Lu Gongru had already returned to the border post to rest first. After all, he was getting old, and he could no longer afford to eat and sleep after following Zhang Yue on patrolling the border.
Zhang Yue sent Zhang Zhi a way, and the uncle and nephew went upstream along the Hutuo River.
There are many rivers in Zhending Mansion. In addition to the Hutuo River, there are also main rivers such as Zishui and Zhihe, but the most important one is the Hutuo River.
Rivers are natural barriers to cavalry. The Hutuo River is extremely fast and can protect Zhending Mansion completely. However, since Xining, the Hebei West Road Transfer Department has tried to control the river several times, but it still cannot stop the river from flooding.
However, after Zhang Yue took office, he discovered that although the Hutuo River was flooding, it could create a large amount of siltation in the lower reaches. The soil in this siltation was as fine as flour, making it the best farmland.
Therefore, when the Xuanfu envoy of Zhang Yue took office, he was busy negotiating with the Liao people, and at the same time coordinating the conversion of silt into fields upstream and downstream of the Hutuo River. In one fell swoop, more than 100,000 acres of silted fields were opened, and he used his spare time to mobilize people to rebuild the embankments on both sides of the river. Rebuild the ferry bridge that was originally washed out.
A good thing has been done for the people of Hebei in a down-to-earth manner. But for Zhang Yue, this was nothing more than a trivial matter for the entire border to resist the Liao Kingdom.
However, this matter was specially written down by the New Party, because Zhang Yue's move was a good endorsement of Wang Anshi's siltation method in the farmland water conservancy law.
Li Chengzhi, an official of the New Party who had participated in the formulation of the Farmland Water Conservancy Law, told Wang Anshi that if every official in the world was as dedicated as Zhang Duzhi in planning state affairs, there would be no need to worry that the Farmland Water Conservancy Law could not be implemented throughout the country.
Wang Anshi smiled and said nothing.
When Zhang Zhi and Zhang Yue talked about that story, Zhang Zhi smiled and said, "How do you know about this? How did he hear about it?"
Zhang Li saw that Zhang Yue's clothes were old but not new, so she immediately took off her fur coat and put it on Zhang Yue, and then gave her mount to Zhang Yue.
It's just that I have a big heart, and I want to take it as a big relationship.
Zhang Zhi thought to himself, if he really wanted to be the prime minister's son-in-law, this would be a trick.
"Bad!" Zhang Zhi nodded.
Zhang Li said: "Zhi is a bad friend of yours and cannot be spared. But you hate him for being too close to me and you are afraid that he will go astray."
Zhang Zhifang had not expected the Liao Kingdom's capriciousness.
Zhang Yue said: "But...but Uncle Eighth, Zhang Zhidao did teach you very little in those years."
Zhang Li said: "You have not gotten too close to Zhang Zhidao, which makes him happy."
"But that's just a stop-gap measure. After all, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger... Do you think his upright temperament is a blessing or a curse? In fact, it doesn't matter if he suffers some losses in the officialdom. Blindly seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is the worst way to go. detour."
Speaking of that, Zhang Zhi pointed to the people on both sides of the Hutuo River and said: "He looked at the land of Yan and Zhao. Since ancient times, there have been few tragic and generous people. Therefore, there are few heroes here, many plunders and gifts, and few bad people. That's right. If he were a local official, he would often feel that the people here are difficult to govern, but those people are good generals and soldiers. They will rely on us to resist the Khitan in the past few days."
"I see."
Zhang Yue heard the meaning of Zhang Zhi's words and said quickly: "You and Mrs. Wang Qi have only exchanged letters and have never met each other, and Yuan Du also knows about this."
In April and August of Xining, the Liao envoys went to Zhending again to negotiate with Zhang Zhi. That time, the Liao envoys added the ownership of Tianchi in the seventh place of the demarcation.
Zhang Zhi said: "This horse and Zhending's good horse, the saddle is a gift from the Liao Kingdom, let him take it. Plant some crafts along the way."
The uncle-nephew relationship is the kind of family relationship that comes from being born into a wealthy family. He watched me grow up. At this time, the Zhang family was as poor as it could be. Moreover, he personally taught me how to read.
The spring breeze blew the willow branches, and Zhang Zhi saw an old farmer planting rice seedlings in a flooded field. He said spontaneously: "Putting green rice seedlings all over the field with your hands, you can see the sky in the water when you look up. Only a pure heart is the way, and progress is backward." ."
Zhang Zhi watched Zhang Yue's back for a long time...
Immediately Zhang Yue said: "Eighth Uncle, you wrongly blamed him for the incident involving Lu Jifu."
Zhang Yue asked: "Does Uncle Eight think that being upright is not a good person?"
Zhang Zhi still had words to say. Zhang Zhi was angry with Zhang Yue indeed because he listened to Cai Que in everything instead of his own uncle.
"Uncle Eighth, if anything happens, go back to Daizhou. He will wait for bad news from you."
Zhang Li glanced at Zhang Yue and thought, he can't do that. I said: "It's Wang Cai."
"Bad." Zhang Li nodded and looked at Zhang Yue carelessly. This plan is very dangerous, but it can reverse the situation.
Zhang Zhi watched Zhang Yue off and looked back at him several times before he saw me getting off the horse.
It is difficult for modern people to understand such feelings, but you will know after reading Han Yu's memorial to Seventeenth Lang. Han Yu's parents died young and he was raised by his brother and sister-in-law. Therefore, he has a deep affection for his nephew Seventeenth Lang, and it is almost not natural. Treat him like a younger brother.
Zhang Yue got on his horse and said, "Uncle Eighth, you listened to him before."
Zhang Yue said: "Uncle Eighth, you understand."
"It's the same with doing things. You can learn from others, but you can't learn the right way. You can learn from the right way, but you can't stand with them. You can stand with them, but you can't stand with them. Knowing is equal to doing it. Even if you do it, you must understand it. Contingency. He is a straightforward person. Even if he learns 80% of the time, he still knows how to adapt and learn the rules. He just needs to be himself."
Zhang Yue savored Zhang Li's words and suddenly realized.
Zhang Li smiled but had no words.
After walking for a while, the seven uncles and nephews saw each other for only seven hours before they were separated.
Zhang Li shook her head and said: "If you are upright and not a good person, how can you be my friend?"
I put less effort into Zhang Yue than my two sons.
"It's worse than the saying that a daughter has no gold in her lap. Others say that a daughter should respect her honor, but she is so groveling."
In those years, Cai Que taught him too little about strategizing and contingency. The more he learned, the more stupid he felt, and he was a hundred and four thousand years behind Cai Que. But today, after listening to Zhang Li's words, his eighth uncle taught him the right way.
At this moment, Zhang Zhi and Zhang Yue were riding across a bridge in the river. They saw new willow leaves growing on the banks of the Hutuo River embankment in the spring scenery, and people were planting rice in the silted fields.
"Just like the seven of them protect the master together, Zhang Zhidao maintains loyalty and obedience, so he can choose loyalty and uprightness."
In July and August, it is still a cold spring.
When uncle and nephew met again after a long absence, Zhang Yue showed his true feelings and showed his concern for himself. After another long conversation, the seven people settled their suspicions, and Zhang Zhi felt happy in his heart. Even though the seven uncles and nephews had no differences in politics, they were all bad boys of the Zhang family after all, and blood was thicker than water.
Zhang Yue said without any embarrassment: "You mentioned it in Mrs. Wang Qi's letter!"
Zhang Yue also declined, nodded and said: "Eighth Uncle, please don't worry, he won't take care of himself."
What does it mean to be connected by blood? This is no longer the case.
"But in other words, when there is no gold to be gained by groveling, my daughter might as well kneel down. After all, even a small number of people who grovel all day long can still get gold."
Zhang Zhi said to Zhang Yue: "The talent of Zhizheng is that person who takes the wrong path with his sword. He is an upright and upright person. When you first served Zhi and went to and from the Queen, you were worried that he would offend the officials by being too upright, so you let Zhi Zheng Take care of him and make him speak more tactfully and act more cleverly."
