However, Song Mier has one thing, but he guessed correctly, Shen Zhan's southern tour this time is really not a simple southern tour. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Originally, Shen Zhan was also quite simple in his thoughts, to conduct a southern tour, by the way, to suppress the arrogance of the old ministers in the court, and then take the opportunity to see which people in the court still have bad intentions to the point where he has to be removed, and he can't help but be presumptuous, the dark piles in the palace have been buried, and Shen Zhan is relieved to go out on patrol; Then by the way, take a look at the great history since he ascended the throne, no matter how deep Shen Zhan is, he is just a young man, and when he becomes the emperor, he is naturally a little anxious to know whether he has won the love and respect of the people, and then by the way, look at the power of the Zhang family, whether Xiangzhou is unbreakable, and whether anyone can be put into the court by himself as a hostile force of the Zhang family. In addition, how well the Song family is operating in the Jiangnan area now, after Song Mier became the queen, whether the Song family has developed a heart of disobedience, and whether he still needs to continue to cooperate with Prime Minister Song Cheng, these are all things that Shen Zhan needs to explore and consider during his southern tour.

However, when he arrived in Xiangzhou, Shen Zhan found that the purpose of his trip might have to be added to it.

"Your Majesty, the water in Xiangzhou is too muddy and too deep, according to this, isn't it just Yan Rin?" A young man frowned, sat down under Shen Zhan, and asked with a calm face.

"They think they are well hidden, but they don't know that this hiding is the biggest flaw. How could there be no movement in the Spring Festival, but now Xiangzhou is too calm, and there is no atmosphere on the eve of the Spring Festival, and there is no nervousness among the students, nor is there any dissatisfaction with the new system among the officials. I heard that at the reception banquet, they were still bowing to each other, such a big movement, are we really blind? Another, darker-skinned, disdainful.

Shen Zhan didn't speak on the side, just slowly tapped his fingers on the tabletop.

"Your Majesty," asked the young man at the front, arching his hand, "what shall we do now?" ”

"Wait." Shen Zhan's eyes were deep.

"Wait?" The deep-skinned young man whispered, "Your Majesty, we have been waiting in Xiangzhou for two years, and we are going to wait like this?" ”

"What? You're embarrassed to say, what evidence have you collected in the past two years? What can you do with it? ”

Shen Zhan didn't speak, and Bo Yin, who was standing on the side, asked in a deep voice.

The dark-skinned young man blushed when he brushed the ground, and even if he had a dark complexion, he could see that he was very blushing and very embarrassed.

"Your Majesty forgives your sins!" Another young man immediately knelt down, and when the darker-skinned young man saw this, he was stunned for a moment, and he also knelt down with a puff, and said in a sullen voice, "Your Majesty forgives you." ”

These two young people were recognized by Shen Zhan, who was still a prince at the time, three years ago, and under the friendship, they were willing to be Shen Zhan's left and right help.

The dark-skinned young man, named Luo Xin, is a member of the Li ethnic group in the southwest, upright, intelligent, but relatively simple in temperament, and another young man named Xie Fan, a student from a relatively poor family, with talent and learning, but because he has no way to go to the relationship, he was rejected by Chunqiu, and after meeting Shen Zhan, he should have his own ambitions.

They listened to Shen Zhan's arrangement, settled in Xiangzhou, like ordinary students, sought a way to learn, spent a lot of silver taels to find a relationship, and worshiped under the door of Yan Rin, a famous Confucian in Xiangzhou.

Yan Rin, as a Confucian in Xiangzhou, has a lot of prestige in the southeast, and the most important thing is that he has always been noble and low, as long as he has talent and learning, as long as he can let Yan Rin discover his talent, he will not hesitate to guide, and if it suits, Yan Rin will also accept him as a disciple. And those who have no talent or do not meet their wishes, even if they are the children of high-ranking officials, or those who do not meet their wishes, Yan Rin will send them out mercilessly. Therefore, the children of the Han family in the southeast area mostly respected Yan Rin.

Not only that, most of the disciples who entered Yan Rin's sect could get an official and a half-position in the court, which made scholars rush to it, and naturally attracted Shen Zhan's attention. At first, Luo Xin and the others were arranged, but they wanted to use Yan Rin as a starting point to see if they could get a great Confucian like Yan Rin to support the reform of Chunqiu, and if they could start from Yan Rin to change some of the phenomena in the officialdom that urgently need to be changed, it would not be a good thing; This matter was too sensitive, Shen Zhan naturally couldn't act rashly, so he took Luo Xin and the others as the vanguard to probe Yan Rin's bottom and find out the situation before making plans. Of course, if Luo Xin and the others could impress Yan Rin, Shen Zhan would naturally be able to act cheaper.

Yes, before Shen Zhan became the emperor, he had been thinking about the reform of Chunqiu for a long time. At that time, the concubine faction was no longer in the climate, His Majesty had already issued an edict, and Shen Zhan was already a real heir to the throne, so he naturally thought about what he would do after he ascended the throne.

However, Luo Xin and the others were received under Yan Rin's door, and they came and went, but they found that something was wrong.

As a Confucian in Xiangzhou, he bears the heavy responsibility of educating the people of Xiangzhou, and it is inevitable to deal with various officials in Xiangzhou. But the strange thing is that Yan Daru dealt too closely.

Before, Luo Xin and Xie Fan didn't think that they had never entered Yan Rin's door, but when they entered Yan Rin's door, they observed and inquired in many ways, only to find that not only the governor of Xiangzhou, but also the officials of Xiangzhou, at least half of them, were Yan Rin's guests! It is not terrible that a generation of great Confucians is the guest of honor of various officials in a state, but these officials faintly regard Yan Rin as the leader, which is a little wrong.

However, if they continued to investigate secretly, they could not find anything, and they were shocked to realize that this was not just a close relationship between officials and Confucianism, but also a strict and systematic organizational system!

At first, according to Luo Xin's assumption, he and Xie Fan were both well-educated people, especially Xie Fan, but they were delayed for a moment or two because they had no way out, although Shen Zhan gave him a heavy task, but Luo Xin felt that it was not too difficult to complete, and with their abilities, it was not difficult to get Yan Rin's approval. They confidently worshipped Yan Rin as their teacher, just waiting to show their strength.

At first, it was considered smooth, Yan Rin was really impressed by their talents, and even invited them to Yan Rin's mansion a few times. But then they find it difficult to act.

At the beginning, I found out that my great Confucian teacher was secretly investigating his identity, but there is no need to worry about this, their identity background was created very clean by His Majesty. They were just very puzzled, why did the apprentice still investigate the identity, thinking about it, maybe Yan Rin was more cautious in accepting apprentices, and wanted to find out if the two were really innocent people.

But then I found that someone was following me, and my every move was being monitored. If it is to examine the behavior of the two, this kind of surveillance is too much. If it weren't for Luo Xin and Xie Fan, who were originally cautious and had some effort, I'm afraid they wouldn't have found it at all. Could it be that Yan Rin was watching all his students like this? What does this mean? It was also from that time that they gradually did not dare to send back messages to His Majesty.

Fortunately, they worked hard enough, and in two years, they finally broke into Yan Rin's interior and became students who could live in Yan Mansion for a long time, ushering in the eyes of many people.

Only then did they discover that many students who seemed to have no contact with Yan Rin on weekdays were also Yan Rin's students! Especially those gentlemen who Yan Rin obviously disdains outside, the relationship with Yan Rin is not as simple as what the outside world sees as wrong, and their intimacy with Yan Rin is even worse than that of them, the students whom Yan Rin openly admitted!

And those officials who often become Yan Rin's guests are close to them for the time being, those officials who do not align with each other can also get along harmoniously with Yan Rin, they even bring political affairs to the dinner table to discuss, and Yan Rin has faintly become an emperor-like figure!

And they also found that, like them, there were still many children of the poor family who were accepted by Yan Rin, but even if they became guest residents, they were on the periphery, and they couldn't enter Yan Rin's inner circle at all, and those who entered Yan Rin's inner circle were all officials, officials' sons-in-law, and the heirs of famous wealthy businessmen and giants in the southeast! And this matter, the children of the Han family and the people outside don't know anything about it, these are all carefully explored by Luo Xin and Xie Fan with an unknown purpose, and ordinary people can't discover this mystery at all! They still regard Yan Rin as a mentor and a respected Confucian, even if Luo Xin exposes Yan Rin and they expose it, no one will believe it.

Luo Xin and Xie Fan realized the seriousness of the matter, but they were under surveillance, and they couldn't send this important information back at all, so they could only wait and see what happened.

They also tried to secretly gather deadly evidence, but they were not even qualified to participate in this kind of dinner banquet! Not to mention entering Yan Rin's study! In the eyes of outsiders, they can live in the Yan Mansion, and Yan Rin even praised the two of them when teaching lectures, it seems that they are already Yan Rin's favorite disciples, but who knows, they are nothing at all, and they are still under surveillance! Even if I was able to meet with His Majesty this time, it was because of the help of the secret guards, and I took advantage of the complicated affairs of the southern tour and the complicated number of people in the Yan Mansion, so I had the opportunity, and the so-called Ha Mansion guest residence was just to facilitate Yan Rin's control and monitoring of them!

And those who don't even look at Yan Rin on weekdays are Yan Rin's real henchmen, and a large part of them are the sons-in-law of officials from all over Xiangzhou and even Liuzhou! What does this mean?! Luo Xin and Xie Fan couldn't guess what Yan Rin was going to do, but they knew that this was definitely not a trivial matter!

Maybe it will take them a few more years to gain Yan Rin's trust, but will it really be too late to get the evidence at that time? Let Yan Rin's power grow bigger and bigger? Moreover, could it be that their identity as innocent children of the poor family could really become Yan Rin's henchmen?!

Xie Fan pursed his lips tightly, and Luo Xin also looked guilty and gloomy, "The grass people are incompetent. ”

"Alright, get up." Shen Zhan raised his hand, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"I originally thought that it was just that there was something wrong with the Spring Season, it was too calm. But according to the clues you gave me, I'm afraid things are much more serious than we thought. However, Yan Rin's identity is destined not to be convicted arbitrarily, at least to give an explanation to the people of the world. ”

If Shen Zhan has been on the throne for a long time, he has accumulated great power, and the court is safe, but now that Shen Zhan has just ascended the throne, and at the moment of Chunqiu, the other party is a great Confucian, so he is afraid that the people will not go well if he is not careful.

Besides, if you startle the snake, I'm afraid that I won't be able to find evidence, a Yan Rin is not terrible, what is terrible is the network of relationships he has weaved, what is he going to do? Is there anyone else behind it? In this southeastern region, have officials and officials protected each other, and officials and schools have exchanged each other to the point where they are enough to disrupt the government? These are not things that Yan Rin can have answers to as soon as he dies.

"I can only wait. Wait and see what happens, wait until they show their feet, wait until we get the handle. ”

But Shen Zhan didn't expect this handle to be delivered to him so quickly and dangerously.

Liuzhou.

After staying in Xiangzhou for a few days, Shen Zhan left quietly, and arrived in Liuzhou in one day in Jinzhou.

Today, spring begins.

When Shen Zhan arrived, it was the last time the whole city was mobilized before the exam, and the street was very lively, and Shen Zhan was also interested, saying that he wanted to go out for a walk.

As soon as the surrounding students heard that His Majesty was coming, the cheers were enough to tear down the roof.

There is a high platform in Liuzhou, which was originally used by the people of Liuzhou to worship the sky, and now, Shen Zhan is standing on this high platform, and the bottom is full of crows and crows, and even the surrounding shops are full of people, and even some people are not enough, holding the pillar and lying on the roof, just to admire the demeanor of the young emperor.

"Eh, his third uncle, don't you say, our Emperor Xuanqi is really handsome! I'm about to enter the ground, this is the first time I've seen such a handsome young man! ”

"Huh! No nonsense! This is the Son of Heaven! It's your turn to be a woman's critic! You're still handsome! Shut your mouth! Even the Son of Heaven said, you woman really dare! I'll get you to jail later! ”

"Slaves are not afraid! You see, our Majesty is deafenable! Don't you see that those scholars are more enthusiastic than us? Why didn't they see me? ”

"Phew! You, can you compare with a reader?! Don't you know that spring is coming tomorrow?! Don't underestimate these readers, maybe after a few days, you will become a big official, be careful of your mouth! ”

"Hey! I know I know, our next-door neighbor, that cub, is good at studying, didn't he even take the exam back then! I heard that I went to a neighboring county to be an official! took his mother away, and now life is good! ”

"That's it! I don't know how many champions will be produced this year! ”

"Phew! Say I don't know, you don't know! There's only one champion! Where are there and how many people! ”

"Oh, I didn't make a slip of the tongue, but I heard that this spring is not ordinary! What method has your majesty changed, which seems to be more useful to us ordinary people! ”

"Whew! What are we, are you going to take the imperial examination! ”

"Hey! I mean students from the same background as us! You didn't see them so lively now! ”

Similar conversations were going on in the corners of Shen Zhan's surroundings, and the people were full of curiosity about this new emperor.

And those students, in addition to curiosity, are even more grateful to Dade.

The Chunfu reform, a word that sounds very distant, seems to be outside the lives of ordinary people, but in fact it really affects most people. Many students were already excited that they might be able to become protégés of the Son of Heaven, but now that they have seen the current saint with their own eyes, their hearts are even more excited. They felt as if a splendid landscape had unfolded for them in front of them, waiting for them to pursue it.

"Long live Your Majesty!"

Shen Zhan stood on the high platform and said a few words with emotion, encouraging and encouraging the students present, who knelt down in unison as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, shouting "Long live", and the people around them also knelt down one after another, shouting long live.

Since ancient times, scholars have been arrogant, and there have been people who have read books in the past to see the saint, even if they kneel, they straightened their backs and were very proud of the story, and only when they entered the officialdom and struggled for a few years or more than ten years, they were no longer arrogant, and they were a little more sleek and sophisticated. And today, these scholars spontaneously worship Shen Zhan and are grateful from the bottom of their hearts, especially most of the children of the poor family who are still difficult to get ahead, the restructuring of Chunfu has the greatest impact on them, and they are naturally grateful to Dade. And these children of the poor family, if they enter the court as officials, I am afraid that there will be a lot of clear streams that are difficult to buy and win over, and with these actions of His Majesty now, there may be a few high-ranking officials of the clear stream, and when the time comes, if there is any action, I am afraid it will be even more difficult to act.

On the nearby tall building, there were several people in brocade robes, all of whom looked at each other a few times and nodded.