Chapter 1138 Riot
In his previous life, when he was eating sand in the northwest, Feng Duhu did a lot of work for the local fellows in order to deepen the relationship between the army and the people.
In the vast desert, marching directly on foot to work, you can not only train but also help the fellow villagers to work.
You can also experience the difficulties of our ancestors and inherit their spirit:
It is both a manifesto, a propaganda team, and a sowing machine.
In Feng Duhu’s impression, he had done everything he could except help the villagers deliver babies.
There is no other way. The life of fellow villagers in southern Xinjiang is indeed more difficult than that of the outside world. If you can help, you must try your best to help.
What about building canals, planting fruit trees, building sheepfolds, pulling lines...
Let alone farm work like picking cotton, I can even play cotton in a decent manner.
Although the technique is not required, it is still possible to pose.
It often causes the aunts on the side to smile at these green-clad young men.
The work may not have been done well, but the effect was achieved and the military-civilian relations became more harmonious.
As for now, Feng Duhu didn’t even need to show off. He just gave orders, or at most gave guidance, and someone would naturally help him get it done.
Not to mention playing cotton, even if Feng Duhu wanted to hear the pipa played, someone would provide him with the most professional female band.
Of course, given Feng Du’s bad temperament of protecting women, he was naturally not in the mood to listen to pipa.
He now prefers to invite people to come and see the cotton.
But it is a pity that the bud tips of the cotton that have just been planted are only exposed.
It is in sharp contrast to the surrounding wheat seedlings that are growing happily.
If you don’t look carefully, you might think it is an abandoned land.
These days, when some old farmers go to their fields and see the good irrigated land just lying there, they can’t help but curse:
“I don’t know anyone who is so prodigal and uses such a good piece of land to grow grass!”
Looking from a distance, we can see that there are fields of crops that are growing well all around, as if they have been gnawed by dogs.
It would also be good if we use rotating farming.
However, the land was plowed evenly, and even the rows were pushed straight.
Looking at the sprouts sprouting from the ground, it is obvious that they are neither wheat nor millet.
This is not planting grass, what is it?
Either you missed the farming season and planted some beans randomly?
This owner must be someone who doesn’t know how to farm.
If you are in such a mood to ruin the land, you might as well rent it to me for planting!
Lao Qin had a hot temper. He cursed a few times in the open space and couldn't find the owner's house, so he felt it was not enough.
So he let out a bitter "poof" and spit into the ground.
When I walked to my own field, I looked at the lush wheat seedlings that had begun to ear.
The face that was originally full of anger suddenly showed a loving smile.
Hand reached out and gently touched the wheat leaves. The rough hands looked extremely gentle at this time.
It’s like stroking a newborn baby.
There is even a little trembling in this tenderness.
Shows the owner's excitement and restlessness.
How many years?
As a real farmer, how many years have you been farming but have never touched your own crops?
More than twenty years and nearly thirty years, for this old man who is only in his forties, this has been more than half of his life.
And it was the most valuable twenty or thirty years.
In the past thirty years, as a farmer, he had been working for Wei thieves.
Obviously he worked hard to cultivate the land, but in the end most of it fell into the hands of Wei thieves.
Not only that, the Wei thieves' farmhouses and guest houses did not allow people to have a moment of leisure even in winter.
Although the farmers are not under the jurisdiction of the local government, they will not be required to do corvee by the government.
But this does not mean that the Tuntian Hakka government, which has jurisdiction over the rural residents, will easily let go of these free labor.
During the early years of the Huang Dynasty, it is not known whether Cao Pi made a deal with a wealthy family or wanted to buy the support of a wealthy family, so he actually decentralized the rights of the Hakka Mansion.
The imperial court only collected a certain amount of money and grain from the Tuntian Hakkas, and no longer had direct jurisdiction over the specific operations of the Tuntian Hakkas.
Even in order to reduce the burden on the court, Cao Pi allowed the Hakkas in the countryside to find their own way out.
It is somewhat similar to the reform of a certain enterprise in later generations.
Cao Pi’s reforms not only fed the farmers and officials in the Hakka Prefecture, but also the local wealthy families.
Of course, these two groups have considerable overlap...
On the contrary, it is the largest group in this reform that has become the biggest victim.
Not only did they not enjoy any benefits, but they were squeezed even more.
The Hakka people in Tuntian colluded with local right-wingers to sell state-owned assets.
While dealing with the court, in order to keep more money and food for themselves, they increasingly squeezed the surplus value of the farmers.
It is enough to harvest more and more grain shares. Even in the winter, farmers have to be recruited to paint walls and build houses, pave roads and build bridges.
Throughout the whole year, they had neither enough food nor clothing to keep them warm, and they had to work hard without having a day off.
The landowners who rented land from the imperial court gradually became slaves of the landowners.
As a result, farmers have been fleeing continuously over the years, and there have even been small-scale rebellions.
Hedong is one of the largest farming areas in the Wei State. It is not without reason that large-scale rebellions broke out among the farming communities at the slightest provocation.
“The emperor of the Han Dynasty is still kind and loving to the people!” The old farming man squatted in the field and looked at his own wheat field in front of him with deep emotion.
One person can be divided into fifty acres of land, and only one tithe is required.
Tuntian, Tuntian, Tuntian, your grandma!
The more he knew that life was hard to come by, the angrier the old farmer became at the dog-gnawed land in the distance.
Unable to bear it any longer, he spat over there again.
Those who don’t know how to farm are cowards!
Unexpectedly, as soon as I spit out the phlegm, I found someone coming to the dog gnawing ground, pointing, and I didn’t know what they were doing.
Although he couldn't hear what the other party was saying, judging from their clothes and manners, he knew they were noble people whom he could not afford to offend.
The old farming man shrank his neck, and then remembered that the two sides were far away, and the other party would definitely not be able to see his little movements, let alone his expression.
So he turned his head with disdain and began to weed his own land.
“Honggao, according to what Feng Duhu said, cotton won’t bloom until July or August. Now it’s only April, so it’s barely sprouting. What can you see if you come here in such a hurry?”
The nobles standing next to the dog gnawing ground were Wang Chen who came from Bingzhou, and Guo Pei and others who were forcibly pulled over by him.
There were some followers behind the two of them.
Wang Chen was bending down and carefully observing the sprouts that had just emerged from the ground.
As for Guo Pei, he was a little helpless and persuaded:
“It will be at least three months until cotton blooms. What can we tell at this time?”
Hearing Guo Pei's words, Wang Chen stood up straight and looked around at the wheat fields covered with a green carpet:
“Zhong Nan, I’m not here just for this reason.”
Ornamental cotton?
In terms of ornamental value alone, no matter how beautiful the cotton is, it is not worthy of a personal visit from the Taiyuan Wang family.
What he wants to appreciate is the beauty behind cotton.
The beauty behind cotton lies not in whether the cotton is in bloom, but in how true everything said in the plan is.
The higher the authenticity, the more beautiful the cotton will naturally be.
Although King Feng Gui is famous for his evil reputation, it has to be said that his method of amassing money is comparable to that of Tao Zhugong.
No matter what the world's great families think of King Feng Gui.
But everyone agrees with this person’s long-standing coin-spending persona.
This is an extremely hard golden sign.
“Isn’t it just for this?”
Guo Pei was startled.
Wang Chen didn’t answer. He just looked at the thirty acres of land in front of him and said after a while:
“Over in Xuchang, I heard that Cao Shuang dismissed Fu Gu, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and appointed He Yan as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and concurrently served as a minister.”
Shang Shu of the Ministry of Personnel, as you can tell from the name, this is a position in charge of the promotion of officials.
Guo Huai was in Luoyang and belonged to Sima Yi.
Wang Ling is an important target for Cao Shuang to win over.
The Guo family is definitely not as well-informed as the Wang family about news about Xuchang.
“Fu Gu?”
Guo Pei only felt that the name was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Wang Chen didn’t sell it, but directly pointed out the source: “Beidi Fu family.”
“Fu clan from the North? It’s him!”
Guo Pei's heart subconsciously thumped.
The Fu family in Beidi arose from Fu Jiezi, the Marquis of Yiyang in the Early Han Dynasty, almost three hundred years ago.
The representative figure of Fu's generation is none other than Fu Gu, who was already well-known in the world when he was still weak.
When Cao Shuang hired cronies on a large scale to the central government, many upright people could not see what the Three Dogs of Taichung were doing, and Fu Gu was one of them.
He once advised Cao Xi, Cao Shuang's younger brother and the central leader in charge of the Forbidden Army:
“Uncle He Ping (also known as He Yan) appears to be calm and innocent on the outside, but in fact he is sinister and dark in his heart. He is also greedy for personal gain and does not act in a righteous way.”
"In my opinion, he will first deceive you brothers and then show his desires. By then the wise men and benevolent people will be far away, and the government will be abolished!"
As Cao Shuang's younger brother, Cao Xi had long been worried about the various wanton actions of Cao Shuang and his cronies, so he persuaded him with Fu Gu's words.
Unexpectedly, He Yan found out about this, and he hated Fu Gu deeply.
In addition, Fu Gu was too upright and similar to Sun Li, which made Cao Shuang unhappy.
To this day, He Yan found an opportunity to make a speech in front of Cao Shuang and directly dismissed Fu Gu.
At the same time, he succeeded Fu Gu as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and took the opportunity to take charge of the promotion of officials at the Minister's desk.
Although the Wang family has information channels in Xuchang, it is impossible to know too much details, only a brief outline.
But this summary was enough to arouse Wang Chen's vigilance.
There is a lesson learned from the past after all.
Pei Qian was the Shangshu Ling of the Wei thieves, and he absconded back.
And this Fu Gu was a famous scholar in Yongliang.
Not only did he come from the same Shangshutai as Pei Qian, but he was also dismissed from his official post by Cao Shuang. Who knows, might he follow suit and sneak back to Guanzhong?
No matter how Hedong and Taiyuan compete for cotton resources, it is still an internal matter within the Guandong family.
Anyway, the current influence of the Guandong family in Jihan is in Taiyuan and Hedong.
When it comes time to divide the interests, both parties can sit down and talk slowly.
But the powerful rightists of Yongliang are really not in the same pot as the Guandong aristocratic families.
Especially Wang Chen, as a witness to the Chang'an War, he knows better than anyone else how big the gap is between Yongliang and Guandong.
If Fu Gu really absconds and returns to Guanzhong, with his reputation and Fu's resources, Yongliang's power within Jihan will only further expand.
Liangzhou is not bad, after all, there is a wool workshop.
But Guanzhong and Bingzhou Hedong are both newly restored places in the Jihan Dynasty.
Could those wealthy families in Guanzhong turn a blind eye to such a huge source of wealth as cotton and let Guandong control it?
It is impossible even if you think about it.
That's why Wang Chen rushed here in such a hurry because he wanted to find out Chang'an's true attitude and how he planned to divide this big piece of meat pie.
Not to mention that since they have decided to increase their bets on the Han Dynasty, as Chang'an is the political center of Ji Han, they have more reason to come over in person.
In Chang'an City.
In April, the Royal College ended the last day of teaching of the month, and many students were pouring out of the college gate.
The college has a day off every ten days, allowing students to recruit friends and go out for fun.
Pei Xiu held a book of "Solid Geometry" under his arm and walked hurriedly towards his home.
It has been ten days since he saw the master and his mother, and he felt a little missing in his heart.
Pei Xiu feels that staying in Chang'an is much more comfortable than staying in his hometown in Hedong.
At least Amu has her own independent courtyard, and even has a few servants to serve her, not to mention that someone dared to treat her as a servant like when she was in Hedong.
Unexpectedly, he had only taken a few steps away from the college gate when he heard someone shouting behind him:
“Ji Yan!”
Pei Xiu heard someone calling him, stopped, turned his head, and saw the young man, who was not much different from himself, speeding up and rushing towards him.
"Yuan Kai?" Pei Xiu saw the person coming clearly, and a smile appeared on his face, "Why are you here?"
The young man named Yuan Kai quickly walked a few steps and came to Pei Xiu, and said in his mouth:
“I know today is a day off for the college, so I have been waiting for you here early.”
His eyes were fixed on the book under Pei Xiu's arm.
Pei Xiu saw his appearance and smiled knowingly. He took out the book and handed it over: "Here."
Yuan Kai thanked him and opened it eagerly, and actually started reading it on the street.
Unexpectedly, he looked at it for a while, and his face first showed a look of thinking, then a frown, and finally a sigh.
He closed the book with some helplessness and reluctantly returned the book to Pei Xiu:
“What is said in the book is indeed very profound, and I can’t understand it.”
Pei Xiu seemed to have expected it. He took the book and smiled slightly:
“Not to mention you, even I find it quite difficult to study with Mr. Academy.”
Pei Xiu was already able to write articles at the age of eight. He was well-known in Hedong as a teenager and was known as the "underachieving leader". He was a rare child prodigy.
This kind of talent, coupled with Pei's family background in Hedong, and his bad calculations in the past two years.
It is still difficult to understand what is said in the book, which shows how difficult it is to learn.
Yuan Kai’s eyes showed envy:
"This kind of knowledge was not secret in the past. Ji Yan was able to get into Feng Duhu's eyes, and he was blessed a lot."
Pei Xiu had a somewhat embarrassed look on his face:
“Yuan Kai has received the award. In fact, you don’t need to belittle yourself. July is the college’s annual recruitment day. I believe that Yuan Kai will definitely be able to study in the college by then.”
Yuan Kai sighed:
“The imperial court just opened a new school in Chang’an this year. It will take at least two years before you can enter the college. If it is July this year, you can only rely on recommendation. I’m afraid it will be difficult!”
Pei Xiu hesitated for a moment, and then said:
"Du Gong is also a famous person in Beijing. If Yuan Kai can persuade Du Gong to come forward, he may not have a chance."
Hearing this, Yuan Kai smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Sir... alas!"
When the Han Dynasty regained Hedong, the governor of Hedong was his own lord.
It was just that at that time, your Excellency, together with General Diannong Zhonglang of Anyi City, led troops to guard Zhi'an City in Hedong County and refused to allow the Han army to enter the city.
Although he was forced by the general situation, he had to open the city gate and surrender.
But in that case, your Excellency felt derelict in his duty, betrayed Emperor Wei Ping's trust, and felt deeply ashamed.
In addition, the adult's health has not been very good, so he refused to serve as an official in the Han Dynasty and returned to his hometown in Guanzhong to live in seclusion to recuperate.
(End of this chapter)