Xu Ping looked at Wang Yan and said in a deep voice: "Deputy Envoy Wang, let's do our errands well first, and then think about other things." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThere are really thieves, just hand it over to the local government, why should we be distracted. ”

The credit in hand is in front of him, how can there be any extrapolation, Wang Yan was a little anxious when he heard Xu Ping's words.

Without waiting for Wang Yan to say anything, Xu Ping stood up: "No matter what, let's go to Zhongmu first." It's not too early, so let's get ready for the journey. ”

After speaking, he raised his legs and walked out of the official hall of Yicheng.

Wang Yan looked at Xu Ping's back, and hated itchy, why did he come out with such an unclear official? Along the way, can there be a good place to go?

Set off on the road, there are no branches, just after noon, we arrived at the three different stations in Zhongmu County.

Outside the county seat, Su Shen, the magistrate of the county, and a group of subordinate officials of Zhongmu waited at the intersection early. Seeing Xu Ping and others coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Xiaguan Su Shen, together with a group of officials from Zhongmu County, greet Deputy Envoy Xu and Deputy Envoy Wang!" ”

Xu Ping dismounted, saluted, and went to the post house first.

When they arrived at the post house, the guest and host sat down, and after asking about the line, Su Shen said: "The county has prepared a little thin wine to wash the dust for the two deputy envoys and their entourage, I don't know when it is convenient?" ”

Xu Ping said: "Don't worry, you first send someone back to the county, take the official documents of Mengzhou in the past few months, and see if there is any document in Heyin County that says that the waterway of the Yellow River has changed." Let people go back quickly, this matter is urgent. ”

Su Shen promised, instructed the county's master book, went back to the county to check, and brought the relevant official documents directly to the post house.

After the order, Su Shen asked people to serve tea, and said to Xu Ping: "Xiaguan is from Quanzhou, Fujian Road, this tea is Yongzhou tea brought back from Yongzhou by the villagers, or is it made by the deputy envoy when he was an official in Yongzhou." ”

Xu Ping listened, glanced at Su Shen, took a sip of tea, and sure enough, it was a familiar taste.

Xu Ping doesn't pay attention to these, as long as the food and drink taste good and nutritious, he is not meticulous enough to distinguish which origin or even which season. The people around him pay the most attention to tea is Cai Xiang, although Xu Ping once arranged to make tea, in fact, he can't distinguish some details.

However, Su Shen deliberately took the tea that he had handed down back then, obviously taking a lot of effort. He is an official in Zhongmu County, but he has never had the opportunity to get close to Xu Ping, so he is inevitably uneasy. In this place of Zhongmu, Xu Ping's Zhuangzi occupies a large part of the area, and he is now the person with the highest status in the local court, so Su Shen is naturally a local official who has to face it cautiously. If it is good, it is its own opportunity, and if it is bad, it is its own disaster.

After the tea, the crowd gossiped.

Su Shen called a teenage boy from the back of the crowd, saluted Xu Parallel, and introduced: "This is the dog Su Song, who travels with the lower officials. This child has been studying since he was a child, and now he can get by with poetry and writing, and Deputy Envoy Xu will give him a lot of advice in the future. ”

Xu Ping looked at Su Song, fourteen or fifteen years old, with clear eyebrows and calm demeanor, and at a glance, he knew that he had received a good education since he was a child. And this name is somewhat familiar, I should have heard it in my previous life, but I can't remember his specific deeds, and I don't know why I left my name in history.

Xu Ping nodded to Su Song: "Yes, what books have you been reading recently?" ”

"Three Legends of Spring and Autumn." Su Song replied very carefully, and hesitated after speaking, "The student has something to ask for, I wonder if the deputy envoy can make it convenient?" ”

This matter was unexpected by Su Shen, and he hurriedly said: "How many official affairs are there for Vice Envoy Xu, what are you busy with him!" Don't talk nonsense, just listen to Deputy Envoy Xu's teachings! ”

Seeing Su Song's unwilling look, Xu Ping smiled and said, "If you have anything, just say it directly, but I may not be able to help, and you shouldn't have too much hope." ”

Su Song heard the joy on his face, and arched his hand: "The student has been taught by his grandmother since he was a child, and he knows a lot about astronomy and astrology. ”

When Xu Ping heard this, he looked the young man in front of him up and down curiously. Since Song Taizong pit the world's folk astronomical scholars, there are very few folk wild astronomical researchers, I didn't expect him to be able to work this, and it sounds like a family history.

Su Shen was anxious on the side, although it was not a big deal for officials and scholars to study astronomy, and there were even various celestial books stored in the pavilion for casual reading, but before the Jinshi, this was not a good thing.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping said to Su Song: "It's not okay to let you enter the Si Tianjian, and all idle people there are not allowed to enter." Seeing the look of disappointment on Su Song's face, Xu Ping said again: "However, there is also a telescope in Chongwen Academy, and it is not forbidden for people to enter there. I can recommend you to go, but there is one condition. ”

Su Songxi said: "Deputy envoy, please speak, I will do my best." ”

"It's not difficult, you just need to write an article and let Song Zijing, who is now judging the pavilion, like it. Readers, after all, they still talk about heroes with poetry, and you can talk about others after you pass this hurdle first. ”

Su Song arched his hand and nodded heavily: "The student must do it!" ”

Song Qi judged the pavilion with the Zhishi Pavilion and managed these miscellaneous matters. In fact, with Xu Ping's status, as long as he writes a letter, Song Qi will not be embarrassed by Su Song, and he will definitely let him in, but that is not a good thing for young people.

Seeing that the matter was over like this, Su Shen sighed and said to Xu Ping: "Thank you, Deputy Envoy Chengquan." ”

Wang Yan was on the side and saw that Su Shen was just talking to Xu Ping, leaving himself out in the cold, and he felt a little uncomfortable. However, he himself is just a Zhizhao Pavilion, and he doesn't have the status to let Song Qi do things, so he has to sulk.

After chatting for a while, he returned to the main book of the county government and hurried over on a fast horse, holding a few dossiers and saying to Xu Ping: "Deputy envoy, Heyin County does say that the river course has changed this year, and it is moving more and more northward. ”

Hearing this, Xu Ping stood up and said, "Take it to me!" ”

Seeing a few dossiers, Xu Ping raised his head and let out a sigh: "God help me!" ”

Wang Yan said on the side: "Since I was in Bajiao Town, Deputy Envoy Xu has always cared about whether what that kid said was true or not. In my opinion, why bother so much, just send someone to Heyin County and ask if those people are county officials. It's not a public person, just torture according to the thief, and I'm afraid that they won't recruit them? ”

Xu Ping looked at Wang Yan and sighed: "Deputy Envoy Wang, not to mention that we have no right to handle the case, that is, we have the right, now that we have a messenger, why waste our energy on these things?" The incident I asked had nothing to do with the people who had been arrested, but with our envoys? ”

Wang Yan was stunned: "What does it have to do with the river we want to check?" What we want to check is to divert the Luo water into the Bianhe River, and where the waterways of the Yellow River roll over! No matter what, we won't dig the canal into the Yellow River. ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "You still don't know where the canal that leads to Luoshui is difficult, otherwise you would think so." ”

Hearing Xu Ping's words so straightforward, Wang Yan's face was a little unsightly: "Please also ask Deputy Envoy Xu to give you advice." ”

"Luoshui opened a canal to divert water, from the opening of Gongxian County to Fanshui County, all the way is flat, easy to open, and there is not much labor. But after arriving in Fanshui County, there is a Guangwu Mountain sandwiched between it and the Bianhe River, and Guo Zheng originally reported that it was expected to divert water from the south of Guangwu Mountain, which was all mountain ridges and rocks in the past, and it was extremely inconvenient to open a canal. Although there was gunpowder in the bridge, there were many inconveniences in digging a canal in the mountains. Now the Yellow River waterway rolls north, and there is a river beach of about ten miles between it and the foot of Guangwu Mountain, so you can open a canal on the river beach and divert water from the north of Guangwu Mountain, and the most difficult place of the canal will be bypassed at once! ”

Speaking of this, Xu Ping exhaled: "Deputy Envoy Wang, isn't this matter much more important to us than a few public servants who committed crimes?" This is what we are doing when we go out of Beijing, and of course our minds must be focused on this! ”

Wang Yan didn't expect Xu Ping to really instruct him, his face was a little unbearable, and he said curtly: "In this case, why don't Deputy Envoy Xu make it clear in Bajiao Town, it makes us uncertain in vain!" ”

"I said at the time, what if the Yellow River doesn't recede? Provoke other discussions! ”

Xu Ping didn't say it explicitly, I can't believe you Wang Yan, if you go to Zhongmu and find that this thing is not scored, according to Xu Ping's intentions, he will open the mountain, but at that time, Wang Yan will talk about this, and he will wait until the beach of the Yellow River is exposed and then open a canal to divert water, so he doesn't know how to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

Seeing that the two deputy envoys were not speculative, Su Shen said on the side: "It's not early, and there is news about what Deputy Envoy Xu wants to know, so why don't you start a wine feast?" ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "Don't be too extravagant, get some light food and we'll leave after eating." It is rare for the Yellow River to give us this opportunity this year, and we must seize the opportunity to get things done. ”

Where was Su Shen willing to be so hasty, and hurriedly said: "The two deputy envoys are under the rule of the lower officials, how can they go in such a hurry?" It's good or bad to stay here for a night, so that Xia Guan can do his best, and it's not too late to get up early tomorrow morning. Besides, now I can only rush to Baisha Town in the evening, where the post house is small and cannot accommodate so many people. ”

Xu Ping said: "No, we won't go to Baisha Town, so we will go north from here and go along the Bianhe River to Heyin County." ”

"What?!" Wang Yan was taken aback when he heard this, "Didn't you say before leaving, let's go to Gongxian first, choose the water inlet, and then go down to find a suitable route?" Why do you want to go to Ha Yin again! ”

"At this time and then, we come out to do things, and of course we have to act as things change. Now that I know that the Yellow River waterway in Heyin County rolls north, this is the most important thing, of course, I have to go there first. ”

After listening to Xu Ping's words, Wang Yan stiffened his neck: "I don't dare to agree!" Don't say that the route has been set when you leave, but no, it is common sense to inspect the river and start from the water intake! (To be continued.) )