Ruins of the past

Seeing Chu Qiguang insisting on leaving, Hao Xiangtong, who was listening, couldn't persuade him anymore. He suddenly became anxious... and stopped him in front of Chu Qiguang with a snap: "Mr. Chu! Brother Chu! You have finished telling this story. Is it possible to leave again?”

Chu Qiguang watched the opponent's attack, and his eyes narrowed slightly. He thought: 'This girl like Hao Xiangtong has first-level martial arts training. The Hao family is indeed a wealthy family in the county. ’

Looking at Hao Xiangtong's behavior, speech and behavior, Chu Qiguang once again realized that because women could also practice martial arts and Taoism, although the status of women in the Han Dynasty was still not as good as that of men, they were not like some feudal societies on earth. Dynasty is so low.

Chu Qiguang listened to Hao Xiangtong's plea, looked at the other party's hand in front of him, opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Girl, are you trying to rob money or sex?"

Hao Xiangtong retracted his hand, a blush flashed on his pink cheeks, and he quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no... how about I give you some money?"

Hao Xiangtong thought for a while, then stretched out a finger: "I will pay 100 taels of silver, can you stay tonight? Don't break the story."

‘A hundred taels for a story? ’

Hao Xiangtong spoke like an old loser. Chu Qiguang raised his eyebrows slightly and immediately reprimanded loudly: "One hundred taels of silver? One hundred taels of silver, I will tell you for half an hour at most."

Chu Qiguang originally wanted to say this, but...

'I'm too honest. ’

He sighed and looked at Hao Xiangtong's proud eyes, knowing that if he agreed today, the relationship between the two parties would no longer be equal friends.

‘I’m not here to help or amuse the Hao family. There’s no need to lower my status for a hundred taels. ’

So he resisted the urge to agree, cursed the big guy again in his mind, and then refused: "No amount of money can change my mind." As he said that, he cupped his hands towards Hao Xiangtong and said calmly: "Miss Hao, not just anyone will be knocked down by money."

Seeing Chu Qiguang leaving in a hurry, Hao Xiangtong thought with some surprise: "This... you don't even want any money?"

Apart from some young ladies from wealthy families in Qingyang County, Chu Qiguang was really the first person she met who didn't even want money.

Hao Xiangtong shook his head, somewhat confused as to why Chu Qiguang didn't want any money: "The clothes and clothes he's wearing are not worth five taels of silver in total, are they? He's obviously very poor, yet he doesn't want any money."

Hao Xiangtong sat down in the library. She randomly found a miscellaneous book to read, but Wu Zetian's story and Chu Qiguang's voice were all in her mind, and she could not calm down to read.

So she couldn't help but call the maid and asked her to ask Chu Qiguang when he would come over next time.

…

Another night passed, but Chu Qiguang did not go to the Hao family's library the next day. Instead, he came to the Jiage Library in Qingyang County and looked at the rows and rows of grain tax account books with a look of satisfaction. .

Li Shushou, the householder on the side, asked curiously: "Mr. Chu, why do you want to come see these things?"

Money, grain, and taxes are all filled with dense numbers and names. These data are very important, but extremely boring.

Coupled with the prosperity of martial arts and Taoism throughout the Han Dynasty, most dignitaries did not pay attention to arithmetic. Therefore, except for mathematicians who specialized in calculating money and food, almost no one would look at these documents and documents. They were kept in a cabinet all year round and no one cared about them. Ignored by most of the warriors in power.

But in Chu Qiguang's view, this huge and complex data contains the secrets of the rise and fall of the entire dynasty.

‘Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Let me see how sick this Han Dynasty, Qingyang County, is. ’

Hearing Li Shou's question, Chu Qiguang casually made an excuse and said: "I recently feel that my talent in martial arts is not enough. I want to practice arithmetic. In the future, I might be able to be a household calculator, so I can help." Mr. Wang is busy and just wants to practice his skills with these account books."

When Li Sianshou heard this, he thought that the Wang family was planning to train Chu Qiguang to become the new succorer of the sixth house of the county government. He nodded and left him here to read.

Chu Qiguang first picked up a money and grain account book and read it. Although the tax structure of the Han Dynasty was very complicated, and there were various conversions between physical objects and silver coins, with his sensitivity to numbers and accounts, he quickly understood Got it.

And the more you look at it... the more shocking it becomes.

"Even if only 30% of the counties in the world are the same as Qingyang County, it would be a miracle that the Han Dynasty could persist for more than forty years. It can only be said that it is because of the existence of martial arts and Taoism."

…

The next day, when Chu Qiguang followed Hao Yongtai home again, he could clearly feel that the other party was not in a good state, and his brows were full of sorrow.

It's a pity that Chu Qiguang asked, but the other party didn't tell him why.

When Chu Qiguang came to the library, he saw Hao Xiangtong, who was already eager to see through it.

As soon as she saw Chu Qiguang, she shouted: "Why didn't you come yesterday? Didn't you agree to teach a few chapters every day?!"

"Something happened yesterday, aren't you here today?" Chu Qiguang looked at her excited look and asked, "Then do you want to listen?"

Hao Xiangtong nodded quickly, and Chu Qiguang said: "Then sit down obediently."

Hao Xiangtong immediately sat down obediently, looking at Chu Qiguang expectantly, listening to the next story.

Chu Qiguang said: "Speaking of which, Wu Zetian goes to Helan Mountain..."

Listening to Wu Zetian violently beating the divorced man and his mistress, and then angrily beating the divorced man's parents, Hao Xiangtong's eyes became more and more brilliant as he listened, and the stagnation in his chest that he had been waiting for for two days was swept away.

Continuing to listen to Chu Qiguang's story, she seemed to have become the Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty. She was all over the world and was invincible. She beat a bunch of saints, witches, witches, and princesses with their hair on the ground one by one.

Then he actually became the chief minister of the Tang Dynasty's cabinet and began to reform the world's shortcomings...

Unfortunately, an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and Chu Qiguang stopped again: "Today's lecture is over."

Hao Xiangtong looked full of meaning, licked her lips and begged: "Brother Chu, good brother, can you say one more paragraph?" She gestured with her thumb and begged: "Just one more paragraph."

Chu Qiguang looked embarrassed, and finally said: "It's not impossible, but you also have to promise me something."

Seeing Chu Qiguang's serious look, Hao Xiangtong was suddenly shocked: 'With this look on his face, could he have thoughts about me? ’

Hao Xiangtong suddenly thought of the young people in Qingyang County who were pursuing her. It seemed that they all had this serious and entangled expression in front of her.

‘What would I do if you asked me to hang out? How to politely and decisively refuse him...and still let him continue telling me stories. Damn it, why doesn't he want money? It would be nice if he could just use money to hit him. ’

Just when Hao Xiangtong was thinking wildly.

Chu Qiguang said with concern: "I think Yongtai seems to be in a bad mood these past two days. I want to ask him what happened?"

Hearing Chu Qiguang's words, Hao Xiangtong blushed again with embarrassment on his cheeks.

She immediately suppressed her random thoughts and replied: "Brother, you are not worried about the matter of leaving the fields. In the past two days, why did you know that the county ordered people to put up a notice board at the gate of the county government to allow the people to have their rights?" Anyone who has occupied a field or robbed the land will file a complaint."

"Now, many tenants under our Hao family, Wu family, and Ding family have started to make trouble. They all want to go to the Yamen to complain and want to take advantage of the opportunity."

Hao Xiangtong shook his head: "I guess the eldest brother is worried about this matter."