Meng Tanjun, the head of the four princes of the Warring States Period, had a guest named Feng Tan, who went to the fiefdom of Xuecheng to collect debts for Meng Tanjun, Feng Tan not only confiscated the debts but burned all the bonds in front of those debtors, Meng Tanjun was very angry, and was still unhappy after listening to Feng Tan's explanation, and then Meng Tanjun and the King of Qi were not on good terms, and they retreated to Xuecheng, and the people of Xuecheng helped the old and the young to welcome each other, Meng Tanjun only then felt the benefits of Feng Tan's destruction of coupons to buy people's hearts, which is the allusion of the famous "three holes of the cunning rabbit"- Eunuch Zhong is not the kind of confused eunuch who is illiterate and has no self-knowledge, and he is also faintly worried that after he leaves Hangzhou, this ancestral hall will be demolished or diverted for other purposes, he originally planned to entrust Zhang Qilian, Bao Han and other officials to help take care of it, but he also knows that he has no deep friendship with these officials, if he can return to Beijing to hold power in a high position in the inner court, then the officials in Hangzhou will flatter, and there is no need to worry about the ancestral hall being demolished, but once he is in the unpopular prison bureau, who will take care of him, at this time he listened to Zhang Yuan's words, and suddenly became enlightened, Laughed loudly and said: "Zhang Gongzi can be called a good teacher and friend of our family, our family listens to you, since the people of Hangzhou call our family the meritorious master of the West Lake, then our family will do another great good deed and build a nursing home——"

The eunuch's laughter was a little crazy, especially in the quiet night, it was like a night owl, Zhang Yuan heard it with cold hairs standing on end, fortunately Eunuch Zhong soon stopped laughing, and said: "Zhang Gongzi, it takes a lot of silver to build a nursing home, although our family has some savings, but we can't put it all in, and we have to go around when we return to Beijing next year." ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and asked, "How much money is my father-in-law willing to pay to buy fame?" ”

Eunuch Zhong pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "If it doesn't exceed 10,000 taels, our family can still raise it." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Then my father-in-law will give me nine thousand taels of silver, my father-in-law, I still have a little selfishness below, and I want to ask my father-in-law for help." ”

"Selfishness?" Eunuch Zhong smiled and said, "You said, our family will try to help you if we can." "People have selfish intentions to make friends.

Zhang Yuan said: "Jewel Mountain under the Nursing Home, if the father-in-law alone to raise funds to build and shelter and relieve those sick and lonely, I am afraid that 10,000 taels of silver is not enough, and the father-in-law will be too much silver will be discussed by some villains that the father-in-law is greedy for ink, I think the father-in-law out of silver 8,000 taels is enough, and the other money and things can be raised from the wealthy gentry in Hangzhou, there is a father-in-law initiative, and then raise tens of thousands of taels of silver should not be difficult, after the father-in-law returns to Beijing, the nursing home has to be handed over to the government for management, but as long as there is Jiao Zhuangyuan's inscription, The reputation of benevolence and righteousness in preparing for the establishment of the nursing home will always be that of the father-in-law—"

"Zhang Gongzi is far-sighted, thoughtful, and thoughtful." Eunuch Zhong nodded again and again, and the remaining worries were completely dispelled.

Zhang Yuan said again: "I said to my father-in-law that my uncle built a righteous warehouse in Shanyin, and I acted as the head of the society, but I was young and lowly, and I have only raised thousands of stone grains so far——"

Before Zhang Yuan finished speaking, Eunuch Zhong already understood Zhang Yuan's "selfishness", and said with a smile: "Our family understands what you mean, you persuade our family to give 9,000 taels of silver, build a nursing home of 8,000 taels, and donate the other 1,000 taels to your Shanyin Yicang, it turns out that this is your selfishness, haha——"

Zhang Yuanzuo said: "Please fulfill your father-in-law." ”

Eunuch Zhong sighed with emotion: "Zhang Gongzi, although our family is an internal official, but also knowledgeable and courteous, so many years from the imperial court to the locality, read a lot of people, I really have never seen you so selfless, you have the style of an ancient sage, so that our family sincerely respects - our family said before, less than 10,000 taels of our family can afford it, our family will pay 10,000 taels, 8,000 to build a Baobao Mountain Nursing Home, 2,000 to help you Shanyin Yicang." ”

The silver changed from one thousand to two thousand, of course Zhang Yuan was happy, Eunuch Zhong said that he had no selfishness, this was definitely a mistake in looking at him, how could people not be selfish, but his vision was more magnificent and far-reaching, and he gave a deep salute at the moment: "Father-in-law is righteous, Zhang Yuan thanked his father-in-law on behalf of the people affected by the disaster in Shanyin." ”

Eunuch Zhong pulled Zhang Yuan to sit down, and said with a smile: "Our family donated two thousand taels of silver, which is to leave a name, and when you write that Shanyin Yicang, remember to mention our family's righteous deeds." ”

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "That's natural, but the father-in-law's two thousand taels of silver is still converted into rice, and now the price of rice in Shaoxing and Hangzhou is soaring, usually one or two silver can buy two stone of rice, but now only one stone can be bought, but the Songjiang area has not suffered from drought and flood, and the price of rice is stable, can the father-in-law send two official ships to Songjiang to buy four thousand stone of grain and transport it to Shanyin, so that the people of Shanyin will benefit more?" ”

Although the price of rice in Songjiang is nearly half cheaper than that of Shanyin, if it is a civilian ship or a merchant ship to buy rice, there will be five customs customs from Hangzhou to Jiaxing, and the rice will be transported from Songjiang to Shanyin, and the taxes, ship fees, and mercenary fees will almost be worth the difference between the price of rice and grain in the two places - Eunuch Zhong shook his head and smiled: "Zhang Gongzi, Zhang Gongzi, your shrewdness is unmatched, our family just likes your shrewdness, you just have to concentrate on studying in Nanping Thatched Cottage, except for asking Jiao Zhuangyuan for that inscription, you don't need to worry about anything else, and you will return to Shanyin at the end of next month, Four thousand stone meters will return with you. ”

Zhang Yuan lobbied Eunuch Zhong tonight, saying that Eunuch Zhong made a huge amount of money, if it is measured in RMB four hundred years later, 10,000 taels of silver is roughly equivalent to more than 7 million yuan, although the Hangzhou Weaving Department is full of oil and water, but 10,000 taels of silver is obviously not a small amount for Eunuch Zhong, but Eunuch Zhong donated such a huge amount of money not only not painful, but happy, this is Zhang Yuan's ability.

Promised to write the inscription of the almshouse for Eunuch Zhong to ask Jiao Hong, Zhang Yuan did not dare to slack off, thinking about how to open this mouth to Mr. Jiao, this matter must be done well - the ninth day of the first month, Zhang Yuan participated in the ceremony of welcoming the statue and receiving incense at the Zhong Eunuch Shrine in Baobao Mountain, and the three divisions of Zhejiang Province came to congratulate, Qin Minping took eight local soldiers to Lingyin Temple to carry the wooden statue of Zhong Eunuch to the Gem Mountain. Also personally participate in the welcome image incense, this is really a strange news, Dongyang wood carving craftsmen are exquisite, according to the appearance of the Zhong eunuch statue is five or six points similar, the dress is dressed according to the appearance of the three treasures eunuch Zheng He, along the way there are quite a few people around to watch the lively, did not see the worship of the top, snickering belly slander a lot, so as soon as the Zhong eunuch left Hangzhou, the statue was dragged out as firewood burned may be very big, the so-called Hangzhou people called the Zhong eunuch as the West Lake merit is Zhang Yuan said that it was fabricated, but if the nursing home is built, Eunuch Zhong is really the meritorious master of the West Lake, and the people will feel his kindness, and the Gem Mountain Ancestral Hall may be able to ——...... Jiao Hong is very old, can not be like Huang Ruheng every morning to the grass hall to teach, three said to come once, accept the difficulties of all students, the tenth day of the ninth month, Jiao Zhuangyuan came to the grass hall, all the beings present with this scripture to Jiao Zhuangyuan to ask questions to solve doubts, Jiao Hong's thinking is still agile, easy, books, poems, rites, spring and autumn, there are questions must be answered, the difficulties of all life are suddenly solved, joy is self-evident - Zhang Yuan's book is "Spring and Autumn", his question is about the "Spring and Autumn" discernment, Jiao Hong pointed out: "Husband "Spring and Autumn" Although it is done for the sake of praising and disparaging current affairs, there are also those who are not at all, there are those who make judgments, there are those who reason, there are those who discriminate, there are those who are in the public world, there are inventors, there are those who emphasize education, there are those who re-discipline, there are those who have examined them, there are those who feel emotional, there are those who are hopeful, and the body is different, and it is difficult to see it. If you don't know this, the composition must not be in the form, and if you want its subject, Hu Kede can also? Recently, the physical ability is to be said, and as for the other body, it is as confused. Those who have knowledge must also secretly agree, and those who cannot really know it will be flaunted by each other, so they will not commit it. If the body does not match, although the text is added, there is no hope of being selected, so reading is the scripture, and it is urgent to distinguish the body——"

At that moment, Jiao Hong saw that all the bodies came together, and all the beings who were present to study "Spring and Autumn" felt that their mouths were suddenly opened, and with the guidance of the Master who had studied the Five Classics, an hour was worth several months of hard study.

In the evening, Zhang Yuan and Zong Yishan went to Bao's South Garden under Leifeng Pagoda to meet Jiao Hong, and the two of them were Jiao Hong's disciples who entered the hall, and they could go to ask for advice at any time about the difficulties encountered in reading and writing, but today Zhang Yuan went to ask Mr. Jiao to write a tablet for the Zhong Eunuch Nursing Home, along the way Zhang Yuan was thinking about the wording, and discussed with Zong Yishan, knowing that it was not easy to persuade Mr. Jiao to write this entertainment essay - Zhang Yuan and Zong Yishan walked across the stone forest rockery, stream bridge, and saw Jiao Hong being accompanied by his son Jiao Runsheng on a single-arch stone bridge to watch the flowing water, The Leifeng Pagoda not far away was refracting brilliance in the sunset, and when he saw Zhang Yuan and the two coming, Jiao Hong smiled and said: "You two have the most problems, haven't you finished asking in the lecture hall?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Teacher, students read less and have fewer doubts in the first two years, and the more they read today, the more doubts they have, why?" ”

Jiao Hong said: "Knowing is the idea of doing, and doing is the work of knowing; Knowledge is the beginning of action, action is the completion of knowledge, you can't all seek solutions in books, but also can be verified by doing. ”

With this opportunity, Zhang Yuan cut directly to the topic and said: "Eunuch Zhong of the Weaving Department has some friendship with the students because he helped Shizhu Xuanfu to make Ma Qiancheng clear his grievances, and General Ma felt the favor of Eunuch Zhong, and got Eunuch Zhong's sarcasm, so he set up a shrine in Baobao Mountain, and the students felt that this was a move to work hard and hurt money, but it was not easy to persuade ——"

Jiao Hong shook his head and said: "The person who is still in prison is unreasonable, that eunuch Zhong also asked the deputy envoy to ask the old man to make a record of his ancestral hall, did he think that everyone in the world was as shameless as him, and I had already rejected it!" Looking at Zhang Yuan and Zong Yishan, he said: "The two of you live in the Weaving Department, but don't be close to the ink." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Students think that reading is reasonable, but also to influence others, although there are close to the ink black, but the real gentleman, can't he be touched by his own noble education?" ”

Jiao Hong smiled, feeling that Zhang Yuan was so straightforward and cute, the young man didn't know that the world was difficult, the truth was right, but the master traveled around the world, Mencius lobbied the princes, and the sages of the two sages still couldn't sell their will, you are a sixteen-year-old boy who wants to influence a eunuch who is hungry for profit, how do you deal with the law?

Zhang Yuan said: "Everything lies in guidance, Eunuch Zhong has a good name, and the students will guide him in the name of righteousness and benevolence, and the Eunuch Zhong listened to the words of the students, and was willing to use the 8,000 taels of silver money to expand the ancestral hall to build a nursing home to relieve the poor people affected by the disaster this year." ”

Jiao Hong said happily: "There is such a thing, it is very good, this is a great act of kindness." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Eunuch Zhong admires the teacher's reputation, and still wants to ask the teacher to make a memorial. ”

Jiao Hong shook his head and said: "The inscription of the ancestral hall can't be made, and the old man will be laughed at." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "The teacher did not receive half of the benefits of Eunuch Zhong, he was open-minded, why not be afraid of others' words, besides, Eunuch Zhong did not ask the teacher to make a note for his ancestral hall, but for the almshouse. ”

Jiao Hong groaned: "The old man has always been clean and self-conscious, and he didn't want to have anything to do with the internal officials, but Eunuch Zhong is doing good deeds this time, so let's make an exception, but the old man has been in poor spirits recently, and it is not interesting to write such entertainment texts, Zhang Yuan, you ghostwrite for the old man, and give the old man a read after writing." ”

To borrow the weight is Jiao Hong's champion, Wenzong's reputation, entertainment text by the student is also a very common thing - Zhang Yuan returned to the weaving department residence, overnight wrote a more than 700 words "Jewel Mountain Zhong's Nursing Home Notes", the next said to Jiao Hong, Jiao Hong made a slight change, with a large amount of Chen Xuan paper written, and stamped with a seal, although Jiao Hong is not famous for calligraphy, but the regular writing to the eternal old charm, there is the Jin people's penmanship, Jiao Hong said: "This inscription can only be engraved after the construction of the nursing home, you have to urge the Zhong eunuch to start construction as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Yuan went to see Eunuch Zhong with Jiao Hong's handwritten "Records of Zhong's Nursing Home in Baobao Mountain", Eunuch Zhong was overjoyed, and immediately donated 8,000 taels of silver, selected a site to build a nursing home under Baobao Mountain, and went to Hangzhou City to solicit recruitment, those bureaucrats and rich silk merchants still want to flatter Eunuch Zhong, in just half a month, 18,000 taels of silver were raised, and the Weaving Department and the Hangzhou government jointly prepared to build a nursing home, and sent a special person to manage the garden, everything was carried out in an orderly manner——...... There is a magnificent mansion in the west of Longmen Temple in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, the door is magnificent, the painting is carved beams, the Zhulan curved threshold, the beauty is magnificent, this is the mansion of the famous Dong Qichang Dong Hanlin, the Dong Mansion is far more than this, on the side of the Changsheng Bridge in the west of the city, in front of the Maqi Temple in the northwest corner, and the white dragon pond on the outskirts of the city, Dong's mansion, more than ten gardens, pavilions and pavilions, Libi Palace - in the afternoon of September 15, nearly sixty years old, wide robe and slow belt, elegant and clear appearance Dong Qichang is painting in the "painting Zen room", the painting Zen room is a two-story wooden building, Beautifully constructed, it is Dong Qichang's place to paint, two beautiful maids are waiting for the paper to grind and ink, Dong Qichang holds the pen and dyes it, painting a picture of Hengyun Qiuji, imitating Ni Yunlin's brushwork, cold forest mountains and stones, the rhyme is clear, and the painting is fascinating, but is disturbed by the footsteps of hurrying upstairs, Dong Qichang is very annoyed, he is not allowed to disturb anyone to paint, this will spoil his elegant mood that has been brewing for a long time, painting is not something that can be done by lifting the pen, and it is necessary to have a mood of painting - without waiting for the maid who hurriedly came upstairs to speak, Dong Qichang shouted: " Twenty before speaking. ”

The maid's face was pale, so she had to hit herself in the mouth twenty times left and right, and her face was red, and then she said aggrievedly: "Master, the second son is back, and he said that he was beaten in Hangzhou." ”

(To be continued)