This place is mountainous and watery, and it is the season of April and May. The mountains are full of verdant green. The stream flows down the mountain, rides the high waves, and touches the rocks. The water reaches the bottom of the mountain and is fed by the water from the east and west streams, which is called Nanpu.
creek.
The Nanpu River is as clear as a mirror and flows meandering down the river to Pucheng County.
Nanpu Stream surrounds the county seat and passes through the south gate of the county. It reaches the Baiyun Pool at the top. The stream flows rapidly and becomes clear and deep. It collects the water flowing from the east and turns to the west. The water flowing from the west flows to the Fuyu Pool at the bottom. The water flowing from the west turns and flows to the south.
The color of the Fuyu Bathing Pool is indigo, and the floating water is bright green. It is named because its dots look like fujis.
There is a long rainbow in the middle between the two pools connecting the county town. This bridge is called Shuinan Bridge. The bridge is covered with houses, and pedestrians come and go like a weaving.
There is a residential area south of Shuinan Bridge called Shuinan New Street.
The street is surrounded by mountains to the south and water to the north. Standing here and looking to the west, you can see an isolated mountain among the surrounding barriers, surrounded by fields. This mountain is so isolated that it is named Gushan.
During the Six Dynasties, the great scholar Jiang Yan was the magistrate of Pucheng County. He dreamed of receiving the five-color pen from the god here. Later, the mountain was renamed Mengbi Mountain.
At this moment, in a building facing the street on Shuinan New Street, Mengbi Mountain is clearly visible from the window.
A twelve-year-old boy named Zhang Yue said to himself: "They say this is time travel, but once you come, let's make peace with it! But why don't I have a system?"
Having said this, Zhang Yue raised his head forty-five degrees to the sky and sighed for a moment.
The start is too bleak and we need the strong support of the system father!
Zhang Yue has two elder brothers. The eldest brother is named Zhang Shi. The son inherits his father's business and runs the family shop.
The second brother Zhang Xu was able to write at the age of seven and poetry at the age of eight. At the age of 12, he was admitted to Huanghuaguan, the official school in the county, and was highly appreciated by the county magistrate Chen Xiang.
Zhang Xu also excelled in the county school, and even asked Zhang Xu to teach the students of the official school for him when he was on leave.
Needless to say, Zhang Xucai's name was well known in the county. Everyone in the family had high expectations. In the past few years, the matchmaker had crossed the threshold. Later, Zhao Yasi of the Yamen was alerted, and he paid 300 yuan of dowry money to marry his beloved daughter.
Betrothed to the Zhang family.
Being able to talk about such a marriage is naturally a dream for the Zhang family, which is a branch of the wealthy family. Before Zhang's father died of illness, he agreed on Zhang Xu's behalf.
This was an excellent marriage for both families.
But in the night of the wedding room, Zhang Xu disappeared. Everyone looked for him but couldn't find him. Finally, they found a note in his study.
The letter said, 'How can I marry the daughter of a swordsman and pen official when my dear son is called to the roll call in Donghua?'
Zhang Xu's whereabouts are unknown and there is no news from him at all.
Some said he went to Beijing, some said he ran away from home and encountered robbers on the way, some said he was so fascinated by a woman from a brothel that he abandoned his wife and home...
Zhao Yasi, who was fleeing from marriage, was also furious. An Yasi may not even be an official, but his influence can be said to be spread throughout the county.
After hearing that Zhao Yasi had been offended, the old servant who had been with the Zhang family for many years left first, taking away some valuables before leaving.
Immediately afterwards, the shopkeepers of the Zhang family's shop that had been run in the city for decades resigned one after another, until one day they had an inexplicable fire. Not only did they get sued, but they also lost a lot of money.
Zhang Yue himself, who was studying in a private school, was expelled from school for hiding pornographic paintings.
Now Zhang Yue is not only out of school but at home, his reputation has been ruined, and he lives in a state of confusion all day long.
In the past few days after Zhang Yue traveled through time, he learned about this opening and wished he could sleep again so that he could travel back. So Zhang Yue pretended to sleep facing the wall until he heard the creaking footsteps coming from the stairs, and then the sound of the curtain being rolled up.
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A man sat behind him and said, "Third brother, you've been exposed to the sun for three days and you're still lying on the bed."
Listening to the voice, Zhang Yue knew it was his eldest brother Zhang Shi.
Zhang Yue understood that it was very sad for him to have such a second brother. The other person was Zhang's father, the eldest brother's beloved one, who attracted the attention of the whole family. He had been suppressed under the light of his second brother since he was a child.
Both his father and brother worked hard to train their second brother and invited famous scholars to give him advice. As the youngest son in the family, Zhang Yue did not have as good educational resources as his second brother, but his father and brother still doted on him and simply did not want him to eat.
The pain of studying is somewhat laissez-faire.
Zhang Yue likes to make friends all day long, go out to eat, drink and have fun. Anyway, having a second brother at home who can read is enough.
Studying is hard for you, but I will enjoy the blessings in the future. The wishful thinking is very good!
But now...
Zhang Yue could understand his brother's mood at this moment. His proudest brother had escaped from marriage, and the other brother was so incompetent. The whole family was solely supported by him. Who could he count on?
Zhang Yue couldn't sleep anymore, so he pretended to have just woken up, rubbed his eyes and said: "Brother, you are back."
The eldest brother, Zhang Shi, is only twenty-three years old this year. This is the age when modern people have just started working, but Zhang Shi has been running the family shop for ten years. The shop was burned down by a fire a while ago, and the Zhang family still has to eat.
The lawsuit cost him more than half of his net worth, which really made him haggard.
"Are you hungry?" Zhang Shi asked. "I'll boil you some soup. I've been busy all morning and haven't eaten yet."
There were servants taking care of the food at home, but both servants had already left. One of them sneaked away some food, but the other refused to leave. However, his brother was afraid of being implicated and insisted on letting him go home to avoid it. It's true.
My wife and children also went back to my father-in-law's house in Jianyang to avoid the limelight.
Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "Brother, I'm not hungry."
Zhang Shi said: "You still need to eat something if you're not hungry. I'll buy two pieces of mutton cakes."
After saying that, Zhang Shi went downstairs to get it. When he came back, Zhang Yue had already put on a boy's shirt.
Zhang Shi patted the folds on Zhang Yue's clothes, and then handed the mutton cake wrapped in oil paper to his hand.
The two brothers took one piece each, and Zhang Yue was hungry for some reason. His stomach felt like it was on fire. He finished a piece of fried cake three times and divided it by two.
Zhang Shi broke off half of himself and put it in Zhang Yue's hand.
"I sent you to a private school to study. I didn't expect you to be as successful as my second brother, but I always thought you could learn to be a scholar, but I didn't know (reading the pornographic book, Zhang Yue completed the words for his brother in his heart)
...You should eat more and be energetic, and don't stay in bed all day again. If you can study, study. You are the only one in the family who can count on you! I was not the material for studying back then, and in these years I can only go to and fro in the wind and rain all day long.
But like my second brother, he was so focused on studying, and now..."
Having said this, Zhang Shi's eyes couldn't help but turn red, and he pressed the back of his hand on his face.
Zhang Yue said: "Brother, I was the one who was ignorant in the past. Now let's fight against this mess together."
Zhang Shi nodded, and then told Zhang Yue about Zhang Xu's escape from marriage.
"It's a blessing in disguise, and it makes sense. Your second brother is good at reading, and even his former commander-in-chief admired him. Our family has benefited from him a lot over the years. Your second brother has come a long way.
Being obedient and self-possessed is why scholars look down on subordinate officials, so they run away from marriage."
"But can Zhao Yasi be an ordinary subordinate? He is an extravagant figure in this county. Not only the officials, but also the emperor must respect him."
"Speaking of the fact that our Zhang family only has some extra money, Zhao Yasi married me with the intention of improving my second brother's future. But my second brother has been studying for several years, and he doesn't take people seriously."
Zhang Yue said: "Brother, it's okay that I was kicked out of private school and my reputation was damaged, but no matter what, he can't send people to burn down our shop. Zhao Yasi is indeed great, but the king's law is clear, and How can he cover the sky with one hand?"
Zhang Shi shook his head and said: "Normally, Zhao Asi is unreasonable and still relies on three points, let alone this time he is reasonable. Not to mention that he secretly ordered people to burn our shop, even if the open fire came to burn it, no one in the county would say a word about him. no."
Zhang Yue said: "So what? If the county doesn't advocate for us, I will sue the state. If the state doesn't advocate for us, I will sue the criminal department! Is the law greater than human feelings?"
Zhang Shi said: "You don't know anything. If the lawsuit is brought to the state, the Criminal Division will definitely advocate for us? We have no way. Besides, Zhao Yasi has people in the county. Could it be that in the prefecture, the Criminal Division will advocate for us?" Is there no one left? You can only talk about this behind closed doors with me. If it reaches the ears of Zhao Yasi, our Zhang family is afraid... Even if we win the lawsuit, what good will it do? As long as Zhao Yasi As long as Si is in office, our troubles will never end."
The Song Dynasty really looked down on subordinate officials. Most scholars would not become officials unless they were forced to do anything.
After becoming a civil servant, there is basically no hope for promotion. Zhang Yue remembered seeing someone on the forum criticizing such a system, believing that such a system resulted in local subordinate officials having no sense of responsibility and only wanting to make a fortune without seeking official advancement at all, resulting in Corruption of officialdom.
In Water Margin, Song Jiang is a police officer and looks awesome, but in fact he is still an official, and the official still has the identity of Lao Bai. When he commits a crime, no matter how the county excuses him, his face will still be tattooed. Officials who committed crimes did not need to be tattooed because the punishment was not as high as that of a senior official.
On the other hand, it seems that the officials are nothing special, but in fact it is a situation where the officials are weak and the officials are strong. The local officials selected by the imperial court have to manage the local subordinates, and there are few who are not deceived. There is a saying. As the saying goes, "The officials look after the officials for three days, and the officials look after the officials for ten days." Officials are mobile, but subordinate officials are immobile.
Therefore, once the subordinate officials were qualified for promotion, officials would not be able to compete with these subordinate officials in local governance. Therefore, the imperial court suppressed the subordinate officials by giving them a low reputation and not being allowed to be promoted.
The second brother Zhang Yue only looks down on subordinate officials, but he doesn't know that he can't afford to offend him at all. He is so awesome when someone comes to ask for a hand in marriage. Even if the other party is an ordinary family, this operation of escaping from the wedding night is not something that normal people can do. of.
You just ran away, and you left a letter behind. Isn't this a slap in the face of Zhao Yasi? After all, Zhao Yasi is a chief official in the county. If he doesn't retaliate against your Zhang family, he will be punished in the county in the future. There is no way to gain a foothold.
The most important thing is that people have occupied the position of custodian for a long time.
If you offend the county magistrate, you can endure it for a few years, but if you offend the custodian? This position can be passed down from father to son.
Zhang Shi said: "Your second brother has been so popular these years. How many people are waiting to see our Zhang family's jokes, and there are probably a lot of people who are waiting to add insult to injury. As for the Zhao family, I have said all I can to say soft things, so I have to lower my profile." I have begged and asked someone to express my love, but so far I can't even see Zhao Yasi in person. I think he is determined this time and will not let go of our Zhang family."
Having said this, Zhang Shi cheered up and said: "But there is no end to the road, so you don't have to be too sad. At worst, we can go to Jianyang to join me in Mount Tai. But it's fine for me to go there, but you have to live under someone else's roof. Unless you go there,
As a last resort, I am not willing to leave my hometown. You must cheer up in the future. Our father and second brother are both respected scholars. If you were a scholar, Zhao Asi would not dare to do anything to you!"
At this point, Zhang Shi's words were full of expectations and encouragement. Since he was not good at studying, it made sense for him to encourage his two younger brothers to study hard.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel relieved when he thought of this.
Taizong of the Song Dynasty once said, "Prime ministers need scholars." The whole country in the Song Dynasty began to emphasize literature over military affairs.
Although the weak Song Dynasty was known as the "Great Sending" in later forums, in the past thousand years, aristocratic families have usurped power, the problem of warlord separatism has been solved, and the imperial power is not as strong as that of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now it is the time when scholars in the past five thousand years have
The most glorious era.
Therefore, taking the imperial examination and becoming an official is the most ideal way out. The second brother Zhang Xu relied on reading to prove his enlightenment, and step by step embarked on the road of marrying Bai Fumei. If he had not escaped from the marriage, he would still be a role model for his brother and his neighbors, and he would be a child of another family.
As for Zhang Yue, who had been in Tieba forums all year round before traveling through time, he is well-informed and has a good ability to govern the country with one click. Even without the help of the system, he still has to show off his skills. Of course, it would be better if there is a system...
If you work hard and change the fate of your family and yourself, it depends on what you are going to do now.
Zhang Yue looked for books from the desk with confidence. These were all books that his second brother had read over the years. He chose a book of Mencius and planned to read it seriously, but cruelly found that despite his perfect Chinese proficiency in the third year of high school, he could not read it.
Can't understand classical Chinese.
Sad!
But it’s okay!
Where there's a will, there's a way!
A forced and unyielding smile appeared at the corner of Zhang Yue's mouth: "It's okay if you don't understand, just memorize it first and then talk about it."
The sound of reading aloud could be heard upstairs.
Mencius met King Hui of Liang. The king said, "Sou, you have come from a thousand miles away, will you be able to benefit our country?"
Mencius said to him: "Why does the king need to talk about profit? There is only benevolence and righteousness."
Zhang Yue sighed while reading. Although he didn't understand what it meant, it was indeed a sage's words. Every word he read was very powerful, and he felt particularly powerful after reading it. It was really worth memorizing it and pondering it.
So Zhang Yue read more and more attentively... Half a quarter of an hour later, he was lying on the table and fast asleep.
Over the past few days, Zhang Yue always dreamed of a five-color sparkling magic pen spinning around on his head.
Suddenly, he drew a stroke in front of him, as if an ink painting was split in front of him, with ripples rising in circles.
A scene appeared in front of him, but he saw an old man in simple clothes holding this pen and saying to a young official: "I have a five-color pen in my arms. I will lend it to you now. I will come back to get it back next year."
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"Student Jiang Yan is very grateful to the god for teaching me to write. I don't know the god's surname?"
The old man smiled and said: "I am Zhang Jingyang!"
Is this an allusion to Jiang Yan? Zhang Yue, who was standing by, couldn't help being surprised when he saw this.
At this time, a five-color pen flew out of the old man's arms and into the hands of the young official.
The old man stroked his beard and said: "Articles can teach people to be good, but they can also lead people to do evil. Articles are moral, so you should choose those who are good and follow them!"
"Students note."
After saying this, the official held the pen and pointed at a few places, but he saw that there was no paper in the air, and several flowers bloomed on the ground.
The official slashed into the void with his pen, and the whole person disappeared.
The old man was the only one left in front of him.
The old man pondered for a while and seemed to be talking to himself: "There are only you and me here, what do you want?"
Zhang Yue knew that he was in a dream, and he didn't know who the old man was talking to.
But he saw the old man looking at him.
Zhang Yue was startled, as if he was watching TV when the person inside suddenly looked at him. It was really shocking.
The old man smiled slightly and said: "My pen has been given to Jiang Yan, what do you want again?"
"Me." Zhang Yue found himself speechless.
The old man looked up at the sky and saw the stars in the sky hanging upside down and the stars all over the sky.
The night wind blew the corner of the old man's clothes: "Since you and I live here together, let me give this to you! You must keep this sentence in your heart, 'Everything in the world is like a young man's heart, and it is clear and deep in dreams.'"
After speaking, the old man stretched out his hand and nodded to himself.
At this moment, Zhang Yue's feet suddenly became empty and he fell from a height of ten thousand feet.
When Zhang Yue woke up with a start, he saw stars dotted outside the window and fishing fires everywhere on the stream.
Zhang Yue stared at the books on the desk with his eyes wide open, and discovered a terrifying thing. Wasn't I reading? Why did I fall asleep again?
Could it be that reading a book is really good for...sleeping?
What kind of books are you still reading? Learn as early as possible and then turn around!
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue suddenly stood up in despair, and was suddenly stunned as to why what happened just now was so real.
Zhang Yue thought it was very ridiculous, but when he closed his eyes and wiped his sweat with his hand, he was shocked to realize that what he saw the old man going through in his dream was still vivid in his mind, and he remembered it very clearly.
Zhang Yue was shocked to realize that most people would forget most of the things in their dreams after waking up. How could it be like this? It was as if a video was recorded and stored in a hard drive, and this hard drive was his brain.
Could it be that everything I experienced just now was not a dream?
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