, Sun Danji Seven Sects, Shi Zhongchen stood up and read aloud the "Ji" sent to the ten sons. I started with miscellaneous subjects, and then I read the Jinshi department last.

The hearts of the scholars were pounding wildly, especially the higher the ranking, the more nervous, until they read the third place Wen Qicai in the Jinshi Branch, when he was appointed as an assistant teacher of the four doors, the scholars were all envious, this is an official position from the eighth grade, not only leisurely, but also very respected, this Wen Caichen is really lucky, not only in the limelight, but also got a good official position, who is his backer?

Who is Wen Qicai's backer, this is not important, the important thing is that Qiu Renjie and Qiu Tingxuan's backer is Wang Ping'an!

After reading Wen Qicai, Shi Zhongchen paused slightly, and then read: "Qiu Tingxuan, the second place in the commission, is the county commander of Maling County, Gyeongju!" ”

The scholars were taken aback and looked up at Qiu Tingxuan together! What's going on in the new science and technology jinshi. The county order, this is really unexpected to them, the county order that is not the state of the Gyeonggi region, but from the official position of the seventh rank, a person who has just entered the official career, can directly achieve this level, it is simply ...... It just doesn't make sense!

In the Tang Dynasty, the official system of the nine grades, for example, the nine rank officials, were divided into the nine grades and the nine grades, and the nine grades were divided into the upper and lower grades of the nine grades, and the same was true from the nine grades, that is, the nine grades had four rank officials, and the same was true for the eight grades.

In other words, as soon as Qiu Tingxuan entered the officialdom, he was immediately promoted to eight levels, directly skipped the last eight levels, and became the chief official of one party!

The scholars are envious, jealous and hateful, this Wang Ping'an's ability is too great, he can make the fellow into a county order, I don't know how many levels his brother can jump?

Shi Zhongchen read again: "Qiu Renjie, the first place in the commissioning of the Shike, is the county magistrate of Heshui County, Gyeongju!" ”

There was a sound of gasping in the hall, and the eyes of the scholars were red with jealousy.

This Qiu Renjie jumped even more violently, and even jumped nine levels in a row, becoming the county order of a state office!

Hagsu County is the seat of Gyeongju and is a county, and the grade of the prefectural order is from the seventh grade. Qiu Renjie's official position is one level higher than Qiu Tingxuan's, and he is already the highest person to release officials since the founding of the Tang Dynasty!

Shi Zhongchen finished reading the list and said, "Gentlemen, you haven't received the decree yet!" ”

The scholars thanked in unison, and the mountains called for the year!

The eldest grandson Wuji smiled and said: "Gentlemen, go to the ministry, from now on, you will be colleagues, and you still need to support each other and encourage each other!" He spoke politely, and no longer called the scholars to wait, but changed to the kings!

The scholars withdrew from the hall and went to the official department to receive the official seal, and the official department was the territory of the eldest grandson Wuji. It is a yamen that he firmly grasps in his hands and will never give up.

The scholars left, the main hall began to deliberate, the matter of the great court meeting, which was discussed at the small court meeting, and the matter that had long been concluded, the ministers only needed to second, the only important thing was that Wang Ping'an was reassigned to be sent, no longer a second-grade loose official, but turned into a fifth-grade minister, and held the real power of a state. After the deliberations were over, the ministers went back to their respective yamen.

Li Shimin returned to the Ganlu Palace, but Li Zhi did not rush back to the East Palace, out of the main hall, he pulled Wang Ping'an aside, went to a place where no one was, and asked: "No disease, how did you do with Mei Niang's business?" ”

Wang Ping'an said: "The way has been thought of, how to hide people's eyes" He said Yang's idea again.

After hearing this, Li Zhi said happily: "This method is good, not only will it not make others suspicious, but also Mei Niang will have a suitable identity when she enters the palace in the future." Alas, Lone is really reluctant to her, although there are many concubines in the East Palace, they don't like Lonely, they only like her alone, but she is going to be far away from Lone. ”

Wang Ping'an hurriedly said: "Today's parting is so that we can stay together for a long time in the future, Your Highness doesn't have to worry, everything will be handed over to the ministers to deal with." ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "You can do things, don't worry." He saw that Wang Ping'an had the intention of retiring, and hurriedly said: "There is a polo club tomorrow, which will be held outside the city, and my father specially told me to let you come and participate." ”

Wang Ping'an sighed and said, "However, the minister is about to leave Beijing, and he has to prepare for the north, why does the emperor want the minister to participate?" ”

Li Zhi sighed and said, "It's because you're going north to Gyeongju that some things have to be done now!" Father not only wants you to participate, but also let your whole family participate, and the little sister Yiren will also go! ”

Wang Ping'an was taken aback, this is to make a marriage, but how could such a thing as a marriage be chosen at a polo meeting. This is too unsolemn, isn't it?

Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "You go back and prepare, make a poem, and then go to the court to play, after winning, give the stick to the Yiren, and the Yiren will give you a handkerchief to wipe your sweat, that's it!" ”

Wang Ping'an said in surprise: "Don't you exchange the eight characters of your birthday or something?" Isn't it okay for a minister to prepare a dowry? ”

This time, Li Zhi was surprised, and he said: "Of course you have to prepare, but it's not tomorrow, you have to wait until you return from Gyeongju with honors, before you get married." You think, if you can't marry a little sister in the future, wouldn't that be equivalent to getting married again, and not yet, how will she behave in the future! He said this as a matter of course.

"But how can this be considered a marriage?" Wang Ping'an said.

Li Zhi smiled: "How can this not be regarded as a marriage, as long as everyone knows it in their hearts." And in this way, even if my father regrets it in the future, there will be a step down, so that he will not find fault with you and slaughter you, this is for your good! ”

Wang Ping'an grinned, is this for my good? Well, even if it's for me!

He had heard more or less about the past of the Li Yiren. This little princess was married to Wei Zheng's son last time, but later Li Shimin couldn't look down on Wei Zheng's son, and when he regretted his marriage, he had to turn over the old accounts and find fault with the dead Wei Zheng, so he found a fair reason to regret his marriage.

It is estimated that Li Shimin was scared by the last incident, afraid that Wang Ping'an, the son-in-law, would be like Wei Zheng's son again, which would not suit his own wishes.

Wang Ping'an said with a bitter face: "Kechen doesn't know how to play polo, and it's okay to ride a horse, but if you talk about equestrianism, it really can't be on the stage." ”

Li Zhi was a little surprised and said, "You don't know how to play polo?" How is this possible, many of the palace maids in the palace can fight, and they are full of good play, you are a man in the hall, and you have led the soldiers, how can you not play? ”

Polo is also called hitting the bow, also called playing the pipa or hitting the carpet, it began to be popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was even more popular in the Tang Dynasty. The wealthy nobles of Chang'an like this sport even more, especially Li Shimin, who is the emperor immediately, and likes to play polo even more. Sichuan is not only like Li Shimin, but most of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty are like this, and when it comes to the Tang Dynasty, the "Xinming Emperor" has played at the international level, which shows that the Tang Dynasty people love polo.

Wang Ping'an spread his hands and said: "The minister really doesn't know how to play polo, and he hasn't seen anyone else play, and he hasn't even seen what the cue looks like!" ”

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "It's not called a club, it's a stick." If you haven't played polo, it's not easy, you can't let your little sister go up to play, and then you go up and wipe her sweat, right? ”

Wang Ping'an sighed. "That's embarrassing! ”

Li Zhi thought for a while and said, "That's it." Lonely to arrange, usually you do things for Lonely, this time Lone is also hard once, arrange arrangements for you. ”

Wang Ping'an was overjoyed and said, "Your Highness wants to arrange for the ministers to marry?" That's great, Chen Zhengchou won't arrange it, and he hasn't decided to marry before, so he has no experience! ”

Li Zhiha laughed and said, "If you have experience, do you still expect to marry a lonely little sister?" ”

There was an inexplicable sense of accomplishment in his heart, Wang Ping'an had always been able to settle things for him, and now he finally had a chance to give Wang Ping'an a chance, and he would definitely be able to settle it.

Wang Ping'an said goodbye to Li Zhi, went out of the imperial character, first went to the Ministry of Officials to go through the formalities, and received the official documents needed to go to Gyeongju, and then returned to the new house.

After arriving home, he told him that he was going to participate in the polo club tomorrow, and the Wang couple were very happy after hearing it, but at the same time they were a little worried, feeling that this way of fixing relatives was too informal, and they didn't even change their birthdays, which was a bit of a loss of royal dignity.

Wang Youcai thought about it more openly, and comforted the Yang family: "As long as you can set a marriage, it would be good to have hope to be a concubine, you can still find fault with the royal family, you should be our countryman to hold a banquet, so poor and exquisite." ”

Yang sighed: "It's not that I can't, but I don't dare." If it is really in our Xuzhou countryside, our family is Wang Laocai, and their family is Li Laocai, you see if I can pick or not, if I don't let me pick now, then I will wait for his daughter to pass the door, and try to pick! ”

Wang Ping'an and Wang Youcai said in unison: "Arrived!" ”

Wang Youcai said with a smile: "Li Laocai's daughter, no matter how many faults there are, you can't pick them, be careful that she goes home to sue!" ”

Wang Ping'an also laughed a few times and said, "There is nothing wrong with the little princess, she is a very quiet person, you will definitely like her when you see her." After thinking about it, he said: "Dad, mother, I'll go out for a while, let Danruo and them prepare some gifts, maybe they can be used tomorrow, so many people in the palace have to be counted." ”

Yang clapped his hands and said, "Yes, money can make ghosts grind, even in our countryside, if you want the donkey to work more, don't you have to give it a few more good food." The people around the little princess are all entertained, let them all say good things about you, at least not for you. ”

Wang Ping'an smiled and thought: "With the sale of the Inspiration Temple Pedestrian Street, are you still afraid that the people in the palace will not say good things about me!" ”

He said with a smile: "I don't have to entertain when I arrive, I asked Ouyang Li and them to prepare more golden melon seeds, that thing is easy to give, easy to receive, and easy to keep, everyone in the world likes it, how can the people in the palace be an exception!" With that, he left his parents' house with a smile.

Only Wang Youcai and Yang were left in the house, Wang Youcai said: "It's just right, didn't we make several new clothes before we came to Chang'an, and tomorrow we will pick the best ones to wear and be decent, so that we will not lose my son's face." ”

Yang smiled heavily, poked Wang Youcai's forehead with his finger, and said, "Wang Laocai, I haven't seen it!" If you want to save face for your son, you can't dress gorgeously, you just need to dress neatly, without patches and shabby. ”

She opened the suitcase, found two sets of clothes, and said, "Tomorrow we will wear this to be unassuming, and it is not shabby." ”

Wang Youcai looked at these two clothes, frowned and said: "These two clothes are old, I will go to the event tomorrow, it's not good to wear this, right?" ”

Yang smiled: "You, you really don't know. Let's dress plainly, it seems that we are easy-going, you don't want to think about it, tomorrow to see the people who are either rich or expensive, and they are arrogant, how can we countrymen compare with them? So it's just not comparable, just dress ordinary. ”

If you want to talk about how to be broad-minded with a wealthy family, Wang Youcai really has no experience, and he has never put his mind on this kind of thing. Hearing his old wife's arrangement, he hesitated and said: "But what if you are looked down upon, thinking that our Wang family is just like this and is not worthy of the princess" It would be self-defeating. ”

Yang shook his head and said: "If you want others to know that our Wang family has a good family background, and work our own body, it will be too vulgar, and we must work our attendants, as well as on the details of chariots and horses, then the real chapter will come out!" ”

Wang Youcai sighed, so he had to listen to his wife's arrangement, and he would wear whatever he wanted.

Wang Ping'an went back to his room, called Ouyang Li, told him about the polo club tomorrow, and told him to prepare more golden melon seeds, and he would deliver them tomorrow. Ouyang Li was instructed to immediately prepare golden melon seeds, and if there was not enough at home, he went to Hamiti to ask for as many as he wanted.

The luggage at home is easy to pack, the Wang couple just arrived in Chang'an, a lot of luggage has not been opened, and Wang Ping'an's luggage is not much, and the servants to pack it, he does not need to bother much.

Wang Ping'an also told Ding Danruo and Ke Lianwu that he would take them to see how the rich people in Chang'an lived tomorrow, and let them dress up well, fight with those wealthy ladies, and go to their mothers for something. The two little girls were overjoyed and immediately ran to tell Yang and begged for jewelry.

When it was dark, Qiu Renjie came back, and Wang Ping'an told him about it again, and asked him to go with him tomorrow to participate in the polo club.

Qiu Renjie was really surprised and delighted when he heard that Wang Ping'an couldn't play polo, he was surprised that Wang Ping'an couldn't even do this, and he was happy that he finally had a ability, which was the eldest brother's. He plays polo, and although he is not a master, he is still qualified for his low hand.

There was nothing to say all night, and at dawn the next day, Li Zhi sent the guards of the East Palace to lead Wang Ping'an and take him to the polo field outside the city.

The whole family of the Wang family set out, Wang Ping'an and Qiu Renjie rode in the front, Ouyang Li took the six of the Ouyang brothers to escort the car, and selected fifty strong guards from the guard group to follow the Wang couple with two little girls in the car, as well as a group of servants and maids, and marched towards the polo field outside the city. The polo field is built in the north of Chang'an City, probably located outside the West Inner Garden and Daming Palace in later generations, there are hills and rivers, and the scenery is beautiful.