The wind blew in from outside, and the flames in the carbon furnace suddenly burst out.

Ling Han squinted his eyes, his long beards swayed slightly, and the wrinkles on his face remained motionless like hills.

A middle-aged student wearing a brown Confucian scholar's cotton robe slowly came out from the side and saluted respectfully, "Teacher!"

"Yeah!" Ling Han opened his eyes and looked at the other party. Gu Jingbubo smiled on his face, "Keep your word, sit down!"

After the student saluted, he sat down next to Ling Han in a regular manner.

"Have you entered the palace to see the emperor?" Ling Han asked.

The student who kept his promise bowed his hand again, "The sign has been handed over and is lined up tomorrow, tomorrow morning."

"You are a saint!" Ling Han grinned, "Under Niangen, the generals of the provinces in various places are in command, and the governors and inspectors took turns to meet. Some people have been waiting for more than ten days but it is not their turn. You just came back from Zhejiang and were scheduled for tomorrow. And it was still in the morning." As he said, he pondered for a moment, "I guess, the emperor will leave it to you all morning. You must be careful when you are right!"

"The emperor says whatever the student asks. If the student does not do anything, he will not talk nonsense." Shouxin smiled, "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Tell the emperor the plan in your heart!"

"Okay, Han Shouxin, the local officials have been practicing their verbal skills in the past year!" Ling Han laughed.

Han Shouxin is no one else, he is the deputy chief of the Zhejiang Supervisory Commissioner, Han Kezhong.

After more than a year of experience, Han Kezhong's former introversion and tension have become mature and steady. The environment can change people, and his status can also change people. But doing things can temper people.

"Is this time I went to Beijing to report my work. Are you planning to stay in the capital or return to Zhejiang?" Ling Han asked again.

"Students don't know, they all depend on the emperor's will. However, students feel that there is little hope of returning to Beijing. The students have just started building islands in Zhejiang, and there is still a lot of work to do in the future." Speaking of this, Han Kezhong was full of people and land, and there was not enough food to eat. This 700-mile land is uninhabited. Once it becomes a fertile land, it can not only suppress grain prices, but also increase the tax on grain treasury of 25,000 stones of grain every year!"

When he spoke, Ling Han's eyes were placed on Han Kezhong's hands. It didn't look like a pair of scholars' hands, but rather like an old farmer's hands. His nails were bare and his fingertips were bulging.

"I think you have little hope of staying in Beijing!" Ling Han said with a smile, "You are a practical person, and you are a rare young and practical official. The emperor is the time to hire people, so how could he keep you in Beijing to be a Qinggui Hanlin?"

As he said that, Ling Han sighed, "You wrote a letter to fill the sea and manage the island. After reading it, the emperor told the ministers that this matter is not that no one has thought about it, but that no one is willing to do it. The so-called difficulty is not that it cannot be feasible, but that it is that it is too complicated and thankless. Officials all think that it is better to do less than more things, and it is better to manage people than to do things. It is the most important thing to control the people if they are to die."

Hearing this, Han Kezhong just smiled honestly.

Seeing this, Ling Han asked again, "How about Tiedingshi and Jingqing in Zhejiang?"

Tie Xuan, Zhejiang governor.

Jing Qing, the inspector.

These two people are in the heart of the emperor. The memorials of impeachment of them are piled up like mountains, but they are still as stable as Mount Tai.

"The two adults are officials, and students dare not comment on them!" Han Kezhong whispered.

"Who asked you to judge them?" Ling Han smiled, "These two people have black faces and the other have been white faces. They have dealt with a lot of people in recent years!" As he said, he glanced at each other, "I heard that you have dealt with those big families there! I heard that because you want to surround the sea, you mobilize the civilians without authorization and collect money and grain. Someone clamored for you, but you sent someone to arrest him before you left the house?"

"They want to sue the students, and the students ask them to sue. But they are slandering the crowd, gathering the crowd to make trouble, and wanting to do nothing to blame the crowd, so the students naturally cannot spare them!" Han Kezhong stretched out his hand and felt the heat of the carbon furnace. "Students seek benefits for the people, but the squire only knows that their own small profits will definitely gain a better position if they don't catch them."

"After that being said, it must be appropriate!" Ling Han smiled, "I was like you back then, with a passionate heart, but I was bleeding in the court and almost lost my life!"

"There is still this?" Han Kezhong said in a daze.

"It was the Yuan Dynasty of the previous dynasty..."

"Oh!" Han Kezhong smiled, "Teacher, now my Holy Lord of the Ming Dynasty is in power, and the times are different!"

"It's still too young!"

Ling Han said in his heart that the person who was about to resign from his post had no worries, and he also cherished Han Kezhong's character and talent, so he decided to say a few more words.

"You were sitting next to you just now, and you heard what I said?"

"Yes!" Han Kezhong replied.

"Then do you know why I gave them a few books?"

"Students are asking this!" Han Kezhong pondered for a moment, "Students have read those books..."

"What are your experiences?" Ling Han asked.

"In addition to the Zhenguan Minutes, the various theories may have conflicts."

"Life is like this, contradictory to each other." Ling Han spoke and said solemnly, "The Tao Te Ching talks about Tao. People are human beings, and heaven has heaven. But what exactly is Tao? When to use it and when not? What is the extreme of things that will turn back? What is tranquility and inaction?"

Han Kezhong fell into deep thought.

"The Tao Te Ching talks about Tao. I think it is nothing but two words, nothingness and existence. People who are officials, before they become officials, have nothing before they become officials, and after they become officials. And things in the officialdom cannot be distinguished by black and white right and wrong. Among the two words "啊 and "啊" and "啊" there are also gains and giving, there are also things that can be done, and things that can be done cannot be done."

"Understand these are the way to understand!" Ling Han took a sip of tea and continued to speak, "You are still young, you can't pay attention to these words for a while. But in a few years, you will understand the taste as you grow older."

"Another, Guanzi's book is the foundation of Qi in the pre-Qin period. It has both the heroic chapters that dominate the world and the economic strategies of herders to support the people."

"The Warring States Policy, the Union and the Union. The Zhenguan Minutes talk about various policies during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang."

"These books seem contradictory, but they may be complementary!"

"The Tao Te Ching says that if you do nothing, you will be governed by nothing, but if you do nothing, you will not fall apart? Therefore, seeking the Tao and taking good strategies for governing the country. Now the emperor is somewhat similar to Taizong, as the Zhenguan Jing said, emphasizing the people's thoughts, seeking truth from facts, seeking governance in a pragmatic way, and vigorously producing, etc.."

"In the future, officials who only know how to study will not last long. What the emperor's Ming Dynasty needs is people who understand both the economics and the people's hearts, and the pioneering people."

Speaking of this, how could Han Kezhong not understand the other party’s good intentions?

He stood up and said gratefully, "Student, thank you for your advice!"

"It's not that I want to give you advice!" Ling Han waved his hand, "It's that you are young and you have a long way to go in the future. People want to go further, relying solely on ethics and morality is not enough, but you also need talent and scheming."

"And, you will be more difficult than me in the future!"
Chapter completed!