Thirty-seven Han Shu

"Do you know where the jade pit is on the mountain?"

Zhao Yu asked Han Shu: "You take me there and I can pay you."

"do not go."

Before Han Shu could reply, a child next to him winked: "Brother Shu, the beasts on the mountain are ferocious..."

Zhao Yu couldn't help but laugh. These children were really precocious. Obviously because Zhao Yu was a stranger, he refused with the excuse that there was a fierce beast.

"I'll take the elders."

Han Shu agreed.

Zhao Yu asked him curiously: "Why do you agree? I am a stranger, are you not afraid that I will do something bad to you?"

Han Shu shook his head: "I think the elder has a calm and natural demeanor, so he must not be a bad person. The elder comes to us as a guest. As a landlord, we should help him."

Zhao Yu put his hands on his hands and smiled: "What a good boy."

"Sir, wait a moment."

Han Shu made a decent bow, called his friends aside, whispered a few words, and then came over and said to Zhao Yu: "Elder, please follow me."

After the two of them walked around the village and went up the mountain, several other children quickly entered the village.

Zhao Yu heard clearly before that Han Shu whispered to them, telling them to go back immediately and tell the village elder about it. He didn't say much more, but Zhao Yu saw the child's intelligence.

He is not really an ignorant child who just agrees to whatever others say, but a young man who can consider some issues comprehensively. He is polite and courteous, but not rigid. If he can be trained well, he will not be too bad when he grows up in the future.

"You must not be a child of ordinary people, right?" Zhao Yu said with a smile as he walked: "I have seen many children of ordinary people, but none of them are like you. There may be some smart ones, but they are not as good as you."

"The elder is so complimentary." Han Shu lowered his head and said a little shyly, "I just... just read more books."

Zhao Yu nodded: "Call me Mr. Zhao. If you can study, you are not an ordinary person. Your surname is Han. What is the origin of your family?"

After hearing this, Han Shu raised his head and showed some pride on his face: "Sir, do you know Han Qian? This is my great ancestor."

"Han Qian?"

Zhao Yu thought for a while and said apologetically: "I am very ignorant, so I probably don't know the name of the great ancestor."

Han Shu immediately said: "The great ancestor Han Qian was once the Yin of Henan. During the puppet new dynasty, he moved his family to Nanyang to avoid disaster."

"Henan Yin?" Zhao Yu smiled and said, "Then you have a family background."

The official position of Henan Yin is not small. If placed two thousand years later, he would be the mayor of Kyoto and a senior city official, a position of high authority. To be able to hold such an official position, it seems that this man named Han Qian is not an idle person.

The birth of aristocratic families probably gradually took shape at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Guangwu and Liu Xiu re-established the Han family, local wealthy families gave them huge support. An aristocratic family is a collection of academics and power. There are often ancestors with high positions and powerful positions. From then on, they passed down poems and books and became entrenched in the local area. If each generation can produce a few academic or political talents, it will become a powerful family in the world. This is how the Yuan family in Runan was formed.

There is a difference between aristocratic families and poor families. Poor families are not ordinary people. They also pass down poems and books, but they have declined. If Zhao Yu guessed correctly, the village at the foot of the mountain should be the Han family's humble family.

During the Western Han Dynasty, ordinary people still had a way to rise. However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the rise of aristocratic families and the distinction between clans, ordinary people gradually tended to be completely imprisoned, and humanity tended to solidify.

Due to the blockade of knowledge and scholarship, both military and political power in the DPRK were controlled by aristocratic families, so the Eastern Han Dynasty never truly experienced a period of extreme prosperity.

In the Western Han Dynasty, people such as the eternal champion Hou Huo Qubing and the general Wei Qing, who were even slaves, had such achievements, but it was absolutely impossible in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The aristocratic families have weaved a huge net, catching everything, causing humanity to solidify and vitality to gradually disappear.

According to Zhao Yu's calculations, the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty went back and forth for hundreds of years. In fact, there were also fights between the common people and the wealthy families. But in the end, the wealthy family won. As a result, the society of the two Jin Dynasties was completely solidified and no longer had any vitality, so it was so decadent.

This was the first dark age for the Han people.

Before this, even during the Zongzhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, when the feudal princes fought for hundreds of years, the barbarians never allowed the barbarians to force the Xia Miao descendants to the extent that the Five Husties devastated the Chinese. Even before Duke Huan of Qi united the nine princes to rule the world, it was not that dark.

Just on the way up the mountain, Zhao Yu thought of a lot.

"Historically, Cao Mengde made great efforts to recruit poor families and issued an order to recruit talents. In fact, Cao Mengde saw the dangers of aristocratic families monopolizing everything. But it was useless. Even if it was a poor family, it was actually an aristocratic family. Cao Mengde didn't Dare to directly use ordinary people, only dare to retreat and settle for the second best, and use the poor family and the high family to restrain each other. But drinking poison to quench thirst, the poor family is essentially a family, and the rise of the poor family is another high family. Changing the soup does not change the medicine. "

"Perhaps I can make some plans for Cao Mengde in this regard."

"Mr. Zhao, there is a mine ahead."

Han Shu's childish voice pulled Zhao Yu out of his thoughts.

Looking up, I saw that half of the cliff in the distance was missing. Although the cliff was not new, traces of mining could be seen.

Han Shu's face turned red at this time and he was breathing heavily.

It's not that close to the mountains on this road. It was a bit difficult for the teenage children.

Zhao Yu looked at it carefully and said with a smile: "Thank you very much, little Han Shu."

With one move to kill, Zhao Yu said again: "I will stay here for about half a month or a month. If you bring me here, I said I will pay you. If you are willing, come here every morning at chen time, and I will teach you something."

Han Shu bowed and said, "Sir, he is a guest. I cannot ask for his reward. But I think he should not be alone on the mountain. There are wild animals on the mountain and there is no food. Mr. Zhao might as well come down to the village every day."

Zhao Yu smiled and shook his head: "I am not a helpless person. And I don't want to disturb you. That's what I say. Come here and I will teach you."

Then he said: "Go down the mountain quickly, your parents and elders should be worried about you."

"Farewell, Mr. Zhao."

Seeing Han Shu's little figure disappear on the mountain road, Zhao Yu shook his head and smiled, and prepared to build a hut here to shelter temporarily.

The so-called reward is nothing more than Zhao Yu's temporary idea. He felt that Han Shu was a worthy kid, so he might as well give him a chance. But it also depends on his own choice. If he doesn't come, Zhao Yu won't force him.

According to Zhao Yu's ability, it is easy to build a small house.

In less than half an hour, a brand new wooden house rose from the ground outside the mine.

It probably looks like a stilted house. In fact, if you build a hut in the mountains, you will probably choose this method. The first is to avoid earth energy harming the body, and the second is to avoid snakes, insects, rats, and ants.

Zhao Yu was full of energy and spirit, and after repeated cycles, at least he would not be tired if he just had to go on the road. So after building the hut, Zhao Yu started mining.

Zhao Yu doesn't need any tools for mining.

He stood in front of the cliff, raised his hand and punched with subtle and mysterious force. With a pop, there was no movement on the cliff, but in fact, a stone cliff with a radius of ten meters and a depth of seven or eight meters had been shattered by his punch. .

Under the prying eyes of spiritual consciousness, Quan Jin avoided the jade hidden deep in the rocks and only smashed the useless stones into powder, while the jade was not damaged at all.

Then he stretched out his palm and made a grasping gesture. The stone powder slid down among the rustling, and the magic power was like an invisible hand, taking out the jade hidden deep inside. The stone powder slid down the cliff, leaving a large hemispherical pit as smooth as the bottom of a bowl.

In fact, Zhao Yu could destroy this stone cliff, which was only two to three hundred meters high and one to two hundred meters wide, with one punch. But it's not necessary.

What he needs is the jade hidden in the rocks, not to break down a stone cliff. Moreover, the spiritual consciousness just bred by the soul can only penetrate seven or eight meters into the stone cliff and cover a range of about ten meters. Therefore, one punch can only mine such a mine.

No matter what it is, whether it is people or things, there are few good ones and many ordinary things.

With this punch, only a dozen pieces of Dushan jade, large and small, were excavated from the cliff that was hundreds of square meters and seven or eight meters deep, but not one was of good quality. There are only one or two pieces that can catch the eye. Zhao Yu was not disappointed. He knew that good things are good because they are rare.

In this way, mining operations that seem extremely difficult to ordinary people are like playing house for Zhao Yu.

Punch and pit, in order to prevent the cliff from collapsing, Zhao Yu did not pluck randomly, but plucked from bottom to top. On the cliff, smooth vertical conjoined gourds composed of hemispherical holes were plowed out.

By the time it got dark, this piece of stone cliff, the part protruding from the earth, had completely disappeared.

Instead, there was an extremely fine beach and a large pile of jade outside the lonely cabin.

Most of these jade stones are ordinary goods, and Zhao Yu looks down upon them. Only select no more than 20% of them, and those that can be heard in his speech, put them into the small world of Chaos Beads and store them.

The jade stones Zhao Yu collected were all complete. The skin of the stone was peeled off by the subtle force of the fist, without any damage to the jade inside. These jade stones have different shapes, some are shapeless, and some are not of good quality, but their appearance is pleasing to the eye.

Or like mountains, rocks, grass and trees, or like flowers, birds, fish and insects, they are naturally generated and are somewhat ornamental.

"It's not of much use, it can be used as a decoration."

Zhao Yu also collected some that looked good.

A night of silence.

Before dawn the next day, Zhao Yu walked out of the wooden house and took a punch as usual. When the sun just jumped out of the distance, he started mining again.

At around midnight, a small figure came up from the mountain with great difficulty, carrying a bamboo basket.

It's Han Shu.

This kid never thought about getting paid from Zhao Yu. He just brought some vegetables and fruits to Zhao Yu.

But when I got to the mountain and looked up, I saw the little man with his mouth wide open and a look of confusion on his face.

What about the cliff? Where did it go?