Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 436 He Meets Gu Shiyue

As time goes by, the weather gradually gets warmer.

These days, the most eye-catching thing in the court is the reform of the censor system.

The imperial court has already ordered people to go to Lingnan to bring Yue Fei's family back to Lin'an, and they are still on the way.

The investigation into those involved in the Yue Fei case is also ongoing, and Wanqi Xie is waiting in agony.

In the Dailou Courtyard, the ministers were waiting to attend court.

The new Prime Minister Shen Gai, the Deputy Prime Minister Wei Liangchen, the Vice Prime Minister Tang Situi, Zhang Jun, Chen Kangbo, as well as the Privy Councilor Yang Cunzhong and the Chief Censor Zhu Zhuo sat at the innermost table.

Shen Gai waved his palm-leaf fan and asked casually, "Zhu Zhongcheng, how is your reform of the censorate going?"

Zhu Zhuo smiled and said, "It went very smoothly. It's just a combination of supervision, impeachment and remonstrance. It's not difficult at all.

However, the current censors need to be replaced. According to the new system, those who should avoid suspicion will be avoided, and those who fail the examinations will be demoted.

I also ask all the gentlemen to take the trouble to find more promising talents for our Censorate.

By the way, His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin also suggested that after the merger of the Taijian and the Jian, a new name should be adopted to distinguish them from the original Taijian. "

Tang Shitui asked curiously, "Oh? What name did His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin propose to change it to?"

Zhu Zhuo said: "The name should be changed to 'Duchayuan'. The government has approved it, but it will be changed when the new year comes next year."

"The Censorate?"

Wei Liangchen read the name again and smiled disapprovingly: "In the end, it still depends on whether this Metropolitan Censorate can have a new look. As for what it is called, is it important?

Wu Zetian also liked to change the names of government offices, and she changed her reign title frequently. What was the result?

Zhu Zhuo was somewhat displeased after hearing this. He glanced at Wei Liangchen and said calmly, "Whether the Censorate and the Censorate are very different, when the personnel are complete and the censors can perform their duties, Prime Minister Wei will know."

The two of them became a little angry after hearing what they said.

Chen Kangbo, who had just returned to the court to take up the post of Vice Minister of State Affairs, laughed and said, "You all know that Lin'an Prefecture has a new look now."

Shen Gai became a little sensitive when he heard "Lin'an Prefecture". He looked at him and asked, "What's new about Lin'an Prefecture?"

Chen Kangbo said: "The new Tongpan Yang Yuan has set up a 'fire department', which walks the streets and alleys every day to inspect shops and homes and clear hidden dangers of water leakage..."

This "Fire Department" sounds like an agency set up by Lin'an Prefecture and managed by officials.

As long as there is an official serving in the "Fire Department", whether this agency is established or not is no longer up to Lin'an Prefecture alone.

Therefore, Wei Liangchen said with some disapproval: "The first three fires of a new official upon taking office are good intentions.

However, the imperial court already had military patrol stations responsible for night patrols, fire prevention and theft prevention.

Why did Yang Yuan set up a 'fire department'? Does he think the court doesn't have enough redundant staff?"

Chen Kangbo said: "The roles and functions of the 'Fire Department' and the 'Military Patrol Station' in Lin'an Prefecture are very different.

Yang Yuan formulated a set of regulations regarding fire policy. The focus of this "Fire Department" was not on firefighting, but on fire prevention.

Yang Yuan's fire policy rules have specific requirements on how to store flammable items in residential houses and shops.

If residents refuse to make corrections, they will be fined. If a store fails to make corrections, it will be out of business and will have to close until the corrections are made.”

Shen Gai frowned slightly and said, "Isn't this too harsh? Isn't he just making up excuses to extort money from the people?"

Tang Situi turned to Zhu Zhuo and said, "Shouldn't your Censorate...oh! Metropolitan Procuratorate, investigate this matter?"

Before Zhu Zhuo could answer, Chen Kangbo said, "Yang Yuan's actions are useful. Last night, a family in a certain alley had a fire.

But it just so happened that two days ago, the fire department had just forced this family to move the firewood piled against the house and separate it with an earth wall.

If not for this, the fire yesterday would have affected at least a dozen families in the neighborhood of that family."

Yang Yuan is responsible for firefighting.

Yang Yuan told Xue Bingxin some fire protection concepts and common sense that he knew.

Xue Bingxin further refined and improved this and formulated a detailed fire protection regulation.

The newly established fire department used it as the inspection standard.

Yang Yuan took into consideration that the technical means of fire extinguishing in ancient times were very limited.

Most of the houses in Lin'an are made of bamboo and wood. Once a fire breaks out, the consequences will be disastrous.

The military patrol station had to provide rescue, but according to convention, the most important thing the military patrol station did was to cut off the source of the fire to prevent the entire area from being burned down.

If we really want to save them, the chances of saving them may not be great.

Not to mention in this era, even in Yang Yuan's original era, with so many technological means, the focus of fire is prevention. Once a fire breaks out, the probability of extinguishing it in time is very low.

Therefore, Yang Yuan put a lot of effort into "prevention", and many of the preventive measures he proposed were concepts that people at that time lacked.

The night watchman would remind the people to be careful with fire.

The patrolmen of the military patrol station would also warn families who were still using fire during their night patrols.

But no one has ever considered that the flammable items randomly placed in front of and behind houses should be tidied up.

Shops of this era, especially restaurants, used fire most frequently.

Store owners are afraid of fires, so they make some fire prevention rules, but there are no standardized and scientific preventive measures.

Yang Yuan used a table method to make some statistics, and it can be clearly seen that in the areas that have been rectified, the incidence of fire has dropped significantly. The losses caused by fire houses have also dropped significantly.

After hearing what Chen Kangbo said, several ministers fell silent.

After a while, Shen Gai smiled faintly and said, "When our top scholar is willing to be down-to-earth, he can still do some practical work."

……

In Zhongwazi, the Li family opera troupe’s newly-adapted public case drama was officially staged.

Today is the first performance, and Mr. Li is really unsure about it.

People who wanted to see the play didn't know what the play was about, so many of them refused to buy tickets.

However, the troupe was still full of people today.

Because only the seats directly in front of the stage are for guests who have purchased tickets to sit.

The seats on both wings are occupied by the elderly and children.

These elderly people and children came from the "orphanage" and the "Charity Bureau" respectively.

There are currently six nursing homes and several orphanages in Lin'an.

The imperial court allocated 500 acres of official land and used the income to support these elderly widows and orphans, as well as children who were born with defects and abandoned by their families.

The businesses that Yang Yuan was in charge of included the orphanage, the poorhouse, the pharmacy and the Louze Garden.

When Yan Tongpan was in office, he would at most ask whether the orphanages and the poorhouses could support them. He paid little attention to other matters and sentiments of these widows and orphans.

But Yang Yuan didn't want to manage it this way.

He told Ji Xiang some of the things he had thought of and asked her to refine them. Finally, he came up with a set of management rules for the elderly, widows, orphans and children.

For example, let these lonely elderly people and orphans interact with each other regularly to make up for the emotional lack between them.

For example, like today, we organize some lonely elderly people and orphans to go to the nearest theater to watch the show.

Fujiwara no Himeka was originally the chief priest of the Kujikai Shrine.

In addition to pretending to be a god and fooling her believers, she is also good at showing care and favor to them.

The detailed rules she worked out included many details that Yang Yuan had not expected.

Today is the first time we organized the elderly and children to go to Wazili to relax and watch a play.

Yang Yuan was afraid of making mistakes, so he led the team personally.

Seeing those old people and children who originally had dull faces become lively in their eyes and had genuine smiles on their faces, Yang Yuan couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction in his heart.

For today's play, the Goose King requested that as much as possible be spoken, without too many singing parts.

At the same time, he also required the actors' lines to be as straightforward and easy to understand as possible so that even people who could not read could understand them.

Therefore, the spectators, including the elderly and children sitting on both sides, all understood it.

This play blurs the dynasties and simply tells the story of a loyal general being murdered by a traitor.

Anyone who knows about the injustice of Yue Fei at Fengbo Pavilion will know who this play is alluding to.

Because not only are the two events very similar, even the surnames of the main characters in the play have not been changed.

The biggest treacherous minister was named Qin, the second biggest treacherous minister was named Wan, and the general who was killed was named Yue.

Except for the fact that Wanqi Xie's double surname was changed to a single surname, it can almost be said that there was no concealment at all.

In the story, the murder of General Yue was a climax. The angry audience was so immersed in the play that they threw benches onto the stage and injured an actor.

The second climax of the play is the scene where loyal ministers are vindicated and treacherous ministers are severely punished.

Everyone thought that the story ended here.

But on the stage, when the curtain closed and opened, a thousand years had passed.

People a thousand years from now will dress completely differently from people today.

“The Song people a thousand years later” did not wear their hair in a bun.

They also wore trousers as outerwear, except that the trousers had no crotch.

Their tops also became shorter and the sleeves narrower, as if they had modified the mid-length shirt and used it as an outer garment.

What has not changed is their appearance.

They have the same faces as the Song people a thousand years ago.

Moreover, like the people of Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, they revered General Yue and hated treacherous ministers such as Qin and Wan.

The audience saw that people a thousand years later actually built a temple for General Yue.

In front of General Yue’s grave, kneeling were the four treacherous ministers who had killed him.

The kneeling statue was made by Xiao Qianyue and was made to look old.

The "kneeling statue" is clearly made of pottery, but it looks like an iron statue that has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain.

The four sinners have been kneeling in front of General Yue's tomb for a thousand years.

A thousand years from now, they will still be kneeling there.

This time, the audience did not cheer as they did when they saw General Yue’s injustice was vindicated. Everyone seemed to be in deep thought.

The descendants on the stage walked into Yue Diao one by one, respectfully burned incense and worshipped Marshal Yue.

When they walked out of the temple, they saw four treacherous ministers kneeling in front of the temple.

Everyone who passed by would spit at them.

The curtain slowly closed, but the stands remained unusually quiet.

Boss Li couldn't help but frown, it seemed that this last scene was unnecessary.

In terms of completeness, the case should end when General Yue is cleared of all charges and the traitor is punished.

Now this is going to backfire?
However, many people did not suddenly wake up until they walked out of the theater.

They excitedly ran around to tell others, regardless of whether they knew the person he held or not.

They told everyone they saw that the traitors who killed General Yue had been kneeling in front of General Yue's tomb for a thousand years, and they would continue to kneel, forever.

They told everyone they saw that the descendants of the Song people continued to multiply and prosper, and even a thousand years later, they were still cursing those great traitors and spitting on them.

Most people of this era believe in the underworld and the afterlife.

Therefore, people of this era are particularly concerned about their reputation after death.

Even if the traitor who killed the great hero is finally punished, the dead hero will never come back.

There is still a deep sense of unwillingness in people's hearts.

It was not until they saw the four kneeling statues a thousand years later that they finally let out the anger that had been pent up in their hearts.

When Mr. Li saw the audience suddenly becoming "crazy", he finally felt relieved.

He knew that this play was a hit!

……

Yang Yuan sat in the wing with those lonely elderly people.

He wrote the last scene himself, and insisted that Goose King tell Boss Li to add it.

The clothes worn by modern people a thousand years from now in this scene were all drawn by Yang Yuan and made by tailors.

When Yang Yuan saw the familiar group of "Song people a thousand years later" appear on the stage, he couldn't help but shed tears.

People today don’t see the moon in ancient times.
This moon once shone on the ancients,
Yang Yuan is different. As a modern man, he has seen the moon in ancient times.

That was him at a different time.

Fei Tianlu and Yang Yuan were there at the same time, but in different spaces.

Yang Yuan was in Lin'an and Fei Tianlu was in Yanjing.

Fei Tianlu from Yanjing decided to take action against the big traitor Kong Yanzhou today!
(End of this chapter)