Now there are rumors in the capital that Li Buqi is buying people's hearts. So when Li Buqi entered the palace to check the prince's body, the emperor asked about this again, and Li Buqi told the emperor about his troubles of not having books to read when he was a child, and said that he wanted to have a public library at that time. Is there something wrong with that?

Under the conditions of the Great Song Dynasty, there was no photocopier, and those private collections relied on people to copy them, and in the spirit of being responsible for the readers, Li Buqi found some people to copy and proofread. The level of lifting people is higher than that of ordinary talents, is there anything wrong with that?

As a result, Li Buqi fooled the emperor into paying 3,000 yuan a year and sold the naming rights of the library to the emperor. In the future, the library will hang the sign of "Great Song Public Library", and the honorary director will be His Majesty the Emperor, and Li Buqi will be the executive director. The result was a great rejoicing, and the people employed by the library were now nominally employed by the emperor, and they received the emperor's favor, and their loyalty to the emperor was assured.

Li Buqi continued to control the operation of the library, and he was completely in control of what kind of people he chose and how to use them. And since the library has the name of "Great Song", it is under the name of the emperor, Li Buqi can now justifiably go to the nobles in the capital to make a fortune. Let them also shed some blood, and then give them a name to engrave their names on a monument of merit in front of the library, and give them a good name. Anyway, these nobles throw a lot of money into the temple every year, and it is better to give this money to Li Buqi to do business.

Li Buqi posted from house to house under the banner of the emperor, who dared not give it, so Li Buqi got more than 10,000 yuan. With this money, Li Buqi recruited more than 80 calligraphers at once.

Li Buqi also brazenly stole a batch of books from the homes of Li Shu and other civil officials, causing those civil officials who like to collect books to hug their heads as soon as they see Li Buqi's shadow.

With a collection of books, the library finally has something to look like. In the first month, the yamen was opened, and the "Great Song Dynasty Public Library" was also opened, attracting the people gathered in the capital to come and see the excitement, which was more attractive than the oiran selection activity that was being held. I couldn't get in line at all to get a library card, but seeing that I couldn't get in line, the lifters didn't want to leave, so they all looked around the dozen monuments in front of the library.

These steles are the rubbings of the famous inscriptions of the collection of the inscriptions, there are Yan Zhenqing's "Duobao Pagoda Tablet", "Yanjia Temple Tablet", Liu Gongquan's "Mysterious Tower Tablet", "Diamond Sutra Carved Stone", Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming", "Huadu Temple Tablet", Chu Suiliang's "Wild Goose Pagoda Holy Order", as well as Mi Fu, Wang Xizhi and other people's calligraphy works.

Many poor people have studied for so long, and they don't even have a copybook, and suddenly they see so many of everyone's ink in front of them, and they are immediately fascinated and can't help themselves.

Previously, many people from other places had heard people say things like "Li Buqi is a scum", and they were a little resistant to Li Buqi, but now that little resistance has long been thrown out of the clouds.

They don't know if Li Buqi is a scum or not, but Li Buqi put so many great calligraphers' masterpieces here for them to read, and let them read so many books for free, but they know that no one has been able to do it before.

The Li family Zhuangzi is now lively, but Li Buqi hid in the courtyard behind the library, lying on a rocking chair and reading quietly. The emperor has already accepted the order of the Hanlin scholar Sun Luquan Zhigongju, and the exam is about to take place.

There was a slight knock on the door, Ying'er hurriedly opened the door, and Zhang Yingniang, who was dressed as a man, walked in from outside and touched Ying'er's head lovingly. Li Buqi put down the book and asked, "What is the matter?" ”

The dart bureau needs a person in charge in the Daimyo's Mansion, Li Buqi let Xie Yong go, and now there is no suitable person for one-line contact with Yang Shilang, so Li Buqi will let Zhang Yingniang be in charge of this matter. This time, Yang Shilang left a secret note of something, so Zhang Yingniang went to the agreed place to connect with Yang Shilang.

Zhang Yingniang relayed what Yang Shilang said to Li Buqi, and it turned out that Zheng En, who came to the capital to buy wine, contacted Yang Shilang. Zheng En said that because the smuggling of spirits to the Liao State was very popular, and the medicinal materials smuggled in from the Liao State, he had earned more than 10,000 yuan for the Maitreya Sect, so he was now very trusted by the Maitreya Sect, but now he only heard that the leader of the Maitreya Sect was a monk from Huaizhou.

He said that he also found out the reason why the Maitreya Sect tried to kidnap the little lady of the Zhao family. Xu Che told him that it was Hu Sanniang who fled back and said that Li Buqi had a way to make the Zhao family the world for thousands of generations, so as the leader and protector of the Maitreya Sect, who were professional in rebellion, were afraid that Li Buqi would block their rebellion, they must find out Li Buqi's method. Li Buqi's people are now closely protected and can't do anything, so Hu Sanniang wanted to kidnap Zhao Min and forced Li Buqi to exchange that method for Zhao Min.

Now after Zheng En's three-inch tongue flickered for a while, coupled with the fact that he taught Maitreya to the Great Song Dynasty according to Li Buqi's idea, the original connections of the Liao State made money by integrating a little, and the Maitreya Sect had already believed that he had learned Li Buqi's method of making money, so his interest in Li Buqi had decreased significantly.

Li Buqi couldn't cry or laugh, he didn't expect that a joke he said to Hu Sanniang could lead to such a big mess.

There is no way, Li Buqi is not a real Song person, and he still can't fully adapt to the way Song people open their thinking. Besides, Maitreya taught those people to pretend to be gods and ghosts all day long, and their way of thinking could not be handled by common sense.

Yang Shilang also said that Zheng En had already heard some of the internal situation of the Maitreya Sect, and Li Buqi hurriedly took a piece of paper and wrote it down.

Alas, Yang Shilang is indeed a fine person, and his memory is also very good, but this lack of literacy is a hard injury.

It seems that Zheng En is thriving in the Maitreya Sect, and Li Buqi told Zhang Yingniang to contact Yang Shilang again, and asked Yang Shilang to tell Zheng En to continue to lurk.

The Li family's new house in the city began to be cleaned and ready to move in. The old mother was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut, and said to the congratulatory people that she would marry her daughter-in-law after the exam. Mom is confident, but many people are worried about whether Li Buqi can pass the exam.

Now that the matter of Li Buqi and Zhao Min is well known, Zhao Min is also old, and it is difficult to marry someone else. Therefore, although the Zhao family is not satisfied with this family business, they still hope that Li Buqi can be called by Donghuamen and marry Zhao Min smoothly. However, people in the capital have said that the main examiner once expressed in public that he was not used to Li Buqi's style of writing, this is the rhythm of looking for trouble, so the Zhao family is not worried.

Daxiangguoji Temple is also worried. If Li Buqi can't successfully pass the Jinshi examination, even if Li Buqi can still marry Zhao Min, this good story that happened in Daxiangguo Temple will not be complete, and it will affect the great cause of the Buddhas to enlighten sentient beings. This is not going to get along with the Buddha's wallet, how can they not be in a hurry? So they blew the wind to the emperor.

In fact, the emperor also has a heart. The emperor knew that the civil officials did not like Li Buqi, and he also knew how important this exam was to Li Buqi, and he also knew that Li Buqi was a strong man, so he was very worried that if Li Buqi was yin, it would cause trouble. The emperor still needs Li Buqi to take care of his two sons. Therefore, although the emperor did not want to directly interfere with the imperial examination, he still blew the wind several times to Zhigong Ju Sun Xi and Tongzhi Gongju Zhang Fangping, so that they could not go too far.

In fact, the Wenchen of the Great Song Dynasty is characteristic, and even more principled, how can people who read the books of sages and sages commit fraud in the national talent ceremony? It's just that the examiners of this subject don't like the straightforward style of writing, and when they see such articles, they are all down. Even those who really can't be dethroned are ranked last.

In the end, the papers that were pointed out were looked at again by several examiners, and it was determined that even if there were papers that Li Bu gave up, the ranking would not be high, so Zhang Fangping said to Sun Chen: "Let's reveal it." The delay is not short, and His Majesty is still waiting for the result. ”

After Sun Chen nodded, a small official began to uncover the name on the test paper and roll call under the supervision of the examiner: "First place Linjiang Liu Chang, second place Nanyang Jia An, third place Fuzhou Xie Zhonggong, fourth place ......"

When the roll call came to an abrupt end when it reached the fourth place, the little official on the roll call looked incredible, everyone looked at it, and the little official woke up from the shock and continued to sing: "Kaifeng Mansion Li does not give up!" ”

"What?" Everyone was stupid, but when they saw that the supervising official also had a shocked look, he didn't correct it, and the little official knew that the fourth place was really Li Buqi.