Chapter 137 Preparation
Li Zhaoji was surprised to find that his uncle was very familiar with the lives of ordinary people and was very adaptable. He could appear in noisy barbecue stalls, eat barbecue kebabs, drink sweet potatoes, and play with vulgar people. That was the place chosen by Yan's father Sangel.
Sangel was originally an ordinary herd slave. After escaping the grassland, he helped people farm in Hebei for a year. He really couldn't do that business, so he went downstairs and became a worker in a coal mine affiliated to the iron plant.
"... Actually, I don't want to run away. I think life is pretty good, at least much better than my father's time..." Sanger was a rough man and spoke very directly. He drank wine, ate peanuts and pork head meat, and told everything he knew, and he didn't even let Li Junwei tell him the excuse he had prepared. Originally, Li Junwei used the excuse to buy fur in the grassland in the future and found someone familiar to learn about the situation before he asked Sanger out.
However, Li Junwei still didn't understand Sangel's personality. The sheep-herders who grew up on the grassland always had more sheep than people. The boring life made them willing to talk and share with others. On the grassland, this personality will evolve into a hospitality custom. After all, it's hard to come to someone and finally find someone to chat. And when you arrive in the Great Wall, this is a chatty personality.
Sanger was already in his forties. He experienced the Qing Dynasty. When he was young, he was an ordinary herd slave of the Chahar tribe. Because Chahar's first group to surrender to the empire, he retained a large number of feudal nobles. Sanger never got rid of that identity.
According to Sangel, life was getting better and better. In the earliest years of the empire, it was no different from the Qing Dynasty. Sangel's family was exploited by Taiji, and had endless work, owing a lot of debts, and living in a daze. However, as the empire's Zasak system matured, it gradually changed.
The first change was the arrival of the circuit judges and monks of the Huang Cult under the Lifan Court. These people ensured that the feudal lords could no longer deprive the lives of slaves at will and could not impose punishments that would cause disability. As slaves without returning to slaves gradually emerged, the lives of herd slaves like Sanger were better, because they were easy to escape. In order not to let them escape, in order to strengthen management, they were also reduced to exploitation. If the living conditions of the external vassal Zasak and the internal vassal were too different, the slaves would naturally escape, but as long as their lives were similar, few people would run away at risk of being killed.
Therefore, ten years ago, there were many slaves who did not return to the empire, but ten years later, there were many slaves who did not return to the empire. The gradually reduced exploitation and the unknown of leaving their hometown made many herd slaves choose to continue to bear it.
When Sanger said this, he scratched his head: "If I were to follow me, I wouldn't escape. It's all my fault for coming to this place. If we had known this, we wouldn't have let him go to school."
The spread of knowledge and the liberation of thoughts are factors that have increased the number of slaves in recent years. This is the case with the Sangel family. His youngest younger brother Bagel is his father's favorite child. The whole family saved money and allowed him to go to school. The Chahar Zasak where he was located does not have a school for herders, but the inner vassal Zasak next to him has it. As long as you spend money, the relationship between them is easy to connect.
Bagel went from Zasak’s elementary school to a higher school in the Yunzhong Appeasement Zone, and he will definitely not go back since then. After learning about the outside world, Bagel moved his family out. The knowledge obtained by Bagel did not bring much income to the family, because the young man was heading towards the 'no way back'.
He traveled in Beijing, Tianjin and the surrounding appeasement zones, and promoted his ideas everywhere. In his opinion, the people of the empire and the emperor's subjects should have freedom and legal protection, while the people under the lord had to endure exploitation and oppression. He once tried to lobby in Beijing, Tianjin and Shenjing to completely solve this problem, but after the failure, he returned to his hometown and constantly incited the herdsmen of the outer vassal Zasak to leave and go to the Great Wall to find happiness and freedom. Therefore, Bagher became a wanted criminal in the Lifanyuan.
But like his attitude towards the unreturned slaves, Baghl was just a name on the wanted order. He was still active inside and outside the Great Wall, striving for the liberation of all the oppressed people in the Lifan Court.
Obviously, the reasons for not returning to slavery have gradually shifted from the material level to the ideological level.
In the office of the President of the Lifan Court.
Wu Yifeng brought a cup of tea and placed it in front of Li Junwei. Now he is the president of the Lifan Academy of the Empire. He is from the attendant's office and the Duke of the Empire. He once followed Li Junwei to the western expedition and served as the general of the garrison in the remote borders. He has strong resumes and networks.
"I have checked the Bagel you said. It is similar to what the prince said. He is an idealist. He has a group of people around him, including classmates and young students. He is very motivated. There are a few unclean workers in the team. They are raising funds from the group of slaves, and some embezzling organizational funds. At present, this organization has been targeted by the Security Bureau. At the administrative level, they are considered legal organizations under the banner of social relief organizations, but they are illegal and dangerous at the political level. The Lifanyuan also has the control......" Wu Yifeng introduced seriously.
Li Junwei nodded: "Keep attention to this group of people, it may be useful in the future."
Wu Yifeng nodded and asked, "Prince Yu, I have only been the president of the Lifan Academy for half a year. I have not been to Shenjing after taking office. But I heard a news that the emperor intends to ban the Lifan Academy and provincialize the border areas. Is it true or false?"
Li Junwei smiled after hearing this, and said it was full of rumors, but glanced at the two staff members who were packing documents in the office.
Wu Yifeng found a reason to let the two men retreat, and Li Junwei said: "This kind of thing is suggested every year and discussed every year."
"Then the prince has to give me a sure letter." Wu Yifeng said.
Li Junwei waved his hand and said, "Accurate letter? I can give it to you, but the answer is different, it depends on where your butt is sitting."
Wu Yifeng immediately understood that since his father Wu Mu, the Wu family was the imperial party. In the past, Wu Yifeng was like this in the attendant's room. After going to the far-sword general to serve as the garrison, there was a change. He gradually integrated into the system of the Lifanyuan. Wu Yifeng said: "Prince, you know, our Wu family will always share weal and woe with the royal family."
"Of course I know this, so I tell you that the Lifan Academy will reform, but it will not be banned. Even if the reform is exactly the same as the General Administration, the Lifan Academy will still be the Lifan Academy." Li Junwei said with a smile.
Wu Yifeng nodded. He knew very well that in the empire, the biggest threat to imperial power was not the cabinet, but the bourgeoisie with the position of the House of Commons. The desire for interests of these capitalists was unlimited. Although the Lifanyuan was a private place for the imperial military aristocracy and feudal aristocracy, compared with the House of Commons, it was the sphere of influence of the imperial power.
"Recently, public opinion has become increasingly surging. Taking the opportunity of the emperor's full amnesty for Manchuria, the people's congresses in the House of Assembly wrote the articles of the Lifan Academy, who wanted to provincialize the border areas and wantonly attack the Lifan Academy's system, especially various feudal remnants systems and ideas. The emperor has not expressed it for a long time, nor has he said he would suppress it." Wu Yifeng complained, unlike the previous presidents of the Lifan Academy, Wu Yifeng came from the military and had a relatively simple mind. The reason why he appointed him as the president of the Lifan Academy was because he was reliable.
Li Junwei smiled, "Let me go to the north to go on a tour, which is the emperor's greatest attitude."
A smile appeared on Wu Yifeng's face. He knew that Li Junwei's temperament was mysterious and mysterious, and he would always have a trump card in his hand, and his words would never be complete. But if he expressed this, he felt completely relieved.
"What do you mean is that the emperor is ready to use this public opinion to solve the problem of foreign vassals?" Wu Yifeng asked.
Li Junwei nodded: "Old Wu, Lifanyuan is his own, but foreign vassals are not."
"But I can't do nothing here." Wu Yifeng said.
"It's just to tell you not to do anything." Li Junwei gently tapped the table.
Wu Yifeng was stunned at first, and then immediately realized that this time, it was not only the foreign vassals in the border areas, but also the group of people in the House of Commons, who told Wu Yifeng not to do anything, and the emperor did not express his attitude, just let them make trouble. The more the trouble, the better it would be. It would be best for everyone to jump out and catch them all in the end.
"Since you and the emperor have already planned, I have no worries." Wu Yifeng said with a smile, then walked to the desk, took out a stacked map, and said, "Prince, I have marked the situation of the main foreign nobles on this according to your requirements. You have been in Beijing for almost two months. What is the constitution of this matter? There must be an explanation. If you don't say it, the door of my official office has been almost broken."
Li Junwei asked: "What do you think?"
Wu Yifeng said directly: "If I were to come, it would be simple. I would just move troops directly. The emperor ordered a full pardon for Manchuria. If there is any objection to the foreign vassals, it would be against the will. If there is anything to say, it would be a catch in one go."
"It's not good to kill the donkey. The Supreme Emperor is still there, so I will kill the founding minister. Even if it's my foreign vassal, it's not suitable, and it's not that level." Li Junwei said.
In fact, Wu Yifeng just said that, and he said this just to show his attitude. He had no interest in foreign vassals, and he was willing to suppress him even if he was to send troops to suppress him. Then there would be nothing wrong with what policy King Yu proposed.
Li Junwei opened the map and found that the titles, land and the number of people in the foreign vassals were marked on it. Li Junwei shook his head: "It's still too simple. I need more detailed information. At least I need to know how much money these guys will cost if they use money to solve the problem."
Wu Yifeng took back the map and said, "If it is solved with money, it will definitely not be a small expense. The House alone will not be able to pass it. I think this group of people really want to cut the mess quickly."
"No matter how big or small, I want an accurate number," said Li Junwei.
"Prince, Prince, go and have a look..." Li Junwei's chief guard suddenly broke in and said hurriedly.
"What's wrong? Is it burning my butt?" Li Junwei asked.
The chief guard said, "The eldest prince has someone beat him."
Li Junwei said casually: "If you fight, just fight..." At this point, Li Junwei realized the seriousness of the problem, shouted my god, and left in a hurry.
Wu Yifeng hurriedly followed and arrived at Prince Cheng's Mansion. Li Junwei saw Li Zhaoji who was beaten and found that the boy had a stick on his butt. There was a purple mark two fingers wide on his round butt. Li Junwei asked the doctor: "Is there anything wrong with the bone? Are there any other injuries?"
"It's okay, I just got a stick in my butt." Li Zhaoji said first.
Li Junwei breathed a sigh of relief: "My God, I was so scared. I thought I was beaten like."
"Uncle San, that Yan was beaten so hard that she was sent to the hospital." Li Zhaoji lay on the bed, thinking about his friends in his heart.
Li Junwei nodded and looked for a guard who had followed Li Zhaoji more often, went to the hospital to visit him, and brought the money with him.
"Uncle Wu, our people have been arrested by the Beijing sheriff. You have to take them out." Li Zhaoji said to Wu Yifeng again.
Wu Yifeng knelt in front of the bed and said, "Oh my little master, don't mess with the gangsters, what's going on?"
Only then did Li Zhaoji explain the whole story clearly. It turned out that they had learned to play football in the park and met a group of children of about the same age. These people were defeated players in the football match. These children all came from elementary schools affiliated to Guihuatang. They all came from extraordinary origins, and Li Zhaoji had many descendants like Yan, who were not from the slaves. The escaped slaves this master met were not easy to meet. They fought at all disagreements, and the fight was quite powerful, and even the sheriff was alarmed.
"Damn it, a group of lowly slaves, even the master dared to beat him." Wu Yifeng stood up viciously.
"Okay, what's the matter of a child? Send someone to let all the children involved." Li Junwei ordered.
Li Zhaoji said proudly: "Uncle San, I didn't cry, I beat two away."
Li Junwei gave a thumbs up: "I did a pretty job, better than your third uncle back then. But the more glorious you win during the fight, the more embarrassing your butt."
"Uncle San, you have to help me avenge and teach those bastards a lesson." Li Zhaoji said.
Li Junwei said: "I have brought the local troops in Beijing and Tianjin and raided their house?"
"That... that's so boring, and isn't this a big deal?" Li Zhaoji scratched his head and shook his head again.
Li Junwei laughed: "It's good if you have the right attitude, so you can recover from your injuries. Next month, Mulan Qiuhun, those bunnies will definitely follow their father. I'll give you a chance and scare the courage of those bunnies."
"You have a way?" Li Zhaoji's eyes lit up.
Li Junwei nodded: "That's natural. In fact, this is still what your father wanted to do back then. Let you do it now."
Chapter completed!