Since the Song Dynasty, it has become a rule of law to "promote culture and education", "suppress military affairs", "rejuvenate the world with culture", practice freedom of speech, and not kill ministers or scholars.

Of course, there is a degree to everything, and if there is a big fanfare or slander of the minister, or even the emperor, it is another matter.

The same is true of rebellion, which cannot be touched, and if rebellion is committed, then there is no obstacle to not killing the doctor.

At this time, Li Sanjian and others commented on the government with warm wine, and even scolded the court officials for blood, but it was not a big deal, and others would not pay attention to it.

The person who answered the conversation with Li Sanjian and others was a scholar from Changzhou, whose surname was Ye Mengde, and his character was Shaoyun, four years older than Li Sanjian.

Ye Mengde is also Changzhou Xie Yuan, can be good at poetry and writing, especially good at words, and is knowledgeable. His grandfather was Ye Qingchen, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. The fourth ancestor Ye Shen was a four-year jinshi in Xianping, and the official was Guangluqing. Mother Chao is the sister of Chao Bu, one of the "Four Scholars of Sumen". It is said that one year, Ye Zhu and his wife Chao went to Dongshan Zhu Lane to worship the ancestors to build the Xuangong Ye Kui Temple, it was a dream at night that a dragon was coiled on the beam in the house, and soon became pregnant and gave birth to a son, so it was named Mengde.

Because Ye Mengde's mother is the sister of Chao Buzhi, one of the "Four Scholars of Sumen", Ye Mengde's articles are deeply influenced by it, and although Ye Mengde has never met Su Shi, he has always regarded himself as a disciple of Sumen.

Previously, Ye Mengde heard Ran Yunbiao talk about it, saying that Li Sanjian was Su Shi's protégé, so he paid special attention to Li Sanjian, and then heard that Li Sanjian was expelled from the school, so he couldn't help but laugh.

"It turned out to be Brother Shaoyun in Changzhou, disrespectful, disrespectful." Li Sanjian arched his hand and said to Ye Mengde: "I don't know what Brother Tai means? Is Brother Shaoyun willing to speak freely to solve the confusion below? ”

Li Sanjian currently has no knowledge of the court situation, and one of the contents of the provincial examination is the same as the release test, which is the current policy, and it will not work at all if he does not understand the court situation, so at this time, Li Sanjian's attitude is extremely deferential, and he sincerely asks Ye Mengde for advice.

"Don't dare." Ye Mengde nodded and replied, "I haven't asked for the name of the little brother yet." ”

"No, Lingnan is the son of Li Sanjian." Li Sanjian replied.

"Lingnan Lingshan County Li Hanren?" Ye Mengde was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

"Exactly, how does Brother Shaoyun know the font size below?" Li Sanjian asked suspiciously.

"Li Hanren of the first line of sentence reading?" Ye Mengde didn't answer, and asked again.

"Exactly... Li Sanjian looked at Ye Mengde and said, "Brother Shaoyun, why do you understand so clearly? ”

"Haha" Ye Mengde said happily when he heard this: "The wonderful method of sentence reading, at this time has been widely spread in the land south of the Yangtze River, all living beings are clouds, this method is something that extraordinary people can get, I didn't expect to be able to see Li Ju reading in this place, it is really a blessing for three lives!" Unexpectedly, Li Hanren was so young, and he was really a young man. ”

Li sentence reading? You are Li Ju Reader, your whole family is Li Ju Reader, Li Sanjian muttered secretly in his heart.

Li Sanjian marked a lot of punctuation marks on the book for the convenience of his own reading, and only Professor Huang of Lingshan County and a cadre of Lingshan County knew about it. This made Li Sanjian puzzled.

Could it be Professor Huang's doing? Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

The fact is indeed as Li Sanjian guessed, Huang Jian thought that Li Sanjian's sentence reading method was very good, so he recommended this method to his friends in Jiangnan through letters, and then spread it in Jiangnan official schools and academies.

Such a wonderful method would not have been created without decades of hard study, and everyone at that time was so speculative, and they all thought that Li Sanjian was a person who was dozens of years old...

Since then, the name of Li Juyu has also been quite famous among students.

"The small skills of carving insects are unbearable." Li Sanjian hurriedly said when he heard this: "This is occasionally obtained in the next place, it is not worth mentioning, Brother Shaoyun might as well talk about the affairs of the court?" ”

"Li Ju reads, how can you say things without wine?" Ye Mengde then said with a grin.

Can't you talk without alcohol? Li Sanjian hated helplessness in his heart, as if he couldn't do anything in this world without wine, and he could suffocate people without wine?

However, fortunately, the wine in this world is not a high degree of wine, not only the degree is not high, but the taste is also very good, especially the wine of Song Jingshi Kaifeng Mansion.

"Brother, I'm shy in my lower pocket. . . ." Li Sanjian then spread his hands and said embarrassedly.

"Wine!" Ran Yunbiao glanced at Li Sanjian, knowing that you are poor, and you are dragging your family, no one calls you to pay the bill, this is the case when you were in Lingshan County, almost all of them are Ran Yunbiao or Zeng Gongming rushing to pay.

The little guy in the wine shop quickly brought the wine up.

Li Sanjian embarrassedly snatched the wine bottle and filled the wine cup in front of the three of them.

"This wine is called Sangluo wine." Ye Mengde held the wine glass and said: "I don't know who will pour the wine this year." The color is more tender than the cold syrup, and the fragrance is the same as the nectar eternal spring. Ten thousand carry a bucket and send the old people of Xiaoxiang far away. Sangluo wine is made of sorghum, peas, mung beans and other things, all of which are ordinary things, but its color is cooler than cold syrup, cool and delicious, and it is really a good wine. ”

Ye Mengde suddenly mentioned Sangluo wine, it should be related to people, using wine as a metaphor for people, Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

Sure enough, Ye Mengde said after a while: "Gong Li has been dismissed, do you know?" ”

"Gong Li? Which Li Gong? Li Sanjian asked.

It won't be Li Qingzhao's father, Li Gefei, right? Li Sanjian asked secretly in his heart.

Li Sanjian didn't know, but Ran Yunbiao had heard of it a little, so he asked: "Brother Shaoyun refers to Li Qingchen and Li Youcheng, who are seven years old and recite thousands of words every day?" ”

"Exactly." Ye Mengde nodded and said: "Gong Li is from a humble background, his great-grandfather and grandfather are both commoners, and his father is a county magistrate. Li Gong lost his father when he was young, but his talent was intelligent, he could read and write at the age of seven, and he never forgot it, when he was a teenager, the article was rumored in the world, after the Jinshi, he was honest and honest for the official, and he served the law and loved the people like a son, and he did not dare to scratch his selfishness, and he was a veteran of the four dynasties, and he was the elder of the four dynasties. Where is justice? ”

Lao Tzu will be able to read and learn characters at the age of five or six, and he will be able to recite 300 Tang poems at the age of seven, Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

At the age of seven, he recites thousands of words a day, the key is to see what words are being recited? If it's nonsense, it's not a big deal.

Wait, just when Li Sanjian was beaming with pride in his heart, he suddenly remembered something, the four dynasties? Which four dynasties are they? If you understand this question, don't you know which dynasty of the Song Dynasty you are in?

So Li Sanjian hurriedly spoke: "Li Gongli Shi four dynasties, which four dynasties?" ”

Ye Mengde glanced at Li Sanjian and said, "I am Emperor Renzong, Emperor Yingzong, Emperor Shenzong, and the current saint. ”

Li Sanjian suddenly sighed secretly when he heard this, fortunately it was not the era of Song Huizong.

No matter how much Li Sanjian lacked historical knowledge, he also knew that the Northern Song Dynasty died at the hands of Song Huizong, and the era of Song Huizong should be the darkest era of the Song Dynasty, with corruption, debauchery, and people's misery throughout the whole process.

If Li Sanjian happened to arrive in the era of Song Huizong, wouldn't it be a cake in the world? War, displacement, the extinction of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the end of the nest, Li Sanjian must not have a good life, and he will become a person in troubled times, and the fate of people in troubled times is not much different from a weed.

The current emperor won't be Song Huizong, right? Li Sanjian wanted to ask, but how should Li Sanjian ask? How should others answer?

You must know that the emperor will only have honorific titles such as benevolence, god, and ying after returning to heaven.

The most important thing is that Li Sanjian only knows Song Huizong, but does not know Song Huizong's real name.

What is this bastard called Zhao? Li Sanjian recalled it hard, but he still didn't have any impression.

"What is the crime of Li Gong falling from office?" Ran Yunbiao then asked.

"I don't know much about the specifics." Ye Mengde shook his head and said: "But I heard that it is a crime of rebellion, but this is just hearsay, it should be because of the battle in the court?" ”

"Party membership disputes?" Ran Yunbiao asked.

"Definitely!" Ye Mengde denied: "The current prime minister is Zhang Dan, but Zhang Duan is a person from Yuanfeng, and Li Gong is also a person from Yuanfeng, so why is there a dispute over party membership?" ”

"That's a struggle for power?" Li Sanjian said.

Li Sanjian is more and more interested in listening, the current party struggle in the court is intensifying, Li Sanjian still has some understanding of this, Su Shi is not the failure of the party struggle, so he was degraded again and again, and finally was relegated to such a desolate place in Danzhou, Qiongtai?

In order to hold power in their hands, they do not hesitate to use all means to defeat their political enemies one by one, and to put them to the death one by one, without killing the other party, and vowing not to give up.

Of course, the excuse is high-sounding, such as Su Shi, who was seized by his political enemies because of an "anti-poem" and belittled Su Shi and his party again and again.

"Yes, yes." Ye Mengde nodded approvingly: "According to my guess, it should be this reason." ”

Ye Mengde, Li Sanjian and others estimated that it was roughly not bad, and it was for this reason that Li Qingchen was deposed and driven out of the center of the imperial court.

Zhao Xu reused Zhang Dan, Zeng Bu, and Li Qingchen's restoration method, but at this time, Zhang Duan got the phase, and he was still alone, which made Li Qingchen, who was the first to advocate Shao Sheng, feel indignant.

At the same time, Li Qingchen was also extremely dissatisfied with some of Zhang's practices, such as Zhang's debasement of the old ministers of the central Yuanyou of the court, and exiled more than 30 people, including Wen Yanbo, Lu Gongshu, Su Shi, and Su Zhe, to Lingwai.

Li Qingchen thought that Zhang's approach was too extreme, and once admonished Zhao Xu, so he was incompatible with Zhang.

The result of the power struggle was that Li Qingchen was defeated and expelled from the imperial court.

Li Qingchen's excellent official reputation has aroused the dissatisfaction of many people in the world.