As expected, the title of today's poem is peach blossoms.

Moreover, Zhang Pei also deliberately asked Zhang Wenshan and Lu Heng to be judges to judge the level and quality of the poems of these people.

This is also the idea he has come up with in the past few days.

Lu Heng and Zhang Wenshan, who are in high positions, should be people who are not short of money, and they are not short of names. If you start in these two aspects, it will make people feel disgusted.

However, anyone who is in a high position likes the compliments of others and the feeling of being in power. This has been true since ancient times.

Even around the emperor, there is no shortage of ministers, that's the reason.

Let Lu Heng and Zhang Wenshan, as judges of this poetry club, first, they can show their respect for the two of them, and second, they also very tactfully express the extraordinary status and identity of these two to everyone present.

Seeing Zhang Wenshan's first stunned moment, and then stroking his beard and laughing, Zhang Pei suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this arrangement was very good.

But Lu Heng smiled slightly, and when he looked at Zhang Pei, the clear look in his eyes made Zhang Pei feel weak for a while.

However, then, after seeing Lord Zhang Wenshan and saying a few words in Lu Heng's ear, the emperor turned his head again, glanced at himself, shook his head slightly and smiled, and his face was obviously much better.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Pei's hanging heart finally let go.

Raising his sleeves and wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Zhang Pei let out a long breath and whew, it's finally okay!

Although I don't know, Lord Zhang Wenshan said something to the emperor. However, it seems that his move should have been successful.

During the period when these people were talking, the students in the audience were also splashing ink and writing brilliantly. For a while, the applause in the field continued.

And those students who have been praised by everyone are excited and purple, and they are trying to make a picture of this poem, which I haven't done with all my might. suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, smiled at everyone with a face, and said a word of acceptance.

The poems flew in front of Lu Heng and Zhang Wenshan like snowflakes.

The master personally presented it, and his expression was extremely respectful.

"The literary style of Jiangnan is prosperous, but it is worthy of its name!" Zhang Wenshan looked at these brilliant poems, twisted his beard and exclaimed, and after casually glancing at a poem in his hand, he passed the poem to Lu Heng beside him, and said, "Good poetry!" ”

Lu Heng smiled, took a look, smiled slightly, and nodded: "It is indeed a good poem!" ”

The poem says: Wild peaches are full of mountains and kuma, and cyclamen come alone with bottles. The fragrance of the moon leaves me drunk, and the color of each spring is open for whom.

At first glance, this poem seems to have some resentment among women. But the wording of the poem still shows that it was made by a man, and the poet uses the fragrance and elegance of peach blossoms to convey the poet's feelings of not being discovered.

After Lu Heng pinched the poems and read them, he turned his head, looked at Zhang Pei who was sitting down, smiled, and said with a shake of the poems: "You wrote this poem, right?" ”

As early as just now, Lu Heng saw Zhang Pei secretly take out a blank piece of paper from his arms and hand it to his master. Come to think of it, this poem was written by Zhang Pei. Take this opportunity to ask yourself and Zhang Wenshan, what is your future?

Listening to the emperor's words, Zhang Pei blushed terribly. He lowered his head and smiled awkwardly, but he didn't know how to answer.

"You're thirty-five, aren't you?" After Zhang Wenshan twisted his beard and thought for a while, he turned his head and looked at Zhang Peidao.

Zhang Pei didn't know what Lord Zhang meant when he asked about this, but he still bowed and saluted, and hurriedly said: "My lord is right, there are five Chinese New Year's Eve under the official today, and in two days, it will be thirty-six!" ”

"Oh?" Lu Heng was stunned for a moment, and then after putting down the teacup, he arched his hand and said, "Then, Lu will wish Zhang a happy birthday again, haha!" ”

"How dare you, how dare you!" Zhang Pei was flattered and hurriedly stood up to return the salute.

"Thirty-five, not small!" Zhang Wenshan's silver hair looked a lot sluggish under the night breeze at this time.

probably recalled what happened when I was young, and I felt a little nostalgic for a while.

Zhang Pei lowered his head, not knowing how to answer.

"The life of the people of Zhoushan is also seen by the officials! You fortify the coastal defenses in Zhoushan and suppress the pirates. The life of the people of Li is not bad. Except for some time ago, do stupid things! Zhang Wenshan looked at Zhang Pei and said with a smile: "However, compared to the official back then, you have to be more pragmatic than the official, and you are better than the official!" ”

The meaning of Zhang Wenshan's words is obvious, some time ago, you colluded with the Wang family and wanted to encroach on Peach Blossom Manor. Lao Tzu was very dissatisfied.

When he said this, a fierce look flashed in Zhang Wenshan's eyes, and his tone became a little unkind.

I heard Zhang Wenshan and Master Zhang talk about his own incident some time ago. Zhang Pei was suddenly startled, and sweat broke out on his forehead. However, before he could kneel down to make amends, he heard the second half of Zhang Wenshan's words, and after breathing a sigh of relief in his heart, he hurriedly said modestly: "My lord has too much reputation, how dare I go down!" ”。

Zhang Wenshan shook his head, and after being silent for a moment, he raised his head, stared at Zhang Pei, and asked seriously: "Prepare well these days, Shanxi has just finished the war, and it is the time when everything is waiting to be rebuilt, and capable officials are very scarce." You go there first and make a prefectural order. Remember, if you don't do it well, the official won't spare you, and the old accounts will be counted together! ”

The mayor of the town has reached the county order, which is a three-level promotion in a row.

Zhang Pei was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly bowed his hand: "The grace of the adult knows, the lower officials remember it in their hearts!" ”

"Don't thank me, thank him!" Zhang Wenshan raised his hand and pointed at Lu Heng beside him, and after saying a word, he picked up the tea and drank it by himself.

Lu Heng glanced at Zhang Wenshan speechlessly, and shook his head helplessly.

Turning his head and seeing Zhang Pei's eager gaze, Lu Heng lowered his head and coughed, and after taking a sip of tea, he raised his head, looked at Zhang Pei, and said lightly: "Do a good job, the imperial court is very concerned about Shanxi, and Your Majesty is also very concerned, you know!" ”

Your Majesty is also concerned about Shanxi?

Then when he went to Shanxi to take up his post, wouldn't he be working under His Majesty's nose? If you do it well, you will be seen by Your Majesty......

Good boy!

The career is very good!

Zhang Pei's eyes lit up, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with a grunt, his mouth opened wide, and he forgot to thank him for a while.

After a long while, Zhang Pei came back to his senses, stammering and thanking Lu Heng for his great kindness, and he didn't know what he was talking about for a while.

Lu Heng smiled, waved his hand, and let him go down.

The atmosphere in the venue is still lively, and the talents are full of ideas, and there are constantly excellent works.

Zhang Wenshan looked at the poems in his hand, but looked at Lu Heng beside him a little absent-mindedly.

"Talking?" Lu Heng smiled, turned his head, glanced at Zhang Wenshan, and then turned his gaze to the poems in front of him, and asked lightly.

Zhang Wenshan hesitated, sighed, put down the poem in his hand, turned his head, looked at Lu Heng seriously, considered the words, and hesitated: "I know you don't like to hear it, but the old man still wants to ask you!" ”

"Do you really refuse to go back?"

Lu Heng was silent, just holding the teacup and sipping it lightly.

Seeing that Lu Heng didn't answer, Zhang Wenshan sighed, his eyes full of sadness. "Since you are unwilling to meddle in the government and politics, why do you strongly recommend this Zhang Pei? To be honest, the old man was very unhappy with him. Zhang Wenshan angrily pointed in the direction where Zhang Pei left, and said with an unkind expression.

After being very excited for a while, Zhang Wenshan saw that Lu Heng was still silent, and sighed with a sigh: "Your Majesty is very guilty about the events of that day, and he wants you to go back!" His Majesty said that in another month, the peach blossoms in the peach garden in Tokyo will also bloom, and when the time comes, the king of Huainan will also return. The wine for the three people at that table has been set up! ”

When he left Beijing, His Majesty's physical condition deteriorated again. coughing constantly every day, the original tall figure, at this time rickety seems to be a drooping old age.

Every day, looking at His Majesty's pale face and rickety body. Zhang Wenshan, who is a close minister, feels quite uncomfortable.

He wanted to persuade, but he didn't know how.

Finally one day, His Majesty called him to the imperial study, and he talked about it very nostalgically, when he met Lu Heng at the White Horse Temple in Tokyo, he laughed and laughed, his eyes were flying, and he said proudly that he had discovered an ancient minister for the Great Zhou! I also found a New Year's friend for myself! True friends.

From the encounter at the White Horse Temple, to Lu Heng's advice, to the conquest of Goryeo. The national strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty is thriving. The old emperor's eyes were full of light.

Even, the emperor said with a proud face: Even if he dies now, he will not feel ashamed in front of the former emperor. In all this, he has surpassed the previous emperor.

Later, when it came to the incident in the underground palace, the emperor looked struggling, sighed, and looked quite remorseful in his eyes.

The emperor sighed, and just said: I didn't expect that Lu Heng's reaction would be so intense!

At night, the emperor, who had been tired for a day, waved his hand and let Zhang Wenshan go down.

When Zhang Wenshan was about to go out, he heard the sigh of the emperor behind him: Who can you ask if the country is in trouble?

A few days later, the emperor finally made up his mind and asked Lu Heng to return to the palace.

Moreover, the person sent out was Kong Kanglian, a cowman who didn't even like the emperor on weekdays. The emperor spent a long time trying to let Kong Kanglian take over this job.

But unexpectedly, a month later, Kong Kanglian returned in vain.

After being silent for several days, the emperor called Zhang Wenshan to his side.

……

Hearing Zhang Wenshan's old words again, Liu Qingqing and the girls on the side suddenly pouted, and looked at Zhang Wenshan with an unnatural look in their beautiful eyes.

And after Lu Heng was silent for a moment, he turned his head and looked at Zhang Wenshan and smiled slightly. After shaking the poems in his hand, he said with a smile: "The difficult Zhang Pei held a banquet again today to invite local students to compose poems and essays. How about it, old man Zhang, let's have a song too? ”

Zhang Wenshan was stunned for a moment, a little unpredictable in his heart, and after looking at it for a long time, he smiled and nodded: "Okay, I haven't seen your poems for a long time!" ”

Lu Heng smiled, turned his head, stretched out his hand and grabbed the brush on the table, thought about it slightly, and touched the end of the pen on the paper, moving the pen like flying. A poem that has been passed down to future generations has been written in one fell swoop:

"Peach blossom nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, peach blossom fairy in peach blossom nunnery;

The peach blossom fairy planted peach trees and picked peach blossoms for wine money.

When you wake up, you only sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep with the flowers;

Half-awake and half-drunk, day after day, flowers fall and bloom year after year.

I hope that the old man will die in the wine room, and he will not bow in front of the carriage and horse;

The dust of the car and the horse are full of the noble, and the wine cup and the flower branch are poor.

If you compare the rich with the poor, one on the flat earth and the other in the heavens;

If the poor are compared to chariots and horses, he has to drive me to be idle.

Others laugh at me for being too crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it;

I don't see the tomb of Wuling heroes, and there are no flowers and no wine hoeing fields. ”

……

A peach blossom poem deservedly won the top spot that night.

With the rapid spread of this peach blossom poem towards the four defenses, as the owner of the poem, Lu Heng also won the nickname of the peach blossom fairy.

For a time, Zhoushan, a small town far away in the south of the Yangtze River, became famous because of this peach blossom poem. The mysteries came one after another, one to watch the peach blossoms in spring, and the other to see this mysterious peach blossom fairy.

The local people, when they hear students from outside ask about this peach blossom fairy, they will always drag the text: "If you want to ask where to find the peach fairy, three and a half miles south outside the city." ”

As for the situation that night, it was even more mysterious and mysterious by the locals.

Later, some people even said that the peach blossom fairy was originally the immortal of the peach orchard in the sky. Because of a peach blossom poem, it returned to heaven again.

Before I knew it, four months had passed, and now it was the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The autumn breeze is cool, and the sky is high and wide. The peach blossoms wither, and the peaches ripen. In Lu Heng's Peach Blossom Manor, Liu Qingqing and his daughters, with Agui and Fahai, were busy picking peaches. In the manor, the atmosphere is harmonious and warm.

After hearing the news, Lu Heng, who was playing chess with Zhang Wenshan in the Peach Blossom Manor, couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Wenshan also saw from Lu Heng's peach blossom poem that Lu Heng was indeed disheartened about his career, although he was very disappointed, but he did not persuade again.

"Early tomorrow morning, the old man will go back!" Zhang Wenshan dropped a chess piece and sighed.

Lu Heng raised his head and glanced at him, nodded slightly, then lowered his head, continued to play chess, and said lightly: "Well, when you leave, don't forget, pay for the food for the past few days!" ”

Zhang Wenshan's hand trembled, and when there was a loud bang, the chess pieces in his hand fell on the chessboard.

"You've lost!" After Lu Heng fell, he raised his head, pointed to the chessboard, and said to Zhang Wenshan with a smile.

Zhang Wenshan: "......"

……

In the sixth year of the Great Zhou Qingyuan, the fifth day of the fourth month.

The three armies of the Great Zhou joined forces to conquer the last line of defense of the Turkic royal court. captured the Turkic Khan, the uncle, and many other members of the Turkic royal family. The people of Kedun did not know where to go.

On the tenth day of the fourth month, the imperial court granted amnesty to the world and issued a notice to the whole country: the Turkic royal court was broken, and the war against the Turks, which lasted for hundreds of years, was completely over, and from then on, the threat of the northern part of the Great Zhou was lifted.

In May, the Western Route Army moved south and stationed in Sichuan.

Under the attack of the imperial court and Anjia, the Tubo people, who had long been worried about their livelihood, had no choice but to announce their withdrawal under the threat of Wuningyuan's 100,000 troops, and the two sides signed an armistice treaty in Kangding.

In June of the same year, the Western Regions announced that the reincarnation of Amitabha Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism was born in Qinghai. Moreover, this news was confirmed by the imperial court.

In July, the Tibetan religious leaders openly announced their boycott of the Great Zhou court and joined forces with other sects to launch a rebellion.

Subsequently, Duan Peng's subordinate led 50,000 elite soldiers into the territory of Tubo and launched a counterinsurgency operation.

On August 13, Zhang Wenshan bid farewell to Lu Heng, left Zhoushan Peach Blossom Manor, where he had stayed for five months, and went to Tokyo to help the emperor deal with government affairs.