Liu Chengzong thought about it and discussed it with Cao Yao, his brother Liu Chengzong, and his father Liu Xiangyu. Everyone thought that Wang Zuogao would march south and even attack the city.
But when I really heard the news about Wang Zuoguan's attack on Yaozhou from others, it still made people feel surprised and surprised.
Because for Wang Zuoguan, attacking Yaozhou may only be an economic expense. As the refugees were trapped and the number of soldiers increased, he had to attack the state capital and plunder the city to maintain food and grass.
But to outsiders, this looks more like a political move.
Without attacking the city, Wang Zuogao was a refugee commander, a mountain bandit, a bandit, and a horse thief. He was good at everything, and he could not even be called a rebel thief.
If you attack a city, you are a rebel.
With such a mood, Liu Chengzong returned home with his brother. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he heard his father's hearty laughter coming from the middle hall. From a distance, he saw a guest in a green shirt sitting in the guest seat, holding a tea bowl, twisting the fruit inside and eating it.
While laughing.
He had never seen his father eating tea like this.
The income of the ninth-rank official is not much different from that of ordinary people. At most, it is more than enough than the upper level. However, the standard of living for work and entertainment is slightly higher, and the corresponding expenses are also a bit larger.
I always moved around in the past, and lived in Mizhi and Yan'an Fucheng for several years. What remained the same was that there were always various types of Shaanxi tea and Shaanxi wine at home for welcome and delivery.
Of course, these specifications are also within the standards allowed by conditions. The poor Huanglong Mountain tea foam can be purchased for three coins in good times for a large bag; the Shangluo Mountain Spring Tea, which is more resistant to foaming, and the better Lueyang Ziwu Xianhao,
No matter how high or low they are, you should prepare some.
But he has never seen tea like this, it is a bit fashionable - a guest in a green shirt is holding a Yaozhou celadon tea bowl, a lacquered wooden tray is placed on the tea table at hand, willow chopsticks are placed on the plate, a Yao porcelain spoon and a pair of blue satin guest towels are placed on the side.
There is a small copper basin filled with clean water.
After the tea in the bowl has been drunk, the guest does not use chopsticks and spoons, but hooks his tail finger around the fruits in the bowl to taste them. It looks like there are pine nuts and walnuts.
Anyway, Liu Chengzong had never tasted this, and with his limited experience, he could not imagine what these two kinds of tea tasted like. So it was only then that he recognized the guests sitting in the hall and asked in surprise: "Sir?"
The green-shirted guest was in his thirties, and wore a pair of tortoise-shell iron straight-leg round glasses on the bridge of his nose. He had long heard the footsteps of people walking around, but he just thought they were idlers walking around the Liu family house, and did not raise his eyes to check, only waiting to hear
The voice then raised his eyebrows, pushed up the mirror to take a closer look, and smiled.
"Brother Ancestor is back?"
This "ancestor" is a joke for the names of the two brothers. In this era, people often called their children Ge'er. Even the emperor in the palace would call his eldest son Ge'er.
Liu Xiangyu deliberately suppressed his smile and scolded: "Hurry up and show your respects to Uncle Yang, you two rude boys!"
The two brothers immediately kowtowed and saluted with serious expressions on their faces.
The guest was an old acquaintance of theirs. His name was Yang Dingrui, named Xingzhuang, and he was from Ansai.
When Liu Xiangyu was teaching Confucianism in Yan'an Fucheng, Yang Dingrui had already passed the Juren examination as a student member. Because he still had the ambition to become a Jinshi, he neither applied for a job in the local government nor went out to find a job. He continued to study Confucianism and occasionally taught as a substitute.
The teacher subsidizes the family income.
Therefore, Liu Xiangyu and Yang Dingrui were half colleagues, and the two brothers were students of Yang Dingrui. They not only studied literature with him, but also laid the foundation for their interest in sports.
Moreover, Liu Chengzong was often beaten by Yang Dingrui.
The reason lies in the glasses on Yang Dingrui's nose.
In the Ming Dynasty, glasses were basically popular among the wealthy classes such as officials and merchants, but most of them were reading glasses, and people were rarely nearsighted.
Firstly, ordinary people rarely have excessive needs; secondly, scholars have the need to be officials. Being an official requires not only knowledge, but also physical requirements.
During the learning process, because educational resources are not concentrated, instead of one teacher teaching dozens of students, it is common for one teacher to teach four or five students. Sit, sit, stand, and stand are almost mandatory rules in the study process.
Basically there is no chance to lie down on the table to write or read.
Yang Dingrui was born in a poor family and had no decent teachers to discipline him, so he suffered from myopia since he was a child.
In this era, myopia is called nearsightedness and farsightedness, which is a type of disease.
When Liu Chengzong was learning from him, Yang Dingrui couldn't afford crystal glasses, so he could only squint his eyes and read closely. When he looked up and saw Liu Chengzong imitating him, he took out his ruler and slapped his buttocks.
Since he believed that myopia was a disease, Yang Dingrui consulted doctors frequently, took decoctions and acupuncture, and finally wore a pair of glasses to solve the problem.
In Yang Dingrui's words at that time, he read the words of ancient doctors and finally believed that prevention of this disease should be the most important. Regular massage of the meridians while studying and going out for exercise are the most reliable.
So I passed on a massage technique to the Liu brothers - similar to the eye exercises in another memory. They often read for an hour and then took them out for running, hiking and hunting.
Of course, Yang Dingrui hunted with his own bow, and the brothers were only responsible for running, climbing, memorizing scriptures and carrying prey.
It wasn't until they followed their father to serve as officials in Mizhi that their contact with Yang Dingrui was lost. Later, they heard that Yang Dingrui had passed the Jinshi examination and went to Beijing, making the distance even further away.
"Okay, teachers and students don't need to see each other. Come and sit down. We haven't seen each other for eight or nine years. It's not okay to let the two children sell the gold for ten thousand taels when they meet." Yang Dingrui raised his arms and raised his palms to stop the two brothers.
, turned to Liu Xiangyu and smiled: "The little lion has become a man!"
The two brothers sat down, and the eldest brother Chengzu said with a smile: "After hearing the news from the Sixteenth Anniversary, saying that the adults from Fucheng were coming to visit, we ran back quickly, not thinking that it was the husband who was here."
Yang Dingrui was wearing a toga and had a gentle and elegant smile. He waved his hands and said, "I'm not a grown-up. I've only been a second-in-command officer for a few years."
The second assistant officer actually means the second in command. The general magistrate, the same magistrate, the same prefecture, the county magistrate, and the chief bookkeeper are all the second assistant officers.
For example, in a county, the chief magistrate is the magistrate of the county. The county magistrate and the chief registrar can all be called assistant officials, with the exception of the fourth official of the Pai Yamen, who is called the chief official.
Because many officials handle affairs, only Dian Shi handles affairs and deals directly with the people in the county. Dian Shi is not the leader of the county government, but the leader of the people.
He returned to Yan'an Prefecture to serve as an official. Under the avoidance system, as a local, he was promoted all the way. Unless he was transferred to Lin Province, he could only be a second assistant officer and could not take charge of the government.
As he spoke, his smile faded, he shook his head and said, "I quit, I quit."
Although Yang Dingrui smiled gracefully, the moment he stopped smiling, Liu Chengzong felt a sudden shock in his heart.
Not only because when he was a child, his father threw him into discipline and his butt was spanked many times.
It's also because he knows that the Jinshi who looks gentle and gentle has an extremely strong personality.
"Why did you resign, sir?"
"I can't do it anymore, just like your father. Nowadays, nearly half of the vacancies for chief officials and assistant officials in the counties of Yan and Qing Prefectures are gone. It's not about whether you want to do something, but you can't do anything even if you want to do it."
Then he pointed to the glasses on the bridge of his nose: "I can't be an official either."
The atmosphere became heavy, and Yang Dingrui said: "I'm afraid the imperial court in Shaanxi...can't do it."
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Note: Being able to approach and timid from far away—Volume 27 of "The Complete Book of Jingyue".
