Approaching the wax moon, Yuzhou had intermittent snow for seven or eight days.

The snow was not heavy today, and it only stopped after half an hour, and soon the clouds broke through the sunrise, and the thin winter sun shone down.

The thin layer of snow grew thinner in the sunlight and could not cover the young green wheat seedlings that had just poked their heads out of the field.

Ruixue Trillion Year.

Heavy snow can freeze the pests in the field and maintain soil moisture, so it is not groundless to have such a saying.

Looking at the continuous fields of Qianmo, the lush green was driven away by the white mold lake, Zhao Zongquan couldn't help but laugh heartily.

Even the people who went out of the city to inspect with Wei Chen, Gu Tingye, and Zhao Ceying were all smiling.

Next year's Yuzhou harvest is expected!

After going around the ridge and inspecting the emergence of wheat, at noon, Wei Chen said goodbye to a few people and returned to Yuzhou City by carriage.

The streets and alleys of Yuzhou City are full of the festive atmosphere of the New Year, and the sound of firecrackers comes and goes.

Today's Yuzhou City, driven by the Jun porcelain trade, has finally regained its thousand-year-old city style, and gradually exerted its location advantages as an important place in Hejin, and has become a bright pearl of the land trade route from Chang'an to Luoyang.

The benefits brought by such changes to the people of Yuzhou are real.

The first is to greatly increase the employment opportunities of the people, as long as they are willing to work hard, they will not worry about not being able to find work.

The second is to double the price of Jun porcelain, and the entire Yuzhou City has benefited from all kinds of industries, and even the entertainment service industry has also been wiped out.

Third, merchants from all over the Great Zhou gathered in Yuzhou City, what Shanxi's vinegar, Changlu's salt, Shuzhong's brocade ......, these things that have been heard of in the past can now be bought at the doorstep, so that the people of Yuzhou can buy the New Year's goods have been greatly enriched.

In these years, there are few places in the whole Great Zhou that have such treatment.

"Twenty-three, the kang fire burns; twenty-four, sweep the house; Twenty-five, Bodong drum; Twenty-six to cut the meat; Twenty-seven, kill a chicken; Twenty-eighth, sticking quack; Twenty-nine, go and pour wine; Thirty children, flat food; On the first day of the Lunar New Year, pouting your ass and making a ......"

Wei Chen sat in the carriage, listening to the nursery rhymes outside, and couldn't help but sigh softly, "There are two days left before the New Year's Festival."

"Yes, young master." Yuan An beside him rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "Can we rest for a day tomorrow?"

"No." Wei Chen glanced at Yuan An: "I still have something for you to do."

"Oh~~"

Yuan An didn't dare to put his beak on it, so he could only hang his head in frustration.

Wei Chen couldn't help but laugh in his heart, slapped him on the back of the head and said, "After a while, take a few big ingots of silver to the money bank and exchange them for silver bills, wrap them in red paper, and reward them to the people in the mansion. Your own, double portion."

"Okay!" Yuan An suddenly came to his senses when he heard this, and his face smiled.

Seeing this, Wei Chen also smiled and shook his head.

After a while, the carriage stopped, Yuan An glanced out the window, and reminded, "Young Master, the state government has arrived."

Wei Chen bowed slightly, and immediately put on a big coat and got out of the carriage, walked straight into the back office, and came to his study.

Several plum trees in the courtyard have bloomed at this time, the elegant fragrance is floating in the plain ice and snow, the light yellow flowers, brown branches, dyed pure white by the fine snow, like the jade tree Qionghua.

The window of the study was slightly open, and the wisps of plum fragrance wafted in, which made Wei Chen save the effort of burning incense and meditating.

As soon as he sat down, Wei Chen found a few more letters in the corner of the table.

Wei Chen took the letter at the top, glanced at it and looked up, and suddenly felt refreshed, ignoring everything else, he quickly opened the letter and read it carefully.

I don't know how long it took, but the cup of hot tea on the table was no longer steaming, and Wei Chen put down the letter in amazement.

The letter was sent by Rulan and Minglan from Bianjing, and it told many interesting stories about their experiences during this time.

Lines

, can feel their love for Wei Chen.

After reading the letter, Wei Chen couldn't wait to put on his wings and fly to Bianjing immediately to reunite with his two fiancées.

But in the end, he could only sigh slowly, take the paper, dip the pen in ink, and pour all the thoughts in his chest into the pen.

The long letter of nearly 1,000 words, in the final analysis, is actually just a song of Li Yishan's "Night Rain Sending North".

"Jun asked that the return date is not due, the night rain in Bashan rises in the autumn pool, why should you cut the candles in the west window together, but talk about the night rain in Bashan."

Wei Chen put down his pen, held the letter paper and stared at it for a long time, before folding it up, handing it to Yuan An on the side, and instructing him to send it to Bianjing immediately.

Yuan An took the letter and hurriedly went out, and Wei Chen was the only one left in the study.

On this festive day approaching the New Year's Festival, listening to the sound of firecrackers coming from afar outside the courtyard, Wei Chen suddenly felt an unspeakable loneliness, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival to think of relatives, the ancients do not deceive me.

After sitting alone for a long time, Wei Chen finally cheered up a little and decided to go to Chen Jun to sit there.

Chen Jun and Wei Chen are both from Youyang, and they are both alone as officials in Yuzhou, and their experiences are quite sympathetic, but they can comfort each other.

However, when Wei Chen got into a carriage and carried good wine to the Xinzheng County Ya, preparing to return home with his old friend without getting drunk, he was told that Chen Jun was not here, but went to the countryside to give a lecture at Yixue.

Wei Chen was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he laughed dumbly.

When Chen Jun was a county student in the past, he worked as a teacher at Sheng's Yixue, but now he has resumed his old business.

During this year's festival, I thought that Chen Jun was bored in the county government by himself, so he would rather go to Yixue to stay with the Mengtongs......

As soon as he thought of this, Wei Chen immediately instructed the people from the county government to lead the way and take him to the Yixue where Chen Jun was.

The carriage traveled for half an hour and stopped in front of an old courtyard with two entrances.

When Wei Chen walked into the front yard, the eaves were still dripping with water droplets from the melting ice and snow in the afternoon, and he could faintly hear the sound of Menglang reading in the courtyard.

Wei Chen's heart moved, pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard, but saw more than a dozen people standing in the courtyard, all wearing cloth clothes or short shirts, quietly looking at Meng Tong in the house.

This scene can't help but remind Wei Chen of the parents who picked up their children from school at the gate of the school in his previous life.

There were lamps in the room, about 20 sets of tables and chairs, and basically a Mengtong was sitting in every position.

A gentleman was walking back and forth between the children with a ruler in hand, listening to their endorsements meticulously.

This gentleman is naturally the new Zhengzhi County that Wei Chen is looking for, Chen Jun.

Wei Chen didn't want to disturb Chen Jun's class, so he stood quietly in the courtyard like those parents.

It happened that the two people on the side were gossiping in a low voice, and it seemed that the word Wei Qingtian was mentioned, Wei Chen couldn't help but raise his interest, and listened carefully.

I heard a middle-aged man in coarse cloth clothes say, "This gentleman teaches me so well. Third uncle, it costs a lot of money for our baby to study in this school, but you are willing to do it!"

Another man next to him said: "You just came back from other places, I don't know, in the past two years, we have run several volunteer schools in our workshop, not only do you not have to pay money for reading, but you also give pen, ink and paper for free!"

"No money, and such a good thing?"

"This is all thanks to Wei Qingtian's blessing! Let our baby be literate and arithmetic in Yixue, and she won't be hungry when she comes out in the future, maybe she can be a good official like Wei Qingtian!"

"In this way, this Wei Qingtian is really a good official who works for our people!"

"Needless to say? Wei Qingtian is in our Yuzhou, that's it! You just listen to the advice of the third uncle, and when the New Year is over, send that kid from your family here too, and follow Mr. to learn his skills!"

"Cheng, listen to your third uncle!"

The two of them agreed on it, and they both laughed happily, full of hope for life.

But he didn't see it, Wei Chen on the side was full of relief, and his eyes were already slightly moist.

Listening to the sound of the children's books in the school, and looking at the heartfelt smiles on the faces of the people around him, at this moment, Wei Chen, who was alone in a foreign land as a stranger, suddenly felt that his lonely heart had something to rely on.

Under the lights, the third uncle told his nephew about Wei Chen's glorious deeds in Yuzhou, and his words were extremely respectful.

He said it with interest, but accidentally raised his voice a little louder, which alarmed Chen Jun in the room, Chen Jun coughed lightly, and looked outward, as if he was blaming him for being too loud and making the students recite their homework.

The third uncle was glared at by this gaze, and immediately closed his mouth, how deferential and submissive he was.

At this time, Chen Jun also noticed Wei Chen beside him, and couldn't help but sigh.

Wei Chen waved at him with a smile, and pointed to the outside of the courtyard, and Chen Jun immediately nodded knowingly.

So Wei Chen didn't linger any longer, and after glancing at Meng Tong who was studying seriously in the room, he turned around and strode away.

Chen Jun's voice came from behind him, and the deep voice said, "When you go back, you must memorize all the lessons taught today, and you can't make a mistake in memorizing a single word, and I will come ......back in the next year."

Wei Chen couldn't help but smile when he heard this, walked out of the courtyard gate, and got into the carriage.

It didn't take long for the Mengtong children who got out of class to come out one after another, looking for their own mothers and going back to their respective homes.

After all the Mengtong dispersed, Chen Jun and the gentleman who sat in the Yixue hall explained a few words, and then went out and got into Weichen's carriage.

As soon as Chen Jun saw Wei Chen, he said in a strange manner: "Lord Zhizhou is busy with official business, and he has a lot of opportunities, how can he have the leisure and elegance to come to this little Yixue to inspect today?"

Wei Chen straightened his face and pretended to be serious: "Every year, the state government has to invest thousands of taels of silver in Yixue, and as a magistrate, of course he has to come and take a look, so that these corrupt officials and corrupt officials under you can put all the silver into their pockets!"

"The lower officials don't dare! Please know that the Lord of the Prefecture will be aware of it!" Chen Jun's face was sincerely frightened, and he pretended to bow at Wei Chen, but he couldn't help but laugh first.

Wei Chen also laughed.

When the two met in Hanwei, they already had a very close friendship, and in private, Wei Chen never regarded Chen Jun as a subordinate, and it was common for them to joke and joke with each other.

"Seriously."

Chen Jun coughed lightly, and said, "You ordered the popularization of righteousness in Yuzhou, but there are many people waiting to see the joke!"

"Who are they?"

Wei Chen asked with interest.

He knew that before Chen Jun took office in Xinzheng Zhixian, he had watched the government in the governor's yamen, and he had saved some contacts during the period, so the news was quite well-informed.

"The White Governor's Mansion of the neighboring province."

Chen Jun said: "I heard that he made a statement in front of the governor a few days ago, saying that this year's Yuzhou Boys' Examination did not admit more people than in the past, which shows that your great interest in righteousness and learning is not beneficial to education, but it is just a waste of money and food."

"Ridiculous!"

Wei Chen laughed angrily.

What kind of bullshit reason is this?

There is a quota for the number of students admitted to the children's examination in various places, what does it have to do with whether the education is good or not?

Moreover, Wei Chen spent great efforts to popularize Yixue in Yuzhou, with the aim of allowing more people who could not afford to read to receive the most basic education, just so that the people could read and count.

This is completely different from the elite education whose goal is all directed at the imperial examination, how can it be generalized?

However, Wei Chen also knew in his heart that although the Bai Governor's point of view was absurd, he was afraid that he would be recognized by many scholars and even officials.

Because in their understanding, studying is to gain fame, and to gain fame is to become an official, and otherwise, they are all crooked and heretical.

That's why Wei Chen's move will attract criticism.

Wei Chen immediately asked, "What is the attitude of the Governor?"

Chen Jun said, "The Governor didn't say much, but according to my friend of the Fu Ya, the Governor seems to agree with Bai Governor's words in his heart, but he didn't show it."

To put it bluntly, although the treasury of Yuzhou was enriched little by little by Weichen's means, this is all a country

Every amount of money spent must see the results.

Although the cost of Weichen Daxing River Works is several times that of the past, at least the embankment is there, and it also blocks this year's Fuqiu flood, which is a remarkable achievement.

However, the establishment of the school of righteousness did not see any results for a while, and it is reasonable for the governor to be dissatisfied when he learned of this.

changed to another prefect to do this, but I was afraid that Fu Ya would have sent a letter to question, but Wei Chen's background was good and his background was hard, which made the governor's patience with him increase a lot, and he didn't bring this matter to the table until today.

However, attacks like Bai Zhifu's are indispensable.

Wei Chen has his own way of entering, and these open guns and hidden arrows in the officialdom cannot cause him any substantial damage.

However, if the significance of establishing a school of righteousness is not proved to everyone now, when Weichen leaves Yuzhou in a few years, this policy will inevitably be repeated in the hands of his successor.

Opponents of empty words such as "ten years of trees, a hundred years of people" or "merit in the present generation, benefit in the future" and other empty words, opponents will definitely not listen.

Only in the autumn season, the number of scholars in Yuzhou has increased significantly, can they be stopped.

To be honest, there is no positive correlation between Yixue and the imperial examinations, and if there is, it will only be after the overall literacy rate has increased many years later.

Wei Chen wanted to use the results of the imperial examination to prove the significance of establishing a righteous school, which was also a helpless move under the limitations of the times.

But Wei Chen has this confidence that he can raise the overall level of Yuzhou Shizi by a notch before the autumn of August next year.

There is no other reason, just because he is Wei Chen, the most authoritative person in the entire Great Zhou Imperial Examination.