Chapter 180: The Imperial Uncle's Superintendent
It was pouring rain. Sitting in the school building, Su Ze listened to the sound of raindrops hitting the ground outside the window, and his mind wandered to Changning Guard again.
During this time, sea ships have withdrawn into the port. The ports of Changningwei and Dong'ao Island have been closed. It is not known whether any ships have been damaged.
The water levels of the Minjiang River and Jianxi River surged, and the canal house that had always been neglected became busy. Hai Rui let the county students study on their own, and was entrusted by Baizhi County to take the canal house officials to inspect the water conservancy facilities.
There is no way, who allows the county government to have only so many officials? All the senior officials in the county were mobilized and led them to inspect the river dams.
Su Ze was not worried about the water conservancy project of Jianxi. When the Xishushui sand flushing project was built, channels for flood control and discharge had been reserved, and the reservoir was built according to the margin of the highest water level in history.
However, I heard that the Minjiang River was in danger, and the water almost did not cross the dam. If the villagers had not fought hard to block it, it would have been tragic if the Minjiang River burst its embankments.
Baizhi County was still worried. If the embankment really burst, he would be the county magistrate for the rest of his life. Only then did he mobilize all the county officials and finally survived several rounds of danger.
This kind of wind and waves is nothing to Yanpingwei along the coast, but Su Ze is worried about the newly built buildings on Dong'ao Island.
In addition, Su Ze is also worried about whether the sweet potatoes and potatoes that have just been plowed in the mountains can survive.
The sweet potatoes sown in winter were harvested in March, and this sweet new food was quickly welcomed by Changningwei.
Whether roasted sweet potatoes or sweet potato porridge are popular in Changningwei, during this spring plowing, sweet potatoes are planted in the mountain fields near Changningwei.
Sweet potatoes actually contain a lot of water. You will feel full when you first eat them, but you will get hungry soon. In fact, as a staple food, they are not as good as rice and wheat.
The advantage of sweet potatoes is that they can be used in emergencies during times of famine. Their high yields do not require high land requirements, and they can be grown in large mountainous areas in Fujian.
Su Ze has promoted the cultivation of sweet potatoes in the mountainous areas near Changningwei. As for the problem of seedling degradation, insisting on using high-quality varieties to raise seedlings can delay the deterioration of seedlings until four or five generations later. Su Ze still has two or three years to solve this problem. .
Continuous heavy rains have also caused problems for tea estates in Wuyi Mountain.
In previous years, although it would rain during the Qingming Festival, such rainy weather for more than ten consecutive days is still rare.
Such heavy rain also affected the picking of tea leaves after the Qingming Festival. What's worse is that there is no sunlight to dry the tea leaves.
This made the owners of Wuyishan Tea Garden extremely anxious. After receiving the news, Su Ze immediately copied out the method of making black tea and gave it to Manager Zhou.
The production process of black tea is actually similar to that of green tea, except that the picked tea leaves do not need to be dried in the sun, but must be stored in a dark place for a period of time.
But how long it should be stored and what kind of humidity it should be kept at, these all need to be studied repeatedly to determine the taste.
The continuous rainy weather gave Su Ze the opportunity to experiment. According to his instructions, three batches of tea were stored for different days, and then fried by the tea house and given to Su Ze for tasting.
"Brother Rulin."
A young man stood in front of Su Ze. Su Ze came to his senses and said, "Brother Chengzhai."
The young man in front of him was the same age as Su Ze, and he was also a rookie who passed the boy test this time. His surname was Li Qiyuan, and his given name was Chengzhai. His given name was Hai Rui after he entered the county school. He soon became friends with Su Ze.
"Brother Rulin, I solved yesterday's problem."
Li Qiyuan took out a small piece of paper and spread it in front of Su Ze. He saw densely packed numbers written on it, which was a mathematical problem.
Su Ze looked at the answer, nodded and said: "Brother Chengzhai, you are indeed from a family background."
Li Qiyuan was a surprise that Su Ze encountered in the county school. The Li family is a small family in Nanping County, with a history of As a heirloom in arithmetic, if Li Qiyuan fails to pass the imperial examination, he will follow his father to become a "calculation scholar" and help the people calculate and buy land.
The reason why Li Qiyuan was able to pass down arithmetic to his family was because his ancestor had participated in the Sihai Test hosted by Guo Shoujing.
The Sihai test was proposed by Guo Shoujing, a calendar expert in the Yuan Dynasty. Twenty-seven test points were established across the country to observe the length of day and night and the times of sunrise and sunset every day throughout the year.
Through the difference in the sun's shadow at these locations, Guo Shoujing calculated the new value of the angle between the yellow and the red, and accurately calculated the length of a tropical year, accumulating a large amount of data for the compilation of the "Time Calendar".
There was also a testing station in Fujian back then, and the person in charge of this testing station was the ancestor of the Li family.
Li Qiyuan's ancestors also worshiped under Guo Shoujing's Xingzhou School and learned a lot of arithmetic and astronomy.
However, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, private practice of astronomy became a serious crime, and the Li family was unwilling to enter the Qintian Prison, so they remained anonymous in Nanping County until today.
The Li family was in decline. Li Qiyuan and his son could only pick up their ancestors' arithmetic knowledge and make a living by calculating land for people in Nanping County.
"Brother Chengzhai, your pushing step method to gather the top is no longer a problem."
Li Qiyuan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much, Brother Rulin, for teaching me this method of cultivating a field."
Li Qiyuan was filled with gratitude for the method of cultivating a field taught by Su Ze. It is more accurate than the method passed down from his family, and the calculation is faster than the method passed down from his family.
Since using this method, Li Qiyuan has helped his father land land for others quickly and efficiently, and has gained a lot of reputation.
Li Qiyuan continued: "Before I met Brother Rulin, I didn't know that there was such an exquisite cutting and repairing method in the world." The
Li family's method of farming is actually similar in principle to Su Ze's pushing-stepping method, except that The push-step-to-top method formulates the process and makes calculations more convenient.
Since ancient times, the method for calculating the area of polygons has been the "cut and complement method".
Just like calculating the circumference of a circle, Zu Chongzhi's method is to continuously calculate the sides of the circle into small straight segments. In fact, this is an idea of extreme calculus.
Su Ze smiled and said, "Brother Li, I have another calculus method. Do you want to listen?"
Li Qiyuan's eyes lit up and he sat down obediently. Su Ze smiled slightly. Someone actually came to the door. Don't blame me for calculus. Dafa!
Su Ze first briefly described the principles of calculus, and then deduced a few simple theorems. Li Qiyuan was completely immersed in the ocean of mathematics.
After officially entering the county school, Su Ze discovered that the life of a scholar in this era was not limited to the Four Books and Five Classics.
For a low-level scholar like Li Qiyuan, it was impossible to put all his hopes in the imperial examination.
Among Su Ze's classmates was Wang Xun, whose family tradition was to study the Ming Dynasty law. His father was also a famous lawyer in Nanping County.
There was even a guy named Han Li, whose father was a yin-yang student in the county government.
Yin Yang Sheng is the Yin Yang teacher who is responsible for calculating auspicious times and days for the yamen.
Yin-yang students and their children were originally not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations. It was in the second year of Tianshun that the conditions were relaxed and allowed Yin-yang students to take part in the imperial examinations.
Han Li is proficient in calculating auspicious times and Feng Shui. The Yin Yang student in the county government does not have much to do. On weekdays, he also does some "private work" with his father in Feng Shui.
In addition to these two people, there is also Yu Zongzhang, a scholar who was born in a military household in Yanping Guards. He and Yu Zongyuan are distant brothers of the same generation, but Yu Zongzhang’s father is only a hereditary family of Yanping Guards, and Yu Zongyuan Zhang You is the second son of this hereditary family.
Unable to inherit his family's job, Yu Zongzhang could only study hard. To say that Yu Zongzhang was also powerful, Yanpingwei's health education had long been abandoned. He became a scholar by borrowing books and studying on his own. Among these three people, Yu Zongzhang and Su Ze were both from military families, and Yu Zongzhang was Yu Zongyuan's brother.
Han Li and Li Qiyuan, one was born from Yin Yang and the other was a scholar, were both relatively marginalized scholars in the county.
Su Ze showed goodwill to them, and they naturally gathered around Su Ze.
Han Li came in in a hurry and said to Su Ze: "Brother Rulin, Inspector Wang is coming to Fujian!"
Inspector Wang was Wang Daokun, the Hanlin official who Hai Rui had mentioned before, who was appointed by the imperial court to preside over the imperial examination in Fujian.
Han Li said to Su Ze: "I heard that Inspector Wang is particularly good at music and rhythm. Brother Rulin, you are going to take advantage of this provincial examination!"
Han Li's loud voice made everyone look at Su Ze.
Su Ze covered his face with his hands. He didn't know how this guy could show Feng Shui to others with such a big mouth.
People who don't study history rarely know Wang Daokun, but Su Ze's history is already Level 5. Before time travel, he was also a Ming history major, so he naturally still remembers the name Wang Daokun.
Wang Daokun was Zhang Juzheng's fellow Jinshi.
Su Ze couldn't help but sigh at the correctness of the six degrees of separation theorem. He only needed to contact Zhang Juzheng through Wang Daokun.
This also shows how small the circle of top scholars in the Ming Dynasty was. Anyone who stepped into this circle would have more or less intersections.
Zhang Juzheng should still be "recuperating" in his hometown Jiangling now, right? He returned to the capital in the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing's reign, and in less than ten years, he jumped from editor of the Hanlin Academy to deputy minister of the cabinet.
This was the terrifying promotion speed of Hanlin officials, and it took Zhang Juzheng another six years to overthrow Gao Gong and become the auxiliary minister of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Su Ze didn't want to make friends with Zhang Juzheng through Wang Daokun. He was not even a scholar and could not enter the circle of Jinshi.
What made him interested in Wang Daokun was another thing.
Mr. Superintendent, Su Ze really wants to ask, was it you who wrote "Jin Ping Mei"?
This strange book was written during the Jiajing period. Many people in the academic circle speculate that it was written by Wang Daokun when he was living idle in his hometown of Huizhou.
However, since Wang Daokun was considered a high official in the imperial court, it was naturally impossible for him to admit that he wrote this book. Historians also speculated based on the writing style and the earliest time of writing.
The school inspector who wrote pornographic books always made Su Ze feel a little weird.
But Inspector Wang's talents are more than enough to serve as the chief examiner of a provincial examination.
Wang Daokun is proficient in music, folk art, and poetry. He is also a famous anti-Japanese general. He can be said to be a compound talent.
News that the new inspector was about to take office spread throughout Nanping County. According to the rules, before the township examination, the new inspector must tour the province, meet with students from various places, and test their homework.
Being able to leave a name in the mind of the inspector is always a great benefit for the township examination. The scholars in Nanping County who are preparing to take the township examination are holding back their energy and want to make a splash when Inspector Wang visits the counties.
Su Ze has no interest in these things. His current task is to brush up on the liver examination skills and brush up on other skills.
The rain outside the window finally subsided a little, and the members of the community quickly held up their oil-paper umbrellas and walked home while the rain was light.
Su Ze was about to go back when he saw the dusty Hai Rui returning to the county school. When he saw Su Ze, he immediately said: "Rulin, wait a moment." Su Ze knew that Hai Rui had something to do with him, so he
put down the oil-paper umbrella in his hand and He followed Hai Rui to his study.
After wiping the rain off his head, Hai Rui put on a dry robe and said to Su Ze, "I've finished the first draft of Gu Wen Guan Zhi." Su Ze also didn't expect that
Hai Rui was teaching a class at the county school while working in the county school. Despite the disaster relief situation, he was able to complete the proofreading and typesetting of "Gu Wen Guan Zhi" so quickly.
Hai Rui handed a stack of manuscripts to Su Ze and said, "How long does it take to type and print?"
The Qing Dynasty's "Guwen Guanzhi" is a collection of prose by many writers since the pre-Qin Dynasty, and many of the contents above are directly included In Chinese textbooks.
Su Ze's literary skills have reached Level 6. He wrote down all the ancient texts in his memory and gave them to Hai Rui for proofreading, typesetting and captions.
Hai Rui was also very dedicated to compiling the book "Gu Wen Guan Zhi". He visited families with book collections in the city and borrowed books from them with dignity before completing the proofreading work of "Gu Wen Guan Zhi".
The Qing Dynasty's "Gu Wen Guan Zhi" contains a total of 220 prose articles from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty. Su Ze's literary level obviously cannot remember so much.
Guwen Guanzhi, compiled by Su Ze and Hai Rui, only contains fifty selected articles. Hai Rui made annotations to explain the allusions and word usage in the ancient articles, while Su Ze was responsible for commenting on the authors and articles.
Su Ze finished reading and said: "If you use movable type printing, it only takes ten days to bind it into a book."
Hai Rui said with great joy: "I plan to dedicate this book to the newly appointed Superintendent Wang."
Su Ze was somewhat grateful. , Hai Rui was paving the way for him again and wanted to help him become famous.
It would be great to be registered with Wang Daokun. Su Ze nodded and said, "The student will ask the printing house to print it now."
After talking about "Gu Wen Guan Zhi", Hai Rui said to Su Ze: "Ru Lin. , I heard that you are good at water conservancy?"
Su Ze nodded, and Hai Rui immediately said: "Tomorrow you come with me to the Minjiang River to have a look."
Su Ze could only agree, and as expected, he couldn't rest, and he was still preparing for this He studied hard at the county school for a while, and was dragged by Hai Rui to control the river.
However, the situation of the Minjiang River is not good. Now that the spring plowing has been planted, if the embankment breaks, tens of thousands of people will suffer disaster. Now that Hai Rui has found him, Su Ze can't just sit back and ignore it.
Hai Rui said again: "Take the book with you. I will take you to study in your free time."
Su Ze added: "Teacher, Han Li, a student from the county, is a yin and yang student passed down in his family. He is proficient in the art of Kanyu. Teacher, please take him with you." ."
Hai Rui nodded and said, "I'll go find him right away."
In the next few days, although there were still heavy rains, with Su Ze, the Minjiang River was always tied to the embankment by combining dredging and blocking. middle.
In early May, the rain gradually subsided, and Hai Rui showed a relaxed expression.
Just when Hai Rui was returning to the county seat after his long-lasting flood control work, the envoys from the imperial court finally arrived in Nanping County.
The prefect then put down the table and placed a guard of honor at the entrance of the government office to welcome the imperial decree.
There is a new chapter, so I won’t be so shameless as to ask for monthly votes for the time being.
The plot of these chapters should be slowed down a bit
(end of this chapter)