Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 512 Wenzuo returns home 4
Hou Er was already a little drunk, and he didn't know if the big black patch on his front was wine or something else. He staggered up to Wang Wenzuo, crossed his hands and sang, "Wen Zuo, I have a piece of paper." I beg you, and please agree!"

"Ask me for something?" Wang Wenzuo was a little bored: "Sancho, you will give him ten pennies later!"

"No, no!" Hou Er repeatedly waved his hands: "I don't want money!"

"Ten shots are missing? Then thirty shots!"

"Wen Zuo, I told you I don't want money!" Hou Er's tone raised a bit, attracting the attention of everyone around him, and someone laughed loudly: "Hou Er, you don't want money, what do you want, thirty guan? Enough for you to marry back the widow who is in love with you from the neighboring village!"

"You fool, it doesn't matter if a widow is married or not, Wen Zuo doesn't know when he will come back next time!" Hou Er retorted loudly: "I don't know if there will be a next time if I miss this opportunity." !"

Hou Er's answer aroused Wang Wenzuo's interest. He looked at the man in front of him again. He was in his early thirties, of medium build, with a dark face, a mole on his right cheek, and a scar on his left cheek. His eyes were full of dissatisfaction with the status quo. , a sleek, typical rural idler.

"What do you want without money?"

"Give me an errand? Anyone who leads a horse and kicks will do. I have stayed in this village for half my life, and I am really tired of it! I just want to go out with you to open my eyes!"

"Go out with me and open your eyes?" Wang Wenzuo laughed. Why are the people in this village so arrogant and ridiculous? Rain, they didn't see it at all, they only saw themselves in gold and purple, hugging each other, rich and prosperous?
Since they want it, give it to them!

"Do you want to be on an errand? Well, what do you know? Draw a bow and shoot arrows? Stab a spear? Or settle accounts?"

"You're joking again, how can the idlers in my village, Hou Er, do this!" Hou Er laughed.

Wang Wenzuo's patience was almost exhausted: "You don't know this, you don't know that, I don't have such a job for you!"

"Hey!" Hou Ergan laughed twice: "I heard people say that there are no useless people in the world, just see if they can be used. I have stayed in this village for 30 years, poking the cow's butt every day From one end of the field to the other end of the field, this kind of life is really enough. Anyway, as long as I can go out to see and see, I am willing to lose my life!"

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Wang Wenzuo asked in surprise.

"Afraid? But I'm even more afraid of just living in the village like this! Then one day when plowing the field, I will die behind the cow's butt for no reason!" Hou Erdao: "I can do whatever I want, as long as I can leave the village. !"

Wang Wenzuo looked at Hou Er's mediocre face. He tried hard to remember, but time had blurred everything. The only impression he had was that the people in the village looked down on him. He was originally a middle-class man, but he didn't like the work in the field since he was a child. , wandering about all day, doing everything except expending energy in the fields.After the death of his parents, the family business quickly fell, and people are not bad. Even when he was just a servant of the Wang family, Hou Er didn't bully him much. " gossip.Looking back now, this person is not bad in nature, but he was cast in the wrong fetus.

"Then why don't you leave the village by yourself to see the world?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"You're joking again. I, Hou Eryi, am not an official, and I'm not a merchant. Why don't I be arrested as a fugitive slave after leaving the village?" Hou Er laughed.

"That's true!" Wang Wenzuo was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed.From the middle of the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, Chinese society underwent a very far-reaching change, which is called the Tang and Song Dynasty by history.Generally speaking, the tax law has changed from renting and granting land to the two-tax law, the city has changed from a square city to a mixed residence of citizens, and farmers have also gained the freedom to move.

Under the land granting system in the early Tang Dynasty, the state granted each farmer corresponding land according to Dingkou, and the farmer assumed the obligation of renting and adjusting. After the farmer died, most of the land had to be returned to the state, and then awarded to other farmers.Obviously, farmers at this time were bound to the land, otherwise it would be impossible to talk about granting and recovering land, or collecting rent.The Anshi Rebellion destroyed the old land granting system and household registration, so from the first year of Jianzhong (780), Yang Yan, the prime minister of Emperor Dezong of Tang Dynasty, began to implement the two-tax law. Land tax and household tax are collected twice a year in summer and autumn.The principle of expropriation is "the household has no owner and guest, and the living is the book; there is no middle class, and the rich and the poor are the difference."That is to say, no distinction is made between native households (local households) and customers (foreign households). As long as there are assets and land in the local area, they are considered locals and registered for taxation.Apparently, the collection of the Two Taxes Law recognizes the reality of population mobility and gives people the right to move freely.

As a latecomer, of course, we cannot simply use "good" and "bad" to evaluate this change, because there is no such thing as good or bad in the development of history.It cannot be considered that the early Tang Empire, which implemented systems such as the land equalization system, the government military system, and the mediocre rent system, had a strong military force, overwhelmed the Quartet, and the Tang Dynasty was at its peak; and after the implementation of the two tax laws, the middle and late Tang Dynasty was the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty The military advantage over the frontier areas has been greatly reduced, and even suffered invasion and government by frontier forces.Therefore, the former is good and the latter is bad. It is even necessary to promote the restoration of the ancients, promote well fields, build government soldiers, and restore the military grandeur of the early Tang Dynasty.

This kind of thinking is very common in Song Confucianism and Ming Confucianism. If you are interested in reading the collections of literati letters in the Song and Ming dynasties, you will often see various restorations of ancient systems, granting land to soldiers, self-cultivation and self-cultivation. Eat, farm and fight, and restore the old system of the Han and Tang Dynasties.This shows that when it comes to brainstorming, key politicians from ancient to modern times are actually pretty much the same, but people from the Song and Ming Dynasties wanted to learn from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and people today learn differently.

Then why didn't people in Song Dynasty and people in Ming Dynasty fail to go back to the old way?Some people say that because of the outflow of technology in the Tang Dynasty, the frontier ethnic minorities in the Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty also made great progress. The military and political power is no longer comparable to that of the Turks and Goguryeo that the Tang Dynasty faced.So even if the Song people restored the Tang system, they would not be able to defeat the frontier dynasties of Xixia, Liao and Jin.It's not wrong to say so, but there is a more important reason that they didn't think of-no one can put the grown child back into the baby's package.

The real reason why Tang was forced to change the tax law and household registration law was because the development of the social economy made the original system obsolete. The war destroyed the centers of the original empires such as Hebei, Henan, and Guanzhong, and caused a large number of people to migrate south. Large tracts of land in the south were occupied, and the economic center of the empire moved southward.For these floating populations, the newly opened land will not appear in the household registration and land registration of the empire; No matter how much capital and workers he has, since he does not get land from the state, he naturally does not need to bear taxes and labor. With normal peacetime and economic development, business activities will inevitably become more prosperous. Wealth is also increasing, and its weight in the economy is increasing. It is not only unfair but also dangerous to continue to allow it to be dissociated from national taxation.

Therefore, the imperial government made reforms, acknowledging the status quo of people's mobility and economic prosperity. As a result, from the middle of Tang Dynasty, the economy and culture of ancient China achieved rapid development, and large areas of land in the south were developed. It has almost doubled that during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty, and the government's taxes and private wealth are far greater than those of the Tang Dynasty, and all of this was done while the territory was far smaller than that of the Tang Dynasty.

But this reform failed again, because the reforms during the Tang and Song Dynasties were only from the perspective of increasing government revenue, satisfying the greed of the upper class, and government military expenditures, but they failed to achieve what the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang reforms did. , Attract powerful people from the emerging class of society to the ruling class, exert their power, and establish a new empire.The new reforms failed to form a new pillar of the empire through the new production methods between the Tang and Song Dynasties, which gained huge wealth and power. This is the real reason for the weakening of the Northern Song Dynasty's military power.

"In a sense, unstable elements like Hou Er are also the hope of society!" Wang Wenzuo looked at the slovenly idler in front of him: "When society is operating normally, they are indeed harmful and useless, but when a When society has no way out, people like him may be able to find a new way. After all, Magellan, Columbus, and Pizarro are not honest and good people.”

Thinking of this, Wang Wenzuo nodded: "Hou Er, since you think so, don't blame me for dying outside?"

"Don't blame, don't blame!" Seeing Wang Wenzuo let go, Hou Er said with a smile: "Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky, and I should die in fate. How can I blame others!"

"Okay!" Wang Wenzuo said to Sangqiu, "You give him thirty coins!" He didn't wait for Hou Er to refuse, and said, "Don't you have a widow who is a good friend in the neighboring village? You don't know if you go out with me this time." When you can come back, let you take the thirty guan to make troubles, so that you don’t have to worry about it when you go out!"

"Thank you, Lord!" Hou Er knelt down, his cheeks were already full of tears.

It was getting late, and the drunken villagers, the old and the weak, left separately, and the grain drying field was mostly empty.Wang Wenzuo ordered the leftovers to be removed and rearranged so that his followers could eat.

"Ming Gong returned home rich and honored, congratulations!" Cao Wenzong raised his glass.

"Okay!" Wang Wenzuo took a sip of wine and put down his glass: "Wen Zong, you are also a seventh-rank military officer now, can you go back to your hometown and have a look?"

"Going back to my hometown?" Cao Wenzong looked embarrassed: "I left my hometown when I was young, and the things in my hometown have long been forgotten, so I don't care if I don't go back!"

Wang Wenzuo didn't speak. He could see that Cao Wenzong's words were insincere. If he remembered correctly, a big reason why Cao Wenzong went to Chang'an was that he had offended someone. If he returned home, he was afraid of hurting his family.He thought that his current official position was enough to make up for the past, but he didn't expect that it was not enough in Cao Wenzong's eyes.

Wang Qu sat next to him. As Wang Wenzuo's "father", he was theoretically the most respected person in today's banquet.But he didn't have the slightest sense of being in a dignified position, he just felt that the chair under his buttocks seemed to have grown many spikes, which was extremely uncomfortable.He wanted to plead for his son, but he didn't know how to say it.

Just when he was in a dilemma, there was a loud noise from the lower part, but it was the Yaqiandu soldiers who were eating below who got drunk and started fighting one after another.When Wang Wenzuo heard this, he didn't feel annoyed. He took the gold belt from his waist and said with a smile: "Tell the boys below that the gold belt that won the first bet today will be rewarded as a prize!"

The gold belt on Wang Wenzuo's waist is the 蹀躞 belt. Since the Northern Qi Dynasty, Chinese clothes have mostly been dressed in Hu clothes.Crimson green with narrow sleeves, short coat and long boots, and a belt with bows and swords, pleasure bags, knives, knives, etc., made of leather and wrapped in black or red satin silk, with knives, flint bags, and syringes hanging on it And so on seven items.

Naturally, the belts around the waists of high-ranking court officials like Wang Wenzuo are not only made of leather, but made of gold leaf and gold thread and strings of suet jade.Everyone was overjoyed when they heard the words, and got up one after another to tidy up.

After a while, a large open space was cleared out of the grain drying field.A total of two archery targets were set up: one was 120 paces away, and a two-foot-square plank was erected on the ground, with a melon-sized circle drawn with charcoal in the middle as the target.Another, on top of a pile of sand dunes farther away, has the same wooden sign, Charcoal Bullseye.

Wang Qu, who had been a military soldier, knew at a glance that it was no easy task to hit the target in front of him. He himself could barely shoot that far when he was young, let alone hit it.According to his visual inspection, the second target has a distance of at least 220 steps.

At the beginning, the military mansion he was in was the only one who could shoot 250 paces away. I heard that only people in Hedong Guanzhong could shoot [-] paces.

The young soldiers came up one by one to shoot arrows, and one after another went to receive awards or be punished, in order.They were on the firing line, poised, the arrows just being wound.

His companions clamored loudly, and the shouting did not subside until he had shot five arrows.At this time, the watch target hidden in the cellar behind the arrows rushed out quickly, checked the results, pulled out the arrows, and waved a torch to report the archer's results to people.

Overall, the results are astonishing. Generally, they hit three or four arrows. Even if they don’t hit the bull’s-eye, they can still hit the target. This has actually been hit on the battlefield. Those Mohe teenagers even have five arrows. All hits.

A poor archer will shake his head and sigh every time he shoots an arrow, which means that an accidental miss has caused him to lose his usual level.

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