Chapter 1338 Zhong Qiu


    Guanzhong Sanfu, Chang''an government office.


    Autumn has always been the harvest season, and then a large number of gentry children began to hold song Fu Wenhui, drinking and seeking pleasure. It seemed that otherwise, they could not express their joy.


    "Before you know it, Zhongqiu is coming soon..." Fei Qian said with a smile, "Do you want Shi Yuan to celebrate the festival with me?"


    Pang Tong rolled his eyes and ignored Fei Qian.


    Zhongqiu, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice in the Han Dynasty, many people will hold celebrations on this day. This kind of festival that has survived from ancient times, as the name suggests, naturally worships ancestors according to the rules, and uses newly harvested rice and wheat for sacrifices. It is a cultural and traditional festival to remember the ancestors, and to report the autumn success to the ancestors. While respecting the ancestors and doing filial piety, it is also to gather the centripetal force of a family. There are sacrifices to ancestors in spring and sacrifices in autumn.


    This festival has a long history. In the book of rites, there is "the moon of mid-autumn, who is ordered to be slaughtered and wished, to sacrifice according to the line, to see the whole thing, to feed the grass, to see the fat and barren. The length is moderate, the five are prepared, and the gods will serve them", and the so-called Zhongyuan Festival or the Yulan Basin Festival are all imported later. The Yulan Basin Festival was grafted from the original traditional festivals when Buddhism rose during the Wei and Jin Dynasties.


    The name of the Ghost Festival was proposed by Taoism at about the same time, and there were two more than its competitors. Because Taoism originally had the sayings of officials, land officials, and water officials. Taoism sets July 15th as the birthday of local officials, which is called Zhongyuan. The corresponding birthdays of Tianguan and Shuiguan are also called Shangyuan and Xiayuan. Local officials are in charge of forgiveness of sins, so on this day, Taoist temples will hold large-scale sacrificial offerings to forgive the sins of the dead, and believers will naturally participate in it, praying for their deceased relatives, hoping that they will have a better life in the underworld.


    Huaxia people have a natural attribute, that is, practicality is paramount, just like what Lu Xun said is the doctrine of borrowing. It doesn’t matter who owns it. What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is still mine.


    So copycats really have a long history!


    Therefore, on July 15th, Buddhism, Taoism and our traditional customs of worshiping ancestors gradually merged together. In the late Song Dynasty, everyone basically accepted the festival name "Zhongyuan Festival" from Taoism. At the same time, it retains the customs of the Buddhist Obon Festival, and at the same time, the oldest family sacrifices cannot be left behind...


    In the current Han Dynasty, the most important thing on this day is naturally sacrifice. Although Pang Tong was in Sanfu, Pang was the only one, but there was still a process to go through, so how could Pang Tong live with Fei Qian?


    "I mean..." Looking at Pang Tong''s expression, Fei Qian knew that he was talking badly, so he added, "Come back to me after the sacrifice... A few days ago, Bai Shiqiang sent someone to send some Xiaohuaixiang. It’s good, it has a special flavor on top of the barbecue…”


    "You can have this." Pang Tong nodded immediately. He is growing up now, and he eats a lot. When he heard the delicious wine, he began to drool. "What else? Shall I bring some wine?"


    "No, Yuanzhi and Zijing will also come at that time, we will just gather together as our brothers..." Fei Qian said, "After Zhongqiu, Yuanzhi will go south to Hanzhong, and we may have another time when we meet again." It''s been quite a few years..." Pang Tong is in Chang''an, he''s living here as a guest, unlike those families who have wine cellars where they can hide some good wine, and if they bring some wine, I''m afraid it''s just some ordinary goods on the market, it''s not as good as The ones that Fei Qian Ping Duong brews in-house come even better.


    Pang Tong nodded, feeling a little emotional: "That''s right, we need to have a few drinks... It would be great if Zijian was here, the five of us will be together..."


    The transportation is inconvenient these days, once separated, it is really difficult to get together again.


    Liu Dan reported the plan to attack Shuzhong. Although the writing was clear and well thought out, Fei Qian always felt a little uneasy, so he planned to leave Xu Shu and take some people to Hanzhong. Even if there is any unexpected situation, it can always be dealt with.


    After all, Li Ru''s main focus now needs to be on Longyou, and Hanzhong is naturally beyond his reach.


    "Zijian, this kid, it''s not like you don''t know, but now he refuses to leave the workshop..." Fei Qian shook his head and smiled, "If you ask him to go to Sansuke, he probably doesn''t want to..." Tai Shiming is almost a steel nerd from the science department A typical representative of the type, if Fei Qian hadn''t sent him a few maids to take care of his daily life, once he studied it, I''m afraid his clothes could be worn as armor.


    Pang Tong laughed and nodded, "That''s right, calling him here would make him feel uncomfortable, forget it, forget it..."


    "Well, but since it''s a festival of sacrifice, there are always sacrifices." Fei Qian found a few from the text on the table and handed them to Pang Tong, "These people are really courageous." ...Is money so important? Is power so important? Is the way of poverty and integrity really so unwilling to leave?"


    Pang Tong took the text, looked at it, sneered, and said as if he was used to it: "It''s not that I don''t want to leave, but I''m used to it, and I can''t change it..."


    Fei Qian smiled: "These guys are also very smart... In fact, if you have to play tricks on them, even those who are not smart can''t do it... Make false accounts, make false losses, declare more air space wages, and blend them with old grain New food, all kinds of things, with new patterns..."


    The Sanfu of Guanzhong is naturally several times larger than that of Bingbei and Pingyang, so Feiqian''s original inspection and grain collection queues in Pingyang are not enough. After the failure of the fight against Feiqian Xintianzheng, in order to preserve more interests of the family, these Guanzhong gentry Haoyou began to try their best to wield hoes to dig the walls.


    "If the family really lacks these things to save lives, that''s fine," Fei Qian continued, "It''s just for survival, so it''s not right or wrong, but these guys have food and drink, and live a worry-free life, so they just want to take this little bit." It''s so cheap...where have all these people gone to study?"


    Pang Tong chuckled, threw the text on the table, and said, "Actually, it might not be..."


    Fei Qian turned his head and looked over, and said, "What do you mean?"


    "Because they are not just themselves..." Pang Tong smiled, his eyes were very complicated, "When you become an official, you don''t have to associate with your family, you don''t have to accept bribes, and you don''t have to sell anyone''s face. Officials, there are no problems with these, but when you become an official, you must do something, and when you want to do something, what should you do when you can''t do it by yourself? You need to borrow the strength of others, but the strength you can borrow is There is a price to pay…”


    "So it''s my fault?" Fei Qian pointed to his nose, a little amused.


    Pang Tong laughed loudly, even patted the table, nodded and said: "Of course it''s because of you! I don''t blame you or anyone else!"


    "You Pang Shiyuan, okay, tell me..." Fei Qian couldn''t turn the corner for a moment, "How can I blame me?"


    "The pavilion chief Cong Cao is also a human being, and there are too many trivial things in the countryside... Take this autumn Fu as an example, there is a quota on it, how much it will take, and it will take a few days to complete, right..." Pang Tong raised his head provocatively Eyebrows, looked at Fei Qian.


    Feiqian nodded, indicating that you just continue to perform.


    "In Pingyang, there are not many villages, and the fields are relatively concentrated. Taxes and rents are collected, and a few more trips are enough..." Pang Tong said, "But there are many in Guanzhong, not only Larger, the distance between the villages is also farther, one in the east and one in the west, and the matter of harvesting in autumn cannot be arranged at will regardless of the weather. The time for planting in spring is about the same, and the time for harvesting in autumn is naturally almost the same... Then all In a short period of time, even if these people in the county are cut into ten and eight sections, it is not enough, so what should we do?"


    Pang Tong turned his dead fish eyes and continued to mock Fei Qian, "What should I do? Write a letter to you, expressing difficulties and not being able to accept it, or let you give it a grace period, and wait for them to slowly collect them village by village?"


    "Hmm..." Fei Qian understood what Pang Tong meant.


    "So, you need someone to help you..." Pang Tong pointed to the writing on the table, and said, "If you want someone to help you, but you don''t give any benefits, who will help you? Would you help me this year and next year? Free help every year?"


    Fei Qian frowned and said, "But this is still wrong..."


    "It''s not right, but the confiscation in various places is right, the number of official documents is right, and the food and grass collected for you is right," Pang Tong said slowly, "The only thing that''s wrong is the ordinary people, but these people can''t do anything about it. First, they don’t know whether the amount assigned to them is right. Second, even if they know that the amount is wrong, they have nowhere to ask, no time, no capital to ask. Therefore, for ordinary people, No, it''s also right..."


    "So, you mean that these corruptions are considered administrative costs?" Fei Qian frowned and said.


    "Administrative cost? What do you mean? Oh, I see, it''s about the same..." Pang Tong shook his head and said, "Sometimes I feel that you are too serious. It was like this when you got married..."


    Feiqian was silent for a while, and said: "But... this is still wrong..."


    Pang Tong became interested, rolled his eyelids, stared at Fei Qian and said, "Then tell me, what do you think is right? Arrest all these people and chop them off?"


    Fei Qian laughed dumbfounded. This is obviously impossible. They were all chopped up. Whoever does the work can''t tell whether he is an ordinary Han Dynasty citizen with ten fingers or eight fingers?


    "I didn''t think carefully about what you said just now..." Fei Qian said slowly, "Seeing all this corruption, I''m a little confused..."


    When he was in Pingyang that year, Fei Qian also encountered such a situation, but at that time Fei Qian simply put aside these people, and used veterans and some boys plus a concentrated supply truck to directly complete most of the work. In addition, in the early days of Pingyang, most of the land was farmed, which basically belonged to the scope of Feiqian''s own direct control, so this issue has not been studied in detail.


    In Guanzhong, this problem was magnified, and it was magnified, so it caught Fei Qian''s attention.


    "Let''s do this," Fei Qian knocked on the table, pointed to the text, and said, "Find the one with the most corruption, investigate, and chop it up. First, it can make the people angry, and second, it can also establish the name of our incorruptibility." , Three times to warn others, don’t cross the red line.”


    Pang Tong laughed loudly, stroked his palms and said, "Exactly! This is the correct solution!"


    Fei Qian sighed, but shook his head, and said: "This is a plan, but it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. I can guess that these people will frantically test around the red line in an attempt to find the best one. balance point."


    "Oh?" Pang Tong opened his eyes wide and said, "Could it be that you have a better way?"


    Fei Qian smiled and said, "Yes, read."


    "What?" Pang Tong


    "Reading." Fei Qian tapped on the table lightly, and said, "I will let Mr. Farming tell them that knowledge changes destiny."


    Pang Tong swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Are you serious?"


    "There is a word called class solidification... Well, let me explain it. In simple terms, the sons and grandsons of farmers will always be farmers, and the sons and grandchildren of officials will always be officials..." Fei Qian said, "If this situation Emerged, and immutable, what will happen to this dynasty?"


    Pang Tong hesitated and said, "Rebellion?"


    Fei Qian nodded and said: "Yes, it will definitely lead to rebellion in the end. Because people have desires, they always want more, more, and when they can''t suppress it, there is a bang... Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are like this, Of course, if there is no Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, there will be Wu Sheng and Chen Guang... Maybe the examples given are not very appropriate, but they are almost the same anyway..."


    Chinese people are very smart, and the smarter people are, the more ambitious they are. When these ambitious people find that they can''t get promoted, they will definitely gather together and think about it. Don''t be too ignorant of such things in history. many.


    "What do you mean is almost the same, that is almost the same!" Pang Tong said dissatisfiedly, frowning, "But I also understand what you mean, but if you do this, it is not a matter of a family..."


    "Haha, are you scared?" Fei Qian laughed loudly, "Use the temporary solution first, then the root solution, take your time..."


    Pang Tong rolled his eyelids, and said dissatisfied: "Just talk big."


    "Not really," Fei Qian said, "The main issue is manpower. Think about it, this is what a place like Guangguan Zhongsansuke looks like. If it is enlarged a bit, wouldn''t it be even more chaotic?"


    Pang Tong was stunned, and said, "You want to bring the Pingyang method over?"


    Feiqian nodded, showing a cunning smile and said, "Educating the people is a major national event, who is against it?"


    (end of this chapter)