After dealing with Princess Ningde, Sun Yueling returned to the civil service. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Seeing that he was summoned by Mei Zhihuan and Princess Ningde successively, many civil officials immediately surrounded him and asked for his name.

When Sun Yueling first saw the officials of the dynasty, of course, he didn't dare to make a big deal rashly, and besides, he was only a minor official of the ninth grade, and he was not a science and Taoist official, and he had no weight in front of many civil officials, so he answered questions honestly and talked with other civil officials.

There was a word of chatting, and he suddenly found a white-faced and black-bearded civil official standing not far from him, as if he had seen it somewhere, and after thinking about it slightly, he immediately remembered, and hurriedly shouted at him: "Brother Lu, Brother Lu." ”

The civil official turned his head, looked at him for a while, and said, "This lord is so kind-hearted, forgive me for not remembering it for a while, and please give me a name!" ”

Sun Yueling said: "Brother Lu naturally doesn't recognize him, but he can't forget Brother Lu, do you still remember the wine conference on the shore of Mochou Lake in Nanjing?" At that time, Brother Lu was holding a big knife, and his dance was earth-shattering, and he still remembers it vividly......"

This person is Lu Xiangsheng, who danced the big knife by the Yanyu Pavilion back then, at this time he had been admitted to the Jinshi and was awarded the post of head of the household department, seeing Sun Yueling so enthusiastic about him, and he had seen his martial arts in Nanjing back then, he also laughed at the moment and said: "No wonder I said that I was so kind, it turned out to be an old man in Nanjing, and today you and I are officials in the same dynasty, which can be described as a good fate." ”

Lu Xiangsheng is also a proud person, and he did not twist and pretend to be above the top, but greeted him very warmly.

Sun Yueling came to his side and said, "Below is the Guozi Superintendent Xuezheng, who cares about Sun Yueling, the master of the East Hall, and hopes that Brother Lu will give him more advice." ”

"Brother Sun is polite!" Lu Xiangsheng also changed his name, using the name among the literati at that time, and said, "I played a big knife on the shore of Mochou Lake that day, but it made Brother Sun laugh!" ”

Sun Yueling said: "Brother Lu is talking about what is this, who said that literati must be powerless, our Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty since the founding of the country, has advocated that literati practice riding and archery, familiar with martial arts, Brother Lu is not only a good learner, but also proficient in martial arts, so that he admires and admires him very much!" He knew that Lu Xiangsheng would be a generation of famous generals in the future, so he did not hesitate to pat the horse and pull it together.

Lu Xiangsheng laughed, shook his head and said, "Brother Sun praises it, what is my such a small martial art in front of the masters of your care hall?" ”

Although he was modest on the surface, he was also full of good feelings towards Sun Yueling in his heart, after all, the civil officials at that time had far deviated from Emperor Taizu's precepts, and they were ashamed of practicing martial arts and holding swords, and they looked down on military generals who only knew how to dance with knives and sticks. He has never liked those rotten Confucians who only know how to talk on paper and shout empty slogans, so he is also relatively withdrawn and alternative in the civil service system.

Sun Yueling said a few words modestly and said, "Brother Lu, what is the content of today's school competition?" Although he knew that he would play Pei Donglai in the finale, he still didn't know much about the procedures of the entire internal gymnastics, so he could just ask Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng was surprised: "Don't you know? Seeing that he shook his head blankly, he then explained, "This internal exercise meeting is divided into three rounds. In the first round, the eunuchs and palace maids conducted array drills, in the second round, Xun's relatives and our civil officials competed with each other in riding and shooting, and in the third round, Xungui and civil officials sent three people respectively to conduct the final martial arts competition. ”

Then he lowered his voice and said to him, "In the last round of martial arts competition, I am fortunate to be selected by Lord Mei, and I will compete as a member of the civil officials, but I don't know who the other two people are." ”

Sun Yueling didn't hide it at this time, and said to him in a low voice: "It's not a secret, Zai Xia is also one of the three people who were selected by Master Mei, and he will be the last person to fight." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was not jealous, but said with joy on his face: "This is very good, with Brother Sun in the finale, I can give it a go!" "He has been in Beijing for a long time, and he has long heard of the name of the Caring Hall, and he knows that there are many strong martial arts in the Caring Hall.

Sun Yueling immediately shook his head to express his modesty, thinking that he was personally appointed by Zhao Nanxing, and he would take over such an important position, which was really too much to elevate him.

Lu Xiangsheng continued: "Brother Sun should be older than me, right?" ”

Sun Yueling blurted out and said, "In the next year, there are six out of twenty, I don't know what Brother Lu's age is?" ”

"Foolish brother is twenty-three years old." Lu Xiangsheng did not twist and said, "The elder is a brother, and in the future, you will be a brother, and I will be a brother." ”

"Virtuous brother!" Sun Yueling felt that he was shouting sincerely.

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "Brother Sun, let's show our hands and let those royal relatives know the methods of our civil officials!" ”

The two laughed and talked for a while, and they both felt that they were talking very happily and hated to see each other late.

At this time, many ministers and royal nobles in the court also came to the Ziguang Pavilion in turn, and sat down on the seats arranged in front of the Ziguang Pavilion, Sun Yueling looked up, only to see Ye Xianggao and Zhao Nanxing, as well as Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Zhang Zhiqi, the commander of the forbidden army, who had seen it in the "Daming Gate Change" last time, but the other princes and ministers had never seen it, and they didn't know any of them.

After a few more moments, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, accompanied by the empress concubine and the princess, slowly came to the second floor platform of the Purple Light Pavilion. After all the people of His Excellency Ziguang saw the Son of Heaven coming, they all knelt on the ground, and the mountain shouted long live, and the shouts shook the sky for a while, and they were deafening.

Originally, the riding and archery activities in the palace were generally held in the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival was to follow the old customs of the Yuan people and was the most important activity in the court. However, due to the neglect of the Emperor of Wanli, this event has been abandoned for many years, and now it is because the Emperor of the Apocalypse likes to be lively, and Wei Zhongxian is on the side, so it is simply held in advance on the Qingming Festival, which can be combined with the internal exercise.

After everyone knelt down and everyone took their places, Wang Tiqian, the eunuch who was in charge of the celebrant seal, read out the will of the Apocalypse aloud on the platform, and finally said: "The internal exercise conference starts now." ”

Then there were eunuchs who passed down the emperor's will layer by layer, and in a warm atmosphere, the internal exercise conference officially began.

After a burst of artillery fire, the first round of performances was held, in which the eunuchs and palace ladies practiced various formations. These eunuchs and palace maids were all young and strong people carefully selected by Wei Zhongxian, and now they were divided into two large groups, each group of 1,000 people, a total of 500 eunuchs and 500 palace maids, and began to practice the Taiji Diagram Array.

For a while, shouts rang out in the square, and dust flew up. After the Tai Chi Formation was practiced, the formation changed, and suddenly it became the Bagua Array again, and the two groups of people were also divided into eight groups, and they began to practice according to the corresponding positions of the Bagua.

Sun Yueling watched with great interest, although he knew that the elements of these internal military shows were far greater than the actual combat, but even so, it was also a very pleasant thing to watch these people rush left and right, and to hear the coquettish shouts of those palace maids in his ears.

He saw that it was Princess Zhu Huiyan of Ningde who led the five hundred palace maids to practice, and saw Zhu Huiyan running back and forth in the formation, commanding such a group of women's army, but also a bit of a battlefield woman's style, no wonder she appeared in a military uniform at the beginning, it turned out to be such a play.

After the internal exercise army finished the gossip array, it finally turned into a snake formation, the eunuchs and palace maids danced swords and swords, tumbling endlessly, it was very good-looking, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse on the Purple Light Pavilion applauded loudly, taking the lead in applauding, and for a time there was thunderous applause around the square.

Since Sun Yueling was standing relatively close to the Purple Light Pavilion, he took the opportunity to glance at the ministers on the seat, and saw that Ye Xiang was as tall as an old monk, and he couldn't see any expression on his face; And Zhao Nanxing was full of indignation and disdain, and seemed to be very unhappy.

After the first round of internal exercises, the second round of cavalry and archery performances began, many eunuchs led more than a dozen high-headed horses to the square, Wang Tiqian's voice announcing the start of the second round had not yet fallen, only to see a person striding out of the noble team opposite the civil official camp, running towards the center of the square, a body of armor shining silver under the early sun.

"Who is this?" Sun Yueling asked.

"This is Zhang Zhiji, the second son of the British Duke Zhang Weixian, the younger brother of Zhang Zhiqi, the commander of the forbidden army, and the current deputy general of the Shenji Battalion." Lu Xiangsheng said, "In this civil and military competition, he is the leader of the noble team. ”

"Oh!" Sun Yueling nodded.

Since Zhang Zhiji took the lead in entering, of course, the civil official team could not be left behind, and Mei Zhihuan immediately strode into the square. In this civil and military competition, the competition was to shoot willows on horseback, and the military attaché and civil official each sent a group of seven people to ride a big horse led by the eunuchs, and shoot the big gourd hanging on the rows of willow trees at the end of the square.

The big gourd is full of partridges, and if you can shoot through the gourd, the partridges inside the gourd will flutter their wings and fly into the sky.

This method of testing riding and shooting is a little difficult, not only to shoot through the gourd, but also not to hurt the partridge inside, otherwise although the gourd is broken, but the partridge is injured, it will not be able to fly; Or although the partridge was not injured, the gap between the bow and arrow to open the gourd was not large, and the partridge was squeezed in the middle, and it was difficult to fly out of the gourd.

It is best to shoot the gourd in half with an arrow without harming the partridge in the slightest, so that the partridge can leap out of the gourd and fly into the sky.

This method of shooting the partridge with a broken gourd is a good method that the carpenter emperor Tianqi came up with today's childlike carpenter, he usually looks confused, but the method he came up with is not ambiguous at all, as long as the eunuchs count a little bit of the partridge in the gourd left on both sides, they can figure out which side will win the competition.