Ruan Qingwen saw Zhang Xiaowu's strange face, smiled, and quipped: "My junior brother...... is really talented, he can't take the imperial examination because of his promise, and he is resentful. ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked: "Do you think this is talent?" ”

Ruan Qingwen asked rhetorically: "Why not?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Your junior brother is a ruthless person, do you believe it or not?" ”

"Ruthless? Is it more ruthless than you? ”

"Well, yes."

Ruan Qingwen said: "I don't believe it, he is Xie Yuan Huiyuan." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "How well do you know your junior brother?" ”

Ruan Qingwen thought for a while and said, "I only know that he is the only son of his teacher, and the rest ...... I don't know that he was only six years old when his family was exiled from his house, and now more than 20 years have passed. But I assure you that my mentor is of excellent character, and that he will not be wrong in teaching his son. ”

"Maybe." Zhang Xiaowu suddenly asked again: "By the way, Mr. Ruan, I have always heard about the rebellion of King Ning and the rebellion of King Ning, and my grandfather was still one of King Ning's guards, but my grandfather was unwilling to explain this rebellion of King Ning to me in detail, and the court seemed to be secretive about King Ning's rebellion. Do you know about this rebellion of King Ning? Can you tell me what the rebellion of King Ning is all about? ”

Ruan Qingwen thought for a moment and recalled: "King Ning's rebellion was more than twenty years ago, and I was studying in Longdu City at that time, but I knew a thing or two. But what I said was just a family's words, and the general only listened to it as a joke, and he must not be biased and biased. Zhang Xiaowu nodded, indicating that he was just listening, Ruan Qingwen said: "Speaking of which, King Ning is a person with mixed reputations, with outstanding ability but poor character, and he is jealous but does not know how to restrain himself, especially the jealousy of the first emperor Taiqian. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Didn't you say that he was arrogant and lascivious, ambitious to covet the throne, and still messed with the harem?" ”

Ruan Qingwen shook his head and said, "Whether the matter of the defiled harem is true or false is not known yet, because this matter only spread after the destruction of King Ning. What the truth is, no one knows, after all, I was only eighteen years old at the time, and I studied at the Beijing Middle School Building. By the way, my teacher Kang Shen teaches in Yixinguan, and at the same time, he is also the enlightenment teacher of the Ning Wang family. King Ning has too many children, just a person who is an enlightenment teacher for his family's descendants, there are ten teachers, and my mentor is also one of them, just take some money. Unexpectedly, because of this, after King Ning's disaster, my teacher was implicated, his good future was gone, and his family was exiled to Lingnan. ”

"Wang Shizi actually doesn't use the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, but uses the teacher of Yixin Pavilion as the enlightenment teacher, this King Ning is interesting, is it close to the people?" Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile, he knew that the highest academic institutions in Longdu were Tai Academy and Hanlin Academy, but he didn't understand the difference.

"The teacher is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy." Ruan Qingwen explained that Tai College is a place where candidates continue their studies after the three lists of Jinshi, Jinshi study the way of officials for three years, and the Jinshi with poor performance will be assigned to various places to engage in official work, and start from the nine officials (county salt tea envoys, pawn envoys, river envoys, officials, Tucheng, etc.), and those who perform well in Tai Academy are selected as Hanlin Academy, and Hanlin bachelors will directly supplement into the eight departments of the six academies as officials, and the thirty people of the Tianbang will enter the imperial study to help the emperor review and participate in national affairs and confidential affairs.

The bachelors studying in the Hanlin Academy already mean that they will start from the lowest eight-rank officials in the future, so the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy are also officials, but they do not hold positions and hold the fortunes of the imperial court. Some of them were hired by important officials or wealthy merchants to serve as Xixi to educate children, but because the scholars enjoyed the imperial court, they were appointed to the Xixi only to establish a good relationship with the court officials. For example, Kang Shen, the reason why he educated his children for King Ning was also because he wanted to take advantage of King Ning's relationship and lay a good foundation for becoming an official in the future.

Ruan Qingwen said: "King Ning is very good to his teacher and others, his salary is ten times that of the imperial court, and there are countless people in the Hanlin Academy who are willing to be the teachers of the West Seat of King Ning's Mansion. Zhang Xiaowu heard the story of King Ning lustfully robbing the people's daughters since he was a child, but now Ruan Qingwen praised King Ning, which made him feel a little incredible.

Ruan Qingwen said again: "However, it is true that King Ning is lustful, King Ning especially likes girls, and he has indeed married many girls as concubines. Someone once wrote a poem, saying: The beauty of the Jingshi is one hundred, and the Ning Wangfu is sixty-nine. ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled again: "This is your poem, right?" ”

Ruan Qingwen laughed, shook his head and said: "How dare I dare, how dare I, how dare I have that courage, and I have that courage and I am not afraid of being hit by King Ning's henchmen, it is Gu Yongye." At that time, Gu Yongnian was nineteen years old, and he dared to write poems to satirize King Ning, and was deeply loved by Emperor Taiqian. ”

"I think he's jealous." Zhang Xiaowu snickered, but after thinking about it, this Gu Yong is a double champion of civil and martial arts, handsome and romantic, and there is nothing to be jealous of.

"It is not known yet, it is not known yet, but the men in Longdu City are all jealous of King Ning." Ruan Qingwen said with a smile, "Back then, King Ning made great contributions because he supported Emperor Taiqian to seize the throne, so that Emperor Taiqian relied on him very much, but because King Ning was talented, Emperor Taiqian was also very jealous of him. The reason why King Ning showed his lust was that on the one hand, he was already lustful, and on the other hand, it was also to show the imperial brother that a pervert would not pose a threat to the throne, and he showed some self-defilement. ”

Zhang Xiaowu was full of emotion, and said enviously: "If I threaten the throne in the future, I am also willing to pretend to be a pervert, accept the beauties of the world, and play with beauties all day long, regardless of politics or the common people, do you think it is good?" ”

Ruan Qingwen shook his head and said, "Naturally, it's not good, no matter how much the tiger hides, it can't hide its fangs, and King Ning was finally forced to rebel." ”

"Forced to rebel?"

"Yes, it's going back." Ruan Qingwen's eyes were full of sighs, "Emperor Taiqian knows that none of his sons can be more talented than King Ning, not to mention the eldest prince, he is a fat pig, the mother of the second prince, Concubine De, is also a subordinate of King Ning, the third prince died early, the fourth prince was still young at the time, and the fifth prince was just born." As for King Ning, he is young, handsome, and suave, known as the companion of sixty-nine beauties. The emperor asked him to govern Yangzhou's salt administration, and it took him only one year to triple the salt tax in Yangzhou, and formulated the salt law, which is still used today. This King Ning did not forget to defile himself while governing, he earned one hundred taels of silver for the court, and he wanted to take away thirty taels of silver, so the first emperor naturally trusted him. ”

"When did you stop trusting him?"

"From him to the post of Yin of the Dragon Capital Mansion."

"Longdu Mansion Yin?"

"Yes." Ruan Qingwen said, "Longdu Mansion is more special, and all other prefectures and cities in the country are prefects, but Longdu Mansion is a country under heaven, and its administrative bureaucratic level is even higher than that of Sizhou Prefecture, so after the establishment of the Holy Han Empire, Longdu Mansion Yin was established, although Longdu Mansion is in Sizhou, Longdu Mansion Yin is half a level higher than Sizhou Zhizhou. ”

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