At the end of the morning, Wang Song, the director of the Sacrifice Department of the Ministry of Rites, left the Yanzhou official post and came to the front of the Lu Wangfu, Zhao Sixian of Taichang Temple hurriedly came over to ask him.

"Chief Wang, the general of the Zhenguo of the Lu Mansion, that His Royal Highness Zhu Xiao, is also going to the Confucian Mansion, did the Governor of the Lu Mansion tell you in advance?"

Wang Song had actually seen that there were more honor guards of the clan in the team that set off, and he was also a little puzzled in his heart.

But he is actually more wary of his colleague Zhao Sixian.

Don't look at it, they are all from Beijing, and they are all under the Donglin sect, but Wang Song, who has served in the Ministry of Rites for many years, has a keen sense of political smell, and has seen that Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of Taichang Temple, is very likely to be the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

So, if Zhao Sicheng, who is said to be a close confidant of Zhao Nanxing, comes to the Ministry of Rites, wouldn't he become a competitor for his promotion to Langguan?

This time, I accompanied the eldest son of the emperor to Taishan Dai Temple to worship, and the Ministry of Rites was responsible for the ceremony, and the Taichang Temple was responsible for the Yale in the ceremony.

Wang Song was always suspicious that Zhao Sixian had collected his mistakes, and when he went back, he would pretend to be "idle" and tell Zhao Nanxing, but instead stared at whether Zheng Haizhu had the mission of befriending the Qi Party in Ludi, and silently put it in second place.

Compared with the smooth career of his own career, it is not so important whether the Zheng family's long-distance and close attack will endanger Donglin's position in front of the emperor.

At this moment, hearing Zhao Sixian mention Zhang Yaofang, the governor of Lu Mansion, and Zhang Yaofang was originally from Shaoxing, and it is said that he had a very good personal relationship with Zhou Zuo, a businessman from Zhejiang, Wang Song hurriedly made a clear look and said: "Zhao Sicheng, Zong Fan contacted the emperor's eldest son to stay in the matter, and Cao Huachun came forward, and Zhang Changshi wanted to report the arrangements of Lu Mansion, and he should also talk to Cao Huachun." Where does this official know? ”

Zhao Sixian turned around and glanced at the honor guard of the Lu Mansion, and muttered: "I heard that the Lu Mansion and the Confucian Mansion have always been married, so it doesn't seem strange for General Zhenguo to lead the way to the prince, isn't it?" ”

Wang Song became more and more suspicious that Zhao Sixian was talking in a cliché, and said lightly: "Zhao Sicheng, for the official duty, in each of their duties, let's do a good job of rituals and rituals according to the laws of the ancestors, it is the most important." ”

Zhao Sixian echoed curtly and said no more.

Zhao Sixian's suspicions are not groundless.

Because he arrived early today, Zhao Sixian saw it clearly. Among the honor guards of Lu Mansion, there is a man of a standing age, wearing a black curtain on his head, and the golden cicada on his hat is particularly shining and conspicuous in the sun. There was an entourage beside him who unfolded a red robe, and the piece on his chest was not the usual beast complement in the robes of civil and military officials, but a rich sunflower.

Zhao Sixian, a civil official of Taichang Temple, was most familiar with the details of various orthodox ceremonial music in this dynasty, and recognized at a glance that the man's crown was the dress worn by the music and dance officials during the sacrifice to Kong.

The eldest son of the emperor just passed by Qufu and entertained with the Confucian Mansion on behalf of the Heavenly Family for two days, why did the Lu Wangfu bring music and dance students?

However, Zhao Sixian saw that Wang Song, the person in charge of the Ministry of Rites, looked like he had nothing to do with himself, and he didn't teach himself a few sentences lightly, so he didn't bother to care about this strange thing.

……

Qufu is only 50 miles away from Yanzhou, and in the afternoon of the same day, Zhu Youxiao's mighty car approached the county seat of Qufu.

In the carriage, Zhu Youxiao asked Cao Huachun to open a little curtain, and after looking at Xu Xuan, his face sank, and he said quietly: "Cao Banban, is Qufu so rich?" The walls were built in such a grand way. After we went ashore from Linqing, many of the city gates we saw along the way were in tatters, and Master Zheng said that many fields here could not be taxed, and the public had the money to repair the city. ”

Cao Huachun narrowed his eyes and replied: "Master Zheng is right, if Shandong is not poor, how can it afford to smell the fragrance sect?" But Shandong is poor, and Confucius is not poor. People are the grandfather of the first product of the Holy Father, now the field is more than the Fu King, and there is no need to pay the court to the field, the annual income, closed eyes can be spent, can not be spent. ”

Zhu Youxiao said coldly: "No wonder the city wall is built so magnificently. ”

"Yo, brother, this city wall was not built by the Confucian Mansion. The old slave heard Master Zheng say that this Qufu county was the reason why Jiajing moved all the people of the old city to the Confucian Mansion and the Confucian Temple in order to respect Confucius, and built a new city. At that time, the household department had no money left, so it could only move the silver that was supposed to be sent to Hebei for disaster relief. ”

"What!" Zhu Youxiao's young face, the ridicule from a moment ago, immediately turned into an angry face, and blurted out, "He Confucius Mansion built a fence for his own yard, why do you want our Zhu family to give money!" Cao Banban, this son of Confucius, has there been any famous ministers and generals who have a literary and martial arts strategy and protect the country? ”

Cao Huachun had already made a good line with Zheng Haizhu early in the morning, and wanted to prick the silverfish descendants of Kong's second family in front of the emperor's eldest son, so he sighed more and more, and said to Zhu Youxiao: "If you say that you are a capable minister who will enter the phase, even if you don't have any ability, but you have a little bit of loyalty, you can't count on it." Yan Shenggong was given by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, but as soon as Jin Bing came over, the Yan Shenggong of that term, carrying the tablet of Confucius Sage and his wife and children in his own room, ran faster than a rabbit, and ran to Quzhou, Zhejiang in the south. And the room that remained, that is, his half-brother, also threw the truth of the lord's humiliation and death into the Yellow River, and the land of Baba descended to the Jin. As soon as the Jin people were happy, they sealed the one left in the north as the new Yan Shenggong. Hey, I didn't expect that the Mongolian Tatars didn't take long to kill the Jin people again, and guess what, Yan Shenggong hurriedly went to worship that Kublai Khan again, and honored him as the great master of Confucianism. ”

The more Zhu Youxiao listened, the more angry he became, leaned back on the red sandalwood carved chair in the car, and said angrily: "What kind of Yan Shenggong is this, who are they, Cao Banban, you go and tell the Ministry of Rites and Master Zheng, I won't enter the Confucian Mansion, let's go directly to Mount Tai." ”

Cao Huachun put down the curtain of the car and persuaded him: "Brother, don't make a child's temper, the old slave feels that Master Zheng is right." ”

"What did Master Zheng say?"

Master Zheng said that she had heard in Yanzhou a few years ago that the people of Confucius were not afraid to speak to the outside world, and there were only three families in the world, the Confucian family in Qufu, the Zhang family in Jiangxi, and the Zhu family in the capital. The Confucian family is the descendant of Confucianism, the highest grade, and the Zhang family is the descendant of Zhang Tianshi, who can communicate with gods and ghosts, and can be regarded as having great ability. It's just the Zhu family in Beijing, the nouveau riche. As soon as Master Zheng came back to Ludi, he wanted to give Long Live Lord and his brother to establish authority in front of the Confucian Mansion, so that they would know that there was only one family in the world. ”

Zhu Youxiao heard the statement of the three families at first glance, and saw that he was about to explode again, until he heard Cao Huachun say the second half, and then suddenly quieted down.

The young prince thought of Master Zheng's precedent of not being petty and only punching hard, and pondered for a while, and finally a smile crossed the corner of his mouth.