Ruyin County

In summer, although there were a few rains, they all stopped as soon as it fell, the official roads were scorched, and there were very few pedestrians.

The 3,000 cavalry waded directly across the river, and only the chariots and foot soldiers passed over the wooden bridge, and the crystal water droplets flashed into a piece, spreading far away, startling the egrets among the lush water and grass to chirp and fly high.

Ye Qing built a "long car", which is a mobile house, just driving a semicircle, which can be regarded as an open-air office, sitting upright at this time, meticulously reading documents, and the frame of the Queen Mother and Ning Ji follows the back of the long car, which is only a few meters apart.

Along Yingshui all the way to the east, he inspected Ruyin County, Ruyin County is located between eastern Henan and western Henan, recaptured from Cao Cao in the spring of this year, that is, too shou Xun Yu governance, sent him such a political and military master, most likely because Ruyin County and Jiangdong border, to guard against Sun Jian, and now to add Yuan Shu who has just entered Jingbei.

Now when tens of thousands of troops patrol the return journey, they will cross the Yingshui River again.

At this time, Ye Qing was looking at the official documents in the long car, and there was a batch of papermaking, and the bamboo slips gradually withdrew from the stage, which gave people a lot less workload.

"There are Zhou, Qian, and Xiao Sanjian in Ruyin County who are plotting to rebel, and General Zhang has led the cavalry to sweep up. ”

"There were also a few local tyrants who rebelled along the way, and there were two Taiping sect altars that resisted with spells, and were exterminated by Qianqian's sorcerer group. ”

"The Taiping Sect can only keep accounts first, but these few have not jumped out enough, and it can only be said that there is a slight supplement. Ye Qing took out a few copies to read, they were all small letters, dense, meticulously written, thought about it, and criticized: "Wait for the people to check who is behind these rebellions, this order"

After the approval, Ye Qing felt a little dull, put down his pen and looked at it, under the vast sky dome, a continuous field, with a newly built canal, and it grew well, but Yingshui was only a hundred steps wide, and it was relatively shallow.

Seeing this, Ye Qing couldn't help but feel a little worried

In the back, the Queen Mother paid attention to Ye Qing's move in front of her, followed her gaze, and looked at it with her gaze, and also saw Yu Ku of the water.

The Queen Mother remembered the past two years, the great drought in Guanxi, the Central Plains, and Hebei, including Yuzhou.

The world has been in drought for a long time, and the rivers are shallow, which is not a good thing.

At this time, Ning Ji, who was dressed in a red palace suit, was lying on the carved window and watching, she only felt that there were many people, many people...... Even the river seems crowded.

Seeing that Ye Qing was busy writing military and political documents at the desk in front of her, this little Lori asked Qianqian in a soft voice: "Sister Mi, is this Yingshui, it's summer, why does she only have this water, is she sick?"

"Originally, there was a summer flood, but it was dry, so it was dry" Qianqian picked up her little body, put it in her arms, soft and tender, and couldn't help laughing happily: "Ning Ji is very observant, but Yingshui is not sick, she is just lonely." ”

Yingshui is lonely...... Ye Qing, who went back to work a little farther away, was angry, and the brush paused, leaving large ink stains on the cyan paper.

Qianqian glared at her husband...... I don't know if this is a new green paper produced by the paper mill, and it costs five cents a piece

Little Lori was praised and smiled shyly, thinking that this sister was so good that she should not bother her anymore, but sometimes there are new things, and she can't help but ask, and the child's curiosity is always endless.

Or she has never had a sister, Qianqian likes this smart and polite little Lori very much, and patiently answers her questions.

Of course, Sister Mi is called Qianqian, compared to a certain imperial uncle who likes to be an uncle, women like to be called younger.

The title of "Aunt Mi" is terrible...... Qianqian thought and glared at Ye Qing again.

Ye Qing looked confused, sometimes unable to understand what a woman was thinking, of course, this kind of title is only due to the fact that Liu Bei is the clan, strictly speaking, it is a family, and it is only limited to the inside, and externally it is still the king, the princess, and the queen mother.

On both sides of the road are large fields criss-crossed by a network of canals, a kind of roulette waterwheel pumping water from the Yingshui River, and the river water rushes down the main canal...... The water is very shallow, strangely flowing for more than ten miles.

The Queen Mother sat quietly, most of the time she was silent, her eyes dark.

"It's not difficult, isn't it?" Occasionally, she came back to her senses in the crisp child's voice, followed her daughter's gaze, and saw some special scenes, and the Queen Mother would say something funny.

The mood slowly brightened.

At the same time, she gradually noticed more, and her eyes turned to the canal several times.

The Queen Mother has been in power, and the things she asked were more in-depth, and Qianqian's explanation was more detailed, and at this time, she glanced at the amorous Queen Mother, and secretly thought that it was worthy of being a mother and daughter, and her observation was extremely strong, and she quickly asked the key point.

"This water matter, the mourning family is really confused. The Queen Mother pointed to the endless acres of green fields outside the car window, although the water channels in the fields were shallow but endless, and there were green crops everywhere at a glance, and there were not many signs of withering and yellowing.

"On the way from Henan Yin's escape, the mourning family has witnessed the drought in Guannei and the withering of farming, but the runoff of all rivers in Yuzhou has been greatly reduced and the rain is scarce, but it has not affected the appearance of agriculture, why is this?"

In order to take charge of the government, you have to learn a lot of knowledge, the Empress Dowager knew that people have lived by flowing water since ancient times, and the lack of rivers is flat and dry land, and it can't support much population...... To put it simply, paddy fields and dry fields are very different in taxes.

Yuzhou has a well-developed network of canals, but many market towns are not built on the Yingshui water, or even far from the river.

The artificial river channel brought by Yingshui should have been cut off long ago, and the canals in the fields seem to be free of water, and many of them are even planted with rice.

Most of the pedestrians, young and old, outside the car window, had very good faces and moist lips...... It is completely impossible to see that Kansai, Central Plains, and Hebei are generally in a state of drought and water shortage at this time.

If there is no drought, it will be difficult for locust eggs to survive, and there will be no locust plague.

"It's not normal. The Queen Mother took the initiative to narrow down her question, and her asking voice couldn't help but become quieter: "Mourning family...... Can you know the reason for the Dao?"

Qianqian glanced at her husband, and was instructed, her eyes narrowed with a smile, shining with divine luster: "Of course you can, this is my husband's destiny, so he is calm in farming." ”

The Queen Mother was stunned at first, raised her phoenix eyebrows, felt that this was a reasonable explanation, and nodded thoughtfully: "The sky is dry, and the phoenix is not down." ”

This sentence literally means that "if the heaven and earth are in a dry place, the phoenix will not fall and perch" - but on the contrary, "the phoenix will choose the land that is not in the drought", which is a metaphor for why she herself came to Yuzhou.

The Queen Mother is full of style, which is quite interesting.

Ye Qing raised his head from the pile of copywriting, glanced at the woman's straight waist, the corners of his mouth were slightly curled, and he didn't look at it.

The brilliance in Chuanlin's notes flashes continuously, presenting the relevance of the source of this sentence - "Huainanzi Benjingxun", Weishu.

Things have become more interesting - you must know that the "weft book" and the "scripture book" are opposite, and the Han Dynasty scholars and Confucian scholars relied on the scriptures of the present text to promote the book of Fu Xuan, Ruiying, and Zhan Xue, and the warp and weft are taken from the vertical and horizontal lines of the fabric, which is a metaphor for order.

The study of the present world and the study of luck, as well as the longitude and latitude, constitute the Han people's view of heaven and man, even the queen, the queen mother and other women are convinced, and the Han people's belief in the mandate of heaven, the five elements, and the weft book can be seen.

Ye Qing continued to approve a document on the transfer of military rations, and casually said the next sentence: "The beast of claws, teeth, horns, and distance, so the owl is ...... There is some truth in what Liu An said. ”

This sentence literally means that "(because the phoenix does not land) the ferocious and vicious birds with hook claws, fangs, long horns, and talus toes will wreak havoc everywhere, hunting and killing living beings" - but Ye Qing responded to the Queen Mother's previous sentence here, comparing the princes of other states to the Queen Mother because of their lack of morality.

The Queen Mother said lightly, when the dynasty attaches equal importance to civil and military, the local customs are quite beautiful, she has studied literature since childhood, and she can understand this metaphor.

She couldn't help but look at the man in surprise: "Have you read Huainanzi? uh, I'm sorry......"

Feeling that this question was a bit demeaning, she added: "The mourning family had no other books to read when they were young, only this weft book "Huainanzi", but I remember that Lu Shangshu is a real master of scripture, and he also taught the envoy this

There is a reason why the Queen Mother is so puzzled - books are rare in the world, and many scholars only study one or a few books in their lives, Lu Zhi specializes in teaching two books of "Shangshu" and "Book of Rites", and normally will not teach students other books, especially the "Weft Book" compiled by Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, which will not enter the eyes of orthodox Confucianism.

Ye Qing kept writing in his hand and explained: "My teacher has never taught this, two years ago I visited various library pavilions in Luoyang in Beijing, well, I memorized it... I remember that the total number is 204,563 volumes, but unfortunately this bamboo strategy has to be turned over one by one, and the time is too tight to memorize. ”

It's a pity that I didn't finish memorizing it......

The Queen Mother's eyes widened: "The mourning family has heard that Zhao Ji, the daughter of the Cai Yong family, can do this, and I heard that this woman is familiar with reading and reciting the four thousand volumes of books in the family. ”

The Queen Mother wanted to ask, "I don't know how much the envoy has memorized", but when the words came to her mouth, she still swallowed them.

The current atmosphere, the Queen Mother is still quite satisfied, respectful, but not too distant, many times, let the Queen Mother have a sense of trance - the king's house, how can there be such a "home" atmosphere?

She was reluctant to spoil this.

"It's really the destiny of heaven to descend on the envoy. The Queen Mother sighed again, she couldn't help but recall Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of this dynasty, who was also famous for his exposition on scriptures and political affairs, and was very knowledgeable.

Wang Mang's classics were burned in large quantities, in view of the Western Han Dynasty official collection of books scattered, and the folk collection of books quite a lot, Liu Xiu himself was born in Xiucai, riding a bull to fight the world, good at reading, during the war every place to visit the elegant, to take Que Wen to make up for the omission......

Luoyang called the emperor and passed the decree to the world to collect, in the "stone room", "Lantai", "Renshou Pavilion", "Dongguan" place library pavilion gathered a large number of old classics and new books, stacked Yingyu, sweat cattle full, the scale and number of books are far more than the Western Han Dynasty.

Liu Xiu not only loved to read, but also encouraged people all over the world to read, built the highest institution of learning in Luoyang, set up the Five Classics Doctoral Teaching, and advocated the establishment of official schools in local prefectures, counties and counties, and encouraged private schools such as Xuan, Xuan, Xue, School, and School, and the literary event like the Yingchuan Literary Society has also flourished for a long time.

Liu Xiu himself is a well-educated Confucian, and he often leads by example, personally teaching scriptures to the ministers, and talking with the heroes until late at night.

Or because he is outstanding in both civil and military aspects, Liu Xiu is not afraid of the talents of his subordinates, he has a gentle temperament, and he has almost never had a red face with meritorious ministers in his 33-year reign.

Except for Cen Peng, who was assassinated by the enemy and died early, the rest of the generals had a good death, which can be said to be the right time and meeting their master - this kind of affection is rare among the emperors of the past dynasties, and the founding monarch is unique.

It is said that "it is not a family, it is not a family", and even the queen Yin Lihua who took him was a stunning and magnanimous woman.

The same surname Liu, the same two hundred years, compared to the split between Gaozu Liu Bang and Empress Lu, Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Yingbu, the three major generals of the early Han Dynasty, none of them died well, it is really a great contrast.

At this time, Ye Qing, who was not far away and gave official instructions and looked back from time to time with a few smiles, gave her such a feeling.