Noon.

Jinling City, every household, the mansions of the gate valves, finally woke up.

After a morning of sleep, the ministers who had slept enough finally had their spirits, and after lunch, they were full of energy.

Xie Zhuxiang's waist is healed.

Vice Minister Wang Su's qi deficiency was also replenished.

Ping Wang Li Rong's gunshot wound also recovered.

The interior and exterior of each mansion are filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

The palace sent eunuchs to the palaces of the nobles and eunuchs in Jinling City to spread the word, and all the officials above the marquis and more than 2,000 stone in Jinling City entered the palace to participate in the Wu Dynasty.

Like the Duhou Mansion, who never had to go to court in the first place, he had to send someone this time.

The old Dusk Marquis Chu Yong was not interested in the last court, so he sent someone to Pingwang's Mansion and asked the little Dusk Marquis to go to the court on his behalf.

In addition, there are people appointed by the emperor alone, who also need to go to court.

...

Chu Tianxiu got up early in the morning, glanced at the direction of the main house with resentment, and then worked hard in the study to start writing the second half of "The Stone Record" with enthusiasm.

He is very disdainful of those crazy men and women who are obsessed with "The Story of Stones" in Jinling City, who live a rotten and unrestrained life.

To be a human being is to be as diligent as he is.

Even if you are a little marquis, even if you have no worries about food and clothing, you still get up with a rooster and write hard.

In order to enrich the night spiritual life of the people of Dachu, he dedicates his own modest efforts.

Be a man with ideals!

And he came through two thousand years and became a big and small marquis, but his ideal is not to be a gentleman. His highest ideal in life is to diligently contribute to the happy life of the people of Dachu.

It doesn't matter if others don't understand him, and it's okay if they misunderstand him as a big man.

It's good to know it in your own heart.

"Uncle, the palace said that the marquis and above will participate in today's noon dynasty. The Dull Mansion sent someone and said that you should go to the Wu Dynasty. ”

At noon, Zu'er woke up and came over to help Chu Tianxiu change into a marquis robe.

"Why don't you go by yourself?"

He said that the court was too noisy, and he might scold him, and his mouth was not as good as yours. Or you go! ”

"Dad is a little self-aware, scolding is hard work and very physically demanding!"

Chu Tianxiu laughed at himself, and with the help of Zu'er, he changed into a marquis robe.

Had lunch.

He then took the carriage of the Ping Wangfu to the Jinling Palace.

Outside the gate of the palace, there was already a lot of traffic.

The marquis and eunuchs arrived at the palace one after another, and went in groups in the direction of the Jinluan Hall in the palace.

"Little Dusk!"

The crown prince Xiang Tiange was coming to the outside of the palace, looking around, and when he saw Chu Tianxiu getting out of the carriage, he couldn't help but wave excitedly.

Since he personally hosted the "Da Chu Di Daily", his prince's reputation has skyrocketed.

The officials of the East Palace praised him for his demeanor as a future Ming monarch, and many officials privately befriended him, hoping to get himself on the "Great Chu Di Daily".

The young prince, who originally had no sense of existence in the Great Chu court, seemed to be a little hot.

And this miracle is all thought up by the little faint marquis.

The crown prince Xiang Tiange got the sweetness, but he also became enthusiastic about Xiao Duhou.

"Prince, you also go to court?"

Chu Tianxiu was strange.

"I'm fourteen years old, so it's no surprise that I'm in court. My father asked me to come and see for a long time, what is the great court dispute! ”

The prince whispered excitedly.

"The Great Battle?"

"That's right, a big dispute between the factions of the court officials! The sectarian faction that is deeply rooted in the court, and the Confucian faction that is all over the Great Chu court and the opposition, are competing for a high rank today! ”

Prince Xiang Tiange added oil and vinegar and explained it.

In the central court of Great Chu, most of the officials are the top ten lords and nobles of Jinling, and they control the channels for promotion.

The officials of the Confucian faction were not powerful in the court, and only occupied the imperial history platform.

However, Confucianism in the people of Dachu cannot be underestimated at all.

Since the founding of the Great Chu Dynasty for sixty or seventy years, the world has been peaceful for a long time, and many private schools have sprung up all over the hundreds of counties and thousands of counties of Great Chu, large and small landlords and wealthy households.

If you are not the children of wealthy families and landlords, you can't afford to go to a private school.

The gentlemen of these private schools are all Confucian students, and of course almost all the disciples they teach are Confucian students.

It can be said that more than ninety percent of the scholars in Dachu are Confucians.

Headed by the Confucian family in Shandong, the Confucian students in the world are a family, going out to study, following the great Confucianism, echoing each other from afar.

In Jinling City alone, thousands of Confucian scholars from all over Great Chu gathered, who left their hometowns and came to the imperial capital, squeezing their heads to enter the court.

Officials of the central government who left the court and went to various counties and counties to govern the localities also needed the support of local tycoons and gentry, otherwise it would be difficult to gain a foothold in the local area.

It can be said that the power of Confucianism in the imperial court is weak, but the power in the opposition is unusually large.

Even the nobles of the Jinling Gate Lords, most of the scholars in the private school are Confucianism, mixed with other knowledge. It's just that they were born in the noble family and put the interests of the family gate valve first.

The rise of Confucianism was due to the sharp increase in the number of middle- and low-class wealthy families in Dachu and the sharp increase in the number of scholars. The struggle between the Confucian faction and the gate lord faction is by no means as simple as hitting a stone with an egg.

Relying on the "year-old system", the gate lord lord firmly grasped the power of recommending and entering the office, accounting for the vast majority of the more than 100 places in the annual palace examination, and squeezing out ordinary Confucian students into the imperial court.

This made tens of thousands of Confucian students in the world full of resentment, increasingly dissatisfied with the annual system, and bent on reforming the system.

Kong Hanyou, the imperial historian, was the leader who waved the flag and shouted for the Confucian scholars in the court.

"Tsk, they fight, but there's a good show! Little Dusk Hou, which faction do you belong to? I see you scolding, your mouth is the most poisonous, it's more enjoyable than watching them scold. ”

Prince Xiang Tiange's face was full of excitement, he was still young, and the future prince had no idea who would win or lose, it didn't matter, so he just wanted to be lively.

"Me? The 'remnants' of the previous dynasty are not the noble faction and the non-Confucian faction, they disdain to be with me on both sides, so I just watch the excitement! ”

Chu Tianxiu pursed his lips.

Prince Xiang Tiange was stunned for a moment and patted his head, "Oh, I forgot that you, the descendant of the Xiong clan of Xianchu, are not the merits of fighting the country!" Taizu sealed your house as a faint marquis... Then don't blame me, it's your ancestor who is too useless. ”

“...”

Chu Tianxiu was speechless.

He has nothing to complain about.

A good emperor of the old Liu family was pitted by your ancestor Xiang Yu's "Hongmen Banquet", so it is called injustice. Although in order to make up for it, a Han king was sealed, but now it is not as unlucky as the Duhou Mansion.

"Don't be scared, your Xiang family's royal family is the most powerful in Western Chu, and the others are average. It's not too early, let's go! ”

Chu Tianxiu said, and the crown prince Xiang Tiange followed the courtiers into the palace.

In this big court dispute, the two factions pointed to Sang and scolded Huai, as long as they didn't scold him, it had little to do with him.

Of course, who is willing to pay a good price.

He doesn't mind providing some artillery support, as long as the price is good, let alone scolding, let him scold himself!