Since Chen Letian has made it clear that he does not want to be an official for the time being, and the emperor also understands that at least the current Chen Letian is not suitable for officialdom. After all, Chen Letian is not from a scientific research background, and if he is purely promoted by the emperor, it is easy to be looked down upon by his colleagues in the officialdom. In the hearts of the people, Chen Letian may be able to be a doctor of imperial history, but in the eyes of hundreds of officials, this is not necessarily the case.

So the emperor sighed helplessly, and after a short moment of silence, the emperor nodded and asked, why didn't you take the imperial examination?

Chen Letian said, Chen is preparing to take the exam this year, I didn't have this idea, but this year I suddenly had this idea, even if I don't pass the exam, it is a rare experience to take the exam. As a young person, when I get old in the future, I can still talk about it when I talk to people, and I also participated in scientific research when I was young.

Emperor Dao, if you take one exam, if you really want to be able to pass the exam, even if you only take the exam, it will be easier to appoint you.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister will work hard and try to earn more face for Your Majesty. "Chen Letian thought to himself, what does it mean to 'even if it is only a lifter?', as if it is easy to lift a person, Your Majesty really thinks too highly of people.

The emperor suddenly said: "Do you want to put all your energy into the Qingtian Pavilion, you are in the cultivation academy, I'm afraid that giving you a high-ranking official is not as good as being the last batch of closed disciples of the master, right?"

Chen Letian said: "Your Majesty said that it was funny, these are two different things. It's not the opposite. "Actually, what I thought in my heart was that what Your Majesty said was too right, I just want to practice now, and I really don't have much interest in officialdom.

After a pause, Chen Letian took a deep breath and said, "Your Majesty, the minister wants some reward." "I've said I want something, and now I'm going to ask for it.

The emperor smiled: "There is still something to reward, you are really bold." But the bold Chen Letian is the Chen Letian I admire, let's talk about it. ”

Chen Letian arched his hand and said: "It's Your Majesty who said in the holy decree before that he would reward the ministers." The officials and ministers don't want it, and the ministers want the few acres of vacant land near my house in Tianhefang. ”

The emperor frowned, did he still need to spend so much time on the land? I still want something valuable, and immediately asked the eunuch to bring the map of Tianhefang.

Soon the eunuch brought the map, and it only took a stick of incense before and after.

Chen Letian thought to himself, His Majesty must have often looked at the map collection in the palace, and the collection must be always ready so that he could bring it so quickly.

The eunuch stood up the map, and the emperor only glanced at it, and casually compared his finger on it, counting how many open spaces there were, and said, "There are about twenty acres of open space here, why is it always empty?"

The emperor frowned and asked the eunuch, and the eunuch immediately trotted to find the official who was in charge of the land affairs in the capital, but the official in charge was not there, saying that he had gone out to do something, so another official on duty who also knew the situation came, and replied: "Your Majesty, someone is recovering the land, which was just harvested last year, and was bought by a certain landlord to start construction this year." But being implicated in Guo Shilang's case, the person who requisitioned the land has been arrested, and he is involved in the situation of collaborating with the enemy... So... So this piece of land was taken back by the Beijing Land Division. ”

The emperor remembered last year's dereliction of duty and the case of collaborating with the enemy under the table, and asked the little official: "In other words, this land has not been dealt with since it has been reclaimed, right?"

The little official lowered his hand and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, that's exactly the case." ”

The emperor nodded: "That's just right, it's just right to take it back." Hey, you've already inquired?"

Chen Letian thought to himself, I don't just inquire, I know everything about this case, okay, from beginning to end, I and Li Tong followed up, of course I understood it. But he said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister has only heard of it slightly, because after all, it is very close to my home, so I have heard someone say, hehe, Your Majesty does not blame the minister." ”

"You kid has a lot of eyes, I already knew it. I don't blame you, since the twenty acres of land have now been recovered by the government, I will reward you with one more family business. The emperor actually raised his hand and patted Chen Letian on the shoulder cordially.

Chen Letian happily knelt down and kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty." ”

You must know that this is in the capital where every inch of land is valuable, and there are twenty acres of land in the downtown area, and this land instantly made Chen Letian's net worth skyrocket by at least ten times, and his previous Qiushi Inn plus a few small shops next to it together did not occupy more than seven or eight acres.

Now it's okay, His Majesty has given twenty acres of golden land, no matter what he wants to do on this land in the future, as long as he doesn't violate the laws of the Song Dynasty, then no one will dare to make an obstacle from it, this is a golden signboard. It seems that no one in the inner city of the capital has had the honor of being given land by His Majesty for a long time, and he Chen Letian can be regarded as the ancestral tomb is smoking.

Seeing that Chen Letian was so happy, His Majesty couldn't help but say: "Is it worth being so happy about this little land? People are exchanging gold and silver land and beautiful houses for officials, you don't want officials to ask for land, it's the other way around." ”

Chen Letian said: "Your Majesty, the land itself is not worth mentioning, the key is that this land is given by His Majesty, which is different." In the future, if he has a child, if he is not motivated, I can tell him, don't fool around here, if you dare to lose the land given to our family by Your Majesty, are you worthy of your ancestors and ancestors?

The emperor smiled and shook his head: "If you really reach that time, that kind of child doesn't care if you have a face or not, and he may not necessarily turn back as a prodigal son." ”

The emperor and Chen Letian talked about it again, and then when he said goodbye to the emperor, the emperor said: "I give you a privilege, you can directly give me a chapter in any situation, at any time." ”

Chen Letian knelt down to thank His Majesty Long En, and then withdrew.

From this moment on, Chen Letian's position as interim prime minister of the imperial history came to an end. He has resumed his status as a civilian, and is no longer the leader of the Yushi Yamen, the prime minister of Shu, and is no longer the prime minister who can call for wind and rain in Shu and mobilize the ten Yushi masters of the Yushi Terrace.

took off the official uniform and handed over the imperial history waist card, Chen Letian breathed a sigh of relief, after this time he understood a truth, once a person puts on the official uniform, there is a responsibility on the body, not everyone may have this heart, but as long as there is a little conscience and this heart, this official uniform will never make people easy.

Those who have a heart will not be easy, and those who are easy will not do good things to the people. That's the reason.

Now that Chen Letian, who has taken off his official uniform, suddenly feels a lot more relaxed, as if he has unloaded the burden of hundreds of catties on his shoulders.

It's really inappropriate for this official. It's really tiring.