When a passerby becomes a princess

A few children stood at the gate of the city, pulling the soldiers guarding the gate, insisting that they read the stories in the newly posted newspapers. It happened that there were no people in this weather, so a soldier walked over and pointed at the newly posted stories. The Beimo County Daily came out and began to read the story called "Feng Shen Yan Yi".

When Chen Fan entered the city, the soldier was talking about Lei Zhenzi going down the mountain, and stopped when he saw them. One of them knew Chen Fan and hurried over to say hello.

Chen Fan nodded to him expressionlessly, but the soldier didn't take it seriously. Most people in Beimo County knew this master who always had an expressionless face, and knew that although he was always cold-faced, he was calm in dealing with others. He is very magnanimous, and his speech is very gentle. In fact, everyone likes this master very much.

"Master Chen, this is..." The soldier saw clearly that there were several thin wooden coffins on the carriage behind him, and was speechless for a moment.

"It's the soldiers who died in the raid battalion, and they all came from Beimo County." Chen Fan's voice was a little dark. Although he had been in the northern Xinjiang camp for several years, he had seen tens of thousands of soldiers killed in battle, but every time The first time I saw a soldier die, I still felt extremely uncomfortable.

The soldier was also uncomfortable. Although he was the only soldier in his family, he was from the same town after all, and after the surprise attack in Beimo County, everyone hated Huzi even more.

The corpses of soldiers who were killed in battle and sent back need to be registered with the county captain, and the county captain will contact their families to receive the corpses and comfort money. Although the raid battalion is hung under the northern Xinjiang camp, it is actually the prince's private army. The consolation money was given by the prince, so when Chen Fan handed over the bodies of the fallen soldiers, he also handed over the solace money to the county captain at the same time.

Coming out of the county lieutenant, Chen Fan stood at the door for a while, then went to sit with Taifu Li for a while, drinking tea and chatting with Taifu Li for a long time, which made Taifu Li confused, not understanding why Chen Fan dragged him to talk so much For a long time, you must know that they had little contact with each other before, let alone friendship. Could it be that this former master wants to come back and continue to be a master?But with his identity and experience, being a teacher is too insignificant.

Speaking of this, Taifu Li is very happy to be the county magistrate of Beimo County. He was a well-known child prodigy in Daliang country in his early years. When Emperor Liang Zhe came to the throne, he couldn't understand Liang Zhe's perverse behavior. He resigned from office on the pretext of his father's serious illness and went home. He read and wrote every day, and he was free for a while.

Later Liang Honglie ascended the throne and became the emperor, recruiting wise men from all over the world, Li Taifu became an official again, and was valued by Liang Honglie, he began to teach the eldest prince to study before he was thirty, and later he even worshiped the post of Taifu.You must know that this "Taifu" can be called "Taifu" not just because he teaches the prince to read. In addition to knowledge, it is more an affirmation of this person's character.

It's a pity that the first prince died early, and the fourth prince died suddenly within two years of studying with Taifu Li. These two princes are both smart and hardworking. Taifu Li didn't realize the hardship of being a teacher until Liang Xi, teaching a child who only knows how to play and refuses to Children who read books are really sad.

Fortunately, there is a princess!Every time Taifu Li thinks of the concubine who is so clever and capable that she is almost a "monster", he deeply feels that it is too embarrassing for him to be proud of being called a "child prodigy".

Since the prince and concubine returned to Beijing last year, he was temporarily appointed as the county magistrate of Beimo County. He finally found his ideal position. The real feeling is really good.

"At the end of the day, I heard that this year Beimo County planted all wheat, millet and highland barley, and they had a bumper harvest." Chen Fan deliberately sat in a position where he could see outside the door, and asked Beimo one by one with a smile on his face. The size of the county.

Hearing this question, Taifu Li trembled his fingers slightly. He glanced at Chen Fan and said, "Yes, although it is not as good as other counties, but in terms of the barren land of Beimo County, it is truly It’s been a great harvest.”

The land in Beimo County is all saline-alkali land, and because there are not many water resources, the grains distributed by the household department in previous years are all rice, and there is not much grain to be harvested at all.After inspecting all the land last year, Lin Qiu asked the household department to distribute grain seeds of wheat, millet and barley to Beimo County in the future. He also asked people to dig several diversion canals, and dug water storage wells for each family. How do you make good use of marsh ponds as green manure? Although the area of ​​cultivated land in Beimo County has not changed this year, the harvest has tripled compared to previous years.

Compared with the joy of the common people, Mrs. Li secretly had doubts in his heart. The rice seeds distributed by the Ministry of Households every year were obviously not suitable for the cultivation environment of Beimo County. Why did they distribute rice?Was it an accident or was it intentional?You must know that the grain taxation in northern Xinjiang basically supplies the military rations of the northern Xinjiang camp.

He checked the county annals and found that during Liang Zhe's period, although rice was distributed to Beimo County, it also contained wheat, millet and barley. , In the end, there was only rice.The small amount of land planted with wheat, millet and highland barley was the grain seeds left by the people themselves. Later, because of the deliberate exploitation by the former county magistrate, the tax on wheat, millet and highland barley was increased, making the land for these two crops unable to make ends meet. They drove these two crops out of Beimo County completely.

Taifu Li didn't know if Chen Fan knew the reason, but he didn't want to go into details, because Chen Fan's elder brother was the Minister of the Household Department, and Taifu Li couldn't be more clear about the dirty things in the six parts. Now he really doesn't want to participate in it anymore. went inside.

Chen Fan didn't seem to understand what Li Taifu was saying. He drank the hot tea in his hand and glanced outside the door from time to time, but there was no one he wanted to see among the people walking outside the door.

Chen Fan sat for a while before he left. He stepped on the snow and walked slowly on the street. It was rare that there was no snow today, and the weather was also very good, but the sun hanging in the sky seemed to have no temperature. There is no warmth at all.

As he walked, Chen Fan suddenly felt that the surrounding scene was very familiar. He raised his head, only to realize that he had walked outside the back door of the county government office. He stared at the door in a daze, the copper handle reflected the sunlight slightly dazzling.

Suddenly, there was a voice from inside the door, and Chen Fan stepped into an alley next to him, but he still couldn't help looking out, only to see that the door moved a few times and opened inward, and an old woman left Come out and say to the inside: "The princess is waiting here for a while, and the servants are going to have the carriage brought over."

The person inside the door seemed to respond, and the old woman turned around and walked to the other side. After a while, a young man and an old woman holding a child came out, standing quietly on the steps of the door.

The boy wore a peacock blue satin cloak, and when he turned around, he could vaguely see the picture of Aoxue Hanmei embroidered on the cloak.There was a circle of snow-white fur around the neckline, half of a small face was covered by the cloak, only the pair of dark and bright eyes were as crystal clear as before.

The child in the hand of the nurse next to him seemed to scream a few times, the boy turned his head and whispered a few words to the child, his eyes were slightly bent, revealing an unquestionable tenderness.

After a while, a carriage came and picked up the young man and the nanny who was holding the child. Then Chen Fan came out from the alley, watched the carriage going away silently, and a gust of wind blew up his body. gown angle.

Early the next morning, Chen Fan rushed back to the raiding camp. He was a little tired after traveling all night, and was about to go back to the barracks to rest, when he saw more than [-] riders running on the road outside the camp. The first one was wearing black armor. , who is it if it's not Qin Yu?

"What are you doing here?" Chen Fan stared at him with a bad expression.

Qin Yu jumped off the horse and said, "Following the emperor's orders, come and protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Ah, that's really a coincidence, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went to the grassland again." Chen Fan didn't show his face, but he felt a little gloating in his heart. The last time Qin Yu was ordered to protect the prince, the prince was robbed and went to the grassland. This time he came, The prince ran to the grassland again, but this time it was the grassland that the prince took the initiative to go to.

Qin Yu glanced at him and said, "In this case, I can protect the Crown Princess."

Chen Fan's face darkened immediately, and he said coldly: "No need, the princess is not here now."

Qin Yu didn't speak, but looked at Chen Fan with something meaningful in his eyes.

Chen Fan was a little irritable, but he calmed down quickly, and immediately asked, "Did something happen in the capital again?" Otherwise, why would Qin Yu be sent to protect the prince suddenly? Think about it, the prince has a raid camp With 3000 people for protection, there is no need to send another person at all. Qin Yu said that he was protecting the crown prince, and it is very likely that he came to protect the crown princess from the beginning.

Something about the princess did happen in the capital.

As mentioned earlier, some students took the initiative to investigate the rumor that "the princess is a monster", and finally found the He Family Academy, and confirmed it through many methods. It was He Hua who said this in the first place.

There has never been a precedent for the freedom of speech in the Liang Kingdom. Even in the Liang Zhe period, if anyone offended Liang Zhe with words, he had to find a reason to punish him elsewhere, so even if he knew that He Hua was the one who started the rumor Man cannot be condemned by this.

Furthermore, He Hua is a generation of sages in the minds of the students, a well-known academic scholar, even if he said some inappropriate words, the students will not dislike him because of this, at most they think that he has misunderstood the princess.

But the common people who heard about this matter were not happy about it. What kind of university studies have been read in the stomach of a dog. For such a good person as the princess, you actually called him a monster and wanted someone to burn him to death.I don’t know you because I don’t read much, but I want to eat and wear clothes. It’s the princess who made our land harvest and let us eat and wear warm.

The angry people gathered together and smashed more than a dozen branches of the He Family Academy in Daliang State. The main academy in the capital was even worse, and was directly burned to ruins.Those gentlemen who wanted to stop were also beaten into pig heads, and many civilian students were taken home by their parents, preferring to study in private schools rather than Hejia Academy.

Although the He family's children are not in official positions, their power in the court is by no means inferior to that of any other family. Suddenly, the civil servants fell into an uproar over this matter, and various impeachment memorials flew to Liang Honglie's desk.