Because Sima Wei's identity is different now, no one in the capital knows that he has a meritorious escort, and he is the brother of the current queen, and he is a hot dignitary. It's a little strange to see him riding on a tall horse and supporting a small green cloth sedan chair today. Hey, is the person sitting in this sedan chair more valuable than Lord Sima's identity?

Guo Zhang sat quietly in the sedan chair, his heart was very complicated, serving the king was the mission and expectation given to him by the family, and it was also his ambition since childhood, and now this ambition is finally coming true, but now, he has a new wish.

A desperate desire to achieve.

The sedan chair moved forward slowly, only to hear a shout outside:

"Here the civil official gets off the sedan chair, and the military general dismounts!"

Sima Wei turned over and dismounted, and was about to step forward to answer, when a eunuch flew out of it and shouted:

"The king has a decree to allow Mr. Guo Zhang to enter the palace in a sedan chair."

When the guards heard this, they hurriedly dodged and made a way. Sima Wei carried the sedan chair in his hand, and the small sedan chair trembled and carried it into the palace.

Thousands of miles rushing in the clouds, how to come to Bole to appreciate. You can go up to the sun and the moon for nine days, and expand the territory to the border. Now that he has been appreciated by Bole and is about to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, he is not as happy as he imagined.

Without Cuigu by her side, what's the point of becoming a big deal? Others are just envy or jealousy, and the person with whom he can really share this joy is not around now.

So be sure to fulfill that wish!

The civil and military officials who were waiting for the court in the hall were even more confused. One of the most common, the most ordinary, and ordinary people can sit on a small green cloth sedan chair was actually carried into the palace, and the sedan chair was guarded by Lord Sima Wei, who was the most favored in front of the king, what was going on? Looking at Sima Wei's respectful appearance, everyone couldn't figure it out, which adult was sitting in this small sedan chair?

The small sedan chair finally stopped at the gate of the Taihe Palace, and Sima Wei lifted the sedan curtain and helped Guo Zhang off the sedan chair. Xie Lan, the imperial guard, walked down the steps with a high spirit, stood facing south, and said loudly:

"Present the edict, and Guo Zhang entered the hall to see the driver. Chin this. After speaking, he stepped forward and whispered:

"Cousin, you're overjoyed!"

Guo Zhang pretended to be dizzy and didn't understand what was going on, he understood that this was the best and best disguise for him.

"W-what the hell is going on?"

Sima Wei on the side smiled secretly and said:

"Ah, don't worry, sir, you'll know when you go up." As he spoke, he and Xie Lan pulled him up to the Danqi one by one.

Guo Zhang and them entered the hall to perform three kneels and nine kowtows. As soon as he looked up after the salute, he couldn't help but be stunned: Ah! In this solemn and solemn, the golden wall is brilliant. In the fragrant and dazzling Taihe Palace, on the throne inlaid with jade inlaid with treasures, carved dragons and painted with gold, supreme and noble, and sacred, the person who wears a golden crown and sits upright is his friend who has been laughing and having fun and chatting for several years - Qi Er. No, now I will call him king. Look at both sides, there are full of royal family relatives, hundreds of civil and military officials of the Jiuqing Ministry, and ministers of all sizes, but they are all bowing down and standing one by one, without a sound. Look at Xie Lan and the other guards in front of you, all of them standing behind Xiao Zhi in high spirits.

Rao was prepared before, and he was a little caught off guard when he really saw such a huge posture, not to listen to the hall described by his uncle, but what he could really see, touch, and smell the fragrance of the dragon's birthday, the majestic palace was really different.

Yes! This is true, Qi Er is the king, the monarch of the Qi country, he blurted out:

Qi - the word has not yet been spoken, but he is smart and immediately changed his words to: "Long live Lord Qi!" After saying that, he bowed his head deeply.

Seeing the usually suave and free-flowing Guo Zhang being at the mercy of Sima Wei and them, and seeing Guo Zhang kneeling in front of him, Xiao Zhi couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and satisfaction in his heart, and even more experienced the majesty of the lord in the world. However, in an instant, he felt a burst of melancholy, and in the past few years, the intimate affection between half teacher and half friend has come to an end. Thinking of Guo Zhang's loss of his lover just now, he didn't know how he was feeling, so he just said:

"Sir, please get up and sit down!"

Guo Zhang still knelt and didn't move. Sima Wei came up and helped him up and sat on the embroidery pier that the little eunuch had moved.

I heard Xiao Zhi say: "Mr. Guo Zhang, I have been chatting with you for several years, and I am very happy to speak freely, and I have benefited a lot from your sincere words. ”

When Xiao Zhi said this, Guo Zhang suddenly became enlightened, and many of the previous suspicions and unknown things were all understood at once.

No matter what kind of identity he is, Xiao Zhi is still the carefree and uninhibited Xiao Zhen, and his heart will not change.

Guo Zhang stood up, bowed and replied:

"The minister is a cold Confucian, blaspheming the monarch with cloth clothes, falsely preaching the scriptures, and listening to the defilement, please treat the king and the minister for the crime of disrespect!"

Xiao Zhi waved his hand and smiled, "Hey, Mr. is serious, what are you guilty of?" If I had known from the beginning that I was the king, then how could I have heard your words! How do we raise a glass and drink? Guo Zhang, I invite you to come today, in order to announce the edict to the officials, although the name of our monarch and minister is determined, the love of friends will always exist, I hope we will continue as always. ”

Hearing this, Guo Zhang was also grateful, knelt down and kowtowed to thank him, and listened to Kangxi again:

"Sir, please take a seat, Xie Lan, take the paper of Mr. that year's exam."

Xie Lan heard this, and hurriedly took a volume of documents from the eunuch's hand and handed it over. Xiao Zhi unfolded the rolling paper, smiled and looked at it again, then handed it to Xiao Jie, and said: "This is the paper "On the Corruption of Officials and the Chaos of the Country" that Mr. Guo Zhang took the exam three years ago. It is not only a powerful and majestic writing, but also an incisive argument, far-reaching for the country, a statement of the key points of governance, profound and powerful. You read to everyone, if the courtiers can be like Mr. Guo Zhang, how can Cao Ze and Xiao Zhi and others be autocratic, if the world's scholars can be like Mr. Guo Zhang, why don't I worry about becoming more and more prosperous. You read it to everyone. ”

Xiao Jie knew how many big things had happened in the past few years for this test paper, and how he had swayed between Wang Shang and Cao Ze in the first place, and he knew why Wang Shang asked him to read this article. Yan Zhiyuan was even more like a thorn in his back, the more he listened, the more he sweated, and when he finished reading, he rushed forward and knelt down: "Your Majesty, after listening to Mr. Guo Zhang's strategy, the minister feels even more frightened, Mr. Guo Zhang is a genius in the world, and he is willing to ask the king to entrust him with a heavy responsibility." ”

This is the purpose of Xiao Zhi to let Guo Zhang enter the palace today, thinking that this Yan Zhiyuan can't say goodbye, he was stunned for a while, and he was also a skill, and he didn't want to give any minister in front of Guo Zhang, so he smiled and said: "Well, I have my own arrangements for this matter, Xie Lan, you serve Mr. Guo Zhang to go back to wait for the order, Zhongqing, you all kneel down." In a burst of mountain shouts, Xiao Zhi retreated.

Back in the dormitory, under Fang Fei's service, Xiao Zhi changed into casual clothes and lay on the chair, his mood was extremely comfortable, he felt that the sky was higher and the ground was wider, ah! It's really gratifying to be a king who gives orders according to his own will, this is the life he should live when he travels through! However, he still has things to worry about, the most unsettling thing is the matter of the traverser, listening to Song Qinglian's meaning, the situation here is very complicated.

If it is really as he said, then the Three Dynasties, the Later Han Dynasty, the Yan Kingdom, and the Hunan Kingdom all have traversers behind their backs, are they enemies or friends? After that, I am afraid that my situation on this continent will be even more difficult. You must be strong enough to contend with it.

The law of the jungle is an eternal truth, and if they are equal in strength to them, they will not do it easily.

He was contemplating when a call came from outside:

"Minister Xie Lan greets the king!"

Xiao Zhi woke up suddenly and said with a smile: "Come in, I'm looking for you!" The day before yesterday, you asked Guo Zhang about it, what did he say? ”

"Oh, Guo Zhang said that it is better not to kill Cao Ze, anyway, he can't have any more disasters, leaving him can reassure people's hearts, so that the court officials, the generals in the army, are grateful to Dade and serve the king, that is, if the countries want to live, they have to worry about right and wrong."

Before Xie Lan finished speaking, Xiao Zhi suddenly got up: "Okay! He sees the problem thoroughly, and when he says something, he will do what he says! What does the outside think of Guo Zhang? ”

"Oh, of course the officials are complimenting. The people were also very happy to know about this, praised Guo Zhang's good learning, and praised the king's meritorious deeds. Xie Lan couldn't help but think of Guo Zhang's special in recent days, but for the sake of his cousin's future, he didn't tell Xiao Zhi in detail.

"Well, Guo Zhang, I must reuse it. However, at the moment, the official cannot be sealed immediately, the official is big, and everyone is not convinced; The official is small, and he has wronged him again. I thought about letting him follow Xue Bilong to experience and experience again, after all, if the Sima family was the only one, it would be no different from Cao Ze. Xiao Zhi said meaningfully.

"I understand."

In the evening, Xie Lan roughly told Guo Zhang's will, and Guo Zhang understood that he was going to be reused as a confidant.

As a chess piece, a chess piece used to restrain the Sima family, there are just more thorns along the way, but the benefits obtained are also greater.

This is exactly what he wants, greater rights, higher positions. Guo Zhang thought quietly, exchanged a few more greetings, and went home in a small sedan chair.

The small yard of his house is still dilapidated and narrow, and the Su brocade used for mourning has been removed, and since Cuigu Immortal went, the flowers and plants in the yard have not been taken care of, overgrown with weeds, and a dilapidated scene.

Guo Zhang didn't care about this, he just went straight to the back hall, a big room, empty and not even a bed, only a strip table, the floating ash on it has been more than a finger thick, there are a few wooden chairs on both sides, and there are two candles on the table, offering a bottle of Guanyin Bodhisattva statue. Guo Zhang lifted the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva and moved a mechanism, only to see that half of the wall had been rolled and slid out of a door—it turned out to be a wooden fake pink white wall, and there was a passage inside. He lit a candle, entered the passageway, and went straight to the end, where there was an ice coffin!

Guo Zhang took the candle and shone it carefully into the ice coffin, and Cuigu's handsome and beautiful face was floating in the ice coffin. He knelt beside the ice coffin, as if touching Cuigu herself, and kept stroking the ice coffin with both hands. looked at Cuigu with affection, and said softly,

"Acui, I want you to know that Qi Er summoned me as the king today, and praised my article in front of the civil and military officials, and will reuse me in the future."

"When I ascend to a high position in the future and have enough power, I will definitely be able to bring you back to me." Imagining that one day in the future, Cui Gu would return to him, Guo Zhang said stupidly, "That adult promised me, I saw his Taoism with my own eyes—that is divine power, it will bring you back to life." ”