The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 59 I Forgot
Nothing went according to Li Diudiu's plan. He asked Mr. Yuming to narrate what had happened to the people. Except for not saying that those people were subordinates of the great eunuch Liu Chongxin, he told them everything else in detail. The people listened with great interest as if they were listening to a book.
This fascinating story aroused the emotions of the people who listened to it.
The county magistrate, county magistrate, chief clerk, prison warden and other officials who were not in the county government office rushed there one after another upon hearing the news. How could they dare to let the people hear this?
So they kept inviting Mr. to go into the yamen, but Mr. Yuming remembered what Li Diudiu said and refused to go in even if they pulled him in, so he insisted on sitting on the steps at the door and didn't move.
They also spent money to ask the people to cook for them, and time passed quickly.
Not far away, Xiahou Zhuo was sitting next to Li Diudiu. He looked at the people over there who were listening attentively and sighed slightly.
"What's wrong?"
Li Diudiu asked.
Xiahou Zhuo said, "Look at the people. They don't care about Mr. Yuming. They just think this story is really interesting. If Mr. Yuming said, "Please listen to the next chapter to know what will happen next," they would dare to give some copper coins as reward."
Li Diudiu asked, "Hasn't it always been like this?"
"no."
Xiahou Zhuo said: "People's hearts will change. If the world is peaceful and everyone lives in peace, but one person is bad, the people will despise him. If it is the same group of people..."
Xiahou Zhuo pointed at those people and said, "For example, they all live a good life, so they look down on those petty thieves, and their words and actions are all very nice... But this group of people, they don't live a good life, and one of them steals something, and the other one sees it, instead of spitting on him, he thinks that he has suffered a loss by not stealing, so he also steals some."
He looked at Li Diudiu and said, "What people are like is inseparable from what the country is like. The weaker the country, the lower the people's wisdom and courtesy. The stronger the country, the higher the people's wisdom and courtesy."
Li Diudiu nodded.
Xiahou Zhuo sighed: "It's a pity that even Xu Qulu couldn't bring Da Chu back to its original path... There is no Xu Qulu in the world anymore."
Li Diudiu didn't know what to say for a moment, his mind was still digesting what Xiahou Zhuo had just said. It seemed to make sense that the stronger the country, the wiser and more polite the people.
"Those people probably don't dare to come. They will wait for Mr. Yuming to enter the county government office before they take action. But if Mr. Yuming doesn't go in, those officials will have to accompany him outside. After all, Mr. Yuming once served as the Minister of Rites."
Xiahou Zhuo said, "If this was an ordinary citizen, his death wouldn't even cause a ripple. Mr. Yuming has many students all over the world, and Liu Chongxin wouldn't dare to kill him openly, let alone his subordinates."
He looked at Li Diudiu and asked, "What are you going to do at dawn?"
Li Diudiu looked at the sky. The summer nights were really short. Before he knew it, the east was already slightly bright.
"Return to Jizhou."
Li Diudiu said, "Go ask Mr. Yuming if they have any silver on them, and how much it is."
Xiahou Zhuo asked: "Why do you ask this?"
Li Diudiu said, "After daybreak, have Mr. Yuming's disciples recruit people directly with silver. No matter how many people there are, as long as someone is willing to escort them to Jizhou City, each person will be offered ten taels of silver. For these people, ten taels of silver may not be earned in two or three years, so they will be willing to go."
Xiahou Zhuo smiled and said, "With a brain like yours, you should lead an army."
Li Diudiu said: "What does this have to do with leading troops?"
Xiahou Zhuo asked: "Don't you think that the method you came up with today can also be used in tactics against the enemy?"
Li Diudiu said: "It should be useless. When fighting against the enemy, the enemy will not care about the civilians. If the enemy comes, they will just rush up and kill them."
Xiahou Zhuo shook his head and said, "You are smart, but few people can think of this method. You are stupid, but you can't use your ideas for other things. You are really... stubborn."
Li Diudiu smiled. He didn't know why Xiahou Zhuo would associate these things with the battlefield. Maybe Li Diudiu knew nothing about war. Even if he had read some in Shulin Tower, those few words didn't mean much.
If you don't see it with your own eyes and don't participate in it personally, you will never know what the battlefield is like.
"It's almost dawn. I'll go ask them."
Xiahou Zhuo stood up and said, "If you feel sleepy, you can sleep in the car."
Li Diudiu said, "We have to go our separate ways. We can't go with Mr. Yuming anymore. We can only do so much. If we continue to follow him, the academy will be implicated, and more importantly, you... Although your father is a prince, he is not in the capital. I heard that the current emperor is suspicious of his brothers. If Liu Chongxin whispers something to the emperor, it will not be good for your father."
If Xiahou Zhuo hadn't been concerned about this, would he have wanted to leave last night? If he hadn't been concerned about this, he would have had someone take out the badge of Prince Yu's mansion.
He smiled and said to Li Diudiu: "I'll listen to you."
He suddenly thought of a question and asked another question: "Why did you ask me to ask Mr. Yuming if they have any money? I have quite a few banknotes on me, so I can just use them directly. I don't care about money."
"Prodigal son."
Li Diudiu asked: "Why spend your own money!"
Xiahou Zhuo thought for a moment and said, "What you said makes sense."
Not long after, Xiahou Zhuo came back with a relaxed look on his face. Li Diudiu knew from his expression that the matter had been settled, so he asked, "Did they really take the silver with them when they fled?"
Xiahou Zhuo said: "I really brought it, a few people gathered together."
Li Diudiu asked: "How much did you collect?"
Xiahou Zhuo said, "It's about three taels in total."
Li Diudiu: "How much did you put in?"
Xiahou Zhuo said, "It's not as expensive as you thought. These people are very happy if you give them two taels of silver. It only takes three days to go to Jizhou and back. It's a great thing for them to earn two taels of silver in three days. I have paid several hundred taels of silver notes, so it's no problem to hire several hundred people."
Li Diudiu asked, "Can you do the math? Can your several hundred taels of silver be enough to hire several hundred people?"
Xiahou Zhuo said, "Don't be angry... He took out two hundred taels of the money you gave your master to buy a house."
Li Diudiu thought about it and decided that it didn't matter. Saving a life was better than building a seven-story pagoda. Two hundred taels of silver would build a seven-story pagoda. One level was not much money. Two hundred taels of silver could not even buy a small house in Jizhou. It was good to be able to build a seven-story pagoda.
By this calculation, it’s a real bargain.
Of course he felt a little distressed, but he would not ask about his master's use of the silver. Silver is naturally a good thing, but compared with human life, its weight is not that heavy.
This is what he thought. The Great Chu is now in a state of decline, and most of the people have no spare money. Many people value money more than their lives.
By daybreak, Mr. Yuming's disciples had hired three to four hundred people, and regardless of how the people from the Tang County government tried to keep them, they left Tang County, surrounded by hundreds of people.
Li Diudiu and his friends left among the crowd of onlookers . They could not go back to the inn, but fortunately Taoist Changmei still had some money on him, so he hired a cart and headed back in a hurry.
In the carriage, Yan Qingzhi took out something from his arms and handed it to Li Diudiu, saying, "Mr. Yuming asked me to give this to you. He said it's to thank you for saving my life."
Li Diudiu asked: "What is it?"
Yan Qing said: "A seal."
Li Diudiu asked: "What use do I have for this thing? This little thing doesn't even look as good as a copper coin."
Yan Qingzhi said, "I know that the Taoist priest gave President Gao a copy of calligraphy for your admission to the academy. It is an authentic copy of Mr. Songming's Deng Que Tai Tie. If the copy of calligraphy is sold, its value is hard to estimate. And this seal belongs to Mr. Songming. It may be the only one in the world. It is more valuable than the copy of calligraphy. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is priceless."
Li Diudiu: “Thank you.”
He reached out and took the seal, then put it into his arms very quickly.
Yan Qing subconsciously looked at the Taoist priest with long eyebrows. The Taoist priest waved his hands and said, "This is not what I taught. This should have nothing to do with me..."
Yan Qingzhi nodded and said, "I understand."
Li Diudiu put the seal in his arms and patted it with his hands in a petty manner. He felt a little happy as if he had become wealthy all of a sudden.
Yan Qingzhi asked: "Why don't you refuse?"
Li Diudiu said: "No, no, no, we are all family, why should we be so polite."
Taoist Changmei looked at Yan Qingzhi with an embarrassed look on his face, but Yan Qingzhi misunderstood and waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "I didn't teach you that either."
Taoist Changmei asked Li Diudiu curiously, "You asked Mr. Yuming and the others to go to Jizhou. It's not like Liu Chongxin can't reach Jizhou City. The government officials still don't dare to intervene when Mr. Yuming goes there. Besides, Lian Gongming is just a dog of Liu Chongxin. If he knows about Mr. Yuming, he will try every means to get rid of him."
Li Diudiu said, "Master, have you forgotten that there is a branch of the Law Recording Department in Jizhou City?"
Among the three departments of the Great Chu, the Criminal Investigation Department belongs to Liu Chongxin, and the Law Recording Department belongs to the military. The military has always been at odds with Liu Chongxin. They will not hand over Mr. Yuming, and will also protect him strictly.
Yan Qingzhi said: "I have also returned those pictures to Mr. Yuming. With these evidences, even if the people from the Law Recording Department catch Liu Chongxin by the tail, Liu Chongxin may be brought down."
Taoist Long Eyebrow nodded and said, "Diudiuer is so smart. It was me who taught him that."
Yan Qing said: "Perhaps I have contributed a little bit to this."
Xiahou Zhuo: "Pooh!"
They deliberately set out half a day later than Mr. Yuming's group. They were already involved enough in this matter, and if they continued to go together, they would inevitably get themselves into trouble.
Not long after they left the city, the driver suddenly stopped the car. The people in the car were all startled, thinking that they had finally attracted the attention of those people.
Ye Zhangzhu got off the carriage first. When he saw the young man who was stopping the carriage, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Are you still not willing to give up?"
The young man who stopped the car was actually Tang Pidi.
Tang Pidi said, "I came here specially to thank you. I saw what happened last night. I admire your actions. Although I am young, my father taught me since I was young to be grateful to know good and evil, beauty and ugliness. I just want to say... If Tang Pidi survives in the future, I will repay your kindness in the future."
After saying this, he bowed towards the carriage, turned around and strode away without saying anything more.
In the carriage, Xiahou Zhuo watched Tang Pidi walk away with great strides, and couldn't help but praise him: "If this kid doesn't die, he will definitely have a great future."
"I go!"
After he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and his face changed: "I forgot about Yu Jiuling."
