Chapter 10 Whose Flying Swallow Returns with the Spring
All day, Xiaomeng and Chun Jianli were looking at each other curiously. The girl who ran around was both the "princess sister" and the "good goddess".
Compared to the previous Princess Luanmei, this freshman little Luanmei is extremely active and seems to have indescribable enthusiasm, but they have to say something different, but they can't even say it.
Ning Jiang brought Chun Jianli and introduced them again with Qin Kan, Qin Wuyan and Qin Xiaoyaer. After learning that Chun Jianli would be the granddaughter of their adopted father, Qin Kan and others were also shocked.
Of course, for Qin Kan and others who are grandfather's adopted son and adopted daughter, they are purely based on seniority. Even Qin Xiaoyaer, who looks like a little girl, is her own "aunt". Chun Jianli pretends not to notice as much as possible. Fortunately, for Qin Kan and others, the adoptive father who adopts them and teaches them a unique skill, the kindness of the adoptive father is greater than that of the mountain. For the adoptive father's granddaughter, they treat him more as "girls" and cannot really regard himself as an elder.
In the evening, Ningjiang entered the wind tunnel and saw the old Taoist Zhao Yun sitting alone at the stone table, pondering without saying a word.
He swayed and walked over, saying, "Why are you sitting alone here?"
The old man said with a whisper, "I've decided."
Ning Jiang said: "What did you decide for the senior?"
Zhu Yun said, "I decided to... help Princess Shan!"
Ning Jiang said: "Good...Princess?"
Then he reacted: "Are you talking about Luanmei?"
Have the "Princess" and "Goddess of Good" combined together become "Princess of Good"?
The old Taoist eyes shine: "Although I regard myself as a Taoist, I am actually the descendant of the Mo family. Sometimes, I will also think about why the Mo family's ideal of love and attack is so great and so noble, but in the end it always ends in failure. In the afternoon, I talked with Princess Shan for a long time, and now I finally understand where our Mo family is wrong. Material is the first, and spirit is the second, and matter determines the spirit, not the spirit determines the matter. Our Mo family has always emphasized the lofty spirit of love and attack. However, the injustice in the means of production leads to the lofty spirit that has no soil for survival. Only by realizing communism and the harmony of the world can the lofty ideas of our Mo family be realized..."
"Wait a minute!" Ning Jiang shouted, "Have Luanmei talked to you?"
No wonder I couldn't see them for an afternoon. The old Taoist, who has been living in the mountains for a long time, is inseparable from the world. In fact, Ning Jiang was also thinking about how to persuade him to come out of the mountain to help him. Unexpectedly, before he could take action, Luanmei, a communist brilliance, smashed him to her side.
"That's right," Lao Dao Yuuan slapped the table violently, "Only the glory of communism can save China, only the glory of communism can help poor people live a real good life, only the glory of communism can achieve harmony in the world, only the glory of communism can complete the unity of common love, only the glory of communism can..."
"I understand, I understand," Ning Jiang waved his hands, "By the way, where is Luanmei now?"
"I've gone to talk to your sister!"
"Damn!" Ning Jiang turned around and left.
He hurried to the depths of the wind tunnel and saw his sister kneeling on the cushion. Luanmei stood in front of her, waved her hand, and said something loudly. Ning Jiang rushed over and grabbed her sister and left. Xiao Meng shouted, "Brother, what are you doing?" Ning Jiang didn't look back: "Didn't you see the sun set? Let's go take a shower."
Sister: “Ah?”
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That night, Ningjiang began to ask everyone to pack up and prepare to leave Zhongnan Mountain.
Qin Wuyan asked in confusion: "Master, why did you suddenly become so anxious?"
Ning Jiang said: "It's not okay if you don't hurry. If this continues, the glory of communism has not yet been realized, and my corners will be dug up first." Luanmei has already started to take a break and wants to talk to Qin Kan and Taoist Lei He. Qin Kan is fine. Lei He, who is suffering from the pain of losing his daughter, must be smashed by the glory of communism. He must be rebelling against the revolution... No, he rebelled on the other side of the revolutionary team. As a reactionary, Ning Jiang cannot let her conspiracy succeed in any case.
Ning Jiang began to regret it, but just to deal with feudal superstition, he actually sacrificed the glory of communism. What's the feeling of creating an atomic bomb to destroy tanks?
The next day, Qin Kan and Taoist Lei He had prepared a carriage at the foot of the mountain.
Luanmei pulled Ning Jiang and was reluctant to leave. For her at this moment, Ning Jiang was not only her spiritual mentor, but also her lover. Although she had no time to talk about love for her lofty ideals, she still couldn't bear to let him leave her. She originally thought that as long as she pulled the people around him step by step...especially his sister, to her side and realize the glory of communism with her, he would definitely stay. Unexpectedly, he would not give her this opportunity at all.
Ning Jiang knew very well that Luanmei at this moment had the power of a good goddess and the eldest princess's celestial physique. On the surface, although she was a little girl, her real strength was at least at the level of a master. In other words, if she could not even reach the level of a "grandmaster", there was no need for Zoroastrianism to take such a lot of effort to make the so-called "good goddess" come out. For this reason, he actually had nothing to worry about her.
The girl who touched Luanmei's head and took it as her responsibility to save the poor people in the world, was as quiet as a lamb at this moment.
Ning Jiang can't tell whether she has more Luanmei now, or more good goddesses, or whether she cares about these things at this time, it is meaningless to worry about them?
Luanmei sent them down the mountain. When they arrived at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, two carriages had already stopped at the foot of the mountain. Xiaomeng, Chun Jianli and Xiao Yaer were on the same car. Ning Jiang took Qin Wuyan to another car. Taoist Lei He and Qin Kan rushed the car separately, took them around Zhongnan Mountain, preparing to cross the Qinling Mountains and go south.
After watching them leave reluctantly, Luanmei hurriedly returned to the mountain and discussed with Master Zhuo Yun how to scatter the glorious spark of communism to the earth...
Ning Jiang took Chun Jianli in a big circle and went to Luojie Mountain to worship in front of Mr. Qin's tomb.
Then, he continued to go south, crossed the Confucius Temple complex, and passed the long river. During this process, he went to Tongzhou to take a look.
Most of the entire Kongshan has been destroyed, Luoyan Lake has been destroyed, and Luopei Lake and Zhouxue have also been affected.
Xiaomeng and Chun Jianli looked at the broken and concave Kongshan together, and were shocked.
If a whole mountain can be smashed into this way, if such a meteorite is directly smashed into the capital, then it will definitely not be just a few thousand people who die.
Immediately afterwards, Ning Jiang took them back to Linjiang County.
Although he wanted to be more low-key, when he entered the county town, the entire county town was sensational. The prefect led the officials of all sizes from the city to greet him personally, winning the top scholar of the three yuan in a row. This was an unprecedented good news for the county. The entire county town was decorated with lights and colors, which was as lively as the New Year.
Ning Jiang just chatted and dealt with it for a while. Of course, at this moment, the new top scholar was overly sad because his beloved eldest princess died of natural disasters, and even resigned from office and returned home. Even the storytellers of good things compiled a storyteller and said it over and over again in the restaurant, and heard the girls in the boudoir all heartbroken. At this moment, when he saw that he was unwilling to socialize, no one blamed him. After all, even the officials of the Hanlin Academy resigned for the death of the eldest princess.
Even so, Ningjiang was the new top scholar after all. After the reform of the Great Zhou Dynasty, "official" and "rank" were separated. Even if he had resigned from his official position as a Hanlin bachelor, he still had the fourth rank. Even the local prefect was still two levels worse than him. What's more, it was really simple to wait until he wanted to go back to the capital, return to the Hanlin Academy, serve the emperor, and go out to the generals and ministers. Naturally, the local officials, all kinds of officials, dare not neglect the slightest.
After returning to Gaosuo County, it can be said that the whole city was coming out to welcome him. The new magistrate wished he could kneel at his feet and lick his shoes with a slander. Ning Jiang could only shake his head.
In this Confucian world where the imperial examination determines everything, he just knows how to study and does nothing else, and his status is far beyond those tired local parents and officials. To a certain extent, this may also be the main reason for the constant disconnection between the court and the local government, just because no matter how outstanding the political achievements are in the local area, as long as he fails to achieve good results in the imperial examination, he will be able to advance to one or two levels.
Just like a juren who fills the gap, no matter how outstanding he is in governing the towns and counties, he can only become a sage.
This led to the fact that as soon as these local officials took office, they had already touched the ceiling of their careers, so they simply devoted all their power and energy to making money. On the other hand, those Jinshi, once they were sent out, were prefects and prefects, and had no experience in governing the local area and had to manage a county or even a state. In many cases, they were easily overshadowed by people below without knowing it.
What's more, it is the "Three Dingjia". As the top scholars with the highest knowledge, they have hardly experienced any hardships in any place. They just entered the Hanlin, went to the court, and spent a few years, and easily became the group of people who made decisions about the whole world. Because they have no real experience in governing the country, they can never admit their ignorance, so "right punishment and virtue, and serve God" is their most common saying, "half the Analects of Confucius govern the world" is a thing they believe in. The "theory of the heaven and man in response" is not so effective as the simplest means of ruling the country, but this is not the most terrible. What is really terrible is that over the past few hundred years, the people in the court have even truly believed in these things.
This entire Confucian world has formed a pathological condition. When this pathological condition becomes inertia and no one has the courage or ability to change it, perhaps it is really necessary to wash it out by the so-called holy fire or the flame of revolution to get new life.
Because of the addition of him, the entire Ning clan had surpassed the other three families in Gaosuo County and became the largest family in the county. Even to the point where the Ning clan servants did not dare to ask questions when the officials made a mistake. Ning Jiang was not interested in this situation, even if he wanted to, he could not control it, and wasted time in vain.
During his absence, more and more land was dependent on his name, and many of them were "transferred" with the poor people who were farming on the land. These poor people who were buying and selling with the land were actually "ten slaves". According to the law of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the existence of ten slaves was forbidden, but in fact, ten slaves had long been spread all over the world. They were called people but actually slaves. Even if Ningjiang did not have any official ranks, killing their own ten slaves would be at most a trivial punishment of insignificant silver.
Of course, this is not just a phenomenon that this world has. In the Southern Song Dynasty in another world, even tenants who were theoretically higher than tenants and tenants, and who had only land rent relationships with landlords but no personal dependence, even "human lives are impoverished, and the rich dare to kill them", and even stipulated from the law that tenants had no right to accuse the landlords.
Zhu Xi, a representative figure of Confucian Neo-Confucianism, argued that in case of a lawsuit, one should first "discuss the distinction between high and low, senior and senior, senior and senior, senior and senior, senior, senior and senior, and superior, and inferior, inferior, superior, and inferior, and do not protect even if the right and wrong." Since then, all cases involving tenants and landlords have emphasized the "master-tenant-tenant-tenant-ranking status", using "one master-tenant-one tenant, one master, and one tenant, and the distinction between the name and the name", "the distinction between the master and the servant" and so on as the basis for judging right and wrong.
However, even so, there were still many civilians who were fighting to rely on them and gave their own land to him in order to reduce and exempt land taxes.
Just because in the increasingly serious land annexation, a large number of local gentry were exempted from tax payments for various reasons, but the taxes set by the court increased year by year. This made the common people who owned the land even more miserable than tenant people who were forced to give the land to the gentry and became slaves. Once they could not pay the tax, they would immediately be sentenced to prison. Once they were imprisoned, very few could still come back.
Even if you take the landlords who are exempt from paying land taxes, they are slaves and servants. Although life is not easy, they at least don’t have to face the government directly. In order to ensure that there is enough labor in their fields, at least in other aspects, their masters will protect them appropriately. Under this pathological and distorted unspoken rule, on the one hand, land annexation is becoming more and more serious, while on the other hand, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the government to receive taxes.
At this moment, Ningjiang, who became the top scholar, had a large amount of land attached to him. The tax burden of the fields under his name would inevitably be transferred to others, forcing more people to sell land and daughters, and his fields and slaves would further expand. In other words, at the moment when he became the top scholar, although he did nothing, his property and slaves had already increased exponentially, without being transferred by his own will.
Chapter completed!