For Fan Chunren, there is no need to explain to Li Kui when making any decisions. The reason for doing so is that he needs Li Kui's support. Whether it is a reformer or a conservative, there is only one reason why they occupy the temple, the support of the imperial power.

The hegemony of imperial power is an existence that courtiers cannot resist.

Whether it was the previous Emperor Shenzong, or the later Empress Dowager Gao.

In fact, for conservatives, their original intention of defending the Great Song Dynasty has not changed. At the same time, all their hopes had to be pinned on the imperial power. And the attitude of the little emperor on whom they had high hopes is very puzzling. In other words, the emperor's attitude did not clearly state his position.

Although the reformers returned to the court, the conservatives were not expelled.

Even Fan Chunren, when he resigned as prime minister, the emperor kept him many times.

It can be said that it has given Fan Chunren, an old minister of the three dynasties, enough face. But at the same time, it also gave Fan Chunren and even the conservatives a false impression that the emperor had not decided whether to support the conservatives or the reformers, and they still had hope. Besides, Cheng Yi, who has taught the emperor for almost ten years, is still very trustworthy, and this old master is notoriously old-fashioned and stubborn.

As long as the emperor is a little out of place, he will immediately die in front of the emperor with grief and indignation.

And the emperor was often frightened, and his personality became more and more calm. Of course, calmness is a good thing, but it also brings trouble to the courtiers, and the emperor's mind is becoming more and more difficult to guess.

This requires more opportunities to contact the emperor and find out what the emperor really thinks. It is precisely because the conservatives do not know what the emperor really thinks that they feel that their hopes have not been dashed. There is another person who conservatives also think will play a big role, and that is the Empress Dowager Xiang who is still alive. By all indications, conservatives still have a chance.

There was an opportunity, but as Cheng Yi left the palace, the conservatives found that the link between them and the imperial power was broken.

If Li Kui is still a mountain boy, it is not worth the need to be such a corporal as Fan Chunren, but Li Kui has a background that makes people feel incredible. In other words, as long as there is this background, as long as the nobles in the palace do not fall out of favor, he can have a place in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty. Although it was a bit hasty, Fan Chunren felt that Li Kui was not a dispensable chess piece, and his role would even be greater than he expected.

Coupled with Li Kui's ability to toss, no one knows that this guy will reach the height of life in the future.

Step-by-step officials, as long as they have a good background and are famous, they will not worry about not being reused after they are admitted to the Jinshi. But the wait is so long that people lose confidence in the process of waiting.

Li Kui was also pondering, Fan Chunren would not say anything to him. Even if they have high hopes for him, they will not feed him food to his mouth to tell him about the sinister nature of officialdom.

Because such a person is cultivated, and he is nothing but a sheep. Officialdom is a battlefield for wolves and foxes, as for sheep? Sooner or later, they will be killed and eat meat.

Back at Liu's Mansion, Li Kui went straight to his small courtyard. After thinking about it all night, I saw that the sky was almost dawn, and I didn't think about the relationship.

Angry, he lay on the couch on all fours, and muttered: "No matter, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, you come alive, you don't prepare to go back alive!" ”

In less than ten breaths, there was a snoring sound one after another.

Following.

The exaggerated shouting in the martial arts training ground made a noise to Li Kui, and the moment he pushed the door open, the sun was already high, so he couldn't help but raise his hand to block his eyes and block some dazzling sunlight.

Zhuo pulled his shoes, yawned and walked towards the martial arts training ground, and across the wall, he heard Li Yun's extremely arrogant words: "Xie Qian, Xie Wan, our goal is the martial champion, you are so perfunctory, how can you get the martial champion?" ”

Xie Qian's mouth touched the wound at the corner of his mouth, and he gasped. I didn't dare to squeak angrily, but I was full of slander in my heart: "It's you who want to take the martial arts championship, but our brother doesn't have the mind." ”

But Xie Qian didn't dare to say this, Li Yun's irritable scene in the martial arts training field yesterday made him and his brothers like little saplings in the wind, and they were almost uprooted.

No, it still hurts in your face?

was pulled out by the new unscrupulous big brother for special training.

In the eyes of Xie Qian and Xie Wan, Li Yun is definitely a black-bellied person with a white face and a black heart, and it is true to train them to be fake, so it is true to let them obey.

After Li Yun accepted the two younger brothers, he suddenly had the momentum of thousands of troops under his command, as if Li Kui's shadow on him was gone, but he was planning to suppress Li Kui's arrogance fiercely. I saw Li Yun reprimanding the Xie brothers: "Li Kui has passed the understanding test, and in order to take care of you, I also have to participate in the martial arts test." ”

"That Brother Yun, you took the martial arts test because you didn't pass the literary test! We can't rely on our brothers for everything. ”

Xie Wan interrupted Li Yun's words very blindly, appropriately expressed his grievances, and even lifted Li Yun's old bottom.

Li Yun jumped and jumped angrily, eager to whip Xie Wan to death with a stick. The tone was sharper: "That's not the point. The point is that I decided to take the martial arts test in the future and not take the Jinshi exam. ”

"Brother Yun, you can't pass the test!"

The two brothers Xie Qian and Xie Wan are definitely not easy to fool, especially these two people dare to tell the truth.

Li Yun rolled his eyes angrily, and it took a while to recover, he pondered that if he continued to ask this question, he would not be angry with these two brothers: "Listen, if Li Kui wins the Jinshi, he will look down on you, and even if he takes it, he will look down on me." The master is also a man who wants to be faced, how can he be idle? No matter how Li Kui tried in the end, the master knew that he would never win the top prize. But martial arts is different, as long as the three of us work together, the champion must be ours. ”

Li Yun is definitely very sure when he says this.

There are many requirements for martial arts, such as height, don't be too short, although Li Yun is not as strong as Li Kui, he is not short.

As for the Xie brothers, who were born for martial arts, these questions are not a problem. There are many items in the martial arts assessment, such as strength.

Archery.

Riding with a gun.

The last item is the school competition, not a single head, a group of people are all out of the game, and finally see who can hold on. This is also for the sake of actual combat, on the battlefield, the army charges, like an iron stream that cannot be stopped. No matter how strong an individual's force is, it is impossible to stop the charge of tens of thousands of people. So when fighting on the battlefield, surviving is the most valuable quality of a military general.

Generally, most of the scholars who participate in the martial arts are fighting alone, and it is not easy to pass the test.

Strength, archery, and even horsemanship were not big problems for Li Yun. But only the last school competition has become a stumbling block that prevents him from standing out, and after Li Yun has two younger brothers, the possibility of passing the last level has greatly increased.

The martial arts of the Great Song Dynasty also tested the literary examination, mainly based on the art of war formation, and there were also theories, but most of them focused on military aspects, but the literary examination did not make a standard in the evaluation of examination results, and could only be said to be a formality. The most important thing is the last one, the courage that comes out of fighting by force.

If he really relied on himself, Li Yunzhen didn't have much confidence. But after adding the understanding brothers, his confidence suddenly increased.

Xie Qian, Xie Wan secretly complained in his heart, although he was defeated yesterday, he was very shameless to say. But he didn't agree to call him Brother Li Yun. The main thing is that both of them are in their twenties, and they really can't open their mouths when they call a sixteen-year-old guy big brother.

Especially when they also saw that Li Yun had a lot of resentment towards Li Kui.

So, Xie Qian felt that he should encourage Li Yun to argue with Li Kui, and don't keep staring at them.

Xie Qiandao: "Brother Yun, the second brother is strong in martial arts, I don't know how it compares to you?" ”

"Well, it's pretty much the same." After Li Yun finished speaking, he suddenly felt a hot face, but in front of the younger brother, he couldn't lose his style, and nodded: "Maybe he is a little taller than me, but the gap is not obvious." ”

"Brother Yun, in that case, why don't you go to the second brother to compete?" Xie Qian said bewildermently.

Li Yun's face fell, and he said in his heart: "You went crazy to find Li Kui to be beaten?" ”

When Xie Wan heard his brother say this, he also came up and persuaded him: "Even if Brother Yun is invincible, isn't there still our brother?" The three of us also need to cooperate with the training, if the second brother joins, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort. ”

Li Yun had a bad feeling in his heart, waved his hand and said: "Let him be happy for a while, after all, he is going to take the provincial exam, and he doesn't know if he can get into the upper class, so don't disturb him." ”

As far as the real kung fu of his subordinates is concerned, Li Yun has no temper at all towards Li Kui.

At the beginning of Gaojiazhuang in Yingzhou, Li Yun fought against Mu Chun, and it was not a problem to defeat the opponent under dozens of moves. But in the face of Mu Hong, who is more experienced than him, he was almost overshadowed by this guy. But if it is a real kung fu competition, Li Yun does not feel that he will definitely be able to defeat Mu Hong, after all, the situation he fought at that time was very unfavorable.

With the addition of the Xie brothers, the three of them are at most on a par with the Dusk brothers.

But what about Li Kui?

One person fights six alone, or suppresses everyone on the other side with momentum. With Li Yun's eyesight, it is not difficult to see the strength of the Zhang brothers. Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun are even stronger than Mu Hong, plus the Li brothers, they are not worse than the Mu brothers. How could he give birth to himself and the Xie brothers to be able to subdue Li Kui?

If he really had this strength, wouldn't he have gone to Li Kui's bad luck a long time ago?

Isn't there nothing?

However, in front of the younger brother, Li Yun felt that he was cowardly, and it would be difficult to lead the team in the future. So he spoke quite arrogantly: "You don't need to let Li Kui come, it's useless for him to come, it's not difficult for the three of us to bully him, but what's the point?" Could it be that bullying Li Kui will allow us to obtain a martial arts jinshi? ”

"Can't!"

"I think I can!"

Li Yun frowned slightly and said, "Did you listen to me?" ”

can't blame him, the main reason is that Li Yun is so selfless that he doesn't pay attention to whether it was the Xie brothers who spoke.

Li Kui was already unhappy, how could he let go when he met Li Yun, who was dying: "Li Yun, if you can defeat me, Wu Zhuangyuan may be able to get it at your fingertips." ”

Only then did Li Yun realize that it was not the Xie brothers who were talking, but someone was talking behind him, this voice was too familiar, wasn't it Li Kui?

A smile immediately appeared on his serious face, and he turned to Li Kui and said, "Second brother, are you here?" ”

"If I don't come, I'm afraid it will delay your future as a martial champion." Li Yun said, provocatively saying to the Xie brothers: "Haven't you two always wanted to fight me? When the opportunity came, I said yes. ”

Li Yun's soul is a masterpiece, there is only one reason why Li Kui is generally so good at talking, he wants to find someone to be angry, and his attack will be very heavy. However, the Xie brothers didn't know Li Kui's path at all, but looked at Li Yun eagerly and shouted, "Brother Yun! ”

It's not that the Xie brothers are short of breath, the main thing is that they see their own strength clearly, although Li Yun struggled to restrain their brothers alone, he finally succeeded.

Li Kui's kung fu is bound to be stronger than Li Yun, and their brothers may not be able to help Li Kui if they go together, but they feel that with Li Yun they will be stable.

Half an hour later, Li Kui left the martial arts training ground refreshed.

Li Yun lay on the ground a few times, and although Xie Qian was also beaten, his eyes flashed with excitement: "Li Kui is really extraordinary." ”

One-on-three.

The three of them didn't even have a chance to resist, they were shrouded in Li Kui's murderous aura, and their fists couldn't dodge, so they were beaten for no reason. If Li Yun won the gambling battle, the Xie brothers were not very convinced, and in the face of Li Kui's stormy attack, they didn't even have the heart to resist.

This is the strength of the strong, so strong that it is suffocating. Truly impressed by the brothers.

However, the three of them all had a pair of dark green eyes, Li Yun was used to it, and the Xie brothers were not used to it, so they were a little aggrieved: "Brother Yun, is the second brother too heavy, and we still have to participate in the martial arts test?" ”

"He's already light, and he won't delay your martial arts test."

Li Yun snorted angrily, this beating is definitely a disaster for him.

Following.

The training ground of the barracks on the outskirts of Linyi.

Sixty or seventy scholars, in groups of three or five, were waiting for the martial arts test to begin.

Yan Ming is the main exam, for Fan Chunren, there is no problem for him to participate in the martial arts examination.

The first scene, lifting the stone lock.

Fifty catties are qualified, and one hundred catties are excellent. In this one alone, nearly half of them were eliminated.

The second, weapons. Riding on a horse and rushing into the 'enemy formation' is actually a straw man, slashing and killing the straw man with a weapon. During this period, a scholar fell off his horse and almost fell half to death. Fortunately, there was a false alarm.

The third game was the most intense competition.

It can be said that for other subjects, there are either no conditions for training, or like strength, there is no result in a short period of training. All hope was placed on the bow and arrow competition.

Fortunately, Li Yun and the others have the advantage of riding the dust, but the other scholars are fighting fiercely for the other two places.

And the final martial arts fight is the highlight of the whole martial arts test. Li Yun, who had been waiting for fame for a long time, rushed into the last twenty or so scholars with a thousand solutions, God blocked and killed life, Buddha blocked and killed Buddha, and for a while, the entire school field was a scene of people turning over on their backs.

"Li Yun, why are you so heavy?"

"Attacking without telling is not a gentleman's so-called."

……

After the war, Li Yun suddenly became a thorn in the side of all the scholars and an enemy. As for the thousands of solutions, they seem to have been forgotten, and no one cares about them.

And after getting the quota for passing the martial arts test as he wished, Li Yun went back and didn't wait to go home to show off, he was pulled by Li Kui to prepare to go to the capital.

For Li Kui, this trip to the Great Song Dynasty has really kicked off.