my wife is queen

Chapter 24
"The clothing and food of the millions of waterworkers seem to be talking about the people of the waterworkers who depend on water transportation to survive, but in fact it is the tens of thousands of water officials behind them, and..."

On the banks of the Jinshui River, Sun Gong said the second half of the sentence in a chatty tone, with some love for talent, he couldn't bear to let Li Mian say it.

There are many cronies involved in the bad governance of the water transport, and it doesn't matter if he is an old man with a leisurely income at home. He is no longer an official in the court. When the water transport bureaucrats heard this sentence, they would only regard it as a complaint from an old man.

What Li Mian said was different. He was born as a scholar from a poor family, but he uttered words that slandered the water transport bureaucrats.

The impeachment memorial flew into the palace like snowflakes.

"Mr. Sun, speak carefully."

With a serious face, Yuan Gong stopped Sun Gong's unfinished sentence in time, not because he was afraid of the water transportation bureaucrats, but he was suspected of being disrespectful by telling the person who really made a profit behind it.

"Haha." Sun Gong slapped a haha, knowing that he spoke too fast and almost said something disrespectful.

Grandpa Sun beckoned and motioned for a young man with red lips and white teeth behind Yuan Gong to brew a new pot of tea.

Mr. Xiao Lang has not yet reached the crown, he wears a soft scarf on his head, a silk lake shirt on his body, and a piece of Tianhuang stone hanging from his waist.

Anyone who sees this handsome young man will not think that Yuan Gong has a hobby of raising children.

It lies in the soft scarf on Xiao Langjun's head.

Li Mian gasped when he saw the soft towel, and took a closer look: "This young gentleman is no older than Wuxiang, he has already passed the provincial examination and obtained the honor of Juren. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a child prodigy." I didn't expect that it was just a tea-making boy next to Yuan Gong, and Wan Sheng was lucky enough to follow him."

At his age, he passed the provincial examination and won the honor of juren.

If he hadn't been lucky enough to receive grace, the name of Duke Xie Yuan would not have fallen on him. In terms of learning, he is not as good as this handsome young man next to Duke Yuan.

Mr. Xiao Lang should probably be Yuan Gong's junior, and he is very skillful in making tea. This is not the first time he has done this.

I found the owner of the Lengtao stall and borrowed a stove and a copper pot. It only took me a long time to brew a new pot of tea.

Mr. Xiao Lang walked over with a pine flower glaze teapot, poured a cup for Yuan Gong and Sun Gong, and also poured a cup for Li Mian.

However, when Mr. Xiao Lang was pouring tea for Li Mian, he looked at him curiously, and had complicated emotions towards the eloquent Li Mian.

Curious how he would know the detailed maladministration in the water transportation, and whipped it into it, but just stood by and listened, which made people think.

What's more, I'm still envious, thinking that when he can be like Li Mian, he can chat and laugh happily with Sun Gong and Yuan Gong.

"Xiao Chuanting." Sun Gong took a sip of the new tea, and immediately felt dissatisfied with Xiao Langjun: "Are you the grandson of the old man, or the grandson of Yuan Gong, and you poured the new tea that was brewed first. old man."

The first dish brewed by Xincha is often not used for drinking, but for soaking teacups and nourishing tea sets.

The second course of brewing is the tea soup with the most suitable taste.

Yuan Gong was much more rigid and serious than Sun Gong, and when he mentioned Sun Gong's family grandson, the old man smiled a little more: "As Sun Chuanting's mentor, the old man is naturally closer than your family grandfather in terms of relationship. , of course I have to pour a second course of tea soup for the old man."

Mr. Sun was complaining, but his face was full of satisfaction. Of course, it was something to be happy that the grandson of his own family was valued by Mr. Yuan.

What he said just now was not to reprimand Sun Chuanting, but to explain something to Yuan Gong.

Look, the old man's descendants are closer to you, why don't you hurry up and teach Sun Chuanting all your knowledge without reservation.

Sun Gong smiled and drank a few sips of tea, but he still couldn't stop his interest in changing the waste water to the sea, so he continued to ask: "The waste water to the sea you mentioned should be to change the water transportation into sea transportation, and transport grain from all over the place. Rush to the capital."

Mentioning the four words waste water to change sea, Yuan Gong put down the pine flower glaze bowl in his hand and focused his attention on Li Mian.

Sun Chuanting, who was carrying the teapot, put down the pine flower glaze teapot in his hand, and stopped pouring tea for the patriarch grandpa and grandpa.

I drank too fast, as if I didn't have any tea to drink, I wish I could drink a whole pot of new tea by myself.

Sun Chuanting's small face was a bit serious. In the past, when he met Qian Dongjian, the so-called great talent, he was too lazy to talk to him. He recited a few sour poems and really regarded himself as someone special.

Only for Li Mian, a scholar from a poor family, who also joined the royal family and was looked down upon by officials and gentry, he paid more attention to him.

Li Mian nodded first, and then shook his head: "Through the chat just now, Mr. Sun should know that the abolition of water transport and the use of sea transport to escort grain can solve the problem of the sudden drop in grain. Unfortunately, the real problem of abolishing water and changing the sea is the real problem. It is not about the method used to transport the grain, but about the tens of thousands of bureaucrats attached to the canal."

Li Mian knows better than anyone else the benefits of abolishing the water and changing the sea, and he also knows the difficulty, so he couldn't help saying: "As long as we can abolish the water and change the sea, it will save all kinds of exploitation, big and small, and realize the national treasury and the sea." The direct handover by the common people is short and smooth.”

Short and fast?
When Sun Gong and Yuan Gong heard the new words in this sentence, they paused for a moment. They knew each of these three words, but they didn't know them together.

Thinking about it carefully, it has a lot of meaning.

Just like abolishing the water to change the sea, a lot of tediousness and miscellaneousness are omitted. The short, flat and fast three words summarize a lot of words.

Sun Gong thought for a while, and then laughed: "The old man suddenly likes to chat with you, he is a talent, and his words are pleasant."

Hearing these words, Sun Chuanting glanced at Li Mian in surprise, thinking that he could visit him when he had nothing to do.

What the imperial court lacks most is talents. Scholars pass the imperial examinations, and a large number of talents will emerge every year.

There are very few talents who can get into Sun Gongfa's eyes, almost none.

Not to mention being talented, some capable officials in the court still did not get Sun Gong's approval, and they were often reprimanded by Sun Gong when they met each other.

Sun Chuanting has been with Sun Gong and Yuan Gong for so many years, and it was the first time that Sun Gong admired a young man who had not yet become an official, and even said that he was a talent.

Back then, Qian Dongjian boasted that he was one of Jiangzuo's three great talents, and he wanted to win a compliment from Grandpa Sun, but he didn't even enter the gate of the house, and was turned away.

But today, at a roadside Lengtao stall, Sun Chuanting heard a word of approval from Grandpa Sun.

In the eyes of Yuan Gong who looked like Li Mian, there was also a little more appreciation, but he sighed deeply: "Millions of waterworkers depend on food and clothing, and it is absolutely forbidden to use water to change the sea."

(End of this chapter)