A seat shook Shandong,

Three-tailed anchovy frightened the river governor.

In the officialdom of Henan, there is a rumor that Lin Yanchao is the governor of the river.

On the same day at the Yanzhou Post Station, Lin Yanchao used the Yangtze River anchovy to slap the Yellow River carp in the face, which was well known to Shandong officialdom.

But then again, the fact that Lin Yanchao wanted to raise money and grain to build a hundred miles of embankment also spread through this incident.

On this point, officials in Henan and Shandong are very consistent, and they think that Lin Yanchao is bragging. If Lin Yanchao doesn't want a tael of silver from the river yamen, he can build a hundred-mile embankment, is it time to perform beans and become a soldier next?

However, Li Zihua, the governor of the river, was a very serious person, and reported Lin Yanchao's construction of a hundred miles of embankments to the Ministry of Industry and Water Department for the record, and the provinces along the Yellow River in Henan and Shandong provinces knew about it.

This matter can be regarded as making the officialdom of the two provinces Zhou Zhi, and now the officials have to know even if they don't know.

This move invisibly put Lin Yanchao on the table.

Some people admired Lin Yanchao's courage and offered him advice, using mud and sand to build an embankment, and wait until winter to pour water on it, and when the water freezes, it can immediately form an indestructible embankment.

The idea of this genius comes from the popular Yang Jiajiang romance script at that time.

The former governor of the river and the current secretary of the criminal department, Pan Jitao, was also alarmed.

Pan Jitao wrote a letter to Lin Yanchao, with more than 2,000 words, but it can be summed up in two words, that is, 'nonsense'.

When Pan Jitao was the governor of the river in the past, he built more than 560 miles of earthen embankments, more than 10 miles of stone embankments, 8,000 people with husbands, 560,000 taels of silver, and saved 240,000 taels of river silver for the imperial court.

At that time, even Zhang Juzheng had to write a letter to pat Pan Jitao's sycophants, and the century-old plan relied on the heroic decision of the public, and the merit of the public was not under Yu.

You must know that Zhang Juzheng and Pan Jitao had political disagreements at the beginning, and once instructed someone to take Pan Jitao home, but after Pan Jitao successfully repaired the embankment, Zhang Juzheng could only stretch out his face for Pan Jitao to beat.

Of course, Pan Jitao is also very unkind, and he keeps this matter on his lips all day long, making it known to everyone in the officialdom, and losing Zhang Juzheng's face looks a little small-bellied. But when Zhang Juzheng was liquidated, it was also Pan Jitao who stood up and said justice to Zhang Juzheng when everyone was in danger.

To get back to the point, Pan Jitao listed in his letter to Lin Yanchao that he repaired the embankment back then, with an average of 1,000 taels to repair a mile of embankment, and Lin Yanchao wanted to build a 100-mile embankment, at least 100,000 taels, where did the money come from? Moreover, the embankment is built against the river, and it is easy to damage it during the flood season.

Therefore, the embankment is basically repaired once a year, but who pays for the annual repair fee? You have become poor like this, where does this money come from?

Lin Yanchao actually has such courage to boast about Haikou in the officialdom, and he is not afraid of flashing his tongue, believe it or not, the old man will give you two ear scrapes.

Although Pan Jitao scolded Lin Yanchao in a letter, but the qualifications of the people are over there, you have to obey it!

When Pan Jitao was the governor of the river twice, he handled millions of taels of silver, but he didn't take anything, and when he was dismissed by Zhang Juzheng and returned to his hometown, he had to borrow money from others.

Huang Yue said that when he accompanied Pan Ji to tame the Yellow River, he saw with his own eyes that his old man's house was 'where the car goes, thousands of miles, and the day and the servant are mixed in the reeds and reeds, bathed in wind and rain, and wrapped in wind and dew. ’

A dignified second-class member, he has done things to this point, the world's first capable minister, and he is well-deserved.

It makes sense for historians to call the first fifteen years of the Wanli Dynasty 'Wanli Zhongxing'. Because in the first fifteen years of the Wanli Dynasty, there was Zhang Juzheng's 'taking the world as his own responsibility' and Pan Jitao's 'meritorious service', which supported the country's shallow decline in the future.

The reason why the country can be peaceful at the moment has to be said to be their credit.

So although Pan Jitao wrote a letter to scold, out of respect for his old man, Lin Yanchao didn't write a letter to scold him back (but he couldn't quarrel and quarrel), and came to 'stay in the middle' (when you fart).

Lin Yanchao threw Pan Jitao's letter aside, came to the window, and there was a burst of spring thunder outside the window.

Even Pan Jitao was shocked, Lin Yanchao knew that there was a lot of public opinion in the world, and they were all pointing at him at this moment. If you really can't repair this hundred-mile embankment this time, your face will probably be swollen in the future.

But whether the face is swollen or not has never been put on Lin Yanchao's heart.

"For one term as an official, for the benefit of one party, this party is where the merit lies," Lin Yanchao looked at Chunyu and said to himself, "It's time to show the real technology." ”

January of the 11th year of Wanli has passed, and now it is February, and there have been several spring rains, and the rain has moistened the soil like ointment.

This is a good time for all things to grow and for the people to work.

As the acting prefect, there are two things in front of Lin Yanchao at the moment.

One is to rejuvenate the river work, and the other is to persuade agriculture and mulberry.

It is needless to mention how important it is to persuade farmers to teach agriculture is the first thing for local officials to do in government affairs.

Even the Son of Heaven had to 'farm the land once a year'.

In order to persuade farmers to teach nongsang, Lin Yanchao also followed the wisdom of local officials, that is, to suspend the handling of lawsuits and set up a three-month exemption period.

Lin Yanchao issued his first decree for the time being, the Taishou of the government-the letter of persuasion.

This letter of exhortation to agriculture is both a decree and an education, and the magistrate often makes a letter of exhortation to the peasants to bind the people with teachings.

There are clouds in the Book of Songs, and great-grandchildren come and go, with their wives and sons. The south acres of the rice are happy. Pick it up and taste its purpose. He is easy to grow acres, and there is good in the end. Great-grandson is not angry, farmer Kemin.

It is said that King Zhou Cheng persuaded farmers.

However, the later letters of persuasion to agriculture were generally mere formalities, and the officials thought that by writing an article on persuading farmers, they had fulfilled their duty of 'exhorting agriculture and mulberry', ignoring the original intention of truly exhorting agriculture. Moreover, many officials paid more attention to the beauty of the rhetoric, and even piled up rhetoric, so that they read it with condescension, forgetting that this article was written for ordinary people who could not understand literature and ink.

In the eleventh year of Wanli, at the beginning of spring, the letter of returning to the peasants of the Guide Mansion was drafted by Lin Yanchao himself and told the officials and people of the Mansion.

This letter of exhortation to agriculture was posted on the declaration kiosks of each county and county, each village market, and the road kiosks of the road, and informed the people of the whole prefecture.

Guide to Kaocheng County, Defu.

A horse-drawn carriage drove on the road.

Sitting in the carriage were the three brothers of the Yuan family, who had come to Guide Mansion to meet Lin Yanchao.

The three brothers were chatting all the way, and Yuan Zongdao asked: "In the past, Song Yu had a saying, and some people sang in Yingzhong, the capital of Chu State, and they began to sing "Xiali" and "Ba Ren", and there were thousands of people who sang and harmonized. ”

"After singing "Yang'a" and "Pickled Dew", there are only a few hundred people left who can sing harmony."

"After singing "Yang Chun" and "White Snow", there are only dozens of people left who can sing harmony."

"Therefore, Song Yu said that his song is high, and he is a widow, and he said that the journey of a saint is a beautiful and beautiful way, and he is detached and alone, and the secular people know what to do."

"What kind of article do you think is the first class in the world?"

Yuan Zhongdao smiled and said: "I understand, eldest brother, do you want to say that in the eyes of the common people, the Riba people are the best, in the eyes of the scholars, Yang Axue Lu is the best, and in the eyes of the Fang family, the spring and white snow are the best?" ”

Yuan Hong said: "However, in the eyes of secular people, no matter how well the spring and white snow are played, they can't comprehend it, so what's the use of such a good song?" ”

"So of course it's the best to be a lower riba person, this is what Yang Mingzi said is unreasonable. Therefore, the way of the article, if it wants to be famous all over the world, it is still taken from the people of the lower riba. ”

Yuan Zhongdao said: "This is a bad statement, the quality of the article is sung by the scholars, so it should be Yang Axuelu." ”

Yuan Zongdao said: "Wrong, wrong, in your opinion, those articles on the street have a lot of readers, isn't that the best article in the world?" ”

"The way of the article, metaphysically, also depends on the original intention of the writer, how can it be kitsch to the reader, and confused by the public. This is not a way of cultural education. ”

Yuan Hongdao said unconvincedly: "When it comes to education, even if there are no Lower Riba people, the people will not know the rites and music from the spring and white snow, but it is better to go step by step and let the Lower Riba people and the rites and music." ”

Yuan Zhongdao also objected: "It is still the best Yang Axue Lu, the elegant are not tired of the vulgar, and the vulgar can see the elegance." ”

The three brothers insisted on their own words, and talked and talked.

Suddenly, there were several rolling thunders, a violent wind swept in, and then a crackling rain fell.

The coachman said: "Three young masters, the rain is too heavy, there is a road pavilion in front, let's avoid it." ”

"Okay."

In a country road pavilion, many ordinary people hide in the pavilion to avoid the rain.

The three brothers of the Yuan family got down from the carriage and saw these ordinary people gathered in front of a sign in front of the pavilion.

There were several official government documents on it.

One of the people read it and said, "This is the advice made by Taishou, do you want to listen to it?" ”

The people said, "Idle is idle, so listen to it." ”

As soon as the three brothers of the Yuan family heard the persuasion of Nongwen, they thought that such articles in the officialdom were perfunctory, so they were not interested. They thought to themselves that such official documents were all top-down application documents, and they were useless. But they sheltered from the rain and listened to nothing.

But listen to the people chanting, "The things that rejuvenate agriculture are in the fields, in the waters, and in the people......

After listening to half of this, the three brothers went from being indifferent at the beginning, to pacing with their hands in their hands, and then each of them became colorful. Yuan Zongdao couldn't help but lose his color and said: "This article is very well written, I really don't know whose handwriting it is?" ”

Yuan Hongdao also nodded and said: "Every sentence is true, there is not a word piled up, it is sincere to read, and you can hear that the author is worried about the country and the people." You see, even these ordinary people can listen attentively and are moved by the article. ”

At this time, the article was finished.

The common people in the four places were already excitedly discussing and looking excited.

An old man said excitedly: "With such a good official, we ordinary people don't have to live a hard life in the future." ”

"yes, yes." The common people spoke one after another.

The three brothers of the Yuan family looked at the expressions of the common people.

Yuan Zhongdao said calmly: "This book of persuasion seems to be vulgar, but it is really ingenious, even a foolish man and a foolish woman can understand the words, and they can write such a catchy and good article." ”

Yuan Hong said: "It is one thing that the article is well written, but all the things that the people seek in the article are not empty words, this is what really moves people." ”

Yuan Zongdao said: "This is by no means the ability of the ordinary two Jinshi, it must be the handwriting of everyone." ”

Yuan Hongdao suddenly said: "Yes, the only person in the world who can write such articles and sing Yangchun Baixue to everyone is ...... There is only one person. ”