Chapter 5 Gu Yanwu of the Heavenly Path

It's not just Tianshui and Qingshui County that have problems, as the boundary monuments of Lantian County continue to move outward, not everyone welcomes the arrival of the boundary monuments in Lantian County.

Most of the people who want the boundary monument of Lantian County to come are ordinary people, or some desperate tenant farmers who have no property.

Those who don't want the boundary monument of Lantian County to arrive are often local big households.

As the boundary monument goes farther and farther, the economic stimulating effect of Lantian County on the marginal areas becomes less obvious, which causes people's perception of Lantian County to change.

Really speaking, the local tyrants and inferior gentry are the real public opinion.

It may seem unpleasant to say, but the fact that the poor have no voice is a real thing that cannot be more true.

At that time, the Yun clan burned the IOUs accumulated by three generations, and these IOUs, together with the powerful private army, became the basis for the Yun clan's rule over Lantian County.

Yun Zhao's vision is long-term and his heart is broad-minded, so he can burn those IOUs, while the rest of the local tyrants and inferior gentry are very unwilling.

As a result, local forces are still entrenched, and they are very unfriendly to the new land policy that Yunzhao is about to implement.

"Revolution is a must! It's also ruthless. ”

Xu Wu wanted to whisper the words in his heart that he had been holding back for a long time.

"Li Hongji's momentum needs to be greater, Zhang Bingzhong should also enter Sichuan, Luo Rucai and others should also play their role and clean up the local forces in Shuzhong, including General Qin Liangyu's family, Shizhu Tusi can't be a place outside the law."

"There were many casualties in doing so......"

"Not necessarily, for those people who have nothing to lose, the entry of these rogues into their homes is a precious opportunity for them to come back again, and they should not miss this precious opportunity.

In addition, the current rogues are much smarter than in previous years, and their goal is no longer to rob ordinary people and coerce ordinary people, but to target those who have rich wealth.

In recent years, the reason why people think that the grass and trees will not grow after the Liukou is actually not so serious, but the right to speak is in the hands of the local tyrants and inferior gentry, but ordinary people like to make a fortune in silence, even if they get benefits from the Liukou, they don't talk about it.

This kind of cunning of ordinary people will eventually kill them.

After the rogues left, the government returned, and what the government had to do was not to stabilize the place and develop production, but to liquidate those who had helped the rogues.

Therefore, wherever the rogues went, there were two large-scale killings, one was the killing of the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and the second was the killing of the people by the government and the returning local tyrants and gentry.

This is the real reason why the vegetation does not grow after the rogue passes.

If we take over the place after the exiles, there will be no second killing, and the people will be uneasy at this time, which is the most docile time, and it is a point that we can take advantage of. ”

"Who would do such a thing? I mean, who do you think would be the best fit for someone who would do this according to our plan? ”

Xu Wuxiang took a book from the shelf and handed it to Yun Zhaodao: "We have calculated that the wealth in each place is basically in a state of balanced distribution.

This is the result of the construction of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

These achievements are invisible, and although they are evenly distributed in each place, the holders are not balanced, that is, the local wealth is in the hands of a small number of people, and if we can have the ability to learn from each other's strengths, it is not difficult to control the local area. ”

Yun Zhao sighed, opened the document and looked at it for a full hour before closing it and saying, "You can test it." ”

Xu Wu wanted to put away the document and said, "Starting from the vicinity of Funiu Mountain, what does the county think?" ”

Yun Zhao nodded, after Xu Wu wanted to make this suggestion, Yun Zhao knew that Feng Ying's subordinates were going to start doing some dirty work.

"Tell Qian Shaoshao to catch a big thief with a bad reputation and enough deterrent power to come back, and I will borrow his name.

It is not appropriate for Feng Ying to do this kind of thing. ”

Xu Wuxiang smiled and nodded, and exited the study.

As soon as this guy left, Yun Zhao even felt that the entire study became brighter, which may or may not be a psychological factor.

Glancing at the study, a huge study room was stuffed with all kinds of papers, and all the secrets of Lantian County were hidden in this huge study.

Yun Zhao looked up at the map of the relationship between the world and the world that Mr. Zhang Xianliang gave him, in the vast north, the red line related to the Zhu Ming Dynasty has become sparse, but the blue line representing Lantian County almost covers the huge west and north.

Naturally, someone will deal with the case of corruption in Tianshui, someone will naturally deal with the teaching case in Qingshui County, someone will also deal with the large-scale weapons fighting in Yunnan and Guizhou, and even in the distant Jingshi, there will be someone who will deal with Lu Xiangsheng's reluctance to leave the prison.

Yun Zhao rarely arranges a real plan now, he only needs to hear the result, and if he has time, he may listen to the process of doing things again.

"The pace of expansion over the years has been a bit fast, and it's been a bit hasty."

Yun Zhao looked at the stack of war documents on the table, and put these documents that represented continued expansion at the top of the shelf.

"Now, it's time to take it easy."

Yun Zhao temporarily stopped his intention to continue to expand, and his work was reduced by more than half, and although the enthusiasm of the ambitious graduates of Yushan Academy to expand was good, it could not continue indefinitely.

At noon, Qian Duoduo, who had slept well, came to Yun Zhao's study in a curling manner, and saw Feng Ying and Xiao Chu standing outside the courtyard with food boxes and not going in, so he said in surprise: "Why don't you go in?" ”

Feng Ying smiled at Qian Duoduo and said, "The military plane is heavy, so let's not go in." ”

Qian Duoduo smiled coquettishly: "What kind of secret can be hidden from us?" ”

After speaking, he raised his feet and was about to enter the courtyard, but was pulled by Feng Ying, and said with a frown: "You can't be pampered and arrogant." ”

Qian Duoduo said angrily: "What does the family have to do with it? ”

Feng Ying pointed to the Yun family's mansion not far away and said, "You can do whatever you want there, and here, we still have some rules." ”

Qian Duoduo said: "Ah Zhao said, he has nothing to hide from us." ”

"He can say this, we can't do this!"

While the two were arguing, the clouded leopard walked over from outside with a black face and said to Yun Zhao's personal guard: "Report to the county honor, just say that the clouded leopard wants to see." ”

The guard said to the clouded leopard with an expressionless face: "The county lord said, I won't see Uncle Leopard at this time, and after the matter of Tianshui has a result, I will discuss the relationship between uncle and nephew with Uncle Leopard." ”

The clouded leopard had a painful look on his face, turned his head to look at Feng Ying and Qian Duoduo and said, "Tianshui's account has more than eight thousand taels of silver, which is not ......."

Qian Duoduo immediately said: "I have it here, Uncle Leopard will use it first." ”

Feng Ying tugged at Qian Duoduo's sleeve and said, "Uncle Leopard is not short of eight thousand taels of silver, and Uncle Leopard needs to clear up the grievances he suffered." ”

The clouded leopard nodded at the two nieces and daughters-in-law and said, "They are all good children, when you go in later, tell Ah Zhao that your Uncle Leopard is not rare for that bit of silver, if it is really my subordinates who have done such a shameful thing, tell me, I will enforce the family law." ”

Feng Ying nodded, and Qian Duoduo wanted to say a few more words, when he saw that the clouded leopard had turned around and left.

The lunch bell of Yushan Academy rang, Feng Ying and Qian Duoduo threw Xiao Chu outside, and walked into Yun Zhao's big study with the food box.

While Feng Ying was arranging the meal, Qian Duoduo came to Yun Zhao's table, looked at the document that Yun Zhao was writing, and said in a low voice: "Uncle Leopard came here just now, and he looks a little sad and angry. ”

Yun Zhaobi walked the dragon snake and said while writing documents: "He has always been used to being rough, and most of the people under him are some people from all over the world, and they are righteous and angry in everything, which is not a good habit, two years ago, he asked him to select some students from Yushan Academy to serve as his staff, he was good, he always said that those students were useless, but now they are calculated." ”

"More than 8,000 taels of silver, there is no need to make Uncle Leopard unhappy."

Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "It's not that simple, since we defeated Dorgon in Lantian City, everyone has been staring at us.

As long as we reveal a little bit of a loophole, someone will tear the hole as big as the cylinder mouth.

Give it to Xu Wu and they want to investigate, if it's just a general omission, I'll fill in the money for Uncle Leopard, if it's ......"

Qian Duoduo's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and he said in a low voice: "Do you want to punish Uncle Leopard?" ”

Yun Zhao stopped the pen in his hand, held Qian Duoduo's waist and sighed: "It's not that I want to punish Uncle Leopard, it's the rules of Lantian County that punish Uncle Leopard." ”

"Let's eat!"

Feng Ying arranged the meal, Yun Zhao and Qian Duoduo came over and sat on the edge of the table to prepare for dinner, seeing that Feng Ying was very silent, Yun Zhao smiled and said, "Don't you tell me your opinion?" ”

Feng Ying packed a bowl of rice and sent it to Yun Zhao and said, "When you're done, I'll go to visit Uncle Leopard." ”

Yun Zhao silently took a bite of food, feeling tasteless, so he put down his rice bowl and said: "This is the first time I have been the leader of another family, I have no experience, I always want to do both reason and law, but as a result, this is impossible to do, everything can only be done to a limited extent."

No wonder the emperor always calls himself a loner! I don't want to be like that, it's boring. ”

Feng Ying nodded and said, "I like the way I like Duoduo, right?" ”

Yun Zhao smiled: "Yes, it always looks beautiful to do things with a human touch. ”

Qian Duoduo shook his head and said: "He Chang's family said that the mansion gate has the rules of the mansion gate, and if there are no rules, it will be chaotic." ”

Yun Zhao raised his hand and slapped Qian Duoduo's ass and said, "Eat, after eating, I will take you to a small valley that I used to go to when I was a child."

It was in that valley that I thought I had discovered the secret treasure of the Yun Clan, but I found my own ancestral tomb.

First of all, we usually didn't wear clothes when we entered that valley......"

When Gu Yanwu arrived in the Houma disaster area, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

What kind of world is this?

The swarms of locusts have flown away, but there are still many locusts here, these locusts have not yet grown, their wings are not perfect, they cannot fly long distances, so they are jumping on the bare land, chasing the army of locusts far away.

If the army of locusts in front of them is a comb, then these small locusts are grates, chewing up the little green left after the big locusts pass by.

Occasionally, locusts form a locust pack on the road, and when they approach, the locusts flee with a bang, revealing a bloody corpse on the ground.

"Locusts eat people?"

Gu Yanwu exclaimed.

A young student looked at Gu Yanwu strangely and said, "Locusts don't eat people, they are devouring the juice on the corpses.

As long as the corpse is always oozing juice, the locusts will not abandon the corpse and go away, as if the locusts are eating people.

Since Mr. Gu wants to carry out the big plan of exchanging a bucket of locusts for a bucket of millet seeds, the students think that they can start now. ”

Gu Yanwu shook his head and said: "It's not time yet, at this time, the people still have a little food in their hands, let's explore Houma again, and talk about it after hearing about the situation in the two places."

As long as we have money and food in our hands, the people will listen to us. ”

The young student didn't argue, just arched his hand, stopped talking, and continued to move closer to the depths of Houma County as Gu Yanwu continued.

The further he walked inside, the colder Gu Yanwu's heart became.

It wasn't the scene after the locusts that made him feel cold, but the behavior of the people here made him feel cold.

No one came out to work, and the most common scene was a large group of people, men and women, old and young, huddled into a pile, or squatting on the grain field, or squatting at the entrance of the village, looking at Gu Yanwu and his party indifferently.

Several times, he heard these people talking about robbing them, and it was only because of the war knives and firearms on the waists of the Lantian County soldiers that they quietly watched the group pass under their noses.

When camping at night, there were always dark shadows wandering outside their camp.

Gu Yanwu believed that as long as Li Hongji's army passed by here, all the people here would follow Li Hongji without hesitation, and even if they followed Li Hongji, it would be a dead end, and they were not afraid.

When everyone is drinking to quench their thirst, life is not as valuable as a straw.

These are things that he didn't learn in books.

As everyone gathered around the campfire, a student took out a frying pan, poured a little vegetable oil into the pan and waited for the oil to heat up, and threw the locusts that had been caught and removed their legs and wings into the pan and fried them in oil.

After a while, the aroma of fried meat spread, and the student sprinkled some salt on the fried locusts, and put it in front of Gu Yanwu to invite him to eat together.

For eating locusts, Gu Yanwu still knows this allusion, Li Shimin has eaten it, although he has eaten it a little sad and angry, but he has indeed eaten it, Fan Zhongyan has eaten it, and said that locusts taste no different from shrimp, and many books encourage people to eat locusts.

Therefore, although Gu Yanwu had never eaten locusts, at this time, eating locusts did not have many psychological obstacles for him.

The student's craftsmanship is good, the locusts are fried and burnt, not only crispy, but also fragrant, especially when he eats locusts and his mouth is full of greasy, someone handed over a wine gourd, and Gu Yanwu's strength to eat locusts has increased greatly.

"We entered Shanxi so openly, why don't we see the government?"

Gu Yanwu had wanted to ask this question for a long time, and when Yushan accepted this order, he even felt that Yun Zhao had some meaning in it.

"Usually at this time, the government will run ......"

"Run? Officials have the duty to defend the land! ”

"Officials in Shanxi and Shaanxi are very experienced in this kind of thing, as long as they encounter a catastrophe and famine, the officials will run, and if they don't run, there will be a civil uprising.

They ran away and took away food and money, and the people would not be able to get food and money by attacking the government, and if they didn't attack the government, they would not be able to talk about the people's uprising, and when the famine here had passed, they would come back, and then the people would have food and homes, and no one would want to rebel, and they would continue to accept the rule of the government......"

Gu Yanwu was dumbfounded when he heard this!

He felt that the students seemed to be more familiar with the people than he was.

"Sir, don't be surprised, the student is from Houma County, but my father went to Lantian County to do business in his early years, and then stayed in Lantian County.

"Why are you here? Is it a study tour? ”

The young student laughed, "After graduation, students will come to Houma to choose a place to be the mayor here." ”

Gu Yanwu looked at the young student and said, "Why is it the lieutenant chief and not the county commander or the county lieutenant?" ”

The young student said: "The starting point of the graduates of Yushan Academy is the chief, and the stronger ones are only the big captains, if we can't even govern the land of one mile, and talk about the land of one county and one state in the future?" ”

"As you can see, the people's will has become tyrannical, and in this case, it is clear that my method of gathering the people to catch locusts in exchange for food is obviously not working, and these people seem to want to rob us more than to do business with us.

What do you have to do? ”

The young student said, "Even if someone is willing to exchange food with us by catching locusts, the food they get will be snatched away by the strongmen."

So, I think we can be a strong man first.

The students think that we should erect a long pole here, hang a big flag on the pole, and write a book for the heavens!

These frightened people will surely come to us, and when we have more men, we will order them to go and catch locusts, and then give them food according to the number of locusts they have caught.

We are the biggest strongmen, and we can have food to eat and save some food, which is a condition that other strongmen do not have.

As long as we start, we will eventually be able to unify Houma County and Wenxi County, as long as the people of these two counties begin to listen to us, and then order them to open ditches, level the fields, and prepare for spring sowing, as long as the summer harvest is completed, the autumn harvest is completed, and the order of the county will be completed, what do you think? ”

Hearing this student's words, Gu Yanwu was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Isn't this a rebellion?" ”

The student said with a smile: "Extraordinary people must use extraordinary means to do extraordinary things, and Mr. Gao Badou is rich and rich Wucheyan can not understand this truth."

This should be the most feasible approach at the moment, please think twice. ”

Gu Yanwu's mouth was bitter, and when he looked up, he had already seen a big banner waving in the wind, and he didn't even have to guess that it must have been written on it that this cunning student said - the four big characters of the way for the sky.

"So, a certain family has become a thief of the Ming Dynasty?" Gu Yanwu stood up a little angry.

The student said: "Save the country and save the people, what a little personal profit and loss, don't worry, sir, we have never thought of rebellion, we are just saving the people, but the method is a little excessive, as long as Mr. succeeds in helping the victims, and after the return of the Ming government, the student believes that what Mr. does today will definitely become the beautiful talk of Jiangnan Shilin." ”

Gu Yanwu said coldly: "Won't you really force a certain family to go to Liangshan?" ”

The student smiled: "My Lantian County Venerable is also my Ming Dynasty registered official, what kind of thief is there?" ”

Gu Yanwu first looked around at those shadowy black shadows, and sighed: "If you don't do this, these people will all die, right?" ”

The student said: "If you don't die, you will also defect to Li Hongji and become a rogue." ”

Gu Yanwu sighed and said, "Okay, a certain family will be a thief once, what's your name?" ”

The student arched his hand and said, "The third-year student of Yushan Academy - Peng Guoshu!" ”

Gu Yanwu said: "Since you want to erect a big flag, then use my name to put up a big flag, a certain Gu Yanwu does things, there is no need to hide it!" ”

Peng Guoshu chuckled and clenched his fists and said, "Mr. Gu is mighty!" ”

There are a lot of things today, so I'll write shorter, forgive me.

(End of chapter)