Zhao Jide never dreamed that he was a little examinee and would be so valued by the queen.

After the exam, Zhao Jide studied hard at home like crazy, just for the final palace test, not to embarrass the queen.

The hard work was not in vain.

He won the championship.

Riding a big horse, wearing saffron, being a champion, and riding on a horse to accept the cheers and praises of the people around, Zhao Jide only felt that he had reached the peak of his life.

At the end of the scientific expedition, according to the usual practice, Zhao Jide entered the Hanlin Academy.

If you don't enter Hanlin, you won't become a cabinet.

Zhao Jide's goal is very clear, he wants to be a cabinet elder.

Can......

Dreams are always fat, reality is always dry.

On the thirty-seventh day when Zhao Jide entered the Hanlin Academy, An Guogong found him.

On that day, he had just finished a day of work at the Hanlin Monastery and was about to go home.

The sun sets, and the afterglow shines on the red gate of the Hanlin Courtyard, as if plated with a layer of golden light.

Zhao Jide looked at the thin layer of golden light and seemed to see his bright future.

"Lord Zhao."

Zhao Jide was squinting and thinking about beautiful things, when he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him, and when he turned around, he saw a young man in Tsing Yi standing half a meter behind him.

"Call me?"

The little guy smiled politely: "Lord Zhao, my family wants to invite Lord Zhao to talk." ”

Zhao Jide looked at this little guy's face, not like the people who were often brought by the adults in the Hanlin Academy.

"Who are your lords?"

"An Guogong."

Hearing the three words An Guogong, Zhao Jide was stunned.

He is a small Hanlin Academy, and he has no relationship with this grandfather.

Moreover, there doesn't seem to be a school-age girl in the grandfather's family.

The corner of his eyes twitched, and Zhao Jide said to the little servant: "I don't have much to do with Grandpa Guo." ”

"Our grandfather appreciates the knowledge of adults, and wants to make friends with adults in the morning, but a while ago, the family was busy with affairs in the DPRK and China, so it is easy for our grandfather to spare some time for adults, and please don't refuse."

When it comes to this, Zhao Jide is a small editor, and he still has to brush the face of the grandfather of the country.

Zhao Jide followed the little guy to the Qingyuan Restaurant where An Guogong was located.

Three floors, Zhu Yaxuan.

When Zhao Jide entered, An Guocheng sat in front of the window and played with the empty teacup in his hand.

When you hear the voice, you get up and greet you.

Where did Zhao Jide dare to be greeted by Grandpa Guo, he hurriedly bent down and saluted.

"Lord Zhao don't want to be like this, regardless of age, I am actually not much different from Lord Zhao, but it is because my ancestor got Long'en, and I am fortunate to be able to attack the title, but Lord Zhao is really talented and learned, and I really admire Lord Zhao's talent and learning."

An Guogong is indeed not much bigger than Zhao Jide.

The ancestor once fought with Gaozu and was regarded as Gaozu's life-old brother.

An Guogong's father was also a military general.

Went on the expedition with the queen, and was injured by a stray arrow on the way to the battle, although he was saved at the time, his body was greatly injured, and his body bones have not been good.

Since then, he has not been on the battlefield again, and has been raised by the general.

Gone last month.

At that time, Zhao Jide also went to condole.

Today's An Guogong, inheriting his father's throne, has not yet come out of the filial piety period, and his robes are extremely plain, but he gives people a sense of elegance.

ordered wine and food, because he was still in the filial piety period, An Guogong only used tea instead of wine to accompany Zhao Jide.

"Lord Zhao is now in the Hanlin Academy, which adult is supporting him?" After three rounds of drinking, gossip began, An Guogong finally brought the topic to the right path.

Zhao Jide said with a smile: "Xiaguan Xu is stupid, and he has not yet gotten the blue eyes of any adult." ”

It is true that Zhao Jide is the champion, but because he would try that one at that time, the criminal department and several scientific examination officials were investigated, although he got the queen's blue eye, he offended many officials in the DPRK and China.

The officials of the DPRK and China are divided into different factions according to the academy.

The criminal department Shangshu and several scientific examination officials who were investigated by the queen are all from the same faction.

A faction lost so many officials at once because of Zhao Jide alone, and the people of this faction naturally looked at Zhao Jide as a thorn in their side.

They don't care why Shangshu of the Criminal Department was investigated.

They only knew that the current position of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department was sitting on the hostile faction.

And the other factions did not throw an olive branch to Zhao Jide because he helped them bring down the Shangshu of the Criminal Department.

In Zhao Jide's view, the reason is the same.

He's a wild pie.

The so-called wild faction, that is, he is not a student in any mainstream college.

From a child to the township examination, he was self-taught at home and had no classmates.

After the township examination, I entered a college and made a lot of friends in the academy, but none of these friends have entered the Hanlin Academy.

None of them even stayed in Beijing.

There is no one to help, no one to help, he is in the Hanlin Academy, even if he is alone.

Fortunately, the queen mother attaches great importance to him, and has been summoned to the palace several times to encourage him, so that he will not be excluded in the Hanlin Academy.

The student studied hard, thinking that winning the top prize was the pinnacle of life.

In fact, taking the top prize is just the beginning of another form of life.

In the Hanlin Academy, he is the champion, and he is nothing.

If he wants to get ahead, he has to boil it from the bottom little by little in the great river of officialdom.

This kind of ordeal is completely different from the simple hardship when I was studying at that time.

That's hard work, and you can see the rewards if you pay for it.

But now it's different.

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, no one will support you, and your efforts will always be buried in the shadows.

This point makes Zhao Jide very weak, but he is naturally optimistic and always thinks openly.

Zhao Jide fell, and took a sip of the wine cup himself.

An Guogong looked at him with a smile, "Lord Zhao is full of talents, and those people in the Hanlin Academy are actually blind." ”

Zhao Jide laughed at himself and did not answer.

He also thinks those people have no eyes.

"I have some friendship with Ning Guogong in the next, and now that Ning Guogong is close to the Ministry of War, if Lord Zhao doesn't dislike it, it is better to bow down to the Ministry of War."

The people of the Hanlin Academy walked through the door, and they walked through the door of the cabinet elders.

No one has ever walked the path of Shangshu.

This belongs to the cow's lips and the horse's mouth.

Zhao Jide frowned.

An Guogong smiled and said: "Don't hide it from Lord Zhao, now in the cabinet, several cabinet elders seem to be incompatible, but secretly there is a thread that binds them together, no matter how big the opponent is, as long as this thread is there, none of the pavilion elders will accept Lord Zhao." ”

Zhao Jide has been in the Hanlin Academy for a while.

This is the first time he has heard this kind of words, and he was stunned.

"The last time I took the exam, the criminal department Shangshu who was personally investigated and dealt with by the queen mother was Du Ge Lao's own nephew, Du Ge Lao has no son, and his nephew has always been raised by his side, so his nephew's son, that is, his nephew's grandson, he has always been his own grandson."

At that time, someone said this to him at the end of the examination.

The man said that although he breathed a sigh of relief, he completely offended Du Ge Lao.

Even if he enters the Hanlin Academy in the future, he will not have a future.

He didn't believe it at the time.

Later, he was not accepted by any cabinet elders, and he always thought that it had nothing to do with this matter, after all, there was more than one cabinet elder.

But now, Princess Anguo brings up the matter again.

Zhao Jide clenched his fists.

"Du Ge Lao's status in the court is very high, he has made it clear who he will not accept, and several other Ge Lao can't afford to directly give Du Ge Lao no face in the open for the sake of Lord Zhao."

In a word, Zhao Jide suddenly opened.

Those pavilion elders are enemies of Du Ge Lao, and even for their own interests, you live and die.

However, they can't afford to live or die for him and Du Gelao.

To put it bluntly, he doesn't deserve it.

Zhao Jide smiled bitterly, "Thank you Grandpa Guo for mentioning it, it's just ...... Even so, why did Grandpa Guo ask me to worship under the Ministry of War, as far as I know, the Ministry of War and Zhao Ge are very close. ”

An Guogong burst out laughing.

"But doesn't Lord Zhao know that the military department is also very close to the Ningguo Mansion?"

Zhao Jide really didn't know.

He has only been in the Hanlin Academy for a few days, how can he feel the muddy waters of the court so clearly.

"Ning Guogong and Zhao Ge Lao are enemies, Zhao Ge Lao's son was shot by Ning Guogong in the paddock with an arrow in the eye, and since then he has been left with an incurable eye disease.

And the reason why Ning Guogong did this is because Zhao Gelao's son married Ning Guogong's sister-in-law, and after getting married, he not only scolded Ning Guogong's sister-in-law, but also brought his cousin who was a childhood sweetheart into the house and carried him as a concubine. ”

Zhao Jide......

"So, Ning Guogong took revenge in the paddock?"

An Guogong smiled: "Such a revenge, if it is Lord Zhao, won't you revenge it?" At the beginning, Ning Guogong wanted to shoot people to death directly, but unfortunately, his archery skills were not perfect, and he deceived the head, as long as he had one eye. ”

Zhao Jide listened, and his heart was thunderous.

This kind of murderous thing, in the mouths of these powerful people, is really like child's play.

Ning Guogong asked for one eye of Zhao Ge's old son, but Ning Guogong is still the unparalleled Ning Guogong, Zhao Ge's son spoils his concubine and destroys his wife, but Zhao Ge Lao is still the indestructible pillar of the court.

This is the court.