After the whole sect traveled to ancient times, I led the rebellion

Chapter 21: The School of Philosophy - Farmers

He fled away hungry and left his home, wandering on a dead end road.

The people in Guangsha City either fled or died, and less than 10% of them survived the famine and remained in the city.

There were very few pedestrians in the entire Guangsha City, making it look like a deserted city.

The vast land is covered with bare original soil and grass roots, and the original plants and trees are all eaten by the people.

An old man was walking with a bag on his back, and there were many young people following behind him.

Everyone in this group is strong and healthy. They are a farming family living in Guangsha City, and the leader is this white-haired old man.

Master Xu walked out of Guangsha City and saw many rotten corpses along the way.

When he came across a village again, he saw the familiar scene again.

The village was deserted. The wooden pestles and stone mortars used to pound rice in the houses had become decorations and were completely useless. The cooking utensils were covered with dust and cobwebs.

Master Xu touched his graying beard, helplessly suppressing the sadness in his heart.

The group quickly left Guangsha City.

It seemed that Master Xu's disciples could no longer hold back their lamentations. They tried to hold back their tears:

"If there is no rain of millet, there is no land to bury the body. Why didn't the rain fall earlier?"

"Yes."

I don’t know whether he was agreeing with his disciple or sighing, but Master Xu actually felt a little tired.

The farmers did not leave Guangsha City when the disaster was the worst, on the contrary.

Master Xu and others discussed with the government, hoping that the government would distribute relief grain, but unfortunately the farmers' words were not taken seriously.

During the period of the Hundred Schools of Thought, farmers were listed as one of the "Nine Classes".

With the change of dynasties, the power of the farming family weakened and its status among the Hundred Schools of Thought gradually declined.

There was no other way, Xu Zifu could only contact his friends to exchange silver for food, but how could this little bit of food be enough?

It's just a drop in the bucket and won't help.

Even after the rainstorm, Master Xu was still in Guangsha City guiding the people to replant millet seedlings.

Only when everything was on track did Master Xu decide to leave Guangsha City.

A few days ago, a lot of grain with the same market price flowed into Guangsha City.

After the disaster, the price of grain remained high, but the price of this batch of grain was not several times higher than the market price.

Master Xu also paid more attention to this batch of grain.

Unexpectedly, along with this batch of grain flowing into Guangsha City, there were also many relatively fresh vegetables.

These vegetables are large and plump, and both the leaves and roots are larger than those of ordinary vegetables.

If Master Xu was not so familiar with the shapes of these vegetables, he would have doubted whether this was the kind he had seen before.

Master Xu developed a strong curiosity about these vegetables.

How these vegetables are grown.

Are their vegetable varieties the same as ordinary vegetable varieties?

Why had he never seen such vegetables before?

All kinds of doubts popped up one after another. Mr. Xu tossed and turned that day before he decided to ask the vegetable merchant about the source of these vegetables.

The vegetable merchant quickly told Master Xu where he got the vegetables from.

Vegetables in Huang County are very popular now. If it were an ordinary person, the vegetable merchant might not be so willing to supply his goods.

Master Xu was the leader of a farming family in Guangsha. He knew Mr. Xu and knew that Mr. Xu would not compete with him for the business, so he told him.

These vegetables and the current grains are all purchased from Huangxian.

There are few people doing business in Huang County. This vegetable merchant who came to Guangsha City to sell vegetables is a local of Guangsha City. He learned about the vegetable channels in Huang County by chance.

When Master Xu heard this, he began to think about the place called Huang County.

Huangxian is a neighboring county about ten miles away from Guangsha City. It is an ordinary county town next to Anping.

Before the famine came, the people of Huang County were no richer than those of Guangsha City.

When the disaster struck, the people of Guangsha City fled to escape famine. Mr. Xu's most recent impression of Huang County was that Xu Zezhou was dismissed from his post for suppressing the riots and displaced people.

At that time, Xu Zifu felt a little sad. He had met Xu Zezhou several times and he was a honest and upright man.

Now Huang County has a new county magistrate, who came from Shengjing, and Mr. Xu does not know his background.

Could it be that this is the change brought about by the new county magistrate?

Master Xu secretly guessed, and he gathered more than a dozen disciples in Guangsha City and prepared to go to Huang County to find out the truth.

For farmers, the importance of agriculture is ingrained in their bones.

If these vegetables can be promoted, it will be a good thing for the benefit of the people.

Master Xu and a dozen of his disciples were farming while packing their bags.

There are not many of them, but they have taken root in Guangsha over the years, and they have filled more than a dozen trucks with various seeds, vegetable seedlings, books and other items.

This is also the reason why Master Xu did not get on the ox cart.

There was no space left on the ox cart, but fortunately Master Xu worked in the fields every day and was in good health.

When Master Xu and his party arrived in Huang County, Mu Qing was still worried that there were too few people who could get things done.

After Yuehong and others took office in the county government, the minor officials in Huang County discovered that not only did their lives not become easier with the arrival of the new officials, but they had more work to do.

In the past they could complain that one person had to do two jobs, but now it has become so cruel that one person has to do the work of three people.

There's no time to complain!

In fact, Mu Qing still wanted to continue exploiting them, but unfortunately his own team of petty officials had limited ability to withstand pressure.

Mu Qing took a sip of tea and thought about how to develop their potential. After all, she, a child, also worked eight or nine hours a day.

Before Mu Qing could think of other ways to exploit her, Hu Miaomiao, who had been following Mu Qing and temporarily serving as his secretary, came over panting.

"Sir, Master Xu from the Nong family has arrived in Huang County with his disciples. This is Master Xu's visiting card."

The post was written to her cheap dad.

Xu Zezhou left and took his own team with him.

The imperial court may have been troubled by the riots caused by refugees everywhere, and has not yet appointed a new county magistrate.

Huang County was completely under the control of Mu Qing, so naturally the visiting card fell into her hands.

Mu Qing thought about it and decided to bring Mu Shan over. She had to see Master Xu as soon as possible.

This is a farmhouse!

Mu Qing is an agricultural student, and they can be considered as fellow students across two time and space.

The farmers are fine, and there are still many schools of thought in the Tianchi Dynasty.

Although the farming family is in decline, they were once a powerful family.

In terms of social politics, the Agricultural School advocated the implementation of the farming and warfare policy, rewarded the development of agricultural production, and represented the interests and demands of farmers.

Agricultural scholars advocated that "the wise should farm and eat with the people" and "there should be no two businesses". They advocated equal labor for everyone and equal exchange of goods, and required a "fair and reasonable" society.

What a coincidence! The ideas that Mu Qing has always been pursuing overlap with those of the farmers.

Seek common ground while reserving differences, we are all one family.

Mu Qing is in great need of talent, so even a big family like the Nong family has to put some money into their own bowl to feel at ease.

It would be wrong for Mu Qing not to take advantage of the girl who was right at her doorstep.

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