Northern Song Dynasty: Starting from the son of Song Renzong

Chapter 147 Eight or Eleven Years Old

Autumn of the sixth year of Qingli.

Considering the many disasters that the Song Dynasty is facing today, especially the frequent droughts.

Zhao Xin also proposed in the court that Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi should take those who passed the imperial examinations this year and have them update the farmland and water conservancy facilities in various parts of the Song Dynasty.

As soon as Zhao Xin put forward this proposal, all the ministers understood it.

I’m afraid Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi will never be able to return to the court.

And in order to prevent them from cheating, Zhao Xin just went with the others and let it go.

At the same time, a work sample was also provided.

For example:
Road name: xx Road.

Subordinate states: xx state.

Report form on water systems and water conservancy facilities within the state.

Main water system: what river is it, how long is it, how wide is it and how deep is it.

Tributary: What kind of river, how long, wide and deep is it?

How much irrigated area?

Has there been drought in the state in previous years?

In which month did the drought occur?

A rough estimate of how much land in the state is covered with irrigation conditions is given.

Why some can be irrigated and some cannot.

Where are the problems and difficulties?

List your plans for improvement.

……

This is a set of forms to fill out and draw pictures.

If it takes at least three to five years, I'm afraid it won't be completed.

Is this something humans do?

We worked hard to pass the imperial examinations, not to work on farmland water conservancy.

We are here to make decisions in the court.

When Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi received the news.

Also stunned.

The government is determined and has no intention of letting them go back.

How long will it take to complete this task if we have to complete it step by step?

Han Qi then wrote a letter to Fan Zhongyan, asking if the emperor thought we were easy to bully and therefore asked us to do this?

Fan Zhongyan thought it was very likely.

only……

This doesn't seem like the work of an official.

Upon asking, it turned out to be the work of His Royal Highness Prince Yu.

Sitting on a small mound, Fan Zhongyan seemed to understand after hearing that it was the work of His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu.

Instead of arguing in the court, it is better to be down-to-earth and work one step at a time.

And from the process of leading people to work, one can roughly see what kind of character some people have.

Some people cannot bear even the slightest bit of hardship and will start complaining if you just ask them to do a little work.

Some people just work silently and never complain about the hard work.

of course!

It doesn’t mean that people who can’t endure hardship are bad.

It’s just that some young people, really, even Fan Zhongyan couldn’t help but worry about them.

If these people were allowed to enter the imperial court in the future, would they become the one-fifth of redundant officials to be laid off?

When some people were asking who came up with this bad idea.

Fan Zhongyan directly told everyone that it was His Royal Highness Prince Yu's bad idea.

What, you have any objections?
If you have any opinions, you can raise them with His Royal Highness Prince Yu!
But when they heard it was His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu, everyone immediately became timid again.

His Royal Highness Prince Yu, the only son of the emperor.

It is very likely that he will become an official in the future.

You said you don’t want to do it, then don’t do it in the future!
Suddenly...

Many people fell silent again.

He is a future official, and you speak ill of him. I think you probably don't want to be an official anymore.

Fan Zhongyan became dispirited upon seeing this, and secretly thought that none of the young people nowadays have any backbone.

Think about myself back then, I dared to bring people to knock on the emperor’s palace gate!

But think about it!

These people were not right in the first place, and I was right back then. Since they were wrong, they must have lacked confidence and dared not refute anymore.

This also made the character of Prince Yu begin to appear clearly in his eyes.

In his reply to Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan wrote: "Letting us out this time might have been the idea of ​​His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu from the very beginning." Han Qi thought to himself, why did he feel this was something strange.

After being awakened by Fan Zhongyan's words, he immediately understood.

He heard that Wang Gongchen was demoted to Lingnan just because he expressed his opposition once.

He hasn't returned from Lingnan yet.

Last time, His Royal Highness Prince Yu also told me to shut up.

You said...

Is His Royal Highness Prince Yu seeking revenge?

then……

He then wrote another letter to Fan Zhongyan, asking him whether he had ever offended His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu.

Fan Zhongyan thought to himself, I haven't even met His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu, how could I offend him?

Han Qi felt a little relieved after receiving the reply.

But how could such a thing be done by someone like him who is capable of being a prime minister?

Just sending a small official will be enough.

Isn’t that a waste of talent?
But he has no choice but to do it.

I had no choice but to continue writing letters to Fan Zhongyan.

Without Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, the court became much more peaceful and stable.

Although there are still some people who just slack off, such as Zhao Xin's teacher.

However, it is very necessary for Yan Shu to live a lazy life.

Because if Yan Shu was kicked away and Fan Zhongyan came back to be the prime minister, or even if someone else was randomly appointed as the prime minister, it might become less convenient for Zhao Xin to do things.

In fact...

Zhao Zhen obviously knew this, so he allowed the prime minister to let Zhang Dexiang and Yan Shu, two scoundrels, do it.

For general affairs, these two people are enough.

But if there is anything important, we still have to rely on Zhao Xin.

……

autumn.

The trees on the streets of Tokyo began to turn yellow.

Zhao Xin was riding a horse on the street and couldn't help but sigh that the inside and outside of Tokyo city were really two completely different worlds.

In the city of Tokyo, there was singing and dancing, and everyone was living a life of drunkenness and debauchery.

But what about outside Tokyo?

Earthquakes and droughts occurred frequently, and many people were displaced.

But when Zhao Xin thought about it, it seemed that the situation in later generations was similar. For example, floods could be seen a lot on TV and in the news.

It was just a quick glance at the time, so he really didn't understand the aftermath of the incident and didn't really care.

today.

Zhao Xin did not go directly back to the palace through Xuanwu Gate.

Instead, he deliberately took a walk around the streets of Tokyo.

Zhao Xin looked at the people on both sides, and the people on both sides naturally also looked at Zhao Xin secretly.

only……

All of them were directly separated by the people who cleared the way.

It is impossible to get close to Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin looked at the women on the street.

Be reasonable!
If you look for a wife or concubine in this way, it is simply not feasible.

and……

Those who are good-looking must be sitting in the carriage, or hiding at home at this moment.

Zhao Xin felt that it was time for him to look for it.

Otherwise, if you don’t look for them, will others fall from the sky?
He has already told Madam Miao and the Empress, so they don't need to worry.

Then these two people probably won't care about me anymore.

As for his father...

It’s not his father who is looking for a wife, so there’s no need to trouble his father.

But many women in the families hid themselves.

This is really not easy to find.

or……

Get a hot air balloon, let it float across the sky, and then get a telescope?

Or, find a matchmaker and see if she has any portrait of the other person.

But things like portraits are probably still quite different from the real person.

Moreover!
Which matchmaker would introduce someone to someone who is eight or eleven years old?

(End of this chapter)