"That's Han Xianggong's car, right?"

Half a street away from the Great Library, I heard someone talking not far away.

Qin Guan held an umbrella and glanced at the street by the way. A convoy of carriages and horses passing by in the middle of the road, and the glass lanterns dangling in front of the carriage have Korean characters in distinct handwriting.

The flag officer who did not open the way in front of the carriage was not the official himself, and the regulation of the carriage and horses far exceeded the standard that ordinary courtiers could have. There are quite a few ministers surnamed Han in the court, but after Han Jiang leaves, there is indeed only one family member who can have such a scale of guards.

Qin Guan turned his head, the person who spoke was familiar, and what he said was also familiar, "...... The same is true for the husband. ”

The night breeze is cold, the sound of rain is dripping, and when the words enter the ears, it can't help but make people's hearts tremble.

The speaker was Zhao Tan, who was also in the Guozijian and was from Yuzhou in the southwest [present-day Chongqing].

This surname Zhao is different from other surnames Zhao. His father's name was Zhao Sigong, and when he heard this name, he knew that he was a naturalized barbarian who was given a surname and name by the imperial court. Li Jiqian's Zhao Baoji, Li Jitou's Zhao Baozhong, are all like this.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, Zhao Tan was recommended from Fanxue to enter the Guozi Prison, and he was very conspicuous in the prison. And it only took one year to enter the inner house, which is stronger than Qin Guan's results. 'The big husband should be like this', it is taboo for naturalized people to speak like this, but from the mouth of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, it is not incomprehensible, this is the age of not knowing the height of the sky.

Seeing the young and frivolous Zhao Tan, Qin Guan only had the feeling that the years were easy.

He is forty years old, his talent is not bad, his literary name is more prosperous, and the small words are widely circulated in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, and the 'mountain wipe the micro clouds' makes him famous in Shilin.

But he has been in the field so far, and after the change of Yuanyou Palace, he was affected by Su Shi again, and he was rejected from two subjects in a row. still relied on a few papers published in "Nature" to get Han Gang's praise, and was arranged to enter the Guozi Prison.

When he was young, he was good at reading military books, generous in rhetoric, and wrote a little longer 'the moon is good, and strive to compete in the morning and dusk', and when he was unfavorable in the field for many years, he only used Xiao Du's song "Man Tingfang" to win the name of Qinglou Bo Xing, and to this day, Fang has been recognized by the prime minister with a "silkworm book".

"Brother Shaoyou."

The voice behind him interrupted Qin Guan's thoughts.

Qin Guan turned around in a whisper, but it was the completion of Guozijian's classmates.

"Advance. Aren't you leaving? Qin Guan was surprised.

After coming out of the country together, Bi gradually returned to his residence, and he was going to the big library, so they separated.

Bi gradually said: "Dengfu Lane is blocked by inspection, so I have to take a detour back." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Isn't there a ruined garden on the other side of Dengfu Lane, saying that they want to catch the beggars inside."

Qin Guan smiled and said, "Last time, I blocked the sewer, and this time I changed the road?" ”

The dark ditch of Jingshi is nearly 100 miles, and there are boats in it, and people can still live in drier places, and there are many thieves who are traitors, and when these thieves come out, many of them are also mixed in the beggars. Bao Zhengzhi failed to clean them up when he knew Kaifeng Mansion. There are also a number of uninhabited mansions, which have become dens of city fox society rats. Now that the imperial court has started to clean up, hundreds of people have been arrested inside and outside the city.

"It was dark and rainy, and I accidentally ran seven or eight, and I was blocking the road and searching from house to house."

"Wouldn't it disturb the people to search people's homes at night for beggars." Qin Guan shook his head, it was nothing to catch beggars, but in order to catch beggars and get into people's homes at night, he really couldn't agree. Which of those inspectors is good, when they enter the house at night, they enter the house with the tiger and wolf, and if they eat something and take something, it is considered light, and if it is heavy, the female dependents of the family will suffer.

"Brother Qin's words are wrong!"

Another voice sounded from behind, but the emotion in the voice was much more proud than Bi Yan, but he saw that it was Zhao Tan, who was talking on the side, and came over.

"Brother Qin hasn't read the newspaper recently?" Zhao Tan interjected familiarly, "It is said that it is a beggar, but in fact, most of them are extremely vicious thieves, didn't one of them be killed in Dongcheng two years ago, and the prisoner was recently caught, and he was caught among the beggars." ”

Qin Guan frowned, but he didn't have a seizure, Zhao Tan was less than half his age, and it was pointless to be angry with him.

"At this point, the younger brother also thinks that Han Xianggong and Kaifeng Mansion are doing the right thing." Bi gradually nodded in agreement with Zhao Chen, "It's a pinch to the capital, and I don't know how many thieves are hidden, now that there is a shortage of people on the border, how can they be allowed to continue to plague the good people of Beijing?" ”

During this time, the newspapers have been talking about the problem of beggars on the streets, touting Han Gang's policies, and all kinds of evidence have been pulled to the table for a while, and the most eye-catching thing is that many headless cases have found clues from beggars, and even criminals. And the internal dumping of beggars, the oppression of ordinary beggars by beggars, and the abduction and trafficking of children from good families, and begging people to be pitiful after being crippled, these things are even more difficult to read, and it only makes people feel that the words and paper are full of blood and tears.

The beggar who sings the lotus flower falls, among the three hundred and sixty lines of the Beijing Division, can be regarded as one of the intimidating guilds. The beggar begged to come to the door, and the shop didn't give any face. That night, someone could come and splash a bucket in front of the door, which could not hurt people but also disgusted people. After a few times, which merchant can not bow his head? Doing business is about making money with harmony, opening the door to welcome customers, this door can't be opened, how can you do business?

Even if the back. No matter how thick the scenery is, it is also a loss of identity to be angry with beggars. It's something that can be solved with a little money, but after putting it back. The stage was pulled out, and the person in charge inevitably had to eat and hang, and in the end, there was no one who did not pay for the disaster. The merchants in the capital have endured the beggars for a long time, and now Han Gang wants to send them all to the Western Regions and Yunnan Tuntian, which family doesn't raise their hands to celebrate?

The sound of the wooden flute abruptly interrupted the conversation between the three of them. I saw only a man in ragged clothes, crossing the street from the direction he had just come, and he looked like a beggar in distinct clothes.

The beggar ran as fast as he could, kicking his legs so much that the water splashed on the street, and behind him were seven or eight soldiers patrolling the shops, all of them tired and panting, and the officers who played the wooden flutes were angry, but with a rich belly, they could only fall in the end with hatred.

"You see, where is there something wrong in the newspaper, and it is not a lack of hands and feet, how can you be a beggar if you can run so fast, not lazy? Yes! Zhao Tan suddenly shouted excitedly, "It's really looking for death." ”

It's really looking for death.

Qin watched the beggar flee into another street under the pursuit, and seconded it in his heart.

On that street, the Han family's convoy had just turned around.

Although there was still something to do, the three of them were still waiting and did not leave.

As they expected, they didn't wait long, but they saw two people dragging the beggar back to the street like dead dogs, and a few shop soldiers nodded and took the beggar over. And the fat officer who was playing the wooden flute just now also nodded and bowed, sent the two subordinates of the Han family away, and when he turned around, he kicked the beggar twice.

"That thief may have a case on him, otherwise it would never be like this." Bi gradually speculated.

"How many beggars don't do anything? After clearing the matter, Jingshi can also be peaceful. Zhao Tan sneered, "The Empress Dowager is immortal today, and she will start doing things tomorrow, these beggars are also in the limelight, and there will definitely be no good results." ”

Qin Guan shook his head secretly, the Empress Dowager herself had no good results, a son died at the hands of his parents and sons, a son was sentenced for treason, and a son loved medicine and recruited people to study vaccines, and recently I heard that because of the virus, he was infected with the epidemic, and there were not many days left - to be honest, after hearing the news, he really admired Han Gang, how could he have the courage to study smallpox, and if he was not careful, his life would be gone.

"The Empress Dowager herself didn't have a good result." Zhao Tan said the words in Qin Guan's heart, "Who cares about the results of those beggars?" ”

How dare you say it!

Qin Guan and Bi gradually glanced at each other, the truth is right, and it is wrong to say it. Let Zhao Tan continue to speak, it will be trouble for people to hear it. Hurriedly snorted, and then hurriedly said goodbye and left.

After taking a few steps, both of them shook their heads and smiled bitterly.

"Still too young." Bi gradually said softly.

"It's too young." Qin Guan also said.

Although Zhao Tan's reading is not bad, the tempering of time, the sophistication of people and even his knowledge are much worse.

In any case, the Empress Dowager was the biological mother of the first emperor. How to deal with her son as a mother-in-law, whether it is beating or scolding, it is no problem, but she colluded with the adulterer and wanted to kill her own son, and was arrested in court. I'm sorry, but for the sake of full filial piety, it is still inconvenient to punish mothers. If the son is not sensible, someone will remind him below. If the son does not comply, it is no problem for the judge to come forward and admonish him. If a qiē is judged according to the law, it will be criticized.

There are not many such lawsuits, but they are widely spread. Qin Guan remembered that there was a time in the Tang Dynasty, when he thought his son was in the way, so at the instigation of the adulterer, he went to the government to sue his son for unfilial piety. The crime of unfilial piety is one of the ten evils, and the verdict will lead to death. But the officials who tried the case found the flaws and finally found out. However, the final verdict resulted in the judge's intention to punish severely, and the son was willing to be punished on behalf of his mother, and finally the mother and son were reconciled.

This kind of big case that concerns human ethics is all over the world. If it is handled well, the official in charge of the trial can completely use this to make a name for himself, and if he can achieve the status of a legend in the history of the country in the future, this biography will never be missing this case.

But any knowledgeable official, when encountering this kind of case, will try to make the case a happy ending of mother and son's filial piety, just like the beginning of "Spring and Autumn", to kill the eldest son Zheng Zhuanggong's Jiang family, and finally in the tunnel, one sang 'its music is also melting' and entered, and the other sang 'its music is also vented' and came out, rebuilding the old good,

For the sake of filial piety, not to let the deceased husband be discussed by future generations, although the Empress Dowager has done so many things, the Empress Dowager can only make the Empress Dowager extremely sad.

'I don't know which kind of gift the Empress Dowager will be?' ’

Qin Guan thought in his heart, said goodbye to Bi Yan, showed his library card, put away his umbrella, rubbed his feet on the wooden board in front of the door, and walked into the big library.

In the seven or eight reading rooms in the reading building, there are three or four hundred scholars who stay up all night here. Probably because of the rain, the seats are about 20% empty today, and they are usually overcrowded, day or night.

This reading building is separated from the buildings behind it by a high wall, and the library cabinet contains hundreds of thousands of books, and the bookshelves are heavy, so fireworks are strictly prohibited and will only be opened during the day. In the reading building, there is only a row of bookshelves against the wall, on which there are only common books, and there are not so many scruples about "Nature" and recent newspapers and periodicals - in each reading room, there are more than a dozen bright oil lamps, which illuminate the whole room.

In this world, there are only lanterns donated to temples, but there are no lanterns donated to students. The lamp oil used in the big library is all from the iron and steel factory, and the waste oil produced after coking is refined, the smell is unpleasant, the smoke is also heavy, the quantity is more and the price is cheaper, the people in the city buy more, and the imperial court is also happy to allocate funds for this. In order to give more scholars the opportunity to study, the imperial court allocated funds to the big library.

Not only in Beijing, but also in all the states of the world, libraries have sprung up one after another. And the imperial court even took out an official position, and gave rewards for papermaking and printing, reducing the cost of printing books, reducing the price of books, and allowing more people to read.

How many scholars are there, just because they don't read much, and the guide zhì is not knowledgeable, and in the end, they can only look up to the names on the yellow list. And how many children have to give up reading because the price of books is too high?

There are only two classics and histories, and the biographies and historical collections that have been handed down through the dynasties are thousands of volumes, how many ordinary people can afford to buy so many books? The children of official eunuchs are more likely to be admitted to Jinshi, not all because of the power of their parents.

The reason why Fujian's literary style is prosperous, the number of jinshi has always remained the first in all roads, and a large number of printing houses in Fujian are like cattle hairs, and the price of books is low. Although the Fujian edition of the book is known for its poor quality and many errors, it is better to have a wrong book than not to have a book at all, and proofreading the book for errors and omissions is also a way to learn.

Now many of the books in the hands of the scholars in the capital are printed in ink, and they are blurred when they are rubbed by hand, but compared with those high-grade books with exquisite engraving and excellent paper, the cheaper ones are not one or two cents. Although Qin Guan is a son of an official eunuch, if he is asked to choose books in front of him, which are ten and one hundred, he will definitely choose ten yuan.

The imperial court wanted to let the world develop education, and used multiple strategies to encourage the rich to set up Mongolian schools. It is said that in the second five years planned by the prime minister, there is a plan to reach 500,000 students who have graduated from Mongolian school. But it is not enough to have an empty school, and students need a lot of books every day. Cheap book prices are the most important part of education.

God knows how many scholars in the world will be grateful for what Han Gang has done. Even the journal "Science", which has attracted the attention and reputation of Shilin, and published the policies of the imperial examinations over the years, as well as the content of the internal examinations of Guozijian, was stimulated by "Nature" and came out.

The spring rain moistens the earth, and the smell of ink and the faint smoke in the room are like spring breeze, making people feel intoxicated.

Pulling out a book from a familiar position on the shelf, flipping to the position where it had stopped before, and returning to his seat, Qin Guan began to pick up the pen and copy the book.

Maybe Siren will not be able to return to his hometown in this life, but what he said, Qin Guan still remembers clearly, the copying party is reading.

The talents of the immortals of the Yisi people have to copy the "Book of Han" twice, just for the sake of the scientific field, how can Qin Guan be stingy with his pen and ink?