Yangzhou was a famous city and a large county in ancient times. It is rumored that the Yellow Emperor cut the world into nine, divided into Hebei, Yan, Qing, Xu, Yang, Jing, Henan, Liang, Yong, a single Yangzhou is the territory of today's Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian four provinces, occupy the world's anointed land. Since the Zhou and Han dynasties, for some reason, the "state" is still a state, and the richer it is, the more narrow the territory. The Three Kingdoms Wu placed Yangzhou, only managed the Jianye capital area, which has nothing to do with the original "Yangzhou" of Kyushu, along the Southern Dynasty Song Qi Liang Chen to Sui, simply changed its name to Jiangdu County; The Tang Dynasty changed "Guangling" and reinstated its name to "Yangzhou", and it became a provincial county government. sat in this position, but did not "descend" again.

The small is small, but the Yangtze River in the south of this place, the Shufu Mountains connect with the south of Sichuan, the water waves of the ditch divide the Huaibei, and the Grand Canal stretches through the border to reach the Yangtze River, which is not only the place where the southeast water and drought two wharves are distributed to the goods, but also the beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers is pleasant. Climb Shugang overlook, but see the slender West Lake is as bright as a mirror painting boat cruising fishing boats back and forth, countless rivers and harbors are criss-crossing between the streets and alleys, the twenty-four bridges, Pingshan Hall, Wenfeng Tower, Longhua Pavilion, seventy-two temples and thirty-six gardens are scattered, the shadow of the building enters the lake, all swaying and rippling among the dense forests and bamboos. The axis is connected like an ant team, from Pingshan to the royal road, ten miles of cuihua, the pavilions and pavilions are dotted all over the place. The real family lives in the verdant city, and there are smoke waves and hills everywhere...... As the saying goes, "natural beauty is hard to give up". This prosperity is innate, and it is by no means something that can be taken away by manpower.

At this moment, it is the tenth day of the first month of the first month of the year of Qianlong. The winter is wet and warm, and it is cloudy several times, all of which are drizzling, and occasionally a few snowflakes are also swirling and swirling; Or simply sleet, the fine snow silk mixed with the rain and fog falls suddenly, only stirring up the alleys into mud, if you want to tread the snow to find plum blossoms, you can't say it at all. But on the ninth night of the first month, the north wind blew and whistled for half the night. At dawn, Yangzhou knew that cotton robes were still needed.

At noon, the crimson winter clouds became heavier and heavier, and the haze rolled on the gloomy and vast dome, as gray as a freshly cooled soldering iron. Finally, one piece, another piece, two or three pieces, the snowflakes like catkins and cotton wool are tight and slow, tentatively and gradually dense, and in a short time, the feathers are flying wildly, trapping a red and enchanting Huaiyang into the butterfly array.

When the snow was falling tightly, a donkey carrying a young scholar in his twenties crossed the Ying'en Bridge in the west of the Guandi Temple, and rode down in front of the Yazhaobi of Yangzhou Mansion. He wiped a handful of snow water from his head and face, held the reins of the donkey, rubbed his hands that were a little red from the cold, and looked at the gate of the black cave cave as if he was a little overwhelmed. In the cave of the yamen, a servant was laughing and chatting with his companions, and when he saw it, he refused to come out in the snow, and he stood under the dripping eaves, and reprimanded from afar:

"Hey! You're blind, aren't you—what about you! Do you look around? That's where the adults rest and tie their horses! ”

The young man was stunned, looked at the doorway and said, "May I ask where my donkey should be tethered?" The official still wanted to scold, and a servant next to him scolded with a smile: "He Fugui, you fucking scolded a group of us - he was looking at us, and you said, 'Look at us'." He Fugui originally had a straight face, smiled deflatedly, and shouted to the young man, "Enter through the east side door." Lead to the stable, naturally someone will take care of it. The young man snorted and said loudly, "I am—"

"You know, you know!" He Fugui interrupted impatiently, waved his hand at Yadong and said, "Isn't your master the matter of welcoming the meeting-go in the east corner gate-Lao Gao continued, he is happy that the two of them are happy, her man is back, how can this mother-in-law cook?" ”

When the young man heard him say this, he suddenly fell into a fog, and he knew about the government meeting, but the three words "your master" were incomprehensible. His name is Dou Guangnai, don't look at the weak and slender and beautiful like a woman, in fact, he is not an idle person, he has been a prodigy in the school since he was a child. At the age of twelve, he went to school as a talent, and at the age of fifteen, he went to Nanjing Gongyuan Township to take the test, and he was the third in high school; The following year, the bus entered Beijing to test, and the people who were proud of the spring breeze were refreshed and made art[1]

, strategy, and poetry are all made in a flowery manner; The examiner secretly figured it out, and actually won the third place, and when he looked at his resume, he realized that Dou Guangnai was just a teenager who had just passed his studies. Seeing him so uplifted, the examiner frowned and said, "I'm too young, I have to temper my temperament." It's too shocking to hear it, and I'm afraid of breaking his blessing - you look at his words, with a bit of flying and domineering, the edge is too exposed...... "Shengsheng pushed back ten, and almost a first-class jinshi was snatched in his hands. However, those who are knowledgeable and intellectually outstanding make one more mistake, and they are easy to be arrogant. Although he was deposed in the second class, after all, he was still among the best, and he was distributed according to the routine, and he was still appointed as an editor in the Hanlin Academy. Originally, this was the privy Qing Essential, the Jinshi Bawang rare messenger, Jing Shidun colleague An Sheng mixed messenger, out of a few academic errands, steadily when the head of the academy, the cabinet bachelor, the university scholar, naturally Xuan Ma worshiped the prime minister, to the poor also mixed with a foreign academic administration, but also the officialdom of the people yearning for the lack. However, because Wang Wenshao, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, went to the Hanlin Academy to give a lecture and denounced Song Confucianism and Taoism, he actually stood up on the spot and argued with this world-famous old champion of the former dynasty. The two well-educated people, one old and one young, repeatedly crossed the question one on the other, and everyone in the Qing Secret Hall was shaken when they heard it. Fortunately, Ji Yun, the minister of the Ministry of Rites and the Minister of Military Machinery, happened to be about to transfer the ministers of literature and words from the Hanlin Academy to compile the "Siku Quanshu", and the bachelor of the academy "Youxu" the second pole Hanlin "Youxu" on the matter of rubbing the rope on his legs.

…… Dou Guangnai stood in front of Qionghua's confused yaya for a while, after all, he was ignorant; I want to come to the Ya to visit the Yangzhou Mansion with the knowledge of Yu Dengshui, saying that the matter of collecting books, yesterday the post station has been informed of the prefect's Yamen, how dare Yu Dengshui be so lazy? Besides, the more I thought about the word "your master", the more I felt that it was very incomprehensible, and I wanted to come forward to inquire again, but I heard the official surnamed Gao say energetically: "...... The woman didn't panic at all, she put on her pants neatly, and when she saw that the wild man was bluffing, her face was pale and covered with cold sweat in a daze, she chewed a few whispers in his ear, and put on a wicker fence before the door, and opened the door with a bang. Her husband asked, 'Why do you keep the door open in broad daylight?' Before he finished speaking, he made a 'sigh', and the woman had already put a fence on his head. The woman beat the drum with both hands and beat the fence fiercely, so that she taught the wild man to escape, while scolding "Wang Jiaqian sings the big drama "Mixed Yuan Box", killing a thousand knives, just take care of yourself to see it! Don't take me with you - I'll show you! I'll teach you to see!! I'll teach you to see !! The old lady is too lazy to open the door for you...... 'Her man's head was shocked, and he was blind and deaf for a while, and he couldn't stop explaining 'I didn't watch the show', and the wild man slipped away early......"

…… Dou Guangnai stood in front of Qionghua's confused yaya for a while, after all, he was ignorant; I want to come to the Ya to visit the Yangzhou Mansion with the knowledge of Yu Dengshui, saying that the matter of collecting books, yesterday the post station has been informed of the prefect's Yamen, how dare Yu Dengshui be so lazy? Besides, the more I thought about the word "your master", the more I felt that it was very incomprehensible, and I wanted to come forward to inquire again, but I heard the official surnamed Gao say energetically: "...... The woman didn't panic at all, she put on her pants neatly, and when she saw that the wild man was bluffing, her face was pale and covered with cold sweat in a daze, she chewed a few whispers in his ear, and put on a wicker fence before the door, and opened the door with a bang. Her husband asked, 'Why do you keep the door open in broad daylight?' Before he finished speaking, he made a 'sigh', and the woman had already put a fence on his head. The woman beat the drum with both hands and beat the fence fiercely, so that she taught the wild man to escape, while scolding "Wang Jiaqian sings the big drama "Mixed Yuan Box", killing a thousand knives, just take care of yourself to see it! Don't take me with you - I'll show you! I'll teach you to see!! I'll teach you to see !! The old lady is too lazy to open the door for you...... 'Her man's head was shocked, and he was blind and deaf for a while, and he couldn't stop explaining 'I didn't watch the show', and the wild man slipped away early......"

The officials suddenly burst into laughter, and they all laughed and scolded: "Ri Niang bird, there is such a mother-in-law in the family, and the green hat is going to be worn in the coffin!" "Her man's "Mixed Yuan Box" didn't take a fancy to it, but the wild man fell in love with ...... at home" "Thieves are talented and wise, it's really incredible!" "Escaped on the spot, arrested...... "Hehe, haha, Gege, hehe...... In a noisy laughter, Dou Guangnai shook his head and led the donkey.

Walking along the south wall of the yamen about a stone's throw to the east, I saw a gate at the east end. But it is not an ordinary "corner gate" that is only in and out of the house, quite like the carriage door of a mule and horse dry shop, about a width of a few feet, no threshold, no doorway, the ground is so thin that the damp white sugar like snow water, the ground car marks and hoof footprints and mule and horse dung are a mess. Dou Guangnai knew that this was the case, led the donkey in, wiped his eyes that were lost in the snow, and saw that this large compound was full of stables on the north and east sides, and the horses and mules were very noisy. Entering the door to the west, there is a row of corner houses, which are full of people, all drinking tea and telling jokes. The white air of the tea stove slowly dissipated from under the eaves of the window. Because he saw that these idlers were all dressed up as servants, Dou Guangnai suddenly understood that these were the families of the local weaving and dyeing mill salt merchants, and they were wrapped in this black donkey like ants, and they didn't even bring a single servant, so they must have been the servants of which family they were all killed! Dou Guangnai couldn't help but smile, led his "black ants" around a piece of sedan cars, warm sedan chairs, and pannier sedan chairs, and tied them up in a group of tall mules and horses. ”

"Pregnant-woman?" The official was coldly asked by him, stunned for a moment, swallowed the ground and said with a smile, "Pregnant women are naturally in the midwifery hall - you are really interesting!" ”

"Jishengtang? Where is the Jisheng Hall? ”

"How many places are there in the midwifery, which one are you asking? The Huang family? Liu's? Or is it the Lu family? ”

Dou Guangnai was stunned for a long time, only to understand that he had a lot of trouble with this guy who was full of Wu language, smiled and smiled, and said word by word in the official words of the Beijing faction: "I want to see your Lord Yu Dengshui - the prefect Pei Xingren has been dismissed from his post and asked, Yu Dengshui is now acting as the prefect of Yangzhou, and he is still the same knowledge, so he calls him Yu Erfu - do you understand?" ”

"You want to see our Lord Taizun, you will understand if you say no." The official flashed a glance at him in surprise, and then he looked at it properly, and saw that the young man was wearing a gray poplin cotton robe, which was covered with snow, and the buckled azure satin baturu vest was exposed, and the black mud mille-feuille shoes were worn under his feet, and he was wearing a lily coat but not a hat, and a black satin six-in-one melon skin hat was embedded with a white jade inlay. This outfit is said to be expensive or not, and it is not cheap to say that it is cheap, and I can't tell what it is, because he said, "Lord Yu went out to pay a visit." It was said that the gentry of the palace will meet today, and the matter of the Qianlong Lord patrolling Yangzhou to welcome the car, the people have arrived early, and the adults have not come back yet. On the other side of the second hall—" he pointed to the southern turn of the inner courtyard of the ya, "and everyone was waiting for his old man's house. Do you dare to ask the official and Taifu? If you want to go to the signing room, you have to wait for Master Hu to open the door after lunch, otherwise it is better to wait in the second hall first, Master Yu will not be outside for a long time. This time, he also took a bite of the lame Beijing accent and spoke, even if it was nondescript, he also understood. Dou Guangnai only nodded when he heard this, and while walking, he untied the belt of his clothes and walked to the second hall of the mansion, and the clothes and wooden shoes took off under the corridor, and he listened to the buzzing voices inside, sipping tea, whispering, coughing, yawning, and chattering Gege seemed to be joking...... There's everything.

Someone suddenly heard someone say: "Dou Guangnai is doing this to others, stepping on people's shoulders and climbing up, it's not a good thing!" ”

Dou Guangnai never expected that someone would scold him behind his back here and now, and he gritted his teeth and hated so much that he wanted to throw himself into a jackal, and his heart thundered with a burst of tinnitus, and his face immediately turned red. Standing at the door and looking in, the snow was reflected outside, the room was extremely dark, the smoke and fog were hazy, there were more than forty rich businessmen of all ages, sitting at six or seven tables of eight immortals, eating tea, smoking, snorting melon seeds, tasting fruits, and gossiping, I couldn't see who was speaking, and I was stunned, and several people in the southwest corner of the second hall had already echoed it.

"What Second Master Xing said is true." A gentleman who was as fat as a bucket wiped his oily nose with a handkerchief, yawned and said indistinctly: "Pei Taizun hung up his boots and left, I went to see him, he said that he only wanted to benefit the people, and he would offend the ministers of Yanli if he didn't prevent his head." This surnamed Dou is a minister of words, a real villain! ”

"It's the villain!"

A thin middle-aged man sitting next to Xing Erye stroked his goatee and said categorically: "He is treating the river and drying up the fields [2]

Don't sell it, Pei Taizun sold him and his eyes were red - did Pei Taizun sell the field to fill his own pocket? As he spoke, he coughed. A little man with a roe deer next to him didn't seem to be itchy, and said with a smile: "It's just that someone Dou impeached Pei Taizun and cut off a way for the princes to make money, so you hate him." To be fair, the dry fields of the imperial court are also sold too cheaply. Lao Xing, give me twenty taels of silver per mu of land on your Qinghe Zhuangzi, no, thirty taels will also be made - will you sell it? "Dou Guangnai saw the one named Xing Erye at this time, but he had a square face and a beard, and a cinnabar mole on his sideburns twitched when he spoke." It was bought from Jin Heshuai in the hands of my grandfather - what are you kidding Lao Wan - I mean, these dry fields are also barren, and the court does not plant them themselves, and it is not good governance to sell them to the common people? Why did he Dou Guangnai stop him, and he also bounced off Pei Taizun, and even Jin Zhentai followed suit! ”

The appearance of several rich people next to him immediately responded:

"Heaven is good, and Dou Guangnai must not die well!"

"Staining his red top with other people's blood, he is still a talent?!"

"**Genius - is a genius, and he is also a master - I heard that his mother, his wife is dead. Can such a person stay in front of Qianlong for a long time? ”

"Most of the talented people are short-lived." Xing Erye said: "Yan Yuan in front of Confucius, talented, right?" Thirty-three years old, whimpering. Jia Yi of the Han Dynasty, a talented man, was thirty-three years old and choked up......"

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Dou Guangnai impeached Pei Xingren and Jin Wenkui, who was originally the political envoy Gao Heng for them, and even offered his concubine to the "national uncle" for lewd pleasure, but he didn't expect to provoke this group of landlords, and he wanted to bite himself to death like a mad dog. Hearing that they were insulting the door with guns and sticks, he was even more angry and his hands trembled and his heart shook, and as soon as he entered the second hall, he was about to speak, when a middle-aged man with a white face had already greeted him and gave up his seat, pulled his sleeve and whispered with his eyes: "Teacher Lan Qing, I have been watching you for a long time." Not afraid of real villains, but afraid of hypocrites. And they were angry, and they didn't have the identity of a teacher. Come...... Sit, listen to their nonsense, embarrass them for a while! Dou Guangnai took a look, but he was an acquaintance who had met several times in Ji Yun's mansion, and they were all called Ma Erzizi, who was an imperial merchant who procured tribute for the Internal Affairs Office, and he was the most uninhibited, but he didn't know his real name. Dou Guangnai stared at the southwest corner viciously, took a heavy breath, sat down at the first table next to Ma Er's nephew, and said gloomily: "Folk word-of-mouth, accusing officials of good manners, is an ordinary thing. But his mother is alive and well, and he dares to curse like this! ”

"It's not the time to fix them." Ma Erzi's braids lazily crossed his neck around his chest, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile, "These are all grain gentry from Yangzhou's rich powder shop, and they are authentic local guys." You quarreled with them on the spot, didn't you level your identity? Isn't it a martial art to win! As he spoke, he saw the roe deer-headed gentleman on the table stretching his neck and squeezing his eyebrows and asking, "Tu Weixiao, you said it vividly, have you seen Lord Dou?" "I've seen it," the surnamed Tu licked his lips and made a grimace and smiled, "That's it, it's exactly the same as Zunfan, it's like a ......flea on the drum in "Water Margin", and the southwest corner of the table laughed. Dou Guangnai was full of annoyance, and he couldn't help but laugh. The rest of the gentry at the table were engaged in tea, salt, porcelain, lacquerware, dyeing and weaving, and they did not seem to know each other very well, but they still only cared about what they said and did not pay much attention to each other.

While gossiping, the snow outside was getting heavier and heavier.

The wind seemed to have stopped, and it was like a mess of feathers, or like a pom-pom, not fluttering, and it was particularly conspicuous under the eaves of the dim doorway, and it was a taste of falling and falling hard. The snow on the ground had been covered tightly by the sudden snow, the snow on the roof tiles had accumulated more than three inches, and the dripping of the tiles had gradually stopped. I don't know who said: "Yajing, Yu Taizun is back!" The noise in the house immediately stopped.

In the silence, Dou Guangnai looked outward, and sure enough, he saw a large sedan chair with four people, and the covered felt curtain was covered with a thick layer of snow. The official who carried the tea trotted out, picked up the felt curtain, and said with a smile: "The master is back?" The guests have already arrived, waiting for you-the master rubbed his face and came out again, the thief was cold outside, and it was not stubborn to catch a cold...... "Then I saw an official come out, but it was an old man who was clear, around fifty years old, skinny, like an old bamboo pole that could be blown off by a gust of wind, got off the sedan chair and rubbed his hands on one end and asked, "Is Lord Lanqing here?" ”

"Nope." The official carefully carried him up the stairs, hurriedly brushed away the snow that fell on the white pheasant's uniform with his hands, pulled the robe and shook the placket, smiled so that his nose and eyes were crowded together, and said, "As soon as the lord ascended the sedan chair, I ordered the door, and the council will not be opened today, and there will be an adult who is coming to wake up and report in quickly." This big snow, the plum blossoms are blooming well over there in Xiaohongqiao, Lord Lan Qing dares to enjoy the plum blossoms......"

At this time, the gentry had already gotten up to greet the entrance of the hall, bowing, bowing, bowing, and greeting a loud voice: "Taishou", "Taizun", "Huangtang", "Five Horses"...... Shouting and screaming. The fish was very clear when he landed in the water, and he saw Dou Guangnai slowly getting up at a glance, busy separating the crowd with his hands, rushing in a few steps, holding Dou Guangnai's hand with both hands, shaking his arms and laughing: "Brother, take a step first!" You say, 'Come and worship,' how dare I? I got up early this morning, and quickly passed the post station to visit, who knew that passing by the Zhentai Yamen, Jin Wenkui was moving, this heavy snow, cage luggage were left in the muddy water, and the family was crying and crying - we worked together and a match, he opened the gap and asked for the crime, the next person is so practiced, it is not good to stand by and watch, just cook there, who knows that it will be late, and I don't want you to ride a donkey to me alone, it's really good Yaxing...... "Said and smiled and asked for warmth, and was very attentive. Ma Erzi smiled beside him and said: "The Jin family's snow swept the floor and went out, and it was indispensable to call Tianqu and scold Dou Guangnai, right?" Dou Guangnai also said: "It seems that this Dou Guangnai is really a heinous person." Several gentlemen here also scolded, Dou someone first soaked in snow water, and then the dog was bloody......" said and laughed. But except for Yu Dengshui and Ma Erzi, no one knew that "Lan Qing" was Dou Guangnai's word, and their words immediately caused Xing Erye and several people to "resonate":

"Closing the door on a snowy day, forcing people to move? The people in Zhentai Yamen are really snobbish - this is all a good thing Dou Guangnai has done! ”

"Lord Jin, what a good person he is, he also has great ability, and he can open two stone bows - the falling phoenix is not as good as a chicken!"

"It's still our Yu Taizun, and the Pei Taizun family in front of us hasn't moved!"

"Ordinary businessmen, they still talk about the word 'faith'! The dry field deed approved to us by Pei Taizun in front of us, with the seal letter of the government and Taiwan, Yu Taizun has to give us the master! ”

"That's right, it's not called Dou Guangnai, this scoundrel is proud!"

In the midst of everyone's gossip, Yu Dengshui was in front of Dou Guangnai, his face was gray and blue with embarrassment, the tendons on his neck were tensed, and he said with a calm face: "Shut up!" Lord Dou Lanqing's famous ministers are bones, as soon as the bullet seal is on, the government and the opposition are shocked, what are you? Dare to insult and slander here?! Dou Guangnai took a step forward, arched his hands and said with a smile: "The student is Dou Guangnai, Dou Guangnai is Dou Lanqing, I am really offended!" ”

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All the people froze at once, like wooden clay sculptures, so silent that even the rustle of snow falling on the patio could be heard clearly. After a while, Xing Erye and a few people came back to their senses and knew that they had touched a big bad head today. First of all, the fat man couldn't hold it, knelt down with his knees, slapped himself with his arm, and said, "The villain was drunk with yellow soup last night...... I ran here to talk nonsense - before leaving, the old woman also said, drink more tea and talk less - I am actually a pig, no ears! He slapped his hand again. Several rice borers who committed tongue and tongue also followed suit, scolding themselves for being "the eighth king of death", "shameless", "faint", and "growing up eating shit", all kinds of tricks. The rest of the salt merchants, porcelain, lacquerware, weaving and dyeing shop owners don't care about the pain, picking their teeth and picking their nails to watch the wind and cool on the side. Yu Dengshui waited for them to be ugly, and felt that they had to rely on them to do the things to welcome them, so they should not be too much, so they smiled and took Dou Guangnai's hand and said, "Brother Lan Qing, what kind of toys are they!" Angry value is inappropriate. It is as if you heard the donkey and the dog barked. Let's have a meeting first, and I have good news for you. ”

"You guys, please come in and sit down for a meeting." Dou Guangnai saw those people kneeling under the eaves of the fallen building, all of them were swollen and embarrassed, and sat down with Yu Dengshui as the guest of honor, and commanded loudly outside. His eyes were gloomy, and he smiled bitterly and said to the second nephew next to him: "Since ancient times, it has been difficult to be a good person, how dare I ask for undivided blessings?" That Gao Heng, as a relative of the country, is in charge of the important affairs of the salt department, and he dares to sell official salt privately and embezzle millions of taels of national taxes, and he is the same as Qian Dutong, the servant of the household department, who is a traitor and a copper fisherman. Ma Erzi smiled and said: "My lord's move is deafening!" Even my brother-in-law, I can't tolerate him if he tosses my family property like this! ”

The prefect of the new Yudengshui Bureau, there is a shortage of more than 100,000 taels of silver needed to welcome the car, and it is necessary to gather on the people who are attending today's meeting, and I am afraid that the prestige is not enough. Pei Fuzun is also not good-looking, how can he even give his concubine and prostitute himself in a place like Zhongyuan? Boiling, Yangzhou's officials are all corrupted! Ma Erzi said: "The scholar here may not know." Pei Fuzun is a good person with Longyang, he doesn't love beauties and loves children, he is happy to send the concubine to the knot, Uncle Gao Guo is happy, the concubine ** Qi is happy, it is cheap to sell and buy dry fields, and everyone is happy - Lord Dou plays a straight and ninefold play, stirring up this joyful dojo, how can you not teach people to hate itchy! Before the words fell, the crowd was already laughing, and only a few rice merchants blushed so much that they couldn't wait to drill into the ground.

"The emperor is now stationed in the Nanjing Palace." Yu Dengshui glanced at Dou Guangnai, saw him nodding slightly, cleared his throat and said, "Fu Zhongtang is now in Chengdu to organize the army, and Yin Zhijun has stayed in the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and he will also go to Xi'an to camp and supervise the army's food and straw matters." The emperor's visit is to inspect the customs of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and the cultural relics of the Ming Dynasty are typical. It is needless to say that the treasury will consume mountains of gold and silver when the army acts. The emperor came to our Yangzhou, which is the decent scenery of the people of our Yangzhou people, and it is also our blessing. The emperor has mercy on the poor and the weak in order not to disturb the people, so all supplies since the southern tour have been in accordance with the rules in the hands of the Holy Grandfather, and they have been supported by the Great Inner Treasury. It is so benevolent and generous that my students have never seen it in the twenty-four histories. This is to say, as far as our Yangzhou Mansion is concerned, it is a place where the world is rich, for example, if there are distinguished guests at home, we also have to whitewash the chalk and sweep the court, right? A little bit of courtiers and respectful hearts! The money for the big items has been raised in the house. Yingjiaqiao Palace, Caohe Palace, Eight Famous Gardens and Eight Temples have all been renovated. There are still some that are not perfect, and I am afraid that they will fall on the gentry. This is a great joy, there can be no half-threaded breakage, and the silver in the treasury cannot be used, you all understand people's ......"

He spoke at length, from the big and the small from far to near to force out the topic, this is the former governor Pei Xingren said and said, the lips were dry, the ears were also calloused, listening to people were too impatient, and he had to pretend to be a Tongmeng elementary school student listening to the teacher's lecture "suddenly realized", innocently opened his mouth and nodded. Dou Guangnai wanted to take advantage of this meeting to talk about the collection of books, and implored these gentry to lend the books in their homes to the imperial court to repair the "Siku Quanshu", the first time I heard such a meeting, I felt fresh and chic, thinking of the Caohe River and Yingjiaqiao two palaces with thousands of doors and thousands of magnificent households, from Yizheng to Yangzhou all the way to the post road, all the old trees were uprooted, and the replaced black trees and pines and cypresses were lush and covered with the sky...... What kind of powdery luxury is that...... Such a waste of people's power and money, and it is said that it is "not disturbing the people"! …… Thinking of this, Dou Guangnai couldn't help but shake his head secretly.

"From the North Jade Emperor View to Guazhoudu, until it reaches the Yangtze River Ferry Wharf, the road must be completely renovated......" Yu Dengshui completely ignored everyone's thoughts, and followed his own topic and said, "Liuzha, Jinwan New Rolling Bridge, Xiangfu Temple, Tianning Temple to Wenmin Temple Palace, Chongjiawan, Waist Pu, Zhulin Temple, Zhaoguanba These local roads have been repaired once, but the car has stepped on the horse, and the mud in some areas has turned up, and it has become a mudflat - to be reorganized, the loess of the pad can not be thinner than three inches. The Queen Mother Lafayette and the master Niang Niang Feng are estimated to be in Xiaowutai or Xiangfu Temple. Xiaowutai to Pingshan Hall, Xiangfu Temple to Zhaoguan Matou are dry roads, the road surface is good, but only two color workshops have been built, which is too incommensurate with the pure heart of the emperor and the emperor's filial piety and adoptive mother. The color square here is more than the North Bridge Royal Road encryption ......"

The new Yangzhou prefect seems to have surveyed the palace road many times, where there is a sedan chair pavilion, where a stage needs to be built, and even which bridge slab pillar is unstable, all of which are chiseled, and there is a need for a few silver taels, and the geometry of migrant workers is needed here, and they are all as the family often says: "...... The total amount of labor and silver required is only 124,000 taels, so I would like you to lose ...... pleasure," he said, rolled up the snow-white horseshoe sleeves, and sipped the tea leaves with the lid of the bowl.

Originally, there was still a little sipping tea, smoking, vibrating clothes and coughing, but it was like a frozen pond, and it became silent. Yu Dengshui was not in a hurry, glanced at the venue, and broke the silence with a smile: "Brother acting prefect has not been in office for a long time, and he only received Fan Futai's constitutional vote yesterday to take office. There are still many places to rely on your fathers and elders! This is a major event of the country's prosperity, and if the mission is not done well, I can push it on the head of the predecessor Pei Fuzun. But Fan Futai and Jinzhitai all have to come to Huaiyang with me, and one of them comes out of the way, and it is we Yangzhou people who are embarrassed and ugly. The subordinates are loyal, and the sons are filial, which is more important than anything else. I don't mean to force everyone at all--happy to lose, what I pay attention to is the word 'willing'-do you say yes, Lord Lanqing? ”

"Ahh Dou Guangnai was suddenly pulled back to reality from his reverie, relying on his own small ministers, wanting to discourage Qianlong from touring around the country to meet and flatter, it was three points more difficult than ascending to the sky, so "the ministers are loyal to the ministers, and the sons are filial piety" can only take advantage of this momentum to do their own errands, and after thinking about it, the words are very simple and smooth, "Lord Yu said well, and I want the word 'willing'." I'm here to collect books. "Siku Quanshu" is now the president of the prince, four ministers of military aircraft, more than 20 scholars, and ministers of ministries and institutes are vice presidents. Collecting loose books from the people, buying and selling is silver and silver, borrowing official bills and deposits, and sharing things that are not profitable, and some people are not 'willing'! He paused, his gaze sharpened, "—what are you thinking?" You are a courtier and a common man, and the monarch's father 'borrows' something from you, which is beyond the normal courtesy, and you still have to extort and hide it—serve the king with the heart of a thief? I have already visited clearly, the Song version of "Zhu Xi Ji Notes", "Ercheng Ying", the Ming version of "Yu Que Collection", "Wind and Rain Listening to the Lotus", "Banana Leaf Collection", "Yangming Diary", ......"He is like a number of treasures one by one, more than 30 kinds of books," are all in the hands of everyone in Yangzhou. Taking into account everyone's decency, I won't name them - whether it is collecting books or welcoming Luanyu, although the matter is different, the reason is the same! If you don't treat you with respect and sincerity, I will be a little bit of a critic and listen to them one by one! ”

At this time, the roof of the courtyard outside the courtyard was white and snow-colored, and the snow in the corners of the walls under the eaves was half a foot deep. Suddenly, a whistle wind swept the spine into the hospital and rushed into the second hall, the dust and window paper on the roof of the hall were drumming and cracking, and even the curtain of the Jiangya sea under the official seat was shivering coldly. Rao is two halls of four corners of the big charcoal basin like a red tower like charcoal fire, people still have a chestnut in their hearts. First of all, Xing Erye couldn't hold on, so he snorted for a while, and said: "My family has a collection of "Zhu Xi's Collected Notes". But it's not the Song version, it's Luban. Ask the adult to make it, Ming'er asked the child to send it to the post station. As for the silver that needs to be used, I definitely don't dare to be stingy and perfunctory, please ask Yu Taizun to open a number, and we will have a follow. Dou Guangnai heard "It's not the Song version, it's Lu Ban", but it was unheard of, and he leaned over and was about to ask, and the merchants at the left table also rushed to sign up to donate books:

"There is a box of broken books behind my God of Wealth shrine! It was originally said that it was sent to Cai's paper mill to make pulp, and the emperor loved to see it, so Ming'er honored the past. The matter of money categorically did not dare to embarrass my husband and ancestor. ”

"I have a ...... in "Yang Ming Diary"

"I have the ...... of "Yu Que Collection"

"Twelve volumes of "Banana Leaf Collection", and nine books. My little animal is not sensible, and I tore up three books and practiced the account book with paper back, dare to love this great use? If you don't say anything, the rest will be torn up......"

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When it comes to pledging "happy to lose", they are all enthusiastic, or suggesting "equal sharing", or discussing "grading" according to the size of assets, or even saying "catching eunuchs", in short, the more than 120,000 taels of silver came to the meeting today. In the end, it was agreed that the merchants would agree on the apportionment amount by themselves, and three days later, Huang Kejing, the largest local salt merchant, would collect all the money and pay it to the government. Dou Guangnai remembered the bibliography reported by everyone, but he didn't know what "Luban" meant, and quietly asked Ma Erzi next to him, and Ma Erzi just shook his head: "I don't understand what adults say...... If you say 'Luban', it should be a carpenter's book, a 'Lu version' of Zhu Xi, and I have never heard of it......" Dou Guangnai looked at Xing Erye and asked: "What did you just say about 'Luban' Zhu Xi's book?" The color of the paper, the binding, and the ink print, is it movable type, or woodcut? ”

"Back to you, my lord!" Xing Erye has a ghost in his heart, what he is most afraid of is that Dou Guangnai cares about scolding, and the most hopeful thing is to be able to talk to "Lord Dou" for a few words, and take a break from his evil mouth, hearing Dou Guangnai's question, he got up and shook his head, and hit a thousand children, with a smile on his face, which is difficult to describe, and said, "The adult asked, the villain didn't understand anything, the paper was yellow and brittle, and the ink was pitch black, but the size of the words was not very neat, and the distance between the upper and lower words was slightly different...... "He said hand to hand," he said, "...... It's so long, so wide, so thick, and the staple is rotten. The guy in Mao Shuzhai said that this is a treasure, a paper ...... in the post-Tang Dynasty."

He didn't finish speaking, Dou Guangnai already understood that this must be the Song version of the movable type printed book, using paper from the post-Tang Dynasty, which was already a very valuable version in the Song Dynasty, thinking about it and asking: "What is the basis for saying that it is 'Luban'?" ”

"It's not transported by river, it's transported by boat." Second Master Xing shook his head again and again, "That's really 'Luban', and the eyebrow criticisms added to the book are all stamped." The people in Mao Shuzhai said that the person who criticized the characters was a prime minister, called Lu Xiufu or something, so the villain called it 'Lu Ban'! Before the words were finished, Ma Erzi, who was sipping tea, took a sip of "poof", choked out a mouthful of tea, and Yu Dengshui also laughed and coughed. Dou Guangnai laughed for a while and sighed: "Lu Xiufu is a famous minister of science in the Southern Song Dynasty and the last prime minister. On the same day, the Song Emperor was trapped in Yazhou, the Yuan soldiers were surrounded by the sea, Lu Xiufu killed the whole family, and the emperor was thrown into the sea and died. You actually have his hand-criticized Zhu Xi's collection of notes - from Lu to 'Lu', from the version to 'Ban', and it has become 'Lu Ban'! He smiled bitterly and added, "I can't tolerate you today when you insult me in public, and even more so slander my mother." If you don't learn like this, I can let you go. Judge the heart and speak to weigh the importance of right and wrong, have you never heard the proverb that trouble comes from the mouth? ”

"Yes...... It's ......"

Dou Guangnai said a word, Xing Er Ye promised to bow down and chatter, the whole hall was full of raw materials Xing Er Ye may not be able to go home safely today, listening to Dou Guangnai so generous, one after another praised him. A few officials waiting for the envoy in the back hall had heard that there was a "six-pin Beijing official who paid a private visit to Weifu" today, and they all crowded behind the wall of the second hall to watch the excitement and whisper. The official carrying the teapot teapot teased: "Look at the blessings of others, the preciousness revealed in their demeanor, words and actions!" Tsk, the real heavenly court is full of square chins, do you see the nose print? Red and bright! Saturn is bright and promoted, my eyes can't go out of the water! ”

[1]

Craft: that is, eight strands.

[2]

Governing the river and drying up the field: refers to the barren beach of the Yellow River mastered by the Qing Dynasty.