Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 345 Spring Meeting and Letter

"Brother, do you want to do a big favor to the Prince of Hai'an?"

Inside Zhang's mansion, Gu Shuyi, who just arrived yesterday, was swimming with Zhang Zhe at the same time.Originally, the two were chatting about the studies of their younger sisters, but before they knew it, Zhang Zhe brought the topic to Zhaoyang's affairs.

"Please excuse my little sister's confusion. The Wu people are dragging their errands. It is expected that Jiangnan will not have a harvest this year, and the whole county of Tuojiang will encounter a famine year. My brother said that what Wu is most afraid of now is civil unrest, so in order to prevent the refugees They will deliberately delay entering the country. And my brother is also delaying his errands, how could he get involved with Haian County King?"

Zhang Zhe treats his younger sister no better than others, especially the one who will marry into the palace in the future, he explained it very patiently.

"After all the kings were sealed, the king of Hai'an County in the east and Zhaoyang of his younger brother's family were on the front line against Wu. The military power of this dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River will move north one after another. In the next few years, the center of gravity of this dynasty will be They will all be in the north. Wu Guo is currently suffering from internal strife and civil unrest, and when they recover, the pressure on Hai'an and Zhaoyang will become extremely heavy."

Gu Shuyi listened carefully to every word of her cousin. These planning concepts in government affairs are extremely important to her future life in the palace.

"It's not that the people of Wu don't have food, it's just that they are all in the hands of the aristocratic family. The court of Wu state will definitely not let the aristocratic family take the grain to the Tuojiang River to gather slaves and divide the fields. I predict that when Wu Guo takes back the Tuojiang River, it will take the whole The county's land and population are eaten at one go."

Gu Shuyi tried to keep up with Zhang Zhe's thinking.

"So, the state of Wu can't actually help the Tuojiang River that is about to suffer from a famine? Then the king of Hai'an County?"

Zhang Zhe smiled: "Your Majesty asked the kings to attack the six countries. The mission of Zhaoyang and Hai'an is Wu Guo. The prince of Hai'an County is in Hai'an, and fifty miles west of Hai'an is the boundary of Tuojiang River. Tuojiang is the county king of Hai'an and must give priority to it." The location of the strategy. We dragged it here to give County King Hai'an a chance, a chance to win people's hearts in advance by helping the county people on the Tuojiang River."

Seeing that Gu Shuyi was still confused, Zhang Zhe finally expressed his purpose.

"If Tuojiang's people are won over by the king of Hai'an County, and Wu Guo is relieved in the future, should he first attack Zhaoyang County, which is related by marriage and is easy to defend and difficult to attack, or give priority to dealing with Hai'an, which has already extended its hand into Tuojiang County? If Tuojiang County is really conquered by King Hai'an County, Wu Kingdom will once again face the dilemma of spreading 10,000+ troops along the Tuojiang River."

Gu Shuyi suddenly realized that her cousin delayed the errand on purpose, and it turned out to be the idea of ​​letting the former prince of Zhao, now the king of Hai'an County, take the blame for Zhaoyang County.

She has also done some homework for the State of Wu recently, and she knows that Zhaoyang is the northwest gateway of the capital of the State of Wu, and Tuojiang County is the center of the northern water system of the entire State of Wu.Once Hai'an County King really attacked the county town and four counties in the north of Tuojiang River again, the entire hinterland of Wu State would be exposed to the attack range of Zheng State's water army.

The only way for the state of Wu is to spread the army along the Tuojiang River as it is now.

"The south of Tuojiang County faces the river. If I were from Wu, I would definitely take advantage of Wu's water warfare and the convenience of the Tuojiang water network, and take the Tuojiang first. On the Zhaoyang side, the waterways are narrow and single, easy to defend and difficult to attack."

Gu Shuyi had the courage to finish speaking, and then stared at Zhang Zhe's face, for fear that she might make a mistake.

"Because of this, when the younger brother and his son came to Zhaoyang, they had to work hard for a few years to build the most fundamental team first. I dragged this matter so that the king of Hai'an County could take advantage of the people of Tuojiang. In order for the Wu people to deal with the east first."

Gu Shuyi asked again: "My little sister heard that there are many counties and counties along the river that will encounter food shortages this time, and Hai'an is probably among them. How can the king of Hai'an have so much food and grass?"

"So the favor of the Eighth Prince must be done by the third younger sister to the end."

"Me?" Gu Shuyi covered her mouth in surprise.

"Tomorrow's spring meeting, apart from the local sages, I also invited the family members of Lianyang county lieutenant. This Guo county lieutenant is the concubine brother of the original Zhao Wang Liangdi. The third younger sister can only tell him this. The lady listened and told the other party that there is no food in Hai'an, but there is food in Cai Guo, which is close at hand."

"Hai'an is indeed not far from Cai Guo, but how does my brother determine that Cai Guoguo sells grain to Hai'an County King?"

"Just mention the marriage between Zheng and Wu to the Cai people, and the Cai people will open the door to the king of Hai'an County, and the food price will be frighteningly cheap."

"Think about it, in the battle between Zheng and Wu, Cai Guocai helped Wu. As a result, Wu and Da Zheng negotiated a peace marriage. Cai Guo is probably very worried at the moment. If he learns that my Zheng Guo Hai'an County King wants to close the Tuojiang River in Wu People of Cai, of course Cai Guo would like to see this happen, it would be better if the Prince of Hai'an fights directly with the Wu people! If I were from Cai, it would not matter if the prince of Hai'an couldn't afford the food for a while."

"Well, little sister remembers!"

After Zhang Zhe came to Zhaoyang, his every move has attracted people's attention.

Such a young chief officer also made some people feel worried, for fear that Zhang Xinzhi's youthful vigor would make a drastic move.But after Zhang Zhe got rid of Fang's family, apart from spring plowing and canal opening, he was busy with Wu Guo's errands.All the affairs of the county are entrusted to the subordinates, and the internal affairs of each county are also handled jointly by the county magistrate and the master book, and there is even a state of governance by doing nothing.

When the grandparents of the Gu family arrived at the Zhang family mansion in Xiushan, all the eyes of the whole county were fixed on the Zhang family mansion.

So when Zhang Zhe decided to hold the literati spring meeting for the first time, the whole county responded positively.It was the first time in Zhang Xinzhi's life that he presided over a literary meeting, and several of Zhang Xinzhi's unmarried younger sisters appeared at the meeting. These two points alone made the struggle for the participation quota reach a fever pitch.

The Wenhui was divided into two parts, inside and outside. In the inner house, including Gu Shuyi, there were a total of 36 girls who had not left the cabinet. Apart from Zhang Zhe, a few colleagues and local celebrities, a total of 72 scholars of the right age were invited to participate in the outer court.

The Zhang family's mansion is very large, and hundreds of people are divided into two places to attend the meeting, but it doesn't feel crowded at all.

Especially the so-called inner and outer courtyards are even more interesting.

It was clearly a huge courtyard with more than ten gauze screens erected in the middle, and the women headed by Gu Shuyi were all sitting behind the gauze screens.

Zhang Zhe had a nice smile on the chair, but usually he didn't speak. It was a [-]-year-old man with a dusty face who actually presided over the literary meeting for him.This person's surname is Liu and his name is Zhong, and he is the relative of the Liu family that he once mentioned to the Gu family.

This Liu Zhong and Liu Zhishi, temporarily acting as the Zuo Xuesi of the county's yamen, ran all the counties below for the spring government examination, and just returned to Xiushan to report to Zhang Zhe, but Zhang Zhe He was caught and became the host of the literary meeting.

Zhang Zhe valued this Liu family very much, just because this Liu family had been passed down for three generations, and the head of the first generation was surnamed Chi.

This Master Chi was born in a family, but broke the family and started to teach apprentices. What he taught was not only the general Confucian classics, but also the private knowledge of the family.The second-generation principal, surnamed Xu, was a disciple of Mrs. Chi. He carried forward the teacher's career, took in more than [-] apprentices, and passed on all the knowledge learned by the aristocratic family.This Liu Chong is Master Xu's disciple and son-in-law.Master Xu did not leave the family business and classics to his two sons, but to his son-in-law.

Three generations broke the sect's view and ran the school for more than [-] years, but was crazily suppressed by the local gentry.Liu Zhong and his division alone were forced into exile in Jiangbei many times.After Da Zheng returned to Zhaoyang, Liu Zhongben recommended himself to the Xuejuan Yamen to become an academic officer, but Fang Chaoli moved Liu Chong to the Fuya to organize the local chronicles of Zhaoyang in order to facilitate his own control of the government examination.

After Zhang Zhe got rid of Fang's family, he entrusted Liu Zhong with all the affairs of learning and judging the yamen.

Zhang Zhe appreciates this kind of person who truly has orthodox academic spirit and lofty educational philosophy.For example, the Fang family, Wu family, and Liu family have all proposed marriage to the Gu family.Among them, the Fang family's marriage proposal was purely for clinging, the Wu family's marriage proposal was more to oppose the Fang family, but the Liu family's marriage proposal was for his nephew and a disciple at the same time.

Everyone in the county knew Liu Chong's intention: to be greedy for Zhang Xinzhi's knowledge!
In fact, Zhang Zhe also had the idea of ​​spreading his knowledge to the world many times, but every time he had this idea, he would be brutally suppressed by the old-fashioned feudal forces.Among them, the most famous representative is Mrs. Zhang's Meng family!

In Meng's Xiaowan's view, most of the shocking knowledge in her husband's womb can only be learned by a kid who crawled out of her womb.If other people dare to covet, they will all have to be beaten to death with sticks.

In fact, Zhang Zhe also tried to persuade Meng Xiaowan in terms of academic ideas, but Mrs. Meng's methods were really clever, and she often closed the door, and Zhang Xinzhi was often convinced by SHUI in the end.

Sitting beside Liu Chong were two young men, about 13 and 15 years old, who were his nephews and disciples.Opposite Liu Chong, Wu Huai and several younger generations of the Wu family happened to be sitting.

Between the two sides, in the air that Zhang Zhe couldn't see, there should be lightning and thunder converging.

Among the Gu family sisters, in addition to the future imperial concubine Gu Shuyi, the fourth sister Hanyi and the fifth sister Qinyi attended together.

During the interaction between men and women, Gu Shuyi happened to leave occasionally, and Hanyi was questioned by too many men for a while.

Although these people were very polite, after a dozen or so questions, Han Yi, who had always been reserved, turned purple in the face.Fortunately, Qin Yi's righteousness scared the people behind her away.

Immediately, something happened that made Zhang Zhe faintly laugh!

Liu Chong's beloved 13-year-old disciple seems to have developed a great interest in the straightforward Qin Yi.

"Ask your own teacher if you don't understand, why do you ask me a daughter's family with these questions?"

"Threesomes must have my teacher! The girl's answer, Chen is looking forward to it, and also wants to see how it is different from what the teacher said."

"Co-author, is it fun for you to be my girl?"

"It should be said that the girl is willing to help others."

"This girl doesn't like to help others!"

"Chen persuaded the girl to change it~!"

"I am Zhang Xin's sister, why do you need to speak out!?"

"Brother Zun probably loves him too much, and he can't bear to teach him again. The boy persuaded him bluntly, and please Haihan."

"Woooooooh, cousin, he bullies people~!"

"Hehehehe, my lord, the kid is rude."

Zhang Zhe ignored Gu Qinyi, lowered his head, picked up a manuscript of the Wenhui, and began to review it carefully, as if he was extremely devoted.

The boy surnamed Chen suddenly cupped his hands at Zhang Zhe.

"My lord, the manuscript in your hand seems to be reversed."

Zhang Zhe was startled, and then glanced at Liu Chong again.Hey, this person surnamed Liu is not worried at all, but looks at Zhang Zhe with hope.The eyes of the master and apprentice are trying to make trouble!
"How old is the boy?"

Chen Te replied neither humble nor overbearing: "The boy is thirteen years old! He has been in school for nine years."

"So it's still a child?"

Hearing this, the young man was not angry at all, instead he said: "I heard that when you were a young man, you traveled around the countryside and had a good time, but you didn't like to go to school."

Zhang Zhe was not angry either: "Yes, at that time I taught people to like to use fists."

"My lord is now in a high position and holds a county in charge. It's not when I was a teenager." Chen Te felt a little dangerous. He first turned around and praised the other party, but then turned around and boasted again, "My lord has not long since entered school. Achievement, and the boy has only been in school for nine years, but he is only able to understand the knowledge of life. Dare to ask for advice?"

"Young man wants to ask me? He also knows how to conduct himself. The implication is that he wants me to treat you as an adult. Anyway, come here, give this young man a glass of wine and see how good he looks first," Zhang Zhe He glanced at Geng Liang.

Geng Liang understood, held back a smile and took a wine cup to the corner, poured a full glass of the 52-degree Erguotou spirits in his wine bag, and brought it to Chen Te.

Zhang Zhe smiled slightly, raised the wine cup and drank the rice wine alcohol in one gulp.

"Please!" The young Chen Te, not to be outdone, raised a wine cup that was four taels long and swallowed it down.

"Cough~~!" Gu Qinyi behind the gauze screen suddenly said.

When Chen Te heard the sound, his face flushed and he coughed violently, the kind that wouldn't stop at all.

Gu Qinyi clapped happily: "Five four three two one, that's true~~!"

The young man fell limply to the ground.

Liu Chong frowned: "My lord, it's better to use Mongolian sweat medicine?!"

Zhang Zhe smiled without saying a word, Geng Liang handed his wine bag to Liu Chong.

Liu Zhong took the wine bag, only smelled it, and immediately his eyes lit up: "Such a good wine!"

This guy raised his hand and was about to pour himself, but luckily he was snatched back by Geng Liang on the second sip.

"It's like fire like a blade, it's as violent as it is, good wine, good wine!"

Zhang Zhe was about to correct the Wenhui building that had been crooked by Liu, when Gu Shuyi's footsteps sounded behind him.

"Brother, please take another step to speak."

Inside the study.

"The prince and the son will not come to fief for the time being," Gu Shuyi lowered her voice, "The imperial concubine will keep them until the end of May, and the empress will let them leave the capital after her birthday."

Zhang Zhe didn't take it seriously: "It's probably because the imperial concubine guessed that Zhaoyang's summer harvest is not easy, so she doesn't want them to come and cause these troubles. I will leave Beijing at the end of May, and it will be July when I arrive here."

Gu Shuyi loosened and tightened the letter Yang Shangyang wrote to herself, and finally couldn't help but tell Zhang Zhe the news.

"He said that His Majesty was talking to him on the day of the Farming Festival, and suddenly fell asleep on his own. Three or four people took turns calling for half a quarter of an hour, and finally called the imperial physician. The letter said Say it, say it."

Zhang Zhe stood up abruptly: "What else did my brother say?"

"The crown prince returned to Chang'an overnight. His Majesty rested for a few days and saw you. The crown prince just left Beijing. The crown prince's coming and going has not been made public. It seems that many people don't know."

After Zhang Zhe heard the news, he frowned for a while, and didn't know what he thought of.

(End of this chapter)