Chapter 21 Family Affairs, State Affairs, and World Affairs

In the small warm pavilion covered by candlelight, the chestnut in Jia's mother's hand stretched out to her mouth: "I remember in a trance that Cong'er is going to study with a teacher today?" ”

The slender jade hand that the mandarin duck kneaded the old man's shoulder slowed down and said with a smile: "The old lady is going to send something over?" ”

Jia Mu hesitated slightly, and finally said, "No need! ”

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In the west courtyard of Jia Yuyuan, not long after the young couple woke up, Wang Xifeng was lying lazily on his side, the pink placket was accompanied by the unevenness of his delicate body, undulating: "My brother is going to study, you are the elder brother, don't go and see, what do you give?" ”

Jia Lian had already figured out that his wife had the temperament to talk the opposite, and pretended not to understand: "Didn't the eldest master ask Brother Zhen to arrange it on his behalf?" Besides, with Brother Rong and the Qin family from Dongfu, there is no way out. ”

The morning is full of vitality, Jia Lian grabbed her bulging two groups from behind, a rich son like him, the wife, the girl, and the prostitute who is entertaining outside, who does not refuse, read countless women, Dong Xuanzi, Su Nujing, recruit will play, and everything is perfect, reaching the peak, and there is a late entry at the moment.

Wang Xifeng's beautiful eyes were half closed, her lips were slightly open, and she couldn't breathe: "Lighter, wrongdoer...... I'm going to die......"

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The delicate and small Jia Amnesty Courtyard, Jia Cong came out to say goodbye, at the door of his own bandit hall, Qingwen packed up properly, and nodded thoughtfully: "Well, the master is going to the Toad Palace to win the laurels and make steady progress!" ”

"Qingwen, take care of the house." Jia Cong didn't have anything to say to her.

In fact, if there are outsiders, Jia Cong can't call Qingwen by her name.

The things that the old lady rewarded, even cats and dogs, were very noble.

Dream of Red Mansions Jia Baoyu called the name of the attacker and Qingwen, Lin Zhixiao's family heard it, and taught Jia Baoyu a lesson, and the big girl can call Baoyu's name, which is another custom, in order to call her name directly, so as to make a living, this rule is what Musk Yue said to Shen'er and her mother, Musk Yue girl, a little expert in quarreling with Red Mansions.

However, outsiders can't hear it, it's okay, otherwise, Jia Cong will call Qingwen "sister".

"Oops, got it." Qingwen rolled her eyes delicately, handed over the hand stove, waved her hand, Sun Fu picked up her luggage, and went straight to the West Mansion through the hall and the West Corner Gate.

The green parrot flapped its wings: "Qingwen, take care of your home." ”

With a squeak, the wind blew in the west wing, and the three big characters of "Bandit Jiantang" in the study slurry fell half of it diagonally downward.

"What is this omen? I don't know ...... good luck and evil" Qingwen looked back, her hands were folded, there were words in her mouth, the sweat towel was swinging, a pigtail was blown to the earrings that fell, and the painting was like walking in the wall.

The parrot said, "Qingwen, the lights are out." ”

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The topography of Zhili Hebei, the Beijing division is the throat, the Taihang Mountain crisscrosses the west, Yanshan, Bauhinia Pass, Juyong Pass, Shanhaiguan lock the northern gate, the east borders the Bohai Sea, the south reaches Henan, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is directly repaired to the outer city of Dongbianmen, Chaoyangmen, of which the outer city is divided into five procuratorates in the east, west, south, north and middle, the imperial history is consulted, and the five cities are in charge of environmental sanitation, thief arrest, patrol public security, etc.

Jiafu lives in the west city, Qin Mansion lives in the south city, and the pattern of Dashun Beijing: rich in the east and expensive in the west, poor in the south and cheap in the north.

Jia Cong, Jia Rong, Qin Keqing, Ruizhu, Baozhu, Sun Fu and others, when they set off, the east was still the morning light and slight dew, the morning glow was like the silk cloth dyed by the Weaver Girl, mixed with the colorful stones of the Wa Emperor's family, beautiful, but there were some hours on the thirty-mile road, and the wheels were rolling, adding bricks and tiles to the crown of this throat, and when they arrived at the Qin Mansion, it was already past the middle of the day.

At the intersection of the alley, a rather dilapidated double beast ring gate, the lower right corner of the three stairs, is a dusty dismounted stone, it can be seen that the owner here, I am afraid that the car car is not used.

"If Master Qin is seriously ill, I won't be able to come at the right time." Jia Cong got out of the carriage, looked up, and looked down at the dismounted stone: "When you go to the Ministry of Industry to sit in the hall, it won't be walking, right?" ”

"It's not in the way, my father is just old, his hands and feet don't listen to orders, and he is not seriously ill, and he still makes it possible to move his mouth. My father didn't keep horses at home, so he went to Guanxiang to hire a car to walk on his behalf, and then walked a little way home. Qin Keqing said with a smile.

Jia Rong echoed: "Old Taishan is a clean official. ”

"Rare." Jia Cong took two words.

The young couple looked at each other and smiled, not that his words were funny, but that this kind of old and serious attitude was shown from the young man, which was not common, Qin Keqing suspected that he had contempt, but he was relieved now.

Jia Congxin said: "There are some old-school red scholars in the Qing Dynasty who say that Qin Keqing 'poor girls have to live in rich rooms', but now that I have seen it with my own eyes, it still makes sense. It's just that...... The Ministry of Industry, that is the modern Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Water Resources, Qin Yetangtang is the leader of the Camp and Renovation Division, if you want to get some oil and water, it is not difficult, right? Therefore, he is not an ordinary Qing official, he must be too clean, this kind of person is not easy to get along with......"

The Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as this Shun Dynasty, the official's Yulu is not in line with reality, take a Qipinzhi County as an example, a year's Yulu hovers around thirty taels, thirty taels, food and clothing are enough, but the official's honor guard must be right? The sedan chair driver wants to be raised, right? Do you want to marry a wife and concubine? If you don't have money, who will do things for you? Superiors want bribes, right? The officialdom gentry want to socialize...... Three hundred taels is not enough.

Therefore, many local officials are greedy for ink from fire consumption, and the court turns a blind eye, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence, so what should Beijing officials do? Generally, it is a gift from local officials entering Beijing.

However, this kind of gift also depends on the person, what is the department of the Ministry of Industry? The tail of the six! The magistrates want to run, and most of them are also officials.

However, the project cost is not difficult to intercept a little, look at the Yellow River governance of my Qing Dynasty, if you want to say that there is no layer of corruption, ghosts do not believe it.

If Qin Ye is a rigid person like Hai Rui, Jia Cong is ready to leave, not to instigate the greed for ink, if the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if the person is observed, there will be no disciples, ancient and modern, this kind of rigid person, of course, is a good person, but he is often nitpicky and will not be flexible, if he is a teacher, forget it.

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There is only one middle-aged old housekeeper in Qin Mansion, called Qin Tong, Qin Ye instructed him to arrange the room, the courtyard is an old courtyard, Jia Cong heard the old housekeeper say, it was more than 30 years ago, the old man Qin went north from Jinling, and rented it when he participated in the Autumn Festival, and rented it for a few years, before he saved money to buy it, and then the laundry and cooking were all done by his wife and aunt, and then those people passed away, and these housework were all Qin Tong's.

Think about the Red Mansion, Qin Ye sent Qin Zhong to school, and twenty taels had to be scraped together, not to mention that compared with Jiafu, the minions of Jiafu were ten times richer than Qin Ye, like Lai Mama and Zhou Rui's ......

More than 1,000 years ago, Du Fu had already seen the gap between the rich and the poor: Zhumen wine and meat stink, there were frozen bones on the road, prosperity and withering were close to each other, and melancholy was difficult to describe.

Jia Rong gave a gift to her father-in-law, then said goodbye and left, Qin Keqing prepared to stay for a few days, rested in the ear room, Jia Cong waited for them to finish chattering, and then brought gifts to apprentice.

Watching as a guest for a while, he could see that Qin Ye was also kind when he spoke, so he didn't leave rashly.

In ancient times, Jia Cong offered red beans, red dates, lotus seeds, celery, and dried lean pork strips, implying good luck, early high school, painstaking education, diligence and studiousness, plus thirty taels of gifts.

Qin Ye received the gift tremblingly, helped up Jia Cong, who was kneeling, and looked at Jia Yu and Jia Zhen's prayers, silently, he wanted to return the gift, but he couldn't take out a decent gift, and his face was embarrassed.

Jia Cong looked at his square face, Chinese face, crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and his thin body, and said busily: "The teacher's preaching, teaching, and solving doubts are the best gifts for students. ”

Easily resolve the embarrassment in front of him, Qin Ye's face looked better, at first he was still worried, after all, the children of rich families, afraid of being spoiled, he stroked his beard and said: "I won't talk about Shiwen today, I will teach you tomorrow, although the teacher is surrounded by four walls, embarrassed and bleak, but he is also a Jinshi, the court is clear, and the way of the eight-strand art, you can rest assured, if you are humble and diligent, you will have a successful day." ”

The room where they were talking was a hall, Qin Keqing was in the right ear room, talked to his younger brother Qin Zhong, and came out to ask for a meeting, listening to this old man talking about the affairs of the family and the country, Qin Keqing's lotus step stopped, and said in his heart: "Daddy is really, he is always talkative, Uncle Cong is a child, how can he know anything about the court, his old man is a little bit of a rubber pillar." ”

Qin Ye said eloquently: "Yongding River flooding, the Ministry of Industry has its own rules to deal with, this year is also ominous, in previous years are the summer and autumn of the water, for the teacher to think, is a blessing and misfortune from heaven, indicating the birth of unexpected, it is not known." In addition to stabilizing the embankment, Shuntianfu relief is also a big deal, oh, I forgot, have you roughly read the subset of scriptures and histories, do you understand these things? ”

This old man is talkative and forgetful, it stands to reason that Jia Cong's age, he is already a great talent when he reads through the four books, and the history books and sub-books are far away, but Jia Cong is trying to get his other treatment and teach the art of making, and he doesn't want Qin Ye to perfunctory promises, so he thought about it and said: "Yicang and Chang Ping are not advisable." ”

"Oh?" Qin Ye was surprised: "This is the common law of the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties to relieve the victims, why is it not advisable?" ”

Jia Cong said: "During the Sui Dynasty, the eldest grandson Ping used Yicang, which was very effective, and in the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi opened a regular position and the Qingmiao method, the ideas and original intentions of the ancestors were good, but they were a drop in the bucket. ”

Qin Ye's interest increased: "What do you think?" ”

Jia Cong sat down and drank a cup of tea to moisten his throat, the tea was not as good as the top of Jiafu, but he didn't mind: "Teacher, please allow students to come together, Wang Bo of the early Tang Dynasty "Preface to King Teng's Pavilion" said: Qu Jia is friendly in Changsha. In fact, is Jia Yi really wronged? The students think that it is not all, looking at the performance of Jia Yi and Dong Zhongshu, it can be seen that they harm the interests of the powerful and seek benefits for the world, which will not work, in the eyes of today's people, it can be described as stupid, of course, it is no wonder that Jia Yi and others, the students' arguments are also hindsight. ”

Qin Ye smiled and listened intently.

Jia Cong continued: "Anshi's Qingmiao method and Chang Ping are another matter, and its harm lies in the failure of the executive department, including Yicang, which is all government-run. Teacher, think about it, first, the separation between the government and the people, it has always been the feelings of our Chinese people, and the common people, how dare they trade with the officials? This is the first non-workability of government relief. ”

"Second, the upper and lower hands of the officials, corruption and perversion of the law, the "Book of the Later Han" contains, the Qin and Han dynasties implemented the county system, and the scholars are all known, however, the common people only know the husband, but not the county."

[Sifu: Grassroots officials of the Qin and Han dynasties, equivalent to Lijia and Baozheng in the Ming and Qing dynasties, modern civil servants. 】

"In this way, relief becomes exploitation, and good intentions do bad things."

Later, Zhu Zi (Zhu Xi) proposed a social warehouse, which achieved great results. The substantive difference between the social warehouse and the righteous warehouse lies in the government-run and private-run enterprises. The private social warehouse is naturally initiated by the official, but the actual operation power must be in the hands of the common people first. In this way, first, the common people have less fear in their hearts and will definitely be eager to borrow. Second, for the country and the imperial court, there will be benefits, which is really a double win. ”

Qin Ye nodded slightly: "According to what you said, Shecang is perfect?" ”

Zhu Xi's social warehouse at that time was very successful, but whether it was political strategy or doing something, it was never perfect.

"Not really." Jia Cong shook his head: "The student said before that the executive department is the first priority, and the social warehouse was originally run by the private government, and slowly, it will fall into the hands of the gentry, and finally become controlled by the officials, so the final decision on success or not depends on whether the executor is greedy or not." ”

"That's true." Qin Ye sighed, seeing that Jia Cong was becoming more and more pleasing to the eye, this first time, Jia Cong's political ideas coincided with him, Qin Ye was shocked: "This person is so smart!" I've got the most treasure! If he is carefully taught, he will rise to the top in the future, and he is expected to become a generation of clear stream leaders. ”

From Jia Cong's point of view, there is one principle that must not be ignored in all relief undertakings: the amount of relief must be lower than the level of relief that can be relieved.

Why? Black Heart? There's a lot of doorway in this.

For example, soup porridge relief victims, a feeding is the next policy, feeding half full is the best, you know, hard work and simplicity is only the side of the people, the people, will also be treacherous, unpredictable. There is one person who practices this principle better: Li Wei, the governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty.

Qin Ye was overjoyed, he was impressed by the students, he didn't care, Han Yue had already taught, the disciple did not have to be inferior to the teacher, the teacher did not have to be better than the disciple, there was a precedence in hearing the Tao, and there was a specialization in the art industry, and that was it.

Qin Keqing, who was on the side, sighed silently when she heard it, she was a knowledgeable woman, the better Jia Cong was, the more unbearable other men in Jiafu became, especially her husband Jia Rong, Qin Keqing was very unhappy, and the more she thought about it, the more bored she became.