On the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Xun rode out of the West City Gate alone and left Laiwu to begin his travels. The first stop was Yiyuan County, which is a big county, Zhang Xun saw the boundary monument, and did not rush into the city, but went down to the countryside. When he was about to reach the entrance of the village, Zhang Xun dismounted, tied the horse to a tree, and then walked forward. I met two villagers on the way, inquired about it, and knew that this was Dujia Village, and there were more than 50 households in the village, almost all of whom were surnamed Du. After thanking the two villagers, Zhang Xun walked into Dujia Village. Zhang Xun knew that the peasants at this time were still very simple and respected the readers. Zhang Xun randomly chose a farmer, knocked on the door, only to hear a "coming" sound inside, and a man in his thirties opened the door. The villager saw Zhang Xun dressed as a scholar and asked strangely: "Who is this little brother?" Zhang Xun said: "My name is Zhang Xun, I am a scholar who took the college examination after the beginning of spring, and now there is more than a month left for the hospital examination. The villagers originally thought that Zhang Xun was an ordinary scholar with no reputation, after all, Xiucai would not come to this poor country, no matter how bad the mix was, it would be enough to open a private school in the county seat or rich township to teach children to read and write. Now I listen to this little brother say that the spring courtyard test, that is, the master, although it is difficult to be an official directly, but it is still easy to find a master, the master and the like. I have to know that this is a lifting man, how could I call each other brother before. Now that he knows, he naturally bowed respectfully and said, "Cao Min Du Gang has just met the master of the people. Zhang Xun looked at it, hurriedly helped Du Gang up, and said: "I can't help it, Brother Du Gang still calls me little brother like just now! I came out to travel this time to experience the suffering of the people, and I am not a master at the moment, but an ordinary scholar." "I blamed myself for pretending to be something, and I returned to the hospital for the test, it seems that I am too bad in terms of human sophistication, and I have to practice hard. Then Du Gang is still willing to call Zhang Xun's little brother, so he calls Zhang Xun Zhang Gongzi and asks Zhang Xun to call him Du Gang, and he dare not respond to the title of big brother. Du Gang invited Zhang Xun into the house, and when he saw that there were two others, Zhang Xun asked, "This is your wife and children, right?" Du Gang replied: "Yes, this is my wife and youngest son, and the eldest girl got married last year." Du Gang thought that it would be better to tell the village chief about Zhang Gongzi's visit to Dujia Village. asked his wife to pour Zhang Xun a glass of water, and Du Gang said to Zhang Xun: "I'll go buy some meat and come back." And he left. Zhang Xun knew that Du Gang had informed the village chief to go, and he couldn't help it, who wanted to talk nonsense before. After a while, Du Gang walked in with an old man who had been around for more than a year, and the old man said to Zhang Xun: "Old Du Qing, I am the head of this Dujia Village." Welcome Zhang Gongzi to visit our village. Zhang Xun said: "Xiaosheng Zhang Xun has seen Village Chief Du, and this trip passed through Guicun and disturbed. Village Chief Du asked again: "I don't know how many days Zhang Gongzi wants to stay in this village?" Zhang Xun thought for a while and replied: "Village Chief, if it's convenient, I'll stay here for three days!" Village Chief Du asked again: "The old man has a request, that is, please take some time out of the three days to teach the children in the village to read and write, I wonder if you can agree?" Zhang Xun was about to agree, and the six-year-old child of Du Gang's family shouted: "I want to be literate, I want to read." Zhang Xun then squatted down and said to the child: "Well, Uncle taught you to read and write, you have to work hard, is it okay to take the top prize when you grow up?" The child said: "Is it okay for this champion to have that lifting master? If not, I would better be the lifting master." Several people in the room burst out laughing. After laughing, Du Gang's wife patted her son on the shoulder and said: "There is only one champion, and there are a bunch of people, which one do you say?" Zhang Xun said to the village chief Du: "Please village chief, you can arrange a quiet place, I will start today for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon to teach them literacy and hyphenation."

Zhang Xun thought about it, or took out the "Thousand Character Text" as a textbook, although the time is in a hurry, it must not be complete, but Zhang Xun thinks that the "Thousand Character Text" is better than the "Three Character Classic" in terms of enlightenment. So every morning, he taught more than 20 children in the village to read and write, and in the afternoon, he took them to recite the full text of "Thousand Character Text". On the afternoon of the third day, although the children still could not recognize all the words, they had no problem reading them smoothly. Zhang Xun saw that the village chief of Nadu was also a person of some culture, so he handed over the thousand-character text with annotations to the village chief and asked him to teach the children, so he resigned and left Dujia Village. In the past few days, he has seen the poor life of the farmers in Dujia Village, especially the eyes of the children eager for knowledge, so that Zhang Xun can truly see the hardships of the farmers. At the entrance of the village, Zhang Xun felt and chanted "Two Songs of Compassion for Nong".

[Part 1]

Plant a grain of millet in spring and grow into 10,000 seeds in autumn.

There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death.

[Part 2]

On the afternoon of hoeing day, sweat drops into the soil.

Who knows that Chinese food is hard work.

The poem became a town, and Zhang Xun chanted this poem to make the upper echelons of Lu realize the hard work of the peasants, and to reduce the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so that the majority of peasants can live a better life. Zhang Xun knew that it would be difficult for him to go to Yiyuan County as soon as this poem came out, so he rode a horse to the neighboring county from another fork in the road.

King Lu was strolling through the imperial garden with the queen at dusk this day, and as soon as the poem of the town and country came out, he naturally couldn't play. The queen returned to her bedroom, and King Lu told the chief manager Hu to immediately summon the Shangshu and the waiters of the household department and the Ministry of Industry into the palace. The four adults of the household department and the Ministry of Industry were having dinner in their respective homes, and the poem "Two Songs of Compassion for Nong" became a town and spread throughout the territory of Lu State. They scolded in their hearts: "Zhang Xun is really hateful, you say that you will travel well, what kind of poems to write." "It's okay now, the meal can't be eaten, and Your Majesty will definitely summon them into the palace for questioning.

In a side hall next to the Qinzheng Palace, King Lu said to Zhou Hongbo, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Wu Huairen, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Feng Siping, and Shen Wenliang, the waiter of the Ministry of Industry: "The widow summoned you and the other four to enter the palace at this time, and you all know what happened. Let's talk about it! What do you think about tax cuts and Xingnong?" The four of them didn't know that His Majesty had asked himself to spit out some benefits and do something for the benefit of the people, so as to block the mouths of the people. So the four of them separately stated that they would draft a plan overnight after they went back, and they would implement it as soon as Your Majesty approved it. King Lu nodded: "That's it, you go back and prepare!" The four of them saluted and returned home and began to formulate a plan.

Du Qing and Du Gang, the village chiefs of Nadujia Village, knew at this time that Zhang Xun's son was not the same name as Zhang Xun, the saint before the lifter, but in person. Both of them realized what a rare opportunity this was, and those children were the seeds of the future development and even the rise of Dujia Village. The village chief Du Qing was originally the patriarch of the Du clan, and asked Du Gang to call four respected elders in the village. After discussing with the four elders, Du Qing decided to set up a shrine for Zhang Xun, and made the thousand-character inscription tablet with annotations as the treasure of the town and village.

Zhang Xun, who had arrived in the neighboring county, suddenly felt an ominous aura in his body leave him, and then felt full of vitality. Zhang Xun knew that this was because he had accumulated virtue and done good deeds in Dujia Village for three days, and he had resolved the curse of heaven, and his twenty-year life span had returned.

In the next month, Zhang Xun changed out of his scholar's outfit and worked as a servant today and a coolie tomorrow. Experience the hard life of ordinary people, recuperate physically and mentally, and climb high and look far away when encountering famous mountains and rivers, and cultivate sentiments. In the past month, Zhang Xun's footprints have traveled to all provinces and counties of Lu State, and he has a general understanding of the humanities, economy, people's livelihood and so on of Lu State. The world is full of knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article. Through this month's practice, Zhang Xun understands that the so-called splendid articles are not just blindly using flowery words, which can only be flashy, but to be concise and concise, enlighten people's wisdom, and enlighten people's understanding. It looks simple and unpretentious, but in fact, every word is beautiful. This is the splendid article.

In a week, the college exam will be held. Zhang Xun was in Yanzhou Mansion at this moment, seventy miles away from the Xiding Gate of the capital Qufu, and happened to see the officials here seeing off Huiyuanlang. This Yanzhou Mansion is the imperial examination of the Lu State, over the years there have been a number of champions, Bangyan, Tanhua, 30 years ago also produced a three yuan and the first great talent, now one of the three princes of the Lu State Prime Minister Han Donghai. Zhang Xun knew that Hui Yuanlang, who was called Ren Chao, was only afraid that he was one of his competitors in this college test, and then smiled, why did he think so much? He just needs to give full play to his strength. Since the scholars of Yanzhou have all left for Qufu, it is time for them to go back.

On February 13, five days before the start of the hospital examination, Zhang Xun returned to Qufu. Xin Lan and Wen Xin, who got the news in advance, welcomed their husbands back at Xidingmen, and when they saw Zhang Xun who had been in the dust all the way, the two girls almost didn't cry, and stepped forward and said: "Husband has worked hard all the way, just come back." Zhang Xun let the guards ride back, and then got into the carriage with the two girls and returned to Zhang's mansion.

After Zhang Xun bathed and changed clothes, he accompanied Xinlan and Wen Xin to stroll through their own garden to comfort the pain of lovesickness. The two daughters also knew that their husbands would be free to accompany them today before the imperial examination. The three of them seemed to be in a world of freedom, undisturbed by the outside world, playing like children.

In the last few days, Zhang Xun made the final preparations, and used his experience of traveling for a month to analyze what problems the Lu State from the King of Lu to the top of the three grades and above are now most urgently needed to solve at the level of national governance. And how to solve this problem. How can I start with a clear meaning, and I want to impress the examiner with just a few sentences. Zhang Xun thought about two or three topics, and wrote three articles, which looked pretty good, but it was estimated that he wouldn't be able to get into the top armor. Zhang Xun knows that no matter how hard he tries now, it will be useless, so it is better to calm his mentality. The day after tomorrow is the day of the exam, so let's go to the suburbs with Xin Lan Wenxin tomorrow! Get in touch with nature and relax completely.

Early in the morning of the second day, Zhang Xun and Xinlan Wenxin came to the foot of Shimen Mountain and began to climb the mountain. At noon, they arrived at an open place in the middle of the mountain, and the beautiful scenery along the way made the three of them yearn for it. The three of them lit a fire and started to make lunch. After a while, a pot of delicious fish soup will be fine, and the three of them will enjoy the scenery while eating, which is rare and comfortable. At three o'clock in the afternoon, when they went down the mountain and returned to the city, the two girls saw that Zhang Xun completely relaxed their minds and said, "Husband, come on!"