The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

The prefect of Yingchuan County accepted bribes worth a thousand catties of gold, and there were countless beautiful concubines in good houses.Not only him, there are not many clean people in the entire Yingchuan officialdom, and the protection of officials and officials formed a big net covering the sky in Yingchuan County.

Yingyinhou's family, who should be monitored by them, became local emperors, not only meddling in civil affairs, but even holding military power.The Guanfu family, who were protected by him, took advantage of the opportunity to search the local area endlessly, and their illegal income could even equal the annual gross product of an ordinary county.

What's even worse is that because Guan Fu personally likes to make friends with rangers, these rangers came here especially and settled in Yingchuan.These people are neither soldiers nor officials, but they carry weapons with them. If someone is inconvenient to copy knives on the spot, the local people dare not speak out. There is even a children's song saying: "Yingshui is clear, Guanshi is peaceful; Yingshui is turbid, Guan clan."

The hatred is astonishing.

When the governor led people to make unannounced visits to the local area, he even encountered more than one assassination, and later even directly assassinated him.If it weren't for the spectacular guard team that Liu Qi sent to the governor this time, the last thing left to him might be the corpse of the governor.

The emperor was furious, and all the officials in Yingchuan were uprooted, and all were imprisoned regardless of guilt or innocence.The central government dispatched censors to various counties in Yingchuan County to accept civil petitions and collect witnesses and physical evidence. However, the bamboo slips recorded in one month required ten bullock carts to be loaded. In the end, the local Xun family sent their children to help record, which relieved the pressure on the petty officials.

These scrolls were sent to Chang'an, and the emperor smiled back in anger. He lightly sketched the names of the people on the scrolls, and Zhu Zhu scratched the names of these people like a knife light.

"punish!"

This killing emptied out all the grassroots in Yingchuan County except for a few scattered ones, and also made the officials of the nearby counties tremble.Everyone seemed to realize for the first time that their emperor had the blood of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and he would never be soft at critical moments.

——The prerequisite for governance by doing nothing is that everything is under control, which does not mean that it does not matter if it is taken seriously.

Liu Qi said this to his son.Liu Che's big eyes were shining, and he was looking at his father with reverence.Seeing his son's eyes, Liu Qi felt a little complicated inside. He coughed lightly, and said, "Taoism's inaction is not indulgence, and all freedom can only be truly free when it is restrained. If there are no embankments, then the river will not be free. It will be rivers."

"And the Tao is the inaction after delineating the scope."

"So..." Liu Qi held his son's head with one hand, and smiled extremely kindly, "Che'er, what have you been up to lately? The Tai Tuo told me recently that you often doze off in class."

Liu Che's gaze was slightly deflected, and after hesitating for a while, he still said: "Brother's question was sent by Brother...Brother didn't say that you can tell Father."

"I didn't say I couldn't say it, right?" Liu Qi snorted, knowing what his son meant, "Bring it here, it's not that you want to show my father, but my father forced me to see it, okay? You If you don’t want to give you an opinion for your father, just don’t say it for your father.”

After receiving a satisfactory answer, Liu Che took out a small white paper from his sleeve on the spot, and handed it to Liu Qi with a flattering smile.Looking at this piece of paper that Liu Qi was quite familiar with, and he could tell at a glance that his son had used photocopying again, Liu Qi felt a pain in his head.

After unfolding it and taking a look, Liu Qi suddenly fell silent...

Asking this kind of problem to my eight-year-old brother... Liu Sheng, you are a bear.

Xia Anran, who didn't know that her younger brother had betrayed her, was complacently reviewing the replies she had received. His brothers all said no, but actually wrote them and sent them, along with various gifts. Kind of caring tips.

Due to the different personalities of the brothers, the reply letters also have different styles, some are mocking, some are hearty, and some are tentative.

Xia Anran casually put the duplicity aside, and the rest replied one by one.

Of course he would not tell the story of Guan Fu, he said that he found some small problems in some places, because Zhongshan country has a vast territory and is north-south, it is really not easy to manage the places, and Zhongshan country is famous No one doubts the reason for the prosperity of the country.

When Zhongshan entered winter, Xia Anran received replies from all the brothers except his younger brother Liu Che.After looking at them one by one, he found that the main idea of ​​his brothers was simple and brutal torture and interrogation of officials.

Not creative at all, but he probably knows the bottom line of this era.

So the people of Zhongshan, who started to lacquer fruit in the winter, unexpectedly saw that the petty officials posted notices in this weather. In addition to the notices, they also held a small mallet to nail a small wooden box at the gate of the city.

What is this for?

The onlookers looked around, trying to find someone who could read the notice.What was different from the past was that several women pushed and pulled a young woman to read the list. The woman was flushed with shame and trembling, but she still held on and did not flinch.

Seeing that she moved to the front of the line step by step, she made eye contact with the street pawn guarding the edge of the list, and was startled by the fierce stare of the street pawn, the whole body of the lady was shaking like chaff, It happened that his feet stood still.

Unexpectedly, at this time, an old woman had already shouted in the street, "Liu Wazi! Come here quickly, your mother is going to read the announcement!"

Her shout attracted almost everyone's attention.The woman was even more embarrassed, she murmured, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, yes, you don't need to be so loud."

"How can you not be loud." A woman who has been supporting her behind her whispered, "Your man is not early, and the family depends on you alone. No matter how capable you are, it is always a fact that no man in the family is easy to be bullied. Now It's rare that you can read and write, if you don't take this opportunity to show yourself well, your child will still be scolded for having no father."

"You couldn't stand up before, and I persuaded you several times. It's rare that you have figured it out now. Let me tell you, Mrs. Liu, that your son is watching you. Whether your son will be able to do well in the future, and see if he can straighten his back It's all about you, your mother."

The woman was shocked when someone said this. She shook her lips, and when her eyes met the shivering eyes of the two sons who were dragged over by the ladies, she suddenly gained infinite power. .

For her son, she told herself.Then she heard her own trembling voice slowly sounding in the crowd: "People often have words, complaints, and doubts, but it is difficult to get answers. I often feel sad and difficult to understand such situations. Each of the [-] cities in Zhongshan has a letter box, which is collected every five days. If the people have grievances, they can appeal, if they have sorrow, they can appeal, if they have doubts, they can ask them, and if they have joy, they can tell them. No compliments."

"You can use your real name, or you can remain anonymous. All reports and grievances must be done in real name. Anyone who makes a report in real name will be sent to investigate within ten days after receiving the letter."

"People are free to submit articles at will, and local officials are not allowed to stop, interfere, or retaliate afterwards, and offenders will be punished."

She read it word by word. This notice obviously considered the basic cultural level of the common people, and it was not written too profoundly. However, because she was a woman, her clothes were plain, and she seemed to come from an ordinary background. It was easy to read these words. It seemed extremely rare, and her move attracted a lot of attention.

The emotions of these gazes are complicated and unspeakable, and Lady Liu only feels that if the gazes can be turned into substance, her whole body will be pierced back and forth.

She is not a brave person. She was often ignored by her parents when she was in her natal family. She was married to her husband by her parents' order until she was 14 years old.

The husband's family has a good family background, looks good, and treated her well, but after giving birth to the second child, he accepted the invitation and left, and never came back after leaving.She was left alone struggling to pull the two children.

The husband's family pitied her for being a widow when she was young, and promised that as long as she did not remarry, the clan would give her a monthly relief with these two children, and she would earn some money with her own handicrafts, so she could barely live like this. .

But as the saying goes, there are many gossips in front of the widow's house, and the orphans and widowed mothers in the family will inevitably be bullied.She has a soft temper, and the boss is the one who stands in front of her. Besides protecting her younger brother, she also protects her useless mother. Because of this, she often fights with others, and even loses her appearance because of it.

Because the second child was bullied by children of the same age and witnessed the eldest being scratched in order to protect him, he has been reluctant to speak since then.

Lady Liu almost went crazy when she discovered this. She chased and beat those bad boys with a wooden stick, and even pointed at them and scolded them, but it was useless.

The eldest son lost his face and ruined his future, and the second son didn't say anything. The two children were out of tune with the surroundings, and they didn't want to go to ethnology or school at all.Seeing that the two children were about to pass the age of Kaimeng, Mrs. Liu could only grit her teeth and go to the women's school opened by the Wengzhu of Lunu County. With two children, I went to sign up.

Mrs. Liu felt that she was not smart, and she didn't even learn as fast as her sons who occasionally came to listen.It's not that she is not frustrated, but looking at her two sons, she persisted. If she can't do it once, she can do it twice, and if she can't do it twice, she can do it three times.

With such diligence, she won the top two monthly exams, and also received a reward from the school.That month, for the first time, she refused alms from her clan.

But now, she wants to prove one thing to her children - even if their father is no longer around, they are not unwanted bastards, let alone animals with fathers but no fathers.

They have a clan, a country, and her mother.Their father can't teach them, so she will teach them.

She used to be a cowardly person, and even once handed over the responsibility of protecting the family to her seven-year-old eldest brother.She can do nothing but cry and be silent, but in the future she will stand up and support the children.

After hearing her finish reading, everyone was talking about it, and [-]% of them couldn't believe it, "Isn't it a blind reading? Your Highness will set this up? Then those old masters are going crazy?"

"Liu Niang, are you reading randomly?"

"That's right, this is not a joke. Why does Your Highness want to know what we are happy about? Do I want to tell His Highness that I have a big fat grandson in my arms today?"

"Hahaha... Then I picked two extra catties of lacquer fruit today, do I have to say it too?"

Many men expressed their disbelief, but there were also many women who stood up and supported, "Liu Niang did not read it wrong, and I can recognize the words on it. That's what it means. If you don't believe me, ask the master!"

"That's right, that's what he said!"

As soon as the Women's Army shouted, the men shrank back one after another, and one or two dared to whisper, "You women, you can still understand this just by relying on the few words you learn every day?"

"What's wrong with us women? We just understand it!"

There was a lot of noise in the team, and in the end it was the vicious little official who confirmed that Liu Niang's pronunciation was correct before calming down the commotion.

The locals think it's okay, but to others, they are extremely surprised: the female civilians in Zhongshan country can read and write?And it looks no worse than the boys, is it a coincidence or... After they inquired, this girls' school established by the Lord of Tangyi came into everyone's sight.

The moment they heard about the girls' school, many men frowned to express their displeasure. Only after finding out its regulations later did some people realize what Zhongshan State was doing.

They naturally didn't expect that Chen Jiao's purpose was to prove that women can learn and learn well, but the purpose on the surface is obvious, that is to use women to educate children.

"Since that's the case, why not directly set up a school to teach children?"

The stranger who asked this question was immediately ridiculed, "You haven't had a baby yet, right? You'll know when you're born. Do you think it's so easy to teach a child? If it wasn't your own baby, you'd probably be crippled." !"

Of course, Zhongshan State didn’t open Xiaodouding School because they were afraid they couldn’t help beating their children. The main reason was because of their resistance.

In an era without excessive disinfection measures, the long-term crowding of the population is likely to spread infectious diseases, especially children with the weakest resistance.Although basic education starts from a baby, Xia Anran really dare not take risks.

Even the schools that are dominated by adult women have experienced winter wind and cold infections. In the end, the little king forced every woman to take the children to wash their hands and face before entering the school building. The windows of the school room must be opened for ventilation every once in a while. Only by taking such measures can the large-scale infection be contained in the cradle.

Once there is a large-scale infection in the school, Xia Anran has no doubt that the school will not be able to continue operating, even if they pay the full medical expenses.

The wind and cold are almost equal to the era of breaking through the gates of hell, and there are all mothers with children. Few have the guts to take this risk.

Although the girls' going to school seems lively and strange, but to put it bluntly, it is to prepare for the education of children, and everyone just looks at it as a surprise. The focus of the discussion soon puts on this "king's mailbox", and everyone is a little puzzled by it.

In fact, what you said is relatively normal to report, why does His Highness want to know what we are happy about?This, this, this is really strange!

The mailbox hung there for half a day without a letter, but every five days, the messenger would still come to open the small lock with a special key, rain or shine.

Such actions have fallen into the eyes of those who observe secretly.

Finally, one day, in Laiyuan County in the north, which is farthest from Lunu County, an envoy opened the mailbox and saw a letter. Not only the envoy himself, but even the surrounding onlookers were shocked.

Unexpectedly, someone sent a letter to it! !

"Write, what are you writing?" The onlookers gathered one after another, but they were quickly scolded by the messenger.

The envoy took out a wooden box and put the letter with unknown content in it, then hung an iron lock on the wooden box, added sealing mud to the edge of the wooden box, and carefully knocked his official seal on it.

This series of actions were all under the watchful eyes of the public.

A villager whispered, "No, don't you open it?"

"This is presented to His Highness, and it cannot be opened until it reaches His Highness." The envoy said after finishing a series of actions.He didn't expect that it was Laiyuan County that opened first. Fortunately, he brought a whole set of tools with him.He was a little excited for a while, and rode away before he had time to talk to the villagers.

As the first person to receive letters from the masses, he also has a very bright face.

—So what was in that letter?

This topic has become a key topic in Laiyuan County for half a month. For a while, both the county magistrate and the villainous boys on the street are panicked, and they are all cautious in their words and deeds for fear of being caught.

It was only later that everyone found out that it turned out that a local family had just given birth to a fat grandson, and the old man could read and write, so he honestly wrote this happy event and told His Royal Highness.

How do you know?

Not long after, someone brought a basket of red eggs to the door, saying that it was a congratulatory gift from His Highness, and the truth was revealed.

There were a total of nine red eggs in that basket, and they were protected by the old man. Only two were given to the parents-in-law and the rest were left for the daughter-in-law to eat.This is the red egg sent by His Highness, but it is so rich and expensive.

Give milk to his daughter-in-law, and his grandson will be strong and strong by then-the old man who thought so finally fell under the influence of money.The child mortality rate is high these days, and every household who does not have a child who died young is really lucky.

The chicken sent by His Highness must be unusual, especially the bright red color, which makes people like it at first glance.At present, there is an endless stream of people who come to the old man with good things to exchange chickens. The old man couldn't bear it, so he exchanged a few with others.

After the exchange, he felt guilty, thinking that he was exchanging his grandson's blessing for money, so he stuffed all the chicken, duck and fish into his daughter-in-law's stomach.The daughter-in-law's face was flushed with milk, and the little grandson was already in good health. Now he can eat and sleep. The child who was taken out was seen by others, and they all felt that the baby was blessed and would grow up well.

And the person who wanted to take the chicken back took it back without hesitation, peeled it off and gave it to the child's mother to eat. After eating it, he was reluctant to part with it, so he took the eggshell and cooked it with the chicken next to it, which was called "staining the end of luck".

These red eggs were boiled by Xia Anran with hematoxylin. The vegetable dye itself is not fixed, and the water turns red when it is soaked in water. After cooking for a while, the other eggs are also a little red. These are contaminated. The "blessed" eggs also ended up in the woman's stomach.

Coincidentally, all the children in this group are quite healthy.

Since then, "Zhongshan King's Egg" has inexplicably become a hotly sought-after product. Even if a family has a baby, a fellow villager will send him a pen and paper to urge him to write a letter to His Highness, so that he can congratulate the red egg. .

The little king felt very inexplicable. On the one hand, he explained to everyone that it was just an ordinary egg, and on the other hand, he also felt that the situation of the next applause was a bit weird. If he hadn't investigated carefully to confirm that no one was behind the scenes, he would have doubted that there would be such a thing. The situation was deliberately promoted by someone.

"Brother, does this mailbox really have the effect of connecting people's opinions?" Chen Jiao, as a labor force, was pulled by Xia Anran to sort out the letters. Almost all of them are written about the news of the birth of a child, and the rest is about the joy of marriage. Brother, is it really necessary to open this mailbox?"

Xia Anran was writing a letter to Dou Wan. Hearing that, he didn't stop writing, just smiled and said: "Jiaojiao, the mailbox has only been opened for one or two months, it's still early."

Chen Jiao sighed while copying the addresses of these people's homes on the paper: "But I always feel that this is someone else's advantage."

"How much is nine eggs?" Xia Anran shook her head, "Women already need nutritional supplements after giving birth, and the few days after giving birth will be the most important. Eating more eggs is good for both adults and children."

"Brother!"

"Jiaojiao, you are too impatient." He simply put down his pen and said to his sister, "Also, haven't you noticed that people's attitude towards mailboxes has changed?"

"They've stopped paying too much attention to the person who's going to deliver the letter."

The little king had a smile on his face. He quietly watched his sister's expression change from surprise to stunned, and he knew that she had figured it out.

Chen Jiao's personality is completely different from Liu Che's. Although she is equally intelligent, due to her personality, background, and environment, she has a sense of urgency more than Liu Che.Xia Anran knew why, and could understand it, but he didn't intend to condone his sister's bad habit.

Haste makes waste in everything. Most of the people who can be cured with one dose of medicine are antibiotics. Antibiotics can save emergencies, but they cannot cure diseases.

The same goes for governing a country.

Putting the king's mailbox there is like putting a strong wolf in the sheep, and the whole sheepfold will be blown up.

It is not one or two that are threatened, but all of them.

If the meaning of this mailbox is not good, it is like the "literary prison" of later generations, and white terror will form among the people.The neighbor-to-neighbor reporting system in the Great Han Kingdom has not been abolished, and it’s okay to see some things that everyone has a deep affection for on weekdays. The sky is high and the emperor is far away.

But the government can't see it, but other neighbors can.It's useless if you don't make mistakes, but who can guarantee that your neighbors are right?If some unruly neighbor wrote a letter of exposure, wouldn't everyone be finished?

So at the beginning, no one dared to deliver it, because it was not just one or two people watching the mailbox, but almost everyone was watching.They can't open the boxes, but there is still a way to pry them open with human mouths.

At that time, this reporting mailbox was not a key that could open up a clear sky for them, but a threat to send them to jail.So Xia Anran changed the entry point, he asked people to start with the good news.

And these good news people can get feedback. One is that these letters will indeed be read by Shangfeng, which increases their trust in this matter; second, it also erases the horror image of the mailbox; It is to urge the people to study more and practice calligraphy well.

Fewer and fewer people pay attention to the mailbox now, and it is not surprising to see the messenger take away the letter.

This wild wolf helps transport fodder in the sheep pen every day, and also grazes by himself. After a long time, the sheep will naturally not pay too much attention to it.

"If anyone wants to report, then their waiting time is almost over." Xia Anran said while handing a piece of paper to Chen Jiao, "Let's not talk about that, Jiaojiao, why don't you go and run for a while?" trip?"

Chen Jiao took it in a daze, opened it, and found that it was a letter from Beiping County in the north, asking if it is possible to open a women's college in Beiping County.Chen Jiao was shocked immediately, "Brother! Can I drive?"

"Jiaojiao might as well go and have a look first." Xia Anran said indifferently, "There are many problems with the establishment of women's colleges, and even under the nose, there have been mistakes before. Beiping is greatly influenced by Dai County, and women are better armed. Why do you suddenly want to study essays? One or two of them should be studied.”

"Jiao understands." Chen Jiao said while pinching the letter that affirmed her hard work for more than half a year, "I will definitely not make a decision lightly, and nothing will be missed. Find out what."

Uh... It's not necessary, the little king blinked, not willing to discourage his sister's enthusiasm, and continued: "You take Zhang Tang with you! He has strong observation skills and can just help you, but his studies may be difficult. Delay. If he can't leave, you can tell brother that I'll find someone else for you."

"In addition, if you really want to open the school, you have to ask Lu Nu if there are any masters who are willing to go there. Didn't you say that there are a few good seedlings who can stay in school? You might as well ask them if they are willing to give it a try? If you are willing, you can Take it over to see the environment, and touch your temper."

"It's quite a distance from Lunu to Beiping. If no one wants to go, don't be angry. If it doesn't work, just find some locals and bring them back to teach for a while."

Chen Jiao listened silently.

The little king picked up the brush again while rambling, "Jiaojiao, you go alone, you still have to be careful about many things. For example, don't come home late."

Chen Jiao looked at her cousin talking non-stop, and suddenly pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Brother Sheng looks like this, Jiaojiao will think that you are not my cousin!"

"It's not your cousin, who is it?" Xia Anran wrote down the precautions in twos and then handed them to her sister while laughing.Unexpectedly, Chen Jiao came up to take it, turned around and ran away, and left a sentence from a distance: "I saw that Cheng Wu's mother took care of Cheng Wu in this way a few days ago!"

The little king's hand paused in mid-air for a long time before pressing it on his temple as if nothing had happened, which was throbbing.

Ha ha.

What should I do if my sister is mischievous?It's okay, just a lesson.