Yunhua County is located in a small county town more than 230 miles northwest of Kunnan County. It has a small city with few people, a depressed economy, a poor culture, and a bad martial arts. It can be called Xia County among Xia County.

This is the first time that Meng Zhao has seen such a quiet and depressed city in the overall atmosphere and mental state.

When you enter the city, you can see mottled traces of time on the city gate. Large walls fall off, scratches of swords, holes of long arrows and crossbows, and even the deep red color stained by blood. After vicissitudes, there are few repairs. This is unimaginable for a county town that regards the city gate as its face.

Even if it is unbearable inside, the glamor on the surface always has to be disguised. However, Yunhua County has no intention of disguising it, and nakedly exposes the poverty and embarrassment of the county town.

After entering the city, you can see beggars in ragged clothes, holding bamboo poles or broken porcelain bowls scattered in the streets and alleys.

There are indeed many people on the streets that should be bustling, but most of them are ordinary clothes, even tattered, and their faces are full of traces of oppression by life. A few glamorous people are either martial arts people holding swords or family servants from wealthy families. They are arrogant, but they feel like they are so arrogant.

These very few glamorous people are mixed in the majestic stream of people like a river, and are inconspicuous at all, and occasionally they will gain jealous and vicious eyes from others.

Something was wrong, something was wrong. Although Meng Zhao didn't say that he was traveling around the country, from Jizhou to Lingwu City, and now when he came to Yanzhou, he had never seen any county town feel like such a lifeless feeling.

It’s not that there is no city that is poorer than Yunhua County, but its mental outlook is completely different.

"This, Dali, have you ever been to Yunhua County? Why is this like this?"

Although the rebellion in the south is in full swing and the battlefield has even been expanding and extending again and again, it is obvious that the knowledgeable people are still in their prime. The founding of the country was only 130 years. Whether it is land annexation or the large-scale family, they have never reached the limit. Most people can live in food and clothing. No matter how bad their lives are, the imperial court will coordinate and provide assistance, and they will not see the hope of life.

However, the people in this city gave Meng Zhao a sense of confusion in war and even the end of the world, which made it difficult for him, who claimed to be a child of a noble family.

"Oh, what else can it be? Brother, you are a nobleman. Haven't you heard of Zeng Wangzhi?"

Meng Zhao's expression moved, Zeng Wangzhi looked at him, and a thought flashed through his mind like lightning.

"You mean Zeng Bu?"

Niu Dali nodded. At this time, he was less fierce and arrogant when he changed into clean and tidy clothes, and more honest and reliable. His strong and burly figure looked particularly powerful, very much like Meng Zhao's guard.

"It's him, Yunhua County is in Yanzhou, which is an example. If it weren't for Zeng Wangzhi, Yunhua County wouldn't have fallen to the entire level."

Zeng Bu, also known as Zeng Wangzhi, is from Yunhua County, Yanzhou, Dayong. He is knowledgeable and good at literary, handsome and arrogant. He is a very distinctive person in the literary world in the north. After becoming a Jinshi, he served as a local official and had outstanding political achievements.

Later, he entered the court and became a big boss, advocating Tai'an reforms, that is, to reduce the strength of the sects and families, suppress the people in the martial arts world, promote the Confucian and French style, and take most of his power into centralization as his main idea, becoming a great figure with great influence in the Da Yong Dynasty.

In essence, Da Yong was formed by Taizu and a number of aristocratic families. The slogans were shouted as a shocking sound, and they ruled the world with the aristocratic families. As a result, Zeng Bu wanted to abolish the various privileges of the aristocratic families, and to slander martial arts, and advocated the promotion of literary style. This was simply an alternative among other alternatives.

The great resistance it faces is also unimaginable.

Of course, Zeng Bu is probably just a chess piece and puppet placed on the front of the stage. The only thing that really wants to carry out reforms will be the Beitang Royal Family, and the only one who can only be the Beitang Royal Family, because this reform may not be beneficial to the local people, the people, and the world, but it will definitely be beneficial to the Beitang Royal Family.

Of course, Taining's reform was undoubtedly a failure. A reform that was resisted and opposed by most aristocratic families and sects of Dayong, and a person who presided over the reform would definitely not end well.

Similarly, the emperor who supported Zeng Bu's reforms behind him also failed and died of sudden illness.

Meng Hongdao once talked to Meng Zhao about the war in the south, and speculated that it was related to the Li family of the nine surnames. In the middle, he also mentioned the deaths of the two generations of emperors of Beitangsheng lasted, which was unusual, as if he was a killing of an old monster from the eight surnames.

It is conceivable what kind of outcome will Zeng Bu, who is at the forefront of the storm.

Lingchi was executed, deprived of all the glory of the past official positions, smashed the temple built by the people for Zeng Bu, destroyed the nine clans, and even listed him as a member of the biography of the treacherous ministers...

It can be said that when most aristocratic families, sects and even high-end forces in the martial arts world are combined, they are incomparable. Zeng Bu cannot, nor the Beitang royal family can.

Yunhua County, the hometown of Zeng Bu, was also a city that was extremely disgusted and difficult by the upper-level forces in the court because it submitted a letter from Wan Min to plead for the former county pride.

The taxes are too heavy, and once natural disasters occur, the court does not allocate funds. Those who served as the county magistrate of Yunhua County over the years are all those who failed the court struggle, which is equivalent to being exiled here...

Year by year, Yunhua County has become a poor county from a former wealthy county to a poor small county today.

Even if you want to move out of Yunhua County, it is a very difficult thing. Because it involves household registration transfer, it will inevitably be sent to the relevant government office and then rejected, which is also a manifestation of the will of the court.

Therefore, the entire city seems so lifeless because it cannot see where the hope for the future is, but it is disgusted by the upper forces of the entire country. It is already quite good to be able to endure for so many years without breaking out and not having chaos.

"So that's the case. There is a saying that one person can attain enlightenment, and a chicken and a dog can ascend to heaven. Now, the entire Yunhua County has fallen into the abyss because one person falls into the abyss, and the whole county has fallen for generations. It's really sad!"

Meng Zhao always felt that choice was very important.

If the people in Yunhua County and the villagers drew a clear line between him and the people in Yunhua County, and were at ease and were sincere and treated as their own people, instead of submitting them to the people, and using public opinion to force the court to make concessions, then it would not lead to their current situation.

It can only be said that a qualified leader is very important, otherwise the leader will make a foolish decision, which will affect the lives and even survival of generations in the future.

If nothing unexpected happens, the person who initiated the Book of Wanmin, and even that family, would have been despised and hated by the people of the entire county town, and would have been nailed to the pillar of shame together with Zeng Bu.
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