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The news of Yan Shenggong's entry into Beijing spread, and the scholars were extremely excited, wanting to touch the luck of Yan Shenggong and win the first place in one fell swoop.

The four books and five classics of the imperial examination are Confucian classics.

Although the examiner is from the Four Books and Five Classics, it is not an exaggeration to say that Kong Sheng is the examiner of the world's candidates.

The imperial court arranged for the Holy Duke of Yan to stay in the Ten Princes' Mansion.

But Kong Wenshao went to the library in Liangxiang, where the largest number of readers in the capital gathered.

"A county town in Liangxiang District, commerce and trade are so prosperous, who is this Yan Chengjin?" Kong Wenshao looked through the car window and saw people coming and going.

It's spring, and the merchants from the south to the north are rushing to the convoy, and the official road can accommodate four carriages in parallel, but it is crowded at the moment.

Ox carts, donkey carts, and horse-drawn carts each carried their goods, and there were countless vendors.

It is obviously a wilderness on the outskirts of the mountains, but the official road is as lively as the street of Beijing, with pedestrians, cars and horses, and you can't see the end at a glance.

Turning his head again, he saw a majestic building, standing in the suburbs, connecting heaven and earth.

"That's the Qingshan Library in Liangxiang? Let the coachman hurry. ”

Kong Wenshao wanted to return to the capital to meet an important person before noon.

Hearing that Kong Wenshao was coming, the Liangxiang scholars were overjoyed and ran outside the library pavilion and surrounded it.

Zhu Houzhao was not happy, and dared to steal the limelight of Xiao Zhu Xiucai: "He is?!" ”

"Your Highness, it's the derivative prince who is here."

Yan Chengjin was a little surprised, Kong Wenshao came to the capital from Shandong, did he know that the Metropolitan Procuratorate was investigating his field?

If you deliberately call on the readers to use them, I am afraid that the intentions are not simple.

"I'm afraid that the implementation of the apportionment into the mu will increase the difficulty."

The four-wheeled carriage stopped, and a man dressed in a blue and white Confucian dress got out of the carriage, about the same age as Wang Shouren.

looks delicate, and there is an elegant atmosphere of a scholar between his eyebrows, like reading all year round.

"This year's talent ceremony, Li Gong went to the Confucian Temple on behalf of the imperial court to worship, Wen Shao should also come from Shandong to pray for the world's scholars, I sincerely wish you to win the three yuan, the title of the gold list!"

After hearing this, the reader burst into tears and knelt on the ground, deeply moved.

If it weren't for Yan Chengjin, he would have been moved by Kong Wenshao, this is a team operation, right?

There was a cry around, some people burst into tears, and Yan Shenggong traveled thousands of miles before entering Beijing to pray for the candidates, which has not been seen in a hundred years.

"Everyone is connected to the three yuan, won't the imperial court want to set up a thousand champions? It's obviously not a casual talk, why would you lie to them? ”

Who, how can you speak so ugly?!

The scholars followed the sound and looked, only to find that it was the shameless little Zhu Xiucai.

Zhu Houzhao stiffened his neck and opened the ink folding fan, this person is a liar, how can everyone even win three yuan?

The popularity of the reader was so bad that he couldn't wait to press Zhu Houzhao to the ground and stomp on it.

But as a protégé of Confucius, he can't be so rude, he can only reason with Zhu Houzhao.

"Don't you want to be in a three-way connection?!"

"I don't want to, if I win the three yuan, I have to be an official, and when I am an official, I have to sit in the hall, and I have to read and play every day, and I can only get down to the value when I get to the unitary, and it is not as interesting as fighting crickets." Zhu Houzhao is honest and authentic.

The reader's eyes widened.

Being an official shines on the lintel, that is their dream, and it is said to be worthless.

The crowd blushed and became furious.

Kong Wenshao sneered, seeing that this person was wearing Confucian clothes, how could he be so ignorant of etiquette.

Yan Chengjin whispered to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Highness, the minister is going back to the capital, why don't you go back to Beijing together?" ”

Zhu Houzhao made a big fuss here, and it will definitely be passed on to His Majesty's ears, if he is not persuaded, His Majesty and the hundred officials will blame him for teaching Prince Huai.

Yan Chengjin sat in a "simple" sedan chair and gradually left in the eyes of everyone.

Zhu Houzhao was bowed down by slaves and maids since he was a child, and when he saw the scholars kneeling alone, he also felt bored, and followed Yan Chengjin back to the capital.

Li Fu,

After the duty, when Li Dongyang returned to the house, the house was quite lively, and the main hall was full of dowry gifts.

Xue Shi didn't know whether to accept it, Li Qing'e frowned, and the jade hand was holding a handkerchief.

"Who's sending the dowry?"

"Sent by Yan Shenggong, I want to marry Qing'e."

The Xue family ordered someone to count them, and the rare treasures and silk cloths, as well as the precious calligraphy and paintings, were probably worth 300,000 taels.

Such a high dowry is simply terrifying.

When she passed the door, the dowry of the Li family was only two thousand taels, and it spread all over the country, which was the envy of others.

Li Qing'e looked at Li Dongyang, her father had always wanted to marry her to a learned person, and Yan Sheng Justice was such a person.

Li Dongyang has a straight face, at this moment, these pearl calligraphy and paintings are the people's fat and people's ointment of the people of Shandong.

If what he expected, tomorrow, the Yan Sheng Epikedom will ask His Majesty for marriage at the court.

I want to borrow the power of the old man to protect the Confucian Mansion.

"Return all these dowries, but the old man will not agree."

The Xue family secretly felt that it was a pity that Yan Shenggong was a descendant of Confucius, and he could be described as the first family in the world.

Since the beginning of the dynasties, most of the people married by Yan Shenggong were the daughters of important ministers of the court, and how many women wanted to marry, but they couldn't marry.

In addition to the emperor's concubine, the most enviable thing should be to marry Yan Shenggong.

……

Yan Fu,

Yan Chengjin got off the sedan chair in front of the house.

Ye Zhun came forward to report: "Lord Yan, the Holy Father of Fang Caiyan has rehired the Li family, there are countless pearls, and silk brocade is covered with ...... courtyard."

Yan Chengjin and Miss Li's affairs, he knows something, if it weren't for Gong Li's permission, he would have been married.

Yan Chengjin fell into deep thought.

According to historical records, Li Dongyang does have a daughter who is married to Kong Wenshao, whose name is unknown.

The Confucian Mansion was sheltered in the Hongzhi Dynasty and had a great relationship with Li Dongyang.

asked Li Dongyang to go to Shandong to prevent this marriage.

After Kong Wenshao entered Beijing, he first went to Liangxiang to sincerely feel the scholars, and then wanted to win over Li Dongyang for his own use, and he still had some ranks.

I don't know how I will advise Your Majesty tomorrow morning.

Back in the main hall, under the service of Chunxiao, he changed into a white civilian clothes, and after the daughter brought the copper basin to wash his hands, Yan Chengjin picked up the wolfberry tea and took a sip.

Menzi trotted in: "Young master, some people outside the door say that he is Yan Shenggong and wants to pay homage to the young master." ”

Well?

Yan Chengjin put down the teacup and looked out the door.

At this time, in front of the Yan Mansion.

After Kong Wenshao came back from Liangxiang, Hu Cong happened to inquire about Yan Chengjin's mansion.

I heard that this person is the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

He didn't put Jiuqing in his eyes, after all, the title of Yan Shenggong was equivalent to a first-class civil official in the court.

The capital imperial history is only a second grade, or Jiuqing, and even the ministers of the six ministries are far inferior.

It is the Metropolitan Procuratorate that can investigate the Confucian Mansion, and the bell must be tied to the bell.

"The mansion is extremely dilapidated, and there is not even a plaque, is it really the Yan family's mansion?"

Kong Wenshao looked at the servant next to him and couldn't believe it.

In front of the door of the second-grade master, there is not even a stone lion, the wall is about to collapse, the tiles are incomplete, such a mansion will be inhabited by the second-grade ministers of the imperial court?

Hu Cong shuddered: "It's really the mansion of the Yan Mansion, it's true, there are Jinyi guards watching over there." ”

At this moment, the door creaked and opened.