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Although Du Yan and others were unable to attend Song Yuyan's banquet, they also wrote to congratulate her, but Lin Buyuan heard about the seawall she supervised in Hangzhou and praised her.

After Song Yuyan wrote back to them, she began to concentrate on receiving the friends who came to visit—she is considered a half-celebrity in Mingzhou now, and after she moved to a new house, she also has enough space to receive guests, so she visits every day There is an endless stream of people.

Fan Zhizhou also came.When his term of office expired this time, the imperial court saw that his political achievements were good, so he was promoted to right minister and judge of the third division.

The so-called Sansi Duzhi magistrates, the "three divisions" are the three departments in charge of the Ministry of Households, Yantie, and Duzhi in charge of national finance, civil affairs and taxation.

He wanted to persuade Song Yuyan before leaving that if he wanted to do practical things for the common people in the world, he should not refuse the imperial court's reward.

Song Yuyan felt a lot of pressure, and the people around her had too high expectations of her, either to persuade her to take the imperial examination to become an official, and then to die for the common people of the world, or to hope that she would consider the benefits of being an official, so that she would not even think about resigning thing.

Song Yuyan said: "Even if I don't become an official, there are still many ways to benefit the people. There are many ways and methods to benefit the common people in the world. There is no so-called distinction between high and low in all occupations and trades. If you stick to one path, It’s easy to go astray.”

She has seen too many examples of officials who started out wholeheartedly for the people and ended up doing whatever it takes to achieve the goal of "serving the people", and were finally caught.

Let’s say that Li Shen, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who wrote the famous poem “It’s noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat drops to the soil, who knows that the food on the plate, every grain is hard work” was also lost on the road to power in the end. I have done things like being unkind to officials, disregarding human lives, and treating the people as pariahs.

Song Yuyan was very grateful for Fan Zhizhou's recommendation, but she didn't stop there.After hearing this, Fan Zhizhou felt that she was using Li Shen's example to tell herself to keep her heart.He didn't become angry because of this, but felt that Song Yuyan treated him sincerely, otherwise he wouldn't have said these things to him.

Soon, the new Zhizhou was transferred. After Fan Zhizhou handed over the work to him, he went to Beijing to report on his work.

The new magistrate is called Su Qi, a standard second-generation official. His father's name is Su Yijian.

Although his father died of illness later, he still had a famous father-in-law, Wang Dan, the current prime minister,

Although Wang Dan was an upright person, in the second year after Su Qi failed to become a Jinshi at the age of 20, the officials still gave Wang Dan a Jinshi and a degree for his sake.

Now only 27 years old, he has already become the magistrate of Mingzhou. Compared with the two magistrates Liu Chuo and Fan Xi, his official career has been considered prosperous.

The first thing Xinzhizhou did after arriving in Mingzhou was to go to the Song family to find the patriarch.The patriarch is still a little confused, is he here to visit?But shouldn't we go to the village first for the visit?

Although he was confused, he still received him, and only after meeting him did he realize that he came for Song's bamboo paper.

This matter actually has something to do with Song Yuyan, because Song Yuyan, in order to cover up the origin of her papermaking skills, said that she learned it from Su Gong's "Paper Manual".And the "Grand Su" she mentioned was actually Su Yijian, Su Qi's father.

As Song's bamboo paper was exported to Bianjing, Su Qi, who had been a county magistrate in the capital for many years, also heard about it. Later, he even heard that it was his father's posthumous work that gave others such an opportunity, so he did it for himself. Dad is proud.

So when he came to Mingzhou, the first thing he did was to go to the Song family to see how they made such good bamboo paper with their father.

The patriarch of the Song clan heard about his origin and personally realized his incomprehension.

After Song Yuyan mentioned "Paper Manual", he also looked for Su Yijian's Four Books of Study. Although there were some general steps for individual papermaking techniques, there was no papermaking process for bamboo paper.Therefore, Song Yuyan said that she learned it from paper notation. He thought that she was inspired to really learn how to make paper, or she learned it from other places and then improved it by herself.

In other words, this is not the credit of "Paper Manual", but Song Yuyan's own talent.

If Su Qi had carefully studied his father's works, he would not have such a cognition.

Su Qi is not without self-knowledge, he just wants to discuss with others the writings left by his father.So the patriarch called Song Yuyan back and asked her to entertain Su Qi.

Fortunately, Song Yuyan also did a lot of homework in order to have a source for her papermaking skills. She studied Su Yijian's Four Books of Study many times, and she was able to recite them by heart.

The two started a discussion on the four notations of the study. Song Yuyan even demonstrated how to make a writing brush in person. Su Qi was amazed after seeing it.Although he is not very good at reading, he is quite good at painting. He is especially good at landscape painting. On this point, he and Song Yuyan have more topics to talk about.

If it wasn't for Song Yuyan who still had a lot of serious business to do, he might not have realized that he came to Mingzhou to do practical things.

He went around with a mood of looking at the mountains and rivers, and found that Mingzhou was much more prosperous than he imagined.He always thought that Yangzhou and Hangzhou were the most affluent in the south of the Yangtze River, but he didn't realize until Mingzhou that since the seawall was built, there had been more farmland here.

Due to the improvement of land salinization and the adaptability of Champa rice, the grain output of the common people is also increasing, and the hot sale of cotton enables the common people to live a warm winter without relying on charcoal.

Su Qi had a toothache. He found out that his first two prefects either gained political achievements through champagne rice, or won praise from the court for building seawalls.And he couldn't find a way to quickly mix up his achievements, so he could only make everything develop better based on these foundations.

So he wrote a letter to the imperial court, explaining the benefits of cotton again in terms of the benefits of cotton mentioned by the predecessors.The imperial court finally decided to allow the people of Mingzhou to use cotton to offset part of the tax, and to encourage the people to grow cotton.

The taxation method of this dynasty is also mainly based on the "second tax", which is the summer tax collected in June in summer and the autumn tax collected in November.

The summer tax generally collects money, and the autumn tax generally collects rice.When the summer tax is collected, silk, cloth, wheat, tea, etc. can all be tax-deductible items.For example, if the market price of tea is ten Wen per catty, if the farmers have to pay a tax of one hundred Wen, they can use ten catties of tea to pay for it.

But when encountering officials who exploit the people, they will often lower the price and collect more taxes, thus creating a local high tax revenue, showing the illusion that the people are rich and living a healthy and happy life. This is also the result of pursuing political achievements. .

Although Su Qi was a little out of tune, he didn't intend to make his face swollen to make him fat. He didn't use taxes to falsify his political achievements. Instead, he was inspired by Song Yuyan. In order to develop the reading atmosphere in Mingzhou, he decided to rectify the state school, county school, etc. .

In fact, Song Yuyan didn't do anything, even when the two of them were in contact, they would also talk about education. A well-known scholar who developed Mingzhou into a place with a strong reading atmosphere, then he must also leave a mark in the history books.

So he was gearing up. First, he mowed down those professors of state studies who had no real talent and was just dawdling, and directly invited some famous literati to come to teach.Secondly, we will rectify the students who are enrolled. First, those who fail the exam will be expelled from school, and then new students will be recruited.

Zhao Yu and others escaped a catastrophe because they devoted themselves to studying later, and after having a new teacher, they studied more seriously and assiduously.He corresponded with Song Yuyan, and Song Yuyan could tell from his writing that he had changed and became more mature and stable.

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Su Qi's appointment did not cause much disturbance to Song Yuyan and others.However, after Song Yuyan no longer had to stay at the beach to supervise the repair of the seawall, Uncle 21 and Tang Haogen all cared about her and Tang Zhi's offspring.

Uncle 21 said: "Before you spent a year in Haitang, facing the peasants day and night. Now that you are back, the only people who are facing you day and night are your nephew and daughter-in-law. Why don't you hurry up and seize the opportunity!"

Song Yuyan pretended to be stupid: "What chance?"

Uncle 21 gave her a sideways glance: "You have been married for three years, but there is still no movement in the niece and daughter-in-law's stomach. Are you not in a hurry?"

Song Yuyan looked sloppy: "It's only been three years, so we are still so young. Since we are young, we should enjoy two more years in the world of the two of us!"

Uncle 21 couldn't see that she was pretending to be stupid, so he gave her an annoyed look, and went back to complain to Aunt Lie: "Yam is still too young."

He and Aunt Lie never gave birth to a son, so no matter how much they loved Song Yaoyao, some people still looked down on them and said that they were going to die.

Song Yuyan had never endured this kind of ridicule, so Uncle 21 didn't want them to be like them in the future, so he was a little anxious.

Aunt Lie said: "Yam has suffered a lot of ridicule, abuse and humiliation before, so why would he care about others' ridicule?"

Uncle 21 was taken aback, then sighed: "Yes. They are still young, take your time!"

Tang Haogen was also looking for Song Yuyan to insinuate. He was mainly worried that Tang Zhi hadn't done anything for three years, and Song Yuyan would think it was Tang Zhi's problem.Because in recent years, some people have begun to question whether Tang Zhi can't give birth, and there are also rumors that Song Yuyan will take concubines in the future when he is rich, and other malicious "prophecies".

Naturally, he would not ask whether it was Tang Zhi's inability to give birth, even if it was Tang Zhi's fault, as Tang Zhi's elder brother, he had to protect her no matter what.

Song Yuyan's attitude towards his uncle is not like that of Uncle 21, but his attitude is very clear: "The matter of having a child depends on whether A Zhi and I are destined to be with him/her. If the fate requires us to have a baby 20 years later." , then it’s useless for us to worry now.”

Song Yuyan moved to the suburbs to live in the suburbs in order to avoid densely populated residential areas. Although there are fewer neighbors, although there are some safety hazards, there are fewer gossips and gossips, and the ears can be much clearer.

As for why it was reported that Song Yuyan would take concubines, it was actually based on the current public knowledge, and after Song Yuyan moved into the new mansion, some couples came to the house with their children, begging Song Yuyan to buy their daughter as a maid.

The Song family's house did need some help with cleaning, cooking, and gatekeepers, but Song Yuyan didn't care about it, so Tang Zhi took the initiative to hire the couple's children.His son was only 15 years old, so Tang Zhi asked him to watch the door, and if anyone came to visit, he would pass it on in time; his daughter was 17 years old, Tang Zhi asked her to do some housework and take care of the flowers and plants in the garden.

Tang Zhi also hired another cook, which completely liberated Bing'er—since Sun'er went to study, the work of cooking fell to Song Yuyan and Bing'er. I dare not eat the food made by Tang Zhi, so I can only actively recommend myself to cook.

Although the food she cooks is not very good, but Tang Zhi can't taste it. After eating for a long time, the pancakes can't bear it by themselves, so they can only keep improving their cooking skills. Song Yuyan also praised her: "You are good at cooking, hurry up!" The bamboo shoots are on, it seems that important things like cooking can only be left to you!"

Cake also relayed this to Tang Ye.

Tang Ye: "..."

Are you sure your elder brother didn't fool you just to make you work hard?