Tokyo Bianliang, Xuanyou Gate East Corridor Hanlin Temple.

Hanlin Academy, a place that later generations are very familiar with in the opera. In the later Ming and Qing dynasties, this is the place where the champions and the scholars stayed, and all the characters who came out of here were all well-educated people with unlimited prospects and unlimited futures, and they all had the strength to compete for the slaughter in the future.

However, in the Song Dynasty, this Hanlin Academy was a place under the control of eunuchs, and it was a forbidden place in the royal palace, under the jurisdiction of the Hanlin Imperial Calligraphy Academy, the Hanlin Medical Hall, the Hanlin Astronomical Institute and the Hanlin Painting Academy.

"It's late at night, the prince should rest early, don't work hard and get tired!" Xiao Huangmen bowed and said to a young man who was reading at night, with a flattering smile on his face.

"Hmm!" The young man nodded, put the scroll aside in his hand, and got up and moved.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then a figure dressed in the clothes of a eunuch in the palace pushed the door in, bowed down to the young man, and presented a note with both hands: "Lord Jia, the flying pigeon from Caizhou has passed the book!" ”

The young man, who was called Lord Jia, looked at the visitor and asked, "Shi Goudang, what's the matter?" ”

Summoning the eunuch who was in charge of history, he hurriedly replied: "Caizhou Mansion has caught a fine work, according to the news from the inkstone, this fine work should be a figure with some status in the northern country!" ”

"The Liao State and the Jin State are in full swing in Liaodong, how can they send a fine work to Caizhou?" The young man known as King Jia narrowed his eyes, and then raised his eyebrows tighter: "If this king remembers correctly, there is a Huaikang army stationed on the boundary of Caizhou!" ”

"Caizhou is the southern gateway to Bianliang!" Shi Gou took a step forward and said: "Has the prince forgotten that there was a detailed work of the Liao State General Affairs Bureau earlier, secretly instigating the army sergeants to mutiny and the homeless people to rebel......"

"Is that a reliable worker?" King Jia asked again.

Shi Gou replied: "The prince also knows this person, and this person has been hidden in the mansion of the king of the Southern Courtyard of Liao Kingdom for three years!" ”

Hearing this, this Jia Wang Ye nodded, his brows furrowed a little tighter, took the note from Shi Goudang's hand, and read it carefully.

"Lotte ......" After reading the note in his hand, this Jia Wang Ye narrowed his eyes: "Why does this name sound familiar?" ”

The little yellow door beside him hurriedly said flatteringly: "Lord Wang, the slave remembers that if the life you often recite is just as you first saw it, and there is no damage to your heart, the author seems to be calling it Lotte!" ”

"Xu Fuzi, this king knows that you have a good memory!" Jia Wang Ye chuckled: "It's just that it just happens to have the same name and surname!" ”

turned around and ordered Na Shi to be the official, and said: "Shi Goudang, you take this king's edict and take people to Caizhou overnight, and escort the Liao State back to the capital for interrogation!" ”

"Yes!" Shi Gou answered, and Shi Li was about to retreat.

"Wait!" This Jia Wang Ye said again: "Have you ever informed Tan Zhen?" ”

Shi Gou stopped his body, his expression was a little flattering, and he said a little worriedly: "My subordinates will report to His Highness when they receive this flying pigeon message, and Tan Ti will report it to him!" ”

After speaking, Shi Gou paid attention to King Jia's expression.

King Jia nodded, and said with a bit of blame in his tone: "Although this king is promoted by the Imperial City Division, Tan Zhi is your old boss when he mentions the Imperial City Division, how can you not know about it!" ”

"The subordinates are confused for a while, please punish the prince!" Shi Gou hurriedly said: "My subordinates will report here!" ”

"It's urgent, it's no wonder you, let's go back first!" King Jia waved his hand to signal Shi Goudang to retreat, but the corners of his lips rose slightly.

"Shi Gou has always been reliable in handling affairs, and this encounter is to report to the prince in advance, which is a piece of loyalty to the prince!" Xiao Huangmen said with a pleasing look on his face.

King Jia's face returned to normal: "Tan Zhi mentioned the Imperial City Division, this king raised the Imperial City Division, if there is something to know, if it violates the habitual system, how will the king explain to his father!" ”

"It's the slave who is confused, underbeaten, underbeaten!" Xiaohuangmen Xu Fuzi hurriedly said, and said with a smile on his face: "It's not early, the prince should rest early!" ”

This Jia Wangye's name is Zhao Kai, although there are not many records about Zhao Kai in the history books, but it is worth writing that Zhao Kai participated in the imperial examination in the first year of Chonghe at the age of seventeen, and became the highest champion in history, but later Song Huizong was afraid that the world's scholars would gossip, and Wang Ang, who was second placed, was the champion. You must know that although this Wang Zhuangyuan is not very old, he is eleven years older than Zhao Kai.

Legend has it that the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty also secretly participated in the imperial examination and won the ranking of the palace test flower. It can be said that it is an anecdote, but this anecdote is full of loopholes, and the degree of credibility is really not high. Think about it, judges. Kangxi ascended the throne at the age of eight, and faced a group of civil and military officials every day, how could the examiner in charge of the imperial examination not recognize Kangxi's reasoning.

Besides, Emperor Kangxi had smallpox when he was young, and he had a pockmarked face and a Beijing accent, how could these examiners not recognize it. If you have to say that Kangxi once had Tanhua, it is that the instructor deliberately released water. Moreover, the examiner who marked the final examination of the palace examination was the emperor himself, and Kangxi released water to himself, which really made people have nothing to say.

Because of a toothbrush, he was suspected of being meticulous in Liao, and he was imprisoned in the state prison, which made Lotte cry and laugh, but fortunately, Na Tianwei did not torture himself to confess, otherwise it is not impossible for him to survive torture.

He is in prison, and he can't send any news to the outside world, if Na Tian Wei intends to close the news of his detention and intends to kill Liang and take the risk, he has no way to let Chen Zhixian and Ye Zhizhou know.

Although there is no wife in the family, there are beautiful concubines, thinking of this, Lotte can't help but sigh and look gloomy.

I didn't close my eyes all night, until dawn on the second day, and then on the third pole of the sun, Lotte was still not sleepy, to Lotte's surprise, until this time, that Tian Wei did not mean to interrogate himself again.

"It's time to eat!"

With the jailer's cry like a shouting for livestock, a coarse porcelain bowl with a slit was stuffed into the cell. Lotte took a look, and the prison rice in the coarse porcelain bowl was two dumplings made of noodles that I didn't know what to use, exuding a rancid smell, and I felt like vomiting when I smelled it.

At this time, Lotte had no appetite at all, and he didn't close his eyes all night, and fatigue struck, and Lotte couldn't stay up anymore and squinted his eyes and fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, but I heard a noise from the cell, and then a sound of footsteps came and woke Lotte up.

Lotte, who was woken up, opened his eyes and saw a group of people standing outside the dimly lit cell, Na Tian Wei's face was full of flattering smiles, half-hunched over and following a group of murderous guards, surrounded by a middle-aged man in brocade clothes, standing in front of the cell where he was being held. Looking at the middle-aged man beside Tian Wei again, I saw that this middle-aged man in brocade clothes was completely different from ordinary officials. On closer inspection, this middle-aged man had a white face, and there was not a single beard on his face, and his expression was faintly tired.

This middle-aged man in brocade clothes who entered Caizhou Prison was the official Shi Gou who reported the news of King Jia to Jiawang last night, and on the order of Zhao Kai, it took one night to rush from Bianliang, Tokyo, to Caizhou.

Shi Goudang looked at Lotte and asked Tian Wei beside him, "This person is that Liao State fine work?" ”

The shrill voice fell in his ears, making Lotte extremely uncomfortable and shivering.

"That's the man!" Tian Wei replied with a smile, and said: "It's just that his subordinates don't have the right to interrogate criminals, so they are temporarily imprisoned in the prison!" ”

Shi Goudang nodded: "You did a good job, our family will ask for credit for you in front of the prince when we go back!" ”

Hearing this, Tian Wei shouted with joy on his face: "Thank you Daguan Shi!" ”

Eunuch? This man is a eunuch? Lotte couldn't help but widen his eyes, he saw a eunuch for the first time since he crossed over.

It's just that Lotte forgot that the term eunuch was only popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, eunuchs were called eunuchs, middle officials, internal officials, internal ministers, internal attendants, internal eunuchs, and so on.

Ignoring Tian Wei no more, Shi Goudang waved his hand and commanded in a sharp voice: "Take it away!" ”

"The villain is wronged, the villain is not a Liao State work!" Seeing that this eunuch was Tian Wei's top boss, Lotte hurriedly shouted.

"You have to quibble!" Tian Wei's face was furious, and he took out the toothbrush that Lotte had used before, and presented it to Shi Gou: "Senior official Shi, please see, this is the object that this person used to clean his teeth!" ”

Taking the toothbrush presented by Tian Wei's hands, Shi Goudang looked left and right a few times, nodded and said: "This is the thing that the Liao nobles use to clean their teeth every day, and no one uses it in my Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Lotte who choked on these words was almost speechless, and with just a toothbrush, he concluded that he was a Liao State detail, there is really such a strange thing in the world, but he couldn't stop scolding the dead eunuch in his heart.

With a bang, the door of the cell was opened, and five or six armor soldiers dressed in armor completely different from ordinary soldiers poured in, and Lotte was not allowed to say that he set up Lotte and walked out of the cell.

The cell was dark, out of the state jail, the sun-stinging Lotte could barely open his eyes, and when he adapted to the light outside, Lotte was already locked inside.

When Lotte saw the outside again, he saw that a group of officials from the Caizhou Mansion were saluting the middle-aged man to say goodbye, and an empty prisoner car was parked outside the gate of the state office, obviously used to detain himself.

Not knowing where he was going to be held, Lotte knew that it was useless to shout, so he simply closed his eyes and stopped talking.

While! While! While......

Just when the official of the history and the officials of the Caizhou Mansion were finished, they only heard a gong sound from outside the palace, and the gong sound was nine beats, and it was regular.

Hearing the sudden sound of the gong, Lotte hurriedly opened his eyes, his face couldn't help but show excitement, as the gong approached, there were holding sticks, steel forks, tin lances, there were "quiet", "avoidance", "Caizhou Zhizhou" and other tall cards of honor guards appeared outside the state office, the umbrella man followed in front of a large official sedan chair and followed the trend, the green umbrella in his hand covered the top of the sedan chair, followed by the mighty team.

The Tao is why Lotte was excited when he heard the nine gongs, the Song Dynasty officials had strict restrictions on the travel specifications, the seven rings of the gong were the specifications of the county, the nine rings were the specifications of the Zhizhou, and the eleven rings were the specifications of the governor of the road, and when he heard the nine gongs, Lotte immediately knew that this was Ye Mengde's inspection of Cai Guiya, because the entire Caizhou only had this specification when traveling in Zhizhou.

Seeing the return of a state Zhengyin, the soldiers waiting outside the state yamen hurriedly let aside.

Seeing the honor guard that appeared outside the state office, Shi Gou chuckled: "I thought that our family and Ye Zhizhou would not have a chance to meet, but we still met it!" ”

The official sedan chair fell down in front of the gate of the state government, the attendant stepped forward to open the sedan curtain, and Ye Mengde, who was dressed in a scarlet official robe, walked down from the official sedan chair, and his eyes fell on the prisoner car and a group of soldiers on the side of the road, and his eyes showed a little surprise when he was neutral.

This book was first published in Book King