Chapter 1673: The Simplicity of the People and the Greed of the Nobles

"There are too many grass sticks. Pull up the grates in front. Don't worry about the ones behind. Whose cowshed has been flooded."

"It's okay. There's no shortage of grass in this season. Get up."

"A dead dog floated over. It's struggling... It's not dead. Fork it out."

"It's not a stray dog. There's a tag on its neck. Don't break it."

"Go, can you still stand up? OK, go home!"

The people guarding the canals were cleaning things that might block the canals. Every section of the canal had three bamboo grates inserted downwards.

When things rushed to the top, the front ones were lifted up to clean them, and the back two were intercepted.

When the front ones were cleaned properly, they were put down, and the back two were also cleaned.

Such drainage canals take all aspects into consideration, and are fast and stable.

They won't wait for a lot of things to block a certain position and then fish them out when the water overflows. That's passive.

Now it's called active interception and positioning cleaning, and the location is easy to find.

When cleaning, a dog appeared. I thought it was dead, but when I saw people struggling, I was forked to the ground next to me. The dog vomited a few times, shook its body, barked twice and ran away.

There is a bamboo tag hanging from a rope around the dog's neck to prove that it has an owner.

If you encounter a stray dog, you can catch it and stew it for food. If you encounter a dog with a tag, you cannot touch it.

Unless no one around sees it, you will be reported and have to pay compensation.

Just like chicken farmers, they tie ropes on the chicken legs, with different colors, lengths, and knots.

If someone sees an extra chicken at home, they can look at the rope on the leg to know which neighbor it belongs to and send it back to the neighbor.

Neighbors don't kill other people's chickens for meat. The rope is just a mark, not the kind with satellite positioning and audio and video recording equipment.

Free-range, several chickens are all released outside. When the chickens come back, everyone will go to the place where the chickens stay to check and look for eggs.

If you find eggs, touch your own hens. They are all still there. It is estimated that they will lay eggs at night, so call the neighbors and ask whose chickens are missing eggs.

Before letting the chickens out, touch them. If they are about to lay eggs, they will find them.

If there are fewer eggs after returning, they are naturally missing, so go over and take the eggs home.

There is no surveillance, and no one covets an egg from another family.

It is a moral constraint. If you steal an egg from someone else's house, you will not be able to sleep well. Eating the egg will make you sick.

If a child is ignorant and takes an egg home, he will be beaten and sent back.

This is the trend in the Tang Dynasty. Once neighbors quarrel over a chicken, the local government will intervene.

If the loser is really judged, the family is better to move, otherwise they will enter the stage of social death.

Therefore, poultry can be tied with ropes and livestock can be hung with signs.

"The canal is built with problems. It is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. The puppy fell in and couldn't climb out." Someone expressed his opinion on the dog.

"Water is used to attack sand. It is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Water has gravity and can drive the sand below. Don't read the newspaper. The newspaper is giving a lecture now."

"What should we do with the dog?"

"Wouldn't the dog stop when it hits the fence? Just climb up by itself! Little dog, can't you climb up a canal that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom? It's even harder to climb, right? At least this one has a slope."

"That's right. Whose dog is it? How did it fall in?"

"Pick it up quickly. There are too many straw sticks. Prepare for the back."

Different things happened on each section of the road, or nothing happened.

All the officials, restaurants, and wealthy families who provided free soup added ginger foam to it.

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"The people are helping each other, which is a manifestation of human nature."

Wang Wei looked through the window and saw that a small boat was not tied up and rushed into the river. A group of people helped to fish it out, and it was finally brought back by the Yulin Flying Cavalry.

Otherwise, I don't know how far the boat would have run, but it would basically not be lost.

People downstream saw the empty boat coming, and they also had to find a way to control it.

Li Yi took a look: "So Wu Zetian still made contributions to the inheritance of civilization and morality, especially against the aristocratic families."

When Li Yi talked about Wu Zetian, there was a big gap between him and the salvage boat.

He could guess the purpose of Wu Zetian killing her sons. She killed one child who was controlled by the aristocratic families.

Her children still didn't understand and still hoped to rely on others to become emperors, so they were killed again.

Wu Zetian's character was cruel and tough. She used the aristocratic families while cleaning up the aristocratic families.

In the end, she was not cleaned up, not because she was lucky, but because she cleaned up all the aristocratic families that could clean her up.

It's just that in the process of operation, her children survived like quails and couldn't hold up the beam.

That Tianshu oppressed other aristocratic families and encouraged other women to establish their own dynasties.

Later, Wei had Wu Zetian's heart, but not Wu Zetian's ability, let alone Wu Zetian's ambition, so she was cleaned up.

Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, and Changsun Xin didn't dare to speak out. Although Changsun Xin was from the Changsun family, the current queen was not Empress Changsun.

"So the existing aristocratic families can use their wealth and strength, but not their ambitions.

Just like the ten surnames in the Tang Dynasty are not allowed to intermarry now, I think they can intermarry freely in a few years.

Then if one person has a problem, the nine clans will be executed, which will save trouble."

As Li Yi said this, he had already put more than 20 snails into the tea cup next to him and rinsed off the chili.

He poured out the tea and put the snails into the big plate in front of Meng Yifu.

As for why he didn't drink it, it tasted bad!

Just like drinking beer and eating snails, and throwing snails into beer to drink, are two different feelings.

It's okay to drink a mouthful of white wine and eat a strip of ear, but it's not okay to throw pig ears into a white wine cup and rinse them.

Of course, pouring white wine into a bowl of rice and mixing it with food is a special case.

"If you think it has no taste, dip it in a little juice and bring some honey."

Li Yi was afraid that Meng Yifu would not like it, so he persuaded him and thought of a solution in an instant.

Now he basically can't eat snails dipped in honey, but honey was brought, and Meng Yifu dipped it in and ate it, and he was very satisfied and delicious.

"Sweetness is always the first choice for children, even if you think it is not appropriate to eat it this way. Power has always been the pursuit of the big family, even if it may be shattered on the way."

Li Yi tried hard to control himself not to look at the child eating snails dipped in honey happily, and talked about serious things.

"Hard and soft, my family is okay, and I don't pursue family interests." Wang Wei was afraid that Li Yi was talking about himself.

"I'm not talking about you. Your family is pretty good. You see, I've given benefits to Guo Ziyi's family. Let's go out for a walk when the rain stops.

Going out now will add burden to the security team. I don't need to go out on rainy days to show my closeness to the people. What's the point of pretending?

I'm just afraid of death. I won't give anyone who wants me dead a chance."

Li Yi doesn't shy away from his cowardice, and doesn't think it's shameful.

"In the future, when we encounter bad weather, we won't go out either, right?" Meng Haoran learned.

"No! You must go out. It doesn't matter if you die. It won't affect the steady development of the Tang Dynasty." Li Yi looked at Meng Haoran with a sincere look.

Meng Haoran: "..."

Wang Wei was stunned, then smiled and asked: "Gangrou, just now you said to build a bridge over the Yellow River? Which one is more suitable?"

He quickly changed the subject, fearing that Li Yi would say something about why they should rush to the front.