Eunuchs are more reliable than civil officials, and military generals are more reliable than eunuchs.

What kind of fallacy is this?

But Su Guo listened to Li Kui's analysis, but he couldn't refute it. What about morality and righteousness, these things are all ethereal and illusory mirages, the higher you lift, the more broken and ugly you will fall after falling.

Su Guo couldn't explain this question, so he could only hope that his father could give him an answer.

When I returned home, my aunt brought water, and after Su thanked her, she asked, "Auntie, where is my father?" ”

"I'm going to the state office."

Wang Chaoyun looked behind Su Guo for a while, and said without giving up: "What about the two of them?" Why didn't you come? ”

"Xu heard that my father was going home today, and I guess I didn't dare to come back for fear of taking the school exam." Li Kui won't talk about it, and it's not realistic to let this guy work hard to study. As for Li Yun, he didn't even expect him to be a teacher, so he could only ...... It was up to him to go.

Wang Chaoyun complained: "You father and son, don't force the children too tightly. Li Kui and Li Yun are honest children, rushing to do the work at home, and they have never complained. It's good for you to force people to read every day, even if you are smart, you are stupid. ”

"Auntie, why don't you persuade your father?" Su Guo hesitated, Li Kui's studies seemed to have become the biggest problem in front of Su Men.

Wang Chaoyun said slackly: "Your father is also a master who does not listen to persuasion, it is annoying to talk too much, and he doesn't care at all if he says it lightly." ”

Su Guo was helpless, so he could only change the topic and said: "Why did my father think of going to the state government?" ”

"I heard that the public was very anxious, and it seems that something was wrong."

Su Guo tilted his head and thought about it for a while, only to find that his father seemed to have not gone to the state office for more than half a year, which was amazing. But in the Great Song Dynasty, when Ouyang Xiu was demoted to Chuzhou, he did not live in the state government, let alone in the city of Chuzhou, but in the mountains outside the city, and also built a pavilion and wrote an article called "The Story of the Drunkard Pavilion". There are many officials like Da Song, Su Shi is not the first, and he will not be the last.

Su Shi is a straight bachelor of Longtu Pavilion and the governor of Yingzhou. But since Su Shi took office in Yingzhou, he has thrown all government affairs to Xu Rang, and he has done what he is good at.

Yingzhou is located at the confluence of the canal and the Huai River, due to the silting of the canal, there have been many floods in recent years. Su Shi saw the opportunity and wrote to the imperial court to dredge the river and control the flood.

Why is he good at dealing with floods?

First, flood control is a compulsory course for all officials in the Great Song Dynasty, even the eunuchs are in a set of words, the Great Song Dynasty has a complete set of disaster response measures, and Su Shi has naturally studied systematically. The second is that he has successfully managed the West Lake in Hangzhou before, and he has a lot of experience in dredging the river.

In fact, Su Shi is not good at government affairs, but it does not mean that he does not have the heart to do things for the people.

As an official for one term, benefiting one party, this is also Su Shi's long-cherished wish.

But who made him only do this trick?

Even Su Shi's son Su Guo felt that his father had done too much, how could there be an official who was in charge of one side, and then put aside all government affairs and went out of the city to find a place to hide?

Even he didn't remember how long his father hadn't been to the state office, and Su Shi was probably even more confused.

Yingzhou Prefecture Ya.

The official Xu Rang opened the middle gate of the state capital to welcome Su Shi's arrival. The number one leader of many state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty, that is, the status of the governor and the prefect is very high, such as Su Shi, who is a straight bachelor of Longtu Pavilion and a high-ranking official from the third grade. Although it is an additional official, there is no specific position. In essence, it is still the governor of Yingzhou. But the rules of officialdom that are high or low have made him a super bureaucrat on the ground in Yingzhou.

As for the official Xu Rang? From six.

This is basically the case with Yizhou Zhizhou Zhangdun.

Goldfish bag, purple robe, this is also the pomp and circumstance that only the most senior officials of the Great Song Dynasty have. Xu Rang didn't even have a big red robe, so he could only pinch his nose and listen to Su Shi's command.

What makes him even worse is that he has done all the work in Zhizhou, but the credit is Su Shi's, the hard work is his own, and the wrong board will fall on him. Who made him just a petty official from the sixth grade?

As the saying goes, the first level of the official university crushes people to death, and Su Shi and Xu Rang are not just a gap of one level, but five or six levels.

Since Su Shi took office, Xu Rang has been pressed to death.

Hard-working, never complain about the hard work of the work.

But this time, the incident happened suddenly, and he found that he was a little overwhelmed. I didn't know whether to say it or not, and I was afraid that I would be responsible, so I had to send someone to invite Su Shi over: "Bachelor, the lower officials can't let the bachelor suffer, it's just that there is a troublesome matter under the rule that needs to be decided by the bachelor." ”

After speaking, he asked the scrivener to send the files and account books to Su Shi's desk, and said in a low voice: "Bachelor, something happened!" ”

"Do you want a civil uprising?"

After hearing this, Su Shi changed color, there are so many cases, could it be that he used too much people's power to build the embankment, which caused the people to be resentful and began to be dissatisfied with him and the court?

If the people can't live anymore and want to rebel, those with outstanding ability can dissipate the people's grievances in a short time, but the officials who are anxious will not have a good time.

If you don't get it right, you will become a scapegoat for the court to calm down the people's grievances.

Su Shi has already been a scapegoat once, and he never wants to do it again.

Xu Rang was also calmed by Su Shi's reaction, and then said with a wry smile: "The bachelor misunderstood, it's not the civil uprising, it's the Yicang accident." ”

"What's wrong with Yoshikura?" Su Shi put the heart he was carrying in his stomach, and said in his heart: I'm scared to death. Especially for Xu Rang's half-talking, he was very annoying, and said with disgust: "Uncle Bao, explain the cause and effect clearly, don't always say halfway." ”

Xu Rang said: "Bachelor, the lower official is also helpless, since the bachelor came to Yingzhou, he has observed the people's feelings, controlled the floods, and worked hard for the country and did not dare to slack off." If it was really a small matter, the lower officials would not dare to disturb the bachelor's big affairs. It's just that a few days ago, the spring rain continued, and the Xiangshui River swelled, washing away a righteous warehouse. More than 20 large and small grain stacks were lost, and more than 15,000 stones of grain were lost. ”

"So much?" Su Shi also began to have a headache, dredging the river to clean up the silt, it would require a lot of forced labor, no money, but food should always be arranged.

Although Yingzhou is also a grain-producing area, but the loss of so much grain at once, won't it affect the dredging project after the winter in the second half of the year, but without food, you can't write to the imperial court to ask for mobilization elsewhere, right?

Xu Rang leaned in and said: "It's just a matter of losing grain, but the lower officials are worried that my Yicang in Yingzhou has a serious deficit, and even the grain in the warehouse is an imaginary number." After the flood, Xia Guan went to the scene of the crime as soon as possible, and found that the grain was all old rice, and there was a lot of corruption, which was not a sign of blisters. After seizing the ledger and controlling the warehouse officer with the inventory loss, he immediately reported it to the bachelor. ”

Su Shi was stunned, he didn't seem to be very good at this!

There was no choice but to let Gao Yu wait for the carriage with the account book, and returned home with a sigh.

Seeing that his son was waiting for him, he immediately beckoned his son Su to come to him and asked, "Guo'er, have you been helping out in the warehouse recently?" ”

Su Shi doesn't like to do business, but he also turns a blind eye to his son's help, he also heard that his son is helping with bookkeeping, and he doesn't know what the level is, so he pointed to a lot of account books and said to Su: "There is a question for your father to test you." ”