Chapter 91 The cost of human life is actually very low

Spring sowing is over.

It is not a crop that grows in the ground, but for the people, what grows in the ground is their hope for the continuation of life.

However, the vitality of crops is far more fragile than weeds, and like most things in this world, there is always too little useful and too much useless.

The moment the bell of Yushan Academy rang, Xu Yuanshou's tears were in his eyes but did not fall.

The other seven gentlemen, like Xu Yuanshou, stood in the wind in new or old green clothes like eight green pines.

There are not many students in Lantian County who have the conditions to go to school, so the 500 children who were exchanged for 50 catties of millet by Yun Zhao have become the main force of studying.

Among the five hundred children were both boys and girls, and because they were bought cheaply, there were no good-looking boys or good-looking girls.

Most of them are ordinary people, and some can even be called ugly.

In fact, it doesn't matter what he looks like, the senior brother Yun Zhao, who is standing at the front of the student team, has nothing special except for being fair-skinned.

But Qian Duoduo, who calls himself a senior sister, stands out from the crowd among the girls.

Therefore, her longing appearance soon attracted countless curious and even awe-inspiring eyes.

When hundreds of people worship Confucius together, they are still very powerful.

When these young children followed the eight gentlemen to bow to the tablet of Confucius three times, Xu Yuanshou said that this would be the home of all boots in the future.

Most of the children bought by the Yun family were seven or eight years old, and some were even younger, and they were abandoned by their parents, and their hearts were originally full of fear.

After participating in this solemn ceremony, it is easy to think of the seowon as your home.

The beams and pillars of the tallest hall were wet, and although they had been sawn off and rested on the roof, it still had no end of life.

When spring comes, it also perceives it, so it pulls out a few green shoots, which look particularly verdant in the incense.

A lot, many years later...... These green shoots gradually grew, and finally hung down to the ground, took root and sprouted in the main hall, and finally wrapped up the entire hall.

Learn "Rite" before entering the school, which is what Xu Yuanshou insisted.

However, Professor Xu Yuanshou's "Rites" is not Zhu Xi's improved "Rites", but "Han Rites".

He believes that Zhu Xi's etiquette is not suitable for the current Ming Dynasty.

In this barbaric world, blindly imprisoning people's desire to explore, pursue, and personal will is not conducive to individual survival.

Destroying people's desires and preserving heavenly principles is Zhu Xi's consistent proposition, but these six words do not come from Zhu Xi's mouth.

In fact, this concept has already appeared in the Book of Rites and Music, which says: "Those who are humanized into things are also those who destroy the principles of heaven and the desires of the poor." So there is rebellion and deceit, and there are sexual immorality. ”

The so-called "those who destroy the principles of heaven and the desires of the poor" here refer to those who destroy the principles of heaven and do whatever they want.

Zhu Xi himself also said, "Diet, Tianli, delicacies of the mountains and seas, human desires, husband and wife, Tianli, three wives and four concubines, human desires." ”

This makes it very clear, Zhu Xi believes that people should cherish the instincts given by God to human beings, these instincts are the principles of heaven, on the contrary, if they blindly pursue desires other than instincts, they are heading for self-destruction......

If in the peaceful years, everyone restricts themselves, this is right, however, self-restraint, for people in troubled times, represents self-denial, but also represents resignation.

It is impossible to do so...... Especially in the eyes of a robber like Yun Zhao, it is obviously impossible.

The world is in turmoil, and what is needed is a rebel, and Yun Zhao even thinks that the appearance of careerists in troubled times is not necessarily a bad thing.

In the case of no evil, God knows whether the careerist can find another way to live with dignity.

Zhu Xi's previous "Han Li" is much freer, and if a reader has no ambition, is he still called a reader?

Reading has had the effect of restraining people's desires since ancient times, because they tend to think too much and plan too well...... I also learned too much from the book to explain myself with excuses.

Therefore, it is not as good as the generals, splashing skin, and the farmers are determined to work to the end.

In short, Yun Zhao has a new perspective on the world after experiencing this refugee wave firsthand...... These views made him abandon all the moral requirements he had complied with in the past, and in the extreme environment, Yun Zhao found that he really didn't seem to mind eating people.

When spring comes, Qinling Mountains has given people precious gifts, whether it is the sprouts of spring grass, or the small fish swimming in the stream, or the hares that have just finished mating, or even some fat insects crawling out of the soil, they are all people's food.

Those followers, the hen-ducks, the ducklings swimming around in the pond, yellow, fluffy, always give people hope to live.

Yunjia Zhuangzi has a lot of people getting married these days!

The natives of the local town can always get more blessings when they form a family, and the combination of natives and foreigners is lonely.

Of course, the Yun family will send a bucket of grain, five feet of cotton cloth, and a small jar of wine to each family that is married, which can make the wedding look a little different.

Fauber did not take a fancy to the woman who lived in the bullpen, even if the woman had two sons and a daughter, and he was not satisfied.

Therefore, the biggest pleasure of Forber, who has changed into a single coat, is to go to the new grain field to check the growth of the crops.

After Hong Chengchou left, the villagers became much bolder, so the boundary monument of Lantian County was transplanted to the south of Heishui Town, Shangnan...... Two months later, the government did not pursue it, but sent a reminder for this year's summer tax, Heishui Town, whose name was impressively on the collection list of Lantian County.

As a result, the peasants, who had always been greedy, moved the guard of Lantian County in the four directions of southeast, south, and northwest.

This was not a big deal, until the farmers of Chang'an County spontaneously moved the boundary monument of Lantian County in their direction and moved it three times a day, that Zhang Daodao, the prefect of Xi'an, sent a rectification document, clearly telling Yun Zhao that this was unruly and undesirable.

The magistrate of Chang'an County felt seriously humiliated, and personally led people to the border between Chang'an County and Lantian County, no matter how he asked, the gentry and farmers at the border all said a word, insisting that they were from Lantian County, not from Chang'an County.

Even if the Chang'an County Decree told the squires that in Lantian County, when the summer harvest came this year, the gentry would have to start paying taxes.

The gentry remained indifferent to this!

The Chang'an county magistrate had no choice but to return to the county government with a long sigh, and several times raised the pen to prepare for the impeachment of Yunzhao, but finally gave up this idea and acquiesced to the current situation.

For the gentry, as long as the government promised to lead the people to rebuild the water conservancy and turn their large amount of dry land into irrigated land, the little money and grain collected by the government was nothing to them.

Besides, since the good reputation of Lantian County for starving people has spread, the landless tenants in the surrounding areas have fled from their original homes and crossed the border directly to Lantian County to cultivate fertile land for the gentry.

Cultivating for one year, the main family takes four, and the farmer keeps sixty percent, such a clause has been accepted by most of the gentry in Lantian County.

There are very few people who don't accept it, but in the eyes of the people of Lantian County, these people's retribution comes quickly, and they will always suffer disasters in the shortest possible time.

These disasters ranged from being beaten by bandits, to being kidnapped by the son of the family, to being set on fire at home for no reason, in short, this township rule and people's covenant quickly became a tradition in Lantian County, and no one dared to violate it.

The Yun clan let go of the mountains and forests, and anyone could enter the mountains to forage for food, as long as there was no fire.

After the Yun clan opened up the mountains and forests, the rest of the families with mountains and forests also let go of the mountains and forests, and the most benevolent even allowed the people to enter the mountains and forests to cut down some dead trees and carry them out to buy firewood.

Yun Zhao has a clear understanding of the low cost of feeding the people in the Ming world.

A hungry and half-dead homeless person, after entering the mountains and forests, can come out with a ruddy face and good health within ten days.

These people can even distinguish between toad eggs and frog eggs, eating toad eggs will kill people, eating frog eggs is just an inconspicuous pimple on the skin.

They also know what moths can be eaten and what moths can't be eaten, and the most terrifying thing is that this spring, Yun Zhao followed the homeless people to eat no less than 100 kinds of wild vegetables that can be eaten...... Some varieties taste ...... It's delicious!

In late spring, when the grass and trees are vigorous, the grain in Lantian County is distributed less and less, and sprinkling some grain in the leaves of the trees can solve the problem of eating for one person.

Therefore, the more than 10,000 loads of grain left in the granary have become a temple in everyone's hearts.

They seemed to be happy as long as they looked at the tall granaries, as long as the yellow grain was spread out in the sun by the officials in charge, the passers-by could not help but raise their chests, and they walked with full strength.