back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 335 You Are a Good Official
The farmer stared blankly at the copper coins scattered on the table, still circling them.When he came back to his senses, Su Shi had already walked out of the house.

With a jerk, he pulled off all the copper coins with his clothes, rushed out the door, and shouted loudly: "Son, I can't ask for any more money from you!"

Su Shi said without turning his head: "You said what I wanted to know, and this is what you deserve!"

The cadet of the Royal Military Academy who was walking behind also smiled and said to him: "Take it, what is said to be for you is for you. Hey, this man is rich and rich!"

Looking at their backs as they went away, the farmer held a pocket of copper coins and murmured, "Good man..."

Most of the people in this group have never seen such troubled times.In order to survive, he even sold his own children.They didn't believe it when they heard that in the troubled times, they would eat to survive and change their children.But when the facts were in front of them, they had no choice but to believe it.

A group of people walked in silence, everyone was full of thoughts.After walking quietly for a while, Qin Ming suddenly asked: "If their fields are gone, how can they survive?"

Su Shi recovered from his contemplation, and he looked around. At this moment, the autumn wind is blowing cool, and it is the autumn harvest season.The mountains and plains are all golden yellow, which is pleasing to the eye.Suddenly, I thought of a song "Shu Shu" in the "Book of Songs", and immediately sang it: "Shu Shu Shu Shu, I can't eat millet! Three-year-old girl, no one cares about me. A dying girl is a paradise. Promised land Promised land, do you want me? Big rats, big rats, no food for me! Three-year-old girl, Mo Erkende. The passing away daughter, suitable for the country of joy. Happy country, happy country, love me? Shuo rat Big mouse, I have no food for my seedlings! Three-year-old girl, no one is willing to work. The passing away girl is suitable for Lejiao. Lejiao Lejiao, whose eternal name is it?"

Although Qin Ming and others didn't quite understand it, the helplessness and nostalgia for life in the poem still infected them.Su Shi sang it in the way of singing, and Qin Ming and the others could understand it roughly through music teaching and harmony. This is the charm of music.

"Book of Rites·Leji" said: "Music is the same, ritual is different, the same is blind, and the different is respect. In the etiquette, music teaches harmony." Confucius also proposed "self-restraint and restoration of rituals" , the most core part of Zhou Ritual is music.

This song was uttered by Su Shi with emotion, and it directly moved people to tears.What Su Shi was thinking at this moment was, who is the Shuoshu?Su Shi already had the answer in his heart, is it the landlord?But the landlord gave these farmers a way out when they were desperate!Is it their own crimes, giving birth to too many?Su Shi thought that only two of his six brothers and sisters survived. This great desire for human relations is the instinct of human survival and reproduction. Confucius said, "Food and sex are also sex." wrong?
When Su Shi went deeper, he seemed to have touched a taboo. Could it be that imperial power is the biggest rat?Su Shi didn't dare to think about it anymore. The Confucianism of Gangchang thought prevented him from thinking about it.In a country, there is no king, and the hearts of the people will be scattered. Can this country still be called a country?If there is no skin, how will the hair be attached?How can a home be called a home without a country?

Su Shi's heart was disturbed. He found that the real life seemed to crush the things he had learned one by one without mercy.How will the world of great rule mentioned by the saints be realized in this increasingly complex society?

Thinking of this, Su Shi stopped in his tracks, looked at the bleak vegetation after the autumn wind, and was at a loss for a while.

Qin Ming saw that Su Shi was in a daze, he quickly shook him and said, "Great talent Su, are you alright?"

After being shaken awake by him, Su Shi forced a smile and said, "It's okay, let's go..."

After the group walked more than ten steps, Qin Ming saw that it was almost noon, and there were not many farmers on the rice paddies, so he said in a low voice, "Great Talent Su, don't do this. I believe that you are a good official. The people care about life and death. Well, the Holy Majesty is also a good emperor. Since he took office, he has repeatedly reduced and exempted taxes, which has won the hearts of the people. But what I just saw is just an example. I believe that in the world, such farmers will not too much!"

Su Shi said in a daze: "A good official? A good official? What is a good official? Make decisions for the people, or let the people live?"

Hearing this, Qin Ming smiled and said, "Great Talent Su, why can't you understand things that I can even understand? I also served as a soldier to make a living. There were nine brothers and sisters in my family before. , I am the oldest, and there is no food at home. When I saw the frontier army recruiting soldiers, I went. At least I can have something to eat as a soldier, and I won’t starve to death. In the past few years, I have returned home three times. The eighth and ninth children all died of illness. The second child went out to farm for the village lord and could make a living. The third, sixth and seventh younger sisters are all married. The conditions are not bad, at least not as poor as my family. I am too After being transferred to the Royal Military Academy, the salary will be more, and some money will be given to the fourth child who is still at home every month, and he will take care of his parents for a hundred years. This person’s life, isn’t it like this? They have hands and feet, they have no food to eat, and they have to live by begging. I heard that the students at the Royal University, the last stop on the road, are also from bitter backgrounds? The Holy One took pity on them, so he did this. Royal University, give them a way to survive. Hey, when I was a child, I heard the elders in the village talk about the meeting in the previous dynasty. In the famine year, the people who starved to death were all piece by piece, like harvesting wheat. It is not a few villages, but It’s a prefecture, a state, and a road where people starved to death. Those gentlemen who hid food in their homes refused to take out a little to save those folks... That’s when it’s a disaster. I ate everything, wild vegetables on the mountain, tree roots, bark, leaves, and finally even the Avalokitesvara soil in front of the temple. I heard from the old man that after eating the Avalokitesvara soil, I had abdominal distension after eating it, and I was eventually killed. Tortured to death...Fortunately, the great ancestor was benevolent and righteous, killed those unkind old men who were rich and unkind, and opened warehouses to release grain, so that the people in my village can survive..."

The students behind heard this, and said with a He and Nanlu accent: "That's right, I heard what the people in my village said, thanks to the Taizu who took the country, otherwise we Han people, I don't know how many more people would have to die." man!"

Qin Ming sighed, patted Su Shi on the shoulder, and said, "Great talent Su, your name is well known all over the world. In terms of learning, I can't compare with you. But there is some reason. I have lived more than ten years longer than you." , always see it more clearly. As long as the current emperor insists on not adding any gifts for three years, the world will be peaceful. Don't think too much about it, you are a great talent, this is what the emperor should do..."

Su Shi shook his head and said: "Fan Xiang once wrote in "Yueyang Tower", 'If you live in a high temple, you worry about its people; Leye? It must be said, worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joy later'..."

Before the words finished, an old voice continued: "Hey! Weisi people, who am I going to return?"

(End of this chapter)