The policy of raising more children and exempting them from military service has indeed greatly curbed the phenomenon of abandoned infants, and also made the people begin to take the initiative to give up this cruel way of birth control.

On this day, as soon as the sky was bright, there was a burst of baby crying in Qingjiangpu, Huai'an, and by the canal.

As the baby's cry appeared, Ye Agui, who had been nervous outside the shed for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, not long after, Ye Agui came in and saw his wife Wang Xiaocao and the baby that had been wrapped.

When Wang Xiaocao saw Ye Agui coming in, he first asked, "It's a no-handle, do you want to throw it away?" ”

"Keep it up!"

"I now have a job in the paper mill, so I don't have to worry about raising a few more children."

"Besides, the imperial court is not allowed to abandon babies, saying that it is contrary to the way of the new ritual law to save benevolence, and I don't know why the new ritual law is made! But I know that if I, like me, who works in a government-run paper mill, go against the court, I might kick out the paper mill and say that I don't listen to the emperor. ”

Ye Agui said.

Wang Xiaocao smiled after hearing this: "Then give her a name." ”

Ye Agui nodded, and then thought about it seriously.

Ye Xiaocao saw that her husband was seriously thinking about the name, so she glanced at her daughter, and was even more happy for a while, and said, "My father didn't abandon me back then, and now I don't want to abandon her." ”

When Li Rusong was passing by Qingjiangpu, he also heard the cry of a baby from the shack where Ye Agui lived on the shore, and he also deliberately followed the sound and asked, "Is there anyone?" ”

Ye Agui came back to his senses because of this, and saw that Li Rusong was dressed in silk clothes, with a white face and a strong body, and all the healthy servants with him were powerful, so he was so frightened that he got up for a while, and asked cautiously: "I don't know what's the matter?" ”

Li Rusong said: "I heard that there was a baby crying, so I came to ask, but there is something that needs help." ”

"Thank you for the great goodness, I really don't need it."

"It's my Hun family who gave birth to a little cub, and I'm about to choose a name."

Ye Agui replied.

Li Rusong hurriedly said: "Congratulations on this." ”

Then, Li Rusong asked again: "Is it a man or a woman?" ”

"Daughter."

Ye Agui replied.

Li Rusong nodded and asked, "If you want to take a name, you must have to keep it?" ”

"Naturally!"

"What do these things do when the great good man asks?"

Ye Agui asked after answering.

Li Rusong couldn't say it clearly, he had the task of collecting style and asking politics, so he only smiled and said: "Ask nonsense." ”

Coincidentally, at this time, Master Qian of the paper mill also came over with someone and asked Ye Agui: "Born so soon?" ”

Ye Agui agreed: "Yes, I am worried about you, but it is also smooth." ”

"That's the case, I'm not here for nothing, in response to the emperor's intention to implement new rites, the master of Fuyuan has asked for a will, allowing subsidies for the children born to the official craftsmen in the government-run workshop, a one-time silver dollar two taels, you are the first to be born in our paper mill, register the name of your newborn child, and you and your wife, stamp your handprint, you can take the money."

After Master Qian said that, he took out the booklet and gave it to Ye Agui.

Ye Agui was quite happy after hearing this, and hurriedly said: "I haven't thought of a name yet." ”

"It's not as good as a son-in-law, it's called a new ceremony, what kind of spring plum and autumn chrysanthemum are more ordinary, aren't these unconventional?"

Li Rusong suddenly interjected at this time.

"This is good, Dong Weng must like it!"

Master Qian said with a smile.

"That's fine!"

Ye Agui glanced at Li Rusong, who was familiar with him, and said, "I'll think of a nickname for myself that is easy to support." ”

Here, Master Qian had a few words with Li Rusong after bowing his head.

Li Rusong then continued north.

But when he was wandering around in the city of Dongchangfu, Shandong, he saw so-called "parents" selling their children.

Li Rusong asked Zu Tan, a domestic servant who was doing business in Dongchang for his Li family and now also came out to hang out with him: "Isn't it already forbidden to abandon babies, how can there be so many children being sold, according to the new decree, if you have more children, you can reduce Ding Yin, don't the people know?" ”

"If you go back to your father, the people really don't know, at least in the provinces of Shandong, the officials are still collecting Ding silver as before."

Zu Tan replied.

Li Rusong sank his face after hearing this, and asked Zu Tan: "Why is this?" ”

Zu Tan saw his lord asking, so he said: "Uncle should understand that the grace of exemption from military service and tax exemption has always been granted, if it is exempt from military service and tax exemption for powerful officials and gentry, the government naturally does not dare not implement it; ”

"But if some ordinary people who meet the conditions are exempted from military service and exempt from military service, then the government will not take it seriously, and at least it can delay it until it is discovered, and at worst, it will turn the emperor's grace of exemption from military service and tax exemption into exemption and exemption for the wealthy people, for example, you can still not use the original yellow book, but still compile a white book of enlistment, and then count the person who should be exempted from military service and exempt from tax as a wealthy gentry."

"After all, it is easy for the people to know that there will be a decree from above."

"In this way, whether the emperor's favor can benefit the small people depends on the local officials, especially the Fu officials."

"How is this Shandong Fu Guan?"

Li Rusong asked after speaking.

"Duke Wu of the Imperial History is good at talking, only knows how to serve soldiers, and when he lectures, let the soldiers be called by the lecturers, and even make them build academies for the local scholars, which obviously attaches great importance to civil governance, and only coping with the new policies issued by the imperial court."

And the inspector Li Fengxian is even more mediocre, I don't see where he went to set up a procuratorate, and I don't know where he went. It is reported that some people have also seen him at Gu Quanlang's house in Wuxi, as if he was not an official and went to Jiangnan to travel. ”

Zu Tan replied.

After Li Rusong heard this, he also wrote these observations into the secret music.

In fact, Li Zongcai, the governor of Shandong, has now returned from Jiangnan, and on this day, outside a new academy, he saw Wu Shanyan, the governor of Shandong, and said:

"I have received definite news from Jiangnan that someone in Beijing has contacted them with fried flowers, and the establishment of this so-called new ceremony will face great trouble."

"What kind of trouble?"

Wu Shanyan, who was looking at the soldiers of his standard battalion carrying some soldiers up the mountain, hurriedly turned around and asked Li Zongcai.

Li Zongcai said: "Naturally, a large number of captives and horses plundered the Koubian, the wolf smoke was exhausted, and Gyeonggi was shaken!" ”

Wu Shanyan smiled and said, "I really hope that the imperial court can stop building new rites because of this, and emphasize virtue and respect the ancients, instead of blindly carrying forward the present learning." ”

"All the gentlemen in the world hope that the etiquette system will not be changed, and only the traitorous party in the DPRK and China will use the change of etiquette to gain power, so that if today, meritorious service will not be restored."

"Even a great Confucian like Mr. Jingyang can't stand in a temple."

Li Zongcai replied.

Wu Shanyan bowed his head after hearing this.

Li Rusong happened to wander here at this time, and when he saw this newly built academy, he also saw a strong man carrying books up the mountain, so he stopped and asked, "Why are you wearing military boots?" ”

The strong man replied, "Because I am a standard battalion soldier." ”

"Then why are you working here?"

Li Rusong asked.

"How dare you disobey the order of the Fu Yuan!"

The strong man replied.

Syllable!

At this time, a boy servant came over and whipped the strong man of the battalion: "Hurry up, what are you chatting with passers-by!" Don't delay my father-in-law's lecture! ”

The strong men of this battalion had to hurry up.

Li Rusong's face collapsed when he saw this, and then he saw that some battalion soldiers were carrying these soldiers up, so he was even more angry, and he gave Zhu Yijun a secret recital that night.

(End of chapter)