When Chen Shihong heard the news, he couldn't help but ask the beggar curiously, what was going on.

The beggar hesitated for a moment, saluted Chen Shihong and said: "Master Chen, this is just some talk about catching wind and shadows, if it is someone else, the little old man can tell others as a joke, but master, you are the lord of a county, if you tell you, I am afraid that it will add a lot of trouble." ”

Chen Shihong also understood, and said to the beggar: "Could it be that someone wants to make trouble?" ”

The beggar nodded, and Chen Shihong said that he knew about it, and he would pay attention to this matter.

After the beggar left, Siyun came later, Chen Shihong asked Siyun if he heard any news, Siyun said he didn't, and asked Chen Shihong why he asked, Chen Shihong told Siyun what the beggar said, Siyun listened, and said with a smile: "In this way, it should be King Cao." ”

"King Cao?" Chen Shihong said in surprise, then paced back and forth, thought for a while, and said to the four aggregates: "All dynasties have said that King Cao will rebel, but all generations of King Cao are keeping their duty. If it is really King Cao, then there is nothing to be afraid of, but I am afraid that what the beggar wants to say is not King Cao. ”

"So is it a beggar?"

"If it's a beggar, he doesn't have to scruple, just tell me directly."

Chen Shihong still didn't understand, Siyun said that he would inquire, but Siyun also said that this matter should be very confidential, and he may not be able to find out anything.

Chen Shihong nodded, and then went to the academy in the afternoon to visit Lin Duowen, Lin Duowen was receiving guests, and after hearing that Chen Shihong had arrived, he asked Chen Shihong to wait for him in the side hall.

After receiving this guest, Lin Duowen went to the side hall and told Chen Shihong that today's guest is interesting.

Chen Shihong asked who it was, Lin Duowen introduced, this person is called Kong Ming, a scholar, who has not won the exam for many years, so he gave up his fame and wanted to come here to study.

This matter should have been handled by Ding Yuli, but Ding Yuli saw that Kong Ming was a talent, and he had learned from others, and he was a material that could be made, so he asked Lin Duowen to receive him and keep Kong Ming.

After Chen Shihong listened, he asked Lin Duowen, how is this Kong Ming?

"Brother Shi, this person is very knowledgeable, talks elegantly, makes people feel like a spring breeze, and I am dissatisfied with you saying that after I saw it, I had the heart to break the knots and hand them over." Lin Duowen said excitedly, and said the content of the conversation, Chen Shihong also admired it very much, and told Lin Duowen that it would be a good thing for such a young talent to enter the academy.

Lin Duo heard that he said yes, and then asked, and finally Yuan Lihua summoned him, Chen Shihong went to the backyard, but Yuan Lihua was not there, but Cao Chifeng was there.

Cao Chifeng saw Chen Shihong and saluted Chen Shihong, after Chen Shihong returned the salute, the two sides sat down one zhang apart, Cao Chifeng first praised Chen Shihong's righteous act, and would rather offend the squire than embarrass the small people.

Chen Shihong said that the magistrate is the parent official of a county, so he naturally has to make decisions for the small people. He also said that this time he was able to succeed thanks to the help of the Xiao family.

When Chen Shihong said this, he said in an envious tone that if his descendants could be like the Xiao family, he could be content.

Cao Chifeng understood Chen Shihong's subtext in his heart, and couldn't help blushing, telling Chen Shihong that since the Xiao family was in front, the Chen family could also imitate it.

Chen Shihong nodded and talked about the model of the Xiao family, which is a change in Fan Wenzheng's righteous field.

Chen Shihong began to introduce this Yitian, when Fan Wenzhenggong set up Yitian to help the poor people in the clan, so that with help, everyone will be united.

In the ancient three dynasties, it was mainly the collection of clans, but in the time of the first Zhao, the princes fought endlessly, in order to facilitate the collection of taxes, so the Shang monarch was the mainstay, and forced the family to have two adult men must be separated, so that although the people and taxes were provided, but also destroyed the family system.

After that, the successive dynasties began to collect the clan, but the people's hearts are not ancient, and this brother is still clear about the accounts, so the effect of collecting the clan is not very good.

This situation changed in the Chen Dynasty, when the commoners began to worship the ancestors.

This thing was never allowed in the past, and before the three generations arrived in the Chen Dynasty, the commoners were either not allowed to sacrifice, or they were in their own rooms, and their grandfathers and fathers were sacrificed.

Sacrificing two generations is just a family's business, and sacrificing the ancestors is a family's business.

At first, the Chen Dynasty did not allow it, but the Confucian thought that this was a good thing, so after ten years of fighting, the matter was finally settled.

Worship the ancestors, began to build an ancestral hall, the ancestral hall of the Chen Dynasty is still simple, just build a place outside his room.

At that time, it was just a house, and later in the Wei Dynasty, it became a manor-style.

This ancestral hall has it, because to maintain it, you need money, at first everyone donated money, but Fan Wenzheng Gong proposed that it is better to buy the land directly, and then rent it out, and the silver money obtained from renting the field will be used as the cost of the ancestral hall.

Because the ancestral hall can't use so much, the extra money can be used to help the clansmen.

This Yitian was not much sought after during the Chen Dynasty, and Ouyang Wenzhong did not mention the matter of Yitian when he listed the merits of Fan Wenzhenggong.

However, when it came to Zhu Zi, Zhu Zi proposed the method of Yicang on the basis of Yitian. The difference between Yicang and Yitian is that Yitian is only a relief for the poor of the clan, while Yicang is used by everyone to spare and facilitate the passage of difficulties.

After Zhuzi, Yitian began to appear, many officials, with their own officials for many years, have money, they buy Yitian, this Yitian is more, the clansmen have been taken care of, naturally willing to stay together, but not willing to separate.

Originally, the Song Dynasty almost disappeared from the family, and under the Yitian, it came out again, although there was no big family like the Xiao family, there were basically hundreds of people.

These hundreds of people should not be underestimated, they gathered together, and the small families nearby could only be attached to, in the chaos of Chen Wei's soldiers, these families, some organized men, built fortresses, and the general thieves did not dare to approach.

There was a fortress and money and food, so the fleeing people voluntarily incorporated into it, so after the establishment of the Wei Dynasty, there was a difference between cold and noble.

However, this aristocracy, unlike the nobles of the Cao Dynasty, was basically a bureaucrat of the Chen Dynasty.

The Yitian system is different from the Wei Dynasty when it arrives in the Yu Dynasty, first of all, under the Juntian of the National Dynasty, many families' Yitian is evenly divided, and they can only guarantee that these fields are sufficient, and the Yu Dynasty strictly prohibits the princes from buying land, and the general gentry want to buy Yitian, and there is no place to buy.

The squire's Yitian can only take care of the ancestral hall, and there is very little care for the poor clansmen, so in the Yu Dynasty, the big family has been decreasing.

Cao Chifeng nodded, just like the Cao family doesn't have many righteous fields, and there are many families in this vicinity, and the righteous fields are only a few acres, which is enough for incense money.

Cao Chifeng asked Chen Shihong, is this Yitian good or bad? Chen Shihong said that it is not easy to say, now the four mansions of the East China Sea are not good, if it is the four mansions of Hezuo, there are too many families, which may not be a good thing for the small people.

Chen Shihong told Cao Chifeng that in Duoyi County, Southeast Province, where armed fights often occur,

The fighting is a group of people from two states, one group is called Lian surname, it is a large family, they marry each other, so it is called Lian surname, and the other group is called Qi surname, which is a group of small surnames gathered together to resist these big surnames.

"Master Chen, what are they fighting for?"

Chen Shihong said that it is naturally a struggle for the field, the demarcation of this field, after a long time, it will not be clear, those who love to be greedy and cheap, naturally take advantage of a little advantage, and the occupied nature is not willing, this kind of thing, the theory can not achieve any results, and in the end it is still hard work.

As long as this fights together, then it is endless, whether it is the surname of Lian or the surname of Qi, they are not afraid of casualties, and they also set auspicious days and make appointments with good places, and the men on both sides will go into battle, if anyone does not go, they will be injured by the clansmen.

Both wives and children support their husbands' actions as manly.

If the man has any accident in the fight, the clan will also help take care of these offspring.

After Cao Chifeng heard this, he was very surprised and asked if there were still men if it went on like this?

Chen Shihong said that this can also invite people, the price is not low, many homeless people will participate if they can't survive, and there are also fathers and sons who help both sides.

"Then Master Chen, doesn't this government care?"

"Most of these local officials are timid and afraid, and when they saw this, they were already frightened, and they dared to intervene more. And these two surnames are not easy to mess with, whoever wants to make peace will be attacked by these two surnames. So the people of this yamen, after the fight, went to collect the money for the fight. If they don't give money, they will use their skills to collect money in the name of the government. Don't hide it from Miss Cao, I just saw them like this, and I felt chilled by the court, so I was reckless. ”

After Cao Chifeng heard this, she said that she understood, but she also said: "Master Chen, now come out to be an official and make decisions for the people, although the good and bad of this county are uneven, but with Master Chen, you are in the sky, which is enough to make people with lofty ideals in the world yearn for it." ”

After Cao Chifeng finished speaking, she raised her glass, toasted Chen Shihong, and then said shyly, she thought that Chen Shihong was a talented man at first, and admired his talent, but now she sees Chen Shihong so selfless and selfless, seeking well-being for the people under her rule, she can't help but be happy in her heart, thinking that although this talent is rare, it is even more rare to be a good official who is willing to speak up for the people of the world. This talent is not profitable, but he is the only one who is profitable, and a good official is the beneficiary of everyone in the world.

Chen Shihong said that he didn't dare, he was really far behind Lin Quan, Lin Quan was a great Confucian who was for the country and the people, how dare he spare his body, if he had achieved a high position like Lin Quan, he might not have the blood he has now.

"Master Chen, Yasheng has clouds, the three armies can win the commandery, but the horseman cannot win the ambition, a person with lofty ideals like you will never change because of his official position."