Chapter 665: The Garden Party Begins
Sun Xiangfu somewhat underestimated his appeal in Shannan Province, although the news of the garden party was only released for two days, but after learning that it was open to the people for free, the people who came to see the lively people were a little unexpected.
Early in the morning of the 28th day of the new year, many officials and people in Jiangling City and even the surrounding counties dragged their families to Jiuyuan County by boat, and when the morning fog cleared, Sun Xiangfu asked the people who came to help put out the things designed in the past few days, and there were already more than 10,000 people gathered at the school gate.
"Originally, I only wanted to have an activity on the playground, but now it seems that the entire school will be used, anyway, the cost is not big, we don't have to work hard to prepare these things, just like this, Brother Strong, you send someone to inform the local people, this garden party will be held for three consecutive days, until Chinese New Year's Eve, let the people of this county try to come over tomorrow two days to watch and play, the content is the same."
Looking at the boats constantly pouring over the river and the strings of horse-drawn carriages on the main road, Sun Dali felt that this was the only way, "Then do you want me to gather some more people to come over to help in the county seat?" ”
"Okay! If you have a child at home who wants to perform on stage, just come over and help! ”
Jiuyuan County has organizational skills that are difficult to match in other places, and Sun Dali only needs to say hello to a few community directors in the county street, and he will be able to do it quickly.
Near noon, when the sun is getting warmer and warmer, hundreds of young men and women in the county have been arranged by Sun Xiangfu to arrange various places in the school, they have red scarves around their necks, and they will be in the designated position to all the people who come in to participate in the garden party, some guidance and help, as well as the kitchen girls who used to work in the food factory or food stall, also outside the canteen, set up a long row of stoves, to keep the food cooked, not far from the stove, some of the students used to use the desks for class are close together, all laid with cloths, There are a lot of nuts, dried meat, or dried fruits and other foods, as well as special milk tea hot drinks, and people who come to the garden party can eat and drink here at any time.
And at this time, the carriage of the eldest grandson Wuji also arrived, and the time was almost the time for the garden party to begin, the gate of the county school was pushed open by several people, and the flow of people under the leadership of the eldest grandson Wuji and others, like a tide, poured into the campus, as the host, Sun Xiangfu's family greeted everyone on the cement road leading to the playground in the school!
"The eldest grandson, after receiving a few cars of New Year's gifts from you, there is no good return gift, so I held a garden party, please come and play with your family, you can have a good time!"
"Hehehe, you! I always like to make some new names, but I have never disappointed, but the old man read the invitation and said that he was a guest who wore this red scarf, but he was responsible for writing couplets to the people to celebrate the New Year, so you don't want to treat the old man as a coolie. The eldest grandson Wuji said with a smile while greeting Sun Xiangfu.
"If the eldest grandson's handwriting is too good, and the people are begging for each other, then I can't stop it, your handwriting is not good, and the people will naturally not come to beg you to write Spring Festival couplets."
"I know you will say that, the old man thought about it before coming, if someone can make a good couplet on the spot, it doesn't hurt for the old man to write a few, if there is no good couplet, the old man will not write, by the way, this is a few guys in the family, the age is not young, this time we came to Jiangling to accompany me for the New Year, don't hurry up to meet Mr. Sun."
The battle of the eldest grandson Wuji today is not small, except for the lady who took care of the house in Chang'an, several concubines in the family who have the identity of the emperor, and the eleven sons of the official lord Enyin except for the eldest grandson Chong, as well as the nine daughters who have not yet married, all brought over, as for those concubines who do not have the identity of the emperor, or the children born by the orchid, maybe there are many in his family, but they are not even the concubines who can't even enter the genealogy, and they are not qualified to accompany the eldest grandson Wuji to the meeting at all.
Among them, the older ones, such as Changsun Lian, Changsun Jun, and Changsun Yan, are all eighteen or nineteen years old, and they still hold real positions, and the younger ones are Changsun Wen, Changsun Tang, Changsun Jing, etc., all of whom are sixteen or seventeen years old, just hanging a loose official identity, and the smaller Changsun Jin, Changsun Ze, and Changsun Run, are all in their teens, and they are looking around curiously.
On the whole, the sons of the eldest grandson Wuji are older than Li Shimin's sons, and in history, these sons of his have all achieved the level of high-ranking officials above the state assassin level of the fifth grade.
Since the opening of the folk school, all the people who see Sun Xiangfu, regardless of age, almost all call Sun Xiangfu Teacher Sun, which can be regarded as a kind of respect for the people who selflessly dedicate their knowledge, after all, the current teachers of the Tang Dynasty are all first-class citizens, even if they have no official position, they are also admired by the people, not to mention a good teacher like Sun Xiangfu who teaches the people practical learning for free!
The eldest grandson Wuji deliberately brought all the children with his own identity over, and deliberately said the pronunciation of the three words 'Teacher Sun', but let Sun Xiangfu guess some of his intentions, but I am afraid that there are many people among them, and the eldest grandson Wuji wants them to study with him, or, with the upcoming prince's class next year, follow him to study.
After they formed an untidy line and bowed to Sun Xiangfu as standard, Sun Xiangfu suddenly felt a resentful gaze from his side.
He knows that this must be Yu Xiu'er's, because, a few babies in his own family, compared with the battle of the eldest grandson's family, it seems too thin, according to him, his previous identity is comparable to the eldest grandson Wuji, above the court, and even often ranked in front of the eldest grandson Wuji, but when it comes to the number of children, he can't even compare with half of the others, and the eldest grandson Wuji is not the most heirs among the powerful people in the Tang Dynasty.
In this stark contrast, Sun Xiangfu felt that tonight, his task would probably be very heavy.
After they finished the ceremony, Sun Xiangfu asked the eldest grandson Wuji to take them to the park to play, anyway, the invitations for various projects are very clear, whether it is eating and drinking, or participating in any activities, they are free here, and he himself has to be at the door to greet those people who come from afar.
With the eldest grandson Wuji walked in, it was Li Ke, Li Yuanjing, Li Yuanchang, these governors who could catch up with the time, assassin level figures, after seeing the ceremony, Sun Xiangfu told them, don't patronize and play, learn more, and find some things in the future that they will use.
After that, it is the county orders of the surrounding counties, the adjutant officials of the various divisions, etc., among them, there are more wives and concubines and heirs than Sun Xiangfu, there are really a lot, of course, this is just a problem that Yu Xiuer is concerned about, the problem Sun Xiangfu sees is that in addition to the people of Jiuyuan County can stand with the officials of this county, regardless of each other, the people in other places have a natural awe of the officials, and the distance is far away. It has not been eliminated yet, so although the gate of the school is wide enough for dozens of people to enter and exit at the same time, no one dares to walk in front of these officials.
"Brother Dali, do you know what my first purpose is for holding this garden party?"
Sun Dali, who was standing not far from Sun Xiangfu to greet the people, was a little confused and said, "Isn't it just to thank the people who gave you New Year's gifts?" What other purposes? ”
All right! If Sun Xiangfu told Yu Zhen this, he would definitely understand, but Sun Dali! If you don't point out the problem and ask him to think about it, it will be difficult for him to think about it.
"Except for our Jiuyuan County, the officials and people in other places are not close. This shows that the degree of communication between these local officials and the common people is not enough, and they cannot understand and support each other, and if they are in a group, the efficiency of administration will certainly not improve, and they may turn good things into bad things because of some small misunderstandings. The purpose of holding this garden party today is to make the people and officials closer and closer, and to eliminate the barriers between these classes as much as possible. ”
In Sun Xiangfu's view, if being an official and being a farmer is only reflected in the difference in occupation, not in the difference in status, it will be perfect, however, this idea is very naïve, even if it is in the later generations, it has not been able to do it, at present, it can only be regarded as a direction of his efforts for the time being!
"I don't know anything like class separation, I only know that if they don't communicate more with the people, listen to the opinions of the people, and use the good methods that everyone has come up with to do things, they will definitely not be able to run the same as our Jiuyuan County."
"That's the reason, Brother Dali, you should go first and see their situation! With you, the county commander of the richest county in the world, as an example, if those officials are not stupid, they can see some doorways, and I will continue to be here to welcome you for a while and come in. ”
"Well, I'll let Yu Zhen arrange for the children to perform in a while, and later, the soundtrack of the art troupe will be played, and my younger brothers and sisters will have to arrange talents for me."
"I'll arrange it, husband, children, I'll leave it to you."
Although Sun Xiangfu's children are not many in this era, the headache is that they are still too young to take the big and small, even if there are Hongmei Chuntao and Yao Hongsleeve Li Xiangdie four people following Sun Xiangfu, they just put Sun Xun, Sun Ang, Sun Kang, and Sun Wanxia A few smaller guys in their arms to watch the excitement, Sun Xiangfu himself, but also take care of Sun Jing, Sun Feng, Sun Wanting, Sun Wanyu A few little guys who always like to run around, not long after, the people at the door are almost in, Sun Xiangfu is one big and four small, Holding hands in a row, followed by four concubines holding children, they entered the playground together.
"Daddy told you, in school! It's not about reading and writing, there are a lot of other fun things for you to learn, and you can also make a lot of good friends, look here, these beautiful paper-cuts, are the school's brothers and sisters, cut out when they take handicraft classes, do you think it's beautiful? And here, these castles and houses made of building blocks are the masterpieces of the older brothers and sisters when they were in extracurricular activities, how about it, beautiful······"
Colorful, all kinds of colored paper cut into flowers, birds, fish and insects, cute beasts, not only attracted the attention of a few little guys of the Sun family, but also attracted the attention of a lot of people, they have passed in front of these stalls in a row in the playground, in front of each stall there will be a lot of students wearing school uniforms with scissors and colored paper, around a few tables to cut paper, from time to time, they will cut out their works, to the onlookers, if there are people who have a special like, you can designate them to cut, as long as they wait here to cut it and take it away.
Even, some students in front of the desks directly use colored paper to make windmills and other suggested toys for those children who were brought by adults to visit the garden.
As for the building blocks of different shapes, they are piled up on a huge carpet like a hill, and there are many students from Jiuyuan County School, who are really on the scene to build houses and castles for the onlookers, and there are many people who have built and are relatively beautiful finished products.
But not only those ordinary people, like the eldest grandson Wuji, the court bigwigs, but also watched with relish on the side, those children built houses with building blocks, different shapes, there are a lot of indescribable beauty, to him who has been in charge of construction in Shannan Province for two years, a lot of inspiration, he thinks, if he saw the house built by these building blocks earlier, then, the current Jiangling City, will definitely be much more beautiful.