On August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival, on the occasion of the death of Empress Wende on the 18th day of July, the emperor who had been to Jinchangfang was ready to visit Jinchangfang again.

On August 13, Jinchangfang had closed the market and began to rectify internal affairs in a big way, preparing for the arrival of the emperor and Wu Zhaoyi.

"This brick is loose, pry it up and spread the sand, and the mat is stable, but I don't dare to trip Your Majesty......"

"And this bamboo, which looks crooked and unsightly, and which bastard still has cursed words carved on it? Chop off, chop off. ”

"Mi Niang, you must remember that on the day Your Majesty comes, you must pass through this bamboo forest, remember, you must lift the cover on the bamboo basket a little, Your Majesty does not ask, you do not look back.

Remember, wear that aqua red skirt. ”

"Hu Laoqi, you are old and can't remember things, you have to help them remember that on the day Your Majesty came, their old couple with white beards and white hair were festive, and they must stand at the door of their own house and salute Your Majesty when they pass by.

The nobles love to see this set, remember to die, when the two old people appear, they must be clean, and they can go to Erniu's bathhouse to rub and clean up the first day. ”

Now, Yun Chu doesn't have to worry about things in the market, and after three years, he finally cultivated Liu Yi's wooden lump.

The business of Jinchangfang is under the jurisdiction of the Cui family, and the people's livelihood is under the jurisdiction of Liu Yi.

Fishing out a leaf from the canal and throwing it into a wooden box specially for garbage, Liu Yi planned to walk through the entire Jinchang Fang.

Although I don't know which path His Majesty will take, the preparations must be done well and comprehensively.

The officials of Honglu Temple said two days ago that His Majesty was going to visit the big canteen, so even if there were no guests, when His Majesty was coming, the cooks in the big hall would still serve all the delicacies that had just been made to the emperor and the nobles.

Today's Chang'an is dead and hot, there is not even a trace of wind, Liu Yi looked at the windmill that did not move, and immediately decided to send someone to tie the cow, there was no wind, so let the cow turn in a circle to pull the stone mill under the bottom to grind beans, and by the way, let the windmill also turn.

Seeing that the water lilies in the lotus pond of the Great Ci'en Temple were blooming in the sun, Liu Yi looked at the lotus pond in Jinchangfang covered with dense lotus leaves, and his teeth itched with hatred.

The water lilies of the temple float in the water like the lanterns placed on the water on the first day, and the dazzling, fragrant flowers bloom at the top of the slender stems, floating or slightly protruding from the water.

They resemble lotus flowers, and are made up of a round of petals that shrink from the outside to the inside until they reach the center with many slender yellow stamens.

The colors of people's flowers are not only white and pink, but also blue, yellow, red and the transitional colors in between.

The lotus flowers in Jinchangfang are only lotuses, and they are still the kind of lotus flowers that send the flowers to the old high with a stout and barbed pole.

Now, when the autumn wind gradually rises, the lotus has long been broken, and there are only a few lotus plants that have developed late, and they are still insisting on opening.

The county lieutenant has always said that although the people of Jinchangfang have become wealthy, their personal image quality has not kept up.

Compared with the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, it is not successful in that aspect, and there is a sour air of poverty everywhere.

The people of the Great Ci'en Temple are very lacking in virtue, and they also use a fence to enclose the water lilies to prevent the people of Jinchangfang from digging them.

Liu Yi grabbed the railing and looked at the water lilies a few more times, and a little novice hurriedly ran over to stare at him, these water lilies were treasures specially brought by a Tianzhu monk from Tianzhu, and they couldn't be stolen by the thieves of Jinchangfang.

Liu Yi took out a small half of the meatloaf he had eaten from his arms and handed it to the little monk and said, "Has the little master eaten?" ”

Xiao Shami looked at Liu Yi with disdain: "I don't want you to eat the leftover meatloaf, the master said, Buddha Lotus will not be given to outsiders." ”

Liu Yi smiled and waited for the little novice to get closer, so he grabbed the monk's robe, and involuntarily stuffed the meat cake into the little monk's mouth and threatened: "Your master is a precept monk and does not eat meat, now, if you eat meat, you will not be a little monk." ”

Big tears immediately welled up in Xiao Shami's eyes, and he struggled to break free from Liu Yi's shackles, and immediately knelt on the ground with his hands folded, and began to chant "Amitabha Buddha" constantly to repent of his sins.

Liu Yi once again separated the railing, while eating his own meatloaf, and said in a low voice: "Little monk, look around, there are only two of us, if you dig a few Buddha lotus trees for me, I promise not to tell the big monk about your meat, if you want to eat meat in the future, I will give it to you secretly." ”

The little monk wanted to cover his ears, but he still firmly folded his hands and knelt there to continue his repentance.

Liu Yi finished eating the last bite of the meatloaf and continued to say to the little monk: "I'll go and tell the monk now, saying that you have eaten meat, or grab my meatloaf to eat." ”

More tears flowed from the novice's eyes.

Liu Yi whispered: "Why don't you give me a piece of Buddha Lotus's lotus root?" ”

Xiao Shami said in a low voice: "Buddha lotus does not grow lotus roots, only lotus seeds. ”

"Lotus seeds?" Liu Yi stretched his neck to look at the Buddha lotus pond, but he didn't see the lotus pod.

"The lotus seed is in the water, not on the water."

"Then, you give me some lotus seeds, and I won't say anything about you stealing my meatloaf to eat, and rotting it in my stomach."

Xiao Shami obviously wanted to cry, but he still held back strongly, lifted his robe and lay on the edge of the Buddha Lotus Pond, felt a few round bumps from the water, threw them to Liu Yi, and then cried loudly.

Liu Yi happily played with the Buddha lotus bulb for a while, such a good thing, Naha little lady must like it very much, you can get a lotus pot first, plant this thing, give it to Naha, wait for the next year to bear seeds, and replace all the cheap goods in the lotus pond in Jinchangfang.

In this way, the county lieutenant will no longer laugh at Jinchangfang's lack of temperament.

Pei Xingjian walked around on the ground depressed, but Su Dingfang, who was sitting on the soft couch, shook a pu fan, looking leisurely.

"Teacher, does Yun Chu really have to bear any consequences for acting so recklessly?"

Su Dingfang smiled: "Where did he do wrong, or you come to tell me that he has overstepped there?" ”

Pei Xingjian frowned and said: "Killing the head with a cane, opening the revolution and arresting quickly, the servants, forcing the prisoners to death, the officials, and hanging the corpses to demonstrate, none of them are done by a gentleman." ”

Su Dingfang looked at the anxious lover and said: "Catching the head grass and ignoring people's lives, the evidence is conclusive, it should have been killed, arrest quickly, the officials are embarrassed, oppress the good people, and be dismissed, it is his power as a county lieutenant, it is amazing, it is that there are more people who are fired at one time, but this is still within the scope of people's authority."

Searching the money store, the grain store, and supervising the people's livelihood, which is not the duty of the county lieutenant?

The dead people embezzled the money and grain of Wannian County and embezzled the interests of the government soldiers, even if they didn't hang themselves, it was a dead end.

Keep the covenant, don't you know these truths, why didn't you use such means when you first entered Chang'an County? ”

Pei Xingjian bowed his head and said, "I didn't think about it at the time. ”

Su Dingfang shook his head and said, "Are you worried about your reputation, worried that you will be labeled as a cool official?"

Actually, it's not too late for you to do these things, but you're worried that people will say you're picking people's teeth, right? ”

Pei Xingjian seemed to have been shocked, lowered his head and said, "I'm really not as good as Yun Chu." ”

Su Dingfang laughed and said, "You are much stronger than Yun Chu. ”

Pei Xingjian smiled bitterly: "Teacher, this is blaming the disciple." ”

Su Dingfang shook his head and said: "What the teacher said is the truth, Ying Gong and I are waiting for the day when Yun Chu capsizes." ”

"Capsized? He is now taking every step very heelly, which can be called step by step, and the possibility of capsizing is too low. ”

Su Dingfang smiled and said, "Let's talk about it, why do you think Yun Chu's behavior is not a gentleman's behavior?" ”

Pei Xingjian said: "He pays too much attention to the essence of things, that is, he omits the middle joint of the development of events. It's not beautiful! ”

Su Dingfang laughed and said: "That's right, it's not beautiful, it's not beautiful, it's not just you who look at it like this, Yinggong, I, even Liang Jianfang, an old horseman, don't think it's beautiful."

Now, to put it another way, why is it not beautiful without the middle joint? Who does something that makes you feel this way? ”

"The unbeautiful thing that the disciple thinks is that Yun Chu is not smooth in doing things, and he is too pragmatic, and the last person who gave me this feeling was Shang Ying.

In the end, it was clear that everything Shang Ying did was done in accordance with the laws of the Qin State, but, in the end, the person who was divided by the five horses was Shang Ying.

He made the Qin state from weak to strong, let the Qin state take the fertile fields of the Wei state, and laid a strong Qin foundation for the first emperor to unify Liuhe.

One person, who benefited the entire Qin State, only hurt himself in the end, Teacher, do you think that Shang Jun is a lesson from Yun Chu's past? ”

Su Dingfang shook his head and said, "Yun Chu is a person who is more intelligent than Shang Jun, and he is also a person who is much more sleek than Shang Jun.

He made a big move to clean up those useless people in Wannian County, not because he didn't know how to act slowly, but because he just wanted to test how far we old people could tolerate him.

When he found out that we didn't detect the bottom line of our attitude towards him, you see him, he immediately gave up his domineering style.

If the old man is not mistaken, next, the officials of the entire Wannian County will like him.

Although he didn't know how he could achieve this without harming the public and private interests, the old man still insisted that he would unify Wannian County into a monolith in the shortest possible time. ”

Pei Xingjian sighed and said, "I often envy the world's jade lang......"

P.S.: The next chapter will be released at 0:00 on August 10th, the starting point of the first release of this book, welcome everyone to read it on the starting point app——

The previous chapters were in the wrong order, and I can't correct them here. (& gt; ﹏& lt; )

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