Wanli Xinming

Chapter 334 Disaster Relief

On the summer night in the capital, the heat on the ground was quickly washed away, and it was the season for Geng Ruyu to work hard.

The light from the whale oil lamp illuminated the study as if it were daytime.Geng Ruyu bit the barrel of the pen, trying to figure out an article edited by his old father with a bitter face.His father was sitting across from him reading the letter and writing a reply. Geng Ruyu glanced at the clock from time to time, wishing the needles would fly at that time.

I was worried that my father would ask him how he would answer later, when he suddenly saw Geng Dianping throw the letter in his hand on the ground, angrily.Immediately, two lines of tears flowed down, patting the table and saying, "It hurts to kill people!"

Seeing that Geng Dang's face was like golden paper, Geng Ruyu put down the brush and panicked and said, "Father, what's wrong with you?" Geng Dang was speechless and pointed to the letter on the ground.

Geng Ruyu was afraid that a bad letter would come from his hometown, so he hurriedly picked up a few pieces of letter paper on the ground. He didn't read the content, but looked at the signature first. When he saw the inscription, it said "Fool brother Chucheng worships you".

He breathed a sigh of relief, raised his head and asked, "But Zhang Liqing, the 'official for a long time'?" Geng nodded while weeping.Geng Ruyu read the content again, and ignored the polite words in the letter. There were two philosophical issues in it, and he also ignored it.

Immediately, he saw the text that made Geng Ding lose his temper: "My brother walked this way last year and saw that the people were haggard, and no one died on the road. This spring and summer come back to this place, and the corpses of starvation are accumulated on the road, and the walkers often cut off the dead. Meat, that is, the hunger and death of the food cooked by the road!"

Geng Ruyu's heart skipped a beat, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only look at Geng and said, "Father, this kind of thing must happen in a famine year, why do you have to do this."

Geng snorted into his nose: "What a 'Sheng Shi Xi Ran'! How many years has this newspaper been published? Emperor Wanli Tai Ping" There was still a word "Nian" in his mouth, but he didn't spit it out in his son's terrified eyes. Thinking of the tragic situation of the victims and the deceased who sold their wives and vends, Lao Geng was about to shed tears again.

Geng Ruyu said: "Father, it has been more than 200 years since Taizu established the pole, and my son has never heard that such a catastrophe can survive such a catastrophe, especially in Shanxi, where there have been nine droughts in ten years in southern Shanxi, nine floods in ten years in northern Shanxi, and drought again this year." When the locusts are handed over, although the imperial court has food, it cannot be transported in, so there is nothing to be done."

Geng Xiangxiang packed up his feelings and stared: "You rammed goods, don't let anyone fetch water!" Geng Ruyu hurriedly ran to the door of the study and ordered the servants.Before he could turn his head, he heard his father whispering behind him: "If there is no success in the examination of water conservancy, why should Zhao Yu put food on the small disaster last year, and use work for relief. If he does not pass the examination, he will be finished. Why should Zhao Yu conceal the storehouse and cause such a tragic disaster?"

When Geng Ruyu heard this, he was surprised: "In order to complete the expedition, Hou Yu Zhao didn't buy grain and put it into the warehouse?"

Geng Ding nodded his head first, and then he said: "The tyranny of the government is fiercer than the tiger. How many people can the tiger eat? According to me, the chaotic government is also fiercer than the tyranny! It's not because of chaos!"

Geng Ruyu's heart skipped a beat, and said with a pale face, "Father, be careful!"

Geng directed a scornful look at his son, but opened and closed his mouth a few times, no longer speaking loudly, and sat there with red eyes and a long sigh.

After a while, he murmured, "Why don't you go!" Pushing the letter on the table to the ground, he took out a blank memorial and wrote quickly.

Geng Ruyu's heart skipped a beat again, and said tremblingly, "What is your father's intention?"

Geng Xiangang shouted angrily, "This old man impeaches himself!"

Geng Ruyu let out a long sigh, sat down and read the paper, without saying a word.With a brush in his hand, Geng glared at his son angrily and said, "You rebel, why don't you ask me to impeach myself?"

Geng Ruyu tried his best to say with a straight face: "Father is a pedant of heaven and man, so there must be a reason for doing this. Besides, the Tao is different, and the father has been angry enough over the years. It's better to resign. Let's go back to Huang An's hometown. , The father writes books and lectures, and the son makes a start, which is also the way to protect the family for a long time."

Although Geng Ding was furious, he calmed down as he wrote, hoping that his son could persuade him.Seeing him looking down at the paper, he could only snort coldly, "Pretend!"

Geng Ruyu: ".".

That night, Geng Ruyu told his wife about his father's resignation, and Liang Xin said happily: "That's not bad. The capital is hot in summer, cold in winter, and the sky is full of yellow sand in spring and autumn. I'm impatient to socialize with those officials' wives and go back to my hometown. That's fine, I'll give birth to a baby for you."

Geng Ruyu: "."

The next day, Geng Ding handed over the memorial for his impeachment.There is a sentence in the scribbles: "Three turns of conscience, but one can't help but talk about the fault of chaotic government", which made Zhang Siwei stick out half of his tongue.He thought to himself, "Is this old man losing his mind?"

Because of Geng Ding's reputation all over the world, the imperial court may not be able to accommodate people and use talents. Zhang Siwei criticized Huang Wei and said softly: "This theory of 'not being able to tolerate oneself' is a mistake in the government's administration, and it is equal to derogation. But, why do you need to go, if you are impeached, please ask the Holy Judge."

Because the third-rank high-ranking officials asked to go, Zhu Yijun must have passed his purpose.The day after Zhang Siwei criticized Huang, he saw the emperor instructed a word "ke" on Geng Ding's memorial.Because apart from this word, Zhu Yijun did not draw a circle on the yellow criticism as he was used to, which made Zhang Siwei scratch his head. Does the emperor agree with Lao Geng's resignation or agree with my criticism of pornography?"

Xu Honggang scratched his head and looked at it for a long time, and said, "The emperor should not allow him to resign. This is your opinion."

Zhang Siwei asked, "Can you be sure?"

Xu Honggang smiled and said: "The emperor should have hesitated for a long time, and he didn't have time to talk nonsense with him."

Zhang Siwei first breathed a sigh of relief, and then scolded: "This person who defends the Tao is hypocritical! There is no way to do things, but instead he seeks to invite names!"[Note 1]
Although Xu Honggang has a lot of weight, he is still [-] miles away from the top officials of the seven-rank middle-ranking book and the civil service. It is rare to hear Zhang Siwei commenting on Mr. Tiantai, so he boldly asked: "This food enters Jin, the imperial court Still no good plan?"

Zhang Siwei has been in a good mood for the past two days. Hearing that, he didn't think that the seventh-rank official was reckless, so he smiled and said, "There is already a way. It was proposed by Liang Xiang. The food will be transported from Zhangjiakou to the grassland in a large carriage. Make a circle outside the side wall and enter Jin from Datong Town - it turns out that the court and the opposition are surrounded by the side wall, so the grassland beyond the north of Jin is now a thoroughfare!"

Xu Honggang praised it!Immediately he asked worriedly, "Where did the carriage come from?"

Zhang Siwei smiled and said: "The imperial court will issue a decree tomorrow to requisition private large carriages. It is estimated that in the capital alone, there are more than 3000 four-wheeled carriages that can pull four thousand catties, and they can transport grain at one time. — After deducting 1000 million catties of losses, the 400 million catties of grain that have been brought into Shanxi is enough for them to chew grains for a while!"

After speaking, Zhang Siwei laughed, feeling very happy.Immediately, he lowered his face and said: "I'm afraid it's the same, the day these life-saving food arrives is when those black-hearted people will be fattened, - hum, this time whoever dares to touch a grain of rice for the elders of his hometown, I will tear it apart. It's impossible for him!"

　Note 1: "The person who defends Taoism" is not a derogatory term at this time, but it is a compliment to Geng Ding to study and prove Confucianism with Yang Ming's mind and seek the truth.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)