Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 616 Everyone has his or her own future
Chang'an University, a farm in the suburbs.

On the wide and flat drying yard, Chen Qun and his group were barefoot, holding wooden shovels and turning the rapeseed that was spread out for drying.

This year alone, rapeseed is grown everywhere and the harvest is plentiful.

In the distance, officials were coming in carriages. The Ruying scholars in the crowd stopped talking and all lowered their heads to turn the rapeseed, looking busy.

When the local clerk saw the carriage and horses coming towards him, he immediately straightened his hat, patted the rapeseed flakes on his body, straightened the sword on his left waist, and quickly walked towards them.

Seeing the carriages and horses stop, the clerk stepped forward and saluted: "I greet you, sir."

"Is Chen Qun from Yingchuan here?"

"There is Chen Qun, but I don't know if he is from Yingchuan."

The clerk answered awkwardly, neither denying nor directly admitting it.

Then the imperial hand said, "The Treatise on Good Species written by Chen Qun was selected by the Grand Marshal, who said that every word was a pearl and it was in line with the great principles. It has been submitted to the Executive Yuan. This is the Executive Yuan's envoy. Please invite Chen Qun here as soon as possible."

"Here!"

The clerk bowed deeply, took a few steps back, turned around with a smiling face, strode to the drying yard and shouted, "Mr. Chen! Mr. Chen, good news! The imperial envoy is here!"

Chen Qun raised his head, composed his expression, and handed the wooden shovel in his hand to his friend. Everyone around him looked happy.

Today it is Chen Qun, tomorrow it could be them.

The crowd gathered around Chen Qun and he came forward. Chen Qun bowed and said, "Manager, is this imperial envoy looking for me?"

"Yes, come with me to see the imperial envoy. The imperial envoy wants to find Chen Qun from Yingchuan. Is that Chen Qun, the author of "On Good Species", sir?"

"It is Chen."

Chen Qun and the minor official both breathed a sigh of relief and stepped forward together.

The vehicle stopped there, and the accompanying guards had laid a carpet on the ground, placed a small table, and lit a burner of incense.

There is also a low couch that looks like a wooden box in front of the table.

The imperial envoy drank a sip of water and was not surprised to see Chen Qun's shabby appearance.

He held the position of Imperial Secretary, and his daily job was to read imperial edicts. He had seen many similar scenes.

Chen Qun's place is still relatively orderly and decent.

When the imperial edict was read out to the workers, it was chaos.

After Chen Qun stepped forward and asked a few questions to confirm his identity, he knelt respectfully on the carpet.

The imperial envoy stood on a low couch, across from the incense table, and opened the imperial edict: "Imperial decree, Yingchuan Chen Qun studied agriculture and animal husbandry, and presented "On Good Breeds", which can be said to be devoted to the people and made long-term contributions. At the request of the Grand Marshal, I confer the title of Guannei Hou on Chen Qun, with a fief of 100 households. In addition, I allocate a separate residence in the southern suburbs of the university city, and let Chen Qun sit in the residence, with an official rank of 1,000 stones. He is in charge of 8,000 acres of farmland and 30,000 acres of wild land, so that he can study agriculture and animal husbandry and improve good breeds. Order to stop."

"I obey the imperial edict."

Chen Qun stood up, shouted and kowtowed repeatedly.

After rolling up the imperial edict, the edictant stepped down from the low couch, walked around the incense table and handed the imperial edict to Chen Qun who had stood up: "Bring your official uniform and official seal. After the handover is completed, Lord Chen will go to the Shunyi Hundred Households Office in the southern suburbs within three days to hand over the affairs of the office."

Chen Qun was penniless and felt a little embarrassed: "Angel, please forgive me."

"Don't be so polite. Chen Junhou's cousin Chen Xiaoxian and I were colleagues in the past."

The imperial envoy pointed to the attendants who were carrying official uniforms, caps and belts, swords, silver marquis seals, and bronze official seals, and continued, "There are many herds of animals under the jurisdiction of the shogunate, and the various zoos are also engaged in improving the breeds. I hope that Lord Chen will not let down the court's good intentions, but will rise to the challenge and come out on top later."

"Yes, I dare not let down the great Sima's kindness."

Chen Qun bowed to the west, and the imperial envoy just smiled and said, "I still have official business to attend to. We will meet again at the Double Ninth Festival banquet this year."

"This is as it should be. Chen will escort the angel to the car."

Chen Qun stepped forward and stretched out his arms. The envoy also enjoyed Chen Qun's flattery, so he didn't want to be too aggressive. He smiled and said, "I really envy Lord Chen for being awarded the title of marquis for his excellent craftsmanship. He can go to Ganquan Mountain for the banquet this year and next year as well."

He was a marquis, held an official position of Qianshi level, and was also in charge of all kinds of work. He had something to do with both and could attend banquets every year.

Chen Qun thought about it and smiled: "It's all thanks to the Grand Marshal's appreciation."

Before getting on the carriage, Chen Qun asked, "Since the Grand Marshal went on the expedition to You and Ji, my brother has been promoted to another state. Now there is no news from him. Do you know anything?"

"Chen Xiaoxian went to Daidi and took up the post of Guangning Magistrate of Shanggu County."

After the imperial envoy finished speaking, he got on the carriage, turned around and said to Chen Qun, "Lord Chen, please stay here." Chen Qun bowed and saw him off, watching the two carriages leave under the escort of several knights.

He naturally knew that his cousin Chen Zhong was sent to serve as the magistrate of Guangning County with a rank of 600 stones, but he really did not dare to communicate with him through letters.

Now that I have found out the truth, I can naturally write a letter to inform my cousin of the good news.

The convoy gradually went away. The clerks and their companions in the drying yard stood about twenty steps behind them, and no one dared to come forward to talk to them for a while.

Chen Qun couldn't help but start to miss his family. Cao's army moved eastward, and they were probably also captured and taken to Qingzhou.

In the turbulent times, Chen Qun initially responded to Liu Bei's call for service, hoping to follow Liu Bei and accomplish something.

As fate would have it, when his career was going smoothly as he was transferred to various counties, his father Chen Ji died of old age. Chen Qun resigned from his post to observe mourning, so it was naturally not suitable for him to get married during this period.

Later, he was promoted to a high rank and was appointed to the Sikong Mansion. As a result, Cao's army was defeated and he fell to his current state.

The situation has been turbulent and he has not been able to find a woman who matches his status, so he has remained unmarried.

Now he has been granted the title of Guannei Hou, and although his fief is limited to a hundred households, his previous crimes have been pardoned.

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Given his background, marrying the daughter of a prominent family or a high-ranking official in Guanlong could be considered a concession.

The idea of ​​getting married was quickly suppressed by him, and he planned to meet Zhong Yao first to see what the old man thought.

As the saying goes, times have changed. Now that he is here, he must be the son of Zhong Yao's old friend and a distinguished guest.

Only by getting married early and marrying the right person can you gain more trust.

The entire Chen family has a weak direct lineage until now. The family's fortune started from Chen Qun's grandfather, and ended up with two branches: his father Chen Yuanfang and his uncle Chen Jifang.

He is an only son, and his cousin Chen Zhong is also an only son.

The reason they are still alive today is because Chen Shi and Chen Ji have great influence, and their brothers are always taken care of in different places.

The moment his identity changed, Chen Qun began to think about the long-term development of himself and his family.

Similar to him, after Zhang Tianshi was released from his military service and ascended to heaven, Yan Pu began to think about his own way out.

He and Zhang Lu had a relationship of monarch and subject, and even if he was recruited by the shogunate, he would still ask Zhang Lu for his opinion.

Now that Zhang Lu is gone, it is naturally impossible for him to be loyal to Zhang Lu's children.

Only Zhang Lu had the title of Marquis of Langzhong Wanhu, otherwise the personal bond would not be so strong.

Serving Zhang Lu as your duty and then serving other sponsors when the opportunity arises is in line with the ethics and self-cultivation principles of scholars.

According to Zhang Lu's title, posthumous honors, and the specifications for building a temple for him, how to observe mourning was a confusing matter.

The followers of Tianshi Dao are even more fanatical and think that there is no need to observe mourning… The Tianshi has ascended to heaven, he is not dead, so why should we observe mourning?
He always felt that the Tianshi Dao would bring disaster, and saw that Zhang Lu's sons also followed the Tianshi Dao's suggestions and simplified the mourning ceremony.

This was to abandon Confucianism and embrace Taoism, so Yan Pu took the initiative to resign and regained his freedom.

Yan Pu was really not in a hurry to enter the officialdom.

Having been with Zhang Lu for so long, he is a slow-tempered person.

Soon, the Grand Marshal's envoy arrived, so Yan Pu took some change of clothes and went to Chencang alone to wait for the interview arrangement.

Black Bear felt more and more that time was not enough. Only after he finished dealing with official documents could he spare some time to take the Taoist soldiers to carve a warship model.

This is a large model, a model of a warship powered by two current steam engines, like a medium-sized transport ship.

Previously, dredging relied on road soldiers jumping into the riverbed during flood season to stir up the silt and use the flood to wash the riverbed.

This can barely save the huge manpower expenditure for dredging, but the Wei River can't let the soldiers pull boats in the water for transportation.

The fastest way to improve the water transport on the Wei River is to install steam engines on ships.

The next step is to improve the mining efficiency in Hancheng. After completing these two tasks, we will deal with Dizhu and clear the obstacles to the water transport in Guanzhong and Guandong.

If the canal transportation is opened up, they can extort millions of shi of grain every year.

Only when there is enough food can we support more workers.

(End of this chapter)