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Chapter 851 Yunhua County (for Subscription)

Yunhua County is located in a small county more than 230 miles northwest of Kunnan County. The city is small and the people are few, the economy is depressed, the culture is not prosperous, and the martial art is not strong. It can be called the lower county among the lower counties.

It was also the first time for Meng Zhao to see a city with such a quiet and depressed overall atmosphere and mental state.

When you enter the city, you can see the mottled traces of time on the city gate, a large piece of the wall has fallen off, there are scratches from swords, holes from long arrows and crossbows, and even the deep red color soaked in blood. After vicissitudes of life, there is little repair. This is unimaginable for a county that regards the city gate as its face.

No matter how bad it is on the inside, the glamor on the surface always has to be disguised. However, Yunhua County is not even willing to pretend, and nakedly exposed the poverty and embarrassment of the county.

After entering the city, beggars in ragged clothes and holding bamboo poles or broken porcelain bowls can be seen scattered in the streets and alleys.

There are indeed quite a few people on the supposedly bustling streets, but most of them are dressed in ordinary or even tattered clothes, walking in a hurry, with traces of the oppression of life all over their faces, and very few glamorous people are not martial arts with swords A person of honor is a domestic servant from a wealthy family. He is arrogant, but he has a feeling of being crowned like a monkey.

These very few glamorous people, mixed in the majestic river-like flow of people, are inconspicuous at all, and occasionally they will get jealous and vicious looks from others.

Something was wrong, something was wrong, although Meng Zhao didn't say he traveled all over the world, but from Jizhou, then to Lingwu City, and now in Yanzhou, he has never seen any county with such a lifeless feeling.

It's not that there are cities that are poorer than Yunhua County, but their mental outlook is completely different.

"Here, Dali, have you ever been to this Yunhua County? Why is it like this?"

Although the rebellion in the south is in full swing, and the battlefield has even been expanded again and again, people with insight can see that Dayong is still in its heyday. It has only been 130 years since the founding of the country. Whether it is the issue of land annexation or the establishment of a powerful family, it has never reached its limit. , most of the people can live on food and clothing, no matter how poor life is, there will be unified dispatch of relief by the imperial court, so there will be no hope of life.

However, the people in this city gave Meng Zhao a sense of chaos in the chaos of war and even the end of the world, which made it difficult for him who claimed to be a child of a family to accept it.

"Hey, what else can it be, brother, you are from a noble family, haven't you heard of Zeng Wangzhi?"

Meng Zhao's expression changed, Zeng looked at it, and a thought flashed through his mind like lightning,
"You mean Zeng Bu?"

Niu Dali nodded. Now that he was dressed in clean and tidy clothes, he was less fierce and overbearing, and more honest and reliable. His strong and burly figure looked particularly powerful, much like Meng Zhao's guard.

"It's him. Yunhua County is an isolated case in Yanzhou. If it weren't for Zeng Wangzhi, Yunhua County wouldn't have fallen to the same level."

Zeng Bu, also known as Zeng Wangzhi, was born in Yunhua County, Yanzhou, Yongzhou. He was erudite and good at writing, handsome in appearance, arrogant and conceited.

Later, he entered the court and became a big boss, advocating the Tai'an reform, that is, reducing the power of sects and aristocratic families, suppressing people in the martial arts world, promoting Confucianism and legalism, and centralizing most of the power as the main idea. Become a very influential figure in Dayong Dynasty.

In essence, Dayong was founded by Taizu and a group of aristocratic families. At the beginning, the slogan was so loud that they ruled the world together with the aristocratic clans. As a result, Zeng Bu wanted to abolish the various privileges of the aristocratic clans and level off martial arts. Advocating to promote the style of writing is simply an alternative among alternatives.

The resistance it faces is unimaginable.

Of course, Zeng Bu is estimated to be just a chess piece, a puppet, who is really going to carry out reforms, and it will only be the Beitang royal family, and it can only be the Beitang royal family, because this reform may not be in the right place. The common people are beneficial to the world, but they must be beneficial to the Beitang royal family.

Of course, the reform in Taining undoubtedly failed. A reform that was contradicted and opposed by most of Dayong's aristocratic families and sects, as well as the person who presided over the reform, would definitely not end well.

Similarly, the great emperor who supported Zeng Bu's reform behind his back also failed and died of a sudden illness.

Meng Hongdao once talked with Meng Zhao about the war in the south. He guessed that it was related to the Li family with nine surnames. The monster shot to kill.

It is conceivable what will happen to Zeng Bu, who is at the forefront of the storm.

Ling Chi was put to death, deprived of all the glory of the past official position, smashed the living shrine built by the people for Zeng Bu, wiped out his nine clans, and even listed him as a member of the legend of the treacherous minister...

It can be said that when the vast majority of aristocratic families, sects, and even the high-end forces of the Jianghu are combined, they are unmatched. Zeng Bu cannot, and neither can the Beitang royal family.

And Yunhua County, the hometown of the "big treacherous official" Zeng Bu, has also become a city that is extremely disgusted and made things difficult by the upper echelons of the court because it submitted a petition to intercede for the once favored son of the county.

Taxes are too heavy, and once natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, the imperial court does not allocate funds. Those who have served as magistrates of Yunhua County over the years are all people who have failed in the court struggle, which is equivalent to being exiled here...

Year after year, Yunhua County has changed from a wealthy county to a poor county today.

Even if you want to move away from Yunhua County, it is very difficult, because it involves the transfer of household registration, it will inevitably be reported to the relevant government office, and then rejected, which is also a manifestation of the court's will.

That's why the whole city looks so lifeless, because there is no hope for the future, but it is hated by the upper-level forces in the whole country. It is quite good to be able to endure for so many years without outbreaks and chaos.

"It turned out to be like this. There is a saying that when one person attains the Tao, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. Now the entire Yunhua County has fallen into the abyss because of one person, and generations of people in the county have fallen into the abyss. It is really embarrassing!"

Meng Zhao always felt that choice was very important.

If Bu had stepped down in the first place, and the elders of Yunhua County had drawn a clear line with him, felt at ease, and treated themselves as their own people, instead of submitting a letter to the people and using public opinion to force the princes in the court to make concessions, then would not have led to the situation we are in today.

It can only be said that a qualified leader is very important, otherwise the leader makes a stupid decision, which is enough to affect the lives and even the survival of generations to come.

If there is no accident, the person who initiated the Wanmin Shu, and even that family, will also be cast aside and resented by the people of the entire county, and will be nailed to the pillar of shame together with Zeng Bu.

Unless, one day, Dayong is destroyed, and a group of people who once held the pinnacle of power are also submerged in the long river of history, Yunhua County has a glimmer of hope to regain its strength and regain its old outlook.

(End of this chapter)