Zhu Jiande really left Taipei for Shanghai at 10 o'clock in November, and on the day he left, Lu Wan wanted to take him to the wharf, and what he asked Zhu Jiande to bring, in addition to a thick letter, also got two bags of coconuts, one for Zhu Jiande to honor his parents, and the other for himself to honor his parents.

Zhu Jiande was about to be made to cry by him, although he was a brigade commander and there were several orderlies and guards under him, but this time Zhu Jiande didn't want to take the orderlies when he went home. This is that he has no official authority, and he is not used to dragging this little soldier as a prestige, and then it is the New Year, who doesn't want to go home, he can take the orderlies to Shanghai, but when he arrives in Shanghai, the orderlies will take a boat back to Jiangxi by himself, and he will not take the train north with him.

Now Lu is pulling two sacks of coconuts, is this going to exhaust him? In particular, there are more than 400 kilometers from Xi'an to Yilong, and he wants to complete it in ten days, just as it took him five days to complete the road from Yilong to Chengdu that year. Now carrying such a big bag of coconuts, isn't this going to become a weight-bearing off-road.

Zhu Jiande shook his head in his heart, Lu Wan didn't notice this, and took out two palm-sized brocade cloth bags, and said: "Brother Yujie, you and I are comrades, but I didn't have the opportunity to visit Ling Zun Lingtang and sister-in-law, this is a small gift, I hope don't shirk." ”

"You are ......" Zhu Jiande didn't expect Lu Wan to come back to this one, and he was thinking about resigning, not wanting Lu Wan to know his temperament, and said: "It's not a valuable thing, two pairs of jade bracelets, and a jade dry tobacco nose." They all said that it was a fake when it was so cheap, and I didn't believe it and bought it for ten yuan, and I bought a pair for my wife and daughter-in-law, but I didn't say that it was ten yuan for them......"

Lu Wanyi said ten yuan of jade. Zhu Jiande smiled, he knew this thing. I don't know where the owner of the jewelry store got the goods, but he wanted to buy them too. But people are terrible, and he is worried that he will be fooled, so he just looks at it and leaves. Knowing that the price was not expensive, Zhu Jiande said: "Then I will accept it." I will try my best to persuade him, so you can rest assured. ”

After he finished speaking, when Lu Wan wanted to explain something more, he didn't want the passenger ship to sound the whistle, and the ticket inspector also loudly urged the passengers to get on the ship quickly. This made Lu swallow the words that came to his mouth, and only said 'Have a good trip' and said goodbye to him.

He left here, and Zhu Jiande dragged the two bags of dead coconuts with the orderlies to the boat. Stayed in the cabin. Zhu Jiande, who couldn't help it, said to the orderly: "Little ghost, how many people are there in your home?" ”

"Report to Shangguan, there are eight people." The orderly is a recruit who has gone to a private school but has never entered a military school, surnamed Qin. Zhu Jiande generally calls him a little ghost. Qin Xiaogui saw the chief asking at this time, and he couldn't wipe his sweat. Report immediately.

"Then remember to find a sack, this bag of coconuts will divide you in half." Zhu Jiande smiled with a dark face and gave an order.

"Sir, this coconut was given to you by Chief Lu...... "I am a little at a loss, this thing is worthless in Taiwan, but it will be terrible if you can pull it back to the inland, Qin Xiaogui just thought that Brigade Commander Lu is brain is easy to use, isn't this just turning waste into treasure."

"Let you take it, let you take it. These dozens of pounds, you want me to carry weights off-road, don't you? This Lu Bang ......," Zhu Jiande shook his head and smiled bitterly. He was also like a soldier, and suddenly felt that if this thing, which no one wanted in Taiwan, was shipped to Sichuan, it would definitely be able to sell for a good price.

The ship from Taiwan to Shanghai was very fast, and the ship arrived at Wusongkou three days later. Although Taipei, where the 1st Brigade is stationed, is also prosperous, it is not a little inferior to Shanghai, and the two of them bought train tickets and turned around on the main road for a while, and were pulled into the store several times by those Shanghai women who solicited the 'wronged boss'.

The salary of the Fuxing Army is not high, but the problem is that Zhu Jiande's military uniform is so good-looking, he is either a general or a big official, and the women think that no matter how they can coax out some oil and water. Who would have thought that Zhu Jiande would just look at everything, and he didn't have the mind to buy it at all, so those people had no way at all, and he only called an iron rooster in his heart, so he hurriedly sent these two people away.

"Do they dislike us?" was pulled into the store again and then sent out coldly, and after many times, Zhu Jiande finally felt that something was wrong. He said this as if he was saying it to himself, and it was like asking Qin Xiaogui again.

"Report to the sir, they dislike us and refuse to pay." Qin Xiao Ghost said. Zhu Jiande is an adult, but he is a follower, and the female clerk is not so polite to him. "They cost two Huayang for a scarf, and they can eat for more than a month with the money in their hometown."

Zhu Jiande just looked at it, he didn't want to buy it at all, and he didn't care about the price, now listening to the orderly, he really felt that the thing was too expensive, he suddenly remembered that this big road is a street for slaughtering customers, as long as it is a foreigner, eight out of ten will be slaughtered. Thinking of this, he immediately felt a little happy, so he said: "Don't go shopping, go to Sima Road, there are books sold there." ”

The four roads are near the main road, which is not too far in the past. When the two were about to pass, a slogan came from not far away, and when they listened closely, some people were shouting 'protect private property, protect the constitution' and so on, and after a while, they saw a row of gentry in long shirts holding banners and slogans emerging from the side street, and they walked as if they were marching as if they were marching.

The gentry looked very loud, but when they walked by, they realized that there were only many people in front and no one in the back. Zhu Jiande came back to his senses from surprise at this time, shook his head with a smile and walked from Hengjie to Sima Road. He didn't know how these gentry made a demonstration, isn't this the patent of the revolutionary party, how did they also make a scene?

Zhu Jiande muttered here to the four roads, but when he got there, he found someone standing at the intersection and giving a speech on the street, this time it seems that it is not the gentry, but some young scholars, they are not to protect the constitution, but to severely criticize the Dali Temple and the Tingwei Mansion, the dynasty is said to be tyranny, and declare that in order to rescue the academic champion 'Mr. Zhang', I hope everyone can sign and draw on a large piece of paper that is half full.

In front is 'protecting the law', but here it is 'saving people', even Zhu Jiande, who is not very sophisticated, has some awareness, that is, in the eyes of some people, the law is just a powder. When it can protect its own interests, it is like the gentry in front of it, shouting to protect the constitution; But when it comes to being punished by law. They shouted for help and condemned tyranny. This horizontal and vertical is to see if the law can conform to one's own wishes and safeguard one's own interests, and if it is done, it will protect the law, and if it does not, it will be cursed.

When Zhu Jiande was lecturing on martial arts in Yunnan, he had read Montesquieu's "On the Spirit of the Law". Although I didn't understand it very clearly at the time, I also knew that the law was the fundamental guarantee for the protection of people's freedom. Although China is not a separation of powers, at least the Tingwei Mansion is independent of law enforcement, and now these people are constantly criticizing the government for tyranny with benevolence and morality.

The experience of just half a day in the concession made Zhu Jiande feel depressed for some reason. Originally, he wanted to visit Zhang Garden, Hippodrome, Tongji University Hall and other places, but he was suddenly uninterested at this time. It took him a moment to remember why he was uncomfortable, that is: if the Renaissance Army was bleeding to defend such a group of people, then what was the point of sacrifice?

Zhu Jiande returned to the inn very early. Wait for tomorrow morning to get on the bus and go to Jinan. When he regularly flipped through the China Times, he saw the news that the newspaper headline said that 'the land reform bill may be officially implemented next month', and his face was light, and his heart was not as depressed as Fang Cai. I read every word in the newspaper several times. Zhu Jiande read the next piece of news again. This is also a recent bill passed by the Inspectorate, that is, monogamy will be implemented, and men will be prohibited from taking concubines.

The last time Qiu Jin, a waiter in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, objected to concubinage was rejected by some legislators on the grounds that the marriage was voluntary, and only agreed that concubinage required the consent of the man's other wives, and now she raises the case again on the grounds that concubinage will facilitate the sale of human beings, especially women. She took thousands of cases of female trafficking handled by local patrol police stations and Dali Temple, and persuaded all parliamentarians with facts that allowing concubines would be tantamount to encouraging human trafficking. Sixty percent of the women in these cases were trafficked as concubines to wealthy families.

When Zhu Jiande was about to applaud Qiu Jin's tongue war, the monogamy case involved another bill. In the debate on the practice of monogamy, some parliamentarians pointed out that it is really helpless for poor families to sell their children and daughters, and that our country has many people and few lands, the people's livelihood is difficult, and natural disasters are continuous, and if we can take concubines, those who have daughters will still have a way to live in the famine years, and the women themselves will be able to eat enough when they reach the new family; If concubinage is forbidden, then once there is a famine and the government relief has not arrived, the only way out for people will be blocked.

The speaker was an old farmer named Ding Chuba, who recounted the actual experience of the floods in northern Jiangsu nine years ago, when all the families with daughters were sold, and some young daughters-in-law were also sold. Some women sold in exchange for some food, and many of those who did not sell were starved to death. Scholars pay attention to benevolence, righteousness, morality, dignity and personality, but croppers only want to be fed and live. Monogamy is very good, but this cuts off the last way for the farmer to live, can it be said that the gentry can starve to death for dignity, and the farmer must starve to death without selling his daughter?

Ding Chuba is an honest farmer in Haizhou, and he is talking about his lifelong experience, and the other councilors have relatives when they hear this, but Zhu Jiande's tears fell into the newspaper when he looked at this. He remembered a famine more than ten years ago, when his grandmother saw that the harvest in the field was too small, so she planned to sell her sister to survive the famine, but fortunately, she finally survived that year......

The question of morality and personal dignity such as whether or not to take a concubine eventually leads to the livelihood of the victims in the disaster year, and the livelihood of the victims in the disaster year not only involves afforestation, water conservancy projects, disaster relief and other matters, but also involves land reform and even population control. The implementation of land reform can indeed change the livelihood of farmers, especially the lowest tenant farmers, but no matter how land reform is cultivated, there is only so much, if you do not control the birth, then this generation can barely eat, and when you give birth to children, you will be half hungry and half full, and then you will have children, the land is indivisible, and the livelihood of children and grandchildren will not be able to be settled at all.

It is because some legislators have mentioned that in order not to make people give birth more and more, the Ding tax bill should be reinstated, that is, all children born after the passage of the bill must pay the Ding tax, and the tax amount is subject to a progressive tax rate, that is, the more children are born, the more Ding tax will be paid. As soon as this proposal came out, some Mongolian parliamentarians opposed it, believing that once the tax was paid again, there would be fewer and fewer Mongolians in Mobei, and eventually it would become a wasteland occupied by Russia.

The China Times is stacked with a very thick stack, and the discussion of the Inspectorate cited in it makes Zhu Jiande fascinated, at least this is not a proposal that is empty and empty, and will only harm the croppers and the like of industrial salvation, and many of the parliamentarians are farmers, or even tenant farmers. They will speak for the peasants from their point of view. Those gentry used to slander mud legs that would only mess with the country, and even said that they would not even agree to run an arsenal, but these mud legs. In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, they fully supported the government in expanding the military industry and rectifying armaments, and it was they who returned to their hometowns to encourage mud-legged people to join the army, pay more agricultural taxes, and buy more bonds.

"Sir, let's eat first. It's been hot several times, and the cook below says he's going to turn off the heat and go to bed. Seeing Zhu Jiande looking at the newspaper with relish, Qin Xiaogui didn't dare to disturb, so he had to heat the meal over and over again.

"Good! Good! Zhu Jiande put down the newspaper and said, just waiting to eat a bite of food. Immediately frowned, "Why is there no spicy at all, sweet and sweet?" ”

"Sir. I asked, the food in Shanghai is like this, we eat pancakes in the morning and noon, and we haven't realized it yet. In the afternoon, I almost threw up as soon as I ate it. Qin Xiaogui said with a smile. Then he took out a few chili peppers from the side and said, "This is what I went out to ask for in the afternoon, it's just too spicy, I don't know ......"

Jiangxi is not afraid of spicy, Sichuan is afraid of not being spicy, Zhu Jiande has no sven at all, he grabbed the chili pepper and stuffed it into his mouth, and then he finished the meal and ate the dates. As he interjected, he looked at the Reichsette on the side, which he hadn't read yet. I couldn't help asking, "What did the Imperial Daily say?" Is it also land reform? ”

"Report to the chief, there are also land reforms, but the Imperial Daily mainly discusses the Ding tax case." Qin Xiaogui said.

"Oh..., what did you say?" Zhu Jiande was also thinking about recovering the impact of the Ding tax just now, he was not interested in the rhetoric that what population was related to national strength, he only knew that the mother who had been pregnant and waiting to give birth without interruption, if the government re-imposed Ding Yin, then the mother would definitely be able to get rid of this state and become healthy, and the family would not drown children one after another.

"Speaker Yang Xiangtan said that the land reform must be implemented in conjunction with the Ding tax case, and if the people are not controlled to reproduce, the people will still be poor even if they have land." Qin Xiaogui repeated the contents of the newspaper, and the Yang Xiangtan he said was actually Yang Du, who was from Xiangtan, Hunan. The adults of the imperial court, if they became big officials, in order to avoid secrets, they were generally called by the place where the adults came from, such as Yuan Xiangcheng, Zhang Nanpi, Yang Nan'an, Zhang Yuhang, Qiu Shanyin, etc.

"Doesn't that mean that poor families can't even afford to have children?" Zhu Jiande suddenly retorted with a point of view from the newspaper.

"Lord Yang said that the Ding tax is a progressive tax rate, and anyone can pay it if they have three or four, but if they have seven or eight, twelve or thirteen, the tax will be increased; In addition, if you can't pay the tax and want to have children, you can immigrate to the border provinces. The tax rate of Ding in each province is different, the provincial government of Border Pass, such as immigrants to the Western Regions to give birth to children can be subsidized by the government, Heilongjiang also has to subsidize, and like Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi and other places, then heavy taxes must be levied, Yang Daren means that the tax rate of the Ding tax is used to regulate the population of each province. ”

Qin Xiaogui has read books, usually reads newspapers, and when it comes to national policies, he is upside down, and at the end of his words, he added: "In fact, Lord Yang's policy also has the meaning of regulating the population of various ethnic groups, such as Manchus, Hui, Mongolians, and Tibetans. In some places, there are very few Han people, and if the Han people who immigrate here are subsidized and the local people are heavily taxed, then these ethnic groups will be wiped out. No wonder the Mongols did not agree to the expropriation of Ding Yin. ”

"Well, that's true." I didn't expect that the Ding tax could still be used like this, Zhu Jiande was a little shocked, isn't this the policy of reducing Ding.

"But Lord Yang also has a way, that is, Ding Yin is not included in the national finance, only into the local finance, so that the Mongolians will not object, anyway, this money is collected for the Mongolian nobles to spend, they wish to collect more Ding Yin." Qin Xiao Ghost said.

Mongolia and Tibet are autonomous, and there are very many Hui people in the Western Regions and very few Han people. Zhu Jiande felt unbearable when he thought of this, but he knew that the instability of the border has always been related to the population, or the proportion of the population. He thought that it was not good to talk about it here, how could he know about the major affairs of the military state.

The pidgin inn didn't say anything all night, and early the next morning, Qin Xiaogui sent Zhu Jiande on the train north to Jinan. The train only went to Nanjing, and then had to cross the Yangtze River and get on the train at Pukou to get to Jinan. Zhu Jiande, who knew that the journey was difficult, was very little dressed, just a training uniform, plus a large military backpack, and the bag and a half of coconut could only be hired by a laborer to help carry it across the river and send it to the car, and he was worried about what to do when he left the station in Jinan. ”

When Zhu Jiande got on the train in Pukou, he had sent a telegram to Lu Wan, and Lu Wan sent a telegram to his family, so as soon as he got out of the station, someone greeted him, and he immediately said: "I'm not a general, but my surname is Zhu, and my husband's surname is Lu?" ”

"It's Colonel Zhu, I'm Lu Wan's cousin." Someone came to speak official dialect with a Shandong accent, but fortunately Zhu Jiande could understand it. After he finished speaking, he waved his hand to let the attendant next to him take over the things in Zhu Jiande's hand, and then invited him to get on a soft sedan chair that had been prepared for a long time.

Zhu Jiande didn't want to sit in a sedan chair and liked to walk, but it was difficult for people to come, and he was Lu Wan's cousin, so he had to reluctantly sit in a soft sedan chair and arrived at Lu's house one by one. He originally thought that Lu Wan was just a well-off family, and his family had 100 acres of land, but when he entered the house, he saw the pair of stone lions with teeth and claws at the gate of the Lu Mansion and the tall main gate, and suddenly thought that this Lu Mansion was not an ordinary family, and even richer than the 'King Ding Yan', the owner of his family's tenant land.

The soft sedan chair stopped in the courtyard of the Lu Mansion, Lu Wan's father Lu Shouye and his family were waiting in the courtyard, Zhu Jiande got off the sedan chair, and Lu Shouye said loudly to him: "The old Lu Shouye has seen General Zhu......"

The old man saluted him with his family while talking, but Zhu Jiande except for his subordinates, no one saluted him since he was a child, and when he came home from Chengdu to teach physical education many years ago, his family also saluted him respectfully, but he lost his temper. He and Lu Wan are colleagues, that is, peers, and now the elders salute him, he was so busy that he stepped forward to stop him, and then said, "I'm not a general, I'm just a ......, uncle, don't be like this, please get up, please get up, otherwise Jiande will be ashamed." ”

Zhu Jiande is swarthy and unsightly, if he were not wearing a military uniform, and the epaulettes and collars all indicate that he is a big official, I am afraid that Lu Shouye will not see him at all. Now the emperor and the prime minister are confused by mud legs, what land reform to do, the Lu family's more than 1,000 acres of land, all of which were accumulated by the ancestors, if they really take it, then the business will be dispersed. There are so many houses in the family, and the most promising one is Lu Wan, who ran away from home and deviated from the norm, I heard that although he is only an assistant commander now, he can be promoted to general next year according to his qualifications.

When did the Lu family ever have a general? This time in the land reform, Lu Shouye's intention was to ask Lu Wan to come back to the town, and even if he couldn't keep this huge family business with his respect as a general, he could still get a little less land. But who would have thought that his son would not come back, only a colleague who would not slip away.

Lu Shouye was supported by Zhu Jiande, but he was in tears. As soon as he cried here, Zhu Jiande didn't know what to do, but fortunately, another old man standing on the side, that is, Lu Wan's cousin Lu Shoudao, asked his subordinates to help Lu Shouye down, and then he arched his hand at Zhu Jiande and said, "Captain Zhu smiled." We old men only think about our children outside, and if we don't go home, we are uneasy, my younger brother, when he sees Captain Zhu, he thinks of the child who is not angry, and this is ......"

"It's really pitiful for the hearts of parents all over the world." Zhu Jiande didn't know what Lu Wan's return meant to the Lu family, but when he saw Lu Shouye like this, he couldn't help but think of his mother.

"Colonel Zhu, please!" Lu Shoudao saw that Zhu Jiande spoke decently, and knew that this person was not Qiu Ba, who could only fight if he couldn't read big words, and immediately thought a little higher about him. He invited Zhu Jiande into the main hall, and asked the housekeeper to open the table immediately.

The main hall of the Lu Mansion is tall and bright, and the decoration is also something that Zhu Jiande, a rural farmer, has never seen. And after meeting everyone in the Lu Mansion, he was very unaccustomed to the many rules of washing his hands and washing his face before eating, but fortunately, the maid who served was understanding, and he would always say a few words carefully when he wanted him to do something, which did not make him embarrassed in front of everyone.

After being welcomed into the dining room, he was a little stunned, not to mention the colorful furniture painted with colored paint, but the exquisite porcelain and silver chopsticks on the dining table made him have no intention of eating, and the servants who stood at the table, waiting in a circle to serve the food, serve the water, and wait, made him even more restless, he couldn't imagine why it took more than ten or twenty people to serve a meal, could it be that no one served these landlords would not eat? (To be continued......)