Wanli Youming

Chapter 379

Chapter 379

The policy that more children can be exempted from military service has indeed greatly curbed the phenomenon of abandoned babies, and it has also made the people take the initiative to give up using this cruel method of birth control.

On this day, just after dawn, there was a burst of crying babies by the canal in Qingjiangpu, Huai'an.

Ye Agui, who had been nervous outside the shed for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief as the baby cried.

Then, not long after, Ye Agui came in and saw his wife Wang Xiaocao and the wrapped baby.

Seeing Ye Agui come in, Wang Xiaocao first asked, "It's a lost one, do you want to throw it away?"

"Keep it up!"

"I have a job in Zhifang now, so I don't have to worry about raising a few more children."

"Besides, the imperial court forbids the abandonment of babies, saying that it is against the new law of etiquette and the way of preserving benevolence. I don't know why the new law of etiquette was established! But I know that if I work in a government-run paper workshop, if I go against the court Come on, maybe I will be kicked out of the paper workshop, saying that I don't listen to the emperor."

Ye Agui said.

Wang Xiaocao smiled after hearing this: "Then give her a name."

Ye Agui nodded and thought about it seriously.

Seeing that her husband was seriously thinking about her name, Ye Xiaocao glanced at her daughter, and was even happier for a moment, saying, "My father didn't abandon me back then, and I actually don't want to abandon her now either."

When Li Rusong passed by Qingjiangpu, he also heard the cry of a baby coming from the hut where Ye Agui lived on the bank, so he deliberately followed the sound and asked, "Is anyone there?"

Because of this, Ye Agui came back to his senses, saw Li Rusong was wearing silk clothes, with a white face and a strong body, and his accompanying servants were all powerful, so he got up quickly in fright, and asked cautiously: "I don't know what's the matter?"

Li Rusong said: "I heard a baby crying, so I came to ask, but there is something that needs help."

"Thank you, good man, it's really unnecessary."

"It's my wife who gave birth to a cub and is about to name it."

Ye Agui replied.

Li Rusong hurriedly said: "Congratulations if that's the case."

Then, Li Rusong asked again: "Is it a man or a woman?"

"daughter."

Ye Agui replied.

Li Rusong nodded, and asked, "Since you want to name it, you must be raising it?"

"nature!"

"Why do the good people ask these questions?"

Ye Agui asked after answering.

Li Rusong didn't want to say clearly, he had the task of collecting stories and inquiring about politics, so he just smiled and said, "Just ask."

Coincidentally, at this time, Master Qian from Zhifang also came with someone, and asked Ye Agui, "Did you give birth so soon?"

Ye Agui agreed: "Yes, you missed it, but it went well."

"It's like this. I didn't come here for nothing. In order to respond to the emperor's intention to promote the new ceremony, the master of Fuyuan has asked for a decree to grant subsidies to all children born to the editors and craftsmen in the government-run workshops. You are the first to be born in our Zhifang, register your newborn child’s name, and your and your wife’s, stamp your fingerprints, and you will be able to take the money.”

After Master Qian said that, he took out the brochure and gave it to Ye Agui.

Ye Agui was quite happy after hearing this, and hurriedly said, "I haven't thought of a name yet."

"It's not as good as the female son is called Xinli. Isn't it out of the ordinary, such as spring plums and autumn chrysanthemums?"

Li Rusong suddenly interjected at this moment.

"This is good, Dong Weng will definitely like it!"

Master Qian said with a smile.

"That!"

Ye Agui glanced at the familiar Li Rusong, and said, "I'll think of a better nickname for myself."

Here, Master Qian chatted with Li Rusong after nodding his head.

Li Rusong then continued northward.

But when he was wandering in micro-clothes in Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong, he saw so-called "parents" selling their children.

Li Rusong asked Zu Tan, his servant who was doing business for his Li family in Dongchang, and now he also went out to hang out with him: "Isn't it already forbidden to abandon babies? How can so many children be sold? According to the new decree, children One more can reduce or exempt Ding Yin, don't the common people know?"

"Returning to Lord, the common people really don't know, at least in the various prefectures in Shandong, the officials are still collecting small silver like before."

Zu Tan replied.

Li Rusong's face darkened after hearing this, and he asked Zu Tan: "Why?"

When Zu Tan saw that his master asked each other, he said, "My lord should understand that the government has always dared not to carry out the decree of exemption from military service and tax if it is to exempt dignitaries and gentry from military service and tax."

"But if some common people who meet the conditions are exempted from military service and tax, then the government will not take it seriously. At least it can be delayed until it is discovered, and at worst, the emperor's grace of exemption from military service and tax exemption will be turned into exemption from military service and tax for wealthy people. For example, You can still use the original yellow book, but still compile a tax and service white book, and then count those who should be exempted from duty and tax as big gentry."

"After all, it's not easy for the common people to know that there will be a decree from above."

"From this point of view, whether the emperor's favor can benefit the common people depends on how the local officials are, especially the Fudian officials."

"How about this Shandong governor?"

Li Rusong asked after speaking.

"Du Censor Wu Gong is very talkative. He only knows how to serve soldiers. When he lectures, let soldiers be ordered by scholars who come to listen to the lectures, and even make them build academies for the local gentry. Obviously, he attaches great importance to the rule of law. He only responds to the new policies promulgated by the imperial court. one time."

"And inspector Li Fengxian is even more mediocre. I haven't seen where he went to set up a procuratorate, and I don't know where he went. According to reports, someone saw him at the home of Gu Quanlang Gu's family in Wuxi. He seemed to be a bad official. He ran to The officials in the south of the Yangtze River have gone."

Zu Tan replied.

After hearing this, Li Rusong also wrote these experiences into the secret performance.

In fact, Li Zongcai, the governor of Shandong Province, has now returned from Jiangnan. On this day, he met Wu Shanyan, the governor of Shandong Province, outside a new academy and said:

"I have received definite information from Jiangnan. Someone in Beijing has contacted Chaohua and the others. This so-called new ceremony establishment will face great trouble."

"What kind of trouble?"

Wu Shanyan, who was watching the soldiers of his standard battalion carrying some scholars up the mountain, hurriedly turned around and asked Li Zongcai.

Li Zongcai said: "Naturally, a large number of captives and bandits plundered the border, and the smoke was exhausted, and the capital was shaken!"

Wu Shanyan smiled, and said: "I really hope that the imperial court will stop building new rites because of this, and value morality and ancient times instead of just blindly promoting modern learning."

"Gentlemen all over the world hope that the ritual system will not be changed. Only the treacherous party in the court takes advantage of the reform of ritual to exercise power, which makes the world pay more attention to merit than virtue."

"Even a great Confucianist like Mr. Jingyang cannot stand in the temple."

Li Zongcai replied.

Wu Shanyan nodded after hearing this.

Li Rusong happened to wander here at this time, and when he saw this newly built academy, he also saw a strong man carrying books up the mountain, so he stopped him and asked, "Why are you wearing military boots?"

The strong man replied: "Because I am a standard battalion soldier."

"Then why are you working hard here?"

Li Rusong asked.

"How dare you disobey the order of Fuyuan!"

The strong man replied.

Snapped!

At this time, a boy servant came over and whipped the strong man of the battalion: "Hurry up, what are you chatting with passers-by! Don't delay my family's listening to the lecture!"

The strong man of the battalion had no choice but to quicken his pace.

Li Rusong's face collapsed when he saw this, and then he saw some battalion soldiers carrying these scholars up, he became even more angry, and gave Zhu Yijun a secret performance that night.

(End of this chapter)