Chapter 953 Hometown Drink

The rural drink mentioned by Gao Xianning before is a regular gathering, with strict hierarchy and orderly hierarchy.

In addition to being organized by Confucianism at all levels, the villagers in the countryside will also invite guests and gather villagers for rural drinking.

This is an important means to maintain order in the common people in the Ming Dynasty.

The people who master public opinion are of course gentry and fellow villagers who read and read.

Less than fifty years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the grassroots level in the rural areas were far from being corrupt.

The gentry, especially the literati with fame, did not have a bad reputation and became a derogatory term for exploiting the people.

On the contrary, for the sake of fame and reputation, they often talk about some moral rules, and understand the truth better than ordinary people, and do some good things about building roads, paving bridges and helping the widows.

So the villagers believed in the words of the gentry more, at least people felt that the gentry was more reliable than the villagers who were both common people.

However, relying solely on influence is not enough to intimidate the common people and maintain the simplicity of the people.

Gentlemen generally had contacts with the government, and those who had studied in county schools even called the magistrate the magistrate the teacher.

With the connections and family background, the fellow villagers and gentry can directly decide some less serious disputes.

There is also an important activity in the village drinking, which is to find out those bullies who are morally corrupt, robbing chickens and robbing men and women.

If many people don’t like him, he will be exposed on the village drink; then the fellow villagers will organize people and send them to the county government.

After being recognized by the county government, people sent the bullies to the border to open up the land.

So if you are disliked by everyone, it is quite dangerous. If you are not careful, you may be exiled in a confused manner.Everyone is afraid of offending others, so the people's customs are naturally simple.

The rural drinking area in Xiguan, Binzhou Prefecture, once on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month; recently, the fellow villagers said they would convey the emperor's imperial edict, and they temporarily opened it.

All the villagers, regardless of gender, age, went to the Tang Family Ancestral Hall, and Tang Sai'er also followed her father.

This time the rural drink is more lively and grand than the last time.

The guests who came seemed to have a lot of identities. Those people were in the hall inside. It is said that there were scholars from Jinan Prefecture and scholars who were close to the village.

A young lady like Tang Saier who has no fame or reputation or an elder can only stand in the yard outside, without even a place to sit.

However, the people in the hall inside were very reserved and bowed at every turn, not very lively; the yard outside was more comfortable, and there was noisy around, and everyone was talking about gossip, and those aunts and ladies never stopped talking.

Tang Sai'er soon saw Lin San in the crowd.

Lin San was also looking here. When he saw Tang Saier's gaze, he actually dodged his eyes a little shyly; on the contrary, Tang Saier smiled generously at him.

Her father had been specially sent by Binzhou Prefecture and was found from another place. The matter was handled very quickly, and the people in the government were also talking about Mr. Tang, very polite.

With elders as the leader, she will marry Lin San this year.

Tang Sai'er was very satisfied with Lin San and heard from his neighbors that he was hardworking and strong. Tang Sai'er occasionally had the opportunity to observe him and found that he was honest and honest, and would blush when he looked at his little girl.

She likes such young people.

Some of the villagers nearby are talking about the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect in Qingzhou Prefecture, and the matters there have been spread all over the place.

This time the emperor issued an imperial edict and added rural drinks to the village. It was probably because of Qingzhou Prefecture that even the villagers guessed it.

It is said that more and more people from the White Lotus Sect have captured Linqu County, killing officials and robbing wealth, and are like a flood, and they are heading towards Changle County.

However, Tang Sai'er just wanted to hear what the imperial edict said today, and she suddenly became very interested in this matter.

Because she received some uninvited guests last year, the hometown elder told her that the strong man, Mr. Hong, turned out to be the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

No wonder that the man was generous and gave Tang Saier a lot of money, and those officials were also respectful in front of him.

After her father came back, he talked about that.

As soon as he said, Dad Tang didn't know any noble people at all, nor did he help him when he saw injustice. He had been working hard in the places where people gathered.

The official lied, and the matter was very strange. Tang Sai'er still doesn't understand how the Emperor of Ming Dynasty found him.

However, the bag of money given by the emperor allowed Tang Saier's relatively poor family to have a generous and decent dowry.At that time, the Lin San family will definitely have a surprise.

After a few rounds of etiquette in the hall, it was finally time to recite the imperial edict.

The village was walking up the steps and said: Don’t talk first, the villagers, you want to read the emperor’s imperial edict, but everyone was making noise and couldn’t hear it clearly.

I don’t know who said in the crowd: We don’t understand.

Li Zheng said: You can understand, you can understand.

Everyone was quieter, and Tang Sai'er also listened attentively. She was illiterate, afraid that she would not understand the emperor's imperial edict, but she also wanted to understand what the man said in the imperial edict.

Emperor Fengtian Chengyun... A loud voice came from inside, and the person who read the article had a good voice.The guests in the hall knelt on the ground one after another, and the people on the steps and in the yard also knelt down and listened to the order.

The voice inside said: The imperial edict said: A few years ago, wars in the Ming Dynasty, and the military disasters affected the people of Shandong. Many families were destroyed and people were killed. Before they could breathe, the government continued to impose additional tax on corvee food on everyone's heads, and the people were suffering.I know all these situations.

Emperor Taizu expelled the Tatars, restored their clothes and took the world legitimately, allowing the people to escape from the oppression of the Tatars. Taizu wanted the people of Ming Dynasty to live a good life.

The people in our family have always been the people of Daming.

When the people are in trouble, I am the legitimate grandson of Taizu and will never ignore it after knowing it.

I have issued an order to exempt all grain taxes and corvee service in Shandong from this year for at least three years, and not collect a grain of grain, and not allow one person to leave his hometown; and transfer money and grain to enter the country and store it in charity warehouses in various places to help those in difficulties and poverty.

I wish the people of Shandong to rest and live and work in peace and prosperity. I am comforted.

Since Taizu, the royal family hated corrupt officials the most. I hope that officials from all over the country should be warned and must be united in one's heart and virtue with the court and overcome difficulties together.When the people of Shandong are suffering, if anyone wants to make money through this, don’t blame me for not saying ugly things first. You will definitely not have good results.I admire this.

This is how the imperial edict was written. Tang Sai'er understood everything and did not leave a word.

She still remembered the voice of Mr. Hong, and she was vaguely confused at this time. She seemed to hear the voice talking in front of her.

Long live, long live... A shout sounded, and Tang Sai'er woke up immediately, realizing that Mr. Hong was not talking.

After everyone got up from the ground, the noise filled the yard again.

Some people commented privately and said: "The Grandpa has a virtuous grandson, and we, the Emperor of Wude, dare to act."Another voice said, "The Japanese, Tatars, and the West have fought all over the world, and their martial arts are no less than that of Taizu."Someone asked where Japan and the West were, but the people who talked about it didn’t know. Maybe he heard it from scholars and then bragged to the villagers.

After a while, a handsome and innocent scholar came out of the hall and stood on the steps and spoke to everyone.

In the usual rural drinking, these gentry with status would not come out. They all made comments in the hall, and then someone stood at the door and recounted the education inside.

Today, the gentry seemed to be influenced by the emperor's people-friendly imperial edict, so they walked out to preach to the people.

The gentry was talking about the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect in Qingzhou Prefecture.

Speaking of the leader of the White Lotus Train in the bridal chamber of the villagers, he went to the bride's bed curtain, but asked the groom to serve outside the tent; everyone was immediately indignant and cursed in the yard.

Lin San, not far away, was probably indignantly in the crowd because he was going to get married.

After years of Confucian moral advice, ethics of men and women have been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and people in the world are very resistant to such things that go against common sense.

Moreover, the clan people attach great importance to the inheritance of their descendants and the spread of their branches and leaves. The eldest son has become a seed of other people's families, which is simply challenging people's insights.

Tang Sai'er knew people who believed in the White Lotus Sect, but at this time she was a little disgusted with the White Lotus Sect.

Perhaps because Tang Sai'er had some good feelings for the current emperor and thought he was a good person, she felt that most of the people who made the emperor rebel were not good people.

The gentry also talked about the White Lotus Sect's rebellion and the various evil things that were robbing the Yi Cult.

People who speak are scholars who need shame. Since they dare to publicly promote it, most of the things are true. Besides, the villagers still trust scholars more.

For a time, the reputation of the White Lotus Sect had fallen to the bottom of the Xiguan Township Drink, and it was like a group of monsters.

There may be villagers in the crowd who believed in the White Lotus Sect quietly, but those people couldn't say anything. If they argued at this time, they might be immediately caught out and exiled to the border.

This time, the drinks were done well, and the students and literati firmly grasped the public opinion.

...At this time, the rebels in Qingzhou Prefecture were still in full swing and the situation was very good.

Because the Qingzhou Guards nearby remained silent and only focused on protecting the city and the acropolis. The wealthy families in the local county and manor were not enough to resist the large and powerful soldiers; as long as the White Lotus Rebel Army bypassed the city, it would be unstoppable.

However, leaders such as Bailong and Liu Jun have realized that the government will certainly not always watch the fire from the other side of the river, and must mobilize troops to counterattack.

While they were operating territory in the western mountains, they tried their best to collect military rations from various places, as long as possible.

During this period, there were different sources of people from all walks of life, so of course we could not choose exactly what to grab and what not to grab.

The robbery of grain stored in the charity warehouse in the village also happens from time to time, and there is no way for those who take the opportunity to do evil.

Most of the soldiers of the Rebel Army rebelled in anxiety, and then they found that the Ming Dynasty's government responded slowly and dullly.

However, they had not realized that in just three or two months, the rebel army had lost a lot in another hidden battlefield and a more long-term place.