Zhui Xu

In November, the fog on the plain is still normal, and the sky in winter is still gray and hazy. A new round of reforms in Southwest China is making waves.

Looking from the back to the front, the most critical historical node is appearing at this moment, but people in reality do not realize how important the moment of their existence will be in future generations.

Because the reality itself undergoes drastic changes at every moment. Since the first Jurchen went south in the thirteenth year of Jing Han until now, several disasters enough to destroy the country, countless times of massacres, massacres, and disasters that have spread the sorrows of the people have all happened in this area. The earth appeared one after another, and most of these drastic changes eventually showed negative results. People are tired of such changes in such an environment, but gradually get used to such changes.

A change involving more than 200,000 people in one hundred villages. Although it is full of descriptions of a bright future, even optimistic people find it difficult to truly accept the reality of the possible realization of the "Great Harmony" ideal of "land to the tiller" . But so what, even if it fails, it is nothing more than the ups and downs experienced by a warlord force in such troubled times. Even though in the past two years, this warlord force has shown unimaginable strength, but in this challenge to the great ideal of "land to the tiller", people are quarreling fiercely, and what sounds in the bottom of their hearts is probably a low voice. sigh.

However, it seems to be a scene of intercepting a certain fragment in the mighty tide of history and overlooking it. The turbid water of the troubled times blasts out countless chaotic fluids in the dangerous bend, and some of them stagger forward in the tide. Some rush into huge waves, some form vortexes, and some are thrown off the track at any time and rush into the sky. Some of them will discover the truth first, while others are apprehensive and hesitant to move forward. Countless trends of thought have changed.

This is also the charm that can be presented in the great era.

Out of one hundred villages, ninety-three villages had violent or moderate confrontations, but there were always those very few who chose different paths for various reasons.

Xigu Village in the southeast of Chengdu is one of the very few villages where there are big landlords but they quickly negotiated the land resumption. On the second day of November, Qin Weiwen, the propagandist who came here, was having a headache because of something. .

"Well, it makes sense, makes sense..."

It was just after nightfall, and the second son of the new generation of the Qin family, who returned to the room of the temporary residence, heard the familiar footsteps outside and the sound of talking as if he was chewing some delicious food, and the pattering footsteps stopped outside the door. Then there was an impolite kick at the door.

"Young Master Qin—it makes sense. Are you there, Young Master Qin? It makes sense—"

He opened the door, and outside the door was still a temporary garrison of the Huaxia Army with various figures coming and going, and a country boy who was about the same age as him appeared outside the door. The other party kicked the door for a reason, I saw him holding a newspaper in one hand, and holding an oil lamp that seemed to come directly from the desk in the other hand, and he was putting his eyes close to the newspaper in the dark night , read carefully, smacking his lips while reading, and then kicked Qin Weiwen with his hastily picked up cloth shoes.

"It makes sense, Brother Qin—"

Qin Weiwen got kicked and smiled bitterly: "What's the matter, brother Nie?"

"The "Three Days Talk" that came in today! This article solved my confusion! It makes sense! It makes sense, Mr. Qin—"

The young man didn't seem to realize that he had kicked the opponent, and walked in, holding a newspaper in his hand and still screaming. Qin Weiwen closed the door, and the other party put the oil lamp on the desk beside him, and wiped the oil on his beautiful clothes a few times: "Come and see!"

Xigu Village, which has a beautiful environment and a lot of land, is the exception encountered in this land division operation. The specific reason is attributed to Nie Shaotang, the patriarch of the Nie clan here. Big, in the eyes of ordinary people, can be regarded as a tyrant who occupies one side. During the process of the Huaxia Army's unification of the Southwest, he was forced to surrender by Watermelon and Li Shishi's partner to Zhao'an. Since then, he has been following Li Shishi's line and is bound to him.

Different from ordinary political speculators, Nie Shaotang bets extremely firmly on the matter of standing in line, including in this land reform incident, what he has shown is this kind of firmness like wild intuition. After visiting Li Shishi twice, he became the first batch of big landlords who took the initiative to negotiate with the Huaxia Army on land redemption. Although the land property accumulated by several generations in the family era was exchanged for seemingly generous money and policy compensation enough to benefit three generations, at this point in time, it is actually difficult for any rationalist to figure out the reason why he is so transparent.

From the perspective of later generations, he actually did not have much "progressive" ideological consciousness.

However, several generous and firm bets on the Huaxia Army naturally brought him many good returns. Money matters aside, Nie Shaotang’s sons quickly became acquainted with the inner circle of Chengdu, just like his third son Nie Xinyuan who appeared in front of him. The gentle second son Qin Weiwen has a certain friendship. Of course, there may have been deliberate friendships in the past, but this time when Qin Weiwen came to Xigu Village to preside over the course, he discovered that Nie Xinyuan, who was gentle and gentle in Chengdu, actually had such a wild side.

From the first day the working group came here, Nie Xinyuan came over to pester Qin Weiwen, inquiring about various details of the land distribution, and constantly asking countless tricky questions. At first Qin Weiwen thought he was deliberately making things difficult, but then he discovered that the other party seemed to be a "revolutionary party" similar to Aunt Gua's gang. Countless novel ideas seemed to erupt in his mind, and many times it even made Qin Weiwen knot up. He stuttered and couldn't answer.

Qin Weiwen is only 18 years old this year, and his talents in learning and practicing martial arts are mediocre. Naturally, he was arranged to be a lecturer for experience—because he looks honest and honest. Ning Yi said: "You are more suitable for a lecturer than Ning Xi." Members, because they look kind." He came over after two months of training—but even though he had heard of the most intense equality theories in the Huaxia Army, he still didn't know much about them.

As long as Nie Xinyuan caught him these two days, he shook him like a curious baby, and Qin Weiwen had to rack his brains to answer. He is the head of the preacher, and he doesn't understand all kinds of tricky equality theories. At first, in order to pretend to understand, he would ask the old masters in the group from time to time, and then he was going to send Nie Xin away to bother others. However, Nie Xinyuan became ashamed, stared for a while, and then stammered: "No, I'm not familiar..." After that, he still came over to bother him.

Now here again, I saw him pointing to the news on "Three Days Talk" and enthusiastically recommending it to Qin Weiwen. The extremely straightforward political article, perhaps because of the unadorned directness of the whole point of view, attracted Nie Xinyuan's liking in front of him.

"...Brother Qin, take a look, take a look... Once this article is published, many of our previous questions will be clear..."

"...Throughout the ages, dynasties and dynasties, from the beginning, there will be a collection of interests one by one. Your family is, and so is my family... so many collections of interests, all of which are for their own benefit. After two or three hundred years, the tail is too big, and the people below will inevitably complain. Boiling... So what to do, so two or three hundred years will experience a change of dynasty, the essence of this change of dynasty is to smash and disperse these interest groups that have accumulated for two to three hundred years..."

"...To achieve this goal, it doesn't matter what means you use. It doesn't matter what the interest groups say they have reasons, because the fact is that if you don't leave, everyone's life will never go on... Then look at today In the Wu Dynasty, the dynasty changed in two or three hundred years, and the interest groups that have accumulated so many generations will definitely be destroyed. If you see that the Huaxia Army is gentle today and refuses to divide it, it will inevitably be forced to divide it by the butcher knife in the future. Lose, because it must be divided before everyone can start again..."

"...Such a simple truth, such a straightforward statement, it is deafening! It is deafening—I suddenly understood—"

Nie Xinyuan's words were also deafening, and Qin Weiwen rubbed his forehead: "This "Three Days Talk", usually publishes such eye-catching remarks, this... this is too... political conspiracy theory..."

"It's very reasonable! Brother Qin!" Nie Xinyuan sat down beside him, "There's no need to go into details, and there's no need to put justice in everything, of course it's like this when changing dynasties! There are so many big families in the Wu Dynasty, accumulated for so many years, and then Let them accumulate for three hundred years, how can ordinary people live, ordinary people can't live on, and big families are also massacred. So this article is very clear, the land reform methods of the Huaxia Army today are very face-saving, and few people are killed. Give back the money, give so much money. I think these landlords should understand that handing over the land and starting over is the only way to protect themselves for five or ten generations... This truth should be clearly explained to them. Lei Ting Only means can show the heart of a Bodhisattva."

Qin Weiwen couldn't help but smile: "You are so excited, you can negotiate with them."

"I think so too, but...there are too many people and I'm stuttering..." Nie Xinyuan was depressed for a moment, and then raised his head again, "But, you have to be vigilant about this matter! You read the second half of the article, saying that the Huaxia Army will solve this matter in two One direction, first, through the division of land, part of the accumulation of interests will be dispersed, leaving a bottom line for the people's life, and second, to expand the overall interests through research and commerce, increase the source of running water, and buffer this... group interests Accumulation. Because of the second point, there is room for soft-heartedness towards the landlord, and everyone's life is saved..."

"But..." Nie Xinyuan paused, "Is your second point right? If... I mean if, all dynasties of three hundred years have to undergo a thorough baptism before everyone can start again , Let everyone have another three hundred years... In case the second point is not so correct, your method of not killing people and paying back the money will make this three hundred years... a hundred years shorter. If everyone kills them, if you don’t, then the time accumulated to the point where everyone can’t stand it must be shortened..."

Qin Weiwen looked at him: "I didn't kill you...you're not happy..."

"Discuss, discuss, discuss issues..."

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"..."

The two sat there and looked at each other for a while, Nie Xinyuan was sincere, Qin Weiwen was speechless, but after a while, he narrowed his eyes in embarrassment before approaching.

"I'm just telling you in private, Uncle Ning...Mr. Ning is planning to formulate a basic national policy, which seems to be called...inheritance tax. For example, for big families like you, when your father dies, the things you inherit will be paid to the country. A tax of seventy to eighty percent, or even eighty to ninety percent, will kill you... Moreover, Mr. Ning emphasized that this tax cannot be deducted for any reason at any stage of the country... This Things are still under discussion, so don't talk nonsense, but if you want to make a decision, the founding of the country has to be made..."

Nie Xinyuan stood there with his mouth open, and after a while, he tapped his fingers subconsciously on the table, and his eyes lit up.

"It makes sense...it makes sense...it makes sense...it's a trick...Brother Qin, I really believe that you want to seek eternal peace...to create a great cause that has never been seen in a thousand years..." He muttered to himself, and after a while, suddenly Grabbing Qin Weiwen's hand, Qin Weiwen frowned immediately, but the other party slapped him twice, but then let go, "No, no, it can't solve the problem, this...Brother Qin, think about it, for example, my father has one million taels Silver, we have to pay taxes after he dies, but before he dies, you can give it to us... Once you issue an order, the world's big households will definitely donate it generously, don't you think it is impossible to avoid it..."

Qin Weiwen's whole face was wrinkled into an ugly bun: "... That method can solve some problems... It's not bad." As a poor student, he seldom thinks deeply about these problems, and he seems to be unable to answer them.

"That's true..." Nie Xinyuan nodded, "That's the way things are, as long as you have an idea, soldiers will come and cover it up... This inheritance tax is a good idea, Brother Qin, I will think about how I will deal with him these two days , I think of a way to deduce it with you..."

"You, you..."

"Wait, I thought of another thing." Nie Xinyuan said again, "I said before that research and commerce can be open source, but for example, my father has a family property of one million taels of silver, and he originally wanted to do business with this one hundred taels of silver. You have this inheritance law, he thinks he is old, so he will distribute all the business to us prodigal sons... no, this is not okay, many businesses cannot be done, then this inheritance law... yes, if my father didn't Money, he has a factory worth one million taels, and after he dies, you take away nine hundred thousand taels, so what about this business, this business is gone, Brother Qin..."

"I... I just heard from Mr. Ning..."

"In addition, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, how much money each family has, how can it be calculated so clearly, and... hey, this comes back to a big problem. After you collect the fields, the official family is the world The biggest thing is, the cruel officials are like tigers, Brother Qin, when the Huaxia Army unifies the world one day, will the higher-ups really manage to divide the surrounding areas? I always feel that this will be the real big problem in the future...Brother Qin, Mr. Ning has always been How do you say this, tell me quickly..."

"Uh... this... more meetings?"

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"..."

The lights in the room were quiet for a while, and after a while, there was another chirping, chirping, chirping sound. After two hours, Qin Weiwen almost wailed: "Go ask Team Leader Tang..."

"My question...why...don't bother him. Brother Qin, you, you grew up beside Mr. Ning, you must have something to say, you must have said it...you just talk to me..."

Talking like this until late at night, when many people fell asleep, Nie Xinyuan clattered back holding the oil lamp and the newspaper, muttering to himself and shaking his head as he walked...

From then on, in the third and fourth grades of junior high...morning, afternoon and evening... whenever Nie Xinyuan was free, he would still come to Qin Weiwen's side. His words were direct, and sometimes even shocking. , then went to Qin Weiwen and said: "I see! It makes sense-you don't really care whether everyone can understand your courses. You mainly want everyone to order and prohibit them. In the future, when the Huaxia Army speaks, they will listen... That's right, that's right, this is the way of thinking about beating landlords. In the past, the imperial power did not go down to the county, so how can it be let the imperial power go down to the county? They listened to the deployment, so they went down to the county. ...It makes sense, Brother Qin..."

Qin Weiwen sighed: "I also think it makes sense..."

In this way, on the fifth day of November, he came to arrest Qin Weiwen, and was led to sit in a classroom. After a while, he saw Ning Yi walking in from the door. It was not the first time for Nie Xinyuan to meet Ning Yi, but it was the first time to meet alone. I saw Ning Yi sitting aside and looking at him with a smile. Nie Xinyuan's eyes were dull, and he was speechless.

"Weiwen told me a lot of your thoughts. It's very interesting. You see, he couldn't answer. He recorded everything. I read it..." Ning Yi held a notebook in his hand, which belonged to Qin Weiwen Nie Xinyuan is also familiar with the book, and the messy pile of things on it seems to explain the writer's depression, "This Qin Xiaoer has recorded a lot, but it's a bit indiscriminate. Otherwise, Xinyuan you Which questions do you want to know the most, let’s discuss it.”

Nie Xinyuan: "Ah...uh...I...that..."

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Ning Yi looked at him for a while, and laughed: "Well, although Qin Weiwen's records are a bit trivial, most of the problems, in fact, have some theoretical answers as long as they think carefully. But I know, there are one or several This core question has not been answered at the moment. For example, how to control remote areas when the entire Wu Dynasty is recovered in the future. This question involves the reasons for the formation of feudalism and has far-reaching consequences. If there is no core idea to solve it, If there is no decisive change, we can say that letting the imperial power down to the county and reclaiming the land is just a farce of the ambitious and innocent...even a crime..."

Nie Xinyuan nodded vigorously, and when Ning Yi finished speaking, he was so frightened that he shook his head vigorously, not knowing what to express.

Ning Yi paused.

"In this way... there is no basis for my words. I invite you to see something. After reading it, you may think of something. You go back and collect two clothes, and someone will arrange it for you later."

Seeing the other party's nervousness, Ning Yi stood up, and then nodded approvingly: "You can think of so much. Thinking of these, it's not easy to pick up people's teeth and follow others' opinions. It's not easy, and it's not easy. Think more in the future. Many comrades who can think about and solve problems.”

He stretched out his hand, waited for a moment, and shook hands with Nie Xinyuan.

Nie Xin is far away as if in a dream.

Not long after, he carried a suitcase, and under the arrangement of the staff, got into a carriage heading for Leshan.

The carriage drove for half a day, and dropped into the warehouse halfway. On the second day, he arrived at his destination in a small town that had been transformed by a large number of Huaxia Army. This is the location of a research institution not far from the Leshan Military Industry Institute of the Huaxia Army. Since it was already noon, after arranging for him to have lunch, someone led him to a small living room that seemed to be waiting for a visit. There were already more than ten people in this small living room. There were young and old, young scholars, and old Confucians with patches on their bodies. Several of them were still discussing what seemed to be about land reform.

Someone came to say hello to him, it was a young man slightly older than him: "Xu Jing Xu Shiyao from Hanzhou, this brother is..."

"Nie, Nie Hou, the word Xinyuan..." Nie Xinyuan thought for a while, "The Xu family in Hanzhou...but Duke Rui..."

"Brother Nie is talking about family ancestors." This Xu family in Hanzhou is a big merchant who runs goods in the South, and the old lady Xu Rui is considered the number one person in the Southwest, so Nie Xinyuan also knew it, and the other party asked in a low voice: Why did you come here, brother?"

Nie Xinyuan hesitated for a moment: "Xu, brother Xu..."

"For this land reform, I boldly wrote a few articles and submitted them, and then I was arranged to come here... I think the people who came here this time are rich and poor. It was not because of their family background that they were called, but it was probably because of something they wrote. ..."

Nie Xinyuan also scratched his head: "I, I also... also... wrote an article..."

Then Xu Shiyao laughed: "Looking at Xiongtai, you must be good at writing."

The two chatted for a few more words, and then an experimental member of the Huaxia Army wearing glasses came over. After roughly confirming their names, they led them out of the room. After passing through several courtyards, they came to a mountain On the open space, I can see the river flowing in the distance, and there are several houses with waterwheels beside the river. A straight line extends from one house over there to the one here. The back wall of the house.

"The superior asked us to show everyone an experiment, let's go to the front first." The experimenter waiting for the glasses led everyone to the house by the water.

I saw that the house with the waterwheel was quite large, and there was a machine in the room with a complex structure that could be rotated by the waterwheel. Everyone had never seen such a thing before. There seemed to be a lot of wires wrapped around the machine. Suddenly, it was a copper wire, and there seemed to be a large piece of iron during the period. The glasses experimenter threw a piece of iron on it, and it was immediately absorbed.

"It's a magnet."

After everyone visited this side, they left the room and walked along the long line to the other side. Xu Shiyao, who was born in a merchant's family, took a closer look at the long thread: "This thing seems to be shellac." He wanted to pinch it again, but was stopped by the experimenter loudly: "This thing is not easy to make, don't touch it randomly!"

Xu Shiyao smiled and said, "Is this lac?"

The other party said: "It uses shellac, and other things are added. It is copper wire inside."

Xu Shiyao nodded, and then said to Nie Xinyuan: "Lac is also known as shellac. My family often sells southern goods, so I know, and I don't know why they wrap copper wires with lac."

At this time, everyone was still at a loss. When they approached the room on the side of the long line, they saw that after the rope was pulled over, there were only two pieces of iron with a simple structure. The experimenter came over and said: "The distance between the two houses is seventy-eight feet. Later, the water wheel will buckle the machine and send a signal from that side to this side... Well, this experiment is still a bit simple, copper wire, magnet It’s not easy to make, so now I’m showing you a tour, according to Mr. Ning’s idea, there’s also a restored motor here…”

The listener could hardly understand what he was saying.

The experimenter sent a signal with a flag here, and then explained to everyone.

"The water wheel is connected to the machine, and the machine turns, and electricity will be generated in the copper wire. You will see immediately that the electricity is sending a signal here."

"What?" Xu Shiyao and others frowned and asked.

"electricity."

"…What?"

"It's lightning! Lightning when there's thunder and lightning!"

The room was in a mess, and everyone expressed their own doubts, but immediately, they heard a "snap" sound on the two iron plates, flashing silver light.

Then, pop, pop, pop... sounds began to sound rhythmically, and they only sounded for a short moment.

"...Using copper wires to conduct lightning, as long as the copper wires are long enough, hundreds of feet and thousands of feet, the lightning can arrive in an instant, and the length of the lightning is used as a sign. In the future, even if the distance is far away, the message can be transmitted... This thing will be the same as that in Chengdu in the future. With the matching of rail carriages, together with any city, even if it is thousands of miles away, the communication is only a moment..."

The experimenter wearing glasses was talking to everyone about the experiment in a dull manner. Some people gradually understood, while others were still at a loss. Lightning? subpoena? What... The experimenter saw that everyone was not understanding enough, and then he sighed again, explained the principle briefly from the beginning, and also talked about certain problems...

"...After defeating the Jurchen, Mr. Ning led us to start this thing. All the ideas and theories were established by Mr. Ning...Frankly speaking, the copper wire, the magnet, and the shellac shell , we are still slowly researching, and it is still a little far away from the mass production of the assembly line that Mr. Ning said, but ah, since this prototype has been made, we think..."

Nie Xinyuan gradually understood what he was talking about.

After he understood the meaning of this matter, everything in front of his eyes and ears seemed to gradually become distant, his mind was buzzing, and his soul seemed to be pulled out of this body, in the The sky began to look down on this land, and the feudalism, Datong, home world, peace for all generations, and the babbling words learned by countless children seem to be ringing...

He didn't even know when he left here with everyone. The time is still winter, the weather is cold, and it seems to have the unique gray color near Chengdu Plain. His footsteps are walking forward among the crowd. At a certain moment, he knelt down on the ground. When he realized it, tears flowed from his eyes. come out…

His thoughts, his confusion, and the countless questions he raised with Qin Weiwen these days, all flooded up at this moment.

Let the tiller have his land...

Confucian saints, countless saints, ideals of seekers...

Possibility of breaking the seal...

The possibility of great harmony in the world...

At this moment, a threshold is crossed...

The tide of the times rushed over, hugging him like a molten stream.

Those problems, in theory, have been rounded up.

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A day later, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com he returned to Xigu Village.

Another day later, he took a carriage and entered Chengdu, which was as noisy as ever, where countless public opinions were arguing about the land reform. He found a guest room to live in, and then, tremblingly, began to write down his thoughts on the paper "My Views on Land Reform".

His thoughts are still immature, and his writing skills are not profound. When he writes the words on paper, he repeatedly corrects, corrects, and corrects again... and two days later, Xu Shiyao also came, and then more people came over...

At these times, countless great Confucian scholars are still throwing out articles about the impossibility of land reform.

He remembered the hand Ning Yi extended to him that day.

"...We need to think more in the future... We need a lot of comrades who can think and solve problems."

This is a shocking wave in the era. At the same time, in the whole world, there are countless waves stirring up and churning, and the tide of history is rushing fiercely.