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About half an hour later, Kou Zheng settled Zhao Hongrun in the back wing of the Shang County Mansion, and then retired to Zhang Luo's meal for Zhao Hongrun and the guards.

As soon as he left with his front foot, Zong Wei Mu Qing couldn't help but have a seizure on his back foot: "How can this be true!" This Kou just doesn't know how to lift! ”

After listening to Mu Qing's words, except for Zong Wei Chu Heng, who grabbed his hair innocently, the rest of the Zong Guards did not look very good.

After all, in his opinion, His Royal Highness of their family put down his identity and deigned to recommend Kou Zheng to serve as the county magistrate of the two cities of "Fenyin" or "Puban", which is a good thing that many people in the country dream of, but this Kou Zheng is good, and he dares to refuse the kindness of His Royal Highness.

The county order of Shangxian County, in the final analysis, is just the magistrate of dozens of mountain people, can it be compared with the two cities of "Fenyin" and "Puban"?

Fools can see that once their Royal Highness vigorously develops "Fenyin" and "Puban", these two cities will immediately become strategic cities no less than Anyi and Shanyang.

But looking at His Royal Highness who was sitting in the room with his eyes closed, although the guards were complaining in their mouths, they somewhat understood in their hearts that His Royal Highness had not given up his intention to recruit Kou Zheng.

After half a ring, Zhao Hongrun opened his eyes and said, "Zhou Pu, you are the old man you met for this king...... Please come here, Lu Mu, you go and ask Lu Zhan, and see if the soldiers who accompanied him have brought wine, and get some for this king. ”

"Yes!" Zong Wei Zhou Pu and Lu Mu hugged their fists and left.

While waiting, Zhao Hongrun looked around the house.

The mud floor, adobe walls, and wooden tile houses, and the furnishings in the house are also very simple, a bed, a table, and two benches, so that when Zhao Hongrun sat on one of the benches, all the sect guards felt embarrassed to sit on the other bench, so they had to stand in the house.

"Your Highness, let's have a sip of tea first."

Zong Wei Chang Wei Jiao picked up the teapot that Kou Zheng had just brought, and when he saw that a large piece of the teapot spout was missing, he frowned slightly, but when he saw that almost every one of those teacups had a notch, his face became more and more ugly.

It's just that the teacups are stoneware, and they are all broken, if it weren't for Wei Jiao having seen the poverty of Shang County with his own eyes, he really couldn't help but scold.

But then again, although the tea utensils are very poor, the tea - phew, what kind of tea, is clearly boiled water.

"So poor that you don't even have tea cakes?"

Wei Jiao muttered, hesitated for a while, and poured a glass of water for Zhao Hongrun.

Zhao Hongrun didn't say much, picked up the teacup and drank a cup, after all, after walking for half a day, he barely replenished water, and his throat was thirsty at the moment.

I have to say that the water quality in Shang County is very good, and Zhao Hongrun suspects that the locals drink mountain springs, because they are slightly sweet in their mouths.

After drinking a few glasses to quench his thirst, Zhao Hongrun stood up and walked to the door.

Because he heard Lang Lang's reading, his voice sounded very immature, probably a group of young children.

Sure enough, when Zhao Hongrun stood at the door of the wing room and looked into the house on the other side of the courtyard, he faintly saw seven or eight children standing or sitting in the opposite room, shaking their heads and chanting.

Because the children's local accent was so strong, Zhao Hongrun listened to it for a while, and he didn't understand what they were reading.

"In the government office...... Open a private school?'

Zhao Hongrun shook his head with a smile.

In fact, when he just entered the door, he found that he felt that this mansion was not like a serious official building, but more like a private house.

However, the house is quite large, but the whole house looks very dilapidated, as if it is an old house in disrepair, and even the only tree in the courtyard is half dead, only the trunk with dry bark remains, so that the whole house looks even more depressed and dilapidated.

After a while, Zong Wei Lu Mu got a few water bladders of wine from Lu Zhan.

After waiting for a while, Zhou Pu also invited the old man, that is, Kou Zheng's teacher Shang Xun, over.

"Husband."

When Shang Xun came to Zhao Hongrun on crutches, Zhao Hongrun took the lead in arching his hand, and then asked with a smile: "Those young children, are they the students of my father-in-law?" ”

Shang Xun also returned the salute, then glanced back at the children in the opposite room, and explained with a chuckle: "They are all the sons of neighbors, and the old man does not dare to mislead people's children, but teaches them to read and write......"

According to Shang Xun's explanation, he is the county elder of the city, and he is old, and his neighbors almost do everything he can on weekdays, so that he is idle every day, so he teaches the children in the county to read and write, and chats to pass the time.

And Kou Zheng, including Shang Yang, a young man who was teaching those children in the opposite room at this time, was one of Shang Xun's first batch of students.

"Shangyang...... Could it be the father-in-law's son-in-law? ”

Zhao Hongrun asked curiously.

But after asking, Zhao Hongrun didn't feel right, after all, Shang Xun was over seventy years old, and the young man who taught the children to read on the opposite side was only in his twenties, how could it be a father and son?

Just when Zhao Hongrun changed his words and wanted to ask if it was the grandfather and grandson, Shang Xun shook his head, sighed and said: "Shang Yang is the son of a hunter in this county. When his mother died, he entrusted this son to the old ......"

After Shang Xun's explanation, Zhao Hongrun realized that ninety percent of the county residents in Shangcheng took Shang as their surname, but there was no blood relationship between them and Shang Xun.

To Zhao Hongrun's surprise, the literacy rate of Shangxian, a mountain city with only a few dozen households, is as high as ninety percent, and it is no exaggeration to say that as long as the county residents under the age of 30 can recognize at least 100 commonly used words, and even women and children can write their own names.

The reason for this situation lies in Sangxun, an old man who has been idle for thirty years, and has taught the people of the county in the city to read and write.

When he mentioned this, Sang-hoon's expression was a little nervous, and he refused to admit that those people from the mountain people were his students, which made Zhao Hongyun both amused and sad.

The reason is very simple, because more than 100 years ago, reading and writing was still the prerogative of clans and nobles, and the national conditions at that time did not allow civilians to read, but now, this old rule has long been discarded.

However, it can be seen from this that Shang County lacks contact with the outside world, so that people from the old clan such as Shang Xun still abide by the old yellow calendar of the year, so that Shang Xun is also uneasy about the good thing of popularizing culture among the county people.

After Zhao Hongrun's explanation, Shang Xun was relieved and sighed with emotion.

At that time, Zhao Hongrun was thinking, if he asked this old man at this moment, "Who is the current Wei Tianzi", this old man would not be able to say.

"This mansion is not the mansion of the old man?"

After inviting Sang-hoon into the house to sit down, Zhao Hongrun asked curiously.

After all, in his opinion, this private mansion converted into a Shang County government office looks like the mansion of a big family no matter how you look at it.

Shang Xun was stunned, then nodded, and said with a smile: "Anyway, the old man is alone, since the old student has served as the county commander of our county, naturally he must not weaken the face of the government." ”

Zhao Hongrun blinked, it was difficult to say the truth in his heart, so he changed the topic and said, "Alone? I don't know how ...... Ling's son"

Shang Xun was suddenly silent, and after a while, he reluctantly said: "Back then, the dog decided to go to Liangcheng as an official, and on the way to the mountain road, he unfortunately fell off the cliff......" The Liang Cheng in his mouth refers to the big beam.

Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth and hurriedly apologized solemnly: "Please mourn and change." ”

"It's out of the way." Shang Xun waved his hand and said with a reluctant smile: "It was all twenty or thirty years ago, and the old decay has already seen it." As he spoke, he glanced at Zhou Pu and asked, "The old man just heard this lord say, you are the son of my current majesty of Great Wei?" I don't know what happened when I summoned the old man to come? ”

"I am a descendant of the Great Wei Ji Zhao clan, Zhao Run. This time, I invited my husband to come because I hoped that my husband would do Xiao Wang a favor. As he spoke, Zhao Hongrun told Shang Xun everything he had just said to Kou Zheng, and did not hide his hope to recruit Kou Zheng at all.

Shang Xun thought for a moment after hearing this, and asked suspiciously, "Why does His Royal Highness King Su value the old protégé Kou Zheng so much?" ”

Zhao Hongrun smiled when he heard this: "My father-in-law is right, my father-in-law's protégés Kou Zheng and Kou County Ling, but the first place on the sixteen-year gold list of Hongde, the best among the tens of thousands of students in my Dawei, he is not ......."

Speaking of this, Cho Hong-run's voice stopped abruptly as he noticed that Sang-hoon's expression had become very strange.

"First place?" Looking at Zhao Hongrun, Shang Xun asked with a serious face, "Is Kou Zheng really the first name?" ”

Looking at Shang Xun's expression, Zhao Hongrun had vaguely guessed a few points, nodded and affirmed: "Yes!" Master Kou is the top of the gold list of Hong De's 16th year examination, he could have stayed in Daliang, and he will definitely be able to rank in the temple in the future, and his future is bright. ”

Sang-hoon opened his mouth, and then his face was cloudy.

After half a ring, he suddenly paused the crutch in his hand, and scolded with a sad and relieved expression: "This shaft! ”

Seeing Shang Xun's expression, Zhao Hongrun was even more sure in his heart: Kou Zheng must not have told his teacher the real test results.

After scolding a few words, Shang Xun turned his head to look at Zhao Hongrun and asked dryly: "If this son changes his mind at this moment, can he still return to Liangcheng as an official?" ”

"This ......," Zhao Hongrun had an embarrassed expression on his face.

He thought to himself, Kou Zhengna was quite dragged at the beginning, refused the high-ranking officials and lords, refused the solicitation of the original East Palace, King Yong, King Xiang and others, and resolutely returned to his hometown to make the county order despite the dissuasion of the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

In this case, it is not very appropriate to stuff Kou Zheng back into the girder.

But then again, through Shang Xun's words, Zhao Hongrun also understood the old man's thoughts, so he tried his best to tell him about the importance of the two cities of "Fenyin" and "Puban", and directly said that the importance of the county orders of these two cities was better than that of the county guards.

After half a ring, Sang-hoon got up and said goodbye with a serious face.

Looking at the back of the old man who was hurrying away, Zhao Hongrun and the guards glanced at each other with bad intentions.

They have realized that the Kou Zheng Kou County Commander is going to be unlucky nine times out of ten.