Ouyang Rong suddenly discovered something.

A...... He's been working hard since he came here, and he's been ignoring things.

First of all, the current Great Zhou Dynasty is indeed a prosperous era that may be famous in history, Luoyang and Chang'an in Guanzhong are indeed prosperous and prosperous for all countries to come to the dynasty, and the abundant martial virtue of the imperial border army, even the record of destroying a small country makes it difficult for you to be called a famous general, and the influence of the Qian's culture after integrating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism swept the surrounding four yi.

Even if the empress of the Wei family, who is good at power and scheming, is not a master, she can be called a strong lord, and she will never be a faint king.

You have to admit that this young dynasty, which has been founded for 80 years and changed to Zhou, is in the heyday of a period when the country's strength cannot stop the upward rush, and the foundation is relatively stable, far from the 300-year historical cycle law.

Ouyang Rong was reborn from an era that was considered a prosperous era to such a prosperous dynasty.

But he ignored ...... This glorious and prosperous era has nothing to do with the tens of thousands of disaster victims in Longcheng County at this moment, nor does it have anything to do with most of the low-level people in the ten realms of the world.

Most of the wealth of this prosperous empire was concentrated in the hands of the imperial Zhou court, Guanlong magnates, five surnames and seven wangs, and local tyrants and squires, at most counting the people of Guanzhong who lived a prosperous life in the heart of the empire.

So, what does the prosperous world have to do with you?

It is the saddest thing to mourn all over the wilderness under a prosperous era, and even the historian is unwilling to remember you, for fear of tarnishing the "rule of so-and-so" and "so-and-so"; Even future generations of people who read history are reluctant to look at you, for fear of ruining the illusions and longings of the great dynasty established by your ancestors.

And even if you try your best, you can't push this prosperous world, it's still there...... Think about it, how desperate it is.

And even a "prosperous era" is like this, Ouyang Rong will never want to read any history books in the future.

But he is now on the stroke of a certain history book that may be in the future, but he is a small Qipin county magistrate, and his eyes are wide open to face the sorrow and sorrow that is not taken seriously in the prosperous world......

"What should I do, Ouyang Lianghan?"

Ouyang Rong flew to the clouds again, staring at the ancient pagoda standing in front of him and asking himself.

But no one answered him.

After standing outside the tower for a long time, Ouyang Rong turned around and left, returning to reality.

In fact, he hasn't entered the merit tower for many days, since the establishment of the disaster relief camp organization to work for relief, there is indeed a crisp sound of wooden fish in his ears from time to time, and he should have accumulated a lot of merit points, but Ouyang Rong has not entered the tower to see.

He has been waiting, and after the disaster relief and flood control are almost arranged, he will enter the tower to take a look, and if he meets the 10,000 merit points, he will go directly to the Pure Land Palace to receive the good fortune and leave. If you are not satisfied, you will work for a while as the Longcheng County Order, anyway, the term of office is four years, and you can do as much as possible.

And even if the disaster relief and flood control were not completed, the merit was worth 10,000, Ouyang Rong couldn't pass this level in his heart and ran away halfway.

He tossed one thing and never had the habit of leaving halfway through, unless he was irresistible, for the previous merit tower APP title to return to Donglin Temple, for the insistence on returning to the "hometown" for postgraduate examination, and for the current disaster relief and flood control.

So why bother entering the tower before it's done.

……

"It's ridiculous."

It is the garden where the plum petals are flying, and in an elegant and quiet water pavilion, there is a beautiful woman wearing a crown and a sword, and she spits out these four words as soon as she sits down.

"Who messed with Sister Xie?"

Su Bao'er lowered her head and stroked the cat.

She sits alone by the water in a purple narrow skirt, and the lazy cat in her arms is quite bizarre, with a snow-white body and black markings at the corners of her mouth, resembling a butterfly.

At this time, cats were called raccoon slaves in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and their numbers were scarce, and many came from foreign countries to pay tribute, such as Persian cats; The court ladies and princesses raised more, and the princess Changle, who was favored by the dynasty, was a "cat slave", and it was rumored that there were seven best cats, all of which had elegant names.

As a result, the raccoon slave was gradually called Luoyang's upper-class ladies and became popular among the group. However, here in the south, there are still very few, Xie Lingjiang has never seen a few, only seen an older Wang sister in Wuyi Lane, this thing is indeed long, but she thinks it is too delicate, Xie Lingjiang does not like any pampered things.

"Rats, all rats! He didn't even spare the food that Jimin Warehouse used to save his life...... Ridiculous. ”

Su Bao'er raised her eyes and saw that the girl of the Xie family was still holding the hilt of the sword on her knee tightly after she sat down, and her five fingers were blue and gurgling.

"Sister Xie's sixth high-ranking family, naturally thinks they are ridiculous."

Xie Lingjiang turned around, "Don't you think it's ridiculous?" ”

"Ridiculous, but not surprised."

Xie Lingjiang stared at her, "You are also, not angry. ”

"What's the use of being angry, everyone has a life."

"What if...... Gives you a share of the power to dispose of it. ”

"All beheaded."

Xie Lingjiang turned his head, looked at the night scene outside the water pavilion, and stopped talking, his eyes were a little dazed.

There was a bun-faced little maid waiting outside the door, and seeing that the young lady and the Xie family girl were no longer arguing, she brought tea into the house and presented refreshments to Xie Lingjiang; He also held a bookcase and put it beside the young lady.

Su Bao'er called the "color ribbon", and handed the civet slave in her arms to the personal maid, this cat is called "Butterfly Slave", which was given to her by the distant aunt, in fact, it was a gift, but one has been folded.

Contrary to Xie Lingjiang, Su Bao'er likes to be docile to her.

The bun-faced little maid named Caishou happily took over the butterfly slave and ran to the side to pet the cat for the young lady. And Xie Lingjiang found out that the white cat with a mouth like a butterfly had a lame foot.

But her attention was not on such a trivial matter at this time.

"But...... Even if they are all killed, they will not be able to solve the problem of disaster relief food. How does the senior brother control the water later? ”

Su Bao'er, who was picking up books in a small box, bowed his head and said, "Just follow the path of the previous county orders." ”

"What's the way?"

She didn't care about the makeup between her eyebrows: "Ask your senior brother to go, he should know, even if he doesn't know, someone will tell him." ”

Xie Lingjiang frowned and looked at the plum blossom makeup girl who was flipping through the poetry collection for a while.

This sister of the Su family is indeed very smart, I heard that her father and brother often come to ask her questions and opinions, and many things in the Su Mansion are decided casually by her in the boudoir.

But compared to the gentleness and modesty of her father and brother, this sister of the Su family is too arrogant and careless about most things, and sometimes Xie Lingjiang is curious, are there any things and people in this world that she cares about, except for her father and brother.

Xie Lingjiang didn't ask any more questions, just took a deep breath and said:

"And what's even more ridiculous is that the first thing the imperial court thinks about is not disaster relief, but to stabilize the place, and not allow the displaced people to live in turmoil! No food, no chaos, I really can't figure out, what are the people in the eyes of those people? ”

"It's water." Su Bao'er nodded, and her back was like a stream, "Taizong often says, the king's boat, the people's water, the water can carry the boat, and it can overturn the boat." ”

"When Taizong said this, didn't he mean that the people were noble, the society was secondary, and the monarch was light? And do they have fear of the people? ”

"Yes. However, the people and the noble monarch said this by your Confucian sages, but Taizong did not say it. ”

"What's the difference?"

"In your Confucian ears, Taizong said that the people are noble and the monarch is light, but in my ...... In the ears of the descendants of the Li clan, what is too religious is the imperial technique. The king should be prepared for danger, and the water is stable. A piece of paper to stabilize the place and the people to suffer is not just a way to stabilize the water, but it is just the worst means. ”

Xie Lingjiang turned around and stubbornly asked, "Is that a people's noble, or a gentleman?" ”

"If Sister Xie asks me my father or brother, they will sincerely give you the answer you want to hear, but I am not them, I said, Sister Xie doesn't like to hear it."

"No, you say, I'll listen."

"That's okay, my sister also thinks it's the people, because the people of the whole world combined, of course, are more expensive than a king, because this water is enough to overturn the boat."

After Su Bao'er nodded, she asked again:

"But what if there is only one tenth of the people of the world, only one percent of the people of the world, only one tenth of the people of the world? Or even only ...... What about a people? Who is more expensive than the king? If he is expensive, then he is a king, and the king is the people, so in the end, isn't it still a 'king' who is expensive? And if it is said to be the same price, is it still called a king?

"Even you Confucian scholars admit that there is a difference between the monarch and the people, and everyone acquiesces that there is a distinction between the high and the low, so do you need to ask who is more important and who is lighter?"

Xie Lingjiang asked coldly: "So, can the king have the heart of one person and the heart of tens of thousands of people?" ”

Su Bao'er shook her head:

"Of course not. The last one to do this was the mad emperor of the Sui Dynasty; The first to do so was the First Emperor who sought the elixir thousands of years ago. Both lone husbands died under the sword in the end. Therefore, the great cadres will no longer work the people and waste money to forge a sword; That's why Taizong warned that water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat, and you can't be a lone husband.

"But now the question is, how much is this 'people's water' that can overturn the 'Jun Zhou', and if it's just a small splash on the bow of the boat, do you need to care? A king has a scale in his heart.

"If all the people in the world are compared to a lake of water, then all the victims in Longcheng County, Jiangzhou are not even a splash, at best they are just a small spoonful of water, boat...... Not care. ”

Xie Lingjiang was silent.

The room was quiet, Su Bao'er was quietly flipping through a book of poems that she often read, and the little maid with a bun face puffed out her mouth and quietly teased the cat.

Until a woman suddenly got up.

She stood in front of the cold plum blossom makeup girl and said word by word:

"You don't care, but someone does."

Xie Lingjiang turned his back and left.