In fact, whether it is a paper city or a martial arts market, it is just a way of communication, but the focus of the two is different.

Wenshi focuses on a kind of communication between young men and women, expressing their hearts with pen and ink, and the two sides do not need to meet, which is very subtle, especially liked by girls.

And Wushi is much less attractive to young ladies, and it can't resonate, so Wushi is more of an exchange between elders and juniors.

Most of the meritorious families are martial arts, and every family has ancestral martial arts, such as Gao Huaide, Luo Yanpu, Yang Ye's marksmanship, Shi Shouxin's hammer technique, Pan Mei, Han Lingkun's knife technique, Cao Bin, Wang Yansheng, Zhang Guanghan's riding and archery have been famous in the Great Song Dynasty.

Their martial arts have been passed down from generation to generation, and the elders will also take the opportunity of this gathering to take the school to supervise the martial arts of the younger generations, and to a certain extent, the martial arts market is also related to the future of many young children.

For example, Gao Zhong and Pan Chengyu, they are not interested in their marriage at present, but hope to be recognized by their predecessors and recommend them to join the army as officials, or enter the palace as guards.

Wu City is held in the riding and shooting field of the West Courtyard, the riding and shooting field of the Cao family covers an area of 30 acres, long from north to south, slightly shorter from east to west, very flat and open, equivalent to a small martial arts field of the army, you can practice military crossbows and even divine arm crossbows, as for the riding and archery, not to mention.

Dozens of elders sit on a stand with a shed, from time to time to talk to each other, they basically have various military attache titles in the imperial court, some also serve as senior officials in the forbidden army, but some also serve as civil officials, but the Song Dynasty's attitude towards meritorious families has always been respectful, as much as possible to give them high-ranking titles, enjoy generous benefits, but there is basically no real power.

It was easy for Gao Shen to get the real power of the Privy Council, but unfortunately it was still a flash in the face, and he was removed after only half a year.

Despite this, Gao Shen's status is still very high, Zhao Ji dismissed him from his privy envoy position, but gave him the title of prince Taibao, he sat in the first row of the stands, next to today's master Cao Ping, Cao Ping sat in the middle, on the other side is the auxiliary general Pan Xu, who is also sixty years old, is the great-grandson of the founding hero Pan Mei, he and Cao Ping are sons and daughters, and his eldest daughter married Cao Ping's eldest son, that is, Cao Xing's mother.

At the same time, his little sister is Gao Shen's wife, and the three families are married to each other and have a deep relationship.

Gao, Cao, and Pan are the de facto leaders of the Meritorious Family Group due to their high status, and they are the de facto leaders of the Meritorious Family Group, among which Gao Shen is the youngest, only less than fifty years old, but his seniority is very high, and Cao and Pan are of the same generation.

"Xiaozhen, how is your nephew's case?" Cao Ping asked Pan Xu in a low voice.

Pan Xu shook his head, "It's been a trial for almost a year, and there has been no news, so it's dragged on, people are locked up in Dali Temple, very weak, in fact, we all hope to finalize the case as soon as possible, and the case is also exiled, and we will come back after five years and ten years, but the court just can't try it, I heard that the Criminal Department and the Yushitai have different opinions, and the two sides don't buy each other, so it dragged on for a year." ”

"Wasn't Liu Lin transferred to Hebei West Road as a prison officer? Could it be that the Criminal Department refuses to let go? ”

"There is no problem with the Criminal Department, it is still over to Yushitai, Liu Lin was transferred, no one was willing to take this case, and it has been delayed for two months under the pretext that there is no manpower."

Gao Shen next to him said: "They will soon find no excuses." ”

"Could it be that Liu Lin's successor has already been decided?" Cao Ping and Pan Xu asked in unison.

Gao Shen nodded, "This person is also in the Cao Mansion now. ”

"Who is it?"

Pan Xu was a little out of breath, his nephew Pan Yue was implicated in the case of Taoist priest Lin Lingsu being stabbed, which caused the anger of the Son of Heaven, and Pan Yue was sent to Dali Prison for questioning, just at this time there were sunspots in the sun, showing that there was injustice in the prison, and the Son of Heaven ordered the three divisions to try the case, which has been a year now, but there has been no conclusion, seeing Pan Yue's body collapse day by day in prison, it really made the Pan family anxious.

Gao Shen said with a smile: "The day before yesterday, Brother Cao personally invited him to the mansion for a banquet, did Brother Cao forget Qian Luoliujing?" ”

"Ahh It's Li Yanqing. ”

Cao Ping was taken aback, "He...... Appointed as a squire? ”

"Just appointed yesterday."

"Who is Li Yanqing?" Pan Xu asked puzzled.

"Last year's imperial examination Tanhualang, the first place in the bow horse competition four years ago, the first arrow in the world by the Son of Heaven, the eldest brother should know him."

"It was him! No, isn't he an old man? Pan Xu was puzzled, how could a person who cultivated the Dao of the Master be appointed as a servant of the Imperial History?

"He is also the Prince's man."

Pan Xu: 'Ah! With a sound, he suddenly understood.

At this time, Gao Shen raised his eyes and saw Li Yanqing walking into the shooting range, so he smiled and said, "He's here, at the gate!" ”

Cao Ping and Pan Xu turned their heads at the same time, and saw a young man walking in at the gate, it was Li Yanqing, but he didn't seem to know where to go?

Cao Ping hurriedly instructed a housekeeper next to him, "Go quickly, invite Li Tanhua to me." ”

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Li Yanqing walked into the riding range from the gate, and there were many young guests standing on both sides of the gate watching the martial arts, they were all juniors, and they were not qualified to sit in the stands, although there were still many seats in the stands, but Li Yanqing still instinctively stood with the young guests.

However, before he could choose his position, a housekeeper ran down from the stands, stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Excuse me, is this official Li Tanhua?" ”

"I am!"

"My lord asked the official to come over and talk about it!"

Li Yanqing was slightly stunned, looked at the stands, and happened to see Cao Ping beckoning to him, so he nodded and followed the housekeeper to the stands.

"Yanqing, why did you come to Wushi now?" Cao Pingxiao asked.

Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed and saluted, "The junior went to Wenshi just now, and I was delayed a little time." ”

"Huh! I almost forgot, but you are a flower in the imperial examination, and of course you prefer Wenshi. ”

Li Yanqing couldn't say that it was arranged by Cao Xing, so as not to blame Cao Ping on his grandson, he smiled and didn't speak.

At this time, Gao Shen patted the seat next to him and smiled: "Sit down quickly, and wait to see Gao Pet's marksmanship." ”

Li Yanqing saw that there were only three of them sitting in the first row, and many elders behind him were looking at him with strange eyes, so he knew that there were rules in this seat, and he couldn't sit casually. He smiled and said, "I'd better sit in the back!" ”

Pan Xu was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Li Tanhua is a distinguished guest today, you don't have to be polite, please take a seat!" ”

Cao Ping also nodded, "I also want to talk to my nephew about riding and shooting!" Feel free to sit though. ”

Li Yanqing had no choice but to sit down in full view of everyone, Li Yanqing was treated so preferentially, in fact, it is not surprising that Li Yanqing was treated so preferentially, the Song Dynasty practiced high-level officials with virtual power and low-level officials with real power, although the rank of low-grade officials was not high, but they often held great power, which made these low-level officials with real power often receive preferential treatment at various banquets.

Li Yanqing's appointment of the imperial historian has the power of impeachment, supervision, and trial of cases, and officials are generally impeached, dismissed at the least, and sent to prison for questioning, even if they can escape impeachment, they must at least use the resources of the prime minister, and the power of the imperial history is extremely lethal to the hundreds of officials of the imperial court and local officials.

The reason why Liang Shicheng is called the hidden phase is largely because he controls the imperial history platform, like Wang Huang, who was recommended by Liang Shicheng as the prime minister, who was previously appointed as the middle of the imperial history, and the current Wang Anzhong of the imperial history is recommended by Liang Shicheng.

It is the huge power of the Imperial History Observatory that makes the officials hate and fear the Imperial History, and most of them stay away, and if something happens to their families, they can't wait to immediately win over the relationship with the Imperial History.

Cao Ping smiled again and asked, "I don't know whose question the virtuous nephew answered in the Wen Market?" ”

Li Yanqing was a little embarrassed and said: "I met Ling Sun Cao Xing, and at his invitation, I wrote a couplet to his sister. ”

Cao Ping laughed, "Are you writing study couplets for my nerdy granddaughter?" I'd like to see it. ”

At this time, a bell rang from the field, and I saw a warrior galloping on horseback, it was Pan Chengyu, Pan Xu's grandson, he held a big knife in his hand like a violent wind to kill the field, the knife fell, and a puppet was cut into two pieces by him.

Li Yanqing nodded, the strength of this knife is good, and the knife is also very sharp, it can be seen that there is real talent and real learning.

Pan Chengyu saluted to the stands and began to wave the big knife, only to see the big knife flying, like pieces of snowflakes flying, the knife technique is very skillful, Li Yanqing couldn't help but applaud: "Good knife technique!" ”

At this time, Pan Xu glanced at Gao Shen, and Gao Shen understood, so he asked with a low smile: "The nephew of the day before yesterday said that there would be an order, but I don't know what to do?" ”

"It's still a servant of the imperial history, but it's just transferred from the palace to the Taiwan courtyard."

Gao Shen smiled slightly, "I understand, you are taking Liu Lin's seat, that seat has been empty for almost two months, I don't know when you will take office?" ”

"I will go to the Ministry of Officials early tomorrow morning to go through the formalities, and it is estimated that I will officially take office tomorrow, and if it is too late tomorrow, I will take office the day after tomorrow."

"There's a lot going on in the Goshidai! The virtuous nephew has to be busy. ”

"Thank you seniors for your concern, I'm mentally prepared."

At this time, Li Yanqing remembered something and hurriedly asked, "I don't know how Brother Zhou's situation is?" ”

Brother Zhou is Gao Shen's son-in-law Zhou Chun, Gao Shen smiled slightly: "The so-called loss must be gained, although I was removed from the privy envoy, but my son-in-law benefited from it, and he has been officially promoted to Tangyin Zhixian." ”

"Congratulations to the seniors!"

"It's also the virtuous nephew who saved his life, he has to go to Beijing in two days to go through the formalities, I am going to set up a family banquet, there are not many people, just a few relatives and friends, can the virtuous nephew come to my house and get together with old friends?"

Li Yanqing also went out to eat when he wanted to get together with Zhou Chun, he didn't really want to go to Gao Shen's house, but he also understood that Gao Shen was using Zhou Chun as an excuse to invite him, and it was not good not to go, so he just took the opportunity to resolve the embarrassing old things of the blind date in the past.

Li Yanqing nodded, "Since the seniors are invited, the juniors must go!" ”

Gao Shen smiled happily: "I'll send an invitation in two days." ”

"The invitation card can be sent to Baoyan Zhai, my place of residence has not been decided yet."

"I see."

Gao Shen and Pan Xu quickly glanced at each other, and both of them showed meaningful glances in their eyes.

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