At the gate of the Houhou Mansion, Cheng Huang was first helped into the carriage by the confessor, and then Wu Yong also got into the carriage. The two of them rode in the same carriage and walked slowly in the direction of Luoyang Nangong.

At this time, Cheng Huang leaned on the side of the carriage and said to Wu Yong casually: "Do you know why the old man has to come in person to take you into the palace to meet the Son of Heaven?" ”

"The kid doesn't know, please show it to the adult." Wu Yong was sitting in the carriage, he didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of Cheng Huang.

Cheng Huang glanced at him, saw his immature face, and couldn't help sighing: "You are also considered to be unparalleled in luck, you have done a few big things in Wancheng, which has a great impact, and because you are still young, even the three dukes feel tricky for your reward, so when you were in the court, you discussed with the Son of Heaven, but I didn't expect that the Son of Heaven because you are not much different in age from him, so he had a heart of love and talent, and summoned you to the palace to serve the Son of Heaven." After a pause, seeing that Wu Yong's face still did not change, he was not complacent because of his words, and he couldn't help but look at him again.

Throughout history, teenagers have been the most unflattering and at the same time the most unbeaten.

Teenagers of this age are full of joy, strong and fragile, big and sensitive, and are often the easiest group of people in this society to handle.

Cheng Huang came this time, firstly, to observe Wu Yong's temperament, and secondly, to see if there was a chance to control him in his hands.

After all, in the future, Wu Yong, as the servant of the Son of Heaven, will play a vital role in the stability of his status as a regular attendant.

Now that he saw that Wu Yong was not as happy as ordinary children, he knew that Wu Yong was not easy to control, and he gradually put away his mind and regarded Wu Yong as an object that could be allied with.

Therefore, he sat up unconsciously and continued to say to Wu Yong: "The old man won't hide it from you, so I'll tell you the truth, the old man is here this time for you, and at the same time for myself." ”

"What do you mean by that, my lord?" Wu Yong looked at Cheng Huang and asked with some doubts.

"You know that your heavenly servant is not easy! Take Luoyang City, which has a population of one million, for example, how many children of high-ranking officials and nobles are staring at this position, and they naturally don't want you to be a country boy to get the position. Don't think that everything will be fine when the Son of Heaven opens his mouth, when you meet the Son of Heaven today, there will be Taifu Hu Guang, Taiwei Wenren, Sikong Liu Huan and Situ Xu Xun will personally test your knowledge, if you can't pass their level, I'm afraid you won't be able to be the Son of Heaven's attendant. This is also the main reason why Cheng Huang came to pick up Wu Yong in person, of course he hopes that Wu Yong can serve as the son of heaven, not to mention the relationship with Chen Qiu, that is, the righteous daughter he accepted, one of whom married Zhu Xian, the younger brother of Zhu Zhu, as a concubine, and Zhu Baofeng in the four winds of the Zhu family was born to his righteous daughter.

Therefore, as long as Wu Yong can be justified as the Son of Heaven's attendant, with these two levels of relationship, they can watch and help each other in this Luoyang Palace, how can they still look at other people's faces and act.

"Do you know what the content of this assessment is? It's good to be mentally prepared, kid. Wu Yong was also stunned when he heard Cheng Huang say this, he didn't expect that this nine-ten-ten-sure thing would have a change in the middle of the way.

He ran from his hometown Wancheng to Luoyang, and he made trouble to the point that everyone knew about it, if he was brushed down by this assessment, it would be really embarrassing to lose face to his grandmother's house.

I saw Cheng Huang shaking his head and sighing: "This time it is Taifu and Sangong who will evaluate you in front of the Son of Heaven, and no one knows how they will be assessed, so you can only rely on your own ingenuity." I'm just here to remind you and prepare you! Wu Yong frowned and thought for a while, but he had no clue, but the more he thought about it, the bigger his head became.

Cheng Huang looked at him for a while and frowned, shook his head and sighed for a while, and did not disturb him, after all, this difficulty had to be overcome by him alone.

The two of them were thinking about their own thoughts, and neither of them spoke again. In this way, the carriage traveled all the way, and soon after, it came to the majestic and magnificent Nangong Suzaku Gate.

At this time, the convoy suddenly stopped, and then the messenger got down from the carriage in front of him, hurried towards Cheng Huang's carriage, and said respectfully: "Lord Chang, let's go to Nangong." Wu Yong woke up in shock, hurriedly got out of the car, and stared at the palace in the distance, dozens of zhang high, as if standing in the clouds of Luoyang North Palace, Wu Yong couldn't help but feel a trace of shock in his heart.

Even in later generations, accustomed to seeing skyscrapers, when facing this Han palace, I still feel a little incredible.

The imperial palace of Luoyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty is divided into two palaces, the south and the north. Nangong is the place where the emperor and his officials discuss politics.

The north palace is mainly the palace where the emperor and his concubines live, and its status is more important than that of the south palace, so the building is extremely luxurious.

At this time, Cheng Huang was also helped out of the car by the confessor, and when he saw Wu Yong's shocked appearance, he whispered to him: "Let's go, we have a difficult time today, and we will have time to appreciate it in the future." ”

"No!" Wu Yong bowed down to answer the order, followed closely behind the confessor, and walked forward together.

The main hall of the South Palace is the Deyang Palace, the hall is three zhang high, His Majesty is one zhang high, and the hall can accommodate tens of thousands of people to congratulate and discuss politics. However, today only the Taifu and the Third Duke are here, and the Son of Heaven will choose to see you in the Chongde Palace. After walking for about ten minutes, Cheng Huang took Wu Yong to the front of the Chongde Palace, and then took out a delicate jade talisman from his arms and handed it to the guards at the door to inspect it, and then the guards opened the palace door and let go of the road.

"You wait here for a while, I'll go first and pass it on." Cheng Huang commanded Wu Yong, and hurried into the palace gate, and soon the voice of the confessor was heard inside: "Your Majesty has a decree, announce Wu Yong's pilgrimage!" Wu Yong tidied up his clothes, smoothed the wrinkles at the corners of his clothes, and then strode towards the hall.

Entering the hall, Wu Yong saw Liu Hong, the young son of heaven, sitting in the center, and the four old men on each side of the head, thinking that they were the Taifu and the Third Duke that Cheng Huang said.

He didn't dare to look at it much, so he hurriedly followed the etiquette taught by the confessor before, stepped forward, bowed down to worship, and said: "Xiaomin Wu Yong, meet Your Majesty, may my emperor be peaceful for thousands of generations." ”

"Haha, you can speak, and you deserve to be the acolyte of my choice." Liu Hong was very happy when he heard this, and after laughing, he continued to speak: "You should calm down first, and deal with the assessment of Taifu and Sangong today, if you can pass, I will not hesitate to reward." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wu Yong hurriedly bowed again, and then slowly got up, and arched his hands to both sides: "I don't know what the four adults want to take the school boy?" Due to physical reasons, the boy has only been studying for a few months, and I ask you to look at the young boy, don't be too embarrassed boy. The four of them glanced at each other, and they all saw surprise in each other's eyes, they didn't expect Wu Yong to come with a preconceived idea, and with the two factors of Mengxue's recent and young age, most of their roads were blocked, which made them a little difficult for a while.

If they come up with questions and assessments that are too difficult, even if they stump Wu Yong, they will be known by outsiders, and they may even laugh at them for bullying the small.

If it is easy to come up with the question, let Wu Yong easily become the Son of Heaven to read, and they are a little unwilling.

After all, there is only one position for the Son of Heaven to read, and they still want to fight for their juniors. Liu Hong sat on the circle chair at the top, and also looked at Wu Yong with interest, he didn't expect Wu Yong to be so bold, and he came up to face Taifu and Sangong.

In the end, it was Taifu Hu Guang who spoke first,

"I didn't expect you to be able to do several sensational events at such a young age. Today, the old man and the others are not embarrassed by you, I heard that you have been in the fugue for ten years, I don't know that you are often harassed by foreign races in the border of my Han Dynasty, and you can solve the countermeasures well? Wu Yong was stunned, he didn't expect the other party to ask such a question, this made him a little difficult, one is that he doesn't know much about the frontier area at this time, according to his memory in later generations, it will be in a few decades

"Wuhu Chaohua", "Wuhu" mainly refers to the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qian, Qiang, Di five Hu tribes, but in fact Wuhu is the representative of the Hu people at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the number is far from five, I think at this time should still be the five Hu tribes are the most powerful.

The second is that this problem is originally a pit, and even if he gives a solution, the princes of the imperial court will not necessarily adopt it.

Even if the advice given by one of his children is perfect, and the adults take it, does it not show that they are very incompetent, and they cannot even compare with a child.

Therefore, to answer this question, neither profound insights nor perfect strategies are needed, it is enough to show that he Wu Yong is indeed different.

If you talk too much, you will cause problems for yourself. Thinking of this, he thought of the means of the beautiful country to dominate the world in the future, whoever is disobedient, let a group of younger brothers do him, maybe he can also use it at this time.

Therefore, Wu Yong hesitated for a while, and then said loudly: "I don't dare to deceive you, the kid doesn't know much about the frontier, I'm afraid he can't give an opinion, but the kid is in the too illusory realm, he has seen that there is a big country in order to maintain its own stability, will continue to provoke contradictions between other countries, I think our Han can also use this strategy to deal with the Hu people, as long as they fight endlessly, we can watch from the wall." Hu Guang nodded, expressed his approval, and then asked: "This strategy is acceptable, but it hurts the heavens, do you have any other strategies?" Wu Yong thought about it carefully, and then thought of a speculation in the future, so he said: "The kid thinks that our Han can move people to the Guanzhong region and reclaim the withered land, so that we can better and faster help the northern frontier region." After hearing this, Taiwei heard the attack, Sikong Liu Huan and Situ Xu Xun heard it, and looked at Wu Yong speechlessly, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: "It's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers!" This Guanzhong area has always been a taboo in the imperial court, and only a child like him dares to say such a thing, and if he were someone else, it is estimated that he would have been arrested and questioned. At the same time, they are not so resistant to Wu Yong's study of the Son of Heaven, when the Son of Heaven in recent generations has always been a gentle policy towards the Hu people, and they are also a little aggrieved as courtiers, although Wu Yong's ideas are a little radical and cannot be adopted, but if he can influence the attitude of the Son of Heaven towards the Hu people in the future, this is not a good thing.

Hu Guang was also a little embarrassed, the two opinions put forward by Wu Yong are unthinkable to ordinary people, perhaps only such a person can change the dependence of the Son of Heaven on eunuchs, and let him read the Son of Heaven, not to mention that there is still an effect of killing multiple birds with one stone.

Therefore, he exchanged glances with the other three people, and then coughed lightly and said: "The Son of Heaven reads, the most important thing is to learn, the old man heard that you can become a poem in five steps, and then, if you can become a poem within five steps, today's test will be passed." Wu Yong smiled: "What's so difficult about this? Just now when it comes to the frontier, the kid took the border plug as the scene and composed a poem. After saying that, he began to walk, and when he reached the fifth step, he opened his mouth and said: "The bicycle wants to ask the side, and the subject country is over Juyan."

Zheng Peng out of Hanse, return to the wild goose into Hu Tian. The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river. Xiao Guan waited to ride, and he was all protected by Yan Ran.

This poem is from Wang Wei's "Make it to the Stopper" in the later Tang Dynasty, which is a rare masterpiece for writing side poems.

The Taifu and the three dukes in the hall all applauded loudly after hearing this. Liu Hong, the son of heaven, was also fascinated by what he heard, and his eyes showed a look of longing.