Prime Minister

Chapter 1 Dreams
Fujian Road, Jianzhou.

This place is full of mountains and waters, and it is in the April and May seasons, and the mountains are full of green.The stream flows down the mountain, rides on the high waves, touches the rocks and flows, and the water reaches the bottom of the mountain to receive streams from the east and west, and it is collectively called Nanpu Stream.

The Nanpu Stream is as clear as a mirror, winding and flowing down the stream to Pucheng County.

The Nanpu River surrounds the county seat and passes through the south gate of the county town. The upper part is Baiyun Lake. The stream is rushing and rushing. At this point, it is clear and deep. It also converges with the water flowing in the east and turns west. The mallard bathing pool is colored indigo, and the floating water is green. It is named after the dots are like mallards.

Between the two pools, there is a Changhong across the middle to connect the county town.

There is a residential area in the south of Shuinanqiao called Shuinan New Street.

The street is surrounded by mountains in the south and waters in the north. Standing here and looking to the west, there is a lonely mountain surrounded by ring barriers, surrounded by fields and fields.

During the Six Dynasties, the great genius Jiang Yan was the magistrate of Pucheng County, where he dreamed of the five-color pens granted by the gods. Later, the mountain was renamed Mengbi Mountain.

At this moment, in a building facing the street on Shuinan New Street, Mengbi Mountain can be seen from the window.

A 12-year-old boy named Zhang Yue said to himself: "Everyone says this is time travel, but if it comes, let it be! But why don't I have a system?"

Having said that, Zhang Yue raised his head to the sky 45 degrees and sighed for a while.

I am not a successful entrepreneur, official or a successful person, why did you choose me?
Zhang Yue has two older brothers, the eldest brother's name is Zhang Shi, and his son runs the family shop following his father's business.

The second elder 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, which is the official school in the county, and was appreciated by the county magistrate Chen Xiang.

Zhang Xu was also outstanding in the county school, and even when the school was on leave, he ordered Zhang Xu to teach the students of the official school for himself.

Zhang Xu's talent name in the county needless to say, everyone in the family has expectations, and all the matchmakers in the past few years have stepped over the threshold.Later, Zhao Yasi in the yamen was disturbed, and he gave three hundred dowry money to betrothed his daughter to the Zhang family.

To be able to talk about such a marriage, it is natural for the Zhang family, who is a side branch of the big clan, to ask for it.Before Zhang's father died of illness, he promised to come down for Zhang Xu.

This was an excellent marriage for both of them.

But in the night of the bridal chamber, Zhang Xu disappeared. Everyone searched and searched but couldn't find him, but they found a note in his study.

In the letter, it was written, 'How can I marry the daughter of a swordsman and a writer when Donghua takes the name? '

Zhang Xu disappeared, and there was no news.

Some say he went to Beijing, some say he ran away from home and met a robber halfway, some say he was so fascinated by a certain brothel woman that he abandoned his wife and home...

And Zhao Yasi, who encountered escape from marriage, was also furious.A judge may not even be regarded as an official, but his power can be said to be spread throughout the county.

Hearing that he had offended Zhao Yasi, the old servant who had been with the Zhang family for many years left first, and before leaving, he swept away some tenderness.

Immediately afterwards, the shop assistants who had been operating in the city for decades by the Zhang family resigned one after another, until one day they somehow caught fire. Not only did they suffer a lawsuit, but they lost a lot of money.

Zhang Yue, who was studying in a private school, was expelled and expelled from school because of his private collection of erotic paintings.

Now Zhang Yue is not only out of school at home, but also in disrepute.

In the few days after Zhang Yue's time-travel, he learned of this start, so he could not wait to sleep again so that he could go back through time.So Zhang Yue feigned sleep against the wall until he heard the creaking footsteps from the stairs, and then the sound of the curtains being rolled up.

Sitting behind him alone, he said, "Third brother, it's been sunburnt for three poles, and he's still lying on the bed."

Listening to the sound, Zhang Yue knew that it was his eldest brother Zhang Shi.

Zhang Yue understood that it was also very sad to have such a second brother on the stall.The other party is Father Zhang, the love of the eldest brother and the attention of the whole family. He has been suppressed under the light of the second brother since childhood.

Both father and brother worked hard to train their second brother, and invited famous scholars to advise him.As the youngest child in the family, although Zhang Yue did not have such good educational resources as his second brother, his father and brother still doted on him very much, and simply did not want him to suffer from studying, and he was a little lethargic.

Zhang Yue likes to make friends all day long, go out to eat, drink and have fun. Anyway, there is a second brother at home who can read.

Reading is hard, you eat, and I will enjoy it in the future. Ruyi's abacus is very good!
But now...

Zhang Yue can understand his brother's mood at the moment. The most proud brother has escaped from marriage, and the other brother is so ineffective. This family is all supported by him alone. Looking up, who can he count on?

Zhang Yue couldn't sleep anymore, pretending to just wake up, rubbing his eyes and saying, "Brother, you're back."

The eldest brother Zhang Shi is only 23 years old this year.This modern person is just starting to work, but Zhang Shi has been running the shop for his family for ten years.And this shop was burnt down a while ago, and the Zhang family even suffered a lawsuit to lose more than half of their net worth, which really made him emaciated a lot.

The bitterness and exhaustion covered Zhang Shi's face: "Third brother, don't sleep anymore."

"Yes." Zhang Yue got up.

"Are you hungry," Zhang Shi asked, "I'll cook some soup for you. I haven't eaten since I was busy all morning."

The family's meals were taken care of by domestic servants, but the two servants had already left, one of them swept away some tenderness, and the other refused to leave, but the elder brother insisted on letting him go home and avoid it for fear of being implicated.Zhang Shi's wife and children also went back to Jianyang's father-in-law's house to avoid the limelight.

Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "Brother, you're not hungry."

Zhang Shi said: "If you are not hungry, you should eat some. I will buy two suet pancakes."

After speaking, Zhang Shi went downstairs to fetch it. When he came back, Zhang Yue was already wearing a boy's shirt.

Zhang Shi patted the folds of his shirt for Zhang Yue, and then handed the suet cake wrapped in oiled paper to him.

The two brothers had one piece each, and Zhang Yue was so hungry for some reason that his stomach was burning like a fire.

Zhang Shi broke a piece of himself in half 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 outstanding as my second brother, but I always wanted you to learn how to be a scholar. I don't know (Look at Yanben, Zhang Yue filled the words for his brother in his heart) ...You have to eat some more energy, don't have to stay in bed all day, read as long as you can, the family can only count on you! I was not the material for reading back then, and I can only go in the wind and rain all day in these years. But like my second brother, I study as much as I can, and now..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Shi's eyes couldn't help turning red, and he pressed the back of his hand to his face.

Zhang Yue said: "Brother, I used to be ignorant. Now this mess, let's fight it together."

Zhang Shi nodded, and then told Zhang Yue about Zhang Xu's escape from marriage.

"Sai Weng's loss of horses is not a blessing, but it makes sense. Your second brother is good at reading, and even his predecessor, Lingjun, appreciates him. Over the years, our family has really touched him a lot. The second brother has come a long way. Shun, and self-confidence is that scholars look down on subordinate officials, so there is the matter of escaping from marriage."

"But can Zhao Yasi be an ordinary subordinate official? The extravagant people in this county, not to mention the top and bottom of the yamen, even the king should respect him three points."

"Speaking of our Zhang family, we only have some surplus money. Zhao Yasi married me, intending to focus on the future of the second brother. But the second brother has been studying for a few years, but he doesn't take people seriously."

Zhang Yue said: "Brother, it's okay for me to be expelled from the private school, and it's okay for my reputation to be damaged, but he can't send someone to burn down our shop. How could he cover the sky with one hand?"

Zhang Shi shook his head and said: "In normal times, Zhao Yasi is unreasonable, and he is justified this time. Don't say that he secretly instructed people to burn our shop, even if an open fire came to burn, no one in the county would say a word to him. no."

Zhang Yue said: "Brother, if the county does not advocate it, can we sue the state. If the state does not advocate it, we will sue the criminal department! The law is bigger than human favor?"

Zhang Shi said: "If we file a lawsuit in the prefecture, the criminal justice department will definitely advocate for us? We have no way out. Besides, there are people in the county for Zhao Yasi. Is there no one in the prefecture and the criminal department? You I can only talk to me behind closed doors. If it gets to Zhao Yasi's ears, our Zhang family is afraid... Even if we win, what good is there? As long as Zhao Yasi is in power for one day, Our troubles will never end in the future."

The Song Dynasty really looked down on the subordinate officials.Ordinary scholars would not become officials if they were not forced to do anything.

After becoming an official, there is basically no hope of promotion.Zhang Yue remembered that someone on the forum had criticized such a system, believing that such a system caused local subordinate officials to have no sense of responsibility, just wanting to make a fortune and not seeking career advancement at all, leading to the corruption of official governance.

In the Water Margin, Song Jiang, as an arraigner, seems to be arrogant, but in fact, he is still an official, and the official is still the identity of the common people.He committed a crime, and no matter how the county excused him, he would be tattooed on his face.And officials do not need tattooing when committing crimes, because the doctor cannot be punished.

Conversely, the officials seem to be nothing special, but in fact, in the local area, it is a situation of 'the officials are weak and the officials are strong'.The local officials selected by the imperial court to manage the local subordinates were rarely able to avoid being deceived.There is a saying that 'the officials look at the three-day official, and the official looks at the ten-day official'.Officials are mobile, but subordinates are immobile.

Therefore, once the subordinate officials have obtained the qualifications for promotion, the officials will not be able to fight against these subordinate officials in local governance.Therefore, the imperial court used a humble name and a way of not allowing promotion to suppress the subordinate officials.

The second brother Zhang Yue only knew that he looked down on the subordinate officials, but he didn't know that he couldn't afford to offend him at all.Even if the other party is an ordinary family, the operation of escaping from marriage in the bridal chamber is not something normal people can do.

If you run away, you run away, and you leave a letter behind. Isn't this obviously beating Zhao Yasi in the face?After all, Zhao Yasi is a leader of the county officials. If he doesn't take revenge against your Zhang family, he will have no way to gain a foothold in the county in the future.

The most important thing is that people have been occupying the position of Yasi for a long time.

If you offend the magistrate, you will endure for a few years, but if you offend the magistrate?This position can be passed down from father to son.

Zhang Shi said: "Your second brother has been in the limelight these years. How many people are waiting to see our Zhang family's jokes, and there are many people who are waiting to fall into trouble. I've said all the soft words on the Zhao family's side. I have begged and asked someone to talk, but so far I haven't even seen Zhao Yasi's face. I think he is determined this time and won't let our Zhang family go."

"Brother, is it really our Zhang family's fault this time? Didn't the second brother make any news?"

Zhang Shi shook his head and said: "Your second brother was wrong a few days ago. I asked him how he was doing, but he didn't want to say that there must be a secret about this matter, but now that the second brother doesn't know where it is, it doesn't make sense for us to make any sense. "

Zhang Yue couldn't help but stop.

Speaking of this, Zhang Shi lifted his spirits and said: "But there is no way out, you don't have to be too sad, let's go to Jianyang to join me in Mount Tai. But it's good for me to go there, but you have to rely on others. As a last resort, I don't want to leave my hometown. You have to cheer up in the future. My father and second brother are all respected scholars, if you are a scholar Zhao Yasi, you will definitely not dare to take you!"

Having said that, Zhang Shi's words are full of expectations and encouragement.He encouraged his two younger brothers to study hard because he was not a material for reading, which was also justified.

Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel relieved when he thought of this.

Song Taizu said, 'The prime minister needs to use scholars', and the whole country of the Song Dynasty began to emphasize literature and disregard martial arts.

Although the weak Song Dynasty is known as a "big gift" in later forums, the problems of the aristocratic family usurping the government and the warlords' separatism have been resolved in the past 1000 years.

Therefore, it is the most ideal way out for the examination of imperial examinations.And the second brother Zhang Xu relied on reading to prove the Tao, and gradually embarked on the road of marrying Bai Fumei.If it wasn't for escaping from marriage, it would still be a role model from his brother's neighbors, a child from someone else's family.

As for Zhang Yue, who spent years in Tieba forums before crossing the border, it can be said that he has a lot of knowledge and knowledge, and he has a good ability to govern the country with one click. Even without the help of the system, he still has to show his skills.

Work hard to change the fate of your family and yourself, and see what happens now.

Zhang Yue confidently searched for books from the bookcase. These are the books that the second brother has read over the years.He chose a book of Mencius, intending to read it seriously, but cruelly found that he could not understand classical Chinese with the perfect language level of the three majors.

Sad reminder!

But it's okay!

Where there is a will, things come true!

There was a reluctant and unyielding smile on the corner of Zhang Yue's mouth: "It's okay if you don't understand, just memorize it first."

So the sound of reading aloud sounded upstairs.

Mencius met with King Hui of Liang.

The king said that the old man is not far away, and there will be someone who will benefit my country. Mencius said to the king, why should the king say that there is also benevolence and righteousness...

Zhang Yue sighed while reading. Although he didn't understand what it meant, it was worthy of being a sage's words. Every word he read was very powerful. When he read it, he felt very powerful. It was really worth memorizing and trying to figure it out.

So Zhang Yue read more and more attentively... After half an hour, he was already lying on the table and slumbering.

In the past few days, Zhang Yue always dreamed that a five-colored sparkling magic pen was spinning around his head.

Suddenly this brush stroked in front of him, as if an ink painting was split in front of him, and ripples swayed in circles.

A scene appeared in front of him, but he saw an old man dressed in a simple way holding this pen and saying to a young official: "I have a five-color pen in my arms, which I borrowed from you today, and he will get it back next year. "

"Student Jiang Yan thanks God for giving the pen, don't know God's name?"

The old man smiled and said, "I am Zhang Jingyang too!"

Is this an allusion to Jiang Yan?Zhang Yue, who was beside him, was 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: "Writing can teach people to be good, and it can also lead people to be evil. You should choose the good ones and follow them!"

"Students take note."

After speaking, the official held this pen and made a few dots, but seeing that there was no paper in the air, several flowers bloomed from the ground.

The official slashed into the void with a pen again, and the whole person was invisible.

Only the old man was left in front of him.

The old man pondered for a while, and seemed to say to himself: "There are only you and me here, what do you want?"

Zhang Yue knew that he was in a dream, but he didn't understand who the old man was talking to.

But see the old man looking at him.

Zhang Yue was startled, as if the person inside suddenly looked at him while watching TV, which was really terrifying.

The old man smiled and said, "My pen has been given to Jiang Yan, what do you want?"

"Me." Zhang Yue found himself speechless.

The old man looked up at the sky, but saw the stars and rivers hanging upside down in the sky, and the stars all over the sky were dazzling.

The night wind blew the corner of the old man's clothes: "Since you and I are here together, I will give this to you! You should keep this sentence in your heart, 'The world's affairs, the heart of a young man, the dream is clear and deep'."

After finishing speaking, the old man stretched out his hand and pointed to himself.

At this moment, Zhang Yue suddenly lost his feet and fell from a height of ten thousand feet.

When Zhang Yue woke up, he saw the stars outside the window and the fishing fires on the creek.

Zhang Yue's eyes widened, staring at the book on the desk, and found a terrible thing, am I not reading?Why did you fall asleep again?
Is it really good to open the book...sleep?
What book is this reading?Early to learn the sea is boundless and turn back to the shore!

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue abruptly stood up, suddenly stunned, why the matter just now was so real.

Zhang Yue thought it was very funny, but when he stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat and closed his eyes, he realized that what he saw in the dream about the old man's experience was vivid in his mind, and he remembered it very clearly.

Zhang Yue was startled. After waking up, most people would forget most of the events in their dreams. How could they be like themselves, as if a video had been recorded and stored on a hard drive, which was their brain.

Could it be that what I just experienced was not a dream?

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