Chapter 109 The miraculous little junior brother
The Jinzou Yuan is responsible for uploading and distributing information. It is an important institution that connects the capital and local governments, similar to the offices in Beijing in various places.
Although Zhengxing Prefecture is far from the capital, it can be reached within half a month at a quick pace.
Border wars, droughts, and insect pests occurred frequently, and the number of documents received by Jinzouyuan from various places increased sharply.
The officials are extremely busy, and all the reports need to be classified by them before being submitted step by step.
The small room in Qianzhou Jinzou Courtyard was as hot as a furnace, the officials were covered in sweat, and memorials were piled up in front of the table.
An official who was responsible for sorting out the memorials looked at the memorials in his hand and his expression changed slightly.
That night, this memorial appeared on the study table in a deep courtyard.
The owner of the study wiped his hands, opened the memorial, read it, and asked, "What's wrong with this memorial?"
The official knelt on the ground and lowered his head deeply, "The application for meritorious service that Qianzhou Jinzouyuan just received today seemed familiar to me at that time. Later I inquired and found out that this Chen Ping is from Yongshun County." He was a close disciple of the great mathematician Ye Wenchang, so he took it upon himself to detain him...but he didn't know how to deal with the matter."
The room was dimly lit, and the official was kneeling on the ground, his back covered with sweat.
"Yongshun County," the man sitting inside the desk recalled, chuckled, "it's been so many years, you still have to ask me about such a trivial matter?"
The official was shocked and lowered his body, "I'm just worried..."
"What are you worried about?" the man interrupted him quickly, "I'm just a little kid, haven't everything in Yongshun County been completely settled? Everything that needs to be tied up has been neatly tied up, so what's there to worry about? But since this discount has been taken out, there is no need to repay it."
"Yes." The official was about to turn around and retreat.
"Wait a minute." The man thought for a while. Finding water and digging a well was a trivial matter, but controlling locusts was not something that could be easily erased. He ordered again, "Inform the people in the official department to send a document and give you a few words of praise."< /p>
The officials quickly accepted the order, waited for a while and saw that there were no other orders, and then quietly retreated.
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The locust plague in Qianzhou has not completely passed, and intense efforts are still being made every day to control and control insects.
Chen Ping was so busy that he would go to the field every day to see if anything happened.
In the private room of the most luxurious restaurant in Zhengxing Mansion, Cheng Cheng was holding someone's shoulder and laughing so hard.
"You said you came here on a study tour? Stop pretending, brother. You were probably kicked out by your father, right?"
The person he pinned down was the young man in the carriage that day.
The young master is about seventeen or eighteen years old. He is covered in brocade and has sapphire on his waist. He is obviously not an ordinary person.
When he heard Cheng Cheng's teasing, he rolled his eyes without thinking.
"Come on, if it weren't for my father, who would be willing to study abroad? I don't have any big ambitions, a comfortable place of wealth is enough!"
"Who are you? Xie Zhiyuan, the only son of Mr. Xie, a Hanlin scholar." Cheng Cheng didn't believe it at all. "If you really want to go to the comfort zone, why don't you choose? Don't say you are short of money. Anyone who plans to give you money is probably
How many miles can it be discharged?"
Xie Zhiyuan got a headache when he thought about this, waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it, as my father, if I dare to accept a tael of silver, he would dare to break my legs!"
Hanlin bachelor, third grade, can participate in drafting the appointment and dismissal of generals, appointing princes, announcing conquests and other major events. He is a person who directly handles affairs for the emperor and is known as the "internal minister".
Cheng Cheng's expression was exaggerated, "No, is your father so cruel?"
"Stop acting, as if your father is not ruthless." Xie Zhiyuan leaned on the chair, not straight.
Cheng Cheng's face immediately twitched, as if he remembered some bad memories.
"I have come all this way to talk to you about my father?" Xie Zhiyuan looked unhappy.
"It's best not to talk. Otherwise, I will arrange for you to come to Jiangxia to study..."
Before he finished speaking, Xie Zhiyuan jumped up excitedly and shouted: "No! You must not!"
"Huh, then what are you here for?" Cheng Cheng expressed his attitude directly, "Let's talk about it first. It was okay to eat, drink and have fun before, but not now."
"Why?" Xie Zhiyuan asked in confusion: "Are you really controlled by your father? No, brother. What about your bohemian nature?"
Cheng Cheng gave a look of disdain, "Vulgar! Too vulgar! How long can my father control me? I just don't want my junior brother to look down on me."
Xie Zhiyuan's eyes were strange and he shouted in disbelief, "Hey, I'm still a junior fellow student. What kind of virtues are you so interested in?"
"How are you talking? Do you know how to chat?" Cheng Cheng glared at him, "My little junior brother is different from others. He won the county examination at the age of eleven. He has unparalleled talent, exquisite poetry, and is well-informed.
Guang, your moral conduct is also first-class!"
Cheng Cheng can actually speak up for others, which is really an eye-opener.
Xie Zhiyuan suddenly became interested and put his hands on the table, "Really or not? I don't believe it."
"Of course it's true!" Cheng Cheng was a little anxious, "Junior brother has three poems. You may not be able to find anyone more talented than him if you search all over Dayu. Listen, the first one is "Mo Mei"
"..."
Xie Zhiyuan thought it was a joke at first, but after a while he couldn't help but become more serious, muttering to himself with eyes shining.
"Wearing this body in the ice and snow forest is not like peach and plum mixed with fragrant dust..."
Although they are both scholars, his literary accomplishment is extraordinary.
"Good poem! Indeed a good poem! And the "Tianzhu Mid-Autumn Festival", "There are no candles in the river tower and the dew is desolate, the wind blows and the lights are smiling brightly. Where did the sweet-scented osmanthus fall overnight, and there is the sound of curtains in the moonlight"... It reminds me of the Ming family’s sister’s boudoir.”
"Damn, you pervert!" Cheng Cheng scolded with disgust.
"Fuck you," Xie Zhiyuan was speechless, "Master, am I that kind of person?"
Cheng Cheng looked up and down, his expression seemed to say that you are that kind of person.
Xie Zhiyuan was so angry that he clenched his fists and wanted to punch someone.
"My junior brother is not only capable of this, he also knows how to find underground water veins and how to prevent and control locusts! If it weren't for him, life in Qianzhou would not be easy this year."
Xie Zhiyuan suddenly felt familiar and asked tentatively, "Is your junior brother named Chen Ping?"
"Yes," Cheng Cheng looked excited, "You know that too?"
Since Xie Zhiyuan entered Qianzhou, he has heard Chen Ping's name hundreds of times.
He is just a fourteen-year-old child, so the news is a bit mysterious, right?
There are many such operations in the capital. Knowing that their children have no abilities, they make up some things in an attempt to gain a good reputation.
Xie Zhiyuan originally planned to ask Cheng Cheng to go on a study tour with him, but now he is suddenly very interested in Chen Ping, so he is not in a hurry to leave.
"Give me an introduction," Xie Zhiyuan decided to meet Chen Ping, "Look at how you blow people away, it would be a pity if you don't know anything about it."
He came out of the capital and traveled to countless places for a year, but he had never seen such a person.
Cheng Cheng smiled and said, "I can see him, but not now. He has to help drive away locusts every day."
"If you don't hurry, can he still run away?"
Xie Zhiyuan stood up, waved his hands and walked out.
"Let's finish playing first and then let's go!"
In early September, after months of hard work, the drought and locust plague were finally gone.
A heavy rain fell on the world at night, washing away the impetuousness and uneasiness lingering in Qianzhou.
Zhuyuan has returned to the tranquility of the past. As the government examination time gets closer and closer, the students are studying hard, and even He Qingxuan has more and more time to come to the academy.
At this time, the imperial court's commendation documents were delivered to Zhengxing Mansion.