Zhang Si was a little confused and looked at Yue Guang.
"This is Yan Canglang, the author of "Canglang Poetry"." Yue Guang's face was filled with brilliance and he introduced with some excitement.
"Canglang Poetry" creates a history. It is the first book about the study, creation, criticism and school of poetry.
This is a famous person. Zhang Si was overjoyed, his eyes were shining brightly, and he bowed his hands and said, "It turns out to be Yan Canglang. I have heard about the famous name for a long time."
"Old man Shanye has met Chang Shi." Yan Yu bowed his hands and replied in a neither arrogant nor humble manner.
Although Yan Yu was a civil servant, he did not enter the official career and worked as a staff at most, so he called himself the old man of the mountains.
Seeing Yan Yu's arrogant behavior, Zhang Si didn't take it seriously.
He motioned to Secretary Zhang Yuan to serve tea, and the three of them soon started chatting.
During the conversation between the three, Zhang Si discovered that although Yan Yu had not entered the official career, he was still concerned about state affairs. He called himself Du Ling, who was worried about the country when he was wandering, and Chen Zi'ang when he was hurt.
Yan Yu composed poems rigorously, advocating Tang poetry, and opposed the poetic styles of Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian.
Yan Yu's seven-character song line imitated Li Bai's, and his five rhymes were not only learned from Li, but also from Du Fu and Wei Yingwu.
However, his main tendency is still to dilute the ethereal path for Wang (Wei) and Meng (Haoran). This may be related to his unsatisfactory career.
Amidst the chatter, Zhang Si discovered that Yan Yu was very rigorous, unsmiling, and even a bit old-fashioned, just like his poetry writing, and he suddenly had concerns in his heart.
He took Yan Yu to Zhao Ping's office. Yan Yu took a breath of air-conditioning and was at a loss, like a clay or wood carving.
He has never seen such a large public house. It is a rectangular hall ten feet long and fifteen feet wide, which can accommodate more than a hundred people.
The hall not only has bonsais of flowers, plants and trees, but also a rockery with a patio in the middle, where the air is extremely fresh.
Seeing how big it was, Yan Yu was a little worried about whether it would collapse.
When he saw four stone pillars around him, he felt relieved.
Although he was relieved, another question arose in his mind.
Is Zhaojiazhuang doing this for face? Otherwise, why would it be so big?
What Yan Yu didn't know was that the reason why Zhao Ping's general office was so large was due to actual needs.
Now Zhaojiazhuang is equivalent to a small country, with more and more officials.
The hall is too small, how can it be accommodated?
Although it can accommodate hundreds of people, the number of people is currently small.
Sitting next to Zhao Ping were Cuizhu and four young ladies, and in the distance were six young men sitting, it was Zhao Long, Zhao Hu and the others.
Yan Yu never expected that the little saint would be so young, looking like he was only about twelve years old.
Although Zhao Ping was only twelve years old, he did not dare to look down upon him.
In ancient times, Gan Luo was the prime minister at the age of twelve, not to mention the little saint who was famous all over the world.
Zhang Si brought Yan Yu to Zhao Ping's office, still feeling a little uneasy.
It's okay for Yan Yu to be old-fashioned in his speech and behavior, but he is a bit aloof.
It seems that he has been a staff member many times and was not reused, which may be related to his arrogant character.
If he continues to show off his identity in front of the little saint, there may be a bad result.
If this is indeed the case, the only option is to have him serve as an aide by his side.
Zhang Si is a scholar who values talents and celebrities even more.
Hearing Zhang Si introduce himself to the little saint, Yan Yu immediately took the initiative to salute: "Old man Yan Yu has met the little saint."
Seeing Yan Yu take the initiative to salute and call himself by his name modestly, Zhang Si's eyes widened, his eyeballs almost fell out of his eyes, and his jaw did not close for a long time.
Zhang Si didn't know that Yan Yu could be proud in front of him, but he had no qualifications in front of the little saint.
Although Zhang Si is the eldest historian of Zhaojiazhuang, his literary name is not worth mentioning to Yan Yu.
Although Yan Yu also has a literary name, he is completely worthless in front of the little saint Zhao Ping.
Yan Yu can only say that he was slightly famous in the Song Dynasty. Everyone in the Song Dynasty, Hu people, Dali, and even Korea and Japan knew about the little saint.
Zhao Ping motioned for the three of them to sit down and asked Cuizhu to serve them tea.
Seeing Zhao Ping being such a courteous and virtuous corporal, Yan Yu felt relieved.
The three of them talked for a while, and Zhao Ping nodded and looked at Yan Yu: "Canglang, Zhaojiazhuang still needs someone to receive the gift room. Can you temporarily take over the gift room on your behalf?"
Zhaojiazhuang is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no suitable candidate for the ceremonial house.
Although Yan Yu was slightly famous, he did not have deep contact with him. Zhao Ping decided to give Yan Yu a chance, so he did not say anything.
If Yan Yu is qualified in one year, Zhao Ping will be the host's bookkeeper.
If he is incompetent, Zhao Ping will give him a deputy position such as a manager because of his reputation.
Yan Yu was overjoyed and bowed: "Thank you, little saint. I will serve you as an official until my death."
"Canglang, I don't ask you to work hard or anything like that. I just ask you to take care of the ceremony room." Zhao Ping waved his hand and motioned for him to go out.
Zhaojiazhuang Town.
After Zhao Ping refused the court appointment, he increasingly felt that the matter could not be delayed.
His plan was to take advantage of the Changyuan County Scholar Examination to solve the vacant positions in Zhaojiazhuang Town together.
In addition to the things in Zhaojiazhuang Town, Zhao Ping has a more important thing to do.
Of course, students like Tian Mengwan would not know about these things, only Qian Shao, Yuan Tao and the strict people would know.
After all, Tian Mengwan ranked first in the scholar examination. Although he didn't say it clearly, he could guess a thing or two.
At this time, he used the first place in the scholar examination to persuade him to make peace, not wanting to make things worse.
The two of them were shocked, their expressions immediately softened, and they both bowed their hands to Tian Mengwan: "No."
"Zi Qiang, Zhaojiazhuang Town, has the imperial power been sent to the countryside?" After all, the tax ID came from a big family. He was extremely concerned about this issue and couldn't help but ask.
To be honest, the reason why the tax ID number popped up was that he was extremely worried about the status of the big family.
Although it starts from Zhaojiazhuang Town now, maybe it will be possible throughout the future.
Thinking of this, his face became gloomy to the extreme, and he felt like he was in a state of confusion and couldn't sit still.
Tian Meng glanced at the tax ID number playfully, but he didn't expect him to be so concerned about this matter.
The tax ID number is from Chongqing Prefecture. The two have nothing to do with each other, but they are so concerned.
But since the other party asked, he had to answer.
Tian Mengwan smiled slightly and said lightly: "Zhaojiazhuang Town will restore the pavilion chief of the Han Dynasty!"
"What, Zhaojiazhuang Town will reinstate the pavilion chief?" The tax officer was stunned. He opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time. After a while, he shook his head and said, "Is this true? I don't believe it."
There is still a sentence in his heart that he dare not say: "The mountains are high and the emperor is far away."
"Ziling, did you know that Liu Bang, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty, was the pavilion chief?" Seeing the shocked look on the tax ID number, Tian Mengwan knew that he, a member of a big family, would definitely not accept it, so he looked for evidence from history.
Hearing this, the tax officer's face turned extremely ugly and turned into the color of pig liver.
He swallowed his saliva, moved his throat up and down twice, and then said with difficulty: "Zi Qiang, I know this, but in the Song Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the imperial power has not been sent to the countryside."
"The Qin Dynasty unified China, and the Han Dynasty swept the Xiongnu and the Western Regions. They relied on the pavilion chief." Tian Mengwan replied lightly with a smile on his lips.
"There are indeed pavilion chiefs in the Qin and Han Dynasties," Duhao said with a livid face, shook his head, and retorted coldly, "Since the Han Dynasty, almost a thousand years ago, there have been no pavilion chiefs."
Tian Meng stared at the tax number and couldn't help but think of the little sage's "On Clan".
"On Clan" had great consequences, and Zhao Ping did not publish it publicly. After all, clans in the Song Dynasty occupied the grassroots of society.
If you use too much force, it will affect the stability of Da Song.
However, clans are extremely harmful, and they have to find ways to eliminate their bad effects.
What to do? This can’t be done forcefully, you have to adopt a strategy.
The poor clan did not benefit much, and the bastard was an abandoned son of the clan. Zhao Ping decided to start slowly from these aspects.
Fortunately, most of the people in Zhaojiazhuang Academy were from poor families or concubines, so they quickly accepted it.
Now that he heard the tax number popping up, Tian Mengwan immediately analyzed it according to the "On Clan" and the court.
Through analysis, Tian Mengnian understood the purpose of the tax number statement.
Just like the big clans such as tax numbers, squires and elders appeared.
As for them, the elders of the clansmen and squires, the officials seemed to have no control over them.
The official family of imperial officials can naturally manage them, because the imperial court may also restrict them through appointments and assessments.
However, these clans did not hold office. Although they were still officials, they were more powerful than court officials in some aspects.
As a county magistrate who is familiar with officialdom, the first thing he does when he takes office is to summon the squires and elders for discussion.
The county magistrate had no choice, and most of the achievements were in the hands of these squires and elders.
When the court wants taxes, it seeks the gentry and elders;
When the court wants enlightenment, it looks for gentry and elders;
When the imperial court wants people, it seeks gentry and elders;
When the court wants land, it seeks the gentry and elders;
When the imperial court wanted to build roads and bridges, it also sought help from gentry and elders.
They own land, and they control almost everything at the grassroots level, including taxes, water conservancy, education, and even population.
The imperial court has big plans, but the squires and elders also have their own small plans.
The imperial court collected taxes based on the number of people and land, so they simply concealed the number of people and land.
The decrees of the court and officials stopped at them and had to be conveyed to the people through their mouths.
When common people have something to do, they usually don't go to the government, they only go to the clan.
The county magistrate who ruined his family and the prefect who exterminated his family have long sunk into the hearts of the people.
After all, the people are afraid of officials. The clan is more or less their own and can help them speak for themselves.
So as long as they don't rebel, I'm not afraid of the King of Heaven.
After reading these books about clans, Tian Mengwan said that the little saint saw the problem very accurately and saw the true face of the clan thoroughly.
How the former Tang Dynasty perished was apparently due to the emperor's inaction, but in fact it perished due to the five surnames and seven sects.
They control speech, control land, control taxes, control culture, and even control government affairs.
The Cui family alone produced twenty-nine prime ministers in the former Tang Dynasty.
Wang Wei went through the back door of Princess Yuzhen and was admitted to the Jinshi; Du Fu, who was as famous as him, did not have a back door, so he failed to pass the Jinshi.
Meng Jiao, who wrote "Wandering Son's Song", was only a Jinshi in his fifties, and later only became a county captain.
The reason why Huang Chao rebelled was because he was a talented scholar but was blocked from the gate, so he had to rebel.
In the former Tang Dynasty, there were five surnames and seven sects. In the Song Dynasty, although these aristocratic families of the five surnames and seven sects no longer existed, other smaller versions of the five surnames and seven sects appeared.
What are these reduced versions, these are the clans, and how different are their actions from the aristocratic families?
The only difference is that what they do is not as big as that of the noble family.
It was precisely because they did not have the monopoly and fatal influence of the Five Surnames and Seven Sects on the officialdom of the imperial court that the Song Dynasty tolerated them before.
But Zhao Ping seems to have had a great influence. They controlled land and water conservancy and concealed taxes and population. This was also one of the main reasons for the demise of the Song Dynasty in history.
The Song Dynasty was so poor that they had no money to fight, but these clans still lived a life of drunkenness and dreams.
Anyone who knows the history of the Three Kingdoms will know that the three brothers Zhuge Liang held important positions in the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu respectively.
In fact, the Zhuge family was also from an aristocratic family. Seeing that the Han Dynasty was coming to an end, the three most outstanding people from Zhuge made bets in the Three Kingdoms.
In fact, for the aristocratic family, this is a very normal existence, and this is their way of survival.
The Five Surnames and Seven Sects were born in the Han Dynasty. The reason why the Five Surnames and Seven Sects were able to prevent the Five Husbands from existing, and even reached a peak that the emperor could not reach in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, is related to the fact that they made bets on both sides.
Although the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty allowed many poor families to enter the court's field of vision and even hold important positions, clans had inherent advantages in these aspects.
Their clan has better resources, and the opportunity to receive education is far greater than that of a poor family. All the imperial officials and clans still have an advantage.
Moreover, the clan concept of the children of these clans and aristocratic families is even more important than that of the Song Dynasty.
After they became court officials, they first wanted to repay the Song Dynasty, but more importantly, they repaid the clan and allowed people from the clan to penetrate into all aspects of the Song Dynasty officialdom.
Even Fan Wenzhenggong, who is known as a saint, is not exempt from this kind of thinking. His achievements in moral development are mainly due to funding his tribe.
On the one hand, the clan coexists with the Song Dynasty; on the other hand, they desperately suck the blood of the Song Dynasty to nourish the clan.
Anyway, these clans bet on both the Song Dynasty and the Hu people. After the Song Dynasty fell, they could rise again from the Hu people.
Therefore, Zhao Ping made up his mind to rectify the clan.
In Zhao Ping's eyes, the clan can coexist with the Song Dynasty, but it cannot be a worm in the Song Dynasty and must serve the Song Dynasty honestly.
Zhaojiazhuang Town was built by him, and Zhao Ping used this place as an experiment to see if he could achieve his purpose.
Of course, the Zhaojiazhuang School and the Scholar Examination were his most effective tools and became the most important places to promote the theory of harm to aristocratic families.
The students who come to Zhaojiazhuang Academy to study are either disciples from poor families or concubines from big families. There are very few true legitimate children.
They are the beneficiaries of the big family due to their tax ID, so they naturally refute desperately, believing that the big family is the foundation for maintaining the existence of the Song Dynasty.
However, based on the evidence provided by Zhao Ping, disciples from poor families pointed out that the Song Dynasty was so poor that they had no money to fight wars and pay salaries. This is an undeniable fact.
Zhao Ping has found a way, which is to adopt the strategy of surrounding the legitimate son by the concubine from a poor family.
After all, these legitimate sons were few in number. Although they struggled fiercely, they did not cause a big disturbance in the end.
These legitimate sons not only caused a big stir in the end, but were also assimilated by other students.
"Since the emperors of the Han Dynasty could have served as pavilion chiefs, why can't the Song Dynasty be without pavilion chiefs now?" Faced with the counterattack of the tax number, Tian Meng was extremely calm and directly used the fact that Han Gaozu was the emperor to fight back against the opponent.
After the tax officer heard Tian Meng's stubborn words, for a moment, his whole body was as nervous as a stone, and his heart sank as if it was filled with cold lead.
But he was not willing to sit still and wait for death. He rolled his eyes a few times and then said with difficulty: "Zi Qiang, the pavilion chief has disappeared for thousands of years. Isn't this inappropriate?"
