Chapter 2319 Meat and Vegetarian Food, Labor and Hard Work

Chang'an.

Not long after Fei Qian's exam ended, he got the final list after two rounds of corrections, and also saw the strategies of these people for reference.

In a certain respect, policy theory is like the application theory of the ape examination in later generations.

A monkey who cannot write good arguments is not a good monkey.

Some people in later generations said that the Civil Service Examination was based on the Western civil service system, but in fact, the Western Civil Service System was based on the ancient Chinese imperial examination system. Therefore, it is not easy to distinguish the origin of the current Civil Service Examination. But one thing that is very interesting is that these two brothers, Ce Lun and Shen Lun, actually have some similarities.

The policies and theories of the Han Dynasty, or these ancient policies and theories, are basically the same as those of later generations. The purpose of the examination is basically the same. They are all for the actual needs of the country. They are a method of selecting and recruiting talents, and they all have the "merit" effect of a selective examination. The purpose of "eliminating the inferior" relies on words, or propositional compositions, which must be relevant to the current situation and explain some views and suggestions on the political affairs of the country.

To put it simply, it is "the urgent matter of the world".

Then the knowledge covered should be very broad, not just political theory, but the more it develops, the wider the coverage. In later generations, the scope of coverage may also include but is not limited to law, economy, culture, education, and even environmental protection and health. , electronic ,information related content.

"Policy theory" as a method of selection examination is a product of the early Western Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty issued an order to convene the princes and ministers to recommend the candidates first, and asked the recommended candidates to "write their opinions in the article", and then sealed them, which was the first of "anonymity", and then the emperor personally opened and examined them. Whether their opinions are appropriate and thorough, and if they have the talent to assist the government, they can be hired.

Since there was no paper at that time, the opinions of the recommended candidates were written on bamboo slips, and those sent to the emperor for examination were all made of a large roll of bamboo slips, so this selection method was also called "Jian Ce".

Later, there were "Countermeasures" and "Shooting Strategies", which were face-to-face answers and written test responses, so there was another name called "Ceke Questions".

At first, the policies were very transactional. Later, because the emperor himself was not sensible and had no level, he could not ask any questions. As an assistant, the ministers did not dare to ask questions that were too current. After all, if they were raised, what would happen? Doesn't being answered by that person mean that you are not good enough and need to be replaced by someone else?

How can I still live here? Therefore, in the later stages of policy discussions, especially when the emperor was incompetent, they often became mere formalities. They even cut out a sentence or even a few words from the Four Books and Five Classics as the title. What kind of talents can such policy discussions attract? , naturally it can be imagined.

Of course, during the Han Dynasty, or during the entire Chinese Dynasty, the most classic policy theory was Dong Zhongshu's "The Virtuous Countermeasures", which influenced the Han Dynasty for three to four hundred years, and even continued to influence history for thousands of years...

"Meat-eaters are despicable, and it is not because they are not far-fetched that they can't plan far. It is because they despise their plans that they will fall." 』

Pang Tong's voice was ups and downs, and he was shaking his head while holding a policy paper.

"Falling down and losing virtue is the way to destruction." Or say: Meat eaters despise it, are they all depraved? Said: If you don't fall, you will lose yourself if you fall. Because of the country's fall, you can't live alone in peace. Therefore, it is said that those who eat meat are not allowed to plan, and it is harmful to their fall. 』

Pang Tong read a paragraph, then looked at Fei Qian and said, "How does this start?" 』

Fei Qian laughed and said, "Keep going!" 』

Pang Tong took a sip of tea, and then continued: "Everyone in the country works, and those who work get food." Those who work hard are rewarded with plows; those who work hard are rewarded with salary. However, when the salary is compared, hard work is worth a hundred times as much as hard work. What a laborer desires may be a meal or a ladle of drink; what a laborer desires may be a city or a city, which is more than a hundred times greater. Therefore, it is not reasonable for people to divide their mental and physical labor into just eating meat and say nothing about it. 』

"Man's great desires and the great dangers of the country are not due to hard work, but to gains without working." Thinking of our ancestors in ancient times, they were exposed to frost and dew, chopped thorns, tasted hundreds of herbs, and fought against the yellow sand to gain a small place and a piece of land. However, today's descendants don't cherish it very much. They discard it and destroy it. They sit back and eat nothing. They don't seek to learn much, but only pursue all their desires. However, the money in the family is limited, people are greedy, and carnivores are despicable. Just like this, the more the desire is increased, the deeper the fall will be. Therefore, meat-eaters do not plan far, but fall into lust, which is not the harm of meat-eating. 』

"If one person falls, the family will decline." If a family falls, the family will be in vain. If a clan falls, the county will be in ruins, causing serious harm. Those who eat meat will fall, and the rest will also perish. The rest will not fall, and will eventually be exhausted and destroyed. Why? Therefore, the achievements of the five hegemons in the Spring and Autumn Period could not be continued, and the country of Hufu, riding and shooting perished due to laziness. If a carnivore is diligent and alert at first, he will be a king; if a carnivore is confused and falls into a trap, he will perish. Only when you have a far-sighted strategy can you defend your territory. Cao GUI may not not eat meat, and Lu Zhuang may not all eat grain. 』

"Alas! However, those who fall do not think it is an exaggeration, those who are dying do not think it is dangerous, they only see the small space at the bottom of the well, trapped in the soil in front of their own door, the spirit of youth and advancement, clear talk, the promise of diligence, lying drunk in bed, right and wrong , knowingly committing crimes, covering up mistakes, day after day, year after year! Sad husband! The sun cuts and the moon cuts, and you will fall and perish! 』

"Meat eaters are despicable and cannot make far-sighted plans. There may be a reason for this, but it is not the fault of meat eaters. It is just greed that leads to their downfall." Gou thinks that people in the world know the principles, but they also act contrary to others, use axes on others, and steal from themselves. This is what they do to others. 』

After Pang Tong finished reading, he stopped, and then smacked his lips twice, as if he still had something to say.

Fei Qian touched his beard and looked around, "What do you think?" 』

Xun You nodded slowly and sighed, "Very good." 』

The rest of the people also nodded in praise.

Fei Qian asked again who made it, and immediately heard a relatively familiar name, Tian Yu and Tian Guorang. He was slightly stunned for a moment, and then took a look at the list with his place of origin marked, and found that he matched the number.

"That's it, take it!" 』

Fei Qian made the final decision, and immediately ordered people to copy and post the articles of the top three, including Tian Yu, and then ordered all officials to write a policy paper with the theme "Meat eaters are despicable"...

In fact, these are all leftovers from later generations. I have never seen a meeting held by the head office, that is, branch offices organize some research, branch companies organize some studies, and then go down to each employee to write down his or her impressions.

However, it is still relatively rare for a big man to do this, and he was suddenly a little confused and uncomfortable. Because of this incident, Mi Heng's situation suddenly became a little difficult.

Because the saying "Meat eaters are despicable" was not said by Mi Heng at first, but by Cao GUI. However, these officials could not go to Cao GUI to settle accounts, nor could they disobey General Hussar's order, so naturally there would be more The anger caused by the burden transferred to Mi Heng, completely forgetting how happy they were when they heard Mi Heng ridiculing Pang Tong.

Just like feeling good is temporary, prostatitis is permanent.

When you are happy, you can naturally do anything to Mi Heng. Dear Xiao Tiantian, you can say anything. But now that you are happy, you have to take responsibility for your actions...

Grandma, look away, this kid... uh, no, I didn't say that!

Spicy Gobi.

As a result, Mi Heng's treatment suddenly went from being admired by thousands of people at the beginning to being disliked by everyone now. It was like an internet celebrity removing makeup and turning off the magic tool, and everyone suddenly disappeared.

The people who originally lined up to invite you Heng dispersed in the blink of an eye. Mi Heng suddenly felt as if he had been reported by the people in Chaoyang District as soon as he woke up. Not only were they all removed from the shelves, but the crowd was empty, and he was even vaguely despised by thousands of people.

this……

Has this changed?

Many times, when you can stay out of something, it will naturally become calm and calm. Once you fall deeply into it, you will immediately change your original appearance of a master and start jumping around.

The same is true for Mi Heng. In fact, he thought he was staying out of it, but in fact he couldn't get out of the vortex at all.

"Where is your Zhengping?" 』

A young official asked, standing in front of the post house.

The steward of the post house quickly directed him to Mi Heng.

"Are you Zhengping?" ” The official glanced at Mi Heng and confirmed his identity. He didn’t say anything polite to Mi Heng. He waved back and asked the attendant to hold up a lacquer plate. This is the order to watch the wind in Guanzhong! 』

The attendant placed the lacquer plate next to Mi Heng.

Mi Heng glanced at the lacquer plate coldly and said, "I'm sorry to obey!" 』

"If you don't want to obey your order, please go to the official house to shirk it yourself!" I am just a messenger, not in charge of this matter. Farewell! ” After saying that, the young official turned around and left.

Mi Heng was startled for a moment, but then he couldn't catch up. He looked at the official robes and seals placed on the ground, his expression changed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The official quickly returned to the Husband's office and returned to Fei Qian.

Fei Qian nodded and said he understood...

"My lord," Pang Tong smiled at the side, "You are Zhengping, but you are probably still ungrateful..."

Fei Qian laughed, waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, let him do it." 』

Fei Qian just sent out a signal. He really didn't care what Mi Heng was thinking or not thinking.

Regarding Mi Heng, Fei Qian feels a bit like an angry fighter, or a bit like a hippie?

In a unique state, he criticizes the entire world in an angry tone, but does not criticize himself.

Fei Qian does not have a deep understanding of the concept of hippies, but this does not prevent him from understanding and grasping the mentality of people like Mi Heng.

For most of the gentry children, the Eastern Han Dynasty was full of disturbances and emperors changed. In fact, these gentry children did not receive much impact. Especially for the gentry children in the Central Plains of Han Dynasty, even if they heard about some border troubles, it was just a temporary sigh. These gentry children still had something to eat and drink, and they even made war fortunes because of the war. Coupled with the large-scale concentration of land, the lives of these gentry children are undoubtedly prosperous, and they have no worries about food and clothing.

There are carriages and horses for travel, and fish and meat for meals. The children of the gentry who were born into families with abundant material conditions did not know what hunger was, nor did they know how hard it was for the ancestors of the Han family, nor did they know the cruelty of war. At least in the teenage years after Mi Heng was born, Mi Heng was worry-free. Careless people rarely know what pain and suffering are, so these people represented by Mi Heng are chanting slogans...

"Don't be content with the present, want poetry and the distance!" 』

"Don't let Du Wu stain your eyes!" 』

And so on, he expressed his deep hatred for some power and money transactions in the Eastern Han Dynasty. On the one hand, he enjoyed various dividends and benefits brought by the children of the gentry, and on the other hand, he showed that he was noble, pure and unique.

Subsequently, with the bloody casualties caused by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the gentry children in various counties and counties were captured by the rioting people and captured the manor and Wubao. When the gentry children realized that the class dignity they had maintained for decades and hundreds of years was destroyed by a group of The mud-legged man dragged the manure to the ground with a dung fork. When the warehouses of the gentry children were smashed open, the men were killed, and the women were raped, only then did these originally pampered gentry children truly realize the cruelty of reality.

The big bosses in the court are shuffling their cards crazily by taking advantage of the social turmoil, and interests and power are constantly changing and trading in light and darkness. But people like Mi Heng don't understand politics, and the cruel reality has hit them hard. If you can't change the status quo, you will play with yourself and engage in criticism and performance art.

Mi Heng was not the first, nor was he the last. After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the situation became more obvious among the gentry children. They took drugs, were naked, decadent, immersed in endless pleasure and illusion, and lost all pursuits...

This kind of collapse is spiritual, so when a group of young boys in later generations pursue the Western hippie culture, to be honest, you don’t need to look at the West for this hippie thing. Our ancients have played it thousands of years ago, and it was them. Play with the rest.

Some so-called hippie activities and performance art in later generations, such as lying on the ground and listening to the sounds of soil plants and feeling their breath, the naked plant festival, not naked plants, but naked animals, naked watering flowers, gardening, Running naked on the streets, calling on humans to let go of their restraints, return to nature, embrace themselves, etc...

And this kind of thing was done by Liu Ling, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest. A friend came to visit Liu Ling. When he saw Liu Ling naked, Liu Ling said plausibly, "I use the heaven and the earth as my pillars, and my rooms as my robes. Why do you enter my robes?" 』

Therefore, Mi Heng's so-called stripping off his clothes and scolding Cao Cao may be new to people today, but to Fei Qian, it is nothing at all.

The reason why Fei Qian gave Mi Heng a position as a watcher was to let Mi Heng see some actual things by himself and not be immersed in his own fantasies. After all, people like Mi Heng were actually among the nobles. There are some more or less, and they are also representative to a certain extent.

Therefore, no matter what Mi Heng thinks, Fei Qian will not directly confront Mi Heng at the moment. After all, anyone who has some experience in arguing with later keyboard warriors or gangsters will know that if they want to compete with keyboard warriors or gangsters, It is an almost impossible task for Gang Jing to just rely on words to explain a truth, which is more difficult than landing on the moon alone.

So Fei Qian immediately used the title "Meat Eaters Despicable" to pull all the officials away from Mi Heng. On the one hand, it allowed Mi Heng to really see his surroundings clearly, instead of just seeing the people surrounding him. , on the other hand, Fei Qian also needs the current Guanzhong officials to focus on harvesting and storing food.

For a farming nation, the harvesting and storage of food is undoubtedly very important, and even if the food is stored well, it is prone to mold and deterioration. If it is three years old, it is not very edible, and if it is five years old, it can basically only be eaten. Since livestock is raised, how to store more grain and how to convert some old grain have become issues that Fei Qian must consider.

Grain storage is basically difficult to improve in terms of technology...

Before there are major breakthroughs in the current materials science, the difference in shelf life between overhead warehouses and pit-type storage is actually not very big. Fei Qian even found that in the loess area of ​​Sanfu, Chang'an, the difference between cave dwellings and pits The storage model seems better than building an overhead warehouse alone.

Moreover, the construction cost of cave dwellings and pit storage is even cheaper.

You only need to choose a place, then dig a pit, burn it with fire to completely dry the earth wall, then spread plant ash in the pit, then lay wooden boards, spread mats on the wooden boards, and put grain on the mats. After the chaff, spread a layer of mat. The walls and bottom of the cellar are all treated in this way. This method of "matting with chaff" can insulate the grain cellar from moisture and heat, just like a huge thermos bottle, isolating moisture and insects.

Moreover, grain storage is basically carried out in winter, so that the effect of low-temperature grain storage can be achieved. The grain in such a grain cellar is not easy to heat up, germinate, or rot. It can effectively extend the "shelf life" of ordinary grain to five years, and some dry grains, such as millet, can be stored even longer.

It's just that even if the shelf life is extended, it still needs to be replaced in time. The new food is stored in it, and then the old food is replaced. During this replacement process, many tricks will occur...

Fei Qian had been better at fighting corruption before, so when Qiu Huo replaced grain and grass this year, not many people dared to commit crimes, or the new batch of people were not very familiar with the process...

Therefore, Chang'an Sanfu's Chen Liang suddenly increased.

Everyone knows that old grains don’t fetch much, especially when new grains are on the market.

The problem was not big before. After all, Feiqian was still relatively short on food and grass in the past few years, and even did not dare to expand its troops on a large scale because of food and grass restrictions. However, with the stabilization of a large number of refugees, the development of farming work in various places, and the new With the use of agricultural tools and the further promotion of composting technology, grain production has been increased. The amount of stored grain and grass has increased, and the amount of old grain replaced has naturally increased.

So, Mi Heng's problem seems to be very important in his personal eyes, but in fact, for Fei Qian, it is obviously how to increase the value of these old grains that is more important...