A week after the wedding, Xiao Zhi officially came to the court to listen to politics. The four auxiliary ministers are missing Xue Bilong, and the four corners have become incomplete. In order to stabilize the transition, Xiao Zhi and the Queen Mother issued separate orders, leaving Sima Ni, Yan Zhiyuan, and Cao Ze as auxiliary ministers.

The relationship between Xiao Zhi and Cao Ze has become more and more weird, since the last conflict in Yuqing Palace, the two have been much more polite, Cao Ze has reported everything to Xiao Zhi, and his words are very respectful, no longer as before, Xiao Zhi trusts him more, and many major matters are assured to be handed over to him.

The relationship between the two was even more amiable, which the ministers of the DPRK and China did not expect - when Xue Bilong's family was exiled, they were still hesitating about taking sides, but now they are relieved that they can settle down and do what they have to do.

As long as Xiao Zhi and Cao Ze knew in their hearts, the other party secretly wanted to kill their own ideas, and they were just waiting for the opportunity.

A dreary overcast day. The clouds are pressed low. The willow branches by the sea were motionless and hung down to the water, and from time to time you could hear a weak shouting from the street: "Xiangsi'er-hemp candy-" "Who wants to paste cakes, fritters, twist and flowers--"

After getting off the morning court, he got up from sleep, and asked the old queen mother to say goodbye, Xiao Zhi felt bored, and Cao Ze's respectful appearance made him even more at a loss recently, but he didn't know where to start, so he took Su Wan, Xie Lan and Fang Fei and the three of them, took a small sedan chair from Shenwu Gate, went to Jiyi Tower, and found Shen Lian to relieve his boredom.

Seeing that the four of them entered the Jiyi Building, Lu Qixiang hurriedly invited to the bamboo forest behind, and when a few people walked into the forest, they heard the sound of the piano from the room. Wisps of fragrance waft in the middle of this mountain pavilion water stone, which really makes people feel like walking into a fairyland. Xiao Zhi stopped, and several people stood in the forest holding the stone railing and listened to the sound of the piano.

The sound of the piano is sometimes tight and slow, provocative and delineated, and it is impossible to tell what it is like, sometimes it makes people feel fluttering, there is a sense of riding the clouds in the air, sometimes it feels like there is a depression in the heart, and it can not be excluded, and sometimes it makes people feel as relaxed as opening a boring cage, and the aftertaste is endless after repeated sighs, but the turbidity in the heart is swept away.

Fang Fei listened for a while, and suddenly lightly touched Xiao Zhi's sleeve, when Xiao Zhi looked back, he saw Fang Fei and Xie Lan smiling at Su Wannu, Xiao Zhi saw Su Wan blankly thoughtful, and asked jokingly: "Sister Awan, what are you thinking?" ”

Su Wan listened to the sound of the piano and was fascinated, and remembered the words she had with Shen Lian before, and felt a little touched in her heart for a while. Leng Buding was asked by Xiao Zhi like this, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he blushed and smiled after hesitation: "Listen to the qin, what's the idea?" ”

Su Wan has always been calm and calm on weekdays, and she is very strict with Xiao Zhi, and she has never seen her like this, Xiao Zhi was surprised at first, but after thinking about it, she understood.

Shen Lian and Su Wan are probably in love with each other.

Xie Lan next to him smiled and said: "Qi Er doesn't need to ask, this is on the Book of Songs." There is also a footnote, the Tao is 'once the sea is difficult to water, except for Wushan is not a cloud'. Awan, do you say yes? ”

"Don't talk nonsense here." Su Wan calmed down, "It's just remembering the past." ”

"It's probably a sweet past, that's why I'm blushing." Xiao Zhi said with a grin.

Shen Lian could hear the chattering voices outside the window, so he stopped the piano, stood up and pushed open the window and said with a smile: "No wonder the sound of the piano is different, the strings are obedient, it turns out that someone is eavesdropping, please come into the house!" ”

Xiao Zhi couldn't wait to ask, "What kind of music did Brother Shen play just now, I have never heard such a beautiful piano sound!" Even Sister Awan was stunned. ”

Shen Lian glanced at Su Wan, saw that she turned around and didn't answer, and said with a smile: "What is good, the sound is not mournful, the listener has a heart, what does the player mean!" But Awan likes it, it's a good song. The three of them laughed when they said this, but they only looked at Shen Lian and Su Wan and didn't speak.

Xiao Zhi and his entourage stepped into the door and saw Guo Zhang and Cuigu also beside them, and the two listened to Shen Lian playing the piano while drinking. Seeing Xiao Zhen, Guo Zhang was very surprised, and stood up with Aunt Cui, "Brother Qi, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Xiao Zhi was also very surprised, he had put too much thought into Cao Ze's affairs recently, and he had long left Guo Zhang's affairs behind, and he was also very curious about his recent situation, so he arched his hand and asked, "Brother Guo hasn't seen you for a long time, how will you be after you hit the list?" ”

"This matter has also been roughly decided." Guo Zhang smiled, and everyone sat down and listened to Guo Zhang's recent situation while drinking.

In the months after being on the list, Guo Zhang was very happy for a while, worshipping the house master, and staying in the house all day long. Guo Zhaozhi also introduced a lot of contacts for him, and it took a lot of effort, but who expected to be introduced, and only awarded a small official who was a regular attendant of the left scattered cavalry.

"Your uncle must be disappointed." Xiao Zhi asked. "The left scattered cavalry is just a seven-rank official position, and he doesn't even have any real power."

"That's natural, but now that the court is in turmoil, and my uncle is soft-spoken, I'm very satisfied to be able to get a job." Guo Zhang took a sip of wine and said with a smile, "To be honest, when I finished writing "On the Corruption of Officials", I thought it was going to be over, but I didn't expect to be able to be an official on the list, which is already very good." It can be seen that Wang En is mighty. ”

Xiao Zhi found it interesting and asked, "Now that the king has just taken over the government, how do you know that Wang Enhao is powerful?" ”

"I don't understand this, it's just that my sharp articles can still be favored, which shows that the government is very clear, and the king is like a stream, not as bad as outsiders say." Speaking of this, Guo Zhang took Cuigu's hand again, "I have also thought about it carefully, when I have gained a firm foothold in the capital, I will find a family to recognize Cuigu as my daughter, and then let Cuigu be the wife I am marrying, and no one will gossip in the future." ”

"That's good." The white scholar in front of him, although he looks soft and weak, is a very responsible man. Open-minded and affectionate. Xiao Zhi admired it very much, "Congratulations to the two of you." ”

"When the time comes, I want you to enjoy your faces and drink the joyful wine."

Xiao Zhi looked at a spread out book of "Book of the Later Han" on the table, and thought about it as a topic, and said with a smile, "People say that the Book of the Later Han Dynasty is intermittent, not as rigorous and neat as the Book of Han. ”

Hearing this witticism, everyone laughed, Guo Zhang was a little embarrassed, "I've been bored lately, so I'll turn two pages and take a look." He also recommended: "Ban's "Book of Han" is certainly a historical book and a masterpiece. But in my opinion, there are also many chapters in Fan Yezhi's Book of the Later Han Dynasty that are wonderful words that can be immortalized. It's a pity that one thing has greatly damaged his own reputation. ”

Xie Lan hurriedly asked, "The article is like practicing martial arts, although some people have bad character, but their profundity has to be admired." Where is there a change with personnel? ”

"Yes!" Guo Chang replied, "This is a clear proof. Fan's suffered from the word 'proud'. In a quick letter to his nephews in prison, he boasted that his Book of the Later Han Dynasty was even more clever than the Book of Han and was a "wonder work of the world", saying that the middle chapters in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty were not inferior to Jia Yi's Treatise on the Passage of Qin, and even he could not choose the right words to describe this strange book, and there was no one comparable to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty in ancient history. ”

"Listen, how big a cow did he blow?" Guo Zhang took a sip of wine and sighed with emotion, "It is a virtue for a scholar to be high and self-respecting, but if you think too highly of yourself, you will become arrogant and ignorant. This is really caused by Fan Ye's self-destruction. ”

"It can be seen that it is not good to think very highly of yourself, and Cao Ze is such a person today." Xiao Zhi sneered.

"Who knows, then Cao Zegong is high and shocking, and the king has just been in power, which is also very dangerous in theory." Guo Zhang didn't know what to do, and casually pointed to the "Book of the Later Han" and said, "Just like the Han Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this little emperor was originally very smart, if he can grow up, he will definitely become a generation of British lords......"

When the people present heard this, they all changed color, Su Wan knew this allusion, and was very taboo, and repeatedly handed over the look of Shen Lian to perfunctory. Shen Lian had no choice but to speak, "It's not too early, let's have some food." Guo Zhang! ”

Guo Zhangzheng said that he was on the head of Xing, and was suddenly interrupted by Shen Lian, and he was stunned and didn't know what to do.

"It's fine." Xiao Zhi waved his hand, "I think it's interesting, and then what's wrong?" ”

Guo Zhang then happily talked again, and continued: "It's a pity that this little emperor is too sharp, and he denounces the general Liang Ji as a 'Bahu general' in person, and is hated by the Liang family, secretly using poisonous cakes as bait, and dies ......in the palace" He sighed and said: "It's really regrettable! ”

When Xiao Zhi heard this, his heart was pounding, thinking about the situation of fighting with Cao Ze in Yuqing Palace a few days ago, he was really a little afraid. He asked again, "Then Liang Ji is so tyrannical that he has harmed Emperor Qian, why didn't he take the throne and become the emperor himself?" ”

"Because at that time, the Qing Dynasty was at the beginning." Guo Zhang smiled: "People's tongues are very powerful! In addition, the Eastern Han Dynasty has not yet exhausted, and Wang Mang's past is still there, and Liang Ji can't help but have scruples. ”

Xiao Zhi didn't understand the word "clear discussion", and hurriedly asked: "What is the clear discussion method?" ”

Guo Zhang thought for a while and said: "Ah, the Qing Discussion is the discussion of the ministers and the people criticizing the government and politics, just like Tao Qian, Wang Zhihuan, and Xu Xuan impeached Cao Ze's 'Guang Gang Henchmen', and my 'On the Corruption of Officials and the Chaos of the Country' is probably today's 'Qing Discussion'." Later Han Qing discussed the evil path and became empty talk. However, when the emperor was the emperor, there were still many people who were not afraid of death among the hundred officials who dared to boldly criticize the government. ”

Xiao Zhi lowered his head and thought for a while, and then asked: "Even in terms of the quality emperor, if you want to get rid of Liang Ji, what is the best policy?" ”

Guo Zhang couldn't help but glance at Xiao Zhi in surprise, and wondered why he held on to this question. But since they were laughing together, it was not good not to answer, and after thinking for a while, Guo Zhang replied: "Judging the current situation at that time, Liang Ji was already an enemy on all sides, offending the anger of the public, and losing people's hearts. If you can wait for the opportunity, be wise and foolish on the outside, and dare to die on the inside, recruit virtuous ministers, and support the Qing Dynasty, when the time comes, you can punish a Liang Ji, and only use a few wrestlers. However, he was so anxious that he lost his life. ”

"As a king, you must always have the determination to practice and taste courage." Shen Lian wasted no time in reminding.

Xiao Zhi listened, couldn't help but smile, and his heart was a lot more relaxed.

The people are already in my hands, as long as the time and place are right.

Everything needed etc.

Like a cheetah on the African savannah, you have to endure and remain motionless until you are ready.