The Qi trainer Jin Xin'an and the Daoist Wu Lingsu did not leave the small building. Although Wu Lingsu obtained the status of a living god by relying on his own means, Wu Lingsu has always known how much he has a few catties and a few taels of real ability. The Taian City boy got carried away when he got along smoothly. It's not that Wu Lingsu's concentration is really good. It's just that there is that tigress watching at home. Difficult, you must know that every time the red talismans on the gate of the palace to welcome the new year and bid farewell to the old are all written by that woman, Wu Lingsu just took out his sleeves and pasted them up pretendingly. At this time, when Wu Lingsu thought of the request she made not long ago, her body couldn't help shaking and sweating profusely. Do you really want to be a house slave with two surnames? To be precise, they are not considered house slaves with two surnames, but they have the same surname. But the same-surname disputes between the emperor and the brothers, the degree of bloodshed is even more terrifying than the factional strife in the temple. If it can ensure the continuous prosperity of the Wu family's incense and wealth, and ensure that the only son Wu Shizhen can inherit the title of Minister of State for Yuyi, that's all.
Wu Lingsu was trembling. If it was before today, he still felt that the Zhao family in Liyang could put a life-saving talisman on his head. Even directly after Qin Tianjian, Wu Dazhen had to weigh it carefully.
Jin Xin'an didn't go into the details of Master Wu's gaffe, he just regarded it as a false god meeting a real god, and worried that the Wu family's status in the Liyang court would not be guaranteed. What's more, Jin Xin'an was too busy to take care of himself, too lazy to pay attention to a puppet who was a matchmaker of two generations of emperors. Jin Xin'an looked up at the hanging portraits on the wall. The pictures were still intact, but many of the characters in the pictures had disappeared out of thin air. This is for the Qi trainer master who wants to become a god on the land, and then prove his ascension before the gate of heaven is closed. , It is a great blow. Since ancient times, those who practice Taoism have looked for a death principle, and those who ascend can live forever! But if it is possible for an immortal to perish, then by helping Xie Guanying, even if he ascends, can he really escape the reincarnation of heaven
There are people in the court who like to be officials and want to be immortals, why not? Why has the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhu Mountain been ascended almost from generation to generation since the Dafeng, while Wudang Mountain, which is also the ancestral home, has withered its incense? If Lu Zu hadn't passed through the gate of heaven and refused to enter, wouldn't it be completely different if he had Lu Dongxuan's "ancestral shadow"? With Huang Manshan Wang Chonglou's advanced cultivation base, wouldn't ascension be within easy reach? Why is it that there are no immortals in the blessed land for four hundred years
Compared with Wu Lingsu's panic and Jin Xin'an's absent-mindedness, the two elderly Taoist priests who have been in charge of offering incense and adding incense here all the year round have haggard faces, and one of them leans his back on the porch pillar, with loose eyes. One of them knelt devoutly on the futon, silently reciting mantras.
Xie Guanying sat lazily on the edge of Tongtian Terrace, with his feet hanging in the air, as if he was not at all worried that a fire at the city gate would harm the fish in the pond. In fact, no matter whether it's hiding or fleeing for his life, he, Xie Guanying, considers himself number two in the world, and no one really dares to call himself number one in the world. In the territory of Xishu, he escaped Deng Tai'a's murderous Qianli Flying Sword, but at the end of the Hongjia year earlier, he even escaped two soul-stirring pursuits. At that time, North Xie Nanli, Xie Guanying and Li Yishan, both of them were young and energetic sons of heaven, they hit it off and commented on the world together, especially Xie Guanying, who was proficient in divination, broke the secret and caused a catastrophe. Li Yishan, a poor man, is a bachelor with only talent but no background. It is reasonable to say that he should have died a long time ago, but he accidentally got close to a tree like Xu Xiao, and unexpectedly escaped the storm. Instead, it was Xie Feiyu who was born in a wealthy family. Not to mention that all the rebels were regarded as abandoned sons, and they were also regarded as people who must be killed by Emperor Wudi City in the East China Sea. Even the old woman who ascended the throne later held a grudge, and she did not hesitate to let Tuoba Bodhisattva sneak into Liyang to assassinate him. For this reason, he had to hide his name. Da Yin lived in seclusion in the court, and even his own flesh and blood did not know his life or death. Therefore, there is no Xie family flying fish in the world who hope to jump into the dragon's gate, only Mr. Xie in Tai'an City who should hide behind the scenes and enjoy himself.
In the eyes of Xie Guanying, who has watched the world's major events with a cold eye for more than 20 years, Li Yishan and Nalan Youci are the same kind of people. Xun Ping, Zhang Julu and Yuan Benxi are another type of people. Huanglongshi, who has a three-inch tongue, is a different kind of person.
But in the final analysis, Xie Guanying thinks that they are all the same kind of people, who seek for others, the land, the country, and the world, but they are not good at seeking for themselves. If you can't do it alone, how can you talk about helping the world? Among them, Yuan Benxi wanted to seek for himself, but he couldn't. Huang Sanjia can do it, but he doesn't bother to do it. Xie Guanying's plan is that if the real one does not sing, it will become a blockbuster. He wants the land of the Central Plains to sink again, and then he will find Chang'an for a thousand years by himself. If it is said that Xie Guanying is seeking the status of a chief assistant or emperor teacher, or a few decades of peace and prosperity, or a rising immortal, then it is too small to underestimate Xie Guanying. Since Huang Longshi said that there has never been a century-old emperor and a thousand-year dynasty in the world, then He, Xie Guanying, was about to wrestle with this "outsider" who claimed to know about Qianqiu's funeral.
Xie Guanying suddenly felt a little lonely. The old acquaintances had almost gone away these years, except Nalan Youci, who seemed to have died completely. Although there were many newcomers, apart from Chen Wang, who had a successful official career, the others still needed all kinds of polishing and scrutiny, even if they had a promising future. Compared to them, Xu Beizhi and Chen Xiliang from Beiliang stood out relatively quickly. The official Buzi is not inferior to Chen Wang, Jin Lanting who has been an official to the left servant of the Ministry of Rites? Xie Guanying has never taken this kind of clown seriously. Cooking oil with high fire is never a long-term solution, it is just a flash in the pan. Between the old and the new, Xie Guan should not be optimistic about Zhao Youling and Yin Maochun, but Lu Baijie, Yuan Guo, and Han Lin, these three civil servants who were demoted or promoted to the local government, hoped to take over the burden from Qi Yanglong and Huan Wen. Extremely human minister, but it is still paving the way for Chen Wangyan, Chiji, Li Jifu and others.
During the Yonghui period, there were only two real mainstays of the Liyang Dynasty, Zhang Julu, a man with blue eyes, and Xu Xiao, a warrior. It was the existence of these two people that shocked all the dragons, snakes, fishes and shrimps in the ruling and opposition parties. With Zhang Julu around, the literati with a heart for meritorious service governed the country honestly, and the literati who advocated smooth talk continued to talk about romance. With Xu Xiao around, Chen Zhibao couldn't get out of Xishu, Cao Changqing couldn't return to his country, Yan Chi Wang Zhao Bing didn't dare to go north with great fanfare, Gu Jiantang could only be his Governor of the Liao and Liao, and the Northern Mang army didn't dare to march south.
But because of the two of them, one in the center of the temple, which determines the promotion of all officials, and the other in the northwest border, with 300,000 cavalry in hand, the late emperor Zhao Dun dared not hand over the dragon chair to his son Zhao Zhuan, because the seat on the chair Too many stabs.
The biggest knot in this is that if Xu Xiao is not dead, Beimang will not be willing or dare to put all his eggs in one basket to invade the Central Plains, and Beiliang can use defense instead of fighting, so that Liyang will prosper and its national power will gradually grow, and Beimang will be restrained and dragged to death. Taking the initiative to conquer the desert, Beiliang has little chance of winning, and Zhao Dun dare not, Xu Xiao will not rebel, but once the Northern Expedition goes smoothly, the son Xu Fengnian will establish a majesty in the Northern Expedition, whether Xu Xiao will have an idea or not Change your son to a bigger seat than the feudal king's seat? Even if Xu Xiao can't, will Xu Fengnian himself rebel because of the white clothes case in Beijing? Even if the Xu family only took down half of Beimang, but with the vast territory of the Southern Dynasty as strategic depth and rich supplies, how could Liyang resist the experienced Beiliang iron cavalry? When the time comes when the wind and rain are precarious, the new emperor Zhao Zhuan, who doesn't have much prestige at all, can really rely on the words of Tai'an City civil servants to stop Beiliang's horseshoes
Taking advantage of the Western Chu Rebellion to cut down feudal vassals and suppress the power of local generals, and at the same time take the opportunity to perform martial arts on the battlefield of Guangling Road, was the last resort strategy of the late emperor, Zhang Julu Huanwen and Yuan Benxi. Even if Western Chu does not rebel, Liyang will force Cao Changqing to rise up. The imperial court successively let Gu Jiantang personally sit in charge of Liangliao and Chen Zhibao to rule Western Shu, making aggressive gestures towards Beiliang everywhere. A Beiliang without help, why not Let Bei Mang, who has been recharging his energy for 20 years, feel that there is an opportunity? Is it possible to take down Beiliang in one fell swoop without Xu Xiao leading the frontier army? Beimang's attack on Beiliang was the same as Xu Xiao's victory in the Battle of West Wall. Although the cost was huge, the result was remarkable. A country's surname is determined by World War I!
Now it seems that the general trend of the two dynasties has not changed, but there have been many deviations. Even after Wu Chongxuan left Southern Border and fell into Liyang's arms, the Guangling Road battle did not change quickly. And Beiliang won a soul-stirring victory, tragic and heroic. What is even more surprising is that the Beiliang frontier army died 100,000 fewer people than expected in the Liyang deduction, especially the 130,000 to 40,000 cavalry troops, which did not suffer serious injuries, and are still at a very impressive 100,000 people. Originally, Beiliang not only won miserably, but the second battle of Liangmang would directly spread the flames of war to the territory of Beiliang Road, and it might even be Lingzhou. Looking at it now, Beiliang's battle to the death outside the pass is not a dream. So this time Xu Fengnian left the feudal land without authorization and retreated step by step from Liyang. It wasn't that Tai'an City suddenly liked to talk about friendship and reason with people, but that he was afraid that Beiliang, who was proud of his achievements, would do something irreparable in a fit of anger. move.
It's a pity that the few people who made arrangements in the older generation, except for one Tan Tanweng who was ashamed, have all died one after another now.
The key now depends on how Qi Da Jijiu, whom Zhao Dun placed high hopes on, will deal with.
Before Zhao Dun died, he made a lot of plans in the open and in the dark, and the many foreshadowings planted in the officialdom gave Zhao Zhuan the opportunity to show his kindness to a large extent after he ascended the throne. At present, it seems that the young emperor has done a good job. good. Even Huan Wen, who was holding a mouthful of resentment in his heart, was still conscientious in Xiangfu Xinchao, and he did not have much obvious gap with Qi Yanglong to become a tinkerer.
Unlike Xu Fengnian who was able to win the hearts of soldiers in Beiliang by virtue of his life and death on the battlefield, the young emperor Zhao Zhuan was like the most honorable caged bird in the world, relying only on the skin of the dragon robe. Therefore, his imperial majesty needs years of hard work to forge. Of course, if it is said that Zhao Zhuan can have Xu Fengnian's martial arts cultivation, for example, when Cao Changqing and Princess Xichu came to give gifts, he put Cao Guanzi down before Gu Jiantang Liuhao master, then it is another matter. However, during the journey of martial arts, there has never been a good thing that you can become a great master without working hard. Even Xuanyuan Qingfeng, who has grown in strength by leaps and bounds, has done the act of a madman to fight Wang Xianzhi to the death. He is as talented as Yuan Benxi's illegitimate son Jiang Ax Ding, even if he has been taught by a large group of masters including Gu Jiantang's Willow Artemisia Master Qi Jiajie, in the end he is still reduced to a tide hunter in the East China Sea.
Xie Guanying said softly: "Several pillars of a country can jointly support a precarious Jinluan Palace. But a mainstay can make a dynasty stand firm even in the face of a storm that has never happened in a century. Zhao Zhuan, Chen by your side Hope, after all, you are still too young. It takes time to become a character like Zhang Julu. You can wait, but others are not willing to wait."
Xie Guanying closed his eyes and calmed down.
He didn't care at all about those immortals who walked out of the hanging statues and died like moths to the flame. Anyway, what they lost was the vitality of Xu and Zhao's family. Xie Guanying, who personally created this situation, was too happy to have it in time.
If the two groups of Qi practitioners in the north and the south are all dead, it will be more conducive to Xie Guanying's long-term planning, so it is best for Jin Xin'an to bow his head and obey orders. However, Tantai Pingping ran to Beiliang by "dragging her family and her family" by mistake, so it was difficult to start, now she seems to go to Guangling Road alone again, which is a hidden danger. As for Mount Landa in the Western Regions, he no longer shunned the world with cold eyes. After Liu Songtao died, he also put down his airs and chose to join the world and attach himself to Beiliang. The white-clothed monk Li Dangxin also went to Beiliang, and even Huyan Daguan's family of three...why are they all dragging their families? The most recent addition is Yan Shenggong who left the capital without warning. You must know that this saint helped Liyang Zhao Shi to persuade Cao Changqing not long ago.
Xie Guanying who was still smiling before suddenly frowned, opened his eyes and sat up, looking northwest.
Xie Guanying was a little annoyed, the reason why his vision began to blur was because he was also a player in the game
Then Xie Guanying suddenly withdrew his gaze and looked down, only to see the seemingly innocent young supervisor, this kid nicknamed Little Bookcase, grinning at him.
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Also at a high place, the young emperors on the roof of the main hall, Chen Wang and Lu Xu, did not speak much, only the eunuch, the supervisor of ceremonies, Bingbi, stood under the eaves from time to time, and reported in detail in a voice that was neither too soft nor too heavy The situation at Qin Tianjian.
When Zhao Zhuan heard that two carriages and four women appeared there, the young emperor laughed at himself and felt helpless.
Afterwards, the younger brother-in-law Yan Chiji's meeting with the palace was his own instruction. It was also an indispensable and important link for Yan Chiji to rush to deliver a message to Xu Fengnian, but when Yan Chiji returned in a hurry, he knelt under the eaves, The young emperor was obviously a little angry.
Even Song Tanglu, the palm print eunuch, was a little apprehensive.
Song Tanglu knew that apart from being a relative of the emperor, Yan Chiji was an extremely special scale.
As for the scale in the late emperor's heart, among them was Yan Jiexi, a university scholar. This double boss of Beiliang's literary and official circles betrayed Beiliang and joined the temple. Xixi was granted the title of one of the six Grand Masters, and her daughter, Yan Dongwu, is now a queen. In fact, Jin Lanting is also the same, so the capital is dumbfounded because of its steady progress. The same is true of Yao Baifeng, but this Confucianism master has leaned towards Beiliang and Xu Xiao at court meetings several times, so he is always a Guozijian sacrificial wine with good reputation but no real power. As the old man of Zhang Lu, Yuan Guo was even more miserable. He finally came back and became Minister of the Ministry of Rites. Because he was slightly wrong in the matter of water transportation and publishing books, he quickly rolled out of Tai'an City.
When a literati, it is very important to have the strength of character.
As a civil servant, whether you have a character or not is far less important than what scholars think.
The difference of one word makes a world of difference.
His Majesty the Emperor and the young Huang Menlang, both monarchs and ministers with good reputation, stood tall, sat down, knelt down, and couldn't stand each other like this.
Chen Wang stood up with a smile, the young emperor seemed to be a little angry and said to leave him alone, but Chen Wang still came to the ground along the ladder, helped Yan Chiji, but did not help him up, and Chen Wang did not force himself to stand Looking at the closed palace gate at the feet of this rising star of the Hanlin Academy, he said softly: "Get up, the more you kneel, the more useless you will be. Try to figure out the matter of the Sacred Heart. No. You are not the kind of official who seeks fame and reputation directly to invite favors. Of course, you don’t need Yan Chiji, and in fact you can’t do it. In this case, instead of letting His Majesty anger the King of Beiliang, you might as well stand up and follow. I go up to the roof, just to see the view, and it's not good to make a bad thing worse, isn't it?"
Yan Chiji bowed his head and knelt without saying a word.
Chen Wang, who has always been gentle and respectful, suddenly lowered his voice, and said sternly: "Why, are you not afraid of hurting your father and your sister?! Or is it that your Yan family is more prosperous than the Jiangnan Lu family, without you, Yan Chiji, Can you pick out a few more casually?! If you, Yan Chiji, are really capable, you will drag the Queen and Master Yan to kneel together. When the time comes, I, Chen Wang, will accompany you to kneel together, and everyone will join in the fun. how?!"
Yan Chiji's shoulders trembled, and he no longer wept silently, but broke down in sobs.
Chen Wang sighed, and said softly: "I, Chen Wang, are no better than you, Young Master Yan. I'm just a poor scholar studying hard in a poor window. There are some classmates in my hometown, some in the same year of the imperial examination, and some colleagues in the officialdom now, but those who are truly friends, Very few, almost none at all. So you knelt down to intercede with His Majesty. I disagree, but I can barely understand it. You and I are both rich, powerful and famous now, but it’s actually so simple.”
Out of the corner of Chen Wang's eyes, intentionally or unintentionally, he glanced at the python-robed eunuch standing quietly with his hands clasped, the latter remained motionless.
Chen Wang hesitated for a moment, then squatted down beside Yan Chiji, and said indifferently: "Old King Liang has the most powerful soldiers in the world, tens of thousands of cavalry, and the distance from the northwest border to Tai'an City is actually not as far as we think. , but every time the general enters Beijing, there are only a few personal followers. Two things, which one do you think is more difficult? For ordinary people, of course it is the former, but for the general, it is the latter. When a military commander holds a heavy army, and when a civil servant holds a court handle, the difficulty is not to be high-spirited in the eyes of ordinary people, but not to act recklessly, but to weigh each word among the five words of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, and love. "
Chen Wang smiled, "Xinliang King Xu Fengnian, your good brother, of course, has also been weighing five words these years. To be a minister, to be loyal. To be a son, to be filial. To be a general, to be benevolent. To be a brother, to be a handout. To be a husband, to show love. In my opinion, his entry to Beijing this time was unexpected but reasonable. He put aside the character of loyalty and picked up the character of filial piety. In fact, I was a little disappointed. I was disappointed that he did it for himself. Selfishly abandoning the military and state affairs, but I also know that this is just my inhuman request, and it is wishful thinking to put Xu Fengnian in the position of a saint. In fact, it is the opposite. I knew very early on that Xu Fengnian was never a saint. In the final analysis, he is a man of the rivers and lakes at his core, and he is more suitable for the world. At the height of the temple, he is a young vassal with hard-to-solve personal grievances, but far away from the rivers and lakes, he can become a hero who is not inferior to Li Chungang .”
"He chose to leave the rivers and lakes, shouldering heavy burdens and standing outside Beiliang border. He no longer has a little bit of freedom, only dead and dead. I think Xu Fengnian is actually very unhappy. Well, in short, he is just unhappy. It's a very simple truth, but many people don't understand it."
"If someone says that Xu Fengnian should be content, but I, Chen Wang, am a poor scholar at the bottom of the market, and I have come to where I am today step by step, but there are some things that make me very unhappy. You can't say that I also stand up and talk. Does your back hurt? No! Whoever wants to say that, and I hear it in my ears, I will make them even more unhappy one day. Look, I am not a saint either. , It doesn’t matter whether the official hat will be bigger in the future.”
"None of us are saints."
"So, neither is Your Majesty."
"Heaven and earth have axioms, and human beings have human nature. It is definitely right to behave according to this principle. Therefore, because Xu Fengnian is the son of Xu Xiao, it is not wrong to come to the capital to go to the Qin Tianjian. Because your majesty is the son of the late emperor, it is difficult to get off the tiger." , I don’t want to retreat anymore, there’s nothing wrong with that.”
"Since this is the case, you Yan Chiji knelt and knelt. Your Majesty and I understand your truth in our hearts. Why do you want to make an inch of it regardless? Even the yellow-mouthed children in the capital know a truth. How much is it to kneel in the court hall?" Simple things, but being able to stand is the hardest thing."
"Otherwise, let me take a look, is there gold or silver on the ground?"
Yan Chiji finally stood up wiping away his tears.
When Yan Chiji was about to bow to express his thanks, Chen Wang shook his head and said, "No, no, Lu Xu has already done the same thing in front of His Majesty today, you do it again, let His Majesty's face be put aside, forming a party for personal gain Once the big hat is buckled, I will not even think about continuing to be promoted to the noble."
Yan Chiji said calmly: "Gentlemen are not party members."
Chen Wang was stunned for a moment, then turned around and started to climb the ladder, muttering softly: "It's a fool's errand. That's good, save me from wasting money buying you a drink."
Yan Chiji, who flattered him wrongly, suddenly looked extremely embarrassed.
Song Tanglu, who had been talking to the two of them as if turning a deaf ear to them, raised his mouth slightly.
On the roof of the main hall, Chen Wang, who was sitting next to the young emperor, moved his position, so Yan Chiji had to bite the bullet and sit between the emperor and Chen Wang.
Zhao Zhuan said coldly: "Don't you want to learn from those bone-chilling civil servants who have left their names in history to die against the emperor?"
Yan Chiji lowered his head and couldn't see his expression clearly, and said softly: "Master Chen is right, when you become an official, you have to think about being promoted, this is human nature."
Chen Wang, who was immediately retaliated, couldn't laugh or cry. Scholars are not good people.
On the other hand, Lu Xu, the blind man over there, smiled playfully.
Zhao Zhuan laughed at himself and sighed: "That's right, you and Xu Fengnian have been good brothers since we were young, so today you knelt down to intercede for him, if you, Yan Chiji, are just a subject of Liyang, I will be the emperor Yes, on the surface, Longyan might be furious, and even throw you into the Qingshui Yamen to sit on the bench for a few years, but deep down, he is not very angry. As for me, I would be lying if I said that I have nothing at all. It’s just that you Not only Xu Fengnian's friend, I am not only the emperor of Liyang, you and I are not only monarchs and ministers, but also a family. I may choose a concubine in the future, and it is destined that there will be more than one concubine. There are more and more, but let me tell you something that is not a lie, you, Yan Chiji, are the brother-in-law of the fourth prince first, and then the uncle of the current emperor."
Yan Chiji was stunned.
Zhao Zhuan put his arms around Yan Chiji's shoulders, laughed loudly, and stretched out his fingers to the distance, "Look! The wind is surging! I hope that one day the four of us can still sit here together and see how the clouds are calm and the wind is light!"
Chen Wang looked solemn and sat upright.
The blind man Lu Xu "raised his eyes" to look into the distance, and put his hands on the ridge of the roof casually.
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As the city of the first good, Tai'an City has many people, so there are naturally many rules. Even the residences of officials are divided into three or six grades, which are roughly divided into rich and powerful, such as the mansion group where Yan Guogong Huaiyanghou lived. , most of them come from prominent backgrounds, and the dukes gather together. For a new face like Chen Wang, if it wasn't for the relationship with the county king and the Weng son-in-law, there is no way for you, Chen Wang, to become a regular servant of Zuo Sanqi under the door. Build a house over there. Most of the clear streams in the capital come from the Imperial Academy, Guozijian, and Yushitai. They are not only Liyang officials, but also well-known literati and scholars. They live next to each other, which saves the journey and footwork of calling friends. In Tai'an City, there are also poor officials. For example, the earliest Ministry of Rites is a typical Qingshui Yamen. Its name is Qingfeng with two sleeves, and the sourness in it is not enough for outsiders.
And rich people, like Song Tianbao, who is called brother and brother with Wang Yuanran, the son of the former Shangshu of the Ministry of Households, and Yan Tongshu, the grandson of the veteran Yan Zhenchun, even though he has a rich father and two Liaos, it will still be very embarrassing to buy a house in Tai'an City. The uncle's mansion is a sharp-edged head and it can't make it through. It's boring to go to the poor officials. It's uncomfortable to be looked at all day long. In the middle of a large mansion, buy a big house, go to the officialdom in the capital during the day to pretend to be a son as a grandson, and at night get money from people who are rich but less rich than him.
Those who are interested have studied the group of officials in the capital who made their fortunes at the end of Yonghui. They are probably "Longxing" in the poor area where students and Confucians gathered in the south of Tai'an City, and then quickly became among the powerful and dignitaries in the northeast of the city. Go to the east to buy a ostentatious mansion. If one day I can move to the west of the capital to take root like Chen Wang and Chen Shaobao, then this life will be considered complete. explain.
In the second year of Xiangfu, the big and small gentry from the north, headed by the Peng family, suddenly flooded into the northeast of Tai'an City, so that the houses in this area, which were already very expensive, became more and more sought-after. Yin Zi, the middle-level Beijing official who thought he could finally stop renting a house, couldn't help but yelled at the barbarians in Liaodong in private that apart from being rich, they were nothing at all! As the most important old force in the northeast of the capital, the officials of the six ministries of Shangshu Province did not have a good face about this, and they were quite alienated from the newly moved gentry neighbors. This is also normal. In the past twenty years, especially After the former Chief Assistant Bi Yaner personally presided over the examination, Liyang no longer deliberately supported the northern scholars in the imperial examination. Therefore, the southern scholars overwhelmingly occupied at least 70% of the seats. A pattern of northern generals and southern phases has been formed with a very clear context, but ten years after Yonghui before Xiangfu, there was no war in the world, where did new generals emerge, and there were naturally more and more southern officials in the temple, known for their unity. Youth Party is the most prominent example of this. With the four campaigns, Siping and four towns, most of the generals from the north were dying of old age, and there was less and less room for northern scholars to stand upright in the northeast of Tai'an City. Ma Lulang supported the appearance, and at least the official officials from the south hadn't been wiped out, otherwise the northern officials would have been squeezed out in different ways and would have died.
Therefore, the first thing the Peng family did after buying a new house was to pay a grand visit to the mansion of General Zhengbei University. Ma Zhongxian personally received him.
With the Peng family leading the way, the collective migration of the two Liao giants went smoothly. However, the departure of Lu Baijie, Minister of the Ministry of War, and the entry of Hong Lingshu, the backbone of the Qing Party, seem to be the Jiangnan forces entering and exiting the temple without loss. In fact, it is obvious that the vitality is seriously damaged. In this way, the large-scale entry of Beidi scholars into Beijing is very difficult.
The gates of official mansions are higher than the street level. This is a rule that has been followed for hundreds of years. The so-called entry steps in the officialdom are actually the steps at the entrance. The number of steps is very particular. According to the law of Liyang, First of all, you have to be first-class, and then the number of steps can be determined by the height of the official. The sixth-rank is only three steps, and the fourth-rank can build four steps. This means that the local county guards and ordinary generals with real power are the same. If there is no special gift for the vast majority of the six servants, the mansion is no more than five levels, the six ministers are six levels, and very few can reach seven steps. It is a great honor, it is said that on the day when the Sima family mobilized people to add steps to the house, the old Shangshu burst into tears on the spot.
What's interesting is that in the Northeast, the extremely rare seven steps are rare in the area where Chen Shaobao and Chen Wang are located. Levels are also extremely common. Chen Wang's father-in-law is level seven, and even level eight like Duke Yan Gao Shizhi is not uncommon. It's just that all the officials in the capital know well that the steps in the west of the city are all fake, relying on the ancestors' ancestral shadow and the Zhao family's surname to decorate the facade of the court, but the steps in the northeast are the real ones. The official hats of the two generations were exchanged, and the saying "the Western Seven is not as rare as the Northern Fifth" is exactly the reason. And in the northeast of the capital, there is another saying, "Ma Ba Yan Qi Shang Shu Liu", it is said that most of the Shang Shu mansions here are no more than the sixth level, but the Yan Mansion is as high as the seventh level, and the Ma Mansion has the same specifications as the Duke of the Fan Kingdom Eight steps!
In recent days, not only Ma Zhongxian, the eldest son of Ma, often rushed back to the mansion in the inner city from the Eastern Army of Gyeonggi Province, but even the eldest grandson, who often stayed out at night and smelled of makeup, obediently stayed at home and thanked guests behind closed doors.
Probably because they have heard too many rumors that the old man of the Ma family finally failed, but in the end he was still able to do it every time. Few people took the strangeness of Ma Zhongxian and his son seriously.
But whether it is the son Ma Zhongxian or the grandson Ma Wenhou, they all know that this time the old man may really not be able to bear it.
Because the old man who had been lying on the couch for many years not only stopped being dazed, but also became energetic, he could sit up and drink a few sips of porridge, and his eyes became much clearer.
This is called backlighting.
In the dying years, in the dying years, some old people, at the end of the day, know that since their time is approaching, they don't mind letting the wind blow out the last candle.
After the old man of the Ma family heard from his son Ma Zhongxian that Beiliang had defeated Beimang, the old man just opened his cloudy eyes and asked tremblingly, "Dead...how much..."
Ma Zhongxian truthfully reported the general situation of the battle, which was actually very vague, but even compared to the officials of the Ministry of War, it was already closer to the truth.
The first time the old man sat up was when he heard that the young feudal lord had entered the capital without authorization, but the old man was probably too exhausted, so he lay back soon after hearing that the 800 Beiliang Qingqi frightened the Western Army of Jingji , the old man named the eldest grandson who was recognized as not well-known to return to the mansion. Ma Wenhou was a weird person in Tai'an City, and he was said to be a playboy. , but told Yin Changgeng and Han Xing that these handsome people never met, so Ma Wenhou told Zhang Bianguan, the youngest son of the old chief assistant Zhang Julu, that waste who lived in back alleys and liked to wander around the city, and said that "the capital is strange", but compared to his temperament The perverse Zhang Bianguan, Ma Wenhou is actually very popular, when he was a weak crown and studied abroad, he was away from home for more than two years. He has been to Emperor Wu City in the East China Sea, Dashan in Southern Xinjiang, Nanzhao in Western Shu, Xiangfan in Qingzhou, and the north of Jizhou.
Ma Wenhou was taken back to the Ma Mansion by his father Ma Zhongxian himself that night, and Ma Lulang, the old general of Zhengbei, sat up for the second time with the support of his grandson Ma Wenhou. He still listens to Ma Wenhou's reading for three meals, and the old man tends to sit more and lie down less.
Next, no matter whether it was hearing that General Yang Yuanzan of Northern Mang died in the battle at Hulukou, Youzhou, or that the iron cavalry of the Liao and Liao Dynasties under Gu Jiantang finally couldn't hold back and showed signs of moving, the old man who had been up and down for more than sixty years in his official career seemed to be in turmoil. Not surprised.
However, when the old man handed over the tiger talisman in person, the old man sighed "the way to die" for no reason. I don't know if he was talking about the young vassal king or who he was talking about.
This morning, the old man seemed to want to go, but he didn't embarrass his children and grandchildren until his bones could no longer bear the bumps.
Under Ma Zhongxian's secret instruction, several hidden Ma family priests cast out like a net, and there was only one thing to do, to stare at the young man surnamed Xu from a distance.
Soon, one after another news came back to the Ma Mansion. The young feudal lord left the Xiamawei post house, but instead of attending the court meeting, he went to Liyang's former military office with a light car and refused to enter. After entering the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, Shangshu Sima Puhua slipped away. Finally, I went to Qin Tianjian and met the empress dowager Zhao Zhi and the proprietress of Jiujiu Hall.
Every time the old man hears a piece of news, he will comment on it separately.
The old man was full of energy and became extremely talkative and thoughtful, as if he wanted to finish the words accumulated in his stomach for the past ten years before giving up.
"The old yamen of the Ministry of War is actually a geomantic treasure. It's a pity that it's abandoned."
"Wen Hou, my Ma family has been a force in Liyang Fanzhen for a long time. It's just that I was quick to adapt to the wind. In fact, when I was first thrown into the Ministry of War by your grandfather, I was only eighteen years old. Many people thought that you Grandpa lost his head and put the only seedling in the family in the capital. Don't tell me he really doesn't want the foundation of his ancestors? After more than 20 years of hard work, I finally became the right servant of the Ministry of War. Everyone shut up, and some people died. , can’t speak. Some people have lost their power, and they don’t have the guts to come to me to complain. My whole life, I’ve been in the military department and the barracks, but everyone in Biyan’s Tantanwen generation knows that I’ve never been in my life On the battlefield, he has never killed anyone, isn’t it funny? Such a No. 1 person, he became the general who conquered the North?”
"When I became a leader of the Ministry of War, I met many young generals, ambitious, capable, and murderous. At that time, there was a Jinzhou barbarian surnamed Xu, who had a hard time climbing the officialdom. He was always defeated. He was wiped out several times, and he was almost bare. No one was optimistic about him, and neither was I. He had no foundation, so he had to work hard. Wen Hou, you have to be clear, Liyang at that time was not as good as it is now World