In the hearts of all the people in the world who want to go to high school and be an official, but have tried and failed repeatedly, and their names have fallen to Sun Mountain, Zuo Xiang Cui Chenggang is completely like a guiding light.

It is even no exaggeration to say that even Sage Kong is not as radiant as Cui Zuoxiang in their hearts. For no other reason, the legendary life of this left-hand minister is really inspiring.

His road to the imperial examination, step by step is arduous, he took the college examination fifteen times in a row before he won the show, and it took fifteen years of hard work to take the township examination five times before he won the juren, and then after the examination failed, a group of relatives and friends around him thought that he would continue to carry forward the spirit of repeated defeats and battles, and continued to take the exam as before, until the title of the gold list.

But he didn't take the exam anymore, and with his status as a lifter, he married the daughter of the richest family in Qinghe County, and used his wife's dowry to go to Beijing to make a point.

Although he is not very good at the imperial examination, when it comes to his ability to be an official, he is really one of the best. From a lowest-grade sesame petty official to the first position among the courtiers, Zuo Xiang, it took him less than ten years.

As a result, he has not only become an inspirational idol for countless scholars, but also a model of official morality in the hearts of countless petty officials and officials.

The hard-working student used his repeated defeats and final promotions to motivate himself to be indomitable and persevering; The petty officials and officials hope that they can have the same luck as him, and their official fortune will be prosperous and rise step by step.

But Cui Chenggang never thought that he could have today, relying on luck. Those official fortunes that make others envious are all created by him with his own discerning eyes, judging the situation and making it for himself.

If it weren't for him trying to find a way to become close friends with a certain son-in-law, how could he have a way to get the questions of the township examination that year, maybe he would have to take several rounds of the township examination and not necessarily be able to win. is different from those who think that they will never meet talents, he clearly knew early on that he was not a scholar, but if he wanted to be an official, he had to study first.

So after the lift, he tried once and failed, so he immediately stopped going stupidly to hit the south wall, as long as he has the fame of lifting people and the qualification to be an official, he has a way to make himself rise step by step.

If it is said that the reason why he was able to win the lift was because of the help of his male friends, but the later prosperity of his official fortune was thanks to the blessing of two women.

This first woman was his original wife, and he relied on the rich marriage of his wife to get a small Beijing official. Although the official position is small, he can stay at the feet of the Son of Heaven and always understand the trends in Beijing and various gossip.

From those gossip, he keenly found a great opportunity for him to rise, so he decisively hugged the thigh of the Empress Dowager Sun, who was just a concubine at the time, and rose step by step, and finally became a very powerful minister.

Although if it weren't for the Empress Dowager Sun, he would never be where he is today, but if it weren't for his great help in the court, the son of the Empress Dowager Sun would not be able to sit on the emperor's throne. Originally, he and the Sun family were allies who supported each other all the way, and the cooperation was quite pleasant, but when Emperor Linde's throne was stabilized, Cui Chenggang found that Empress Dowager Sun began to reuse the Sun family more and more, and even made Sun Chengqing the right minister, not only wanting to take away part of the power in his hands, but also wanting to simply kick him away and monopolize the power.

The power that was so easy to get in his hands was in his hands, how could Cui Chenggang be willing to give it to others, so he and Sun Chengqing had a good fight in the court.

It has only been more than ten years since Emperor Lin De ascended the throne, and Yan Chun's national strength has been so weakened, in fact, because the two factions in the DPRK and China are busy with all kinds of looting of the people's fat and people's cream, and the party is also fighting very happily, and many government decrees cannot be issued and implemented. Any law proposed by either side to govern the country, regardless of whether the law is beneficial to the people or not, will inevitably be fiercely attacked and opposed by the other side.

Compared with Sun Chengqing, who only knows how to search for beauties and have fun except for court fights, Cui Chenggang still has some insight in the end, and he also knows that if the two families continue to fight like this, Yan Qin will end sooner or later. But he couldn't stop, because once he stopped fighting, what awaited him was defeat and a dead end.

He can only continue to fight, and he must win, only if he wins, can he concentrate his energy, and then realize his statecraft without any constraints, so that Yan Qin can become strong again.

And if he wants to completely win the Sun party, he must re-elect a new master, so knowing that Qin Min, the king of Yingchuan, is a sick ghost who will not live long, he still marries his daughter to him, because if Emperor Linde has no children, then Qin Min at that time will be the first heir in line. He even felt that it would be better for Qin Min not to live long, as long as he could let his daughter give birth to a son before he died.

Seeing that Yiqiē was developing in the direction he wanted, Emperor Lin De finally fell ill, and it became heavier and heavier day by day, but he didn't see him return to heaven for a long time, and what made him even more depressed was that Qin Fei, the king of Linchuan, the niece of the Empress Dowager Sun, was cured of a hidden disease and suddenly had a child again?

Empress Dowager Sun even brought the pregnant Princess Linchuan to Yunnan and let her give birth in peace, which means that Cui Zuoxiang is not vigilant.

He had thought about whether to get rid of Princess Linchuan before she arrived in Yunnan, but in the end he still didn't send anyone to make trouble on the road. Because he was afraid that if the Zhou clan had three long and two short on the road, Qin Fei was sad, who knew what crazy moves he would make? He didn't want to defeat the Sun clan yet, so together with the Sun family, he was all knocked on by Qin Fei, who had lost his mind, after all, at the moment, he had to rely on him to block the invading Jin people first.

What's more, even if Princess Linchuan arrived in Yunnan safely, he had already thought of a wonderful way to deal with it.

"I don't know the pulse diagnosed by Imperial Doctor Zhu, Princess Zhou is a few months pregnant?" Cui Chenggang looked at the sixth imperial doctor who had finished diagnosing the pulse, and asked again.

"Back to Xiangye, Xiao Chen is the same as the previous doctors, and the princess is more than four months pregnant."

"Can you see clearly? This matter is related to the dignity of Princess Linchuan and the royal family, and it must not be arbitrarily asserted. ”

However, as he said that, there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. This week, when the first month of the Zhou clan fell into the hands of the Fusang people, and when she was picked up by Qin Fei in February, she said that she was more than three months pregnant, even if she was really pregnant with Qin Fei's seed in her belly, he had to turn it into the evil seed of the Fusang people, and his six doctors were not invited in vain.

As long as it can be proved that the child that Princess Zhou was carrying in her belly was conceived after being caught in Fusang Kingdom, then even if she can give birth to this child safely after this, there will be no threat to them anymore.

He raised his eyes to look at the Empress Dowager Sun behind the curtain, and regretted that the curtain was too thick, so that he couldn't see the expression on Empress Dowager Sun's face at this time, her old face should be angry at the moment, right?

But in the next second, he knew that he was wrong.

"Cui Zuoxiang's words are extremely true, such a major matter related to the dignity of the royal family is really sloppy, and you have to invite some smart doctors to diagnose it clearly, unlike these quacks who will only talk nonsense here."

Cui Chenggang felt that something was not quite right. There was no panic in the voice of the Empress Dowager Sun, but there was a sense of fearless pride.

"The Queen Mother said this strictly, right? These six doctors, three of them are the three most prestigious doctors in Dali City, and the other three doctors are in the palace hospital, if they are not considered to be excellent medical skills, then the minister does not know who else in this world dares to call a famous doctor. ”

Empress Dowager Sun said: "Famous doctor? There are many people in this world who sell their fame and reputation, but they are not famous doctors who are really good doctors who consult patients, and even the Tai Hospital is mixed with some people who are indiscriminate, not to mention the folk wild doctors? ”

Cui Chenggang frowned, "Queen Mother, do you disapprove of the medical skills of several famous doctors like this, do you want to deny their medical skills, or do you want to deny the results of their diagnosis." Although the three civil doctors were found by the ministers, these three imperial doctors were all personally appointed by the Queen Mother? ”

"This palace is naturally questioning their medical skills! If you weren't suspicious of their medical skills, why did you deliberately pick the three of them out? I don't want their medical skills to really disappoint this palace! Empress Dowager Sun glared at the three imperial doctors fiercely, if it weren't for Mama Ma reminding her, she would have almost capsized in the gutter.

It's a shame that when she chose people at that time, she deliberately picked the three most useful ones from the Tai Hospital, and she couldn't imagine that these bastards who eat inside and out, and they talk flattering better than anyone else on weekdays, but at this critical moment, they dared to betray her, and instead went to Cui Chenggang's ungrateful thing. Look at how she turns around and cleans up this group of shameless villains who betrayed their masters.

"Just like Zuo Xiang said, this is a matter of royal decency, you can't find some unreliable doctors to distinguish the royal bloodline, right? It was the main palace that found three other folk doctors and three imperial doctors, and asked these six doctors to also give Princess Linchuan a pulse, and see if the results of the total twelve doctors were different? ”

Cui Chenggang wanted to object, but before he could open his mouth, the six doctors had all poured in from the side hall and began to knock on the Queen Mother.

He didn't even have to wait for the doctors to finish their pulse before he knew what diagnosis would come out of their mouths. But when the six doctors said the diagnosis one by one, he was still slightly surprised. Princess Linchuan is said to be more than six months pregnant, how could she be diagnosed by these people for more than seven months? Was she deliberately underreporting for a month, or—

The heavy curtain was pulled from the inside, and the woman who was sitting sideways behind several cases was supported by someone, holding her huge belly and slowly getting up......

Cui Chenggang only glanced at it, and already knew that this pregnant woman was definitely not Princess Zhou of Linchuan, although she was also a beautiful woman, but with such a bright color, it was impossible for the King of Linchuan, who was above the top, to be crazy about her.

"This is the second wife of my nephew and grandson, because she is pregnant with twins, I specially took her into the palace to give birth. She has been pregnant for more than seven months, and she can't be wrong. These six quacks—"

Empress Dowager Sun pointed to the six previous doctors and scolded: "Obviously she is more than seven months pregnant, but she can be diagnosed with a four-month belly, and you dare to say that you are not a quack doctor who cares about people's lives?" It can be seen that these six doctors selected by the palace are the doctors who really distinguish the pulse. ”

This Empress Dowager Sun has been in the palace for decades, and she likes to use four-character idioms when she speaks.

In fact, long before Empress Dowager Sun spoke, Cui Chenggang had already guessed who this pregnant woman was. Sun Chengqing also knew about sending his concubine into the palace to give birth, but he never thought that such an inconspicuous concubine would be taken out by Empress Dowager Sun at this time to be used as a stand-in for Princess Linchuan, and he immediately destroyed the three imperial doctors that he had so easily obtained.

Who the hell is it? actually gave the Empress Dowager Sun such a foolproof precautionary measure, which made him fall short. He originally thought that after Empress Dowager Sun expelled An Chengxu from the palace, there was no longer an opponent by her side that was worth his trouble, but he didn't expect that now he and An Chengxu joined forces, but they didn't get a bargain from this brainless old woman, who was behind her to give her advice?

But even so, he didn't want to admit defeat so lightly. At this time, the six doctors had already diagnosed the pulse of Princess Linchuan, saying that she was indeed more than six months pregnant, which showed that the blood of King Linchuan was indeed pregnant in her belly.

Empress Dowager Sun looked at Cui Chenggang with a smug expression, "Zuo Xiang, what else do you have to say?" ”

"Even if it can be proved that the princess is indeed the flesh and blood of the king of Linchuan, but I heard that when the princess was in Fuso, she lived in the palace of the king of Fuso, and was summoned to talk to the king from time to time, I am afraid that I will ......"

Although he did not finish his words, who could not hear except the deaf? Isn't it implying that this Linchuan princess may have been * to the king of Fusang, and her reputation is at a loss. After all, in this world, the easiest and most effective way to deal with a woman is to slander her reputation first, which is simply murder without blood.

I only heard a voice behind the curtain and said: "Cui Xiang is just an outsider, and he is still so worried about the name of this princess, will my husband ignore it?" ”

"Your Highness's violent and exclusive temperament, you all know. If I really did something sorry for him, how could he let me live until now, even if it was an ordinary man, it would be unbearable, let alone a dignified county king? ”

"My Royal Highness has a loyal maid who has served him since he was a child, named Hanamaki, who knows a little kung fu, and when I was in exile in Fuso, she has always followed me, not only to protect my safety, but also to protect my name on behalf of His Highness. She carries five waterproof □□ with her, and if anyone really tries to disadvantage me, she will detonate □□ before that person, and we two would rather be crushed than disgraced by His Highness. ”

Cui Chenggang's eyebrows jumped, he raised his eyes and glanced around the hall, and saw that many ministers were nodding slightly, as if they were moved by Princess Linchuan's eloquent confession, and believed what she said.

"As the princess said, since His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan will not pursue it, the old minister has nothing to say."

Everyone has said this, if he forcibly throws dirty water on her, it will be a little too ugly. Anyway, today's scene in the palace is just the beginning, if you can tarnish the name of Princess Linchuan, it is excellent, if not, you can still accept it, after all, the real show is still to come!

Empress Dowager Sun saw that Cui Chenggang's trick had been seen through by herself, and she lost a disgraced face, but she was still there with a hard mouth, and was about to say a few more words and stab him fiercely, when she suddenly saw someone rushing in in a panic, "poof" and rolling to the ground, and the voice that shouted out was trembling.

"Too ...... The Queen Mother, no...... Oh no...... Holy Lord, Holy Lord, Holy Living...... Shengning ...... Temple, it, it, it...... Suddenly out of the water! ”