"Since you can't stand the villain's dumping, the public will resign! It is better to retreat to the forest than to save the anger. Lest it make people think that the gentleman is easy to deceive! ”

Lu Shude met Shi Yingyue, because he heard Shi Yingyue say that he did not see the bureaucrats resign angrily because they prevented them from serving in the battalion, let alone seeing the gentry want to move to another side because of this, so he suggested it to Huang Yuan, the prefect of Yangzhou, who was also dissatisfied with the matter of inspecting the envoy battalion.

Huang Yuan smiled bitterly: "How can you abandon your father and abandon Sheji." ”

Lu Shude looked disappointed after hearing this, but he couldn't refute it, so he had to leave Yangzhou.

And it didn't take long.

When Lu Shude passed through Rugao, he saw that the market here was much more prosperous and lively than when he passed through here last year, and many people went in and out of Rugao City like a torrent, shouting and talking until the night.

Lu Shude sank his face at this, and then because he saw with his own eyes that a lifelong member passed by a post with a folding fan that was posted with "Fengyang Patrol Press Zhang Wenxi stays overnight in a nunnery", he directly ignored it, and even stepped on another tabloid that fell on the ground with the words "Zhang Wenxi amassed wealth for the big tomorrow and the next patrol press the first" directly under his feet, and only talked with the old farmers who came to the county to sell fruits, and his face was even more ugly, so he asked:

"Why are you so indifferent in this life?!"

This student's real name is Jinggui, and he is a student member of Rugao County.

At this time, he couldn't help but be surprised, and looked up at Lu Shude, because he saw that he was wearing a red robe, he had to salute solemnly:

"I don't know why students are so badly criticized?"

Lu Shude snorted: "Look at your own feet!" ”

Jing Gui looked down and saw a tabloid smearing Zhang Wenxi under his feet, so he smiled:

"The public must have come to Rugao for the first time, but I don't know that this kind of tabloid is obviously fake news, and it is used to confuse the public, otherwise it will not make more tabloids in the city about Zhang Xun's rectification of the powerful soldiers and the people, so no one takes this seriously anymore, even we don't take it seriously, and even the people are too lazy to pick it up for home use, after all, there are too many tabloids that can be picked up."

"Is that so?"

Lu Shude did not directly criticize Jing Gui, but only asked in surprise.

Jing Gui said: "Naturally! The student thought that this was true, and that he Zhang Wenxi really abused the gentry just to collect money, but he really didn't hear that there were big families around him who were asked for bribes, and there was no situation where they were defiled as soldiers and civilians because they failed to ask for bribes. ”

"You want this to be true?"

Lu Shude asked again pretending to be puzzled.

Jing Gui nodded and said, "Yes, because after we, the soldiers, can no longer buy tickets from the officials and generals to serve the soldiers and the people, it is much more convenient to study abroad!" ”

"After all, if you can't serve the soldiers and the people, the house slaves are not willing to follow them out on a long journey, and they have to have benefits to be willing to follow, and the advantage is that they can rely on the power of the master's family to direct the soldiers and the people, but now they can't, the hardships along the way are naturally borne by the house slaves, and the house slaves are naturally unwilling, if they want to, we masters naturally have to give more benefits."

"Regardless of anything else, it is not conducive to making study tours inconvenient, as the saying goes, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books."

"The imperial court should allow the scholars to gallop and use local soldiers and civilians to serve!"

Lu Shude sighed seriously.

Jing Gui was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed his hands: "If everyone in the world is so considerate of the scholars, it is naturally the blessing of our scholars!" ”

"You yourself should be tougher, and you can't just count on us as officials!"

"In such a current situation, the local government and county officials should be persuaded to clean up the tabloids that damage Sven's face, and they should also boycott the city and school, or even move to other places, so that the court will see that this policy is too harsh and the local gentry will be uneasy."

Lu Shude instructed clearly.

Jing Gui said: "The public doesn't know, it's not that we don't want to do this, but the problem now is that these tabloids that damage Sven's face can't be cleaned up at all, and today they will be torn up by the Yongjia slaves in the township, and they will suddenly appear in the whole city tomorrow, and they will be printed quickly, as if the gods are casting spells!" ”

"In addition, this market is so lively, not because of us gentlemen, but because the common people in the towns and villages have gradually become more happy and lascivious than before, competing for luxury and beauty, and the small people's homes are also riding in cars to enjoy the arts, so that the streets and alleys are full of copper coins and broken silver."

"Therefore, it is useless for us to boycott the market, not to mention that there are businessmen at home who cannot bear to strike the market when the prosperity of the market is greatly restored; As for the current harsh treatment of the gentry, they have to move to other places, and few gentry are willing, after all, people can go, what about ancestral land and ancestral graves? ”

"Therefore, the students did not stop going out because of this, and they also came to the market to take a walk."

After Jing Gui said this, Lu Shude smiled helplessly.

He couldn't help but take a look at the market in front of him, and sure enough, he saw many villagers walking back in an open-top carriage with large bags of goods, smiling one by one.

"Good!"

Oh.

Lu Shude also heard that in the overcrowded tea shop, many people in short clothes sat on the chairs on the second floor and shouted loudly to a storyteller, and even many of them also learned from their own scholars to give the storyteller a reward, and also drank tea at one end, gently blew it, sniffed it slightly, and paid attention to it, and did not use it as a thing to quench thirst.

This made Lu Shude feel nondescript, and he suddenly felt that going to the teahouse to listen to books had become tacky, and he didn't even feel any taste for tea.

Lu Shude didn't bother to enter Rugao City again, so he only lost his ground and continued to go south.

Not long after, he was on the side of the post road outside the city, and saw that there were village husbands who also learned to do picnics with their children, and even did the thing of talking about the wine order, and invited one or two excellent singers to play on the side.

"It's really a world of the world! Even the common people don't know how to be thrifty, but they learn from the scholars to wander in the forest, they don't know how to be diligent in farming, and they also regard themselves as rulers! ”

"As everyone knows, if you don't read first and don't understand reason, how can you play Gaole? Once this is the case, I am afraid that the doctor will take the world as his own responsibility, but he will be lazy and lascivious! ”

Lu Shude really can't stand seeing the people travel and have fun.

After all, he has always advocated that the people should be behaving according to the standards of science, that is, they should destroy their own desires.

He believes that even if the common people earn some savings by diligent farming, they should first actively read and learn the teachings of the sages.

There were not many scholars like Lu Shude in the Ming Dynasty, they could accept the arrogance and indulgence of the Zhumen nobles, but it was true that they could not accept the arrogance and indulgence of the people, and even sometimes, the people had to be prevented from listening to social dramas.

First, they are afraid that the people will gather to make trouble or provide opportunities for the spread of cults; The second is that if the people know too many stories, they will become Diaomin, so there will be officials who prohibit the people from entertaining.

But what Lu Shude didn't know was that under the influence of the officials in some places who used the Qing army to slash and plunder the people without authorization, many people woke up suddenly, and felt that if there was surplus wealth at home, it would only be remembered by the officials, so it was better to enjoy it yourself and be better for yourself.

Of course.

In addition, it is the time of the prosperous era, the internal economy of the Ming Dynasty is getting better and better, and the people's income has been increasing, and the people naturally have no worries about their ability to make money and prospects, the only thing they are worried about is that they are afraid that the officials will be greedy, that is, they have no sense of security, so they simply began to consume wildly.

(End of chapter)