Wanli Youming

Chapter 423

Chapter 423

"Since you can't stand being bullied by villains, you should resign! To save yourself from getting angry, it's better to go back to the forest. And don't let people think that a gentleman is easy to bully!"

When Lu Shude met Shi Yingyue, he heard from Shi Yingyue that he did not see bureaucrats resign angrily because they prevented them from using the battalion soldiers, let alone the gentry who wanted to move to other places because of this, so he also saw that he was also dissatisfied with the inspection of the battalion soldiers. Huang Yuanshi, the magistrate of Yangzhou, suggested to him.

Huang Yuan smiled bitterly: "How can I abandon my father and the country."

Lu Shude looked disappointed after hearing this, but he couldn't refute it, so he had to leave Yangzhou with his hands up.

And not long.

When Lu Shude passed by Rugao, he saw that the market here was much more prosperous than what he passed by last year. Many scholars and common people came and went in and out of Rugao city like a torrent, shouting and chatting all night long.

Lu Shude lowered his face at this, and then because he saw with his own eyes that a member of his life passed by with a folding fan, he directly ignored a post that said "Fengyang inspector Zhang Wenxi stayed overnight in a nunnery", and even dropped another post on the ground. The tabloids that said "Zhang Wenxi collects money to be the number one in the next inspection" were directly trampled under his feet, and he only chatted with the old fruit seller who came to the county, and his face became even more ugly, so he asked:

"Why are you so indifferent?!"

The student's real name is Jinggui, and he is a student in Rugao County.

At this time, he couldn't help being surprised, and looked up at Lu Shude, seeing that he was wearing a red robe official uniform, he had to salute solemnly:

"I don't know why the students got such bad reviews from the public?"

Lu Shude snorted: "Look at your own feet!"

Jing Gui looked down and saw a tabloid slandering Zhang Wenxi on the ground under his feet, and laughed:

"The public must have come to Rugao for the first time, and I don't know what is going on. This kind of tabloids are obviously fake news, and they are used to confuse the public. Otherwise, there will be more tabloids in the city about Zhang Xun's rectification of powerful families and the use of soldiers and civilians. , so no one takes it seriously anymore, even we don’t take it seriously anymore, and even the common people are too lazy to pick it up for home use, after all, there are too many tabloids that can be picked up.”

"Is that so?"

Lu Shude didn't criticize Jinggui directly, but asked a question in a pretentious manner.

Jing Gui said: "Naturally! The students think this is true. Zhang Wenxi really abused officials and gentry just to make money, but he really didn't hear that there was a big family around him who was asked for bribes by him, and he didn't ask for bribes. Case."

"You want this to be true?"

Lu Shude asked again pretending to be puzzled.

Jing Gui nodded and said: "Yes, because we scholars can no longer buy tickets from officials and generals to serve soldiers and civilians, so it is much more convenient to travel and study!"

"After all, if you can't serve the soldiers and the people, the slaves are not willing to travel long distances with you. They have to have benefits to be willing to follow, and the advantage is that they can entrust the power of the master's family to command the soldiers and the people. But they can't now, then The hard work along the way is naturally borne by the slaves, and the slaves are naturally unwilling. If they are willing, we masters will naturally have to give more benefits."

"No matter what else, it will make the study tour inconvenient and not conducive to success. As the saying goes, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books."

"The imperial court should use local soldiers and civilians to serve in the station!"

Lu Shude sighed seriously.

Jing Gui was overjoyed, and hurriedly cupped his hands and bowed: "If everyone in the world is so considerate of scholars like the public, it will be a blessing for our scholars!"

"You should be tougher yourself, and you can't just rely on us as officials!"

"In the current situation, we should persuade the local government and county magistrates to clean up the tabloids that are detrimental to the dignity of the gentleman, and they should also strike the city, strike schools, or even move to other places, so that the court will see that this policy is too harsh and the local gentry will feel uneasy. "

Lu Shude gave advice clearly.

Jing Gui said: "The public doesn't know, it's not that we don't want to do this, but the problem now is that these tabloids that are detrimental to the dignity can't be cleaned up at all. Today, Xiang Yong's slaves are sent to tear them up, and tomorrow they will suddenly appear all over the world. City, the speed of printing is as if the gods are casting a spell!"

"Besides, the bustle of the market is not related to us gentry, but recently the common people in the villages and towns have gradually become more lustful and luxurious than before, competing for extravagance and splendor. Small people's homes also enjoy art in cars, so that The streets and alleys are full of copper coins and silver coins dangling."

"Therefore, it is useless for us to strike the market, not to mention that the gentry who have family business can't bear to strike the market when the prosperity of the market is greatly restored and lose profits; People can leave, but what about the ancestral land and ancestral graves?"

"So, the students didn't stop going out because of this, and they also came to this market to take a look."

After Jing Gui said this, Lu Shude smiled helplessly.

He couldn't help but glanced at the market in front of him, and sure enough, he saw many villagers walking back in open carriages with big and two bags of goods, all of them smiling.

"it is good!"

suddenly.

Lu Shude heard again that in a tea shop full of people, many people in short coats were sitting on the seats on the second floor and yelling loudly to a storyteller, and many of them even imitated their scholar-bureaucrats and voted for the storyteller. Reward money, also when drinking tea, blow one end of the teacup gently, smell it slightly, and pay attention to it, instead of just taking it as a thirst quencher.

This made Lu Shude feel quite nondescript, and suddenly felt that going to a teahouse to listen to books became tacky, and he didn't even feel that there was any elegance in tasting tea.

Lu Shude didn't bother to enter Rugao City again, so he continued to go south in frustration.

Not long after, he was on the side of the post road outside the city, and saw that there were peasants in the countryside who were also having picnics like the dude You Ye, and they were also doing the thing of Qushui Liushang to say wine orders, and invited a couple of actors to play beside them.

"It's really a decline in the world! Even the common people don't know how to be frugal, but they are imitating the scholar-bureaucrats to roam the forest, don't know how to be diligent in farming, and regard themselves as rulers!"

"I don't know, if you don't read first and understand reason, how can you enjoy yourself? Once you do this, you may not be born with the ambition of taking the world as your own responsibility, but you will be born with laziness and lust!"

Lu Shude really couldn't bear to see the common people go out and have fun.

After all, he has always advocated that the people should behave according to the standards of Confucianism, that is, they should put an end to their own desires.

He believes that even if the common people have earned some savings by diligent farming, they should first study actively to learn the principles of the sages. Have a sense of class when entertaining in your life?

There were not many scholar-bureaucrats like Lu Shude in the Ming Dynasty. They could accept the arrogance and extravagance of the wealthy nobles, but they really could not accept the arrogance and extravagance of the common people. Sometimes, the common people were even prevented from listening to social dramas.

One is that they are afraid that the people will gather to make trouble or provide opportunities for the spread of the cult; the other is that if the people know too many stories, they will become troublemakers, so some officials will prohibit the people from entertaining.

But what Lu Shude didn't know was that, affected by the fact that officials in some places used the Qing army to suppress and plunder the people without authorization, many people woke up suddenly, thinking that if they had surplus money at home, they would only be missed by the officials. , it’s better to enjoy it by yourself and treat yourself better.

of course.

In addition, it is now a time of prosperity, the internal economy of the Ming Dynasty is getting better and better, and the income of the people has been increasing. Naturally, the people have no worries about their ability to earn money and their prospects. That is, there is no sense of security, so I simply start spending like crazy.

(End of this chapter)