This Spring Festival should be the most lively festival Yuan Rui has had in decades.

Not to mention that Wei Guogong's family has always relied on not leaving, so is the old man of the Lu family, and he often follows Wei Guogong and the two to get together to play chess and fight.

Later, the two sons and their families all went to Jijiazhuang for the New Year.

Just a year ago, the second son didn't know why, he bought dozens of acres of land and built a very large mansion 100 meters away from Yuan Rui's house.

For this matter, Yuan Rui made jokes about the second son several times, and he didn't stay in the city and went to the countryside to be a farmer.

The second son doesn't care, this is not a matter of money, buying a house is not a moment, what is important is inheritance, no matter how big an official he is, he will have to go back to his hometown to retire anyway, and it is most correct to buy more land in the countryside at this time.

So on Chinese New Year's Eve, everyone gathered in the big courtyard of the Lu family, and the Xu family, the Lu family and several old men from their own family came over, which Yuan Rui specially invited to accompany them.

Dozens of people chatted happily while drinking tea and eating snacks. Although the weather is still a little cold, the atmosphere is very strong under the baking of the surrounding stoves.

"Yuan Rui, what are you thinking about next, your book is not up to standard at all!"

Old Man Xu took advantage of the vacancy and still asked.

"I don't know, I don't even understand this official."

Yuan Rui is also helpless, this is a good pressure.

"If you want me to say, just do business, if you do business, you will definitely make the people's life better."

Xu Guangjun didn't dare to say anything about getting rich in front of his father, so he could only change his perspective.

"Yuan Rui is in business, then it's none of your business, what do you do," the county lord first glanced at Xu Guangjun.

"Have you ever thought that up to now, all the things you have done are still small paths, and they can indeed play a role in a certain aspect, but looking at the entire Great Xia, what can you change."

"Yuan Rui, there is an old saying, how big a shoulder is how much a burden to bear, if you are not in your position, you will not seek politics. Think about what happens to meet someone who is not interested in your thoughts at all, or what if you meet someone who is biased against you! ”

"If you are a worm, at most you are crawling, no one cares about you, but you have a strong head, and you are not an ordinary person when you look at it, who will ignore you and let you go, so there is no point in retreating."

"What you can do is to quickly take advantage of the favorable opportunity to make yourself stronger and more powerful, so that you can ensure yourself and these people around you. Otherwise, even if a gangster like a bandit can kill you this time, it is not delusional to talk about what to make the nation strong and the people live a good life. ”

"Okay, for the New Year, I won't say much, think about it!"

Seeing someone coming, Old Man Xu stopped preaching.

Yuan Qing greeted a few old men with a smile, and then pulled Yuan Rui to the side.

Yuan Qing came over to ask Yuan Rui something, and he wanted to ask when he came the first few times, but Yuan Rui's body did not recover at that time, and he was afraid that he would be affected and in a bad mood, so he kept dragging it out.

"I don't care what you want to do next, but you have to think about the marriage clearly."

"What about the county lord, it's just an intention now, I really don't dare to say when the decree will be made, I have talked to Xiaohe a few times, that girl is dead-eyed, and the county lord also knows her, in your opinion, can you tolerate her?"

"Sister, I did so many things for Xiaohe at that time, and it was because of this that the county lord also knew, her attitude towards Xiaohe, you also saw it, I think, she won't do anything with Xiaohe."

"Also, it's Miss Meng's matter, I know you're sad and have been blaming yourself, have you figured it out now?"

"Sister, I'm fine, it's all fine, you know, this matter has passed, as for the rest, I didn't think too much about it."

"Sister say something, don't care, Miss Meng's matter is too sudden, I didn't expect it, I can only look forward, you should go to the capital when you have time, no matter what, you have to make it clear to Master Meng."

"Sister, don't worry, wait a while, I'll go once and see how this matter is handled."

For Meng Ruohan, Yuan Rui didn't want to say too much, everyone present didn't know where his feelings for Meng Ruohan were, and they wouldn't understand the relationship between the two lives, and now he could only bury these emotions in the deepest part of his heart.

Another year has passed, and the first year of Taining has arrived.

Counting that he will soon be 21 years old, it is said that most people of the same age have got married, and because of his parents, no one worries, he is a little late.

In addition, at this age, he really didn't feel that he had reached the time, after all, hundreds of years later, he was still playing around in school at this age.

If you want to say that he is a late bloomer, Yuan Rui is unwilling to accept it, he also likes these girls around him, and he also has his own ideas.

But in the past few years, he seems to be busy and has done a lot of things, but he knows that he has been idle for at least half of the past few years, because he is very lazy and always thinks about being lazy.

He is not exclusive to starting a family, and it is normal to find a daughter-in-law to live.

If you are in the countryside, it is very good to find Xiaohe, there are no excessive requirements, and it is very caring, and it is best to be a little daughter-in-law.

But if he went to the officialdom, he was very worried about harming Xiaohe, how could she deal with those rights and wrongs, private and private.

Wei Guogong said a little reasonable, people in this era must think that this is a golden and jade good words, but in Yuan Rui's opinion, there are some black bellies in it, and there are some small crooked principles, if it is a pure farming, he thinks that he can be comfortable and happy.

On the contrary, he went to a higher place, and the contradictions he might face would be more acute, and his opponents would be stronger and more dangerous.

After fifteen, Wei Guogong, who had almost recuperated, was going to return to Beijing, and he couldn't delay it any longer, and the saint had already sent people to urge him several times.

Another reason is a happy event, the eldest grandson of the Xu family is about to be born, and the old couple wants to hurry back to hug their grandson, of course, they expect it to be a grandson, and they don't know if it's a granddaughter or a grandson.

Yuan Rui also made a little appointment with the county lord, at most in the first month, he would go to the capital, no matter what the official position was, he still had to explain to the above, and he must go to the Meng Mansion for a trip, so far he didn't dare to face the two old men.

The Holy Lord also had a will for him, and considering his physical condition, there was no stipulation on what time he had to go, that is, he should rush to the capital as soon as possible.

There is also Hangzhou, Fang Yan sent a message, now that the ship manufacturing has reached the most critical point, he is very eager to expect Yuan Rui to go to Hangzhou to guide the scene, so that the ship can be quickly launched for testing.

The last thing Yuan Rui didn't expect was his cheap master, Zhu Fuzi also brought a letter and told him a little bit, someone in the capital had already sent him a letter, and the court had already arranged it, and he was going to open Enke in March this year, just waiting for the Holy Lord Zhu to approve it.

Let him be prepared during this time, and he must go to the capital to participate in this imperial examination.

Yuan Rui looked at the letter, he could only smile, to participate in the imperial examination, at this time, it was not a joke!

During this time, look at what Yuan Rui has done, after the middle move, he first went to the border army and did a lot of things in a mess. came back and wandered around, I didn't read any serious books, but I did a lot of gossip.

Now if you want him to write a subset of scriptures and histories, or what poems and songs, it is not for his life, and there is no chance for him to lose face and go to the capital!

Taining Shengshang is really anxious, if it weren't for Yuan Rui, he wasn't so important, and he couldn't really change anything.

Taining Shengshang is very worried about the accident at the border pass, because of the government, the matter at the border pass has been delayed again, which is the biggest root cause of the inability to eliminate external troubles for so many years.

If it weren't for the frequent infighting in the Central Plains, where would the surrounding barbarians have the opportunity to enter the Central Plains.

Now in the whole Great Xia, the harvest in the past two years is not bad, although it has fought a big battle and paid a huge price, but at present, Great Xia still has a little confidence.

In addition, the success of Yangzhou's double-cropping rice trial has further strengthened his determination, if he can give himself another two years to recuperate, and at the same time speed up the production of relevant military preparations, he is confident to fight any big war.

Although there are many vacancies in the court now, the government has not been greatly affected, and the affairs of the relevant departments are normal.

Yu Gong and several important ministers are important weapons of the country, and at this critical moment, they did not embarrass Taining Shengshang, arranged various affairs in an orderly manner, and also recommended and promoted many young talents to supplement the grassroots level, which can be regarded as basically completing part of the replacement of the old and the new.

At the same time of rotation, several ministers also put forward a suggestion that now is the time to employ people, since the demand for talents is so great, we should seize the time to hold another scientific examination and select talents from among the people.

Initiatives like Kaienke are generally conventional, and all the officials in the court are in agreement, after all, as long as the imperial examination, relatives and friends, neighbors, teachers, etc., these are all future network resources.

With more people in the court and more helpers by yourself, it's not much easier to get things done, and acquaintances are easy to do!

Sheng took a look at the recital of the Ministry of Rites, read it a little, did not hesitate too much, and directly approved a quasi-word, such a recital does not need to think much, as long as it is to be done, let them do it.

Stopping his pen, he suddenly remembered one thing, the kid of the Yuan family seems to be also a lifter, and he is also qualified to participate in the imperial examination this time.

However, according to his understanding, this kid doesn't seem to be particularly interested in the imperial examination, and he still imposed it on him by himself as an official.

This kid is going to enter the court after all, and he will be of great use, and he can't let future officials have an excuse to attack, so that everyone thinks that Yuan Rui is an official because of his own preference and is a fortunate minister.

Another point, I have already made a promise, I want to give that kid a big gift, as a noble county lord, I can't stoop down to marry a nameless boy, no matter how you have to force this kid.