Chapter 91 The cost of life is actually very low

The spring sowing is over.

What grows in the ground is not crops. For the people, what grows in the ground is their hope of continuing their lives, and they cannot make any difference.

However, the vitality of crops is far less fragile than that of weeds. Just like most things in this world, there are always too few useful things, and there are always too many useless things.

The moment the bell of Yushan Academy rang, Xu Yuanshou's tears were in his eyes but did not fall.

The other seven gentlemen, like Xu Yuanshou, were wearing new or old green clothes, standing in the wind like eight green pine trees.

There are not many students in Lantian County who have the conditions to go to school, so the 500 children who were exchanged for Yun Zhao for fifty kilograms of millet became the main force in studying.

Among the five hundred children, there are men and women. Because the price was cheap when they were bought, there were no handsome boys or outstanding girls.

Most of them look like ordinary people, and some even look ugly.

It doesn't matter what it looks like. Yun Zhao, the senior brother standing at the forefront of the student team, has nothing outstanding about besides being too fair-looking.

Qian Duoduo, who claims to be the eldest sister, stands among the girls, and is quite a bit outstanding.

Therefore, her look of Pan-Hi-Hi quickly attracted countless curious and even awe-inspiring eyes.

When hundreds of people worshiped Confucius together, they were still very powerful.

When these young children followed the eight gentlemen and intervened to the Confucius tablet three times, Xu Yuanshou said that this place will be the home for all boots in the future.

Most of the children bought by Yun looked seven or eight years old, and some were even younger. They were abandoned by their parents and were originally filled with panic.

After participating in this solemn ceremony, it is easy to regard the academy as your home.

The beams and pillars used in the highest Dacheng Hall are wet. Although they have been sawed and mounted on the roof, their vitality has not been cut off.

When spring comes, it also senses it, so it draws out a few green buds, which look particularly green incense.

Many, many years later... these green buds gradually grew up and finally hung to the ground, took root and sprouted in the hall, and finally wrapped the entire hall together. A great scholar named it - Spring!

When you enter the school, you must first learn "Rites", which is what Xu Yuanshou insisted on.

However, Professor Xu Yuanshou's "Rites" is not the "Rites" improved by Zhu Xi, but the "Han Li".

He believed that Zhu Xi's etiquette was not suitable for the current Ming Dynasty.

In this barbaric world, blindly imprisoning people's desire for exploration and pursuit and personal will are not conducive to individual survival.

Zhu Xi's consistent proposition to destroy human desires and preserve the principles of heaven, but these six words do not come from Zhu Xi's mouth.

In fact, this concept has appeared in "The Book of Rites and Music", which says: "Man transforms things, destroys the laws of heaven and loses people's desires. Therefore, he has a mind that is contrary to deceitful and false, and has lustful and chaotic things."

The so-called "those who destroy the laws of heaven and lose the desires of others" here refers to those who destroy the laws of heaven and do whatever they want.

Zhu Xi himself also said, "Food and food are the principles of heaven, delicacies of mountains and seas, human desires, husband and wife, heaven, three wives and four concubines, human desires."

This is very clear. Zhu Xi believes that people should cherish the instincts given to human beings by God. These instincts are the principles of heaven. On the contrary, if you blindly pursue desires beyond your instinct, you are heading towards self-destruction...

If everyone restrains themselves in peace, it is right. However, self-restraint, for people in troubled times, represents self-denial and also represents obedience.

This is impossible...especially in the eyes of robbers like Yun Zhao, it is obviously impossible.

In the world, the rebels are needed. Yun Zhao even believes that the appearance of ambitious people in chaotic times is not necessarily a bad thing.

In the event that there is nothing wrong with it, God knows whether the ambitious can take another path that can make people live with dignity.

Zhu Xi’s previous "Han Li" would have been much more free. If scholars lose their ambitions, would they still be called scholars?

Reading has been a role in restraining people's desires since ancient times, because they often think too much and plan too well... and also learn too many excuses to explain for themselves from books.

Therefore, it is better to be determined by military generals, thugs, and farmers.

In short, after personally experiencing this refugee wave, Yun Zhao had a new view of the world... These views made him abandon all the moral requirements he had followed in the past. In an extreme environment, Yun Zhao found that he really didn't mind eating people.

Spring is here, and the Qinling Mountains have given people precious gifts, whether it is the buds from spring grass, the small fish swimming around the stream, the hares who have just finished mating, or even some fat insects crawling out of the soil, which are all food for people.

Those female ducks following the ducks, the little ducks swimming around the pond, are yellow and furry, and can always give people hope to survive.

Many people are getting married these days in Yunjiazhuang!

People in the hometown can always get more blessings when they become in-laws, and the combination of local people and foreigners will appear to be a little lonely.

Of course, Yun's family would send a bucket of grain, five feet of cotton, and a small jar of wine to each married family, which would make the wedding look a bit.

Uncle Fu didn't like the woman who lived in the cow pen, even if the woman had two sons and one daughter, he was not satisfied.

Therefore, the greatest pleasure for Fu Bo, who has put on single clothes, is to go to the new grain field to check the growth of the crops.

After Hong Chengchou left, the villagers became much more courageous, so the boundary marker of Lantian County was transplanted to the south of Heishui Town, Shangnan... Two months later, the government did not pursue the matter, but instead sent this year's summer tax receipt. The name of Heishui Town was on the Lantian County's urge list.

So, the greedy farmers moved Lantian County's vigilance to four directions, southeast, west and north.

This was not a big deal. It was not until the farmer of Chang'an County spontaneously moved the boundary marker of Lantian County in his direction and moved three times a day that Xi'an Prime Minister Zhang Daoli sent a clerk to clearly tell Yun Zhao that it was not advisable to do this indiscriminate rules.

The Chang'an County Magistrate felt serious humiliation and personally brought people to the border between Chang'an County and Lantian County. No matter how he asked, the gentry and farmers at the border all spoke of each other, insisting that he was from Lantian County, not from Chang'an County.

Even if the Chang'an County Magistrate told the gentry that in Lantian County, when the summer harvest was collected this year, the gentry would start paying taxes.

The gentry remained indifferent to this!

The Chang'an County Magistrate had no choice but to sigh and return to the county government. He repeatedly prepared to impeach Yun Zhao, but finally gave up this idea and agreed to the current situation.

For those gentry, as long as the government promised to bring everyone to rebuild water conservancy and turn a large amount of their dry land into irrigated land, the little money and grain collected by the government would be nothing to them.

Besides, since the reputation of being unable to starve in Lantian County has spread, tenants without land around have fled from their original homes and crossed the border to Lantian County to cultivate fertile land for the gentry.

After a year of farming, the master's family took 40% and the farmer kept 60% of them. Such a provision has been accepted by most gentry in Lantian County.

There are very few families who do not accept it, but in the eyes of the people of Lantian County, the retribution of these people comes very quickly and will always be affected by disasters in the shortest time.

These disasters range from being beaten by bandits to being kidnapped by someone to being kidnapped, to being caught fire for no reason at home. In short, this rural rule and civil agreement soon became a tradition in Lantian County, and no one dared to violate it.

Yun's family let go of the forests, and anyone can go into the mountains to find food, as long as there is no fire.

After the Yun family opened up the forests, the rest of the families with forests also let go of the forests. The most kind person even allowed the people to enter the forests to cut down some dead trees and carry them out to buy firewood.

Yun Zhao had a clear understanding of the low cost of supporting the people in the Ming world.

A hungry refugee can be rosy and healthy after entering the forest within ten days after entering the forest.

These people can even distinguish between toad eggs and frog eggs. Eating toad eggs will kill people. Eating frog eggs is just an inconspicuous bump on the skin.

They also know what moths can be eaten and what moths cannot be eaten. The most terrifying thing is that this spring, Yun Zhao and the refugees ate more than a hundred kinds of wild vegetables that can be eaten... Some varieties taste... very delicious!

In late spring, the grass and trees are flourishing, and the number of grain stored in Lantian County is distributed less and less. Sprinkling some grain in the leaves can solve a person's food problem.

Therefore, the more than 10,000 loads of grain left in the grain warehouse became the temple in everyone's hearts.
Chapter completed!