Verse 85: Hope is restored

The years are unforgiving, everything has changed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info it can invisibly devour a person's ideals. -- Straight to the source

What the little woman wants is more important than money, as long as the adults are willing to give, they can still afford it. - Xiao Wei

In Chang'an City, Yuan Zhixin invited Heyang County to order Zhou Xing to drink.

During his tenure as the magistrate of Heyang County, Zhou Xing made remarkable political achievements, and Emperor Li Zhi summoned Xiao Zhou to Chang'an to promote him. However, someone wrote to the emperor pointing out that Zhou Xing had not passed the imperial examination, and Li Zhi changed his mind about promoting Zhou Xing. But Zhou Xing asked officials many times and waited for promotion. The prime ministers did not inform him, and in the end, only Wei Xuantong told him: "Zhou County Order, you can go." Zhou Xing believed that Wei Xuantong was hindering his ascension, so he deeply hated Wei Xuantong.

Xiao Zhou Yixing said: "I can't imagine that Datang doesn't ask about the family, but wants to ask about the imperial examination, if there is no imperial examination, isn't it a talent?" If the emperor does not promote capable talents without exception, then the future will be the world of the martial queen. ”

"Oh, I can't imagine that Zhou County Ling also pays attention to the dispute between the emperor and the queen?" Straight heart.

"Ha, ha, ha, I don't dare to talk about the dispute between the emperor and the queen, I'm just a seven-grade sesame petty official."

"I think that even if the emperor ascends to heaven in the future, it is not a bad thing for Empress Wu to ascend the throne as emperor."

"But there has never been a woman who has been an emperor." Xiao Zhou was surprised.

"Emperor Taizong and the current Holy Emperor both wanted to do a good job when they ascended the throne, but they didn't indulge in lust later. On the contrary, because there has never been a female emperor, then she will do her best to do better. ”

Zhixin took a sip of wine and continued: "Your Majesty has forgotten his original intention, and he is no longer interested in state affairs, where else can I find hope?" ”

"Oh, what's wrong with Lord Shangshu today? I've never seen you so depressed. This is not like Lord Shangshu. Ha, ha. ”

"Hah, then what should I be like?"

"Let's forget about those worries today and have a drink." Xiao Zhou tilted his neck and drained the wine in his hand.

"Time is not forgiving, everything has changed. It can invisibly devour a person's ideals. "Straight to the heart is deeply touched.

"May I ask if it is Your Majesty's ideal, or is it the ideal of your Excellency?"

"Both, for Datang. The person who forgets his original intention is not His Majesty alone. ”

"Forget the original intention, there is no hope, so Lord Shangshu will ask to stay at home sick. So, my lord, what are your plans for now? ”

"Ha, maybe I should go back to my hometown to guard an acre of square pond and teach a group of boys. Actually, I could have done something for Datang. ”

At this time, a voice sounded outside the door: "The little woman is Weiwei, may I come in and play a song for the two adults?" ”

Zhou Xing said: "My lord, Weiwei is the most famous singer in Chang'an, and I asked her to play the music." ”

"Okay, then let her in."

A beautiful woman in her twentieth year, dressed beautifully, walked in with a guzheng in her arms.

Zhou Xing continued: "My lord, that Tianqiu, who was very famous in Chang'an before, is Weiwei's master. Weiwei's reputation is also very good now, very talented, you can read a poem to Lord Shangshu first. ”

Wei Wei said: "Lord Shangshu, the county magistrate has a good reputation, Wei Wei is only a shallow learner, how dare she read poetry in the two adults." ”

Zhou Xing asked: "You person, what's the matter, why are you here without reciting poetry?" ”

"The little girl wants to discuss some interesting topics with the two adults, I wonder if it's okay? When I first entered the door, I heard that Master Shangshu wanted to go back to the countryside and become a private school teacher? What do adults want your students to learn from you? Teach them to abandon their ideals? Then you don't have to go. Hasn't the world itself taught them to abandon their ideals? ”

Zhou Xing was shocked and shouted, "You despicable woman, how dare you say such things." ”

The banquet was hastily dispersed.

A few days later, Weiwei came to Zhixin's mansion and asked to see Zhixin.

Zhixin felt that Weiwei was not an ordinary dusty woman, so he met her.

"Miss Xiao sees a contemptible person, what's the matter?"

"I'm here to sing for the adults, and if there's wine, that's even better."

"I've heard that the young lady is very famous, and she won't sing casually for people without paying enough money."

"That's right, the little girl also hopes that the adults will give me a sum of money." Xiao Wei smiled.

"It's a pity that this official's family is surrounded by walls, and he is not a rich man, so I can't afford to pay such a high price."

"What the little girl wants is more important than money, as long as the adults are willing to give, they can still afford it."

"I can afford something more important than money, so what is it?"

"Your Excellency, you have half a day."

Wei Wei took Zhixin to a quarry outside Chang'an City where prisoners worked. Most of these prisoners were middle-level officials who opposed Wu Zetian becoming empress and were dismissed from office to do hard labor.

They worked happily, ate happily, and laughed loudly.

"These people are not like adults, they have not given up their ideals and hopes, so they are the masters of adults. The little girl thinks it's better for adults to drink with them and talk about life, so that they can teach you what they have learned. ”

"What is the rationale? Why are you insulting me so much. ”

"How dare a little girl insult an adult?"

"Then I'm leaving."

"No."

After Xiao Wei finished speaking, she came to the prisoners, drank with them, and sang.

Zhixin returned home and flipped through a copy of "Taigong Taolu", but it was difficult to calm down in his heart.

At night, Zhixin still decided to take a trip to Chunjiang Tower, where Weiwei was located.

As a result, when I arrived at the door of Chunjiang Tower, I saw Weiwei. Zhixin asked, "Why are you outside the door?" ”

"Hey, the little woman guessed that Lord Shangshu would come, so she waited here."

Yuan Zhixin has three flavors of food in Chunjiang Building, and after three glasses of wine, he has not spoken, and is drinking stuffy wine. When he drank the sixth glass of wine, he finally asked with drunkenness: "Are those people, those who work in the quarry my masters?" How can he be my master? ”

"Because they're the ones who can teach you what you want."

"Teach me hope?"

"There is no tomorrow for them, maybe tomorrow will lose their heads, they only live for today. Their joy will be over a glass of wine, but are they born without hope? In the current Chang'an City, they are the lowest and most easily forgotten. The little woman thinks that only adults can give them hope. Lord Shangshu is the person the little girl respects the most in Chang'an City. Please risk your life to advise Your Majesty, and ask who else can be so considerate about the life and death of an upright minister. If you don't do it, how can those people have hope for tomorrow? ”

"Ideal? Wish? Ideal? Hopefully? Zhixin muttered, drunk.

Outside the city of Wanzhou, Ren Rail once again found the peasants who had been exiled and escaped, and Ren Rail said that he would apply to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate for the treatment of these peasants to be the same as that of the peasants in the Central Plains.

"What? Is the General going to reduce our conscription? ”

"Is it true?"

"Can you make an appointment with us?"

After learning the news, the peasants were overjoyed and overjoyed, and they were overjoyed.

Ren Rail: "I have discussed with General Zhang Tunwei of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, everyone who fights for the Tang Dynasty should be rewarded, and our soldiers should carry out tuntian, after the military rations obtained from tuntian are sufficient, the surplus will be used to relieve the people, and I will also try my best to open up new land for you to cultivate, and the new land does not need to pay any taxes." ”

The patriarch said in a trembling voice, "This, this is really unbelievable. ”