When Han Gang and his entourage arrived at the East Gate, Wang Shao and Wu Yan had not yet arrived, but they saw another group of send-off teams, which were Liu Zhongwu. This young officer, who had Xiang Bao's blue eyes, was surrounded by a group of people and said goodbye. Xiang Bao didn't come out to see him off, but he still sent a cronie. Both groups of men and horses crowded inside and outside the city gates, close together, but they did not even greet each other, and completely ignored each other.

"Do you want to go with him all the way? It's good to talk to each other. Wang Hou joked, his voice was a little louder, Liu Zhongwu seemed to hear it, his head moved, and he immediately turned back.

Han Gang smiled casually: "I don't care, but I'm afraid he won't do it." I don't know how much Qi Xiang has to do, walk with me, and when I come back, Liu Zhongwu has small shoes to wear. Look, it went first! ”

Liu Zhongwu seemed to be in a hurry, as if he was running away, and more than a dozen of his friends in the brigade who sent him on the trip followed him on the road, and they were all relatives and friends who had a particularly good relationship with Liu Zhongwu. And on Han Gang's side, Wang Hou also prepared a banquet at Shilipu.

Those who have lost their souls are just farewell. In ancient times, the traffic was inconvenient, and after a farewell, it was difficult to know the time when it was seen again. But this does not apply to Han Gang, all the people present now are young people, spring and autumn are in full bloom, and Han Gang is just going to the capital for a spin and will be back soon. There is no melancholy of sending each other for ten miles, but I wish Han Gang a smooth journey.

A shout from the city far away to the city gate, Han Gang and the others followed the prestige, only to see the flag, Wang Shao and Wu Yan walked side by side, and were coming to the city gate, and walking beside them was Qin Fenglu to bear Liu Xizao.

I didn't think he was coming! ’

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Qin Fengjing's desk was already occupied by an eight-foot-long and four-foot-wide Shuxuan. The finest Xuan made of alum wax is lined with the dull lacquer table. The buildings and pavilions, flowers and stone figures on the paper are sketches of fine brushwork, each of which is incomparably distinct and vivid.

Li Shizhong was dressed in a green sermon uniform, with only a wooden hairpin inserted in his bun, and he looked like an ordinary fellow Confucian. He stood at the table, pen in hand, staring intently at the picture. The coals in the study were not burning, but Li Shizhong's forehead was covered with sweat. The scholar who was grinding ink and adding water on the side held his breath, and he didn't dare to make the slightest sound between the ink cubes.

A picture of "Chrysanthemum Wine Forgetting to Return", Li Shizhong has been writing for more than three months now. One draft, two strokes, although the first month was busy, but most of the painting was quickly completed. But since ...... Since...... Well, Li Shizhong admitted that since the name Han Gang came to his ears, there have been one mess after another. Before he realized it, Wang Shao, who had been suppressed by him for nearly a year, turned from defense to offense after accepting Han Gang as his protégé, not only contacting Zhang Shouyue and Wu Yan, but even going straight to Guwei before the New Year's Festival, how could he be in the mood to paint again......

Without needing to be informed, Yao Fei walked straight into Li Shizhong's study, first glanced at the scholar who was grinding the ink, motioned for him to leave, and then whispered to Qin Fengjing to report the news he had just gotten.

The voices of his cronies and disciples came into his ears, and Li Shizhong lowered his head and still looked at the picture scroll, without raising his head. After a while, Fang dipped his brush in thick ink, added a few strokes to the scroll, and with a few brushstrokes, another simple and cute drunkard jumped onto the paper. Putting down the rabbit hair in his hand, he turned around and smiled: "Han Gang is on the road today, isn't this something that he has known for a long time?" Don't talk about this, Xiangqing, come and see, what else needs to be changed in this painting? ”

Yao Fei sighed softly, maybe Li Shizhong thought that he was hiding it well, but he had already seen that Qin Fengjing was secretly quite jealous of the scholar who was only in his early twenties. Otherwise, he would not have suddenly become in a better mood on the day Han Gang entered Beijing. It seems that he is going to spoil Li Jingluo's good mood: "The servant system [Note 1], Liu Xizheng also went to see him off." ”

Li Shizhong's face suddenly sank, and his originally relaxed face was cloudy, but after a pause, he smiled nonchalantly, "What about the horse?" Isn't it just through the sky! Think about it, he took Suide because he received the secret decree of the Son of Heaven and acted according to it. Wen Kuanfu [Wen Yanbo] did not force the official family, and relegated the cultivator to Suizhou for two years, and even Gao Zunyu, who delivered the secret decree, was kicked to Qianzhou as a capital eunuch, and only recently moved to Xijing. ”

If you really want to fight, Li Shizhong is not afraid of Liu Xizheng at all. Although the emperor behind Liu Xizheng is the supreme in the world, he is not inviolable, as long as he distinguishes right from wrong, the emperor can't do it at will, "There are gentlemen in the court, there are ministers, even the Son of Heaven can't do happy things, not to mention just a horse to bear!" ”

"Xianggong! Please be careful! As Li Shizhong's cronies, Yao Fei actually had a headache for Qin Fengjing, who he assisted, to appease the envoy. Many words are enough to understand in your heart, but what are you doing when you say them?! However, if it weren't for Li Shi's agitation, he wouldn't have said so many words at once.

Li Shizhong is good at political affairs, and he is also a general military officer, and he has left good results in all the places he has served. Yao Fei has assisted many high-ranking officials for decades, and he has seen hundreds of officials, large and small, among so many people, Li Shizhong's wrist is considered to be first-class, and he is definitely an official with outstanding ability.

It's just that Li Shizhong dared to go to the book to discuss the government at the age of fifteen, and after joining the office, he never stopped his mouth. In front of the Son of Heaven, in front of Zaisuke, there are countless cases of boasting. Li Shizhong left the impression in the government and the opposition that he was a capable minister who was good at speaking out.

Yao Fei sighed for Li Shizhong every time, just because he liked to talk nonsense, often quarreled with the courtiers, and was often deposed because of his words. If it weren't for that, Li Shizhong, who had enough qualifications, enough merits, and was old, how could he always have no chance with Zaizhi? It has been almost twenty years since he was promoted to an attendant, and he has served a few terms as a strategic envoy, but he has never been able to cross the last step!

"I'm afraid that Han Gang will go to see Wang Dashen, and he will run for Wang Shao to contact him, I don't know how much trouble it will cause in Qinzhou."

"Wang Anshi?" Li Shizhong snorted unhappily, "What can he do?" Among the foreign ministers, Han Zhigui [Han Qi] is anti-change, Fu Yanguo [Fu Bi] is anti-change, and Wen Kuanfu [Wen Yanbo] is the same as the anti-change. In the palace, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, which one supports the change? Wang Anshi is now in trouble with the dynasty, making the world boiling, and he can't sit in his seat. I have long said that Wang Anshi's eyes are less black and more white, even like Wang Dun, and sooner or later the world will be chaotic. ”

"That's what Xiang Gong said!" Yao Fei knew that Li Shizhong had dealt with Wang Anshi a long time ago, but the two did not get along. To be precise, it was Li Shizhong who looked at Wang Anshi unpleasantly. So much so that as early as when the two of them first entered the ranks, Li Shizhong said that Wang Anshi would mess with the world sooner or later.

It's no secret.

Twenty years ago, the news of Bao Zheng's appointment as the governor of the government spread, and there were many people in the world who said, 'The court has had a lot of trouble since then' - Bao Zheng himself is very upright, so he also requires his colleagues to be as upright as him, the so-called strict self-discipline, strict treatment of others, when doing the imperial history, one by one bullet and admonition, so that the court and the same column are miserable, even Emperor Renzong has been sprayed with saliva - such a person is promoted to the rank of chief counselor, of course, people are worried that he will make a fuss. However, Li Shizhong said, "How can Bao Gong be, Wang Anshi, who is now in Yin County, has white eyes, even like Wang Dun, he is in chaos every day, and he is also a person." ”

In fact, similar words are not enumerated in the government and the opposition. Not to mention anything else, neither Fu Bi nor Wen Yanbo has ever been scolded like this, and Han Qi, who is the third emperor and the second master, was impeached and said that he had a rebellious heart and could be as tall as him. It's all a mouthful, and there may not be one of a thousand that can match, it's just that Li Shizhong happened to be right.

"But after all, Han Gang was specially sent by the official family, and his name will always leave an impression on the official family."

Li Shizhong still didn't care: "What if the official family remembers, Zhaoling [Renzong] doesn't know my name?" Houling [Yingzong, Note 2] Don't remember these three words in Li Shizhong? Today's officials don't know who Qinzhou Zhizhou and Qin Feng Jingluo are? ! The emperor remembered that there were many people! Yu Shun put the four murderers, do you say that Yu Shun does not remember the names of the four murderers [Note 3]?! ”

Li Shizhong's voice unconsciously became a little sharp, and Yao Fei could see that he was out of shape.

The new decree that civil officials, who had no background, should not hold substantive posts until they were twenty-five years old unless they were specifically instructed to do so was suddenly handed to Li Shizhong when he regretted that he had not objected to the recommendation of Wang Shao and the others. Li Shi's heart was much better that day, and a quarter of the painting in front of him was rushed out that night. But the next day, the reply from the Political Affairs Hall and the Inquisitor's Court approving Han Gang as an official was sent to Li Shizhong's desk, which also contained Zhao Ji's special purpose. On that day, the officials who ran in the Qinzhou Prefecture suffered a lot for Han Gang, and twelve people were scolded with rods.

"Okay, I know everything." Li Shizhong said a bland word, which meant that he intended to end this unpleasant conversation.

Yao Fei was very knowledgeable, and he was ready to leave after saying goodbye. Li Shizhong suddenly shouted: "Xiangqing, wait a minute!" ”

Yao Fei turned around: "I don't know what Jingluo commands?" ”

Li Shizhong hesitated for a moment and asked, "...... in the pavilion?"

Li Shizhong wanted to speak and stopped, but Yao Fei understood and immediately replied: "Wang Shao has already seen the previous concerto of Jiyi. ”

Qin Fengjing's face turned slightly pale, and he nodded, with a slightly cold smile, "It's good to see it!" ”

He lowered his head, his mind reabsorbed in the scroll. Yao Fei walked out of the door, shook his head and sighed. Killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred is helpless to use.

Note 1: Civil officials in the Song Dynasty, especially those who were promoted to the court and above in the eighth rank, had titles not only as official and dispatch, but also as library positions, marking literary high selection, not actual positions. For example, Li Shizhong, at this time his dispatch was the governor of Qinzhou and the pacification envoy of Qinfeng Road, the official was the right Shilangzhong of Zhengliupin, and the pavilion was the servant of Tianzhang Pavilion. Generally speaking, because of the relationship between the Song Dynasty and the heavy text, in addition to the subordinate relationship between superiors and subordinates, in other cases, it is mostly called by the librarian. In Ru Bao Zheng, he was commonly known as the Bao Shi system in the Song Dynasty, because he once served the Tianzhang Pavilion. As for Bao Longtu, it was after the Ming Dynasty - and this is a wrong name, because Bao Zheng is only a straight bachelor of Longtu Pavilion, not a university scholar, and is not qualified to use Longtu as a suffix, so he can only be called Zhilong or Zhige.

Note 2: Zhaoling is the abbreviation of Renzong's mausoleum Yongzhaoling, and Houling is the abbreviation of Yingzong's mausoleum Yonghouling.

Note 3: From "Shangshu 61 Yaodian", after Shun inherited the throne conceded by Yao, he exiled or killed the four Gonggong, Huandou, Sanmiao, and Kun, who were originally Yaochen. These four people are known as the Four Murderers. Kun is Yu's father.

ps: Because of the Tianzhang Pavilion servant system in Li Shizhong, by the way, the types of official titles in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The officials and dispatches mentioned earlier, everyone should know a little bit. However, in addition to these two official titles, there are several other position systems in the Northern Song Dynasty: the official rank, which is the color of the uniform, that is, the color of the official robe, and has no other use, inherited from the Tang Dynasty; The librarian position, which is a literary alternative, is generally only available to a small number of officials in the Beijing Dynasty; Title, duke and uncle, no need to explain; In addition, there are meritorious heroes, and if you have the title of meritorious hero, you can enter the history of the country; Honors, false titles, no ministry, no merit, only a grade.

Take Ouyang Xiu as an example, he has been a governor and officialdom for 40 years, and his titles in Bozhou before Zhishi are: Tuicheng Baode Chongren Yi Dai Meritorious Hero [Meritorious Hero], Guanwen Hall Bachelor [Pavilion Position], Special Jin [Scattered Official Rank, Zheng Erpin], Criminal Department Shangshu [Benguan, Cong Erpin], Zhi Bozhou [Sent], Shangzhuguo [Honor, Zheng Erpin], Le'an County Founding Duke [Title], 3,800 Shiyi Households, and 1,000 Shishi Feng Ouyang Xiu.

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