sweeping the world

Chapter 712
"Where is the younger generation from?"

"...?"

"Don't be afraid, this old man is here to meet the king."

"..."

It was Sanshi who was caught by Li Mao for questioning.

When Li Mao treated Sanshi, he was completely different from how he treated the Han army. He was as kind as he could be, and he would smile at the people around him. He only had to write the word "close to the people" on his forehead.

In fact, until the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the scholars themselves were never domineering when they treated the civilians. First, they felt that the two sides were not at the same level. Second, the scholars really needed fame.

Many examples can show that, at least before the Southern and Northern Dynasties, scholars would only fight with other scholars in person. On the contrary, if they were accidentally offended by civilians, they would take a relaxed attitude. To bully civilians in person, you will definitely be looked down upon by the entire scholar class, thinking that that guy has lowered the overall class of scholars.

It's not that the gentry class didn't oppress the common people, it's just that if the gentry didn't oppress them themselves, the only people who would end up oppressing the common people would be the servants of the gentry.

In many cases, the gentry indulged their servants to bully the common people. On the one hand, it probably expressed a sense of superiority such as "my dogs are superior to ordinary people". On the other hand, the gentry did not live by eating soil and drinking water. Someone needs to do it.If the slaves caused too much public grievances to be contained, the gentry could directly use the servants to "click" the common people's grievances, and get a reputation for being upright.

"The old man is from Leping (county), maybe he is from the same town as Xiao Housheng."

"It's really from my hometown."

"Oh?"

"Shi is from Shangai (a county in Leping County)."

Li Mao smiled more kindly. He really didn't expect to catch a random person from the same county.

Folks in the village have had a very special bond for many years. People who come from the same place will naturally have a more sense of intimacy. If something happens in a different place, if the fellow villagers don’t help each other, they will be sent back to their hometown. Pointing at the spine and cursing, basically preparing to move.

"The old man came to Guanzhong to be interviewed by the king. If I ask you some questions, you must answer truthfully."

"The elder asked something, and Shi naturally had to answer it truthfully."

Li Mao was just chatting with Sanshi, but when he paid attention to his surroundings, he realized that the people next to him couldn't stop and gather around to listen. Why were they still working?
With Li Mao and Zhang Gan's clothes, it is clear that they are the class of high-class and refined scholars. When they appear, they are almost inevitable to be watched, and if they show closeness to the people, they will be surrounded to complain.And Li Mao has said more than once that he can meet Jinshang, shouldn't those people gather around?
The next scene made Li Mao frown completely, and Sanshi actually started to continue working, still looking at Li Mao waiting for questioning while working.

As a scholar, especially a hermit at Shanmen, he should be proud of himself. This made Li Mao not want to talk to Sanshi anymore and went directly to a group of Han troops patrolling by.

"stop!"

The Han army that happened to patrol this position was not the same team just now. They stopped in confusion when Li Mao shouted.

"Why are Shengmin so afraid?"

"What did you say?"

Even if it has strong local characteristics, of course they can understand each other in terms of language. Li San wonders where Li Mao said that the common people are afraid.

While working, he moved to Sanshi next to him. He was still waiting to be questioned. After all, Li Mao said that he could get an audience with the current king. Suddenly he was ignored and felt depressed. When Li Mao glared at someone in the Han army, After a long pause, he said, "I'm not scared, am I?"

"You are afraid to stop, aren't you afraid?"

"I got my wages, so I have to work, how can I take a break?"

What Sanshi said made Li Mao stunned.

Zhang Gan, who had been quietly staying aside all this time, showed a thoughtful expression. He had already seen the busy work scene on the construction site, and there were no vicious supervisors waiting to whip people with whips in this area. People really used Great enthusiasm at work.

"This sergeant is polite." Zhang Gan saluted Li San who was full of confusion, but Li San avoided the salute and saluted again.He said with a gentle smile, "The two old men are here to recruit talents. May I ask the sergeant something?"

The reason why Li San avoided Zhang Gan's salute was because Zhang Gan looked at his age, and Zhu Xia civilization had the virtue of respecting the elderly, so it would shorten his life to accept the salute of the elders carelessly.

"The old man has come all the way from Leping. Before entering Tongguan, he saw that there are government projects everywhere, especially here. Why?"

"The elder came from Leping County?"

"Exactly."

"Look at the elders, they are hermits at the mountain gate. The big Han expelled the Hulu and rebuilt the big Han. Building projects in times of disaster is a strategy for supporting the people."

Zhang Gan and Li San went back and forth to ask questions, but what they said was not a secret. The government not only posted notices, but also grassroots officials continued to patrol the villages to make notices. Only those who hide in the deep mountains and old forests do not know.

Li Mao, who recovered from his daze, had new interests. He saw that the sergeant who was answering Zhang Gan was polite and courteous. The sergeant's words and deeds were not like those of a person who could not read a word, but he was curious about how he looked like someone with knowledge. A company officer is not a sergeant?

The so-called sergeants are not small soldiers, but the ranks of corporal commanders, special commanders, and team leaders, and the commanders who go up further can be called officials.In terms of local officials, Ting Fu, Qiu Pi, Ting Chang, You Yu, You Zhi, Coward and San Lao are only "scholars" in the official system, and public officials at the county government level such as jailers are officials.This is the system of "officials" and "officials" in the Qin and Han Dynasties. After waiting, it will be the difference between "officials" and "officials".

Li Mao and the three of them rushed to Guanzhong immediately after leaving the deep mountains. It wasn't that they didn't meet people during the rest on the road, but they really didn't talk about anything else, and they didn't have the heart to understand some things until they arrived at the construction site of New Chang'an.

"Thank you Sergeant for your clarification."

"The elders are the people who are recruited by the king. When you enter Chang'an, you can go to the post house, and you will be received by the Hongru hall."

An episode soon ended with Zhang Gan and Li Mao returning to the bullock cart, leaving Sanshi full of wonder.Sanshi waited to be questioned from the beginning to the end, but later on Li Mao simply forgot about such a fellow countryman.

The bullock cart moved slowly again, but this time Zhang Gan ordered the driver to move aside as much as possible.

The avenue is actually very wide, divided into left and right lanes, that is, the bullock carts used to go in the middle, which really blocked the cars behind.

Zhang Gan's later behavior was a psychological change after he talked with Li San. He still had the pride of being a hermit in the mountain gate, but he felt more close to the current imperial court.

"The corvee building is a country road. If the officials use the road, the people can also." Zhang Gan kept looking at a busy construction site, talking about the construction of the national road from Jiankang to Guanzhong.He turned his eyes back to look at Li Mao, paused for a while, and then continued: "I have been waiting in the mountains for a long time, and I have not heard of the world for a long time."

They have heard in detail just now that even if it is to build a new Chang'an, it is not a matter of concentrating labor and giving priority to building Miyagi. On the contrary, it is giving priority to building a new city.

"There will be a catastrophe in the Central Plains?" Li Mao paid attention to this.He was very puzzled and said: "I don't hear that there are natural disasters known in the past dynasties, and there is no so-called work for relief."

"Maybe?" Zhang Gan recalled for a moment, and said, "In the year of Yuan Ding, there was a catastrophe in Guanzhong, and Emperor Xiaowu allowed Shengmin to enter Shanglin Garden."

Li Mao still knew that Shanglin Garden was not only the private forest garden of the emperor of the previous Han Dynasty, but also an original ecological open area opened for disaster years. During the disaster years in Guanzhong of the ancient Han Dynasty, the reigning emperor would allow people to enter Shanglin Garden for hunting, and also It really happened that people were hired to build projects and pay for them.

"Expelling the barbarians and restoring Zhuxia, there is no doubt that the emperor is wise." Li Mao smiled wryly for a while, and then said: "I only heard about the heavy military affairs today, but not the hardships of the people."

Liu Yan put away the barbarians of all ethnic groups. No Han dared to say that was wrong. Who dared to say that a king who rescued the Han people from the tyrannical rule of the barbarians was not a wise king?

To be honest, there are no lies about the hardships of the living and the people. All parts of the country have become ruins in the chaos of war, but the country has been waging national wars abroad, and it really doesn't care much about internal construction.Especially the state's control over the land is so strict. Except for the Qin Empire, any country has done the thing of equalizing the land at the beginning of its establishment, but it has done nothing. To some land, but today's big men don't have that kind of benefits, they have to take credit for it.

No one knows whether the Qin Empire was cruel or not. Anyway, various records say it was cruel. The Han Kingdom established by Liu Yan is in line with the Qin Empire in many aspects, especially the protection of the [-]th rank is stricter than that of the Qin Empire. Next is the emphasis on law, which really makes people see signs that the former Qin Empire is coming back.

After the monopoly of Confucianism, and Confucianism has repeatedly eliminated dissidents for hundreds of years, as long as you are literate, basically no matter what you do, you dare not say that you are not a disciple of Confucianism.And Confucianism is focused on blacking the Qin Empire for thousands of years, regardless of what the Qin Empire is, anyway, as long as it is related to the Qin Empire, it is definitely right to black the dead.

"We are the disciples of the sages..." Li Mao was very tangled, very tangled, just now he yelled to stop the car just to go on to perform, of course the performance did not go well, and he also heard something unbelievable: "There has been a law for corvees since ancient times, and they are hired and paid. , but it can’t just cover the waste of people’s power.”

By the way, Confucius is not yet a saint. The posthumous title given to Confucius in the early Han Dynasty was only at the level of "gong", but Confucian disciples didn't care so much.

Not only Li Mao was troubled, Zhang Gan also felt depressed.It is true that they hide in the mountain gate, but who stipulates that hermits cannot communicate with others?
The world has stabilized again, and there are no more threatening foreign races around. The state is about to enter the stage of internal affairs construction, and relevant information is being circulated with each other. Those people didn't want to miss the opportunity to build a prosperous world again, and they were all quite active.

For example, the mountain gate where Zhang Gan and Li Mao were located was closed to information. They still knew that the imperial court had issued an order to recruit talents, and they knew that the world would really have nothing to do with them if they stayed in seclusion, so they came out before they could figure out the current situation.

In fact, Li Mao and Zhang Gan have to be lucky. If there is no such thing as today, when they are waiting for the real audience with the king, they even open their mouths without knowing what happened. It doesn't matter whether they will be "clicked". The important thing is to be laughed at by the world even after death.

There was silence all the way behind the two of them, and they had already made up their minds that they would never "talk about it" easily.

"Sir, another bullock cart arrives."

The driver's words made Li Mao look behind, and what he saw was not just an ox cart.

There is no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty, but riding an ox-cart is very attractive to educated people. Even those who can afford a horse will give priority to riding an ox-cart. At that time, scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties tended to be an extension of the grotesque, such as Laozi's departure from Hangu Pass in the west was an extension of this metaphysics, which led most educated people to think that riding an ox cart was very elegant.

"Who?"

"I don't know."

The ox carts coming from behind were not slow, but with Zhang Gan and Li Mao's eyesight, they could actually see very blurry. The ox cart at the front was still a closed compartment on all sides, so they really didn't know who was coming.

There are knights around the ox carts. They are not from the military system. Judging from the clothes, they are definitely wealthy people. They all look young.

"My son, Sun Bing, I have met the elder." The man who called himself Sun Bing saluted on horseback, and said, "Is the elder going to Chang'an?"

Sun Bing looked very young, and he was polite to the elders who called themselves boys. The reason why he came here was very simple. A team of ox carts were not in the same group at first, but they just walked together when they met on the road.His Sun Fang was in an ox cart behind him.

Zhang Gan and Li Mao just laughed, but had no desire to speak. They were still sorting out their thoughts, otherwise they wouldn't know what to say when they actually met the king, but they had to ask the driver to pull over out of politeness.

This is what Sun Bing meant when he came over to say hello. The people in several oxcarts came here to recruit talents. If they could meet each other on the road and get to know each other, even if they didn't mean to hug each other for warmth, they should know in advance who they were. .

By the way, the man who calls himself Sun Bing is a famous person in history, but he became famous because of his son Sun Kang.

Sun Kang has a very inspiring story, but it was only after the death of his grandfather Sun Fang, who was the Prime Minister of Changsha, that his father did not do well in the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so he used the white snow to reflect on his studies.

The seven ox carts went down to the side of the avenue and stopped, and the people in the car got off, all of them looked quite old, so there would be a lot of excitement when introducing each other, and many people still only heard their names but didn't see them. big celebrity.

"It turned out to be Mr. Fuhe face to face!" Li Mao was immediately excited when he heard a certain person's name: "I have heard Mr. Jiu's name for a long time, and I have long wanted to meet!"

Fuhe is a "number", his name is Luohan, and his courtesy name is Junzhang. Future generations may be unfamiliar with him, but he is recognized as the number one talent in the Eastern Jin Dynasty!

The other few people are definitely well-known to Zhang Gan and Li Mao. To some extent, they really do not have the qualifications to be equal. Whoever makes them have such nicknames and titles is because they are all from the south.

(End of this chapter)