Looking at the old county city wall, Cao Hao knew that he seemed to have made a mistake. Even this Cao Song and Wei Hei are all puzzled, is this where they will stay with Cao Hao in the next three years.

Yizhou is not a mansion, but Zhili Prefecture, speaking of which this place can be regarded as a long history, because this is Langya County in the Qin and Han dynasties, Zhuge Liang's hometown.

Cao Hao's jurisdiction in the East Yandao is only a few prefectures and counties east of the Gunzhou Mansion and a few prefectures and counties to the south of the Qingzhou Prefecture, and the station is Yizhou, which has a strong historical imprint.

After entering the county seat and looking at the so-called Daotai Yamen, Cao Hao finally understood why this lack could be his turn. According to common sense, the station of this guard is also in the seat of the prefecture, the prosperous point of the province, not this remote state and county.

Zhuang Xi and Amethyst have been in their teens, and they don't know how they let Zhizhou recognize their identity. In the past ten days, they have renovated the inner house of the Shoudao Yamen, and bought the courtyards of the neighbors on the left and right at a high price, so that Cao Hao and them will not be crowded after they come.

Cao Hao's visit to Yizhou this time could not be directly assumed, and he had to go to the Yamen of the Shandong Political Department to report, meet the chief, receive the seal letter, plus the subordinates of the Yamen who guarded the road, and then return to Yizhou to be justified.

Like the governor's yamen, the political secretary's yamen is the provincial capital of Jinan, more than 500 miles away from Yizhou. Cao Hao was reluctant to let Chu Yu go back and forth to work, so he agreed with Zhuang Xi to meet directly in Yizhou. Thinking about it, I settled my family first, and then took people to Jinan quickly.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, a county with a population of more than 100,000 people like Yizhou is not small. But people like Cao Hao and Cao Song, who are used to staying in Jiangning and the capital, still feel that this is a dilapidated and deserted place.

However, Cao Hao is not a complaining surname, thinking of such a deserted place, naturally there are few errands. Because it is far away from the Yamen of the Political Secretary, there is no need to report and listen to instructions, and it is the place where Emperor Tiangao is far away. It's okay to go fishing to the beach, maybe you can go to Jiangning to see your parents once every three or two months, isn't it more comfortable and leisurely?

At present, the governor of Yizhou is called Ye Fu, the word is Qing, and he is a native of Shanghai County. Now at the age of thirty-six or seven, he is not a serious professional background. Born in a family of eunuchs, he was a prisoner in his early years, and later made up for the governor of Yulin Prefecture in Guangxi with his father's shadow, and was transferred to Yizhou last year.

When Cao Hao arrived in Yizhou, he said that the Lord Zhizhou visited in person. After talking about this, Cao Hao realized that he still had a lot of connections with this adult.

When Ye Fu was young, he once studied under the eldest son of the great calligrapher Song Binchen, which can be regarded as Cao Hao's senior brother. Although he is very humble, when it comes to poetry and painting landscapes, he can't help but dance.

Cao Hao couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he heard this, and then saw the unwashed ink marks on Ye Shiki's sleeve, and couldn't help but have an illusion. Is this an official, or a genius? At the same time, I am also a little glad that although the two are meeting for the first time, because of the relationship between Master Song, they do not seem unfamiliar and polite.

Master Song died in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, when Cao Hao was in Qingliang Temple and Ye Fu was in Yulin, Guangxi, and neither of them went to pay tribute. Now that he is talking about Master Song, he is also a little sentimental, and the atmosphere is silent.

This Zhili Prefecture Zhizhou is a positive five grades, two levels lower than Cao Hao, who guards the way, perhaps because of the literati, Ye Fu did not take his subordinates to be restrained when they first met the chief.

It wasn't until the silence fell silent at this time that Ye Shi noticed that something was wrong, and sat down again, greeting him with the words "adult" and "subordinate" according to the rules of officialdom. I think he can't get used to this, otherwise he wouldn't have said a few words and some words would not be able to catch up.

Regarding Ye Shiki's nerdy spirit, Cao Hao not only did not despise it, but faintly admired it. When I was in the capital, I was used to seeing all kinds of people, everyone was the master who walked one step and looked at three steps, and the words were the master, and it was rare to see such an honest person in front of me, and it became more and more precious.

Therefore, Cao Hao smiled and said: "Brother Qing, it's not about business, why be so polite!" You and I are in the same door, if you come to Brother Qing and don't think Cao Hao is young, just call it a word! ”

Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly waved his hand: "Your Excellency is polite, how can the lower officials be presumptuous, this is not unseemly, not unseemly!" ”

Cao Hao said: "This public is public, private is private, you and I are in the same door, Cao Hao is a late entry into the master's door, so he is naturally a junior brother." Senior brother behaves like this, it seems that he dislikes Cao Hao's lack of knowledge! As he spoke, he sighed: "Due to the complexity of family affairs, I have rarely worked my studies over the years, and it seems that I am really ashamed of my master." Even if the senior brother dislikes it, Cao Hao has nothing to say! ”

Although Ye Fu has a bit of literati sourness, he also has a bit of true surname affection, and when he heard Cao Hao say this, his face couldn't help but show a little shame: "... This...... Big...... Senior Brother Fu Ruo, it was Ye who was sour and rotten, because he was afraid of losing the reputation of a stammering official, Fang was so timid, this is really embarrassing! ”

Ye Fu finally changed his words: "I heard the name of my junior brother in my master's letter earlier, and I knew that it was the eldest son of Cao Weaving; When I saw the above text a few years ago, I saw the name of my junior brother in the book, and I thought it was just a person with the same name and surname. After seeing his birth history, he knew that he was the little junior brother that the master never forgot. Speaking of this, he shook his head: "I really didn't expect that when the master was here, you and I would not have the opportunity to meet each other; Now that the Master has been dead for many years, you and I are meeting here! Speaking of this, his face was already filled with joy, and he asked with a sense of inquiry and curiosity: "How is Senior Brother Furuo's words now?" Can you let the senior brother open his eyes first! ”

When Cao Hao heard this, his heart was empty, as far as his handwriting was concerned, if it was a person who didn't know how to do it, it was okay, and a famous disciple like Ye Fu was not visible?

With excuses such as fatigue and messy study, Cao Hao finally coped with the past. Ye Shi remembered that Cao Hao was the first to arrive, got up to say goodbye and leave, and mentioned that he would work with the state officials to wash the dust for Cao Hao at night.

Cao Hao and Mr. Zhuang still had a stomach to say, where did they have time to entertain officials, so they hurriedly refused. After all, he has not officially arrived at the moment, and "if his name is not right, his words will not be good", and when it reaches the side of the political secretary, he will still be guilty of "arrogance and contempt for officials", which is really inappropriate.

Ye Fu listened to Cao Hao's reasoning clearly, and blamed himself, and the straight way was that he was not thoughtful. At the same time, he praised Cao Hao in his heart, thinking that he was steady and polite.

By the time he sent Ye Shi away, Zhuang Xi was already waiting in the study, but his face was very heavy, as if he was worried, and he seemed to be a little lonely and sentimental.

Seeing Cao Hao coming in, Zhuang Xi smiled reluctantly and said, "Ye Zhizhou is a literati, this, and Fu Ruo can still talk!" "Because Cao Hao has words, he has changed his name.

Cao Hao nodded and said the origin of the two in a few words. Zhuang Xi was very surprised, but this time he was really happy: "If Fu Ruo is really lucky, originally this kind of lack of guarding, what I am most afraid of is to fight with the state officials." Although they are nominally superiors and subordinates, after all, there is only one or two grades missing, and if the two yamen chiefs are evil, then the next errand will be difficult to do. Nowadays, with the same relationship, it is much cheaper to communicate with each other! ”

Cao Hao thought that when he came in just now, Zhuang Xi seemed to have something on his mind, and asked, "What is on your mind, sir?" ”

Zhuang Xi looked at Cao Hao, pondered for a moment, and said: "The case of "Nanshan Collection" is over!" ”

"The case of "Nanshan Collection"!" Cao Hao's head "buzzed", and he finally understood what he had forgotten before.

"Nanshan Collection" is written by Dai Mingshi, because Dai Mingshi is the word Nanshan, so his collection of essays is called "Nanshan Collection". Last year in the capital, because of the instigation of the eighth elder brother and others, the officials of the tide file were impeached one after another. Later, the Tide stall launched a counterattack, which was to sue Dai Mingshi, a great Confucian.

In the "Book with the Rest of Life" in the previously printed "Nanshan Collection", Dai Mingshi used "Yongli" years later when referring to the Southern Ming Dynasty; In the "Records of the Widows" when the Ming Dynasty Tongcheng was revolted, it also used the "Hongguang" year name of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Although he did not directly offend the authority of the Manchu court in the book, just by using the name of Nannian, he was designated as a "wicked and chaotic person" who "harbored a rebellious heart and a great rebellion in his book", and ended up with a "Nine Clans".

Because when the "Nanshan Collection" recounted the history of King Gui of the Southern Ming Dynasty, most of the records in the "Yunnan and Guizhou Chronicles" written by the late famous scholar Fang Xiaobiao were used, so this matter implicated the Fang clan. In addition to Fang Xiaobiao's corpse being dug out and broken bones and ashes, the sons of his grandfather, grandchildren, brothers, uncles, and brothers, all of whom were over the age of 16 were found and escorted to the Criminal Department, and were immediately beheaded; His mother, daughter, wife, concubine, sister, son's wife and concubine, children and grandchildren under the age of fifteen, and uncles and brothers were also found out and enslaved to the hero's family. Fang Xiaobiao is of the same clan, regardless of whether the service has been exhausted, one by one is strictly investigated, and all those with titles are dismissed. In addition to the married daughters, the children were immediately transferred to the criminal department and placed in the places of Ula, Ningguta and Baiduna.

Just listening to Zhuang Xi's narration, Cao Hao was already cold all over his body. I can't complain that Mr. Zhuang is uncomfortable, although he is a Han military banner, but after all, he is a Han person, Kangxi took advantage of the attack of "Nanshan Collection", which is not a warning to all Han officials. "Those who go along prosper, and those who go against it die", giving no one hope of reviving the previous dynasty.

Because the "Nanshan Collection" case was tried in secret, before the official document of the Criminal Department on the 22nd of the first month came out, the outside world knew some rumors about this matter. No one expected that there would be such a big disturbance in the end, from Shilang, Hanlin Bachelor to Shu Jishi, there were as many as 30 or 40 officials implicated in this case, and if the relatives of the Dai family and the Fang family were counted, there were more than 300 or 400 people.

Cao Hao and Mr. Zhuang sat in the study for a long time, and they were all inexplicable.

*The inner house of the Daotai Yamen.

Chu Yu and Amethyst talked about the gossip for more than two months after parting, because the house in the capital was empty, and there was no need for those people, so the competent maids and servants all came to Shandong with Amethyst and Mr. Zhuang.

Because the four of Xiyu, Xixue, Xishuang, and Xilu are different from Xiyun and others, they are not served by Chu Yu's side since childhood, and they are selected by Fujin to be a dowry, and they also have the intention of making room for Chu Yu.

At the beginning, Mama Ye was eventful, which made Chu Yu and these four maids have a knot in each other's hearts. Although they didn't dare to disobey Chu Yu's intentions and stepped forward to slap Cao Hao, they didn't want to be confused, and they had been so unembarrassed and embarrassed. asked Amethyst for Chu Yu's grace and sent it separately.

Xiyu and Xixue still have Lao Tzu Niang at home, and they would rather stay in the capital to watch the house; Xishuang and Xilu want to follow Amethyst, learn to do errands, and release people when they are old, so that they can be internal stewards or something.

This time, she came with Amethyst, and vanilla, because Cao Hao had already asked Zhang Genjia about the meaning before, and vanilla herself also responded, so although she and Wei Hei have not yet decided to marry, it is already a sure thing.

Listening to Amethyst talk about the capital, Chu Yu talked about what he had seen and heard for more than two months. The matter of Wuqing Post Station was mentioned in Cao Hao's letter to Mr. Zhuang before, and he was asked to pay attention to the situation of Chen Hongdao and his son after entering Beijing. Therefore, Amethyst also heard Mr. Zhuang mention a few words, but she didn't expect it to be so miserable and pitiful, and she couldn't help but be sentimental again.

After all, it is a woman's family, and when it comes to clothes and jewelry, Chu Yu mentioned her Hanfu to Amethyst again, and explained her love.

Amethyst is older, after thinking about it, she still feels that it is inappropriate, and she can't help but persuade: "County Lord, this dress is okay in the South Mansion, but I'm afraid I still can't do it here." After all, the flag man is the foundation of the country, and the county lord is such an identity, if he has a preference for flag clothes and Han costumes, and in the eyes of those who have a heart, it will be a tongue, and then the sin will fall on the uncle! ”

Chu Yu was really taken aback when he heard this, and carefully recalled that he had come north, because he saw that they were all official eunuchs, and they were all in flag clothes, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and solemnly thanked Amethyst.

Amethyst didn't dare to do it, Chu Yu remembered something again, called someone to come, and asked Jing'er to come over to see Amethyst.

"Jing'er?" Amethyst was unfamiliar with the name and a little curious.

After a while, I saw Xiyun bring in a little maid with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, who was sufficien, fourteen or fifteen years old.

(To be continued)