On the fifth day after Song Qiulai wrote "Iron Cavalry Fu", the Qin Wangfu received a holy decree announcing that Song Qiulai would enter the palace in the afternoon of the next day. Song Qiulai's demeanor was calm, and when he was a few years old, he didn't feel any nervousness when he was playing in the palace, but he was nervous about the civil and military officials.

If Song Huan did not resign ten years ago, the core personnel of the Song family would not have retired, and the faction headed by Song Huan would naturally not fall apart. In recent years, the Jin Emperor advocated a series of reforms based on strong troops, and opinions in the court were divided, and the Song family was divided into two, gradually forming the Beining faction headed by Qin Wang Shanhuai who advocated reform and reform, and the Yuanheng faction headed by the fifth prince Shan Yun who preferred to resist the change. Song Qiu's entry into the dynasty attracted the attention of the old Song family and the old faction, and for today's two factions, they will contact him, and if there is contact, there will be a compromise solution, which is conducive to the overall development. But if the problem is not solved, Song Qiulai will completely stand in line, provoking the displeasure of the other faction, although the two parties with the old relationship of the Song family have not yet reached the level of swords facing each other, but at that time the situation will inevitably transform uncontrollable, causing turmoil in the overall situation.

Relative to the political level, the core interest of the dispute between the two parties is the position of the prince, and the Jin Emperor also knew that the eldest prince Shanye had no intention of the position of the prince, so naturally the choice of the prince fell on the five princes Shanyun and Qin Wang Shanhuai. The change of the law should not involve interests, and it is all based on governing the country and securing the people, but I am afraid that one faction will break the rules first, and sometimes the broken rules in the temple are more terrible than the broken rules in the rivers and lakes.

The big city is hidden in the small city, the right is hidden in the small city, and the right is unpredictable. Just outside the imperial city hall that was lit by the afternoon sunset, Song Qiulai did not feel any pressure, but a feeling of pride and ambition.

When Song Qiu came to enter the palace, there was only one person in the palace, except for the guards and forbidden troops. I saw the old man in the yellow robe on the dragon chair, but the snow sideburns and frost mustache were still in good spirits, and it was the Jin Emperor who was over half a hundred years old. Although it doesn't look old, it has changed a lot compared to ten years ago. Song Qiulai hurriedly saluted and called the emperor.

Emperor Jin looked at the young man in front of him, looked at it carefully as if he was looking at a junior, and said with a little peace in his majesty: "Autumn comes, hurry up and calm down." ”

Song Qiulai responded and looked up at Emperor Jin, sighing in his heart that time flies and time passes, Emperor Jin, who took him on a horse more than ten years ago, has changed so much at this moment, and his voice trembled a little and said: "Your Majesty, you are ,,, old." ”

Emperor Jin was not angry at all, but looked at Song Qiulai, who had grown into a young talent, with a smile and concern, and sighed leisurely, and said with emotion: "I am old, not as good as I was back then." ”

Song Qiulai smiled respectfully and continued: "Your Majesty, you are not old yet. The words refer to Emperor Jin's advocacy of reform in recent years.

Emperor Jin: "Oh? With a sigh, the smile on his face was a little thicker, and he laughed. Naturally, he understood the meaning of his words, and said slightly seriously: "Then why do you say I'm not old?" "Emperor Jin, who is already over half a hundred years old, naturally doesn't need Song Qiulai's approval of his implementation of the law change, just to see how well Song Qiulai understands politics.

Song Qiulai was thinking that Emperor Bai Jin was testing his understanding of the national situation decision-making, pondered for a while, and replied euphemistically: "The world is peaceful, you are naturally not old." ”

When Emperor Jin heard this, Song Qiulai didn't say anything substantial, so he asked again: "Then why do you say that the Jin Kingdom can be peaceful?" Although Emperor Jin asked why the Jin State was peaceful, he actually asked Song Qiulai's views on political decision-making in recent years, and also about the rights in the army.

After hearing this, Song Qiulai's heart immediately thought about the management of the rights in the army, and said in his heart that this problem is a little difficult, and the peace in the world is naturally because of the iron horseman, who dares to attack. It is also difficult to talk about the expansion of the army and the strengthening of control. It's thinking about it, but it's not how to answer, the little face is red, I don't know what to say and it's not good not to answer, and I replied a little crampedly: "That's because you have a good strategy for governing the country, and the world can be peaceful." ”

Although Emperor Jin is a little old, his eyes are extremely bright, seeing Song Qiu's appearance, he can naturally see through what he is worried about, but in fact, what he wants to ask more is Song Qiulai's understanding of the implementation of the law change, seeing that he didn't understand, he had to ask again, and said with a smile: "How long can it be peaceful to maintain the status quo?" ”

Song Qiu came to see Emperor Jin and smiled, and understood that Emperor Jin was not only talking about the problems of the Song family's iron cavalry, but also the problem of changing the law in the general environment. In the Qin Palace, I also heard Shanhuai mention it, and he already had some plans in his heart, so he replied directly: "Taiping can last for a long time, but it is built on the basis of change." ”

When Emperor Jin saw that Song Qiulai finally got to the point, he laughed and said with a slight praise: "Then you can see how to change the law." ”

The matter of changing the law is from Shanhuai's mouth, and the natural speech and opinions are influenced by Shanhuai's thinking of changing the law, and Song Qiulai's words about changing the law are slightly biased towards the positive change of the law of the Beining faction, but there is no belittling and biased towards the negative Yuanheng faction.

The speaker had no intention of listening, and Emperor Jin listened to what Song Qiulai said, although he did not clearly express his position, he was inclined to support the reform, believing that Song Qiulai should be biased towards the Beining faction. Emperor Jin, who was originally advocating the change of law, naturally admired Song Qiu very much, and gave Song Qiu to enter the Ling Pavilion without examination.

When Song Qiulai returned to the Qin Palace, it was already dusk.

Shanhuai was not surprised that Song Qiulai had returned late, and he could guess a little bit about what Emperor Jin and Song Qiulai were talking about, but seeing that Song Qiulai was not sad, he didn't wait for Song Qiulai to sit down and hurriedly asked Song Qiulai with concern: "Qiulai, what did the father reward?"

Song Qiulai sat down slowly, his shoulders slumped, his expression was gloomy, he looked very helpless, and sighed: "It's just that I was exempted from the test, Ling Ge." ”

When Shanhuai saw that Song Qiulai was so lonely, and was about to comfort him that the affairs of the court would not be fought for a while, when he heard what he said that he had actually entered the Ling Pavilion and was exempted from the examination, he scolded secretly in his heart, and pretended to scold with a straight face: "You are still not satisfied after entering the Ling Pavilion?" Wouldn't that just give you a prime minister to be a prime minister so that you can be a little interested?"

Song Qiulai was reprimanded, and the Ling Pavilion was just giving advice to Emperor Jin, and the decision on whether to adopt it or not was still in the hands of Emperor Jin, where did Shanhuai say this? gloomily said: "No real power in your hands is useless after all." ”

Only then did Shan Huai remember that he hadn't told him about the reform of the Ling Pavilion, and said with a smile: "Qiulai, you don't know what the Ling Pavilion is planning?"

Song Qiulai was not a stupid person, after a little thought, he knew that Ling Ge must have something to do, he didn't know what was going on, his eyes lit up, and he asked suspiciously, "What's the matter with Ling Ge?"

Shan Huai replied calmly: "My father intends to set up a power department that overrides the two governments, three divisions and six departments, called the Junzi Pavilion, which should be used to check and balance the elephant power, and implement the law reform at the same time. Ling Ge was incorporated into it, as the first major decision-making system of Junzi Pavilion, do you say, is today's Ling Pavilion still the Ling Pavilion of the past? ”

Gentleman's Court? Song Qiulai couldn't help but think of the gentleman's cliff that was mentioned once in Jin Jiuhan's mouth by chance, how could the name be so similar? I couldn't help but think to myself.

Shanhuai was stunned when he saw Song Qiulai, thinking that he was shocked, just like when he was just crowned King of Qin, he also panicked and forgot to thank him, his hand shook in front of Song Qiulai's eyes, and Song Qiulai came back to his senses.

Shan Huai pursed his lips and said with a playful smile: "A Ling Pavilion scared you? ”

Song Qiulai twisted his hands, his eyes rolled, and asked thoughtfully, "Have you ever heard of Junzi Cliff?" ”

After hearing this, Shanhuai first recited silently: "Gentleman's Cliff? He replied with a deep sigh: "But the Jianghu sect? ”

Song Qiulai suddenly laughed at himself, feeling that he should have thought too much, how could Jin Jiuhan know about an organization that Shanhuai had never heard of as the King of Qin? It's that I've become a little nervous since I entered Beijing. Only then did he realize that Ling Ge was no longer what it used to be, and his heart blossomed but he said vaguely: "It's only okay to enter Ling Ge, it's okay." Caused Shanhuai to laugh and scold.

"Autumn is coming! Is it considered to be back to Beijing if you enter Ling Pavilion this time? A laugh came into the ears of the two of them, and their voices were thick and slightly crisp. Looking back, the man wearing gold armor was Cui Jiawen, the head of the Dragon Camp of the Imperial Forest Forbidden Army, and the two of them walked with an old man who looked like a Confucian beside him. Song Qiulai only felt that the old man was slightly familiar, but the civil and military officials had seen a lot when they were young, and they couldn't remember all of them, but they also got up with Shanhuai to greet him.

Song Qiulai patted Cui Jiawen's chest and laughed: "I'm back, I'm back!" ”

As soon as Shan Huai pulled Song Qiulai's sleeve, he bowed to the old man who looked like a Confucian scholar and said, "Prime Minister Chen, why are you here too?" Song Qiulai took a closer look at the old man, was shocked, hurriedly saluted, and hurriedly said: "Grandpa Chen, I was careless just now, I didn't recognize you for ten years, you forgive your sins." ”

This Confucian old man is Chen Zhixi, who was the emperor of the dynasty and is now the prime minister.

The Confucian old man looked at Song Qiulai up and down a few times, smiled slightly, and said without blaming him and with a pleasant face: "You kid, you are still so skinny, but you can't be so messy anymore." ”

Song Qiulai couldn't cry or laugh in a word, remembering that he refused to learn when Chen Zhixi taught him literacy more than ten years ago, and pulled off half of Chen Zhixi's beard, the angry old gentleman who had always been respected was blowing his nose and glaring and almost swearing, and directly sued Song Huan, saying that he refused to teach Song Qiulai again, Song Huan apologized again and again before agreeing to teach Song Qiulai to try again, and afterwards Song Qiulai tasted the taste of being beaten for the first time, so although Song Qiulai was not obedient later, but the little head was not slow, and Chen Zhixi smiled at him a little.

Cui Jiawen looked at Song Qiulai, clapped his hands and laughed a few times, after all, he also knew about this back then, and he coughed a few times and said with a smile uncontrollably: "Qiulai, you should change your name to Prime Minister Chen now." ”

Song Qiulai glared at Cui Jiawen first, and then said with a flattering smile: "Prime Minister Chen, you can't remember the hatred of the year anymore when you become prime minister, as the saying goes, the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, you should have heard this." ”

Chen Zhixi couldn't help but stroke his beard when he heard this, thinking that the beard that was pulled off was still palpitating, he couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "This bastard boy." ”

Then Shan Huai stretched out his hand, made a gesture of invitation, and said with a smile: "Prime Minister Chen, sit down and talk again." ”

Waiting for the maid to serve tea, Shanhuai asked, "Prime Minister Chen, why do you have time to come to my mansion today?"

Chen Zhixi picked up the teacup, smelled it, and said that it was good, and said, "I came to you for two things." ”

Shanhuai's mind moved, Chen Zhixi, who had never come to the Qin Palace, must have something to do today, so he said unhurriedly: "Prime Minister let's talk about it." ”

Chen Zhixi turned his eyes to Song Qiulai and asked with a smile, "How is my little apprentice?"

Song Qiulai was stunned for a moment, but he didn't know who Chen Zhixi was asking, and said: "I just returned to Beijing, and I haven't met many old people, I don't know who the disciple you are talking about is?"

Chen Zhixi's eyes turned upwards and asked with some doubts: "Didn't my little apprentice Yang Shukai also go to Donghuan City?"

Song Qiulai: "Huh?" After a while, Yang Shukai had no choice but to smile bitterly and said, "I really haven't heard him mention that he has also studied under you." "I was also puzzled in my heart, strange, why hadn't I heard Yang Shukai mention this matter?

Chen Zhixi, the old man, was also stunned, and said in his heart that the two families were not friends in the world, how could he not mention it. His tone was a little unhappy: "Well, I will definitely ask him when he comes in a few days." Being an old man's disciple will hurt his face?"

Song Qiulai's eyes widened, he was very surprised, and he said in his heart that he hadn't heard him mention that he was going to come to the capital. Pouted and said, "I didn't even know that he came to the capital, you have to ask him when he comes." Chen Chengxiang, what is the second thing you said?"

Chen Zhixi stared at Song Qiulai intently, and his tone instantly became slightly serious: "Boy, do you want to do things in Ling Pavilion all the time?"

Song Qiulai's eyes shrank, and he also stared at Chen Zhixi intently, but did not answer. Seeing that both of them were doubting whether the other party had different opinions from his own, Shan Huai smiled lightly and said with a smile: "Prime Minister Chen, Qiulai has some unique views on changing the law. ”

Song Qiulai smiled again when he heard this, as if it hadn't happened just now, and said with a smile: "I can't talk about opinions, but there's nothing wrong with staying in Ling Pavilion." ”

Chen Zhixi saw Song Qiulai's demeanor in his eyes, and said with a smile: "Hun boy, just like a singer, he will change his face when he says it." Song Qiulai had no choice but to smile guiltily and was speechless.

The four of them talked about the change of the law while drinking tea, but the more they talked, Song Qiulai had an idea that intensified, and his face became cloudy, as if he said a word casually, but several people fell into Chen Si, only to see Song Qiulai slowly asked: "Prime Minister Chen, you also support the change, and Emperor Jin is not against the change, so how can this progress be so slow?"

After hearing this, the three of them all stayed there like wooden stakes, and said in their hearts that this was true, since the emperor of the Jin dynasty and the prime minister of the dynasty all supported the change of the law, why did it take two years to slowly recover the military power, and the progress was so slow?

After three or five breaths, Cui Jiawen smiled first, seemed to have figured out something, and said with a slight mocking smile: "How can the leader of the army be so easily taken away from the military power?" If it is so easy to be taken back, wouldn't it be a general for nothing?" Cui Jiawen, who was beaming with pride, was immediately looked at with contempt by the three of them.

Shan Huai speculated and spoke first, and said coldly: "Even if the generals in the army don't want to be taken away from their military power, half of the people who hold the power still support the change. ”

Cui Jiawen slapped his forehead, shook his left cheek, laughed a little, and said embarrassedly: "This kind of thing has to be thought of by you, when I talk too much." ”

Chen Zhixi stroked his beard and asked the same question as Song Qiulai just now: "Have you ever heard of Junzi Cliff?"

Song Qiulai Shanhuai glanced at each other, looked at each other without saying a word, and at the same time turned his gaze to Chen Zhixi, Song Qiulai said slowly: "I have heard of this gentleman's cliff." Then he called the attendants to bring pen and ink, wrote down the words Emperor Jin, and wrote down the names of the people he saw when he returned to Beijing, outlined them with lines, and the three of them looked at the paper and didn't know what he was going to do. After the painting was finished, he saw a network of relationships clearly drawn on the paper, and Chen Zhixi also had to put pen to paper, filling in many names on it and connecting it with Song Qiulai's writing.

After watching it, Song Qiulai took a deep breath, and a bold idea was imprinted in his mind and could not be dispersed. In this network, it is true that the Bac Ninh faction and the Yuan Heng faction restrain each other, but the Yuan Heng faction, which is weak, can not fall behind. It's like someone is secretly supporting, Emperor Jin? It seems that Emperor Jin is also being restrained by this invisible force, or rather, afraid of this force. If this force really exists, I'm afraid that only the Junzi Ya that Jin Jiuhan mentioned can really exist, so how did Jin Jiuhan know about such an organization? Lifting the pen and writing the three words of Junziya on the Jin Emperor.

Song Qiulai only felt that these countless lines had converged into a huge mystery, this mystery seemed to have a thick fog in front of him, ten steps to see, although he didn't know what unpredictable existence was waiting for him ten steps away, but he knew that he couldn't go back.