Chapter 712

"Where are you from?"

“……？”

"Don't be afraid. I'm here to see the king."

“……”

It was Sanshi who was caught by Li Mao asking questions.

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

In fact, until the northern and Southern Dynasties, scholars themselves never bullied civilians. First, they felt that both sides were not at the same level at all. Second, scholars really needed reputation.

Many examples can show that at least before the northern and Southern Dynasties, the literati would only personally antagonize the same group of literati. On the contrary, they would take a relaxed attitude if they were inadvertently offended by the civilians. If any literati went to argue with the civilians in person and even bullied the civilians in person, they would definitely be despised by the whole literati class, I think that guy lowered the whole class of scholars.

It is not that the gentry class does not bully the civilians, but the gentry do not bully the civilians in person. In the end, those who bully the civilians will only be the servants of the gentry.

Many times, the gentry indulge their slaves to bully civilians. On the one hand, it probably means a sense of superiority such as "my dogs are higher than ordinary people". On the other hand, the gentry do not live by eating soil and drinking water. In terms of interests, someone always needs to do it. If the slaves make the people's grievances too big to stop, the gentry can directly "click" the civilians' grievances with the slaves, and get a good name of integrity.

"I'm from Leping (county), and I'm not sure I'm from the same hometown as the younger generation."

"Really a fellow townsman."

"Oh?"

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

Li Mao smiled more kindly. I didn't expect to catch anyone from the same county.

In many years, villagers have a very special bond. If they come from the same place, they will naturally have more sense of closeness. If something happens in a different place and the villagers do not help each other, they will be sent back to their hometown. The person who stands by does not want to be scolded by the backbone, so he is basically ready to move.

"I came to Guanzhong to get an audience from the king. If I ask you something, the younger generation should answer truthfully."

"When the elder asks, Shi naturally has to answer truthfully."

Li Maogang just patronized and talked to Sanshi. When he paid attention to the surroundings, he found that the people next to him couldn't stop and gather to listen. Why were they still working?

With the clothes of Li Mao and Zhang Gan, it is obvious that they are noble and elegant. It is almost inevitable to be surrounded when they appear. If they show that they are close to the people, they will be surrounded to complain. And Li Mao has said more than once that he can see today. Shouldn't those people come around more?

The next scene made Li Mao frown completely. Sanshi even began to work. It was like watching Li Mao waiting for questions while working.

As a scholar, especially a hermit at the mountain gate, he should have his own pride. Li Mao didn't want to talk to Sanshi anymore and went directly to the Han Army patrolling nearby.

"Stop!"

The Han army who happened to patrol to this position was not the team just now. Li Mao shouted and stopped in confusion.

"Why are the people so afraid?"

"What did you say?"

Even with strong local characteristics, the language can certainly understand each other. Li San wondered where Li Mao said people were afraid to see it.

While working, he came to the three stones nearby. He was still waiting to be questioned. After all, Li Mao said he could get the audience of the king today. Suddenly, he was depressed when he was ignored. When Li Mao glared at a gap of what length of the Han Army, he said, "I'm not afraid?"

"You're afraid to stop. Aren't you afraid?"

"I took the salary, naturally I have to work. How can I stop at leisure?"

Sanshi said that Li Mao was stunned.

Zhang Ganlu, who has been quiet, shows a thoughtful expression. He has seen a hot work scene on the construction site. There are no vicious supervisors waiting to whip people in this area. People are really working with great enthusiasm.

"The sergeant is polite." Zhang Gan saluted Li San, who didn't know what was going on, but Li San avoided the salute and saluted again. He said with a gentle smile, "I've been recruited. Can you ask the sergeant something?"

The reason why Li San avoided Zhang Gan's salute was that Zhang Gan looked at his age. Zhuxia civilization had the virtue of respecting the elderly. It would take a long time to accept the salute from the elderly.

"I came all the way from Leping. Before I entered Tongguan, I saw that there were government Daxing projects everywhere, especially here. Why?"

"The elder came from Leping county?"

"Exactly."

"Look at the elders, they are hermits at the mountain gate. It is the policy of the Great Han to expel the Hu prisoners and build the Great Han again. It is a policy to raise the people when there is a disaster."

Zhang Gan and Li San came back to ask and answer questions, but what they said was not secret. The government not only posted notices, but also grass-roots officials constantly patrolled the countryside to make announcements. It is true that only those who hide in deep mountains and forests don't know.

Li Mao, who had recovered from his stupidity, had a new interest. He saw that the sergeant who answered with Zhang Gan was polite and disciplined. The sergeant's words and deeds were not like people who didn't know a person in big words, but he wondered how he looked like a sergeant who was not even an official?

The so-called sergeant is not a small soldier, that is, the rank of chief of the army, chief of the army and team leader. The village chief who goes up can be called an official. In terms of local officials, Tingfu, qiutiao, TingChang, Youhuo and Youzhi are only "scholars" in the official system, and public officials at the county government level such as prison officials belong to officials. This is the system of "Scholar" and "official" in the Qin and Han Dynasties. After waiting, it is the difference between "official" and "official".

Li Mao and other three people went to Guanzhong immediately after they got out of the mountains. When they rested on the way, they didn't touch people, but they didn't talk about anything else. They didn't want to know something until they went to the construction site of new Chang'an.

"Thank you, sergeant."

"The elder is the king's talent. When you enter Chang'an, you can go to the post house. You will have the reception of Hongru hall."

A small episode soon ended with Zhang Gan and Li Mao returning to the ox cart, leaving three stones full of wonder. Three stones were waiting to be questioned from beginning to end, but Li Mao forgot such a fellow countryman.

The ox cart moved slowly again. This time, Zhang Gan ordered the driver to pull aside as much as possible.

In fact, the avenue is very wide, divided into left and right lanes, that is, the ox cart was in the middle, which really blocked the car behind.

Zhang Gan's behavior behind him is a psychological change after he talked with Li San. He still has the pride of being a hermit in the mountain gate, but he has a closer sense to the current imperial court.

"The corvee was built as a rural Avenue, which was used by officials and people." Zhang Gan's eyes have been looking at a busy construction site, talking about the construction of the national road from Jiankang to Guanzhong. He took his eyes back and looked at Li Mao. After a pause, he continued: "I've been waiting in the mountains for a long time and haven't heard of the world for a long time."

They have just heard in detail that even if it is to build a new Chang'an, it is not to concentrate labor to give priority to the construction of the palace city. On the contrary, it is to give priority to the construction of new cities. The palace city projects are only necessary.

"There will be a great disaster in the Central Plains?" What Li Mao noticed was this. He was very confused and said, "I don't hear that previous dynasties had known about natural disasters, nor did I see the so-called work for relief."

"Contingent?" Zhang Gan recalled and said, "in the year of Yuanding, the great disaster in Guanzhong, Emperor Xiaowu allowed the people to enter Shanglinyuan."

Li Mao still knew that Shanglinyuan was not only the private forest garden of the former Emperor of the Han Dynasty, but also an original ecological open area opened for disaster years. In every disaster year in Guanzhong of the former Han Dynasty, the emperor in power would allow people to enter Shanglinyuan for hunting. It really happened that people were hired to pay for construction projects.

"There is no doubt that it is the emperor of Ming Dynasty to expel Hu prisoners and restore Zhuxia." Li Mao smiled bitterly for a while and then said, "we only hear about the heavy soldiers today, but we don't see the hardship of the living people."

Liu Yan cleaned up the Hu prisoners of all ethnic groups. No Han people dared to say that was wrong. Who dares to say that it was not the Ming emperor who rescued the Han people from the tyrannical rule of the Hu people?

To be honest, it's not a lie about the hardship of the living people. All localities have become ruins in the war, but the state has always launched a national war externally, and really doesn't pay much attention to internal construction. In particular, the state has so strict control over land. Except for the Qin Empire, at the beginning of the founding of any country, it has done the equalization of land, that is, it has done nothing. As long as its head is still on its shoulder, it can get some land from the government, but today's big men don't have such blessings and benefits, so they have to exchange credit for credit.

No one knows whether the original Qin Empire was cruel or not. Anyway, all kinds of records say that it is cruel. The Han state established by Liu Yan is in line with the Qin Empire in many aspects, especially the maintenance of the 20th rank is more strict than the Qin Empire, and the attention to the law is really a sign of the return of the former Qin Empire.

After respecting Confucianism alone, Confucianism has repeatedly swept away dissidents for hundreds of years. At present, as long as they are literate, they basically dare not say that they are not Confucian disciples anyway. Confucianism focuses on the black Qin Empire for thousands of years. No matter what the Qin Empire is, it must be right to black in death as long as it is related to the Qin Empire.

"We are sages..." Li Mao is very tangled, very tangled. He just called to stop to perform. Of course, the performance was not smooth. He also heard something incredible: "corvee has been legal since ancient times. It is paid for employment, but it can't consume people's strength."

By the way, Confucius is not a saint yet. The posthumous title of Confucius in the early Han Dynasty was only the level of "public", but there were so many Confucian disciples.

Not only Li Mao tangled, but also Zhang Gan felt depressed. They are hidden in the mountain gate. Yes, but who stipulates that hermits can't contact people?

The world has stabilized again, and there are no more threatening alien races around. To enter the stage of building internal affairs, the relevant information is circulating with each other. Those gentry who did not hide in the mountains and forests want to have a place in the new imperial court, and those who hide do not want to miss the opportunity to build a prosperous era. They are quite active.

For example, the mountain gate where Zhang Gan and Li Mao are located is closed. They still know that the imperial dynasty issued the order to recruit talents. They know that if they live in seclusion, the world really has nothing to do with them. They come out of the mountain before they know the current situation.

In fact, Li Mao and Zhang Gan have to be thankful. If they didn't come out today and wait for a real audience with the king, it doesn't matter whether they would be "clicked" or not. The important thing is to be laughed at by people all over the world when they die.

Behind the two people is the silence all the way. They have made up their mind and will never easily "talk".

"Sir, there's another ox cart."

The driver asked Li Mao to look back and see more than an ox cart.

There was no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty, but riding in an ox cart was very attractive to cultural people. Even if they could afford a horse, they preferred riding in an ox cart. At that time, scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties preferred an extension of the grotesque. For example, Laozi's journey to Hangu pass in the West was an extension of this metaphysics, which led most cultural people to think that riding in an ox cart was very elegant.

"Who also?"

"I don't know."

The speed of the ox carts coming from behind is not slow. In fact, Zhang Gan and Li Mao can see very vaguely. The ox cart at the front is still a carriage closed on all sides. I really don't know who is coming.

There are knights around several ox carts. It's not the military system. From the perspective of clothing, they are definitely rich people. They look young one by one.

"Son sun Bing, I've seen the elder." The man who claimed to be sun Bing saluted on his horse and said, "the elder is going to Chang'an?"

Sun Bing looked very young and said he was polite to the elderly. The reason why he would come was very simple. A team of ox carts were not together. They met on the road and simply walked together. His grandson was in a cart behind him.

Zhang Gan and Li Mao just laugh, but they don't have the desire to talk. They are still sorting out their thoughts. Otherwise, they don't know what to say when they really meet the king, but they have to pull the driver aside out of politeness.

Sun Bing came to say hello, which was what he meant. The people of several ox carts came to recruit virtuous orders. They could meet each other on the road. Even if they didn't mean to keep warm, they should know in advance who they were.

By the way, people who call themselves sun Bing are celebrities in history, but they are famous because of their son Sun Kang.

Sun Kang has a very inspirational story, but it had to wait until his grandfather sun Fang, who was an official in Changsha, died and his father didn't get along well in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The seven ox carts went down to the side of the avenue and stopped. The people in the car came down. They looked very old one by one. When introducing each other, it was not a burst of excitement. Many people were big celebrities who only heard their names but did not see them.

"It's Mr. Fuhe face to face!" Li Mao was immediately excited when he heard someone's name: "I've heard the name of Mr. for a long time. I'd like to see you!"

Fuhe is a "number". His name taboo Luo Han and the word junzhang. Future generations may feel strange to him, but he is recognized as the first talent in the Eastern Jin Dynasty!

The other people, Zhang Gan and Li Mao, are definitely well-known people. To some extent, they really don't have the qualification of being on an equal footing. Who makes several people have such elegant titles, that is, they all come from the south.