Seeing the entry into December of the Great Song Dynasty 319, the weather had completely cooled down. It's so cold in winter, except for having to go out, everyone stays at home, and the same is true for Li Tingzhi, the governor of Nanchang.

Li Zhizhou was in a good mood and invited a group of officials from Nanchang to a dance party at home. Even in places like Jiangxi, the pursuit of entertainment is no different from other places. In the early years, the dances developed by the Zhao family in Fuzhou quickly differentiated into square dances and ballroom dances. With the addition of new music theory of equal temperament and chords, and experience with guitar, orchestra, and military bands, the balls in which officials participated were already akin to the balls of the 19th-century European aristocracy.

Folk dances are basically danced by husband and wife. The people in the officialdom were not accustomed to this kind of open social life, and the courtesans who had upgraded their skills took on the role of dance partners. In the beautiful melody of the orchestral piece "Blue Taihu Lake" (Blue Danube) composed by Zhao Guanjia, 60-year-old Li Zhizhou dances in the ballroom holding a 20-year-old girl's paper.

The old man didn't have that kind of lustful feeling at all, he just walked on the dance floor with his sister paper in his arms and danced to the rhythm. Compared with him, many officials seem a little disdainful.

After the song was danced, everyone stopped, and the band was able to take a breath. Li Tingzhi let go of her female companion and poured herself a glass of orange juice in front of the bar of the buffet.

This kind of buffet bar also started in Fuzhou, and came and went with the spread of Fuzhou cadres. In the upper class of the Southern Song Dynasty, which valued enjoyment, what kind of buffet was provided to guests became a means to show wealth. For some poorer officials, they can only provide orange water. The orange juice provided by Li Zhizhou is freshly squeezed and seasoned with sugar. Very tasty

Liu Jingye of the Northern and Southern Dynasties recorded in "Alien Garden": "There is Xi Shishan in Nankang, and there are citrus, oranges, and pomelo. "Nankang is the area of Ganzhou today. By the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, citrus, oranges, oranges, pomelos and other fruit trees had become forests. As the governor of Nanchang, Jiangxi, although Li Tingzhi is not poor and extravagant, the pressed juice is also relatively stylish.

In addition to juices, there are also a variety of snacks on the buffet table. The Great Song fleet brought back cocoa trees from Fusang Chau and planted them in Cochin, Champa and Siam in the south. Many of the snacks were coated with chocolate, and the officials were very happy with this sweet and bitter taste.

At the ball, there are naturally all kinds of acquaintances and non-acquaintances. For example, an official came up, and at the beginning he was still full of New Year's greetings, but as he spoke, he brought the topic to the recent struggle between Li Tingzhi and Yushitai.

Judging from the content of what was said, Li Tingzhi felt that this official originally meant to say that Li Tingzhi was a hero, and the people in Yushitai couldn't touch Li Tingzhi at all. Li Tingzhi was actually very dissatisfied with this. In Li Tingzhi's opinion, the people of Yushitai really have nothing to be afraid of, those people are all mouth cannons. When the Mongols invaded the south, the Lin'an court chose to surrender. The world's people who still insist on fighting are Sichuan, Yangzhou, and Lingnan.

Among these three forces, Zhao Jiaren undoubtedly has the greatest credit, so Zhao Jiaren is now an official. Although the world was shaken by this, no one felt that Zhao Jiaren's actions were unreasonable. Not only did Zhao Guanjia defeat the Mongols, but he also launched a series of counteroffensives, and even allowed large rivers like the Yellow River to be diverted to the north. Such a great martial arts, such a battle against heaven and earth, everyone is also very admired.

Li Tingzhi's dissatisfaction lies in the fact that the Zhao Guanjia is too powerful for his own use. Li Tingzhi's credit is no different from that of other officials. Until now, I have not given the title of young master or senior master. With Li Tingzhi's merits, let's add the title of festival envoy.

With this kind of ignorance, Li Tingzhi smiled and said: "The major affairs of the imperial court, you are just a petty official in Nanchang, and it is boring to do such idleness." These words were really unkind, and the official's face became very ugly, but he could only admit that he was unlucky.

Looking at the aggrieved back of the official, Li Tingzhi felt good. Anyway, in this world where the system of science is rising and the imperial examination is declining, the influence of officials on the government is greatly reduced. What if you offend an individual? If the official is really dissatisfied, can he come over and bite Li Tingzhi.

After a short break, the band continued to play. Li Tingzhi originally wanted to continue dancing with the original sister paper, but she didn't expect another sister paper to take the initiative to come. Sister paper smiled: "Seeing Li Zhizhou so free and easy, but I don't know if the little girl can dance with Li Zhizhou?" ”

"What's so hard about that?" Li Tingzhi took Sister Paper's arm, hugged Sister Paper's slender waist, and soon entered the dancing crowd.

Looking at Li Zhizhou's ease, several young officials sat next to the tea table in the corner, and the one at the head said: "I don't know who will take over Nanchang Zhizhou after Li Zhizhou." Maybe the imperial court will send someone to carry out land reform, right? ”

"It depends on the court. It's useless for me to wait in a hurry. The other took a sip from his teacup, and then said with some disapproval.

"I'm from Gusu. The land reform has already taken place in my house, and the people's lives have been much better immediately after the land reform. And after the land reform, this official can be easy to do. ”

"There have always been people who say that officials are easy to do, but I don't think so. Officials in Jiangnan are working much harder than before. ”

"The so-called good work does not mean that there is no need to do anything, and local government affairs will naturally become better. The so-called easy to do means that there is a whole set of rules for what we want to do, but there is something wrong in the middle. We also have rules to follow. You have read the "Qin Law Examination" written by the official, which gives the example of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, according to the Qin law and the Qin system, because the rainy day is out of schedule, there is no need to be punished at all. Whether the legal system itself is enforceable is one thing, and whether it exists is also important. ”

Since there are those who support the law, and naturally there are those who do not, another young official said with some contempt: "Do you believe this? ”

"I don't just believe it, I'm ready to do it when I have the opportunity!" The tone of the pro-rule of law is already starting to be very unkind.

"So how do you do it?"

The one who supports the legal system sneered: "I think Shang Ying's law enforcement methods were very good back then, and those who talked about the government in vain were ill-intentioned. If you really want to build a system, where is there so much nonsense. So much nonsense, I still want to lead by myself, and I can't accept someone else's dominance of the system. ”

These words made the faces of the people around them change. When Shang Ying changed the law, the people initially felt that this law was too harsh, and there was a lot of opposition. Shang Ying punished these people. After the new law was implemented for a while, many people thought that the law was good, and sang praises to the new law. Shang Ying also punished these people.

After such a tidy-up process, no one dared to discuss the new policy. Although there are various adjustments and supplements to the New Deal, they are all adjusted according to different situations. The New Deal itself is no longer under the slightest attack.

And this practice is greatly contrary to the concept of scholars and officials ruling the world together, and the Great Song Dynasty does not kill scholars and doctors with words. If such radical measures were adopted, the privilege of the scholars would themselves be severely damaged.

As a result, the young officials who advocated a hard-line attitude were opposed by others.

Some people dance, some talk, and some people put their hands on the paper. That's how the dance went, and everyone's reaction was different. What people didn't notice was that the public social model of the ball itself was very different from the traditional model of the Great Song Dynasty. Even people with different positions and philosophies have room to exist in the same ball.

Just when the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were enjoying stability in such an environment as a ball, on the Poyang Lake Plain in Jiangxi, the army was building a huge compass more than ten meters long. Judging from the measurement system and historical data that Zhao Guanjia began to build from the Fujian era, this kind of compass is actually not a new creation.

Since the Han Dynasty, there has been the establishment of a large compass in Jingzhou. Such a compass has a diameter of several tens of meters. There is a very fine scale division on it. Various astronomy and feng shui scholars meet here every few years or for a period of time to discuss them. According to the comparison with historical data, the description of Fusang Continent more than 20,000 miles away in the "Book of Liang" is because of such incredible measuring equipment.

After the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, this set of gadgets was dismantled and sent to Bianliang, and those professionals were also taken away. During the Northern Song Dynasty, lunar eclipses could be accurately predicted, which is enough to prove that astronomy has indeed developed greatly.

Zhao Guanjia opened a surveying and mapping school, which was not a civilian college, but a military college. Measuring points have been set up in Gusu, Jingzhou, Kaifeng, Guangzhou, Nanchang and other places. If you want to be accurate, it is not enough to rely on only one point, the basis of accurate measurement is a sufficient number of measurement origins.

In November in Jiangxi, the air humidity is very high and the temperature is very low. All servicemen wore military coats with hems more than ten centimeters below the knee, military cotton caps, and cotton gloves.

That's it, and it also froze these soldiers a lot. However, no one in the military complained, and as surveyors, they all had a good future. This year, the Jiangxi surveying and mapping unit has dismissed more than a dozen people who are complaining about their misery. Everyone has finally understood that many times speaking is not without a price.

Not only in Jiangxi, but also in Henan, squad leader Zhao Qian calmly watched the company announce that four soldiers had retired early.

These four retired early are all thorns in the army, because the expectations of the troops are different from the status quo of their contact, they are all kinds of disobedience and resentment, and all kinds of negative remarks. Twice a year, the army will have internal cleanups, and such a presence is subject to cleanup.

Zhao Qian welcomed this approach from the bottom of his heart, and it was precisely because of his dealings with these people that Zhao Qian deeply understood what it meant to be 'a rat poop spoils a pot of soup'. They may not really dare to destroy directly, but they are really disgusting people. With them, the system itself will be questioned about its power. When the system is going to prove that it is capable, then these people must be addressed.