It was another spring benefit, and Ye Hua and Wang Pu went to Qufu on an errand.

This is the third year of Guo Wei's ascension to the throne, and in more than half a year, Ye Hua will be 16 years old, in the countryside, 16-year-old boys are not married, and the parents at home will be very anxious, go everywhere to ask for matchmakers, and quickly say that a daughter-in-law in a room, if you can't find a daughter-in-law after the age of 20, you can only find someone with a bad brain, a disability, or a widow, and the whole family can't raise their heads.

Wang Pu decided to suggest to Guo Wei that the family be punished for delaying the marriage.

If a man over the age of 16 does not marry, the family will pay 1 stone of rice, and if the girl does not marry, he will be fined a piece of cloth!

Wang Pu thinks this is a good way to make the population grow rapidly.

With people, there are taxes, and there are soldiers......

"I absolutely support it." Ye Hua smiled and said, "But personally, I'd rather hand over a few stones of rice first!" ”

Wang Pu's old face was very long, and he said unhappily: "Champion Hou, you are a hero in the hearts of many people, an example, you should marry more, have more children, have more children, and give your Ye family more branches." ”

Ye Hua disagreed, "Xianggong Wang, if you really want to increase the population, you shouldn't encourage me to marry more, you should hope that I marry as little as possible, it's best to marry only one!" ”

"How so?" Wang Pu said with a straight face: "If you marry more, you can have more!"

"What about the others? What does everyone think? Ye Hua said: "The number of men and women in the world is about the same, and some people marry a lot, so naturally some people can't marry a wife." A family has children and grandchildren all over the place, but there are many more singles, is this called increasing the population, or decreasing the population? You say? ”

"Me!"

Wang Pu was speechless when asked, he thought about it carefully, it seems that this is really the truth, why hasn't he thought about it? If a man marries several wives and concubines, even if he has several more children, it is not as good as a single wife, and several families have more children together...... Therefore, in order to encourage the fertility population, we should restrict the taking of concubines, restrict maids and slaves, and let men and women make up a pair as much as possible.

"Champion Hou really has a good insight, and the old man has been taught."

Ye Hua's words changed, "Wang Xianggong, the truth in the world is like this, for example, to increase the population, it should be to restrict concubines, not encourage concubines. To promote Confucianism, we should restrain scholars, not raise scholars with the strength of the country, let alone worship and worship a tomb, nor should we give so many rewards to people dozens of generations later, so much privilege! By doing this, you are discrediting Confucianism! ”

The matter of population, Wang Pu is easy to accept, but when it comes to the matter of the Kong family, although the logic is the same, Wang Pu blew his beard and glared.

"Champion Hou, Chongshiren, reverence for saints and sages, isn't it right?"

"Wang Xianggong!" Ye Hua also raised his voice, "What do you call a scholar?" Death for a confidant! Sacrifice your life to take righteousness, learn to be rich and five cars. Before asking for benefits from the imperial court and preferential treatment, pat your chest and ask yourself, is it enough to meet the standards of scholars? Do you deserve to be a qualified scholar? ”

"Confucius has long said that he has been dead for more than a thousand years, and it is enough to learn his teachings. What's the use of running to the grave? If Confucius had a spirit, he would have violated his own ideas, and if he had not been spiritual, what was the use of worshipping? ”

Ye Hua told the "Confucius Paradox", Wang Pu's neck was as thick as his head, and he couldn't find the words to refute it.

Ye Hua didn't give up, and continued: "Confucius also said, the gentleman's Ze, the fifth generation and beheaded, the Confucian family has been passed down to the present, it is almost 50 generations, you still remember it, and strive for preferential treatment for the descendants of the Confucian family, let me ask you, is that Kong Renyu real or fake?" Didn't it mean that Kong Mo had already killed all the descendants of the Kong family? How did Kong Renyu come out and can it stand up to scrutiny? Does he really have the blood of Confucius in him? Even if there is blood, what can it be? ”

"The descendants of the Confucian family, bullying others, exploiting the people, they do those evil things, they will only smear Confucius's face and disgrace the saint, believe it or not, if Confucius is really alive, he should first use family law to dispose of his descendants! If he can't do it, then he is not worthy of being a master of all ages, and he is not worthy of being a saint and sage......"

Ye Hua was like a cannon, which made Wang Pu dumbfounded.

After a long time, Wang Pu said: "That, the gentleman's Ze, will be beheaded in the fifth generation." It was Mencius who said it, but not Confucius! ”

"When is it? You're still! Ye Hua yelled angrily, "Since Mencius has said it, do you think he will go against Confucius's will?" In short, if you continue to do it, and only know how to protect it, the Master's reputation will be ruined by you people! ”

From Chuzhou to Qufu, along the way, Ye Hua and Wang Pu would quarrel as long as they talked about the affairs of the Kong family.

Many times, it's just Ye Hua who is complaining frantically, and Wang Pu just listens silently.

Less than 20 miles away from Qufu, Wang Pu squinted his eyes, looked at the gray patch in the distance, and let out a sigh, his heart was like a dense weather.

"Champion Hou, if the Kong family really does evil, the old man will not protect him, they will disgrace the saint, and the old man will deal with it decisively!"

Hearing Wang Pu's statement, Ye Hua was stunned for a moment.

After all, it was not an era when Confucianism dominated the country, and people respected Confucius, but it was not to the point where it was untouchable and unspeakable.

In fact, there are many people in Shilin who don't believe in the Han Confucianism, and there are still many ideas, but they have not become a climate.

Ye Hua became more and more determined in his thoughts, he must preempt everyone and fundamentally cut off the possibility of the emergence of science!

The establishment of a dynasty may not be able to escape the rise and fall of three hundred years, but a set of mature doctrines can lead a thousand years, which is a field worth investing in, and it will definitely not be possible to rely on one person alone.

After returning to Beijing, let's see if we can get together a group of real scholars and do a good job of this project.

Ye Hua was pondering, but found that on the road ahead, there was a middle-aged man holding a donkey, standing with his hands down.

Seeing the Qincha brigade, he walked a few steps closely, and did not look up, but just bowed down and said: "Kong Renyu, the chief bookkeeper of Xiaguan Qufu, greets Qincha!" ”

Wang Pu looked at the lonely Kong Renyu, and then at the shabby and discolored official uniform on his body, and was stunned.

"Master Kong, why are you the only one? Among the county officials, there is no one else?"

Kong Renyu said: "Qi Qi Qincha, the county lord suddenly fell ill and died a month ago, and the county government only has one official, and there are some government servants. Now that spring plowing is imminent, every household is busy, and the lower officials are afraid of delaying the farming, so they let them go home to cultivate the fields. If there is something to blame for the Qin Cha, the lower officials are willing to bear it! ”

Listening to Kong Renyu's words, Wang Pu was taken aback, although Wang Pu didn't believe that the Kong family would come nonsense, but the descendants of the Kong family in the past generations were indeed the local tyrants, and Wang Pu didn't know anything about it.

So along the way, he has been persuaded by Ye Hua for the most part. But seeing Kong Renyu made him surprised again, and he couldn't help but look at Ye Hua.

Ye Hua looked at this Kong Renyu carefully, he only had one thought now, he was a fake!

"Master Kong, since the people of the Yamen are all going to plow the fields, why don't you go? Wang Xianggong and I just need to take a look casually, and we don't need to be accompanied. ”

When Kong Renyu heard this, he actually let out a sigh of relief and showed a happy smile.

"Qin Cha is so compassionate, Xia Guan is really grateful. Xia Guan still wanted to go to the fields at night...... "Kong Renyu was relieved, he really wanted to lead the donkey away, but he turned back halfway, and said embarrassedly: "Qin is far away, or go to the yamen to rest first, Xia Guan is not in a hurry, not in a hurry." ”

He said that he was not in a hurry, but he walked much faster than Ye Hua and Wang Pu, and rushed to Qufu County Ya with a roar.

The yamen was in tatters, and there was no decent furnishings, and even the drums outside were broken.

Kong Renyu invited them to the second hall, he went to boil water to make tea by himself, making a miasma, his face was full of black ash, and it was easy to boil the water, Kong Renyu was very embarrassed and said: "Let Qin Cha wait for a long time, the firewood is damp, and it is not easy to burn!" ”

He took the coarse porcelain bowl and poured water for Ye Hua and Wang Pu.

Ye Hua noticed Kong Renyu's hands, the skin was rough and full of calluses, and he often worked at a glance, not cheating. There are more and more question marks in Ye Hua's heart.

"Master Kong, I don't have a lot of money in Da Zhou, but a lot, why are you so embarrassed, aren't you acting?"

Kong Renyu smiled innocently, not caring about Ye Hua's directness, but let out a long sigh.

"Xiaguan suffered misfortune when he was young, and Kong Mo, a slave of the Kong family, teamed up with bandits to kill countless descendants of the Kong family, and his father also died. The lower officials can survive, and they all rely on their uncle's family to raise them. To put it bluntly, Xiaguan grew up eating hundreds of meals and wearing hundreds of clothes. Emperor Mingzong was sympathetic, beheaded Kong Mo, and let the lower officials be the chief bookkeeper of Qufu, responsible for sacrificing the ancestors. The lower officials gave all the money to their uncle's family and to those poor students, so that they could read and write and serve the court. ”

Kong Renyu raised his head and said proudly: "The lower officials have hands and feet, and they still have land at home, they cultivate and harvest every year, eat the food they grow, and they are steady!" Knowing the grace of the report, the lower officials can't shame the ancestors, and they can't lose the face of the Kong family! ”

He talked for a long time, and seeing that it was close to noon, Kong Renyu said embarrassedly: "The two Qincha, the yamen is simple, go down to buy some cooked vegetables, give, and wash the dust for the Qincha." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and went under the table, took out a jar, took out a string of money from it, gritted his back molars and counted 200 wen, and carefully put the rest back for fear of being stolen.

Ye Hua couldn't stand it, and hurriedly said: "Master Kong, we all bring food, you don't have to bother, let's go to the fields, the harvest of the year that has been delayed is gone." ”

Kong Renyu was slightly embarrassed, hesitated for a while, but nodded and left, he went to the back of the yamen, changed out of his official uniform, wore a short fight, and really went to work in the field......

He left, leaving only Wang Pu and Ye Hua.

Wang Pu was stunned for a while, looked at the clothes on his body, and a pair of white and tender hands, and suddenly panicked.

"Alas, if the officials of the world can be like Kong Renyu, the rule of three generations will not be far away!"

After he sighed, he asked Ye Hua again, "Champion Hou, what else do you have to say?" ”

Ye Hua said: "I have a chill down my spine now, and I have met a performing artist!" ”