Unknowingly, it has been half a month since I came back from Huai'an.

After spending the beginning of autumn at home, Xu He received a letter from his teacher.

When Li Zhijie first came out of Yangzhou, he was in Xinghua for flood control, and because of the flood, he was trapped in Xinghua.

Fortunately, he had been prepared beforehand, and in the face of the flood that burst the embankment, he was a weak scholar and led the people of Xinghua to strengthen the river embankment, evacuate the victims, and finally brought the disaster under control.

In previous years, if there was such a big flood, I don't know how many people would die.

This time, so many Xinghua victims were able to flee to Hailing, Tongzhou, and Suzhou, which was greatly due to Li Zhijie's previous preparations.

But after leaving Xinghua, Li Zhijie did not return to Yangzhou.

There are many places affected by the disaster in Yangzhou this time, and he wants to check the disaster situation on behalf of Peng Ruyu county by county.

Therefore, Li Sikui could only continue to live in the Xu family and ask Xu He to take care of it.

Xu He wrote a letter to the teacher in great detail about Li Sikui's children's learning progress and living conditions.

Moreover, on the issue of Li Sikui's education, he attached some of his own opinions.

said that it was his own opinion, but in fact, it was also the educational philosophy of the great sage Wang Yangming in that time and space in later generations.

Wang Yangming said in his "Discipline and Enlightenment": "The love of a child, happy to swim and worry about detention and inspection, is like the beginning of the sprout of plants and trees, the comfort is reached, and the destruction is decaying." ”

The meaning is probably the encouragement and education of later generations.

If they let them have fun, the plants will be vigorous in the future, and if they are blindly strictly restrained, the plants and trees will slowly wither and decay when they are young.

Xu He felt that Li Sikui was really smart when he was a young scholar.

But he can be said to be an idiot for some common sense in life.

The children educated in this way look good like the teacher Li Zhijie, who slowly came into contact with some social realities in the process of growing up, but their thoughts are actually very literati.

There is also a situation, that is, the scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang mentioned by Zhang Dai in later generations talk about the past and the present, which is really the way.

But once they really let them talk about the source of the allusion and the specific time of the dynasty, then they will be dumbfounded.

There is a noun that specifically describes this kind of person as "two-legged bookcase".

Therefore, Xu He's reply to the teacher said his [summer camp] plan, and the implication is that whether the junior brother's knowledge can grow or not, let's put it aside first, but the teacher, don't worry, he is in my house, his body is great, and his meals are fragrant, so don't worry about it!

Just after he finished writing the letter, he asked Wu Decao to help send it to the post station, and was about to take the two children to practice calligraphy or something.

Someone from the Xu Mansion of Phoenix Dun said, please, sir.

When Xu He came to Phoenix Pier, he saw Xu Song holding a book under the tree in the courtyard and looking at the leaves in a daze.

He walked over and saluted, "Uncle, is there anything wrong with recruiting your nephew?" ”

Xu Song nodded, took a copy of the newspaper from the small bamboo table on the side and handed it to Xu He.

"This is this morning, the post station just delivered!"

Like Xu Song, a big man like Zhishi, the Jingzhong Di newspaper is going to be copied and sent over by the post station.

This is also a major channel for registered officials to learn about major affairs in the DPRK and China.

Xu He took the newspaper and read it.

There are a few things that really have something to do with him, no wonder Xu Song specially called him over.

First of all, Chen Hua reported to the imperial court a few days ago about the disaster of the flood in Hailing.

In addition to reporting the loss, he also passed the buck to the Caosi Yamen and sued him for not transporting grain as soon as possible.

However, it is estimated that his words in the recital are not directional, otherwise the imperial court would not only take Ambassador Chang Yingcang from his post and send him to prison, but all other officials would be fine.

In addition, Chen Hua also praised the Xu family by name in the recital, as well as He Yuanwai and other Hailing eunuchs, saying that they destroyed their homes and helped the court to withstand the disaster, and asked the court to give commendation.

The imperial court did commend it, but only praised He Yuanwai and other big families in writing, and also rewarded some plaques and treatment in the township ancestral hall, and nothing else.

Seeing this, Xu He frowned and said, "Uncle, the imperial court only rewards other families in Hailing County, and only our Xu family is missing, what does this mean?" ”

Xu Song nodded and said, "You look down first, and then we'll talk later." ”

When Xu He heard this, he had no choice but to press his doubts and continue to read.

After a while, another piece of news attracted Xu He's attention.

It turned out that the Dongchang Mansion, which was under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Political Envoy Department, impeached Liu Dingxiang, the governor of the Imperial History, under the pretext of silting up the Huyao River in the territory, so that local migrant workers could dredge it, and then took the opportunity to collude with the dredging money allocated by the Linqing Prefecture Zhizhou Governor to be greedy for the money allocated by the imperial court.

Seeing this, Xu He smiled slightly, it seems that his eldest brother has already begun to act.

Moreover, it is estimated that this is only the first shot fired against Caosi Yamen, according to Xu He's plan to help him, the following is a dizzying set of combination punches.

Just when Xu He flipped to the bottom of the nearest newspaper, his eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, thinking of the strangeness that the imperial court had not praised the Xu family just now, he seemed to already know the answer.

Xu Song saw him pinching the last newspaper and pondering, so he smiled and said, "Do you see something?" ”

Xu He nodded and said, "Uncle, have you written to your old friends in the court recently?" ”

Xu Song nodded and said, "Lord Shoufu's letter just arrived today!" ”

Xu He's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" ”

"Didn't say anything!" Xu Song shook his head, "Just ask how my body is lately!" ”

Xu He nodded: "It seems that the imperial court intends to let the uncle go out of the mountain in the near future!" ”

It turned out that there was an incident written in the last Di newspaper, saying that Fu Miaoran was impeached by Fu Miaoran in the matter, and Xia Yangqiu was at home for drumming and drinking on the death of the Empress Dowager.

As soon as Section Chief Fu's bullet was handed over, Xia Yangqiu was forced to suspend his post and beg for his hometown to return to his hometown.

As soon as the book was handed to the emperor's desk, it was rejected.

But Xu He's reading of the emperor's comments is very interesting.

It stands to reason that the emperor begged the cabinet ministers to go, and he had to give some face and keep them gently.

Emperor Zhizheng did keep it.

But in Xia Yangqiu's notebook, he only said dryly: "The court is troublesome, and the secretary can't talk about hanging the crown!" ”

What is this?

People have worked hard for so many years, but you don't have a word of consolation for reminiscing about the past.

Just say that the court has something to do now, don't go.

That's okay, isn't it just as far as you can get?

At this moment, all the people in the court who didn't pee with Xia Yangqiu smelled a different breath.

This is what our Majesty told us, he doesn't like this secondary!

For a while, the impeachment of Xia Yangqiu's recitals flew to the General Administration Department like snowflakes.

Xu He frowned and said, "Uncle, why doesn't this majesty play cards according to common sense?" It's just the Empress Dowager's death day drinking, can't you say it? ”

Xu Song nodded and said in a low voice: "Xie Daozhi's letter, saying that the prince raped the daughter of the local prefect during the ancestor worship, but he didn't expect the woman to be martyred and died in the water, and then his fiancé entered the place where he was stationed, stabbed him with a knife, failed, and the prince broke his appearance!" ”

"What......" Xu He was speechless in surprise.