Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1006
Menacing, like an enemy bandit.

Liao Wang and others were young after all, and they were shocked by him and remained silent.

It was still Fu Wang who had a great spirit, and laughed and scolded: "If he had this ability to deal with slaves and trespassers back then, why is the country corrupt?"

When King Liao came back to his senses, he immediately regained his composure.

The yamen servants on the side were amazed that a boy of eighteen or nineteen years old had such courage, whose noble son is he?

At this moment, King Liao raised his head and raised his chest, and said: "Let's catch up quickly, these people are going to fight with weapons."

"drive--"

As he spoke, he took the lead and chased after him without fear.

This startled the cavalry behind them.

If something happens to this master, they will pay with their lives.

All of a sudden, the war horse waved its four hooves and hurriedly chased after it.

At this time, the kings were also full of curiosity, one by one they straddled their horses and chased after them.

Although it is said that some kings are good at literature and some are good at martial arts, but thanks to the emperor's careful cultivation over the years, their civil and military skills are relatively average, and horseback riding and archery are just common.

So compared to those cavalrymen, it is only slightly inferior, but compared to those ordinary people, it is much stronger.

For a time, riding skills were evenly divided.

In the blink of an eye, the cavalry came to a flat ground.

Weeds are overgrown here, and there are a lot of broken stones on the ground. It is obviously a wasteland, and no one has cultivated it.

And the two villages, with hundreds of people, are about to collide.

"Stop—" King Liao shouted, startling the two teams.

Immediately, the cavalry who followed closely caused the whole earth to tremble, frightening the villagers so that their legs trembled.

The cavalry rushed straight across, scaring the men of the two villages back dozens of steps.

"Whoever beats me again will get me two lashes."

King Liao brandished a horsewhip, his face full of arrogance, coupled with his extravagant aura, everyone was frightened.

At this time, he is not as lazy as he used to be to write books leisurely, he looks like a general.

The young men of the two villages had no choice but to give up.

This fight was wiped out in the blink of an eye.

However, King Liao understood that the task entrusted to them by the emperor was to solve the fighting, not to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

If you want to thoroughly resolve conflicts, you must have a deep understanding.

The kings came to Guojia Village.

Unexpectedly, the village head turned out to be a boy, in his 40s, without the literary spirit of a scholar, but more arrogant.

The words are light, but unexpectedly hard.

Guo Yuanshan lowered his head slightly: "My lord, my Zhao Family Village and Guo Family Village are at odds with each other. It is already a blood feud for generations. If this matter is not resolved, the fighting will continue for a day."

"That is to say, the fight for water is just for the first time?"

King Liao took a sip of coarse tea, his brows slightly frowned, it looked like it was worth a penny, and the taste was really bad.

But his reaction was not slow, and he said directly: "Even if I arrest all of you village chiefs and patriarchs?"

"Yes." Guo Yuanshan said in a deep voice: "From the old to the young, the two villages have feuded for hundreds of years, and every family has a blood debt. Unless the other party disappears, there is nothing that can be explained."

Zhaojiacun and Guojiacun are a river, one is upstream and the other is downstream, so disputes arose.

A private fight during the Jiajing period involved two families and then the whole village.

After that, there is no dating, then no marriage, and then there is a battle between you and me.

Every summer, the two villages have to fight two or three battles over the problem of water use in summer, and the cumulative number of lives accumulated over the years is no less than a hundred.

As for the injured, there are countless.

As for the government?

In this feudal era, it is important not to promote the people, not to report to the officials, but to make do with it, and make it with mud.

Then the grievances between the two villages became more and more serious, and even the parents would warn the children when they were young, whoever killed their own family members, and asked not to forget to take revenge in the future.

The enmity of nine generations can still be avenged.

It's here to the fullest.

Hearing this, King Liao had a headache.

The younger brothers also chattered and discussed, but they didn't have a good idea, they were all bad ideas.

For example, King Fu directly forced the two villages to marry each other, and practiced marriage between husband and wife.

"After staying for a few years, your son-in-law is my enemy, and my daughter is your enemy. Once the grandson and granddaughter are born, where is there any hatred?"

King Wei said: "In my opinion, all the males should be captured as soldiers, and a group of old and weak women and children should be left behind. Let's see how they fight."

King Xiang was happy with martial arts, he shook his head and said, "It's better to set up a ring and let them fight. Wielding sticks is better than knives and guns."

Zhao Wang was not happy: "What are you talking about, don't you have to fight to the death? From my point of view, it is better to engage in literary competition, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you can always compete."

Only King Yue was calm. As the fifth child, he was already a fan, smiling and shaking his head, just watching his younger brothers talking nonsense.

King Liao was so angry that he glared and said, "It's all bad ideas. You are watching politics in the Eight Departments. Is that how it is?"

"If you let you rule the country, I'm afraid the world will be full of rebels."

"Fifth, what do you think?"

Hearing the fourth brother's question, Yue Wang said in a deep voice: "Fourth brother, this matter needs to be discussed in the long run, let's go to the villages to see."

"Hmm!" King Liao could only do this.

A group of people wandered around the village.

Few of them have ever been to the real countryside, and they are full of curiosity about everything.

The muddy land, the broken grass house, the cowshed and the kennel, and the flocks of chickens and ducks all made them feel curious.

King Liao didn't give these younger brothers a chance to mess around, and went straight to the ancestral hall.

"Zhongshan Guo family?"

As soon as King Liao saw this hall name, some memories immediately emerged.

The Guo family comes from the Ji surname, and it is said that the Guo Xu in the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty was the ancestor of the Guo surname and the Zhao surname.

Then for thousands of years, among the noble families in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Guo family also left many traces and had its own prestige.

For example, in the early Tang Dynasty, the five surnames Qiwang and the Wang family in Taiyuan were the county Wangtang names, which were important symbols of ethnic groups.

In the Song Dynasty, due to the separatism of Huang Chao and the subsequent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a large number of gentry clans died out, but the county prestige was left behind.

In the Song Dynasty, it was popular for many families to compile genealogy, that is, to make a far-fetched association and find their own ancestors.

It was impossible in the Tang Dynasty, because the genealogy existed, but the war caused the genealogy to be scattered, so many famous families were 'continued' again.

If it is said that in the Song Dynasty, the repair of genealogy was only the monopoly of those big gentry families, in the Ming Dynasty, anyone with a little money would repair the genealogy, build an ancestral hall, and find a famous and famous ancestor for themselves.

The most famous Guo family is Taiyuan County, Guo Huai in the Three Kingdoms period, Guo Jia and Guo Tu in Yingchuan County.

And this Zhongshan County refers to Guo Wei of the State of Yan during the Warring States Period, Guo Shengtong, the queen of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Queen Guo, the queen of Emperor Wei Wen.

"That's right, my Guojia Village is also a descendant of a great family, and has inherited poems and books from generation to generation. Although I haven't had any high-ranking officials in these years, I feel that it is different from those mud-legged people."

Speaking of this, Guo Yuanshan looked proud.

The kings on the side didn't know what to do, and looked around curiously.

King Liao shook his head and smiled slightly.

He is well-informed and has read many miscellaneous books, so he naturally understands the truth of the so-called Junwangtang name.

There are so many great families in the world, many hall names may be true, but most of them are fake.

Maybe in the eyes of some people, hall name is just some false name, but for some people, it is an urgent desire.

Just like a poor person who suddenly becomes rich, people are jealous and hate him a lot, and his words are out of luck.

But if he said that he had a son of a certain family, such as the well-known Taiyuan Wang family, then those jealous people would say: "No wonder it is so, people have produced talents from generation to generation..."

In this way, I don't know how much pressure has been relieved.

In this way, many people who have suddenly ascended to a high position or become rich will do everything possible to find a hall name and find a good ancestor for themselves, so that they can live up to their name.

As a result, among the people, many brokers were born, specializing in joint genealogy and finding good ancestors.

The most typical example is that in the court, if you say that you are a descendant of the Zhuge family, the emperor will not even give you a glance.

And if Qin Hui was his ancestor, he couldn't even say it, for fear of affecting his official career.

Lao Tzu is a hero, and my son is a hero. In the perception of the world, this is an unbreakable truth.

It's no wonder that in the early Ming Dynasty, someone proposed to find Zhu Xi as the ancestor for Zhu Yuanzhang.

And those poor people, maintaining good ancestors, will naturally benefit a lot.

Not to mention the early days, many people who come to Lianpu are basically promising, as long as a little care is taken, the family will take off just waiting for it.

Even poor people will try their best to attach themselves to a good ancestor.

So in later generations, almost all of them are celebrities and nobles, that's why.

The ancestral hall at this time has become a school on weekdays, which is also a common thing in many villages. More than [-] children are studying, but each of them is scratching their heads, obviously knowing about today's fighting.

Only the teacher was very calm. He had learned a lot and read the book calmly.

Ancestral hall, private school, the two become one.

From temples to the lowest villages, where officials cannot go, Confucianism is more than capable.

Scholars are respected everywhere.

King Liao and his party came and did not disturb, but just looked at the window.

When the teacher saw this group of noble young masters, he hurried over to greet them.

The king of Liao asked about the teaching situation.

"The ones who are enlightened are usually the Three Character Classic, Hundred Family Names, or Thousand Character Classic, and then the Analects, Mencius, etc."

The teacher said softly: "When the knowledge is deep, you will go to university, the doctrine of the mean, the Spring and Autumn Period, etc. After teaching the Four Books and Five Classics annotated by Zhu Zi, you will be able to become a teacher."

"If you are diligent, you will have rough knowledge at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and you can teach some stereotyped essays; if you are lazy, it is not unusual to be in your twenties."

"As long as my family keeps repairing and I can afford it, I will continue to teach."

"Is this the same as before?" King Liao asked puzzled, "I heard that these things are no longer tested in the provincial examination."

"I know." The teacher sighed, but he was still a little relaxed: "But now the boy's exam is still a stereotyped exam. The style has not changed, and it seems that it will not change again. I can still have a bite of food."

"As for the township examination, when they pass the examination, they will naturally have enough money to buy other books, and I don't need to worry about them."

"It is."

King Liao nodded.

He looked around and saw a dozen or so tables, both the tables and chairs were long strips, two in a row, if you sat on them, thirty or forty tables would be normal.

Among this group of children, there are six or seven-year-olds who have just started, some are twelve or thirteen-year-olds, and none of them are fifteen or sixteen.

"I was invited by the village to enlighten the children. When they are 12 years old, if they are smart, they will go to a private school to learn stereotypes."

The teacher said: "A truly good stereotyped essay must be taught by a scholar."

King Liao nodded.

From the school, one can see the reality of the village.

There are more than 20 children, which means that there are at least [-] wealthy households in the village who can support a full-time child to study.

If Guojia Village can invite Tong Sheng to be a teacher, then the financial resources are also very good.

"Is there any talent?"

"Not yet." The gentleman smiled wryly, "It's only been in the past ten years that the Guojia Village opened a school. Before that, there were fewer people studying."

"Scholar, it's too difficult."

King Liao turned his head and left.

He didn't ask sociology.

Although this is an official school stipulated by the imperial court, it is not implemented well among the people.

Because this is done according to the amount of money, the government has money, the people have money, and with the leadership of the gentry, it will be done, otherwise it will not last long.

In other words, sociology is actually provided by local wealthy households.

"There is not even a scholar, and the name of Zhongshan Hall is not worthy of its name!" Fu Wang muttered.

"After so many years of chaos, it is normal for many famous families to decline."

The king of Yue said: "In the past, there were ten houses and nine empties in the north, and the capital was even worse. It has only recovered in recent years."

When I came to Zhaojia Village, the "Tianshui Zhao Family" on the ancestral hall made Liao Wang want to laugh even more.

The Tianshui Zhao family originated from the descendants of Prince Jia after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Zhao State. It was a veritable royal family. It was famous in the Han Dynasty as Zhao Chongguo.

In theory, this is better than Guo's Zhongshan County.

"It would be better if the Guo family and the Zhao family jointly run the school!"

Looking at the twenty people, King Liao shook his head.

The two villages are only a few miles away, and raising funds to run a school is the best, at least there is no shortage of teachers.

At the same time, the Zhao family declared that they would never stop, that the blood feud was raging, and that they would rather die than surrender.

It seemed like a waste of time to run back and forth for half a day.

"Fourth brother." Fu Wang wiped the sweat from his forehead: "These two groups of people are stubborn, there is no way."

The king of Liao was silent, he took out the fodder, fed the war horse under his crotch, and fell into thinking.

Seeing this, the princes were speechless and rested on their own.

They didn't have that much emotion for war horses, and they all handed over to the servants, and a group of people hid in the shade of the trees to enjoy the cool.

There are even a few who are eager to try, thinking of swimming in the river, such as going to cool off.

It was still the king of Yue who was sensible and stopped it immediately.

"Old fifth."

Suddenly, King Liao came over and said to King Yue, "What is the most lacking thing in your country of Yue?"

"People." The king of Yue just returned to the country of Yue, and felt the abundance of money and food, as well as the money scene of the entrepot trade, and said decisively:
"What our Yue country lacks the most is people."

"Yes."

King Liao nodded: "Then I will give it to you."

As he spoke, he resolutely said: "The people in these two villages can't be influenced at all, so they can only come hard."

"Your Yue State is the most recent, and the Guojia Village has been directly moved to Yue State as a whole. The two families will never meet again. Let's see how they fight."

(End of this chapter)