Spring sowing is over.
What grows in the ground is not just a single crop. For the people, what grows in the ground is their hope to continue their lives, and there is no room for error.
However, the vitality of crops is far more fragile than that of weeds. Just like most things in this world, there are always too few useful ones and too many useless ones.
The moment the bell of Yushan Academy rang, Xu Yuanshou's tears filled his eyes but did not fall.
The remaining seven gentlemen, like Xu Yuanshou, stood in the wind like eight green pines wearing new or old Tsing Yi.
There are not many students in Lantian County who are qualified to go to school, so the 500 children who were exchanged by Yun Zhao for fifty pounds of millet became the main force in studying.
There were boys and girls among the five hundred children. Because they were bought at a cheap price, there were no handsome boys or outstanding girls.
Most of them look like ordinary people, and some are even ugly.
Appearance actually doesn't matter. Senior brother Yun Zhao, who is standing at the front of the student team, has nothing outstanding except that he is fairer.
Qian Duoduo, who claims to be senior sister, stands out among the girls.
So, her look of looking forward to Shenghui soon attracted countless curious and even awe-inspiring looks.
When hundreds of people worshiped Confucius together, it was still quite powerful.
When these young children followed the eight gentlemen and bowed three times to the memorial tablet of Confucius, Xu Yuanshou said that this would be the home of all boots from now on.
Most of the children bought by the Yun family were seven or eight years old, and some were even younger. Having been abandoned by their parents, they were originally filled with fear.
After participating in this solemn ceremony, it was easy to regard the academy as my home.
The beams used in the tallest Dacheng Hall are wet. Although they have been sawed off and put on the roof, its vitality is still not cut off.
When spring comes, it also senses it, so it pulls out a few green buds, which look particularly green amidst the scent of incense.
Many, many years later... these green shoots gradually grew up, and finally hung down to the ground, took root and sprouted in the main hall, and finally enveloped the entire main hall. A great scholar named it - spring happens. !
Xu Yuanshou insisted on learning "Etiquette" first before entering school.
However, the "Li" written by Professor Xu Yuanshou is not the "Li" improved by Zhu Xi, but the "Han Li".
He believed that Zhu Xi’s etiquette was not suitable for today’s Ming Dynasty.
In this barbaric world, blindly restricting people’s desire to explore, pursue, and personal will is not conducive to individual survival.
Destroying human desires and preserving heavenly principles is Zhu Xi’s consistent proposition. However, these six words are notFrom the mouth of Zhu Xi.
In fact, this concept has already appeared in the "Book of Rites and Music", which says: "Those who turn humans into things are those who destroy the laws of nature and make the poor poor. Therefore, there is a rebellious and deceitful heart, There are things like lust and chaos."
The so-called "those who destroy the laws of heaven and have poor desires" refers to those who destroy the laws of heaven and do whatever they want.
Zhu Xi himself also said, "Food and drink are natural principles, delicacies from mountains and seas are human desires, husband and wife are natural principles, and three wives and four concubines are human desires."
This is very true. Clearly, Zhu Xi believes that people should cherish the instincts given to humans by God. These instincts are the laws of nature. On the contrary, if we blindly pursue desires other than instincts, we are heading towards self-destruction...
If in the Taiping Year During the month, everyone exercises self-restraint, which is right. However, for people in troubled times, self-restraint means self-denial and resignation.
This is impossible... especially in the eyes of a bandit like Yun Zhao, it is obviously impossible.
When the world is in chaos, what is needed is resisters. Yun Zhao even believes that the appearance of careerists in troubled times is not necessarily a bad thing.
In a situation where there is no need to be bad, God knows whether careerists can find another way that allows people to live with dignity.
The "Han Rites" before Zhu Xi was much more liberal, and if a scholar has no ambition, can he still be called a scholar?
Reading has the effect of restraining people's desires since ancient times, because they often think too much and are too good at planning... and they also learn too many excuses to explain themselves from books.
Therefore, it is not as good as military generals, scoundrels, and farmers who are determined to work hard to the end.
In short, after Yun Zhao personally experienced this refugee wave, he had a new view of the world... These views made him abandon all the moral requirements he had abided by in the past, and in an extreme environment , Yun Zhao found that he really didn't seem to mind eating people.
Spring is here, and the Qinling Mountains have given people precious gifts, whether it is the buds of spring grass, the small fish swimming in the stream, or the exhausted hare after mating. , and even some fat bugs crawling out of the soil are people's food.
The little ducks that follow the mother duck and swim in the pond are yellow and fluffy, and they always give people hope of survival.
Many people are getting married in Yunjiazhuangzi these days!
The native people in the hometown will always get more blessings when they form in-laws, and the union between native people and foreigners will seem a little lonely.
Of course, the Yun family will send a bucket of grain, five feet of cotton cloth, and a small jar of wine to each family who is getting married, which can make the wedding look more like a wedding.
After all, Uncle Fu didn't like the woman living in the cattle pen. Even if the woman had two sons and a daughter, he would still be dissatisfied.
So, now that Uncle Fu has changed into single clothes, his greatest pleasure is to go to the new grain field to check the growth of the crops.
After Hong Chengchou left, the villagers became much more courageous, so the boundary monument of Lantian County was transplanted to the south of Heishui Town, Shangnan... Two months later, the government did not pursue the case, but instead sent it This year's summer tax collection document was from Blackwater Town, and his name was clearly on the collection list of Lantian County.
As a result, the always greedy farmers moved Lantian County's warning zones to the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
This was not a big deal at first, until farmers in Chang'an County spontaneously moved the boundary markers in Lantian County towards themselves, and moved them three times a day, then the prefect of Xi'an Zhang Lili sent a message. A rectification document clearly told Yun Zhao that doing so violated the rules and was not advisable.
The magistrate of Chang'an County felt severely humiliated and personally took people to the border of Chang'an County and Lantian County. No matter how he blamed him, the gentry and farmers at the border all agreed and insisted that they were from Lantian County. People, not Chang'an County people.
Even if the Chang'an County Magistrate told the gentry that in Lantian County, the gentry would have to start paying taxes during the summer harvest this year.
The gentry are still indifferent to this!
The Chang'an County Magistrate had no choice but to sigh and return to the county government office. He wrote several times to prepare to impeach Yun Zhao, but finally gave up the idea and acquiesced to the current situation.
For those gentry, as long as the government promised to lead people to rebuild water conservancy and turn their large amounts of dry land into irrigated land, the little money and grain collected by the government was nothing to them.
Besides, since Lantian County’s good reputation spread, landless tenants in the surrounding areas have fled their original owners’ homes and crossed the border directly to Lantian County to farm for the gentry. For fertile land, if you cultivate it for a year, the owner's family will get 40%, and the farmer will keep 60% for himself. This provision has been accepted by most gentry in Lantian County.
There are very few people who do not accept it. However, in the eyes of the people of Lantian County, these people's retribution comes quickly and they will always suffer disaster in the shortest time.
These disasters ranged from being beaten by bandits, to the kidnapping of the family’s son, to the unprovoked fire at home. In short, this township rule and folk contract soon became a tradition in Lantian County, and No one dares to commit the crime.
The Yun family has let go of the mountains and forests, and anyone can go into the mountains to look for food, as long as there is no fire.
After the Yun family opened up the mountains and forests, other families with mountains and forests also opened up the mountains and forests. The most merciful ones even allowed the people to enter the mountains and forests to cut down some dead trees and carry them out to buy firewood.
Yun Zhao had a clear understanding of the low cost of feeding people in the Ming Dynasty.
A refugee who is half-dead from hunger can emerge with a rosy complexion and good health within ten days after entering the mountains and forests.
These people can even tell the difference between toad eggs and frog eggs. Eating toad eggs will kill people, but eating frog eggs is just an inconspicuous pimple on the skin.
They also know what moths can be eaten and what kind of mothsIt cannot be eaten. The most terrifying thing is that this spring, Yun Zhao followed the refugees and ate no less than a hundred kinds of edible wild vegetables... Some varieties tasted... very delicious!
In late spring, when vegetation grows, Lantian County’s grain reserves are distributed less and less. Sprinkling some grain in the leaves can solve a person’s feeding problem.
So, the more than 10,000 loads of grain still left in the grain depot have become the temple in everyone's heart.
They seemed to be very happy just looking at the tall granaries. As long as the officials in charge led the kuding to spread the yellow grains in the sun to dry, people passing by could not help but lift them. He lifted his chest and walked with strength.