On the morning of March 2, the sky will be bright, under the dark sky, there is the sound of rapid horseshoe wheels, on the long street with no people, the faint lights of the front of the car one after another, in front of the palace gate into the flames. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Gu Qingxuan closed his eyes, sat as usual in the bumpy carriage, and asked, "Doctor Yin, did you hear that?"

Yin Jiheng sensed it, but there was nothing else except the sound of hurrying: "Nothing special, Brother Gu Xian, what did you hear?"

"Crying. He said, "A lot of cries, women's, children's, old people's...... Some people died without sound, some people were dying of hunger, they were moaning, they were crying for help...... They flock here because they think this is the most prosperous place in the world, and they yearn for Chang'an, more than we do......"

Yin Jiheng thought that he was pretending to be and deliberately ignored it, Gu Qingxuan opened his eyes and said, "This is what Gu saw and heard in Shangluo, and it is also ......what Doctor Yin will see."

Yin Jiheng thought about it, counted the days, and said with a smile: "Yes, it seems that Chang'an will be busy with Yin You in the next few days." ”

Gu Qingxuan took out a stack of documents from his wide sleeve, handed them to Yin Jiheng, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll hand these over to your supervising imperial historians." When Lu Yuanzhi expressed his concern for the country and the people, the doctor will do something practical and present this overall plan to His Majesty, which is the money raised by the two cities of Chang'an and Luoyang, which can solve the temporary emergency. ”

Yin Jiheng took the things and looked at them, and said, "Okay, just do what the virtuous brother said." ”

When he arrived outside the official office of the Imperial Historical Observatory, there was the east gate of the Imperial Palace not far away, but he had to get off first, because he was only the main book of the Imperial Historical Observatory at this time, and he was not even qualified to discuss politics in the upper court.

Gu Qingxuan got out of the car calmly, he was also familiar with Yushitai, but he didn't immediately go to the door and wait for the door to open the door.

He walked to the east, on the east side of the Imperial Observatory, adjacent to it was the place where the Minister of a country handled government affairs on a daily basis - the Political Affairs Hall.

It is the closest to the Royal Palace, and it is also the closest to the Supreme Authority.

Stopping for a moment outside the gate of the government hall, he raised his eyebrows, smiled lightly in the thin morning light, flicked his sleeves and elbows back to support his back, and continued straight forward.

Gu Qingxuan, I'm back.

……

When Gu Qingxuan went to the gate of the north city, the court discussion in the Golden Palace was in full swing, and Chen Jingxing finally saw the presentation of the situation of the refugees in various places, and half of the dragon case was piled up, and the court woke up like a dream.

Lu Yuan took on the so-called 10,000-word book written by Lu Yuanzhi himself, and the eunuch read it aloud above the Golden Palace, telling the difficulties of the people's livelihood and the emptiness of the treasury, and asking for the lives of all the people.

This is Gu Qingxuan's gift to Lu Yuanzhi, and the one he gave to Yin Jiheng is much more boring, but it is the most exciting - the fundraising account book.

Chen Jingxing had a headache when he heard the book of ten thousand words, and then he immediately came to his senses when he saw Yin Jiheng's presentation: "Okay! Okay! Doctor Yin was able to raise so much donation, which really solved my difficulties! This is a great contribution to Yu Sheji! But ......."

He examined the fold in his hand and pondered: "I look at the way of accounting on this fold seems to be very familiar......

Yin Jiheng had no choice but to tell the truth: "Back to Your Majesty, the old minister is trying to start Your Majesty, this account is not from the hands of the old minister, it is calculated by Gu Qingxuan, the former household secretary who resigned a year ago, and most of Luoyang's donations were raised by Gu Weng." ”

"Gu Qingxuan?" Chen Jingxing was clear now, "Gu Qingxuan, are you back?"

Yin Jiheng was stunned for a moment, and replied: "Yes, Gu Weng has made great contributions here, but he is not in a high position, and he is dedicated to solving the difficulties of fortune for the imperial court. ”

There was a whisper among the hundred officials, Chen Jingxing looked at the fold in his hand, coughed and stopped the noise, his expression was unpredictable, he only praised Gu Qingxuan for a few words and did not say much else, and most of the credit was still on Yin Jiheng and Lu Yuanzhi, and praised him greatly, let Lu Yuanzhi preside over disaster relief, and let Yin Jiheng preside over fundraising.

Throughout the early dynasty, Lu Yuanzhi did not show up, because he had already gone where he was supposed to go.

Outside the north city gate, the refugees were entangled with the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were limiting the number of refugees entering the city, but Lu Yuanzhi arrived early, and he was deliberately dressed very plainly, and squeezed out with the support of everyone, and immediately set up a porridge shed and camp tent at the foot of the city gate to settle the refugees.

He even dragged the sick body to the porridge shed to distribute various relief materials to the victims, patiently calming their emotions.

Then his subordinates consciously or unconsciously revealed to the people that this was the incomparably noble Lord Xiangguo, so that the people knelt and worshiped him, admired and loved him, and proclaimed his good name.

After Gu Qingxuan came here, he didn't join in his excitement, he just looked down on all this on the city wall, looking at the figures who kept flocking to Chang'an in the distance.

Hong Luotian glanced at Lu Yuanzhi below with disdain, and asked him, "How do you feel about watching others do good deeds with the money you raised?"

He smiled and said, "He didn't do this well enough, if I did, I would definitely be more touching." ”

Gu Qinghuan on the side also laughed, and Hong Luotian still sarcastically mocked him angrily: "You officials, you say that you are acting for the world, but in fact, they are all played for the emperor. ”

Gu Qinghuan stopped smiling, he felt a little complicated, Gu Qingxuan didn't mind, and only said: "Qinghuan, you have to be an official in the future, let your Uncle Hong see how we, the elite of officialdom, have eaten up the rich and giant businessmen in the world." ”

Gu Qinghuan blinked his eyes and saw Hong Luotian's hand raised, as if he was going to push Gu Qingxuan off the city wall, he hurriedly dissuaded him and blocked between the two of them.

Gu Qingxuan glared at Hong Luotian, turned around and left, and said to Gu Qinghuan who was following behind: "Just let the Lu family steal the limelight, they are tossing around, we can just act, there are still a few days before the Spring Festival, your Uncle Dong has already arranged it." ”

Gu Qinghuan was actually a little nervous in his heart, as if he couldn't let go of something, and replied, "Okay, father." ”

……

On March 5th, the annual spring entrance examination finally arrived.

The candidates entered the examination room the day before, picked up the papers, waited in their respective rooms, and started the examination on time in the early morning of the fifth day, and did not officially end until the evening of the same day.

The night before entering the school, Liang Yanzhi, the son of Liang Zhengqing, who was about to enter the exam, was a prostitute in Luo Hongge, fought with others, and was attacked and beaten by the Jianghu people, and was seriously injured.

In order to protect their reputation, the Liang family did not dare to make a noise, and the entrance examination was imminent, Liang Zhengqing was anxious, and thought that it was Lu Yuancheng who opened the joint, so he went to him for help.

According to the previous arrangement between Lu Yuancheng and Gu Qinghuan, the ten sons of Gu Qinghuan who wrote the official papers will enter the court the next day, and Lu Yuancheng has already obtained the preparation papers beforehand, and they entered the exam, in fact, they just went through the motions, and Gu Qinghuan had already helped them do the papers, and when the time came to transcribe them, the transcriber who was sold through would help them replace the original papers in the examination room with the papers made by Gu Qinghuan, and transcribe them again.

These ten people were carefully selected by Gu Qinghuan and Lu Yuancheng, and they were the most beneficial to the Lu family, and they were also carefully selected by Gu Qingxuan, and they were also the most beneficial to the Gu family.

Their official papers were voted for officials and nobles who were close to the Lu family, and they were promoted, and they could directly get official positions after winning the list, so they were only half a step away from the merit and fame.

When Lu Yuancheng learned of Liang Yanzhi's news, he was also very anxious, and asked Gu Qinghuan to discuss whether to give up Liang Yanzhi.

Gu Qinghuan said that he didn't want his efforts to be in vain, and he didn't want to lose the huge deposit paid by Liang Yanzhi.

In the end, there was only one way left, that is, he took the name of Liang Yan and entered the test.

Lu Yuancheng thought that Gu Qinghuan was not admitted to the examination anyway, and there was nothing to worry about taking the exam for Liang Yanzhi, so he arranged for him to enter the field.

On the evening of the 5th, the candidates went out of the examination room, and everything was safe.

The next step is to transcribe and mark the papers.

Thousands of examination papers had to be transcribed by 50 transcriptionists behind closed doors for several days, and the original papers were handed over by the examiner to the transcription department, and then assigned to different transcriptionists according to the examination number. The transcriber who was bought off knew it in his heart, and all he copied was the "original volume" he got from Lu Yuanze in advance.

Because Gu Qinghuan personally played, there was no Liang Yanzhi in the original volume.

After the transcription is completed, the sealed paper will be handed over directly to the examiner for review.

However, before handing it in, some accidents happened.

A fire broke out in the transcription office, and the transcribed scrolls were burned.

The ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens is imminent, and the spring festival must end on time, so Chen Jingxing accepted the suggestion of Dong Yehong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and this time made an exception to directly review the original volume.

Lu Yuancheng couldn't stop it, and he couldn't expose what he did in front of Lu Yuanzhi.

Falling short.

The official papers submitted by the candidates before the examination have been handed over to the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites has already handed them over to Lu Yuanzhi, which will be read by Xiangguo himself, and finally presented to the emperor after the end of the Spring Festival.

He could only try to detain the official scroll before Lu Yuanzhi presented it, so as to avoid a catastrophe.

However, it was too late.

Before he got the news, the people from the Ministry of Rites went to Lu Yuanzhi to pick up the scroll and present it.

There was no other way but to make a final struggle, he bribed the eunuchs around the emperor and asked him to steal the ten copies of the scrolls before the emperor saw them.

This was the idea that Gu Qinghuan thought of for him.

However, the eunuch was caught red-handed by Gonggong Jin, tortured, and confessed.

On the eve of the unveiling of the list, Lu Yuancheng and the ten people were exposed to fraud, and all of them were imprisoned.

On March 10, the list was announced, and Gu Qinghuan's name topped the gold list.