Someone actually said what was missing from this Yun Xuan after Lord Ouyang Xiu said Ya. The crowd followed the prestige and saw a little scholar, who was thirteen or fourteen years old, standing in front of the bookcase.

Wang Bei's face sank: "Yuan Chang, where the adults here speak, how can there be no rules. ”

It was Cai Jing who spoke, if it was his own idea, he wouldn't dare to say that, this was all instructed by Lu Shenyan, and he understood that what Steward Lu could give must be the acquiescence of the son.

Cai Jing bowed down and saluted the adults: "Childe, this Yunxuan, is carefully conceived everywhere, but Childe doesn't know why, but he forgot to post some calligraphy and paintings here." This painting still needs the finishing touch. Xiao Ke is not talented, just now when everyone tasted tea, they made a pair of "group sages tasting tea"

Wang Bei lowered his voice and drank: "It's all university questions here, how can you show it again, you can't forget the lessons on weekdays." ”

Master Ouyang Xiu laughed: "Learning is not in identity, this little scholar can say yes, I didn't bring a congratulatory gift today, it is better to prompt painting and decorate this Yunxuan." ”

Wang was overjoyed and said to Cai Jing: "Don't give the painting to Lord Ouyang Xiu to watch." After that, there were two tea girls, one of whom held up the painting in front of Ouyang Xiu and the others.

Ouyang Xiu nodded with a smile and said: "This child's pen power is extraordinary, the layout of this Yunxuan, the elegance of the environment of the incense burner and the kite girl, you see that all of us are also in the painting, there are tea, there are reading, there are conversations, there are chess, all of them are lifelike on the paper." It's rare to have this kind of painting. ”

As soon as Ouyang Xiu said this, Su Xun said to Wang Anshi: "Ling Lang's scholars all have this attainment, I don't know which child this is?" ”

Wang Bi hurriedly explained: "This is the cousin of Lord Cai Xiang, the prefect of Jianzhou, Cai Jing, who humbly threw himself into Xiao Ke's door. ”

Su Shi praised when he heard it: "No wonder, that Cai Junmo (Cai Xiangzi) is highly talented, has deep learning, has a corresponding heart, and has infinite changes, which is already powerful, and his cousin is so good." ”

Su Shi's calligraphy and painting are unmatched among today's young people, and someone said: "Since this scholar throws bricks and leads jade, it is better to follow Ouyang Xiu's suggestion, let's make poems and paintings separately, and put the finishing touch on this Yunxuan, which is also a thank you to Wang Pang Gongzi for setting up here." ”

This proposal was temporary, but the king said, "Wait."

Everyone looked at him intently, and Wang smiled beside him: "The VIPs are all university scholars, and Xiao Kezhi is aiming to make your knowledge famous all over the world, so he has a proposal." On weekdays, we inscribe poems and paintings here, please allow Xiaoke to print them into a journal, widely disseminated, and there will be some income during the period, which will be used for the maintenance of this Yunxuan, everyone will see how. ”

The people sitting here laughed: "You give out the silver taels, and set up Yunxuan here, that is, you earn the silver taels and you keep it." What's more, he also said that the poems and paintings here will be printed into a journal to make a name for us. ”

Wang glanced at Wang Anshi, Lord Wang Anshi nodded approvingly, he looked at Ouyang Xiu again, and said in his heart that as long as Lord Ouyang Xiu had no opinion, the matter would be considered a complete success.

Ouyang Xiu also thought that this idea was good, but he asked: "If there is no virtuous nephew, the name of this Yunxuan is very good, and the tea here is like in the clouds, but I don't know how to name this publication?" ”

Hearing Ouyang Xiu say this, Wang hurriedly said, "I am interested in asking adults to nominate me." ”

Ouyang Xiu pondered in his heart, this cloud, some people are also clouds, and it can also be used to spread the direct talk, this publication excerpted the direct words of the people, and said: "This cloud word is available." I propose "cloud picking" how"

After that, he stood up and walked to the bookcase, with the inscription "Cloud Picking". Wang smiled beside him, "According to the adult's proposal, everyone has come, listen to the zheng, taste the tea, please."

Wang saw that everyone was full of interest, or discussing this Yunxuan, or commenting on the calligraphy and painting, and knew that Yunxuan's affairs were worry-free. They were talking and laughing on the second floor of Yunxuan.

Outside Yunxuan, there were already crowds, mostly stopped in front of the bulletin board, before Ouyang Xiu praised Yunxuan Yazhi and said, he had already seen the announcement, and saw Cai Jing's "tea tasting map", which attracted people who couldn't enter Yunxuan to be really envious and jealous.

Xiao Lu went out and posted the notice of the "Cloud Pick" on the bulletin board, and someone surrounded him, and he finally broke out of the encirclement, returned to the second floor, and said to Wang who was drinking tea and chatting with Zhong Zhen and others: "Childe, this situation downstairs, I think you have to stay until after dark."

Everyone laughed: "All kinds of food downstairs, you can solve it by yourself if you are hungry"

Wang said: "Don't worry, we Yunxuan has a back door, if there is something urgent to enter and exit, you can go through the back door" After speaking, he thought to himself, this is the word of going through the back door before.

Master Ouyang Xiu walked to the window, listened to the noise outside, pushed open a little window to look outside, and said to Wang Anshi and Su Xun beside him: "You see, now the streets are full of people who have entered Beijing to take the exam, what has become of the people on this street." ”

The three of them looked out, and Su Xun said with a smile: "I'm ashamed, I was only in the same subject as my second son in the last scientific examination, and I just passed through this formation." ”

Lord Wang knew that Su Xun was polite, although this person was late in the scientific examination, but he was already famous for his talent earlier, so he said: "In the twenty-seventh year of Ming Yun, he began to be angry about the six classics and the hundred schools, and he wrote thousands of words in an instant. This is something that everyone knows. ”

Ouyang Xiu also praised Su Xun, not to mention anything else, that is, Su Xun's godson is admirable, and both sons have attainments, so he said, ""The Book of Authority", "Heng Theory", "Several Strategies" and other articles, I think they are comparable to Jia Yi and Liu Xiang. ”

As soon as Ouyang Xiu finished speaking, someone came over and asked if Lord Ouyang's praise could be used on the cloud pick. Ouyang Xiu thought that I must be from the bottom of my heart when I said this, so he said, "Naturally, I can."

Then there was a record of the book, come down.

That Shen Kuo came over to give tea to the three adults, and said with a smile: "Just now the king said that we can't go out now, if you want to leave or come in, you need to go through the back door." ”

Wang Anshi, Su Xun, and Ouyang Xiu all smiled helplessly, and Ouyang told Wang Anshi about the "group meeting" every year

The officials at the scene said, "Oh, that's a headache." But everyone has also experienced it, and when it comes to the interesting things of group meetings, they resonate and laugh.

It turned out that the scholars in the remote areas did not understand the etiquette and norms of the imperial court, and the arrangements were disorderly, and the officials could not restrain and restrain them. On the day of the "group meeting", the officials first set up a forbidden fence in front of the pilgrimage, and all the people knelt outside the fence to restrict them from lining up.

Lord Ouyang Xiu shook his head helplessly: "The lifters all want to see the emperor's might, and in order to look at the emperor, they pull each other. You see, when the group is finished, there are often people who are not in their clothes. ”

Shen Kuo laughed: "Is it like me today?" The crowd looked at him, knowing that he was late, but was pulled by the curious people outside.

Wang Anshi said: "You are nothing, this official in charge of the group meeting is afraid of this, I heard that in recent years, only Xie Yuan, who ranked first in the township test, has been allowed to meet, and even then there are no less than a few hundred people." ”

Shen Kuo said: "During the Jiayou period, I'm ashamed, I'm also in Xie Yuan, and I have become a row and stand at the forefront. I saw that only one or two lines from the front of the queue were slightly in line with the etiquette of kneeling and standing, and the rest were finally finished without a row. ”

Ouyang Xiu laughed and said, "But things are a burden in the pavilion. There is a joke in the court about group meetings, guess what the three types of arrangers are that cannot be neatly arranged."

Everyone looked at each other, only some laughed out loud who knew the allusion, and even Shen Kuo laughed.

Those who don't know will ask each other, and the king will say, this question lists the riddles, if so, it is also a good thing to be able to see the subgroup of people who read the clouds.

Cai Jing's scholar, Mitty, who was pulling the middle needle, asked, "Childe, tell me quickly, this riddle is in a hurry." ”

Mitty whispered to Cai Jing: "I heard that the prince of Zhongzhen said that there are legends in this court that there are three kinds of people who can't line up neatly, lifting people, foreigners and camels. ”

Cai Jing didn't expect to say this, he didn't dare to laugh out loud, so he ran to the side and snickered with the sleeves of his clothes.

Wang saw that Yun Xuan was ready, everyone drank tea and chatted, and the bookcase was even more inscribed poems and paintings by three or five people, taking turns to send congratulatory gifts to Yun Xuan, and the upstairs was basically arranged, so he came to the first floor, opened the door and saw that there were still people outside the door who refused to leave. So he ordered a tea girl to demonstrate how to taste gongfu tea under the eaves of the corridor outside Yunxuan.

Everyone watched with relish, Xiao Lu walked to the king's side and said, "Childe, now the silver medal of Yunxuan's admission outside has reached 500 taels of silver." Would you like to buy one or two? ”

Wang Bi smiled and shook his head, originally he didn't want to sell more Yunxuan's entrance number, he had calculated, even if it was thirty copper coins for a cloud pick, hundreds of thousands of copies would be sent to the whole country. The higher the value of Yunxuan's silver medal, the better the sales of Yunxuan. What's more, there is a special advertising position on the cloud pick, which is also hard to find.

He turned back to Xiao Lu and said, "Now you can sell loose tea, and give a set of special tea sets for every ten catties of loose tea." You ordered someone to put up a notice and be optimistic about the tea business. ”

This gongfu tea set king has been prepared, a kiln specially for him to burn tea sets, from the first time he and Lu Shenyan went to Jianzhou. Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to be in the Immortal Cave and say to Yuan Ze that he would change the tea style.

The notice was posted that Xiao Lu immediately returned to the tea farm in the southwest of the capital, not far from Meyer's house. Wang Bei returned to Yunxuan, and saw that a piece of calligraphy and painting was arranged in Yunxuan, listening to everyone's praise, his heart was very happy. The booming business of the tea field must be expected, and the whole game of chess is one step and is being laid out.

No matter how exquisitely arranged by Wang Yunxuan, no matter how talented the literati and ink writers are, they can't resist the cloud picking that the emperor nodded. If you want to win the hearts of the people, you must first have public opinion, and the king must use the clouds to pick up the reading materials of the people outside the newspaper, which can make one person famous, or another person can become the target of the public. Everything has to be in his grasp, not to mention that when the clouds are all over the country, it is naturally more informed to find something, such as the stone he is looking for.