Unconsciously, it has been half a month since I returned from Huai'an.
After spending the Beginning of Autumn at home, Xu He received a letter from his teacher.
When Li Zhijie first left Yangzhou, he was working on flood control in Xinghua. He was trapped in Xinghua because of the flood.
Fortunately, he was prepared beforehand. In the face of the flood that broke the embankment, he, a weak scholar, led the people of Xinghua to strengthen the embankment and evacuate the victims, and finally brought the disaster under control.
If there had been such a big flood in previous years, I don’t know how many people would have died.
The fact that so many Xinghua victims fled to Hailing, Tongzhou, and Suzhou this time was largely due to Li Zhijie's previous preparations.
But after leaving Xinghua, Li Zhijie did not return to Yangzhou.
There were many places affected by the disaster in Yangzhou this time, and he wanted to inspect the disaster situation county by county on behalf of Peng Ruyu.
Therefore, Li Sikui could only continue to live in the Xu family and asked Xu He to take charge of it.
Xu He wrote a very detailed letter to the teacher about the learning progress and living situation of Li Sikui's child these days.
He also added some of his own opinions on Li Sikui's education.
Although I say it is my own opinion, it is actually the educational philosophy of the great sage Wang Yangming in that time and space of later generations.
Wang Yangming said in his "Teaching Meng Yi Yi": "Most of the emotions of a child are happy to play but afraid of being detained, just like the beginning of vegetation sprouting. If it is relaxed, it will be well-organized, and if it is scratched, it will become weak."
It probably means encouragement and education for future generations.
It is said that a child likes to play by nature. They are like grass and trees when they are just sprouting. If they are allowed to have fun, the grass and trees will flourish in the future. If they are blindly restrained, the grass and trees will slowly wither and decay at a young age.
Xu He felt that Li Sikui, a little scholar, was really smart.
But when it comes to some common sense in life, he can be said to be an idiot.
Children educated in this way are like their teacher Li Zhijie. They are gradually exposed to some social realities as they grow up, but their thinking is actually still very literati.
There is another situation, which is what Zhang Dai later said was that the scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were really lucid when talking about the past and the present.
But once they were asked to talk about the origin of the allusion and the specific dynasty time, they were dumbfounded.
There is a term specifically used to describe this kind of person called "bookcase with two legs".
So Xu He mentioned his [summer camp] plan in his reply to the teacher. The implication is that we will put it aside for now whether the junior brother can improve his knowledge. But don’t worry, teacher, he is at my house, he is in great health and eats well. Xiang, don’t worry about it!
Just after he finished writing the letter and asked Wu Decao to help send it to the inn, he was about to take the two children to practice calligraphy and so on.
Someone from the Xu Mansion in Fenghuang Dun said, "Please, sir."
When Xu He arrived at Fenghuang Dun, he saw Xu Song sitting under the tree in the courtyard, holding a book and looking at the leaves in a daze.
He walked over and saluted: "Uncle, do you want to invite your nephew to come over?"
Xu Song nodded, took a copy of the newspaper from the bamboo table beside him and handed it to Xu He.
"This was just delivered from the inn this morning!"
For high-ranking officials like Xu Song, the imperial newspapers in Beijing must be copied and sent specially by the post station.
This is also a major channel for current officials to learn about major events in North Korea and China.
Xu He took the Di newspaper and read it.
Several of the things had something to do with him. No wonder Xu Song specially called him over.
First of all, Chen Hua reported to the court a few days ago about the flood disaster in Hailing.
In addition to reporting the damage, they also blamed the Caosi Yamen for failing to transport food immediately.
But it is estimated that his words in the memorial did not have any direction, otherwise the court would not have only removed Ambassador Chang Yingcang from his post and imprisoned, leaving all other officials unharmed.
In addition, Chen Hua also named the Xu family, as well as He Yuanwai and other Hailing township eunuchs in the memorial, saying that they destroyed their families to relieve the disaster and helped the court withstand the disaster, and asked the court to commend them.
The imperial court did commend them, but it only gave written praise to a number of large households such as He Yuanwai, and also rewarded some generous plaques and the treatment of being admitted to the rural ancestral hall, and nothing else.
Seeing this, Xu He frowned and said: "Uncle, the court only rewards other families in Hailing County, and only our Xu family is missing. What does this mean?"
Xu Song nodded and said, "Look down first and talk later."
Hearing this, Xu He had no choice but to suppress his doubts and continue reading.
After a while, another piece of news attracted Xu He's attention.
It turned out that the Dongchang Mansion under the jurisdiction of the Chief Envoy of Shandong Province, Liu Dingxiang, the censor of the Cao Patrol, used the excuse that the Huyao River in the territory was blocked and asked local migrant workers to clear it, and then took the opportunity to collude with the Linqing Prefecture magistrate to embezzle the money allocated by the imperial court. Dredging money.
Seeing this, Xu He smiled slightly. It seemed that his sworn brother had already started to take action.
Moreover, it is estimated that this is just the first shot fired at Caosi Yamen. According to Xu He's plan for helping him, there is a whole set of combination punches that are dizzying.
Just when Xu He turned to the bottom of the newspaper with the latest date, his eyes suddenly narrowed slightly. Thinking of the weird thing that the court did not praise the Xu family just now, he seemed to already know the answer.
Xu Song saw him holding the last newspaper and thinking deeply, so he smiled and said, "Did you see something?"
Xu He nodded and said, "Uncle, have you written any letters to your old friends in the court recently?"
Xu Song nodded and said: "The letter from Lord Chief Assistant just arrived today!"
Xu He's eyes lit up and he asked quickly: "What did you say?"
"I didn't say anything!" Xu Song shook his head, "I just asked how my health is lately!"
Xu He nodded: "It seems that the imperial court intends to let the uncle come out of the mountain in the near future!"
It turned out that there was something written in the last newspaper of the residence, saying that all the officials and officials had paid Miaoran to impeach Xia Yangqiu, the second assistant, for having a banquet at home on the anniversary of the death of the Empress Dowager.
As soon as Section Chief Fu's bullet was handed over, Xia Yangqiu was forced to suspend his job and petition to return home.
The book was rejected as soon as it was handed over to the emperor's desk.
But Xu He found it very interesting to read the emperor's comments.
Logically speaking, when an emperor asks a minister of the cabinet to leave, he must give some face and gentle words to persuade him to stay.
Emperor Zhizheng did retain him.
But in Xia Yangqiu's memorial, he only said dryly: "The imperial court is full of troubles, so you must not be good at talking about matters that are important to you!"
what is this?
They have worked so hard for so many years, but you have not even a word of comfort to recall the past.
Just say that the court is busy now, so don't leave.
That's okay. Should we just roll as far as we can?
At this moment, everyone in the imperial court who had not pissed with Xia Yangqiu smelled something different from usual.
This is our Majesty telling us that he doesn’t like this deputy!
For a time, the memorials to impeach Xia Yangqiu were flying to the General Affairs Department like snowflakes.
Xu He frowned and said, "Uncle, why doesn't His Majesty act according to common sense? Just drinking wine on the anniversary of the Queen Mother's death doesn't make sense, does it?"
Xu Song nodded and whispered: "Xie Daozhi's letter said that the prince raped the daughter of the local prefect during the ancestor worship period. Unexpectedly, the woman was violent and drowned and died. Later, her fiancé entered the place where he was stationed and stabbed him with a knife. The stabbing failed, and the prince's appearance was revealed!"
"What..." Xu He was so surprised that he couldn't speak.
