Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 589 Aftermath
"No need!" Wang Wenzuo shook his head, with a sad expression on his face: "After all, he died because of me, otherwise, if he stayed at home in Qingzhou, he should still be alive and well now!"

Sancho opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a while, and finally said in a low voice: "How should the corpse be disposed of? Also, what should I say to the outside world?"

"Clean it up, send someone back to Qingzhou for burial, and give his father five hundred guan to burn and bury him! As for what to say to the outside world—" Wang Wenzuo hesitated: "Let's say he died of a sudden sudden illness!"

"Yes, the villain will prepare immediately!" Sancho responded and walked out quickly.

After Sanqiu came out of the yard, Wang Wenzuo calmed down and returned to the house. Cui Yunying straightened the bed and said with a smile, "Sanlang, when I was in Qingzhou, I heard about the reputation of Jinguan City in Chengdu. I came here today. I just realized that the bedding on your bed is too plain, why not make a whole set with some Shu brocade?"

"I'm used to staying in the army, how can I know these things!" Wang Wenzuo smiled: "If you like it, go to the outside shop tomorrow, and if you like it, let them sew it and send it to you!"

"Well, it's the first time for me to come to Chengdu, and I'm going to open my eyes!" Cui Yunying looked eager to fight, she turned her head and saw Wang Wenzuo's face: "Sanlang, what's wrong with you? Is something wrong? Or are you worried about being demoted?"

"Hehe!" Wang Wenzuo laughed twice: "Not really, I just feel a little tired!"

"It's just too hard for you!" Cui Yunying walked behind Wang Wenzuo, gently massaged his temples, and said softly: "Being an official like you, most of the things are left to the subordinates. I'll let you know when the time comes, just nod your head! How can you do everything yourself?"

"Yes!" Wang Wenzuo listened amusedly: "My lady, do you know how to be an official?"

"Sanlang, don't you believe it?" Cui Yunying raised her chin triumphantly: "As the saying goes, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh food. Governing a country is like cooking soup. How can a cook add firewood and water again? No matter how good it is It’s not enough to toss about the materials like this. Unless it’s a war with Tubo, my husband, it’s the best policy for you to rule!”

Wang Wenzuo smiled. As the daughter of the Cui family, Cui Yunying speaks jargon.The ancient society was based on the agricultural economy, and the government’s public services were actually very few. They basically defended against invasion externally and engaged in the construction of water conservancy projects internally. In modern society, there are basically no promotion of improved seeds, new agricultural technologies, tools, etc., all relying on the private sector. Summarize and promote yourself.Therefore, high-ranking officials like Wang Wenzuo, as long as they don’t fight wars, don’t mess around, they really love the people. Other things like building city walls, building armaments, and training militias are activities that consume people’s energy and accumulate social conflicts.

People in later generations regard this political attitude as conservative and not enterprising, but the problem is that the economic logic of ancient society is different from that of modern society.There was no exponential technological progress in the ancient world. No matter how much resources were invested in technological progress, the production growth that could be brought about would soon be diminishing marginally. As a result, the production growth brought about by technological progress would soon be replaced by The ensuing population growth consumes that, on average, there isn't much left over for each person.

In other words, farmers in all ancient societies, whether they lived in the Tang Dynasty, or the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan, the Mauryan Dynasty in India, the Mughal Empire, ancient Egypt, and the Franks in the Middle Ages in Western Europe, were just on the food and clothing line, or simply in the The food and clothing line fluctuates up and down, and there is no qualitative difference in their living standards.In Tokugawa Ieyasu's words: "You can't eat enough and you can't starve to death!" Many people use this sentence to criticize Tokugawa Ieyasu's cruelty to farmers, but in fact Tokugawa Ieyasu is really not very famous among ancient rulers. How cruel, it can even be said that they are quite diligent and caring for the people. The reason is very simple. For the vast majority of farmers in ancient societies, it is a kind of happiness to not have enough to eat and not to starve to death.

Seeing this, it is not difficult to understand the conservative and unprogressive political attitude of the ancient world.Since growth is non-exponential and unsustainable, the first priority for people living in ancient societies was to ensure the supply of rations, not progress; because most people only had enough rations to maintain As long as there is a slight fluctuation in the requirements for reproduction, it means starving to death.A small citizen in a modern society buys stocks with money, and his wife gets divorced after Bitcoin fails; while an ancient farmer squeezes out rations for new varieties. If there is no harvest that year, his family is likely to die out.

Don’t look at Wang Wenzuo’s trade routes, and the tea-horse trade with Tubo and the southwestern barbarians made a lot of money, but in fact, the effect on Sichuan is far less than one percent of Dujiangyan; Dujiangyan can save the people of Xichuan from floods and droughts No matter how well Wang Wenzuo managed the tea-horse trade, as long as there was a famine, everything would be zero. In the end, people can only talk about other things when they are full.

Cui Yunying kneaded for a while, and found that Wang Wenzuo was silent, breathing slowly, and seemed to be asleep, so she stopped massaging and took a thin blanket from the side, ready to cover her husband.But I heard Wang Wenzuo say: "No need, just sit for a while! I have something to do, so let's deal with it first!"

"Then do you want to come back for dinner?" Cui Yunying asked.

"It's not sure yet, you don't have to wait for me, if you come back late, just warm up the leftovers!" Wang Wenzuo stood up, tidied his clothes a little, and walked out.He came to the front of the Yamen and called Cui Hongdu: "Hongdu, there is one thing that needs to be arranged in advance!"

"what's up?"

"The imperial court may send me back to Chang'an!" Wang Wenzuo waved his hand, stopping Cui Hongdu's questioning: "This is just news, it has not been confirmed yet, and you don't need to ask why, just be prepared first!"

"Yes!" Cui Hongdu glanced at Wang Wenzuo, thinking to himself that it was probably Sancho who brought the news from Chang'an, so he was so sure that it was probably from the East Palace, so he really shouldn't ask why: "Then what are we going to do?"

"When I came to Songzhou, I brought a total of thousands of people. Most of them were good archers who followed us in Wa, Baekje, and Liaodong. Their military salaries and fields were all paid by us. Now if I go to Chang'an, these people definitely can't go to Chang'an with me, and it's not appropriate to stay in Jiannan Road, after all, the person who succeeds me may not be able to afford money and food, so it might cause trouble!"

"That's true!" Cui Hongdu nodded: "Those people have followed you, Sanlang, for many years. They already have a relationship of master and servant, and they have money and food from the fields, so they are willing to kill thieves with all their strength. It will be different if you change people. If it’s not good, there will be a mutiny, and it will be troublesome!”

"Yes!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "So I plan to prepare in advance. Let's do this! Those who follow us in Waguo, Baekje, and Liaodong will leave 500 people, and the rest will be paid five guan each, and then take a boat along the river. Next, go to Yangzhou, and then take a boat from Yangzhou to return to their hometowns."

"Okay, by the way, what about the sword players recruited from Yangzhou, as well as the Tubo captives and recruited Qiang soldiers?"

"These can be left to the successor! Otherwise, there will be too few soldiers at hand!" Wang Wenzuo said: "I will leave this matter to you. Don't be afraid to spend money, but don't make too much noise, understand? "

"Understood!" Cui Hongdu nodded.

After ordering the demobilization of the soldiers, Wang Wenzuo let out a long sigh. Since ancient times, soldiers garrisoned far away have been the source of trouble. First, soldiers far away from home will be homesick and prone to resentment; If you hold a group, you will have no scruples in doing things. Once there is a mutiny, this kind of army will have no place to escape because of defeat. Case.Wang Wenzuo was able to drive them because he controlled their homeland and had the financial resources to send them rewards; if it was another person, if there was a mutiny in a place like Xichuan, no matter what the consequences were, the Tang Dynasty’s Xifu would definitely be gone, or it would be better to pay them in advance. It's good to get rid of this hidden danger.

"I hope everything goes well!" Wang Wenzuo sighed. Ancient Chinese history books often used the word "collecting the crowd and driving the crowd" to refer to commanding the army. Wang Wenzuo had to admit that this was a very vivid word.In the eyes of the ancients, the army is like a group of wild beasts, which may attack the enemy or themselves.An excellent general is like a beast tamer, who can use rewards and punishments to drive away his soldiers and win, but if he is not careful, he will be backlashed by the army.Therefore, for a general, victory is far from the end, and only after disbanding the army can he truly feel at ease.

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Qingyang Si, where good medicine lives.

"Cai Dongzhu, Cai Dongzhu!" A man in green clothes quickly walked into the door and shouted, "Is Cai Dongzhu here?"

"What's the matter?" A clerk came up to greet him: "Guest officer, do you want to get medicine or prescribe a prescription?"

"Oh, who wants to grab medicine and prescribe a prescription!" The man in Tsing Yi said anxiously: "Where is your boss Cai? I have something urgent to ask him!"

"Important matter?" The clerk laughed: "My boss has too many important matters! This is Shanyao House, if you want to buy medicine and write a prescription, please come in. If you don't want it, please go back!"

"Oh, the sky is about to fall!" The man in Tsing Yi paused and said, "Hurry up, get your boss here, or it will be too late!"

The buddies of Shanyaoju didn't take it seriously at all. Since Cai Dingshan reported to Wang Ence's thigh, Shanyaoju's status in Chengdu's business circle has also increased, and the vision of these shopkeepers has also increased a lot.In their eyes, even the master and the governor can talk, so why are these inexplicable cats and dogs bothering casually?This kind of intentional scaremongering, so that there are not many guys who can catch up with the master's house, it is better to drive them out as soon as possible.So several guys gathered around, took the hands and feet of the man in Tsing Yi, carried them out, threw them on the street, and fell to his buttocks. The leader of the guys laughed and said, "I don't know where the rascal came from, and I don't know who I am." Take a piss and see what you look like? Cai Gong is the one you can see whenever you want? If you bother me again, you will eat a stick!"

The man in Tsing Yi was thrown badly and couldn't get up for a while, so he sat on the street and shouted: "Little Lang is dead, let me see Mr. Cai!"

Just when Zhuge Wen came out of the shop, when he heard the man in green yelling, his face changed slightly, and he shouted: "Shouting like this in the street, what kind of dignity is it, why don't you bring that guy here?"

The clerk recognized Zhuge Wen, and hurriedly pulled the man in green over. Zhuge Wen frowned, "What do you mean when you said Xiao Langjun is dead?"

"Xiao Langjun is Wang Ence!" said the man in Tsing Yi, "Yesterday afternoon, someone from the manor called Xiao Langjun, and Xiao Langjun went. In the evening, there was news that Xiao Langjun had an emergency attack and could not be rescued." If you come here, you will die immediately, that's why I came to look for Cai Gong, but I was stopped by these killers!"

Hearing this, Zhuge Wen's expression changed drastically. He glared at the guys fiercely, and shouted, "Why don't you take them to the back of the hall soon? You almost ruined the big thing!"

The guys were frightened into silence, and hurriedly took the man in Tsing Yi to the back of the hall. Zhuge Wen sent someone to find Cai Dingshan, and asked carefully, "Where is the mansion you are talking about? Also, who informed you Xiaolang?" Jun is dead? Where is the body?"

"The mansion is of course Wang Jinglue's mansion! As for the one who notified us was a soldier from the mansion, the body is still in the mansion!"

"Wang Jinglue's mansion?" Zhuge Wen was taken aback. Since Wang Wenzuo was already the military envoy of Zhiduyingtian, many people called him Wang Jinglue.In Zhuge Wen's eyes, Wang Wenzuo was still Wang Ence's elder brother, so Wang Ence's death should have nothing to do with Wang Wenzuo.

"Then do you still remember when Xiao Langjun went there and when did you receive the news of his death?"

"I left the door at a quarter of noon, and the messenger who announced the news just after dark came to the door!"

"That's three hours at most!" Zhuge Wen didn't speak, thinking to himself: "If the time for the round trip is deducted, the time between Wang Ence's arrival at Wang Wenzuo's place and his death is probably only about two hours, but in my memory Here, Wang Ence's health is very good, he didn't have any symptoms, it seems that the possibility of sudden illness and death is very small, most likely his death is related to Wang Wenzuo!"

"Did you tell anyone else about this?" Zhuge Wen asked.

"No, the villain came here directly after learning about Xiao Langjun's death, and he didn't go to other places on the way!"

"That's good!" Zhuge Wen called his housekeeper: "You immediately take twenty young men to Mr. Xiaolang's residence, take care of them, don't let things spread, and do it after I discuss it with Mr. Cai." claim!"

"Yes!" The housekeeper replied and went out.

Zhuge Wen sighed, and said to the man in Tsing Yi: "Now, as long as you know what Xiao Langjun has done in the past few days, who you have met, and what you have said, tell me from beginning to end. Say it again, this is very important, you know?"

　Thank you for the rewards from book friends such as the lunatic asylum who said a good year, the host of the galaxy who eats steak, the most important thing is Hayek, and the poor students in Xinxiang!

　　
　
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