The water of the waves is clear, and you can wet me; The water of the waves is turbid, and it can wet my feet.

There are many private gardens in Gusu City, and the Canglang Pavilion located in the south of the city should be the most famous, in addition to the excellent scenery, it also benefits from Su Shunqin, the owner of the garden, and his "Canglang Pavilion".

During the Qingli period, Su Shunqin, a generation of talents, was recommended by Fan Zhongyan to be the chief official of the Jinju Academy.

Originally, the Song people were romantic, and gatherings between civil and official gatherings were also common, Su Shunqin himself was good at poetry and wine, and it was so lively, so he agreed, and he also took out ten yuan out of his own pocket, intending to make everyone a part.

However, the cocktail party is not only for the people who enter the theater, but also invites many officials from other departments.

So, I don't know if it was Su Shunqin's intention or his subordinates' own opinions, so he sold the waste paper of the official documents that had been accumulated in the theater for many years, and got a lot of money, plus other money, to make the drinking party look decent, and invited a kabuki to help the fun.

When signing up for the cocktail party, Li Ding, who was the prince of Zhongyun, also wanted to participate, and expressed his willingness to pay out of his own pocket, but Su Shunqin categorically refused, which offended people.

Li Ding's popularity is narrow, and his character is not good, and later he used the "Wutai Poetry Case" to engage Su Dongpo, which failed to attend the meeting, so he turned around and went to denounce it, saying that Su Shunqin ***, summoning a trick to accompany the wine, and there are poems satirizing the court.

At that time, Fan Zhongyan was engaged in the reform of the Qingli calendar, and moved a lot of people's cheese, and his political opponent Wang Gongchen took advantage of this matter to make it bigger, and played impeachment three or four times, and finally stimulated Renzong with a poem at the drinking party, and then Renzong ordered a strict investigation.

Soon, all the cadres who participated in the drinking party were arrested and imprisoned, and even the kaki who participated in the meeting were arrested and put on trial, Su Shunqin was reduced to the people, and more than a dozen other officials involved in the case were demoted and expelled from Beijing and exiled to various places, Su Shunqin's father-in-law, Prime Minister Du Yan, was forced to take the blame and resign, and Fan Zhongyan recommended Su Shunqin, and naturally he couldn't escape the burden.

Because he sold a bunch of waste paper, because of an elegant gathering, he completely lost his good future, Su Shunqin came to Gusu to live in Gusu after his resignation, and found that this place was high and quiet, and the wild water lingered, so he spent forty yuan to buy this land and build a garden.

Later, it changed hands several times, and the construction and repair continued, and it became Han Shizhong's private residence when he crossed to the south, renamed "Han Garden", and now it has fallen into the hands of the Lu family.

Xie Tang is a shadow official, not a jinshi, but he still regards himself as a literati, can also be good at poetry and painting, likes to collect, is elegant, and calls himself "Jin Shiyou".

After he arrived in Pingjiang City, Lu Wen did what he liked, and sent Canglang Pavilion to his residence.

There is also a government office in Pingjiang City, but it has been vacant for many years, and it looks very dilapidated, so Xie Tang is not happy to go, so he simply uses Canglang Pavilion as a temporary government office, and it is not wrong to live and work.

On this day, Xie Tang also feasted the officials and gentry in the city in the garden, and a group of elegant people drank and discussed, sang poems, and lived a chic and happy life, which was completely different from the mourning outside the garden.

The Song people's garden party nature of the elegant gathering seems very casual, the seats are not fixed, scattered all over the garden, the later Western self-service cocktail party is similar to this, everyone while visiting the garden to enjoy the scenery, while flowing social.

At this time, the Canglang Stone Pavilion was still built at the water's edge, and a table was set up in the pavilion, Xie Tang was the first in the middle as the master, Lu Wencai was on the left, a lean old man was on the right, and several gentry sat with him.

The old man was dressed a little out of place, wearing a high hat, and his clothes were very shabby, covered with exaggerated patches, and even his shoes were torn with a few holes.

Don't think that he is poor, in fact, he is Xu Xueqian, the head of the Xu family in Huating, that is, Xu Tianyi's grandfather.

The reason why they wear it like this is because at this time, many "Taoist gentlemen, famous and clear" are in this style, wearing ragged clothes in front of people, eating coarse food, going out to ride in a dilapidated bamboo sedan chair, opening and closing their mouths to "save heavenly principles and destroy people's desires".

Others didn't care if they saw too much, and Xu Xueqian himself was not uncomfortable at all, looking around at the beautiful scenery around him and admiring.

"Don't go out of the city and get the joy of the landscape, live in the city and get the fun of the forest spring, this garden should be the crown of Gusu, Brother Lu is willing to send it to the cang, this generous atmosphere, also

It is rare in the world, and it is admired by the old age."

"Xu Lao has won the award, the so-called sword is given to heroes, beauties are matched with celebrities, this Canglang Pavilion is set up by the talented Su Zimei, quiet and simple, elegant and interesting, in the hands of Lu Mou, a layman, it is a waste, the cangist is outstanding and talented, he should be the best master of this garden, Lu is just a thing to its owner."

"Lu Yuan is in love, Xie is just a vassal and elegant, how can he have any talent, but although this Canglang Pavilion is made by people, it is like the sky open, like a clear water hibiscus, suitable and natural, so that Xie is happy to see the hunt, and he is really a little inseparable, so he has to borrow it cheekily."

Xie Tang smiled faintly and looked at Xu Xueqian, "If Elder Xu likes it, he will stay here for a few more days to ease the pain in his heart."

"The old man is already a person who has been half-cut into the earth, and he has already seen through the world, so why is it painful, but he just doesn't want my Huanghuang Great Song Dynasty to fall into the hands of the tyrant and the faint monarch, and go to the end of the road, so it is difficult to sleep and eat, and I always think that I have to do something for the people of the world to feel at ease."

As soon as Xu Xueqian finished the funeral of his grandson Xu Tianyi, he ran to Pingjiang, naturally not for fun.

Huating belongs to Jiaxing Mansion, located in the lower reaches of the Wusong River, many places were also flooded, and also belonged to the first batch of targets for the implementation of the warp.

The Xu family is not only one of the few big landowners in Huating, but also the eldest grandson died at the hands of King Yan, and his hatred for King Yan is monstrous, so he is naturally unwilling to be a queen.

Lu Wencai's face showed a sad feeling, "Hey...... This King Yan is too wanton, indiscriminately interfering with the judiciary, ignoring the rules of the court, and greedy for money and lust, for a woman, he actually forced the Liu family, and the confiscated Liu family's property was not confiscated, obviously he wanted to take it for himself, but he was not satisfied with this, and now he wants to peel the skin and scrape the bones of our good people, and the official family is deceived by it, and there is no intention to stop it, and we are also forced to desperation, so we try to protect ourselves, I hope that King Yan can retreat in the face of difficulties and change his ways."

"Don't worry, even if the official family favors him again, if tens of thousands of people really starve to death, then the world will be rampant, and he will definitely not be able to succeed to the throne." Old God Xie Tang was there, half-squinting, "As long as King Yan is not stupid, he can only give in obediently."

"I heard that Yan Wangnu is cheating, and she has some scheming strategies, so I think there should be a counterattack." Xu Xueqian pondered.

Lu Wencai replied, "If you can't get food, what's the use of scheming, now not only the grain in Pingjiang and Jiaxing is under our control, but also the surrounding states and counties, and we don't want to smoothly implement the border, after all, if we can't stand it, it will be their turn next."

"With King Yan's temperament, he will definitely struggle, but so what, as long as we and other gentry work together, he will never want to turn over the Five Finger Mountain!"

Xie Tang didn't underestimate King Yan, but history has proved that offending the giant room will basically not end well.

There was hatred in Xu Xueqian's cloudy eyes, "The old man hopes that King Yan's personality will be tougher, and he won't compromise so easily, so that he can completely fall, otherwise as long as he can succeed to the throne, he will make a comeback sooner or later."

If Empress Xie had a son, Xie Tang would naturally want to kill King Yan, but now for him, as long as it does not harm the interests of the Xie family, it doesn't matter who takes the throne.

In fact, for many gentry, the same is true, they don't care who is the emperor at all, and if they violate their interests, they will be aroused by the same hatred.

However, Xie Tang didn't intend to say this in front of Xu Xueqian, "Look, if he really wants to be stubborn, it won't be difficult to change someone to be the crown prince."

At this moment, a louder and louder noise of cheers came from outside the park.

Xie Tang frowned, and was about to let his subordinates go to check, when he saw his own doorman leading a person dressed as a scribe to hurry over.

"Official, this is the Zhong Zhu Division of Wu County, saying that there is a major matter to report, and it is also related to the commotion outside."

Xie Tang obviously didn't know this kind of little shrimp, but Lu Wen was the head snake of the land, and he had some impressions of Zhong Zhisi, "Zhong Zhusi, what is going on, report it quickly."

Zhong Zhu Si only promised, "Report to the warehouse envoys, all the virtuous people, it is to appease the envoy to transport 100,000 stone of grain into the city, at the price of 20 wen and 1 liter

The Temple of Literature across the street is one of the places where grain is sold."

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"Twenty Wen?"

Lu Wencai and Xu Xueqian were both shocked.

Xie Tang just raised his eyebrows, his expression did not change much, and he seemed very calm, "What are you panicking about! They can sell it if they want, and it is not that they do not know how much grain they have, and see how many days they can sell it."

Lu Wencai thought about it for a while, and felt a little more at ease, and then hesitated again, "Cang envoy, although they don't have much grain, but if they are allowed to sell it like this, those grass people are afraid that they will be able to save a lot of food, and it will be no problem to save some food for a month or two, then we will not only give up all our previous efforts, but also tend to have long dreams at night when time drags on, if King Yan speeds up the meridian and creates an established fact, it will be troublesome to recover the losses at that time!"

"Huh!?" Xie Tang rubbed his fingers and fell into thought, "This is also true, now that the people know that there is a shortage of food, they will definitely calculate carefully, although the food in the hands of King Yan cannot make them full, but they will not starve to death for a while and a half, it seems that this King Yan is still a little decisive, Bacheng is the idea of implementing the meridian as soon as possible, and in the end, even if he compromises, I am afraid that the field that he bites will not come back."

Xu Xueqian's old face was flushed, and he said hatefully, "How can it be as he wishes, since he dares to sell, it's a big deal that we can buy this grain first, and when the grain is in our hands, see how he jumps, I'm afraid that he will die even worse, don't forget that there are tens of thousands of forbidden troops and hundreds of thousands of van troops who also have to eat, these red guys won't sit back and wait to starve to death!"

Lu Wencai's small eyes lit up, "Old Xu's stabbing plan is very good! They sell, let's buy!"

Zhong Oshiji took advantage of the time to interject, "I'm afraid it's not easy to buy, I heard that it is necessary to rely on household registration, and each household can only buy one stone......

Xie Tang clapped his hands and chuckled, "It's okay, it's easy to do this, most of the people in the city work in the gentry's industry, let's say hello to all the gentry and arrange for those people to buy it for us."

"Will this work? How could those grass folks be so obedient and so short-sighted?" Lu Wencai doubted.

Xie Tang said with a dark smile, "Hehe, that's not up to them, don't forget who they rely on to get the salary, besides, most people's money can't buy much at home, just let people say, let's take advantage of the low price of food, buy it for them first, and keep it for them, just coax them casually."

"It's still a hasty talent, and a little thought will have a good plan! High! It's really high!" Lu Wencai sneered.

Xu Xueqian nodded with satisfaction, "Hurry wisely! It's a pity that it's too late today."

"It's not a big problem, it's just a day, it doesn't matter how much it doesn't sell."