Royal Road

It's raining again. Chen Yue looked at the drizzle outside the window, feeling all kinds of things in his heart. A few months ago, he was still thinking about it day and night, hoping that one day the nectar would fall from the sky and the drought would be eliminated. But now it's really raining, but it makes people feel anxious.

In winter, it is cold and rainy. Can the servants who build roads outside be able to bear it? What should I do if I get sick all my life? Slippery roads on rainy days will definitely cause mud everywhere on the construction site. Will it affect the progress of road paving?

With all kinds of thoughts circling in his chest, Chen Yue finally put on the clothes and led the servants to the construction site.

Last year, Chen Yue learned the news of Jizhou raising food for road construction. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally made up my mind and secured a ten-mile official road. Because the project was not big and the food needed was less than expected, Chen Yue thought he had made a good deal. Unexpectedly, the grain actually arrived, and when the work started, the drought began to appear.

This is a boat of grain during a severe drought! Even if it is sold in the hometown, it is a lot of money, let alone transported all the way to Jizhou?

More importantly, in the event of a drought, all local projects will be suspended. If banditry occurs everywhere, it will also attract refugees into the country. How long has it taken Jizhou to calm down? Can you survive the severe drought under such circumstances?

Although the local government has always said that the road needs to be repaired and will not give up halfway, most of the merchants who contracted the road with him have left. Although manpower and material resources were damaged, there was no loss after all. It is to leave as early as possible to keep the capital. Or grit your teeth and give it a try? Somehow, Chen Yue remembered the Shengjing he had seen when he first arrived in Jinyang, but he got overwhelmed and stayed. This time, he was completely tied to Jizhou.

Every day, he has to go to the construction site to monitor the labor and calculate the loss of food. He came from a small family and didn't have that much financial resources. He really wanted to break a penny into eight pieces. Fortunately, the official who built the road did not resort to any bad tricks, but also kept the original promise and did not add any more manpower to his construction site. It was just a little bit, and it was repaired.

The drought is getting worse every day, and every day I can hear how many refugees enter and how many soldiers and bandits come and go. Chen Yue only felt that he was stepping on a hanging wire, and he might fall into the abyss at any time. However, this shaky balance has never been broken. The robbers from Youzhou, Qingzhou, and Yanzhou are always wiped out just as soon as they enter the country. The influx of refugees is also being swallowed up by more complicated projects.

Can Jizhou be so capable?

Anxiety has never subsided, but confidence has quietly emerged. Chen Yue found that he was more and more curious about this land. If the road can really be built, what will Jizhou look like after this disaster year?

I don't know when, Chen Yue forgot his original plan. It seems that this path has become his lifeblood. This happened day after day for more than half a year, until this winter rain came.

Rain is good, but the road being built is much more important than spring plowing in the coming year. Seeing that the completion is imminent, don't be sprawling.

I hurried to the construction site, which was different from what I expected. Although it was cold and rainy, there were still many servants on the road. Most of them are dressed in clothes and carts to move the sand, and they are very busy. There are also some around the huts, with wooden bowls in their hands, lining up around the big pot with fragrance.

This is the meat from the county? Every ten days, the county magistrate Sun will come to the construction site to inspect, and at the same time bring some wild things to give the road builders a slaying ceremony. This is a nice little favor, but the effect is amazing. With so many refugees, none of them are not grateful. With such a magistrate who loves the people, the county government is extremely stable. In the midst of the drought, not even a single civil riot occurred.

As the undertaker of the official road outside the county, Chen Yue and Sun County magistrate are also very familiar. It's just that now it's obviously less than ten days, why did the county magistrate come to the construction site? Are you also afraid of changes in the rain?

Secretly speculating, Chen Yue did not stop, and soon found the county magistrate surrounded by a bunch of officials. Seeing Chen Yue, County Order Sun smiled and said: "Chen Lang is here just right, I'm just about to invite someone to invite him."

Chen Yue was a little surprised: "But what happened? Is there insufficient money?"

The county magistrate Sun waved his hand: "Don't worry about Chen Lang, the road is well built, and it will be completed in three days. Without Chen Lang's help, how can the road be built so smoothly? The governor had just issued an order a few days ago. I want to commend everyone who has donated. The official did not dare to neglect, and ordered people to carve a stone to make a resolution. They came today to erect the monument."

Tombstone? What monument? Chen Yue was half nervous, half at a loss, followed the county magistrate Sun for a few steps, and came to the side of the road. I saw a three-foot-high short stele standing beside the road.

After going ten miles, Hailing Chen Yue donated it for repairs. In the second year of Yuanqi, a long drought hurt the people, and there were more than 1,200 people living on this road.

Just a few sentences are plain and unpretentious, but Chen Yue can no longer see the text that follows. He only felt choked in his throat, his eyes were sore, and he almost shed tears. What is the purpose of taking this path? It's just making money and food. Although he has been practicing for more than half a year, he is frightened every day, but the meaning of this path in his heart has long been different. But the road is the road after all. He never thought that the food used to build the road was actually saving those ragged and greedy servants.

Where do these people come from? It's not a corvee, nor a conscript, it's just a refugee. People who have lost their homes, have no land to grow, and are displaced. And he gave these refugees a chance to work, allowing them to have a house and a meal of fruit. This is the life of a living person.

He saved more than a thousand people, just by this way!

Most of the hard work and half of the worry, at this moment, all disappeared. Chen Yue even felt that he had received the best reward. This monument will stay here forever and ever as the road clears. Every passerby can see his achievements. And his name and surname will also fall in the county annals of this small county, and maybe someone will be able to find it after thousands of years. He is just a merchant, with a small surname, what else could be more valuable than this?

Seeing Chen Yue's excitement, the county magistrate Sun said again: "When this road is completed, only Chen Lang will be able to set up a shop here in ten years, except for the post station. The governor's mansion is also equipped with a few goods, and Chen Lang can. Choose one to buy. It is said that there will be a three-year monopoly."

what? ! Chen Yue didn't care about his gaffes, she didn't wipe away any tears, and suddenly looked up. Not to mention the right to open a mansion shop, it is only a three-year monopoly, which is a coveted profit. This is much richer than what I said before!

The county magistrate Sun had a smile on his face, his long sleeves closed, and a respectful salute to Chen Yue: "Thanks to Chen Lang, this county will be safe and sound during the disaster years. I would also like to thank Chen Lang."

This is what he said from the bottom of his heart. Is the road construction only the refugees? actually not. Many of the things worn by the servants, what they hold in their hands, and those used in the house are all purchased from the villagers. The circulation of these items has also provided the villagers with extra money and food, so that they can live in peace in the disaster year. In the year of the catastrophe, there was no civil chaos. How dazzling is that such a record is placed on the resume! And this was all taken over by Chen Yue. If he walks halfway, can he survive it? I'm afraid not necessarily.

Therefore, this prayer is sincere and sincere.

Chen Yue is a white body. How can a county chief salute him? Hastily accepted the head and bowed to each other. However, during this prayer, he suddenly remembered a sentence he had learned in the book earlier.

"If there is a great deal of benefit to the people and can help the people, how about it? It can be said to be benevolent?" "What is benevolence? It must be holy!"

He couldn't understand the answer between Zi Gong and Zhong Ni. However, today, only one road has saved thousands of people. There are hundreds of roads in Jizhou and the work of tens of thousands of servants. What kind of feat is it? Is it true that the saint can help all people in the year of catastrophe? !

Maybe I can come to Jizhou by myself, which is the most correct choice in this life. His family, his relatives, should also move here. It would be best if you could settle down next to the official road that you built!

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After thunder that day, Jinyang rained heavily for three consecutive days. The land that has dried up for a long time has been thoroughly moisturized, and the incense of Huai'en Temple has become very vigorous.

However, some people still did not choose to go to the temple to worship Buddha. Sitting in the narrow mansion, Xie Kun reclining on the couch, leisurely teasing the infant child.

"Brother, you're here to take Shang'er out again. Aren't you afraid Auntie will blame it?" Xie Pai laughed and teased when he walked into the room and saw this scene.

"I just played a song, and Shang'er is still dancing and welcoming!" Xie Kun smiled triumphantly. This is his youngest son, named Xie Shang. This child is astute and pleasant, and he is very smart when he is only one year old, which is deeply loved by Xie Kun.

Xie Pa couldn't help but laugh: "Jinyang is happy to drop the rain, and everyone else hurriedly went to the temple to worship, and only you would hide at home."

"This is not just taking leisure." Xie Kun pinched his son's cheek again, "If everyone goes to Huai'en Temple, Liang Gong would be even more unhappy."

With just one sentence, Xie Pa heard the overtones. Everyone knows Liang Gongxin Buddhism, but many people in Jinyang officialdom know that Liang Gong believes that Confucianism is actually more important. One can believe in Buddhism and cultivate Taoism, but to be an official, one must have political achievements. As long as he is competent for his position, he never cares what he believes.

It is precisely because of this that Xie Kun followed his past hobbies and continued to study Huang Lao Taoism, and would invite people to talk in his spare time. He didn't even mean to go up and change his belief in Buddhism. But whether it is learning Dao or talking, they are completely different from the time when Wang Yan had been under him before. Hobbies belong to hobbies, governing and administering affairs, is the job.

After two years of research in Leping, and another severe drought, he was finally promoted to the rank of Jinyang, and he will be able to take up his post until the beginning of the spring next year. This is not comparable to Leping internal history. Ge Hong, who served as the Decree of Jinyang, is now the prefect of Wei County. When Liang Gong's turf is bigger, he will have to be promoted if he says it's not good.

This Jinyang Decree is really a desperate dispatch!

It is precisely because of this unexpected move that Xie Kun acted more cautiously.

Knowing his brother's temperament, Xie Le sighed: "It's a pity that Yuzhou and Yanzhou have changed their governors. Originally, someone said that Xi Zhizhong and Ge Taishou could be promoted to governors."

The original don't drive the grandson ceremony has become Jizhou prefect, Xi Jian and Ge Hong, and so on. Sooner or later, it will be a matter of provocation. Unexpectedly, the imperial court moved quickly and quickly replaced the governor. The great contribution that made the extermination of Shile became a marriage for others. In this way, some people will naturally feel injustice.

Xie Kun didn't care at all: "Gong Liang doesn't argue, he has his own reason. As long as the rain falls, who cares about the local governor's history?"

This is a bit frivolous, but it is true. Huai'en Temple opened the temple for rain, and it rained heavily. Even the emperor of Yangzhou can do it? Only this rain changed people's hearts.

The governor's history is no longer important.

"Brother..." Xie Pa was a little speechless when he heard his brother's speechlessness.

"You should think about yourself, Qiuxianyuan is not a place to stay for a long time." Xie Kun suddenly changed his words, "either learns from Wen Taizhen, or learns from ancestor Fuchen. Only being an official is the root."

Wen Qiao has now entered the Cishi Mansion and has become Xi Jian's deputy, and Zu Taizhi has also served as a division worker in the army, holding six important positions. The age of the two of them resembles Xie Bao, but they are both highly powerful and enviable.

In Bingzhou, it is not easy to raise hopes, and being an official is the right reason.

Xie Le was taken aback, and immediately nodded solemnly. He is also a child of the Xie family and shoulders responsibility for himself.

Seeing his brother nodded, Xie Kun smiled slightly, stopped talking about these business matters, and started teasing his son again. Xie Pa shook his head and smiled bitterly, and leaned forward.

Outside the window, the sound of rain faded into the wind.

The author has something to say: Xie Shang is Xie An's younger brother and one of the founders of Xie's rise.

Tian Yuqing: The three stages of Chen Jun Xie's development in the Eastern Jin Dynasty were represented by Xie Kun, Xie Shang, and Xie An. Xie Kun ranks among the famous metaphysical scholars, Xie Shang gains the strength of Fangzhen, Xie An has repeatedly made internal and external contributions.