Xu Zhihu knows the warmth and coldness of people, so he asked the blue bird to send a few snacks and fruits to the pavilion, which can relieve the heat. Xu Fengnian sat cross-legged, facing Jiang Ni who was standing in the pavilion again, and Xu Fengnian raised his head Staring at her chest intently, Princess Taiping, whose scene was completely uneasy, recalled for no reason the picture "Spring Thunder and Evil Jiaos Shocking Insects" in the study of the Prince of Beiliang. The dragon squatting on the boulder in the middle of the river is naturally spectacular, but Xu Fengnian cared about a thief by the river. The celestial girl holding the stove with eyes that want to speak but not speaking is completely carved out of the same mold as the woman in front of her. The picture of the heavenly king and heavenly girl is said to have come from the hands of a great Qi refiner in the former dynasty, and there are hidden prophecies. Xu Feng often observed it with his mother when he was young, and he couldn't see any mysterious tricks. He only felt that the evil dragon was domineering, and he probably couldn't escape the fate of the evil prophecy.
Xu Fengnian picked up a piece of iced watermelon, gnawed it and asked, "Do you know who that Uncle Qizhao is?"
Jiang Ni hesitated for a moment, then sat down against the vermilion lacquer pillar, shook her head and said, "I only know that Uncle Qizhao's surname is Cao, and mother said he is a very tall man."
When the word "mother" was mentioned, his expression was gloomy. It should have been called the queen mother.
Xu Fengnian rolled his eyes and sneered: "It's not just about being talented, the old sword god ranks eighth in the martial arts evaluation, Cao Changqing has been a Tanhua Lang for two consecutive terms, people in the world call Cao Wudi Cao Guanzi, now you are developed, there is an old sword god Favor, weeping and yelling to accept you as an apprentice, plus the fact that Cao Guanzi came to serve as your bodyguard at this moment, it is countless times more grand than my Royal Highness, so I wonder, ordinary people seek a teacher to learn art Like a dog, you're good. High-ranking people are as worthless as Chinese cabbage on the side of the road. No wonder Li Yishan said that you have good luck, so you can't be convinced. I wonder if your delicate body can attract natural phenomena? Little clay figurine , why don't you shake it?"
Chopsticks were seldom used at the Jiangni dinner, and it was inevitable to be greedy when looking at Lin Lang's dim sum. Due to his thin skin, he was too embarrassed to reach out, and he was in a bad mood when he was hungry. Hearing His Royal Highness's narrow-minded jokes, suddenly a burst of anger came from his heart , stared and said: "Shock you big-headed ghost!"
Xu Fengnian first pushed the official kiln dinner plate full of various snacks to Jiangni, and said abruptly: "Tell me something serious, practicing martial arts is like cultivating Taoism, and you can't escape the five characters of root, root, and root." , ranks first, your own aptitude is inferior, and nothing can be said. But I believe that no matter how poor your talent is, it will not be much worse. Next is Dharma, that is, Dharma. , how can you achieve success? With a famous teacher leading the way, you can get twice the result with half the effort. In this regard, you are luckier than me. I won the Wudang Dahuangting to survive in the reeds. All in all, your chance is once in five hundred years. The three items of marriage, wealth and land are naturally no hindrance to you. If you have no spouse, you can live with peace of mind, and if you have no wealth, you can only focus on raising the Tao. I can beat you in wealth, but I will lose you in land. For example, in this Lu Manor, I can't easily ask the old sword god for advice from the two-sleeved green snake. If I enter the Beiliang army in the future, I may not be able to concentrate on martial arts. You are different , with Cao Changqing in the way, even if he intends to use the banner of your Princess Taiping to restore the country, you can still be carefree. If you lose, you will just flee the rivers and lakes. If you win, you may be the second in a hundred years The Empress. Even if you don't learn martial arts well enough, killing me will be nothing more than a snap of the fingers. A fool would not do such a big business with little capital."
Jiang Ni stuffed a small piece of ointment into her mouth, her cheeks bulged, her pear dimples propped up, and she murmured vaguely: "You're talking too much, but you just want me to go, I'm not stupid, chess Uncle Zhao is great, but how difficult it is to restore the country, the king of Beiliang has 300,000 Beiliang iron cavalry and he dare not be the emperor himself, so what if Uncle Qizhao is the third in the world, he can beat more than 300,000 people? I If you leave, you will never be able to kill you for the rest of your life, do you think you will succeed?"
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, "Yo, you are really stupid."
Jiang Ni swallowed the snacks, and picked up a bowl of rock sugar lotus lily from the dinner plate. After eating it, she felt refreshed. Xu Fengnian crossed his hands, put his knees on Chunlei Xiudongdao, and said with a smile: "Then you stay by my side. Can you kill me? Count your fingers, how many beauties we have met along the way, I have Sister Yu and Aunt Shu by my side, how menacing they are here, look at yourself .”
Xu Fengnian let go of his ten fingers and made a gesture of cupping his chest. Jiang Ni became angry with embarrassment, wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Troublesome!"
"Eh? The lotus seed lily still tastes sour in your mouth?"
Xu Fengnian rolled his eyes, and continued: "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's just say that her appearance and figure are better. Isn't Princess Jing'an Pei Nanwei beautiful? She is a beauty on the Rouge Review! She doesn't charge for her studies. , you can also play chess with me to relieve boredom, it's nothing to do with you."
Jiang Ni turned a deaf ear and wisely did not quarrel with His Royal Highness, but just gobbled it up. Xu Fengnian turned his head to look at the lake. There were dozens of koi swimming around the pavilion. It was incomparable to the Beiliang Palace, but it was better than nothing. He snatched some screw cakes from the dinner plate and threw them into the lake.
The little clay figurine can be indifferent to those well-known masters on the list, but he can't. Those who have met in the past, whether it is the old man with the back box or the white-haired old man, or Li Chungang and Wang Chonglou, after all, they are not enemies that need to be dealt with head-on I didn't feel deeply until I saw the eleventh Wang Mingyin outside the city of Xiangfan, and Cao Guanzi, who was only on the front line between friends and enemies. I didn't know the horror of these top figures. Feeling overwhelmed, Cao Changqing seemed gentle and elegant, but he was also full of murderous intentions. If he could choose, Xu Fengnian would rather sit at the same table with King Jing'an Zhao Heng. If he walked on thin ice, he would not be killed on the spot.
Both in the lake pavilion and in the Xieyi Garden have a half-day leisure, and the Xinyi Garden has lost a long-forgotten Princess Taiping. The conversation between Cao Changqing and Lu Baijie seems to be unscrupulous. Politics. The Liyang Dynasty followed the old calendar and implemented the system of three provinces and six departments. Among the three provinces, the Shangshu Province had the greatest responsibility and was divided into six departments. The reason why Lang was hailed as a dignitary was from here. Generally speaking, there are two ways to become an official in the capital. The other two provinces need to progress faster, earn more profits, and have plenty of money. They don’t need to sharpen their heads to accumulate too much reputation and reputation. They just need to work hard to be a competent official. The Ministry of Internal History pays more attention to the entry of the Ministry of Internal History, because once you enter the palace, you will be awarded the title of a bachelor, not to mention the two super-first-rank positions of the first assistant and the second assistant, and it is easy to win the six ministers. At the end of the day, it is very rare to turn around and fight for the status of a bachelor. There is a saying in the capital that Wudang holds the Jinwu script as the Huangmenlang. It is even more difficult for the big and small Huangmen to be approved. Nine out of ten of the reigning and retired palace scholars were born as Huangmen servants, and how this small group of detached status is promoted is usually based on articles and poems. This set of official rules is very vague. Zhang Julu, the first assistant from the Huangmen, took power and rectified the administration of officials. The first target was not the Six Departments of Shangshu Province, but the Huangmen! At that time, it immediately attracted a lot of criticism, one said that the purple bearded and blue eyes had forgotten his roots, and the other said that he only dared to pick soft persimmons.
Cao Changqing said softly: "Selecting scholars with poems and prose is an ancient method. Although it is empty, well-written poems may not be able to govern the world well, but if you select Confucian scholars according to Zhang Biyan's eight-paragraph essay and study the scriptures, the advantages and disadvantages are not great. Easy to say."
Lu Baijie, Mr. Tangxi, said with a smile: "I thought Mr. Cao was lashing out at Zhang Shoufu for this method."
Cao Changqing shook his head and said, "The carp jumping over the dragon's gate, Zhang Julu erected a dragon's gate for the scholars with his own hands. Such a grandiose skill is only inferior to Huang Longshi's. Once this method is developed, if it is successful, it will be spread to the whole world. The humble scholars have found a smooth path, and the foundation of the powerful family will be loosened again. It is similar to the three gates of the besieged city in the book of war. It is only when the common people's access to promotion is completely blocked that there will be chaos. It's just that not all of those aristocratic clans are blind."
Having said that, Cao Changqing stopped talking.
Lu Baijie couldn't help but wryly smiled. He was as open-minded as his elder brother Lu Daolin, who hated the eight-duan scholar? Not to mention Yuan Jiangyan and his ilk. It was only because Zhang Julu was so favored at the moment and had the support of His Majesty the Emperor that he spared no effort, so he swallowed his anger. No matter how great the favor is, there will be a day when the rich and powerful will be furious, and what will happen to Zhang Julu, God knows. From Zhang Julu's point of view, he may not have not seen this crisis that lurks deeper and rebounds bigger, but I don't know why this number one pillar of the dynasty has always insisted on doing it. Cao Changqing was on the outside, and unlike Lu Baijie who had been focusing on martial arts for many years, he had a more thorough view of the general trend of the world. The reason why he admired that blue-eyed boy was that he was deeply jealous of Xu Xiao from Beiliang, and even had a relationship with Gu Jiantang. The military leaders headed by them all have prejudices, but they are not limited to fighting for power in the temple. The great feudal lord came to stabilize the position in the emperor's heart, but Zhang Julu was different. For the sake of the overall situation, he could join forces with Gu Jiantang to work together, and he could confess his sincerity to the elders of the Eight Kingdoms. Cao Changqing was good at observing the situation and judging the situation. He owed so much to the Liyang Dynasty that conferring the chief academician and the posthumous title of Wenzheng was not enough to show his great achievements, but most of them would harm his family after his death. He was far less intelligent and tactful than Yang Taisui, a diseased tiger in black. Cao Changqing sighed in his heart. Menxiu has his own method of meteorology, but if he wants to save the people from fire and water, how can he compare with Confucian scholars!
My generation of scholars will do my part!
It's a pity that Zhang Julu was not born in Western Chu earlier.
Lu Baijie hesitated to speak.
Cao Changqing smiled and said, "Tangxi has something to say."
Lu Baijie, who had guessed the inside story, asked straight to the point: "Aren't you afraid that His Royal Highness will take the initiative to join forces with Zhao Gou, so that we can keep Princess Taiping and show loyalty to the court?"
Cao Changqing laughed and said: "It's just right, to be honest, this kind of seemingly reasonable and unreasonable trick hits Cao Changqing's arms."
The old sword god who was kicking his feet on the side sneered and interjected: "Don't worry, Boy Xu is not so stupid."
Cao Changqing didn't think so, got up slowly, and walked out of the freehand garden.
The old sheepskin fur man sighed and said: "The old man roughly guessed how this guy ended up. Scholars are full of bad water. Alas, it seems that Xu Xiaozi is going to lose this time."
Tsing Yi Cao Guanzi came to the pavilion.
Jiang Ni happened to come out of the pavilion and stood on the steps.
Cao Changqing made a bow and said: "If the princess wants to marry into Beiliang Palace, Cao Changqing can leave today."
Jiang Ni looked pale as if struck by lightning.
If you don't speak clearly and deceive yourself and others, you can be confused for the rest of your life, and you can easily fight and fight.
But it is clear that even the immortal has absolutely no room for mediation.
Xu Fengnian in the pavilion raised his hand subconsciously, as if he wanted to grab something, but he put it down anyway.
It's not heavy to pick up, it's hard to put it down.
Jiang Ni turned her head and glanced at His Royal Highness, who was always cynical and always smiling.
Xu Fengnian, who sat cross-legged on the bench, smiled and waved.
Cao Changqing remained expressionless and said, "Cao Changqing will definitely keep his promise."
Xu Fengnian restrained his smile and only said one word.
"roll!"