In these years, he is still a eunuch, and these kinds of words are not dared to be said by those lawless nobles, but Zhang Kang said it in a grand manner. Pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Liu Fan is happy in his heart, it has nothing to do with it, it will be invalid after expiration, and it is time to find an opportunity to find this Zhang Gonggong to help in the future, such as the dispute with Liu Kuan yesterday, if you encounter it now, you still need such trouble, and directly ask Zhang Gonggong to settle it.

Sent Zhang Kang away, and on the way back, he saw many stunned eyes, obviously the holy decree of the government and the others were worried about this young master, a few people who were usually close to Liu Fan came to ask, Xiao Liu wiped the cold sweat that didn't exist on his forehead and said: "Young master, Fang Cai is really scared to death, the little one originally thought that His Majesty was going to ask the young master, it's okay, in the future, the young master should still take care of it, study hard, and follow His Majesty's words to do it, yes." ”

Liu Fan patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said: "What are you afraid of, beating is kissing, scolding is love and understanding ......", he mysteriously attached to Xiao Liu's ear and said: "Your Majesty is probably in love with the young master." ”

"Ah......" Xiao Liu exclaimed, the young master really dared to say anything, and hurriedly said: "Young master, go and rest, the little one still has something to do, retire, retire." ”

Two days later, the list of exams was posted, but Liu Fan didn't look at it, and he had the mentality that everything was a floating cloud.

In the afternoon, there were many classmates who came to visit in groups, all of whom congratulated Liu Fan on winning the first place, these guys made a lot of noise, stirring up people's lives, but Mrs. Liu had a good temper, taught Liu Fan to receive well, and taught people to serve good tea, make some novel pastries to entertain, and to celebrate with a large banquet for guests. The classmates were not polite, and their cheeks were so thick that Liu Fan was ashamed of himself - eat what should be eaten, take what should be taked, and when he left, he held Liu Fan's hand affectionately one by one and said: "We will come to visit again in a few days, Brother Liu will not have to send it, it will be a long time in the future." ”

Liu Fan was speechless, where did he want to send them, he wanted to drive them away quickly!

For the sake of this holy decree, Mrs. Liu was very worried, and asked people everywhere about the news in the palace, and urged Liu Fan not to mess around in the future.

However, Master Liu didn't say anything about the holy decree, and sometimes took Liu Fan to visit a few friends in Beijing, most of these friends were high-ranking officials and nobles, and they were already looking forward to Liu Fan's visit.

After taking time, Liu Fan went to Tang Fuzi a few times, but Tang Fuzi's attitude towards him became strict, teaching him to make a strategy paper, teaching his own experience, and wanting to do well in a strategy paper, which also requires a lot of skills.

For a few days, Liu Fan was immersed in the policy papers, the previous knowledge of the scriptures, eager to throw all the knowledge of the scriptures out of the clouds, the moral articles are just a stepping stone, now the door is knocking, those rigid scriptures are useless, and the strategy has been related to his future, naturally he is eager to replace all his knowledge of the scriptures with the knowledge of the strategy.

Liu Fan's Gongsheng this year, he didn't pay too much attention to the strategy before, everyone is on the starting line, whether this palace test can strive for the top, it depends on everyone's understanding and resources, such as Liu Fan, the resources are extremely rich, and Tang Fuzi personally taught him, naturally he is not comparable to ordinary people.

In the blink of an eye, the palace test has been getting closer and closer, the selected eight paper readers, in December 20 will enter the palace, the next three days, they will eat and live in the palace, and can not contact people outside the palace, these three days, they will negotiate together to come up with the test questions, and then submitted to the emperor for approval, but under normal circumstances, once the eight paper readers submit the test questions, the palace will be approved, there is no reason to fail.

However, in the warm pavilion, Xiang Jingwu looked at the test questions, but couldn't help frowning, this test question is about the problem of displaced people, at present, there are more and more displaced people in the Great Chu Dynasty, and there is no land resettlement in the imperial court, so it has caused a lot of chaos.

For the sake of this homeless people, the court has also had a lot of arguments, and now it is quite appropriate to take this out of the question.

It's just that Xiang Jingwu doesn't like this topic, he pondered for a moment, and said to the reader who sent the question: "This question is okay, but in the year of Xuanzhi, there seems to be a question like this, and now the old trick is repeated, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”

The reader who sent the paper was Liu Xi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Xi said: "There has indeed been such a question in the three years of Xuanzhi, but it has been decades, and the problem of displaced people is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. ”

Xiang Jingwu shook his head and said, "Of course, the displaced people are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but there is a major event in the imperial court right now, but it is also a headache. From the year of Xuanzhi to the present, the barbarians are becoming more and more rampant, I heard that these barbarians sometimes go south only more than a thousand people, but they can defeat the regular army of tens of thousands of my Great Chu, which is very harmful! There are even barbarian tribes attacking the county seat, rampant to this point, the imperial court has repeatedly issued orders to suppress, but in vain, and if it goes on like this, it is not a way, it is better to take the peace of the Turks as the topic, let the candidates make suggestions. ”

Liu Xi couldn't help but be stunned, and said: "If this is the case, I'm afraid it will not be fair to many candidates in the south, they were born in the south, and most of them have never even seen the Turks, so let them give advice, isn't it a little biased towards the candidates in the north?" ”

Xiang Jingwu said: "I know the world without going out, if the candidate just blindly reads, his horizons are not broadened, and he ignores the world's major affairs, what is the use of me taking him?" Such a person, it is already good to give him the top three. Besides, I don't know how many times the country has come up with such topics as river governance and displaced people, and it is unfair to use this as a topic again, these candidates, I am afraid that they have collected a lot of such policy papers and read them well, what I want to test is the candidates' eagerness, not let them be a mouthpiece, this question is decided, Aiqing will go back and discuss it with other readers. ”

Liu Xi was helpless, seeing Xiang Jingwu's resolute attitude, if he would take the test, the emperor would definitely have to argue on the basis of reason, after all, it was the palace test, theoretically speaking, the Son of Heaven was the real examiner, if people had to come up with this question, what could you do? So I had to nod my head and hurriedly went to discuss with the examiners below.

Xiang Jingwu sent Liu Xi away, and couldn't help sneering, he picked up the tea cup on the imperial case, and said slowly: "Zhang Kang, don't hide anymore, come in and talk." ”

Outside the pavilion, Zhang Kang hurriedly came in and said with a smile: "The slave is here." ”

Xiang Jingwu glanced at Zhang Kang and couldn't help laughing, this thief's eyebrows and rat eyes were really a little happy.

Of course, Xiang Jingwu, who was not smiling, suddenly lost his smile, mainly because a big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and when he was in a relaxed mood, his temperament naturally improved.

After laughing, Xiang Jingwu straightened his face again and said, "There has been no movement in the Jingshi recently, and it will be the palace test in two days, so don't make any mistakes." ”

Zhang Kang said: "Now the soldiers and soldiers of the twelve cities in the capital are strictly guarded, and there will be no mistakes." ”

Xiang Jingwu nodded, his eyes narrowed: "You heard what Fang just said, come, talk about it." ”

Zhang Kang glanced at Xiang Jingwu cautiously, and asked boldly: "Your Majesty came up with a question to suppress the Turks, thinking that he was planning to do something against the Turks?" ”

Xiang Jingwu sighed and said: "This is thanks to the royal firm, from its establishment to the present, the royal merchant has sent more than five million taels of silver into the palace, to pacify the Turks, you have to have silver, the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass first." In addition, it is the strategy of pacifying the Turks, and I can't make up my mind about how to calm it. This time, let's take advantage of the palace test to throw bricks and attract jade. ”

Zhang Kang nodded hurriedly, this time with the theme of Ping Turkic, Liu Fan did take a big advantage, although Xiang Jingwu scolded him, but he didn't mean to blame, Zhang Kang immediately expected that Xiang Jingwu was not really angry, so he also became bold and said, "Your Majesty." Should this topic be leaked, such as calling a personal ...... Go to Liu's house ......"

Xiang Jingwu smiled. Waving his hand, he said: "No need, I am taking the main exam this time, just to test him, and send the questions out in advance, but it is not beautiful, speaking of which, I am quite interested in this palace examination, and I am quite interested in the matter of pacifying the Turks, let's put it aside for the time being, and I will wait for everything to wait for the palace examination." ”

He stood up, put his hands behind his back, and said, "Huiyuan from Beibang is a person named Zhao Feng, a native of Hebei, right?" Hebei has many junjie since ancient times, and it is also interesting to say, they are all well aware of the harm of the Turks, and this time the test questions. It's all good for them, let's see, is the Huiyuan at the feet of the Son of Heaven powerful? Or is Hebei's Huiyuan powerful?! Zhang Kang, if I open a gambling game. Who do you press? ”

Zhang Kang immediately said: "Naturally, it is Liu Gongzi." ”

Xiang Jingwu said with a straight face: "No, I have already suppressed Liu Xuanyu." ”

Zhang Kang immediately looked bitter, isn't this a pit person! If you have to press Zhao Feng yourself, why bother to ask who you are pressing? He is just a eunuch and a slave of the heavenly family, and it is inevitable that he will suffer losses after all, Zhang Kang had to smile bitterly and said, "Then the slave will press Zhao Feng." ”

Xiang Jingwu nodded with satisfaction, and said: "It's decided, but if you want to bet, you have to have a lottery, if you lose, what should you do?" ”

Zhang Kang was stunned for a moment, and said dumbly: "This ......"

Xiang Jingwu said again: "You might as well be like this, I heard that you have a new house in the capital?" ”

Zhang Kang was taken aback, he did buy a new house, but how did His Majesty know that he was often serving by his side, could it be that in addition to himself, there were channels for His Majesty to know the news of the outside world in this palace, thinking of this, Zhang Kang couldn't help but shiver, and hurriedly said: "The slave should die!" ”

There are a lot of greasy things in his house, the scale of the building is very magnificent, there are more than 130 rooms alone, in addition, in order to decorate, from the wood of Guangxi, the stone of Lingnan, and then the fake stone of Zhejiang...... I don't know how many treasures have been collected to build.

Although he is an internal minister, he also hopes that he can have a house in the capital, which can be regarded as an old man to rely on. But with his identity, this house must not be bad, otherwise it will not look good on the face. For this house, Zhang Kang didn't know how much he had to worry about, but now when he heard Xiang Jingwu suddenly mention this house, he was scared in his heart, because he was a eunuch and had a pitiful amount of silver, so so so much property was from unknown sources, and Xiang Jingwu was a picky character, so if he really wanted to ask, he would be sure that he would not be able to eat and walk around.

Xiang Jingwu looked at him coldly and said, "Your house is not bad, but since I mentioned it, I don't mean to blame you, it's just that you can use this house as a bet, if I win, this house will be mine, how about it?" ”

Where did Zhang Kang dare to say the word "no"?! Emperor Lao Tzu only said that he would lose the house if he lost, but he didn't say how the emperor lost, but Zhang Kang didn't dare to ask, but felt relieved, after all, the house can be earned again, if he falls out of favor, he will have to sweep the streets in this life, where is there a house thing!

Zhang Kang hurriedly said: "Okay, the slave will make this bet." ”

Xiang Jingwu laughed cheerfully and said, "When the time comes, you lose, don't blame me for robbing your baby." ”

Zhang Kang's heart was dripping blood, but his mouth said: "Slaves may not lose." He understood Xiang Jingwu's psychology and knew that Xiang Jingwu was on the rise, so he dared to make a lot of nonsense, so as to help Xiang Jingwu.

Xiang Jingwu really nodded at him, and he suddenly said: "You, who is a eunuch, can earn silver like flowing water every year, there are so many officials in the world, I don't know how much silver money has been lost and greedy for the imperial court......" The voice of this sentence was very low, but it happened to be heard by Zhang Kang.

Zhang Kang was startled in his heart, but he could only act as if he hadn't heard anything, but at this time, he became more cautious, thinking to himself: Your Majesty's temperament has always been mean, and he can't tolerate others taking advantage of him, so he is most concerned about greedy ink, and the miscellaneous family has indeed been a little carried away recently, and he actually thinks that now that he is the head of the eunuchs in the inner palace, he can be unscrupulous, and it is better to be careful in the future!

On December 24, there were dark clouds and heavy rain.

It has not rained such a heavy rain in the capital for a long time, so this rainstorm is falling down in a dripping manner, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

However, after all, the palace test was not held in the open air, and there was no hindrance, but the occasional light in the sky, as well as the muffled sound of thunder, inevitably made people feel a little unhappy.

Liu Fan had already gotten up, and the family was busy as usual, Zhao Ji waited for him to put on his clothes, and instructed a few words: "When the husband is doing the question, he must pay full attention, don't care about other people's affairs, write his own well, and this will be it." ”

Liu Fan was a little impatient and said: "Yes, yes, remember for the husband, and the husband is not a troublemaker, why do you care about other people's affairs?!" ”

The tone was a little unhappy, Liu Fan was originally a very free and easy person, and he was also very good to Zhaoji, but he was a little nervous today, and he couldn't stand this nagging, so he couldn't help but complain a little.

Zhao Ji suddenly had a pretty face, crossed his hands and squinted at him and said: "What kind of character is the husband, the concubine knows best, and he likes to be the most lively on weekdays, don't think that today's palace test, you can get carried away, the concubine said this, she is afraid that the husband will make a mistake, how can the husband not know the hearts of good people?" ”

Liu Fan softened suddenly, and said with a smile: "It's my husband's fault, and I ask my wife to forgive me." After being chattered by Zhao Ji for a while, Liu Fan's mind was clear, and he lowered his voice and said: "Be quiet, my father and mother, Xiaoling, Xiaohuan and the rest of the people are all outside, it's not good to be heard." ”

Zhao Ji pinched Liu Fan and said angrily: "Husband still knows how to save face? Since I know that I want to be faced, and I am like this to others, my husband wants to play the majesty of a man, and I also let my husband go, usually food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the concubine does not dare to have a trace of neglect of my husband, that is, I am studying, and I am also by my husband's side every day, I am afraid that my husband has a need, and now it is good to ......"

Liu Fan hurriedly smiled bitterly: "Yes, yes, the student knows his mistake, and the lady is not strange." ”

Zhao Ji turned her anger into joy, and finally the little bird stuck to Liu Fan like a person, touched the place where she pinched Liu Fan, and said in a low voice: "Does it still hurt?" Husband, you, the bad is bad in this mouth, and the concubine doesn't have the heart to do anything, she just wants to take out her heart and follow you, so that you can get a good face. ”

A stick was followed by a bunch of sweet grapes, which made Liu Fan dizzy, Liu Fan smiled and said: "Okay, don't be like this, it's not good to be bumped into by someone, what's the matter, wait until the night to talk about it, okay, your husband is leaving, you don't want to go out, it's raining heavily." ”

After Liu Fan finished speaking, he hugged Zhao Ji and rushed out without hesitation, although he didn't look back, but he had already expected that Zhao Ji at this time must be leaning against the door, silently looking at the direction of his departure......