Chapter 41 The 40th Chapter Xiao Yunxian Guangwu Mountain Appreciating Snow Shen Qiongzhi Lishe Bridge Selling Papers

It is said that Xiao Yunxian supervised the construction of the city according to the order of the general, and lived for three or four years before the city was successfully built.Ten miles around, there are six city gates, and five government offices have been built in the city.The list was issued to recruit refugees to live in, and outside the city, the people were asked to reclaim the fields.Xiao Yunxian thought: "Like this dry land, when the people encounter a famine year, they can't harvest food. Some water conservancy must be established." Because of the need to pay for the money and grain, he hired people's husbands, Xiao Yunxian personally instructed the people, and dug many ditches beside the fields. Come.There are 洫 in the ditch, and there are sui in the 洫, opening high and low, just like the scene in the south of the Yangtze River.When it was time to succeed, Xiao Yunxian rode a horse, took Mu Nai, and rewarded the people everywhere.Everywhere he went, Xiao Yunxian slaughtered cattle and horses, and issued orders to all the people in that side.Xiao Yunxian built a mandala, erected a memorial tablet for Xiannong, and arranged sacrifices for cattle and sheep.Xiao Yunxian made up his gauze hat, stood in front, led all the people, asked Mu Nai to pay respects, raised incense, made a libation of wine, made three offerings and eight obeisances.After paying homage, he led all the people to look at the North Gate, shouted and danced, and kowtowed to the emperor for his kindness.He asked the people to sit down in groups, Xiao Yunxian sat in the middle, drew his sword to cut the flesh, poured wine in a big bowl, cheered and laughed, and drank for a day.After finishing the wine, Xiao Yunxian said to the people: "You people and I will suffer here for a day, and it is fate. Now, thanks to the emperor's grace, I have entrusted you people to reclaim these many fields. It is also my surname Xiao. Let’s go here. Now I will plant a willow tree with my own hands, and each of you people will also plant one, or mix some peach or apricot flowers, and you can remember today’s events.” All the people cheered like thunder, and everyone cheered Peach and willow were planted on the main road.

Xiao Yunxian and Mu Nai, one side today and another side tomorrow, drank wine for dozens of days and planted tens of thousands of willow trees.All the people were grateful for Xiao Yunxian's kindness, and built a Xiannong Temple outside the city gate together.In the middle is the tablet of Xiannong, and beside it is Xiao Yunxian's tablet of longevity.I also found someone who could draw, and drew a horse on the wall, drawing Xiao Yunxian's gauze cap to mend his clothes, riding on the horse, with a picture of Mu Nai in front, holding a red flag in his hand, leading the horse, as a scene of persuading farmers.Men and women from the common people live in this temple to burn incense and candles to worship on the day of Shuowang, not just for one day.

In the spring of the next year, the willows turned green, and the peach and apricot blossoms gradually bloomed. Xiao Yunxian rode a horse and took Mu Nai out to play.In the shade of the green tree, the children of the common people were leading the oxen in groups of three or four, some were riding upside down on the oxen, and some were lying on the oxen's back. The corner slowly turned around.Xiao Yunxian was happy in his heart, and said to Mu Nai: "Look at this situation, the people's life is over, it's just that these children are all good-looking, and they still think they are smart, how can there be a gentleman to teach them?" He can read and write." Mu Nai said: "Master, don't you know? There was a gentleman living in the Xiannong Temple the day before yesterday, he was from Jiangnan, and now I think he is still here, why don't you go and discuss with him?" Xiao Yunxian said "It's even more coincidental." Then he rode his horse to meet Mr. Na in the temple.Go in and sit down with the gentleman.Xiao Yunxian said: "I heard that your place is in the south of the Yangtze River, why do you even go to other places? May I ask your name, sir?" The gentleman said: "My surname is Shen, and I live in Changzhou. Because Xiang Nian has a relative who does business in Qingfeng , so I came to see him. I didn’t want to be here for five or six years due to military chaos, and I couldn’t go back. Recently, I heard that Mr. Chaoli Xiao built a city here and opened water conservancy, so I came here to have a look. What is the old man’s name? What is your yamen? Where?" Xiao Yunxian said: "My younger brother is Xiao Yunxian, who works in water conservancy here." The gentleman got up and saluted again, and said: "The old man is today's Ban Dingyuan, and the late students are very respectful." Xiao Yunxian said: "Mr. Since I am in this city, I am the master, please come and live in my apartment." He asked two common people to come and carry Mr. Shen's luggage, and asked Mu Nai to lead the horse. Xiao Yunxian took Mr. Shen's hand and arrived together. Come here.Prepared wine and meals for Mr. Shen, and asked him to teach, and Mr. Shen agreed.Xiao Yunxian said again: "There is only one sir, I can't teach you." So he selected ten of the more than two or three thousand soldiers who brought him to the garrison for those who could read a lot, and asked Mr. Chen to teach them some books every day. reason.Ten schools were opened, and all the slightly smart children from ordinary families were raised to study in the schools. After studying for more than two years, Mr. Shen taught him to do some breaking questions, breaking the inheritance, and starting the lecture.As long as he can do it, Xiao Yunxian will fight against him in order to show preferential treatment. These people also know that studying is a decent thing.

The construction of Xiao Yunxian's city has been completed, and the paperwork should be submitted, and the paperwork should be sent to Mu Naifu.When Mu Nai met Shaobao, Shaobao asked him some details, and rewarded him with a foreign commissioner to make him the boss.According to Xiao Yunxian's detailed essay, Shaobao consulted the Ministry of War.Accounting of the Ministry of Industry: Xiao Cai undertook the case of urban workers in Qingfeng City, and the inscription on the case was written off: bricks, ash, and craftsmen. The total cost was 19,361 taels of silver, two cents and one cent five cents.Check the vicinity of the aquatic plants in the area, it is very convenient to burn brick ash, and there are many newly recruited refugees who work as laborers, so it is inconvenient to let them float away at will.Please ask for a reduction of 7,525 taels of silver, which should be pursued under the name of the member.It is found that the person is from Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and it should be written that the local officials have imposed strict restrictions on the return of the money.According to the decree.

Xiao Yunxian looked at the copy of the mansion, received the official document from his superior, and had no choice but to pack his luggage and return to the Chengdu Mansion.When he got home, his father was already sick in bed and couldn't get up, Xiao Yunxian went to the bed and asked his father to comfort him, and told the reasons why he hadn't heard before the army.Xiao Haoxuan said: "You have never done any of these things wrong, why didn't you get up?" Xiao Yunxian finally told about the case of being compensated by the Ministry of Industry for repairing the city, and then said: "The son can't earn a little to honor his father. It's really incomparable to others to waste my father's property, I feel extremely ashamed!" Xiao Haoxuan said: "This is an imperial court order, it's not because your unscrupulous flowers disappeared, so why be angry? My property has been collected Come on, there are about seven thousand pieces of gold left, once you present it, it will be returned to the Lord." Xiao Yunxian promised with tears.Seeing that his father was seriously ill, he couldn't take off his clothes and waited for more than ten days, seeing that it was useless.Xiao Yunxian cried and asked: "Father, what last words do you have?" Jiao Haoxuan said: "You are so dumb again. When I am alive, it is my business; after I die, it is all your business. In short , to be a person based on loyalty and filial piety, and the rest is nothing." After finishing speaking, he died with his eyes closed.

Xiao Yunxian shouted for heaven and earth, mourned with all his might, and handled the funeral with all his heart.But he sighed and said: "People say, 'It's a blessing or a curse'. If it wasn't for the compensation the day before yesterday, I definitely couldn't go home, and I couldn't handle my father's death by myself. It can be seen that going home this time is also a It's not called misfortune." The funeral is over, the family property has been paid out, and there is still more than three hundred taels of silver missing, and the magistrate is still hot on his heels.It happened that the magistrate was downgraded because of the robbery.The new magistrate was promoted by Ping Shaobao when he was the governor. After he took office, he knew that Xiao Yunxian was from Shaobao, so he made a clear case for him, and asked him to go to Ping Shaobao first, and then think about it. compensation.When Shaobao saw Xiao Yunxian, he consoled him a bit and wrote a corner speech for him, sending him to the Ministry for introduction.The Secretary of the Ministry of War said: "Xiao Cai handled the case of urban workers, and there is no example to make up for it. You should still be in the general shift of the thousand generals, and the salary will be promoted to the garrison. When he is missing, the leader will introduce it."

Xiao Yunxian waited for another five or six months before the ministry promoted him to the guard of the Jianghuai Guard in Yingtianfu, leading him to introduce him.According to the decree: "Go to the new post." Xiao Yunxian took the letter and left Beijing, and went to Nanjing by the east road.After passing Zhulongqiao, we arrived at Guangwuwei, where we lived in the shop at night, it was the severe winter.At about two o'clock, the shopkeeper yelled: "Guests, get up! Mr. Mu is here to check the night!" Everyone put on their clothes and sat on the bunk.I saw four or five soldiers come in with lanterns, followed the general master, and checked them one by one.Xiao Yunxian saw that the master turned out to be Mu Nai.When Mu Nai saw Xiao Yunxian, he was overjoyed, kowtowed, and hurriedly invited Xiao Yunxian into the government office for a night.

The next day, Xiao Yunxian was about to set off, but Mu Nai stayed behind and said, "My lord, please stay for a day. It's going to snow. Today, let's go to the Ruan Gong Temple in Guangwu Mountain. I'm humbled to be a landlord. .” Xiao Yunxian agreed.Mu Nai ordered two horses to ride with Xiao Yunxian, and a soldier, prepared some delicacies and a wine, and went all the way to Ruan Gong Temple in Guangwu Mountain.The Taoist will come in, please sit down upstairs at the back.Dao Tu didn't dare to accompany him, so he immediately brought tea.Mu Nai casually opened six panes, facing the side of Changwu Mountain.Look at the scene on the mountain where the trees are withered and the north wind blows coldly, and snowflakes are falling from the sky.Xiao Yunxian looked at it, and said to Mu Nai: "When the two of us were in Qingfeng City that day, I don't know how much snow we have passed through, and it wasn't necessarily painful at that time. Now that I see this amount of snow, I feel cold Tight." Mu Nai said: "Thinking of those two governors and elders, at this time the sable fur is on fire, I don't know how to be happy!" As he said, he finished his wine.Xiao Yunxian got up and took a leisurely walk.In the small pavilion on the right side of the building, there are many famous inscriptions embedded on the wall, and Xiao Yunxian has read them all.One of the poems is titled "Guangwu Mountain Nostalgia", but it is a seven-character ancient style.Xiao Yunxian read it again and again, several times.Unknowingly shed tears.Mu Nai was beside him, puzzled.Xiao Yunxian read the following line again: "Baimen Wushu Zhengzi's manuscript." After reading it, keep it in mind.Now pack up and go back to the government office, and stay for another night.The next day was sunny, Xiao Yunxian had to say goodbye to Mu Nai.Mu Nai sent it to Daliu Station in person before returning.

Xiao Yunxian crossed the river from Pukou, entered the capital, checked the payment, and when he arrived at Ren, he checked the transportation, inspected the ships, and explained clearly to the previous officials.On that day, he asked Yun Ding, "you know that there is a man named Wu here, with a famous book and an orthographic number, who is he?" Qi Ding said, "I don't know the little one, but why did the master ask him? "Xiao Yunxian said: "I saw his poems in Guangwuwei, and I was eager to meet him." Banner Ding said: "Since you are a poet, you can just ask the Imperial College." Xiao Yunxian said: "You Hurry up and ask." Qi Ding came back the next day and replied, "The Imperial Supervisor is here. It is said at the door that there is a Mr. Wu in the prison, named Wu Shu, who is a prison student who lives in Huapailou." Xiao Yun Xiandao: "Quickly ask someone to serve you. If you don't hit the deacon, I will go to worship him." At the moment, I came to Huapailou, a gatehouse facing east and west, and put in the post. Wu Shu came out to meet.Xiao Yunxian said: "My younger brother is a martial artist. He is new to your place and admires sages and gentlemen. The day before yesterday, on the wall of Guangwu Mountain, I read the old master's nostalgic masterpieces, so I came here to pay respects." I don't want to spoil my eyes." He took out tea and ate it.Wu Shudao: "The old man came from Guangwu, so he must have been selected from the capital department?" Xiao Yunxian said: "To tell the truth, old man, it's a long story. Since the younger brother went out to fight in Qingfeng City, he spent a lot of money on repairing the city Xiang, the compensation has just been cleared. According to the example promoted by Mr. Qian, he was selected here in Jianghuaiwei. But he was very happy to meet the old man. He asked for advice on everything, and he will serve businessmen someday." Wu Shu said: "You should learn." Xiao Yunxian said Well, get up and go.

Wu Shu sent out the gate, and saw the jailer from the prison running towards him, and said, "Master Yu is waiting for you to speak." Wu Shu went to see Dr. Yu.Dr. Yu said: "Brother Nian, the ministry rejected the report three times in order to report to the back. Now it is approved. The silver in the archway is in the department. Brother Nian can take it quickly." Wu Shu thanked him and came out. .The next day, he brought the post back to pay homage to Xiao Shoubei, Xiao Yunxian welcomed him into the Sichuan hall, bowed his head and sat down.Wu Shu said: "how slow you were after driving in vain yesterday! My clumsy work has been praised, and I feel uneasy. I still have some clumsy engravings here. I also ask for advice." Because he took out a volume of poems in his sleeve.Xiao Yunxian went on to read a few of them and was amazed.Come and sit in the study.Serve the meal and eat it.Xiao Yunxian took out a paper and handed it to Wu Shu, saying: "This is the story of my younger brother's half life, I only ask the old man to write an essay or a few poems so that he can live forever." Wu Shu took it and put it on the On the table, when you open it, there are four words "Xizheng Xiaoji" written on the front.There are three pictures in the middle: the first picture is "Chair Mountain Defeats the Enemy", the second picture is "Green Maple Takes the City", and the third picture is "Spring Suburbs Encourage Farmers".There is a detailed record under each picture.After reading the martial arts book, he sighed and said: "The number of parachutists is odd, and it has probably been the same in ancient and modern times. The old gentleman has made such contributions, and he is still in a humble position. This poetry thing, my younger brother has learned a lot. But the old gentleman has made such a great effort. The credit is limited to the qualifications, so it is expected that it will not be recorded in the annals of history. It will take a few big writers to write about it, and it will be passed down in various anthologies, and it will not bury the loyalty of this half-life." Xiao Yunxian said: "This is not the case. Dare to do it. But the old man has a big pen, and the younger brother can also use it to be immortal." Wu Shu said: "This is not the case. I will take the paper back. There are several famous scholars here who like to praise loyalty and filial piety. If you see the old man I think he would be happy to write about this career. Younger brother Rong passed on this volume to have a look." Xiao Yunxian said: "The old man knows each other, why didn't you tell my younger brother to pay homage first?" Wu Shu said: "That also makes it possible." Xiao Yunxian took a red post and asked Wu Shu to pay homage to him.Then Wu Shu issued: Dr. Yu Guoxing, Chi Hengshan, Zhuang Zhengjun Shaoguang, Du Yi Shaoqing, all wrote their residences and handed them over. Xiao Yunxiandi wrote the papers and left.

Xiao Yunxian paid homage to everyone the next day, and everyone paid homage back.Along with the food and road documents, he was escorted to Huaihe River.Xiao Yunxian boarded the boat and arrived in Yangzhou. He squeezed his horse's head against the banknotes. It was very lively when he saw a boat squeezed in from behind. A man stood on the bow and shouted: "Old Mr. Xiao! Why are you here?" Xiao Yunxian looked back and said, "Oh! So it's Mr. Shen! When did you come back?" He hurriedly called to the boat.Then Mr. Shen jumped on board.Xiao Yunxian said: "It's been several years since I left Qingfeng City. When did you come back to the south?" Mr. Shen said: "Mr. Mengzhe has Qingmu, taught for two years, accumulated some money, and returned to the south. When I go to my hometown, I will marry my little girl to the Song family in Yangzhou, and I will send him to the door at this time." Xiao Yunxian said: "Congratulations, your love, and congratulations." Because he asked the people who followed him to seal a tael of silver and send it over as a congratulatory gift, he said He said, "I'm going northward under escort, and I dare not stop. When I return to our office, I will invite you to meet me again." Zuo left and set sail. This gentleman led his daughter Qiongzhi, and called a small sedan chair to carry her daughter on the bank. He packed his luggage, went to the gap gate, and dropped it into a shop under Dafeng's banner.The guy there went on to inform the Song salt merchant.The salt merchant Song Weifu sent his family to tell him: "The master ordered the bride to be carried to the mansion, and the master Shen stayed in the shop and asked the accountant to buy wine for hospitality." After hearing this, Mr. Shen said to his daughter Qiongzhi: " We've only talked about this, let's stay here for a while, and wait for him to pass through the door, why is he so arrogant? It seems that in such a situation, you are not regarded as the main wife. This marriage is still a matter of getting or not? Daughter, you too You have to make up your own mind." Shen Qiongzhi said: "Father, don't worry. My family has never written a document to get his worth, so why are you willing to lie down and be a petty boy! Since he is so ostentatious, if Daddy quarrels with him, it will be the opposite. I was talked about by outsiders. Now I will be carried to his house in a sedan chair to see what he thinks of me." Mr. Shen could only follow his daughter's words and watch him decorate.Wearing a crown on his head and a big red cap on his body, he bid farewell to his father and got on the sedan chair.The family followed the sedan chair all the way to the bottom of the river and entered the gate. Several young mothers hugged the little official and joked with the housekeeper at the gate of the big wall. When they saw the sedan chair coming in, they asked, "But Mrs. Shen is here? Please get out of the sedan chair and go in through the water alley." Shen Qiongzhi heard , without saying a word, got out of the sedan chair, went straight to the hall and sat down, and said, "Please come out, my master! My surname is Shen from Changzhou, and I am not a lowly person! Since he wants to marry me, why don't he put up lights and festoons?" , Choose an auspicious pass through the door? He quietly lifted me here, as if he was marrying a concubine. I didn't ask him for anything else, I just asked him to show me the marriage letter written by my father, and I didn't have anything to say !” My mother and her family were shocked and surprised, and hurried to the back to report to the master. That Song Weifu was watching the pharmacist making ginseng in the pharmacy. He blushed and said, "Our chief merchant's family also married at least seven or eight concubines a year, and they all became mischievous like this. How many days are there?" Okay? He's coming, don't be afraid that he will fly there!" Hesitating for a while, he called a girl to come over, and said: "Go ahead and say to the bride: 'The master is not here today, the bride has the right to go into the room. If you have anything to say, let’s talk about it when the master comes home.'" Ya Bin said, and Shen Qiongzhi thought to himself: "It's not a problem to sit here, why don't you just let him in." Then he followed the girl to the left side of the hall, and a little Gui Entering through the door, there are three nanmu halls and a large courtyard full of mountains of Taihu stones.Go along the rock to an alley on the left, which leads into a garden.Bamboo trees intersect, pavilions are open and spacious, and there is an extremely wide goldfish pond. Beside the pond, there are red railings, sandwiching a corridor.At the end of the corridor, there is a small moon cave with four golden lacquered doors.Walking in, there are three houses, one of which is a dormitory, neatly laid, and a single courtyard.Mom brought tea.Shen Qiongzhi ate, and said to herself: "I don't think anyone will appreciate such a secluded place, so let me spend a few days here." The girl went back and replied to Song Weifu: "The bride is born beautiful, but she just looks Feeling tired is not a good thing to provoke." After one night, Song Weifu asked the housekeeper to come down to the store, and ordered the cashier to exchange five hundred taels of silver to send to Mr. Shen, "Tell him to go back to the mansion, and the girl is here, and I can say whatever I want." Mr. Shen heard this. He said, "It's not good! He clearly took my daughter as a concubine, which is fine!" He walked all the way to Jiangdu County and shouted.The county magistrate looked at the letter and said: "Shen Danian is not only a tribute student in Changzhou, but also a figure in the clothes. How can he take his daughter as a concubine? The salt merchant is so arrogant!" He accepted the letter.Knowing this, the Song family hurriedly asked Xiao Sike to file a complaint, which opened up the joint.The next day, Chengzi approved it and said: Since Shen Danian betrothed the female Qiongzhi to Song Weifu as his wife, why did he send her to the door privately?It is obvious that she is a concubine.Profanity is not allowed. The appeal was submitted to the Board of Appeals: Shen Danian's Ci has been approved. Shen Danian added another report.The county magistrate was furious, saying that he was a Diao Jian litigator, one approval, two policemen, and escorted him back to Changzhou. Shen Qiongzhi stayed at Song's house for a few days and saw no news. He thought, "That person must have arranged for my father to mess with me again. It's better to leave his house and make sense again." The gold and silver utensils and pearl jewellery, wearing a bundle, wearing seven skirts, pretending to be a little mother, bribed the maid, and left through the back door at five o'clock, and closed the door and boarded the boat in the early morning.That boat has a family.Shen Qiongzhi got on the boat and thought to herself: "If I go back to my parents' house in Changzhou, I'm afraid I will be ridiculed by people in my hometown." Thinking carefully: "Nanjing is a good place. How many famous people are there? I can write two lines of poems. Why not Go to Nanjing to sell poems for a living? Or I don’t know if I come out by some fate.” After making up my mind, I went to Yizheng to change the river boat and went all the way to Nanjing.Because of this, there are different teachings: