Shandong Governor's Yamen This is the heart of Jinan City and has always been the center of power in Shandong. In the Song Dynasty, Zeng Gong built the "Celebrity Pavilion" here when he knew Qizhou. It is more than 30 steps deep, with nine ridges on the mountain, raised corners and cornices, and a rolling shed style in front.
, there are also large red pillars supporting the scattered cloud-headed brackets. Between the red pillars, there are floor-standing fans, and the ends of the eaves and corners are decorated with kissing animals. The whole building is magnificent and magnificent.
Wei Tongnian was wearing a clear lake-colored gown and was walking in the back garden with Rou Niang. They walked around a rockery, passed through a moon gate, and entered a small courtyard. This small courtyard was very elegant, with flowers in bloom and a subtle fragrance.
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There is a small lake behind dozens of flowers. Next to the small lake, there is a spring that is gushing out a clear spring water. After the spring water spurts out, it gathers into a spring pool. The spring pool is 42 meters long and 42 meters wide.
Twenty-nine meters high, surrounded by alabaster stone fences, with willows hanging lightly on the shore, the spring water is as clear as blue, and strings of white bubbles emerge from the bottom of the pool, like thousands of floating pearls, which is confusing and moving; in the northwest corner of the spring is
Zhuoying Pond is formed by the gathering of spring water. The spring water flows northward through Baihua Zhuzhou and then enters the small lake behind.
Feeling the coolness, Wei Tongnian took a deep breath of the fresh and moist air. He couldn't help but say to Rou Niang with great enthusiasm: "The spring comes out from the sand, gathers and disperses, breaks and continues, rushes and slows down.
When reflected by the sun, the big ones are pearls and the small ones are rocks, all from the bottom to the surface. This Pearl Spring is really worthy of being one of the three wonders of Jinan. It is really a good place."
Rou Niangfeng was wearing a purple dress today, embroidered with rich peonies, and aqua-green silk around her waist. Her perfect figure was clearly visible. They were walking slowly by the small lake with Wei Tongnian when they heard
Wei Tongnian couldn't help but smile and asked after reciting the poem.
"Why are you so happy today? Is there any happy event today?"
Wei Tongnian twisted his beard and said with a smile: "It's okay. I'll report today that the 20,000 recruits that Chaodong asked me to help recruit have finally been recruited. Once these recruits are trained, the safety of Shandong will be guaranteed."
Rou Niang chuckled and said: "There are thousands of troops guarding Jinan City now, aren't you worried?"
"Hey, what a woman thinks!" Wei Tongnian said disapprovingly: "Although there is a battalion of soldiers guarding Jinan City now, Jinan is so big that five thousand men and horses are still too tight to guard Jinan. There are 20,000 more soldiers.
The soldiers in Chaodong's hands will be richer, and Shandong will be safer. When I took you to Jinan to take office, if it hadn't been for the two thousand soldiers given by Chaodong to sit in command, I'm afraid you and I would have perished long ago. Or
Chaodong is right, everything is possible only if you have a gun, especially in troubled times, if you have no money or soldiers, who will look at you seriously, there is always no harm in having more soldiers."
"Sir..." Rou Niang hesitated and then asked: "Sir, the court and the emperor have treated you and Chaodong like this. If in the future... if the court really wants to deal with you,
So what are your plans?"
Wei Tongnian hesitated and said helplessly: "Youniang, I have passed my forties and have nothing else to ask for. Originally, what I was thinking about was how to repay the emperor's kindness, but you have also seen that the emperor is suspicious of Chaodong.
It's very deep. By the way, I also took him with me. Don't look at me, the governor is very majestic. If Chaodong loses power one day, I can be sure that the first thing the emperor wants to take is my head.
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"Why? The emperor can't be so heartless, right?" Rou Niang covered her mouth in surprise.
Wei Tongnian shook his head helplessly. He knew that talking about state affairs with his concubine was like playing the piano to an ox.
Just when Wei Tongnian sighed, he found that a sparkle had already appeared in Rou Niang's beautiful eyes. She took Wei Tongnian's hand and said: "Sir, the world is in chaos now, Shaanxi is already a world of rogue bandits. Henan
He was also invaded by bandits, but the court was unable to take care of both. I can see that Chaodong has great ambitions and has the world in mind. This concubine knows it, but the old man is already in his forties, and he is still so tired on weekdays.
You have lost a lot of weight these days, and it’s not a good feeling in my humble concubine’s eyes, so why don’t you stop working so hard?”
Wei Tongnian was moved and held Rou Niang's little hand and said: "Rou Niang, how can I not know what you are thinking, but Shandong is the foundation that Chaodong really fought for. Although he has many warriors under his command who can fight, maybe
There are not many civil servants, so as his father-in-law, how can I not help him! Besides, although I have lost a little weight, I feel that I am more energetic."
Wei Tongnian was right. Since he became the governor of Shandong, Wei Tong has been a military and political leader in Jinan City. Although he is a little tired compared to when he was the prefect of Qingzhou, he is more energetic.
While the two were strolling by the lake, a government official ran over quickly, held up a letter as big as an envelope in both hands, came to Wei Tongnian and said loudly: "Master, someone outside the door handed over a letter to ask for an audience!"
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Wei Tongnian stepped forward and took the famous tattoo from the Yamen servant. He saw that it was a purple-yellow famous tattoo with gilt on one side. On the signature of the famous tattoo, the four characters "A Confucian Scholar" were written with fluttering dragons and phoenixes.
When Wei Tongnian saw these four words, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "Could it be Duke Jieru who is here!"
Rou Niang also saw these words from the side and couldn't help asking strangely: "Master, who is here? Why are you so surprised?"
Wei Tongnian took a breath and said, "It's Mr. Jie Ru, that is Mr. Lu Weiqi, Mr. Lu."
Seeing Rou Niang still looking confused, Wei Tongnian couldn't help laughing, and explained to Rou Niang, a woman who usually stayed at home, how could she understand this? Wei Tongnian hurriedly said to the yamen servant: "Quickly
Invite the visitor to the small hall in the backyard to serve tea, and tell the visitor to come over immediately after I change my clothes."
"yes!"
The yamen servant bowed respectfully and hurriedly walked towards the way he came...
When Wei Tongnian changed into a vermilion official uniform and rushed to the small hall in the backyard, he saw an old man about fifty years old with a long beard under his chin and a thin face sitting upright on the east side.
On the seat in front of him, there was a middle-aged man who was about the same age as Wei and had a Chinese character face sitting next to him.
Wei Tongnian hurriedly walked up, came to the two of them and said with surprise on his face: "Oh, it turns out that Brother Qingyang is here. This must be Mr. Jieru. In the same year, I have been far away and welcomed you. Please forgive me."
ah!"
"Haha...Brother Longsheng, we haven't seen each other for a long time. Please don't be offended if I take the liberty of visiting you today."
Li Xianfeng walked up with a smile and said to Wei Tongnian with a hearty smile: "Today, my younger brother and Mr. Jieru came to ask Brother Longsheng for help. Brother Longsheng, please don't refuse."
Wei Tongnian showed a smile of surprise on his face and quickly stepped forward to bow to Lu Weiqi and said: "Jie Rugong, I have admired your great rank for a long time, and today I finally get to see you. I am so lucky to see you for three lifetimes."
The expression on Wei Tongnian's face was not an act. Lu Weiqi resumed his official position in the first year of Chongzhen and served as Minister of War in Nanjing. Later, due to his failure to "suppress the bandits", he returned to Luoyang and established the "Yiluo Society" to recruit disciples. Shu Li Shuo. Lu Weiqi wrote a lot of works, including "Collected Works of Mingdetang", "The Original Meaning of Xiao Jing", "The Wings of Xiao Jing", "Jie Xiao Yi Zhong Ji" and so on. It is not fair to say that he was a literary master of the late Ming Dynasty. However, both in terms of official position and reputation, he is worthy of being worshiped by Wei Tongnian.
Lu Weiqi didn't have any airs. He stretched out his hand to help Wei Tongnian and said with a smile: "Master Wei, there is no need to be like this. I have long been no longer the Minister of the Ministry of War. Now I am just an idle person, but I can't afford to pay homage to Master Wei!"
Wei Tongnian said respectfully: "My lord, don't try to kill me. My lord is a world-famous Confucian and a model for scholars all over the world. How dare you disrespect me."
Although he said so, Lu Weiqi felt very comfortable when he saw Wei Tongnian being so respectful to him.
"Come on, come on... everyone, please take a seat!" Seeing that Wei Tongnian and Li Xianfeng were standing in front of him and not taking their seats, Lu Weiqi had no choice but to greet everyone to take their seats.
After everyone was seated, the maid hurriedly came forward to serve tea to Wei Tongnian. Wei Tongnian picked up the teacup and sipped the fragrant tea and asked with a smile: "It's rare for Mr. Lu and Brother Li to come to Jinan. How can Wei not be a landlord?" Friendship. But although Jinan is not as prosperous as Luoyang, it still has some scenery. How about the back garden where Wei visited?"
Lu Weiqi and Li Xianfeng looked at each other, Lu Weiqi nodded slowly, and then Li Xianfeng smiled and said: "I dare not ask for your ear even if I wish!"
It was already July, and the three of them were walking quietly by the small lake next to the Pearl Spring. Next to the Pearl Spring was an elegant garden with green pines and cypresses, drooping willows, and well-proportioned spring pools and pavilions; in the garden was the west side of the Luoguo Bridge. , there is a Song Dynasty crabapple five or six meters high. It has a history of thousands of years. It is said that it was planted by Zeng Gong, the prefect of Jinan.
Lu Weiqi looked at the exquisite scenery in front of him and couldn't help but get inspired by poetry. He recited a poem and said: "The springs come out from the sand, gather and disperse, stop and continue, rush and slow, the sun reflects them, the big ones are pearls, the small ones are They all start from the bottom to reach the surface."
Wei Tongnian praised: "Mr. Lu really deserves to be a role model for us and our generation. This poem really describes the scenery of Pearl Spring."
"Haha, I don't dare take it seriously. It's just a random work. It's just that at this time, the Ming Dynasty is suffering from internal and external troubles, so I seem to be a little lazy when reciting poems and writing poems." Lu Weiqi waved his hands, and then his expression dimmed and he sighed: "Master Wei, I will tell you the truth. He and Qingyang came here this time to ask Mr. Wei for something."
Wei Tongnian followed Lu Weiqi calmly for half a step without answering. Although he admired Lu Weiqi very much after being in officialdom for a long time, feelings cannot replace everything.
After Lu Weiqi finished speaking, he secretly looked at Wei Tongnian. When he saw that the other party did not say anything, he sighed inwardly. It seems that it will be difficult to negotiate this matter today...
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