The entourage smiled: "It is said that cars, boats, shops, feet, and teeth are not easy people, and sure enough, we are indeed not locals, from Jizhou, hey I said Xiao Er, you just do your business, is it difficult to sell goods and pick people?" ”

As soon as the shopkeeper heard this, his heart was half relieved, and he smiled and said: "The guest officer doesn't know, my store has set up a rule, and I don't know the details of not talking about business." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"Why is that?" The attendant asked.

The shopkeeper smiled: "I don't know about this little one, why don't you ask our shopkeeper in person?" After speaking, the shopkeeper made a sideways gesture of please.

Two guests followed the shop into the side of the room, through the store, inside was originally a hole in the sky, a large patio in the court, paved with blue bricks, but the end of the patio is a guest hall, four doors open, the furnishings are antique, the windows are bright and clean, and the couches next to the wall are spotless. The shopkeeper stopped in the courtyard and bowed down and said, "Master, there are guests from Jizhou from the north who want to talk about a big deal." ”

"Got it, you can go down." A voice in the guest hall commanded.

The shopkeeper retreated as he was told. The two guests stood in the courtyard, looking at the guest hall with great effort, but they could not see anyone talking. At this time, the voice sounded again: "I wonder what big deal the guest wants to discuss?" ”

"My son-in-law is a scholar who participated in the Spring Festival this year, and I heard that your store has a reputation to sell, so I made a special trip to pay respects." The attendant replied.

"Oh, where did your son come from? Dare to ask Gao Minggui's surname, where do you live in Kyoto? ”

"My son-in-law was born in a family of merchants, his surname is Gao, and he now lives in the guild hall in Jizhou."

"The guest officer laughed, we are just ordinary people who open the door to do business, how can we have fame to sell, please go back, I will not send it far."

"It's so bothering 。。。。。。" The attendant remained silent, glanced at the young man, calmly withdrew from the patio, and walked through the storefront, the shopkeeper looked at it as if it was nothing, and did not say anything, until he saw the figures of the two walking out of the store, and then flashed into the inner courtyard. The voice sounded again: "Quickly send someone to the Jizhou Hall to check if there is a scholar from a merchant family with a high surname, what is the way to get the exam." ”

The shopkeeper bowed his head and went as promised, without saying a word, obviously he had a heart and was familiar with the way.

At the beginning of the lanterns, in Zhang Hua's study, Zhang Hua's father and daughter, Yang Ke, Tang Zhong, and Liu Ling were waiting for something, Zhang Chang hurriedly walked in, and everyone's eyes looked at Zhang Chang together. Zhang Chang handed a two-finger-wide strip to Yang Ke: "Son, after we left, the owner of the bookstore really sent someone to the Jizhou Hall to check, and the guys from the hall replied to them one by one according to our prior explanation, and now the transaction is successful, and the deposit of 1,000 gold has been paid." "It turned out that it was Yang Ke and Zhang Chang who were dressed as the examiners and their entourage.

Yang Ke took a note, glanced at it, and handed it to Zhang Hua casually, and everyone passed it around, but they were silent. Zhang Chang couldn't see the depth from everyone's faces, and couldn't help asking: "Is it an exam question?" ”

Zhang Rui shook her head silently. Zhang Chang couldn't help but show a surprised expression: "Could it be that the information of the post station is not accurate?" ”

Tang Zhong took the lead in breaking the silence: "No, it's not that your intelligence is inaccurate, but that the Shi clan's move has another deep meaning, it's just that we can't guess what kind of medicine they sell in their gourds for the time being." ”

Yang Ke smiled faintly: "The scholar clan wants to start, the first imperial examination of the imperial court is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if you are the gate lord of the scholar clan, where will you start?" ”

Liu Ling snorted: "Of course, we must fundamentally overturn the discussion of the imperial examination, so that we can continue to control the road of selecting officials in the imperial court, so that the family will be dominant." It's just that they launched such a scapegoat, selling fake exam questions at a high price, and there are a lot of changes, what kind of wishful thinking is it? ”

Zhang Rui pondered for a long time and said slowly: "Since this bookstore is a scapegoat, there must be no connection or connection between it and the scholars。。。。。。 ”

Zhang Chang said: "What Miss said is very true, the owner of this shop, surnamed Zhu, is not from Kyoto, and he is unknown, he only bought this shop three months ago and started a bookseller business. ”

"Then even if it is a fake exam question that he sells, he can naturally walk away on the day of the Spring Festival, and no one can find out any clues about him, could it be that we miscalculated, just met an unscrupulous profiteer, and it is not that the scholar clan has a conspiracy in it?" Zhang Ruixiu frowned slightly. This sentence actually spoke to the hearts of everyone.

Zhang Chang shook his head: "If it is an unscrupulous profiteer, it is natural to make a profit as the first priority, the store here is worth a lot of money, and the interior furnishings are even more magnificent, once you abscond, the loss will be great." And each person who trades only pays a deposit, and then pays ninety percent after the spring lift, and the payment is the largest one. And he will arrange for someone to find out the identity and origin of the scholar who bought the exam questions. These speculations with the mentality of profiteers making profits are untenable. ”

Tang Zhong twisted his beard and said: "In Brother Ziping's words, how can a businessman make a loss-making business? There must be a mystery in this way, and as for the identification of the buyer, it is just in case. ”

Zhang Chang said blankly: "I'm still in the clouds, what is the mystery of the old master's words?" ”

Zhang Hua looked at Tang Zhong: "What Mr. means is that they used an abandoned son, using the store as a guarantee and setting a tail nine to win the trust of the scholars, not for profit, but actually to spread the news and make the scholars who came to Beijing catch the wind and shadows." ”

Tang Zhong nodded: "If it wasn't for profit, there must be other plans." But even if they spread the news and confuse the public, what purpose would the nobles achieve from it? ”

Yang Ke never said a word, and when he heard this, he suddenly asked Liu Ling: "Are there many people who can take the test for the children of the vassal king's family?" ”

Liu Ling calculated for a moment and replied: "In the family of the vassal king, except for those who inherit Juelu, there are seven or eight out of ten of the rest of the children. ”

Yang Ke was silent for a long time, and then said with a solemn expression: "The number of people in the clan of the vassal king's family is really beyond my expectations, Brother Ziping's subordinates had a secret report a few days ago, and the scholars and the vassal king have been involved in secrets recently, and there have been frequent meetings between the two major forces, so I am afraid that it has a great relationship with the participation of the prince and brother of the feudal prince in the imperial examination." Once the vassal king is involved, the scholars will be able to muddy this pond of water, and the camera will move, if there is any news of the world's scholars leaking the exam questions, once there is any wind and grass, it will make the court suffer from the enemy, this Xie Heng is really not simple, laying down this mess, waiting to pinch the handle of the court, and then adapt measures to local conditions, move from time to time, and move from opportunity to 。。。。。。。 Yang Ke suddenly thought of a sentence at this moment: "First be invincible, then mobilize the enemy, create fighters in motion, capture fighters, and finally give the enemy a fatal blow." It seems that the wisdom of the ancients really cannot be underestimated.