Chapter 312: The North Wind Blows
In the spring of March, when he was a teenager, he knew that he was the most playful.
Zhixing has nothing to do, and the Tao is naturally full of branches.
Jinxiang garden is rich and rich, and the fairy courtyard is clear and strange.
The sky is like spring in March, and the world does not frown.
Spring in March is the best scenery in the world.
The flowers planted all over the Rongguo Mansion have been shallow spring, especially the two peach blossoms decorate the East Cross Courtyard, which makes people feel very good.
Jia Cong welcomed Liu Hong and Liu Shuo into the courtyard, and sat around a few cases under the corridor, with a cup of tea and an incense burner, which was quite comfortable.
Liu Hong suppressed the suspicion in front of the door, looked at Jia Cong in Confucian clothes, and said with a smile: "You look a little less rebellious and a little more bookish today, which makes me a little unaccustomed. I don't know what it will be like if you wear this Confucian costume to beat someone? It's funny to think about."
Jia Cong grabbed the small snack on the plate, gave one to Liu Shuo, and took one himself and began to fill his hunger.
While clicking, he rolled his eyes: "Fourth brother, I am now the head of Daxing County, half of the show, a serious scholar, how can I beat people?"
"Okay, you are a scholar, the future Liuyuanlang, and you don't hit people easily. Even if you want to fight, you will change your clothes and fight again."
Liu Hong squeezed his eyebrows, Liu Shuo ate a mouth full of sesame seeds, grinning.
Oh, tease me......
"I heard that the Queen Mother and Yang Niangniang have already chosen the crown princess for the fourth brother, which noble girl is it? Did the fourth brother go to see if he looked good?"
"Brother Shuo, I heard that His Majesty tested your homework a few days ago, and you were beaten again, and the injury on your butt is healed?"
Hiss! Hurt each other?
Liu Hong's face and neck turned red, and the shy young man's love was just beginning, and he was about to find an opportunity to sneak a look at the girl set by his grandmother.
As for Liu Shuo, his mouth was deflated, and he couldn't help touching his buttocks, wanting to cry without tears.
"Ahem, don't say this, don't say this......
Liu Hong coughed lightly twice, snorted, changed the topic, and asked about today's poetry meeting.
Jia Cong, Lin Ruhai, and Xu Jin's plan will naturally not hide from Liu Hong, after all, one of the purposes of today's poetry meeting is to expand the influence of the crown prince Liu Hong among the new Jinshi and Shilin talents.
"It's indispensable to write poems, but the highlight of today is a new play for a while, and when the time comes, I will invite the fourth brother to come to the stage in person and talk about the relief of the Gyeonggi disaster in the last year."
Well?
Liu Hong understood the reason for this after a little thought, and it seems that Xu Qingteng was obsessed with the issue of land annexation in Gyeonggi.
"Okay, but you have to tell me first, what is the reason for this?"
Jia Cong looked up at the sun hanging in the sky, and smiled: "Fourth brother, let's go, let's go to the play." In today's scene, the fourth brother will definitely be surprised!"
"The north wind blows,
Snowflakes that float,
Snowflakes are fluttering.
When the year came to the day when my father went out to hide in the tent,
Thirty that night has not been returned.
The wind swept that snowflake,
Outside the door,
The wind beats the door and opens itself.
I hope Daddy will come home soon,
Happy New Year,
Happy New Year......
The melody is very different from the current opera, but the new tune still makes people interested.
The two stages in the front yard and the back house were staged at the same time, and the troupe of Zhongshun Wangfu perfectly interpreted Jia Congmo's revised version of "The White-Haired Girl".
"Other people's daughters have flowers to wear,
My dad didn't have much money to buy.
pulled on the two-foot red head rope,
Tie it up for me,
Oops, prick, please."
The rhythm at the beginning was quite lively and cheerful, the tune was beautiful and smooth, and Jiang Yuhan, who was on stage, expressed the joy of looking forward to his father's return.
Whether it is the literati and artists in the front yard, or the ladies and nobles in the back house, for the first time, they have seen the life of a poor family on the stage, some are novel, some are disdainful, and some are thoughtful.
Because this cheerful rhythm is extremely incompatible with the background of the north wind howling and heavy snowfall, especially the word "Xi'er" in the mouth of "Hide from debts", many people notice the difference.
Sure enough, as the plot develops, the warm and cheerful scene takes a sharp turn.
"Heaven kills a single grass,
The flood flooded the single-plank bridge,
I've only had this one woman in my life,
I can't live without Xi'er!"
Some of the ladies in the back house have already begun to wipe their tears......
Especially many mothers-in-law and maids in Rongguo Mansion, some even forgot their errands and cried silently on the shoulders of the people next to them.
"The wind and snow are blowing tightly,
Nine out of ten lights are unknown.
Let's celebrate the New Year,
The rich and poor celebrate the New Year is not ordinary.
There is wine and meat in the door of the house,
There is no rice and flour in the tenants' homes......
The unscrupulous gentry Huang Shiren robbed the people's daughter, Yang Bailao committed suicide Chinese New Year's Eve night, Xi'er was defiled by Huang Shiren's daughter on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but fortunately escaped from the Huang Mansion with the help of others......
The plot was staged on the stage one by one, and the spectators below had been angered by Huang Shiren's evil deeds.
Compared to the reaction of the ladies in the backyard, the guests in the front yard were even more angry. Especially the group of new jinshi and young scholars, some people even picked up stools and wanted to rush to the stage to kill the actor who played Huang Shiren.
The corners of Xu Jin's mouth rose slightly, and he smiled at Lin Ruhai.
The enthusiasm of young people is not cold, maybe the new law change will start with the enthusiasm of this group of young people.
Xi'er became a "white-haired fairy girl" and lived on the incense and fruit offerings in her grandmother's temple. Huang Shiren's officials and businessmen colluded, and without a happy child, Huan'er, and a painting, he still lived his life of being rich and unkind, and oppressing the people.
Until Da Chun, who was not afraid of life and death, begged all the way to Beijing, and beat the Dengwen drum standing at the gate of the palace.
The emperor, who loves the people like a son, sent Lord Qingtian out of Beijing by order, and carried the sword of the Son of Heaven to behead Huang Shiren and the county order of his bribery and collusion, and the people who were pressed under this haze were liberated.
Xi'er finally met her sweetheart Da Chun, and everyone thought that Xi'er, who was suffering from hard work, would live a happy life with Da Chun.
But when Lord Qincha left, the gossip of others poked mercilessly in the heart of Xi'er, who had already lost her "chastity".
Da Chun had no choice but to sell his family's land and take Xi'er to leave his hometown and take refuge with relatives in Linxian County.
I didn't want Huang Shiren to die, after a bizarre flood, Dachun, who had just purchased Botian, mortgaged the land to the lieutenant and asked for ten catties of millet in order to survive......
Xi'er eventually became a "white-haired fairy girl", and Da Chun died of exhaustion on the land of the Li Chang's family, and that land was originally his family's.
Call......
When the last line was sung, there was silence in the front yard.
The guests no longer had the initial agitation, because they did not expect this ending.
If you kill one Huang Shiren, there will be a second and a third......
If there is a white-haired girl, there will be a second and a third......
It seems that their hometown often hears and sees the dirty things of being forced to pawn their wives and sell their daughters, and often they just scold on their lips, and they also recite a few words of sainthood.
There are even people who hire tenants to farm for their own families, and their families are extravagant in a year's worth of fish and meat, and those tenants are thankful that they can survive.
Is he Huang Shiren? Is there a happy child in the family?
When the crown prince Liu Hong walked onto the stage, everyone woke up from their trance.
"You should be both unfamiliar with this play, at least Hongu heard and saw a lot of ...... last winter."
Liu Hong did not talk about what he did during the Gyeonggi disaster relief on stage, but suppressed the words he had prepared in his heart and sighed: "
Why Emperor Taizu Gao raised troops back then, everyone should know well. The former dynasty entered the Central Plains and oppressed the Han people. The dignified China is full of blood, and the people are even more miserable. Taizu, Taizong and the emperor's grandfather worked hard to restore the people's livelihood, which led to the prosperity of Zhaoyuan. But is this a prosperous age really a prosperous age?"
"Mr. Green Ivy ......"
"The minister is here!"
Xu Jin got up and replied to Liu Hongzuo.
Liu Hong invited Xu Jin to the stage and said with a sigh: "Mr. Qingteng has traveled to every corner of Gyeonggi, and today I also ask Mr. to solve the doubts of the palace. How are the people of Daxia doing? Is this Zhaoyuan prosperous era a prosperous era or not?"
Xu Jin nodded, then shook his head again, and finally let out a long sigh and let people fetch a huge wooden box.
"You may be very puzzled, why do you want to invite you to watch such a scene in today's poetry meeting?"
Everyone nodded subconsciously, but after seeing Xu Jin let people open the box, they first took out a long picture scroll.
"This is the "Thousand Miles of Hunger Map" drawn by Tang Yin, the former science explorer and editor of the Hanlin Academy. Ladies and gentlemen, the scene on this painting is the scene that His Highness really saw when he arrived in Fangshan County, the most severely affected area of Shuntian Mansion in the winter of last year."
"Reciting poems and endowments, we can't let those unclothed and hungry people fill their stomachs, and we can't kill Huang Shiren, who oppresses the people, and I can't save the 'white-haired fairy Xi'er'."
Everyone nodded subconsciously again, and then saw Liu Hong take Xu Jin's words.
"This palace has just seen the indignation of all the benevolent gentlemen against Huang Shiren, and also saw your righteous indignation. We are all children of saints, Confucius said benevolence, Mencius took righteousness, today this palace will talk to you about the relief of the victims in the cold winter of last year......
The poetry meeting seems to have turned into a lecturing debate, at least in the front yard.
If today's guests in the front yard of Rongguo Mansion are mainly the officials of the DPRK and the Central Government, the tear-jerking and indignant "White-Haired Girl" may be sung in vain.
can't stand it, this is a freshly baked new jinshi, and this group of hot-blooded hairy boys with a full sense of justice.
The natural disasters caused by man-made disasters made everyone eager to cut the criminal officials of Fangshan County and Wang Qingtang and others with a thousand knives, and the disaster relief methods of the prince Liu Hong, the county lord of Wen'an, and Jia Cong and others surprised everyone again and again.
The cash-for-work model has been implemented in the imperial court for two years, and everyone is a person who cares about current affairs, and is not a stranger.
Only Daiyu's performance to the prince of the Huangzhuang and Guantian family joint production contract responsibility system has refreshed everyone's understanding.
This kind of rent interest can not only enable the landless people to live and work in peace and contentment, but also allow the court and the royal family to have stable taxes.
However, these are only implemented in Gyeonggi and Namzhili, where Huangzhuang and Guantian are abundant, and they want to be promoted......
Could it be that the prince deliberately cut the knife on the body of the local gentry, that is not good!
Because the vast majority of them are the families of the gentry and magnates.
On the one hand, their own interests were threatened, and on the other hand, their conscience was tortured, and the atmosphere in the front yard fell into an extremely strange situation.
Lin and Xu did not express their attitudes, Liu Hong just threw out the question of whether the local tenant rent was too heavy and whether to reduce rent and interest.
Liu Hong was not in a hurry, just smiled faintly, and sat with Jia Cong, sounding other people's discussions.
Compared to the front yard, the atmosphere in the backyard seems to be more harmonious, and Daiyu, as a first-hand witness of the Gyeonggi relief, also took the stage to tell a lot about her experience in Wang Pingkou.
Including the poor people she saw, those children with slender necks supporting their big heads, bulging but empty stomachs.
It wasn't until she talked about the relief methods that the emperor and His Royal Highness the crown prince had allowed her to propose, as well as the support of the princes and princesses of the clan.
In front of the stage in the backyard, many noble ladies have already heard the meaning of Daiyu's words.
"Shuntianfu Displaced People's Relief and Resettlement" became famous in the capital in a very fast time.
The new play "The White-Haired Girl" at the Rongguofu Poetry Conference is in major theaters in Beijing
staged, Jiang Yuhan three times a day, and the audience was full.
Then it spread, as well as the prince Liu Hong, the first-class son of Surabaya County, Jia Cong, and the virtuous of the county lord of Wen'an.
As well as those princes and princesses who participated in the rent reduction and interest reduction to resettle the displaced people, when they were mentioned by the people of the capital, they would always say a word of benevolence and virtue.
The Enke Temple test has passed, and the lifters in Beijing have not only not decreased, but have regathered.
Jia Cong sat in the private room of the largest restaurant outside the Guozi Prison, listening to the angry speech outside, and laughed helplessly.
"Brother Cong, wouldn't this be too much? Although we will not be convicted for our words, but scholars discuss politics and still gather people to write books, will it arouse the disgust of the princes of the court?"
Daiyu also came out with Jia Cong today, and "Shuntianfu Displaced People Relief and Resettlement" was completed by her and Jia Cong, and it took a lot of effort.
It's like raising a baby, whoever gives birth to a baby cares.
Jia Cong responded, "At the very least, most of the courtiers will propose to dispatch the Dragon Guards to suppress it."
The discussion outside seemed to have reached a climax, and through the thin door of the private room, Jia Cong and Daiyu heard passionate words of urgency and righteousness.
"The thieves and ghosts of the country will not care about the life and death of the people, they are sitting on thousands of acres and acres of land, and the people's fat and people's ointment are fat to their mouths. It has been rumored for so long that they have been indifferent and have even hindered His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from implementing the new law."
"Gentlemen, we are the true disciples of saints, benevolence and righteousness are in our hearts, justice is in our bodies, do we continue to be silent?"
"It's just a rent reduction and interest reduction, my family has more than 2,000 acres of land in Dangyang County, and I have already written to my family, and since this year, I have been renting according to the official land and people, reducing rent and interest."
"Brother Fang is benevolent and righteous, and the younger brother naturally can't fall behind. According to His Royal Highness the Prince's proposal, the rent of the official land can still get the preferential land endowment of the imperial court, and it can also fill the stomach of the tenants at home, so why not? It's just a few buckets of land rent, and who lives on land rent?"
Hearing this, the private room nodded and whispered to Daiyu: "Speaking of the point, in fact, according to the proposal of His Majesty and the fourth brother, if the rent is really set by the rent of the official land and the people's rent, and the rent and interest are reduced for the tenants, the court will not only praise benevolence and righteousness, but also reduce the family's land endowment. It can even be used to replace the fertile soil in Liaodong for the land production, and realize the official management of the private land."
Alas! Jia Cong shook his head helplessly: "It's a pity, the family that owns a large piece of land often doesn't live on tenant rent at all, but it is remote and can't see through the reality, so he forces His Majesty to use the knife for this little profit."
The voice of the capital supporting the implementation of the "Shuntianfu Displaced People's Relief and Resettlement" is getting louder and louder, which is naturally promoted by the emperor, Xu Jin, Lin Ruhai and others, but more is the excitement of the group of prisoners in the capital.
Many officials in the court wrote to the emperor, saying that they were in Beijing and that they were criticizing the government and should send troops to suppress it.
It's a pity that the emperor left all those excerpts in the middle and didn't send them, and let this group of scholars gather to discuss, and the General Administration Department has received *** from the scholars for several days, and the first thing on duty every day is to send a new round of letters to the cabinet and the ban.
On the second day of the first month of April, the trial of Shuncheonfu began.
A few days later, a shocking news came out from this year's Shuncheonfu Mansion.
The topic of the third session was personally formulated by Wei Qinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, - the cultivator has his land.
For a time, Jingzhong was in an uproar.
Jia Cong didn't expect that Old Man Wei would suddenly make a statement, or in this special way, it directly made the young scholars passionate, and began to give speeches in the capital the day after the end of the government examination, gathering the hearts of the people, and planning to come to a vigorous plea for the people's lives.
In the hot crowd of shizi around the capital, there is still a group of people waiting for the Shuntian Mansion to release the test list.
This time, the marking speed was extremely fast, and the list was posted on April 15.
This time, there was no surprise at all, Jia Cong, who had written "Shuntianfu Displaced People's Relief and Resettlement", once again won the head of the Shuntianfu Jinke Fu Examination.
The second place is a real poor student named Zhou Baniu.
Zhou Baniu and his sincere words moved the chief and deputy examiners, if it weren't for the fact that his practical strategy in the strategy was not as good as Jia Cong's, maybe the head of the case would be this
Relying on the funding of the whole village, Brother Baniu walked into the examination room.
Baoyu only took the exam at the end of the list this time, and after the test paper was posted again, it was not Jia Cong, the head of the case, who was hotly discussed by thousands of people in the capital, but Jia Jue and Jia Baoyu, who scolded all over China in the strategy.
When Jia Cong saw the posted test papers, he was stupid.
He stared at Baoyu with a flushed face with wide eyes: "Second Brother Bao, you ...... You...... You...... No wonder you don't want to write the third scene silently, it turns out that you are so bold, you are not afraid that the second uncle will beat you to death with a big stick!"
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