Chapter 202: Recipe leak

Su Shi knew that it was Zhao Xing who came before he looked up. He greeted Zhao Xing happily: "Leave people, I just talked to this old farmer about this year's farm work, and also wrote a poem "Huanxisha". What do you think:

The leaves are covered with layers of slight light.

Whose family cooks cocoons and smells fragrant?

A sweet talk from the silk girl across the fence,

The white stick and the quinoa holds the drunken eyes.

The green and pounding the stomach is hungry,

Ask you when the bean leaves will be yellow.”

Zhao Xing lamented in his heart: I finally figured out the reason why Su Shi's career was not going well! Think about it, he actually went to investigate the farmers' "when will the bean leaves be yellow?" and said that the farmers "removing green and pounding the green, damaging the grove". Isn't this disrupting the unspoken rules of the officialdom and asking for trouble?

Those who have been promoted through digital games will undoubtedly hate Su Shi to the core and go to death: people have submitted reports of "a yield of tens of thousands of kilograms per mu", "no safety accidents throughout the year", "the company's performance is good", and the emperor also passed the report. Su Shi, you are ill in your mind, "are inappropriate inappropriate", and you have to have a field investigation to get them off the stage?

Su Shi did not notice Zhao Xing's complaints, and was still full of interest and smiled like a child: "The old farmer also said that this year's drought, fortunately the dragon bone waterwheel, and his seedlings were saved. I also wrote a poem about the dragon bone waterwheel. Listen to it: "Flip through the couplets, the tail crows, and the snakes are indeed melting. The green waves are divided into cloud formations, and the green needles are pierced to draw rice buds. The sand is about to fly in Dongting in May, and the croaker is singing in the cave. The heavens do not see the old man crying, and call A Xiang to push the thunder cart."

Well, I also made a song called "Preface to the Song of the Horse". Do you want to listen to it?"

Zhao Xing shook his head and waved to ask the Japanese girl who followed him to open a bamboo umbrella for Su Dongpo. He bent down and picked up Su Dun, saying, "Teacher, let's go. I'm here, and the old man didn't even dare to leave, so it's better for us to leave quickly."

Su Shi laughed, stood up, and walked back with his hands behind his back - his government office was on the other side of the dike.

What kind of person is Su Shi?

"He is a hopeless optimist school, a giant politician, an emperor's secretary, a kind judge, a moonlit night wanderer, a great writer, a creative painter, a wine fairy, and a clown, but this is not enough to tell all of him..."

In the busy life, life passed quickly. The 200,000-flat army was very fast. When they did the complete work of repairing the West Lake, Zhao Xing divided them into twenty-four teams, and led his twenty-four students to start repairing the road leading from Hangzhou County to all directions.

There were too many roads that needed to be repaired, and Zhao Xing did not dare to ask all roads to be poured with cement, because it would be an astronomical cement demand, which was far from realistic in the Song Dynasty. Even the roads in Hangzhou could not be paved into cement pavement, and he only paved a few main roads into cement avenues.

After the renovation was completed, a side effect occurred. Because there were too many soldiers participating in the project, the cement formula was leaked after the project was completed, which prompted small lime kilns in various places. As a result, the lime production in the Song Dynasty rose sharply and the prices remained high.

Fortunately, Zhao Xing was quick-witted, and the lime kiln in Huangzhou was his family's property, so he rushed to the price increase and completed the construction of his castle as scheduled. The day he completed was July 7th. It was the day when Zhao Xing moved into the new castle, and it was also the day when he and Chen Yiyi were scheduled to complete the house.

Chen Yiyi's identity is there, and some things are not suitable for publicity, but a woman's nature determines that she does not want such a happy event for life to go quietly like a thief entering the village. So, under the excuse of the completion of the castle, the entire castle window was covered with window flowers and the city was full of ribbons.

On July 7th, the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet is said to be Chinese Valentine's Day. On this tempting and criminal day, it is said that the Cowherd fell in love with a rich girl, or the daughter of a nobleman, Weaver Girl. He stole the Weaver Girl's clothes and used the principles of ethics to intimidate the Weaver Girl. He took advantage of the situation to kidnap the Weaver Girl, then seduced and deceived the Weaver Girl, and deceived the Weaver Girl to use his textile technology to make a dangerous bet with his master, and then took advantage of the situation to get rid of his slave identity and started a wonderful life.

The matter was not over yet. Just when the couple both returned the home, the Weaver Girl's mother, the Queen Mother, came to rescue the trafficked minor. He was wrong. The Queen Mother was evil. She took her daughter away from the Cowherd. For this reason, the Cowherd burned her boat and killed the oxen in her family, indicating that life could not be achieved. He put on bloody cowhide and took the children born by the Weaver Girl to the Queen Mother's house, claiming that if the Queen Mother didn't hand over her daughter to him, he would smash the two children to death on the spot.

In the end, the Queen Mother, forced herself to allow the two to meet each year, and the day they met was chosen on July 7, and since then, they have created a love that has been praised for the ages and is lingering.

July 7, Valentine's Day, Kidnapping Day, on this day, Zhao Xing's castle held a grand singing and dancing. On the water pavilion, the new version of "The West Chamber" was officially staged. The two talents joined forces to create the stage scenes of more than 3,000 poems in the whole play, making the performers feel like they are gods and immortals in the painting.

Today's heroine is Chen Yiyi. Cheng Azhu avoided today's feast according to the rules. She and her children moved into the small building castle on the hillside in advance. This castle was not named "Iron Lumber Castle" after all. Su Shi thought the name was too vulgar, so he named a more elegant name "Blue Wa Dao".

When Zhao Xing first heard this name, his eyes were almost falling off, but after a second thought, he decided: No name is more suitable than this one.

The entire castle is built with large bluestone, with a blue color that looks integrated into the outside. The five-story tower looks like a steel furnace of a dwarf goblin, but it is called the "Blue Tile Terrace", which seems to be more elegant.

The singing and dancing performance in Shuixili ended with thunderous applause. Su Shi leaned close to Zhao Xing's ear, pointed to the blue tiled platform, and said in a deafening applause: "Li Ren, when will you perform on your platform?"

Su Shi refers to the roof platform. Zhao Xing has a Cuju venue arranged on the roof platform, which is accompanied by a small dance floor, allowing people to sit around the platform to watch the performances in the central dance floor.

Since the completion of the Blue Tile Platform, Su Shi has been clamoring to hold a night banquet on the rooftop platform. In addition, Liao Xiaoxiao rarely sings publicly this year. Su Shi also thought of holding a small-scale night banquet on the rooftop platform to listen to Liao Xiaoxiao's singing again.

Liao Xiaoxiao welcomed this request very much. She was a person who was used to being promoted to the crowd. Recently, this story of home life made her feel a little lonely, so she kept staring at Su Dongpo. When she saw Su Dongpo talking to Zhao Xing, she pointed to the platform above. She hurried over and said crisply: "Bachelor, I have long thought of inviting you. Zhan Qinqin will return to the capital in a few days. I plan to invite a few singers in the team to sing a song on the Mid-Autumn Festival and have a farewell banquet.

If a bachelor is determined, we might as well set a date. The bachelor's "Share the Beauty of the Moon" spread all over the country. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, he climbed up to appreciate the moon, but he hoped that the bachelor would write new words again."

Liao Xiaoxiao is aware of the protagonist. Today's protagonist was originally Chen Yiyi. She was wearing a big red dress, wearing a full set of Tang Dynasty princess headdresses, and shaved her eyebrows. She painted a short and thick "folded mountain eyebrows" like the Tang Dynasty, and her cheeks were covered with Yan Branches (rouge). If Zhao Xing hadn't stopped her, she would dye her teeth pure black according to the habits of the Tang Dynasty, completely recreating the appearance of Tang Dynasty geisha, modern Japanese geek, and Vietnamese brides in the Song Dynasty...

Most of the officials present today knew Chen Yiyi's identity... Cough cough, Chen Yiyi's identity is the same as that of the Lezhi County Lord. It was a taboo topic at that time. Many officials of the Song Dynasty knew very well that they were quite proud of the fact that an ordinary official in their country married a Vietnamese princess, but this matter was not easy to promote. After all, according to Confucianism, the attitude towards the four barbarians was higher than that of their own citizens. Such a foreign prince consort would not conform to tradition to treat him as a small official. If Su Shi had not protected Zhao Xing at the beginning, the ministers would probably have revealed this secret.

But now, this secret has become a taboo. The matter of the Lezhi County Lord has been intertwined with Chen Yiyi's identity. The Empress Dowager was staring there. It seemed that the little emperor tended to keep this secret after receiving gifts from his sister frequently. Therefore, the ministers also chose to ignore this matter. Therefore, although Chen Yiyi's dress today was a bit over-the-counter and even a bit overbearing, everyone pretended not to see it and focused on appreciating the "West Chamber".

No one else saw it, Su Shi could not turn a blind eye to Chen Yiyi's pouting mouth. Although Liao Xiaoxiao tried her best to steal the scene, Su Shi could only smile without comment and asked Chen Yiyi: "What do you think of this proposal?"

In terms of rules, Chen Yiyi should not be called "legend and sister-in-law", but in terms of rules, Chen Yiyi's identity as a concubine should not wear gorgeous clothes that are equivalent to a prince. Since everyone knows it, Su Shi's name has been raised to a higher level and called Yiyi "legend and sister-in-law". Chen Yiyi did not understand the respect of Su Shi's name. She just got angry, but now she has disappeared. She was lying in Zhao Xing's arms and did not hear Su Shi's question at all. While pointing to her, she sang a new song taught by Zhao Xing: "I am going to marry you today...", and the singing was full of happiness.

There was a dispute over lyrics in the Song Dynasty. Liu Yong represented vulgar and lyrics, or popular singing style, and Su Shi represented elegant lyrics. After a debate, Su Shi won, and Ci studies went to great elegance, while vulgar and lyrics went to the market. Chen Yiyi now sang songs composed of slang, which was a slang song in the Song Dynasty. And Chen Yiyi didn't learn a few sentences, and just turned a few lines of lyrics over and over again, but Su Shi did not dare to underestimate them because the lyrics were graceful, which poured out the nervous mood of a married woman.

After listening for a while, Su Shi asked tentatively: "Why is this song only half a poem, and the second half a poem?"

Chen Yiyi woke up as if she was dreaming. While playing with her two fingers, she said happily: "I don't like the lyrics of the second half of the verse. Why did she marry someone else's goodness? So I forgot the second half of the verse. Can the scholar-teacher make up for me?"

Su Shi was choked, and he turned his face and continued to appreciate "The West Chamber". Chen Yiyi was still muttering there: "Scholar Qin changed the "Biography of Yingying" to this, which sounds so beautiful. If the teacher is not empty, I will look for Uncle Qin."

Chen Yiyi spoke once before and treated Su Shi as an equal. Then he had already agreed with Zhao Xing's identity and called Su Shi and Qin Guan in the tone of Zhao Xing's wife and concubine. After a moment of pause, she remembered to answer Su Shi's question: "August 15th, Brother Xing, are we going to have a kabuki before August 15th? In this way, it would be better to set it on August 15th - Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet. This name sounds very elegant."

Liao Xiaoxiao is very good at observing the words and expressions. When Chen Yiyi spoke, she did not interrupt. When Chen Yiyi decided, she immediately added fuel to the fire: "The platform on the rooftop can accommodate 200 people, each with ten people, and the upper floor can accommodate 20 families, and the rest are in the yard. Let the rest of the team spread around, which is also considered a Mid-Autumn Festival fun. What do you think about it?"

Zhao Xing looked up at the blue tiles behind him, looked around the surrounding courtyards, nodded in agreement with Liao Xiaoxiao's suggestion: "This requires some acquaintances, send out the invitations in advance, verify the number of people, and then plan the venue according to the number of people. Xiaoxiao, you can do this."

Xiaoxiao agreed loudly: "During the Mid-Autumn Festival, let them cultivate cherry blossoms. When the cherry blossoms bloom, the jasmine fragrance, and the azalea roses all over the yard, plan them well, and let the garden be passed down by word of mouth... My husband needs to give me a few people, and the planning is still the same group of children."

The castle of Zhaoxing consists of 60 hectares of land. In the Song Dynasty, each hectares was about 66,666.66 square meters. Such a large residence was measured by current standards, which was simply the standard for millionaires, but in the Song Dynasty, it might have been the object of government relief.

The standard middle households in the Song Dynasty were families of ten, while the third-class households in the Song Dynasty regarded "a family of ten people with a hundred acres (actually 105 acres) as "self-sufficient". The standard for "sufficient food and use enough food" is what modern times calls "food and clothing level". 50 acres in the Song Dynasty were one hectares. In other words, if a family of ten people had two hectares of land, it would be food and clothing.

Zhao Xing's courtyard consisted of 60 hectares of land. As long as there were thirty families living in the garden, he could barely approach the relief standards of the Song Dynasty. However, there were more than thirty households in his large courtyard, and even more than one hundred households. Therefore, according to the residence standards of the Song Dynasty, the real estate he owned should be classified as a poor household and needs relief by the government. However, it was too embarrassing to do so, and Zhao Xing felt embarrassed when he thought about it.

What is the standard of relief? On April 18, the first year of Yuanyou (1086 AD), Sima Guang said: "I think that a family of ten people will receive hundreds of thousands of people for daily use every year, and a monthly plunder of fifteen jin is enough for daily use." Sima Guang means that if a family of ten people in the Song Dynasty had a monthly income of the family of ten people equal to the county magistrate's monthly salary of 15 jin, that is, the per capita income of 500 jin, it would fall within the scope of the standard of relief.

How to provide relief? "Kaiqing Siming Zhi" Volume 4 "Guanghuiyuan. Rules" states: "It is only three small houses". Then "the provincial wine is returned to the warehouse and then repair it." This means: If the people are so poor that they only have single-digit rooms (three-digit houses), no matter how many square meters each room is, they will withdraw money from the local alcohol tax to repair the people's houses. Then, "each big mouth is given six dou of rice per month and eleven dou of money per month; a small mouth is given four dou of rice per month and seven dou of money per month; a big mouth is given four dou of rice per month and seven dou of money per month; a big mouth is given four dou of rice per month and over fifteen years old, and a middle mouth..."

Of course, this relief standard was high, and the Song Dynasty government called this standard "full food". If the famine lasted too long and the disaster area was large, the quota government would be "unable to last for a long time" and could only reduce it by half and provide relief with the "life-saving amount".

Now, with the completion of the Blue House, it marks the official completion of Zhaoxing's manor after several years of construction. Thousands of workers in the yard will go to the other side of the river through the suspension bridge and help Zhaoxing build a circle of Song-style brick and tile houses on the other side. After the workers left, although there are no more idle people in Zhaoxing's castle, no matter how they count, the remaining population inside will also pull the "per capita land area" across the relief line.

Compared with Su Shi's manor in Changzhou, it is only a standard of one middle-aged household, with a total of 300 hectares, which is ten times that of Zhaoxing's garden.

However, if we measure Sima Guang's standards and monthly income, Zhao Xing should not be relieved, because his monthly income, or his daily income, is far more than fifteen jin. In addition, he is still a current official, and current officials have never entered the category of relief, so Zhao Xing really wants to get government relief. Only after resigning, becoming a commoner, and then by concealing his income, can he obtain government relief.

So, in short, Zhao Xing's large courtyard of nearly millions of square meters is considered to be a standard that exceeds Bill Gates in modern society, but in the eyes of the Song people, there are only two words: cramped.

"If this small courtyard is divided into several operas, I'm afraid it won't be able to move away," Su Shi said regretfully, paused for a moment. He suggested: "Only twenty households can be seated on the upper floor, twenty households are enough. Calling some equivalent officials, officials and gentry, and water pavilions can also accommodate twenty households. Together, the two have a total of forty households. Even if Hangzhou officials are caught in one place, it is enough, and there is no need to set up more points."

"Very good! That's it. I will post the ten households upstairs, and the teacher will take charge of the remaining half. The downstairs, the water pavilion is for the brothers to play with. It's so good," Zhao Xing nodded.

The "The West Chamber" on the stage has already been sung three memorials. Dramas like the Song Dynasty have not had high efficacy and the stage setting speed are slow, so they only sing two or three memorials every day. The whole "The West Chamber" needs to be sung for five days, just like a novel, constantly updated every day. Many long dramas even need to be sung for one month. After the drama, it was the turn of several rural old farmers to come on stage one after another, and they took turns singing songs praising their masters.

A man pretended to be an old man and walked onto the stage step by step. He cleared his throat and sang loudly: "I have fields, my land, my mulberry and my hometown, I only know a hundred miles, but not a thousand miles. I have hunger and food, I thirst and water. Officials of a hundred miles will get life and death. Orphans and widows, a piece of white paper, enter the county gate, and the wronged people are right. If the superior officials are not angry, the people will be happy; if the superior officials are not rich, the people will be free from hard work, give birth to my parents, and raise my Ming Mansion. The crops are lush, and the east and west? When the parents' hometown, the emperor's horses cry."

This folk song of Song Dynasty was born in July of the third year of Yongxi (986 AD). Since Wang Anshi's reform, the people have almost forgotten this song. Today, the troupe pretends to be the people and sings this song again. What kind of flattery is more exciting than this to Su Shi, and what kind of flattery is more exciting than this to Hangzhou officials?!

When the song was halfway through, Hangzhou officials clapped their hands and sang together...

At this moment, in the middle of the moon, the Weaver Galaxy and the Cowherd Galaxy were particularly bright in the sky. The women present took out their sewing bags and threw them on the stage, singing the song of July 7th in unison.

In the Song Dynasty, the Kidnapping Festival on July 7th was not the Chinese Valentine's Day. At that time, the Chinese Valentine's Day was the Lantern Festival. When the Song people dated, the days when the lovers confirmed that they had a happy marriage for a hundred years were all under the Lantern Festival lanterns, and the July 7th was just the Beggar Festival. It is said that on this day, offering a sewing bag that you embroidered by yourself will make you skillful and endless in your life.

Women should have burned incense and prayed and presented sewing bags on their incense tables. However, the kabuki in the Song Dynasty were everyone's youth idols. At that time, the customs were not only to throw fruit at these idols, but also to throw sachets, so the noble lady threw sachets on the stage according to the custom.

Yang Zuren's wife stood up, wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and whispered to Yang Zuren: "Official, the first three folds of this play are just a prelude. Tomorrow is the actor's bones, and tomorrow you will bring me here... This 'Xiuxiu' girl is so good to play!"
Chapter completed!