Chapter 1026: Hard days
"Your salary and your salary are the people, and the people are rich. It is easy for the people to abuse, but it is difficult for God to deceive you!"
Feng Ying looked at the wall of the side box and praised: "Brother Yang, your writing is getting more and more tangible. If you write well, it is even better to write here. This side box is where these yamen runners usually rest. You can see this line of words as soon as you look up, which is more alert to them."
"Just remind me." Yang De said lightly: "Actually, I believe more in the role of the law. If there are really those who dare to test the law with their own body, and to capture a few, they will be able to kill chickens and scare monkeys."
Feng Ying laughed and said, "You always think that everyone is a bad person, which is wrong. In fact, in my opinion, most people are still good. At the beginning of a person, their hearts are good."
"There is something wrong with this sentence." Yang De shook his head like a rattle: "I think it is more appropriate when people are evil in their early years. Think about whether you would steal food, toys from your brothers and sisters when you were still ignorant, and your parents prefer other people. Do you feel jealous? The reason why you will know how to be humble and compassionate when you grow up is because you are bound by morals, laws, etc. in this world."
"If the gentlemen in the school hear this sentence, they will definitely not let you go."
Yang De snorted coldly: "Everyone's heart lives, but in normal times, we are trying hard to suppress him. Power, beauty, wealth, and fame are colluding with this demon king to come out for trouble. Without moral constraints and the threat of the law, this demon king will have trouble. I think that when Li Xiang was in the north, no matter how difficult it was, he would have to popularize the school, let more people read and read, support Chunyu Shangshu to practice the law for nearly ten years, and let my Tang Dynasty laws gradually improve, just to make our people understand etiquette, know the law and then be able to abide by the law."
"Stop, let's not think about sleeping today if we two start to debate this issue." Feng Ying waved his hands repeatedly, "I specially asked you to teach and warn these people, not to debate with you. I've prepared a midnight snack, let's have a few drinks."
Yang De smiled: "I have eaten and drunk with you here, but I was seen by other supervisors. I must study my book."
Feng Ying disagreed: "Some of you like to make a big deal. Could it be that you supervisors can't have friends? I invite you, it's official business. Even if I invite you for public expenses, others can't say anything, right? What's more, I'm still paying money privately? Let's go and talk nonsense. A few days ago, I dug out the wine buried twenty years ago from my house. It's really a good thing. I'm just going to have a jar."
"Have you been buried for decades?" Yang De's eyes lit up. He has been making wine for many years in Northland. Everyone knows that the longer the thing is, the more fragrant it is, the more delicious it is. The earliest batch of wines was only ten years ago. It has been in Northland without any market, and no one is willing to sell it. There are actually ones from this guy's house twenty years ago? "Isn't it a liar to me, right?"
"You will know it after a taste!" Feng Ying dragged Yang De away. "When we were driven out of Chang'an and walked north miserably, we felt that our lives could not be saved. Who could still remember these wines buried underground? The fake Liang high-ranking officials who occupied our house naturally didn't know this. Later, didn't I remember it? He also beat his chest and stamped his feet! So when he came back this time, the first thing he did was to dig them out."
While they were talking, the two had already arrived in the study room of the back hall. The table was not a delicious dish, but just some military food. There were also four or five kinds of jerky meat, dried fruit, canned food, etc. Attracted by Yang De, it was a sealed ceramic jar that could hold about two kilograms of fine wine.
"Have your family taken back the house?" Yang De asked after sitting down on both sides.
Feng Ying nodded, took a small hammer, carefully knocked on the mud seal, pulled out the plug, and the aroma of wine suddenly spread out in the small study. He picked up the jar and poured the red wine inside into the transparent glass cup.
"Although my family has taken root in the north, with property and industry, once Chang'an is recovered, the old man couldn't wait to pack up and bow and come back, so he sold all the industries in the north to others at a discount." Feng Ying said: "The old man said that he was born in Chang'an and would definitely die in Chang'an in the future."
Yang De picked up the wine glass and gently swayed the wine in the cup, "You Yongji Bo Mansion was considered a big family and a big business in Chang'an back then, right?"
Feng Ying laughed: "You boy, don't be sarcastic. My family took back the house, but we wouldn't ask for the land and land from that time. After so many years in the north, we have clearly understood the national policy, so how could we find such discomfort. The old man wrote a memorial to Li Xiang and asked someone to hand it over. He originally just asked to return it to the ancestral tomb and temple for more than a hundred acres of land."
Speaking of this, Feng Ying sighed: "The ancestral temple has been destroyed long ago, and the ancestral tomb is in a dilapidated state. The old man cried and was sick for several days. Li Xiangrenyi not only returned the land, but also returned my house. He said that he could not let down the hearts of heroes."
"So, Yongji Bo has set a good example this time. Come on, let us brothers raise our glasses and respect Yongji Bo with a cup!" Yang De said solemnly.
"If the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, how can the family survive?" Feng Ying raised his glass and said, "Although my old man is not young, he has also studied Li Xiang's theory of state and ethnicity. Besides, my family has long since stopped relying on the fields to dig food."
The two of them touched the cups, took a sip, closed their eyes at the same time, letting the wine roll in their mouths, and sucked for a moment before swallowing it.
"It's true that wine is good." The two of them said in unison.
"But Yongjibo's move will attract people's hatred," Yang De reminded.
"Are you talking about the guys who have been staying in Chang'an?" Feng Ying burst into laughter, "Whoever is the old noble officials who have returned from the north, doesn't know what the current national policy of the Tang Dynasty is? They will inevitably respond in groups, and even if they are unwilling to do so, they can only do this. And Li Xiangfa's move to return the old house is probably also a hint that everyone. Some things can be paid back, but some things can't be paid back. As for those who surrendered to the pseudo-liang back then, hahaha, a group of fools thought that following Wang Shu and finally came to open a city to welcome the king's army, can the past be cancelled? It's absolutely not. In my opinion, if they know a little more, they can still protect themselves. If they really want to do something, it would be nice."
"So, a great purge is coming next!" Yang Dedao.
Feng Ying burst into laughter: "You guy's eyes have always been only focused on your own people. If you look at them, you will definitely move immediately."
"What does it mean to only look at your own people!" Yang De said dissatisfied: "If you don't stare at you, you will easily get into trouble. If you are not at peace inside, why not talk about the outside? Li Xiang said that the responsibility of us is to keep a close eye on the inside. We will never allow the Tang Dynasty to appear tall and talk about the clean government and integrity. The fox sat down and applauded, while the flies and mosquitoes buzzed and exploited the people."
"Stop, stop, let's go off topic!" Feng Ying raised his glass and invited him to drink: "Brother Yang, you can also apply to get back to your ancestral home!"
Yang De shook his head: "Forget it, I went to see my small courtyard after I came back. I don't know how many times I've been through. Now I live a family of honest businessmen. I want it back, where are they going? Besides, that house is my sad place. It's better not to go back, but I can buy another small courtyard."
"That's right. Now Changan's housing prices are extremely sluggish, and it's a good time to take action!" Feng Ying said: "Thinking about Wuyi's housing prices, it's really terrifying."
Yang De picked up a piece of jerky, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, saying, "Is it still difficult for food and other supplies now?"
Feng Ying sighed and nodded and said, "It's not just a difficulty? You, the supervisor, are difficult to understand the troubles of us, the people-friendly officials. Sometimes some things that are contrary to the law are really unwilling to do. Do you know what I am most anxious about now? It's food. Guanzhong is completely abandoned, and I can't find a few grains even if I dig three feet into the ground, let alone Chang'an. Zhu Youzhen's damn plunder is to plunder it completely. Now Chang'an uses the food squeezed out of the army. I sit in the yamen. Every day, I'm frightened and reported that a few people starved to death! You just write in the memorial to the letter how many people starved to death in Chang'an County. Feng's body is in a bare-feeding place, but I don't know that I'm racking my brain to find food!"
Yang De did not refute this time. Some of his colleagues did specialize in these things.
"It's also difficult for Li Xiang! In the north, the brewing industry has been banned from brewing wine, and the ban will continue until next summer harvest. All grain must be transported here. However, road traffic limits the speed of transportation. Moreover, as soon as the war in the south starts, the demand for food is even greater. Now, everything that can be eaten in the north is constantly transporting here, but it will take some time to alleviate the problem of food shortage in Chang'an. Yesterday I only received 20,000 kilograms of grain, 50,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes and some dried sweet potatoes. For the entire Chang'an County, it's a drop in the bucket."
"I know this too." Yang Dedao: "Yixing Club Headquarters has issued an initiative to let each Yixing Club member donate money and lose food, regardless of how much. This action has led to ordinary people in the north and should raise a large amount of food."
"It will take time for us to come!" Feng Ying said. "The responsibility of us now is to do everything we can to avoid starving people to death in the territory."
Chapter completed!