On the day of the Shangyuan Festival, the city of Shendu is really lively. Even if Li Tong was trapped in the temple of filial piety to the emperor, he could really feel the warm atmosphere of the carnival in the city.

While the people were reveling, they did not forget him, the king who was still eating in the temple.

After nightfall, a large number of times gathered outside the temple of filial piety to the emperor, and started to sing a duet, the main content of the singing, one is naturally the tune of Li Tong's old composition, of course, there will be no one who is not interested in singing to find flowers and willows, or selective. Fortunately, Li Tongwen is also diligent enough, even if he picks and chooses, he sings for more than an hour without repeating it.

The second nature is to sing the praises of the famous king and the patriarch, the king has a good father, and filial piety has a good son.

The messy singing voice was introduced into Li Tong's residence in the depths of the temple, because of the Shangyuan Festival, Li Tong also had a meal at night, a small bowl of finely ground pasta, but it was only the meaning, not the most useful. Lying on his back on the bed, listening to the singing in his ears, even the rumbling from his stomach seemed to have a sense of rhythm.

In this regard, Li Tong can only comfort himself, probably because of the great responsibility of him, before the great cause is created, he is not allowed to indulge in pleasure, so he will miss the Shangyuan Festival again and again and cannot participate. Of course, if he knew that he really had a prophecy, he would rather be bored and count sheep than have such a cheap thought.

On the third day after the Shangyuan Festival, his royal assistants and team members were finally officially appointed and entered the temple to worship the king together.

After finishing the morning class, Li Tong also came to the hall of the temple early, and was quite excited to wait for the arrival of his new team members.

I don't want them to bring some meeting courtesy, mutton and the like don't dare to think about it, I've been hungry for too long, my intestines are thin, overeating and diarrhea, and it's not good to be discovered, such as Liu You's request for two urns of pickles in the old year can also be accepted!

There was still some time before noon, and these palace officials finally marched into the temple under the leadership of the celebrant officials, the first one was Ouyang Tong, who was already with crane hair but still with straight shoulders, and there were more than a dozen people in the rear.

However, seeing that these people were empty-handed, Li Tong's expectations in his heart were suddenly cut in half, and in the eyes of others, there was naturally a kind of depression and loneliness.

Ouyang Tong saw that the acting king was described like this, and before he approached, he first bowed his hand and said deeply: "Humble rank, meet the king!" ”

"Ou Gong can't be like this!"

Seeing this, Li Tong was busy and wanted to dodge and avoid it, although they had high and low ranks, not to mention age and friendship, Ouyang Tong was now the acting king's teacher, and Li Tong could not accept this gift.

Ouyang Tong saw that the young king's footsteps were vain, and stepped forward to stabilize him, while Li Tong shook Ouyang Tong's wrist and bowed down and said, "Please Ou Gong come to the table and be cautious and cautious." ”

Although he has a new name, he really can't "help", so he simply calls himself a cousin for the time being.

Ouyang Tong was not rigid, and stood in the west seat since entering the hall, and Shi Wang Fangqing, the acting head of the palace, also led a group of officials to greet him. No matter what their intentions were, seeing that Ouyang Tong, the royal master, was so polite, they naturally didn't dare to slack off.

"Gentlemen don't need to be polite, please take your seats. Xiao Wang's virtue is still inferior, and in the future, all kinds of government affairs need to rely on the good ginseng of the king. ”

Li Tong bowed his head to everyone, and after returning to his seat, he bowed to Ouyang Tong again, and when the old gentleman sat down, he also sat down, and his eyes fell to the assistants who were seated in their respective seats.

Wang Fangqing is in his early forties, with a square face, and at a glance he is not as elegant and dignified as Wang Shaozong, Li Tong's former colleague and fellow descendant of the Langya Wang family, but the majesty of the official appearance is much greater. After all, he used to be a member of Uncle Fang in Lingnan, and his temperament is naturally tougher.

Wang Fangqing sat in the middle of the table and introduced his subordinates to Li Tong in turn.

Su Weiwei is about the same age as Wang Fangqing, and his appearance is also lacking and outstanding, which shows that his father-in-law Pei Xingjian has his own set of standards, and he is not a dog.

But a long beard is very eye-catching, which is judging by Li Tong's standards, this guy is just idle, and serious people are very busy every day, who will comb his beard when he is free?

Teachers and friends sat side by side, and Su Wei sat down under Ouyang Tong, who was not the official of the palace, but was responsible for education and persuasion, and his status was even more transcendent.

Wang Fangqing's next head is Yao Yuanchong, and the official position he holds is to join the army in the palace secretary's office, and is in charge of the performance and transmission of the palace's seals.

To be honest, Li Tong was quite surprised by this, he added Yao Yuanchong's name before just to give it a try, Yao Yuanchong is not a cold bench now, but Xia Guanlangzhong, the military department of the Southern Province, has little chance of concurrently leading the government, but he didn't expect it to be approved.

There is a military officer who holds a government position, and the benefits are still obvious, that is, there is a cohesive escort force such as family affairs and battles. After all, the Ministry of War is in charge of military selection, and there is such a relationship and way, even if everyone has ideas, they don't have to ask for anything else.

After Li Tong was promoted to the prince, the scale of the family battle increased several times, there were as many as seven or eight hundred people, although not all of them were in the fanchang, but there were more than three hundred people every day, which directly exceeded the total number of their three kings when they were the county kings in the old year, and it can already be said that it was a small army.

Further down, it is the Jiangnan Shizhong carefully selected by Prime Minister Yao Xuan. Jiangnan people are still good, not to mention anything else, looking at it like this, a little handsome guy, although there is still a big gap with the handsome and handsome king, but with such a group of subordinates going out to blow up the street, the attention is absolutely high, at least it looks much more pleasing to the eye than the obscene martial arts kings.

As for the late member Huan Yanfan, he was borrowed by Princess Taiping in his early years to arrange for him to help watch the field in the right Jin Wuwei, and his official position has not changed in the past few years, but he has only been dismissed and promoted to two levels, and now he has been called back to serve as the warden of the prince's office.

However, the royal palace armed is originally quite embarrassing, although the rank of the military of the family mansion is not low, but Huan Yanfan can only be in the lower seat among the new mansions.

Li Tong chatted with everyone for a few words, which was a preliminary understanding, and what impressed him was that most of these government members from Jiangnan had exam-taking backgrounds. There is only one Yao Xuan's son Yao Fangpei who is really in the shadows, and even Lu Jingchu, the son of Lu Yuanfang, who is the son of a high-ranking official, are all from the system.

Li Tong is quite happy about this, at least he can ensure that these people's talents have been tested and their standards are not low. And now the imperial examination is not dominated by Confucianism, and it has a bit of a hundred flowers.

For example, in Li Tong's new mansions, there are two people who were born in the Ming Arithmetic Department, one is named Zu Yannian, and the other is named Yu Sheng. Li Tong plans to have a careful exchange with these two people later to see if he can do some scientific and technological innovation.

When the officials enter the temple, they don't just visit the lord of the house, the government office has a certain attribute of a retainer, and they also have to follow them to fast and participate in classes. Of course, because most of them are part-time, they can only participate in evening classes, and they still have to go to the court to sit normally in the morning, but this can be regarded as a common hardship.

However, before the evening class, another official envoy entered the temple to announce the edict, talking about Li Tong's housing problem, and giving Jishanfang Jiadi as the residence of the king.

Li Tong has been in the temple for more than half a month, his thinking is inevitably a little dull, he didn't care at first, and was about to step forward to receive the edict, Wang Fangqing suddenly raised his hand and said, "Slowly, may I ask the official envoy, where is the specific establishment of the first place?" ”

When the official envoy heard this, his expression was a little embarrassed, and he said, "Yes, it is Jishanfang Xiqu, Gao's old business." ”

Wang Fangqing didn't say anything more after hearing this, and turned to look at Li Tong.

And after Li Tong groaned for a while, he quickly realized the mystery in it. The so-called Jishanfang Gao's former business is the old residence of Gao Shilian, which has been used as an official property before, and part of it is used as the office of the Sifu Temple.

However, not long ago, this house was used for other purposes, that is, to build a mansion for his fourth uncle's Li Dan and a few boys to live in the palace. When Li Tong passed by there some time ago, he was still gnawing on lemon peel, but he didn't expect to turn around and become his own?

"Please ask the official envoy to come out temporarily, and let me and the government staff accept the condemnation or not."

Sensing that there was a meaning of digging a pit, Li Tong was not polite to this official envoy, waved his hand to drive the other party away, turned to look at Wang Fangqing and asked, "Is there anything about Changshi here?" ”

Wang Fangqing was also relieved to see that although the young king suddenly appeared as an upstart, he was still vigilant, and he was also relieved in his heart. Hearing the king's question, he left the table and got up and said, "Jishan Fang Mansion gave the five kings first, and now it is easier to be a king, and he is humble and conscious......

After saying this, he began to quote scriptures to support his views, but most of those references were also obscure, not only Li Tong listened to it a little blindfolded, but the other officials present also listened to it with a little straight eyes, but when they saw Wang Fangqing talking eloquently, they all inexplicably felt that what he said was very reasonable.

"The evening class is coming, and I don't have time to resign, please write in the notebook room, and record in detail what the long history has discussed as a list of words."

Professional things are naturally handed over to professional people to do, Li Tong raised his finger and pointed at Yao Yuanchong and instructed, when the pen was delivered, Wang Fangqing repeated the preface again. Li Tong smiled when he saw Ouyang Tong's mustache again, and praised, "Young Eunuch Wang is well versed in etiquette, and he is honestly a good Zuo!" ”

Yao Yuanchong's pen was like flying, and after the book was recorded, he raised his head and frowned, "A few days ago, the demon reported by Runzhou was in the case, and Jishanfang had an old country against Qiu, and the old industry lived next to each other, and people's hearts were dangerous, how many strange ghosts?" I am afraid that some traitors will use this to frame a gap and slander the king......"

"This is not a rite of worship!"

Before Yao Yuanchong finished speaking, Wang Fangqing waved his hand to interrupt, and then looked at Li Tong and said, "But the king can speak privately." ”

"I understand."

After Li Tong heard this, he nodded, hurriedly wrote a book from the inner room, and came out to summon the official envoy in, and handed over a resignation form and a private letter to the other party, and asked him to send it back with the edict of the gift.

Although it was only the first day of working together, Li Tong was already very satisfied with this new team, unlike the old year when he had to wait to grow up and become a talent.

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