On the second floor of the capital Yanque, two young men sat by the window.

The two of them wore blue and indigo scribe robes, respectively, no different from the large number of scholars who had recently entered Beijing to take the exam.

The man in the blue robe stood up and poured a cup of tea for the other man, who was slightly cramped and restless.

Seeing this, the man who poured the tea smiled and said:

"Even the horses don't have to be too restrained, everyone is their own family, and it is natural for me to pour a cup of tea for your brother-in-law."

Hearing this, Lian Li squeezed out a smile, nodded and said yes, the other party called him brother-in-law out of politeness, he didn't dare to really call himself an elder, the one in front of him was the Son of Heaven who had just ascended the throne, and the emperor was Shun.

Although Lian Li does not set foot in the court, he also knows that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, and the king is the most likely to be moody when he holds heavy power, not to mention that this is still sitting on the throne by seeking power and usurping the throne.

Seeing that the other party was still a little nervous, Emperor Shun turned his head, looked out the window at the main street and said:

"There are a lot more scholars who have entered Beijing to participate in the imperial examination this year than in previous years, and there are many rising stars who are quite famous in the literary world.

"This is also thanks to Your Majesty's civil service." Lian Pony said.

"You and I are both young people, and we don't have to be as tactful as those old loaches in the court. I heard that many of the scholars who rushed to take the exam this year are from Jiangnan, and you are also a fellow townsman. ”

Lian Li nodded when he heard this, "Recently, there are indeed some fellow villagers who have come to Lian Mou, and a few of them have good eyes and talents, if Your Majesty is interested, you can recommend them below." Until now, he still couldn't tell what the new emperor was looking for him.

Wang Zhide shook his head, didn't beat around the bush anymore, and said directly:

"I made an appointment with Lian Juma today, because I wanted to ask him to be the chief examiner of Enke this time, and to become an official in the court after the scientific examination."

Although Lian Li guessed this possibility, he couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard the other party say it himself, and asked:

"As Your Majesty said, there are a lot of people who are rushing to take the exam this year, and there must be no shortage of capable people among them, and there are also all the adults in the court to assist, why did Your Majesty choose Lian Mou?"

Wang Zhide put a paper fan in front of the other party and said:

"Even the horse studied under Mrs. Zhang, or the champion of the scientific examination that year, if only one horse is condescended, it would be a pity.

For example, today's situation is undecided, it is the time to employ people, although there are many scholars in Beijing, most of them are reading dead books, and what I want is a minister who governs the country, even if you look at the entire court, there are only a handful.

I want to take advantage of this imperial examination to completely change the declining situation of the dynasty and replace those officials who are in the twilight with young people who are energetic. As a leader among young people, you are naturally the first choice. ”

Lian Li unfolded the paper fan with doubts on his face, and his face was shocked at a glance, Wang Zhide quietly took the folding fan again, and said calmly:

"Once people are old, they are easy to be timid, not only do things much more tactfully, but also treat people and things very well' in a 'sense of proportion', if only so, it will not endanger the country.

But these people shouldn't just burn their stoves in the winter, and don't care about the lives of the people. At the end of last year, many people in various localities were frozen to death and starved to death, but the capital did not get the slightest news.

At the court meeting not long ago, they kept saying that this year the four seas were peaceful, and the people everywhere praised the emperor's virtue in unison, which was extremely ridiculous.

These are the people who are recorded on the fan, and there are ten such fans. Among them, there are both powerful ministers and small officials, but all of them are not punishable. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Zhide was stunned, and then looked at Lian Li with burning eyes.

"What I want is the real prosperity and peace, the officialdom is clear, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Even if I am infamous because of this, I don't care, the merits and demerits are left to future generations.

Would you like to help me finish it, even a colt? ”

Although Ma Lian Li was silent from beginning to end, his opinion of the emperor in his heart has changed greatly.

At the beginning, Wang Zhide's words only made him feel cold, but the more he went on, the killing intent in his words increased, and this cold feeling faded away.

When he heard the end, Lian Li had forgotten about being afraid, and only felt that something seemed to be beating in his chest.

This feeling is very familiar, it seems that when he was young, he was like this, he had the world in his mind at every turn, and he couldn't wait to kill all the corrupt officials with one sword, and return peace to the people.

Later, the teacher was seriously ill, and before he died, he left a request that he should not enter the court as an official, and even Li did not understand it at the time, but later gradually understood that today's officialdom is deep and muddy, and without the teacher to rely on, he must be eaten to the point that there are no bones left.

Later, he became a colt, and he learned useless things with a full stomach, and after many years of pampering, he almost forgot that he was only in his early thirties, and the frivolity of his youth had long been buried by him.

He himself became a different person, gentle and elegant, with a modest bearing.

It seems that this is how the colt should be.

……

It's just that he is used to being a canary, and Lian Li has never been able to get rid of the shackles of his thoughts, so he was silent for a while before saying:

"I'm afraid the third princess won't like this."

Wang Zhide was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he burst into laughter, laughing so much that tears were about to come out. Not to mention Lian Li, even Nie Yingxue, who was close to him, had never seen his expression.

"Lian Li, Lian Li, I think highly of you, and it was in vain that Mrs. Zhang gave you this elegant word of 'singing white'.

That's it, just if you and I haven't seen each other today, I won't embarrass the princess's mansion, you can go. ”

After Wang Shande finished speaking, he picked up the tea that had been cooled and no longer bothered the other party.

Even the horse was entangled, how could he not see this obvious agitation method?

But as the other party said, the rooster sings the world white, the teacher gave himself the word at the beginning, just to let himself change the world, now may be the only chance in this life, once missed, can only return to the cage, there is no future.

Wang Shande was not in a hurry, still drinking tea slowly. He doesn't believe that a man will be willing to be a foil for the rest of his life, just like he doesn't want to be subservient to others for the rest of his life.

Sure enough, the former champion Lang thought about it for a long time before he spoke again:

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister agreed to this matter."

Wang Zhide did not show too much surprise, and said calmly:

"Report to the Cabinet tomorrow."

With that, he put down a token and got up to leave.

Lian Li picked up the gilt token on the table and looked at it for a long time before he said with a wry smile:

"In the future, let alone the bed, I'm afraid I won't even be able to enter the door......"

Wang Shande walked out of the restaurant, and there was a woman beside him.

"Pulled him into the water?" The woman smiled.

Wang Shande nodded, "It's really the same as you guessed, Lian Li will not be willing to be mediocre, but whether he can sit in the position of the first auxiliary minister depends on his ability." ”

Nie Yingxue fiddled with her hanging hair and said with a smile:

"Mrs. Zhang's vision will not be bad, the old lady was a very popular minister back then, but he also accepted such a subordinate, if he hadn't gone in a hurry, I am afraid that the master of the horse would already be the first assistant of the dynasty.

These years of Taoguang obscurity, not only will not wear out his talents, but will make his heritage more profound, I think you this time, eighty percent of you have picked up the treasure. ”

Wang Zhide smiled when he heard this, noncommittal, compared to Lian Li, he was more curious about this woman who was about to become the queen.

"I only knew that you were a good hand at catching thieves, so why did you talk about state affairs like this?

Last time, I listened to your suggestion, rewarded Chen Jingye in the court, and publicized the matter through spies from all over the country, and after that, the number of scholars who rushed to take the exam really increased a lot.

But Chen Jingye is also strange, I don't know if he is grateful to me for my behavior, or if he is obedient, he really changed the history book, not only deleted the part of the rebellion, but also gave me a good name of Zen. ”

Wang Zhide was sighing that he could finally live for a hundred years, but the woman next to him suddenly laughed out loud.

"What's wrong?" Wang Zhide's face was full of doubts.

"I'm laughing at you're being kept in the dark and you don't know it."

"What do you mean?" Wang Zhide had a faint feeling of something bad.

Nie Yingxue restrained her smile a little and said eloquently:

"Compared with you, you also know that there are official histories and wild histories in history books.

Needless to say, the official history was written by the court historians and respected by the kings of all dynasties, and only they knew how much water in it.

The wild history is to make up for the lack of history, written by private people, because there is no constraint, so in some respects, it is more credible than the official history. ”

"You mean, Chen Jingye still wrote a history behind my back?" Wang Shande is not stupid, he can see through it at all.

Nie Yingxue was full of smiles, "I guess this is the case, you are destined to be 'famous in history'." ”

Wang Shande couldn't laugh anymore at the moment, "I said why is he so easy to speak, I didn't mention this stubble, and he took the initiative to change it." ”

"Then what are you going to do, scold him again, or cut him down?"

Wang Zhide smiled bitterly and shook his head, "That's it, the reward is all rewarded, so be it." But I kind of found out that these readers always like to be more serious in inexplicable places. ”

Nie Yingxue smiled but said nothing.

……

"Oh yes, Emperor Xiaocun has found it." Nie Yingxue suddenly remembered what was going on.

"Where?" Wang Zhide also restrained his smile.

"In Girl's Mountain, I have already asked Zhao Hu to lead the troops over."

"Girl's Mountain." Wang Zhide muttered the name, "Is it the territory of Bai Zijing?" ”

"How do you know?" This time it was Nie Yingxue's turn to be surprised.

"When my father was in power, Bai Zijing returned to the field for no reason, and I paid special attention to it. Later, he became the king of the mountain in Girl's Mountain, and I also sent people to infiltrate the cottage, but in the next few years, he made a living by robbing houses and houses, and he didn't show any other intentions, so I didn't pay attention to him anymore.

The girl's mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is an excellent and dangerous place, and now it seems that this eighty percent is a step back for the descendants of the Wang family left by the father. ”

"So, you can't attack it?"

"Not really." Wang Zhide shook his head, "This matter is thanks to the king's authority. ”

……

"Therefore, the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and mess up their actions......"

In a grass house in Longqi Bay, Ah Yue is explaining the content of "Mencius and Confession" to the students.

"What do you mean, sir?"

That is to say, if Heaven wants a person to take on a heavy responsibility, he must first make him suffer. For example, Guan Zhong, Sun Shuao, Sun Bin, Gou Jian and others are all like this. Ah Yue patiently explained.

"Sir, then if you want to become a talent, you have to go through hardships?" The bachelor continued.

Ah Yue smiled when he heard this, and said:

"This is not necessarily, many children of famous families, since childhood, can show their strength when they enter the office, and everything is handled with ease, and there is almost no need to suffer anything.

On the contrary, many scholars from poor families finally jumped over the dragon gate with carp, because they did not know the mystery, they could only cross the river by feeling the stones, and they were inevitably cut by the gravel at the bottom of the river.

In my opinion, this is a lot of exhortation, so that those who are still suffering do not give up easily. ”

"Sir, is there really a providence? Is there really an immortal living in the sky? ”

Children's minds are always very out-of-the-box, and they will already start to be interested in the "day" at the beginning of the article.

This kind of question is generally not answered by Mr. Teaching, because even they themselves don't know, but Ah Yue is a little different, I saw him think about it seriously and then said:

"I don't know about the providence or the immortals, but I know that the sky we see is not the real sky. Farther than the sky, there is a vast sea of stars, where there are many stars, some big and some small, very similar to the place where we live, and it is also a round ball. ”

A schoolboy who reacted quickly then asked:

"Sir, why did Old Master Liu teach us that the sky is round and the earth is round, but you said that the earth is also round, who should we listen to?"

Ah Yue was stunned when he heard this, yes, the sky is round and the earth is an eternal truth, how can he think that the earth is round?

He frowned, trying to find the source of this thought, but he couldn't think of it, and it made his brain hurt.

After a while, Ah Yue, who still couldn't think of the end, had to say embarrassedly:

"Let's stop here today, and I'll tell you tomorrow when I go back in the evening to check the books."

As soon as the students heard that they were out of school, they didn't care about the place, and after bowing respectfully to Mr., they ran away without a trace, leaving Ah Yue alone in a daze facing the empty school.

This is not the first time he has done this, before a student asked about the causes of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, he actually said something he didn't understand in one breath, what water vapor, atmospheric pressure, electric charge and the like, but he was confused.

"What the hell is going on?" Ah Yue muttered to himself.

Just as he was thinking, a thin old man with a cloth banner in his hand came to the door of the school, first took out the compass and fiddled with it, and then stroked his beard and said to himself:

"This should be it."

With that, he raised his legs and walked into the grass house.

……

"Who are you looking for?"

Ah Yue saw a person dressed as a warlock walk into the courtyard and asked.

The old man was stunned when he heard this, as if he was a little surprised, and then carefully looked at the young man in front of him, and there was a smack sound from his mouth from time to time.

At the same time as he was looking at Ah Yue, Ah Yue was also looking at him.

This strange Taoist priest looks familiar, and not only familiar, but also makes people feel the urge to hit him on the head.

The little old man stared at Ah Yue for a while before he spoke:

"Dare to ask the little brother's name?"

The young man looked cautious, but replied nevertheless:

"My name is Ah Yue, who is the old man?"

The old man stroked his beard, "Oh, the old man's surname is Zhou, he makes a living by telling fortunes, and meeting is fate, I don't know if the little brother minds asking the old man to help you calculate a hexagram?" ”

Ah Yue shook his head, "I don't have any extra silver." ”

"No money." The old man grinned, and then took out a tortoise shell covered with cracks.

……

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