Chapter 345: The First Woman in the World (II)
Things are even more troublesome than Zhao Ji thought, but fortunately, Sima Guang was transferred from Yushitai to Hanlin Academy, otherwise Wang Ju would be sad this time.
An opponent that Wang Ju didn't want to deal with the most, Wang Ju didn't expect Zhao Ji to come up with any good way for him, so he began to save himself, first finding Hou Ke.
"Hou Zhixian, I want to ask you to do me a favor and set up a nursing home in Sanyuan."
"Nursing home?"
"An institution similar to Guanghuicang." Wang Ju explained.
In the Song Dynasty, it was common to close the position and adjust the price of grain to prepare for the famine year, harvest in the harvest year, and release or sell the grain at a parity price in the disaster year. In addition, there is also a warehouse, that is, Guanghui Cang, which sometimes plays the role of regular liquidation, but its direct purpose is to give the old, young, poor and sick in the state and county Guo who cannot survive on their own, and only after there is more than enough to transfer to the counties.
Nursing homes and other specialized institutions for the elderly and the poor have not yet come out.
So Wang Ju explained again, saying: "The main thing is to support the orphaned and the elderly, especially in Shaanxi, the border war is endless, and many people have lost their children, such as Hu Qian, the general I recruited in Huachi County, his brother was killed by the evil gentry, and he died tragically on the battlefield. ”
"Zi'an is kind-hearted...... "Hou Ke doesn't know what to say."
Maybe Wang Ju was born poor, so he was merciful to the poor and weak, but some of the methods were too drastic......
"Good intentions or not, I don't care, what I care about is whether I can do things well, after Hu Qian's death, there is still an old mother at home, if their brother's widow remarries, the old man will be pitiful. There are many similar situations like this, so I plan to use the rent of a grass market to buy a nursing home, which is dedicated to supporting widows, widows, lonely, and poor people who cannot survive on their own. And these old people live together, they can also talk, and they will not be lonely in their old age. ”
"That's a good thing, the old man agreed." Hou Ke said immediately.
"I know that Hou Zhixian will definitely agree. But please cooperate with me a little more. ”
"How can the old man cooperate?"
"Let me preside over this matter, and all you do is approve it."
"Okay," Hou Ke said. It is also a merit to do a good job, but Hou Ke is not a person who likes to compete for merit. Besides, what is the great function?
"And don't say it to anyone after you approve it."
Hou Ke was strange.
"His Majesty summoned me to Beijing, but this time there is more trouble in Beijing, and I have to make some preparations."
"What's the connection with a nursing home?"
"Yes, but Hou Zhixian, you have to stay out of this matter no matter what, don't get involved," Wang Ju said. Sima Guang attacked himself. may not succeed, if Sima Guang retaliates against Hou Ke, Hou Ke's life will be doomed.
Hou Ke was at a loss.
"Hou Zhixian, if you are not greedy for this merit, I will not be greedy for this merit. You don't hurt anyone, and I don't want to. However, the heart of harming others is indispensable, and the heart of preventing others is indispensable. This time I went to Beijing, in order not to be framed, so I thought of a nursing home, and I was prepared. ”
"Forget it. You have to be careful, though. Hou Ke admonished.
Why does Zhao have headaches? What Wang Ju has done can be understood, and the severity is also appropriate. Including Gao Taotao also acquiesced, but some did have violations. If Sima Guang bites him to death, Wang Ju will really be in trouble.
"Caution is a must, but I should be safe in this line." Wang Ju didn't explain the others, so he went back. Then he whispered to Zhao Du: "Zhao Du, you have to find a way to release a rumor." ”
"What's the wind?"
"I'm going to build a nursing home on the grass market left behind in Mihara, and although it won't be luxurious, it won't be too small. So you find a way to let the wind out. It is said that I have encroached on irrigation land and used soldiers for private work. Use it to prepare for your year-end wedding. ”
"Zi'an, why are you splashing dirt on yourself?"
"What dirt to splash? Once built. The reason why I did this was to see if anyone in the capital would pay attention to me, or if there was any Haoqiang who hated me in the capital to report it secretly. ”
"I see."
"It's good to understand, but remember, you can let out the wind, but you can't let people know that the wind is you."
It's a bit difficult, but Zhao Du is tactful, and it's not too difficult to do.
After Wang Ju arranged this hand, he came to the canal again, and it was a flint cave, but it was not as big as the flint cave at the head of the ditch, and the difficulty was far less. Wang Ju took the lead again and personally went to the cave to move stones.
This work is too hard, and besides, the cat is also dangerous in the cave, so the people and the sergeant persuaded together. Wang Ju said: "In recent years, because of the invasion of Western Xia, the people of Shaanxi have been very bitter, and the officials are also clear. Therefore, he was thrifty and allocated money from the inner treasury to build and repair Zhengbai Canal. But everyone is also working hard, compared with you, or compared with the official family, the official has done far enough, you are wearing sackcloth, but the official is wearing silk clothes, fur clothes, you can have three catties of meat a month, and the official eats meat almost every day. As an errand official of the official family, compared with the official family and the lower than you, the official was ashamed in his heart, so he had to take the lead. Fellow villagers and brothers, don't stop this official. ”
The official family is too far away, and the people dare not imagine it.
However, many officials and ordinary people have seen it, isn't it normal for an official to eat meat every day?
This camp envoy is really strict.
So what else do you say, let's work together. Everyone was very moved and worked harder, but at this moment, their hearts were warm.
However, Wang Ju accidentally drilled around in the cave, and a sharp stone cut his face. At this moment, the people were anxious, and some knelt down and begged Wang Ju to leave the cave.
"Get up, don't kill me, I'll go out."
"It's Ming Gong, you killed us," said an old man.
"The official's body is not expensive...... I'll go out, but I'll go to Beijing to report on my work immediately, and you must be careful during the construction process, so as not to get injured, let alone have an accident. Wang Ju saw that everyone was about to kneel down again, but there was no way, so he said a word and rode back.
Everyone kept looking at him silently, and finally the old man said: "It's a good official, no wonder the Han people over there call him Lao Tzu." After the plumber repairs it, we will definitely build a shrine for him. ”
"Weng Weng is right." Everyone was talking nonsense.
Wang Ju returned home and said to Zhao Du: "You and Hengzhi stay, after ten days, I won't come back, you have to find a way to release another rumor." said that I was going to be transferred, and I was no longer in charge of Zheng Baiqu. ”
"Zi'an, if that's the case. I'm afraid something bad will happen. ”
As long as this rumor is released, the entire project behind Zheng Baiqu will be chaotic. Even the farmland that was divided up earlier was in big trouble.
"Zhao Du, this question is whether I am really transferred, once I come back, any bad situation will stop. If not, it's not okay, there are ruthless people in the court, once they hate me to the core, what kind of punishment will happen, and if you don't get it, it's not a transfer. Instead, it was relegated to Lingnan. ”
Wang Ju quickly came to the capital.
On the first day, he arrived at the post house, and on the second day, he was summoned by the eunuch and summoned to the political hall.
Zhao Ji made Sima Guang helpless and used the word confrontation. But where to confront each other, you can't get Dali Temple. You can't confront each other at the court meeting, if there is a quarrel, Sima Guang will lose the court, of course, Wang Ju can fight Sima Guanghuo and it will be worth it. But this is not good for Sima Guang, and it is not good for Wang Ju.
Even if it is consulted in the temple. Once the two are more serious, it will also violate the rules of the court.
Therefore, it is placed in the government hall, which is the place where the proceedings are held. As long as you don't slap the table and kick the board to scold your mother, you are willing.
It looks like this...... Sima Guang also agreed, mainly because he was a two-system official and could manipulate the edict, but he did not have the real right of impeachment. But that's not the case......
This is the government hall!
Wang Ju looked left and right, the prime minister of Dongfu finally had a great change this time, Zeng Gongliang, Zhang Fangping, Zhao Xuan. Zhao Luan, Xifu Wen Yanbo. Lv Gongbi, Han Jiang. Shao Kang, as well as Teng Fu, Yang Hui, several important ministers of the three divisions, and nearly ten officials of the two systems, such as Sima Guang, Han Wei, Lu Gongzhu, Wang Qi, etc., are almost the elite of the Song Dynasty.
Some people know Wang Ju, but most people still don't know Wang Ju.
In the center sat Zhao Ji.
Wang Ju first strode forward and gave a salute: "Wechen has seen His Majesty." ”
Then he waved his sleeves and said, "I've seen all the princes." ”
Zhao Ji was about to say, don't be polite, sit down, suddenly he stood up and said, "Wang Ju, come here." ”
Wang Ju approached.
"Wang Qing, how did you become like this?" Zhao Ji said in a trembling voice, then walked down from the chair, came to Wang Ju, and opened Wang Ju's hand: "Why is this so?" How so! ”
"The people of Shaanxi are suffering, there are many military services, coupled with the battle of repairing canals, some situations are really unbearable, and the minister doesn't know what to say, so he has to take the lead."
"This, this," Zhao Ji's tears were about to overflow.
The people of the capital are rumoring that Wang Ju is a beautiful man, and he has also heard a commentary, which is too exaggerated and makes him laugh. But Wang Ju is indeed handsome, tall and handsome, otherwise his aunt would not have drilled the horns.
But what has become now?
The whole black man, his hands were covered with calluses, and there were some scars, he looked at Wang Ju's face and asked, "What about the ......scars on this face?"
"This is the minister who did not want to enter the Sui Cave, and led the people to move the stones, the cave was dark, and he touched the stone tip, His Majesty, it doesn't matter, it will be fine after a while."
"Qing ...... Qing ...... "Zhao Ju just took Wang Ju's hand, he heard some in the palace, including Huang Gonggong's report, but when he saw Wang Ju himself, he felt the real shock, why the progress of the canal is fast, why the people are not complaining, this is Wang Ju sincerely moved everyone."
"What is a good minister, this is my good minister!" Zhao Ji held back this sentence for most of the day.
"Your Majesty, the great traitor is loyalty." Sima Guang also said something on the side.
However, he also said that he had a headache, and it was difficult for ordinary people to detect Wang Ju's this, take a look at these important ministers on both sides, as long as they know Wang Ju, they saw Wang Ju's picturesque eyebrows before, and then compared to the current appearance, that one was not moved, even if Wan Nian Taishan Wen Yanbo opened his eyes in surprise, looked at Wang Ju, and slightly foreheadd.
"Your Majesty, this is nothing, if you talk about hardship, when Fan Wenzheng served as the magistrate of Xinghua, he led the people to repair and defend the seawall, then it is called really bitter."
"Don't say anything, I understand, Wang Ju, I also heard one thing, I don't know if you have heard of water conservancy in Fujian?"
"I've heard about some, such as the pooled fields, the pitian fields, the fangtian fields, the terraced fields, and the pond fields."
"Have you ever heard of Mulan Creek and Xinghua Bay?"
"I've heard it, it seems to be somewhere in Putian."
"It is a small river somewhere, originating in Daiyun Mountain, from Xinghua Bay into the sea. What is rare is that there are two small plains downstream, the North and South Ocean Plains. ”
"So, they're precious."
"Yes, Fujian Road is mountainous, and two plains are not precious? However, the water volume of Mulan Creek is large in the rainy season, but the water volume in the dry season is very small, just like the short, flat and fast river topography you mentioned in the water policy in the Chinese book. Therefore, in the rainy season, there are many waterlogs, and in the dry season, there are droughts. And when the tide is large, the tide goes up the stream, and the salt water is mixed in it, which is not conducive to irrigation. In the rare two Pingchuan areas, the people did not benefit, but suffered. Many people hope that someone can take the lead and lead everyone to build flood control and drought control in Mulan Creek. There is a woman named Qian Siniang in Changle, Fuzhou, whose father was an official on Guangnan East Road, and because of the loss of his mother in his early years, the father and daughter depended on each other. My father was an official all his life, and he became ill and died of illness in office. Qian Siniang returned to her hometown with her father's coffin, passed through Putian, and was blocked by the flooding of Mulan Creek, and then saw the tragic situation of the local people, so she made a grand wish. ”
"Who is Qian Siniang?" Sima Guang asked in a low voice.
Lu Gongzhu whispered: "A strange woman." ”
Zhao Ji continued: "That happened in the first year of Zhiping, when Qian Siniang was only sixteen years old, so she sold the Qian family's property and the wealth left by her father, and gathered 100,000 yuan to come to Mulan Creek. The local people were moved and took time out to help each other. This little woman repaired for more than three years, and under her leadership, a main ditch and 36 branch ditches were opened, and a dam was built. It was only completed this summer, and just as everyone was celebrating, suddenly the stream roared, the water was agitated, and the rockslides collapsed. Seeing the wealth of the whole family, the hope of the people was destroyed in an instant. Qian Siniang was inexplicable in grief and indignation, and threw herself into the water and died. is only nineteen years old, one year younger than Wang Qing. When I heard that, I couldn't eat dinner. ”
"Wang Ju, I don't really understand the positive energy you said before, but now I know what positive energy is, full of positive energy," Zhao Ji said this, and a young girl appeared in front of her, and she burst into tears again: "I want to enshrine her, enshrine her as a wife, a concubine, and build a temple for her." (To be continued) R466