The first day of the third month of the summer calendar.

At the beginning of the month, the morning is the day.

According to the tradition of the Qi State, the king should have made a morning pilgrimage every day, accepted the worship of hundreds of officials, and handled state affairs. But the situation of Qi is because Tian Dan has long controlled the government, the king of Qi is hollowed out and the power is sideways, every time the court is only reduced to a mascot, over time, the king of Qi is too lazy to go to the court, the national government is completely thrown to Tian Dan, and he is happy in the palace all day long, singing and dancing, and the ears are pure, leisurely.

Therefore, at the beginning of each month, the Great Dynasty has become the only reserved program for the King of Qi to come out to meet the hundred officials, and at the beginning of the month, the King of Qi and Tian Dan will also respect each other as guests, save face for each other, and finish the scene in peace.

In the more than 20 years of open and secret fighting, not only there is a tacit understanding between King Qi and Tian Dan, but also the officials below have a tacit understanding. In order to avoid the embarrassment of King Qi and the difficulty of Tiandan, so at the beginning of each month, the monarchs and ministers will basically not talk about any important things, and the officials will naturally not report important things on this day. Under normal circumstances, the monthly dynasty is a happy end of the Qi king's acquiescence to his decision after dealing with some small things that Tiandan acquiesced to his decision, and then ended happily in an embarrassing drama that praised virtue and praised the prosperous era.

But today's dynasty is obviously different from the past.

Lu Yunzhou had already gotten up before sunrise, and came down to the courtyard in the dark sky, the cool breeze on the ground, and the stars in the sky, and stepped into the carriage of Qi Mansion.

On this day, Kunhu and other personal guards were temporarily out of training, and among the five hundred soldiers of the Qi family manor, more than twenty agile elite warriors were dispatched, and Le Feilong drove for Lu Yunzhou, and Kunhu took a team of thirty horsemen to escort the wings on both sides of the carriage.

After leaving the heavily defended Qi Mansion, the team headed for the Taiping Gate in the direction of the palace of the small city.

The sky is still dark, but the Taipingfang is a quiet and orderly lively at this time, the officials of the court are flowing endlessly, and the high-ranking officials are guarded by the guards, crowded with the large and small roads of the Taipingfang, from time to time, the familiar ones will stop to say hello and go to the court together.

Before dawn, the roads were full of patrolling and standing guard, which was the sequelae of the Qi family's large-scale deployment of troops yesterday.

The carriage of the Qi Mansion has the logo of the Qi family on it, and many lower-level officials' carriages have touched them, and they have taken the initiative to stop and avoid, and some officials will also get out of the car to salute Qi Min and the general Qi Fang in the car, and whenever this happens, Lu Yunzhou will also order the carriage to stop, get off and salute these officials.

The officials who met on the road were all surprised when they learned that Lu Yunzhou was the only one in the car.

Soon, Da Si Xing and General Qi said that they were sick at home, and the three sons of the Qi family went to the court alone This exciting news is like having wings, and it is crazy on the way to the court.

The officials were talking privately on the road, all secretly speculating about what was going on.

And Lu Yunzhou and his entourage, also stopped and stopped, and came to the square outside the Taiping Gate in the east of the palace in the small city.

The palace gate had been opened, and hundreds of officials, carriages and horses entered one after another in the night, and a large number of carriages and horses were still waiting outside, so Lu Yunzhou's team naturally stopped and waited.

When the dynasty was in the morning, the traffic and horses near the small city were congested, and many officials who lived far away had to get up at the end of the day, and even some people hardly had to sleep the night before the dynasty, and the Qi family was located in the east of Taipingfang, which was relatively close to the small city, and the time was much more generous, but even so, in order not to be late for the first time, Lu Yunzhou still set off half an hour early.

In the boring waiting, Lu Yunzhou sat in the car, closed his eyes, and in the square outside the Taiping Gate, the voices of hundreds of officials talked into Lu Yunzhou's ears, Lu Yunzhou knew that he would inevitably become the focus, so he had been meditating in the car to refresh himself.

Many people are surprised that Qi Min and Qi Fang, the two pillars of the Qi family, did not go to court today, and then think of the strange behavior of the Qi family yesterday, these people will inevitably begin to use their imagination, but there are really many people's speculations that are infinitely close to the truth.

After another moment, Lu Yunzhou's carriage also entered the palace, and the guards led by Kunhu were naturally stopped outside the Taiping Gate, and Lu Yunzhou ordered them to wait for him outside the Shemen in the west of the small city.

Entering the Taiping Gate, there is a small square, the east, north and west sides of the square are surrounded by tall palace walls, only the south side has a straight passage, the passage is about the width of three carriages, and the two sides are also tall palace walls.

This passage leads to the Yiguang Gate in the south of the palace, because the officials have to return to the small city to work after the next court, so a passage was specially built between the Taiping Gate and the Yiguang Gate, so that the servants of the officials could drive their cars and horses to wait outside the Yiguang Gate, Lu Yunzhou thought that this was a very humanized design.

At this time, the small square was already full of vehicles, and the hundred officials got off the car, and the dismounted, Lu Yunzhou also got off the car, and ordered Le Feilong to wait for him outside the Yiguang Gate, and then followed the large army of the previous dynasty and walked to the palace gate opened on the west side of the small square.

Lu Yunzhou is wearing a purple and black court dress with intricate decorations for the title of doctor, with a jade belt around his waist, a high crown on his head, a square head and cloud embroidered court boots, a white jade court wat in his hand, his face is like a crown of jade, his posture is tall and straight, and he strides with meteors under his feet.

Along the way, hundreds of officials inevitably saluted Lu Yunzhou, Lu Yunzhou was calm and clear, neither humble nor arrogant, someone looked at him, and he nodded politely. At a young age, he is not arrogant or impatient, as if he doesn't care at all that he is the focus of everyone, and he is not nervous at all, so that the high-ranking officials and dignitaries of his father and grandparents present nodded secretly, and it is easy to have a good impression of him.

Passing through a long passage, you will come to the big square in front of the main hall, under the stone carving railing in the center of the square, a jade belt general river passes, there are three white jade bridges on the river, called Zijin Bridge, after crossing the Zijin Bridge, and then pass a palace gate, it is located in the center of the palace Jinluan Palace, which is also the place where the King of Qi received the hundred officials to the court.

At this time, it was not yet the time of the last dynasty, and the palace gate in front of the Jinluan Palace was still closed.

Lu Yunzhou walked to the railing under the Zijin Bridge, looked at the river below, and found that it was a living water, and in the moonlight, you could faintly see fish flapping their tails and rippling on the surface of the river.

When Lu Yunzhou was looking interestingly, someone in the crowd stopped Lu Yunzhou.

"Virtuous nephew!"

Lu Yunzhou turned his head to look, greeted him with a smile, and saluted respectfully.

"The junior has seen Uncle Duan!"

Duan Yuhong laughed and pressed Lu Yunzhou's hand, and said with a smile: "I heard that your father didn't come today, so the official came to take you to familiarize yourself with the process and get to know these old guys!" ”

Lu Yunzhou smiled and thanked him, moved in his heart.

Most of the officials today couldn't guess the intentions of the Qi family, so although many ministers nodded to Lu Yunzhou out of respect for the Tanghou Mansion and showed their good intentions, not many people really stepped forward to talk.

Duan Yuhong is different from others, his friendship with Lu Yunzhou is not from Qi Min, nor because of the Qi family, but because Lu Yunzhou once saved his son Duan Heng.

Duan Yuhong pulled Lu Yunzhou and walked towards the west side of the square, and said as he walked: "The palace gate will only open when it is new, it is still early, waiting for the time of the court, the officials can take a short rest in the Qunxian room on the west side of the square." There are refreshments from the king in the Qunxian room, and if you don't have time to eat in the morning, you can also fill your stomach in front of the court. Let's go first, we will be officials in the same dynasty in the future, and these old guys will not look up and look down, just in front of the court, I will take you to mix up a familiar face first! ”

Lu Yunzhou smiled secretly in his heart, and said obediently: "Yes, the junior obeys Uncle Duan's arrangement!" ”

followed Duan Yuhong through the square and came to a palace room in the west, where many officials were entering, and some stopped to salute Duan Yuhong.

Duan Yuhong said in a low voice: "The minister who can go to the court, in addition to being an official in Linzi, the lowest title must be a doctor, you are young, and you have surpassed many people in this." ”

The official titles of Qi from top to bottom are: qing, doctor, and scholar, and each of them is divided into three classes: upper, middle and lower.

The only secretary of Qi is Prime Minister Tian Dan, and Duan Yuhong, Qi Min, Hou Sheng, and Xie Zhengqing are all second-level Yaqing, and Yaqing's title is actually the preparation of the prime minister.

Lu Yunzhou's doctor's title is the middle doctor, and in the Qi country, the lowest hereditary title is the lower doctor's title.

Therefore, it was not only the high-ranking officials and dignitaries present who took the money, but also the nobles of Shiqing Shilu, among whom there was no professional bureaucrat, of course, including Lu Yunzhou himself!

Lu Yunzhou's heart sank, nodded to show understanding, and followed Duan Yuhong into the group of virtuous rooms.

The room is divided into three halls, left, middle and right, and it has been automatically divided into three groups of people according to the level of official ranks, and they rest in different halls.

Duan Yuhong did not directly take Lu Yunzhou to the right hall where he was originally located, where high-ranking officials gathered, but started from the left hall and took Lu Yunzhou to get to know the officials inside one by one.

Although these officials couldn't figure out Lu Yunzhou's routine today, it was inconvenient to talk to him more, but the head manager Duan Yuhong always had to give face, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet Duan Yuhong.

As a junior, Lu Yunzhou saluted one by one regardless of whether his official position was higher than him, which attracted the favor of many people.

From the left hall to the middle hall, when entering the right hall, I found that there were the least number of people inside, and several bigwigs that Lu Yunzhou had long been familiar with were inside: Xie Zhengqing, Hou Jun, Kuang Ziyin, Danhu...... There is also Lu Yunzhou's father-in-law Shanqin.

The bigwigs were all sitting in twos and threes, some with their eyes closed, some talking.

Seeing Duan Yuhong walk in, the bigwigs said hello to each other.

Shanqin saw Lu Yunzhou coming, beckoned him to come and sit, but he was inevitably a little ashamed in his heart, although he admired Lu Yunzhou's courage very much, although he was Lu Yunzhou's father-in-law, but today's matter, as a faction of King Qi, his every move will be speculated by others, and after a while in the main hall, I am afraid that he will not be able to help Lu Yunzhou.

Hou Jun sat in the central position, surrounded by several officials, and when he saw Lu Yunzhou, he said with a smile: "Nephew Qi Xian, today is your first time in the court, how come your father and uncle, at such a time, are both sick together?" This is also a coincidence! ”

The surrounding chatter stopped, and many bigwigs turned their eyes.

There are usually no major events happening in the dynasty, and Lu Yunzhou's reform that has been hyped for several days has undoubtedly become the theme of today's dynasty.

Lu Yunzhou knew that Hou Jun was not only testing himself, but also sarcastic himself, so he was not angry, and saluted with a smile: "Thank you for your concern, if my father and uncle knew that Hou Daren cared so much, my condition would definitely improve soon!" ”

Hou Jun saw that he was not angry, and said in a strange manner: "Listening to rumors, you want to propose to reform the official selection system today, according to this official, you should study hard in the Jixia School Palace at a young age, you haven't done a day of errands, don't know the knowledge in this court, don't be ambitious!" Hou Jun seemed to educate him with good intentions, and after a while, he said in a good time:

"Today, your father and your uncle are not here, no one mentions you, you might as well tell the adults present about the content of this reform, maybe we can give you some advice, see if there are any loopholes in the things you have figured out yourself, this also prevents you from doing bad things with good intentions later, if the content of this reform angers the king and Tian Xiang, then it will not be done!"

Hou Jun's words came out, and the hall was suddenly quiet, all the people present were human spirits, how could they not hear it, Hou Jun's words were not only inquiring about the content of the restructuring in advance, but also testing Tian Dan's attitude towards the restructuring, and threatening to beat Lu Yunzhou.

Lu Yunzhou smiled slightly, without the slightest hint of fear, and said lightly: "If the queen can't even wait for a moment and wants to give a tone on this matter before the king and Tian Xiang, the juniors can also tell you quietly." ”

There was a soft nail hidden in these words, Hou Jun's face sank when he heard this, he snorted, shut up and said no more, Hou Jun naturally did not dare to admit in public that he was more qualified to judge the restructuring than Tian Dan and King Qi.

And the officials around saw that Lu Yunzhou was so sharp when he went to court on the first day at a young age, and in the verbal confrontation with Hou Jun, he did not fall behind at all, but blocked Hou Jun speechless, and his eyes became cautious.

Lu Yunzhou and Duan Yuhong sat on Shanqin's side, and after a while, Kuang Ziyin also sat down, and while waiting, Lu Yunzhou was just quietly listening to the three bigwigs chatting about the current political situation in various countries, and after a while, Tian Dan also arrived, and the ministers hurriedly got up and surrounded one after another.

Lu Yunzhou did not show any flaws on his face, and Tian Dan did not pay attention to him, the tacit understanding between him and Tian Dan could not be discovered by anyone.

The time is approaching, the officials, led by Tian Dan, have come out of the group of virtuous houses, through the square and the Zijin Bridge, waiting behind the palace gate, waiting for the bell to ring, watching the palace gate slowly open.

Lu Yunzhou followed the officials and passed through the palace gate behind the Zijin Bridge, only to see that behind a huge square, in front of him was a magnificent palace complex built on a high platform.

At this time, the sun had not yet gone out to sea, and the Jinluan Hall on the high platform exuded a mysterious and unique aura in the starlight in the sky, which was different from any building that Lu Yunzhou had seen since he crossed, and there was a sense of grandeur in the darkness that shocked the heart.