The heavy snowfall that had been falling all night finally stopped on the morning of the 14th day of the first lunar month, and the sun rarely appeared, but the sky became unusually cold.

When Wang Chenhao got up from the quilt with sleepy eyes, Li Hongzhang had already entered the palace to face the saint.

After Wang Chenhao finished washing, he found Zhang Peilun to eat in the west living room, and he had to discuss some issues during the period.

When talking to Zhang Peilun, Wang Chenhao had a lot less scruples, and he said whatever he wanted, so he felt very relaxed.

"Chen Hao, have you ever thought about going to the imperial examination to become famous?"

Imperial examination? Eight shares?

Wang Chenhao shook his head and shook his head, thinking that he had suffered a lot when he was learning classical Chinese.

"The imperial examination should have been abolished a long time ago! The foolish policy of the feudal emperor, if I come back from the scientific examination, I will definitely become a fool! ”

Zhang Peilun smiled faintly, unimpressed by Wang Chenhao's bold words. Of course, if it was Zhang Peilun twenty years ago, he would definitely fight hard with Wang Chenhao.

"Have you ever heard of Kang Youwei?" Zhang Peilun asked suddenly.

Kang Youwei?

Wang Chenhao couldn't help but smile, he was a super big man in the late Qing Dynasty, a celebrity who could be counted with his fingers.

"Not so clear! How? Is he famous? Wang Chenhao chose to pretend not to know.

Zhang Peilun smiled: "If it weren't for Chen Hao's light covering him, I'm afraid he would be a celebrity now!" ”

Wang Chenhao was stunned for a moment.

Zhang Peilun said with a smile: "This Kang Youwei, the word Guangxia, is indeed talented as his name." As early as the twelfth year of Guangxu, he wrote to the emperor to ask for a change in the law to become strong, and his ideas seemed to be beaten by the imperial court at that time as a faction that admired foreign flattery, so the scientific examination failed repeatedly. At the end of last year, when Lord Zhongtang signed the Treaty of Tianjin, this Kang Guangsha organized more than 10,000 people in Beijing to write to the emperor——"

"Books on the bus?" Wang Chenhao interjected.

"That's right!" Zhang Peilun nodded, and then said: "Kang Guangsha sent a letter of ten thousand words to the Imperial Procuratorate, and Lord Zhongtang was persuading the emperor and the queen mother to sign a treaty at that time, so he seized his book of ten thousand words and did not release it until the treaty was concluded. ”

Wang Chenhao originally thought that without the Treaty of Shimonoseki, it would be impossible to have a book on the bus again. However, now it seems that the book on the bus is a historical necessity, because the development of the Qing Empire has reached a bottleneck, and there is an urgent need for reform of the law, and the First Sino-Japanese War is just the fuse of reform.

At this time, Zhang Peilun said: "His book of ten thousand words starts from a patriotic standpoint, strongly advocates refusing peace, moving the capital, and changing the law, and suggests that the emperor should issue an edict to encourage the spirit of the world, move the capital to set the foundation of the world, train troops to strengthen the momentum of the world, and change the law into the rule of the world." It's a pity that when the emperor saw this book of ten thousand words, the war was over, and the three powers successfully intervened to return Liao, so Kang Youwei's light was covered by Chen Hao! ”

It turned out that this was the case, Wang Chenhao just smiled bitterly, only blaming Kang Youwei for his bad luck in this time and space.

"This Kang Youwei is also a character, I recently heard that the emperor values him very much, Weng Tongyi has met with him many times, and intends to be his teacher, presumably he will not be on the list again this time!"

Wang Chenhao has some memories of Kang Youwei, he failed repeatedly until he was hit by Guangxu Kaienke after the bus was on the book, calculate the time, the last spring before the reform was in February this year, it seems that this Kang Youwei will become famous from then on.

Thinking that the reform and reform would fail, Wang Chenhao's expression couldn't help but darken.

Zhang Peilun sighed: "It's a pity that Kang Youwei and Weng Tongyi are too close, and they are not all the way to us, and it is inevitable that Chen Hao will deal with him in the future, so you have to keep an eye on it!" ”

Wang Chenhao woke up from his thoughts and nodded yes.

At this time, suddenly Menzi came to report that the Summer Palace had sent a eunuch to herald, Wang Chenhao was surprised and hurriedly went to the front hall with Zhang Peilun.

"This is Lord Wang Chenhao!"

This eunuch is about thirty years old, and Wang Chenhao saw the legendary eunuch for the first time, and he felt indescribable.

"I wonder what my father-in-law is looking for me?"

When Wang Chenhao answered, Zhang Peilun took out a silver ingot from his cuff and stuffed it into the little eunuch's hand.

The eunuch tiptoed the weight of the silver, and then his face was full of smiles, and he said in a sissy tone: "Our family came over to spread a message, the Queen Mother Lafayette has invited Lord Wang to the Summer Palace to talk!" Please also ask Lord Wang to hurry up and freshen up and change clothes, and go back with our family to resume his life! ”

Knowing that the Queen Mother had summoned him, Wang Chenhao's heart suddenly fluttered, and he was nervous.

arranged for the eunuch to rest temporarily in the hall, and Wang Chenhao went back to change his official uniform.

Since he crossed over to the Qing Dynasty, Wang Chenhao has not officially worn the official uniform, because he hates the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty.

In the dressing room, the two pretty maids changed Wang Chenhao into the gorgeous official clothes corresponding to the first-class baron.

Seeing that the queen mother needs to wear a complete crown official uniform, Wang Chenhao's first-class baron's official uniform has as many as fifteen or sixteen pieces, and the two little girls often serve people wearing official uniforms, but it took half an hour to sort out Wang Chenhao.

Wang Chenhao looked at himself in the mirror, the top of the winter hat with rubies, dazzling eyes, a dark eight-horse horse hoof sleeve long knee robe embroidered with lion supplements, and the two shoulders had to be hung with a cloud dragon pattern of the two-headed "cloud shoulders", 108 red coral pearls were hung on the neck and chest, wearing bright red cotton pants, and black thick-soled square cotton leather boots.

After dressing neatly, Wang Chenhao couldn't help but smile and said: "Peacock feathers, horseshoe sleeves, beasts in clothes!" Hi! That's how the word "well-dressed beast" came about! ”

The two pretty maids who were waiting for the change of clothes secretly smiled, and one of the pretty maids saw that Wang Chenhao was easy-going, so he dared to say: "The lord is wearing this official uniform to be majestic!" ”

"Oh" Wang Chenhao smiled, this equipment was used for singing in his time, but it was really majestic in the era of the Qing Dynasty.

"Is Chen Hao quite stylish when he wears this official uniform?" Zhang Peilun appeared next to Wang Chenhao, looked at Wang Chenhao with a smile, and said at the same time: "Chenhao, remember to be cautious!" In front of the Queen Mother, you just have to go along with what the Queen Mother says, don't talk too much. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded and asked, "Then what if she asks me or does she have to answer me?" ”

Zhang Peilun said with a smile: "You just have to say that the Queen Mother Shengming, see thousands of miles and so on!" ”

"Got it!" Wang Chenhao made an OK gesture.

"That's right! Bring this with you, the Queen Mother will definitely be unhappy if she sees that you don't have braids! Zhang Peilun suddenly handed Wang Chenhao a braid and motioned him to put it on.

"Wigs? Yes...... It's crazy! Wang Chenhao rolled his eyes and was speechless.