Cui Xie himself didn't understand such a high-level meteorological problem of Xiaobinghe, and it was even more difficult to explain it to Li Zhaoxian and Zhu Zhishan, two poets and calligraphers. He simply took his own line, listed data, made reports, wiped off the whiteboard with a damp rag, and wrote it down line by line by year.
"I entered the Hanlin Academy in the 23rd year of Chenghua, and I learned to draw up the edicts. I didn't do much, but I also read the tax-exempt autumn grain edicts drawn up by my teachers and seniors. I wrote them out for you to read. Look-"
In September of the 23rd year of Chenghua, Lintaowei and Gongchangwei were exempted from summer taxes and autumn grains due to the severe drought in Shaanxi; in October, Yongping Prefecture was exempted from autumn grains due to drought;
In the first year of Hongzhi, the first month of the first year of Hongzhi was exempted from the salt collection of the second well in Heilang, Yunnan. The five prefectures of Kaifeng and Ruzhou were exempted from the summer tax, and the Wuchang and other guards were exempted from grain due to the drought.
Hongzhi two years, three years...
This is only for the tax-free grain, not counting those years of famine, according to the rules, only 10-20% of the grain is paid to the household department, and the rest is retained by the local prefecture for disaster relief.
Lines of damage caused by floods and droughts, lines of summer tax exemptions for autumn crops, "people in poverty", "people in extreme poverty", "fleeing households" everywhere, the two talented people were shocked and exclaimed: "How can you not provide relief! "
It is one thing to have a department to provide relief, but no matter how much relief is provided, it will not be able to equal the harm caused by the famine of the past year.
Cui Xie said something for the "Yousi" who was shot, and brought the two people's attention back to the disaster itself: "Just by looking at the edicts on food exemption, you can see that there have been frequent famines in various places in recent years. Natural disasters cause people to change. We can’t control whether the sky needs rain or drought, cold or heat, and we can only start small, breeding and fattening, and the idea is to make this land produce more food.”
Zhu Zhishan put on his glasses and looked at him carefully, and said with emotion: "In the past, I only knew that adults have the heart to educate students all over the world, but now I know that adults not only care about my generation of scholars, but also care about billions of people. Zhishan is not talented, but also thin. There are some household items that should be given to charity after returning to their hometown, and they will live up to the teachings of Master Cui today."
Cui Xie smiled and said, "I just gave some examples, and I didn't teach you what to do. What you think is out of your own benevolent heart, why should you thank me?"
It's a pity that he can't leave home when he is filial piety, so he can't take two talented people to see the hybrid broad bean he made in the spring. But there is also one thing that can be seen from home—not the chicken manure accumulated by the small vegetable garden outside, but a few elm willow trees planted on the courtyard wall.
The lower part of the tree is brushed with a layer of white lime water.
Cui Xie proudly introduced: "This lime water has the effect of killing insects and keeping warm. If you apply it on trees in winter, there will be fewer insects on the trees in spring, and the leaves and elm will grow better."
This method was still seen from the trees on the sidewalk of the road when he was a child. In the following years, many nutrient needles were hung on the trees, and the lime water poured gradually became rare.
He used to be busy studying to earn money, and he had no intention of doing landscaping or anything. Now he has to study agricultural production, so he took these old days for granted, but it contained scientific theories that he didn't understand anyway.
Because he figured out that lime water can kill insects, he asked people to dissolve a lot of lime water, and the chicken coop, duck coop, pig and sheep pen on the Zhuangzi were all detoxified. The previously piled manure and the accumulated manure water were also mixed with a little quicklime. The quicklime boiled when it got wet with water, and the temperature was high and water was absorbed. It is estimated that the eggs and Escherichia coli in the fertilizer were also burned to death.
After tossing around for a while, the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks did not die, and the fat and water did not burn the seedlings. This lime disinfection method has become his proud work.
It's a pity that Li and Zhu are both weak scholars who don't touch the spring water with ten fingers. They can't understand Cui Xie's pride in conquering agricultural technology and preparing for war and famine. He also knew this, and he didn't want the two talents to be embarrassed, so he picked up the interesting one and said, "It's a pity that you came two months late and didn't catch up with the time when the elm money came down. Zhuang households can cook elm money rice, so they use fresh elm money. It is steamed with white noodles or millet noodles. When eating, pour some sesame sauce and vinegar sauce, which is extra fresh. Yuqian can also add rice to make porridge, which is clear and sweet; When eaten as dry food, it is a rare delicacy in early spring.”
Yu money rice! How many students want to eat elm money after learning this lesson!
When Cui Xie wore it to the Ming Dynasty, he decided to eat it, and he has not been tired of eating it until now. What he eats is the feeling in it!
However, the romantic talents after the two officials did not understand the beauty of such feelings at all. Listening to Cui Xie extolling the benefits of Yuqian Rice, he only had deep affection for him.
Cui Hezhong kept filial piety in the countryside, but it was so difficult that he made a living on wild vegetables and elm money!
How admirable is this kind of mind when I have lived so hard, yet I still don't forget the hardships of the people!
Zhu Ju and Mr. Li ate a few vegetarian feasts made of fresh wild vegetables, dried vegetables, tofu, and wild mushrooms, and sang some new poems full of wild farmhouses. Together with the poetry collection made in Beijing, they were given to Cui Xie to enjoy. Afterwards, they went home and taught the villagers to read, study the "Nongjing", and taught the people how to farm.
After hearing about it, Mr. Xu Ge felt a little emotional: "If such a person who does practical work, if he was in the lower ranks in the examination, it would be better to send him to the Metropolitan Court. The implementation of the new farming method will not know how many local people will be benefited."
Mr. Liu Ge said lightly: "Nowadays, it is 'non-Hanlin who do not belong to the cabinet'. It would be a pity for such a person to be a censor who only hears the news. The old man thinks that it is better for him to stay in the center than to run around. If he can write a new agricultural classic, how difficult is it to implement it in various states and counties?"
Elder Liu Ge actually has such a loving younger generation, and this younger generation is not the kind of villain who loves to curry favor with his superiors. This is really an anecdote in the imperial court.
Xu Pu couldn't help but glance at Shoufu.
Qiu Jun intervened with a smile: "Cui Hezhong is still in the countryside, and asked him to teach the agricultural classics for two years to see the results. When he returns after three years of filial piety, the crown prince is afraid that he will not be able to get the crown and leave the cabinet. The sage will use him for himself. The place."
As he spoke, he suddenly sighed: "Seeing that these young people are already able to do things for the country and the people, this old man of me is a little uncomfortable to stay in the court. Well, after this year is over, I should go there too. Ben beg for a job."
He is now seventy-five years old. He is nearly ten years older than the age set by Taizu to become an official. He has also served as a scholar for so long, and has done his best for the emperor and the court. , Do you still want to be the eldest son of a lifetime
He wanted to retire, and Xu Pu also cared a little: "I'm only eight years younger than Brother Qiongshan, and it should be a rare age. Brother Qiongshan, retire first, this old bone of mine will retire and return home in a few years.”
Liu Shoufu, who was about the same age as Xu Pu, was unmoved and sat firmly on the Diaoyutai.
However, after Qiu Jun returned home, one of the four elders' seats would be vacated. Although it is also the normal configuration of the cabinet for the three elders to be in charge, but now Liu Shoufu is addicted to health care, and he no longer impeaches people or asks about things. It is a little difficult for the two elders to support each other. Now is not the time when the imperial court was silent in the Chenghua years, and the three pavilions were old enough to deal with the past.
Xu Liu, the two elders who came from the Hanlin bachelors, came up with a name at the same time:
Li Dongyang.
Raised in the Hanlin for many years, he was familiar with government affairs, Wenguan, and had the heart of a countryman.
Is there anyone in the ministry who is more suitable for the cabinet than him
Mr. Qiu Ge was always friendly with Li Dongyang, and he often drank and wrote poems together. He also kept two poems on the wall of Dongyang when he was drunk, so he knew a lot about his aspirations. After hearing the nominations of the two elders, they silently admitted.
The three reached a tacit agreement, and then looked at Liu Ji, the first assistant - the only person who could and could object to this arrangement was Liu Ge.
However, this time, Mr. Liu Ge changed his previous style, neither pressing nor procrastinating, he arranged more actively than everyone else: "Let's first promote Dongyang to a bachelor's degree and a minister of the Ministry of Rites! Only when you enter the Ministry of Rites will you be able to join the cabinet. Just being a Tai Chang Shaoqing is not enough."
If the ministers wanted to be promoted, they had to be pushed by the Ministry of Personnel Association, and the matter was pushed to Geng Yu, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Li Dongyang's right attendant in the Ministry of Personnel is for the title of the cabinet. Regardless of the actual situation, there is no need to discuss it very much, as long as a few candidates are added to accompany him to attend the bachelor's degree. The court officials of the six divisions quickly held a court push, and the emperor Hongzhi gently approved the word "quasi", and he pushed Li Dongyang to the position of a bachelor's student.
After Qiu Jun invited him home for a drink, he held his hand and said, "I will go back to my hometown, and Xi Ya will follow me into the cabinet. You have to do it well and don't let me down."
Li Dongyang was both sentimental and excited, and sighed: "The Duke of Qiongshan is going to serve... There is someone else in the cabinet who should serve."
Qiu Jun looked at the sake in the glass and nodded slightly: "Actually, I also want to leave you and the young people in the future a time of prosperity."
He turned around and played the emperor, saying that the crown prince is very intelligent, and since he is in the seat, it is advisable to wear his hair and crown early, and choose a good teacher to teach him. The emperor loved this prince treasure very much. Although he said, "Wait until the prince is older," he actually felt that he should have been taught by a famous teacher earlier, so that he should not be as unknown and valued by the public as he was when he was a child.
In February of the eighth year of Hongzhi, the emperor no longer delayed, and ordered the Ministry of Rites to crown the five-year-old crown prince. The Ministry of Rites found out the ceremonial note when the prince was registered today, slightly revised it and submitted it, and settled on the matter.
The crown prince's throne has been fixed, and he is about to be crowned. In the future, he will choose Zhu Zheng in the court to teach the prince well, so that today's people are generally diligent, thrifty and tolerant, and the Ming Dynasty will be prosperous for decades. And next year, Cui Xie should return from his filial piety period. With him, a person who knows both the scriptures and the meaning of the scriptures, and the people's livelihood and hardships, to teach the crown prince, what is there to worry about
Qiu Jun looked at the current state of the court and thought about the future prosperity. He felt that he had no regrets in his official career in the past few decades.
Along with this letter to the official, there is also an article impeaching the first assistant Liu Ji for being old and inactive, suppressing his speech, nostalgic for power, and unbearable to be the first assistant.
Emperor Hongzhi did not agree with the two excerpts.
Qiu Jun suffered from his poor health and was determined to become an official. He was more and more attentive to impeach Liu Ji, one after another. Xu Pu and Liu Jian knew what he meant, and the officials also took the opportunity to avenge the censors who were suppressed for impeaching him in the early years of Hongzhi, and dozens of documents flew into the center a day.
With such intensive impeachment, Liu Shoufu had no choice but to submit a case of begging for his guilt and begging for an official position.
Returning to the mansion, his murderous and resentful anger could no longer be concealed, and he patted the table and said, "Elder Qiu Jun, you don't want me to invoke his virtues to join the cabinet, and deliberately ruin my future! This time if I can If we get over it, we will definitely send them all back to the village, and then clear them back to the Censor's Desk!"
After sending a ruthless message, I was afraid that there would be too many people writing the letter this time. The sage refused to tolerate him, and was busy thinking about how to win back the emperor's heart.
The children in his family advised: "Nowadays, the most prestigious person is Mo Ruo Zhang, why don't you invite Zhang Guozhang and the two national uncles to speak?"
How dare he use those two uncles
The eunuch Li, who was used by the emperor from the East Palace, was impeached after calling Er Zhang Yi Zhan. The lesson from the past is in the newly released "Junior Jin Yiwei" comic strip! These two are now catching unknowing people to give gifts to them, wishing they could show off in the court again, how could he take the initiative to send them up
These two uncles should not be used lightly, unless they can start with someone close to them and move them with affection. Looking at the court, the only one who can control the two uncles, and even ask them to help speak a good word, is the only one who has just been promoted to the governor of Jinyiwei...
wrong!
And someone!
In front of that person, what is Xie Ying!
He is really old, why didn't he immediately think of Cui Xie, the teacher of the two uncles in Qian'an, who was guarding the system in Qian'an!
He hurriedly approached his confidant and asked, "What writings has Cui Hezhong published recently?"
Cui Xie will keep the system until the twelfth lunar month of this year. During this period, he has been concentrating on studying the agricultural classics, and he has come up with many ways to bring about a good harvest. These are all liked by the emperor. If Cui Xie was still in the court, he would not be afraid of anything, but now that Qiu Jun is in trouble, Cui Xie has no time to return to the court, so he can only borrow one of his writings and dedicate it to the palace to show his credit for caring about agriculture. his luck.
Of course, as long as he is a solid supporter, when Cui Xie returns to the court, he will transfer all these credits into official positions and return them back.
Liu Shoufu was very calculated, and asked people to hurry back to Qian'an on horseback, and asked Cui Xie to ask for a few articles on farming methods to make up for himself.
Then he closed the door to thank the guests, put on an indifferent attitude like a white cotton in a prosperous world, and let the officials attack.
Just five days later, the confidant who had rushed to Qian'an for hundreds of miles rushed back to Liu's house empty-handed, and said bleakly: "Cui Shi's grandmother passed away, and his family was having a funeral, so he couldn't write new articles, so he took He does not produce auspicious grains. Besides, he copied all the articles he wrote on farming methods to his teacher Li Xueshi. Although he insisted on getting a copy back, I am afraid that he will not be able to give it to the palace..."
Liu Shoufu's face was pale, and the cotton roots that had been impeached and the same color seemed to shrink a bit.
Together with this confidant, Eunuch Tan, the first person in the current Slijian, entered Liu's house. After doing what Wynn was a great companion in the past, he persuaded Shoufu to return to his hometown.
If he can immediately present an article teaching the people to grow high-yield soybeans and wheat; if he can immediately come up with an auspicious wheat with two or three ears per stalk and more than ten seeds; if there is a Cui Xie to follow him now The father-in-law's family is courting, and the father-in-law is invited to enter the palace to beg the emperor...
However, none of this happened, and he could only sigh deeply, hating that God's will is in Qiu... not in Liu!