casket of old days

Chapter 65 Integrity and Worry

Seeing that Chu Qiguang insisted on leaving, Hao Xiangtong, who was listening to his superiors, couldn't persuade him anymore, and suddenly became anxious... so he slammed his hands and stopped in front of Chu Qiguang: "Young Master Chu! Big Brother Chu! You finished the story Is it possible to go again?"

Chu Qiguang looked at the opponent's burst of anger between shots, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he thought: "This girl like Hao Xiangtong has at least a first-level martial arts cultivation. The Hao family is indeed a wealthy family in the county." '

And watching Hao Xiangtong's behavior, speech and behavior, Chu Qiguang also realized again that because women can also practice martial arts and Taoism, although the status of women in the Han Dynasty was still inferior to that of men, they were not like some feudal states on the earth. Dynasty so low.

Hearing Hao Xiangtong's plea, Chu Qiguang looked at the other person's hand blocking him, and said with a smile: "Girl, are you trying to rob money or sex?"

Hao Xiangtong withdrew her hands, a blush flashed across her pink cheeks, and quickly waved her hands and said, "No, no...how about I give you money?"

Hao Xiangtong thought for a while, and stretched out a finger directly: "I will offer 100 taels of silver, can you stay tonight? Don't break the chapter."

'Tell a story and get 100 taels? '

When Hao Xiangtong said this, she was an old prodigal girl. Chu Qiguang frowned slightly, and immediately reprimanded loudly: "100 taels of silver? I will tell you about 100 taels of silver for half an hour at most."

Chu Qiguang originally wanted to say that, but...

'I'm so upright. '

He sighed, looked at Hao Xiangtong's proud eyes, and knew that if he agreed today, the two parties would not be equal friends in the future.

'I'm not here to help or amuse the Hao family, there's no need to lower my value for 100 taels. '

So he forced himself to resist the urge to agree, and scolded a big dog in his heart, and then refused: "No amount of money can change my mind." Then, he cupped his hands at Hao Xiangtong, and said lightly: "Miss Hao, not everyone will be smashed down by money."

Seeing Chu Qiguang leave in a hurry, Hao Xiangtong thought in surprise, "This...don't even want money?"

In Qingyang County, apart from some wealthy young masters and young ladies, Chu Qiguang was really the first person she met who would not give money.

Hao Xiangtong shook his head, not understanding why Chu Qiguang didn't want money: "The clothes on his body are not worth five taels of silver, right? He is so poor that he doesn't want money."

Hao Xiangtong sat down in the library. She randomly found a miscellaneous book to read, but her mind was full of stories about Wu Zetian and Chu Qiguang's voice, so she couldn't calm down to read.

So she couldn't help calling the maid and asked her to ask Chu Qiguang when he would come over next time.

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Another night passed, but Chu Qiguang did not go to Hao's library the next day, but came to the Jiage library in Qingyang County, looking at the rows of grain and tax account books with satisfaction .

Li Suanshou, who was at the side, asked curiously, "Young Master Chu, why do you want to see these things?"

Money, food and taxes are all dense numbers and names. These data are very important, but extremely boring.

Coupled with the prosperity of martial arts and Taoism in the entire Han Dynasty, most of the dignitaries did not pay much attention to arithmetic, so except for those who specialize in calculating money and food, almost no one would read these documents, and they have been shelved all year round. Ignored by most warriors in power.

But in Chu Qiguang's view, the secret of the rise and fall of the entire dynasty is hidden in this huge and complicated data.

'If you don't investigate, you don't have the right to speak. Let me see how sick Qingyang County is in the Han Dynasty. '

Hearing Li Suanshou's question, Chu Qiguang casually found an excuse and said: "Recently, I feel that my talent in martial arts is not enough, and I want to practice arithmetic. Maybe I can be a fortune teller in a household in the future, so help me Master Wang is busy, so he just wanted to use these account books to practice his hands."

When Li Suanshou heard it, he thought that the Wang family planned to train Chu Qiguang to become a new operator in the sixth house of the county government, so he nodded and left him here to read.

Chu Qiguang first picked up a money and food account book and looked at it. Although the tax structure of the Han Dynasty was very complicated, and there were various conversions between physical objects and silver and money, he was sensitive to numbers and accounts, so he quickly read the book. I see.

And the more you look at it... the more shocking it becomes.

"Even if only [-]% of the counties in the whole world are the same as Qingyang County, it is a miracle that the Han Dynasty can last for more than forty years. It can only be said that it is because of the existence of martial arts and Taoism."

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On the way home with Hao Yongtai again the next day, Chu Qiguang could clearly feel that the other party was not in a good state, and his brows were full of sadness.

It's a pity that Chu Qiguang asked, but the other party didn't tell him why.

And when Chu Qiguang came to the library, he saw Hao Xiangtong who had already been waiting for him.

As soon as she saw Chu Qiguang, she shouted: "Why didn't you come yesterday? Didn't you agree to teach a few chapters every day?!"

"I had something to do yesterday, didn't you come today?" Seeing her excited look, Chu Qiguang asked, "Then do you want to listen?"

Hao Xiangtong nodded quickly, and Chu Qiguang said, "Then sit down obediently."

Hao Xiangtong immediately sat down obediently, looked at Chu Qiguang expectantly, and listened to the next story.

Chu Qiguang said: "It is said that Wu Zetian attacked Helan Mountain..."

Listening to Wu Zetian violently beating the ex-married man and mistress, and then angrily beating the ex-married man's parents, Hao Xiangtong's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the depression in his chest that had been waiting for two days was swept away.

Continuing to listen to Chu Qiguang's narration, she seemed to have also become the Wu Zetian of the Tang Kingdom. She traveled all over the world and was invincible.

Then he even became the chief assistant of the cabinet of the Tang State, and began to reform the evils of the world...

It's a pity that an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Chu Qiguang stopped again: "Today's lecture is over."

Hao Xiangtong's expression was still unfinished, and he licked his lips and begged: "Brother Chu, good brother, can you tell me a little more?" She twitched her thumbs and begged: "Just tell me a little more."

Chu Qiguang looked embarrassed, and finally said: "It's not impossible, but you have to promise me one thing."

Seeing Chu Qiguang's serious face, Hao Xiangtong was startled suddenly: "He looks like this, maybe he has thoughts about me?" '

Hao Xiangtong suddenly thought of those youths in Qingyang County who pursued her, it seemed that they all had such serious and troubled expressions in front of her.

'What would I do if you asked me out?How to politely and decisively decline him...and let him continue telling me the story.Damn it, why doesn't he want money, it would be nice if he could just throw money at it. '

Just when Hao Xiangtong was thinking wildly.

Chu Qiguang said with concern: "I think Yongtai seems to be in a bad mood these two days. I want to ask him what happened?"

Hearing Chu Qiguang's words, Hao Xiangtong blushed again with embarrassment.

She immediately suppressed her wild thoughts, and replied: "Brother, you are not bothering about the field. In the past two days, how did you know that the county ordered people to put up a notice board at the gate of the county government, allowing the people to be punished? Those who occupy the fields and rob the land should sue."

"At this moment, many tenants under our Hao family, Wu family, and Ding family have started arguing, and they all have to go to the yamen to file a complaint and want to take the opportunity to seize the land."

Hao Xiangtong shook his head: "Brother is probably worried about this matter."

(End of this chapter)