Dress to be a celebrity

Huan Shilang gritted his teeth and asked him, "Are you determined to protect the Song family father and son, and are you willing to sacrifice your life for this?"

Huan Ling seemed a little sad, but also looked at his grandfather with pity, and sighed: "I am not because of Song Sandi and Shibo, but because of my grandfather and Yuanniang, and because of our family's reputation, I can't have this future.

"Grandfather wants to enter the cabinet, and Yuan Niang wants to enter the palace. You are all my dear relatives. I only hope that you will get what you want. But our family ordered our daughter to withdraw from the marriage and participate in the selection process. Can we hide it from the world? No one else can bear the bad reputation of withdrawing from marriage, but only my elder brother can bear it. If anyone brings up this matter in the future, my grandfather will blame me, saying that I was an unreasonable elder brother who forcibly took away my sister's marriage Let her enter the palace, so as not to hurt my grandfather's Qingming name and Yuanniang's boudoir reputation..."

He suddenly smiled, and bowed his head to Minister Huan: "That's all my grandson can do for the family. When I go to Tingzhou, I hope that my grandfather will protect him more in the court. Don't teach Tingzhou government to rule." Something happened in the counties, otherwise, it will be difficult for my grandson to return to Beijing to be filial to my grandfather in this lifetime."

Huan Shilang stroked the crease between his brows, his voice was extremely low, with hints of anger: "Good! Good! I always thought that the grandson who knows how to put the family first, has given me such a result today. When your parents were alive, they told you to serve the country, but you resigned from the censor who was able to clean up Tsunaki and became a turbulent official; your father taught you benevolence, righteousness, filial piety, and you are here today to threaten your grandfather... Read all about your book where it goes!"

Huan Ling lowered his head deeply, and replied respectfully: "Yes. Grandson cannot persuade his grandfather when he sees something wrong, and cannot stop Yuan Niang from entering the palace against his parents' will. It is really unfilial—"

"You are really unfilial!" Huan Shilang finally couldn't suppress his anger, and patted the official chair heavily: "After you leave, who else would marry a hopeless little official like you! Your father only wants you to marry me!" As a son, you are still counting on you to carry on the family line and shine on the lintel. Since you became a filial piety, how many good girls have your grandfather picked for you... But the person who is going to marry is the young censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, not a six-year-old with an uncertain future. Foreign official!"

Huan Ling said: "Didn't the third brother Song never get married? He doesn't have grandfather's plan like me, but he waits for our Yuan Niang with peace of mind. After waiting for all these years, he has become a person who has been divorced."

Speaking of this, he subconsciously frowned, and said decisively: "Grandfather doesn't need to find any marriage for me. Our Huan family ruined the marriage of the third younger brother Song, and the fourth younger brother went to Wuping to ruin his reputation. Marriage will be difficult in the future. He has suffered so much, what face do I have to get married first? The day when the Song family spreads the good news first, and the day when I will consider getting married—"

"Anyway, the family that my grandfather valued, they also look down on me, a sixth-rank turbid official."

The corners of Huan Shilang's lips twitched, his expression was a bit ferocious, he grabbed the arm of the official chair and cursed: "Are you crazy! You are not afraid of dying outside, and your parents have no one to offer incense!"

He casually grabbed the teacup and threw it at the unfilial grandson.Huan Ling dodged sideways, and replied in response: "If the grandson's fate is unlucky, I still hope that the grandfather will preside over it, and which cousin's son will be adopted by me, so that the second room will continue to offer incense sacrifices."

He didn't look at his grandfather's angry expression, bowed goodbye to his grandfather, turned around and went out, and asked the housekeeper to arrange for a medical officer to feel Huan Shilang's pulse.

He himself urged people to pack their luggage, prepare the carriages and horses, and quietly arranged the departure from Beijing.Before leaving, he had bid farewell to all his relatives and friends in Beijing, because all the girls who were to be drafted would live in the palace, and he couldn't say goodbye to his sister face to face, so he just wrote a letter to his grandfather, asking him to find a chance to pass it on his behalf.

It was not convenient to write about the marriage of the Song family in the letter, so he only explained that he was going to be released as an official, and advised Yuan Niang to keep her own place in the palace, fulfill the courtesy of a concubine, and stop treating herself as the daughter of the servant's mansion Miss, she is proud of her family background.

——The man who can tolerate her waywardness has been far away from Fujian. She entered the palace as a minister to serve the king and the king of Zhou. Although her grandfather supported her, she could only go on in the palace by herself .

He also sympathized with Yuanniang, but after all, their brothers and sisters have different temperaments and ambitions, and this brother can only do so much.

Huan Ling gave up his family's future and went down to Fujian with ease.Huan Shilang couldn't control him, so he vented his anger on Huan Wen and asked someone to tie him up and beat him with forty sticks.He angrily reprimanded this grandson for his bold and reckless actions, against his will in private, and made the relationship between the two families almost unmanageable.

It also caused his cousin to demote himself from his official position and apologize for him.

Huan Wen was pampered and spoiled in the Hanlin Mansion since he was a child, how could he bear such hardships, crying and saying: "Why did my grandfather only blame me? I also did it for the good of our family. In the Song Dynasty, everyone knew that he had trouble outside. The granddaughter of the servant man's mansion is to be his fiancée, if word spreads in the capital, can people stop talking about our family!"

Huan Shilang said angrily: "The Song family only said these things to the eunuchs and scholars under their rule. So far, no rumors have spread to Beijing. How can it be compared to you fighting with the students and asking Xuezheng to catch you? The procuratorate doesn't know about our family!

"The previous dynasty was not a queen who did not get divorced and remarried, nor was it a queen who was not widowed and remarried. If the Huan and Song families just resigned in peace, no one else could say anything. It's just you, a wicked person who caused trouble, and wanted to feud with the Song family. , causing your cousin to demote himself out of Beijing for this, in order to restore the reputation of the Huan family..."

Huan Wen's face was full of tears and runny nose, but he made a wry smile: "The Song family guarded Yuanniang for four years, but our family changed hands and retired, and took our daughter to another high school. After everything was done, my grandfather thought he could make the Song family not hate her." Us? It is for the good of our family that I want to divert the trouble to the east, so that he cannot climb to a high position in the future and oppose our family..."

He endured the pain and said: "Fortunately, he is not the former Song Dynasty. He just played around with power in his father's yamen all day long. I heard that he also donated to the prison students. He will not have much success in the future. Just press his father far away. In the south, if he chokes the appointment of his elder brothers, what if he offends his family severely?"

To donate a supervisor is to give up starting a career?Why didn't he say that if he didn't win the exam immediately after being admitted as a scholar, he would give up his career!It was obviously because he was afraid that it would be difficult for Fujian students to take the exam, which would delay his achievement, so he donated a student supervisor first, and went directly to Beijing to take the exam in the next autumn exam!

Huan Shilang was really frustrated with this grandson, so he left him and went back to work in the ministry.When he arrived at the Ministry of Dept., the Department of Yizhi presented the roster of students from various provinces this year, and the doctor who came to submit the roster said to him with a smile: "Your Excellency, you know that something new happened in the Fujian Provincial Children's Examination this year—the Tingzhou Fuzhong Examination Among the members, there is an examinee from the north who occupies the top three positions in the hospital examination."

oh?In the past, candidates from the south were dominant, but now there are candidates from the north who are in the top three in the south?

Huan Shilang is also a person who cherishes talents, so he couldn't help asking with a smile: "Where is the examinee? He is a talented man. When he enters Beijing Yingqiuwei in the future, I want to see what is extraordinary about him."

The doctor picked out the one from Fujian from the roster, looked at the list at the front, and said with a smile: "It's called Song Shi, and he is from Baoding Prefecture in Beizhili. His father's name is Xinmin, and he is the magistrate of Renxian County..."

When Huan Shilang heard the word "Song Shi", he could no longer hear other voices.

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Although Tingzhou Prefecture is not facing the sea, every year typhoons come ashore, and the torrential rain they bring sweeps through the entire state capital every year.There are ten well-known streams in Wuping County alone, and there are more than ten pools, lakes, and wetlands. Heavy rains flood mountain streams, and lakes often overflow their embankments.The clear and shallow sand streams in the villages and towns inside and outside the county will also swell up into a deep and swift current in the big water, submerging the two fields and people's homes.

Song Shi read the annals of disasters in detail, asked several yin and yang students in the county to give him the timetable of heavy rain disasters over the years, counted the disaster-prone areas, and started the preparations for flood fighting and disaster relief in advance.

Just relying on their county officials, scribes, and government servants, even if they were all exhausted to death on the river stand, it is not enough, but fortunately, the mountainous area of ​​Wuping County was once a place where bandits were rampant, and the county magistrate has the power to expropriate five hundred people. , You can ask the folks to fight floods and rescue.

These militiamen are like modern militias, they farm at home when there is nothing to do, and they are called out to suppress bandits when there is something to do.However, this season is also the key to earing and grouting of early rice and raising seedlings and transplanting of late rice. Song Dynasty did not dare to recruit farmers, so they first recruited Han in the city, gathered them for food, improved physical strength, and trained the skills of saving people in water.

The rest will wait for the water to be distributed, and then the fishermen will be conscripted on the spot.

It's a pity that he didn't have time to submit papers to Jinjiang Net for the past few days, and he downloaded a few dissertations on Ming and Qing Confucianism for the exam.

The county has suffered from heavy rains for many years, and Zilai also has experience in flood fighting and disaster relief.The county magistrate and chief bookkeeper have worked in office for many years, and they also gave his father a lot of experience in expropriating fishermen and fishing boats, recruiting from township eunuchs and merchants, building pontoon bridges, and overhauling embankments.

Officials in He County prepared step by step, while Song Shi used his own experience to ask people to burn cement overnight, weave bamboo cages, and buy hemp rope, sacks, thick bamboo, oilcloth, sheepskin, dog skin and other skins on the spot: The hemp rope can be used as a safety rope, and the moso bamboo can be used to tie bamboo rafts, set up tents, cook water and cook in tubes, and even make simple life-saving floating boards.

When the county leadership and staff went to the embankment for inspection, each person had a sheepskin life jacket, so they felt more secure!

He called a few cobblers on duty to work together, and when the leather he bought was not enough, he bought sheep directly.The peeled skins were quickly tanned and made into life jackets. Two ends of the mutton were reserved for Min Zhuang to make up for, and the rest was paired with five jars of local specialty Xiangdong wine, and sent directly to the Tingzhou Guard Command Post 25 miles west of the city.

In modern society, fighting against floods depends on the soldiers, and you can feel at ease when you see the military uniform for anything.In this day and age, soldiers don't care about fighting floods, they arrest thieves and suppress refugees.They established a good relationship with the local garrison officers and soldiers, and if bandits took the opportunity to make trouble during the flood, they could invite them to help them sit in the town, so that no one would take advantage of the situation to loot or even attack the county.

Commander Huang got five jars of wine and more than a dozen sheep for nothing, and gave extra meals to the soldiers in the guard that night.Commander Huang was impatient to write a letter, so he asked someone to send a message to County Magistrate Song, telling him not to worry about bandits outside the city, there is a guard station guarding here, if any bandits dare to come out, they will be the first Take people to clear up.

Never teach Wuping County to suffer any losses.

——Among the taxes and taxes collected by Wuping County, part of them should be withheld as military expenses for their garrison.If it was a county magistrate who emphasized civility over military affairs and was not easy to get along with, they would not care about each other's affairs, and would only look at each other's embarrassment when they asked for military expenses; when encountering a knowledgeable and interesting county magistrate Song, Commander Huang would naturally be willing to reciprocate.

Song Shi accepted the message, and in the name of County Magistrate Song, he sent Commander Huang himself some silver taels, as well as toys and ornaments brought from home by his mother and brothers.

His "disaster relief office" tried his best to prepare, but the flood still caught people by surprise.

At first, there was water in the county town and various villages outside the city, but the water was only thigh-deep at most. The people who had been conscripted came to row boats to rescue the people living in the lowlands, snatched the property soaked in the water, and released the people. Treatment can be done in the temple in the mountains.But in August, some typhoon made landfall by the seaside, and the rain fell like a hole in the sky, and the waterline fell almost like the light of a flashlight, thick and bright.

The Yuxi River and Hefeng River in the north of the city were flooded together, and there was too much silt and sand below the river. The downstream river broke through the embankment and flooded a village.

Song Shi's life jacket finally came in handy.He asked someone to take the blower that inflated the balloon, packed a sack of life jackets, and asked the team leader to find Minzhuang and go to the embankment with him for disaster relief.How could County Magistrate Song watch his son run to such a dangerous place alone, so he also asked someone to prepare a car, handed over the county government to Zhu Xiancheng, and led three groups of Zaoli straight to the place where two streams meet.

Song Shi went there on horseback, but he went by car. The road was muddy on the way, and the wheels got stuck several times, and he had to lift the car a few times.Later, even though he rushed to the place where the water was sent, he couldn't find Song Shi anymore.

He was so anxious that he rushed straight to the rolling stream, and the yamen servant behind him who was holding an umbrella for him could hardly hold him down.The people accompanying him hurriedly stopped him and advised him to take care of his body, don't let the heavy rain make him sick, the yamen saw it and worried.There was another village elder coming from the shore ahead, and everyone quickly stopped him to ask about the situation over there——

Song Shi had already taken Min Zhuang to patrol the embankment, and he also took the cement stored in advance from a nearby warehouse, and was throwing cement and stones from both sides to slowly close the gap in the embankment.

County magistrate Song was terrified when he heard this, and he couldn't stay there any longer. He rushed towards the river with all his might, and was blocked by others. There are three long and two short, but how can my old man live!"

His voice was high-pitched and urgent, piercing through the heavy rain, but a more urgent voice came from behind, even someone broke into the guard circle somehow, grabbed Song County Magistrate and shouted: "Song Shibo , where did Shi Guaner go?"