My Brother-in-law is the Prince

  Chapter 342 Meeting of Monarch and Subject

   This is Liu Chun's popularity and calmness.

  This look made Zhang Anshi a little displeased.

  His opinion of scholars is not very good.

  If there is no real need for a teacher, I wouldn't come here to 'show off'.

  However, Zhang Anshi endured it after all, and he was reluctant to let the child fail the wolf. Today, he came to recruit talents.

  Zhang Anshi said: "What else?"

   Liu Chundao: "There are so many schools in Taiping Mansion, dare to ask the governor... Where does the government's money and food come from?"

   "Taxes?"

   "Tax..." Liu Chundao: "Is there so much tax?"

   "As long as everyone pays taxes, are you afraid that there will be no money and food?"

   "Having said that, but..."

Zhang Anshidao: "I know what you want to say, you scholars... no, sir must be full of doubts, in fact, this method of the Taiping government is not new, it is nothing more than two words, the people are rich and the government's tax sources are also poor. It’s big, the tax source is big, and there are more things that can be done. Let’s talk about this Taiping Mansion. In order to expand the source of income, Taiping Mansion tried every means to dredge the canal. Provide greater convenience, so that commerce will flourish, and more commercial taxes will be levied?"

Zhang Anshi paused for a moment: "I, Zhang Anshi, am a real person. I don't like playing tricks, and I only want practical results. There is also grain tax, this grain tax... If you want to collect more, it's nothing more than trying your best to ensure that the farmers can have a good harvest. And to let them have a good harvest, the government must find a way to build water conservancy, and the government and the people are in a complementary relationship. But to achieve mutual complementarity, the essence... lies in... sorting out the relationship between the government and the people."

  Liu Chun saw that Zhang Anshi didn't have a good face towards him, but at this moment, after hearing Zhang Anshi's words, he sometimes shook his head and sometimes nodded: "What's the relationship?"

Zhang Anshi said: "We share weal and woe! If the taxation issue is not sorted out, then those who have money and food will not pay taxes. In this way, the government will not get any benefits from them. If they don't get benefits, they will have no motivation to protect them." Let’s talk about merchants. If no commercial tax is collected, what does the development of commerce and trade have to do with the government? In many places, many officials only know how to catch fish, while merchants are all trembling, like walking on thin ice. In this way, it will inevitably form A vicious circle. But Taiping Mansion is different. Seventy to eighty percent of Taiping Mansion’s taxes now come from commercial taxes. Because of this...the government is more eager than anyone else for this business to be prosperous, so on the surface, the government has searched a lot from merchants. Less taxes, but in fact... merchants can safely and boldly do business, which actually promotes business."

   "Actually, everything in the world is like this. If you don't tie everyone to the same rope, you will lose both sides. How can there be any reason for mutual benefit?"

   Liu Chun smiled: "Since a lot of taxes have been collected, why build a school?"

   "If I say people-oriented, do you believe it?"

   Liu Chun shook his head.

Zhang Anshi said: "Then if I say...the more people who can read and write, the more value these literate people can produce, and it will be of great benefit to the governance of my Taiping Mansion. I wish that everyone in the world can read. Do you believe it?"

   Liu Chun was taken aback.

Zhang Anshi said: "In all dynasties, what the court cares most about is the so-called culture and education. But let me ask you, the so-called culture and education... Over the past thousands of years, what progress has there been? I don't think there has been any progress. So what do you think is the reason? "

   Liu Chun frowned: "It's the wrong method of enlightenment."

"Wrong." Zhang Anshi now somewhat wants to hang up the scholar in front of him and use it as a target. Most of the scholars he met in the past were at the Jinshi level, and they were all eloquent. Arguing, citing scriptures and allusions, making it up at will, just talking about verbal disputes, Zhang Anshi can only be rubbed on the ground by them.

   It was a hard day today, and I met a rookie who didn’t even pass the exam as a scholar. You hit the gun yourself, so don’t blame me, Zhang Anshi, for kicking the kindergarten.

Zhang Anshi said: "It's not that the method is wrong, but... teaching is useless. In this world, the vast majority of people... do farming for a living, and many people are slaves. Let me ask you, what's the use of reading for these people? "

   Liu Chundao: "After they have read the book, they will naturally not be reduced to slaves and farmers."

"Isn't this ridiculous?" Zhang Anshi smiled, and looked at Liu Chun with disdain: "It's like everyone can get a job, if everyone can get a job, then in this world, can everyone be Juren and Jinshi masters, can everyone eat and drink without worrying? But in fact, most of the people with fame are a minority, and the vast majority...need to work in agriculture and serve as servants to support these masters."

   Liu Chun pursed his lips, thoughtful.

Zhang Anshidao: "So... to solve this so-called education problem, there are nothing more than two things. One... let people actually be educated and get benefits. For example, in this elementary school, they can read and write. In the future, he will learn other things Whether it is arithmetic, being a craftsman, or being an official, no matter what you do, everyone finds that after studying, learning these things by yourself will get twice the result with half the effort. With these tangible things, you There is no need to urge them, the parents in this world, even if they don't eat or drink, will bite the bullet and send their children to the school."

"The second is to be down-to-earth, think of a way, and teach them what they can really learn and apply, instead of falsely expecting to teach them what to test for fame. Can you expect that everyone in the world will become a nerd? Can everyone write a good article? If so... how is it beneficial to Shengmin?"

  Liu Chun thought for a while: "Although this is the case, but using profit to lure him... I always feel that it is heresy."

  Zhang Anshi laughed out loud.

"why are you laughing?"

  Zhang Anshidao: "I see that your Confucian shirt is gorgeous. I'm afraid that although the price is not expensive, it will take a few taels of silver to buy it."

"This…"

Zhang Anshidao: "The reason why you say heresy is because... even if you don't support yourself, you can live comfortably, so you can talk extravagantly about heresies, what to lure them with profit, people like you, I have seen Too much, if you are not hungry, you ask others to be as noble as you, and if you have gorgeous clothes, you ask others not to eat cheap food. You have seen the hardships of others, you know that life is not easy, and you know how hard it is for someone to eat and wear warm clothes Bear the humiliation. You dare not say such a thing."

"It's like a person from a wealthy family talking about benevolence and morality to beggars on the street. You have no worries about food and clothing, but you don't let others pursue food and clothing. Such a person is not only ridiculous, but also shameful. "

   Liu Chun listened and thought about it, but he was not angry.

  Of course Zhang Anshi was not afraid of his anger, he gave an order, and at least a company of knives and axes could come out and chop the man in front of him into pieces.

   Liu Chun said: "Actually, I have plowed the land."

   "Really?" Zhang Anshi said, "How do you feel?"

   "It's really hard work."

  Zhang Anshi said: "Have you ever been hungry?"

"This…"

Zhang Anshi said: "So...you can't use hard work to simply summarize the hardships of farmers. Because some people cultivate the land, they just experience the hardships. He may feel that he can understand the truth of everything after he has worked hard. But Actually, it's not even close."

Zhang Anshidao: "Because the vast majority of people who have plowed the land will never say that plowing the land is hard. Because they have experienced hardships since they were born, but they don't think... there is no such thing as hard work. A cow is born. Cultivating the land, does it feel that it is hard to cultivate the land? In fact, what really makes them feel hard is not this, but that they have worked for four seasons, but in the end they can’t even have enough food, and a serious illness means that they have to watch their wives and children pass away. Compared with these, mere hard work is nothing."

  After hearing this, Liu Chun was quite moved: "It seems that the governor has such an experience?"

  Zhang Anshi shook his head: "Although I don't have it, I have more knowledge than you."

   Liu Chun: "..."

Of course, it is impossible for Zhang Anshi to tell him that he has been a human being in two lives. In the last life, he lived in the countryside when he was young. Although the rural life at that time was many times better than this era, the sad memory still remains of.

   Liu Chundao: "It seems that what the governor said is not unreasonable. It's just... I listen to outsiders..."

  Zhang Anshidao: "Outsider...Which outsider..."

"This…"

Zhang Anshi said with a smile: "There are many kinds of people, but people with ulterior motives like to call the people of the world uniformly the so-called outsiders, so they act like they are pleading for the people. Don't use tricks like this. You're showing off in front of me, tell the truth, Mr. teacher, do you want to do it? I see that although you don't have any fame, you can still talk very well. It's okay to be an elementary school student..."

   Liu Chun said: "No."

  Zhang Anshi: "..."

  Liu Chun got up: "The students are just here to come and see, please don't blame the governor, see you later."

  Zhang Anshi: "..."

   Liu Chun left in a big way...

  Zhang Anshi was furious: "His mother, he amuses me."

  Xuezheng and the others hurriedly stopped Zhang Anshi, persuading him: "Captain, Commander... Scholars are like this, such crazy students naturally cannot understand the deep meaning of you, Commander..."

  Zhang Anshidao: "Don't teach him how amazing I am..."

   "Captain... If it is really fought, there will be no scholars to teach in the future."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Anshi calmed down, took a deep breath, and said: "It seems that this matter of culture and education is really not suitable for me, I have more important things to do, you have worked hard, school things... You have to be careful. "

  Xuezheng, Discipline and the others breathed a long sigh of relief, and quickly said, "Yes."

  ...

   This man named Liu Chun came out of Qunru Pavilion.

  He turned his head and looked at the attic with carved beams and painted buildings.

  In the distance... is the spacious river, the square under the attic, because of the setting sun and the setting sun, many people came, some were scholars in long gowns, and some were in short clothes, but I don’t know what kind of people they are.

  Among the shadows, this man named Liu Chun frowned.

   "Your Highness, Your Highness..." Someone said softly, "Your Highness taught us how to find it."

   Liu Chun was none other than Zhu Chun, King of Shu. Zhu Chun put his hands behind his back and said nothing.

  Liu Desheng said: "Your Highness...just now..."

  Zhu Chun said: "I actually saw that Zhang Anshi."

   "This son..." Liu Desheng said bitterly: "How about not taking His Highness?"

  Zhu Chun said: "It's really rude, it's money."

  Liu Desheng said: "Hey... Those who have always caused troubles in the country are such immoral people. Your Highness... This time I am going to Beijing, I have to think about whether I will accept the post of Zuo Dudu?"

  Zhu Chun said: "I am a son of the clan, so I should take the world as my responsibility."

  Liu Desheng and Liu Guangjin looked at each other in dismay. They were worried that His Highness would put himself in a very dangerous situation, because the name of a virtuous king was really hard to be tolerated by the emperor.

   On the other hand, they also vaguely hope that there will be someone in this world who can check and balance a traitor like Zhang Anshi.

  Zhu Chun said: "Let's go, let's take a walk and enter Beijing tomorrow."

  Liu Desheng nodded, following suit.

  In the evening, Qixia seemed busier than the daytime, with lights everywhere, and there were pillars on the street, and chic kerosene lamps were hung on the pillars.

  Zhu Chun came to an alley, but suddenly stopped walking.

   This is a very small house, there seems to be a lot of people living in it, this house doesn’t even have a courtyard, when the door is opened, there is only an aisle that can accommodate two or three people, and the opposite is the wall of another house.

   But in front of such a small dark room.

  But I saw a young man moving a dilapidated small stool, holding a book and a charcoal pencil in his hand, carefully copying on the inferior paper like straw paper.

  The lights on the street just happened to shine on this alley, and only a faint ball of light happened to fall on the boy's book. He tilted his head, afraid that his head would block the light, and concentrated on it.

  Zhu Chun subconsciously stopped, looked up, and saw the dark room behind the boy.

  So...the bottom of my heart seemed to understand something.

  Quietly, Zhu Chun walked up behind the boy.

   Immediately, he said: "You scorpion, Dan Qiusheng, this paragraph is copied wrongly, sen, it is a small and high mountain, so it is a mountain on top, not a treasure cover."

  The boy was startled, and looked up at Zhu Chun.

  The young man gasped and said, "Oh, let me take a look."

   I read the text carefully, and it turned out that I copied it wrong, so I hurriedly corrected it.

  Zhu Chun said: "Why don't you go back to the house."

   "It's also bright outside, which can save lamp oil."

   "Where are your parents?"

   "My father didn't return from work, and my mother was on the night shift."

  Zhu Chun smiled slightly and patted his head: "Study is not easy, you have to work hard."

  The young man looked up at Zhu Chun in confusion.

   But Zhu Chun only smiled at him, this smile was so pure, so pure that even the young man was unguarded, the young man hummed.

  Zhu Chun already left behind a long shadow, leading the crowd, walking towards the noisy place with countless lights.

   "Two gentlemen..."

   "What orders does Your Highness have?"

   "You don't need to address Your Highness, people have always called me Shu scholar."

  The two great scholars smiled.

  Zhu Chun said: "Shu is a land of abundance, and the people are rich..."

   "Yes, especially Dian... Shu scholar, you... love the people..."

   Zhu Chun's eyes showed a bit of disappointment. He wanted to say something, but finally swallowed these words back into his stomach.

  ...

at the same time.

  Zhang Anshi returned to the Right Governor's Mansion.

  Zhang Anshi was still aggrieved by the scholar's prank, cursing.

  At this time, Chen Li had already arrived.

  Nanzhen Fusi is not far from here, so Chen Li often comes, and Zhang Anshi has long been used to it.

   "Captain, that matter...arranged properly."

   "Which thing?"

   "That man named Li Shimian..."

  Zhang Anshi winked at the clerk next to him, and the clerk hurriedly withdrew.

  Zhang Anshi immediately walked forward with his hands behind his back, and said, "This guy... is very popular now, right?"

"Yes, it can be said that everyone praises him. He and the king of Shu can't wait to be called sages now. These scholars who are in his mother's place are a gentleman today and a sage tomorrow. As long as they are in line with their wishes, they will be extremely beautiful. Words. From a lowly point of view...if they didn't fight against you, the governor, who would know them."

Zhang Anshi smiled slightly and said, "Let's not talk about the King of Shu, I can't afford to offend you now. But this matter about Li Shimian, you should do it as soon as possible, remember... do as I say, I don't want to see blood, don't kill people, I will To kill his heart."

  Chen Lidao: "Don't worry, the governor, you are humble in doing things, have you ever made a mistake, then... you are humble and start to do it?"

  Zhang Anshi shook his head: "You don't need to wait now. It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years. Let's do it the day after tomorrow. lest others say that I am stingy and impatient."

  Chen Li blinked his eyes hard, making his eye sockets slightly red: "Captain, you are really... Needless to say, you are so magnanimous..."

  So Zhang Anshi stared at Chen Li with a stern gaze, and Chen Li felt guilty all of a sudden, and smiled coyly: "One more thing, there is a message from Dongchang, saying that His Highness the King of Shu...seems to be lost."

  Zhang Anshi said: "It's none of my business."

  Chen Lidao: "But now the public opinion is raging, many people think... think..."

  He lowered his voice and whispered something to Zhang Anshi.

  Zhang Anshi said: "Understood, then send someone to look for it. Before tomorrow evening, I want to see people when I am born, and I want to see corpses when I die."

"Yes."

  ...

  The next day, when the entire capital was concerned about the life of His Highness the King of Shu.

  The king of Shu, Zhu Chun, arrived in the capital.

   This is beyond everyone's expectations.

  Many scholars were overjoyed.

  But there are also many people...unavoidably appear disappointed.

   This is a complicated psychology. They seem to be a little anxious that the death of the King of Shu is unknown. In this way, the King of Shu has become a sacrifice and evidence to accuse His Majesty of being the number one tyrant in the world.

  It's a pity that many scholars originally wanted to greet Zhu Chun, but now... when they learned that the King of Shu had news, it was too late to greet him.

  According to the news...His Royal Highness the King of Shu entered the palace quickly.

  In Wenyuan Pavilion.

  Yang Rong and Hu Guang are playing chess at this moment.

  Hu Guang stroked his beard and looked triumphant: "Mr. Yang, it seems...you are going to lose again."

  Yang Rong smiled: "Mr. Hu is amazing."

  Hu Guangdao: "Hey, I knew I would let you have a son."

  Yang Rong only smiled.

  Hu Guang knew Yang Rong well, and when he saw him like this, he said, "Mr. Yang... what kind of ghosts are you harboring?"

  Yang Rong said: "No."

  Hu Guangdao: "There must be, there are some things in your eyes that cannot fool me."

  Yang Rong said: "Really not."

  Hu Guang sighed: "Hey... If Yang Gong wants to hide it, then hide it."

  Yang Rong had no choice but to say: "Actually, I want to tell you one thing. I have played countless chess games with others in my life...but...the last time I taught people to admire my chess skills...was when I was sixteen years old."

   "Ah..." Hu Guang was surprised: "Mr. Yang's chess skills are so bad?"

Yang Rong smiled: "At that time, I was still too young. I was still young and energetic. I wanted to win or lose everything. But after I turned sixteen, I realized that winning or losing is just a human obsession. Forget it, the more obsessed with winning people in chess, the easier it is to lose in a mess outside of chess, so... when I play games with people, I often lose more than I win, so... only then can I make people laugh."

  Hu Guang: "..."

Yang Rong patted him on the shoulder: "It doesn't matter. Although you are now forty-two, it is not too late to understand this truth now. Everyone has the desire to win. This is human nature. Don't be indifferent because of this." Be willing to forgive yourself."

  The smile on Hu Guang's face was stiff, and gradually, even the stiff smile disappeared. He said angrily: "It's boring, it's really boring. I played chess with you, but you still play with your eyes."

  Yang Rongdao: "So it's rare to be confused. You have to break the casserole and ask the end. You didn't ask, but now you are still enjoying the joy of winning chess. Why not?"

  At this moment, someone came in a hurry: "Your Majesty has an order to announce that all the scholars will have an audience."

  Hu Guang asked urgently, "What's the matter?"

   "His Royal Highness the King of Shu...has entered the palace."

   When the two heard this, they looked at each other, and the eyes of each other became serious with displeasure.

  The king of Shu...is a very difficult problem.

  At the moment, Yang Rong said: "Let's go, go to have an audience immediately."

   Be careful today, maybe... His Majesty will be furious.

  At the moment, the third bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion entered the Wenlou.

  In the Wenlou, Zhu Di's expression was a little unhappy, he only glanced at them sideways, but didn't speak.

   The three of them saluted, and Zhu Di only hummed.

   Soon, an **** said: "His Royal Highness the King of Shu will see you."

   "Xuan."

  Zhu Di stood up and took a few steps forward quickly.

  Shu king Zhu Chun walked into the hall brokenly. Before he could salute, Zhu Di stopped in front of him and said with a smile, "Don't come here all right?"

   "Your Majesty...my brother..."

  Zhu Di waved his hand: "It's been a hard journey back this way. Hey, I've missed you for a long time. When I ordered you to enter Beijing, I kept pinching the date, but who would have thought that you were still a few steps late."

   "My younger brother will die..."

  Zhu Di waved his hand: "Don't say such things, come and give me a seat."

  Speaking, Zhu Di turned around and returned to the throne. After taking his seat, he looked up at Zhu Chun, the king of Shu who was sitting down.

  He had a smile on his face, but his eyes were dark and preoccupied.

   "You already know about the capital, right?"

   "My younger brother...knows a thing or two."

   "What do you think?" Zhu Di's eyes began to become slightly sharper.

  ...

  Five minutes late, sorry, mainly the efficiency of codewords at night is a bit slow, tomorrow... Tiger will update earlier, let's slowly recover.

  (end of this chapter)