The Eighth Chapter: The White Clothes Scholar Talks About Governing Rivers
Jin Fu and Feng Zhiren were both taken aback. When they looked back, in the shadow of the lights and candles, they saw a thin black man wearing a soap robe, standing with a smile on his face. Except for his sharp eyes, there was nothing surprising about him.
Chapter. How can people trust Chen Tianyi, who has long been famous for his appearance?
Three years have passed since Duke Cui was promoted from Gaoyao County, where is he serving now?"
Chen Huang couldn't help being startled after hearing this, and then laughed heartily and said: "Sir, you are checking my resume! Chen Xinyi is from Shaoxing, far away from the Chen family in Qiantang. My brother Chen Boren, whose courtesy name is Shouzhong. As for you
Mr. Mingcui, I don’t even know who it is!” Seeing Feng Zhiren blushing with embarrassment, Jin Fu hurriedly covered it up and said, “Brother Zhiren remembered it by mistake. Mr. Tianyi, to be honest, I am Jin Fu.
I am coming to the capital for training and will be appointed as the governor of the river. I was just about to ask the master about his river management skills - I am truly lucky to have such a predestined relationship. How about we come to the post house to talk about it?" Chen Huang smiled nonchalantly at Feng Zhiren.
, the three of them went back to Linmingguan Station.
It had been three days since Chen Huang returned to Huangliangmeng from Henan, but he did not dare to go to Congzhong because he knew that Axiu lived in the Han family. When he went in to meet, how should he deal with this princess who did not know etiquette? He deeply regretted that he had left before leaving.
In a hurry, he left the manuscript of "He Fang Shu Yao" at the Han family. If he didn't get it back, it would be the result of more than ten years of hard work, and he couldn't let it go. After hesitating again and again, Chen Huang temporarily stayed in the inn, trying to slowly take out the manuscript.
.Tonight, I came to take a walk to relieve my boredom, so I happened to meet Jin Fu.
A cup of clear tea and a plate of snacks. In the main hall of Linmingguan Station, Jin Fu and Chen Huang were sitting a few steps apart, with Feng Zhiren accompanying them. Jin Fu did not exchange greetings, and asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Today, I am Shengming.
River management is the primary government task. Sir, you have learned a lot from the past and present, but I don’t know what you can teach me?”
Chen Huang was very excited. He sipped tea and looked radiant as he looked up: "Master Zhongcheng, since I have asked this question, do you dare Chen Huang to tell me directly? The Yellow River is the source of all the harm to water transportation in today's rivers. To control water transportation, it is necessary to
It is a cliché, but it is also a wise saying. The Yellow River has been known as the troubled river since ancient times. It flows from Guide in Qinghai, through the Loess Plateau of Gansu and Shaanxi, and rushes down. There are six sands in a bucket. The terrain after entering Kaifeng
It is gentle, the water flow is slow, and the river body is silted up with sand. Eastern Henan, northern Anhui, southern Shandong, and northern Jiangsu have become the places where it rages. Since the Xining year of the Song Dynasty, the river has moved southward, and the Huanghuai River has merged into the Qingjiang River and poured into it.
The canal caused silt to accumulate in the canal, and the dams collapsed, blocking the grain transportation route. The reason for such evil consequences, although there is a natural reason, is actually due to the incompetence of the officials who control the river and their inability to understand the nature of water."
"Huh?" Jin Fu nodded and said with a smile, "I'd like to hear the details."
"I heard that Zhongcheng was going to move the River Governor's Mansion from Jining to Qingjiang. I foolishly thought that your knowledge was higher than that of Jackie Chan." Chen Huang coughed lightly and said, "Although Yu Chenglong has the ambition to control the river, he has no intention to control the river.
Shu. Since the first year of Kangxi to the present, the Yellow River has breached every year. The Huai River and Gaoliang Streams have breached at 37 places, and Gaojiayan has breached at seven places. The Yellow River has burst in four directions, breaking through Qianjiagang, pouring into the mire pool, and then divided into
One stream entered Hongze Lake, but actually no longer returned to the sea. It flowed across the seven states of Suqian, Shuyang, Haizhou, Andong and Xiahe. The canal was tightly blocked. Yu Gong used Dayu's thousand-year-old method to control the water, and the sand was cleared.
Tens of millions of people's efforts were spent on draining the silt, but it all came to nothing as soon as the flood season came. This shows that he is not academically sophisticated, does not think things through, and cannot understand the root cause of the disease."
Chen Huang said that it was indeed the root cause of the disease, and Jin Fu couldn't help but feel a close friend in his heart. Even an old river management official like Feng Zhiren felt refreshed after hearing Chen Huang's analysis. But Jin Fu's dilemma was also here, and he sighed.
He said: "Yu Gong also has his own difficulties. If you manage it slowly from the root, it will be difficult to comply with the holy will. Even if Zhili has nothing to do, it still has to transport four million stones of grain every year, not to mention-" He suddenly thought of Kangxi's
The training of naval forces in Baiyangdian and Weishan Lake was still top secret, so he stopped talking and just said, "It's impossible if the canal transportation is blocked!" "We should control the canal and yellow at the same time!" Chen Huang said coldly, "Yu Gong only said
If we blindly widen the river channel, can the sediment in the Yellow River be completely cleared manually? It has been cleared and silted up, and it has been silted up and cleared again, and it cannot be cured in ten thousand years! The emperor removed his river governor, it is really a god."
Seeing Chen Huang's fierce words, Feng Zhiren glanced at Jin Fu uneasily, leaned forward and asked, "What do you think?"
"Four words," Chen Huang waved his hand and said, "Shut the embankment and flush the sand!"
Build a dike to wash away the sand! Jin Fu's eyes twitched, he stood up, rubbed the ends of his braids with his hands behind his back, walked for two steps, suddenly turned around and said, "Please tell me, that's a good idea!" "Build a dike to hold water in and flush it with water.
"Sand." Chen Huang leaned up and said, "This is not my own invention. Pan Jixun has written about it before Ming Dynasty. When the river embankment is strengthened and raised, and the river is clamped, the water potential will be strengthened and the flow speed will be accelerated. Not only will the new sand not sink, but the old sand will also
It will be carried into the sea. The river bed must be getting deeper and deeper, and the river channel must be getting lower and lower, so there will be no danger of the embankment bursting..." As he said this, he couldn't help but smile, "Ignore such brilliant river management skills, go ahead.
If you imitate King Yu four thousand years ago, isn’t that just asking for fish in a tree?”
"Brother Tianyi," Feng Zhiren heard his heart pounding and leaned forward to say, "Your lofty words are really inspiring. But the troubles faced by Mr. Jin's mission are hard to explain in words..."
"Why not..." Jin Fu patted his forehead and muttered to himself sadly, "The river is in serious trouble right now. The yellow water is flowing backwards, the Yellow and Huaihe rivers merge to the east, and Huaiyang has become the country of Ze..." He said slumped
He sat down and said nothing. Feng Zhiren said with a wry smile: "It is really difficult to manage the two rivers. The river governors have been replaced one after another. Regardless of honest officials or corrupt officials, their boats have capsized here. Those who hear it are heartbroken and those who see it are terrified!"
After hearing this, Chen Huang smiled slightly, sat back on the chair, crossed his legs, took a sip of tea, pressed the cup and said: "We met by chance and it was just a chat. Chen made a brief introduction and talked nonsense. Jin Zhongcheng Quan did not hear anything.
." After saying that, he stood up and left, "It's late at night, Chen Huang takes leave!"
"Mr. Tianyi!" Jin Fu shouted hurriedly, "Please stay!" Chen Huang turned around, and the three of them looked at each other under the shadow of the lamp. They kept changing their expressions, and no one spoke for a while. After a while, Jin Fufang said:
"The matter of river and canal management has been determined by the Holy Heart. We talked deeply before we talked about these difficulties. I speak frankly: I am afraid that mistakes in water control will cause harm to the country and the people, and I will be living up to the emperor's trust!"
"Are you afraid that Zhongcheng's career, fame, fortune and life will be missed?" Chen Huang smiled, changed his appearance and said, "River affairs are difficult, the responsibilities are heavy and the tasks are complex, and it is difficult to return. Is there any reason not to be afraid? But what happened to Zhongcheng's river management in Anhui?
, Chen Huang knows that if you can do things with such sincerity, everything in the world can be done - I am talking to you tonight openly, just because I have the vision to choose you! - Integrated roots are a powerful tool for energy conservation, and the rivers will last forever.
If there is a breakdown in governance, someone must rise up and take the responsibility. No one else but the public can take on this huge responsibility, so why should we look forward, backward, fearful and hesitant?"
Tears flashed in Jin Fu's eyes. He grabbed Chen Huang's shoulder and asked, "Mr. Chen, this is such an intimate statement! I have read your book, and I wanted to meet him after reading it, and now people have also met..."
...Are you willing to help me?" Chen Huang's heart felt hot and he said with a trembling voice: "Huang is a humble scholar who has ambitions to make meritorious deeds but has no way to get into the profession. A scholar will die for his confidant, but Huang is willing to follow his father to the banks of the river for the rest of his life!"
Feng Zhiren, who was standing next to him, heard Chen Huang say, "If you have ambitions to make meritorious deeds, there is no way to get into the profession." He couldn't help but shed tears when he thought of his family's failure to be famous for half his life.
At the moment, three like-minded people with different identities had a drink and discussed in detail the terms of the interview with Kangxi. Unknowingly, there were more leaks. Chen Huangfang wanted to go back to his place to rest, and the post
The doorman came in, held up a package, and said with a smile: "Master Chen, just now someone from the Han family in Congzhong sent this, saying it was your thing..."
"Where are the others?" Chen Huang was surprised and asked.
"He left his things and went," the doorman said with a smile. "He asked Mr. Chen to open the package and he would understand after a quick look."
Chen Huang opened the package in confusion. There was his own manuscript on the top, and a piece of Xue Tao's poetry paper was folded underneath. When he unfolded it and read it, there was no writing on it. There was only a lock of green silk black hair tied with red thread, and a piece of silk yarn.
Selfless Flower. That night, Chen Huangsi was so confused that he never closed his eyes.
The Bo Xue Hong Ru Ke was held at the same time as the regular subjects, causing a sensation in Beijing. The Bo Xue Hong Ru Ke was opened once in the 19th year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty, and again after Song Gaozong went south. It has been more than 500 years since then. The original name was "Bo Xue Hong"
"Hongci", Kangxi changed one word and renamed "Hongci" to "Hongru". Those who took the exam, whether they passed or failed, would have the status of "Hongru", which was a very honorable status.
Since the summer and autumn of the seventeenth year of Kangxi's reign, there has been an endless stream of filial and honest people who took part in the bus test, gathering in Beijing. All kinds of sedans, horses, cars and boats crowded the streets. Temples, halls, restaurants and teahouses in and outside the capital have become literati.
A place for boarding and meeting friends. The most prominent ones are the scholars and scholars recommended by various places to take the examination. These people come by water, in the high-rise ships of the feudal officials; by land, they come in eight-person official sedans, and they take turns
The bearers carrying the sedan chair were all riding tall horses, shouting in front of each other and walking in crowds - all with the apricot-yellow tiger head sign in front of them saying "take the exam according to the order" and "remain silently" - they did not stay in the hotel when they entered Beijing, but lived separately in the dignitaries.
Noble family.
Compared with these scholars, those who participated in Beiwei were much poorer.
Gao Shiqi came to Beijing with 500 taels of silver. He was originally hot-tempered and generous, but he quickly spent it all. As soon as he entered the capital, he became a disciple, but he didn't understand the rules here. He had to pay a sum of money to cross the threshold.
In terms of money, "Brother Kong Fang" is in charge of everything. He spent four hundred taels of silver to only get to know the second housekeepers in Mingzhu and Suo'etu mansions. Now, after counting, there is a total of twenty-two-six cents left in cash, and he owes sixteen taels to the shop.
The money for the room and food was not yet available. Although Gao Shiqi was angry, he did not worry about it. He still showed off his generosity and told the shop owner to "just keep accounts."
He played tea party every day, causing the actors to make a fuss. He gradually became stingy with his money. Knowing that the situation was not good, he only promised verbally, but his expression showed disrespect. Gao Shiqi secretly hated it, but he could do nothing.
.
Because the steward Suo'etu told me the day before yesterday that on March 15th, the masters of the Zhongtang gathered famous scholars and asked him to join in the fun. As long as he pleases the Zhongtang, he can be recommended as a great scholar without having to take a test. I am eagerly looking forward to this day.
Gao Shiqi changed out of his blue satin robe and wore a green cloth shirt, and walked to the Suo Mansion on Yuhuang Temple Street. The housekeeper had been standing at the door for a long time. Seeing him dressed like this, he stumbled and complained: "Old Gao,
How can you be seen in the middle hall dressed as a beggar? - You have to wait a moment, Mr. Li Guangdi and Mr. Jin Fu are talking to the master in the study..." Before he finished speaking, the call of "see off guests" came from the back hall.
Gao Shiqi had no choice but to step aside.
Suddenly, Li Guangdi and Jin Fu staggered out one after the other, both with pale faces. After exiting the gate, the two of them stopped at the same time. Li Guangdi bowed his hands and said, "Jin Gong, please——" and gave up his hand.
"Jin Qing," Jin Fu said coldly, "you should think twice about what you just said. It would be inappropriate if it alarms the heavens." After saying that, he bent down and got into the sedan. Li Guangdi said angrily: "It's up to you." That's all.
They boarded the sedan and drove away. Gao Shiqi and everyone at the door were puzzled. When Gao Shiqi saw them leaving, he turned to the housekeeper and smiled: "Don't look at my poor clothes. This is the true nature of a scholar. Rich or poor, I leave it to fate. Lao Cai
Just don't worry." After saying that, he followed Lao Cai in, but saw Suo'etu walking out of the back hall.
"Are you Gao Shiqi?" Jin Fu and Li Guangdi turned their faces because of Suo'etu's mediation on Li Xiuzhi. They felt uncomfortable. When they saw Lao Cai bringing someone in, they remembered this incident and stopped, looking up and down.
Gao Shiqi asked.
"Yes, student Gao Shiqi!" Gao Shiqi felt unhappy when he saw him being so indifferent and swallowed his saliva before replying. Suo'etu also felt that the question he just asked was too blunt, so he sighed and said with a smile: "You are not famous?
"Young man, even Cha Shenxing recommended that you have talent and learning - when you come, sit down wherever you want, don't be restrained - old Mr. Wang Mingdao is giving a question to test everyone!" After saying that, he entered the main hall and sat down at the front door.
On the Kang, I leaned on the big pillow and watched the excitement.
There were four tables in the middle of the hall, but the chief table was the liveliest, with five or six people sitting around an old man with a goatee chatting and joking. Gao Shiqi knew that this was a member of the staff of the Suo Mansion. There were also more than 20 people at the three tables next to it.
, there are quite a variety of people here, some are famous celebrities from the fighting party, some are failed candidates, famous doctors, famous divination, some are good at poetry, some are good at painting, and so on. They are probably all invited temporarily to the meeting, and they seem a bit reserved.
Gao Shiqi took a photo and thought that the skinny old man with a goatee must be Wang Mingdao - one of the famous four scholars in Yanbei - so he bowed his head generously, said his name, went straight to the table, pulled up a chair, and sat down.
After sitting down, he asked: "I heard that the old gentleman is taking a test on Chinese writing. Do you dare to ask a question?"
Wang Mingdao was the number one staff member of Suo'etu Mansion. He joined Suo'etu in the 13th year of Kangxi's reign. Suo'etu treated him as a teacher and drafted memorials specifically for Suo'etu. Seeing Gao Shiqi's presumption, he frowned in displeasure.
, said: "Well, there are three eight-legged essays in total, 'Standing at Thirty' has been done by someone, and there are two more - 'There is a Li in the Well' and 'Tongque General Ming', everyone is imagining them."
Qi glanced at the forehead picture, poured himself a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "What's so difficult about solving these two problems?"
"Is it difficult?" A man in his thirties across the street pushed up his tortoiseshell glasses and said coldly, "It's not easy to come up with new ideas."
Wang Mingdao laughed dryly and said to the middle-aged man and a young man next to him: "Tiejia, Xijia, this person makes big words, but how can he know that he has no practical knowledge? You brothers, please listen to Mr. Gao's wonderful article." Gao Shiqi then.
We knew that these two people were Chen Tiejia and Chen Xijia, famous people from Tongzhou. He lazily picked up two peanuts, put them into his mouth and chewed them, making a bang-bang sound, and remained silent for a while. Everyone was shocked to see him so wild.
Chen Xijia couldn't bear it and asked: "Mr. Shiqi, since you said 'what's the difficulty', why didn't you say a word?" Gao Tuqi stretched his neck, drank another glass of wine, and said with a smile: "There is a plum in the well."
"So broken - it looks like a peach but not a peach, it has a layer of hair missing on its body; it looks like an apricot but not an apricot, it has an extra seam on its body..."
Before he finished speaking, the whole room was already bursting into laughter. Suo'etu spit out a sip of tea and wet his front. Just as he was about to speak, Gao Shiqi shook his head and continued: "...The east wind blows, and the west wind moves.
, fell under the well railing, and looked at it, then Li Yan..." As soon as he finished breaking the topic, everyone in the hall fell down laughing.
"Frivolous!" Wang Mingdao did not smile, but said while stroking his beard, "This kind of thing can actually come to the hall of elegance."
"May I ask the old gentleman what is frivolous?" Gao Shiqi asked with a smile without changing his expression, "Essays should be truthful and not deceptive, and they are witty and witty. I wonder where the late student went wrong in solving the problem?" Wang Mingdao thought for a long time, but he couldn't find any fault, so he had to calm down.
Face said: "The emperor has always won heroes with articles. How can a person who wins with frivolity and delicacy enter the forest of superiors?" Gao Shiqi smiled, seeing that he could not do this, he simply boldly said loudly: "I also have "Tongque General's Ming"
——In the place where guests come and go, I suddenly see someone who knows nothing about it!"
"Tongque Jiang Ming" comes from "The Analects". Confucius originally meant to entertain guests and order the servants to serve. Gao Shiqi came up with a new interpretation and used the topic to secretly scold Wang Mingdao for "knowing nothing". Although everyone wanted to laugh after hearing this,
Because Wang Mingdao was the chief advisor of his employer, he didn't dare to laugh. Chen Tiejia was Wang's student. When he saw Gao Tuqi being so rude, he couldn't help but get angry. He sneered slightly and looked around. When he saw begonias in full bloom in the basin, he said: "
This kind of composition is too disgraceful, so I have a couplet to please correct." Gao Shiqi put down the chopsticks and said with a smile: "I want to learn from you."
"Spring Begonia!"
Gao Shiqi couldn't help but be startled, feeling that it was difficult to describe it appropriately. But after all, he was an expert at it. After thinking for a long time, he clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Yes - summer yam!"
"Bring Ye Chunhaitang!" Chen Xijia saw that his brother couldn't help Gao, so he came out to help.
"What's so difficult about this?" Gao Shiqi replied, "Lianxuxia yam!"
"A branch of spring begonia with leaves." Chen Tiejia said.
“Half a beard summer yam!”
"The pink beauty from the south of the Yangtze River has a branch of spring begonia with leaves on her temples!" Chen Xijia intervened in an aggressive tone.
Gao Shiqi looked maliciously at the Chen brothers who were taking turns to attack. He chuckled and said: "You know how to write, why should you be so tense? Gao can't stand you two anymore - the big man with black hemp in Guanxi has half of his hair tied to his waist."
Xuxia yam!”
As soon as the words were spoken, everyone was already applauding and laughing. A few girls at the door, hearing the indecent words, blushed and lowered their heads and snickered. Gao Shiqi stood up and said to Suo Etu, who was laughing so hard: "There is a joke in the middle hall.
Do you want to listen?"
Although Suo'etu felt that Gao Shiqi was too wild, Wang and Chen had been in the house for a long time and had never met an opponent, so they found it interesting. He choked with laughter and said, "Just don't curse anyone anymore!"
"If people don't force me, of course they won't scold me," Gao Shiqi said. "We have an old gentleman there who teaches for a living. He is the most upright person and treats his students very harshly. He doesn't do a homework as well as he wants. He doesn't have an iron ruler.
The boys were so angry that they put a few loaches in the old gentleman's chamber pot..."
Gao Shiqi raised his eyebrows and chatted while picking up vegetables. Everyone was stunned.
"In the middle of the night, none of the students slept. They hid in the next room and listened to their husband. They heard him groping for the potty, only holding the quilt and laughing quietly..."
"There was just a 'bang' sound, and the old gentleman threw the chamber pot out of the window, smashing the clay pot into pieces!"
At this point, everyone laughed. Gao Shiqi said seriously: "The next day, Mr. Gou changed another tin chamber pot, but the students drilled a finger-thick hole underneath again.
At night, the bed was peeing all over the bed... Mr. Gou was so angry that he simply changed to an iron chamber pot, and then he was able to calm down."
Everyone first listened to what he said was interesting, thinking that it would be better later. Unexpectedly, Gao Shiqi said it coldly and tastelessly, and just ate at his own discretion without saying anything. Suo'etu couldn't help asking: "Is it over?"
"It's over." Gao Shiqi said calmly, "I heard that one day later, the students asked the teacher, 'Which is better, the clay chamber pot or the tin chamber pot?' The teacher said, 'Xijia (Jia).' The students asked again, 'However, the tin chamber pot is better.
Which one is better, a chamber pot or an iron chamber pot?' The gentleman replied, 'Iron is better!'"
"You!" Wang Mingdao woke up and heard Gao Shiqi tell such a "joke" and tortured the Chen brothers to his heart's content. He even compared himself to a "dog" and was so angry that he trembled. He pointed at Gao Shiqi with trembling hands and scolded, "Scholar
You must abide by etiquette...you are so...cough, vulgar and dissolute...whose disciple are you?"
Gao Shiqi made a funny face with a playful smile and replied: "Students only read the books of Confucius and Mencius; Confucius and Mencius are my teachers, and I have no other teachers. Cheng, Zhou, Wang and Lu are all my senior brothers!"
"Mr. Gao!" Suo'etu had always respected Wang Mingdao, and discussed many important matters of the imperial court with Wang, Chen and others. Seeing Gao Shiqi's arrogant face, he became disgusted. He coughed dryly, suppressed his smile and said, "
Please respect yourself! Someone help him out, he is drunk!" (To be continued)
