Brother Zhang was locked up.

Strictly speaking, he was placed under house arrest, and he was placed under house arrest by the princess. He never expected that even if this princess did not have the memory of Miss Jin, her personality was still so strong and domineering.

Anyway, nominally to let him have a good environment to study, in fact, he was to catch him over and cook for himself.

But what can be done, this is no one else, even Brother Zhang can only pinch his nose and admit it, so he starts the cycle of reading, cooking and eating every day.

Fortunately, because the capital has just been moved here, the rules have not been fully established, and the management of the entire system is still relatively chaotic, otherwise there is a sound man living in a palace, so Zhao Zhen must not let the spittle of the Manchu Dynasty and the military be drowned?

And he himself actually knew that it was wrong, but when he saw his daughter like that, he really couldn't bear it, so he turned a blind eye, didn't ask, didn't inquire, didn't see each other, and stuffed Brother Zhang into a small courtyard next to the princess's bedroom.

What? Worried about the two young girls and guys sneaking around? Zhao Zhen is not young, how can he not know that some things can't be stopped at all, when he didn't become the emperor and called Zhao Benefit, the twenty-six or seventeen-year-old Yan Shu, who was the prince's left concubine, also took him out to linger in the land of fireworks, and he couldn't help it if something happened, and that stunned man didn't look like the kind of person who stole chickens and dogs, although he felt that he was somewhat unbeatable, but Zhao Zhenken turned a blind eye to show that he was still quite optimistic about the character of this stunned man.

After a period of time, Zhao Zhen would always take a walk to that side at night, but basically every time he went to see his daughter coming to the door, sometimes he secretly stood under the window and listened for a long time, the stunned words were like gold, but it was his own daughter who asked the east and west, which was embarrassing.

"Official, don't be angry, Rong'er is lonely in the palace, and her brothers and sisters rarely have contact, and now she is naturally happy to meet a young talent of the same age."

It was Zhao Rong's mother Zhou, who was originally a concubine, but later became a monk because of Queen Cao, and Zhou was named the queen, and the following year gave birth to Zhao Rong, Zhao Zhen's old son.

"Then the palace maid is by my side, I'm not worried, I'm worried about the stunned ......" Zhao Zhen flicked his sleeves: "Alas, don't be intentional and unintentional when you arrive, and it has become a bad fate." Rong'er's body bones are already ...... poor."

"Official, if that kid is really the stunned person you said, a stunned person who is not even afraid of death, then you don't think that a palace wall can keep him, right?"

Zhao Zhen raised his head: "Huh? ”

"It seems to be wishful thinking, but in fact it is just two feelings. Clear-minded, unsuspecting. ”

"Hahaha, it has to be you, I really can't see it."

Zhao Zhen was in a good mood: "It's going to be Gake in a few days, and I don't know if that stunned person can do it." ”

"Whether it works or not, it is all the creation of the child, how to do it and how to do it, Rong'er has a poor body but a strong temperament, if he really marries him casually, even if he is a world-famous talent, if she doesn't like it, I am afraid that she will end up depressed in a few years. If she really meets someone she likes, what if it's a mountain farmer? She is a woman, and she can't carry the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty, so it is better to let her live happily. ”

Zhao Zhen sighed with his hands behind his back: "It would be nice if the queen mother was like you back then, I...... It's really not the material to be the emperor, the Great Song Dynasty was defeated in my hands, and I am extremely ashamed. ”

"Official, you're good enough. In order to prevent the people from being slaughtered and withdrew from the Central Plains, the people had their own sense of proportion. ”

Zhao Zhen only smiled bitterly after hearing this, he did take the initiative to withdraw from the Central Plains, and before withdrawing, he also wrote a letter to the world with the Liao State, that is, he was not afraid of the Great Song Dynasty's retreat, but did not want the people of the Central Plains to wither and suffer, and hoped that the Liao State would treat the people of the Central Plains well, and not to pay miscellaneous taxes and fish and meat the world.

Liao, in fact, it's okay, after all, it's also a country that is fighting for unification, not a simple barbarian, and after entering the Central Plains, it did not continue to expand but began to recuperate and made a fifty-year peace treaty with the Song State, calling the Xinluo Alliance, Liao is the brother and Song is the brother, and the sword is not allowed for fifty years.

And if Zhao Zhen actually wants to fight, he can still fight, his 800,000 troops almost did not move too much, it is precisely because of the great drought in the past few years, these two years are just some, and I am afraid that the people will not be able to survive in the event of a military disaster, so they moved the capital to the south of the Yangtze River and divided the north and south with the Yangtze River as the boundary.

No matter how many people scold, anyway, Zhao Zhen's hand can at least allow at least eight million people on both sides of Song and Liao to survive. And because of this, the historians of both Song and Liao gave him the temple number in advance, either Renzong or Dezong, and now it seems that Renzong is basically stable, and the emperor of Liao has no treatment.

In this way, Brother Zhang was locked up to study, and the reading came in September, and the autumn exam finally came, and Brother Zhang, who had not been out of the palace for two or three months, was almost pushed into the examination room.

After walking around the scene, the candidates began to enter the tent one after another for the exam, because the time was relatively long, so they all had to bring their own water and dry food, Brother Zhang had a large bag of palace snacks in his bag, although he made it himself, but it was indeed more luxurious than others.

The chief examiner was Ouyang Xiu, he began to wander around the examination room after the candidates entered, and when he walked in front of Brother Zhang, his footsteps stopped, raised his eyes to look at Brother Zhang and then glanced at his exam papers, and then continued to walk forward as if nothing happened.

Sometimes, the emperor's will is to be realized by himself, a few months ago, the official family gave him a blank holy decree, and after he received the will, he paid attention, and naturally knew that there was such a person as Brother Zhang.

But how to give grades after that, it is a university question, first of all, it must not be low, if you press the passing line, the emperor Lao Tzu should be unhappy, this is not a good thing. Is it okay to give it too high? That's not impossible, but the problem is that he has to have that ability, because after that, these contestants will go to the palace examination, and the articles of the palace examination will be hung out to show off.

So if this person is a straw bag, he must be given a score that is not high or low, and if he is a genius, he must also be given a score that is not low or low, because the master of the horse cannot participate in politics, and if he is given a sky-high score, it will not be justified at that time, so this is just right like a small amount of cooking and is not immutable.

And Ouyang Xiu came over to take a look, in fact, he came to see his words. It may be impossible for others to remember this kind of thing at a glance, but for Ouyang Xiu, it is the same as playing, after all, this is Ouyang Xiu.

After a torturous exam, it was the turn of the marking process, in order to avoid other examiners from brushing down the people handpicked by Emperor Lao Tzu, the first round of marking was carried out by Ouyang Xiu himself, and after seeing Brother Zhang's paper, he frowned, because the things on his paper were too bizarre.

In fact, as far as he is concerned, it doesn't matter what he writes, but Ouyang Xiu doesn't even dare to believe his eyes, because what is written above is actually a strategy to seize the unification.

As an old fritter who has been crawling in officialdom all his life, Ouyang Xiu is an absolute conservative, but at the same time he is also a firm legal unification faction, and now the biggest problem in the Great Song Dynasty is that this unification cannot be done, although Song Liao has set a fifty-year treaty, but if it continues like this, it may not be fifty years, and the unification of the Great Song Dynasty will be gone.

But the problem is that now there are a series of solutions here, although the writing is strange, but if you think about it carefully, it can make people stunning.

But when he read the whole article, Ouyang Xiu's cold sweat came down, because where is this policy, this is a national policy at all, and people don't discuss it with you, so they just write "You just do it like this", and Ouyang Xiu thought about it a little and found that this thing was feasible.

But the problem is that this article can be called a national policy, if others see it and use it first, even if the emperor doesn't kill people, he has to hang himself on the beam of the house himself.

So he didn't talk nonsense, stuffed the thing into his arms, said hello to the other examiners and left, and then went straight to the palace.

At this moment, Zhao Zhen is sitting in the study playing with birds, this bird is the canary that the stunned man secretly caught with Rong'er in the imperial garden a few days ago, it is quite good-looking, he can't put it down these days. And just when he was immersed in the leisure time of a moment in the autumn afternoon, a report from outside came, saying that Ouyang Xiu was here.

Zhao Zhen's face was full of suspicion: "What is he doing here?" ”

"Lord Ouyang refused to say it, saying that he had to meet the official family."

"Okay, these people have a lot of problems." Zhao Zhen smiled and waved his hand: "Go, announce him in." ”

After a while, Ouyang Xiu hurriedly came to the study, and after a simple salute, he handed over the policy to Zhao Zhen, Zhao Zhen also looked Ouyang Xiu up and down when he first untied it, his eyes were quite reproachful, he had said before that he would deal with it at his discretion, why did he just take it over? This makes people know, does his emperor want to lose face?

But after Zhao Zhen saw the content above, his hands trembled, and the cup fell to the ground. He had seen it cursoryly before, but now he had carefully read it three times.

"Does this work?"

Zhao Zhen raised his head and asked Ouyang Xiu, Ouyang Xiu only thought for a moment before nodding: "Feasible." ”

"Go and call them all."

After a while, a bunch of people were crowded in this small room, all of them were important ministers of the court, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu, Fu Bi and others, and they were all amazed after circulating the test papers.

After Han Qi finally took Han Qi's turn to read it, he frowned: "This method is feasible, but this son's strategy is like teaching people to do things, but it is chaotic." ”

Zhao Zhen laughed after hearing this: "You don't know, this kid is a stunned man, he is extremely upright, he would rather bend than bend, a few days ago I scared him with death, and he stood still." It's polite to be able to write like this. ”

"Hmm...... Since the official family recognizes it, then I have nothing to say, but this method still needs to be demonstrated, and it will take some time. After Han Qi finished speaking, he was about to put the things in his arms.

This time, Ouyang Xiu didn't do it: "Lord Han...... Hey, Master Han, this is the test paper of the human student, you took it, how can I do it? ”

Han Qi glanced at Ouyang Xiu and then at Zhao Zhen, and then took out the scroll: "It's okay for you, if others see it leaked out, does Lord Ouyang plan to go to Lingnan to eat lychees or Leizhou to eat crabs?" ”

Ouyang Xiu sighed: "Then if it leaks out on Lord Han, then Lord Han loves sweets so much, he must be going to eat lychees." ”

Seeing that the two were facing each other, Zhao Zhen waved his hand: "You, you still have you, the three of you stay here, rewrite a copy for him, and let Han Qi take this one." ”

Zhao Zhen pointed at the three people, who were Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and the historian Sima Guang. The three of them looked at each other, and there was no trick, the emperor had spoken, so the three important ministers of the court and the super writer squatted on the desk and began to write a fake article for Brother Zhang.

Since ancient times, this has been the first and the second, and when this was written, there was a big difference, the youngest Sima Guang was almost fifty, and the eldest Ouyang Xiu was sixty, and they almost didn't fight. It can be seen that he is full of martial arts and people in the Song Dynasty with pens!

At this moment, Brother Zhang is squatting in a small courtyard to dry lotus root powder, and it is Zhao Rong who is swaying on the small swing next to him. This cottage was bought by Zhao Rong with private money and borrowed from Brother Zhang to live in, and he said that he was preparing for the exam and let him live in the palace, but now that the exam is over, it would be rude to live again, so he just moved here today.

"Nerd, how did you do on the test?"

"Your father may kill me."

"Bah, bah, bah...... Why do you talk gibberish all day long. Zhao Rong pointed at Brother Zhang and said, "Don't say it next time!" ”

At this time, Brother Zhang took off a piece of lotus root flour and smashed it, made a bowl and put it in it to melt with water, and then slowly added the boiling water, the freshly brewed osmanthus nectar, and the fragrant one was washed and handed to Zhao Rong.

"I can't say the specifics, so be it anyway."

Zhao Rong took the bowl, ate it slowly, and then looked up at Brother Zhang: "When the time comes, you will be the county commander, and I will also go to play." What do you think I'm good at? Is it good to catch fast? ”

"Isn't it good to be a princess?"

"Don't, I'm going to suffocate to death, I've lived in the palace for more than ten years! It's so boring, you also know that the royal relatives are thin, my eldest brother is almost forty, and the rest of my brothers and sisters have also started a family, I am in the palace all day watching flowers and fish, and it has long been meaningless. ”

Brother Zhang just wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Zhao Rong: "Don't say it!" I say! Anyway, it's useless for anyone to persuade me this time, I'm going to go out and play. Besides, if I can't eat anymore, I'll starve to death when you come back. ”

"Didn't I see that your food was very fragrant, and you weren't hungry when I took the exam yesterday."

"No matter, I'm going to starve to death if you're not there." Zhao Rong insisted: "It's decided!" ”

(End of chapter)