Hearing the instructions of the eldest princess of Guide, Li You was silent, and sat there thinking about it for a long time, as if he couldn't make up his mind.

Father-in-law Wu is very strange about this, what is there to think about, Master Li should agree to it is right. After a while, I heard Master Li ask implicitly: "Chitose's move, is it because he is worried about the power of the Middle Palace?" ”

In the middle palace, the queen also, the meaning of Li You's words is "Is the eldest princess worried that the queen will affect her power in the palace?" ”

Gonggong Wu was stunned at first, and then smiled bitterly, "Before leaving, Guide Chitose specially ordered, saying that you are used to treating others with your own self and speculating on others with malice, so you must have this question." ”

This one... Li Youwei was a little embarrassed, but when he cultivated his cheeks, he couldn't see it on his face.

Gonggong Wu explained: "Your Highness has a saying, there is no selfish reason for this move, just because the Son of Heaven has a weak heart, and he is afraid that the middle palace will be troublesome, and he will not be a good match." ”

Li You sighed: "Women really have long hair and short knowledge..."

This is the only man in the world who dares to speak like that... Gonggong Wu had long been aware of the ambiguity between the eldest princess and Li You, which seemed to be a bit beyond the ordinary princess's subordinate relationship.

Therefore, he could only turn a deaf ear to Li You's rude words, and continued to explain: "So you don't have to be careful, once the Son of Heaven gets married, there will be a master in the main palace." His Royal Highness Chitose no longer asks about the affairs of the palace, and lives in the Ten Kings' Mansion, how does the palace have anything to do with His Royal Highness? Although it was expedient for eight years with the edict of the previous emperor, there was no princess in the Ming Dynasty who was good at the system in the palace after all. ”

Li You didn't answer Wu Guangen's words, and said impassionedly: "The family and the country are all over the world, and the wedding of the Son of Heaven is not only a family affair, but also a national affair and a world affair!" It's just a family matter! What is the difference between the draft that His Highness said and the foolish woman in the countryside? ”

"I don't understand what you mean."

"Don't understand? How is the conduct of the temple? How is the temple conducted? What has become of the harem? Li You's filming started and completely entered the play: "As a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, you can't see the same mistakes repeated!" I want to play the questionbook! ”

Gonggong Wu, who was bowing his head and drinking tea, was taken aback, what was the good Lord Li excited about? There are old rules in front of the Son of Heaven draft, just do things according to the rules, what's so good to play... Of course, Lord Li is very excited, as an official whose ambition is not to end up in the old state and county, he has been silent in the court in the past few months, which is not good, is a star who has no exposure still a star? Limited to the cramped local information blockage, even if he wants to find something to spit and brush the sense of existence, but he has not been able to find the right one.

Now that he encountered the matter of the Son of Heaven's wedding draft, Master Li originally thought that he was coping with errands, but after hearing Chitose's instructions, he suddenly had a wonderful inspiration.

Finally, I can write a sprinkling recital to brush up on the temple to brush up on my presence!

Since the early days, the palace of the national dynasty has been a place where strange things have come out, and compared to other dynasties, it is like a joke, so Lord Li, who is righteous and outspoken, does not vomit and has something to say!

In this way, you can not only show your knowledge and talent, as well as the depth of your thinking, but also be able to stir up topics and arguments! As for the rights and wrongs of opinions, it does not matter to him.

And Master Li is really suffocated, only those people in the court can have a "common language" with him, Jiangdu County is really a small temple.

Lord Li and Gonggong Wu had a secret conversation in the barracks, but said that when Xiao Xuedao, a Jiangbei scholar who temporarily lived in Yucheng Station, was chatting with Bao Zhizhou, he was really anxious when he heard that Gonggong Wu went to see Li You.

He underestimated the relationship between Li You and Wu Guangen before, thinking that Li You was only familiar with Wu Gonggong, although he could ask Li You for help, he didn't have to find Li You, and he could catch Wu Guangen's door through other methods.

But I didn't expect that as soon as Master Li returned to Gaoyou Prefecture, Father-in-law Wu took the initiative to visit, and this kind of etiquette shocked Xiao Xuedao.

The officialdom has its own definite etiquette, and Gonggong Wu, as a eunuch of the Qin Mission, visits him everywhere he goes, and he never takes the initiative to meet anyone. However, at this time, Gonggong Wu was able to visit Li You willingly, what does this mean? At least it shows that Li You has the influence on Wu Gonggong to determine the surname.

It's no wonder that Master Li dared to ask for three lifting places yesterday, and after he couldn't get along with himself, he left without care, and threatened to let himself see if he was "worth the price".

As long as Master Li has this kind of influence on Wu Gonggong, he can not only succeed but also fail, and it is easy to deny his own daughter from the procedure. You must know that Gonggong Wu is in charge of the primary election, sent to the palace for the second election, Guide Chitose for the third election, and finally the final election at the Queen Mother.

If he is really brushed down by the primary election, even if he can go to Beijing to find another way to enter the second and third choices, it will seem that he is too diligent in seeking wealth and nobility, and his character will fall first, not to mention the pass of the eldest princess of Guide. Therefore, Master Li is indeed not worried that he will not give in... Xiao Xuedao sighed for a long time, since he entered the clerk's room as a teacher ten years ago and had a relationship in the palace, he had the idea of taking his daughter to the queen, and has been carefully raising and cultivating his daughter until now. It can't be destroyed in the hands of Li You so simply.

It's a pity that yesterday he said that he was greedy for small profits and refused to give in and failed to reach an agreement, and was despised by Lord Li. Now that I go to find Master Li again, I'm afraid that it will be even more difficult to speak, and the more I think about it, the more I regret it.

What's even more unfortunate is that if he didn't take the initiative to mention his daughter's matter to Li You, Li You, who didn't know the inside story, probably wouldn't have thought of blackmailing him with this. Now that Li You knows his intentions, he will see the hell if he doesn't take the opportunity to blackmail!

And the biggest problem at present is that Xiao Xuedao, who has fallen into passivity, is a dignified fourth-grade, and he can't let go of his body and takes the initiative to find Li You, who is a sixth-grade, to intercede.

This Xiao Xuedao had something on his mind, so he sat still, and Bao Zhizhou, who was chatting with him, observed his words and expressions, and asked briefly about the situation, knowing that the scholar wanted to find Li You but couldn't pull it down, so he patted his chest and said: "This matter is easy, this official is about to set up a banquet to entertain Li Beijia, please invite the old master to enjoy the light together!" ”

At the pressure banquet in Gaoyou Prefecture, Master Li was drunk, shook his head and said to Xiao Xuedao: "Do you know? I was going to write a poem in praise of your young lady! ”

Xiao Xuedao's "brush" cold sweat flowed, then Li You's reputation was far and wide Jiangzuo and Jingshi, if Li You wrote a poem to praise, others would inevitably think about it, does this Miss Xiao have anything to do with Li You? It's okay in normal times, but now is the draft period, and the queen selected by thousands of people must be pure and immaculate, and there can be no scandal.

Master Li really doesn't want to know that there is enough to succeed, but there is definitely more than enough failure.

After the affairs of Gaoyou Prefecture were completed, Li You returned to Yangzhou City first. Immediately, on July 29 of the eighth year of Jinghe, Jiangbei mentioned that the great master of Yushi Xiao was sent to Yangzhou Mansion.

Hearing the news, Luo Zhifu was overjoyed. I'm afraid that the great master won't come, as long as he comes, he must come to Jiangdu County to take the county exam at the invitation of the government, otherwise he doesn't have to work hard to go to Yangzhou Mansion this time.

Luo Zhifu also knew that Li You had been to Gaoyou Prefecture and must have met with the Great Grandmaster, but Xiao Xuedao still had to come to Yangzhou City, which showed that they couldn't negotiate. After all, not everyone can resist the temptation of coming to Yangzhou City to take the imperial examination.

Xiao Xuedao is only a fourth-grade person, and he is not a big member like the governor, so according to etiquette, he only needs to be greeted by the government and the county government and the county government at the wharf outside the east gate.

But the prefect of Luo, who had been aggrieved by the county government for a long time, was overjoyed, and personally led a team to the dock to greet Xiao Xuedao. How can you not go in person? Li You was also present, and it was pleasure to call him good-looking in person.

In the greeting procession, Li You stood behind Luo Zhifu and sneered at the back in front of him.

After Xiao Xuedao got off the boat, Luo Zhifu greeted him and smiled enthusiastically: "Brother Xiao Xian! Since last year, we have been together, and after a few years, don't come unharmed! ”

Thinking about his purpose and Li You's request, Lord Xiao was a little embarrassed, and said vaguely: "Luo Yuanjun is everything okay?" ”

Luo Zhifu glanced at Li You, and proudly greeted Xiao Xuedao: "This time, Brother Xiao Xian will take the Jiangdu County test according to Linyangzhou..."

Xiao Xuedao was still a little literati after all, he was silent for a moment, and said in an obscure voice: "This official is here for the government test in the second half of the year..."

If you want to be admitted to Xiucai, the first pass is the county exam of the county, and the second pass is the prefectural exam. Governor Luo heard the school officer mention the government exam, and asked in disbelief: "How is the government exam?" ”

Now that he has spoken, Xiao Xuedao has smoothed a lot smoother, "Someone reported that there were cheats in the government examination last year, in order to calm public opinion, the government examination in October this year was conducted by the Xuedao Yamen, and the official went to Yangzhou for this matter." ”

Everyone in the government and county government was taken aback, except for Li You. Is this a trick? Before the great grandmaster came, he said that he was going to take the county exam, but why did he get off the boat and become the chief exam? Where does this make the face of the government, especially the Luo Governor's Mansion, go?

As everyone knows, Governor Luo tried his best to deprive the county examiner of the right to take the exam, and even did not hesitate to move the great master to suppress Li You, but now he lifted a stone in public and shot himself in the foot. The county government was unharmed, but the government inexplicably lost the right to take the presiding exam. It sounds like a farce of stealing chickens and rice, and it is full of irony.

The imperial examination is the right way to become an official, the only way for scholars to truly change their fate, and the core power of the local yamen. If a local yamen loses even the power of the imperial examination, it is really a loss of face.

Defeated miserably... Luo Zhifu stood on the dock with his eyes puffed out, his neck was red, and his face was pale. It's hard to describe. was originally going to do this to Li You, but it all acted on his own body, why did the surnamed Xiao suddenly change the hexagram?

Zeng Tongzhi and Leng Tongju of the government looked at each other, and sighed in unison, they knew that if the government was planted, its prestige would be completely destroyed.

It is indeed a tragedy in the same city of the prefecture and county, and from now on in the city of Yangzhou, the government is only afraid that the people's hearts will be lost. Once others lose confidence in the government, then the government decree will not even be able to go out of the door.

It is only said that a while ago, the salt merchants enthusiastically supported the government office, so that the pockets of several of their officials would not be too dry, and the purpose was to hope that the government government would suppress the county government and Lord Li.

After coming and going for I don't know how many rounds, now the government government has lost even the pants, and it is completely helpless in the face of the county government and Lord Li, so how much use is there? Salt merchants are not charitable to give away silver for nothing.

The things on the dock were not publicized with great fanfare, but only quietly passed on to those who had a heart, but it still became an event similar to a weather vane.

Lord Li had previously announced that he would levy more silver taels on the resident population, and the progress had not been very smooth, but on the 30th day, the amount of levies suddenly skyrocketed, and more than 5,000 taels were recorded in the county treasury within a day.

The boys in the county really saw the direction of the wind this time, and flocked to the county government to sign up for the county examination for a while, and the notice posted by the government about the county examination became an annual joke.

However, Lord Lee's decree prohibiting the registered population from participating in the county and government examinations still hangs like a sword over the heads of the ambitious salt merchants. Now these super-rich people really have a trace of fear of Li You, so Li You dares to command the army to kill the Du family first, who knows if it will be repeated in Yangzhou City?

So the Golden Million Family became lively again, which made Jin Yuanwai happy and worried. The good thing is that since he has Li You, a cheap son-in-law, his family has faintly replaced the Xin'an Guild Hall to become the core of Yangzhou's salt industry, and the worry is that his peers have put the hope of leveling Li You on him, and he feels a lot of pressure... At this moment, Cheng Zhilang, the general judge of Yangzhou Prefecture, the acting Jiangdu County Affairs, and the garrison department of the Guanfu Prefecture, how could Master Li be in the mood to take care of the salt merchants, he spent two days writing a piece of music and handed it over to the express delivery shop to send to Jingshi.

The officialdom of the Beijing division has been quiet for several months since the big changes at the beginning of the year.

About ten days later, Lee-sama's recital entered the cabinet. From the first assistant Xu Yue to the elder Jin Ge of Dongge University at the end, no one dared to make the main vote, and then sent it to the Cisheng Palace, so that the Queen Mother would have a headache.

The next time, when the Wuying Hall was deliberating, the Empress Dowager Cisheng circulated Li You's recital. It is glossary:

"Since Chenghua Zhengde, the middle palace has gradually been abolished, and the palace chaos is frequent, which is the laughing stock of the world! There are demon concubines who move the country in vain, there are nurses who bully the main palace, and there are those who dare not say a word for the next eighteen years! Throughout the ages, how can things in the palace be as strange and unspeakable as those of my dynasty?

If the middle palace is unstable, the country is not solid, and if the country is not solid, the country is not stable! If the middle palace is weak, the prince will be uneducated, and the prince will be uneducated! The minister looked through the history books, and did not see that the country was as difficult as this dynasty, and the old things in the years of Chenghua, Zhengde, Wanli, and the Apocalypse were not enough to admonish?

Good and evil do not stand together, and the Taoist chief will disappear! If the main palace is not right, there will be all kinds of evil dances, what is the reason?

After the large rate of self-Xuan Temple, the middle palace is mostly selected in the cold house. There is no Sasuke inside, there is no help outside, and there is no disadvantage of being trapped and living in a difficult place, the heavenly family is weak and strong, the respect and humility are reversed, and the program is often disordered! It is not uncommon for the main palace to be subject to concubines and slaves, how can it be the right way of the country?

Zi said, it's too late, and the same is true for the big wedding draft! Therefore, the selection of people in the middle palace should be widely distributed by rain and dew, why should it be limited to poor families, just to sell fame and reputation for the imperial court!

The world is different, things are different, all have to keep pace with the times, in the past, the ancestors made the law to prevent foreign relatives from being powerful, where is the authoritarian foreign relatives now? Who is it to defend against?

The ministers are invited to reform the cheats, and the draft is still forbidden for the relatives, Zaifu, and the ministry family, and the rest are not cheap! The parents of the queen can only have the power to hold the position, which is still to prevent the chaos of foreign relatives. ”

After reading it, the ministers persuaded them to pretend to be dumb. Li You's firepower is fierce, and he is involved in the ban, this thing is really hard to say.

Empress Dowager Qian saw that none of the ministers spoke, but she put aside the song and asked Li Youlai: "Then how has Li You been doing in the local area recently?" ”

Peng Ge replied: "I heard that I am very happy like a fish in water, and I am very happy to do it in Yangzhou City. ”

Mrs. Qian said expressionlessly: "There is a lot of rain in Huanghuai, and there will be autumn floods in the river, which is a heavy responsibility." The governor of Fengyang asked the imperial court to assign cadres to supervise various rivers, to see that Li You was young and healthy, close to the Huai River, and told him to work hard. The duty remains unchanged, plus the river dispatch until after the flood season. ”

(To be continued)