As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

The scholar snorted coldly: "Based on etiquette! Based on the words of the saints! Based on benevolence and filial piety!"

Hua Manlou sneered and said, "But why do I think that the country should be based on agriculture? The so-called food is the most important thing for the people... Oh, let alone the people, even you cystic worms have to eat, right? Don't tell me Me, you scholars who adhere to the etiquette, read the words of the sages, and abide by the principles of benevolence and filial piety, can you suddenly be able to eat?"

"Pfft...wahahahaha..." Hua Manlou's words were not a joke, but Zhao Ren who was at the side laughed so hard that it eased the tense atmosphere between the two sides.

Hua Manlou shrugged, ignored him and continued to say to the scholar: "Your Majesty, the sickle and hoe you made are to be sold to farmers in the market. Although you don't know how to make iron, I'd like to say something first. Not only are the tools cheap to make, but they are also durable and sharp, and farmers can save a lot of energy by using them, and then cultivate more fields..."

The scholar stared at Hua Manlou and shouted, "What does it matter to me how many farmers farm?"

Huamanlou couldn't help squinting his eyes when he heard the words, but before he could speak, Zhao Ren became angry: "Why has nothing to do with you? Is the food you eat dug out from the ground by farmers? Are your clothes woven by farmers?"

The scholar was afraid of flowers all over the building, but he didn't care about a half-grown child like Zhao Ren, so he sneered and said: "The master said: If you give good courtesy, the people will not dare to disrespect; if you give good righteousness, the people will not dare to be disobedient; Then the people dare not be merciless. If the husband is like this, then the people of the four directions will bear their sons and die, how can they use the crops?"

This passage comes from the Analects of Confucius. It is said that Fan Chi, a disciple of Confucius, believed that his teacher was omnipotent, so he asked Confucius how to grow crops and vegetables.

Zi said at that time: I am not as good as the old farmer.

After Fan Chi left, Confucius called Fan Chi a villain, and then said something like this, which roughly means that if the ruler likes propriety, righteousness and trustworthiness, then the people will naturally bring their children to join him, and they will not grow crops by themselves. ?

This passage was interpreted by this group of scholars as: As long as there is courtesy, righteousness and trust, why bother with farming?

It seems that they look down on agriculture very much.

But in fact, Ren Jiazi just thinks that there is a specialization in the art industry, and the disciples he teaches don't need to do farming, but other things are better...

So after hearing these words, Zhao Ren was choked up: "You...you are making too much sense!"

The scholar looked at Zhao Ren contemptuously, sneered, and did not answer.

But Hua Manlou patted Zhao Ren on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Don't argue with them, you won't be able to."

Zhao Ren said anxiously: "But...but..."

"I know, I know everything." Hua Manlou looked at Zhao Ren with a smile: "There is no cure for the brain-dead, so you can't make sense. Then since it doesn't make sense, why do you bother with them, let them die stupidly?" better?"

Hearing Hua Manlou's words, a group of scholars got angry, and they immediately cursed.

Hua Manlou rubbed his ears indifferently, and said to the craftsman who was in charge of assisting these people in making iron, "You've been teaching them for seven days, right?"

The craftsman hurriedly said, "Yes, Mr. Benedict, it's been seven days."

Hua Manlou nodded: "It can be regarded as delaying you a lot of time. The people who built the stove have received a commission these few days... Forget it, I will pay the commission for these few days. From now on, you don't have to worry about this group of idiots. Yes. There is a shortage of manpower for the stove, so you should go too, so you can get a commission then, won’t you?”

The craftsman was overjoyed at first, but then he looked at the scholars who were still yelling and said: "But they still don't know..."

Hua Manlou curled her lips: "I don't care about this, who made them too stupid? Your Majesty said that if they fail to make ten thousand sickles and ten thousand hoes, they will start all over again, and everyone will have to do it in the spring." If you plant two acres of land, if you don’t do well, you are not allowed to participate in the Spring Festival... Tsk tsk, the next spring will be the Spring Festival, if they love mushrooms, they will grow mushrooms.”

After giving instructions to the craftsmen, Hua Manlou turned to the young soldiers who were overseeing the work and said, "Go back to the camp too, don't worry about these guys, come here every evening to see how many of them have made. Just do it."

"Mr. Qian, if they run away..." A young soldier glanced at the group of scholars, a little worried.

Hua Manlou smiled and said: "Don't worry, if the task is not completed anyway, they won't be able to participate in Chunwei, maybe they will be dismissed. By the way, today their food comes from the logistics side, don't worry about it here .”

"Yes!"

Xishanwei has the best food for these young soldiers, because their training intensity is high, and if they cannot keep up with their nutrition, they will easily fail in training, so Huamanlou will not save money on this aspect, and even give them separately Opened the kitchen.However, there is no need for the craftsman's side, just control the food, so the quality of the food is not as good as that of Xishanwei.

In other words, the logistics side doesn't care about nutrition or not, and it doesn't care about the taste - it's good to have something to eat, who cares about the other side?

At the beginning, Huamanlou didn't want to overdo things, so he asked Xishanwei to be in charge of the diet of this group of scholars, but now they are shameless themselves, so what does Huamanlou care about?

"That's right." Hua Manlou instructed the craftsman again: "You were the ones who gave this group of [-] teng houses earlier, right? Drive them out today and provide them with a few tents at Shenji Camp."

The craftsman looked horrified: "Grandpa, isn't this bad? These people are all famous, what if something happens in the cold at night..."

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "That's right, the famous master disdains to live in our hot kang, who made us all lowly business people? Can't compare..."

With Hua Manlou's order, all the privileges of this group of scholars in Xishan are gone, and their suffering has just begun...

143. There is no such thing as goodness

Hua Manlou's approach is called reporting grievances directly, which is what Confucius said.

Confucius is known as the teacher of all ages and the most holy teacher. Until the time of Huamanlou's previous life, his thoughts were still influencing the people of the country, and he had a certain influence all over the world, which shows his greatness.

But with the change of the times, the development of Confucian culture has been very different from that of Confucius at that time, and even the meaning is reversed. The most exciting thing is probably repaying hatred with virtue—in fact, this is the case in "The Analects of Confucius·Xianwen" Said: "How about repaying grievances with virtue?" The Master said: "How do you repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightness, and repay virtue with virtue."

Understand?Ren Jiazi means that life and death are indifferent, and if you don't accept it, you will do it. How can you convince others with virtue?

So, maybe some unscrupulous joke about Ziyue can better explain the meaning of Ziyue's words: fighting with bricks, not messing around...

But precisely because the meaning of Confucius has been misinterpreted, misunderstood, or even deliberately distorted in order to restrain the mind, this makes the dross of "repaying grievances with virtue" suddenly become the essence of Confucianism, so that in many people's understanding, Confucius is A pedantic old man like Tang Seng, he won’t be angry if you beat him up—it doesn’t matter if you use virtue to convince others, beat the left cheek and beat the right cheek until you are convinced...

But in fact, Zi once killed Shaozhengmao, and hit the original soil with a cane in front of him; he was so strong that he pushed out a carriage that was stuck in the mire alone; Enraged, the monarch of Weiguo planned to use him again, but he casually looked at the wild geese when he was speaking, so he left directly...

There are various indications that this sage who is a teacher of all ages is not pedantic at all, on the contrary, he still looks like a hero. How can he look like this group of sloppy scholars now?

Hua Manlou felt that if Zi knew that his intentions were spoiled by these people every minute, he would be so angry that he would directly chop up these unfilial disciples and grandchildren, so he would directly report his grievances. This is the teaching of Zi what……

And if you have to say it, Hua Manlou didn't do anything wrong, after all, he also took care of them, and gave them a tent, and didn't let them go to the wild to survive like a certain speech officer, did they?

From this day on, the group of scholars who were assigned to Xishan had no good life at all.

No one cares whether they are comfortable or not, and no one cares whether they are cold or hungry.

The logistics side just came over to say hello after the meal was ready-it sounded like "Hey, come to eat", anyway, you like to eat or not, and you will be hungry if you don't eat; Shenjiying threw them some leaks They didn't even care if they would set up their tents or not, their task was not to serve these lords.

And since they were admitted to Juren, this group of candidates has been regarded as a reserve army of officials—Fan Jinzhongju is an example, and after they passed the examination, someone gave them money and things.It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but after getting used to extravagance, you will suffer...

Many people cried that day.

They were still able to show their prestige, bullying and bullying the craftsmen on the basis of their fame, asking them to vacate rooms, and scolding them to make iron for themselves, but after Huamanlou gave an order, Dior and the others were no longer there, and the craftsmen even They also kindly set up a separate blast furnace for them in the open space, so this group of people could only be blinded in the cold wind...

Liu Fan, an old fritter, expressed some concerns about this. After all, if this matter goes wrong, it might be that the hat of "torturing scholar-bureaucrats" has been suppressed. This crime is not ordinary.

But Hua Manlou didn't care at all: "Zizai said on the river: How big is a mouse's kidney! There is food, drink and shelter, and the treatment is almost exactly the same as that of the Shenjiying group. They have the face to say that I abused it? As for It is His Majesty's will to smelt iron and farm and so on, if you have the ability to discuss with His Majesty, if you don't have the ability, they should stop nagging, just talk about it!"

It has to be said that after Hua Manlou broke his literati line with his own hands, his speech became more and more vulgar...

"You don't need to worry about these things, just do your own thing." Hua Manlou sipped the tea ceremony very leisurely in the warm room: "By the way, I asked you to recruit people from all the blacksmith shops in Kyoto these two days. How did you ask?"

Huamanlou is indeed very short of people nowadays, not only lack of craftsmen, but also lack of heavy labor for mining coal.After Xishan started the stove business, not only was there an urgent shortage of blacksmiths, but the utilization rate of coal had also increased significantly, so the existing manpower was not enough.

Liu Fan replied: "Almost, those craftsmen have more or less heard that our iron smelting in Xishan is fast and good, and they know that if we make a move, they will have no way of life. After they went down and said something, they agreed to bring the family to Xishan."

Hua Manlou nodded, but asked worriedly, "It's so easy? You guys didn't threaten others, did you?"

Liu Fan looked innocent and said, "How can it be? These days, the treatment of Xishan craftsmen has been spread, so all the craftsmen in the capital are thinking of going to Mr. Qian. Now that this opening is opened, not to mention blacksmiths I am afraid that the carpenters, masons, and bricklayers in the capital area will also find them, but now it is the twelfth lunar month, and it is difficult to come to Xishan for the winter, so it is estimated that a large number of people will leave in February and March next year. Some."

Hua Manlou pondered, "This...isn't it good to run away?"

Zhao Ren, who was sitting on the other side, interjected, "It's nothing bad. If there is one more person, one more person will be fed and clothed, right? And I also need to employ people!"

Hua Manlou asked in astonishment, "Who do you hire?"

Zhao Ren sighed: "Don't you often say that there is a specialization in art? I have been tinkering with the hot air balloon for the past two days and found that it works in theory, but in fact it is difficult to find the material of the balloon alone. Not only must it be light and strong, It's still hard to breathe..."

Hua Manlou couldn't help laughing when he heard this: This young physics genius didn't know what he was thinking, but two days ago he made a huge paper balloon filled with bamboo sticks, and it turned out...

It clicked.

It just clicked, the bamboo branch was not strong enough, when it was heated enough to take off, the rope tied to the ground tore off the bamboo branch, and then it was in a mess.

Hua Manlou was shocked at the time, and he asked Zhao Ren: "Won't you use something like a fishing net as a frame, and then seal it with animal skin?"

Hearing this, Zhao Ren realized that he was inexperienced, so he eagerly hoped to find some cobblers to help him tinker with it, and even drew inferences, thinking that there must be better materials than the two things Huamanlou mentioned.

"Actually, it would be nice if I could seal the seal with a sticker on a strong cloth. It's all your fault for talking about Kongming lanterns, which made me think it had to be paper." At this time, Zhao Ren was still complaining about his balloon: "And the few people under my hand It's also damp, and even a paper balloon is a bit leaky..."

Hua Manlou burst out laughing, and after laughing for a long time, he said to Liu Fan under Zhao Ren's resentful eyes: "Okay, if you want to come, let the people below register one by one, don't let some young people sneak in." , In addition, in the past two days, I will find a few reliable cobblers to bring them first, and hand them over to this guy..."

After saying that, Hua Manlou turned to Zhao Ren and said, "You can pay these people by yourself."

"Tch, you are so stingy!"

……

The capital, Wen Ge old mansion.

"It's so warm..." In the study room, a certain young lady was still curled up on a chair with a book wrapped in a blanket, as lazy as a cat.

After Wen Yuchen bought the stove back, he asked someone to set up the fire here immediately, so Wen Liang, who was afraid of the cold, just stayed here, and didn't even go out to eat, only to be delivered.

Looking at his sister, Wen Yuchen had a wry smile all over his face: "If you let others know that you are like this, can you still marry?"

These days, there are actually a lot of ladies who are particular about ladies, and whether they sit or not like Wen Liang really affects the market.

"If brother doesn't say it, who would know about it?" Wen Liang didn't care about it: "I still want to move an arhat bed in, but daddy doesn't allow it..."

Wen Yuchen sighed: "You are afraid of the cold, I am afraid that it is unique."

Wen Liang giggled, stretched out her small hands to hold the teacup and pressed her face against it, feeling the warmth brought by the teacup, she even closed her eyes comfortably: "This stove is made in Xishan, so it must be from Huamanlou Are you creative?"

Wen Yuchen felt a little sour all of a sudden: "Who knows! And I bought it for you personally for my brother, so you can't even think about him, okay?"

Wen Liang was stunned and said: "What did you say, brother? I just think that if there is this thing, it will be much better for people who are struggling through winter like my little sister in the future!"

Wen Yuchen said angrily: "You're wrong, people who suffer through winter will still have to suffer, unless they have money. 600 taels of silver is the same price, do you think ordinary people can afford it?"

Wen Liang smiled and said, "Brother, did you think that the price of this stove would remain the same?"

"This……"

"Look, brother, the iron stove you bought obviously took a lot of effort to make it, but most of the thought was spent on its appearance, so that the rich can pay for it willingly. But In fact, the most important part of this iron stove is the chimney, that is to say, even if the shape is very rough and ugly, as long as there is this, the stove can still be used."

Wen Yuchen nodded: "Really? But what does this mean?"

Wen Liang smiled and said: "This shows that after a large number of this exquisite iron stove is sold, Huamanlou will recruit man-made stoves when he has money in his hands, but rare things are more expensive, and the price is free if they are made more." It will come down, and then he will tinker with some unsightly but still useful stoves and sell them to the common people, so wouldn’t everyone benefit from it?”

Wen Yuchen's face darkened: "So those of us who spend a lot of money are taken advantage of?"

Wen Liang couldn't laugh or cry: "You can't say that, can you? Buy it earlier and enjoy it sooner. Anyway, I don't think it's a loss. Besides..."

"how?"

"I heard that the life of Xishan craftsmen is better than before, so if Huamanlou is recruiting people aggressively, the craftsmen in central Beijing will definitely move after hearing the news, so that many people who can't survive will be able to eat with him , and one more person who is well fed means one less mob that may cause a catastrophe, isn't that a great thing?"

Wen Yuchen said angrily: "I don't believe that he has thought so much. According to me, he is just a profiteer. If you don't believe it, why don't you go to Xishan with me, and you can find out the truth yourself?"

Hearing this, Wen Liang immediately shrank back and looked around and said to him: "Let's pass... let's pass a while... I don't want to go out..."

Wen Yuchen stroked his forehead and sighed, "Is it that cold?"

144. President Qian Has a Big Head

After Huamanlou openly recruited craftsmen and laborers, the craftsmen in the capital area were moved by the news. Although there were many people who were not convenient to leave in the twelfth lunar month, there were still many people who came, especially young and old.

Winter is the slack time for farming, and there are many farmers who have nothing to do near the capital, and there are too many people who can't eat in the private camp of the capital.

Originally, many people had doubts about working in Xishan, but now the situation of Xishan has gradually spread, and some people who have been working in Xishan have gone out to brag about the treatment of Xishan, so many people have the courage to come and see read.

You know, the Xishan Qianhusuo was originally the Xishan Qianhusuo named Xuanwuwei. Xuanwuwei's vicious name was notorious. If it weren't for the hard times, who would take such a risk?

But when I came here, I found that the Xuanwu guards here were actually those young men who fought against Oara a few days ago. Not only would they not bully others, but they would occasionally help the people who were in trouble to do something in their spare time. This...

It's very scary.

I have to say that Huamanlou's ideological and political class was very successful. These teenagers believed that their food expenses and military pay were earned by craftsmen and young adults-theoretically speaking, it was not too bad, after all, now After Xishan started to operate, the palace no longer gave money, so although Xishan here is not as close as a family of soldiers and civilians, it has become the consensus of the young soldiers to help out when they meet.

And what...

Before Huamanlou brought Liu Fan to Xishan, he wanted to make him do some outrageous things so that he would be impeached, and then cut himself off from the position of Qianhu, but who is Liu Fan?This old oily man is very smart. After hugging Huamanlou's thigh, he put his future completely on Huamanlou's body. How could he do things that fooled Huamanlou or do some inconsequential things? rice bowl?

So he will do everything Huamanlou ordered, and he will ask for instructions early and report late when he is not sure, not to mention that he has never reached out for handling a large amount of money in Xishan, and he has never scolded the lowest-level miners. , even the people brought by the hundreds of households on the East Street tried his best not to let them die and become monsters. Therefore, after Huang Zichao led people to go on an envoy, Liu Fan seemed to be one of Huamanlou's most capable assistants, second only to Huamanlou. For Peng Guang, who treats craftsmen as uncles...

Judging from the final results, it can be said that Huamanlou managed Xishan very reliably by mistake, and it was almost a concerted effort to achieve a well-off life.

By the way, Xiaokang is Zizi’s pursuit of the lower level of Datong society, which is a great harmony in the world, but it depicts the prosperous age that appeared under the rule of Xia Yu and Shang Tang. It is described in the "Book of Rites": Everyone kisses their relatives, each The son is his son, and the power of goods is his own.The adults and the (hereditary nobles) regard it as a courtesy, and the city walls and ditches are considered solid.Propriety and righteousness are disciplined, the ruler and ministers are upright, fathers and sons are respected, brothers are harmonious, husband and wife are harmonious, institutions are established, and fields are established... This is called Xiaokang.

This is also what the former Emperor Fan Guangxing doubted: since the Duke of Zhou, there has never been a dynasty that achieved such a prosperous age, and there is no record in history of how to achieve such a prosperous age.To put it bluntly, Emperor Guangxing even suspected that this was a Confucianist bragging about the past and the present. Anyway, they often do this kind of thing...

With more people, there are more things to do, and Huamanlou is even busier.

Originally, Xishan Guard consisted of the new army plus nearly a thousand miners from various mines and about a hundred artisan households, but now there are people who move to Xishan every day, so the first thing that can't stand it is the logistics department.

In fact, in addition to the artisan families who cook, there is also a group of people who specialize in purchasing in logistics. They not only need to buy the rations of thousands of people in Xishan, but also purchase various ores. Now they even have to add some Strange materials such as cowhide, fishing nets, etc. In addition, they had to transport stoves and farming tools to the capital for sale. This made this group of people so busy that they never touched the ground, and some people had to go back and forth to the capital every day.

In addition, the young and strong recruited in the mine are basically unmanaged. Anyway, they only need to work hard to mine, and then they will record the scale.

However, because of the large number of people recruited, some guys who fished in troubled waters came in. They didn't ask for money for mining, but only wanted two meals a day, so every time they went to work, this group of people would just find someone Stay in a place sheltered from the wind, just waiting for dinner at the mine.In addition, some people also have the habit of petty theft. People in the mining area have been repeatedly stolen their wages placed in the house.