Chapter 21: Helping Forward

There are often showers in Lin'an at the end of summer, and the sky is cloudy for half a day, and the sky is sunny for half a day. A rainbow swept across the sky in the east and the rain in the west, and even the people who were sheltering from the rain couldn't help but look up and look at it. Looking out from the balcony on the second floor of Taixue, Taixue Liu Huang also nodded slightly at such a rare scene.

Retracting his thoughts, he casually opened the letter of his disciple Li Yong. The letter first greeted him, and then introduced Li Yong's recent situation. The remaining half of the article is devoted to Zhao Jiaren's recent actions. Inspect bandits and rectify public order. Even though Li Yong's tone was frustrating when he described it, he still admitted that Zhao Jiaren was quite capable in these aspects.

As for Zhao Jiaren's conspiracy, Li Yong said that he did not find out. The only anomaly was probably that Zhao Jiaren spent a lot of effort to build terraces on the sunny barren slope behind his residence. It is planted with edamame and strange plants. The person who planted it with his own hands was Zhao Jiaren's brother.

After reading the letter, Liu Huang felt uncomfortable in his heart. Zhao Jiaren's name brought Liu Di's association to be very unhappy. Dong Huai was completely unable to gain the upper hand in the struggle with Ding Daquan, even if he exhausted the means of the system and used up his connections, he repaired the Mulan Pi North Canal before Song Ci arrived in Fujian Road. Most of the credit for this incident was attributed to Fujian Road officials outside Ding Daquan's faction, but the officials still knew about it. And know the details.

The next thing became very bad, and the official family had faintly begun to doubt Dong Huai's morality, and the complicated entanglement in the middle made Liu Huang feel heartache when he thought about it.

In order to dissolve the churning in his heart, Liu Huang wrote a letter to his student Li Yong. The letter warned Li Yong that as a county magistrate, he should do a good job as a county magistrate. Don't affect the errand of the county order because you care too much about Zhao Jiaren.

As for Zhao Jiaren, Liu Huang cited the example of the Northern Song Dynasty. Cai Jing, who repaired the Nanqu of Mulanpi, adhered to the new law and was known as the great traitor, and when he first entered the officialdom, he showed extremely amazing talents. Even when these people fell, they were still extremely capable and talented. But they are not gentlemen, they are villains. The villain's ambition is a disaster for the community.

After writing it, Liu Di felt that his feelings had been expressed, so he threw away the letter he had just written to the group. When he wrote again, Liu Huang bluntly admonished his disciple Li Yong. It is necessary to take one's own prefectural position as a priority, and work hard when it is time for oneself to do it. When you need to work together with Zhao Jiaren, you must work together without hesitation.

Liu Huang was not happy when he wrote these suggestions, but he still gave such an order against his will. Li Yong's talent is far inferior to Zhao Jiaren, and Liu Huang knows this. History has proved that when those traitors rose to prominence with their personal talents, no one could stop them.

Even now, when science has a considerable advantage, the system of the Great Song Dynasty does not allow accusations to be fabricated out of thin air. The scholars and doctors attacked each other without a bottom line, opening their eyes and talking nonsense, just trying to bring each other down. It was an era of struggle for power between the new party and the old party. That great infighting destroyed the foundations of the Northern Song Dynasty, causing the Jin people to move south and the Zhao family to move south. The Southern Song Dynasty was wary of that kind of bitter struggle, and was wary of any action that might trigger that kind of party strife.

Qin Hui wants to kill Yue Fei, and he has Gaozong's instructions, and he still needs to say 'unnecessary'. Without the rigidity of the official family, even if the Xianggong wants to kill someone, he wants to go crazy, and the system can still protect those who are hated by the Xianggong from survival. Zhao Jiaren's actions are not related to the crime in any case, if Dong Huai and Liu Huang expressed their desire to get rid of Zhao Jiaren, the result is probably that the two of them were impeached first and lost their officials.

Liu Huang loves ancient Chinese, and his writing is flat and straightforward, concise and bright. He has only one expectation for his disciples, which is to successfully complete the three-year term, pass the evaluation smoothly during the grinding, and continue to the next errand. In the letter, he also told his disciples clearly.

After writing, Liu Huang packed the letter. Looking at the rainbow under the sky with clouds and the sun outside the window, he suddenly felt proud. No matter how prominent Cai Jing and Zhang Dian were, they were eventually defeated by the gentlemen. Even if there is Ding Daquan in the court, there is Zhao Jiaren in the liuguan. There are still loyal ministers like Dong Huai and Li Yong. Dark clouds can't suppress the sun, and after the rain and the sky is clear, there is a rainbow.

Just as Liu Huang sent the letter through the postal system of the Great Song Dynasty under the rainy sky in the east and the west, Li Yong and Zhao Jiaren supported each other and trudged hard under the sky where they could barely reach their fingers.

When the typhoon arrived in Fuqing County, it came extremely quickly, and the whole Fuqing County was immediately covered by heavy rain. To Li Yong's great surprise, the roof of his county government house was blown away by the strong wind, and heavy rain poured in through the hole. The good county government changed into a water curtain in an instant.

Officials in the Song Dynasty were called liuguan because they served a three-year term, and each time they left office, they had to return to the capital to be polished. The proximity to the capital is good, but it can take several months for officials to come and go on Guangxi Road. In such a situation, the county government office is a place where people live for more than two years and leave, and renovation is never a priority option.

The wind and rain were so strong that Li Yong really didn't dare to send someone to the roof. He could only watch the wind and rain raging, and painfully consider how much money he would spend on repairs. While refurbishment is never a priority, you can't ignore the time it really comes to repair. One room can't be governed, how can the world be governed. The grinding of the Great Song Dynasty has never been a formality.

"Li County Order, Li County Order." There were shouts in the wind and rain outside. Li Yong, who was very disappointed because of his bad luck, also came to his senses when he heard someone shouting in the courtyard. Listen to the voice, it's a woman. Now Li Yong became alert, how could a woman rush in when it was windy and raining?

After a while, I saw a woman dressed in a lily robe, dressed in water, rushing to the county office like a water curtain hole. Seeing Li Yong, the woman rushed straight up, and the official hurriedly stopped in front. Then the woman spoke. Li Yong is a native of Jiangxi, and after arriving in Fujian, he also worked hard to learn the local dialect. It's just that every county in Fujian probably can't understand the words of other counties, and this woman is in high spirits and her voice is heartbreaking. Li Yong is not a local, but the errand is a local. I heard the messenger first yell at the woman, and then the woman yelled at the servant for a while. The errand officer turned to Li Yong and said, "Li County order, her man goes to sea to fish." Haven't come back yet. The woman said that County Lieutenant Zhao had built a lighthouse by the sea. Able to guide ships in and out of port. This woman wants to ask if you know any news? ”

Li Yong felt a headache after listening to it. Zhao Jiaren was seen by Li Yong's teacher Liu Huang as a traitor's minion. Zhao Jiaren's image in Li Yong's eyes is like a child with a lot of ideas. Li Yong knew about this lighthouse, Zhao Jiaren's explanation at the time was that the lighthouse could guide the course, there were many bandits in Fuqing, Zhao Jiaren was not only cleaning up bandits on land, but also going to the sea to completely eliminate the bandits on the sea, and also Fuqing people had a bright future.

In the same way that Putian was preparing to repair the canal, Zhao Jiaren went door-to-door to contact the fishermen in Fuqing who were eating at sea, and finally said that these people were moved. Craftsmen with experience in building towers were invited, and each family jointly contributed to the construction of a four-zhang high stone tower on the hillside by the sea. Li Yong has seen the scene at that time, the foundation was dug deep and compacted with glutinous rice juice mixed with soil, and the stone cracks on it were also made with glutinous rice juice mixed with clay. The inside is supported by wood. At the top of the tower is a stone house. There's something in there that looks like a big gong. When it gets dark, light a fire in front of the gong, and the gong rotates, and the light shines far away.

Li Yong didn't have much interest in sailing, but he knew that there was such a thing, which was probably of some benefit to the people. I didn't expect that in such a stormy weather, there would be people running to expect this thing to really work. Looking at the roof that was blown away by the strong wind, looking at the county government like a water curtain hole. Li Yong was very skeptical that the lighthouse had been blown down by the strong wind.

"Go ahead, County Lieutenant Zhao will find it." Li Yong gave the order. Seeing the appearance of the errand officer going out in the wind and rain, Li Yong couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart. Zhao Jiaren is looking for trouble, then let Zhao Jiaren solve it.

Zhao Jiaren's residence was not far from here, and after a while, I saw Zhao Jiaren with the messenger and Zhao Yong covered in water to the county office. As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Jiaren said to the woman, and the woman nodded again and again after hearing it. Even if the whole person is like a chicken in soup, the woman's grateful expression can still be distinguished.

Li Yong didn't know what Zhao Jiaren and the woman were talking about, so he saw Zhao Jiaren turn his head and ask Li Yong, "Li County Order, I'm going to the lighthouse to have a look, are you going?" ”

Of course Li Yong didn't want to go, but seeing Zhao Jiaren looking like he was about to go out in the rain, the self-esteem of the county order in Li Yong's heart drove him to overcome the strong urge to stay in the county office and wait for the storm to pass, "Since County Lieutenant Zhao is going, where can I sit here and not move." ”

Soon after, a team of five people went out the door. Although he wore a lily coat and a hat, it only took a moment after going out, and Li Yong had already been drenched. The clothes all over his body were full of water and clinging to his body, making Li Yong unspeakably uncomfortable. The most uncomfortable thing was the strip of cloth blocked in his ears, Li Yong thought that Zhao Jiaren was joking, but now he knew that it was not a joke. The rain coming from the side hit Li Yong's face painfully, if there was no cloth strip, I was afraid that his ears would have been filled with rain.

The wind and rain couldn't open his eyes, and as a thirty-year-old man, Li Yong felt that he was going to be blown away by the wind. At this time, his heart was full of remorse, he had known this, it was better to admit some cowardice and let Zhao Jiaren go to the lighthouse.

This thought instantly aroused Li Yong's shame, a teenage county lieutenant can take care of the people, why should Li Yong hide behind Zhao Jiaren as a county magistrate? Even if Zhao Jiaren's credit, Li Yong can also share it, but as a disciple of Taixue Qingliu, does he rely entirely on a traitorous minion to get his own credit? Li Yong couldn't accept such a thing.

With great difficulty, he walked forward for a while, and the wind mixed with raindrops came from all directions, and the rain was knee-deep under his feet. Li Yong was a little unable to go on, he no longer had a judgment of interests in his heart at this time, and he did not insist on loyalty and treachery. Li Yong was terrified, if he continued to walk like this, would he still be able to see the sun tomorrow?

One hand grabbed Li Yong's arm tightly, Li Yong's body trembled, and then he also grabbed that hand with his backhand. With help, Li Yong felt a lot more relieved. wiped the rain from his eyes with his other hand, squinted his eyes and looked over, and it was Zhao Jiaren who grabbed Li Yong. saw Zhao Jiaren withstanding the wind and rain, dragging Li Yong, and continued to move forward step by step.

Li Yong didn't have any other thoughts in his heart, was it a big deal to die together. He and Zhao Jiaren supported each other, struggling to move forward on the road that could have been easily walked. The torrential rain was pouring ahead, and the sky and the earth were dark, and nothing could be seen in the distance.