At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Needless to say, when encountering this kind of old man, he is as tough as Guo, and he has to stay away.

Because this is a convention of the whole society and something believed by the whole nation, even if he is a powerful emperor, he cannot change this situation.

If the old man is unwilling, no matter how strong Wei Jun is, he will not be able to force him.

If you meet him, you have to take a detour, and no one dares to attack him. Attacking him is equivalent to attacking the emperor, and it will kill you.

In addition to this 96-year-old ancestor, including Shi Xie himself, there are three other elders in the Shi family who are over 70 years old.

With these four King Kong sitting in command, it immediately gave the other half of the scholar family the confidence to fight against the imperial power.

They feel that no matter how strong the imperial power is, they cannot attack the old people of the Shi family.

This is indeed the case, of course Guo Peng will not attack the old scholars, they are determined not to give Guo Peng face, Guo Peng has to swallow his anger and suffer this loss.

But this does not give Shi Xie himself the confidence to fight against the imperial power.

The bones of the ancestor in his 90s are as thin as a piece of paper, and he will die at any time. No one knows when the ancestor will disappear.

Once he is gone, most of the confidence of the Shi family to fight against the imperial power will be lost. The remaining three 70-year-olds who are counted with Shi Xie do not know how long they can persist, and their deterrence against the imperial power will be greatly weakened.

It's basically irresistible.

It is too risky for scholars to rely on their ancestors to fight against the imperial power. It basically depends on how long the ancestors can live.

Shi Xie really didn't have the guts to take this risk.

A life span of seventy has been rare since ancient times, and 70 years old has been a very rare lifespan since ancient times. After living to this point, Shi Xie himself began to count the days to plan his own funeral.

The burial place has been selected, the coffin has been selected, the burial process has been determined for myself, how to divide the family property after death, who will inherit my status, and so on. Kick your legs and turn your eyes to the west.

But now this situation is really worrying him.

He dared not fight against the imperial power.

He was unwilling to give up his ancestral business.

Just like the confrontation and quarrel between the two halves of the family, he was very annoyed and depressed by the quarrel.

As a result, at this time, the 96-year-old ancestor was probably out of breath, and after arguing with some unworthy descendants, he suddenly didn't come up, his face was flushed, he fell straight to the ground, and then he didn't get up again.

People are gone.

I was alive and angry.

Shi Xie immediately ran over as if he had lost his soul, and when he saw the dead body of his ancestor, he was very sad, and cried for a long time while hugging the corpse of his ancestor.

Now, the greatest reliance of the Shijia is really gone.

Shi Xie was very annoyed with grief, and ordered to be held accountable, and learned that it was two juniors in their 30s who spoke rudely during the discussion among the clan.

They said something like [The ancestors are getting old, when did they go away, and the rest of the crimes will be borne by future generations, is this fair], so the ancestors were so angry that they didn't come up and died.

The two were also frightened, and both were a little out of their minds.

Annoyed, Shi Xie ordered the two to be dragged outside to enforce the family law, until they were beaten to death, and to see the ancestor off.

Within a day, three members of the Shi family died.

The other two are not important, what is important is the old ancestor.

Chapter 1368 One Thousand Two Seventy Eight

The lethality of a 96-year-old ancestor to the emperor cannot be replaced by the remaining three elderly people in their 70s.

The meaning of 90 years old far exceeds the meaning of 70 years old. At 90 years old, you can fight against the imperial power, but at the age of 70, you can fight against local powers at most, and cannot fight against the central imperial power.

Now, it's really irreversible.

Shi Xie was disheartened, knowing that there was no room for redemption, so he ordered his family to evacuate the northern part of Jiaozhou, took all the family property and valuables, and divided the troops into three groups, entering Jiuzhen County, Rinan County and Zhuya County respectively.

At this point, the Shi family gave up the achievements of the pioneering and hard work of the six generations of the ancestors of the Shi family, and turned to the south, retracing the path that their ancestors had walked.

Shi Xie himself found Tai Shici, told Tai Shici of the Shi family's decision, told them that the Shi family was soft, surrendered, and decided to follow the emperor's will and move south.

Shi Xie himself and his family will obey the emperor's order, leave Jiaozhou, and go north to Luoyang to be an official.

Tai Shici heard about what happened in the city and knew about the death of the 96-year-old ancestor of the Shi family.

He was still worried about this before, and felt that if the Shijia was really tough and moved out of this 96-year-old man to stand at the gate of the city, Tai Shici would not dare to order an attack even if he had thousands of troops watching over him.

Not to mention that he didn't dare to give the order, even if he gave the order, few soldiers would dare to charge forward.

96-year-old Renrui, how did he survive until now?

Tai Shici was very curious. He was used to seeing people who died in their 30s and 40s, and people who died of illness in their [-]s. He had never seen such a long-lived person, and there were quite a few such people.

Could it be that the conditions in Jiaozhou are more suitable for the emergence of long-lived people?

He couldn't explain it clearly.

But now that things have happened, there is nothing to worry about. The 96-year-old birthday star is gone, and Wei Jun's biggest obstacle is gone.

No one dares to stand in front of the army and point at the army and yell at the army, but the army can no longer do anything.

And Shi Xie finally chose to be soft instead of fighting to the end.

"Your Majesty will be very happy with the choice of Mr. Shifu. Mr. Shifu is dedicated to the country, and he is indeed a role model for the world. If Mr. Shifu needs help, if my soldiers can help, I will definitely not refuse." help."

Tai Shici laughed, and began to regard Shi Xie as one of his own.

Tai Shici was very happy, but Shi Xie was very bitter in his heart.

Cangwu County is their hometown, the birthplace of the ancestral business of six generations, and the location of the ancestral grave, which is of great significance.

But they were forced to leave their hometowns and lost their hometowns again. They felt like abandoned children, being exiled to the ends of the earth.

Where is my home, where is my hometown?

The main body of the scholar family will be driven to the southernmost tip of the empire to survive, and Shi Xie himself will be forced to separate from the family and go to Luoyang to be a Guanglu Xun, an official with a high status but no real power.

How cruel this is to the Shi family and Shi Xie himself.

But who is to blame?

Shi Xie didn't have any extra thoughts anyway.

In October of the tenth year of Yande, for a whole month, the Shi family was busy carrying all kinds of soft and soft things, and all kinds of things that could be taken away. They even had to take away the building materials of the old house. Then go to restore the original taste.

It's a pity that it can't be done.

And most importantly, the foundation of the family - the land, cannot be taken away.

They can't shovel all the soil away.

Take away a handful of soil from my hometown at most, thinking of it as the biggest thought.

As the talker of the family, Shi Xie held a family meeting and announced that he was about to go north to Luoyang to become an official. It would be difficult to return to Jiaozhou in this life, so he took the initiative to hand over the position of Patriarch to Shi Bin, and let Shi Bin become Shi Bin. The head of the family, in charge of everything in the Shi family.

Some people advised Shi Xie to disobey his orders and not to go. Going to Luoyang now is like throwing himself into a trap.

Shi Xie said that the emperor would not harm him, and he could at least enjoy his old age in Luoyang.

Everyone in the state of Wei knows that although the high positions of the Sangong and Jiuqing still existed in the Wei Empire, their meaning is just a political vase.

As a political vase, Shi Xie believes that he will not encounter any danger and will definitely live to the end of his life.

Moreover, in Luoyang, he could still protect the Shi family from disasters, and maybe help the Shi family overcome some difficulties.

In the end, Shi Xie personally went back to his hometown in Guangxin County, Cangwu County before heading north, and took away a handful of soil from his hometown as a permanent memorial.

Even if I can't go back to my hometown, it is a kind of comfort to see the soil of my hometown.

Afterwards, in mid-November, Sisi Hanyi had tried his best to cross the Wuling Mountains to the south and invaded Lingnan. The Shi family took part of the property and trilogy that the emperor allowed them to take away, and began a mighty journey. Moved south.

The emperor allowed them to take away all property except land and no more than two-thirds of the family's hidden households, allowing the Shi family to keep their property to the greatest extent.

It can barely be regarded as a relatively gentle measure to clear the land, and it can also be regarded as the emperor's last tenderness and comfort to the scholars.

From then on, Jiuzhen County, Rinan County and Zhuya County were their homes, and they were also fiefdoms in another sense.

In these three counties, the emperor allowed them to enjoy the power of prefects in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the preferential treatment of inheriting the status of prefects first. They can nominate candidates for prefects to the emperor, and they can take office after being appointed by the emperor.

In other words, these three counties were used to replace the base camp of the Shijia, and replaced them as a whole.

Shijia was forced to start from scratch.

Shi Xie, on the other hand, took his family, followed the imperial ship directly northward, and rushed to Luoyang to take up a post-the sooner the better.

The emperor missed him in Luoyang and wanted to see him, chat with him, talk to him, and give him rewards, so he had to go quickly.

The power of the central court entered Jiaozhou grandly, and started a new round of large-scale development and construction, as well as a new round of land clearing.

After sending away the Shi family, the local tyrants and foreigners who have not left will of course face a new round of land clearing, which is actually liquidation.

Naturally, this task will also be handed over to Tai Shici, who was not enjoying the war before, so that Tai Shici will have the opportunity to accumulate meritorious service.

In order to better implement his development plan in Jiaozhou, Guo Peng thought twice and decided to transfer the current governor of Yizhou, Man Chongnan, to Jiaozhou as the governor of Jiaozhou.

There is no way, Jiaozhou, especially the Red River Plain, is an important logistics base for Guo Peng to resist the invasion of the Little Ice River. It is necessary to let capable and experienced ministers handle this matter.

Manchong successively governed Yuzhou and Yizhou for Guo Peng, and managed these two states from a chaotic period of war to a harmonious situation where the weather is smooth and the people are well-being. They have become large taxpayers, which is enough to see Manchong's ability to govern the region.

Man Chong himself is also a member of the big group of royal relatives and relatives, and he is trusted enough to be the governor of Jiaozhou.

Although it seems a bit sorry for Man Chong.

He had been emperor for ten years, and he transferred Man Chong from Yuzhou to Yizhou, and then from Yizhou to Jiaozhou. The farther and farther south, the wilderness, but Man Chong had no complaints.

In his lifetime, Guo Peng will definitely let Man Chong return to the central government, but now, Guo Peng needs Man Chong to contribute to him.

So with a transfer order, Man Chong immediately set off to the south, arrived in Jiaozhi County, Jiaozhou, and began to fulfill his responsibility as the governor of Jiaozhou.

Man Chong accepted Guo Peng's appointment without any complaints, and earnestly did what Guo Peng asked him to do, and became a capable and loyal minister without any hesitation.

Such a performance will certainly make Guo Peng trust him more.

Therefore, after the governance of Jiaozhou is on the right track in the future, Guo Peng plans to transfer Man Chong back, and then let him be the governor of the construction of the Grand Canal, in charge of the construction of the Grand Canal.

chapter 1369 one thousand two hundred and seventy nine

After Jiaozhou was basically pacified, Guo Peng devoted all his energy to the construction of the Grand Canal.

After the Canal Office came into operation, branches of the Canal Office were indeed arranged at every key turning point of the Grand Canal.

Officials from the Canal Office took turns stationing in these sub-offices to supervise local officials to build the Grand Canal without any mistakes.

In order to further confirm that the construction of the Grand Canal is indeed proceeding according to his own requirements, Guo Peng also decided to leave Luoyang in November of the tenth year of Yande, and patrol all the way from Hebei to Jiangnan, personally inspecting everything about the Grand Canal.

If you do well, you will be rewarded; if you do not do well, you will be killed.

Anyone who dares to talk and hold him back on the issue of the Grand Canal will be killed without mercy.

The Grand Canal is the lifeblood of the country in the future, and it is one of the greatest reliance for the Wei Empire to survive the severe cold period of the Little Ice River.

With the Grand Canal, the north and the south can communicate, and the rich food in the south can provide emergency support to the bitter cold areas in the north.

In fact, Mr. Guo was also thinking that if he had potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes, he would not have to be so nervous about large-scale development and large-scale projects.

South America, the land favored by God.

The origin of potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes is a place where you can wait for things to grow with just a handful of seeds, and a place where you can pick something to eat by just stretching out your hand.

Compared with the ancient Chinese who worked intensively and ate food from the ground, they were really very happy.

However, perhaps it is precisely because they are so happy that they are scattered and do nothing all day long.

The heaven-given land may not raise the chosen ones, but the relatively bitter cold places can hone the descendants of Yan and Huang with a tenacious will to survive.

Perhaps, it is precisely because survival is not so easy, it is precisely because food is not so easy to grow, and it is precisely because the good times are always too short that the Chinese will continue to strengthen their own governance model and way of life.

Everything, perhaps, can be classified as the wisdom of survival.

Just like the Grand Canal, like the Great Wall, like exterminating locusts, like intensive farming, like thousands of years of flood control projects.

If he had potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes in his hands now, someone like Guo would definitely not be urging his subjects with a whip to rush to build the Grand Canal as he is now.