Yangzhou.

A city that flourished because of the canal was once an extremely prosperous city.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying that one can promote one and two can benefit one.

However, the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty destroyed everything.

The rebellion of Bi Shiyi and Sun Ru turned the prosperous Tang Yangzhou into a white land.

Yang Xingmi worked hard to restore his vitality.

But soon, the war brought it back to its original form.

Especially the Later Zhou and Southern Tang, the continued wars surrounding Yangzhou almost destroyed everything.

Therefore, even the Song Dynasty had been in peace for more than a hundred years.

But Yangzhou still did not return to its peak level in the Tang Dynasty.

However, in terms of humanities and business atmosphere, Yangzhou has completely recovered.

Even, it is comparable to Yangzhou, the prosperous Tang Dynasty!

This is because if the priests of the Song Dynasty knew about the place, Yangzhou was generally the first choice.

Under the governance of the tyrants and literary masters, the culture and business of Yangzhou City flourished.

As a result, Yangzhou City became a unique city in the Song Dynasty.

It can even be said that this city has become somewhat deformed in today's era.

For example, Yangzhou City has the most extreme proportion of main customers in the entire Song Dynasty.

In the third year of Yuanfeng, the imperial court counted the household registration of the world.

In Yangzhou, there are 29,077 main households and 24,855 customers.

The ratio of the two is infinitely close to one to one.

In comparison, in the household registration statistics of Bianjing City in the same year, the number of owners was 183,777 and the number of customers was 51,829.

The ratio of the two is close to four to one.

This data illustrates an extremely objective problem - Yangzhou's tertiary industry is extremely developed and the service industry is prosperous.

Imagine that there was such a city in this medieval feudal society.

At least half of its residents rely entirely on the employment of their employers to maintain their lives.

At the same time, these half of the residents are still proletarians with almost no own industries.

In feudal society, such data, just thinking about it, is crazy.

However, the people of Yangzhou, the past Yangzhou magistrate, the general magistrate of the Xuanyi Army in Yangzhou, and the civil servants of the Dajiang Huai Transportation Command had no feelings about this.

Most people even think that Yangzhou should be like this.

Zeng Bu, too.

At this moment, this scholar in Duanming Palace was walking in the Daming Temple outside Yangzhou City with his concubine.

This is a famous temple in Yangzhou. Among them is the [Pingshan Hall] built by Ouyang Wenzhong when he was magistrate of Yangzhou decades ago.

The little girl under 20 years old is in her youth, with a beautiful face, delicate skin, and graceful figure that makes people pleasing to the eye and relaxed.

Zeng Bu is no exception.

He smiled slightly, looking at his concubine and his old adopted daughter, naively and brilliantly visiting this ancient temple happily.

So he found a pavilion leisurely and sat down.

Zuo Yuansui immediately brought him the cooked tea.

It was also at this time that Si Yan, who had been following Zeng Bu, finally found the opportunity, came to Zeng Bu, and whispered: "Lord, the mistress has written lyrics again recently..."

"Hmm?" Zeng Bu frowned.

His wife Wei Wan was a famous talented woman when she was young.

When the two were newly married, they were also very affectionate.

However, as he was in office, his wife took care of her elderly mother in his hometown and raised her children.

At this time, the disadvantages of being a talented wife emerged!

because……

She is talented and good at writing poetry!

Poetry in the boudoir can always be spread through various means.

Then, it became an obstacle to his career.

For example, when he first joined the army for the Xuanzhou Sihu.

My wife wrote a poem "Bodhisattva Man" in the boudoir: The streams and mountains conceal the setting sun, and the shadows of the towers and towers move mandarin ducks.

Two or three families across the river, and apricot flowers appear.

The road is down the green willow dike, and we go by the stream in the morning and evening. I saw the willows flying, but the people left were still not returning.

Is this word good?

very good!

The attachment and longing in the words made him cry when he read it.

but……

People in the officialdom don’t think so.

Xiao Zeng...I heard that you have a good wife who misses you every day at home...

Although work is important, you have to take good care of your family life.

Let's do this!

How many months will I give you a break? How about going home to reunite with your wife?

In the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, one step is one step slower.

The lower the official, the more important time is to them!

Not to mention that he had been off for a few months, even if it was a half month holiday, it would be included in the survey.

When they turn back and change their posts, officials from the Ministry of Personnel (Prime Minister's Court) will take the initiative and calculate their time of employment.

If you are not satisfied with your duties, you are not satisfied with your duties.

Unless the emperor specially ordered him to personally or the city is in a dignified manner except for these two special circumstances.

Everyone else is subject to system constraints.

No matter how good the official reputation is and how high the political achievements are, it is useless if the indicators are not met.

However, the Ministry of Personnel chose a radish and a pit.

That is, he Zeng Bu, who has a good father and a good brother in the court, can help him clear his relationship.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be delayed by his boss for at least two or three years!

After suffering that loss, Zeng Bu brought his wife with him when he became an official again.

However, it was impossible for him to take his wife out to be an official forever.

Under normal circumstances, the imperial court did not allow officials to take their wives to serve as officials in other places, prefectures and counties.

When the two have children, the wife must stay at home and educate her children.

As a result, Wei Wan wrote more and more words.

In these words of the boudoir, the longing for him gradually became some kind of complaint.

Just like after he became the governor of Guizhou in the first year of Yuanfeng, his wife wrote a song "Dian Jiang Lip" to miss him.

The poem says: The breeze is on the waves, the bright moon is painted on the boat, and the people return. The wine gradually disappears, and they stay alone on the railing for a long time, gathering and dispersing in a hurry. This hatred comes every year, and when you look back, the light smoke and willows are sparse, and the city is faintly leaking.

Zeng Bu read it and was furious. He wrote a letter back and scolded his wife for the first time.

Wei Wan read his letter at that time and was said to have cried for several days.

After that, I rarely wrote those words about the boudoir.

Unexpectedly, now, my wife has picked up the pen again.

This immediately turned Zeng Bu's face into frost!

Now, it's his critical moment!

Just yesterday, news came from Bianjing that Pu Chuanzheng had been ordered to go to Beijing to report his duties.

Zeng Bu was extremely concerned about this and personally sent someone to Yingtian Mansion to focus on the court's report so that he could know the situation in the court as soon as possible.

"What words have your wife written?" Zeng Bu asked angrily.

Silang presented a piece of rice paper to Zeng Bu.

Zeng Bu took it, opened the rice paper, and chanted it softly, and the words on it: "There is no one in the courtyard and half a roll of curtains, and when he leans alone on the railing..."

"Who knows if you have the golden clothes that have come to spring?"

After reading only this, Zeng Bu's face became extremely gloomy.

He still couldn't have an attack.

Once an attack occurs and is spread, it will be a fatal blow to his official voice and image!

He and Wei Wan are the golden boy and jade girl in the eyes of many people, and they are the perfect combination of talented men and beautiful women!

I could only grit my teeth and continue to look at other words.

"The jade man has been writing a lot recently, so it must be because he has complained late... I will return sooner or later in my dream, and I will stand in the slanting sunset with tears..."
To be continued...