Yang Cong came so inexplicably, and left inexplicably, until he got into the carriage, he didn't understand what Chengyi Bo came to him for.

This Liu Yu seemed to want to tell him a matchmaker, and it seemed that he wanted to win him over, but every time he said that he meant something, people didn't continue to talk about it, which made him really confused.

So, why did Liu Yu look for him?

Actually, it's very simple, it was Wei Guogong Xu Pengju who asked Liu Yu, a sincere uncle, to be a matchmaker.

However, Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, did not say that he must marry his youngest daughter to Yang Cong, he just asked Liu Yu to take the school Yang Cong first to see if Yang Cong was qualified to marry his daughter.

The children of this prince and noble seem to be noble, but in fact it is not like that, except for the eldest son who can inherit the title, the others are basically tools for marriage, especially women, they can enjoy all the glory and wealth at home, but marriage cannot be controlled by themselves, whether they like it or not, as long as it is beneficial to the family, they have to marry.

This Wei Guogong family does not seem to have reached the point where they have to rely on their daughters to obtain benefits, but Hong Wuxungui has been cleaned up too miserably, and in the more than 100 years since the Yongle Dynasty, Wei Guogong's line is basically the commander of the light pole, not to mention the strength of the single force, and he has to be on guard against the Zhu Ming royal family turning against them and cutting their titles.

This Zhu Ming royal family is notoriously ruthless, no matter who you are, no matter how much credit you make, if they want to clean you up, they will clean you up.

For example, Li Shanchang, the Korean prince whose merits are comparable to Xiao He, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, was inexplicably implicated in the Hu Weiyong case, and all of the seventy-one members of the family were given to death, you must know that his son is still Zhu Yuanzhang's son-in-law.

Another example is Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, because Zhu Yuanzhang suspected that he and his son, that is, Feng Sheng's son-in-law Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, were plotting against him, and he was also killed.

and Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, who has great military achievements, is not guilty at all, and was also given death by Zhu Yuanzhang!

Wei Guogong and his family don't think that their ancestors once had a queen and can sit back and relax, if the old Zhu family initiates a ruthless attack, their brothers and nephews will be killed, let alone their in-laws.

Originally, they were all desperate, and they could only wait in fear every day, waiting for the emperor to see that they were not pleasing to their eyes and clean them up.

Unexpectedly, not long after Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, he suddenly renewed the title of five Hongwu nobles, and handed over all the governor's mansions of the five armies in Nanjing to them.

This matter really made the contemporary Wei Duke Xu Pengju overjoyed, however, the situation of Hongwu Xungui has not been completely changed, because he has only a few nobles under him, and this is not the world of military generals, but the world of civil officials, even if they control the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, they do not have the power to transfer troops, to put it bluntly, they have the title of Governor, nominally in charge of some guards of the guards, and if they want to transfer troops, they have to be ordered by the Ministry of War.

He really didn't want to be so worried anymore, he wanted to weave a protective net for himself to keep the glory and wealth of the Wei Guogong family.

At this time, it is impossible to marry the royal family, and it is not safe, and it is only possible to sit back and relax with the civil official group in power.

It just so happened that Yang Cong came to the door, he really didn't expect that a merchant's son could be admitted to Xiucai, and Yang Cong's performance in the back was even more impressive.

Therefore, he wanted to try, he wanted to marry his daughter to this promising civil official, to see if he could let Hong Wuxungui have the ability to protect himself.

To put it bluntly, Yang Cong, including his own youngest daughter, is just his experiment.

If the experiment is successful, then follow this pattern and form an alliance with a specific civilian group to protect them.

If the experiment fails, it's nothing, and he just "loses" a daughter.

Yang Cong didn't know that he had become an experimental subject of Wei Guogong, and at this time he just wanted to get the paperwork and go to the capital quickly.

He waited anxiously for two days, and the deer feast finally began, and more than sixty tables were placed on the open space near the Mingyuan Building in the Gongyuan.

This deer feast is not eaten as soon as you run over, there are many rules.

At the beginning, the chief examiner Yan Song and the deputy chief examiners Zou Shouyi and Zhan Ruoshui delivered speeches, which roughly meant that they congratulated them on their high school promotion, and hoped that they would make persistent efforts to strive for the title of the gold list.

This is followed by the issuance of documents, which are official documents that prove the identity of the person.

Then it was to sing the "Deer Song" in unison, and after singing the song, everyone's hungry chest was attached to the back, and the deer song banquet officially began.

Although the process of this deer banquet is relatively rigid and complicated, but the final banquet is quite relaxed, probably because the candidates who participated in the deer banquet have the identity of lifting people, and they are already considered a member of the gentry, so the examiners at all levels are quite polite to the candidates.

This Luming banquet is naturally the most sought after by the chief examiner Yan Song, because the chief examiner is nominally the seat teacher of these candidates, as long as the candidates are attached, the master-apprentice relationship is basically solid.

Moreover, this Yan Song is still the township party of Xia Yan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in the capital, and the rumors that Xia Yan and his family are about to take power have already spread, so if you don't cling at this time, when will you wait!

The so-called "Heaven and Earth Monarch and Teacher", the relationship between teachers and students is even closer than that of father and son in these years, and worshipping a good teacher is more useful than reincarnation, so most of the candidates flocked to Yan Song's toast, which made Yan Song's table crowded.

Yang Cong naturally didn't want to cling to Yan Song, at this time he was thinking about whether to toast Zou Shouyi and Zhan Ruoshui.

He has already been labeled as a Yangming lineage, and the two Yangming lineage bigwigs are close in front of him, is it appropriate not to go up and flatter?

Of course not!

In these years, if you want to stand in line, you will stand firmly in a team, the wall grass is the most shameful, and the two factions will take these shameless wall grass sacrifice flags before they start fighting, but he can't be attacked by Yan Song's party and Yangming's party in the end.

At this time, there was nothing to hesitate about, he directly greeted Yu Dayou and the others, and then walked towards Zou Shouyi's table with a wine glass.

It just so happened that at this time, Zhan Ruoshui also ran to Zou Shouyi's table because there were too many people at the table in the Ministry of Rites, so he didn't have to run to Yan Song to "provoke".

Zou Shouyi and Zhan Ruoshui were very satisfied with Yang Cong's performance, not only had a drink with him, but also pulled him to sit down and encourage him.

Yang Cong only knew at this time that the original township test is the touchstone of the examination and the palace examination, and it is also the reference for the ranking examination and the palace examination.

This means, as long as there are no accidents, his title on the gold list is already a sure thing!

Yang Congzheng was trembling with excitement, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Yan Song's cold gaze glancing at him.

He was really shocked in his heart, and now, he really got on the same page as Yan Song.

Old fellow, you are proud first, there will always be a day when you cry.

He pretended not to see it, turned his face directly, and chatted with Zou Shouyi.