At the Beginning, I Scolded the Fairy Gate, I Really Want to Die

Chapter 275 : The world has changed drastically, and you and I are still in a dream

The more severe the disaster is, the more you can see things.

Although Cao Meng came with a mindset of understanding and learning, but deep down in his heart, it is unavoidable that there will be a trace of comparison.

He is always a little fortunate, feeling that Bingzhou may not be able to be stronger, maybe it is not as good as Yanzhou!

You know, Binzhou has always been a poor place, not to mention rich in products. Compared with Yanzhou, which is located in the Central Plains, it is also a bit behind other states.

No matter how to manage such a place, where can it be better?

This mentality is not only Cao Meng, but also the people of the Wei State including Zhu Yawen.

Especially since they just suffered a blow in Shixi Village, they desperately want to find comfort.

This Xiaowang Village is obviously just right.

As for why not go to a wealthy village, does the answer need to be said? Of course, I am afraid of being hit again.

With this mind in mind, the group rushed towards Xiaowang Village.

I have to say that Xiaowang Village was the worst affected by his reason, and it was a village halfway up the mountain. The environment was more complicated and the farming area was not large. In many cases, it was a matter of looking at the sky for food.

If there is peace on weekdays, it is easy to say that once a disaster occurs, a village like this will appear hungry every minute.

After walking through a winding mountain road, Xiaowang Village appeared in the field of vision.

It’s just evening at this moment, it’s time for dinner.

But generally speaking, ordinary people eat two meals a day, eating in the morning and noon, and not eating at night.

There are very few people who can eat three meals a day, especially those who are full.

However, in Xiaowang Village, cooking smoke has already risen.

When everyone approached, they already smelled the scent of cooking food.

This makes many people’s faces slightly changed.

“How can this be?

They looked at Xiaowang Village in front of them, showing shock.

There is indeed a village ahead, but compared to the poor mountain village they imagined, Xiaowang Village is a completely different face.

When we approached the village, the road was no longer rugged, but turned into a smooth and somewhat excessive road.

“What’s the name of this road?”

Cao Meng squatted down and touched it with his hands.

The touch is hard and smooth.

The roads he is familiar with can be roughly divided into two types. One is the flat roads paved with slabs, such as the roads in the palace and the residences of the ministers.

The second type is roads made of crushed stones, stones and other fillings. This type of road is worse, but it is also good. This is the case with the well-known official roads.

As for dirt roads and mountain roads, in his eyes, it is not a road at all.

However, the two types he knew above were obviously inferior to the road he saw before him. God knows how the road was paved, and it was so smooth.

“I heard that Ye Ning has developed a thing called cement, which is cheap and has raw materials everywhere. It can be used to build cities and build houses and pave roads. It is said that Binzhou has been used on a large scale. Could it be this thing?”

Zhu Yawen thought of something and said.

cement?

Cao Meng’s face changed.

“The talent of Ye Ning is really unimaginable. There are nine talents in the world, and he alone has eight of them!”

In the end, it became a sentence of emotion.

In the past, Ye Ning was famous because he was not afraid of death and had integrity, but it did not mean that he had the ability to govern the country. Now the ruling party has undoubtedly shattered all doubts.

Aside from other things, just say that this cement is a god, not for anything else, just because of two points, the low price and the raw materials can be seen everywhere.

In this way, as long as you have the heart, you can pave countless smooth roads.

To be rich, build roads first.

This is not only understood by modern people, but also by ancients. With convenient transportation, many things can be actively developed, especially business, which will greatly save the time of caravans.

Everyone walked along the cement road and soon arrived at Xiaowang Village.

Xiaowang Village is not as depressed as Shixi Village. It looks very lively. There are farmers returning from the ground, carrying hoes, carrying baskets, walking in groups of three to five, talking happily with each other, and laughing from time to time.

There are many young children playing in the forest outside the village.

What a wonderful picture of a mountain village.

Everyone can’t help but feel a little heavy. Compared with Xiaowang Village, Shixi Village is really incomparable.

This gap may not be too big.

“My lord, are you sure that there has been a disaster here?”

Some people questioned.

Zhu Yawen shook his head blankly.

He couldn’t answer this question.According to what he knew, Xiaowang Village must be the hardest hit area, but looking at the situation here, where is the slightest sign of disaster?

It seems to be a peaceful and prosperous age!

Cao Meng was silent. He continued to walk forward, and then saw a group of people walking towards the village. This group of people is not critical, but the problem is that they are carrying a large number of livestock, including mules, cattle, and dragging. The donkey in the cart.

This scene shocked everyone again.

Anyone with a little bit of political experience knows that livestock are precious, especially cattle. Generally, a village with one or two heads is considered lucky.

Sometimes, several villages may share a cow. This is not an exaggeration, but a reality.

How could there be so many livestock in this Xiaowang Village?

Cao Meng noticed that the people pulling these animals were not ordinary villagers, but a group of servants in public uniforms. The leader was a small official who looked young and did not wear shoes. The pants were pulled to the knees and there were many places on the calves. The traces of the mud, just barefoot, walking in the forefront.

Seeing this group of people, one of the generals in the Wei State was excited.

When they saw these guards pulling cows and horses, they automatically thought that they were plundering the people’s sex animals. This situation is not uncommon. It has always been the case.

These young officials who came down from the county are all good at sucking blood and skinning. Not to mention that the people are rich, even if they don’t have money, they can break your bone marrow and dig out a few ounces of oil and water.

“Who are you?”

He immediately stopped them full of anger.

Although Wei Guo and his party are disguised as caravans, they are all elites after all, and they naturally carry a sturdy air.

The little official was instinctively frightened, took three steps back, and then remembered something. Suddenly he had confidence again. He looked at the people in front of him with extraordinary temperament, so he cupped hands and said.

“I don’t know who you are, I’m Chen Ran, a small official in Gaotang County.”

It’s just an inferior little official.

General Wei Guo raised his neck and was about to teach a few words, but he suddenly thought that he was disguised as a caravan, and he was in the territory of a hostile force. When the words came to his lips, he could only swallow it.

When he was embarrassed, Cao Meng stepped forward, arched his cupped hands and said.

“We are merchants from Yanzhou. We passed by here. We wanted to sell some goods in the village and buy some supplies by the way. We have never seen a messenger pulling a cow and a horse passing by. So many cows and horses, are they plundering the people?,

Although Cao Meng spoke politely, he instinctively carried a sense of majesty when he spoke.

This made Chen Ran couldn’t help thinking secretly. Even if the person in front of him is a businessman, he should be a big businessman, otherwise he wouldn’t have such a temperament.

He cannot afford to offend such a character.

The so-called small officials are small people who can’t be too small, and they can also be prestigious in front of ordinary people. If they encounter some rich and powerful people, they can only be honest and never dare to cut their teeth.

So he said honestly.

“This gentleman is afraid it is not a misunderstanding. I am just a small official, how can I dare to plunder the people’s livestock? These sex animals are mine.”

Zhu Yawen sneered.

“Yours? Why do you have so many cows and horses for a small official? Besides, what do you want so many cows and horses for?”

Chen Ran said (ciad) cautiously.

“What I just said is not very clear. These livestock are not mine, but temporarily managed by me. I have to count them. They are all county officials. I took these cattle and horses on the order of the county magistrate. Came to the villages to help.”

“help?”

Everyone in Wei State was stunned.

However, they showed disdain in their eyes.

How could this kind of lie deceive them? What good things can be done when the escorts go to the countryside?

Either urge the grain to collect taxes, or catch the strong.

As for helping the villagers, that is simply unheard of, a fantasy!

If this is not the case, the people will not fear the guards as they fear the tiger.

It is precisely because there is no good thing for the guards to appear in front of them every time that this phenomenon is caused.

Zhu Yawen continued to sneer and said.

“Do you dare to make up such a lie? Do you think I am a three-year-old child?”

Chen Ran couldn’t help but feel a little depressed, why this group of people didn’t believe him at all, but think about the spirit that has been conveyed from above all the time, that is, when you are in contact with people, you should lower your posture and consider yourself to be. The servant of the people, not the superior master, thought of this, and he became patient again and said.

“Everyone who came from Yanzhou, you don’t know. Actually, this is the case in the whole state of Bingzhou. Master Ye from the prefecture and animal husbandry has issued an order, and it has been implemented in all villages and counties. Let’s take Gaotang County as an example. There were only a few hundred soldiers recruited. These hundreds of people were all scattered out. Some of them were to measure the land and count the population.

Part of it was to repair river embankments, clean up waterways, and part of it. As for me, I was assigned to farming. Not only did I distribute the latest farm tools to the people, but I also brought livestock to help villagers in difficult areas to cultivate the land. ”

“Like this Xiaowang Village, it’s the third village I’ve been to. Because Xiaowang Village has suffered disasters in the past, the conditions in all aspects are worse, so I have been here for eight full days. I want to help the villagers solve all the problems they want before leaving.”

“When the matter in Xiaowang Village is resolved, I will take these animals to the next village.”

Chen Ran said that there is a methodical, justified and well-founded.

The crowd couldn’t help being a little confused.

If you say it is a lie, it’s just that this guy looks like a matter of course. Judging from his attitude, he doesn’t look like the kind of person who can be slanderous.

Furthermore, if it is made up indiscriminately, how can it be hidden from them?

But to tell the truth.

That’s a little hard to understand.

How could a small official be so good? Like this kind of small official, they are the most slick and greedy. Every time they go to the countryside, they eat and take, which is difficult to pass.

So Zhu Yawen asked again.

“Even so, when you came to Xiaowang Village, you also searched a lot of oil and water?”

But I didn’t want to, but this sentence made Chen Ran angry.

“You and I have never known each other, how can you humiliate me so much!”

He looked honest, and suddenly broke out, which made everyone unexpected.

I heard Chen Ranyou both angry and aggrieved.

“When we come here, we have all the dry food allotted by the county. The county magistrates have rules. When we go to the countryside, we must not eat a grain of rice from the people, and must not take the people’s needles and threads. These days, our group has been Living in a cottage built outside the village, mosquito bites every day and sleepless nights, it is already extremely hard, you still have to slander!”

Cao Meng’s eyes condensed and asked.

“Really?”

Chen Ran pucked and said.

“believe it or not.”

But he was a little angry, and left with everyone.

He was a little shocked because of the aura of these people, but he thought that standing behind him was the powerful Da Zhou, Lord Ye, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Everyone looked at his back, a little suspicious.

What Chen Ran said didn’t seem like a lie, but it sounded so false.

“He said, is it true or not?”

Zhu Yawen frowned.

When he first came to Bingzhou, he realized that he couldn’t understand the world a little bit.

It’s just a small village, an escort, but it gives him a sense of subversion.

“It’s true or false, you can tell at a glance.

Cao Meng followed up first.

Everyone followed closely behind.

Not long after, they saw that there was a grass cottage outside the village. These grass cottages looked very crude and surrounded by a fence made of branches. The livestock also had their own wooden sheds. After they were tied, they ate them. Pick up fodder.

In contrast, the place where people live is actually not as good as livestock.

This group of people is very familiar with this place, obviously not pretending to be.

This shocked everyone.

“How can this be?”

The scribes were collectively confused.

What happened on the land of Binzhou?

These skinner guards turned out to be good people helping the people?

Could it be said that this is true throughout Binzhou, but how is this possible?

They can’t understand this world.

And there are many things that make them unable to understand.

At dinner time, many farmers came out of the village, bringing hot meals to Chen Ran and others.

Looking at their appearance, it is completely willing, with a kind of intimacy like looking at their own children.

However, Chen Ran and the others have been refusing to accept it. After a long time, some old people cried, and then they had no choice but to accept it, but they found a few copper plates and forcibly stuffed them into the old man’s pocket. middle.

But he would never take advantage of the people in vain.

This scene shocked everyone.

“This world has really turned upside down, but you and me are still dreaming!”

Cao Meng murmured. .