Please ask me to be the emperor

"Look, Your Highness, there is the Jiuqu Bridge in front of you!" Zhang Shun heard the words and followed the Gu clan leader's hand and saw a small bridge crossing a clear water.

On its right is a pavilion surrounded by clear water; on its left is a lake with fields of lotus leaves and boats and boats, which appear and disappear in it.

Zhang Shun raised his eyes and looked into the distance. In the hazy mist and rain, pavilions, pavilions, waterside pavilions and corridors were all looming. He couldn't help but blurt out: "What a beautiful picture of the south of the Yangtze River!"

"Your Highness is ridiculous!" The Gu family leader smiled and said modestly, "My Gu Garden, although it is called a garden, is actually just a house. It is not as good as the Wang family's home, the Lion Grove of Sheng'en Temple. , the Canglang Pavilion of Dayun Nunnery, and the East Garden of the Xu Family!"

"Oh?" Zhang Shun was confused when he heard this. He had never heard of "returning to the countryside" or "lion forest".

"Your Highness, these four gardens are all famous gardens in Suzhou!" Qian Qianyi saw that Zhang Shun didn't understand, so he quickly explained in a low voice.

The four major gardens in Suzhou?

Zhang Shun was startled when he heard this, and then he reacted.

It's like when you go to a friend's house and compliment them on how nice the house is, they reply: "It's just average, worse than the Forbidden City."

Where are you at Versailles, you!

"The Gu Garden of the grassroots is only thirty acres in size, which is actually far inferior to the seventy-eight acres of the home in the countryside. The forty acres of the East Garden are worse than the fifteen or six acres of the Lion Grove and Canglang Pavilion." The head of the Gu clan. Hearing this, he answered with a smile.

Uh. How do I remember that residential area is generally measured in square meters? When did it become measured in acres?

Zhang Shun raised his eyes and looked into the distance, only to see Gu Yuan as far as the eye could see. For a moment, he really thought of ordering his Gu family to be confiscated and exterminated.

If you don't go to the capital, you don't know how small the official is; if you don't go to the south of the Yangtze River, you don't know how rich the people are.

For some reason, the gentry and wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River liked to build gardens the most.

The larger one is dozens of acres, the smaller one is more than ten acres, ranging from the capital city of Nanjing to the countryside of prefectures and counties.

If we look at it carefully, we don’t know how many hectares of cultivated land it occupies.

During this period, hundreds or thousands of slaves were raised, hiding the population and affecting production.

If Zhang Shun's temper had not been the same when he first launched his army, he would have had his house confiscated and his clan wiped out.

Of course, this is not because Zhang Shun's temper has improved, nor is it because he is "full", but because he has new ideas after understanding the social structure of Jiangnan.

If we look at the classic social model designed by Shang Yang and Han Feizi, the world should be built on farming and war, such as Confucian scholars who write books, political strategists who only use their words, knights who neglect life and value righteousness, and businessmen who have a lot of money and are good merchants. They are all silverfish in society.

However, from the perspective of later generations, it is obvious that these people also played their due role in society.

In particular, merchants operating industry and commerce are the main driving force for society to enter capitalism.

The reason why Zhang Shun was polite to them was not that he had converted to Buddhism and stopped eating meat, but that he had a better understanding than people of this era that these groups of Confucian scholars, businessmen, and landlords were used to suppress the old landlords. What advantages does class have?

It should be noted that his opponents are not only these bureaucrats and gentry, but also the remnants of the previous dynasty, landlords, evil gentry, stubborn feudal ideas, etc. hidden everywhere.

Therefore, for them, Zhang Shun was thinking about how to strip away their status as landlords and correct their development path.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shun couldn't help but smile and praised: "Good, good garden!"

"I don't know what's good about it, why would you please give me some advice?" At this moment, Gu Tinglin looked at the deserted garden and couldn't help but sarcastically said.

"Tinglin, when I'm talking to His Highness, you have no role to interrupt!" The Gu clan leader couldn't hear the resentment in Gu Tinglin's words, so he hurriedly scolded him.

"Hey, young people, it's natural to be a little arrogant." Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun stopped him with a smile, "If everyone is depressed and arrogant, wouldn't it be a great misfortune for the country?"

"This" The Gu clan leader and Gu Menglin were not sure of Zhang Shun's intentions for a while, and couldn't help but look at each other.

Seeing that the fire was almost done, Zhang Shun smiled and said: "How can we not make people fall in love with this scene? I happen to have some experience, so why not give it to this little brother!"

"Thank you for your grace, Your Highness!" Gu Tinglin pretended not to see the eyes of the clan leader and clan brother, and thought to himself, let's wait and see what he says.

"Gu Lu and Zhu Zhang, the four major surnames in Jiangdong, worked together to resist Duke Cao in Chibi." Zhang Shun smiled slightly and couldn't help but say.

"Another salesman came from the west. Unexpectedly, he was killed in Baidi City. All the heroes in the world were dead, and then he realized that there was a Huanglong in the world. The Huanglong didn't know that the world was big, and he was not as good as your Majesty sitting in the east of the Yangtze River."

"I have pity on heroes and heroes. I beg Tian to inquire about the life and death of She Meng. Suddenly I heard the golden drum coming from the river, and the Longxiang tower boat arrived at Jinling!"

After Zhang Shunyi finished reciting the poem, everyone was stunned on the spot.

For one thing, they didn't expect that "Mud Legs" could also compose poetry.

Second, there was too much information in the poem, and they did not understand the voice-over.

The superficial meaning of this poem is very simple. It describes that during the Three Kingdoms period, the four great surnames Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang in Jiangdong followed Sun Quan and defeated Cao Cao and Liu Bei successively. However, after defeating these two heroes, Sun Quan and his officials had no enterprising spirit. Ask for fields and houses.

When the sound of golden drums was heard on the Yangtze River, it turned out that General Wang Jun of Longxiang led the boat down the river to destroy Soochow.

"This is a song of compromise!" Gu Tinglin was the first to judge. "King Shun defeated the Jin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty one after another. His power was as strong as that of Sun Quan who defeated Cao Cao and Liu Bei successively."

"Then Sun Quan tolerated the four major families of Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang in asking for land and housing, so naturally he can tolerate my current Jiangdong family!"

"No, no, I'm afraid this is a threatening word!" Gu Menglin looked at the crowd who had passed the Jiuqu Bridge and objected, "If you explain it like this brother, there should be no last two sentences."

"Since His Highness added the last two sentences, he must be comparing the Ming Dynasty to Soochow. It means that the power of the Ming Dynasty will soon perish. Our Gu family must stand in line in time and don't stand in the wrong position!"

"What are you two doing?" Just as Gu Menglin and Gu Tinglin were arguing, a woman's voice suddenly spoke up.

"Why are you here?" Gu Menglin and Gu Tinglin were startled when they heard this, and they couldn't help but quickly turned their heads to look. Sure enough, they saw a man with a smile like a flower looking at them.

The two of them took a closer look and saw that the man was tall and slender, with two pendants hanging from his earlobes, and his heroic brows and eyes were somewhat charming.

It turns out that the man is not a man, but a woman dressed in men's clothing.

"Oh, I heard that the 'shun thief' is the most lecherous. If you are touched by him, what will happen?" When Gu Tinglin saw it, he quickly reminded him.

"What thief? Are you so rude? Could it be that he is a robber?" Unexpectedly, the woman not only was not afraid, but asked unconvinced.

"Oh, my aunt, have you ever heard of King Shun? You are so confident!" Gu Tinglin couldn't help but persuade.

"What, is it him?" The woman was so frightened that she turned pale and turned around to leave.

"Why are you scaring her?" Unexpectedly, at this moment, Gu Menglin suddenly said, "Xianmei is dressed in men's clothes and can almost pass the fake as the real one. How can His Highness King Shun recognize her?"

"By the way, Sister Xian, Brother Yu just happened to have something to ask you for advice. I never thought you would just come!"

"What's the matter?" Then the woman remembered that this "submissive thief" was fond of women but not men. As long as he didn't say anything, it would be fine.

"That's it." After hearing this, Gu Menglin quickly told her the poem Zhang Shun had just written in detail.

"Oh, you're talking about this!" The woman frowned when she heard this and said with a smile, "Maybe there is compromise, maybe there is threat. I think it may be more to blame me. The Gu family only knows how to beg for land and homes, and is trapped in Jiangdong. , unwilling to look beyond the world!"

After saying this, she couldn't help but comment: "I didn't expect that this 'shun thief' came from a rough background and could be so heroic."

"Even my dignified Gu family in Wu County looks like a small family in his eyes!"