Chapter 22, Competing for the Prize (1)
Contrary to the cheerful people, Wang Hai and Yuan Tao were indeed worried.
This time they saw the difficulties in the financial resources of the imperial court, Sichuan's establishment of the envoy, Changzhou and county governments.
In order to pay salaries to everyone, the newly arrived county magistrate has even misappropriated the funds used to save disasters and build water conservancy. It can be said that the newly arrived county magistrate has ended its end.
In order not to put pressure on Liu Ang, Wang Hai and Yuan Tao came to the county magistrate Liu Ang to wait for him.
However, the concierge said that County Chief Liu is very busy now and has no time to meet them.
Wang Hai and Yuan Tao were extremely disappointed, looked at each other, saluted County Chief Liu, who was busy indoors, and then sighed and was about to leave.
Seeing that Wang Hai and Yuan Tao were about to leave, the doorman stepped forward and shouted, quietly revealing a message that the county still had an emergency money, but this was the last money in Changyuan County and was used for emergency use at critical moments.
The concierge also vaguely revealed that the prince and filial piety are very good and should be admitted to Class A, the Tianjia class as the first place.
Yuan Tao was furious, shook his sleeves and left angrily.
Wang Hai frowned and glanced at the doorman. The doorman raised his head and looked at the blue sky.
Wang Hai sighed and left.
Si Ji Sima Suan saw Wang Hai’s dejected look, and after waiting for everyone to leave, he whispered in his ear, looked at Yuan Tao’s back who had already left, and nodded.
The next day, Yuan Qian, who had his eyebrows drawn and put on new clothes, quietly came to Yuan Tao's study.
Unexpectedly, when Yuan Tao, who had just returned home, was in the study, there was a "bang bang" sound. When he went in, he saw that the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk were swept to the ground.
Yuan Qian hurriedly stepped forward to massage Yuan Tao's back, and asked gently, "Thank you for your hard work, why are you so angry today?"
Yuan Tao ignored her and pulled her beard with his hand, as if he didn't notice any pain. He looked at the direction of the county school and said, "It's a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace to be a disgrace
Seeing that Yuan Tao ignored him, Yuan Qian bent down and carefully picked up his calligraphy, ink and inkstone paper, and then carefully folded it on the desk.
Yuan Tao was still unhappy and pointed his finger at the direction of Wang Hai's residence: "It's all about money, but it's all about money."
Yuan Qian hurriedly closed the door of the study and asked softly: "What happened to the official? Tell me about it to the servant, and I don't necessarily want to share your worries?"
Yuan Tao seemed to have seen Yuan Qian at this time and said hatefully: "Don't come up with those useless bad ideas."
Seeing that Yuan Qian's face suddenly turned pale, he couldn't bear it and said, "Wang Hai just wanted me to find a way to raise 500 trump card. I was a scholar and only knew how to raise these 500 trump card?"
Yuan Qian heard the words all over, and the officials had never been under such great pressure. After thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask, "How much has Professor Wang raised?"
Yuan Tao looked at Wang Hai's residence and said, "He is 800 charity, but it is not too difficult for him. The students in the yellow class he opened are mainly rich and rich children."
Yuan Tao looked at the county school direction and said, "My disciples mainly focus on academic performance. How can they raise these 500 trump cards?"
When Yuan Qian heard this, he couldn't help but frown and said, "It's true that it's much more difficult for officials than Professor Wang. Isn't the government scratching the ground?"
Yuan Tao shook his head, pointed to Tongchuan Prefecture and Jiading, and looked back at Yuan Qian and said, "Now the Song Dynasty is fighting fiercely with the Hu people. The imperial court, Sichuan Road, Changzhou and the county are in short supply. In order to pay their salaries, the new magistrate even misappropriated all the money for disaster relief and water conservancy repairs."
Speaking of this, Yuan Tao sighed.
"Oh, this matter is actually related to the favorite disciple Zhao Ping you mentioned. The county magistrate's concierge hinted that if you hire Wang Zihe Wei Tianjia, you can consider an emergency money. But Zhao Ping is a disciple who is here, how can you bow to five dou of rice?"
Yuan Qian was shocked and said, "What does Professor Wang mean? He is the same as the prince and his clan?"
Yuan Tao waved his hand and shook his head and said, "Wang Hai is a person who wants to be very face and a person who can do what he says. The doorman's move was completely a slap in Wang Hai's face, so that Wang Hai could endure it."
Thinking of this, Yuan Tao also smiled.
"Besides, Zhao Ping is indeed talented, which makes Wang Hai love talent. Only with talent can one enter Tianjia Class, which is the cornerstone of the continuous progress of county schools in recent years. The doorman's move has shaken the foundation of county schools, let alone me?"
Speaking of this, Yuan Tao sighed long.
Yuan Qian's face suddenly relaxed, pointed Yuan Tao's forehead with his finger, and recited a poem to Yuan Tao: "I don't know the true face of Mount Lu because I am in this mountain. Is the official who has been reading for decades in vain?"
Yuan Tao's face suddenly showed a joyful expression. He put down the tea bowl with both hands, grabbed Yuan Qian's right hand and asked, "Mrs. Is there a good idea?
Yuan Qian frowned, showed a painful expression, and said, "You pinched me."
Yuan Tao hurriedly let go, rubbed his hands and asked, "Madam, will you come out?"
Yuan Qian gently stroked his right wrist with his left hand, then gave Yuan Tao a blank look before saying, "The answer lies with your disciple."
Yuan Tao was shocked and shook his hands and said, "This plan doesn't work. I haven't thought about this method. But, first, this money is indeed too much, and Zhao Ping may not be able to accept it. Second, Zhao Pingyi paid taxes as required. Third, he was young and sad, and it is said that he also supported many refugee tenants, with a sense of compassion. Fourth, he lowered the rice price in the county town, which would definitely be a lot of deficit."
Yuan Qian gave him a blank look, nodded and said, "Okay, okay. I know that you are a man, how can you lose your demeanor, how can you get the smell of a stinky man, how can you be disgraceful? Who made me a little girl who is as difficult as a villain? Let me do these trivial things that are insulting to a stinky man."
Yuan Tao's old face turned red, and his face turned toward the window. A peach blossom was blooming outside the window, which made him feel picturesque.
He sighed, spread out the paper, took the brush, and began to paint for the peach blossoms.
Yuan Qian was about to leave, but suddenly turned around and said, "Officials, I suddenly thought of a way to achieve the best of both worlds. I wonder if the official is willing to listen to it?"
Yuan Tao put down the brush, looked up at the lady, and said, "As long as it's not too much, of course it's OK."
Yuan Qian thought for a while and said, "It is better to let the county school students come to a writing competition. The lottery is part of the copper coins raised. Then, choose the essence of the articles and carve them into a plate, which can be preserved in the library. In this way, the county school and the government have the effect of education, and they will gain more inner and face. Moreover, your favorite disciple has extraordinary literary talent and may not win the first prize. What does the official think?"
Yuan Tao pondered for a while, then patted the desk gently and said, "Madam, this is a wonderful plan."
Looking at Yuan Qian's back with his maid out, Yuan Tao couldn't help but shake his head. He didn't know if it was correct to ask his wife to go out to raise funds from Zhao Ping. In fact, it was not much different from a monk begging for alms in his heart.
Then Yuan Tao kept drawing. However, when Yuan Tao finished drawing, he suddenly found that he had drawn a picture of a monk begging for alms. The location was in front of the gate of Zhao Ping's uncle's house. There was a big dog in front of the gate barking at the monk, and the gate was not open.
But the monk held the bowl in one hand and the stone in the other to drive away the big dog, but his eyes were fixed on the door and waiting for the owner to open the door.
Yuan Tao was shocked. He turned out to be the peach blossoms of spring that he wanted to draw, but he unknowingly drew a picture of a monk begging for alms, and the monk's appearance became more and more familiar.
Yuan Tao looked at it carefully. Isn’t this his wife?
It seems that my mood has seriously affected my emotions and I have no mood to draw peach blossoms at all.
The frustrated Yuan Tao put the brush on the pen holder and did not feel like drawing again. He raised his hand and rubbed his forehead. On the other hand, he couldn't help but worry about his wife.
It is indeed like Yuan Tao's paintings, Yuan Qian also came to Zhao Ping's uncle Li Yueqiu's residence with the uneasy mood of begging for alms. However, Yuan Qian did not hold a bowl, nor did he bark the evil dogs. Uncle, aunt, mother, Zhao Ping and others came to open the door to greet him respectfully and enthusiastically.
After all, Yuan Tao is not only Zhao Ping's teacher, but also his uncle's teacher.
After a while, when Zhao Ping heard the difficulties of the county's financial resources, the newly arrived magistrate embezzled water conservancy and disaster relief funds in order to pay his salary, and he could no longer sit still.
Zhao Ping walked around the desk for a few times and couldn't help but think about it. Unexpectedly, the Song Dynasty was so difficult to make the wealth of the people far exceed his own, which made the mother, uncle, aunt and even Yuan Qian's curiosity and surprise.
My mother has long been accustomed to Xizi, the immortal disciple, but this was the first time that my uncle, aunt, and Yuan Qian saw Zhao Ping's excitement, and all her eyes were strange.
My mother heard that the county magistrate Liu Ang was rehiring Wang Zihe to suppress Zhao Ping, and her right hand clenched into a fist, her eyes were full of anger.
Zhao Ping immediately said, "My wife, please rest assured. All the five hundred stagnant coins of money in Zhaojiazhuang were paid. In addition, the county school was given 100 fairy soap as a funding for the county school school competition."
Yuan Qian, who got what he wished, expressed his gratitude on behalf of Yuan Tao.
My uncle and aunt looked at everything in front of me in a daze, rubbed their eyes, five hundred pounds, and their net profit in a year was not that much!
My aunt looked at Zhao Ping and then at her daughter Li Hanmei. She remembered her daughter's willfulness some time ago and couldn't help but sigh.
When Master Yan was unable to raise his son when he was old, Zhao Ping had an idea and pulled his mother's sleeve.
My mother couldn't help but wonder, knowing what other idea Zhao Ping was going to have?
Zhao Ping whispered beside his mother and took out three stamped paper pieces. Not only did they contain "VIP pickup card" on it, but they also marked the amount of one tael of silver, and marked the "VIP pickup card" with this "VIP pickup card".
It can buy goods at the Zhao workshop for one or two taels of silver (about two jin and five jin of copper coins), and VIP pickup card can enjoy a 10% discount. There are also a string of Tianfang Peach Talismans that my mother cannot recognize (actually Arabic numerals, so this sharp-eyed green bamboo and orchid can certainly recognize it).
Of course, this is also one of Zhao Ping's anti-counterfeiting logos.
Amid the gratitude of his master's wife Yuan Qian and his aunt's envy, he received two pickup cards respectively, and he could pick up the goods at any time in Zhao's workshop.
Yuan Qian came with her maid and three trucks of goods, and returned with great care and load!
In contrast to Yuan Qian's return home after awaiting success, his aunt's face was tense and she looked very unhappy.
My mother waited until Yuan Qian's back disappeared, then waved to Li Hanmei and said, "Myer has worked hard these days, and the girl has no good things to give you. I will give you a VIP pickup card."
Li Hanmei took it happily, and before she could say thank you, she was robbed of the pick-up card!
Chapter completed!