Yang Jiao, who was busy outside, had some things to go back to the county office, and Qian Sanscar, who was in a hurry on the road, walked together.

When he arrived at the gate of the county office, Qian Sanscar suddenly stopped, "What's wrong?" Yang Jiao, who was looking down and thinking about things, understood the reason for the matter as soon as he raised his head.

In front of the county yamen gate, the county ordered Tang Chengcheng to stand at the gate, Yang Jiao understood the reason why Qian Sanscar was like this at a glance, he was not because he saw the county lord suddenly stopped, the county was not terrible, the terrible thing was that the county was staying!

Stay, it's damn! These days, the county lord has always shown a calm and condensed appearance in front of people, even in the most difficult situation, and even in other words, this Tang Xianzun is simply a typical young man.

Can you imagine such a person? Not to mention that this is still at the gate of the county government in front of the public, then no, the old man of the door is not hiding in the gatehouse to peek at Tang Xianzun, and his wrinkled face has a novel and strange expression.

Such an image is not too good for a county order, Yang Jiao stepped forward in a few steps, "Lord Mingfu, this is ......."

"Ah, Mr. Yang is back. Qian always catches, what are you stupid standing by? Tang Cheng withdrew his eyes from the side of the street in front of Yaqian, Ashdezhi's car had long since disappeared, naturally, the ten-year-old An Lushan was also gone, "It's nothing."

Just sent Ashide away".

Ashide is just a businessman, and he is still from a nine-surnamed Zahu, what can he do to make Tang County so fascinated? This thought flashed through Yang Jiao's mind, "Oh, what did he say when he came over this time?" ”。

"He is our god of wealth, he wants money, money, food, and food", Tang Cheng shook his head and temporarily threw aside the shadow of Xiao Ding Nan An Lushan, and laughed: "The matter he said this time is too big, and it can't be decided by a trip." But sir, you have to be prepared, as soon as the New Year is over, you will have to be very busy, and it will not be an easy job to settle the tens of thousands of people with the surname Hu who have moved over."

Walking side by side with Tang Cheng, Yang Jiao was really frightened when he heard this. Half a step behind the two people, Qian Sanscar also had a big mouth. This...... The county lord is really speechless, and he is endless.

"Tens of thousands? Or the Jiuhu people? ”。 After the shock. Yang Jiao calmed down, and caught up with Tang Cheng, who was waiting for him with a smile two steps ahead. "Your Excellency. Nine surnamed Hu people are no better than other races. Not to mention tens of thousands. Think again, adults! Don't say anything else. The Yamen can support the current scene is the limit. There is simply no room for such a big thing."

"The places that can come this time are all from some family origins, surnamed Hu. They are here to pay taxes and spend money. Rest assured, sir. The county government only has benefits, and it does not add any burden." Longmen originally had only 50,000 people. Even if you add the family of Tiancheng Army, the 20,000 people are only 70,000. 70,000 li minus more than 20,000 in the grassland. The rest of the land is forty or fifty thousand people. A county of 40,000 or 50,000 people suddenly poured into the same number of people with huge spending power. So what should this county look like? Come to think of it. Tang Cheng had a heartfelt smile on his face. "Mr. Yang. Give me another three years. Maybe...... It's not been three years. This county will be able to build Longmen into a pearl in the north. Kanwai Jiangnan".

Yang Jiao could feel Tang Cheng's words. However, he still said in a down-to-earth manner: "It's Jiuhu that adults want to move into. I'm afraid that the local people ......".

"That's why I'm going to find them a place to live. They do not mingle with the people of the Tang Dynasty. It is also impossible to buy or sell Tang land for five years. Even the tax is two percent higher than that of the Tang people. How can this also appease and appease the people's hearts? After waiting for five years, the Tang people had more contact with the nine surnamed Hu. There is a lot of convergence of interests. Maybe they won't hate these nine surnamed Hu people anymore." That's it. Tang Cheng smiled. "Even if it's still annoying. For the sake of money and a good life, I have to endure it."

"Adults ......".

Seeing that Yang Jiao was going to say more, Tang Cheng smiled and shook his hand, "This matter is not conclusive, what does Mr. have to say, and I will talk about it when I want to implement this matter in the next year, I am in a good mood now, and I really don't want to let these trivial details be disturbed."

With a slight smile, Tang Cheng, who was walking towards the Yanei, did not look at the road under his feet, but focused his eyes on the vast sky on the house in front of him, which made his leisurely voice also carry a few touches of the artistic conception of the vast and empty sky, "I want to make Longmen ten thousand acres of fertile land and caravans like weaving; I want to keep Longmen Road unforgotten, never closed at night, clothed and fed, and able to live in peace even though I am widowed and lonely; I want everyone who comes to Longmen to marvel at the prosperity here, and I want every Longmen people to know and remember that there was once a county commander named Tang Cheng who did everything here."

"Once you enter the Dragon Gate, it is heaven!" After Tang Cheng said this sentence in a high-spirited manner, he suddenly stopped his slow steps, turned around and stared at Yang Fu tightly with a pair of radiant eyes, "Mr. Yang, you say!" Can I do it? ”。

Without waiting for Yang Jiao to answer, his eyes turned to Qian Sanscar again, "You say, can this official do it?" ”。

Tang Cheng's words are bloody, and Qian Sanscar's heart is also hot, Longmen is his hometown! "Yes, adults say yes!" , this answer is vicious, as if someone is holding their breath and competing with a force.

Tang Cheng is calm, but the more like this, when he can't help but show his heart, the more touching the heart, looking at the face full of longing, listening to this high-spirited ideal picture, Yang Jia also felt that there was something hot surging in his heart, but he didn't answer Tang Cheng's question directly, but just whispered a familiar word:

The selection of talents and abilities, the belief and harmony, so that people do not only kiss their relatives, do not only have their sons, so that the old have the end, the strong have usefulness, the young have growth, the widow and loneliness and the sick are all raised. Men have a share, and women have a home. If you abandon the goods on the ground, you don't have to hide them for yourself; The power of evil does not come from the body, and it does not have to be for oneself. It is because of the conspiracy to close but not to prosper, to steal and thieves not to do, so to do not close the outside household, it is said to be the same.

He recited a passage from the "Book of Rites and Fortunes", and it was this passage that established the highest ideal of life for thousands of Confucian scholars in later generations, self-cultivation and unity of the family to rule the country and level the world, which was the direction of Confucian students' efforts rather than the goal, and their goal, at least when they were studying, was to achieve the world of Datong described in this passage.

The road is not forgotten, the night is not closed, the old are ended, the strong are useful, the young are raised, although ~ the widow is lonely, he can also raise his life! The memory of my youth is always the most profound, time is changing, people are changing, and in the process of this change, I may have already understood that the ideals of the past can never be realized, but once it is mentioned, this usual

When the ideal is not reached, who can not shake their hearts? After all, it was once true, and it was so beautiful.

And how similar is this ideal recited by Yang Jiao to what Tang Cheng said!

"The Book of Rites?" , Tang Cheng shook his head, "The world of Datong? No, I'm not for that".

"Yes, the world of Datong is too far, too far", Yang Jiao's smile and sigh have regrets, confusion, and memories of the youth when he was a student, "There is a saying in "Twenty-four Years of Zuo Chuangong": "There is virtue on the top, followed by meritorious service, followed by words, although these three have not been abandoned for a long time, they are said to be immortal", people are selfless, and the Ming Mansion has the idea of immortality in Longmen is also the common feeling of people and the blessing of the people~".

"Meritorious and immortal?" , Tang Cheng smiled again and shook his head, "I'm not here for this either."

"Oh?".

"Life is short, it's hard to do", when Tang Cheng said this, he was more like talking to himself, his voice was so small that he couldn't hear it clearly, "I just don't want to be sorry for this ...... I don't want to be sorry for my decades of work."

"What did the Ming Mansion say?"

"It's nothing", at this time, Tang Cheng had already taken off the excitement of being supported by Ashde, and waved his hand with a self-deprecating smile: "I was really arrogant just now!" Words are easier said than done, what is important is not what is said, what is important is done? How's it going over there, sir? This yamen still has to take annual leave according to your progress."

"With the age of the Ming Mansion, there is nothing wrong with occasionally being a young man", knowing that Tang Cheng is not used to taking out the things in his heart to make people judge, now that he is unwilling to say it again, Yang Jiao smiled and said that he didn't ask any more, "It's a big trivial matter to give food relief to the families of thousands of farmers, and it will take four or five days to finish it at the earliest."

"Well, according to five days, it is the twentieth day of the lunar month, and then calculate the time on their road, if it is faster, it will be just in time to get home on the day of Xiao Nian'er, and it is not too late. Let's do it, sir, don't be in a hurry, everything is on the safe side."

Yang Jiao nodded when he heard this, and at this moment, the bell rang, Tang Cheng nodded to the two of them and returned to the inner office without mentioning it.

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In the next few days, Tang Cheng was a little more relaxed, and the affairs of the Ya Nei and the East Valley had already been clearly assigned to Yang Jiao and others, and they had also done it well these days, but Tang Cheng didn't need to think about it much, so he went back to the Hou Ya directly when it was time to disperse.

When he first took over as the county commander, Zheng Lingyi was always waiting for him in the house, but now it is all the other way around, these days it is rare for him to be more leisurely, Zheng Lingyi, who took over the grain affairs of Donggu, is very busy, not to mention at noon, she has no time to come back at all, even at night she has to wait for the farmers to finish eating before going home, if you count the time on the road, when she arrives home, it will already be dark.

Since then, whether it is in the yamen or at home, relatively speaking, he has become the most idle person, Tang Cheng likes to enjoy a quiet life, but when the people around him are very busy, the only time he is idle has to be another matter.

It was in this context that only two days after the day when he went to the study to read as soon as he dispersed, on the morning of the third day, Tang Cheng specially found Xiaoqing to explain before going to the office, for fear that he would not understand, he also deliberately lay on the bookcase and drew two pictures.

As soon as the government dispersed that afternoon, Tang Cheng didn't drill into the study after returning to the inner courtyard, and before he could change his official clothes, he began to ask Xiaoqing, "Can someone make the two things that I ordered you in the morning?" ”。

What are they, don't say it before, even if you haven't heard of it, Xiaoqing hasn't figured out how her uncle suddenly thought of these two strange things, and at this time she replied while serving Tang Cheng to change his official clothes, "The pot with a handle is ready, and the blacksmith master knows that it was made by a big official, and it is specially made of the best 100 steel in the store, which has just been sent and is now in the stove room." Another two-layer pot with a charcoal cylinder is afraid that it will take a few days."

Tang Lu did not prohibit the common people from wearing swords, and even encouraged them, so the folk blacksmith shops generally kept some good steel for swords, and this is the case with Bailian Steel. Hearing that the woks he asked for were actually made by the blacksmith master from 100 steels, Tang Chengzhen couldn't cry or laugh, and now it can't compare to the future generations, which is too wasteful.

Waste it, waste it, you can't return it again, "Remember, it's called hot pot, what two layers with charcoal cylinders, how awkward it sounds", after saying a word to Xiaoqing, Tang Cheng, who had changed his clothes, went straight to the small stove room.

When he arrived at the stove room, he startled the stove mother-in-law, and thought that something was wrong in the stove room, and when he heard Tang Cheng say that he was going to cook, the mother-in-law was stunned at first, and then shook her hands like a fan in summer, no, no, how can this work? Although the mother-in-law doesn't know the sage saying "a gentleman cooks far away", she also knows that men should not enter the kitchen, let alone cook. Even those men from poor families don't do things, how can they let the county magistrate do it?

Tang Cheng first told her kindly, but it had no effect, and in the end he could only give an order with a straight face, so he finally invited the frightened stove lady out of the kitchen, and saw that he began to touch the pot with a knife, and the rough girls who were still left in the stove room were at a loss, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do.

The vegetables of the Tang people are already poor, not to mention that this is still the north in winter, and Tang Cheng only found cabbage, radish and tofu three vegetables and vegetables, and there are a bunch of mutton.

For Tang Cheng, who was very interested in showing his hand today, the ingredients in front of him were really disappointing, and after looking around for a while, he unwillingly turned around and asked, "That's all?" ”。

Hearing this, the rough girl closest to him looked at both sides in vain and replied, "Back to the old man, there is still a fresh fish in the small tank."

"Yes, this is a good thing", after opening the cylinder cover and looking inside, Tang Cheng smiled and waved his hand back, "Okay, let's go out and rest, it's cold this day, you find a place to bake the fire, go quickly!" ”。

After the rough girls all went out, Tang Cheng simply closed the door of the stove after lighting a few oil lamps.

After closing the door and turning around, Tang Chengcheng began to roll up his sleeves, oil, salt, sweet, swevel, shallot, ginger and garlic were ready one by one, the most regrettable thing is that there is no chili, and the lack of chili pepper He practiced in later generations The unique signature sour and hot cabbage will not be able to be displayed, regret, what a pity!