Along both sides of the river, the ten counties of Shuofang County dug hundreds of miles of diversion canals, on the surface, a lot of land was wasted, but in fact, these two branch canals alone irrigated more than 780,000 acres of fertile land, in the vast land and sparsely populated Han Empire, these hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land are of great significance.

While the drought in the north was extensive, the crops in Shuofang County had already been watered twice.

Wheat heading and filling, did not delay at all, large areas of wheat fields, dark and heavy, green, even if the weather is not beautiful, a rain in June and July should be a bumper harvest.

Yang Chuan couldn't stay idle.

At this time of year, it is also the time when the Huns like to sneak attack and plunder the most, those wolf Riha are very smart, and the raids on the Han border not only want to rob a large amount of money and grain, iron tools, women and children, but also like to carnival in the Han people's crops, and trample large areas of crops into flat land.

In other words, while they robbed, they also had to constantly destroy, that is, they did not let the farmers of the Han Dynasty live well.

Guo Xie bought nearly 10,000 'human livestock', these people were all selected, not to mention young, basically there were no diseases, which could be regarded as solving Yang Chuan's urgent need.

Yang Chuan distributed those young adults and women to each group of people and livestock according to the needs of each tuntian, and directly converted their identities into 'military households'.

Don't underestimate the current identity of this 'military household'.

In some later dynasties, the status of military households was not very humble, but it definitely belonged to a class of abject poverty, and the imperial court 'pinned high hopes' on these people, and often nationalized most of its income.

That is, in a fucked-up dynasty, these military households will quickly become tenants of the imperial court.

It is conceivable that when there is a war, or when the Huns come in and plunder, these military households basically do not do anything to resist, anyway, the vast majority of the money and grain are from the imperial court, and it is not worth it to fight and take a small life for this reason.

Therefore, Yang Chuan was trying to improve their status from the beginning and reduce the taxes of the imperial court as much as possible; As a result, only one-tenth of the tuntian in Shuofang County belonged to the imperial court, and the rest belonged to 'farms and military households'; moreover, the officials in charge of tuntian were only responsible for cultivation and harvesting, and were absolutely not allowed to occupy the land under their rule.

The oppression and exploitation of farmers by the powerful families have always been unscrupulous, and those officials often take advantage of the fire to rob, and gradually become landlords and old wealth.

Yang Chuan accepted all the seven or eight hundred teenagers among the human and animal populations, and handed them over to Ah Tie, Ah Shi and other teenagers for a thorough examination, screened out six hundred orphans with clean backgrounds, and planned to train these orphans by himself.

Liu Che has a Feather Forest Army composed of Feather Forest orphans.

So, Yang Chuan, Hou of Changning, can he find a way to train a 'Changning Army' composed of orphans? Yang Chuan was very cautious about this matter, and even Tangyi's father hid many things.

These 600 orphans are real orphans.

After all, the so-called 'Yulin orphans' are just their father and brother who died on the battlefield, and fundamentally speaking, those people are actually good children.

Therefore, Yang Chuan's training of these 600 orphans starts with the 'minutiae' of daily life, life attitude and lifestyle, and tries to make himself appear as an elder brother, rather than a marquis of Changning and a county guard.

Facts have proved that this way of getting along with each other is secret and effective, and those young people from despicable backgrounds, who have lived in this world for twelve or thirteen years, have endured endless suffering, and have suffered unimaginable sins, and who also belong to the lowest kind of people in the 'human animal'.

Therefore, when they first met Yang Chuan, they looked very reserved.

This kind of restraint made Yang Chuan very uncomfortable.

Because, he remembers, there was a great gentleman who once said that this person lives in the world, and is often 'the cowardly and angry, but it is easier to draw the sword against the weaker'; what does this mean?

That is to say, those who have suffered great crimes, suffered great hardships, and are at the bottom of the world will either become big people like Baili Xi and Yi Yin; Or, become an 'angry weakling' and slash the butcher's knife at the weaker and more pitiful underclass than him......

"All in the shower?"

In a large manor more than thirty miles away from Shuofang City, Yang Chuan saw the teenagers for the first time, and asked with a smile: "Look, this washing is different, the whole person is refreshed."

By the way, in recent times, you can't eat too much, you must drink three bowls of light salt water every day, and then drink a few days of herbal juice and gruel, and slowly add a little meat, otherwise, your stomach can't stand it. ”

The six hundred orphans bowed down in unison and said, "Yes! ”

Yang Chuan waved his hand and said with a warm smile: "Don't be restrained, in terms of age, I am only a few years older than you...... By the way, Ah Tie, these children will be handed over to you from now on.

You have to remember that they are from the same bitter background as you, you must treat them as your own brothers, and if anyone bullies you, you must tell me, and I will kill him with my own hands. ”

Ah Tie and the other young men bowed: "Huh! ”

Yang Chuan nodded slightly: "Ah Tie, Ah Shi, you must always remember that the reason why the weak are called weak is that when the weak are angry, they often cut the butcher knife in their hands at people who are weaker than themselves, this kind of person, we don't care about it;

Since you have become my Yang Chuan's brother, you must have my Yang's principles of life;

Without him, that is not afraid of the powerful, living to the death, fighting for his own survival, until the last drop of blood is shed, the last drop of sweat is spilled, and the only thing that is not needed is the useless tears.

Because, this bullshit world doesn't believe in tears. ”

After Yang Chuan patiently taught, he left on his own.

As for the training of the 600 orphans, he had already given a very detailed explanation to Ah Tie and Ah Shi, which was nothing more than training them to fight with cavalry and archery, but also to pay close attention to everyone's special combat ability and 'ideological cultivation', and strive to train a 'Changning Army' that is no less than the Yulin Army in terms of combat power and loyalty as soon as possible......

……

After dealing with the affairs of the six hundred orphans, Yang Chuan rode a mare and swayed back to Shuofang City.

As soon as he entered the gate of the Taishou Mansion, he saw Dong Zhongshu sitting on a rattan chair with his eyes closed and recuperating, and seven or eight disciples of the sect around him were serving, looking very comfortable.

"Marquis Changning, Dong Zhongshu is here to bother again."

Dong Zhongshu opened his eyes, stood up, bowed deeply, and said with a smile: "Recently, I read half of Changning Hou's words, and it was really enlightening, some of the subtle words of the sages and sages, the old man was almost half-understood and couldn't understand them at the beginning; However, after reading half of the words annotated by Changning Houxiao, Dong Zhongshu benefited a lot.

What a benefit! ”

Yang Chuan looked at the old thief and smiled: "Dong Gong, why do you say this?" ”

Dong Zhongshu twisted his beard: "The good patriarch Ning Hou knows that some of Confucius's words and deeds contained in the Analects are indeed somewhat inconsistent, in the old man's opinion, it should be that some scholars in later generations have not read the mysteries in it, and they interpret it indiscriminately, far-fetched, and even, there are some fools who make up and tamper with the scriptures, resulting in the sage's subtle words and righteousness are full of errors, and they really deserve to die."

Changning Hou, half of your words are really golden and jade good words, and they have won the essence of Confucius, Dong Zhongshu is really convinced this time......"

Yang Chuan glanced at Dong Zhongshu as if inadvertently, walked to his exclusive Mazha Zi and lay down directly: "I haven't read any books, don't lie to me, Dong Gong." ”

Dong Zhongshu's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "The Analects compiled by the disciples of the Confucius Sect have always been regarded as classics by scholars all over the world, and they are called the subtle words of the saints.

In the final analysis, the micro-words are not false, but the general righteousness, hehe, is that the public says that the public is reasonable, the mother says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, each insists on the word, and no one obeys anyone. ”

Yang Chuan chuckled lightly and said very lazily: "Dong Gong, you know that I, Yang Chuan, don't learn and have no skills, and I talk about such advanced knowledge, isn't it embarrassing for Benhou?" ”

"To put it simply, Dong Gong, what do you want to do? Or, what do you Dong Gong want? ”

Dong Zhongshu laughed, learned from Yang Chuan's appearance, stretched out a thumbs up and clicked a 'handmade praise', and said leisurely: "Changning Hou is worthy of Changning Hou, high, really high!" ”

Yang Chuan muttered and scolded: "Tall fart, Dong Gong, say what you want to say directly, don't come to this set of vain things." ”

Dong Zhongshu took out a roll of parchment from his sleeve and handed it over: "Changning Hou, take a look for yourself." ”

Yang Chuan took the roll of parchment, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching a few times.

This Dong Zhongshu!

Well, that's what the biggest scholar in the Han Empire really looked like......

In a word, it's shameless at all.

I saw that on this roll of parchment, it was densely packed with small block letters, and at the top of the right hand, the four walnut characters were clearly inscribed with the words "New Interpretation of the Analects", and the "author" below naturally became "Han Changning Hou Yang Chuan Xie / Han Confucian Dong Zhongshu Note".

Looking at some of the contents in detail, it is divided into two parts: 'literary explanation' and 'martial interpretation'.

Among them, the text explanation part is naturally Dong Zhongshu's handwriting, and the martial interpretation part is Yang Chuan's 'half of the words', and after each article, a lot of text is added, which is nothing more than Dong Zhongshu's 'personal explanation' of this solution.

I have to say that Dong Zhongshu's big fusion made Yang Chuan lose his temper at all.

This old thief not only resolved Yang Chuan's targeting and prejudice against Confucianism, but also conveniently sorted out and processed Yang Chuan's 'half of the words', and directly classified them into the book "New Interpretation of the Analects", making people all over the world think that Yang Chuan was actually a Confucian......

It's just that everyone else is 'Wen Jie', and Yang Chuan's is 'Wu Jie'.

And so it goes.

Well, Yang Chuan was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but laugh bitterly: "Dong Gong, you are really a good way to put my Yang Chuan on a big fire to roast." ”

The old thief laughed and said, "Everyone says that my Confucian disciples are not broad-minded, and that's because I Dong Zhongshu hasn't made a move, so those yellow-mouthed children and extremely stupid scholars have ruined their reputation; If you want to say that the most authentic knowledge in the world, in fact, there are only a few.

Daomen advocates metaphysics and pure talk, and its role in this world is limited, even if there are a few more immortal immortals in this world, it is nothing more than some old and immortal thieves;

Legalism is too harsh, does not know how to pity the people's power, does not care about the people's livelihood, and is not enough to make a plan;

As for the Mo family, the soldier family, and the Yin and Yang family......"

Dong Zhongshu was just about to start the narrative, and he had the posture of scolding Fang Yu and pointing at the country, but was interrupted by Yang Chuan waving his hand: "Dong Gong, talking about people, what do you want to do?" ”

Dong Zhongshu's face stiffened, and he said with a smile: "Borrow some money and food." ”

Yang Chuan snorted and asked with a smile: "Good and decent, what are you borrowing money for?" Didn't Ben Hou arrange for you to give all of you scholars a rank of 600 stones, plus 500 acres of water per person to water the land? ”

Dong Zhongshu sighed: "Six hundred stones of Yulu was originally enough to support the family. ”

"Helpless, the water that Changning Hou gave him to water the land, the old man and those disciples will not plant at all, other people's fields are luxuriant, but our fields are overgrown with weeds, and recently, there have been all kinds of insect pests......"

Yang Chuan sighed: "In a word, the four bodies are not diligent, and the five grains are not divided? ”

Dong Zhongshu smiled bitterly and said: "In normal times, these hundreds of acres of watered land, you only need to buy some servants to naturally ensure the harvest in drought and flood, but in Shuofang County, you Changning Marquis took the lead in not raising slaves, and strictly prohibited the storage of slaves and the sale of people and livestock, we scholars have no power to restrain chickens, and there is no way to ...... at all."

Before Dong Zhongshu's words were finished, Yang Chuan scolded with an unkind face: "Dong Zhongshu, when we gave away the land, we signed the title deed document, which was clearly written in black and white.

Your father-in-law keeps saying that you scholars are powerless, are you coaxing ghosts or deceiving people?

Who doesn't know that the scholars of the Han Dynasty, the number of books in the courtesy, the six arts of this gentleman, almost all have to be proficient to be a good reader; Why, do you dare to say that you have no power to tie the chicken?

In Benhou's opinion, it's not that your legs and feet are inflexible, but, fundamentally speaking, you bullshit scholars have never taken the matter of farming and mulberry crops to heart, but just used your mouth and pen to govern the country and level the world.

It's not that Benhou is not close to people.

Dong Gong, the land that was given to you scholars at the beginning, but it is the best watered land in Shuofang County, if it is because you don't know how to farm, resulting in a decrease in grain production, Ben Hou will personally beat your and urine, do you believe it or not? ”

Dong Zhongshu lay flat on the rattan chair and said leisurely: "Changning Hou can do it casually, anyway, the old man's hundreds of acres of crops, with the help of his own disciples, even if you want to beat people, it will not be the old man's turn." ”

The corners of Yang Chuan's mouth twitched.

When encountering this kind of old fritters and hob meat, Yang Chuan really has no better way.

"I'll help you print 5,000 copies of this "New Interpretation of the Analects", and you can help me solve the problem that other scholars don't grow crops well," Yang Chuan sighed, and scolded with a somewhat tired smile: "You Dong Gong, it's really a hob meat." ”

Dong Zhongshu said yes, and said, "Okay, deal." ”

"However, the old man has one more thing to ask for," the old thief groaned twice, and then said: "If other scholars come, I beg you Changning Hou to help them print the book, and the old man is willing to serve as the proofreader." ”

"Alas, there are so many and so many miscellaneous learnings in the world, and there will inevitably be some errors and omissions in one school of learning...... It's a good thing that the old man can do his part. ”

(End of chapter)