Lu Xiangsheng began to look around as soon as he entered the courtyard of this house. The granary in the courtyard was full of golden short sticks, he didn't know this thing, but he also knew that it might be grain, anyway, everything here in the Far East was weird, and he didn't see it strange.

In the cowshed next to the granary, there is a stout old ox in it, where it is leisurely munching hay, and a large cart is parked on the side. In the yard, more than a dozen chickens were looking for food, and a few ducks and geese were lying peacefully under the fence.

At the other end of the yard was a stack of firewood more than one person high, and a stone mill was placed, and a pile of curved plows, hoes, rakes, shovels and other farm tools were piled on the side.

The yellow earth dog tied to the door began to bark wildly from the moment they entered, and it was not until the man kicked it that the earth dog wailed and lost its voice.

Although the small courtyard is full, it is also clean. The exterior walls of the two thatched mud houses are covered with bunches of red peppers, dried radish, gourd strips, and a variety of sun-dried vegetables.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the courtyard, and couldn't help but think in his heart, this house is full of surplus grain, prosperous livestock, cattle and carts, even in the richest area south of the Daming River, it should be regarded as a rich family. When the Far East first came to Liaodong, it had only been a few years since they resettled the displaced people, and this family must be the richest family in this village.

He followed the peasant into the house and sat down on the kang in the main house. This room looks like a thatched house that has lived in for many years, the walls are worn and mottled, the main beam of the roof can be seen at a glance on the black roof, and the furniture is rough and bad, but it is quite clean, it seems that the woman of this family is a capable housekeeper.

The mother-in-law of the family was preparing the family's dinner, and the stout peasant was simple, and took out the bacon that the family had been reluctant to eat, as well as two salted fish. In such a family, these things are quite expensive.

The stout man's hometown is from Shanxi, named Liu Tong, and he has been in the Far East for nine years of Chongzhen. The daughter-in-law is also a North Korean, average-looking, but very capable, and she also gave birth to two children for Liu Tong.

After all, Lu Xiangsheng is from the Ming Dynasty, of course, he will not communicate too much with the vulgar countrymen, if this is in the Ming Dynasty, if a scholar comes to such a family, it will be a blessing for them to cultivate for several lifetimes.

That is, here in the Far East, there are no rules for what to do, and Mr. Zhou is also an important minister in the Far East, and he actually chatted with a countryman, which also made him feel slanderous.

Zhou Billy took out a cigarette and handed it to Liu Tong, and said with a smile: "Brother, life at home is quite prosperous." ”

Liu Tong laughed when he heard this: "It's still ...... Since coming to the Far East, our life has been like a dream. I can't eat any food at home,"

He took the cigarette handed over by Billy Zhou, his eyes lit up, and he smiled: "Yo...... It's still a cigarette, we countrymen can't afford to smoke this cigarette, brother, can I put this cigarette away, and I'll take it out and smoke it during the holidays. I'd better smoke my cigarette pouch and pot. ”

Zhou Billy was amused by the other party, and directly stuffed the box of cigarettes into Liu Tong's hand, and said with a smile: "Brother, I can't afford to smoke this cigarette, this is what our leader stuffed it into me when I came." You take it, I won't tell you, I usually smoke cigarette bags and pots......"

As he spoke, he also took out a cigarette pouch pot from the bag next to him, grabbed the tobacco leaves on Liu Tongkang's edge and stuffed it into the tobacco pot, and then asked Liu Tong to help light it up and take a puff.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Billy Zhou, and actually sat with the vulgar countryman smoking a cigarette bag and pot. The two of them swallowed the clouds and spitted fog, and the house was originally too big, and after a while, the kung fu room was filled with smoke, choking Lu Xiangsheng and coughing.

He fanned the smoke in front of him, and then said to Liu Tong with a smile: "Your family is the richest in the village." ”

Liu Tong said with a smile: "My family is much worse, the old Li family in the east of the village is the richest, the eldest son of the family has joined the army, not only does he send back a lot of military salary every month, but he is still a military family, and the owner also gives them that allowance every month." The troops who came up during the New Year's holidays, and the detachments and brigades also came, and they sent condolences to their homes in large bags. Later, when the eldest son of my family grew up, Lao Tzu also asked him to join the army. ”

Listening to Liu Tong's words, Lu Xiangsheng's heart suddenly froze, and he asked tightly: "That family is a general in the Far East Army?" ”

"Fart general, that kid has only been in the army for two years, and I heard that he is the egg of the recruits. If the eldest son of my family can become a soldier in the future, let alone a military general, even if he mixes a non-commissioned officer in the Far Eastern Army, then he will not have to worry about it in this life, and he will be able to be a squad leader in the village directly when he returns home after retiring. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he asked with some disbelief: "Isn't it not easy to join the army in the Far East?" ”

Liu Tong smiled bitterly: "Of course, every time the army recruits, dozens of half-sized children in the whole village break their heads just to compete for a place." Even if you compete for this place, you have to take the assessment several times in a row to become the Far Eastern Army. Anyway, hundreds of half-sized children compete for a spot, how difficult you say. ”

Lu Xiangsheng secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, scrambling to become a soldier in the Far East, one in a few hundreds, can the source of soldiers be worse.

He looked at the furnishings in the house and asked, "Except for that military family, your family is the richest in the village." ”

Liu Tong waved his hand and said: "That's not a rich family, every household in the village is similar to our family, and some families are probably richer than our family." ”

Listening to the other party's words, Lu Xiangsheng was completely disappointed in his heart. He turned his head and asked, "Mr. Zhou, is this village considered a wealthy village in Liaodong?" ”

Zhou Billy shook his head and said: "The resettlement conditions of millions of displaced people in eastern Liaodong and the outer northeast are similar, and in some newly resettled areas, the conditions of displaced people may be better. ”

Lu Xiangsheng listened to Zhou Billy's words and couldn't help but gasp. Millions of displaced people are resettled under this condition, and how much money and food will have to be spent.

But the thoughts that followed in his heart made him feel even more frightened, and even his back was soaked. Millions of displaced people have been coming to Liaodong for several years, even if each person has a few acres of land, how much grain will be collected in the Far East just to collect rent that year.

The land of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the gentry class and the vassal kings and nobles, but they do not have to pay grain taxes, and the little taxes collected by the Ming Dynasty every year may not be as much as those collected by the Far East.

At this time, the North Korean woman of Liu Tong's family had already cooked the meal. The meal was also sumptuous, with a large pot of corn tortillas, a large bowl of steaming cornmeal porridge per person, two plates of pickles, a plate of bacon fried Chinese cabbage, and a plate of salted fish.

Zhou Billy turned around and took out a bottle of liquor from his satchel as if playing a trick, and then said with a smile: "Lao Liu, I still have a bottle of wine here, which was also given to me by the leader." Today we wiped it out. ”

made Lao Liu very embarrassed, people smoke and drink, but they can't come up with anything decent. Although the peasant family is not rich, it also needs to be faced.

He was ruthless, stood up and took out a box of canned whale meat, and said with a smile: "This is the last time the army stayed at our house, a chief left behind, I have always been reluctant to eat, tonight we also wiped it out." ”

Liu Tong ate very happily at this meal, drank more wine, and cried and laughed until midnight. But Lu Xiangsheng's meal didn't taste good.

It's not that he doesn't like the food is vulgar, it's just that after listening to what Liu Tong and Zhou Billy said today, his mood instantly fell to the bottom. The way the Ming Dynasty is now, how will it resist the attack of the Far East in the future.

The next morning, Zhou Billy and Lu Xiangsheng left Liu Tong's house, and before leaving, Zhou Billy still stuffed Liu with the same money bag, which contained more than a dozen silver coins.

This is the tradition of all the internal employees of the Far Eastern Group, because they often have to go down to the ordinary peasant households at the grassroots level, eat and live with them, and grasp the first-hand information of the grassroots level, which inevitably makes the grassroots farmers in various places break the bank, so they all carry some such money bags with them.

Zhou Billy also wanted to take Lu Xiangsheng around Shenyang, but Lu Xiangsheng was in no mood to leave again. Overnight, Lu Xiangsheng seemed to be more than ten years old, and he was already haggard.

He barely slept that night, and if there was one word to describe his current mood, it would be despair. Before coming to Liaodong again, he still had a bit of luck, but after only staying in Liaodong for two days and walking a few places, he already had a clear answer in his heart, and sooner or later he would be replaced by the Far East.

Billy Zhou stayed by Lu Xiangsheng's side for two days, and to be honest, he was also very disappointed in Lu Xiangsheng. In the final analysis, Lu Xiangsheng is still a typical scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and the innate sense of superiority in his bones is almost difficult to change.

Especially in Liu Tongjia, the performance of the other party once again confirmed his judgment, the transformation of the Ming Dynasty is definitely not an overnight thing, and the gains really outweigh the losses. Instead of expending energy to transform them, it is better to train more grassroots managers and political workers.

To say that it sounds good, it is the integrity of the literati, and to say that it is not good, it is that the scholars and doctors of this era are spoiled.

Of course, there was no shortage of scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty who were honest and honest, dared to give direct advice, and worried about the world.

For at least thousands of years, many elites have emerged from the scholars, and they are indeed the backbone of the Chinese nation. As Wen Tianxiang wrote in his clothes belt before he died: "Kong said to be benevolent, Meng said to take righteousness, but his righteousness is exhausted, so benevolence." ”

There is also a representative sentence said by Han Yong in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, "Since ancient times, the great material that has been born to set things right has been mostly suppressed by danger, and it is jealous of the small group, so that it is excluded by frustration and humiliation, so as to cultivate its strong and unyielding righteousness."

It is a pity that the integrity of the Chinese literati, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, was cut off by the Manchus with steel knives, and the heroic righteousness that the scholar class has always been proud of has also disappeared and become servile.

In modern society, many Qing Dynasty TV dramas, the image of literati has become more and more obscene. Ji Xiaolan can be regarded as a traditional literati, but he doesn't kneel in front of Qianlong every day and call himself a slave, and the one he calls is peace of mind.

It is natural for people and Shen to call themselves slaves, because he is a Manchurian, you are a Han, or a Han who has read the book of sages, and you have a lot of fun with people and Shen. (To be continued.) )