Jin Fu and Feng Zhiren were both taken aback, and when they looked back, in the light and candle shadows, a thin black man was wearing a soap robe and standing with a smile on his face. Chen Tianyi, who has heard of the famous name for a long time, is so unattractive, how can he be trusted? Feng Zhiren blinked treacherously and said with a smile: "Oh...... Zunjia turned out to be the younger brother of Mr. Xinyi, and he has been admired for a long time! After Ling cousin Ming Cui Gong was promoted from Gaoyao County, it has been three years in the blink of an eye, where is he working now? ”

Chen Huang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and then laughed heartily and said, "Sir, you are checking my resume!" Chen Xinyi is a native of Shaoxing, far from the Qiantang Chen family. Brother Chen Boren, the word is in the middle. As for the Ming Cui Gong you are talking about, I don't know who it is! Jin Fu blushed when he saw Feng Zhiren's embarrassment, and hurriedly covered it up: "This is Brother Zhiren's mistake." Mr. Tianyi, I can't hide it, I am Jin Fu, who entered Beijing to lead the training, and will be appointed as the governor of the river. I want to ask Mr. about the art of governing the river - it is really a blessing to be so fateful, please move to the post house to talk about it? Chen Huang didn't care about smiling at Feng Zhiren, and the three of them went back to Linhaoguan Station.

It had been three days since Chen Huang returned to Huangliang Dream from Henan, but he didn't dare to go to Cong Mound, because he knew that Ah Xiu lived in Han's house. When you go in to meet, how do you deal with this princess who doesn't know etiquette? He deeply regretted that he was in a hurry to leave the manuscript of "The Narrative of River Defense" at Han's house. If you don't get it back, it will be more than ten years of hard work and hard work, and you can't give it up. After hesitating, Chen Huang stayed in the inn for the time being, trying to slowly try to get out the manuscript. Tonight, because I came to visit the club, I happened to meet Jin Fu.

A cup of tea, a plate of dim sum. In the main hall of the Linhaoguan Station, Jin Fu and Chen Huang sat a few times apart, and Feng Zhiren accompanied each other. Jin Fu didn't say hello, and asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Today, Zi Shengming, the first government affairs are to govern the river. Mr. has learned through the past and the present, I don't know how to teach me? ”

Chen Huang was very excited, sipping tea, and looked radiant between his pitches: "Lord Zhongcheng, since you ask the next question, Chen Huang dares to tell him bluntly without putting on his liver?" The Yellow River is the source of all kinds of harm in today's river transportation, and it is necessary to start from the Yellow River to control the water transportation, which is a cliché, but it is also a wise saying. The Yellow River has been known as the river of distress since ancient times, from Qinghai Guide, flows through the Gansu-Shaanxi Loess Plateau, torrents down, and the sand in a bucket is the sixth. After entering Kaifeng, the terrain is gentle, the water flow is slow, and the river is sandy and silted. Eastern Henan, northern Anhui, southern Shandong, and northern Jiangsu became the places where it raged. Since the Xining years of the Song Dynasty, the river moved southward, and the Huanghuai River merged, converging in the Qingjiang River, and poured into the canal together, causing the canal sediment to be deposited, the embankment collapsed, and the grain road was blocked. The reason for such evil results, although there is a natural reason, is actually due to the incompetence and lack of water quality of officials who have always governed the river. ”

"Huh?" Jin Fu nodded while listening, and said with a smile, "I would like to hear it in detail." ”

"I heard that Zhongcheng is going to move the River Governor's Mansion from Jining to Qingjiang, and I foolishly think that the knowledge of adults is higher than that of Jackie Chan." Chen Huang coughed lightly and said, "Although Yu Chenglong has the ambition to govern the river, he has no skill to govern the river. Since the first year of Kangxi, the Yellow River has broken every year, Huaishui and Gaoliangjian have broken in 37 places, Gaojiayan has broken in seven places, the Yellow Water has broken through the high four times, rushed through Qianjiagang, poured into the rotten quagmire, and divided into Hongze Lake, and actually no longer returned to the sea, and flowed across Suqian, Shuyang, Haizhou, Andong and Xiahe seven prefectures, and the canal was tightly blocked. Yu Gong used Dayu to control the water for thousands of years, clearing sand and draining silt, consuming tens of millions of people's power, but the flood season immediately came to naught. It shows that he is not good at academics, is not thoughtful, and cannot see the root cause of the disease. ”

Chen Huang said that it was indeed the root of the disease, Jin Fu couldn't help but feel a sense of bosom friend in his heart, and even an old official like Feng Zhiren who governed the river felt refreshing after listening to Chen Huang's analysis. But Jin Fu's difficulties are also here, and he sighed and said: "Yu Gong also has his difficulties. If we slowly manage from the roots, it will be difficult to conform to the holy will in the present. Zhili just has nothing to do, and he has to transport four million stone grains every year, not to mention-" He suddenly thought that Kangxi's training of the water army in Baiyangdian and Weishan Lake was still top secret, so he stopped and said, "Cao Yun can't work!" "You should treat Huang while curing Cao!" Chen Huang said coldly, "Yu Gong only blindly opened the river channel, and the sediment in the Yellow River was artificially cleared?" If it is cleared and silted, silted and cleared, it will not be cured for 10,000 years! The emperor took away his river governor, and he was really a god. ”

Seeing Chen Huang's fierce words, Feng Zhiren glanced at Jin Fu uneasily, leaned over and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"Four words," Chen Huang waved his hand and said, "Bundle the embankment and rush the sand!" ”

Bundle the embankment and rush the sand! Jin Fu's eyes jumped, he stood up, rubbed his braids with his back hand, paced two steps, and suddenly turned around and said, "Please speak, speak well!" "Build embankments to contain water, and wash the sand with water." Chen Huang leaned back and said, "This is not my own creation, the former Ming Pan Jitao has already written a treatise." The river embankment is strengthened and heightened, and the river channel is clamped, the water potential must be enhanced, and the flow rate is accelerated, so that not only the new sand will not settle, but also the old sand can be rolled into the sea. The riverbed must be deeper and deeper, and the river must be lower and lower, so there will be no danger of bursting the embankment......" said and couldn't help but smile, "If you don't need such a clever river management technique, you can learn from King Yu four thousand years ago, isn't that a fate for a fish?" ”

"Brother Tianyi," Feng Zhiren was thrilled when he heard this, leaning over and saying, "Your lofty remarks really have the effect of enlightenment. But Lord Jin is an envoy, and the difficulties in it are hard to describe......"

"Why not...... Jin Fu patted his head and said to himself sentimentally, "The river is in serious trouble right now." The yellow water is poured back, the Huanghuai confluence goes eastward, and Huaiyang has become a ...... of Zeguo" said and sat down dejectedly, no longer speaking. Feng Zhiren said with a wry smile: "The two rivers and rivers are pragmatic and difficult to do, the river governor has changed one term after another, whether it is a clean official or a corrupt official, the boat capsized here, the heart of the person who heard it was cold, and the person who saw it was cold!" ”

Chen Huang smiled when he heard this, sat back on the chair, stilted his legs, took a sip of tea, pressed the cup and said, "Originally, we met and chatted. Chen Moujie is a little small, and he talks about it on paper. Jin Zhong Chengquan didn't hear anything. After that, he got up and left, "It's late at night, Chen Huang says goodbye!" ”

"Mr. Tianyi!" Jin Fu hurriedly shouted, "Please stay!" Chen Huang turned around, and the three of them looked at each other under the shadow of the lamp, and they couldn't help but change their expressions, and no one spoke for a while. Shifting the time, Jin Fufang said: "The sacred heart of governing the river and the water has been decided. We talked deeply before we talked about these difficulties. I said bluntly: I am afraid that the mistake of water control will make a mistake in controlling the water, and the country will harm the people, and I will live up to the emperor's trust! ”

"I'm afraid that I will miss the future of Zhongcheng's fame and my life, right?" Chen Huang smiled and said, "The river affairs are difficult, the tasks are heavy, and it is difficult to return, how can you not be afraid?" But Chen Huang knows the situation of Zhongcheng in Anhui to govern the river, if he can do things so solidly, there is nothing to do in the world - I will talk to you openly tonight, just because I have the vision to choose you! -- Wrong energy-saving tools, the river has been ungoverned for a long time, and someone must rise up to bear it. It is the public who can take on this huge responsibility, so why look forward and backward and be afraid of hesitation? ”

Jin Fu's eyes flashed with tears, and he grabbed it in two steps, grabbed Chen Huang's shoulder and asked, "Mr. Chen, this is really a confidant word!" I have read your books, I have read your books to see them, and I have seen them now...... Can you help me? Chen Huang felt a fever in his heart, and said in a trembling voice: "Huang is a grass mustard and a cold man, and he has the ambition to make meritorious contributions, but there is no reason to enter the body." If a confidant dies, he is willing to follow his father to the shore of the river for the rest of his life! Feng Zhiren, who was next to him, heard Chen Huang say that "if you have the ambition to make meritorious contributions, you have no reason to enter", and when he thought of his family being famous for half his life, he couldn't help but cry.

At the moment, three like-minded people with different identities discussed carefully, and you and I discussed in detail what Kangxi should play. Before you know it, it's even worse. Chen Huang wanted to go back to the lower place to rest, but the doorman of the post house came in, held up a package, and said with a smile: "Master Chen, the Han family sent someone to send this, saying that it was your thing......"

"What about others?" Chen Huang was taken aback and asked.

"Drop the things and go," the doorman said with a smile, "He said that he would ask Chen Ye to open the package and take a look." ”

Chen Huang opened the package suspiciously, on it was his manuscript, and on the bottom was a piece of Xue Tao's poem paper folded, when he opened it, there were no words, only a lock of green silk black hair tied with red thread, and a stick of silk yarn made of forgetfulness flowers. This night, Chen Huang was so confused after thinking about it that he didn't close his eyes.

The Erudite Hongconfucianism was held at the same time as the Changke of that year, which caused a sensation in Beijing. This liberal arts discipline was opened once in the nineteenth year of Tang Kaiyuan, and it was opened again after Song Gaozong crossed to the south, which has been more than 500 years ago, and the original name was called "Erudite Hongci", and Kangxi changed a word, and changed the name of "Hongci" to "Hongru". Those who come to take the exam, whether they are successful or not, have the identity of "Hongru", and such an identity is very glorious. Since the summer and autumn of the seventeenth year of Kangxi, the filial piety of the bus will test the water boat and land car in an endless stream, gathering in Beijing, all kinds of sedan horses, cars and boats fill the streets, and the temples and halls outside Beijing and the tea shops have become the places where the literati stay and meet friends. The most prominent is still the doctoral masters who are recommended for the examination from all over the world. These people came by water, and they took the ships of the feudal officials; Coming by land, it is an eight-person official sedan chair, and the sedan chair drivers who carry the sedan chair in shifts are all riding high-headed horses, hugging and beating the road in front of them - the apricot yellow tiger head card of "taking the test by order" and "quiet avoidance" is inserted in front of them - and they do not live in the store when they enter Beijing, and they live separately in the homes of high-ranking officials and nobles.

The people who participated in the Beifu were much more humble than these scholars.

Gao Shiqi entered Beijing and brought five hundred taels of silver. He had a big temper and a wide hand, but he quickly spent all his money. As soon as he entered Beijing, he worshiped Menzi, but he didn't understand the rules here, he asked for a sum of money when he crossed a threshold, and he was in charge of "Brother Kong Fang" everywhere, and spent four hundred taels of silver to get acquainted with the second housekeeper in the two mansions of Mingzhu and Suo Etu. Now that the points are calculated, there are two taels and six coins of cash left, and the sixteen taels of food owed to the store have not yet been settled. Although Gao Shiqi was angry in his heart, he didn't know how to worry, so he still put it on a wide show and asked the store to "just keep accounts". This shopkeeper was originally born as a tortoise in the courtyard, and he was well-informed and sophisticated, and saw that although Gao Shiqi played tea every day and called the drama to make a fuss, he was slowly stingy with his hands, knowing that the situation was not good, and he only promised in words, and the color revealed disrespect. Gao Shiqi hated it in his heart, but he was helpless.

Because the day before yesterday, the housekeeper of Suo Etu said that on March 15, the adults of the middle hall gathered famous people and asked him to join in the fun, as long as he was pleased with the middle hall, he could be recommended as a Hongru without a test. Looking forward to this day, Gao Shiqi changed out of his blue gong satin robe, wore a green cloth shirt, and walked to Suofu on Yuhuangmiao Street. The housekeeper was already standing at the head of the door, and when he saw him dressed like this, he stumbled and complained: "Lao Gao, how can you see Zhongtang dressed as a flower child?" - You have to wait for a while, Lord Li Guangdi and Master Jin Fu are talking to the master in the study......" Before the words were finished, there was a call of "sending off guests" from the back hall, and Gao Shiqi had to step aside.

For a while, Li Guangdi and Jin Fu came out with swaying steps one after the other, both of them with blue faces. Out of the gate, the two of them stood at the same time, and Li Guangdi waved and said, "Jin Gong, please-" and let go of his hand.

"Jin Qing," Jin Fu said coldly, "I still have to think twice about what I said, if I alarm the heavens, it will not be appropriate." After that, he got into the sedan chair with his waist. Li Guangdi said stupidly: "Whatever you want." Then he boarded the sedan chair and drove away. Gao Shiqi and everyone on the door were puzzled when they saw it. Gao Shiqi saw them go, so he turned his face and smiled at the housekeeper: "Don't look at my clothes, this is the true nature of a scholar, rich and poor are left to fate, Lao Cai, you just have to rest assured." As he spoke, he came in with Lao Cai, but saw Suo Etu pacing out of the back hall.

"You're Gao Shiqi?" Suo Etu mediated Li Xiuzhi's matter, Jin Fu and Li Guangdi turned their faces, feeling uncomfortable, and when they saw Lao Cai bringing someone in, they remembered this matter, so they stopped, looked Gao Shiqi up and down and asked.

"Yes, student Gao Shiqi!" Seeing that he was so slow, Gao Shiqi felt unhappy for a while, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and replied. Suo Etu also felt that the question just now was too blunt, and he sighed and smiled: "You are not famous, even Cha Shenxing recommended that you have talent to learn-when you come, just sit casually, don't be restrained-Wang Mingdao The old gentleman is taking the big test with a question!" As he spoke, he entered the main hall, sat on the big kang at the door, and leaned on the big pillow to watch the excitement.

There were four tables in the middle of the hall, and only the first table was the most lively, and there were five or six people sitting in the middle of the hall with an old man with a goatee. Gao Shiqi knew that this was the staff of Suofu. There are more than 20 people at the three tables next to it, and the categories here are quite miscellaneous, some are famous people from the fighting side, some are famous doctors, famous divination, some can poetry, some are good at painting, and so on. Gao Shiqi looked at each other, thinking that the thin old man with a goatee must be Wang Mingdao - one of the famous Yanbei Four Confucians - so he generously flicked it, reported his name, pulled a chair from the top seat, sat down and asked: "I heard that the old gentleman is taking the test to compare the words of the others, dare to ask questions?" ”

Wang Mingdao is the number one staff member of Suo Etu Mansion, Kangxi entered Suo Mansion in the thirteenth year, Suo Etu treated him with a teacher's courtesy, and drafted a strip for Suo Etu, seeing Gao Shiqi so presumptuous, he frowned unhappily and said: "Well." There are three eight-strand problem-solving, 'Thirty and Standing' has already been done, and there are two - 'Inoue Li' and 'Tong Que's Fate', everyone is thinking about it. Gao Shiqi glanced at Suo Etu, poured himself a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "What's so difficult about these two problems?" ”

"It's not hard." A man in his thirties on the opposite side pushed his tortoiseshell glasses and said coldly, "It's not easy to make new ideas." ”

Wang Mingdao laughed dryly, and said to the middle-aged man and a young man beside him: "Tiejia, Xijia, this person has made great statements, but does he know that he has no real learning?" Brothers, listen to Mr. Gao's wonderful article. Only then did Gao Shiqi know that these two people were Tongzhou celebrities Chen Tiejia and Chen Xijia. He lazily pinched two peanuts, put them in his mouth and chewed them so loudly that he didn't say anything for a while. Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they saw him so wild.

Chen Xijia couldn't bear it and asked, "Mr. Shiqi, why don't you say a word?" Gao Tuqi stretched out his neck and ate another glass of wine, and said with a smile: ""There is a Plum on the Ground" is so broken - it looks like a peach but not a peach, and it has a layer of hair missing; It looks like an apricot but not an apricot, and it has an extra slit on its ......."

Before he finished speaking, he had already burst into laughter. Suo Etu squirted out a sip of tea, his front placket was wet, and he was about to speak, but he heard Gao Shiqi shake his head and continue: "...... The east wind blows and shakes, the west wind blows and moves, falling under the well railing, and looking at it, Li Yan ...... "The problem has just been solved, and the people in the hall are already laughing."

"Thin and light!" Wang Mingdao didn't smile, stroked his beard and said, "This kind of thing actually comes to the elegant hall." ”

"Dare to ask the old gentleman what is lightness?" Gao Shiqi's face did not change, and asked with a smile, "The composition is expensive, true and not deceitful, and witty." I don't know what was wrong with solving the problem in late life? Wang Mingdao pondered for a long time, but couldn't find fault with it, so he had to say with a calm face: "The Son of Heaven has always used articles to win heroes. How can a person who wins by being light and small enter the forest of excellence? Gao Shiqi smiled, seeing that he couldn't bear it like this, he simply said boldly: "I also have "Tong Que General's Life" - in the place where the guests come and go, I suddenly see someone who knows nothing!" ”

"Tong Que will die" is from the "Analects". The original meaning of Confucius meant to entertain guests and order children and servants to serve. Gao Shiqi came up with a new solution, and even used the topic to play and secretly scolded Wang Mingdao for "knowing nothing". Although everyone wanted to laugh when they heard it, they didn't dare to laugh because Wang Mingdao was the chief adviser of the owner. Chen Tiejia is a student of Wang, seeing Gao Tuqi so rude, he couldn't help but be angry, sneered slightly, looked left and right, and said because he saw the begonias in the basin blooming: "This kind of composition is too sorrishing, I have a couplet, please be right." Gao Shiqi put the chopsticks down and said with a smile: "Lead." ”

"Begonia!"

Gao Shiqi couldn't help but be stunned, and felt that it was difficult to match. But after all, he is a veteran in this, pondered for a long time, clapped his hands and smiled: "There is - Xia Yam!" ”

"Begonia with leaves!" Chen Xijia saw that his brother couldn't help his surname Gao, so he came out to help in the battle.

"What's so hard about that?" Gao Shiqi replied, "Liansu Xia Yam!" ”

"A branch of spring begonias with leaves." Chen Tiejia said.

"Half a barrito summer yam!"

"Jiangnan pink beauty, sideburns, a branch with leaves, spring begonia!" Chen Xijia interjected, and his tone was aggressive.

Gao Shiqi looked at the Chen brothers who were attacking in turn with bad intentions, and said with a smile: "Huiwen, why bother with sabre rattling?" Gao can't stop the two of you - the lower half of the waist of the Kansai black hemp man is a summer yam! ”

As soon as the words came out, everyone had already applauded and laughed. A few girls were at the door, listening indecently, blushing and snickering. Gao Shiqi got up and said to Suo Etu, who was smiling: "Zhongtang, there is a joke, do you want to listen to it?" ”

Although Suo Etu felt that Gao Shiqi was too wild, Wang and Chen Zhuren had been in the house for a long time and had never met an opponent, so they found it funny, and choked with laughter: "It's just that you are not allowed to scold people anymore!" ”

"If people don't force me, of course they don't scold." Gao Shiqi said, "We have an old gentleman Gou there, who teaches reading for a living, is the most upright person, and treats students very strictly. A homework is not as good as his old man's wishes, and the iron ruler is a beating without a head and a face—the boys were so angry that they filled the old gentleman's potty with a few loaches......"

Gao Shiqi picked up the vegetables and raised his eyebrows and said, everyone was stunned.

"In the middle of the night, none of the students slept, hiding in the next room to listen to the movement, and heard him fumbling for the potty, only covering the quilt and laughing quietly......"

"Just listening to the 'bang', the old gentleman threw the potty out of the window and smashed the potty to pieces!"

At this point, everyone was already laughing. Gao Shiqi said with a stern face: "On the second day, Mr. Gou changed to a tin night pot again, but the students drilled a finger-thick hole in the bottom again, and the urine was sprinkled all over the bed at night...... Mr. Gou was angry, so he simply changed to an iron pot, which was considered to be Ansheng. ”

Everyone listened to what he said first, thinking that it must be better later, but who knew that Gao Shiqi said coldly, and just ate it to himself, and no longer spoke. Suo Etu couldn't help asking, "Is it over?" ”

"It's over." Gao Shiqi said lightly, "I only heard that the next day, the students asked Mr., 'Which is better, the tile night pot or the tin night pot?'" The gentleman said, 'Xijia (Jia).' The student asked, 'But which is better, the tin night pot or the iron night pot?' The gentleman replied, 'Tiejia (Jia)! ’”

"You!" Wang Mingdao came to his senses, listened to Gao Shiqi say such a "joke", trampled on the Chen brothers to his heart's content, and even compared himself to a "dog" trembling with anger, trembling and pointing at Gao Shiqi and reprimanding, "Scholars must be polite...... How do you ...... Ahem, lewdness...... Whose protégé are you? ”

Gao Shiqi made a strange appearance with a hippie smile and replied: "The students only read the books of Confucius and Mencius; Confucius and Mencius, my teacher, there is no other teacher, Cheng Zhou, Wang Lu's generation, all my senior brothers! ”

"Mr. Gao!" Suo Etu has always respected Wang Mingdao, and many important matters of the imperial court have been discussed with Wang, Chen and others, seeing that Gao Shiqi looked arrogant and arrogant, he became disgusted, coughed dryly, smiled, and said, "Please respect yourself!" Someone came and carried him out, and he was drunk! ”