stubborn thief

Chapter 21
What do you plan to do?
The two brothers sat on the side, and the elder brother Chengzu shook his head and said, "Back to my father, at first I wanted to go home and eat a few meals before thinking about anything else. On the way, I beat a group of thieves in Qingjian, and got a lot of food, grass, and wealth. know how to plan."

The mother's surname is Cai and the name is Miaoshan. Her mother's family is a small family in Sanyuan County, and her grandfather believes in Buddhism, so she gave this name to Chengzong's mother.

Seeing that the father and son were going to talk about something in the hall, Mrs. Cai was going to clean up the house for the two children. Hearing this suddenly, he couldn't help shouting, "A thief was hit!"

He hurriedly turned back and looked left and right, until he was sure that his two sons were not injured, then he let out a long breath, stroked his chest and said, "Don't fight with those desperadoes, listen to your mother's words, and stop being a frontier soldier. Just live a good life when you come back, our family does not lack those two meals."

"Tomorrow morning, let you accompany the two of you to the Guandi Temple to worship, go from knife to gun, and thank Master Guan for your blessing!"

"It's okay, mother, it's not dangerous."

Liu Chengzong smiled and comforted him. What he said was from his heart. He has practiced martial arts for so many years. In fact, he actually used a bow and knife to fight people a few times. It's just that his mother, who has little knowledge, thought that the frontier army was fighting every day... How can there be so many in the world? Let them fight.

As for the extermination of Baiyingzi, it is much easier to deal with than the Hetao Mongolians who routinely burn wasteland outside the border wall.

Chengzu was more direct, and simply said to his mother: "Mother, don't worry, thieves are vulnerable."

After that, he clenched his fists to Liu Xiangyu and said, "Father, tomorrow I will take the frontier army to hide the armor. If there is unowned land in the village, I can find something for them to do."

Seeing that she could not persuade her son, Cai sighed sadly. In fact, she also knew that when the world was in chaos, she could only protect the clan with force, but in the end, she was afraid that the two sons would be at risk by dancing with knives and guns.

This will not be stubborn to persuade, go out to clean up the house.

As soon as Mr. Cai left, Cheng Yun also got up and smiled and said, "Second uncle, you guys talk first, I'll go and get my brother's horse straw, and I'll get up again at night."

After talking, he couldn't stop him, so he opened the door and walked out. Liu Xiangyu, who was sitting under the landscape painting, laughed dumbly, and shook his head helplessly: "This kid is running around with Mr. Cashier, and I don't know where to learn it. I will use it for my family. ."

Before Liu Chengzong could inquire about the current situation of the carrier, Liu Xiangyu said with a smile: "Last year when the new emperor ascended the throne and pardoned the world, the court judge of the king of Fucheng came to climb relatives. Shipping is a double happiness."

"Tobacco, you know, the frontier army in Gansu is good at this, and it is estimated that your frontier army is also good. It was transported to Fucheng to bring shredded tobacco for the two of you. Jingyang cut the shredded silk."

Liu Xiangyu's eyes showed complicated sadness, and he sighed and raised the corners of his mouth: "I have prepared some silver and [-] stone chips, and I want to deal with the lion's officer."

Chengzu Chengzong exchanged glances and received double shock.

There are twenty stone rations, what officers should I buy!

Millet is not as valuable as rice, but it is also grain, it is grain. At this time in Shaanxi, it was extremely expensive, and its value could no longer be measured by silver.

If you get it at the wealthy Yan'an Mansion Market, you can sell rice for three coins and there is no market for it; if you get the poor and run down Yuhe Fort, it is useless to shout how much money you want. If you don't pay the army for a few years, there is no silver in circulation at all.

At most, at most, there will be groups of people stuffing the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law - hey!This person has burned buns to sell food, and the mother-in-law and the baby will definitely be able to drink soup.

But this thing, can not do too high officials, even officers.

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "Da, we are tall and tall, and we have the confidence to come to the door after borrowing three buckets of rice, and we want to buy back the mother-in-law who sold it the year before... Twenty stone millet, how can you make me a leader and a team leader? Fortunately, guard He sent me away."

Obviously it's not worth it. He knows too well that the officers of the frontier army are not worth much now. Even if they don't have enough to eat, the frontier army is divided into three, six, nine, and so on. Those who have been trained for several years, have sufficient experience, The starving veterans with strong combat power are all in the hands of the general's confidant.

Those who can get it through the door are either bare-handed officers, or like Liu Chengzu last year, who gave training to refugees in the management team.

In fact, the latter is not bad. Didn't Liu Chengzu train his team well?But in this year's situation, there is no chance for him to train again, even if he manages a team, rushes the ducks to the shelves, and enters the battlefield, he will die.

"Stupid, that's the official body!"

With a bang, Liu Xiangyu slapped the tea case with his hands, causing the smoke bag pot to jump up and staring: "The clan of the Black Dragon King Miaoshan can still have enough to eat, it was me and your third grandfather who led the clan to dig the canal for four months last year! "

"If you have no fame, why do you let the old and young go with me to repair the canal? Why do you let people put fine grains instead of planting millet?"

"Before the worst time, Panlongchuan is only a foot shallow, not to mention the extreme drought and locusts, it can't last summer."

Liu Xiangyu only got a lot of anger in the first two sentences, then his voice dropped, and finally he spoke of the impending locust plague in his heart, his tone showed deep exhaustion: "No matter how fast the world becomes, people's hearts always have to take a step slower, The people recognize official positions."

But even if the people recognized the official position again, it was useless to say these things, Liu Xiangyu's voice stopped abruptly, he grabbed the cigarette bag pot but was reluctant to take a sip, just lightly kowtowed the scarf on his head with the small copper pot.

In Liu Chengzong's eyes, his father was a learned man. Unlike the two brothers, who trained purposefully for the imperial examinations, he had only read the Four Books and Five Classics and books related to the examinations. His father read and read everything, and had done different things. There is almost nothing in the world that he does not understand.

At this time, he saw the palest sense of powerlessness under his father's tired face.

The feeling of powerlessness comes from the fact that he built the canal but couldn't stop the river from drying up, and trained the people but couldn't control the current situation. Planting millet and millet in the new year could not prevent locusts, and planting peas, flax, and sesame could not resist drought.

Why bother?
Liu Chengzu, who had a heart for order, leaned back on the chair with his broad back, as if a soul had been ripped from his spine, and asked, "Why doesn't the imperial court provide disaster relief?"

"Court?"

Only his father shook his head decisively: "Northern Shaanxi is in chaos. The magistrate does not know the county, and he does not know how many disasters have been affected in a radius of dozens of miles.

"As for the imperial court...I don't know."

Liu Chengzong looked at his father, and Lao Juren said "I don't know" with his eyes closed.

He probably didn't know, but he wasn't sure or didn't want to say.

Not to mention the father who has the status of Juren, even he, a small border army, knows what the court has been busy with in the past two years - clearing the eunuchs.

In his eyes, the party struggle is a confused account, because the party is the party of the party, not the party of the party, and without any application for joining the party, it has become a hat that can be deducted at will.

Not to mention Donglin, Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, Xuan, Kun or the eunuchs, there are a lot of people who overlap.

At least as far as Liu Chengzong has seen and heard as a frontier army, the frontier soldiers all said that the frontier army in Yansui Town was indeed able to receive military pay during the short-lived Zhongzheng Yingchao in the early years of the Apocalypse.

But this is unlikely to happen in the future. Eunuch Wei is in power, and the people who can do things in the Donglin Party are basically wiped out. He doesn't know whether the nine thousand years old can collect taxes in the southeast. Since that year, he has re-opened the unpaid rates, and he is very clear.

But now the emperor has cleaned up Eunuch Wei, and once again implicated hundreds of officials, even a sentence of praise Wei Zhongxian will be finished, and even a sentence of scolding Wei Zhongxian can be promoted.

Partisanship, it is not the partisanship itself that is scary.

It is terrifying to fight against each other in the chaos of the court, but it is by no means the most terrifying for a large empire like Daming with a vast territory and a large population.

Looking at the empire, the talented people of the Donglin Party can't hurt their bones if they are reimbursed in the party struggle; but after all the talented people of the Donglin Party are reimbursed, the eunuch party composed of the Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, Xuan, and Kun parties will learn. It would be terrifying if the wise men were reimbursed cleanly once again.

Where can I find so many imperial talent reserves in a short period of time?
In particular, this empire has changed four emperors and ten first assistants in seven years, and it is enough for a company to change two directors in a row.

Not to mention the mere drought in Shaanxi, even if there is a national drought, the imperial court will not care.

He is extremely pessimistic about the development of the situation. The pessimism not only stems from the memory of another time and space, but also the result after the reality and the conclusion in the memory have been confirmed - there is no help.

"Big, let's go."

Liu Chengzong's words had no beginning and no end, but he spoke quickly and in a very urgent tone: "You can go anywhere, bring your mother and eldest brother, a month, twenty stone mizi in Yan'an for a hundred taels, or less."

"Go to Jiangnan, go to Nanyang."

Lao Juren sneered and stared at his younger son. After a long while, he suddenly laughed and said softly, "The whole clan has five or six hundred mouths, all pointing at your father... I'm not going anywhere."

(End of this chapter)