Heaven and earth are in spring, but when the three lines of the Beimang army pressed the border, the Liyang Imperial Court had not yet learned of the matter, and Beiliang would not pass on this military information to the capital.

Presumably, even if the capital hears about it, it will only breathe a sigh of relief, the barbarian kills the barbarian, the dog eats the dog, it is not about their copper coins, the most important thing is to lose both, which is equivalent to a great thing, and it is "happy" for the Liyang Dynasty.

On the straight official road outside the south gate of the capital, there were four guys who had no way to lead the household.

A couple with a child, the child riding on the neck of the man with the sword, clearly a family of three, and then there was a slightly superfluous man in white beside them, heroic. This man in white, who gives people a vague feeling, is not outstanding in appearance, neither the kind of country and city that rouge judges women are, nor the handsomeness of men. Pedestrians on the nearby road subconsciously didn't dare to look at this person, just a glimpse, but when they turned their heads and thought about it, it seemed that they shouldn't have left any impressions, but they didn't have the courage to take another look. As for the inconspicuous family of three, it was naturally automatically ignored.

The man holding his child's two legs with both hands looked at the head of Tai'an City, and sighed with some emotion, "I'm afraid that this is the only city in the world that makes me very embarrassed, I really want to go in, but I'm afraid of getting into trouble." None of us have a serious Liyang identity, we can't really break in, and it's not appropriate to sneak in at night, there was a person surnamed Xie in the city at that time, and the fight was not my opponent, but it was very simple to find me. I want to take my daughter-in-law and daughter in to play, and I don't want to run in and kill all directions to shake the majesty, this kind of thing makes me twenty years younger or the same. ”

The man in white sneered: "Didn't Hong Xixiang do it?"

The man said helplessly: "Aren't you comparing me with Lu Zu?"

The man in white said in a flat tone: "When it comes to those identities that are unclear, will you lose?" Even if you only talk about the martial arts talent in this life, you won't lose." As a result, he fell into a situation where he was not even as good as Tuoba Bodhisattva. ”

The man had a stinky fart posture that he had nothing to say to you, and his daughter-in-law hurriedly laughed and said: "My men are naturally lazy, in fact, it's not very good, you don't have to fight with anyone for anything, it's still clean." ”

The man nodded in agreement, "That's it." ”

The child rested her chin on her father's head and nodded along with him, and although he didn't understand anything, he still coaxed, "That's it!"

The man in white looked at Tai'an City from afar.

In the past eight hundred years, from Daqin to Liyang, in addition to the first male city in the world, she has walked through almost all the capitals of the capital.

The child suddenly said: "Dad, didn't my mother say before, there is a guy who likes to wear green clothes and often goes to the city, why do you have a headache? Dad, it doesn't matter if you can't beat my future master, but you are fighting for the second and third place in the world, right?"

The man rubbed his chin and said seriously, "That's right." ”

The woman pinched him the waist.

The man was about to speak, when he found that the guy who was traveling all the way turned around and left. He is indeed very lazy as his daughter-in-law said, too lazy to use his brain to think about the reason, but it is inevitable that there will be some slander, and the identities of your big devil Luoyang are not messed up?

The man in white is Luoyang, he is the one who ran from Beimang to Liyang and then found his daughter-in-law, and then because his daughter-in-law said that the swordsman was the most chic, he casually found a sword and pretended to be a swordsman, gave birth to a baby girl, and finally met the guy at the foot of Huishan Mountain in Luoyang Tuoba Bodhisattva, if it was in Beimang, his fame would be great, Beimang had five major sects, and his sect was among them, and he was the only member of the sect.

One of a kind in the world.

One person, one sect.

Of course, he knows that his martial arts talent is very good, but he has never pursued any enlightenment and ascension to the first place in the world, this is like his daughter-in-law is not so heavy, but he fell in love at first sight, there are always some things in the world that there is no reason.

His only pursuit is unrestrained, when he was young, it was the freedom of his own person, and when he met his daughter-in-law and had a child, it was the freedom of a family of three. As for what freedom is, he didn't bother to think deeply.

He looked at the majestic and magnificent city, and could clearly feel the luck, thinking that after the new Emperor Liyang ascended the throne, because Han Shengxuan died, Liu Haoshi died, and the surname Xie also left, he was afraid that he would take off his head in a few days after wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a dragon chair, so he arranged a lot of black smoke and miasma. This is also reasonable, with the national strength of the Liyang Dynasty, which has been thriving, it will not be completely helpless against a single-handedly top martial artist.

His daughter suddenly whispered, "Dad, I want to eat leek cakes." ”

The man was stunned for a moment, smiled and turned his head to look at the world and the world, which was not as big as her eldest daughter-in-law, and the woman stepped on his instep, "Death! What are you doing practicing martial arts, and your daughter can't eat a cake?"

She quickly added, "It's not like we don't give money!"

The man who received the holy decree nodded and smiled, "Okay!"

He took out one hand to hold his daughter-in-law and said softly, "Girl, hold it tight." ”

In a split second.

All the first-class masters in Tai'an City on the surface and under the table all feel a majestic momentum!

The Northern Fulong Qi Practitioner was even more panicked like a swarm of headless flies.

The man raised a smile.

What is freedom?

At least at this time, he knew the answer.

Freedom. That is, the girl said that she wanted to eat cakes, even if the entire Tai'an City wanted to stop her, she couldn't stop him from calling for a big view.

The road exploded with a touch of brilliance, like a long rainbow falling into Tai'an City.

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Tai'an City does have the late autumn cabbage and spring leeks said, these two things, whether the dignitaries or the peddlers and pawns, every household can afford to eat, and they all love to eat, the people of the capital like to use leeks to "bite the spring" is to iron the season again, eat a bite of spicy and umami green leeks, can simply expel the turbidity accumulated in the internal organs in a winter. In the largest official mansion in the capital Zhaojiaweng, many officials hiccuped with a smell of leeks, not to mention the stuffy farts that came out from under the buttocks of those unknown adults, which really made people frown and smile again.

There is the Hanlin Academy, which has always been noble and detached, and there are also two big yamen in the two provinces under the Zhongshu Gate, which were originally a little lively, but the most noisy is naturally the six official offices of Shangshu Province, and the military department has always been the most important place in the first government of the outer court among the six brothers, even if the prince Yin Maochun replaced Zhao Youling and became the secretary of the ministry, he could not reverse the pattern. Different from the feng shui rotation of the other five major ministers, it may not be a few years before the city changes the king's flag, the military department since the first year of Yonghui, to the second year of Xiangfu, and only three people have sat on the chief officer's seat in the past 20 years, Gu Jiantang of Dazhu Guo, Chen Zhibao, the king of Shu, and now Lu Baijie, the sword fairy of Tangxi, and the latter two together have been in power for less than two years. The Ministry of War has undoubtedly always been the feng shui treasure that the new scholars hope to have a place in the most, so much so that last year's Bangyan Gao Tingshu frankly admitted that he would rather be the head of the military department's sesame mung bean department than go to the Ministry of Rites to be the most easily promoted ceremonial official division. You must know that at that time, Bai Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was on the spot in the main hall, Bai Shangshu laughed so angrily that he immediately kicked another Shangshu Lord Lu Baijie, and it was rumored that Bai Yuping was later transferred to the Ministry of Household Shangshu, and one day he met with Xinke Bangyan in the early dynasty, and Lord Shangshu ridiculed, "Fortunately, this official did not go to the Ministry of Officials to take up his post, otherwise you kid would have waited to sit on the cold bench of the Ministry of War for more than ten or twenty years."

Today, a somewhat abrupt guest came to the unusually busy military department, and everyone in the military department, whether they were walking outside the house or in the room, either stopped and saluted after seeing him, or stood up solemnly, and they all looked excited, which was not too far from meeting the Son of Heaven alone. It's very simple, because this person is Gu Jiantang! The youngest martial artist among the four famous generals of the Spring and Autumn Period, the former master of Gu Lu of the Military Department! As a general, Xu Xiao, who was also a famous general of the Spring and Autumn Period, has died of old age, but Gu Jiantang can't even be called old. As an official, Zhang Lu, who had confronted Gu Lu for more than ten years, had already collapsed, and Zhang Julu died extremely desolately, and he, Gu Jiantang, was still the only super-first-grade Great Pillar State in the Liyang Imperial Court, holding the power of 300,000 soldiers and horses at the border pass in the north! Gu Jiantang walked into the big room of the old Zhang Lu alone, and he didn't need to say anything, after a large group of officials who were particularly eye-catching in the six departments got up and saluted, they all quickly sat down and continued to do things, this is the kind of cold and hard temperament that Gu Jiantang left to the Ministry of War that can only be understood, you are allowed to be arrogant and domineering, but you must be vigorous and resolute in doing things, and you are not allowed to drag mud and water.

Unlike the other five Shangshu Shilang have their own rooms, the three main and deputy officials of the Military Department all work in the same room, with the Shangshu table on the far left in the room, and the two tables on the left and right on the right. At present, the two squires of the military department, the general Lu Shengxiang of Pyu Yi is not in the capital as the commander of the Southern Expedition, and the new squire Long Xiang General Xu Gong went to the Liangliao to patrol the border in accordance with the new etiquette system of Liyang, so only Shangshu Lu Baijie was still in the house, he did not deliberately hold the shelf after seeing Gu Jiantang, but stood down like the subordinate officials and got up to greet Lao Shangshu, and even after the rest of the people sat back, he was still standing. This is not only because Lu Baijie's official complement with a second-grade lion embroidered on his chest is slightly inferior to Gu Jiantang's first-grade unicorn, but also because Lu Baijie has undisguised respect for Gu Jiantang, the predecessor of the military department.

Lu Baijie walked around the table to Gu Jiantang's side, and said with a smile: "General, sit down and have a cup of tea?"

Gu Jiantang nodded, Lu Baijie took the lead in walking to the two adjacent empty tables on the far right of the room, and soon the Bangyanlang who had written the Eight Drunken Immortals and was personally "threatened" by Shangshu Baiyu brought tea, first to Gu Jiantang, who was "far away", and then to Lu Baijie, who was "close at hand", after Gu Jiantang took the tea, he asked slowly: "You just don't go to the Gao Tingshu of the Ministry of Rites?"

The young chief of the Wuxuan Qing Officials Division, who didn't dare to make any moves and just wanted to leave quickly, couldn't help but tense up, and said in a trembling voice: "It's Xia Guan." ”

Gu Jiantang didn't have a smile on his face, and asked a rather sharp question to this newcomer to the military department: "Why don't you serve tea to Lord Shangshu first?"

Gao Tingshu was speechless.

Lu Baijie laughed and said: "General, general, obviously you have fun in your stomach, so don't be cheap." Director Gao took the great risk of sitting on a cold bench to come to our military department, how can he be regarded as a general, half of your mother's family, and you are not so scaring the younger generation. ”

Being so "troubled" by Lu Baijie, Gu Jiantang no longer deliberately stiffened his face, and said with a smile: "Just hand over the tea to your kid first, even if the officials want to press you in the future, I will ask Bai Shangshu for personal favors here first, and promise not to delay your promotion in the future." But you kid learn more, see how Bai Shangshu became an official, not only to lose face for himself and find the bottom of the stairs, but also let you read his great grace to help you out of the siege. ”

Lu Baijie said helplessly: "Hey, hey, general, you're not kind, just rub the tea and drink it, and dismantle my platform." From now on, I'll have no prestige in this room. ”

Lu Baijie turned his head and glared at Gao Tingshu, and said angrily: "Stinky boy, don't get out of here! Don't you be afraid that this official will give you little shoes? If you want to annoy the six Shangshu over and over again, you can't stop? At that time, even if there is a general to protect you, at most you will be allowed to run to the border to drink the wind and eat sand!"

Gao Tingshu hurriedly wiped the sweat from his forehead, smirked and turned around and trotted away.

Those officials of the Ministry of War who were actually secretly pricking up their ears suddenly burst into laughter, and the atmosphere was wonderful, and naturally everyone was extremely envious of the luck of the little guy Gao Tingshu, and suddenly left a good impression in the hearts of the two military department scholars.

Gu Jiantang drank all the tea in one gulp, and after putting down the teacup, he sighed with emotion: "Lu Shangshu is not easy. ”

Bowing his head and taking a sip of slightly bitter tea, Lu Baijie nodded with a slight smile: "It's quite difficult." ”

Gu Jiantang was silent for a long time, and after getting up, he said, "I'm about to leave Beijing and return to Liaoxi, so I won't bother." ”

Lu Baijie followed and got up and said calmly: "Send the general a ride." ”

After the two walked out of the house, Lu Baijie hesitated, but still asked in a low voice, "The general really wants to leave?"

Gu Jiantang snorted, like the military department secretary beside him, he was not as relaxed and relaxed as in the house, his face was a little solemn, "If you can decide to stay before you arrive in the capital, there is still hope, even if I insist on staying now, do you think it is possible?"

Lu Baijie was speechless.

The meaning of the general Gu Jiantang's words is actually not deep, when the first emperor was alive, Gu Jiantang had returned to Beijing all the way, but he still failed to persuade the first emperor to let him, the great pillar of the military and political affairs of the northern land, replace Lu Shengxiang to preside over the southern expedition, so now that the new monarch has ascended the throne, how can Gu Jiantang use the old merits to coerce the new master at this sensitive juncture? In fact, Gu Jiantang and Lu Baijie obviously agreed with someone's prediction of the situation at the beginning, Guangling Road to quell the rebellion, it should be fast rather than slow, the imperial court sent Lu Shengxiang's partner Yang Shenxing Yan Zhenchun to march south together, supplemented by several vassal kings Jing Nan, in terms of troops, it is actually enough, it is not a good hand, but it is certainly not a faint move, but except for a very few people who have forgotten one thing, that is, the deployment of troops and the arrangement of troops on the battlefield are more straightforward than the officialdom where everyone can sit behind closed doors and drink slowly up and down every step, Lu Shengxiang is extremely goodThe talent of the "general", but the undercurrent of the court situation at that time did not give this soldier a "general" at all Opportunity, not only did not have a chance, but dragged down to the point that even the generals were extremely difficult, so the imperial court forced the chess surface with a great situation into a stinky chess like a quagmire, if Gu Jiantang was in charge, even if there was a group of gentlemen who did not know the height of the sky and the thickness of the earth to make trouble, Yang Shenxing still would never dare to be greedy for merit, and it would not be so bad that Yan Zhenchun's entire 30,000 cavalry army would be folded there, let alone let Zhao Ying and Zhao Xun The two vassal kings be almost defeated by sending them to death.

Gu Jiantang quietly slowed down and said: "Lu Shengxiang has won the general of Hu Yi, it is no surprise to vacate the position I sat in just now in the military department, and when the time comes, it will be my subordinate Tang Tieshuang, the general of Liaoxi, who will enter Beijing to take over, it is not good news, nor is it bad news, take the opportunity to say hello to you first." Tang Tieshuang is different from Lu Shengxiang and Xu Gong, it is not good to be an official, but it is very good to lead troops to fight, after he enters the military department, Lu Shangshu you try to let him take a few young people to Guangling Road together...... When the time comes, it may be the south of Gyeonggi. ”

Gu Jiantang said indifferently: "The reason why I say this is not out of selfishness to let Tang Tieshuang do a smooth and smooth job as an official, but I hope that the military department will be in the hands of Lu Shangshu, and you can keep the taste of the battlefield for a few more days." In the future, few people who will sit in the military headquarters will probably know what horse manure smells like, and few will have calluses on the inner thighs of horseback riding. ”

Lu Baijie sighed and said, "This matter shouldn't be difficult. ”

Gu Jiantang suddenly looked back at Gu Lu in the past, and in the dusk, there was still some spring afterglow sprinkled on the roof.

Gu Jiantang then smiled at Lu Baijie and said, "No need to send it anymore, I'm going to a place I haven't had a chance to go to before." ”

Lu Baijie stopped to watch the general go away.

He knew where Gu Jiantang was going.

The former Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu was the first place where the Ministry of Officials was located, after all, no matter how arrogant Gu Jiantang had been holding the Ministry of War for many years, the Ministry of Officials Yamen was always the first important place in the nominal outer court of Liyang, and later Zhao Youling parted ways with his master, and the Ministry of Officials changed places. Both the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Punishment would have a squire sit honestly in Zhanglu, so that the civil leader could convey his intentions or will to the joints of the five ministries as quickly as possible. Now Zhao Youling has been promoted to Zhongshu Province, and Yin Maochun has joined the Ministry of Officials, who unexpectedly chose to sit in that room.

Of course, there will be no more Zhang Lu in the world, compared to Gu Lu, who is often talked about, this place doesn't even dare to mention it again.

It was as if it had never appeared in the Liyang court.

Gu Jiantang walked to that place and looked there.

Under the night, compared to Gu Lu, there was not even the last trace of afterglow.

This time he returned to Beijing, and that night, the emperor who had not yet been called the first emperor, stood in the edict prison, which was the last sentence that he Gu Jiantang relayed to the person he Gu Jiantang went to see.

The man was separated from him, the general, by an iron fence, but he didn't say even half a word's last words, but just waved his hand at Gu Jiantang.

Gu Jiantang retracted his thoughts, and didn't look at the important officials who hurriedly ran out of the house and down the steps to greet him after hearing the news, nor did he look at Yin Maochun, the prime minister who stayed at the door.

Gu Jiantang turned around and strode away.

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There are more people in the capital silently, and it stands to reason that there is one more person in this world's best place, even if there are a thousand more people, it is like a water, but no one can underestimate this guest who has a body of guilt.

Zhao Xun, King of Jing'an, the youngest clan king surnamed Zhao in the Liyang Dynasty.

From the order to summon Zhao Xun to Zhao Xun's entry into Beijing, the Ministry of Rites failed to intervene from beginning to end, and it was all handled by the Zongren Mansion. There is no impermeable wall in the capital, and the gossip has begun to spread rapidly in high-level officialdom, but basically no one can know whether Zhao Xun's trip to Tai'an City is a blessing or a curse. In the battle outside the Shake Hidden Pass, Zhao Ying, the king of Huainan, who was also the king of the clan, died in battle after three battles and three victories, and it seems a bit inappropriate to say that he is aggrieved, but it is not right to say that he is brave, but he is brave, but he is too resourceless, abandon the three passes, and go to the plains to play a cavalry duel with others, how can he be wise? As for Zhao Xun, it can be regarded as more praise than depreciation, after all, this King of Jing'an is rushing to rescue the King of Huainan, and he is almost chased to death by the rangers of the Western Chu rebels, and the relationship between the two vassal kings who are one generation apart is shallow, it can be seen that Zhao Xun's loyalty to the court is undoubted, and his father Zhao Heng, the old King of Jing'an, is a world of difference. It's just that now the emperor has inherited the unification, and the king's heart is unpredictable.

Zhao Xun temporarily lived in a mansion on that Junwang Street, and he has no inheritance relationship, more than a hundred years ago was the private residence of a powerful minister of the Liyang Dynasty, the encroachment violated the system beyond the limit, covering an extremely wide area, there are more than 400 houses, among which the foundation of the palace is several zhang higher than the street outside the door, and then was given to the Zhongyi King by the Liyang Emperor about 40 years ago, but unfortunately the prince was only hereditary and lost after a generation, in the last 40 years, several times, the master lived not far away, the most famous of which is of course the old lady Sun Xiji of Western Chu。

Although Zhao Xun was nominally the vassal king who went to Beijing to ask for sin, the wording on the previous holy decree was quite harsh, if it weren't for the fact that the blind Mr. Lu expected, Zhao Xun might really be scared away, Lu Xu's gift at that time was very simple, "Go and be safe." ”

Zhao Xun is really at ease at the moment, and these days he often walks alone in the mansion, enjoying the ridges of the bright corridors, the towering ancient trees and the mountains around the water. Zhao Xun was standing in a lake pavilion at this time, with a smile on his face, after arriving in the capital before, he escorted him into the Zongren Mansion Right Zongzheng, to him that called a nose is not a nose face is not a face, looking at him Zhao Xun is like looking at a roadside wild dog, this is not yesterday I may have heard some news, a hurry to repair the relationship is coming, a wrinkled old face smiled and blossomed, Zhao Xun of course will not care about the bright side, and even gave the right Zongzheng a piece of mercury jade wrench that has been prepared a long time ago, the old guy's eyes lit up when he saw it, obviously Mr. Lu carefully prepared such a small object, right in the underbelly。 In fact, in addition to the jade wrench, Lu Xu also asked him to carry an ink-colored turtle back inkstone, saying that if Zuo Zongzheng came forward to be in charge of the reception, he needed to send this thing.

Zhao Xun said with sincere emotion: "Lu Xu, you are really clever." When this king was still His Royal Highness, he always felt that Li Yishan, Nalan Youci, these so-called top strategists, were just heroes created by the times, and once they were left in the peaceful and prosperous times, they would not be known until they met you, and they knew that they would definitely have a place for you no matter how they ruled the world in troubled times. ”

Zhao Xun previously thought that the cost of using the annihilation of the entire army of 6,000 cavalry to complete the layout of "retreating as advancing" was too heavy, but when Zhao Xun came to Tai'an City and stood in this mansion, he began to understand that Mr. Lu was right.

Zhao Xun suddenly saw two figures appear on the shore of the lake, and then walked towards the Lake Center Pavilion, no one led the way, Zhao Xun frowned, and gave birth to some instinctive vigilance.

When the two gradually approached, Zhao Xun was stunned for a moment, and after recognizing one of them, he asked suspiciously: "Brother Song?"

Song family young phoenix Song Kaili.

The last time he entered Beijing, Zhao Xun had some point-to-point dealings with Song Kaili.

Song Kaili said: "The lower officials pay a visit to King Jing'an." ”

Zhao Xun hurriedly smiled and said, "Brother Song doesn't need to be polite. ”

Song Kaili's demeanor was leisurely, with a kind of arrogance and impatience exuded in his bones, without the slightest family decay and his own body was covered with dust, and he and the Confucian scholar with gray temples came to visit together, which made Zhao Xun very hesitant in his heart.

Song Kaili said softly: "This is Mr. Yuan, and Xichu Sun Xiji and the others are only Mr. Yuan's guests. ”

Zhao Xun is not stupid, and he thought it through all of a sudden.

Surname Yuan. The real owner of this house.

It is the first strategist of Liyang who made his father Zhao Heng hate him to the bone, half an inch of tongue Yuan Benxi!

Zhao Xun shook it to the end, "Junior Zhao Xun visits Mr. Yuan!"

Yuan Benxi didn't speak, just waved his hand.

Song Kaili said with a smile: "The lower official is here to tell the prince that he will soon be able to leave Beijing and return to Qingzhou." ”

Without waiting for Zhao Xun to come back to his senses, the "soon" in Song Kaili's mouth was really fulfilled quickly.

The eunuch Bingbi, the celebrant in a bright red python robe, walked towards the three of them with the holy decree in his hand, his steps were extremely fast but did not give people the feeling of messy and hurried.

After seeing Yuan Benxi, the old eunuch holding the holy decree also nodded slightly before announcing the decree to Zhao Xun, the king of Jing'an.

Zhao Xun naturally needed to kneel, and Song Kaili also took a step back and knelt down to listen.

Only Yuanbenxi faced the lake and turned a deaf ear.

And the great eunuch who sat firmly in the top three positions among the eunuchs in the world did not show any strange look at all.

After accepting the holy decree, Zhao Xun had to leave Beijing quickly, and he didn't have Lu Xu's tricks, so he really didn't know how to talk to the Liyang Emperor, for fear of being self-defeating, so he took advantage of the situation to leave Huxin Pavilion.

When Zhao Xun and the great eunuch left one after another, Yuan Benxi asked, "What do you guess this eunuch will be asked after returning to the palace?"

Song Kaili shook his head and said he didn't know.

Yuan Benxi said with a smile: "The emperor will not care about King Jing'an, but will ask Yuan Benxi if he is respectful when he sees the holy decree." ”

Song Kaili couldn't cry or laugh.

Yuan Benxi said calmly: "I have suggested to the first emperor before, if Zhao Xun, the king of Jing'an, has the intention to hide his strength in the Jingnan Battle, he will order him to enter Beijing and take off his title and be demoted to a commoner. If he fails despite his best efforts, let him keep the prince, but he must live in Tai'an City for a year or two. The first emperor was concerned about this matter, but when today's son was not unconcerned, but for the Son of Heaven, a vassal king with mediocre prestige, Zhao Xun's stay is nothing, he wants to imitate the first emperor's wrist to deal with Zhang Julu, and constantly make a test, step by step, bit by bit, encroaching on ......"

Song Kaili whispered: "I'm too anxious." ”

Yuan Benxi was noncommittal, opened the conversation with a little difficulty, and continued: "Zhao Xun is very smart, not how smart he is, in fact, he is much inferior to his father Zhao Heng, but this person knows how to obey the words of the people behind him. I want him to stay in Tai'an City and only watch the changes in the world on the wall, because Xiangfan, as the waist of the world, is too important to allow the slightest loss, and the young man who is blind and alive is a huge variable in itself. I originally wanted to completely disrupt the Qingzhou forces and let one of Xu Gong or Tang Tieshuang go to Xiangfan City. Now it seems that maybe, maybe one day, Qingzhou will become a battleground for soldiers, Liyang, Beimang, Beiliang, Western Chu, Western Shu, and Southern Xinjiang. ”

Song Kaili wanted to speak and stopped.

"Strategist and strategist, the strategist, the identity has been decided, just a 'shi', and then it depends on how to give advice to the person who assists, but before that, you must find the right person. ”

Yuan Benxi narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Li Yishan is right to find Xu Xiao, Zhao Changling is wrong." I'm looking for the first emperor, that's right. Xun Ping, it's wrong. Nalan Youci is right to find Zhao Bing, the king of Yan. Lu Xu looked for Zhao Heng and Zhao Xun's father and son, which was wrong. ”

Song Kaili asked curiously: "So Song Dongming, Xu Beitong and Chen Xiliang found Xu Fengnian, is it right or wrong?"

Yuan Benxi smiled: "I don't know." ”

Song Kaili asked very seriously, "Mr. also has something that he is not sure about?"

Yuan Benxi asked rhetorically, "Isn't it possible?"

Song Kaili smiled: "Yes." ”

Yuan Benxi laughed at it, and then said: "I once asked two monks the same question, killing a thousand people and living ten thousand people, is there something to do, or something not to do? When I asked about killing ten people and living ten thousand people, Yang Taisui nodded and said that he could do something. But when I kept asking until I killed one person and ten thousand people, Li Dangxin still refused to nod. ”

After Yuan Benxi finished speaking, he paused for a long time, stretched out his hand and pressed on the pavilion pillar, and said: "I will let you go to Jizhou with a holy decree and a secret decree next, the former is to let you take root in Jinan, and the latter is for you to give to Yuan Tingshan's mad dog, so that he can boldly let go and open the gate of Jibei." ”

Song Kaili was puzzled at first, but soon his face suddenly turned pale.

Yuan Benxi said indifferently: "It's just a matter of making Beiliang a little more chaotic." Those who seek the living live, and may the dead die, to each his own place. Then let the entire Central Plains wait and see. ”

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As in the past, Tai'an City is now ushering in the "literary brilliance" that will not come again at the most unmissable time in the first month.

For a time, the name of the thorn door flew all over the sky.

The imperial examination began in Dafeng, flourished in Western Chu, flourished in Liyang, in Western Chu when the subjects of the imperial examination were extremely complicated, after the reform of Liyang, the most important entry into the Shike, in someone's hand Jinshi gradually focused on trying to ask, at first there was a burst of "Shoufu Lord snubbed the scholar and favored the work" of the hustle and bustle. The number of Jinshi and the first is also increasing, from a few three or four people in Dafeng to more than twenty or thirty people in Western Chu, and then to more than 100 people in the later period of Yonghui, until the first year of Xiangfu can be called an unprecedented two hundred people. Because of the great prosperity of the imperial examination, many people from other towns who went to Beijing to take the examination continued to pour in and stayed in Tai'an City, so there were two interesting things about "Tongbang" and "Provincial Papers", which invisibly also made the two places in the literary world and officialdom continue to be brought closer. Liyang Jinshi Branch is held in the first month of February to release the list, skipping the dragon gate is rare, not to say, the list of scholars do not naively think that the list is over, and it is impossible to go back to the house to go back to their respective homes, after all, the huge entanglement in Beijing is not what most scholars can afford, so they have to stay in the capital, there are relatives and friends to find fellow villagers, it doesn't matter to borrow to live in the temple Taoist temple, during this period, in addition to continuing to study hard in the cold window, you have to learn to ask someone to write your proud articles to the officialdom or the literary world Taste it, or directly send it to the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Yamen other than the chief examiner of the imperial examination, similar to the saying "the prime minister's concierge seven officials" and "the king of Hades is good, but the little ghost is difficult", which was born because of this.

And the most unbreakable "Seven Grades" gatehouse in the second year of Xiangfu is a bit unusual, having presided over several imperial examinations after Tantanong, and now he is the "Lord Tianguan" The unusual thing is that this year's mansion with the most famous thorn doors is not the mansion of Qi Yanglong, nor is it the mansion of Yao Baifeng, the great master of science, not the family of Yan Jiexi, who is also a relative of the emperor and a scholar of the palace, but the house of two young officials, one is Jin Lanting, the waiter of the new Ministry of Rites, Jin Saburo who is rumored to be the next lord, and the other is Sun Yin, who is the right priest of the new country。

It is said that the famous thorns received by these two porters can fill dozens of large baskets!

And these two most popular officials in Liyang also showed completely different postures, even if Jin Lanting had heavy official duties, he also tried his best to find time to meet with all the people, even if the queen mother couldn't squeeze into the Shilang Mansion and couldn't meet, Lord Jin would definitely carefully "warm up" That is, to reply to people, and never sloppy to deal with, so that he almost every day has to stay up all night, in addition to meeting the scholar warmly in person is to pick up the lamp to approve the article and poetry, some of the best poems and essays will even be taken by Jin Saburo to take the initiative to pass on the eight handsome in the capital, it can be said that he spared no effort to help those scholars extend their reputation, so no one is not grateful to them. But in contrast, Sun Yin and Sun sacrifice wine are extra unkind, and they accept it in the form of a door, but they didn't meet anyone in the first ten months of the first month, and the confirmed "Wen Juan" was only replied to seven or eight copies casually, but this guy is too shocking in the martial arts of the Guozijian Martial Arts, don't forget, the famous tongue battle of the government and the opposition is a big victory for this person!

Therefore, even if this recognized madman in the capital wrote the four big words "bullshit doesn't understand" in a reply letter, the guy who got the reply was still like a treasure, cheekily hyped it for himself, and was laughed at by the entire Tai'an City.

In just a few years, from the Huangmen Lang Mansion, it has become the Wine Sacrifice Mansion, and then it has become the Shilang Mansion, so is it still far from the title of Shangshu Mansion?

Jin Lanting walked alone in the corridor after sending away the remaining seven people of the capital Bajun, he knew that there was a mountain of doors on the desk of the study, and he knew that as long as the imperial examination was not officially opened, the hill would only pile up higher and higher, and the Ministry of Rites was indeed the clearest soup and little water among the six departments, but if he did it, it was the oil and water from the Qingshui Yamen, but this kind of oil and water was more hidden than gold and silver. Jin Lanting stopped beside a pillar, raised his head and closed his eyes, his face full of intoxication, and took a deep breath.

"Tai'an City, Tai'an City, how can you let me Jin Saburo not be proud?"

After a long time, Jin Lanting opened his eyes, his eyes were blazing, and he said in a voice that only he could hear: "Lord Shousuke, I will do better than you!"

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The small house where Sun Yin lives now is rented, and when he first leased it, he was just a petty official in the province, and the rent was still reduced to ten taels of monthly rent after Sun Yin and the rich man were talking, and it was paid in March. After Sun Yin's fame rose, Fu Jia ran to the door and said that he wanted to give the house to the right sacrificial wine lord, but Sun Yin didn't agree, but just changed the payment in March to one payment in a year. Sun Yin was going out today, and through the gap in the door, he saw that more than a dozen people were still waiting for the rabbit outside the door, so Sun Yin turned to the back door and left. As a result, he was blocked by a shabby-clothed young scholar, Sun Yin was blocked in his way, and the scholar introduced himself in a thick old Xishu accent, and then bent down and handed out a stack of things, which could be multiple poems or a long fu.

Sun Yin asked indifferently, "Have you shown it to Jin Shilang?"

The reader blushed and snorted. Obviously, he has thrown a roll to the Shilang Mansion, and most of them have been swept up by Jin Saburo, and it must be that Jin Lanting only gave a bland and tasteless polite entertainment, so he had to come to Sun Yin, who had a higher threshold, to try his luck. Sun Yin fumbled and took out a handful of bits and pieces of silver, opened his palm, and asked: "I haven't looked at anyone in the past ten years, and the things in your hands are ten percent of what I don't even bother to scold, high-ranking officials in the capital cherish feathers, and when they meet people like you, at most they pinch their noses and send some money." Do you want me to give you the money so that you can pay off the rent on credit and have a good meal, or do you want me to see your things?"

The Xishu Dao, who was mediocre in appearance and temperament and not outstanding, shook his head and said: "I don't want money, as long as Lord Sacrificial Wine takes a serious look at my poems." ”

Sun Yin took back the silver, took the stack of poems with good handwriting, pinched a corner with two fingers of his left hand, and turned seven or eight pages with his right hand carelessly, and soon handed it to the down-and-out lifter whose hands were full of frostbite, but when the latter immediately borrowed the poem with both hands, Sun Yin took the lead in letting go, and the poem suddenly fell to the ground, Sun Yin looked at the stunned reader, and for some reason took out a small grain of broken silver, and threw it on the ground, and when he passed by Na Xishu Juzi, he sneered: " I'm not going to pick up the silver, because it's not worth it to me. Your poems should be the same for you, because they are too worthless. ”

Sun Yin just walked away.

After walking far away, Sun Yin turned his head to look at the man.

The thinly dressed reader squatted on the ground, picking up the manuscript of the poem page by page.

Sun Yin also saw the man raise his arm and wipe his face.

Sun Yin sighed and slowly walked towards a mansion that was not too close.

After arriving, the porter, who was originally recognized as extremely difficult to serve in the capital, was not blocked at all, and even showed a very sincere smile, which is obviously not just because Sun Yin is the second-in-command of the country.

No one needs to lead the way, after finding Tan Tanong who was drinking peanuts and rice in the study, Sun Yin didn't speak, just drank by himself.

Huan Wen smiled: "Huaihua Huang, busy with your son." Spring green, it's you busy. Just get used to it, and when you reach my age, you won't be busy. ”

Sun Yin, who had drunk several large bowls of wine, suddenly lifted a pair of chopsticks, gently tapped the edge of the wine bowl, and said softly: "The fingers are frozen and broken on a snowy night in the capital, the beggars in the broken temple are snoring like thunder, the high wall of the Zhumen is warm and victorious, and the old nobleman in purple clothes and white mustache can't ask for ...... when he closes his eyes."

Listening to Sun Yin's long and loud chatter, Huan Wen listened to it for a long time, and when a bowl of wine was brought to his mouth, he was stunned and didn't drink it, and finally couldn't help laughing and scolding: "What a mess!"

Sun Yin stopped and shut up.

Huan Wen took a sip of wine and said softly: "But the meaning is still a little bit meaningful." ”

Sun Yin said calmly: "I borrowed it with a grain of broken silver. It's borrowed, I can't afford it. ”

How old and spicy is Tantanon and what kind of Taoism, he just took another leisurely sip of wine and made a series of smack sounds, I don't know if the wine is too spicy or what.

Sun Yin asked, "No more wine?"

Huan Wen rolled his eyes and said: "Young people drink alcohol, they shouldn't be used to get drunk and drown their sorrows, they know the sorrow of a fart at a young age, only when they are seventy or eighty, they are tired and crooked, and they are used to destroy people's hearts and livers." ”

Sun Yin glared and said, "Don't drag the sour, talk about people!"

Huan Wen put the empty wine bowl on the table, and also glared: "What Lao Tzu means, you kid don't understand, I don't have any wine for you!"

Sun Yin leaned back in his chair.

Huan Wen said angrily: "If it weren't for your kid finally knowing that he would take advantage of an official hat to wear, and put the first month's money in his pocket, hurry up and change it to a yearly payment with that businessman, otherwise don't talk about drinking those bowls of wine, you wouldn't want to enter my gate!"

As soon as Huan Wen said this, he was really angry, and he pointed his finger at the youngest right sacrificial wine in the history of the country's eunuch, "The brain is in water! With Beimang Liyang as the offensive and defensive sides, talk about martial arts, talk about you big-headed ghost!"

Huan Wen grabbed the wine bowl on the table and smashed it, regardless of the blood on Sun Yin's forehead, he said sharply: "Okay, what a national disaster, martial arts do not hesitate to die, and literature does not hesitate to be famous! What an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood! A good Beimang knocks on the pass and goes straight to Tai'an City! In the world, you Beiliang Sun Yin alone knows the art of war and understands the current situation!"

Sun Yin simply closed his eyes, and scolded and scolded him without fighting back.

The more Sun Yin looked like he was immortal, the more angry Huan Wen became, and he slapped the table heavily, "Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince who was sitting on the futon at that time was a fool?

Huan Wen almost scolded directly, "You are a fool to me Huan Wen?! fuck you!"

Sun Yin said lukewarmly: "I'm sorry, my mother died a long time ago." ”

"Fuck your uncle!"

"Dead too. ”

"Lao Tzu doesn't care if your ancestors are dead for eighteen generations!"

Sun Yin stopped talking completely.

Huan Wen softened, his expression was sad, his hands trembled, and he said softly: "Biyan'er has never been favoritistic in his life, and he only made an exception for you, a bastard, once in his life." ”

Sun Yin's expression was blank, "In Guozijian, so many scholars who are full of wealth and wealth think that the 300,000 iron horsemen in Beiliang should die completely, and even think that even millions of people in Beiliang will die when they die. ”

"Yan Zhenchun is dead, they are indifferent, Zhang Julu is dead, they are very happy. ”

"These people feel that if they were Yan Zhenchun, they could easily defeat Xie Xiqi's cavalry, and these people felt that if they were Zhang Julu, they would have been able to dominate the world through the country and the world. ”

"These people are all readers. ”

Sun Yin lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and choked up: "When I was young, it was not easy to go to private school, and Mr. was a Spring and Autumn relict who stayed in Beiliang for some reason in Hongjia's northern run, and I remember that Mr. likes to take us to read and sing the "Song of Long Hatred". Before I left Lingzhou, I saw my husband for the last time, and he said that he didn't expect that the sound of Langlang books he heard in Beiliang was the same as the sound of books he heard in his hometown. So it doesn't hurt for Mr. to say that he was buried in Beiliang after his death. ”

"Tai'an City of these scholars, it's so peaceful. ”

"I don't want to see such peace, my Sun Yin wants to go back to his hometown, and I'd rather go to see the wolf smoke rising there. ”

Huan Wen said to himself: "Sun Yin, if you want to go back to Beiliang, I won't stop you." But I want you to know that the Tai'an City of those who read books you see is not the real Tai'an City, nor is it the Tai'an City of everyone. ”

"In this city, there has been my teacher, Zhang Julu, Xun Ping, Yan Zhenchun, and I, who is still alive, Huan Wen, and many others, you don't know. ”

"Xu Xiao, Li Beware, Cao Changqing, and Yang Taisui have all been in this place, they are so high-spirited, and each of them can have a clear conscience. ”

"If you go back to Beiliang, you may become an official, you may be a strategist, and you may die on the battlefield with a clear conscience. But if you don't give up today, one day, at some point, you'll have the opportunity to say to another young man, 'Tai'an City, there's my Sun Yin.' In this world, there is my Sun Yin!'"

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In a secluded courtyard in a narrow alley, a woman sat quietly on the threshold of the inner courtyard, and the wooden door of the outer courtyard was open, and she looked out of the door.

It's like waiting for someone to come home.

Occasionally, she could hear the melodious shouts of those selling rock sugar gourds coming from a distance, but perhaps the alley was too small to see the vendors carrying the sugar gourds passing by the door.

She stretched out her hand to her abdomen and said softly, "Bianguan, the child and I are fine." ”

But we miss you all too much.