Jiang Xia was promoted to auxiliary state, Yang Tinghe and Li Dongyang both died, Wang Qiong was transferred out of Beijing, Xia Yuan is old next year, and he is about to return to his hometown.

Of the six major lives, five have changed, but Yang Yiqing is the only one left. Jiangxia directly abolished the cabinet, no longer set it up for the time being, and directly controlled the political situation of the Ming Dynasty with six ministries.

Because the six departments are all from Jiangxia, he actually consolidated his power and status once again by doing so.

Among them, Yang Yiqing also has the titles of Prince Young Master and Minister of Gu Ming, so he can be regarded as the head of the six departments. Under the river, he is the most powerful.

Jiang Xia summoned the six Shangshu to arrange the next affairs in the Qianqing Palace, because he was about to leave the capital and go to Mongolia.

Since Wang Shouren has not yet entered Beijing, there are only five Shangshu discussing with Jiangxia for the time being.

In fact, the main business is not much, that is, to arrange the preparation for the issuance of Daming treasure banknotes, as well as the supervision of the Fujian Manufacturing Bureau and the Shipping Department. At present, these are the most important things.

At the end of the meeting, Cui Zhengyi raised one last question: "My lord, my subordinates still want to ask, do you have any opinions on the tombstone inscription of Taishi Li?" ”

Jiang Xia's face changed slightly, and then he groaned slightly, and said: "You can make the life notes yourself, I only want to add these few words: 'Fifty years after the establishment of the dynasty, eighteen years of the country, unswerving, virtuous Gaokui, article Han Meng. Meritorious deeds are applied to the world and people do not know, and the wind festival is in a lifetime and the people are salty. The most virtuous minister of the Ming Dynasty, a lifetime ...... Virtue is not at its expense. ”

Jiang Xia's words made everyone present change their faces slightly, and they secretly said in their hearts: "Jiang Xia's praise of his master really spared no effort, this inscription was engraved on Li Dongyang's tombstone by the Ministry of Rites, which is enough for him to go down in history and leave the name of a loyal minister through the ages." ”

In fact, if Cui Zhengyi had asked Jiang Xia before yesterday, then Jiang Xia might not have praised Li Dongyang so much. But yesterday he went to the prison to give Zhu Houyu a cup of poisonous wine, and before Zhu Houxi died, he told Jiang Xia about Li Dongyang and the Empress Dowager who established Wanhuang, and why Li Dongyang was secretly manipulating this qiē.

Jiang Xia had to admit that many of Li Dongyang's considerations were right. So when it comes to inscriptions today, Jiangxia will have this to say.

Of course, as an auxiliary country of a country, Jiangxia can no longer go to Mongolia as casually as before this time, first of all, he must first ask the Ministry of Rites to send an envoy to Mongolia, and then get the Mongolian palindrome before he can set off.

During this time, Jiang Xia was going to use it to accompany his wife and children, which could be regarded as making up for his debt to them.

After leaving the palace, Jiang Xia prepared to go back to Xiaoyao Villa directly.

But not long after leaving the palace, Han Mufeng stopped the carriage. Jiang Xia, who was originally sitting in the carriage and closing his eyes and thinking about things, suddenly opened his eyes and asked, "Brother Han, what happened?" ”

"Brother Jiang, someone has challenged you, come out and take a look." Han Mufeng said.

"Challenge me?"

Jiang Xia was immediately interested when he heard this, when he was just the champion, and when he was still serving in the Department of Teaching and Entertainment, he had encountered many scholars who came to challenge. Later, the official became bigger and bigger, and the reputation became more and more famous, and the number of people who came to challenge him gradually decreased.

Now that the official is an auxiliary country, Jiang Xia still thinks that no one will dare to challenge him again.

When he lifted the curtain of the carriage, he saw a man wearing a straight-necked robe and a silver mask holding a cloth banner in his hand, which read: "Does Jiangxia dare to fight?" ”

Jiang Xia jumped out of the carriage and took two steps closer to the masked man, and his nose twitched slightly. Jiang Xia's eyes lit up slightly, and he smiled and bowed to the masked man, and said, "The girl is polite." ”

"Who's the girl?" The masked man took a slight step back with his right foot.

"Your Excellency is not a girl?" Jiang Xia smiled playfully, "That's really strange, a big man actually has a woman's unique body fragrance, this is really insightful, I used to think that men only smell of sweat." ”

"Besides, the girl is dressed as a woman, don't you also know how to cover up her ......" Jiang Xia made two chest expansion movements, and spit out five words in his mouth: "Strong pectoral muscles?" ”

"Poof!" The side of the road was already full of people, and everyone knew that the man with the silver mask had come to challenge the imperial auxiliary country. With such an interesting drama and no ticket money, who wouldn't stay and watch?

As soon as he heard Jiang Xia speak, he broke the identity of the other party, and teased the other party with words, without the stability and majesty of the auxiliary country at all. I don't know why, but the people didn't think there was anything wrong with Jiang Xia like this, but felt that he was approachable, which naturally made people feel an abnormal sense of closeness.

The masked man no longer concealed it, and she said with the cloth banner in her hand: "It has nothing to do with you whether I am a man or a woman, I have long heard that Master Jiang is proficient in poetry and songs, and is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting." Today, I am here to challenge, I wonder if Master Jiang has the courage to fight? ”

"Huh. It's okay today, so the official will play with you and have fun with the people of our capital. After Jiang Xia finished speaking, he hugged the surrounding people.

The onlookers shouted: "The Auxiliary Lord will win, the Auxiliary Lord will win......

Hearing that Jiangxia had joined the battle, the people were excited, and it was really a good show to watch.

Being able to see the auxiliary country of the dynasty up close, and watching him compete with others, is more cost-effective than going to the Grand Theater of the Imperial Entertainment Division to watch a play.

"Jinyiwei is doing business, everyone disperses!" Soon, Jin Yiwei's voice sounded.

Jiang Xia competed with people on the street, and was watched by the people, how could Jin Yiwei not come forward to protect his safety.

Soon, the two teams of brocade guards inserted into the crowd and directly formed a circle in the crowd, surrounding Jiang Xia, Han Mufeng, and the woman wearing the silver mask in the center.

Jiang Xia couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly, but it didn't prevent him from looking at the woman's figure.

After carefully looking at it several times, Jiang Xia could finally use his extraordinary eyesight and countless experience in reading beauty to say a word responsibly.

Perfect, absolutely perfect identity.

This woman has a pair of legs that are not inferior to Shangguan Ziyue, and she does not belong to Xueyi's small waist. Although I have not felt the size, softness and elasticity of the pair of saintess with my hands, in terms of the silhouette displayed by the clothes they prop up, they are definitely one of the best.

Jiang Xia smiled and asked, "What is the girl going to do?" ”

"Today's place is limited, so it's better than three games. One is compared to the right, the second is compared to the poem, and the third is compared to the riddle. ”

"Okay, the girl has the final say. Let's compare what first, the girl said. Jiang Xia said generously.

The silver-faced woman said, "Let's start with the couplet that the adults are best at, and the adults will come first." ”

"Well, the girl was wrong. In the next pair, he is very good at writing poems and guessing riddles, and there is no one who is the best. Iamagentleman (I'm a gentleman), so let's go first. Jiang Xia said with a smile.

The silver-faced woman also let out a low chuckle from under the mask, opened her mouth and said, "Areyouagentleman? No，Youarenotagentleman,Youareashamelessliar.”

Jiang Xia's eyebrows furrowed, and he was stunned in place.

The woman spoke in standard Oxford-accented English, which translates to "You are a gentleman?" No, you're not a gentleman. You are a shameless liar. ”

There were several pieces of information in this that made Jiang Xia completely stunned.

The first is the Oxford accent, which is also known as the Queen's accent. It is the accent of the British upper class, if the Chinese pay attention to the appearance of people, then the British pay attention to the sound of people. The English accent spoken by the silver-faced woman just now would not have been able to be learned if she hadn't been in England and had a lot of dealings with upper-class people.

Then the silver-faced woman went so far as to say that he was a shameless liar.

You must know that in a sense, Jiang Xia, who was born in a thousand doors, is a high-level liar himself. When she said this, she didn't know if it was a coincidental insult or a fact.

Jiang Xia couldn't help but ask, "...... you Who are you? ”

The silver-faced woman wore a mask, so she couldn't see her expression clearly, but you could hear her smug in her tone: "Want to know who I am?" A person who was born specifically to defeat you, if you don't have a question, then I'll come out first. ”

The silver-faced woman said: "Nantong Prefecture, North Tong Prefecture, North and South Tongzhou Tong North and South." I thought of a link of my own, and you are not allowed to use it again. Spring reading, autumn reading, spring and autumn reading reading spring and autumn. ”

When Jiang Xia heard this, he was even more stunned.

This "North and South Tongzhou and North and South" is a very famous couplet in Nantong Tongzhou, and its lower link is "Spring and Autumn Reading and Reading Spring and Autumn".

Doesn't this mean that you will be able to block the back road of your plagiarism and force yourself to be original?

This couplet is not simple, then Nantong Prefecture, North Tongzhou. It can be said that it can lead to the state capital to the south, or it can be said to be the south and north of Tongzhou, which belongs to the same word.

After Jiang Xia thought about it, he could only bite the bullet and say one: "East pawnshop, West pawnshop, east and west pawnshop as things." ”

After hearing this, the silver-faced woman let out a slight laugh and asked Jiang Xia, "Is it neat?" ”

Jiang Xia had some stammers, if this is to say that it is neat or not, it can only be broken. It is also a double meaning to say that the East Pawnshop and the West Pawnshop are "the pawnshop in the east and the pawnshop in the west" and "the east and west sides of the pawnshop". It's just that this one knows it's a bit far-fetched.

After Jiang Xia pondered for a while, he looked up at the silver-faced woman and said, "Then how about I use this lower link?" ”

"What?" The silver-faced woman asked.

Jiang Xia showed a slight smile on his face and said, "Female debater, male debater, male and female debater." ”

"You ......," the woman suddenly knotted.

Jiang Xia was clearly using the phrase "distinguishing between male and female" in the couplet to mock her for dressing as a man, and it was difficult to distinguish between male and female.