Three Kingdoms: I don’t want to fall in love in troubled times

Chapter 98 "The Law of Thin Fall"

Xu Jiashu and his group realized something when they first arrived here - recruiting soldiers in a small community that resembles a paradise is a very troublesome thing.

Even the local Xia Hao Lai Kesen has few soldiers who actually work for him.

This kind of ragtag group of people who bring their own equipment (referring to those who do farm work) and have no organization (referring to surrendering after a beating) are not so much soldiers as they are helping in group fights out of loyalty.

Ke Muzhi thought he knew what it was like to be a soldier, but in fact he didn't.

After all, Liangzhou is so sparsely populated, and these Qiang people hide in an isolated place, leaning on the Jing River. It is rare for them to even compete with each other for water sources. They live a self-sufficient life and lack the ability to serve as soldiers. motivation.

Therefore, how to recruit enough soldiers is a big problem.

"Mom," Ke Muzhi returned home, put down the cloth, and casually chatted about what Xu Jiashu said, "that little Xu Langguan said he wanted to recruit troops here."

"You agreed?!" Mom was so shocked that she almost threw the cloth on the ground - don't let this stupid boy sell his life just by going out!
"Of course not!" Kemuzhi looked quite proud, "Your son is not a head made of wood."

"That's good"

Hearing this, my mother patted her chest.

Although the Qiang people are a race with strong folk customs, as far as Boluo Valley is concerned, there is really no tradition of serving as soldiers and eating food. Only the wealthy men with tens of thousands of people can have warriors who have actually seen blood. The Qiang tribe has often unconsciously developed into the Han system.

"Oh, and" Ke Muzhi found a place to lie down, preparing to take a nap, "he also said that he would set up a school here, and said that my mother knew what it was."

Before he could finish his words, he was kicked in the butt again, quite hard.

The mother realized that she was a little too excited, but she didn't care so much. She just asked her son to get up quickly, "Go, go now!"

The official education system of the Han Dynasty had a bottom-up system. Taixue was only the top of the system. Each county below had its own official school, which was called the Academy.

When she was working as a maid in Jincheng County, only the Han people with the best local family backgrounds were eligible to enter the academy.

Now this little Xu Langguan actually wants to set up a school in this small village. It seems that he is still the kind of person who is educated but not classified!

What kind of blessing is this from heaven?
"But their school hasn't been built yet." Ke Muzhi, who was thick-skinned and thick-skinned, didn't think it was a big deal. He rubbed his butt and stood up. "It's just a place circled and construction started."

"What do you know? It's a great thing like building a school, and it's not right for you to help me?" The mother was so angry that she ordered her son: "You must let Little Xu Langguan see you working hard. I will definitely not treat you badly in the future!"

There was a reason for her excitement.

Being a soldier is naturally not a good place to be, especially over the years, the wars in Liangzhou have not stopped, but after fighting and fighting, aren't the lowest level Qiang and Han people still dead?

Those middle class and big tycoons are expanding their territory one by one, plundering money and people, and making money is making their mouths water.

But the people below can only get some scraps if they win a battle. If they lose a battle, all the scraps they save will be sent back, and their lives will be regarded as military merits of the imperial army.

When it comes to letting Ke Muzhi become a soldier, my mother is extremely reluctant.

But studying is different. Take the Han official she served when she was young (actually a county government official). There were hundreds of people living in the manor, all of whom farmed, weaved, and watched for their family. Gate guard the courtyard.On the outskirts of Jincheng County, a large stretch of fertile farmland stretches as far as the horizon.

Because of what?
It’s not because people have read books!

My mother did not dare to think about living the life of a noble lady in the manor. As long as her stupid son could learn to read and write, go to Linjing County, the county seat, and find a job under Yang Qiu, and he would not have to continue digging in the fields. Satisfied.

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Partly because his mother had accumulated prestige over the years, and partly because he was also curious, Ke Muzhi finally agreed, "Then I will go find that little Xu Langguan now."

"and many more!"

As soon as Ke Muzhi started to move his feet, he was stopped.

"Bring more people with you to help!" my mother asked.

Although there was no such thing as a "nomination certificate" at this time, my mother was still very clear about the difference between going alone and bringing others with me.

"Oh", Ke Muzhi nodded.

Before he could take a few steps, he was stopped again.

"Bring these things with you." Grandma took out a few strips of bacon like treasures from the clay pot. "This is Shu Xiu. Remember to give it to Mr."

"Shu Xiu?"

"It's just a gift from apprenticeship. It's the custom of the Han people." My mother was afraid that he would make young Xu Langguan unhappy, so she warned, "When you go to school, remember to treat your husband as your mother, and don't do anything wrong!"

"I see!"

Ke Muzhi took the bacon and fled away from his mother's nagging as fast as he could.

There are still a few families in the village who are interested in the school. These people, plus the seven or eight young men brought by Ke Muzhi, are the first batch of students prepared by Xu Jiashu.

Before the school was built, they also helped out as laborers.

Xu Jiashu will not let them work in vain. In addition to being paid as usual, he will also seize the time to carry out some pre-school courses during the break after construction - basically setting up a dragon gate formation.

That day, while chatting with a dozen Qiang young men, he suddenly had a thought in his mind and asked, "Has your Hao done anything bad?"

According to Xu Jiashu's guess, although the local tycoons only manage hundreds of people, they should still bully men and women and use their power to bully others.

Taking this opportunity to hold a grievance meeting will help start the work later.
Hearing this, a dozen young men looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

"Uncle Laikesen is a very good person," Ke Muzhi thought for a moment and said, "Anyone whose family suffers a disaster and someone dies is willing to help."

"That's right," another young man also named Ke Muzhi nodded in agreement, "His son is still friends with us!"

Speaking of which, if it hadn't been for the request of the family, they would not have come to help build this school, let alone study bird science, and they would have lost to this group of outsiders when it came to the leader Lai Kesen.

Fortunately, Xu Jiashu still retains the habit of analyzing specific issues in detail.

After such an investigation, he found that at least in this micro-species, because it is an isolated primitive society, the relationship between the leader and the common people is more of a relatively equal and mutually helpful relationship.

In addition to having stronger appeal and a slightly wealthier family, this guy named Lai Kesen basically has no special powers compared to ordinary tribesmen.

Without clear classes, there would be no possibility of sharp class contradictions.In a place like this, you have to conquer people's hearts with the royal way, and you have to be gentle with the original rulers. It is best to use them for your own purposes. Forcing trials will not have the effect of pleasing people's hearts. .

"What about the other big ones?" Xu Jiashu continued to ask unwillingly, "Are their Hao so good?"

When this issue was mentioned, the atmosphere became lively.

In other areas of the Boluo Valley, especially those tribes where there has been a greater divide between rich and poor, and where classes have been formed, the situation there is completely different.

The deeper the degree of Chineseness, the more obvious this difference becomes.

The wealthy people occupy the best areas in the river valley and the most beautiful girls. They also trade with nearby counties from time to time in exchange for things made by the Han people for themselves and their families to enjoy. It is estimated that in another generation at most, they will be completely integrated into the Han society. inside.

In these large tribes, the behavior of the leaders is almost the same as that of the Han landlords. They even have no restrictions from customs and humanities, and they can do whatever they want.

Xu Jiashu was overjoyed - doesn't this give a clue?
"Since they are all richer and more powerful than Lexon," he took the opportunity to ask, "Why can't they be a good tycoon like Lexin?"

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"Hao is born a hero, good or bad is not something we can choose." Ke Muzhi shook his head, as if he had become accustomed to it, "Maybe their hearts are born black. My mother said that good people's hearts are red, and bad people's are black. of."

"Everyone's heart, liver, spleen and lungs are red."

As soon as these words were spoken, Xu Jiashu's voice suddenly became firm again, thinking that there were conservatives in this era who had not yet suffered from lung disease, and that his conclusion should be correct. "Good guys and bad guys are all the same."

Ke Muzhi silently wrote it down and prepared to go back and ask his mother if this was the case.

"If everyone can set up a charter," Xu Jiashu continued to guide, "everyone must abide by it, then wouldn't it be the same regardless of whether the person above is good or bad?"

"How could there be such a thing?"

Everyone sighed in unison, as if they had heard a fantasy.

There has never been a figure in the history of the Qiang people who unified all tribes. This can be seen from their heroic legends - the main skill of the hero named Ke Muzhi is to cure diseases and save people.

For the primitive tribes who have not even formed a single written language, statutory law is a super-class content.

But coincidentally, this happens to be Xu Jiashu's professional field.

Isn't it the "Nine Chapters"?

After working at Zhongdu Guancao for so long, he was very familiar with this stuff.

Lu Lingqi, who was forced to weave, frowned and asked, "What is Xu Zimao talking to these Qiang people?"

Liu Ying listened for a while and told her, "You seem to be speaking ill of their leader?"

Among the three girls, Lu Lingqi always had a bad face. Cai Yan liked to play the piano and write in her spare time, so the old Qiang people who came to exchange fabrics all liked chatting with Liu Ying. Therefore, her Qiang language improved very quickly.

"Hmph!" Miss Lu said viciously: "He still has the time to speak ill of others, and he himself is not a good person!"

The more he talked, the angrier he became. Why couldn't he beat Xu Zimao for no apparent reason?
Now, even if he was brought to this place where birds don't poop, how dare he let the tiger girl of the Lu family weave cloth?

If she gets a chance in the future, she will definitely force Xu Zimao to dig out feces, so that she can avoid the hatred in her heart!
When the Qiang people all went back to their homes, Xu Jiashu found a sign and started carving it.

The content engraved on it is nothing else but a simplified version of the "Nine Chapters" written by Xiao He and the "Pang Zhangs" written by Shusun Tong.

Although the laws of the Han Dynasty have such a simple starting point as "Three Chapters of the Covenant", they have developed to this day and are extremely bloated and complicated.

After thinking about it, he first removed unnecessary things such as "Yue Gong Code" and "Chao He Code", and then removed a large number of inappropriate or too severe clauses in civil laws.

Just by cutting out the complicated and simplifying it, I still ended up with several pages full of notes.

The next day, these boards were erected in front of the courtyard gate, attracting everyone to watch.

"Zimao's reform of the law is not bad," Gan Ningrui commented, "it is better than that of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty."

Although Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng was famous for his generosity, when it came to abolishing corporal punishment, he could be said to have good intentions but bad things. Instead, he was called a "murderous and evil policy" - the tattoo punishment (tattooing on the face) was changed to shaving off the hair and tying up the corporal punishment. The sentence of imprisonment was changed to four years; the punishment of mutilation (cutting off the nose) was changed to [-] blows with a wooden board; the punishment of mutilation (cutting off the feet) was changed to [-] blows with a wooden board.

What is the concept of at least three hundred strokes of the board?
Let's put it this way, if you don't pay to buy the relationship, you may not be able to bear the beating if you ask Lu Bu to take it.

Therefore, the "Book of Han" says: In the early days, Emperor Wen, in addition to corporal punishment, had the name of light punishment, but actually killed people.

Xu Jiashu actually reduced the punishment to an acceptable level and replaced it with fines or hard labor - these were all to pave the way for subsequent actions against other species in Boluo Valley without intensifying conflicts. Sufficient military expenditures and labor force were raised.

At the same time, the death penalty is still reserved for the most heinous acts to punish the few tycoons who have cut themselves off from the people.

"That's right," Huan Jie nodded, "but these people can't understand it, so writing it is in vain."

"These are not important. Once they are put into practice, they will naturally know what is going on." Xu Jiashu was full of confidence. "We are going to use this method to change customs!"

It's just that in this way, in addition to being an image ambassador and Chinese teacher, he, the young Xu Langguan, will also serve as a judge.

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Unexpectedly, he was actually worse off than Huan Jie. Xu Jiashu said he couldn't accept it and had to start the school quickly, otherwise he would only become more and more constrained in doing things.

Liu Ying asked curiously: "Xu Zimao, can Legalists also change their customs?"

The old Liu family had their own way of governing the country. Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xun, had a very famous saying: "The Han family has its own system, which is based on the overlord's way. However, it is purely based on moral education and uses Zhou Zheng!" thesis.

Generally speaking, although Legalism actually runs the entire state machinery, it is Confucianism on the outside and Legalism on the inside.

"If the world worships one person, then Legalism is the art of killing the people." Xu Jiashu replied confidently: "If it can punish evil and promote good, why can't Legalism change customs?"

Soon, the school was initially completed.

In the first class, Xu Jiashu picked up the board with a smile on his face.

"Let me introduce to you students, this is our teaching material, and its name is "Bo Luo Rhythm"."

(End of this chapter)