Chapter 164: The Private Visit of the King of Qin in Weifu (2)
There was nothing to say all night. Early the next morning, Wu Chenzi and Ying Zheng were also awakened. When they walked out of the room, they saw a group of villagers gathered in the yard.
"I have met two wizards and I've had a good sleep last night." Li Zheng asked.
"Chen'an, are you?" Wu Chenzi bowed and asked.
"Master, has Master Yiyuanzi really passed away?" A villager asked, but his eyes were full of disbelief.
Wu Chenzi was silent, and everyone knew that this was true, so there was another silence.
"Master Yiyuanzi promised that we would come to pray for us when the new village was established." Someone said.
"One Yuan starts, which represents new life. The establishment of a new village is also a new life. Yi Yuan Zi will pray for you in heaven." Wu Chen Zi said.
"Really? Will Master Yiyuanzi really look at us in the sky?" Everyone looked at Wuchenzi and asked.
"Yes, what we Taoism has never promised will make a promise, and Yiyuanzi will not make a promise. He will pray for you with another existence." Wu Chenzi said.
The villagers looked at Wu Chenzi with hope. Since Yi Yuanzi came here, he has helped them survey the terrain. Every day, he brought people into the mountains, went out early and returned late, and finally chose an address for them and told them to move over one after another. As a result, the canal has been slowly built, and the young and strong people are also busy working in the new village, but Yi Yuanzi passed away.
"Let's disperse. The Spirit of Yiyuanzi in Heaven hopes that you can rest, rejuvenate, develop, and continue to grow." Wu Chenzi said.
The villagers slowly dispersed, but they still didn't want to believe that the young man who loved to laugh at the beginning had just left like this.
"The Taoist road is hope. Yiyuanzi's hope is that the villagers can slowly grow and grow. Maybe he himself doesn't know what the fifth day of human Taoism is, but he knows what his road is." Wu Chenzi sighed.
He was watching Wu Chenzi and Ying Zheng. He knew that these two people were not ordinary wizards, and they were probably like Shang Yang traveling all over the 72 counties of Qin.
"What do the two mages want to know?" Li Zheng asked.
Wu Chenzi shook his head. We only believe what we saw with our own eyes, not what you deliberately showed.
"Boy, go and help them with the villagers to do some farm work." Wu Chenzi looked at Ying Zheng and said.
Ying Zheng nodded as he and Li Zheng, then left the village and followed the villagers into the farmland to take care of the farmland. This is a blessing that he and Gai Nie go on a tour every year, so they are not newbies, so they know how to do it.
"This little mage is a big shot from Xianyang, right?" Li was looking at Wu Chenzi and asked.
"King of Qin." Wu Chenzi said.
Li Zheng was stunned for a moment. He thought that Ying Zheng would be a noble man in Xianyang City, but he could not have expected that the King of Qin would come in person? And he followed the villagers to work in the fields. Is there such a king? What do the Qin people want?
"You are?" Li was looking at Wu Chenzi. The one who dared to take the King of Qin out of the Qin Palace would not be a simple person.
"Wuchenzi." Wuchenzi replied.
"I have met the National Master." Li Zheng immediately bowed and said.
"We came here secretly? So don't report it to the county government." Wu Chenzi said.
The reason why I told Li Zheng? It was also that I wanted to spread the reputation of the King of Qin throughout Guanzhong through his mouth and strengthen the prestige of the King of Qin.
Li Zheng nodded? The king looked at his broken stone house, but he was able to live here without complaints? He worked with them on farming and mulberry trees.
Ying Zheng followed the villagers to hoe the ground and chatted, while the villagers taught him to sing Qin Opera.
"How do you feel?" Wu Chenzi looked at Ying Zheng and asked.
"It's different. Although they respect me too? But it's different from me and Gai Nie going out? They are willing to teach me a lot of things and are willing to get close to me." Ying Zheng said with a smile. This was the first time he had experienced this feeling.
"The needs of the people are actually very simple. If you don't believe it, you can ask them in the afternoon." Wu Chenzi said.
Ying Zheng nodded and ate rough rice. The vegetables were also wild vegetables with no oil and water. Although they were not delicious? But Ying Zheng still ate a lot.
In the afternoon, Wu Chenzi also went out? Someone in the village was bitten by a poisonous snake while going out, so he was asking for Wu Chenzi's place.
Wu Chenzi hurried over? Here he was not worried that these simple villagers would pose any threat to Ying Zheng.
After using cultivation to help the poisoned villagers push out the snake venom? Bandage it again? Wu Chenzi said: "Don't be nervous when you enter the mountain in the future and get bitten by poisonous snakes. Wherever poisonous snakes appear, there will be detoxification herbs. Before this, you must learn to deal with it."
Wu Chenzi handed over some methods of self-rescue in the wild to these hunters who entered the mountains and told them some methods of rescue in other situations.
Ying Zheng followed the villagers to continue to work on the farmland, and found that there was also a lot of knowledge in farming.
"In fact, the government should publish some books on farming and pass on these experiences." A villager said.
Ying Zheng nodded. It is true that the people's power is huge. Every village will have an experience. This experience can be compiled into a book and then circulated on Qin. This will bring greater grain output to Qin.
"Actually, I have always wanted to know what you have for life?" Ying Zheng asked.
The villagers all smiled, and they all knew that Taoist disciples were different from them, but they were willing to tell Ying Zheng, and they were not afraid of him making jokes.
"What are you going to pursue? A few acres of fertile land, a house that is not leaking, and a wife, and a few children will be perfect. If you want to pursue it, it means there is meat in the meal." The villagers said with a smile.
Ying Zheng was stunned. It was their pursuit that there was meat in the meal and the house was not leaking. However, today, the Qin State could not even meet such simple conditions.
When he returned to Li Zheng's house in the evening, Ying Zheng looked at Wu Chenzi and wanted to speak, but stopped. He felt that he was a failed king. He could not even satisfy his people in a house or a meal of meat.
"Are you shocked by the villagers' pursuit?" Wu Chenzi asked.
Ying Zheng nodded. He didn't know why this was the case. The taxes in Qin were not high, so why did this happen.
"Do you think that the taxes of Qin are already the lowest among the seven countries, and the result is still like this?" Wu Chenzi asked, pointing to the stone house without oily wild vegetables and leaking air on the table.
Ying Zheng nodded. The Qin State has not launched a large-scale war on the outside over the years, so why is this still happening?
"Because grain is priceless, they can't afford to eat meat. Because the road is blocked, they can't go out because the land is barren and there is insufficient food production." Wu Chenzi said.
"Please teach me sir." Ying Zheng asked again.
"The complete book of agricultural affairs, collecting all agricultural experiences in the world, and circulating them into books, circulating them in Qin State, and setting up agricultural officials to teach the people about farming. For example, it is actually not suitable for planting millet valleys here, but the villagers do not know that they have been planting millet valleys for generations, and they can only plant millet valleys." Wu Chenzi said.
Ying Zheng nodded. This was what he had thought of today, but it was not as detailed as Wu Chenzi thought.
"So the king can personally invite the farmer Xia Kui to join Qin to compile a complete book on agricultural affairs, lead the peasant disciples to join Qin to become officials, and teach the people about farming affairs." Wu Chenzi said.
Ying Zheng frowned. Will you Taoist agree to the farmer's entry into Qin?
"There are all kinds of schools of thought, and no one among the hundreds of schools is comparable to the farmers. A hundred schools of thought contend and a hundred flowers blooming is the attitude that an empire should have." Wu Chenzi said.
"How can we balance the various schools of thought, and there are constant disputes?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Survival of the fittest, and the fittest can only move forward by fighting." Wu Chenzi said.
"What should the government do?" Ying Zheng asked again.
"The legislative circle allows all schools of thought to be exercised within the laws. Even if they are beaten to death, they will not affect the livelihood of the people." Wu Chenzi continued.
"The king must remember that the people are the foundation of the country, and do not shake the people's foundation at any time. The people's requirements are very simple, and the king has also seen this. It is really not high. If even the royal family cannot meet this requirement, the country will not be in a state." Wu Chenzi said.
Ying Zheng nodded. The people's requirements are so simple that they cannot be simpler.
"If the king wants to go out to Shandong, he must know that the Qin people in Qin are the fundamentals." Wu Chenzi said.
"Sir, do you mean there are too many new nobles in the Qin Dynasty?" Ying Zheng asked with a frown.
Wu Chenzi nodded. Qin State could have foreign talents, but the officials at the bottom of the middle must be Qin people. If there is no one to train, outsiders will never be trusted.
"In the Qin court, there are less than half of the Qin gentry, and there are very few important positions in Qin. In this way, the Qin people would lose their loyalty to the royal family because the royal family had interrupted their hopes." Wu Chenzi said, why did the world be in chaos after Ying Zheng's death, but Qin could not go to the national crisis like the old Qin during the reign of Duke Xiao, and the scenery of thousands of people came to the scene. It was because the Qin people had lost trust in the royal family from top to bottom.
"The Qin State is not without talents, but because Qin kings of all dynasties have become accustomed to recruiting talents from the six countries to enter Qin. This will make Qin State rise for a while, but it will slowly erode the hope of the Qin people.
"Editing filial piety and integrity has bound Qin and the world." Wu Chenzi said.
"Every country will not have few talents, what is less is their way to become an official." Wu Chenzi said, it doesn't matter that many talents are buried in the countryside.
"The military merits and titles of Qin have made Qin have not lacked famous generals in all dynasties, but why has Qin always lacked famous officials and ministers? Because the system of selecting talents and promoting officials has prevented many people from becoming officials, not being able to become officials, and not being able to become officials, how can they become great talents?" Wu Chenzi continued.
Ying Zheng was silent. Every general rose up in constant wars. Qin State has no shortage of famous generals because of its military merits and the war along the way gave them rich experience, so they were able to cultivate generals. However, the famous ministers and ministers of Qin State were all from foreign countries, making the local scholars of Qin State weaker and weaker.
"Sir, can I have a way to solve it?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Imperial Examination!" Wu Chenzi said.
"Imperial Examination?" Ying Zheng frowned, never heard of it.
"If you open a scientific and technical examination and get an official position, you can participate in it and choose the best ones to become an official position." Wu Chenzi said.
Ying Zheng's mind blasted and looked at Wu Chenzi in shock. He understood the meaning of the imperial examination. Once such a way of taking office was released, Qin would no longer lack literary officials.
Chapter completed!