Imperial Exam Daily

Early the next morning, the people sent by Tan Shengchang returned.

"My lord, those few people yesterday were not local villagers. After some investigation, I found that they were all servants and long-term workers of rich families in the county."

Yang Ye said: "Are they from the same household or from several households?"

"They are three households. According to the people, these three households are great local benevolent people. Whenever there is a drought, they will contribute money to the village to hold the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven. They are very loved by the villagers in the countryside, but they are not well-known in the city. good."

Yang Ye said silently, "Keep staring."

"Yes."

Tan Shengchang watched his subordinates retreat, a little confused: "What's wrong?"

"These wealthy households specially sent people to bring the villagers to make trouble in front of us. The purpose is to prevent the people from catching locusts."

"These wealthy households believe in gods and insects so much?"

Yang Ye sneered: "It's not that simple. If I guessed correctly, these wealthy households intentionally let the people suffer from the disaster. They stockpiled enough grain from other counties in advance. When the disaster strikes, the people will eat up all the grain they have saved, and they will sell their iron. Going to buy food, the wealthy households have almost no competitiveness at this time, and raise the price of food as a matter of course in order to make huge profits! Seeing the people destroying the locusts, they naturally want to stir up trouble!"

Tan Shengchang slapped his thigh with an angry expression: "These wealthy households are so insidious!"

Yang Ye sighed: "Ordinary people are stupid and can only be led by the nose. They think that it is a good deed for the rich to hold sacrifices to heaven, but in fact they are entrapping themselves. Now if the people want to kill locusts honestly, they have to take these Wealthy households will give it to them."

"Lord Yang, don't worry, now that I know where the problem is, I will personally lead people to investigate, and they will definitely be caught."

There was a smile on Yang Ye's face: "Then I will trouble Mr. Tan to work hard."

The two had just negotiated, and the magistrate hurried in: "My lords, the common people are here."

Yang Ye's eyebrows twitched.

The two went out with the magistrate, and the guards opened the gate, and the people stood in a crowd, some carrying eggs, some holding hens, and some carrying fish, all standing outside the county government gate. Seeing the people coming out, he hurriedly surrounded him: "My lord, we all listen to you! You need to work hard to get rid of the locusts."

Afterwards, the common people sent forward the things they brought: "I beat the magistrate a few days ago, and these are all given to you. I hope you will take good care of your health as soon as possible."

The magistrate shoved the things into the hands of the common people with trembling hands, apparently seeing this battle for the first time, his eyes were red: "Take your things back, food is as important as your life these days, keep it for your own food, my official No problem, as long as you listen to Master Yang, you will surely survive the disaster."

"If you don't take it, my lord, we will feel sorry."

Yang Ye chuckled lightly, took an old hen and two fish and handed them to the magistrate: "Okay, the things are accepted."

He signaled the magistrate to take it, and then said to the people while the iron was hot: "Now that everyone has figured it out, then obey the arrangement and continue to control the locusts. You can wait for anything, but you can't wait to control the locusts. Once the locusts can fly, it will be too late. But at the current stage, the locusts have changed color and can no longer be caught, and now we have to change our strategy and have to fight!"

Yang Ye quickly made arrangements to put the previously prepared lime to teach the common people to use ginseng water and on the forage, and place it as a low-grade pesticide on the wide flat ground to attract locusts to eat, so that part of the locusts can be poisoned. When the locusts swarmed to eat, the villagers took wooden rakes to beat the locusts to death. It was easier to deal with locusts living in groups than scattered locusts.

It is currently located in Mancang County, and Yang Ye in several other counties is afraid that the order will not be delivered well, and the poisonous locusts will not have much effect. .

The county magistrates of the other counties heard what he said about reprimanding the people, and they went back and summoned the villagers to repeat what he said. The villagers also changed their minds. After all, he was still worried. , took a shovel and fought locusts in the countryside with the people. After a tour of several counties, the confidence of the villagers in each county rose greatly.

It was already ten days later when I returned to Mancang County.

"My lord, the court's decree has come down."

Unknowingly, it has been more than a month since I came to Jiangnan, and the letter from the imperial court can be regarded as arriving. Yang Ye didn't care about taking a rest, so he just read the reply letter from the imperial court.

The magistrate has been hunting locusts with the villagers these few days, and they have not seen each other for ten days, and the crowd is dark. When he came up to Yang Ye and asked anxiously about the court's intentions, Yang Ye was taken aback.

"Master Zhifu has worked hard these few days!"

The magistrate quickly waved his hands: "It's not bitter, it's not bitter. After working for a few days, the pain in the back and neck is gone."

Yang Ye glanced at the reply letter from the imperial court, and his smile gradually became brighter: "The emperor promised to build water conservancy in the capital of Suliu province. In the past few days, I visited several counties that were repeatedly plagued by locusts, and found that it was a good place to build water conservancy. The emperor not only allocated money Come down, and dispatch two adults who are good at water conservancy."

"In this way, the construction of water conservancy is determined on the iron plate. When the water conservancy is completed, then there will be water to irrigate the crops in Cangman County, and the drought will not matter!"

"Don't get too excited. The emperor also asked about the locust plague. Everyone has to work harder. The water conservancy issue can't be achieved overnight. It requires the concerted efforts of the government and the people."

The magistrate responded again and again: "Yes, everything depends on the arrangement of adults."

After finally sending the magistrate away, Yang Ye wandered back to the house and opened the letter from home. This letter from home has been waiting for more than a month.

Ah Xi knew that it took a long time for the letter to reach Yang Ye's hands, and the letter was also long.

After Xu Qiuhe's family of three arrived in the capital, the house became much more lively, mainly because there were children. Even though Yun Ye was a quiet person, it was comfortable to walk around and watch in the yard. Axi seldom went out on weekdays, except for Xu Qiuhe. In the few days when I came to the capital, I took people out to visit the outside of the capital. Nowadays, I don't even go to Fuxi Zhai very often.

At home, besides teaching Yunye to read and recite poems, most of the time is spent doing needlework, making clothes for the unborn child.

Xinghuai is fine in Beijing, and Ah Xi was originally afraid that a big man would not be able to sit still, so he wanted to ask Li Cheng to introduce him to an errand. With Xinghuai's size and posture, many big mansions are willing to recruit him as a gatekeeper Or thugs, but before he could find Li Cheng, after Xing Huai and Qi Fu had sold cold strings for a few days, they actually got to know someone from the Beijing Escort Bureau, and followed him to run the Escort, in a section near the capital.

Because Xing Huai is vicious and vicious, and he is indeed Lian Jiazi, he worked very smoothly in the escort agency.

Yang Ye saw that everything was fine at home, and at the same time felt at ease, but at the same time felt a little sad, especially when Ah Xi said in the letter that his stomach was getting bigger and walking became clumsy, he couldn't hide it. Lonely, if it wasn't for running around and doing physical work every day this month, he would sleep on the bed when he was tired, and all his energy had been taken up, he didn't know how much he would miss Axi.

After tidying up the letter paper, I was really tired, so I simply fell into bed and fell asleep.

When Tan Shengchang came, he heard that Yang Ye was resting, so he didn't go in to disturb him.

"Your Majesty Yang is a civil servant. He is like a military officer. After working hard for a full month, it's time for him to take a good rest." Tan Shengchang came back from the outside, covered in sweat. Looking at a water tank in the courtyard, he went straight to pour some water on it. Keeping your body cool: "Hey, magistrate, haven't you eaten the fish that the villagers gave you?"

"Isn't this busy hunting locusts and not having time?"

"Send it to the kitchen tonight, and have a few drinks at night."

The two were talking, when the door creaked: "If it's my official doing it, I'll let you drink an extra jug."

Looking over at Xun Shengchang, Tan Shengchang smiled foolishly: "Master Yang is awake? But the magistrate and I are arguing with you?"

Yang Ye shook his head.

"Master Yang can also cook?" the magistrate was surprised.

Yang Ye caught two grass carp weighing six to seven catties: "I'll show you two adults tonight."

After saying that, he went to the kitchen, Zhifu and Tan Shengchang looked at each other, and then chased to the kitchen, watching Yang Ye remove the scales and dissect his belly as skillfully as a cook.

Let the people in the kitchen prepare the seasonings he wanted. When he was frying the ingredients, the eyes of Zhifu and Tan Shengchang almost fell into the pot. , lived in the countryside, but was lucky enough to marry a beautiful young brother, but it was by this hand that he captured her heart, today I will take advantage of you."

Tan Shengchang joked: "I really can't imagine how beautiful the young man who is the number one scholar is willing to enter the kitchen. I wonder if he can compete with Xue Zixiang!"

Yang Ye's eyebrows froze visibly, Tan Shengchang saw him hold back his smile, and patted his big mouth. He was so happy that he spoke without hindrance, how could he compare his wife with a deceased person? When he was about to confess his guilt, he was disappointed, but he heard Yang Ye ask: "Have you met Zi...Xue Zixiang?"

"Why haven't I seen it before? In the past, I fought with General Ji on the battlefield. Xue Zixiang is the little grandson of General Ji. I was lucky enough to meet him a few times. Although Xue Zixiang was only seven or eight years old at that time, it was enough for people to see him. Besides, General Ji's daughter is one of the most beauties in the capital, Xue Zixiang has inherited her mother's beauty, and she will not be bad when she grows up." Tan Shengchang continued: "Poor Xue Zixiang didn't grow up, but people in the capital talked about it. The little brother still likes to compare his beauty with Xue Zixiang and Dai Lin, so I said it casually, I really don't mean to offend."

Yang Ye didn't think it was offensive, but he didn't expect his daughter-in-law's name to be uttered from the mouth of a rough old man, and he never thought that there were such complicated origins, so he was surprised: "Then what is this Dai Lin?" people?"

"He is the concubine of the current Shizi, and he is also an extremely beautiful little brother."

He had seen the eldest son in the palace, a man as handsome as the moon, his appearance was comparable to Li Cheng, but he was more heroic than Li Cheng.Although he has never met his husband, he has heard it mentioned several times that the son and concubine are very affectionate, but he does not know that his husband is called Dai Lin.

He didn't have the time to care about who other people's husbands were, but now he knew that Ah Xi's grandfather turned out to be the old general Ji who was stationed on the frontier. some relationship.

I heard from Ah Xi that when his mother wanted to marry into Xue's family, General Ji did not agree, and he almost severed his father-daughter relationship with Miss Ji. I don't know what the relationship between this grandfather and Ah Xi is.

He has not been in Beijing for a long time, and he has not seen anyone from Axi's mother's family. Father Xue was dispatched by the emperor and has not yet returned to Beijing. He has not seen important people, but he met his love rival first.

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