This prince, it doesn't matter if you don't do it!

Chapter 28 Volume [-] The Conscience of a Scholar
Although Jingyang has a long history, dating back as far as the Xia and Shang Dynasties, it has not developed for so many years because it is located in Chang'an.

To put it mildly, there is only one old stunt left.

It has been five years since Cui Mingyuan became the magistrate of Jingyang County since Zhenguan was changed to Yuan Dynasty.

It's not that he has no chance of promotion, on the contrary, the court tried to give him a promotion several times, but he refused in the end.

In his words, natural disasters have been frequent in the past few years, and the people are living in dire straits. As a local parent official, he really has no face to be promoted.

This is not his excuse, but he really thinks so.

Early in the morning, before going to the office, Cui Hao came to the door in a hurry.

Cui Mingyuan had no choice but to meet his elder brother in the main hall.

Although the two are of the same age, one is at the end of the year and the other is at the beginning of the year.

"Ming Yuan, our Crown Prince is not easy to deal with!" Cui Hao shook his head and said.

Yesterday, after Li Chengqian left, he spent more than half an hour outside the bamboo forest pondering carefully, but he didn't understand what Li Chengqian's last sentence meant.

No, he came to find Cui Mingyuan early in the morning.

Of the two of them, one is the official representative of the Cui family in Jingyang, and the other is the representative of the Cui family's private property in Jingyang.

These years, the cooperation between the two is not happy, but it can be considered harmonious.

"I received a letter from Chang'an yesterday, but there is still one thing I don't understand, and I hope my brother can clarify." Cui Mingyuan said.

Hearing this, Cui Hao was stunned for a moment, the tone was too formal, which made him sit upright for a while, and then he said: "Ming Yuan, please, Brother Yu will know everything and say everything."

"Scholars of my generation have learned the words of sages since childhood, and set up the ambition to help the country and benefit the people. Why today, my brother told me that His Royal Highness is not easy to deal with?" Cui Mingyuan asked bluntly, "It's my brother who is stupid. The little brother is still an errand, when did we actually have to deal with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

Is His Highness the Crown Prince licentious and immoral, or is His Highness the Crown Prince bringing disaster to the country and the people?Also please tell my brother! "

After hearing Cui Mingyuan's almost questioning tone, Cui Hao was stunned for a while, and couldn't say a word for a while.

In my heart, I was cursing, this nerd, isn't he stupid in reading?
But Cui Mingyuan ignored him, and continued: "Nowadays, when the Tang Dynasty was first established, the world is full of waste, and the common people still suffer from starvation and lack of clothing. My elder brother is also a man of poetry and books, but he is caught in the struggle between court and court. How unwise!"

Cui Mingyuan loves and hates Cui Hao.

Whenever there is a disaster year, Cui Hao will bring a large amount of food to help Jingyang tide over the difficulties.

But at the same time, Cui Hao also exchanged a lot of fertile land for grain from the common people.

In the five years since he served as the magistrate of Jingyang County, more than [-]% of the fertile land in the hands of ordinary people in Jingyang has fallen into the name of the Cui family.

But even so, you can't find any reason to blame them, because all the documents are well documented, even if you ask the people who sold the land, they will only say that the price given by the Cui family is fair !

Scholars are really tight-fisted when they do such disgusting things.

Cui Mingyuan saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart, but he couldn't change everything.

Because this is the gentry.

Since he became the magistrate of Jingyang County, the Cui family has been buying properties in Jingyang for convenience.

The reason why the gentry have been like a snowball and survived for a thousand years is because they have the convenience that others do not have.

Still take their Cui family as an example, although the Qinghe Cui family and the Boling Cui family are the only ones who are famous, but if you really think that their Cui family is only these two, you are very wrong.

If there is no accident, if it develops like this, within a few decades, there will be another Cui family in the world, named: Jingyang Cui family!
As the parent officer of Jingyang, this is not what Cui Mingyuan wants to see.

Therefore, when he received the news from Chang'an, he was furious.

He just wanted to do his best to govern Jingyang well and put an end to those unspeakable tragedies. Therefore, when Cui Hao approached him and said that the crown prince was difficult to deal with, his anger could no longer be restrained.

"Ming Yuan's words are wrong!" Although he was so angry that he was dying, Cui Hao's face was full of smiles, the self-cultivation of a scholar was quite in place, "If the court is restless, how can the world be peaceful? "

Cui Mingyuan snorted coldly, unwilling to speak.

It is true that he is also a Cui family member, but not every Cui family member is like that only for the benefit of himself or the family, at least he is not.

When I was young, because my family was just a side branch of the Cui family in Qingzhou, my life was no different from that of ordinary farmers. However, thanks to the surname Cui, I was lucky enough to enter the Cui family to study, and this has made it all the way to today.

Although he is grateful for the family's cultivation from the bottom of his heart, it doesn't mean that he thinks that everything the gentry has done is right.

Especially in the past few years when he served as the magistrate of Jingyang County, he has personally experienced the dangers of the gentry.

Twenty percent of the fertile land, right under his nose, became the Cui family's fertile land legally and legally!

If there are another five, ten, or 20 years, the people in Jingyang will all become tenants of the Cui family?
How are the common people!

"Brother has far-reaching concerns." After a long time, Cui Mingyuan smiled wryly and bowed his hands, "But what my brother worries about has nothing to do with me in Jingyang. After all, I am only a middle-level county in Jingyang, and my official position is only It's the top seven grades, but it's really a matter of indifference and inability to go to court."

He really didn't want to intervene in this matter, not because he was afraid of it.If it is said that Li Chengqian caused anger and resentment in Jingyang, you can see whether he is afraid of trouble, he just wants to use his limited energy in Jingyang.

court?

As he said, he is still too far away from the court for a mere official of the seventh rank.

However, Cui Hao was very angry at his words, but he couldn't show any dissatisfaction on his face, after all, he still had to take care of the scholar's face.

"Brother is being rude." Cui Hao said with a smile on his face, "Brother is dedicated to the country, he is a model for my generation of scholars, brother is just a commoner, but it is a joke for brother."

Afterwards, the two complimented a few times, and Cui Hao got up to leave.

After Cui Hao left, Cui Mingyuan shook his head and sighed: "The gentry..."

In the past, he was proud of being born in the Cui family, even today, he is still the same.But as long as he thinks that Jingyang has nearly [-]% of the fertile land, which has become the Cui family's fertile land in the past few years, he will feel very sad.

He knew it was wrong for the Cui family to do this, but it was a coincidence that he was born in the Cui family!
On the one hand, it is to cultivate his own family, on the other hand, it is his ambition to help the community and benefit the people since he was a child.

It was like two carriages running in opposite directions, constantly tearing at his last conscience as a scholar.

(End of this chapter)