The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1684 Zhao Xu's Move

"Well, I really don't know how to do this. I haven't practiced it before." Zhao Xu could only tell the truth.

"What, you don't even know how to do it, so how do you support yourself? Could it be that your family is very rich, even if you are rich, you already have a skill."

The old man looked at Zhao Xu with a look of iron and steel, and seemed to treat Zhao Xu well, otherwise who cares about these things, Zhao Xu is not angry but very happy when he heard this, he is still a simple person.

"Um, this uncle, my family does have some wealth, but it belongs to my father, not mine. As for me, I can barely be regarded as a scholar."

Scholars, can Zhao Xu be considered a scholar? Well, at least he can write things that don't exist in this era, and his literary talents needless to say, what this scholar said is right.

But let’s say he is not a scholar. He has never seen a school here, and he spends all day with the army. From this aspect, he is not a scholar.

"Ah, so you are a scholar, no wonder, I said how come you are so handsome, a scholar is noble, those are the stars of Wenqu from the sky, no wonder I always feel that you are different from us, my tone was not good just now, I I apologize to you."

As soon as the old man heard Zhao Xu say that he was a scholar, he immediately changed his attitude and stopped asking how Zhao Xu would live in the future.

For ordinary people like them, scholars are noble. The Song Dynasty has held several imperial examinations over the years, and many children from poor families have entered official careers. This is a shortcut for children from poor families to leap over the dragon gate.

Since the imperial examinations came out, their humble children had a way out, so the status of scholars has been getting higher and higher. The status of scholars has also been further improved in the past ten years since the founding of the Song Dynasty. In the eyes of this old man, Zhao Xuna is much better than them. .

"My lord, what you said is that a scholar is also a human being, and a scholar can't just know how to read. You are right. How can a person like me live if he doesn't have a skill?"

Zhao Xu remembered a saying that is called inability to distinguish between the four bodies and the five grains. What do such people want them to do? As long as scholars don't listen to things outside the window and only read the books of sages, what is the use of such people, although in the short term I can't tell, but Zhao Xu has seen it a lot.

Many people who graduated from higher education institutions in later generations have become nerds. Such people can only bring a burden to society.

"I don't like to hear that. You scholars are only responsible for studying, and we ordinary people will do other things. You will be high-ranking officials in the future, which is different from us."

Since Zhao Xu talked about his scholars, these people refused to let Zhao Xu do these jobs any more, saying that it was a loss of dignity, but under Zhao Xu's repeated insistence, they only let Zhao Xu take the lead, and raised a little bit from time to time Little thing, Zhao Xu really couldn't laugh or cry, but just like this, Zhao Xu couldn't get his hands in it.

A lot of time has passed, and it will not be long before noon. These people don't need to go home. Although they are building houses for their own homes, the government is in charge of the food. It's noon, so naturally they have to eat. Zhao Xu is also helping today They were married, and they had food, so they could afford to eat alone, so Zhao Xu ate with them.

"Uncle Sun, how did I hear that they built their own houses and the government gave you your wages?" Zhao Xu asked intentionally. This was his own rule. Could he not know? He just wanted to know something about it How is the implementation going.

Uncle Sun is the one who is familiar with Zhao Xu, but at this moment his mouth is full of food, after he swallows it

"Yes, according to Master Zhizhou, the imperial court originally built houses for us, but now the imperial court is busy fighting with the Khitan people, so they don't have so much manpower and material resources. We need to do it ourselves, and the government will pay us wages! "

"Brother Sun is right. The imperial court is still good to us. There are such things in every dynasty and generation, but we have such things in the Song Dynasty. This is the kindness of His Majesty the Emperor!"

"But we can't have it. It's not easy for the imperial court now. Don't we need military pay and food to fight against the Khitan? We can't do our best for the imperial court, and we can't hold back the imperial court either."

"Brother Li is right. We don't have the ability to go to the front to fight, and we can't hold back. I can't do such a thing."

"Yes, that's right. Although we are ordinary people, we know the righteousness. We must not accept such wages. We are very grateful for the materials."

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These people have expressed their gratitude to the imperial court. It is good for the imperial court to pay them to rebuild their homes, and to return their wages. This has never happened before, and it can be said to be the first time. The people are also very happy.

They are full of confidence. With such a court, their life will become more and more prosperous. They still have this confidence. The reason why they think so is that they believe in the current Song court.

Which one of the previous imperial courts was not thinking about exploiting the people, and they could punish the people to death. They would never let them have a chance to survive. The Song Dynasty changed this inertia.

Not only did they not exploit the people like the previous dynasties, but they also thought of the people very much, serving the people out of their own pockets. The people are not stupid, and they will definitely remember whoever treats them well.

These simple people don't have much ability, but they know how to be grateful. They must repay whoever treats them well. They don't have much ability, and they can't go to the battlefield, but they have their own way of repaying.

He just made less trouble for the court.

It seems like a trivial matter not to even ask for wages from the imperial court, but for the common people, this is their most genuine action, and they are using this method to show their loyalty to their imperial court.

Looking at these simple faces, Zhao Xu was really grateful. These people may not understand the big truth, they only use their simplicity to express their inner wishes, and express their gratitude with behaviors that others think are insignificant Feelings.

They may not be heroes, but their actions are no different from heroes. The entire Song Dynasty does not know how many such simple people, these people are the invisible heroes of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xu was moved by these people. Perhaps Zhao Xu was moved by many things and people, but today was the most exciting time for him. There was no major incident, and no famous ministers and ministers, so he was given by these people. Moved.

Listening to their simple words and discussions, Zhao Xu was proud of having such people in Song Dynasty, and proud of having such people in Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)