Li You and Zhu Bulang watched Lin Fuma, who had suddenly woken up and changed his past wrongs, leave, and looked at each other when he came back to his senses.

"Do you still want to cancel the name of the Guozijian?" Zhu Bulang asked.

Li You said helplessly: "Don't make fun of it, keep it, I can't really use it." ”

Zhu Bulang smiled: "Why don't you have the slightest look of annoyance?" ”

"What's the use of being upset by my own subordinates? Although the book in the sub-vote is good, it is not what you think. Whether it succeeds or not, it is up to heaven and man, not me. Borrowing the Spring and Autumn Language: Meat eaters seek it. ”

"What an open-minded man." Zhu Bulang praised.

"Everything is so floating clouds..."Li You said with a feeling: "Mr. Fanghe is not the same as me." ”

Zhu Bulang didn't know what he meant, and waited for Li You to explain himself.

Li You raised his hand and pointed upwards and said, "The sky is above other people's heads, and the roof beams are above your heads, so you have to be open-minded." ”

Zhu Bulang pondered for a moment, and was also embarrassed, this sentence is interesting. Hurriedly raised the wine jug and said: "Wonderful words, you should toast them." ”

Officials are from the clan and seem to be humble and noble, but in fact, there are great similarities in officialdom. They are all congenital deficiencies and acquired limitations, as if there is an invisible roof blocking the ascent.

Zhu Zongwu and Li Xiaoyan immediately felt very sorry for each other, and they both took the wine jug and made wine while making a wine order.

When both of them were half drunk and half awake, Zhu Fanghe remembered something: "I almost forgot to get down to business." Next month is the birthday of the Queen Mother, and I wanted to combine the power of you, me and Lin Yuma to dedicate it together..."

The speaker had no intention, but the hearer had a heart, Li You deliberately interjected: "I only heard you say that Lin Yuma is talented, but I have never seen it." ”

"You... He speaks like that, don't be like him. Mr. Zhu Fanghe nodded at Li You and said: "Lin Fu works in the art of painting, the first in Beijing." I thought, painted by a horse, you are a poem, I inscribe, both are the best in the world. Isn't it beautiful for three people to join forces and dedicate themselves to Our Lady? Besides, the horse is half of the Queen Mother's son, I am the Queen Mother's husband's family, and you are the Queen Mother's fellow countrymen, each with its own characteristics, superb skills, who can compare other people's congratulatory watches! ”

The Queen Mother said that she was born or not, Li You didn't care, and deliberately asked: "The dragon and phoenix among the horses, the thousand-year-old golden branches and jade leaves, should be a match made in heaven." Why do I feel discordant? ”

"It's hard to say a word..."Zhu Fanghe said vaguely: "I heard that the first emperor had a saying about Guide Chitose, and he hated you for not being a man." And the colt is like you and me, and in your words, there is a roof beam on his head..."

Although Zhu Bulang said vaguely, Li You heard a ** meaning. If he doesn't even have this ability, why did he mix all the way from Xujiang to Jingshi?

It can be judged that this eldest princess is a very ambitious woman, and most of them expect her husband to be equally motivated, and Lin Juma is definitely not as good as she wants.

Lin Juma may be evacuated by the surname of the sky, or it may be that he has no motivation when he becomes a royal son-in-law, and he feels that there is a restricted grievance rule and rule of the horse anyway, and most of the efforts are in vain, so why bother.

What's more, judging from the scene that night and today, Lin Yuma can't speak well and obediently, and his surname is a little arrogant and stubborn, rebellious, and often deliberately cheats... Can you not recruit a fight? The point is that it seems that the fight is not convinced... Li You said tentatively: "When the horses were selected, didn't the last few candidates be played in the palace?" What does the eldest princess have in mind, she won't ask the queen mother to choose a suitable surname? ”

"Lin Yuma's family is wealthy, in order to make him elected, the palace eunuchs have made money, and they have to be instructed in advance, and he is the most decent in front of the queen mother. Besides, Lin Yuma, his appearance and talent are outstanding, who will he choose if he is not chosen? Zhu Fanghe really drank a lot, and he broke out all these insiders without any scruples.

Li You asked with relish: "How do you know these inside information?" ”

"The colt told me personally! He said that he also wanted to take the road of fame back then, or to be a romantic and talented man, and he didn't want to be the master. But for the sake of glory and wealth, the whole family forced him to run for election, which was really helpless. ”

"I see." After Li You inquired, he toasted: "I've always been very strange, but I have only solved my confusion today." ”

He knocked on the side and said: "Between Xia and Lin Yuma, who does Lord Zhu think is better to do the book in the sub-vote?" ”

"Dilemma, you fight for yourselves, I don't look at it, I don't hear it."

"I'm worried about being angry with me by Chitose..."

Zhu Fanghe patted Li You and said: "You can rest assured, Guide Chitose is a person who is not arrogant and unreasonable." ”

The two drank another pot of wine and dispersed.

Li You got drunk and quit his master, staggered out of the restaurant, and stumbled into the sedan chair... His face instantly darkened and became gloomy.

Is Master Li really an open-minded person?

If Li You at this time compares the difference between being in Suzhou Mansion and in the capital, then he will definitely say that the difference is that he doesn't have to act most of the time in Suzhou Mansion, and he has to act most of the time in the capital.

Today is really not in vain, I didn't expect to know that the eldest princess of Guide is also worried about the book in the scoreline, Li You thought secretly. When laughing with Zhu Bulang, he seems to be pure-hearted, indifferent to fame and fortune, free and easy, but in fact, this is not the case in his heart... When he was in the Tianguan Mansion, Li You's main focus was on dealing with Xu Shangshu's endless temptations, and he didn't think deeply about serving as the secretary of the sub-vote. On the one hand, he couldn't stand the temptation to enter the center, and on the other hand, he lacked the courage to directly reject the official book, so he should accept it.

After withdrawing, he thought deeply and thoroughly saw through the mystery, and made up his mind that it was inevitable. Because this is a very rare opportunity for his officialdom career, it has extraordinary significance and should not be missed. Otherwise, if you are full of food and support, you will be worried about not being able to write?

With Li You's background, it is already quite against the sky to be able to mix six or seven grades in these years. If you want to make progress, the only thing you can do is that you are gifted and pleasing to the emperor and become a herald.

The so-called herald official is an official position directly granted by the Son of Heaven without being selected by the ministry and recommended by the minister.

According to the tacit understanding formed in recent decades, the idle and miscellaneous official positions below the seventh grade, as well as the idle official positions of the inner court such as Shangbaosi and Guanglu Temple, as well as the scholars in the two halls, will be rewarded if the Son of Heaven is willing to reward. There are always skilled professional and technical officials and relatives who need special care later, and the king must have these powers.

But if you want to be a civil official and a magistrate of a foreign dynasty of seven grades and above, you can't be granted by arbitrary, and as for the two special official positions of the official department and the scholar, there is an option that can be simplified by the Son of Heaven.

It just so happens that Master Li has now reached the threshold of the civil official group of Qipin... Master Li, who was born as a clerk, is not a descendant of honors, second, he has no fame, and third, he is not a Taiyi craftsman. Suppose that he was inexplicably favored by the brain-dead emperor like countless time-traveling novels, and a holy decree was promoted to the sixth rank of the actual job, and Lord Li gladly accepted it, what would happen to the world?

He will be drowned in saliva, criticized by big-character posters, written in notes and circulated and scandalized, and segregated by scholars... Also, be on the lookout for countless possible surnames after the fall at any time.

I think that during the Chenghua period, the emperor went a little too far in the promotion of officials, and made four-digit reports from the third grade to the ninth grade, which is still regarded by the scholars as an era of demonic style.

The words are far away, all in all, this is a time of peace in the world, not an era of heroes in troubled times, and the habitual and stable surnames of the system are super strong. Although Master Li is a time-traveler with an aura, he also does not have the ability to completely subvert the tradition.

Even if the prison is escalated, how can the situation change? For example, what is the essential difference between being a six-rank general judge and a seven-grade magistrate?

If you want to find a breakthrough, you can only find it in a place that is not confined to tradition.

The division of votes is a new thing that has not been done in 70 or 80 years. Although it is in the name of restoring the old system of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the old classics of the previous dynasty are scattered and cannot be examined.

Therefore, if you want to follow the old ways, there is no rule that can be followed, and because it is close to the center, this position is uncertain and the surname is huge, or there are many possible surnames in it, and the plastic surname is very strong, maybe good or bad.

The above characteristics are what Li You values most after thoroughly trying it out, how can you know if it's a good opportunity or a bad opportunity if you don't try it? Don't you know the breaking point?

In order to suppress the powerful ministers and high-ranking officials, the dynasty has a tradition of suppressing the big with the small. For example, in the six departments of about seven grades, as well as the thirteen supervision of the imperial history, the upper can be sealed and refuted, and the lower can supervise hundreds of bureaucrats, all of which are typical of the low authority, and how do you know that the book in the sub-vote will not go down this road?

Now that the opportunity has arisen, why not seize it? Even if it is a puppet brought out by Xu Shangshu, it should be, there is no free lunch in the world.

But at this time, the Chitose of Guide unexpectedly appeared... To say that Li You regretted digging his own grave and accidentally stimulated Lin Yuma into a competitor is purely funny and superficial. There are no Lin and others, and in essence, the eldest princess of Guide is meddling. Just like there is no Li You, there is also Zhang You and Wang You, in essence, it is the truth that Xu Shangshu is meddling.

On the contrary, Lord Li has to thank Lin Yuma, a political novice, for casually confiding this matter to outsiders who don't know the details.

Of course, if it was the position of other yamen, Li You would not be worried, and no matter how strong the princess was, she would not dare to compete with the official department of the imperial court. After all, there is an unwritten rule, the inner court is royal, and the outer court is civilian, and together they are the imperial court.

However, from this point of view, the cabinet and its subordinate two rooms belong to the category of neither inside nor outside, and both inside and outside in the court structure, which can be called a buffer zone between the outer court and the inner court. This is the most peculiar and subtle aspect of the dynasty system compared with its predecessors, and it is also the place where the cabinet claims to be the prime minister, but in fact it is the least like the prime minister.

Another meaning of a buffer is a wrestling field... Thinking of this, Li You shouted to the sedan chair man: "Change the way!" Go to the Tianguan Mansion. ”

Guide Chitose's whispering to the colt should be a very confidential matter, and now it shouldn't be passed on to let him know, which is the biggest disadvantage. It's weird, it's just the uncompetitive colt you chose.

(To be continued)