The heaven and the earth are in spring, but when the three front lines of the Beimang army came together to suppress the border, the Liyang court hadn't heard about it, and Beiliang would not pass on this military information to the capital.
Presumably, even if the capital heard about it, it would only breathe a sigh of relief. Barbarians kill barbarians, dogs bite dogs, it’s not a matter of a copper coin for them, it’s best to fight and hurt both, it’s a great thing, and it’s a "happy" for the Liyang Dynasty up.
On the straight official road outside the south gate of the capital, there are four guys who have no way to get a household certificate.
A couple brought a child, and the young child was riding on the neck of the man with the sword. It was obvious that they were a family of three, and then a slightly redundant man in white appeared next to them, looking very heroic. This man in white, who gives people a vague feeling, is not outstanding in terms of appearance. He neither has the beauty of a woman like Rouge, nor is he handsome like a man. Pedestrians on the nearby road subconsciously didn't dare to look at this person subconsciously. They just glanced at him, but when they turned their heads and thought, it seemed that they shouldn't have left any impression, but they didn't have the courage to take another look. As for the humble family of three, they were naturally ignored.
The man holding his child's legs with both hands looked at the top of Tai'an City, feeling a little emotional, "I'm afraid that this city was the only one in the world that troubled me. I really wanted to go in, but I was afraid of getting into trouble. The three of us They don't have a serious Liyang identity, so they can't really break in. It's not appropriate to sneak in at night. At that time, there was a man named Xie in the city. He was not my opponent in the fight, but it was easy to find me. I am Those who want to bring their daughter-in-law and daughters in to play, don't run in and kill the world to shake their prestige, this kind of thing makes me look like twenty years younger."
The man in white sneered, "Didn't Hong Xixiang do it?"
The man said helplessly: "Aren't you comparing me with Lu Zu?"
The man in white said in a flat tone, "Will you lose when it comes to those identities that are unclear? Even if you only talk about the martial arts talent in this life, you will not lose. In the end, you are reduced to a situation where you are not even as good as Tuoba Bodhisattva."
The man looked as if he had nothing to say to you, and his wife hurriedly smoothed things over and said with a smile: "My man is lazy by nature, but he's actually pretty good. You don't have to argue with someone inexplicably, and you're clean."
The man nodded and agreed, "That's right."
The child put his chin on her father's head and nodded along with his father. Although he didn't understand anything, he still booed, "That's it!"
The man in white looked at Tai'an City from a distance.
In the past 800 years, from the Great Qin Dynasty to Liyang, except for the most powerful city in the world, she has traveled to almost all the capitals.
The child suddenly said: "Father, didn't mother say that before, there is a guy who likes to wear green clothes and often goes to the city, why do you have a headache? Father, it doesn't matter if you can't beat my future master, but you can fight for it anyway." Second or third in the world, right?"
The man rubbed his chin and said solemnly: "That's right."
The woman squeezed his waist hard.
The man was about to speak, when he realized that the guy who was walking all the way turned around and left. He is indeed as lazy as his daughter-in-law said, too lazy to think about the reason, but it is inevitable that he will be a little slanderous. Are those identities of your big devil Luoyang a mess? Are you qualified to say me
The man in white is Luoyang, and he is the one who ran from Beimang to Liyang and found his wife. Then because the wife said that the swordsman is the most handsome, he just found a sword and pretended to be a swordsman. The guy that the Bodhisattva met at the foot of Huishan Mountain, if he was in Beimang, would be very famous. There are five major sects in Beimang, and his sect is among them, and he is the only member of the sect.
The only one in the world.
One person, one sect.
Of course he knows that his martial arts talent is very good, but he has never pursued any kind of enlightenment, ascension, or being number one in the world. Things, there is no reason.
His only pursuit is to be unrestrained. When he was young, he was free alone. After meeting his wife and having children, he was free for a family of three. As for what freedom is, he didn't bother to think about it.
He looked at the majestic city, and he could clearly feel the luck. He thought that after the new emperor of Liyang came to the throne, because Han Shengxuan died, Liu Haoshi died, and Xie also left, he was afraid of wearing a dragon robe and sitting on the dragon. The head of the chair was removed within a few days, so a lot of traps were set up again. This is also reasonable. With the Liyang Dynasty's ever-growing national strength, it will not be completely helpless against a single-handed top martial artist.
His daughter suddenly whispered: "Father, I want to eat leek pancakes."
The man froze for a moment, then turned his head to look at the sky and the earth with a smile. The wife, who is not as good as her, stepped on the back of his foot, "Damn! What do you use for practicing martial arts? A girl can't even eat a pancake?"
She quickly added, "It's not that we don't give money!"
The man who received the edict nodded and smiled, "Okay!"
He freed one hand to hold his wife, and said softly: "Girl, hold me tight."
In an instant.
All first-grade masters on and off the stage in Tai'an City felt an extremely majestic momentum!
The Fulong Qi practitioners of the Northern School panicked like a group of headless chickens.
The man raised a smile.
What is freedom
At least at this time, he knew the answer.
free. That's when the girl said she wanted to eat pancakes, even if the whole city of Tai'an wanted to stop him, she couldn't stop him from shouting.
A flash of brilliance exploded on the road, like a long rainbow falling into Tai'an City.
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Tai'an City does have a saying of late autumn cabbage and spring leeks. Both high-ranking officials and peddlers can afford and love them in every household. The people in the capital like to use leeks to "bite spring". , Eating a mouthful of spicy and delicious green leeks can almost expel the stale qi that has accumulated in the internal organs all winter. In Zhaojiaweng, the largest government office in the capital city, many officials burp with a smell of leeks, not to mention the stuffy farts that come out from under the buttocks of some adults, which is really amazing After frowning, he quickly smiled again.
On Zhaojiaweng's side, there is the Hanlin Academy, which has always been noble and detached, and there are also two big yamen in the two provinces under Zhongshumen, which used to be sparsely populated, but are now a little bustling. The most important place with the atmosphere of the first yamen of the foreign court, even if the prime minister Yin Maochun replaced Zhao Youling as the minister of the Ministry of officials, the situation could not be reversed. Different from the feng shui rotation of the chief officials of the other five major ministries, the king's flag may change on the top of the city within a few years. From the first year of Yonghui to the second year of Xiangfu, only three people in the Ministry of War have sat on the banner in the past twenty years. The official seat, Gu Jiantang of the Dazhu Kingdom, Chen Zhibao, the King of Shu, and Lu Baijie, the current sword fairy of Tangxi, and the combined reign of the latter two is less than two years. The Ministry of War has undoubtedly always been the treasured place of geomantic omen that the Shinke Scholars most hope to have a place in, so that Gao Tingshu, the second-best candidate last year, confessed frankly that he would rather be the head of the Ministry of War's Sesame and mung bean-sized military election cleanup department than the Ministry of Rites. Yi was promoted to the official system of the official system, Wai Lang, the official secretary. You must know that Bai Guo, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, was on the spot in the main hall at that time. Bai Guo laughed so angry that he immediately kicked another minister, Lu Baijie. It is rumored that Bai Guoping was transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of Households, and one day he met the No. 2 of the new department in the early court. At the meeting, Lord Shangshu joked, "Fortunately, I didn't go to the Ministry of Officials to take up the post, otherwise, you boy will wait to sit on the bench in the Ministry of War for more than ten or twenty years."
Today, a somewhat unexpected guest came to the very busy military department. Everyone in the military department, whether they were walking outside the house or sitting in the room for review, either stopped to salute after seeing him, or stood up in awe, all with excited expressions. It's not too far away to meet the emperor alone. It's very simple, because this person is Gu Jiantang! The youngest warrior among the four famous generals in the Spring and Autumn Period, the former master of Gu Lu of the Ministry of War! As a general, Xu Xiao, who was also a famous general in the Spring and Autumn Period, had already died of old age, but Gu Jiantang couldn't even be called old. As an official, Zhang Lu, who had confronted Gu Lu for more than ten years, had already collapsed, and Zhang Julu died in an incomparably bleak manner. Gu Jiantang, the only super-rank Dazhu kingdom in the Liyang court, held the power of 300,000 soldiers and horses at the northern border ! Gu Jiantang walked into the big room in the old Zhanglu alone. Without him saying anything, the large group of officials who were particularly eye-catching in the six parts stood up and saluted, and then sat down quickly to continue working. This is Gu Jiantang. Leaving the Ministry of Military Affairs with that comprehensible cold and hard temperament, you are allowed to be arrogant and domineering in the world, but you must act vigorously and resolutely without dragging your feet.
Different from the other five ministers who have separate rooms, the three main and deputy officials of the Ministry of War all work in the same room. Right now, the two servants of the Ministry of War, General Hu Yiyi, General Lu Shengxiang, is not in the capital as the commander of the Southern Expedition, and the new servant, General Longxiang, Xu Gong, is going to patrol the borders of the Liao and Liao in accordance with the new etiquette system in Liyang. After seeing Gu Jiantang, he didn't deliberately put on airs, but stood up like the officials, put down his pen and got up to meet the old Shangshu, even after the rest of the people sat back, he was still standing. This is not only because the official patch embroidered with a second-rank lion on Lu Baijie's chest is slightly inferior to Gu Jiantang's first-rank unicorn, but also because Lu Baijie has undisguised respect for Gu Jiantang, the senior of the Ministry of War.
Lu Baijie walked around the table to Gu Jiantang, and said with a smile, "General, sit down and have a cup of tea?"
Gu Jiantang nodded, and Lu Baijie took the lead to walk to the two adjacent empty tables on the far right of the room, and soon the No. 2 man who had written about the drunken eight immortals and was "threatened" by Shangshu Baiguo himself brought tea, first to the "far Gu Jiantang, who was "in the sky", gave it to Lu Baijie, who was "nearly in sight". After Gu Jiantang took the tea, he asked slowly: "You just don't go to the Gaotingshu in the Ministry of Rites?"
Not daring to do anything superfluous and just wanting to leave as soon as possible, the young head of Wuxuan Qingli Division tensed up involuntarily, and said in a trembling voice: "It's the next official."
There was no smile on Gu Jiantang's face, and he asked a rather sharp question to the newcomer in the Ministry of War: "Why don't you serve tea to Lord Shangshu first?"
Gao Tingshu was speechless.
Lu Baijie laughed and said: "General, General, you're obviously having fun in your stomach, so don't get cheap and act like a good boy. Director Gao came to our military department at the risk of sitting on the bench, so you can be regarded as a general." Half of my natal family, you don't scare the younger generation like you."
After Lu Baijie made such a "trouble", Gu Jiantang no longer intentionally put on a sullen face, and said with a smile: "For the sake of serving you tea first, even if the officials want to suppress you in the future, I will ask Bai Shangshu first here It's just a matter of personal preference, so I promise you won't delay your promotion in the future. But you kid, learn more and see how Bai Shangshu became an official. He not only made him lose face, but also asked you to read him to help you out of the siege Big favor."
Lu Baijie said with a helpless face: "Hey, hey, you are not kind, General. You just have to drink tea and take down my desk. From now on, I will lose all prestige in this room."
Lu Baijie turned his head and glared at Gao Tingshu, pretending to be angry and said: "Stinky boy, don't get out yet! Are you afraid that I will wear small shoes for you? Do you want to annoy the six ministers all over again before giving up? At that time, even if there is a general to protect you, at most Let you run to the border to drink the wind and eat the sand!"
Gao Tingshu hurriedly wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned around and trot away with a smirk.
Those officials of the Ministry of War who were secretly pricking up their ears suddenly burst out laughing. Apart from the wonderful laughter, it was natural that everyone envied Gao Tingshu for his good fortune. I made a good impression.
Gu Jiantang drank the tea in one gulp, put down the cup, and said with emotion: "It's not easy for Lu Shangshu."
Lowering his head and taking a sip of the slightly bitter tea, Lu Baijie nodded slightly with a smile and said, "It's quite difficult."
Gu Jiantang was silent for a long time, got up and said: "I'm going to leave Beijing and return to the west of Liaoning soon, so I won't bother you."
Lu Baijie stood up and said calmly, "Send the general a ride."
After the two walked out of the house, Lu Baijie hesitated for a while, but asked in a low voice: "The general really wants to leave?"
Gu Jiantang hummed, and like the Minister of the Ministry of War next to him, he was not as relaxed and relaxed in the house, and his face was a little dignified, "If I can decide to stay before arriving in the capital, there is still hope. Even if I insist on staying now, do you think it is possible? ?"
Lu Baijie was speechless.
General Gu Jiantang’s implication was actually not deep. When the late emperor was alive, Gu Jiantang went back to the capital all the way, but he still failed to persuade the late emperor to let him, who is in charge of the military administration of the northern region, lead the Southern Expedition instead of Lu Shengxiang. Now that the new ruler is on the throne, how could Gu Jiantang rely on his old achievements to blackmail the new ruler at this sensitive juncture? In fact, both Gu Jiantang and Lu Baijie obviously agreed with someone's prediction of the situation at the time. Guangling Dao put down the rebellion. It is better to be fast rather than slow. In fact, it’s enough, it’s not a good hand, but it’s certainly not a stupid move, but except for a very small number of people, one thing is forgotten, that is, the deployment of troops and the formation of troops on the battlefield are more difficult than going up and down every step. The officialdom where everyone can sit behind closed doors and deliberate carefully is more straightforward. Lu Sheng Xiangkong has an excellent "general" talent, but at that time the undercurrent of the court situation was not given to the Minister of the Ministry of War at all. The chance of "general" is not only no chance, but dragged down to the point where even the generals are extremely difficult, so the court forcibly played the chess board with a good situation into a stinky quagmire. If Gu Jiantang is in charge, even if there are those gangs Yang Shenxing would never dare to be greedy for meritorious deeds to make trouble, so that Yan Zhenchun's entire 30,000 cavalry army would not be destroyed there, and Zhao Ying and Zhao Xun, the two vassal kings, would not be killed. Flat out.
Gu Jiantang quietly slowed down, and said: "Lu Shengxiang has won General Hu Yi, and if there is no accident, he will vacate the position in the Ministry of War that I took just now. At that time, my subordinate Liaoxi General Tang Tieshuang will come to Beijing to take over. It is not a good thing." The news is not bad news. I will take this opportunity to say hello to you first. Tang Tieshuang is different from Lu Shengxiang and Xu Gong. He is not good at being an official, but he is good at leading troops to fight. You try to let him take a few young people and throw them to Guangling Road... Maybe it will be in the south of Gyeonggi by then."
Gu Jiantang said indifferently: "The reason why I said this is not out of selfishness to make Tang Tieshuang's official career smooth and smooth, but I hope that the Ministry of War will be in Lu Shangshu's hands, and you can retain the taste of the battlefield for a few more days. After sitting in the Ministry of War Yes, I'm afraid not many people know what horse dung smells like, and few of them have calluses all over their inner thighs from the torture of riding a horse."
Lu Baijie sighed and said, "It shouldn't be difficult."
Gu Jiantang suddenly looked back at Gu Lu in the past. In the evening, there was still some afterglow of spring falling on the roof.
Gu Jiantang then smiled at Lu Baijie: "There is no need to send it away anymore, I am going to a place that I have never had the chance to go before."
Lu Baijie stopped and watched the great general go away.
He knew where Gu Jiantang was going.
The former Zhang Lu.
Zhang Lu was firstly the location of the Ministry of Officials. After all, no matter how arrogant Gu Jiantang’s Ministry of War has been for many years, the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials has always been the most important place in Liyang’s name. Later, Zhao Youling parted ways with his chief teacher, and the Ministry of Officials changed At that time, as the only remaining Wang Xionggui who stood firmly behind the chief assistant as a favorite student, the household department he led did not move into Zhanglu all at once, but at that time, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Accounts, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment A servant will be asked to sit obediently in Zhanglu, so that the civil leader can convey his intention or will to all joints of the five departments as quickly as possible. Now Zhao Youling was promoted to Zhongshu Province, and Yin Maochun was in charge of the Ministry of Officials, and the latter unexpectedly chose to sit in that room.
Of course, there will no longer be any talk about Zhang Lu in the world. Compared with Gu Lu, who is often talked about, this place dare not even mention it.
It was as if it had never appeared in the Liyang court.
Gu Jiantang walked to that place and looked there.
Under the night, compared with Gu Lu, there is not even the last ray of afterglow.
When he returned to Beijing this time, His Majesty the Emperor who had not yet been called the First Emperor stood in the imperial prison that night. This was the last time he saw the person Gu Jiantang went to see, and he relayed the last words.
The man and his great general were separated by an iron fence, but he didn't say even half a word of his last words, he just waved to Gu Jiantang.
Gu Jiantang withdrew his thoughts, and didn't look at the important officials who hurried out of the house and ran down the steps to greet him after hearing the news, nor did he take a look at the Prime Minister Yin Maochun who stayed at the door.
Gu Jiantang turned around and strode away.
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There are more people in the capital, not to mention one more person in this world's most benevolent place, even if there are a thousand more people, it would be like a waste of time, but no one can do it for this guest who has the intention of punishing crimes. underestimate.
King Jing'an, Zhao Xun, was the youngest clan vassal of the Zhao surname in the Liyang Dynasty.
From the summoning of Zhao Xun to the entry of Zhao Xun into Beijing, the Ministry of Rites failed to intervene from the beginning to the end, and it was all handled by the clan's government. There is no impenetrable wall in the capital, and gossip has begun to spread rapidly in the high-level official circles, but basically no one knows whether Zhao Xun's trip to Tai'an City is a blessing or a curse. In the battle outside Yaoyou Pass, Zhao Ying, the king of Huainan who was also the clan vassal, died after three battles and three victories. It seems a bit inappropriate to say that he is aggrieved, but it is not right to say that he is brave. After a bit of planning, I don't want to abandon the three passes and go to the plains to play cavalry duels with people. How can I say so wisely? As for Zhao Xun, he is more praised than derogatory. After all, this King Jingan rushed to rescue King Huainan, and he was almost chased to death by the Rangers of the Western Chu rebels. The difference between the two is one. The vassal kings of seniority have a shallow relationship, which shows that Zhao Xun's loyalty to the court is beyond doubt, which is very different from his father, the old Jing'an King Zhao Heng. It is only now that His Majesty the Emperor inherits the Great Reign, so the King's mind is unpredictable.
Zhao Xun temporarily lives in a mansion on the Junwang Street, which has no inheritance relationship with him. It used to be the private residence of a powerful official in the Liyang Dynasty more than a hundred years ago. There are more than 400 rooms, and the foundation of the palace hall is several feet higher than the street outside the gate. It was later given to King Zhongyi by Emperor Liyang about 40 years ago. Convicted and lost, in the past 40 years, he has been moved several times, and the masters all live not far away, and the most famous one is of course Sun Xiji, the old grand master of Western Chu.
Although Zhao Xun was the vassal king who went to Beijing to plead guilty in name, the wording in the previous imperial decree was quite severe. If not all the trends were as expected by that blind Mr. Lu, Zhao Xun might have been scared out of his wits. Xu's message was simple, "Let's go and let it go."
Zhao Xun really felt at ease now that he had come. These days, he often wandered alone in the mansion, admiring the bright corridors and ridges, the towering ancient trees and the mountains surrounded by water. Zhao Xun was standing in a pavilion in the middle of the lake at this time, with a smile on his face. You Zongzheng, the clan mansion who escorted him to this place after arriving in the capital, called him a nose, not a nose, and a face, look. He, Zhao Xun, seemed to be looking at a wild dog on the roadside. Maybe he heard some news yesterday, and he was in a hurry to repair the relationship. His old wrinkled face was full of smiles. Of course, Zhao Xun would not care about it on the bright side. He even gave that You Zongzheng a piece of quicksilver jade finger wrench that he had prepared long ago. The old guy's eyes lit up when he saw it. Obviously Mr. Lu's meticulously prepared such a small object hits his weakness. In fact, besides the jade finger, Lu Xu also asked him to carry an ink-colored turtle-back inkstone with him, saying that if Zuo Zongzheng was in charge of receiving him, he would have to give it away.
Zhao Xun said with deep emotion: "Lu Xu, you are really clever. When I was His Royal Highness, I always felt that the so-called top counselors like Li Yishan and Nalan Youci were just heroes made by the times. Once left in a peaceful and prosperous age, they would disappear. However, all of you didn’t realize that no matter how troubled the world is, they will definitely have a place for you until they met you.”
Zhao Xun previously thought that it would be too costly to use the entire army of 6,000 cavalry to annihilate to complete the "advance by retreat" layout, but when Zhao Xun came to Tai'an City and stood in this mansion, he began to understand that Mr. Lu was right .
Zhao Xun suddenly saw two figures appearing on the shore of the lake, and then walking towards the Huxin Pavilion. No one was leading the way. Zhao Xun frowned, giving birth to some instinctive guard.
When the two gradually approached, Zhao Xun was stunned for a moment, and after recognizing one of them, he asked doubtfully, "Brother Song?"
Song Keli, the young phoenix of the Song family.
The last time he came to Beijing, Zhao Xun and Song Keli had some point-and-click interactions.
Song Keli bowed and said, "I pay my respects to King Jing'an."
Zhao Xun quickly smiled and said, "Brother Song, you don't need to be too polite."
Song Keli's demeanor was leisurely, with a kind of neither arrogance nor impetuosity exuding from his bones, without the slightest sense of family decay and dusty body. In addition, he and the Confucian scholar with two gray temples came to visit together, which made Zhao Xun very hesitant.
Song Keli said softly: "This is Mr. Yuan, and Xichu, Sun Xiji and others are only Mr. Yuan's guests."
Zhao Xun is not stupid, he thought through it all at once.
The surname is Yuan. The real owner of this house.
It was the number one counselor in Liyang who made his father Zhao Heng hate him so much, the half-inch tongue Yuan Benxi!
Zhao Xun bowed to the end, "Junior Zhao Xun pays respects to Mr. Yuan!"
Yuan Benxi didn't speak, but just waved his hands.
Song Keli smiled and said: "The lower official is here to tell the prince that he will be able to leave Beijing and return to Qingzhou soon."
Without waiting for Zhao Xun to recall, Song Keli's "soon" came true very quickly.
The ceremonial supervisor Bingbi eunuch in a bright red python robe walked towards the three of them holding the imperial decree, his steps were extremely fast but did not give off the feeling of being messy and hasty.
After seeing Yuan Benxi, the old eunuch holding the imperial decree also nodded slightly before proclaiming the decree to King Jing'an Zhao Xun.
Zhao Xun naturally needed to kneel down, and Song Keli also took a step back and knelt down to listen.
Only Yuanben River faces the lake and ignores it.
And the eunuch who was firmly seated in the top three eunuchs in the world did not show the slightest strange expression about this.
After accepting the imperial decree, Zhao Xun had no choice but to leave Beijing quickly. In addition, he didn't have Lu Xu's tricks in his bag, so he really didn't know how to talk to the Liyang emperor teacher, so he took advantage of the situation to leave the Huxin Pavilion.
When Zhao Xun and the chief eunuch left one after another, Yuan Benxi asked, "What do you think the eunuch will be asked when he returns to the palace?"
Song Keli shook his head to express his ignorance.
Yuan Benxi laughed and said, "The emperor won't care about King Jing'an, but will ask Yuan Benxi whether he is respectful when he sees the imperial decree."
Song Keli couldn't laugh or cry.
Yuan Benxi said calmly: "Before I suggested to the late emperor that if Zhao Xun, king of Jing'an, wanted to hide his strength in the Jingnan battle, he would be allowed to enter the capital, remove his title and demote him to a commoner. If he failed despite all his efforts, let him Keep the prince, but you must live in Tai'an City for a year or two. The first emperor cared about this matter, but today's emperor is not careless, but for the emperor, a vassal king with mediocre prestige, whether Zhao Xun will stay or not What is it, he wants to use this to imitate the way the late emperor dealt with Zhang Julu, and keep trying, step by step, nibbling away..."
Song Keli said in a low voice, "I'm too anxious."
Yuan Benxi was noncommittal, opened the chat box with a little difficulty, and continued: "Zhao Xun is very smart, not because he is so smart, in fact he is much inferior to his father Zhao Heng, but this person knows how to obey the words of the people behind him. I want He stayed in Tai'an City and could only watch the changes in the world with his hands tied, because Xiangfan, as the backbone of the world, is too important to allow any loss. That young man who is blind and active is himself a huge variable. I I wanted to completely disrupt Qingzhou's forces and let one of Xu Gong or Tang Tieshuang go to sit in Xiangfan City. Now it seems that maybe, maybe one day, Qingzhou will become a battleground for military strategists, Liyang, Beimang, and Beiliang , Western Chu, Western Shu, and Southern Xinjiang are all possible."
Song Keli hesitated to speak.
"Counselors, counselors, scholars who plan, their status has been determined, they are just 'scholars', and then it depends on how to give advice to those who assist them, but before that, they must find the right person."
Yuan Benxi narrowed his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Li Yishan was right to seek Xu Xiao, Zhao Changling was wrong. I was right to seek the late emperor. Xun Ping was wrong. Nalan Youci was right to seek Yan Chi Wang Zhao Bing. Lu It was a mistake for Xu to find Zhao Heng and Zhao Xun and his son."
Song Keli asked curiously: "Then Song Dongming, Xu Beizhi and Chen Xiliang found Xu Fengnian, is it right or wrong?"
Yuan Benxi smiled and said, "I don't know."
Song Keli asked very seriously: "Sir, is there anything you're not sure about?"
Yuan Benxi asked back: "Is it not possible?"
Song Keli smiled and said, "Yes."
Yuan Benxi laughed it off, and then said: "I once asked two monks the same question, killing thousands of people and living ten thousand people, is there something to do or not to do? When I asked about killing ten people to live ten thousand people, Yang Taisui nodded and said that he could do something. But when I kept asking about killing one person and saving tens of thousands, Li Danxin still refused to nod."
After Yuan Benxi finished speaking, he paused for a long time, put his hand on the pillar of the pavilion, and said, "Next, I will let you take an imperial decree and a secret decree to Jizhou. The former is for you to take root in Jinan, and the latter is for you to carry For Yuan Tingshan's mad dog, let him boldly open the gate of Jibei."
Song Keli was puzzled at first, but soon became pale suddenly.
Yuan Benxi said indifferently: "Let Beiliang be more chaotic. The survivors live, and the dead die. Everyone gets their own place. Beiliang's iron cavalry is the best in the world? Then let the whole Central Plains wait and see."
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Exactly the same as in the past, Tai'an City is now ushering in the most opportunistic "literary talent" in the first month of the first month.
For a while, famous stabs flew all over the sky.
The imperial examinations began in Dafeng, prospered in Western Chu, and flourished in Liyang. In Western Chu, the imperial examination subjects were extremely complicated. After the reform in Liyang, the Jinshi subjects were the most important. In the hands of someone, the Jinshi subjects gradually focused on trial strategies. At first, there was a din of "Master Shoufu neglects knowledge and only favors meritorious service". The number of Jinshi and Jishi is also increasing, from a few three or four people in Dafeng to more than 20 or 30 people in Western Chu, and then to more than a hundred people in the late Yonghui period, until the first year of Xiangfu. Hundreds of people. Because of the great prosperity of the imperial examination, many foreign candidates who went to Beijing to take the exam continued to pour in and stay in Tai'an City, so there were two interesting things: "Tongbang" and "Provincial Paper", which also brought the two places of the literary world and the officialdom closer. relation. The Liyang Jinshi Department held the first month and the second month to release the rankings. Not to mention the rare ones who skipped the dragon gate, and those who failed the rankings should not be so naive as to think that the job is over if they fail the rankings. Huge financial burdens are not something most scholars can bear, so they have to stay in the capital, and those who are related to find relatives and friends from the same country, and if it doesn’t matter, they have to live in temples and Taoist temples. One's own proud articles are "passed on" to the officialdom bosses or famous literary figures, or directly delivered to officials of the Ministry of Rites and Yamen other than the chief examiners of the imperial examination, similar to "the seventh-rank official of the prime minister's gatehouse" That’s why the term “difficult to deal with” was born.
However, in the second year of Xiangfu, the "seventh-rank" concierge who is the most unacceptable to turn around like a spinning top is a bit unusual. Yin Maochun, who has presided over several imperial examinations after Tan Tanweng and is now the "Master of Heaven", naturally has a lot of traffic in front of the gate. Not surprisingly, it is not surprising that the Song family who had two wives, father and son, is so rare. The unusual thing is that the mansion that received the most famous assassins this year is not the mansion of Zhongshu Ling Qi Yanglong, nor the great master of Neo Confucianism Yao Baifeng His residence is not the family of Yan Jiexi, who is both a relative of the emperor and a scholar of the palace, but the residence of two young officials. One is Jin Lanting, the new minister of rites. One is Sun Yin who offered wine to the right of Xin Guozijian.
It is said that the famous thorns received by these two concierges can fill dozens of large baskets!
And these two most popular officials in Liyang also showed completely different attitudes. Even though the official duties were heavy, Jin Lanting spared no effort to meet all the scholars, even if he was ranked behind the Queen Mother and couldn't squeeze into the Minister's Mansion and couldn't meet. , Mr. Jin must also carefully "warm up" and reply to people, and he will never deal with it sloppyly, so that he spends almost all night almost every day. It will also be passed on by Jin Sanlang to the Eight Talents in the capital for browsing. It can be said that he has spared no effort to help those scholars Yanyu Zhangmu, so no one is grateful to him. However, Sun Yinsun's sacrificial wine seemed extra inhumane in comparison, and he accepted it, but he didn't meet anyone in the first ten days of the first lunar month, and the "warm paper" that was confirmed was just a casual reply. It's just that this guy was too shocking in the Guozijian lecture on martial arts. Don't forget, this guy won the famous verbal battle among the Confucians!
Therefore, even if this maniac recognized in the capital wrote the four characters "shit doesn't make sense" in a reply letter, the guy who got the reply was still as if he had found a treasure, and he had the cheek to publicize it for himself. The seat of Tai'an City is cited as a joke.
In just a few years, from Huangmen Lang's Mansion to Jijiu Mansion, and then to Shilang's Mansion, is it still far from being called Shangshu Mansion
Jin Lanting walked alone in the corridor after sending away the other seven people from the Eight Talents of the capital. He knew that there were piles of doors on the study desk, and he also knew that as long as the imperial examinations were not officially opened, the hill would only pile up higher and higher. The Ministry of Rites is indeed the clearest among the six ministries, but if you become a servant, it means that the Qingshui Yamen is full of oil, but this oil is more hidden than gold and silver. Jin Lanting stopped beside a colonnade, raised his head and closed his eyes, his face full of intoxication, and took a deep breath.
"Tai'an City, Tai'an City, how can you let me, Jin Sanlang, not be proud?"
After a long time, Jin Lanting opened his eyes with fiery eyes, and said in a voice that only he could hear: "Master Shoufu, I will do better than you!"
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The small house that Sun Yin lives in now is rented. When he first rented it, he was just a small official in the province. a pair of. After Sun Yin became famous, Fu Jia Pidianpidian came to the door and said that he would give the house to Mr. You Jijiu, but Sun Yin did not agree, but changed the three-month payment to an annual payment. Sun Yin wanted to go out today, and through the gap in the gate, he saw that there were a dozen scattered people outside the gate who were still waiting, so Sun Yin turned to the back door and left. In the end, he was blocked by a young scholar in shabby clothes. Sun Yin was stopped. The scholar introduced himself with a strong old Xishu accent, and then bent down and handed out a stack of things, which may be several poems. It could also be a long poem.
Sun Yin asked indifferently: "Have you shown it to Minister Jin?"
The scholar blushed and murmured. It was obvious that he had voted for the Minister's Mansion, and most likely he had been scolded by Jin Sanlang, and it must be that Jin Lanting only gave mediocre hospitality, so he had to try his luck with Sun Yin, who had a higher threshold. Sun Yin fumbled and took out a handful of coins, opened his palms, and asked, "I haven't set my eyes on anyone in the past ten days, and the things in your hands are likely to be the ones I don't even bother to scold." Well, high-ranking officials in the capital love their feathers. When they meet someone like you, at most they will pinch their noses and give you some money. Then you want me to give you money so that you can quickly pay back the rent owed on credit and have a few good meals Are you full, or do you want me to look at your things?"
The plain-looking and unremarkable Xishu Taoist rushed to take the exam, shook his head and said: "I don't want money, I just need Master Jijiu to read my poem carefully."
Sun Yin took back the money, and took over the stack of poem manuscripts that looked at the neat handwriting