Dress to be a celebrity

Chapter 39

Speaking of the big plan of the Ministry of officials, the big plan is just around the corner.From Fujian to Beijing, it will take two months at a fast pace. Now it has entered October, and the pilgrimage will be in the first month of next year. The chief officials and chief officials of Fujian Province should prepare to travel at this time.

Then he would have to write his testimonials to County Magistrate Song in advance—these two items should also be included in Huan Ling's testimonials.It is also necessary to ask the post station to deliver the letter urgently, and to inform the provincial and government levels of Wuping County's suppression of tyrants and recovery of taxes.

Mr. Huang stroked his beard and thought for a while, then said to Huan Ling: "I will go back to Fucheng in the next few days. Here, we can clear up the land and attack the powerful. When Song Ling went to Beijing, the affairs of Wuping County were handed over to him. Yu Bo is in the wind."

Huan Ling glanced at Song Shi, nodded and said, "This is a matter for a subordinate official. I should do my best to live up to your lord's entrustment."

Since Mr. Xunguan came, the two of them could not abandon Shangguan to work on their own, so they handed over the fish scale book to the clerk, and accompanied Mr. Huang to observe the people's sentiments.After the winter, there is no farm work. Most of the villagers gather in Dongyuan to watch diseases, watch a variety of operas, and listen to popular science and agricultural knowledge. They only occasionally see people tending winter wheat in the dry fields in the distance. .

Winter is a good time for flood control.

These streams are prone to flooding in summer and autumn, mostly because the silt in the water is too deep and the drainage is not smooth.In winter, ask people to build embankments to collect water and flush sand, or directly drain a section of stream water, launch the water to clear the silt, and then dig a spare drainage ditch beside the wider stream channel, so as to reduce the disaster situation next year.

These are written in modern hydraulic engineering papers.Song Shi didn't bother to calculate the complicated flow rate and water volume, but he could understand how to do it in general. Taking advantage of the large number of people serving Yao this year, he pulled up a team and did it!

Building dams, building reservoirs, building roads, planting trees... He even wanted to paint the classic slogans of "To get rich, plant trees first" and "To get rich, raise more pigs" on rural houses.It's a pity that scholars in this era are too noble and have many things to do. If the village plastered these slogans openly, someone would scold the county for being full of money and insulting gentlemen. .

On both sides of the stream, we have to study what kind of trees to plant to strengthen the water and soil.

Huang Xunyan just asked: "Among the civil servants who repaired the river, are there any hidden households that the official punished?"

Among the peasant husbands, there are many soft-bodied ones, who at first glance don't look like farmers who often work.In the past years, these people didn't have to do anything under the shade of the big family. This year, the big tree above them fell down, and the county didn't allow them to pay for their labor. These people finally have to experience the hard work of hard labor.

Song Shi also looked at those people, and replied with a smile: "Exactly. The student remembers that the fat and white person is the steward of the Lin and Xu families, and a first-class figure in the village. If the boss did not personally decide these cases, it would be up to my father to decide the case." The power of the county magistrate can't do anything to them."

Mr. Huang narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the peasants who rolled up their trousers and went down the river to dredge the silt in the cold wind, and said with satisfaction: "Song Daling really arranged the government affairs in an orderly manner, and did not waste people's energy. Although there is no scenic spot in winter, the dredging in front of us will guide water." The scene also has the image of the country and the people's peace, so I should write a few poems and essays about it."

Song Shimang said a few more words of humility for his father, and Huan Ling also said: "If Master Huang hadn't made the decision to pursue the money and food owed by those big households, Wuping County has just been flooded. How can there be money to repair the river? We want to write poems and annals In this scene, we should record from the beginning the good governance of the lord who oppressed the powerful and ruled for the people, and built a stele pavilion here to remember the virtue of the lord."

Mr. Tian happily cheered: "That's right. I was narrow-minded just now. The most important thing to write an essay is our lord and Huan Tongjuan and Song County Magistrate's benevolent government! There is a pen and paper in the car, why don't we find a place with a good view?" , and a place where we can shelter from the wind and keep warm?"

Although Mr. Huang has a good reputation, he is thin-skinned and refuses to praise himself too much. He blushed and waved his hands repeatedly: "We are here to enjoy the scenery. If you want to write a river repair record, you don't need to remember those duties. What’s inside—the ‘Three Going to the Countryside’ we saw just now is fresh and interesting, and it can be recorded in an essay.”

This fame is for others to know his virtue, and it is better to take the initiative to raise his name for him. How can he bring his subordinates and subordinates' sons to write articles to praise himself?

He was embarrassed to look at Huan Ling, so he turned his head and asked Song Shi: "You are the landlord of Wuping. Is there any place here with a good scenery and where you can rest your feet? Take us there."

To the west of the city is Lingdong Mountain, what better place to see it!

He pointed to the mountain and said: "Not far above is the reading hall built by Duke Li Zhongding in the previous dynasty. Li Gongte wrote a poem for this hall: "Lingdong Mountain can be visited by immortals, and the ancient wooden Buddha in Nanyan lives together. Gongyu asked the Buddha I'm looking for immortals, and I have time to study. Although the reading hall has been abandoned for a long time, it is one of the famous scenery in our county. The Linquan Club of the county often organizes and writes poems here, but the reading hall is cleaned up, and the doors and windows are complete. , we can go in and rest with our cushions."

Mr. Huang nodded and said: "I heard that Mr. Liang Xi has both civil and military skills, loyalty and bravery. He once fought against the Jin army in Kaifeng and made many achievements when he went east. I only hate the Song Lord for being stupid and not willing to use him, so that the North and the South split , The Song Dynasty actually prefers to settle down in the south of the Yangtze River, and does not think about going north...Forget it, there is no need to mention the affairs of the previous dynasty, we are here, and we should pay homage to this great sage."

They took a car up the mountain and went to the reading hall to rest for a while.

Li Gang's memorial tablet has been set up here, but there is no statue, and there are incense burners and offerings in the hall.They didn't bring incense, but there were some fresh fruits and food in the car, so they put them on the altar in front of the hall, and made a silent blessing.

I don't know if he saw something new outside the city, or if Prime Minister Li had a spirit, Mr. Huang was thinking like a spring this time, so he wrote an article praising Wuping County for not asking money from the court or collecting money from the people. Clearing sand and removing silt in Wuxi outside the county to reduce the risk of floods in the "Reconstruction of Wuxi in Wuping County".

In this diary, he didn't mention much about his own achievements, but only briefly wrote that "Song Ling Su loved the people, but when he came to the county, he cured floods and suppressed the powerful, and the people wrote "Biography of the White-haired Fairy" to record the events."

Coincidentally, Mr. Tian's "Three Goings to the Countryside in Guanwuping County" also brought a "Biography of the White-haired Fairy" to the stage, and it was his adults who praised: "There is no need to polish the lyrics, but it comes from the heart, it is The first class is a good word. Therefore, the sentence "sit in a high hall with dignified dignity" is enough to move people's hearts, and the villagers in the audience are also fighting for "the admiration of officials."

The praise is low-key and reserved. Those who have never heard this song will not know that it is Mr. Huang who is boasting just by looking at the words and sentences in the text. But once the song is sung, everyone will know that the phrase "Gao Tang Zuo" is preceded by "imperial envoy." Come to patrol'.

Who else is the imperial envoy Mr. Huang who can go to Wuping County for inspection?

Compared with the low-key of these two, Song Shi, who directly wrote "Passing the censor Huang Gongchang to the north of the county, hearing the voices of the people's suffering and power, and secretly visiting their crimes, will make Wuping county magistrate Song to interrogate" is simply too unreasonable. Reserved.

Mr. Huang took his article and read it several times, and angrily taught him: "The title of this article is "Xiu Wuxi Ji", you see that in your more than [-]-word article, you only wrote a few words about governance. Xi? Look at Huan Tong’s sentence—” Even if it’s all true, it’s not easy to write it so clearly, otherwise it’s easy to be called a flattery.

Huan Ling's writing is much more subtle, only one sentence: "There is a powerful and powerful Yue who sued before the censor Huang Gong, and Gong Sui went to the county to patrol the county. After a month or so, the powerful and powerful are clear, and the people's hearts are peaceful."

Song Shi looked at the three people's low-key and modest articles, and retracted to reflect deeply naturally - he blamed him for not writing exaggerating articles in these years. Boasting in style.

But... If he really didn't write well, why did Master Huang read it so many times before he sneered at him?

Song Shi lowered his head even lower, and smiled silently.

When he returned to the county, he tied several tubes of writing brushes with a wooden pole, made a book-copying artifact, stacked several manuscript papers, and copied "The Legend of the White-haired Fairy" for Mr. Huang with his own hands.

Brother Huan Xiao is now under Mr. Huang's eyes and has to stay in the mansion hotel. He didn't see his high-tech until the next day when he went to the county to measure the land boundary. What are you doing, why don't you ask me to copy the book for you?"

Fortunately, there was a backing board between the papers, which didn't make the ink dirty, and the handwriting was still neat... But it can only be considered neat, just like a book board carved by a craftsman, it can only be said to be neat, where there is no font!

He hated it so much, and saw that Song Shi had already copied a few copies, so he picked up a copy and said, "Tear down this shelf, and I'll write a few copies for you—isn't it for Mr. Xun Zan to give away? Having got your handwriting, let's divide up and copy a few copies each, it's better than the soft words written on this row of shelves!"

Song Shi sighed: "Aren't I just afraid that Mr. Huang will leave and I won't have time to give it away? And there are still a few copies that I want to give to you, senior brother. There is no reason for you to copy them yourself."

Heng Ling was stunned, and just said: "There is no need to send it back and forth between you and me... Then I will copy it and send it to Mr. Huang, and I will just give you the copy you copied. The perfunctory appearances are not good. It’s easy to give away, so let’s give it to the craftsman for engraving.”

This song "Biography of the White-haired Fairy" was not written for self-entertainment in Wuping County. Sooner or later, it will be spread all over the world, making his father and son famous... There is also a Huan Tongpan who is very close to Song Sheren in the song. When people saw it, they knew it was an allusion to him and Song Shi.Huan Ling counted his relatives, elders, mentors and friends in Beijing, and decided to copy a few more copies together with Mr. Huang's "Xiuwuxi Ji" and Mr. Tian's "Three Going to the Countryside". Take it back to Beijing.

——Although County Magistrate Song also wanted to go to Beijing for a pilgrimage, he was reluctant to meet with his family in Song Shi.

I hope my grandfather understands his intentions, restrains the brothers in the family, and doesn't cause any extra problems. Otherwise, after the reputation of the father and son in Song Dynasty rises with this biography of "White", their Huan family will bear some bad reputation for suppressing upright officials.

The days passed quietly in the midst of busyness, and three days later, Huang Xunyan and Tian Shiye brought the small statue of the glass official uniform specially made to be burned in the Song Dynasty, and the manuscript of "Biography of the White-haired Fairy" copied by Huan Ling, and the villagers We returned with a rewarding gift and gratitude.

The testimonial he wrote to Song County Magistrate was to ask the courier shop to deliver it to the province and the government, and it was delivered earlier than others.When the second envoys Bu and Zan received the testimonials, they were puzzled for a while, how could this county magistrate, who told people to leapfrog to the province to sue, suddenly gained the love of adults, but Zhu Fuzun knew the secret identity of County Magistrate Song long ago. After reading the test words, he smiled slightly, and calmly told the door——

"Ask someone to send a letter to Song Ling, asking him to come to the mansion with the history of the classics, and take the big ship in the mansion to Beijing!"