Chapter 18 The weather is not perfect

Chapter 18 The weather is not beautiful

The summer harvest time has arrived. Perhaps out of respect for this important moment, the world finally calmed down for a rare moment.

The imperial court is organizing harvesting, the rebels are also organizing harvesting, Lantian County is also organizing harvesting, and even the builders seem to have forgotten to launch a war.

Reaping is always the best way to make up for the trauma.

Standing on the vast wilderness, Yun Zhao was filled with emotions. This year, Henan, Shanxi and Hubei will be ripe.

This is a very unreasonable thing.

Last year, these three places were completely ravaged by locusts. However, this year, they had good weather for seven months. .

The hard-working people of Lantian encountered drought this year. When it was time to harvest, it rained heavily, and large tracts of crops in the fields fell down. Production reduction was a foregone conclusion.

From this incident, Yun Zhao discovered that God actually does not have eyes. When he is angry, he does not distinguish between good people and good people.

Fortunately, Henan, Shanxi and Lantian County have some territory, so it is a good reflection of the ancient truth that good people are rewarded.

So, the world is contradictory, and the way of heaven is contradictory. It requires people to have higher ideological awareness and tolerance to finally understand.

The crops lying in the ground are mixed with the mud. It takes enough patience to recover the food here.

This resulted in Lantian County needing to mobilize more people to harvest, so Zun Yunzhao of Lantian County also joined the army of harvesting grain.

As a leader, he is actually very unlucky, especially when he has a complete bureaucratic team under him, his role is not that important.

More often it becomes a symbol of power.

When there is an earthquake, the county magistrate must appear in the most dangerous place and personally participate in disaster relief in order to give the people the courage to overcome the disaster.

Grain production has decreased. The county magistrate must take the lead in drinking porridge and cannot continue to live a drunken life in fine clothes and fine food. Although he cannot save a few grains of grain by himself, such a thing must be done.

Because he wanted to chop off the heads of other officials who violated the ban, Yun Zhao himself could not violate the ban, otherwise it would be a big event.

Yun Zhao cut a bunch of wheat from the mud and carefully put it aside. Even if the wheat ears were covered with mud, he could not shake them off.

People almost have to crawl on the ground to harvest the wheat that is entangled with the soil. Even so, most of the wheat is not very good. There is insufficient sunlight and insufficient grouting. After drying, it is beaten out. There is more bran than flour.

The matter of harvesting wheat makes Yun Zhao very annoyed, especially for someone like him who has seen large combine harvesters. Harvesting wheat with one sickle and one sickle makes him feel stupid. sharp.

"What did you do when you were at Yushan Academy? How come you can't even collect a more convenient one?"Can’t even make a machine that cuts wheat? ”

Yang Xiong, who was squatting next to Yun Zhao and harvesting more wheat, looked at his county magistrate in confusion. He did not remember that the county magistrate had arranged such a study.

However, The county magistrate has already begun to get angry, so the ones who are at fault must be those of them who are unable to appreciate it.

“Let’s arrange it this year, and we should be able to catch up with next summer’s harvest. "

"You guys are all focusing on those palace ladies. Do you think I don't know? "Yun Zhao continued to get angry.

Yang Xiong said in surprise: "Except those ugly people who treat these palace ladies as treasures, who of us would take the palace ladies in our eyes?

For example, Xiaguan knew who my wife was when he was five years old. Who would have nothing to do to find those women with unknown identities, unknown origins, and unknown temperaments? It is possible to get her back as a concubine, but... Taking a concubine is a big taboo in our Lantian County, and we won't take a concubine before we get married. ”

Yun Zhao nodded, feeling that what they said was very reasonable. Although Yang Xiong’s family was not wealthy, there were hundreds of people in this guy’s family, ranging from octogenarians and old women to the president and boys. They are all literate, and they are a famous scholar in Guanzhong.

Such a family is naturally opposed to marrying palace maids. They don't like the girls in Yunzhao's family, let alone these girls whose origins are unknown. It would be a palace maid who would get them into trouble.

To sum up, those guys who were bought back by Yun Zhao have stronger self-confidence and regard themselves as the masters of Lantian County.

Outsiders may be bribed, incited to rebel, or seduced, but as for them... they all think it is impossible.

In general, Yang Xiong and others are a group of people who are ready to be officials, and Xu Wu thought, People like Zhang Guozhu, Zhang Guofeng, Han Xiufen, and Han Lingshan are working hard for their ideals.

You can leave these people anywhere, and they will continue to fight for their ideals. If people like Yang Xiong. If they were reprimanded, they would consider it a failure in their career.

I wanted to stretch my sore waist, but Yun Zhao looked up at the dark clouds in the sky and had to stand up and loudly encourage everyone to participate. Autumn harvest officials: "Everyone, please work harder and try to recover all the fallen wheat today. ”

Yunzhao’s mobilization was obviously very effective, including Yang Xiong himself, who couldn’t help but speed up his actions. His family is a farming and reading family, and he attaches great importance to harvesting grain, and he never I felt that doing this work was a disgrace to the family tradition, so I moved skillfully.

The only disadvantage of mobilizing was that everyone moved very quickly, leaving Yun Zhao far behind. The people of Lantian County are simple and honest. In fact, there is not even a flattering person...

Yun Zhao dragged his tired body back home and had no time to rest. Although he wanted to throw himself on the bed and sleep until the end of the world, he still had to meet with his subordinates. Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu came back from Shanxi

These are two black people!

Although his face is dark, his eyes are shining!

They are two people with meritorious service.

Not only did they bring back 400,000 dans of grain and 6,000 dans of locust meal from the subordinate zone, they also brought back six enlightened southeastern scholars to Lantian County.

These six people cannot see the true appearance of Jiangnan talents. A year of hard work has worn away the wealthy appearance they developed in Jiangnan.

"People always have to live some hard times, otherwise they will not know that happiness is hard-won."

Yun Zhao's simple words made these people have too high expectations. The idea of ​​complimenting was given up.

Yun Zhao often heard this kind of thing before, sometimes from teachers, sometimes from mothers, and more often from leaders.

When subordinates do things, they must strictly pursue higher goals. When subordinates exceed the task, they must express their indifferent mood.

Excessive praise is usually given to fools, even if the fool successfully puts his butt into the chair.

Huang Zongxi seemed very indifferent, and Gu Yanwu fully expressed his disdain by rolling his eyes at the sky.

As for the other six people, they seemed very disappointed.

The quality of people is reflected in this small detail.

Yun Zhao personally poured a cup of tea for these eight people and said to Huang Zongxi: "Today Zhuojing is cooking. Let's have a few drinks to get rid of the fatigue."

Listen When Yun Zhao said this, the expressions of the eight people immediately changed. Except for Huang Zongxi who acted relatively indifferently, even Gu Yanwu also put away his disdain and stood up and repeatedly said he didn't dare.

Huang Zongxi stood up and said: "I heard that Madam is pregnant with Liujia, how can I help her?"

Yun Zhao said with a smile; "It doesn't matter, just move more at this time to protect the fetus. There are benefits, let’s not talk about it, let’s go to the flower hall, where the view is wide, just perfect for talking over wine.” After a while, everyone came to the flower hall, where a not-so-lavish banquet had been arranged, and several people were divided. The position of guest and host is done well.

Yun Zhao picked up the wine glass and said: "All the hard work, all the sadness, all the suffering in the world, let's add it to the wine and swallow it in one gulp."

Gu Yanwu said: "Since there is still a road ahead, the hardships we have endured will be regarded as no longer suffering, and the suffering of the people will come to an end. Lord Yun County, please."

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Yun Zhao put down his chopsticks and glanced at the people present, and whispered: "Do you have any wishes?"

Huang Zongxi said: "A certain family is willing to be a guest at Yushan Academy."

Gu Yanwu said: "Give me an army, five hundred people are enough."

The other six people raised their hands together and said: "I am willing to listen to the orders of the county magistrate."

Yun Zhaoxiao He picked up the wine glass again and toasted the eight people and said: "There are ferocious beasts in Lantian County that love to eat people. It is not easy to be an official here."

Gu Yanwu lowered his head and took a sip of wine and said: " But I’m not capable enough?”

Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "The Haechi are now roaming the land of Lantian, giving admonitions to all those who have power and money. If they cannot pass this level, there will be no hope of becoming an official in Lantian County.< /p>

By the way, the first person he spoke to was me."

Gu Yanwu sneered and said, "The people here are all talented and pure people.

Yun Zhao glanced at Gu Yanwu and said: "If you say this in front of Haezhi, he will ask you to write down the certificate of joint sitting.

So, your talents and knowledge are enough for your responsibility." A certain official position will benefit the world, but there is a saying in Lantian County - if you want to get promoted and make a fortune, please choose another way. If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't enter this door.

Once you decide to join our Lantian County. , then there is only one way to the end, and there is no second way out.

What Lantian County can repay you with is the glory of creating peace for all generations, and nothing else.

Please consider it carefully, and after you strengthen your confidence, you can report directly to the Lantian County Registrar and wait for the assignment."

"What did you say?" Gu Yan? Wu Da was surprised.

Yun Zhao smiled and said: "You have been an official in Lantian County for a year. You should be familiar with the review committee, right?

All appointments in Lantian County come from this organization.

Yun Zhao only has one head, one pair of hands, and one pair of eyes. How can he see everyone clearly?"

Gu Yanwu's eyes lit up and he raised his hands and said, "How qualified are you to join? What kind of committee is this?"

"Those who have served in Lantian County for more than ten years and have made great contributions to Lantian County can enter."

Gu Yanwu was a little disappointed, but he was a little disappointed. , he was still whispering to the people around him, but Huang Zongxi was the only one who was drinking and eating vegetables, carrying chopsticks like the wind.

After drinking for two full hours, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu took the other six people directly to Yushan Academy. They were already accustomed to treating this vibrant academy as their home. Place.

When Yun Zhao came to Qian Duoduo’s room with a stack of documents, Qian Duoduo immediately came over coquettishly and showed Yun Zhao a red spot the size of a fingernail on the back of her hand, claiming that this was She sustained the injury while cooking.

This is a big accident!

Yun Zhao held her hand and blew and stroked it for a while, then he threw his body on the soft couch and asked Yun Hua to help him take off his shoes. There was no trace of strength left.

Qian Duoduo then realized that her husband seemed very tired, so he came to his side and said, "Actually, I didn't cook. I just laid out the dishes."

Yun Zhao shook his hand and said : "I was busy, too. When I took the first bite of the food, I knew it wasn't made by you. The food you cooked was more delicious than the cook's. It wasn't as greasy, and it was more to my liking."

Yun Zhao forced a smile and said: "I want to be a perfect person. ”

“You said that no one is perfect in the world.

Yun Zhaodao: "I want to pretend to be a perfect person. Duke Zhou is afraid of the rumor day. When Wang Mang was humble and corporal, our career has just begun. Even if I want to pretend, I must pretend to be a perfect person." Come.

I'm going to take a nap, please remember to wake me up. ”

Qian Duoduo nodded repeatedly, and then Yun Zhao fell asleep until dawn.

The Shangguan was extremely busy, which fundamentally showed that his subordinates were incompetent.

In fact, it was raining heavily today and there was no way to go to the fields. In other words, there were still nearly a thousand acres. The lodging wheat was rotten in the mud, and we could only wait for the wheat to sprout before we could make maltose.

The heavy rain continued for thirteen days, and then it gradually subsided. Yun Zhao hoped. The maltose is completely gone, and the huge Guanzhong has become Zeguo.

Yun Zhao, who originally wanted to be lazy for two days, had to put on a raincoat and wander around the reservoirs and ponds in Lantian County.

The Wei River is roaring, and the Yellow River near Dali County is also turbid. The two rivers leading to the outside world pose a great threat to Lantian County and Guanzhong.

Everyone. The reservoirs there released water almost at the same time, so disasters in the Weihe and Yellow Rivers were inevitable.

Yun Zhao sat in the shelter from the rain, watching the turbid Weihe water roaring down, and looked at it. He didn't have any confidence in the trembling Weihe River embankment under his feet.

He wanted to walk, but he couldn't. On this embankment, countless Guanzhong people were raising the embankment in the rain.

Yun Zhao admitted that this was his own mistake. In recent years, Guanzhong has suffered from frequent droughts, which made him subconsciously think that floods would happen a long time ago.

In addition, the people of Guanzhong have been crazy about land in recent years. In order to get food, many people planted crops in the river, blocking the river.

A man covered in mud held a huge carp that was still flicking its tail, placed it at Yun Zhao's feet and said flatteringly: "Add a dish to the county honoree.

Yun Zhao looked at the man and said, "Have you blocked the breach?" "

The man quickly said: "It's blocked. It's blocked. Our chief and the children jumped into the water and used their bodies as pillars to block the breach.

Yun Zhao nodded and said: "You should eat this good fish. Yun Jia, give them five jars of wine. It's just fish. It's not fun to eat without wine." ”

Yun Jia agreed and let the man hold the fish and follow him to get drinks.

Lu Xiangsheng, who rolled up his trouser legs and was barefoot, hurried in. Wiping the rain on his face with his hand, he said: "There is no one to kill here, a certain family has gone to Dali County. "

Yun Zhao nodded numbly and said: "Okay, be careful along the way. ”

Lu Xiangsheng chuckled and said: "A certain family's body is cold, but a certain family's heart is warm. There is no one to kill here. It makes my blood flow smoothly and my whole body strong.

Wasted Six of the people who were washed away have been recovered, and the rest may be lost. You must be careful. Your own safety is at stake and you must not stand under a dangerous wall."

Yun Zhao pointed to the river. The crowd on the embankment, which was as dense as ants, said: "I have nothing to worry about here, you can go about your business."

As he spoke, he put his raincoat on Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng threw away his coir raincoat and said, "There is no need to win over me like this."

Watching Lu Xiangsheng walking away in the muddy water, Yun Zhao looked at the man with his head hanging down. Yun Jia said: "He is a man of great character."

Yun Jia said: "Young master does not need to be too nice to him."

Yun Zhao was convinced.

Two and a half months ago, the ground dragon in Lantian County turned over. Now, heavy rains have caused disasters again. Yun Zhao feels a little bit dumbfounded.

He vaguely felt that God had shifted the target of revenge from Zhu Youjian to him.

Otherwise, he would not have been treated so ruthlessly.

Fortunately, most of the food has been harvested. If this disaster had happened half a month earlier, he would really have no tears left.

The Weishui River runs across the Central Pass and finally merges into the Yellow River. In terms of threats, the Weishui River poses the greatest threat.

The most severely affected place was Xi'an.

Today’s Xi’an is almost a city submerged in water.

Not to mention that the water in the city cannot be drained out, and several rivers outside the city that run through Xi'an are flowing back.

When Yun Zhao passed by Xi'an City on a raft, he found that the city gate had been flooded with water, and the water was more than two feet deep.

It is extremely ironic to say that the big sun above the head is baking the earth fiercely, but the earth is a vast ocean.

There is water everywhere, but people live in thirst.

All the teachers and students of Yushan Academy went out to publicize the reasons why they should not drink dirty water to everyone they met.

It is almost a convention that a major disaster will be followed by a major epidemic.

Just looking at the bloated carcasses of cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs soaked in the water, the hair on Yun Zhao's back stood up.

In this flood, because the village leaders were relatively strong, people did not suffer much loss, but the loss of livestock was very serious.

The soldiers rode on wooden rafts and dragged all the corpses of cattle, sheep and pigs they could find to the river, and threw them into the river, letting the river water take away the source of the disease.

This was a no-brainer. Livestock carcasses that were not close to the river were sprayed with heavy fire oil and then burned. In order to save the few military supplies, those close to the river had no choice but to do this.

The sun was fierce and the floods on the ground receded very quickly. This is the characteristic of the floods in Guanzhong, but everything was wet and the humidity was overwhelming.

The terrain of Yushan City is high, and after the rain stopped, Yushan CityThe mountain became quiet. Although the streets were full of rocks carried down by the flood, the disaster was not serious, not even a disaster. It was just that a two-foot-tall boulder at Yun's gate completely blocked the Yun's gate. On.

Xu Yuanshou looked at the stone, cleaned it, picked up a large brush dipped in cinnabar ink, and wrote "Yushan Stone Gandang" with five big Chinese characters.

"Why not move this stone away?"

Yun Zhao looked at the huge stone that was only twenty steps away from his door and asked in confusion.

Xu Yuanshou said calmly: "The earth dragon turned over last time, and this time the floods are all blamed on you. If you don't get some auspiciousness, the light on your wild boar spirit will disappear." Extinguish most of it.

This stone is good.

The earth dragon will turn over and get it out of the ground, and the flood will transport this huge stone to your door. What is God's will? This is God’s will!”

“The reason why God made such a big move is to send this stone to my home?”

“That’s right, Lantian County. We were hit by two disasters in succession, but the losses were very small. It was because of this huge stone that fell from the sky that the disaster was suppressed. Even though there was a major disaster, it was blocked by this stone.

Do you have any opinions? ?”

“No.”

“That’s good. There will be people doing the work to calm people’s minds.

But at this time, Lantian County wants to make its voice heard. Where are you going to start?"

Yun Zhao smiled and said to Xu Yuanshou, "Sir, you are so calculating."

Yun Zhao returned to the big study room that he had not returned to for many days, looked at the bookshelves in the room, and faced Yang Xiong and said: "Get the topographic map of the Hetao."