The doors of the shops in the seven-point alley were open.

However, there are also few pedestrians on the streets, which seems very deserted.

Li Chenan sighed at this time and said:

"Brother, I do want to do something for Ningguo and the people of Ningguo, it's not pity, it's this damn conscience!"

"When I say tired, I don't mean physically tired, but ...... Tiredness in my heart! ”

"A large number of officials in the DPRK and China were beheaded and their homes ransacked. The remaining half of the officials, these people are capable ministers, but in my opinion, many of these people can follow orders, but their subjective initiative is too poor! ”

As if worried that Hua Manting would not be able to understand the word subjective initiative, Li Chenan explained: "What I mean is that including the six Shangshu, they are used to following the step-by-step process, lacking the initiative, planning and forward-looking nature of their work. ”

"Of course, the reason for them to jump a step with a stick may be the result of the nearly twenty years that Ji Tai has been in power. Worry about making mistakes, worry about responsibility, worry about offending people, and worry about losing the black yarn hat. ”

"This kind of official can be kept, but he is a little less determined to forge ahead."

"In addition, there are officials from all over the country, and the Imperial City Division has their details, but I have no one to use in my hands, and I can't do anything with them for the time being."

"So I'm going to hold an additional autumn festival next year to select a group of young officials, but it's very likely that I'm not in Kyoto when the autumn festival comes, who will preside over this matter?"

"One is not good, a group of corrupt officials have been killed, and another group of corrupt officials have been replaced!"

"For the people, there is a peeling of the skin, and there is a boiling oil, which is simply worse!"

"Why is the world so peaceful?"

In fact, the so-called world, for the king, it is the world that is important. For the people...... They just want a home where they can live and work in peace and security. ”

"They have this ideal, but it is difficult to achieve it."

"In the eyes of many rulers of all dynasties, they are sheep with an infinite supply of wool!"

"It's okay to pick up wool, but at the end of the dynasty, the ruler dislikes the wool and can't win, so he simply raises his knife and slaughters the sheep!"

"Do they have the people in their eyes?"

"Nope."

"All they have in their eyes is authority that is hard to give up!"

"While they are sucking the blood of the people, they tell the people that it is your honor!"

Hua Manting turned his head in surprise and looked at Li Chenan, and saw Li Chenan laughing at himself, "Why do they dare to be so unscrupulous?" Because the people are easy to bully! ”

"The people are at the bottom of the social structure, they are the cornerstone of a country, but the cornerstone bears the weight of the edifice built on it!"

"It is difficult for those who stand at the top of the building to see the pain of the cornerstone."

"Everyone in this building can't understand the hardships of the cornerstone, and they all take it for granted!"

"Therefore, in the distribution of social wealth, from top to bottom, the benefits are not the cornerstone."

"They are forever trampled under the feet of the rulers!"

"As far as the current national scientific examination system is concerned, studying is a luxury, and it is almost impossible for the cornerstone to climb up by relying on the imperial examination."

"They don't even have a problem with three meals a day, so where is the extra money for their children to get into the workforce through the study and examination?"

"This door is closed to them, and it is difficult to push it open."

"But when the country is in danger, the people sitting in this edifice will think of the cornerstone below, so tell them that the time has come to defend the country!"

"A decree, draw from the people, send them to the front, the people who die are still the lowest people, and those who enjoy the fruits of victory are still those old men in the building!"

"How many of those officials in the court have the lofty idea that if they live in a temple, they will worry about their people, and if they live far away from the rivers and lakes, they will worry about their king?"

"How many people have the great ambition of worrying about the worries of the world before and enjoying the joy of the world after the world?"

Speaking of this, Li Chenan shook his head and the corners of his mouth curled, and looked at Hua Manting's shocked expression: "It's far away,"

He suddenly stopped, stretched out his hand and pointed to the right:

"Look over there."

Hua Manting turned his head to look, on the side of this street and alley, in the midst of this snowstorm, there was a thinly clothed charcoal seller!

It was a hunched old man wearing a hat.

He clasped his hands in his sleeves, hugged them tightly to his chest, and kept pacing his feet on the ground, cold and curled into a ball.

In front of him was an ox cart full of charcoal.

The charcoal has been covered with heavy snow, which means that he has been standing here for a long time and has not sold a little charcoal for a long time.

But even if he was cold like this, he didn't make a charcoal fire to keep warm.

Seeing that it was getting late, he didn't seem to have any intention of going back.

Li Chenan took a deep breath, with a hint of sadness in his low tone:

"It's all about living!"

"Living, and hard to live!"

"Obviously, the price of goods has risen a lot this year, and this year's winter is colder than before, but his charcoal can't be sold...... Because there is no money left in the pockets of the people! ”

"As long as the cold doesn't die, everyone will tighten their clothes and get through it."

"As a result, it is more difficult for him to sell his charcoal."

"But he's still selling, even if it's getting late."

"Maybe he needs to buy some miscellaneous grains for his family with the money from selling this carload of charcoal, or maybe he buys a padded jacket for his family to survive this cold winter."

"Looking at Ningguo, how many people like him are there?"

When the three of them walked up to the charcoal seller, the little old man had already raised his head.

There was already a glimmer of hope in the old eyes of his dark face.

"Master, young master, do you want to buy some charcoal?"

"The villain's charcoal is very good, how about selling it to you cheaper?"

Li Chenan nodded, turned his head and ordered Amu: "Take him to the plum garden." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm fine."

“…… Good! ”

Li Chenan looked at the charcoal seller and said with a smile: "Old man, you go with him, I want all your charcoal, go to my house to settle the bill." ”

The little old man obviously did not expect to meet such a large buyer, he was very excited, his body was trembling, and his speech became stuttering:

"Thank you, thank you!"

He fell to his knees!

He kowtowed to Li Chenan three times!

"Childe is a good person, little old man, little old man wishes son a long life and a hundred years old!"

His barren words could not express the excitement in his heart at the moment, but what he did had already made Li Chen'an's heart extremely sour.

Looking at the old man driving the ox cart who followed Amu in the wind and snow, Li Chenan watched for a long time.

Suddenly, he blurted out:

"Sell charcoal, cut down and burn charcoal in the southern mountains.

His face was full of dust and smoke, and his temples were pale and his fingers were black.

What is the profit from selling charcoal? The clothes on the body eat in the mouth.

The poor shirt is single, and the heart is worried and wishes for the cold. ”

He walked forward.

Hua Manting watched his back follow closely behind, and listened to him recite again:

"A foot of snow outside the city at night, Xiao drove a charcoal car to roll the ice ruts.

……

A cart of charcoal, more than 1,000 catties, the palace envoy will not regret it.

Half a horse of red yarn is tied to the cow's head and filled with charcoal. ”

"Brother, Xing, the people are suffering, dying, the people are suffering!"

"Who is the people provoking whom?"

"Why should I be bitter?!"

"This, old society!"