When Hunjun begins to make elixirs

The grandparents and grandchildren of the Zhang family broke up on bad terms. If Li Shun knew this outcome, he would only be envious. What kind of fairy grandfather is this, so friendly.Unlike his dead ghost ancestors, who would take away themselves if they disagreed.People are not afraid of misfortune, only afraid of comparison.

Zhang Tingnian wanted to continue writing, but when he picked up the pen, it weighed a thousand kilograms. The pen was rising and falling intermittently. He concealed the matter about his grandfather and informed Li Shun that Taizu was still alive, hoping that he would be more vigilant.Each member of the family takes care of their own affairs, which is considered as a complete act of filial piety.Zhang Yun did not elaborate on their plan, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that they had evil intentions.

Looking to the south, Yan Dahu has already arrived in the river basin. Li Shun's intention is for him to recover the grain-producing areas in the middle and lower reaches first. He also sends some civil servants led by Liu Feixiong to recover one area and organize the people on the spot to harvest grain. How much can be harvested? how many.

Liu Feixiong led the people to work hard in the farmland to harvest. Due to the war and the lack of attendants, the rice yield dropped significantly. In addition, the harvest was late and some grains fell.Fortunately, Shenmu believers also need to eat, and some grain fields have been taken over by them.

Liu Feixiong was also ordered to plant a plant called sweet potato.After harvesting wheat and rice in the north, large-scale planting began.This plant is cultivated on a small scale in the coastal area of ​​Dayin and is said to have been introduced from overseas.To this end, the emperor also specially invited hundreds of farmers who have grown along the coast for guidance.

Sometimes, just one extra mouthful of food can save a family's life.The great famine in the north last year must never happen again.This is the consensus of conscientious officials in Dayin.It is said that the emperor gave orders to local governments and Shenji guards with administrative functions to search for food crops that could be planted at this time across the country and organize production.

If a local official was killed as a result, or was killed by the Shenmu Cult, his wife and children would be raised by the court and rewarded by the three tribes.Any official who can protect the local area from famine in the coming year can be promoted to one level.This is an opportunity for officials who dare to act and can act.

This is also an attempt to win the hearts and minds of the people with the Shenmu Sect. On the one hand, it only destroys and does not produce, but on the other hand, it is not afraid of life and death and organizes the people to save themselves. Which one is better and which is worse is clear at a glance.Of course, among them there must be some who are doing nothing but lying around, and even making profits secretly.For those idiots who don't know how to write the word "death", Li Shun can just use it to scare the monkeys and win people's hearts.

In Baota County, a province in the south, under the jurisdiction of Shuizhou, when the county magistrate He Ziyou received the order from the court, he was leading his subordinates and their wives, children and children to dig wild vegetables and gnaw tree bark in the mountains. It was occupied within a month.But the people who occupied it were not the Shenmu Cult, but a group of bandits, mostly composed of local people. The leader called himself the Pagoda King.

There are many such examples. The magistrate of the neighboring county was also occupied by bandits, but he was unlucky. He was blocked at the city gate and did not run away, but lost his head.

He Ziyou lamented the vast power of the emperor's newly established internal affairs office. They had been wandering around the mountains for so long, and the bandits were stunned and could still be found by them.

He Ziyou stood up, straightened out his tattered official uniform, and asked, "Have the imperial army come?"

The selection officer from the Internal Affairs Department had been looking for him in the mountains for a long time, and his clothes had been scratched a few times. He shook his head and said, "No, I am only responsible for conveying the court's orders to you."

He Ziyou smiled bitterly and said: "Look at the people around me, apart from the county magistrate, the chief registrar and dozens of government servants, are there any available people?" The picker said: "The rebels have occupied the county. But there is no way to control some rural areas. They are based on clans and have their own youth and strength to resist the intrusion of bandits. If you hold the title of court official and ask for help, they will definitely accept it. They rely on the court for everything, and they also need you guys. What do local officials do?”

"In the Xungui Rebellion, many local officials were able to withstand the rebel attacks for several days and nights, but you didn't even resist for a day, so you ran away with your family members and ate your royal salary!"

He Ziyou was taught to lower his head.The chief clerk named Yang beside him couldn't bear to listen: "Why did the superior say this? The Shenmu Sect rebelled, and those bandits took advantage of the situation. They had many internal agents in the city. They even had people in the county government. When the incident happened Suddenly, if our county magistrate He hadn't been an upright official and was popular among the people, and someone had sent us a letter in advance, we would have been killed long ago."

"The emperor implemented the New Deal in the north and abolished the privileges of the gentry. As a result, the gentry here have grudges and many people are still waiting and watching. It's not that we didn't want to organize them to resist, but they didn't respond at all."

The internal affairs selector had no time to listen to their complaints: "I have written down everything you said. You are herdsmen for the emperor. It is up to you to decide how to act. Those who disagree with the emperor's new policy will be dealt with when the army arrives. Those who violate the rule of law will be dealt with by themselves. , Gentlemen who blatantly collude with the rebels will not end well. We have killed many such people in the north, and I would like to see if the necks of you southerners are harder than those of the northerners!"

He Ziyou and others looked at the backs of the people from the Internal Affairs Department leaving, and fell into deep thought.The centipede insect is dead but not stiff.A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.Dayin's 200-year-old foundation would definitely crush a number of people to death if it collapsed.

He is familiar with history books and knows that the first person to lead a rebellion usually does not end well, so the Shenmu Sect's uprising will not succeed.First, Dayin will definitely use all his strength to extinguish it. Second, the Shenmu Sect does not conform to the values ​​of the traditional gentry and cannot gain their support.This is also true.

The ones who really have the potential for rebellion are the bandits.Waiting for Shenmu Sect and Dayin to suffer both losses, they can also develop to a large scale.By then, if the court is unable to suppress it, the world will only become more chaotic than it is now.

He Ziyou is an ambitious man, similar to Bai Linxian, but his life is better than Bai Linxian.His ambition is not to become king and dominate, but to choose a good master, achieve great things, and leave a name in history.

He felt that his talent was not appreciated and he had been the county magistrate for too long.While other officials were running to big towns, he led his people into the mountains. In addition to people from the county government, he also gathered many refugees.

He saw people from the Internal Affairs Office bringing sweet potato seedlings that had finished germination.Emperor Shengtong was not a foolish emperor. Judging from the new policies he implemented, they were indeed good.But before he came, it was too late, Dayin had already accumulated too much trouble to return.

No matter how sharp the Shengtong Emperor's butcher knife is, can he kill all the gentry and wealthy families in the country?Are the gentry just allowed to be slaughtered?He was able to succeed in the North because the North's economy lagged behind that of the South.Being an official in the south even depends on the faces of local wealthy families. It is based on clan, and some even have clan soldiers. (End of chapter)