had any intention of rebellion, and ordered San Lang to kneel and kowtow to the county government from the road to prove that he had no two intentions.

Such a big movement attracted a large number of onlookers, and rumors that the county commander was jealous of the staff's ability to do such a thing also spread again and again.

A few days later, the news came out that Saburo had been beaten and bruised by someone who had gone out at night. It is said that when he was unconscious, he only clutched the torn cloth in his hand, which was the silkworm brocade produced from Pingshan to southern Qingzhou, an expensive fabric that could only be worn by samurai.

Saburo, who was already very popular, encountered this kind of thing, and under the excitement of the rumors, the mob with farm tools broke into the prefectural government.

In the face of the riots, the samurai naturally responded with force. But as he slaughtered his people with a knife in his hand, Ryunosuke looked back, and his wife and daughter looked at him and looked at a stranger.

At that time, he still couldn't understand how all this happened, how it ended up like this, and it wasn't until he was dismissed by Xinjing because of the lack of territorial governance, and Saburo, who had finished recuperation, came to him that he finally understood that all this was his plan.

"Why, contemptible, treat you like your own brother. The unbelievable county magistrate looked at his former friend, and Saburo's expression was full of grief and mockery: "After you cut off her salary, my mother couldn't renew her medicine and has been dead for 5 years." ”

"You don't know any of that. The scholar who was high up looked at the samurai who was kneeling on the ground, and his eyes were cold.

It was what happened in those two weeks, but he didn't know until 5 years later.

He can blame Saburo for not knowing how to save money, spending a lot of money and even paying for 13 months before finally his mother was seriously ill but had no money for medicine, and from the perspective of others, he was enough to claim that his practice of cutting off his salary at that time was benevolent and righteous. Even for him to be able to quit the "kindness" of alcohol.

He could come up with many reasons to excuse himself, but it is.

He doesn't know and doesn't care.

"All I value is his ability, I don't think of him as a living person. Back in the present, the prefectural commander, who used to be a perfect samurai who didn't smoke or drink, took a deep puff of his pipe and said this as he exhaled.

"I didn't treat anyone else around me like a living person. ”

"That's his revenge. He said.

Losing the identity of the prefectural magistrate is not the end of Ryunosuke, and Saburo's revenge is to make him lose everything he cares about. So he took away even his wife and daughter. The family, who had already parted ways, also thought that everything was his fault for being cold and jealous, and they sided with the amiable Saburo and wanted to follow him to the end of the world, but after abandoning Ryunosuke, they were immediately killed by Saburo and dumped in the wilderness.

"You killed my mother, so I'm going to let you die twice. ”

A scholar cannot hold power, no matter how high and capable he is among the people. If he destroys the class relations in the Moon Country, he will only be besieged by other Chinese around him if he forcibly ascends to the throne.

personally created the prosperous Saburo of Pingshan County, and the last thing he had to do before leaving was to destroy the county. He wouldn't give up his work to someone Shinkyo assigned, and he knew that if he was found to be the culprit, he would be hunted down endlessly.

So with Ryunosuke stepping down, he instigated the samurai who thought they were loyal to Ryunosuke to launch a riot, and provoked Ryunosuke, who was in a rage because his wife and daughter were abandoned and killed by him, and was slashed and faked his death and retreated.

But for so many years, the former county magistrate firmly believed that this man was still alive.

"This is probably the only driving force to support the despicable people's livelihood. Ryunosuke, who had finished his story, lowered his head and just smoked a cigarette without saying a word, the firelight swaying, his face flickering on and off, and the others were silent for a long time after listening.