After listening to this, Su Chen asked directly: "The current Song Party personnel are withering and the scale is weakening, which prince are they currently mainly wooing, is it King Zheng or King Ji?" ”

When Jiang Tao and the three of them heard this, their faces were a little nervous, after all, it involved the open and secret battles of the imperial court factions, and they were just three students who were about to take the imperial examination, and they were already a little afraid when they heard these court secrets.

At this time, listening to Su Chen's question, he obviously took a step deeper, to know which prince was involved with the Song Party.

Peng Zeliang hesitated for a moment before saying: "It should be King Zheng, after the prince died violently, the first emperor was among several princes, choosing an heir, Zheng Wang Li Congshan intended to compete for the position of the crown prince, and secretly cooperated with the Song Party, but the people of the new party, Pan You, Li Ping, Yin Chongyi and others, supported today's official family and were recognized by Emperor Yuanzong, so they set up an official family that was still King Wu at the beginning, and entered the East Palace. ”

Su Chen nodded, he had already seen this history in history, but it was not detailed. The Song Party began to support Li Jingsui, but was poisoned to death by Li Hongji, the crown prince supported by the Sun Party, so the people of the Song Party, worried that after the prince ascended the throne, the Song Party would be purged, and it was likely that they would take risks to do something to the prince, and after the prince died violently, they changed to support Li Congshan, the king of Zheng.

But in the end, it was Li Congjia, the sixth prince, who was the official Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty, because the nobles of the Jiangzuo aborigines supported Li Yu. And Li Jing saw that the Tang State needed the strength of the New Party to be able to stand firm and gain the approval of the local magnates in Jiangzuo, but the people of the Song Party and the Sun Party had their backgrounds and roots in Jiangbei, and their influence was much weaker.

In addition, Li Yu is kind-hearted and has a weak personality, so he will not toss around like him, using troops everywhere, consuming the treasury, and greatly hurting his vitality, and finally facing the Song army, he was defeated, Li Jing felt that Li Yu could be a stable and stable lord of the country, and strictly continue the national glory of the Tang Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River, which is also the reason.

Peng Zeliang continued: "After the official family came to power, although they relied on the New Party, they did not fully support the people of the New Party, and successively used Feng Yanlu, Wei Cen, Han Xizai, Zhong Mo and others, these people were demoted by the Song Party and the Sun Party by the first emperor, and they were restarted to use it, which is also a signal that the official family is maintaining the balance of power and not allowing one party to dominate. ”

Jiang Tao, Liu Dong, and Xia Baosong, the three scholars, heard these opinions, and suddenly realized that there were so many cats between the factional battles of the imperial court, and even those who dismissed and exiled officials, as well as two of the notorious five ghosts, were reactivated by the official family, and they had the imperial technique to balance the power of the imperial court.

Peng Zeliang also said the names of some people, who were the magnates of the three parties, and advised: "If you want to stay in Jinling City Mayor, or even be used by the imperial court after the imperial examination, and enter the official career, you must first find out what influential groups there are in the imperial court, what are the largest political parties, and what officials are in the same camp." In this way, you can know what you say and do in your heart, otherwise, if you talk to your surroundings and complain casually, it may reach the ears of those court officials, and some of you are unlucky. ”

Of course, these exposed ones are relatively high-level and cannot be concealed and hidden. However, many fourth- and fifth-grade officials have secretly voted for certain forces, and there is no label for the time being, and such talents are in danger and may secretly make things bad at any time.

"Taught." The three of them thanked each other, and they already had a lot of officialdom information in their hearts, and the impact and changes on them, big or small, how much they could understand and how to do it, it depended on the personalities of the three of them.

For example, Jiang Tao felt that he could be a competent official, and he could be more dexterous and deal with the petty officials of various factions.

Liu Dongkou is a little clumsy, so he is reluctant to step into the official career department, but he likes to enter the Jixian Hall and the History Museum, do a revision, write books, organize literature and history, and do learning with peace of mind.

Xia Baosong likes to enter the Hanlin Academy, can be a Hanlin attendant, has the opportunity to enter the Zhongshu Sect, and is a living room for drafting documents.

The three have different personalities, so they have their own goals and ideas.

Peng Zeliang felt that what he said was almost enough, and it was inconvenient to dig deeper, so he went out and instructed the housekeeper to prepare a table of banquets and leave three people for dinner at noon.

This kind of treatment made the three poor sour scholars feel flattered, Lord Yin Peng of Jiangning Mansion personally entertained him, and Jiangzuo's first genius accompanied him, which made the three of them a little inexplicably grateful, and almost cried with excitement, and since then they have followed Peng Zeliang and Su Chen with all their hearts.

After lunch, Jiang Tao and Xia Baosong left drunkenly, Su Chen also drank and was a little sleepy, but was stopped by Peng Jingqing, so he had to take his hand and go to the next yard to take a look.

Su Chen was puzzled and asked, "What are you going to see in the mansion next door?" ”

Peng Jingqing smiled and said: "You don't know this, next door lives a former household servant, has returned to his hometown, went back to Hongzhou, this yard has been idle for more than a year, today I went out and happened to hear the concierge said, the mansion is on the consignment, I thought, anyway, you said you want to buy a mansion in Jinling, it is better to buy this one, close to Peng's mansion, just across two walls, a narrow alley with drainage, I can turn over if I have nothing to do." ”

"......" Su Chen was speechless, is this to buy a mansion for me, or to buy a mansion for you!

But he didn't dare to say this, although Peng Jingqing has become much more obedient now, well-behaved and docile, and gradually takes him as the main one, but Su Chen will not really be macho, too arrogant and arrogant in front of this Peng woman, otherwise, he can only bring humiliation on himself.

The two came to the main entrance of the mansion, there is a "Yan Mansion" plaque on it, the courtyard of this mansion is open, not much weaker than the lintel of Peng's mansion, looking from the outside, you can vaguely see that the scale of the courtyard is not small, the pavilions are scattered, at least three in and three out of the courtyard, the location is also good.

After Peng Jingqing knocked on the door, after the porter saw Peng Jingqing, he recognized her as the daughter of the Peng Mansion next door, the daughter of Yin of the Jiangning Mansion, and did not dare to slack off, and squeezed out a smile to greet.

"Miss Peng, what are you here for?"

Peng Jingqing said: "Aren't you going to sell the house, it just so happens that this Su Gongzi is going to buy a house in Jinling, let's come in and take a look." ”

"Young Master Su?" The porter glanced at Su Chen, and when he saw the intimate behavior of the two holding hands, he couldn't help but wonder, could this be the famous Jiangzuo Sulang?

Su Chen asked, "Is the steward in your yard there?" ”

"Yes, Xiaodi is going to ask Pang to take care of things." The porter went into the courtyard and called the steward.

After a while, Steward Pang came and greeted Peng Jingqing and Su Chen politely.

"Two of you, please come in, my family has returned to Hongzhou, and I told Pang to come over and deal with this house, and the master will not return to Jinling in the future, and plan to retire in Hongzhou."

Su Chen said: "Then let's go and have a look first!" ”

After Steward Pang knew the identities of the two, he said quite politely: "The two of you are free to watch!" ”

Su Chen and Peng Jingqing entered the mansion and visited everywhere, the courtyard was laid out in depth, the houses and courtyards that entered and entered created a deep feeling of the courtyard, and there were sometimes side corridors on both sides of the courtyard for people to walk, and there were flower beds and bamboo cultivation on both sides of the corridor, which was very elegant.

The exterior wooden part of the house is made of brown, black, dark green and other colors, and the white walls and gray tiles reflect each other, the color is elegant and clear, and the surrounding rockery trees, fish pond flower platform and so on are combined to form a picturesque Jiangnan garden style.

This courtyard, plus the main courtyard and the side courtyard, is not a problem for two or three hundred people.

After Su Chen read it, he was quite satisfied, and asked about the price, asking for five thousand yuan, that is, five thousand taels of silver.

Peng Jingqing said to the steward: "It's a bit high, at most three thousand taels of silver, my Peng Mansion is also at this price, a little bigger than yours." ”

Steward Pang hesitated, a little jealous of the identities of the two, thinking that in Jinling City, these things need to be handled by the department of Jiangning Mansion, if they don't agree, I'm afraid there will be trouble in the future, and this price is also within the acceptable range, so I agreed.