Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 955
On the road leading to all directions in Sili, there appeared this strange pair of two people, one old and one strong, chatting and looking around along the road, I don't know what they were looking for, among them, Liu Qu was laughing every day. Lol, this old man is definitely the funniest old man Liu Qu has ever met. Liu Qu has also heard that some people in the court, such as Cao Situ in the past, and Sun Xiaowei of the Southern Army, are all witty. But they are not as good as Handan Chun.

Handan Chun took Liu Qu along, and according to Handan Chun's own account, he had studied with great Confucianism in the early years, learned the classics and righteousness, and achieved quite a lot. This is why Zheng Yi could tolerate that day. If someone else went up, even if the other party told No matter how wonderful it is, it will definitely attract scolding, but Handan Chun is different, he is a great Confucian, Zheng Yi has to bow his hands and pay respects when he sees him, so although Zheng Yi is dissatisfied that he treats the grand ceremony as a joke, he still does not The method is to face to face accusation.

However, the strange thing is that this old man doesn't like to read books. His Confucian status was completely forced by his family. In the past few days, he has visited various regions of Dahan in the name of studying, except for Guishuang, overseas and other regions. Therefore, this person has a special understanding of the customs and customs of different regions.

He also collected jokes and folk anecdotes from all over the world, and even compiled several books.

In the past few days, Liu Qu has enjoyed listening to Handan Chun talk about the situation in various places, especially Handan Chun has made accurate evaluations of some evil things that he does not know. For example, every time the emperor wants to inspect the surrounding At that time, how did officials from all over the country prepare for the response? Handan Chun wrote a ballad for this, and the title was called "The Official Is Coming". Every time Liu Qu heard him sing it softly, he laughed , There is always a trace of cheated anger in my heart.

"Your Majesty, do you see that the crops here are growing well? The endless crops are growing gratifyingly, which is really the best portrayal of a bumper harvest year!" Handan Chun said, pointing to the farmers in the distance, Looking at the flourishing crops, Liu Qu felt happy immediately, with a hint of pride on his face, "That's natural, the Sili area is the richest area in the world!"

"That is, in the richest area, there are the richest people and the richest officials. For example, the crops in front of us are the best gift that the Right Fufeng Order here presents to His Majesty. These crops are all is his"

"No! Officials of the Han Dynasty are not allowed to own such family property!"

"Yeah, he thinks so too, but his elder brother and younger brother don't seem to agree. The relatives in the family are managing these farmlands, which belong to them in name, but in fact they are still the property of You Fufeng Ling."

When Liu Qu looked at those farmlands again, there was only anger in his eyes. He felt a greater mockery. He looked behind him, and suddenly, Yuan Shang, who was pretending to be a follower, came to them. Liu Qu sneered He said, "What's the name of You Fufengling?"

Yuan Shang was taken aback, and said without hesitation: "It's called Yuan Chang."

"Yuan Chang? Are you related?"

"Same race."

"Then you should investigate your fellow clan carefully, and don't let him take the entire Yuan family to Huangquan." Liu Qu squinted his eyes, lowered his head, and ordered seriously. Yuan Shang was under a lot of pressure, and hurriedly bowed his head and said Yes, after Yuan Shang walked away, Liu Qu just sneered, and secretly said to Handan Chun who was beside him: "I must find a way to wipe out all these rats in the country. When I return to the court, the supervisory office will become The monitoring platform is responsible for monitoring all officials for me!"

Hearing Liu Qu's words, Handan Chun didn't answer.

In this way, the two continued on their way. Among them, in addition to the problems of officials, Handan Chun also let Liu Qu see many problems existing in the big man. Of course, the problems of officials are still the most important. In addition, the biggest problem still comes from the ranger. This ranger problem is not the one that Zhuge Liang and the others saw. What Zhuge Liang and the others saw was that Yu Ding became a ranger because he had no livelihood. They considered the general direction.

And they ignored a small problem, that is, what problems will so many rangers cause among the people, there are so many rangers, they make friends with each other, form many factions, and then fight each other, and even squeeze ordinary people, begging for money from them , especially for those traders, they are even more vicious. If they don't hand over money to them, the business cannot continue, and if they report to the government, if the government arrests those people, there will be other rangers to avenge him. This makes the traders They didn't dare to act rashly.

These rangers are also smart, they never provoke the government, nor do they offend those big merchants, they just look for those low-level merchants to bully them, many officials even condone their behavior, because they also hold the idea of ​​emphasizing agriculture , thinking that merchants are the cancer of the big man, and what the ranger treats them is all their own fault, and the government should not participate in their actions.

This kind of conniving behavior made the ranger even more rampant, shifting the target from merchants to farmers, and even some students. Not long ago, there was a student murder case. At that time, a ranger teamed up to defraud a student and framed He insulted the woman and asked him to give money to avoid disasters. Unfortunately, they didn't know that this student was Gongyang's apprentice. At that time, they fought with each other, killed four rangers, and were arrested by the government.

If it weren't for Handan Chun, Liu Qu would never have even thought that a ranger would be like this. In Liu Qu's mind, he has always admired a ranger, and he himself has always wanted to be a ranger, but now, from Handan Chun's Hearing these things out of his mouth, Liu Qu felt that his heart seemed to be shattered in an instant, which made him unbearable. On the way, Liu Qu didn't say anything, he frowned, and the whole person became silent.

Although Handan Chun was still telling his jokes, Liu Qu couldn't laugh anymore.

Is this really an unprecedented prosperity? ?Liu Qu looked suspiciously at everything around him. What he came into contact with was the ever-increasing grain production of the big man, one after another talented people serving the country. He looked at the most powerful northern and southern armies of the big man, but now, he However, he found that he hadn't seemed to be able to see this big man clearly. The big man was not as perfect as he thought, and there were still countless hidden dangers, and many people were still suffering.

But the emperor of his country has never heard of these things at all.

"Elder, tell the truth, am I a very failed emperor?" After the two had walked for a long time, Liu Qu finally asked what was in his heart. Handan Chun laughed, and he said: "Your Majesty has a temper Free and easy, playful, not fond of government affairs, calming anger, these are all different places from many previous emperors." Hearing his answer, Liu Qu was furious, and wanted to explain something, but he still held back , and did not say anything.

"Hahaha, but, although His Majesty has a free and easy temper, he has a heart of benevolence and righteousness. He can be happy because of the people's harvest, he can hate corrupt officials so much, and he can care about the lives of these low-level Guizhou leaders. This is different from many former emperors. in the same line”

"Then am I a failed emperor?"

"Your Majesty, what kind of emperor can be regarded as a successful emperor?"

"Emperor Xiaode told me that the emperor who makes the country strong and the people rich is the emperor who is successful."

"As expected of the emperor of filial piety, what about your majesty's free and easy nature? If you don't like government affairs, what about playfulness? As long as you can make a big man better, your majesty has 1 bad habits, and your majesty is also a successful emperor. ", Handan Chun said so, Liu Qu seemed a little awakened, nodded in a trance, and didn't say anything, but, next, he took out a book and recorded many things that Handan Chun said one by one down.

Sometimes, he was too lazy to record, so he asked Handan Chun to help record. Handan Chun smiled and asked him for the fee, but he would still record his words and hand them to the emperor.

The Son of Heaven is still the same inattentive and stubborn temper, he has not changed, but he has also begun to pay attention to some things.

The two were sitting in a roadside restaurant. The owner of the restaurant greeted them with a smile and asked them to sit down. The decoration here is simple, but it is still very clean. Liu Qu looked around and couldn't help nodding his head. He smiled and asked: "Is this an official office?" The store owner was busy not far away. Hearing their inquiry, the store owner hurriedly got up and smiled and replied: "Mr., I opened this place myself. Emperor Xiaode."

Liu Qu nodded. The original restaurants and restaurants were all opened by the government, and people were sent to take care of them. These people would receive the salary from the temple, and they were considered to be working for the government. During the time of Emperor Xiaode, they were completely open. In addition to these, it is a big move to allow private restaurants to open restaurants, but it has indeed played a very good role. The common people have thanked the emperor for his benevolence. Up to now, these people still never forget it.

Liu Qu was listening to this man's words. Suddenly, seven or eight strong men appeared in the distance. These men were wearing long swords. Obviously, they were all rangers here. They walked towards this place carelessly. Yuan Shang He was about to go forward, but was pulled back by Liu Qu, Liu Qu shook his head towards him, Yuan Shang backed away, and the ranger walked over, did not come to Liu Qu's side, and sat down directly opposite.

They chattered casually, and the shopkeeper stepped forward to serve him cautiously.

"Master Zou, haven't you paid your family's offerings for this month?" the leader of the ranger asked with narrowed eyes, and the old shopkeeper said fearfully: "A few days ago, my son went to the Military Academy. There’s really not much left to pay him.”

"Oh?? Threate us with your son who is studying in military science?? Hahaha, will we be afraid of a mere military student? Do you think his sword is fast or mine?" The leader stood up suddenly and grabbed Holding the old man's neck, the shopkeeper trembled in fear and hurriedly begged for mercy.

"I guess, you will die soon," Liu Qu said coldly, standing up slowly.

The ranger turned his head to the side, looked at Liu Qu seriously, looked at Liu Qu for a moment, and then smiled, "Your Excellency, I'm just joking with him, don't worry about it."

At that moment, Liu Qu didn't answer, picked up the bearded chair beside him, and threw it towards the person. The solid bearded chair flew out. When they hit each other hard, the ranger's head exploded like a melon, and blood splashed everywhere. At that moment, the shopkeeper fainted, Handan Chun's face was pale, and those rangers looked at the exploded head blankly, and shouted With a sound, he fled backwards rolling and crawling.

Liu Qu roared angrily, leaped forward, grabbed the ranger's body, and threw it towards those people, immediately knocked over three more, Liu Qu rushed up, grabbed one, and punched him in the face With three punches, the man's face could no longer be looked directly at. He remained motionless, tilted his head, and was beaten to death. Yuan Shang stared at the front in a daze. Just as he reacted and pulled out his long sword, those The ranger had already been subdued by Liu Qu alone, and five of them were killed, and the rest were lying on the ground, dead or alive.

Liu Qu wiped the blood off his face, turned around, and looked at Yuan Shang behind him.

"What are you doing standing still?"

"Uh-huh?"

"Help that shopkeeper up."

"Sincerely! Sincerely!!"

ps: Brothers, I’m sorry, the position where the heart is slightly upward these days, the inexplicable tingling, I don’t know the reason, so I delayed the update, today is much better, I will make up for the two days tonight.

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