Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 1153 Postscript 9·Realistic Works

So boring.

After getting familiar with the strange mathematical and physical symbols, Xie Yan was dragged by his little sister to play chess.

The three siblings are confined at home, and there is really no entertainment at all.

"General."

Xie Yan jumped on his horse and then sat there in a daze.

Xie Wan held her little head in her left hand, and gestured with the chess pieces in her right hand from time to time. After thinking for a long time, she finally said: "One more game!"

Xie Yan was too lazy to tidy up the chess board. Playing chess with children was too boring.

However, Xie Wan showed great interest. She arranged all the chess pieces on both sides by herself: "Vaulting horse!"

Xie Yan was already in a daze, and he casually fired a cannon.

At this moment, the second brother came back mysteriously and said like a treasure: "I asked someone to get a few novels, all of which were published recently."

Xie Yan immediately became energetic, abandoned his little sister and ran to share the spoils: "Give me a copy."

The younger sister pouted and was angry. She just wanted to win over her brother once, but damn sixth brother didn't know how to let it go.

These novels were wrapped in leather paper and tied with ropes for easy transportation.

The two brothers took apart the rope and leather paper and divided each person into half.

"Hey, it's not martial arts, nor is it gods, ghosts, geniuses or beauties." Xie Kan glanced at the cover and was disappointed.

""Tears of an Orphan"?" Xie Yan felt that it was a realistic theme.

Xie Kan heard this and looked over quickly: "This was a banned book a few years ago, but it can be published? That's right, the new dynasty has a new atmosphere."

The little girl had nothing to do, so she came over and asked for a copy.

Xie Yan asked: "What novels are the most popular today?"

Xie Kan said: "Those are the three types I just mentioned. However, in the past few years, the court had strict control, and martial arts novels that even used ancient and modern satires were banned. The authors found another way and changed the protagonist to go to sea and travel to overseas countries. He punishes rape and eradicates evil, and he also likes to kill corrupt officials overseas.”

"Can't the officials who reviewed the novel see that?" Xie Yan was amused.

Xie Kan said: "Just don't write about Ming Dynasty."

Xie Yan dragged a chair to the door and sat down. There was no sun here, there was a slight breeze, and the light was very bright.

After only reading a few pages, he knew why the book was banned.

The male protagonist is a young child. His father died in a boiler explosion and his mother remarried soon after. He and his grandmother depended on each other, and they went to the streets to beg for a living every day.

Just two days after begging, a group of beggars came to their door and asked them to hand over all their proceeds from begging, and promised to take care of their food from now on.

In this way, the grandfather and grandson were forced to join the beggar gang.

Not only were the copper coins they begged confiscated, but even the better meals would be taken away if they were not eaten quickly. If you are really hungry, the beggar leader will give you some rotten food.

The hero also witnessed many things. For example, on every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, officials would come to collect filial piety money. The beggar leader, who was usually fierce and vicious, saw the official Chai become like a quail. He offered the money with a smile on his face, then turned around and cursed the Guan Chai's eighteen generations of ancestors.

Two months later, my grandmother died of illness.

The beggar leader was so happy that he placed his grandmother's body on the street and asked the hero to kneel and kowtow there. He also asked someone to write the words "Sell your body to bury your ancestors" on the ground.

Of course I didn't sell my body, but I got more copper coins.

It wasn't until the stench came out of my grandmother's body that passers-by couldn't bear it and chose to report it to the government, so the government sent someone to take the body away.

The male protagonist wanted to follow him, but the official did not stop him, but the beggar leader stopped him.

The hero tried to escape many times, but was caught and beaten every time.

Later, he overheard the beggars discussing that they would send him to the countryside to blind him and break his legs. The male protagonist ran away desperately all night, and after being discovered by the beggars, he shouted "fire" at night along the way.

People in the nearby streets went out to check the situation, and the actor finally took advantage of the chaos and escaped to a cargo ship.

He didn't know how far he had traveled in the boat, but he was discovered by the crew and thrown to the shore.

The people in the countryside were kinder and it was easier to beg for food, so he begged all the way in the countryside.

It happened to be a year of disaster, and local officials were not in a good position to provide disaster relief, but fortunately, there were also kind-hearted wealthy people giving porridge.

Finally, the relief food arrived, and the porridge provided by the government was not as good as that of the rich. The hero barely survived with an empty stomach.

The disaster relief commissioner visited here, and the local officials distributed food according to household registration, urging the victims to go home quickly, and promised that seeds would be distributed during the planting season and that taxes would be exempted this year and next year.

The male protagonist has no household registration and has no idea where to go, so he is taken to the Salesian Home in a daze.

He ate at the Salesian Home for several days and felt that it was a place where gods lived. But after he recovered, he was taken to a factory and signed a labor contract with the factory as an orphan from the Salesian Home.

He worked in the factory for two years, and all his wages were taken away by the Salesian Hospital. He was miserable and tired but couldn't eat enough.

Moreover, his physical condition is getting worse and worse, and his young body is suffering from occupational diseases.

Finally, after a wrong operation, the male protagonist who caused a big disaster ran away because he was afraid of taking the blame.

He stained his face and fled into the slums, where he was taken in by a group of teenagers.

The eldest son of this group of teenagers is only around 18 years old. Because he dares to fight and kill, even the adult gangsters don't want to mess with them.

The boss treats the male protagonist very well, like a father and a brother, and he is willing to sacrifice his life for the boss.

Once when a crime got serious, officials rushed to the slums to arrest people. The boss asked them who would be willing to take the blame.

The hero's blood boiled and he immediately expressed his willingness.

But he is too young to be credible as the leader of a criminal gang.

The three of them are a criminal gang, and they will bear all the charges with the official.

The hero was so frightened that he made excuses to escape at night and disappeared into the dark wilderness...

The novel has not many words, about 70,000 to 80,000 words.

After reading it, Xie Yan felt heavy in his heart, and he thought about it over and over that night.

The next day, the second brother saw that he had dark circles under his eyes: "Didn't you sleep well?"

"It's okay." Xie Yan replied casually.

Xie Kan said: "If "Tears of an Orphan" can be lifted from the ban, it seems that the court will not only outlaw child labor, but also rectify institutions such as almshouses and sales homes. How many people's financial resources are there, and there will probably be a lot of trouble. ."

Xie Yan asked: "Are the officials in the Tongjuan Hall willing to obey now?"

"It's mostly a double act," Xie Kan said. "Especially after reducing the number of non-staff personnel, every staff member complained that there was a shortage of manpower. No matter what things were explained, they always said that they were doing it because of the lack of manpower, and they procrastinated and pretended all day long. Very busy.”

Xie Yan asked: "How to solve it?"

Xie Kan said: "Three-legged toads are hard to find, and there are too many two-legged toads. If they don't do it, there are many people who do it. The province has issued an official document that prefecture and county officials can replace and hire their own staff. And the relevant processes have been temporarily simplified.”

"I'm afraid this won't work yet." Xie Yan said.

Xie Kan said with a smile: "The officials are afraid of offending the wealthy families. Just arrest one family of the wealthy families in Huangzhou Prefecture to scare the monkeys, and the most arrogant family must be arrested. In the past, the local officials were worried about encountering a hard problem, but now if they encounter If you have a strong backbone, you will be able to stand out during the reform. Haha, my dad is already gearing up.”

Xie Yan asked: "Although our family is not considered a wealthy family in Hebei, we still belong to the gentry. Didn't my dad break up with the gentry in Huangzhou?"

Xie Kan thought this question was strange and asked: "What do the gentry in Huangzhou have to do with me, the gentry in Hebei?"

Xie Yan was speechless.

He felt that the gentry and the gentry belonged to the same class and it was normal for them to protect each other.

However, the characterization of class is only broad, but the reality is composed of individual people.

I'm an official from Hebei, what's wrong with arresting you, a wealthy person from Huangzhou? No matter how much money you make for the common people, how much profit can you share with me?

Especially since you used to have your eyes set above your head and thought you had a strong backer, you didn’t even give me a good look!

Now you want to curry favor?

It's too late!

Not only am I too lazy to pay attention to you, but even if your son comes to play football with my son, my son suffers from heatstroke and doesn’t stay at home with you.

What a deal it is to trade your head for my official hat.

A few more days passed.

Xie Kan stared at the new issue of "Da Ming Xun Bao", dumbfounded and silent for a long time.

Xie Yan asked: "What's wrong?"

Xie Kan swallowed: "The Prime Minister is crazy."

Xie Yan quickly moved over to read the newspaper.

However, the cabinet issued an imperial edict in the name of the emperor, allowing all the vacated officials in the capital, as well as the new scholars who had just passed the political observation period this year, to be temporarily designated as inspection censors, and to inspect the country to reduce the number of officials, ban child labor, and rectify charitable institutions. etc.

Xie Yan secretly thought that he was awesome.

These temporary inspection censors, especially those appointed by Hou Que officials, would probably go crazy and go to local counties to perform meritorious services.

Is it important that officials protect each other, that they are of the same class, and that Lao Tzu is released to the outside world?

Anyway, all the first three rows of the court were killed, and not many of the first ten rows were left. The new team are all people from the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister. No matter how tough your background is, can you be tougher than the Emperor?

At worst, we can just avoid investigating the aristocratic families related to the new rich.

If there is a ruthless person who is willing to risk his life just to gain a position, he will even deliberately attack the family of the upstart!

What the court is about to release are a group of mad dogs that bite everyone they see.

Xie Kan sighed: "I'm afraid our father won't be able to sleep. He has to complete a lot of government orders quickly. Officials are not happy."

Xie Yan laughed happily.

Xie Kan looked at the newspaper and smacked his lips: "Even the new number one scholar has been temporarily designated as the censor of inspection. This is the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Deng Xianggong was known for his iron fist when he was young. Now he is as powerful as he was then. He really dares to use the same methods as local governance to govern the entire country, and he is not afraid of causing trouble. "

In the evening, Xie Yiqin dragged his tired body home.

He discussed this matter with his sons and said with emotion: "Those reform upstarts in the court are also human beings. Mr. Deng is cutting his own foundation. Within ten years, if Mr. Deng does not die of illness, he will probably be killed by his fellow reformers." He was forced to resign and return home. How can he be so brave? After all, he has never been a central minister."

Xie Yan said: "Dad, you haven't done it either."

Xie Yiqin said: "Have you never eaten pork? Haven't you seen pigs running away? A group of mad dogs were let out, and the family members of the new reformers must have been bitten. Before the enemy was killed, Xianggong Deng swung his knife at his own people."

Xie Yan curled his lips.

(The guy was very interesting and said that Parliament was originally the king’s assistant against the great nobles.)

(Since we are talking about the beginning, let’s talk about Simon de Mondfort, the founder of the European Parliament. What did this man do? He hooked up with the princess and became the king’s brother-in-law. After his strength increased greatly, he forced the king to reform and hand over some power).

(The first parliament in Europe, the main topic was to limit the king's financial and military power. This guy later went to war with the king, captured a prince, reorganized the parliament and brought in the nobles and citizens to discuss how to limit the king's power. And this parliament did not allow the king to participate. In the end, the king was directly deposed.)

(You say such a parliament is an assistant to assist the king in fighting against the great nobles? King Henry III of England, who was deposed by the parliament, thank you.)