After Yang Tingshu finished speaking, there were already tears in his eyes, this is family affection, and Yang Tingjian, who came through the crossing, was of course also very moved, and hurriedly bowed to his brother Yang Tingshu:

"Worried my brother."

"Now that our talented man is back, are we still afraid of those people in Suzhou? We're going to meet them now. ”

Wu Weiye and a few brothers came up and pulled Yang Tingjian and the two brothers away, and the parting feelings should be said in the dead of night! Now our brothers will fight with the so-called talents in Suzhou first.

Chen Yutai is also a famous talent in Suzhou, and at the same time has a very strong background, when the first shop Zhou Yanru and he is in-law, so Chen Yutai is also extremely arrogant, a few days ago Chen Yutai and Zhang Pu had a conflict at a poetry meeting, and almost fought. In history, Chen Yutai relied on Zhou Yanru's in-law relationship to rob Wu Weiye's champion.

In the end, everyone felt that it was still solved in the way of a scholar, and the competition site was in the most famous fireworks place in the capital - "Wanxiang Building". According to the agreement between the two parties, the losing side should set up a banquet for 30 tables and apologize in public, which not only loses face, but also costs a lot, so both sides attach great importance to it.

At this time, the "Wanxianglou" was already full, and many scholars from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces came to cheer for their own people, and three or four hundred people gathered in the hall alone. Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the big provinces of reading, this competition is related to the face of the scholars of the two provinces, and even the scholars of other provinces have come a lot, "Wanxianglou" up and down three floors, there are crowds of people everywhere, only the guest room in the middle of the second floor is empty, that is the place of the two sides to compete.

"Look, they're here together."

In fact, Chen Yutai and his entourage had already arrived, they were waiting for Yang Tingjian on the other side of the street to appear, and as soon as the family of Wangfeng reported, Chen Yutai immediately brought people over, and the two sides just met in front of the "Wanxiang Building", it seems that Chen Yutai is still very scheming.

Yang Tingjian and his group of six people, and Chen Yutai only chose five people, this girl is deliberate, he wants to create a form of Yang Tingjian and their overwhelming people, no matter whether they win or lose, they have a rhetoric.

After the two sides met angrily, they frowned at each other coldly, and Yang Tingjian saw each other's tricks at a glance, and then whispered a few words in Zhang Pu's ear. Soon Zhang Pu arranged for the other three to stand aside, and Yang Tingjian, Zhang Pu, and Wu Weiye entered the "Wanxiang Building".

Chen Yutai is also dignified in appearance, but this person is too scheming, he saw that Yang Tingjian easily saw through his little tricks, and his heart became more and more unhappy, and he couldn't help but start sneering:

"Yang Tingjian, didn't I see you some time ago? Why did it suddenly pop out of the crack of the pimple? ”

This is clearly a curse, but Yang Tingjian didn't want to do a fearless battle of words here, just smiled slightly, and said lightly:

"Some people don't have self-knowledge, it's not your fault that you're ugly, but it's not right to be scary, you have no ink on your chest, but you want to come out and show off, you will only bring humiliation on yourself!"

"You...... You ......"

Yang Tingjian had already walked into the "Wanxiang Building" with his two brothers quickly, and there was immediately a wave of applause inside, to be precise, everyone on the right side of the entire "Wanxiang Building" was applauding Yang Tingjian,

Yang Tingjian is well-known in Zhejiang, and he is recognized by everyone as the first in talent and conduct, how can a group of clowns who jump off the beam be bullied. And those scholars on the left, all of them are silent, after all, they are scholars from Jiangsu, and it is natural to support Chen Yutai, but they have no personal grudges with Yang Tingjian, not to mention that everyone is still the same year, if they are officials in the same dynasty in the future, there are still many places to take care of each other, so why bother with enmity now, so they have to choose to be silent.

Chen Yutai looked at Yang Tingjian's tall back, and the hatred in his heart was even stronger. is really a small-bellied chicken intestine person, he first said nothing, thinking that it was a big mistake, and Yang Tingjian had no flaws to report, but the result still made the villain not know how to restrain. Yang Tingjian is not a person who is afraid of things, even if Chen Yutai has the support of Zhou Yanru behind him, Yang Tingjian is not afraid, according to the trajectory of history, Zhou Yanru is also a rabbit's tail that can't grow.

To the applause of their supporters, the two sides went to the guest room on the second floor, where two rows of mahogany tables and chairs were flanked by the living room, and there were two young scholars in the doorway, who were already sitting on a blank sheet of paper, who were in charge of recording and copying.

There was no microphone or video in this ancient world, and so many scholars outside came to watch, and they definitely needed to copy what both sides said from the room.

In the middle of the living room, there are already several low-level officials sitting on it, they are today's referees, these referees are not from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so it can also ensure basic fairness, it seems that today's competition has a semi-official nature.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, in the Jinshi subject, have always been indistinguishable, each other is not convinced by each other, before the two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be examined, there will always be one or two competitions, so as to suppress the limelight of each other. Most of this competition was secretly supported by the guilds of these two provinces.

Among the three referees, there is actually Shaoning, the top eye of the previous subject, who is now the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and I don't know why the two sides invited this Bodhisattva.

After everyone entered the guest room, they sat on both sides, everyone didn't speak, the atmosphere was very bad, Guan Shaoning also understood that today's competition was actually a competition between Yang Tingjian and Chen Yutai, because the two had the greatest chance of being the champion, Yang Tingjian was significantly higher than Chen Yutai in literature and conduct, but Chen Yutai was the in-law of Zhou Yanru, the first shop of the dynasty.

It stands to reason that Guan Shaoning should give Zhou Yanru a few thin noodles when he talks about it, and favor Chen Yutai when refereeing, but Guan Shaoning is Wen Tiren's disciple, and what Wen Tiren wants every day is to pull Zhou Yanru off the horse, so Guan Shaoning will definitely not favor Chen Yutai.

Of course, Guan Shaoning will not help Yang Tingjian, because there are still hundreds of scholars outside, these people's literary literacy is not low, and it is absolutely impossible to obviously help him, if Guan Shaoning does that, his reputation in Shilin will be ruined, and the promotion of the minister depends on his reputation, Guan Shaoning will not use his future to help anyone.

Guan Shaoning saw that they had nothing to say to each other, so he directly began to explain the rules this time:

"This competition is divided into three games, using a best-of-three system, and the losing side will set up 30 tables of banquets and publicly admit defeat.

The first topic, "On the Inside and Outside"

The first meaning of his title is to first settle inside and then outside, or to first take the outside inside, and the second meaning is to use what method to settle inside and outside, and the national policy of the Ming Dynasty at this time is to first go outside and then inside.

As soon as the question came out, the clerk quickly passed on the question, and the hall, which was still noisy, instantly fell silent. This is a question that hits the nail on the head, and it seems simple, but it's actually very difficult to answer.

After a while, Chen Yutai stood up, saluted Guan Shaoning, and then pretended to be dashing: