Dress to be a celebrity

A peasant woman under the Wang family has the consciousness to expose their evil deeds to herself, which shows that the eyes of the masses are sharp!

Song Shi was so moved that he gave her an extra penny at the checkout, telling her to come and sell some good fruit in the future.Everyone spread sheets in the grass under the shade of the trees, ate longan while resting in the cool air, Song Shi ate longan shells, and whispered to Huan Ling: "This is the support of the people! Since ancient times, only those who win the hearts of the people... can govern a party well. No matter what the Wang family is thinking behind the scenes, if the common people are on our side, we will win sooner or later."

The Wang family is like the national army in four or five years. It looks strong, and it will fall in the vast ocean of the people's war in a few years.

Huan Ling nodded and replied, "I feel the same way. Although the Wang family has connections in the court and power in the village, they have violated the court's laws and regulations, and the country's laws will not tolerate them."

He will find a way to stop the Song family from things outside the national law.

Back in the county, Huan Ling bid farewell to County Magistrate Song's family and prepared to take office in Fucheng.

County magistrate Song, who was awkward looking at him, was a little surprised when he heard that he was leaving. Song Shi was even more surprised: "I haven't entertained you once, and you left? I just called you these days Work, we have never invited you to play in the most famous Lingdong Mountain, Liangyexian Mountain, and Zhishan Academy outside Wuping County..."

Huan Ling said with a smile: "If the third brother must entertain me, one day you go to the mansion to see me, then invite me to a restaurant for dinner. Song Shibo and Aunt Ji, it's not that I don't want to stay longer, I just remembered that it is far away from the flood. It has been more than ten days, and it is time for the Uncle Shi to send the memorial to the imperial court for free food and the articles sent by the students of Linquan Club to the province, and the inspector must come down to visit. I will go to the mansion in advance, and I will also It’s better to write a few disaster report documents, and help the Shibo reincarnate in front of the Fuzun and the court.”

He was the one who wrote the memorandum, written by the inspector censor.Mr. Song himself could not write such a touching article with detailed analysis and complete description of the lyrics.

——Not touching enough, can you be a full-time censor who impeaches people?

Song Shi wanted to persuade him, but he also understood that the real reason for him to leave was to shoulder the responsibility of cleaning up the land for his family and fighting against the local powerhouses. He insisted on keeping him, which was in vain for him to abandon his noble central position. Fujian's painstaking efforts.

He pondered for a while, held his parents down, and said to Huan Ling: "You haven't hired a suitable master yet, and I can't get away. Why don't you take our master Liang, who is in charge of punishment, first? I've prepared for you here." Well, the presents for the boss, although they were all brought by my father when he took office, are only a few months old, so they should not be out of date. You need to pack some things that you need to live in the mansion alone..."

Huan Ling came here in a hurry, and he didn't bring much clothes and luggage, which was enough.When he arrived at Wuping, the Ji family made him two new clothes, but he will be an official in the mansion in the future. I am afraid that he is a man who does not know how to go to the street to buy clothes. Tailor it up.There are also screens, thread-sprinkling table curtains, four treasures of the study, cups, plates, pots and bowls, bronze mirrors, flower cups, incense burners and incense cakes used in the room...

The new official robes Mr. Song had cut for him were just right, and he went to the store to buy a few pairs of black gauze and official boots, and put them on brand new in the mansion, so as to show his majesty of the six-rank judge.The leftovers, such as patches, silk satin, ivory carvings, rhinoceros belts, rhinoceros horn cups, etc. for Shangguan, are all left over here by the county magistrate of Song Dynasty, so there is no need to buy them now.

When he came to Wu, Huan Ling traveled day and night on a fast horse, followed by only a small cart with luggage, two family members and a boy; when he left, there were two more carts, a master, and many strong guards.

In the Song Dynasty, he was sent straight to the north of the city for 150 miles - Fucheng was less than [-] miles away from Wupinglong.

He could still send it on, but Huan Ling couldn't bear it, and waved his hand: "You sent it here, you can say that you want to see how the rural land is recovering, and then go to the prefectural city, is it because you want to follow me?"

The family brought by Huan Ling had already delivered the order and notice to Fucheng two days ago. The officials in the mansion and the Changting County Yamen were probably waiting outside the door. suitable.

Song Shi sighed: "Since that's the case, I'll go back from here and check the land by the way. Brother, you must take these strong men with you, and at least send them back outside the Changting Mansion, otherwise I'm afraid those people will be daring and attack you on the way."

Huan Ling smiled and said: "I know. Although I will not be in Wuping in the future, the distance between the two places is not far. You have measured the land, and if you want to calculate anything, send your confidants to the mansion. I am safer than the clerk."

Not only is it safe, it is too safe.The scribes sometimes write randomly, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, and sometimes they charge money to do things. Otherwise, where did the original Yintian come from?

However, it was not safe enough to ask someone to deliver it. When the northern part of the city was completely cleaned up and the materials were sorted out, he would send it to the mansion himself.

He divided half of Er Minzhuang to guard Huan Ling, and took the rest to the field to check the boundaries.The Wang family did it in a very low-key way. They didn't really touch the boundary they had drawn. They just drew a line indistinctly where the boundary was originally drawn, and buried some inconspicuous soil clods and branches.

Song Shi sneered, and asked someone to clean up the wood and rocks, tied the branches behind the horse and swept the ground several times to clean up the traces they left.

The Wang family dared not speak out, and only sent a few young children to watch them from afar.Song Shi saw those young people suffocating and trying to kill him, but he was amused by his helpless expression, so he couldn't help asking someone to bring them in front of him, squinting at them for a while, raised his chin, and smiled viciously smiled.

The children laughed so hard that they felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, their noses fluttered, their cheeks flushed angrily, and they stared at him intently.An older man with a barely straightened demeanor, with slightly flushed cheeks, cupped his hands and asked him: "Student Wang Rui, why did Mr. Song ask us to come?"

To tease you.

Song Shi raised his finger to the large piece of fertile land that belonged to the Wang family outside, and praised with a smile: "Good place. Surrounded by mountains and water, the place is open, and you can see the beautiful scenery when you look up. In the future, a strong and wide road will be built in front of the city. It only takes one or two hours to get here by car or horseback.

"Build a pulpit at your feet, plant green bamboos and black cypresses on both sides for shade, spread green grass under your feet, build several floors of seats around the pulpit, and build a short pavilion there for people to rest and shelter from the rain... so that the city is full of scholars. Everyone can come here to give lectures on the stage, or have different opinions to debate on the spot, wouldn't it be a good thing to greatly improve my Wuping style of writing?"

These children are all scholars who have never seen the world, how can they afford to be a professional tour guide who can lead a shopping group.The older disciple made him so excited that he couldn't help but imagined the scene of himself going to the altar to explain the classics, and almost forgot that this land should belong to their royal family.

A younger man heard him talk about "build a square in front, set up a goal, and surround a few yards in the distance. If there are too many people, they will be divided into two teams to build the ball. If there are few people, they will play for nothing in the yard." Like beating a drum, I wish I could have a ball for him to kick on the spot, and I completely forgot what boundary the parents wanted him to stare at.

Good land, what kind of crops to plant, how to build a stadium, everyone is happy to play football!

These few people didn't know whether they were too honest or too dandy, but they were not offended by Song Shi's words of ruining their family's good farmland, and they showed a little bit of yearning.Song Shi didn't have much fun teasing them, so he waved his hand and told them to let them go back, and continued on their way.

That Wang Rui who was called Song Shi, who was fooled in person, really believed his land development plan, and said to his parents when he returned home: "Song Daling and his son are very considerate of us scholars. Today I heard from Song Sheren that they cleaned up those hidden lands. Tian Yuan is not greedy for himself, but wants to build a forum, so that scholars like us can go up and post our own opinions!"

His father smiled wryly and said, "This kid is really honest. It's the land of my Wang family. The Song family and his son robbed our land to buy fame, so you really think he is a good person? With so many official lands outside the city, how could he?" Don’t build a forum sooner?”

Wang Rui said in a low voice: "Song Sheren has thought about how to build roads and Taiwan, and he will not be a lie? Then, if his family leaves and returns the land to our family, can father Persuading my uncle to build a pulpit?"

Of course not.That piece of land is really a high-quality fertile land, and it belongs to the family of Dazong's direct lineage. What can they say about these branches.

He locked his son into the study, turned to look for the young master Wang Zeng, and told him what happened today.Besides him, most of the parents of those children also came, and asked him with some concern: "If the Song family really builds this altar, it will definitely win the hearts of scholars. Are we just watching them take the land of our Wang family?" Invite to buy people's hearts?"

Wang Zeng said coldly: "Song's father and son acted recklessly and bullied the gentry, not only my Wang family suffered? The Lin family, Chen family, Huang family... in the north of the city also had their land looted by his son. Wait until his family cleans up the land outside Beiguan. How can the land not be gradually encroached on the outside? Look at it, my father has found our family's old relatives, and has already decided to jointly go to the province to sue his family for usurping the common people's land—"

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and a smile couldn't stop bursting from the corners of his lips: "Just wait, the days of the Song family are coming to an end. Just wait for the imperial court to officially issue an edict..."

What edict?

"The king of Zhou is going to marry a wife, and he is marrying the granddaughter of Mr. Huan, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites. Do you know that the Song family has been rumoring that his family is going to marry the granddaughter of Mr. Huan? The appearance of going to Beijing to welcome the bride, but there has been no movement since then, and she said that the marriage is over..."

"This, do you mean?"

"The Huan family has been engaged to the Song family for many years, and they resigned from their marriage with the Song family a few months ago. Now there is a granddaughter who is going to be the princess. Who do you think that girl is?"

What will happen to the Song family, who was once engaged to her?

The news came from an old friend of the royal family in Beijing, and the edict has not yet come down, so they don't want to take too much risk.As long as the edict is sent to the county, it is confirmed that Princess Zhou is the fiancée of the Song family, not another girl who refuses to marry a small official like the Song family because her sister is a princess, and the end of the Song family is just a glance. visible.

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The imperial edict arrived in the mansion earlier than in the county. As soon as Huan Ling settled down behind the mansion, the prefect Zhu, who had just met in the morning, entered his hall with a happy face and called him loudly: "Congratulations, my dear brother!" , Congratulations, dear brother! The angel has arrived in Fuzhou to spread the edict, brother Yu has received the news that a concubine is going to be born in your residence!"

Huan Ling was taken aback, but he didn't realize how happy he was. He only showed a slight smile, and thanked him, "Your Excellency, thank you for telling me the news."

Mr. Zhu couldn't close his mouth with a smile, and said repeatedly: "What's the trouble? From now on, I will be an official in the same government with my virtuous brother, and we will support each other. Even brothers who are close relatives are not so close. How can brother Huanxian still treat each other like an adult? Just be polite, just call me brother."

Huan Ling called "Brother" on the spot, Zhu Zhifu was so happy that he left his official duties, and took the mansion Xing Tongzhi, and held a banquet with Huan Ling and the three of them in their yard to celebrate.

Not long after, the edict official rushed to Tingzhou in a hurry.When he came out of the provincial capital, he went straight to the place where the brother of the future princess was. He smiled and congratulated at the first meeting, without the slightest arrogance of an angel.

Zhu Zhifu put up the incense table, and all the officials of the government knelt in the courtyard, listening to the imperial edict read: "Fengtian Chengyun, the emperor's edict said:... The Huan family has a strict family education, is virtuous and virtuous, and is worthy of the royal family... the order is to live in the palace. Marriage period."

Huan Ling leaned over to listen to the edict, feeling mixed feelings in his heart, but after hearing it, a question gradually arose: after the princess is selected, the Ministry of Rites should invite her, and the Qin Tianjian will choose an auspicious wedding date.As the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, his grandfather would definitely arrange the marriage himself and would never allow anyone to perfunctory, but there is no mention in this imperial edict?

He followed everyone to thank him, handed over the money to the imperial edict, and asked about it in a low voice.

The edict officer sighed a few times, showing a bit of distress, and whispered to him: "Your Majesty saw that the private treasury was short of money, and he was asking for money from the household department. He would not do the marriage until the private treasury was replenished, so it is still uncertain for a while." The next wedding date."