Wang Ju thought for a moment and said, "A gentleman is gentle, gentle as jade, a humble gentleman, Xie An."

"Xie An..."

Many ridiculous stories happened in the Jin Dynasty, but everything was good and bad. Although there were many bad phenomena in the Jin Dynasty, the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties was also famous in history, and there was Xie An's family background. Otherwise, with Xie An's style, he was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. If it were other dynasties, it would be impossible for him to be the prime minister for so many years.

"But it is impossible that only Xie An..."

"The Empress Dowager, there are also, but they are not gentlemen, upright, fair in law enforcement, honest in style, and clean ministers, Bao Zheng and Dong Xuan."

"The king is arguing with the king and the ministers are impartial, thinking about the long-term plan, not fearing the powerful and the noble, not fearing life and death. This is called a straight minister, Wei Zheng, Zhang Jiuling, Bi Gan, and Ji An."

"There are gaps in the heart, and the decisions are fair and wise, assisting the kings above and the people below, and the country quietly ushers in prosperity in peace. These are good ministers, Fang Du, Li Han, and Wang Dan."

"For the sake of the country, dedicate all our efforts and die until we die, this is a loyal minister, Zhuge Liang and Yan Zhenqing."

"Stand the country internally, and pacify the world externally. They are unparalleled in wisdom and strategy, and they are in line with advance and retreat. Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Li Mi, and Zhichen are the same."

"The great public is selfless, spotless, noble and honest, and virtue transforms the world and shines through the ages. This is a wise minister, Fan Zhongyan."

In terms of political achievements, Fan Zhongyan is nothing, far less than Lu Yijian. However, his noble sentiment and influence on future generations are few who can match.

Just like Su Dongpo, he was just 25 in politics in the early stage and not very good in the later stages, but he was extremely talented, that was enough.

Or like Sima Guang. Why didn’t there be many people in later generations copy Sima Guang’s old foundation? They beat him to death with one stick. It’s not because of Zizhi Tongjian!

"There are very few ministers."

"Empress Dowager, these people have reached the extreme in terms of wisdom and personal cultivation. How can there be many? So ordinary ministers are just politicians, and politicians are nostalgic for glory and wealth, and have strong selfishness, but they are not useless. If they have less selfishness and put the country on personal interests, and their wisdom and skills are amazing, they will still become famous officials of a generation. For example, Lu Yijian and Yao Chong, and Zhao Pu, the founding hero of our dynasty."

"The gentlemen, honest officials, straight ministers, wise ministers, loyal ministers, and wise ministers, just like Li Bai's poems, cannot be learned at all, but if you can learn from Yao Chong and Lu Yijian, you will contribute to the country, and the country will also give them wealth and honor. Although this is almost a trading behavior, even Confucianism does not reject it. If you want to take it, you will give it to him! This is also the reason why our ancestors prefer to treat the literati and officials. What they are afraid of is that the country gives them wealth and honor. They are at ease and dissatisfied with their desires and dissatisfaction, but do not consider the country at all. Instead, they become profitable, seize the benefits of the country to fill their private pockets, or use the national title and wealth to raise their reputation. As for what kind of gentleman, the queen mother, let me take it as a joke. How many literati in the court can be humble, respectful and gentle as jade?"

"Since everyone is a politician and has selfish intentions, why should you be a gentleman and behave yourself in a hypocritical manner? Why does the country need to support a high salary? The Empress Dowager, let's look at Jiangdongwei. The country's grain output is the highest in Jiangdongwei, but that output is so hard. For example, in the rainy season, because the water outside the embankment is higher than the water inside the embankment, people have to mobilize traffic. That harvest is the real hoeing of the wheat at noon, and sweat drips into the soil. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard."

This is also what Wang Ju learned through some channels.

Jiangdongwei is very good, but what should I do during the rainy season? There is no large water pump to pump water at all. So the information I inquired about made Wang Ju speechless.

That is, water trucks are removed from the dike. One water truck cannot pump up the dike, so two and three are set up to pull the water out of the dike step by step. Think about how severe the rainfall in the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River will be. A large dike weighs more than 100,000 mu or tens of thousands of mu, how much rain will fall? When will it be pumped? However, if it is not pumped, it will immediately flood. And what is fatal is that in order to increase the yield, people have to plant double-season rice. Moreover, because the yield is low, there are still many acres. A household often has to plant more than ten acres, twenty acres, and more than thirty acres!

This kind of hard work is unimaginable.

"But the Empress Dowager, how many ministers took out their salary and helped the poor? However, why did the ancestors do this? It was not only to raise integrity with high salaries, but also to make ministers worry-free and work for the country with peace of mind. Doing things is the minister's responsibility, rather than showing off. If that happens, why should the country emphasize Confucianism instead of carrying forward the art of pervasiveness?"

Since you are doing things, just use your political achievements to speak, not your verbal words, nor have you any qualifications. So what kind of political achievements Chen Xiang uses to compare with Wang Ju?

OK, enough.

However, Wang Ju walked out of the inner palace and felt a little puzzled.

Through Zhang Ruoshui's channels, Wang Ju also heard some news, such as Gao Taotao was full of affection for Sima Guang and persuaded Zhao Xu to reuse Sima Guang several times.

This is also the reason why Zhao Xu has been using Sima Guang anyway.

Wang Ju even suspected that Sima Guang and Gao Tao had a tacit contact with each other very early, including the Zhao Niannu case and Sima Guang's performance when the emperor was established.

But there was no way to change it, so Gao Taotao personally called himself to the inner palace to mediate.

Is there another story behind this?

However, Wang Ju didn't think much about it because Fei'er was about to give birth. In this era, it was really a very dangerous thing, especially the first child.

A few days later, Concubine Li gave birth to a daughter.

Because he was a daughter, Wang Ju was on the waves and not many people came to congratulate him. Only Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu's wife brought gifts to congratulate him.

However, Wang Ju liked it very much, so he held a sumptuous banquet, and the master and servant of the family closed the door and celebrated.

However, only a few days later, a noble person came to celebrate.

Zhao Niannu is here.

After Wang Ju got the money, he saw Zhao Niannu sitting in the living room, chatting with Li Fei'er and Qiong Niang, with his eyes a little unnatural.

He walked over and said, "I have met His Highness the Great Princess."

"Don't." Zhao Niannu said, then picked up Wang Ju's daughter, looked at Wang Ju and Li Fei'er carefully, and said, "She looks like you."

In fact, no matter whether you look like Wang Ju or Xiang Fei'er, you are destined to be a beautiful woman in the future.

But Wang Ju looked a little lonely when he saw her.

This is also human nature.

Yao'er glared at Wang Ju fiercely.

Wang Ju smiled bitterly at the beard touching his chin and said to himself, don’t talk about me, even with Han Qi’s courage, he wouldn’t dare to provoke your master.

But Wang Ju still felt a little guilty. After all, unlike Zhao Xu, Zhao Niannu helped him a lot without asking for anything in return.

Suddenly, an extremely bold idea came to his mind.

So he rushed to Yao'er and showed her to go to the study to talk.

…………

At the end of April, Zhao Xu led his ministers to visit Jinmingchi and play in the water and shoot in Qionglin Garden.

Jinmingchi is watching the water and playing. That is, Jinmingchi competes for the bidding.

This earliest origin was when Emperor Taizu of Song Dynasty observed the water battle. When Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he mobilized 35,000 soldiers to dig a pond to attract the Jinshui River to invade, and thus the Jinming Pool was found.

Then, usually in March or April, the navy will be inspected here.

There are two reasons. Although the Southern Tang Dynasty was in power, Wu Yue had not yet taken it back. Even though the south had completely decided, the Hebei water system was well developed at that time, Chai Rong used the navy and headed straight to the three gates.

As a result, after two northern expeditions, Zhao Kuangyi stopped thinking about it. However, the review of the navy was still retained, and Zhao Kuangyi also deliberately said, "The military paddles are the affairs of the south, and now they have been pacified, they will not be used again, but they are practiced from time to time and will not forget their martial arts."

That is to say, retaining a navy army can be a good deterrent to the south.

More than ten years have passed, and the navy army is of little significance. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi took a silver pot and threw it into Jinmingchi, and ordered a soldier to swim and take it up. From then on, the competition for the ferry began.

The official competition was in May of the third year of Xianping. "The flags and drums were raised, left and right wings were divided into wood, and the wood was planted as a sign. The ark was moving forward quickly, and the first one was given. "Thereafter, it was held in Jinmingchi every spring, and every time it was "people who traveled to visit and enjoyed". This made the waves of "competition for the bid" splash on ordinary citizens, attracting the general public to watch this activity that can strengthen the body, which is far beyond the meaning of simply holding a "water battle" at the beginning of the excavation of Jinmingchi.

Then Emperor Zhenzong of Song issued an order to allow the people to enter Jinmingchi to play for a month at the end of February. At this time, the Qionglin Garden, which hosted the new Jinshi banquet in the south of Jinmingchi, was almost built. Qionglin Garden is known as the first of the four famous gardens in Tokyo, and it happened to be connected to Jinmingchi to form a huge landscape. Before this, Emperor Zhenzong of Song opened up suddenly, and tourists were everywhere, and some citizens were even squeezed out of their way when they were visiting Jinmingchi.

Tourists were playing, and the navy used tiger-headed boats, flying fish boats, and loach boats to compete for the bid three times. There were even various ships performing dances such as "Sea Eye" and "Closing". It was not people dancing, but boats jumping. There were also water swings, that is, various artists boarded the swing on the painting boat, and then swung the swing higher and higher. They kept swinging until they were on par with the swing, and then suddenly took off the swing, flew into the air, and then overturned several somersaults to perform diving in a variety of ways.

Gradually, the time was postponed to April or May, and various ships also turned into dragon boats. The court was also very generous to this, and established Lingxing Gate in the south of the Chi and erected prostitutes on it. This also shows that the prostitute culture in the Song Dynasty was prosperous. For example, if a dowry was a prostitute, the more the prostitute was needed as a bridesmaid. The more a wealthy family was, the more they invited those talented and lusty courtesans, which led to the story of Wang Anshi asking the official prostitutes to sell wine.

The performance was performed first, and then the poles were inserted into the pool, so that each ship would compete for the bidding. The first few prizes had different weights.

Zhao Xu led the ministers to watch. These ministers refer to important officials and have nothing to do with Wang Ju. Besides, he is a "person to be punished", but Wang Ju's family also came to Jin Mingchi.

The competition has not yet begun, and there are some artists in the pool swings.

Everyone watched with relish.

Fei'er and Erniu exclaimed from time to time.

Wang Ju's mind moved, there were still few entertainment activities in this era. Of course, if visiting prostitutes was regarded as entertainment activities, then entertainment activities in this era are still very rich. But is that considered?

In fact, there is no need to be such trouble. If it is by the side of the Jinming Pool, it may not be by the side of the Jinming Pool. Now Kaifeng’s water system is developed, and there are many large and small lakes. Choose a deep water place on the side of the lake, and set up dozens of high platforms for the people to play and dive. This can also add a lot of joy to everyone.

This doesn't cost much, but will it cause trouble?

No matter what, just do it. Anyway, I don’t have to worry about it if I have too many lice.

Wang Ju did it as soon as he said.

This is simple to do. You can place a high platform on the lakeside without buildings, and place some springs and wooden boards on the platform, so you can dive the springboard.

But trouble soon came.

The Dragon Boat Festival just passed and the first major court meeting.

After everyone's memorial, Zhao Xu asked: "Wang Ju, there are some novelties in the capital, but what did you buy?"

Wang Ju did not deny it and said, "It was the one who sent someone to the police."

"Isn't this to educate the people to enjoy happiness and play?"

"Your Majesty, this diving comes from the water swing. The water swing comes from the competition for the Jinmingchi. The competition for the Jinmingchi comes from Taizong. Why aren't there many ministers opposed it? This is to share joy with the people. The scholars and officials are generous and can drink and visit prostitutes and have fun, but what about the people? Did I give the people a little joy, and do not gamble or prostitute, and do it wrong? If so, please punish the minister earlier. Anyway, many people are annoyed by me." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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