The next moment,

As if thinking of something, the guard of the Chu Palace's mansion spoke: "By the way, Miss Lingqi, the wind and snow outside are more intense than yesterday or even a few days ago, if you travel, you should bring something to keep out the cold." ”

Lu Lingqi's heart sank.

The snow is getting bigger?!

Is it true or false?

She was worried.

It was not that I was worried about the wind and snow, but when His Highness went out today, he did not bring warm clothes, but only wore a deep coat to go out.

Hurriedly opened the tent.

Apricot eyes looked out.

Today's weather is not good.

Heavy snow is falling, cold winds are howling, and clouds are thick.

The howling cold wind blew through Lu Lingqi's little face, and she only felt pain on her face, as if she had been cut by a knife.

A beautiful waist-length silver hair fluttered messily in this cold wind, like a group of demons dancing wildly.

Lu Lingqi narrowed her eyes.

The weather is indeed colder than yesterday, and if it weren't for her martial arts since she was a child, I'm afraid she wouldn't have survived for a month.

Calculate the time.

This is still around August of the Tang calendar, and the snow mountains here are already like this.

In November and December, it will naturally be even colder.

And they will continue to stay on this snow-capped mountain for many days with His Highness.

At this time.

Lu Lingqi can finally understand why His Royal Highness wants to let those literati gentlemen take the lead in leaving the team on the road and break it into pieces.

It turned out to be because of this snow-capped mountain.

"Your Highness...... What the hell are you looking for?! ”

"What is there on this snow that is worth making you so excited?!"

As Li Kuan's personal guard, Lu Lingqi didn't understand His Highness's thoughts.

His Royal Highness is too mysterious, so mysterious that even if he has followed him for many years, there is no way to see through what he is thinking.

Although she couldn't see it, Lu Lingqi knew that it was absolutely impossible for His Highness to come to such a ghost place for no reason.

Turn back to the tent.

Lu Lingqi came to the shelf and took out two pieces of daze.

"The next time the weather is getting colder, please remind me, Your Highness has always liked to travel lightly, and we still need to arrange this matter of helping him prepare warm clothes."

The guards of the Chu Palace's palace nodded, indicating that they would keep it in mind.

pinned the two daggers in her hands, and because she brought two coats, Lu Lingqi put her halberd in the camp tent and took two daggers to hide on her legs.

Then, Lu Lingqi took the letter.

The letter as a whole is very thick.

With the character of the Taoist, things that are not important will not be reported.

Even so.

The letters are still as thick as fingernails.

As you can imagine.

Recently, Chang'an City must have had a lot of mutations.

Pull open the tent again.

The cold wind is howling, and even if you exhale, you can feel cold in your heart.

And in such ghost weather.

Outside, there are a lot of guards from the Chu Palace, armed with guns everywhere.

And that's just a defensive force on the surface.

Five hundred meters away from the tent, there were many guards of the Chu Palace, incarnated as spies, lurking around, detecting whether there was danger and then approaching them.

The reason why all this was done was because the head of the Fan Yang Lu family was forced too hard.

The people he leads him are like dog skin plasters, always sticking to them, and they can't be shaken off.

Facing the cold wind.

Lu Lingqi went out so quickly.

Go round and round.

When you come to a dead end, you will see a steep wall up to five meters in front of you.

This steep wall.

is also the reason why Lu Lingqi resolutely does not bring a halberd, bringing it will only increase the burden of climbing.

And because of the wind and snow, ordinary martial artists can't climb the steep wall at all, which is why Lu Lingqi insisted on coming by herself.

"Your Highness, it really adds to people's troubles."

Lu Lingqi rubbed her head with a headache.

The next moment.

Draped the two pieces of daze on his body, and the moire combat boots on the soles of his feet quickly exerted force, like a trapeze, Lu Lingqi jumped into the air, and her two jade hands grabbed the exposed stones of the steep wall.

Do the same, jump again, and grab the top stone again.

After a few times, she climbed the steep wall.

The scenery above the steep wall is only gray and snowy.

But in that snow extreme,

It was a cliff, and there was a young man in black sitting cross-legged on the side of the cliff, with his hands on his chest, and his crest beam was sitting upright.

At this moment.

The young man's clothes were thin, his body was almost covered in snow, and his tied black hair danced in the wind and snow.

But.

Even though the wind and snow were dancing, the young man remained unmoved, and sat there quietly.

Those who don't know may think that this person's clothes are so thin and there is no movement, and he has frozen to death.

But Lu Lingqi is clear.

It's just His Highness closing his eyes and thinking about things.

"Your Highness, the wind and snow are heavy."

Lu Lingqi stepped forward, knelt down on one knee, and put on a big coat for the young man.

The boy remained silent.

Seeing this, Lu Lingqi didn't make any other moves, and just waited quietly and half-kneeling.

Waiting......

The boy's opening.

At this time, the wind and snow were a little stronger, and the cold wind was biting, but the master and the slave always maintained their posture, as if the two had separated from the original world and had no quarrel with the world.

Half a day.

The boy opened his eyes.

"It's Lingqi, why did you come here? It's time for dinner?! ”

The boy spoke.

This young man is naturally Li Kuan, the king of Chu who has been disappearing.

Inarticulate.

Obviously, Li Kuan was asleep just now.

In this bitterly cold weather, it is outrageous to meditate and fall asleep outside.

However, Lu Lingqi was accustomed to it, took out the letter, and said, "Your Highness, there is still some time to eat." ”

"I came here this time because there was a letter from the head of Chang'an City, and they should have summarized everything that happened in Chang'an City in detail in the letter."

"I know you're too lazy to read, so I'll open it for you and read it out for you."

Lu Lingqi made a gesture to open the letter and recite.

However, Li Kuan stopped her.

"No, not necessarily."

Lu Lingqi was slightly stunned, her hand to untie the letter froze, and she said in surprise: "Your Highness, what do you mean ......?"

Li Kuan laughed, and his voice was full of magnetism.

"Don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people."

"When leaving, since everything is handed over to the Taoist chief and his old man, it is natural for him to decide."

"Wait, thousands of miles away from Chang'an City, if you judge how to do it with just a few words from the letter, there will be a mistake."

Lu Lingqi thought for a while and continued: "Your Highness, I can't wait to make a judgment, you can take a look, how about it?!" ”

Li Kuan still shook his head.

"Not necessarily."

"When I read the letter, I'm afraid of ......"

Speaking of which,

Li Kuan's deep eyes skimmed into the distance, his voice was extremely melancholy, and said: "I, Li Kuan, will miss Chang'an City and my little son." ”

When Lu Lingqi heard this, she was slightly stunned, and then smiled bitterly.

She also wants Chang'an City.

This place,

It's cold, there's nothing, and there's no comparison with Chang'an City.

"Then Your Highness, why do you insist on coming here?!"

"If it is in Chang'an City, we have a geographical advantage, and we will never fall into the disadvantage after fighting with the Fanyang Lu clan for several times, and since leaving Chang'an City, we have no geographical advantage, and we have no personnel and intelligence advantages, and we are driven by the Fanyang Lu clan like a lost dog."

"Your Highness, Shu Lingqi dared to ask, why did you insist on this?!"

finally asked about it at the right time, and Lu Lingqi directly said it all at once.

The voice fell.

Li Kuan was silent for a long time.

Smile slightly.

"You'll find out about that later."

"Okay, let's not talk about this, Lingqi, what can you see when you look down from this angle?!"

Li Kuan asked.

They were on the edge of a cliff with an abyss at their feet.

Lu Lingqi saw that her Royal Highness didn't answer her question, so she had to give up and come to the cliff, looking down, she could see endless wind and snow, and the vast earth.

"Yes...... Earth? ”

Lu Lingqi is not sure.

"No, it's vision."

"Vision?!"

"Yes, eye! Standing in the highest position, we can see the overall situation at the bottom and the insignificance at the bottom. ”

Li Kuan laughed, looked up at the sky, and continued: "In the past, we were in Chang'an City, in the center of the whirlpool, and there were many things in Chang'an City, which limited our horizons. ”

"I'm waiting, I can't see things outside Chang'an City, and after coming out this time...... Passing through various places and seeing the customs and life of various places, I, Li Kuan, have also seen some things that I have not seen through before. ”

"Fan Yang Lu's Family, Big Dipper ......"

"What they did before was really strange, and I, Li Kuan, can also see a little bit about it, and I can also understand some of the things that Mr. Liu arranged."

"The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear, so they can only jump out...... to be able to see farther and clearer. ”

Li Kuan couldn't stop sighing.

At this time, he fell into some kind of reminiscence, and Lu Lingqi, who was next to him, didn't hear what Li Kuan said clearly, because she was fascinated halfway through Li Kuan's words, and she was fascinated by the serious appearance of her Royal Highness.

"Huh?!"

Half a day.

reacted, and his face was slightly hot.

Lu Lingqi turned her head away, didn't dare to look directly at Li Kuan, and asked, "Your Highness, what should I do next?!" ”

"Continue to search the snowy mountains, and what you want to find should be above this higher snow."

Li Kuan already had an idea.

Then, it seems that something came to mind.

Keep talking.

"By the way, Lingqi, what's wrong with Xuzhou?!"

When it came to business, Lu Lingqi became much more serious, and replied: "Don't worry, Your Highness, Mr. Yu has already led people to Xuzhou, and the two tasks you gave him, protecting that gentleman and establishing the Damascus Steel Mill, I believe they will be completed in the future." ”

"Hmm."

Li Kuan nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to ask, "So, what about Youzhou?!" ”

"After Mr. Lan left Chang'an City with us, he also took advantage of Fan Yanglu's unpreparedness and broke away from the team to bring people over."

Lu Lingqi continued to respond, pursed her red lips and thought about it, and continued: "Your Highness, you can rest assured that except for these two gentlemen, all the other gentlemen also acted according to the plan, separated from us on the road, and went to the states and counties of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Under Mr. Liu's strategy, the head of the Fanyang Lu family did not find out that the gentlemen who had separated led the team to leave, and always thought that we were just the only army, so they ...... We attract all the firepower. ”

Li Kuan.

"Your Highness, Shu Lingqi took the liberty to question that Mr. Liu's plan seemed to have fooled the head of the Fanyang Lu family, but ...... This is a trick to use you as bait, and now that we have too few people at our disposal, isn't it a little more dangerous for you? ”

The voice fell.

Li Kuan's face was calm, and he still maintained a sitting posture, looking at another snow-capped mountain in the distance.

"Since Li Kuan was targeted by the Big Dipper, he was in danger all the time, and he was used as a bait, but Er'er."

"It's Lingqi, a few days ago, Mr. Liu asked you to bring some people to protect Mr. Sun from leaving and going to Yizhou, why did you refuse?"

After speaking.

looked at the heroic Lu Lingqi.

Lu Lingqi hurriedly turned around, met Li Kuan's eyes for a short time, and then hurriedly lowered her eyes, and then knelt down towards Li Kuan.

"Your Highness, Lingqi will only put your safety at risk! Treat it as first!

"You...... It is also the backbone of our big guys, and if you are in too much danger, all the gentlemen will also think about your comfort, and they will not be able to complete the tasks you have assigned them wholeheartedly. ”

"And with Lingqi here, they can rest assured!

Li Kuan looked at Lu Lingqi, because she lowered her head, she could only see a head full of silver hair, and said, "Isn't it your selfishness? ”

Lu Lingqi's eyes flashed with panic.

But fortunately, I kept my head down and was not noticed.

"It's definitely not Lingqi's selfishness!

Li Kuan smiled: "Lingqi, just ask casually, don't be nervous." ”

"But...... Let's tell you the truth, by my Li Kuan's side, you also know that it is extremely dangerous, follow Mr. Sun to Yizhou, you still have many leisurely days, and by my Li Kuan's side, there will only be endless wind and snow and the threat from the Fanyang Lu clan in the future, you have to think about it. ”

"It's not too late to turn back, you can take a single horse at night, leave the snow mountain, and go to Yizhou, which is also what Mr. Liu and I mean."

When Lu Lingqi heard this, she said seriously: "Your Highness, Lingqi will not return." ”

"What, not afraid of death?"

"What is the fear of death? Lingqi is willing to die to protect His Highness's safety!

Seeing that Lu Lingqi was serious.

Li Kuan is no longer abiding by his own opinions.

Loud step.

"Good! In this case, then you can follow my side and take a good look, this overall situation arranged after leaving Chang'an City is destined to be a war without gunpowder, is it me Li Kuan who dies, and I am the ...... Break the trend! Punishment, Big Dipper!

Let's talk about it.

stood up and stepped forward to help Lu Lingqi, who was half-kneeling.

Join her in watching the snowflakes fall.

Snowflakes are like people.

Will he be pulled off his horse in the future, and the remnants will fall like snowflakes and will no longer have a place to live, or will he ...... The enemy of the future will be like this.

……………………

Meanwhile.

Chang'an City.

Midnight.

The whole city of Chang'an City was pressed the pause button, every household was asleep, in order to avoid people making trouble late at night, there will be many Jinwuwei patrolling the road at night.

And on Suzaku Street.

There is a restaurant called Wangfeng Restaurant, this restaurant is not obvious, and the same as the previous Chuhe Restaurant, it is very casual to open a shop to do business.

But.

The entire Wangfeng Restaurant has existed for a longer time than the Chuhe Restaurant, which has been nearly ten years.

For more than ten years, Wangfeng Restaurant has been unable to make ends meet due to the casual opening of the store, but even so it has been open for more than ten years.

Recently, the hot pot of Chuhe Restaurant has become popular, stealing a large number of diners from Zhuque Street, and the business of Wangfeng Restaurant has plummeted, and the number of customers on weekdays has reached the lowest point in more than ten years.

Even so, it continues to open as usual, rain or shine, and is not subject to all kinds of changes in Chang'an City.

Tonight.

Yin time.

For tonight's guests, Wangfeng Restaurant only has room No. 1, and there are guests staying and staying only for one night.

At this time.

There is a maid in the Wangfeng Restaurant, and she walks into the No. 1 room of Tianzi.

tiptoe in,

With a "creak", the No. 1 room closed.

inside.

The maid lowered her head and half-knelt down and said: "Miss, there will be an interesting story in the poetry of Chang'an City tonight, and at the poetry meeting, the King of Chu is the identity of a Jinyang layman, which is already known to the public and completely exposed." ”

In front of her was a screen, and on the other side of the screen was a candle that illuminated the shadow of the woman in the bath so much that it completely enveloped the room.

"Oh? That guy from King Chu likes to hide things, and Miss Ben thought that he planned to hide it for the rest of his life. ”

The woman's voice was full of surprise.

The maid looked up, and she could see her mask with a smiling face.

"Yes, miss, maybe it wasn't the King of Chu who signaled it, but his sister Princess Changle was angry, so she helped him expose it."

"As for the method of exposure, it is still the key person, Her Royal Highness the Little Princess, the King of Chu trusts her a lot, and before leaving Chang'an City, it seems that a lot of things are placed in Her Royal Highness the Little Princess."

"According to our dormant people, all the things of Her Royal Highness the little princess and princess of Chu are hidden in some tattered treasure bags."

The voice fell.

I only heard a bang, and the woman inside poured down with water to wash her body.

Immediately.

She opened her mouth and said: "Hehehe, it's really interesting, being exposed as a Jinyang layman would be because of the people around her." ”

"The King of Chu of the King of Chu, should you say that you are smart for a while, or do you ...... Your defense of the people around you is too low. ”

The maid smiled and said: "Miss, or this is also the weakness of the King of Chu, now we know that many of his things are hidden in His Royal Highness the little princess, should we ...... Dark chess?! ”

"Not necessarily."

The woman's voice was full of jokes: "Someone will help us explore the way through this matter." ”

The maid bowed her head and said, "Yes, miss." ”

Let's talk about it.

She was ready to step back and leave.

But he was stopped by the woman there.

"Wait, now...... There is no need to go back to pack up the clothes, Miss Ben has changed her mind, although the King of Chu is not in Chang'an City, I don't need to leave, just continue to stay in Chang'an City. ”

The maid was stunned and couldn't help asking, "Miss, ...... are you?"

The woman's voice was full of banter again, and she said: "Chang'an City, something interesting is about to happen, hehe, in the mantra of King Chu, watch the play, don't chill." ”

"Let's see if this play in Chang'an City can be applauded, gurgling, gurgling......"

The entire Tianzi No. 1 room continued to echo with the woman's unrestrained laughter.

……………………

Vertical day

Chang'an City up and down.

From the noble clan to the common people!

Almost everyone knows that in the Tang Dynasty Li Tang royal family, there is a poet in the immortal, whose accompanying notes, can be read out of thirty famous poems at will!

Li Kuan, the king of Chu, a monk of Jinyang, and the name of the poet immortal, resounded throughout the Tang Dynasty.!

Sure enough, in peacetime, entertainment has always been much faster than scientific research after making achievements.

And the spread of the students was even more terrifying, and after just one night, the name of the king of Chu spread all over the world.

After this night, all the people of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty were proud of the King of Chu and the Jinyang monks from the Li Tang royal family.

There are countless scribes, who worship it as the Wenqu star of the immortal world, hang the portrait of Li Kuan, the king of Chu, on the wall, and worship day and night for his protection!

The King of Chu is completely popular, exploded, and is completely famous!

On Chang'an Street, people who recite the poems of the King of Chu can be seen everywhere, and even when they say hello, they begin to greet them with the poems of the King of Chu.

A trend has completely formed.

It seems that after this night, if you don't know the two lines of the poem of King Chu, I'm sorry, if you don't hear a good word, you are embarrassed to say that you are a scholar.

Even many ordinary people who can't read big characters can memorize two sentences.

It can be seen from this that the reputation of the King of Chu and the poetry are so popular in the Tang Dynasty!

is the so-called: the name of the poet immortal is passed on to the Tang Dynasty, and no one in the world knows you!

In the poetry arena, the king of Chu has become an untouchable and unsurpassable myth.

With the spread of the name of the poet immortal of the king of Chu, what happened at the scene of the Wangjianglou Poetry Club at that time also spread to the ears of countless people in the Tang Dynasty with the students.

At the same time, stories about this story also came out of the mouths of storytellers.

At that time, the Xingyang Zheng family was not so bad, but their storyteller seemed to be a marketing account, madly smearing the Xingyang Zheng family, portraying them in the story as extremely vicious, and they were the biggest villains in blocking the King of Chu.

The people heard it in their ears and believed it.

This also made the Zheng family in Xingyang despised by thousands of people and literati who did not participate in the Chang'an Poetry Society at that time.

Even many of the disciples who originally joined the Zheng family in Xingyang have also left.

There are also many scribes who revere the king of Chu to the extreme and regard him as a god, and have written countless essays to denounce the Zheng family.

This time, the Zheng family of Xingyang offended the wrath of the scribes in the world!

On the streets, everyone who mentions the Zheng family in Xingyang is disgusted with it, and some people even speak ill of it, punching and kicking it.

The wealthy family that flourished for a time became a street rat that everyone shouted and beaten, provoking the readers, and the speed of their decline was so fast.

It is precisely because of the anger of the scholars that countless people in the entire Xingyang Zheng family dare not go out.

Even if he was forced to go out, he didn't dare to claim that he was a member of the Zheng family.

Otherwise, woe will be!

If it is a person of two people, ten or eight people, the Zheng family of Xingyang is completely ignorant.

However, now almost the entire world is hostile to their Zheng family!

No matter how good their Zheng family is, it is impossible to be an enemy of the world.

Not to mention a mere Zheng family, even Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he didn't dare to say that he offended the anger of the people and was the enemy of the people of the world!

Although one people, ten people, and a hundred people seem insignificant, the people of the world are united, and it will be a force that no one can shake.

Whether it is a family or imperial power, since ancient times, it has been the righteous who have received much help, the unrighteous have little help, and those who have won the hearts of the people have won the world.

At this time, the Zheng family in Xingyang offended the anger of the people and lost the hearts of the people, which led to the rebellion of the people.

This time, the impact they had had was just too great.

It has completely exploded to an uncontrollable point, and the anger of being oppressed by the family for countless years has all erupted at this moment.

Like a landslide and tsunami, like a volcanic eruption!

Faced with this situation, except for the five surnames and seven wangs, many other families naturally did not dare to continue to stand on the same front as the Zheng family in Xingyang.

The hustle and bustle of the world is all for the benefit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for the benefit.

When it comes to self-interest, any friendship and relationship becomes as brittle as tissue paper.

The Zheng family in Xingyang had no choice but to stand up and speak out under the condemnation of tens of millions of scribes, students, and ordinary people.

claimed that everything was Zheng Hongyun and Zheng Yinyan, who made their own claims to frame and plagiarize the poems of the King of Chu, and their Zheng family knew nothing about it.

and directly expelled Zheng Yinyan from the Zheng family, kicked out of the family tree, and was not allowed to be buried in the ancestral grave of the Zheng family after death!

However, this does not remedy the impression of the Zheng family in the hearts of the people of the world.

They are still being condemned by many readers.

"The impact of this time is really huge."

In the main mansion of the Zheng family in Xingyang, a member of the Zheng family was extremely emotional.

"Yes, it's good to survive this time, everything is time-sensitive, it's just the Chang'an City Poetry Club now, it has just ended, so these damn fart people will come to us for trouble, in a few days and a half a month, or a month, this matter will be settled."

Another Zheng elder spoke.

He has a lot of experience dealing with this kind of thing.

Commoners.

It is for the people of the world, each with their own ideas, to put it mildly, it is a plate of loose sand.

They condensed, and the power that condensed was terrifying.

But as long as time passes, these people in the world with different minds will always leave this cohesive stage one after another and return to their individual lives.

At that point, there will be nothing to fear.

So.

He didn't panic at all.

"But ......"

At this time, the Zheng family's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes flashed with danger, and he continued: "After this poetry meeting, it was only half a day, and there were countless scholars in Chang'an City who were belittling my Zheng family. ”

"In just half a day, just the matter of the Chang'an Poetry Society, do they dare to stop being afraid of my Zheng family? Is this really the case, or is it ......"

"Behind the scenes, someone has ulterior motives?!"

The voice fell.

A person next to him said: "You mean that someone is planning everything in the back?!" ”

"Not bad!" The elders of the Zheng family nodded, their eyes narrowed slightly: "And this person, I may already know who it is, that is, Li Jiaerlang!"

………………

Imperial.

Tai Chi Palace.

The court retreated early today, and Li Shimin has not dealt with government affairs since he returned to Taiji Palace.

Worry about!

He's worried!

I'm so worried!

I was so sad that my heart was depressed!

"Auxiliary, do you mean to say that most of the top fifty students in the Chang'an Poetry Club last night have joined the family camp?!"

Li Shimin's voice was low, as if he was suppressing endless anger.

According to the eldest grandson Wuji.

After the imperial court promulgated the names of the top thirty students last night, it sent people to the door this morning to ask them if they had any intention of joining the ranks.

Because they are some newcomers, and because of natural disasters such as the current disaster victims, the official positions given by the imperial court for the time being are very small and very bitter.

But after all, it is not an official position.

Therefore, Li Shimin still has great expectations, and wants to get a large number of talents through the poetry society.

Outcome......

The result?

The officials who returned from the imperial court reported to the eldest grandson Wuji, and most of their students were moved by the family's money and became their family's disciples.

Most of the students joined the five surnames and seven hopes.

This is a development that Li Shimin never imagined.

"Yes, Your Majesty, they have all joined the family, and the other ......"

"Alas, forget it, let the party talk about it."

The eldest grandson Wuji sighed.

Then after getting Li Shimin's consent, let the eunuch next to him go outside and invite a young man in.

The young man is as gentle as jade, humble and gentlemanly, but his clothes are a little tattered.

"Who are you?!"

Li Shimin asked.

The young man saluted Li Shimin and said, "Back to Your Majesty, Xiaomin is a student in the ranking of the Chang'an Poetry Club last night, and he was personally confirmed by Master Kong Yingda Kong as the eleventh place in the conference. ”

"Oh?" Li Shimin's eyes flickered, and he looked at the eldest grandson Wuji next to him.

The eldest grandson Wuji immediately bowed and said: "Your Majesty, this student was also going to join the five surnamed Qiwang family last night, and specifically joined the Boling Cui family, but after that, he abandoned the dark and turned to the Ming and switched to our court. ”

Li Shimin suddenly realized.

"Lin Xuexue, please tell Your Majesty about the situation last night."

The eldest grandson Wuji looked at the young Lin student.

Lin Xuexue nodded and replied: "Your Majesty, after the poetry meeting ended last night, Xiaomin wanted to go back to the restaurant room, sleep for one night, and return to his hometown in Zhongmu County in the south after visiting Chang'an for a day. ”

"But on the way back, Xiaomin was stopped by the people of the family, who promised him that if he joined the Bolingcui clan, he would get a lot of things."

"They...... Promising the irresistible gold and silver of the small people, and also giving a present value, the degree of freedom is great, so that the small people have a lot of time to travel the mountains and rivers, and in addition to that...... They also promised Xiaomin that as long as they had the opportunity to recommend officials in the future, they would help Xiaomin recommend them to enter the official career. ”

"Xiaomin...... At that time, I lost my mind for a while, and promised the Cui family, and then I reacted, I and other students should work hard to become Jinyang monks, and Jinyang monks are Your Majesty's children, and Xiaomin has an uncle as an official, saying that His Majesty and the family are not compatible. ”

"If you don't get along with the family, that's the enemy of the Jinyang layman, so Xiaomin finally rejected the Cui family."

Listening to Lin Xuezi's eloquent words, Li Shimin finally understood why he couldn't compete for talents and the family.

First of all

The first point, that's speed!

Those families, after the poetry meeting, sent people to go to the residences of the students, and even on the road to talk to them.

There is a strong advantage in the hand.

Second.

That is the substantial benefit for all sides.

If you join the family, you can get an easy job, and you can also recommend them to become officials, and there is a lot of gold and silver.

And when you join the imperial court, you only get a petty official, and ...... Immediately devote yourself to serving the people.

It is impossible for them to be easy when they join the imperial court, after all, even Li Shimin himself is so hard, and he needs to deal with a lot of government affairs every day.

How can the officials under his hands be relaxed?

Compared with the two, the imperial court has no advantage.

"That's really...... It's hard, it's hard to get to the sky. ”

Li Shimin felt a terrible sense of powerlessness.

These families,

In every way, the pressure on him was too great.

Seeing Your Majesty meditating,

The eldest grandson Wuji gave Lin Xueji a look to retreat, and then said, "Your Majesty, are you okay?" ”

Li Shimin lay on the chair, shook his head and said, "I'm fine." ”

He stood up and took a deep breath.

Carefully look at the eldest grandson Wuji.

"Auxiliary, you and I will be honest, how many of the top thirty students nominated last night joined the Five Surnames and Seven Princes family."

"This ......" The eldest grandson Wuji was quite hesitant, as if he had a hidden secret, but seeing Li Shimin's firm eyes, he had to sigh helplessly: "In total, twenty-three students have joined the family. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, his eyes widened instantly.

This......

This, this, this!

There are too many to join!

He has received very few talents.

So where is the significance of holding this poetry meeting?!

Co-authored and prepared for a long time, and after the event, he directly made a wedding dress for the five surnames and Qiwang!

He only got seven talents, and among the seven talents, like the Lin student just now, he lost his way and returned because of the Jinyang monks, maybe the remaining six people were more or less because of the Jinyang monks, that is, his own Kuan'er, so he joined the Li family's court.

If last night's Jinyang monk was not Kuan'er, but a member of the family, does that mean ...... He Li Shimin, no one can get it!

Wrath!

Furious!

But there is no way, this is already the only way for him to get talents, and the other way is only recommendation, and the recommendation is most family officials, recommendation comes and goes, and in the end it is the family that inherits the official position.

"Your Majesty, it's all right."

"To put it better, in this poetry meeting, only two of the twenty-three students who joined the Five Surnames and Qiwang Family joined the Zheng family, and the Zheng family's vitality has been weakened."

"And we have seven students, and there are already new forces to join, and the gap in official positions in major places will not be as serious as it was originally."

The eldest grandson automatically threw away those bad troubles, which is quite a bit of a cover-up and stealing the bell.

Li Shimin glanced at him with a complicated face, and said seriously: "Auxiliary, this can't work." ”

"One thing is better than the other, the Li Tang royal family, in the end, will still become the puppet of the family, I must break this situation!

"It must also be up to my generation to break the situation, because only my generation, and the absolute superiority in the army, can slowly try to suppress the family, and if my generation fails or does nothing, then the next generation, Chengqian, or ...... Kuan'er, whether there is still the strength to suppress the five surnames and seven wangs, I don't know. ”

The voice fell.

The eldest grandson Wuji was stunned.

It wasn't because Li Shimin was stunned by his determination, but because he heard it...... Li Kuan, the king of Chu?!

When His Majesty told the emperor's generation and suppressed the family, the name of the King of Chu appeared, could it be said that His Majesty had begun to prepare for the next emperor ....... re-determined!?

Thriller!

Terror!

Astound!

Unbelievable!

This matter was so shocking that Rao is eldest grandson Wuji was stunned in place.

"Auxiliary, auxiliary, what's wrong with you?"

Li Shimin saw that the eldest grandson Wuji was speechless for a long time, and kept speaking.

"Oh, oh, oh, Your Majesty, the old minister is thinking nonsense, I'm really sorry."

The eldest grandson Wuji bowed apologetically.

Regarding the re-establishment of the emperor, this matter is too terrifying, too terrifying, the eldest grandson Wuji does not dare to think about it, maybe His Majesty ....... just a slip of the tongue?

It's also possible that you're too sensitive.

"Well, it doesn't matter."

Li Shimin waved his hand, not caring.

Immediately, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he spoke: "Auxiliary, I must solve the danger of the family in this generation. ”

"I, I'm going to reopen the imperial examination!

What!

Reopen the imperial examination!

Eldest Sun Wuji's eyes widened instantly, what did he hear? I have to reopen the imperial examination, is it because I am old and dizzy, and I heard it wrong behind my ears?!

"Your Majesty, you ...... What did you just say? The old minister didn't hear clearly!

Eldest Sun Wuji's voice trembled extremely much.

There is no room for him not to be shocked.

Imperial examination, these two words seem to be fine, but when combined, they represent a big earthquake!

In the former Sui Dynasty, most of the reason was that he died in the imperial examination system!

The imperial examination, a form of relying on people's knowledge and talents, broke the traditional practice of relying on blood relatives to enter the office.

It is the cake that really moved those families.

Because of this,

In the Sui Dynasty, the big families were very unkind to Yang Guang, and when the Sui Dynasty was threatened with the collapse of the dynasty, they had no national concept in their hearts, but they wished that the Sui Dynasty would perish quickly, and they applauded.

What's more, maybe before the fall of the Sui Dynasty, many opponents of the Sui Dynasty will receive assistance from the family!

The eldest grandson Wuji can be predicted.

If His Majesty really held the imperial examination, the devil knows what kind of crazy actions those angry families would make.

"Auxiliary, you heard it right, I do intend to hold the imperial examination system again."

"I'm afraid...... Only the imperial examination system can truly break the monopoly of the five surnames and seven hopes, so that I can get truly usable talents!

Li Shimin looked up at the sky outside the study, his eyes were burning and full of ambition.

"Your Majesty, this ...... This is not possible!

"There are all kinds of natural disasters and victims, our imperial court has not yet dealt with these disasters, if the imperial examination is held at this time, then ...... That and that...... Isn't it even more of a disaster?! ”

"Otherwise, Your Majesty, listen to the advice of the minister, who believes that we should first solve the problems of the victims and the natural disasters in the north."

"When the deal is done, we will have no worries, and then hold the imperial examination, and devote all our strength to fight against the five surnames and Qiwang and other families, you ....... What do you think? ”

Li Shimin didn't think about it, and directly shook his head and said, "No." ”

"Although this plan is safe, it takes too long, and the reason why I have the heart to need talents so much now is because of the lack of officials, Chang'an City is too short of officials!

"Every day, there are excerpts, telling that there is a shortage of people in their official positions, and those officials also recommend the next official by the way, but most of them are from the family, so they are all detained by me and put aside and not dealt with."

"There are a lot of vacancies, so I wanted to use this poetry meeting to get some available talents, but I didn't expect that most of the ....... were cut off by the family, and they could gather talents in a short time, and they had to be poor talents, except for the imperial examination, I couldn't affect other methods."

The eldest grandson Wuji can understand Li Shimin's difficulties, but this matter is too terrible, and this move in the imperial examination is a double-edged sword, depending on how to use it.

If used properly, it can certainly weaken the family's heritage.

And if the application is not good, think about it from the worst point of view, then the entire Datang ....... will be in danger of destruction!