From the editor of the Hanlin Academy to the prefect of Hangzhou, and was summoned by Yan Shifan in the Yan Mansion, Gao Hanwen was not only a little happy in his heart, but also a little faint apprehension.

Yan Shifan was obviously happy that he had found a satisfactory prefect of Hangzhou at this time, and he was fond of it because of his happiness, and he actually showed the appearance of a thirsty and virtuous corporal, and his kind attitude also wiped away the apprehension in Gao Hanwen's heart, and the smile on his face was much more relaxed than when he first walked into Yan's mansion.

Yan Shifan personally took out a box from a mahogany cabinet and walked in front of Gao Hanwen.

Gao Hanwen hurriedly stood up.

"Sit, sit." Yan Shifan affectionately asked Gao Hanwen to sit down, and then went to open the box.

Luo Longwen and Yan Maoqing glanced at each other knowingly.

The box was opened, and there were still four small boxes in the box. Yan Shifan first took out the long box, gently opened it, and took out a brush from it.

The brush feels extraordinary at first glance:

The barrel of the pen is as thick as an ordinary brush, but it is a spotted bamboo with stars and black spots in the green; Looking down along the barrel of the pen, the pen sleeve is made of crystal and Khotanese jade hollow sharpening!

Yan Shifan first showed the pen holder to Gao Hanwen: "This pen holder is made of rhino horn brought back by Grandpa Cheng sent Zheng He to the West, and there is no such a big rhino horn after that." The pen cover is ordinary, it is carved by Lantian jade, and it is just a lip color. As he spoke, he pulled out the pen sleeve again, revealing a bright red pen: "The most rare thing is this one!" It was made by the toast of Yunnan in the thirtieth year of Jiajing with the tail of a weasel with red hair. I have shown it to many people, and they all say that I am afraid that there is only this one in a thousand years. This pen is not for you to write, the world's first scholarly family, pass it on. ”

That Gao Hanwen's eyes were already shining.

Yan Shifan put the pen on again and put it back in the long box: "There are four in this box, all of them are the same." You take it. As he spoke, he handed the box to Gao Hanwen.

Gao Hanwen took the box woodenly.

Yan Shifan picked up the big box again: "There are three other things, the ink is from the Song Dynasty, and there is a model from Minan Palace; The inkstone is also from the Song Dynasty, with Huang Tingjian's paragraph, and this stack of paper is Li Qingzhao's swallow note. It's all for you, take it back and look at it yourself. As he spoke, he held it with both hands, and saw that Gao Hanwen was still holding the long box in his hand and was stunned, so he said again: "Put it in, put it in." Gao Hanwen put the long box in his hand into the big box, but he didn't dare to take the big box: "Teacher, students don't dare to accept such a valuable thing." ”

Yan Shifan: "What I give you, you will accept." ”

That Gao Hanwen was still hesitating.

Yan Maoqing spoke: "The sword is given to the strong man!" In the Hanlin that I entered after the Ming Dynasty, there are not many people who can use this set of four treasures of the study. This is the appreciation of the little pavilion elder for you. Still don't accept it? ”

Gao Hanwen had no choice but to take the box with both hands.

Luo Longwen sighed like a joke at this time: "That's it, that's it, it's time for all of us to retreat to the mountains and forests." How many times have I asked Xiao Ge Lao for these things, but he didn't give them, and now the beauty is gone, and there is no more herbs. ”

Gao Hanwen hurriedly held the box to Luo Longwen with both hands: "Then Lord Luo take it now." ”

Luo Longwen: "Don't, I can't do the big thing of changing rice to mulberry in Zhejiang." The one-year period is complete, and we are still waiting for you to write a shortcut with these four treasures. ”

Gao Hanwen held the box in both hands and raised it above his head: "Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, the students are here, if you can't complete the national policy of changing rice to mulberry for the imperial court within a year, you can use the pen, ink and paper in this box to write your own sacrificial text!" He knelt down as he spoke.

Yan Shifan put his hands on him: "Go well, go back well, there are still important tasks waiting for you in the court." ”

Gao Hanwen nodded heavily, his solemn eyes flashing......

As soon as the cabinet meeting ended, Zhang Juzheng arrived at Yuwang's mansion.

Seeing Zhang Juzheng, Tan Lun immediately stood up and asked expectantly, "What is the result?" ”

King Yu didn't show as eagerness as Tan Lun, but looking at Zhang Juzheng's eyes also flashed with inquiry.

"Everything is a foregone conclusion before the Emperor, and the result of this meeting is the same as that of non-discussion."

Zhang Juzheng's words made everyone silent again.

King Yu: "Then Hu Zongxian's request for the imperial court to allocate grain for disaster relief in Zhejiang should always agree to him, right?" ”

Zhang Juzheng shook his head.

"There has to be a point, right?" Yuwang stood up again, looking a little angry.

Zhang Juzheng: "What else do you need?" It is to let those big silk families in Zhejiang take grain on the spot and annex the fields of the affected people. It is also called "to change and provide relief, and to solve the dilemma". ”

Yuwang: "What about you, you have to speak, right?" ”

Zhang Juzheng was silent.

"What about Xu Ge Lao and Gao Gong?" Only then did King Yu find that Xu Jie and Gao Gong did not come together.

Zhang Juzheng: "Hu Zongxian didn't give up, and followed Xu Ge Lao and Gao Gong to the household department again, and still wanted the household department to transfer some grain to Zhejiang." ”

"Can the household department transfer some food for him?" King Yu looked at Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng was silent, and also looked at King Yu deeply.

King Yu seemed to understand that he was asking too much, and with a wave of his hand, Gu Zi said: "The household department can't transfer food for him." ”

Zhang Juzheng: "Lord Wang, if you say something you don't necessarily like to hear, you can adjust it, and we won't adjust it for him at this time." ”

King Yu was stunned and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Zhang Juzheng said word by word: "Simply, let Zhejiang mess up!" ”

Yuwang's eyes widened.

Zhang Juzheng: "At this time, the meaning of the ministers should also be explained to the prince." The strict party has been in control of the government for more than 20 years, but in fact, it has long been a collapse and a fish is rotten. The reason why it can be maintained is all by embracing the divine will. The demand in the palace is insatiable, and they are greedy layer by layer, so they have such a big deficit. Wang Ye knew that they wanted to change rice to mulberry in Zhejiang this time, and they also came up with a method to make up for the deficit. But such a big thing, even Hu Zongxian knew that it must not be carried out within a year. But they couldn't wait, and the people below saw that it was an opportunity to make a fortune, so they actually did such a hurtful thing as destroying the embankment and flooding the fields. Anyway, it is the flesh of the people that is ripped, in fact, it is the meat of my Ming Dynasty to make up for their sores! Such a clear thing, the court turned a blind eye! finally came out with Hu Zongxian painstakingly speaking alone, in fact, it was also for their good, and they all regarded it as an enemy! Even one Hu Zongxian can't tolerate it, and this is also their exhaustion. Lord Wang, long pain is better than short pain, this time simply let Zhejiang mess up, just treat it as a rotten piece of meat on my Ming Dynasty! As soon as this piece of meat is rotten, it is time for Yan Dang's abscess to be squeezed! ”

It's really deafening! King Yu's face gradually flushed when Zhang Juzheng's words appeared, and he stood there in a daze: "Do Xu Ge Lao and Gao Gong see it like this?" ”

Zhang Juzheng: "This is the unanimous opinion of the ministers. ”

King Yu looked at Tan Lun again: "Zili, what do you think?" ”

Tan Lun also stood up: "It's a big strategy!" It's just that the people of Zhejiang are suffering. Speaking of this, Tan Lun's eyes obviously saw something from the direction of the bedroom door, so he stopped talking and lowered his head.

Zhang Juzheng also saw it, and quickly stood up and lowered his head.

The two were almost at the same time: "Princess." ”

King Yu saw that Concubine Li walked out with her son in her arms.

King Yu: "What about the discussion, what are you doing with the son of the world?" ”

Concubine Li always seemed to be the same as a spring breeze, but at this time, her eyebrows and eyes were obviously solemn, and she sent the prince to King Yu: "If you don't do anything, let you hug the prince." ”

Yuwang looked a little bored, and had to take the child over: "What the hell are you doing?" ”

Concubine Li: "I just want to ask the prince, how many sons do you have now?" ”

Yuwang: "Just say what you have." ”

Concubine Li looked a little stubborn: "The concubine wants the prince to answer me." ”

King Yu: "Knowingly, who doesn't know that I am this one son." ”

Concubine Li: "The concubine has the courage to say it, but what the prince said is both right and wrong." ”

For Concubine Li and her people, Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun, including Xu Jie and Gao Gong, who did not come at this time, all have a little respect, knowing that although she is a woman, she can often think big and have seen people. At this time, seeing her behavior like this, these few questions, I knew that she had something surprising, and unconsciously raised her head and looked at her.

Concubine Li looked at them with a straight face: "I heard what you said just now. As a matter of course, there are some things that cannot be done in a moment. But there is one thing that can never be forgotten, my Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji, the prince is the crown prince, and the next prince is the crown prince. Reading this, you also have to think far away, to leave a world for the prince and the prince to win the hearts of the people. ”

As soon as he said this, not only Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun, but even King Yu was also solemn.

Concubine Li continued: "I just said that the prince was right, and that's what I was referring to. I would venture to say that the prince was not right, and this is what I am referring to. The prince is the crown prince, that is, the future emperor, and all the people of the Ming Dynasty are your people, and they will still be the people of the world in the future. How can anyone watch the people suffer, but the monarch stands by and watches! Hu Zongxian still knows that the people who cherish their land, the prince, and you, are they not as good as Hu Zongxian? ”

Zhang Juzheng and Tan Lun both looked at King Yu at this time, and the eyes of the three of them looked at each other with the unique shame and embarrassment of a man at the same time.

Concubine Li didn't look at them, and continued: "The Ming Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty of their Yan family, let alone the Ming Dynasty of those corrupt officials and powerful people under them, they can prey on the people, the prince, and you loyal ministers, you can't turn a blind eye." ”

"Heaven and earth have righteousness!" Zhang Juzheng answered excitedly, "The princess's righteous argument makes the ministers ashamed. Although the overall situation of Zhejiang is irreparable, for those affected people, the ministers should indeed fight for one point. The hearts of the people must not be lost! ”

King Yu handed the prince back to Concubine Li at this time, glanced at her deeply, and then asked Tan Lun: "Zili, you have been in Zhejiang for some days, think about it, how can you help Hu Zongxian and make those people who have suffered less hardship?" ”

Tan Lun thought for a while: "There is only one thing I can help, try my best to make the government and those big silk households not take advantage of the disaster to buy the land of the people, but this must have food for them to survive the disaster year." When the minister came to Beijing, he had discussed with Hu Zongxian, in case the imperial court could not transfer grain, the minister would accompany him to Yingtian to find Zhao Zhenji to borrow grain. ”

"It works." King Yu immediately affirmed, "Zhao Zhenji is the governor of Yingtian, and he has a deep relationship with Hu Zongxian, so he should be able to borrow some grain from him." ”

Tan Lun: "But even if you can borrow some grain, it won't necessarily stop those people from annexing land." Now Hu Zongxian is no longer the governor of Zhejiang, and the civil affairs are under the management of Zheng Michang, if the new prefect of Hangzhou and the prefect of Chun'an Jiande are still their people, there will be no grain in the hands of the people. ”

Yuwang immediately asked Zhang Juzheng: "Who is the new prefect of Hangzhou, has it been decided?" ”

Zhang Juzheng: "They have already decided, they are Yan Shifan's protégés, and Gao Hanwen, the editor of the Hanlin Academy." ”

Yuwang: "Is it the Tanhua of the previous subject, Gao Hanwen, who prides himself as a latecomer in science?" ”

Zhang Juzheng: "It's this person. With him, it can also be seen that those people in the Yan Party have put a lot of effort into it. This person has written several articles on science, and he has some influence in the government and the opposition, and he has no bad deeds of greed for money. This time, he put forward the slogan of 'relieving oneself with reform and self-relieving'. When the cabinet was deliberating, Yan Shifan and his fellow party held this person to the sky. ”

King Yu was stunned again: "Zheng Michang's governor, this person's Hangzhou prefect, Zhejiang will be chaotic this time, and it will be chaotic......"

"What about Chun'an and Jiandezhi County?" Concubine Li hugged the child and interjected again.

Zhang Juzheng: "These two shortcomings are not discussed. They didn't mean to let Zheng Michang and Gao Hanwen pick people. ”

Concubine Li: "Can these two counties send two good officials?" ”

King Yu: "The governor and the prefect of Guan Chun'an Jiande are their people, is it useful to fight for two prefects?" ”

"It works." Tan Lun continued, "Lord Wang, the princess's words make sense. How to say it, it is the county magistrate who is directly in charge of the people. The pass is that these two people are just good officials, I'm afraid it's not enough. Chun'an County was flooded, Jiande half County was flooded, from top to bottom, so many pairs of eyes were staring at these flooded fields. If you want to save the people, you have to resist! Especially Chun'an, the magistrate of the county, at this time, you have to have a preparation and give your life there! ”

Zhang Juzheng: "In today's world, such a person is hard to find......"

Everyone was silent again.

"I have a ...... here," Tan Lun said again after a long time.

"Where? Call him now. King Yu asked urgently.

Tan Lun: "Where can such a ready-made person be called." ”

Yuwang: "Then you say it again?" ”

Tan Lun: "Although people can't see it, I have an article by him here on restraining Haoqiang from opposing the merger. Prince, princess, and Lord Zhang, do you want to know what he said? ”

Zhang Juzheng: "Where?" ”

"Who walks around with articles? Because it was well written, I wrote it down throughout. If you want to hear it, I'll recite it to you now. Tan Lun saw King Yu nodding, thought for a while, and recited, "......'If a husband and mother give birth to a son, they will nurture it and make it live; He is born to live. The existence of this heavenly way is also the existence of humanity. How can one or two take the land of a hundred people, thousands of people, and ten thousand people, so that they are hungry and cold, and the way of heaven does not fall, and humanity does not lose! Heaven falls, humanity mourns, and the source of chaos arises. If the people lose their land, the country will lose its people, and if the country loses its people, there will be no chaos and there will be no survivors! ’”

"Slow!" Zhang Juzheng stopped Tan Lun, "Where do you seem to have seen the meaning of these words?" ”

Tan Lun: "Exactly. Hu Zongxian quoted it in the last recital, but only changed one word. The last two sentences are. As he spoke, he continued to recite aloud: "'If you lose your land, you will have no people, and if you don't have people, you will lose your country'!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Juzheng slapped his lap on the leg, stood up, and looked at Tan Lun tightly, "What is the name of the person who wrote this article, and where is it now?" ”

King Yu and Concubine Li also looked at Tan Lun fixedly.

Tan Lun: "This person's surname is Hai Mingrui, the word Ruxian, the name Gangfeng, and he is a teacher in Nanping County, Fujian. ”

"That's easy!" Zhang Juzheng couldn't suppress his excitement, "It's natural for the teacher to transfer to the county. Lord Wang, this person is a sword, with him going to Chun'an, not to mention saving the people from fire and water, at least he can fight with those people in the Yan Party for a while! Lord Wang, tell the officials and immediately transfer this Hai Rui to Chun'an. ”

King Yu also nodded heavily: "This person is a rare candidate, I can talk to the officials." ”

"I'm afraid it's not that easy." Tan Lun gently poured a scoop of cold water.

King Yu and Zhang Juzheng were both stunned, and even Concubine Li, who was still sitting there quietly at this time, looked at Tan Lun.

Zhang Juzheng: "What's the difficulty? The teaching was transferred to the county to be promoted, but he was still reluctant to come. ”

Tan Lun: "Lord Zhang's words make sense in officialdom, but it may not make sense in Hai Rui. This is this man I know, and no one can stop what I want to do. What he doesn't want to do, he can't be tempted by being promoted. In this situation, with his ambition, he should be generous when he asks him to go to Chun'an. But there was one word that he couldn't get past that. ”

Zhang Juzheng: "Which word?" ”

Tan Lun: "Filial piety! ”

This word does carry weight. King Yu, Zhang Juzheng and Concubine Li were all stunned again.

Concubine Li looked at Tan Lun: "Can you be more careful." ”

Tan Lun: "This Hai Rui is a native of Qiongzhou, Hainan, he lost his father at the age of four, his family was poor, and he was raised by his mother's textile helper. Zhongxiucai and Zhongju people have the ambition to clarify the world, but the field is not smooth, and they can't get into the Jinshi, and that ambition will slowly fade. Now I use that heart to filial piety to my mother. If you don't believe it, he is in his forties, and he spends more than 20 nights a month waiting for his mother to sleep in the same room. ”

"Didn't he take a wife?" Concubine Li was a little curious and asked.

Tan Lun: "The princess is asking exactly what matters." He has been passed down from Haimen for three generations, how can he not marry a wife? But so far, she has only given birth to a daughter. Therefore, if he is called to serve as the county governor of Chun'an at this time, it is very likely that the strong man will go, and the wind will be cold! Whether it is to support his mother or to add heirs to Haimen, he will not be able to do his best. ”

Concubine Li, King Yu, and Zhang Juzheng were all silent.

"Write a letter and send it together with the order of the officials, telling him to transfer his filial piety and be loyal!" Zhang Juzheng said sonorously.

King Yu and Concubine Li both looked at Tan Lun deeply.

Tan Lun thought for a while: "The letter can be written, can I say that I can move him, I don't have ...... bottom."

"Write together, I'll polish the ink for you!" As he spoke, Zhang Juzheng began to walk to the bookcase and grind the ink.

For a while, everyone was quiet. Tan Lun began to conceive the sentence of the letter. Zhang Juzheng was grinding ink, obviously also typing the draft. After a while, he sharpened the ink thickly, and then stepped aside and sat down. Tan Lun walked over, picked up the pen and wrote word by word, and the letter was written with a cup of tea. He handed the letter to King Yu with both hands, and after King Yu and Concubine Li read it together, they nodded relative to each other and handed it to Zhang Juzheng.

"The first half of the article is okay, but the last paragraph is not well written, and it needs to be changed." Zhang Juzheng finished reading it quickly and said to Tan Lun, "I'll say these sentences, you rewrite them." ”

King Yu and Concubine Li both looked at Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng began to pace, and said in a sonorous tone: "Gong Shu has the ambition to clarify the world and save the people. However, the public is not yet forty years old, hugging the corner, the world does not know and the clan? Does the heavens intend to make the great instrument come into being today? Today, hundreds of thousands of people in Chun'an look at the public in the fire and water, like the hope of the clouds in the great drought, like the hope of the orphans to their parents! Jackals and tigers are everywhere, and the sword of the public is still sleeping in its sheath, or it is better to be broken in the neck of the beast! Gongguo was martyred in Zhejiang, then the mother of the public is actually the mother of the world! The daughter of the prince is really the daughter of the world! There is no queen of Haimen, the incense of the public, and the surname of Haimen will surely stretch in the temple and will not be extinguished for thousands of generations! ”

"Good!" Yuwang was the first to praise loudly!

Concubine Li smiled, but her eyes faintly revealed a woman's admiration for a man's talent.

Tan Lun was already sweating profusely, and finally finished writing the last word, put down the pen and stood up: "Zhang Taiyue is Zhang Taiyue!" Your words, and Hai Rui's sparseness, can be called two stars. With this letter, I expect Haigong to come out! Speaking of this, he stopped again, and then sighed: "I'm afraid that this sword is really broken in Chun'an, and I, Tan Lun, really want one more mother......

Concubine Li: "If that's the case, bring his mother to the capital, and we will provide for it." ”

Under the plain blue big trouser leg is a pair of women's big feet! Next to the stone slab where Bigfoot stepped on was a well platform.

The old man was clutching a hemp rope and was alternating with force as he lifted a bucket of water up from the deep well. A bucket full of water reached the well, and she grasped the rope with one hand and the handle with the other hand, a little struggling, but still steadily lifted the bucket from the wellhead and poured it into an empty bucket beside her.

The old man was about to lift the bucket to the mouth of the well to fetch another bucket of water, when a man's hand reached over and tried to take it.

"Release!" The old man's voice was not loud, but significantly majestic.

The man's hand slowly loosened, and a middle-aged man forty miles away stood there with a gentle face. At this time, he was still holding a flat pole with iron chain hooks at both ends, and his eyes were staring at the old man who was still carrying water with concern. Seeing that the old man filled the two buckets with water in the bucket, he hurriedly walked over with a flat pole, and took the iron hook to pick up the wooden handle on the bucket.

"Go away." The old man still spoke in a low and majestic voice.

The middle-aged man had no choice but to slowly loosen the iron hook from the wooden handle, and said, "Mother, I want to scold you for scolding." Let my son carry water. ”

The old man didn't answer, her two hands held the wooden handles of two buckets of water at the same time, and the huge two buckets of water were lifted by her! Walked towards the door of the main house.

The middle-aged man didn't dare to say anything, but just followed the old man step by step with his empty hand and a flat pole.

The lid of the steamer was lifted, and a large white heat spread through the kitchen. The steamer is full of steamed rice cakes wrapped in lotus leaves.

A five or six-year-old girl standing next to the stove had her eyes lit up and her mouth open: "Mother, there are so many poops." ”

The middle-aged woman who was sweating profusely wiped the sweat on her face, showing her melancholy eyes, she took out a lotus leaf rice cake from the steamer and cooled it in the palm of her hand, and said to the girl: "Daddy, Daddy is going to go far away, this is for Daddy to eat on the way." Grandma wants to eat, and tomorrow Grandma will steam it for you. This one is sent to Grandma. ”

The girl swallowed and nodded sensibly.

The daughter walked through the yard with lotus leaf rice cakes in both hands, and saw the middle-aged man standing at the door with a flat pole in the distance, so the child slowed down and walked cautiously.

Suddenly, there was a loud splash of water in the house, and then a drop of water splashed out of the doorway.

The daughter immediately stood up and looked at the middle-aged man timidly.

The middle-aged man standing at the door also saw his daughter, and immediately gave her a look and motioned for her to come over.

The child walked over with a lotus leaf rice cake. Walking to the door, the middle-aged man bowed his head again in motion.

The daughter walked to the middle of the door: "Grandma, you always eat poop!" ”

There was silence at first, and then the old man's voice came: "What poop?" ”

Daughter: "Lotus leaf rice cake." Grandma steamed a cage and said that Daddy went out and ate on the way. ”

"Who said Daddy went far away!" The old man's voice was stern.

The child was stunned, and only replied in a low voice for a long time: "...... what Mother said"

The old man appeared at the door and looked at the child: "Grandma, go and tell your grandmother, and say that Grandma is not dead." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he immediately knelt down at the door. The daughter was also frightened and knelt down. By this time it was getting dark.

——The official document of the Ministry of Officials and Tan Lun's letter were urgently delivered to Nanping, Fujian Province at the same time, and were directly handed over to Hai Rui.

Since that day, Hai Mu's face has been tense, and it is rare to say a few words in a day, and the number of times she washes the floor has increased compared to before. Hai Rui calculated the days, if he wanted to go to Zhejiang as scheduled, he would have to leave tomorrow anyway, but ......

It was completely dark, and the first quarter moon floated like nothing on the southern courtyard wall. The green vines crawling on the wall and the grass growing at the foot of the wall all kinds of insects chirped.

The blue furoshiki on the bed was still spread out there, and on top of it were several sets of clothes, books, and a bundle of papers.

By the lamp the size of a bean, his wife sat there in a trance.

Hai Rui came in with her daughter in her arms, and her wife quickly stood up and took her daughter.

Hai Rui didn't talk to her, walked to the big wooden cabinet by the wall, rolled up a printed quilt on the wooden cabinet, and walked to the door again.

"Are you going to leave tomorrow?" The wife asked softly behind her back.

Hai Rui paused slightly by the door, still didn't answer, and walked out.

This is the Jellyfish's bedroom. Walking to the door with a thin quilt, Hai Rui took off his shoes first, placed them outside the door, and walked in barefoot.

At a few sparks, the velvet in Hai Rui's hand lit up the oil lamp on the small wooden table. Then he placed the thin quilt on the single couch next to the wooden table, and looked over to the large bed.

The hemp-sacked mosquito net was still hanging, and the sea mother was curled up and facing inward, and she didn't cover anything, just lying like that.

Hai Rui walked over slowly, gently picked up the thin sheet at the head of the bed and covered her mother's body, but did not cover her feet, the naked old man's big feet were still exposed outside the sheet.

The jellyfish remained motionless. Hai Rui sat down quietly on the stool next to the bed.

A breeze rose outside the courtyard, and the sound of insects chirping was heard intermittently. There were mosquitoes flying in front of the lights.

Hai Rui picked up the pu fan, and went to fan the mosquitoes on his mother's bed, and after driving away the mosquitoes, he went to untie the copper hook on the mosquito net.

"Don't put it." The sea mother spoke, still facing the inside of the bed.

"Yes." Hai Rui hung up the tent again, and gently fanned it beside the bed with a pu fan.

"I ask you." The jellyfish still lay like that.

"Yes." Hai Rui replied.

From the direction of the inside of the bed, it can be seen that Hai Mu's eyes are wide open, looking at the tent wall: "The meaning of that letter, you tell me again." ”

"Yes." Hai Rui took out the envelope from his bosom and went to pick up the letter.

Haimu: "I don't listen to their official words. You only tell me about the place where you were called. ”

Hai Jui: "Yes. Mother, do you always know how much stone valley a mu of land is sold for in our field? ”

Hai Mu: "Fifty stones in a good year, forty stones in an apologetic year...... What is this for? ”

Hai Rui: "The court transferred his son to Chun'an in Zhejiang, and now the field can only be sold for one mu in Bashi Valley." ”

Hai Mu: "Is there a lot of fields there?" ”

Hai Rui: "No. There is a saying that Zhejiang, seven mountains, two rivers and one field. It refers to the fact that there are many mountains and water, and there are few fields. At most, two people will have one acre of land. ”

Hai Mu: "Then why do you still sell your land and sell it so cheaply?" ”

Hai Rui: "Forced." ”

"How?" The jellyfish sat up.

Hai Rui hurriedly helped his mother sit at the head of the bed before he continued: "The government, and the heroes there. ”

Hai Mu stopped talking, her eyes first looked at the other end of the bed, and then slowly looked at Hai Rui.

Hai Rui: "In order to make up for the shortfall, the imperial court wants to replant mulberry seedlings in Zhejiang's fields, so that more silk can be produced and sold for more money." The weaving bureau in the palace, the Zhejiang government and the big silk households there saw that it was an opportunity to make a fortune, so they wanted to buy all the people's fields, and they wanted to buy them cheaply. They colluded and took advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival flood to destroy the river embankment and flood two counties. When the people were afflicted with the plague, they did not lend them grain to survive the famine, so they forced the people to sell their fields and survive. ”

Hai Mu: "The court doesn't care about such a thing that hurts the principles of heaven?" ”

Hai Rui was silent.

Hai Mu stared at him: "Say." ”

Hai Rui: "Mother will be more worried when she says it." ”

Hai Mu: "Let's talk first. ”

Hai Rui's gaze avoided his mother and looked down: "The court knows all these things. ”

Hai Mu was shocked, and after a long time, she asked again, "Did the imperial court make them do this?" ”

Hai Jui: "It's the one in power in the court." It shows that it is the people of Yan Ge's old party, but I am afraid that they are still involved in the palace celebrants. ”

Hai Mu's eyes widened and she sat there thinking. After a while, he suddenly stretched out a hand and touched the edge of the bed where Hai Rui was sitting, as if he was looking for something.

Hai Rui held his mother's hand: "Mother, what are you always looking for?" ”

Hai Mu: "Letter! ”

Hai Rui hurriedly took out Tan Lun's letter from his arms and handed it to his mother.

Hai Mu took the letter and stared at the cover with fascination. The light from the oil lamp on the small wooden table was so dim that she didn't seem to be recognizing the words, but like trying to penetrate through the letter, trying to find what she felt but didn't know what was in it.

Hai Rui, of course, understood his mother's mood at this time, and said in a low voice: "These people who wrote letters to their sons are loyal ministers of the court. They arranged to transfer their son to Chun'an Dangzhi County. ”

Hai Mu's eyes were still looking at the letter: "Arrange for you to fight with those people?" ”

Hai Jui: "Yes. ”

"So many big officials don't fight, ask a magistrate to fight?" Hai Mu's gaze turned from the letter to Hai Rui.

Hai Mu's plain words, like a sharp knife, split a mess in half from the middle, and many clues were immediately revealed from the blade! But if you think about it carefully, although this knife suddenly revealed a lot of clues, that mess was just cut into two messes. The more clues there are, the more messy the mess becomes. Hai Rui didn't know how to answer his mother, and Mo was there.

Hai Mu: "Answer me." ”

Hai Rui: "Back to my mother, there are many situations in which my son is not very clear now. ”

"And you promised them to go?" Hai Mu asked forcefully.

Hai Rui: "My son thinks, because of this, hundreds of thousands of people must have someone to speak for them and make decisions for them!" ”

Hai Mu: "Why did they pick you up?" ”

Hai Jui: "They recognized their son. Recognize that the son will fight with those people for the sake of the people! ”

Now it was the jellyfish's turn to be silent.

Hai Rui was also silent.

The insects in the yard outside the door stopped screaming at this time. Faintly, there was a chant from Hai Rui's wife in the side room to put her daughter to sleep: "The sun is going to rest, can you rest?" Hued's (pronounced di)...... The moonlight is going to rest, can you rest? Rest ...... Ah Nan is going to rest, can you rest? Rest ...... Grandma is going to rest, can you rest? Can't ...... rest."

Hai Mu couldn't help but slowly stretch out her hand, and Hai Rui immediately handed her hand over. The mother's hand clenched her son's hand at once.

The wife's chant was still coming, with a touch of sadness: "Mother is going to rest, the sun will not be bright, and the moonlight will not be bright......"

"Yes...... The lives of mothers in the world are not bitter......" Hai Mu looked at the lamp and muttered distractedly.

"Mother!" Hai Rui immediately clenched his mother's hand.

Hai Mu: "Go, carry the water." ”

Hai Rui turned around and walked out of the house, and after a while, he came in with a load of water. He took off his long gown, put on a short coat, rolled up his trouser legs, and with his bare feet, scooped up the water in the bucket with a wooden scoop and splashed it on the brick floor.

Hai Mu got off the bed with her bare feet and walked up to her son: "Mother is here to splash, you wash." ”

Hai Rui stopped there and was silent for a moment before slowly holding the scoop to his mother.

The jellyfish scooped water out of the bucket one by one, and poured it down on the brick floor one by one.

Hai Rui picked up the broom made of palm leaves, followed his mother, and swept the water on the ground.

The light on the table, the moonlight pouring in from outside the door, shone on the brick floor, and shone on the bare feet of the mother and son.

"You've grown so big, do you know where you look like your mother?" The jellyfish asked as she splashed water.

Hai Rui: "Everything about my son was given by my mother. ”

Haimu: "I asked you what you look like like Grandma." ”

Hai Rui didn't answer, silently sweeping the water on the ground.

"It's these feet." Hai Mu said, "Lang Zhong said that the feet that are afraid of heat in the winter moon are fire feet, and their hearts are hot and their temper is not good. You're really like a mother at this point. ”

Hai Rui: "My son knows that the ancestors of our Hai family believe in Mingjiao, which is a fire that burns itself, and it is others who are hot. ”

Haimu: "I heard that Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty also believed in Mingjiao when he won the world, so he called the country name Daming, isn't that so?" ”

Hai Jui: "That's right. ”

Haimu: "But why is the current emperor not like Taizu?" ”

Hai Rui couldn't answer this, so he had to lower his head and sweep the water.

"That's it." The jellyfish stopped splashing the water.

Hai Rui: "Then you can go to bed and rest." After the son cleaned up, he slept here with his mother. ”

Hai Mu sighed: "Bring Ah Nan today, and Ah Mu will take Ah Nan to sleep." ”

Hai Rui lowered his head and stood there silently.

Hai Mu: "God has eyes, he should leave a ...... for my Hai family"

There is still some time before dawn, and the stars in the sky are especially dazzling.

All three people in the courtyard were standing, and no one spoke at this moment.

Hai Rui held the cloth bag and an umbrella in his left hand, and the bamboo drawer cage full of lotus leaves and rice cakes in his right hand, looking deeply at his mother.

The wife also stood silently beside the mother of the sea, but her eyes were looking at the ground.

"Mother, my son is leaving." Hai Rui said this, but still stood there.

The mother looked at her son.

Only then did the wife raise her head and look at her husband.

Hai Rui also looked at his wife: "Filial piety to mother-in-law." ”

The wife nodded.

Hai Rui was silent for a few more moments, and finally put the things in his hand on the ground, knelt down, and bowed his head to his mother.

His wife also knelt down beside her mother-in-law.

Hai Rui bowed deeply three times, and when he looked up, his mother's back had already walked to the door of the main house.

Hai Rui knelt there in a daze, tears faintly flashing in his eyes.

The wife was still kneeling there at this time, her eyes were full of tears, and she choked up: "Do you still want to see Ah Nan?" ”

Hai Rui shook his head, stood up with his luggage in both hands, and turned to the small gate on the side of the courtyard.

"Daddy." The daughter's voice came timidly in the silent night courtyard, like something suddenly grabbed Hai Rui who walked to the small door!

Hai Rui turned his head and saw his daughter's weak figure appear at the door of the main house.

Hai Rui turned around again, and his daughter ran towards him.

Hai Rui immediately put down the luggage in his hand, squatted down, and hugged his daughter who threw herself into his arms.

The daughter sobbed: "Daddy came to pick up Grandma......"

"Yes. Daddy will come to pick up Grandma. Hai Rui said softly, holding his daughter with one hand, uncovering the cage next to him with the other, taking out a lotus leaf rice cake and stuffing it into his daughter's hand.

The daughter sobbed: "Daddy is going away, don't ...... Daddy"

"Daddy gave it, Grandma wants to take it." The wife came over at this time and hugged her daughter.

Hai Rui slowly lifted his luggage again, looked at his daughter who was being held tightly by his wife, and resolutely turned around and walked out of the small door.

Gao Hanwen, who went from Beijing to Hangzhou, was a different story. In front of the four-horse escort soldiers, there are also four-horse escort soldiers in the back, and there are two horsemen on both sides of the carriage, this trip is very exciting! According to the regulations, the appointment of the Hangzhou prefect with such pomp is an arrogance. But this is Yan Shifan's arrangement, in the eyes of outsiders, it is also the arrangement of the cabinet, along the way to several provinces, each post station to change horses, people have not yet arrived in Zhejiang, the momentum is enough to declare the imperial court's determination to change rice to mulberry is overwhelming!

Gao Hanwen in the carriage was full of excitement all the way. In less than four years, Zhongjin Shidian Hanlin took on this important responsibility. In his life, he took Mencius's learning as the guideline, and what he pursued was such a happy life of riding horses and managing eight tables. Yan Shifan's reuse gave him the opportunity to display his ambitions, but Yan Fu was not favored by the clear stream of science after all, and his trip was criticized for his reputation. The national policy of changing rice to mulberry must be implemented, and hundreds of thousands of disaster victims must be relieved, and even Hu Zongxian, who has always been known for his ability, is at a loss, and he really has no bottom in his heart about whether he can accomplish this dilemma. In other words, even if the national policy of changing rice to mulberry is implemented this time, if it causes public resentment, it is really unpredictable how the government and the opposition will view him. But the kind of hardship of the Hanlin Academy is difficult to endure after all, and the purpose of saving talents and raising hope is to show it, and it is not in vain to earn it in the water and fire. Therefore, the last road does not stop, day and night. At that time, it was late May, the sun was shining, and he simply ordered someone to remove the roof on the sedan car, and the door curtains and curtains were also taken off, in order to match the meaning of sleeping in the open. When I run fast, I sometimes stand up and stand up. The wind blows in the face, the clothes are fluttering, and the tragedy is hesitant, which is always a sense of eternity!

The horse team ran like this, and Gao Hanwen was outside for a long time, when he suddenly felt that the car slowed down, and his clothes stopped floating. When I looked at it, it turned out that a post station had arrived.

"Take a break." Gao Hanwen commanded.

But as soon as the four horses in front of them entered the gate of this inn, they all stopped there.

This is a county post, the yard is not big, at this time there are already more than a dozen horses scattered in it, some soldiers are feeding those horses with water and materials to brush their fur, and there is no open space inside, Gao Hanwen's horse team can't squeeze in.

"What's going on?" Gao Hanwen's entourage walked in and asked loudly.

The four cavalrymen who had come in earlier did not answer, but only motioned for him to look at the situation in front of him.

The entourage said to the soldiers who were busy: "Who is coming from the capital, who of you will pick up the station?" ”

Those who should be fed with water and feed are still feeding water and feeding, and those who should be brushing fur are still brushing fur, but no one pays attention to him.

The attendant raised his voice: "Has anyone picked up the station?" ”

Gao Hanwen also walked in at this time.

Seeing him, a post man in the stable came over with a bitter face: "I've seen my lord." ”

Gao Hanwen's entourage: "We are from Beijing, and we went to Hangzhou to take up our posts, why is there no one to pick up the station?" ”

The post man's face was still bitter: "The adults have seen it, we have no material to feed the horses we got in advance, no, even our rations have been taken to feed the horses." ”

Gao Hanwen and his entourage looked at the manger on the ground in the yard, and the manger was indeed full of soybeans and millet, but there were not many, and the horses were rushing to chew on them.

But the attendant did not care about this: "Our horses will not go hungry." ”

The officer: "Then you will go and consult with them, and see if they are willing to give them some material." ”

Gao Hanwen answered: "Whose horse team are they?" ”

The post guard was obviously a little bad: "How dare the villain ask, it seems that the formation is bigger than the second grade." ”

The entourage was stunned: "Is it Governor Hu's people?" ”

The Officer: "About." ”

"Let's go." Gao Hanwen said this, turned around and left.

"May I ask if it's Lord Gaofutai?" A voice stopped him from behind.

Gao Hanwen stopped, and slowly turned back again.

Hu Zongxian's personal captain walked towards him.

Captain of the pro-soldiers: "May I ask if you are the new prefect of Hangzhou?" ”

Gao Hanwen looked at him, and after a while he replied, "I am." ”

The captain of the pro-soldiers: "We have been waiting for Lord Gao here for a while, please come with me." As he spoke, he put on a leading face.

Gao Hanwen didn't want to see him, but Hu Zongxian was the governor of Zhejiang after all, and now he came to invite him openly, so he hesitated for a moment, and had to follow the captain of the army to walk inside.

In the main room of the post station, Hu Zongxian seemed to be sick, lying on a chair with his eyes closed, and a wet handkerchief on his forehead.

The captain of the personal soldiers walked over quickly, gently lifted the handkerchief on his forehead, and said softly: "Ministry, Master Gao is here." ”

Hu Zongxian slowly opened his eyes, looked at Gao Hanwen standing at the door, nodded, and stretched out his hand: "Please sit." ”

Gao Hanwen was still standing there: "May I ask if it is Lord Hu Butang Hu?" ”

Hu Zongxian: "Contemptible people are." ”

Gao Hanwen immediately took a deep look: "Long admiration." Subordinate Gao Hanwen. ”

Hu Zongxian: "Please take a seat." ”

Gao Hanwen had no choice but to go to the chair next to him and sit down.

Hu Zongxian looked at him: "Although I am still the governor of Zhejiang, according to the regulations, you are under the direct management of the governor of Zhejiang, and there is no envoy between us." I see you today, just for Zhejiang, for the sake of the imperial court. ”

Gao Hanwen didn't look at him, bowed his head and continued: "Lord Ministry, please have something to say." ”

Hu Zongxian looked at the captain of the soldiers at this time: "Divide some of our horse material to the horse team of Gaofutai." ”

"Yes." The captain of the pro-soldier walked out.

Only then did Hu Zongxian turn to Gao Hanwen again: "Does Gao Futai know how many victims there are in Chun'an and Jiande, and how much grain is still in the official warehouse in Zhejiang so far, according to the four taels per person per day, how many days can it be distributed?" ”

Gao Hanwen replied: "The number of victims in Chun'an is 290,000, and the number of victims in Jiande is 140,000. Before the disaster, there were 200,000 stone grains in the official warehouse. 430,000 victims, each person will be given three taels per day, which is 7,000 stone per day. Now that twenty days have passed, the remaining grain in the official warehouse is about 50,000 stones, and it can be distributed for ten days at most. ”

Hu Zongxian nodded: "You still have a heart." What are you going to do in 10 days? ”

Gao Hanwen slowly raised his head and looked at Hu Zongxian: "Lord Ministry is accusing his subordinates?" ”

Hu Zongxian didn't answer, just looked at him.

Gao Hanwen: "The proposal of 'relieving oneself with reform and self-relieving' was put forward by subordinates. Ten days later, of course, those who have money and grain will be asked to take out grain to buy the fields of the disaster victims, and after the disaster is resolved, the national policy of changing rice to mulberry will then instruct those large households who have bought land to complete it. ”

Hu Zongxian: "So how much grain is Gaofutai going to let those who have money and grain take to buy the people's fields?" ”

Gao Hanwen was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Thousand years of fields, eight hundred lords." There has always been a public price for buying land, which seems to be something that the government should not ask about. ”

Hu Zongxian: "After ten days, the relief food was cut off, the victims had no food to eat, and the people who bought the land lowered the price of the land. ”

Gao Hanwen was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "The laws of heaven and the country are all there, if you really want to do that, of course the government has to ask!" ”

Hu Zongxian: "Which government?" Is it your Hangzhou prefect's yamen, or the governor's yamen, or the vassal's yamen? ”

Gao Hanwen slowly understood the meaning of Hu Zongxian's words: "What does Lord Ministries mean that the Zhejiang government will connive at the big farmers who buy land to take advantage of the disaster to lower the price of land? ”

Hu Zongxian looked at him deeply: "If that's the case, what should you do?" ”

Gao Hanwen was silent, and then raised his head again after a long time: "The subordinates will fight according to reason." ”

Hu Zongxian: "How to fight? ”

Gao Hanwen was asked again and looked at Hu Zongxian.

Hu Zongxian: "At that time, you could neither go to the homes of large families and give their grain to the victims, nor could you persuade the victims to endure the pain and sell their fields. Troops cannot be used on both sides, and if the victims of the disaster break out in groups, Zhejiang will immediately be in chaos. The proposal you put forward in the imperial court that 'to reform and help oneself and solve the dilemma' has become the source of chaos! Gao Futai, I'm afraid that's not your original intention to mention this recital, right? ”

Gao Hanwen was shocked and asked, "How should I fight, please make it clear." ”

Hu Zongxian: "The strategy of 'reform and relief' was put forward by you, and you have the right to interpret it. First, we should not allow large households to buy the fields of the victims at prices below 30 stone of rice. In this way, the fields of the people of Chun'an and Jiande counties will not all be bought by them. For example, if one of the three brothers in a family sells his field, he can lend the grain he sold to the other two brothers to spend the famine year. By next year, two-thirds of the people will still have land to cultivate, and Chun'an and Jiande will not be chaotic. ”

Gao Hanwen nodded deeply, and then asked, "Then the number of mulberry fields that need to change 300,000 silk horses this year is not enough." How to solve the problem? ”

Hu Zongxian sighed: "This national policy is to cut flesh and mend sores. But it's hard not to do it now. This is the second way, let those large households scatter to the counties that have not been affected by the disaster to buy, and buy them at the rate of 50 stone of rice per mu. Hundreds of thousands of acres of mulberry fields should be divided into counties as much as possible to change, and Zhejiang will not be chaotic. ”

Gao Hanwen: "What do they not want to do? ”

Hu Zongxian: "You can play in the name of Qin Shi!" Let the court make up your mind, don't make your own mind. ”

Gao Hanwen was stunned again and looked at Hu Zongxian.

Hu Zongxian: "I won't let you fight alone." If you go to Zhejiang, I will go to Suzhou first and ask Zhao Zhenji, the governor of Yingtian, to borrow grain. Within ten days, I will borrow grain and let you go to the price of the land. Also, the new Chun'an Zhi County Hai Rui and Jiande Zhi County Wang Yongji, these two people can help you, you have to reuse them. ”

Gao Hanwen was already in a state of mind at this time, looked at Hu Zongxian, and spit out a sentence for a long time: "Ministry, there is a sentence in my subordinates that I don't know whether to ask or not." ”

Hu Zongxian: "Please speak." ”

Gao Hanwen: "Why don't the ministers make these things clear to the emperor?" ”

Hu Zongxian smiled bitterly: "I don't know how difficult it is if I haven't experienced it." There are some things that you will understand later. Speaking of this, he looked at the sky outside the door, and stood up on the chaise longue: "It is the end of noon, and there are still eighty miles to the next post station." Let's hurry. ”

Gao Hanwen changed his guard when he first met, took a step back and knelt down, kowtowing: "Take care." With that, he stood up and strode out.

Seeing Gao Hanwen go out, Hu Zongxian suddenly felt that it was dark in front of him, so he couldn't stand a little steadily, and he reached out to help the reclining chair behind him but didn't hold it, and sat on the ground at once.

"Ministry!" The captain of the pro-soldiers outside the door hurriedly ran in and knelt down to hold him on one leg.

"Don't touch him!" Tan Lun appeared from the side door of the inner room, and hurriedly ran to Hu Zongxian's side, hugging Hu Zongxian from the other side.

Tan Lun said to the captain of the pro-soldiers: "Go quickly, find Lang Zhong!" ”

Captain: "Yes." "Ran out quickly.

Hu Zongxian's eyes slowly opened, and he struggled to stand up. Tan Lun struggled to help him stand up, and helped him to the chair and leaned down.

Tan Lun: "It's only three or four days' journey to Suzhou. If it really doesn't work, I'll rest here for two days. ”

Hu Zongxian: "If the grain can't be transported to Zhejiang within ten days, I will see Gao Hanwen in vain today." ”

Tan Lun: "Do you really think it's useful to say these words to Gao Hanwen?" ”

Hu Zongxian looked at Tan Lun: "Then is it useful for you to recommend Hai Rui and Wang Yongji to Zhejiang?" ”

Tan Lun was stunned for a moment, knowing that Hu Zongxian was accusing himself of discussing with King Yu and others, and that he had been hiding from him about sending Hai Rui and Wang Yongji to serve as the magistrates of Chun'an and Jiande.

Hu Zongxian: "There are no friends in officialdom. ”

"Ruzhen." Tan Lun's face flushed, "It's not that I deliberately want to hide from you about sending Hairui and Wang Yongji to the two counties......."

"I said at the beginning, I will do this whether you Tan Lun comes or not. Today is still the same sentence, whether you hide it from me or not, I will do it. As he spoke, Hu Zongxian stood up again with the handrail, "With my conversation with Gao Hanwen today, the Hai Rui and Wang Yongji you recommended may be able to compete with those people." Get me a carriage and let's go. ”

The lakes and mountains, the wind and the moon. On the streets of Hangzhou in the evening, it is even more picturesque. Walking in such a place with the big green mule, Hai Rui looked a little out of place.

The big green mule carried a bamboo cage on his back, and Hai Rui, who was holding the reins, had a hat hanging on his back, a long robe splashed with mud, and one corner was tucked into his belt, conspicuously revealing his bare feet in straw sandals. The feet are flat on the bluestone street, the four hooves of the mule are tiredly stepping on the bluestone street, and the Yuanmen of the Zhejiang Governor's Yamen is far away.

Looking through the tall gate, there is a tall flagpole, and further on, there is a huge middle gate. The lights that came out from the inside were lit up to the outside of the gate, and to the big plaque with gold letters on a red background on the lintel: Zhejiang Governor's Office.

The governor was customized as the highest administrator of each province, which was after Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, and his rank was slightly lower than that of the governor, but the real power of a province was actually in the hands of the governor, so the regulation and governor of the yamen were so much. The high eaves, the gate, the eight-character wall, and the flagpole are all the weather of the frontier. This kind of weather here tonight is even more prominent, the inside and outside of the middle gate are all standing up to the Daping to the Yuanmen, and the Daping is also full of sedan chairs of officials above the fourth grade, lanterns and torches, a piece of light. This was the first meeting held here after Zheng Michang took over as governor of Zhejiang. After receiving a report from the former station that Gao Hanwen, the new prefect of Hangzhou, would arrive from Beijing today, Zheng Michang immediately notified the relevant feudal domains, departments, and provincial yamen to attend the meeting. He wanted to deploy the imperial court's strategy of "changing and providing relief" overnight, and complete the conversion of 500,000 mu of land into mulberry within one month.

Therefore, from the beginning of the afternoon, martial law was already imposed in front of the governor's yamen, and all the idlers and miscellaneous people were driven away, and during this period of time the front of the gate and the street were unusually quiet, and the shops were closed, and no one moved. Waiting for Gao Hanwen to arrive, he immediately discussed the matter. At this time, Hai Jui and his mule approached the gate and were particularly eye-catching.

"Stand!" The officer guarding the gate immediately walked over and stopped him, "What person? Don't you see that this is the governor's gate! ”

Hai Rui stopped, took out the official diploma of the Ministry of Officials from the placket of his clothes, and handed it over.

The officer of the team was obviously illiterate, but he knew the vermilion seal of the official on the official's seal, and his attitude was better: "Which yamen?" ”

Hai Rui: "Chun'an Zhi County." ”

The officer looked at Hai Rui again, and then shouted to the gate and asked, "Do any of you know that Chun'an Zhixian will be notified to be there tonight?" ”

Outside the gate, a man who looked like a clerk answered, "Let him in!" ”

The officer returned the official card to Hai Rui: "Go in." Hey, this mule can't go in. ”

Hai Rui looked at him as well, then handed the reins to his hand and strode over.

The officer: "Hey! What are you doing for me, mule? ”

Hai Jui has walked in the door!

——This year is the 40th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, that is, in 1561 AD, Hai Rui served as the county governor of Chun'an, Zhejiang. From the moment he stepped into Hangzhou and reported to the governor's yamen, he began his life's all-out declaration of war against the corrupt forces of the Ming Dynasty!