Chapter 434: Asking for Leave

Since everyone is the same kind of person, Su You is particularly kind to the two of them, and the conversation between the three of them is surprisingly harmonious.

Arab scholars seem to be language geniuses. Kuro and Alp traveled all the way east and have learned Chinese in Xixia, so it is not difficult to communicate with Su You.

As we chatted, we talked about the Palace of Wisdom, the Observatory, and the Library. We talked about Aristotle, Plato, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Crotius.

, Pliny, Plotinus...

What surprised Kuro and Alp was that Suyou seemed to know a little bit about these people's theories. He even knew that Rome had great sculptures, Babylon had hanging gardens, Egypt had pyramids, and even the Egyptians

We all know how to make the paper and the magical blue pigment they invented.

What is even more amazing is that this method of making pigments, which has been lost in Egypt and the Western Arab world, was actually created by a young city governor by mixing lime, malachite, quartz, and soda at low temperature and firing it.

It is an alkaline pigment and is used in the firing of porcelain and glass!

Ah! That piece of pure sapphire-like glass conch is so intoxicating!

If the city governor was born during the heyday of the Abbasid dynasty, this achievement alone would be enough for him to get the distinguished title of "Alchemist"! If that conch appears in Baghdad, it will definitely become a prize for the princes and nobles.

Gem!

The moment Qrow and Alp saw the conch, they were completely determined to follow Su You.

The city governor's wealth can definitely satisfy his arrogant appetite and one day transport the classics from the Palace of Wisdom to the Song Dynasty!

Of course, there is another important reason. The delicacies made by the city governor must come from heaven. No one can refuse it, no!

Unbeknownst to Qrow and Alp, Suyou recorded and compiled their conversations in his own notebook.

Yes, as a scholar and doctor with few books to his credit, he would lose face if he went out on the street.

In addition to the daily exchange of letters and poems and songs, Su You was still writing notes when he had nothing to do.

It was actually a fashion for the ancients to publish their own notes. Famous ones include Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan", Su Shi's "Dongpo Zhilin", and Hong Mai's "Rong Zhai Essays".

Su You didn't have that much time, so he could only find time to write. The notebook style was the best format. He could write wherever he thought, and there was no fixed theme.

He defined his notes as a hodgepodge of various versions of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" plus an ancient Chinese version, which he named "Hu Chen Lu".

The tail is a yak tail, a prop often used by talkers in the Wei and Jin Dynasties to clear away the heat and show their identity.

"Shishuo Xinyu" records that Sun Anguo went to the Central Army General Yin Hao to have a chat. The two argued back and forth and tried their best, and both the guest and host were impeccable.

The waiter brought the food and didn't bother to eat it. The food went cold, hot, hot and cold several times.

The two parties shook their tails so hard that all the hair on the tails fell off, and the food was covered with cow hairs. Fortunately, the two of them talked about it until the evening and could not think of eating.

The meaning of 鈺chen is some small sparks of thought.

To do well in the Song Dynasty, no matter how busy you are, you must not lose the flag of being a scholar or official.

After instructing the two foreigners to sort out the names of the famous works they remembered in the Wisdom Palace and make them into an outline, Su You went to find Xue Xiang to ask for leave.

Xue Xiang looked at Su You's leave request note with some confusion: "What kind of monster are you doing? You came here to ask for sick leave with a glowing face?"

Su You counted on his fingers: "I have read the system. I can take thirty-five days of family leave, three months of sick leave, plus two months of marriage leave. That adds up to half a year, which is enough for me to go back to Meishan."

Let’s get the wedding done.”

Xue Xiang had a black line on his forehead: "You don't have any taboos about taking wedding leave and sick leave at the same time?"

Su Younan smiled and said: "Isn't there no way to do it? We have already agreed to meet Wei'er in Meishan. It will take three months to go back and forth at full speed. Just asking for marriage leave is definitely not enough."

Xue Xiang rolled his eyes: "You kid, you're really smart when you say you're smart, you're really transparent when you say you're smart, but why are you so confused about these things?"

Su You was a little confused: "What's wrong?"

Xue Xiang said: "Shaanxi is a border town. It faces Xixia directly. It is the most important thing. I can't approve your lie. You have to report it to the court. Do you think Prime Minister Han will agree?"

"Besides, if you ask for sick leave when you are not sick, are you not afraid that the government will send an imperial doctor to look after you to show your concern? When you see that you are not sick, are you not afraid of the crime of deceiving the emperor?"

Su You was dumbfounded: "Is it so serious?"

Xue Xiang couldn't laugh or cry, and cursed: "You still think you are a Meishan monkey?! The imperial court has entrusted you with an important task, can you understand what decency is?!"

"Above the fifth rank, the mother and the wife can get imperial orders. If they are below the fifth rank, it is called imperial orders. Do you think that when you get married, you will be as big as Wang Wenyu Nacuo, register it with the government, and you will be considered a family when you come in with a bow and arrow?!"

"Who is Wei'er? After Shi Wulie, the founding father of the country! Now it has been known all over the world that he killed generals and captured the flag, and defeated Xia's army. Even if the court does not grant any special favors, marrying you will immediately make you a fifth-grade pleasant person with a salary!"

After saying that, he frowned again: "It's not cost-effective for you to marry a wife now..."

"Wha...what is a good deal or not?"

Xue Xiang explained: "After this trip, if the vacation is too long, the performance appraisal of the previous year will not count. If you come back after the wedding vacation and start over, your promotion will be affected..."

Su You disagreed: "I can still decide which is more important, getting a wife or getting promoted..."

Xue Xiang was so angry that his beard was fluttering: "If you were my son, you could just beat him to death with a few sticks and bury him directly! Oh, you really want to piss me off to death... Go back and show up honestly and wait for the court to deal with you!"

Su You turned around and was about to run away, but Xue Xiang stopped him again: "Wait! Forget it... I'll show you the way to go directly to the housekeeper. The chief assistant now wants to break one capable minister and use him as two, so he can find him

No chance!"

"oh."

Su You had no choice but to return to Weizhou honestly and follow the procedures seriously.

A memorial letter went straight to Jiuchong, I want to get married and I want to take a leave!

This is probably the first memorial approved by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty for officials above the road level to ask for marriage leave. There is no other reason. Thirty-year-old Ming Jing and fifty-year-old Jinshi, if you wait to become an official and get to this level, basically your grandchildren will soon take the exam.

Well, except for Xixian, Su You is the only one of the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years.

Everyone in the court regarded this matter as a joke, and the transfer envoy of the deputy capital of Shaanxi Province recently reported that he asked for leave to marry a wife! Hahahaha, I really dare to believe that a young man can be replaced in the world!

In the inner palace, the Queen Mother and the Empress were personally making straw handles for silkworms to climb their cocoons. These things were done every year in the palace to show their closeness to the farmers.

The queen said: "The eldest daughter today is no better than we were at that time, just raising silkworms and reeling silk by hand. Now reeling requires the use of machines. There are twenty or thirty spools in a row, and the waterwheel is turning gurglingly. All three of us are doing it."

I’m so busy that I only weigh one or two hundred pounds a day!”

"My little sister made a lot of small models and explained the principles to the clan daughters. From now on, the waterwheel mill by the Bian River will be a major item in the dowry."

The Queen Mother gathered up the grass stalks, handed them to the Queen to form a bunch, and cut them neatly with scissors: "There is also a gauze shop. At that time, the officials wanted the royal family not to be arrogant with wealth, and wanted the princess to behave like ordinary people after getting married, but

Do you think that if ordinary people don’t have a decent dowry to accompany them, what will their husband’s family do?”

"Anyway, I have prepared two workshops for Dening. In the future, Bao'an and Shoukang will also do the same. Officials only have etiquette systems in mind, but they have not seen the suffering of ordinary people's families where their daughters are tortured by their mother-in-law."

The Queen smiled and said: "My Majesty is very wealthy now. With the 160,000 guan she earned from the first lottery, my little sister used it to buy some watermills. At that time, I thought the price was quite expensive and uneconomical."

"As a result, once the Shuzhong machine was installed, it was no longer expensive, only more expensive! One hundred and sixty thousand coins were replenished in the blink of an eye. Isn't this the reincarnation of Duke Tao Zhu?"
Chapter completed!