The emperor wants his own team too much, and the more he looks at these old ministers unpleasantly, the more urgent this kind of thinking becomes.

There was only less than ten days before and after Wei Congxi entered the Zhongshu and Xie Minhong's dismissal from the Zhongshu Right Senate position, and then Zhao Tuo transferred Xu Baozhong, who was outstanding in calligraphy, to the cabinet as the secretary of the proposed edict.

In this way, the most frequent officials around him, Wei Congxi, Xu Baozhong, and Li Zhu, all became the new science and technology jinshi of this year.

In the eldest son's high school, Li Yan set off firecrackers in front of his house for three days in a row, and scattered forty pieces of happy money as a congratulatory message.

The newly appointed magistrate Gao Ju personally went to Li Yan's house to congratulate him and also had a banquet.

On the way back, he saw that the door of the long house was deserted, and he said: "If Li Yan seeks personal gain and forgets the righteousness, his vision is nothing more than that." ”

Li Sulai refused to return in Nanchang, and in fact he didn't have the face to come back.

And his brother's high school is both an encouragement and a pressure for Li Dan. He focused more on articles, often discussing the meaning of the scriptures with Lou Liang until the time of the lamp.

Lou Liang smiled and told him that he was still able to teach Jingyi, but he was not good at law, policy, and poetry, especially in poetry, and he even thought that he was not better than his students. But Li Dan has not been able to find a more suitable gentleman and is very anxious about this.

At this time, Liu Xixing rushed to find Li Dan. This guy didn't leave in Yu, and Li Dan had no choice but to go with him. Unexpectedly, he "coincidentally" met a learned gentleman in Sihaiju, and specially recommended him to Li Dan for a look.

Li Dan actually recognized it at a glance, it was the old man who came out to persuade when Tianxianglou jumped and punched Zhao Laosan that day.

"Where has Mr. Xiang gone? Dan can't find you everywhere. After Li Dan gave a salute, he helped the old gentleman into the house and sat down.

"Friends invited me to go north, and when I came back, the story of Yu Gan Saburo was spread everywhere, it turned out to be you, it seems that we are really destined!" The old man stroked his beard and smiled.

Li Dan told him truthfully that he was currently preparing for the Qiu Yu exam, and the old man asked him a few questions to answer, and nodded: "Gongzi Jingyi is also not bad, it can be seen that he has been instructed by a famous teacher." ”

"But in the next ambition in the spring and the big competition, the two items of strategy and judgment are not what Master Lou is good at."

"Hehe, this doesn't matter, but I have a lot of experience in these two items, but I don't know if the son is willing to learn from me?"

Li Dan was overjoyed at first, he knew that he had some ability from the last time when the old man said a few words and Zhao Xuan bowed his head and admitted his mistakes. But then he was puzzled, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Dan is negligent, and he still doesn't know the elder's surname?" ”

The old man laughed, no longer hidden, and said: "I am Zeng Qun of Shu County, the word is Guangyan, the number is poor, and the original text of the Xinge University Scholar Zeng Que is a mere ....... ”

Li Dan stayed in the local area, looking at the old man in front of him with his mouth open. Zeng Que, two generations of emperors. One of the auxiliary ministers of Emperor Injong at the time of his death.

Xuanzong resigned and retired from the rivers and lakes, and Xuanzong went out again at the end of the mountain to serve as a university scholar and the first president of the Huiwen Institute after its completion. After the death of Xuanzong, he was designated by the Empress Dowager as the left concubine of the East Palace, and after the emperor ascended the throne, he became the Taifu.

In the sixth year of Jingwu, he retired again, gave the Taishi, gave him 3,000 taels of gold, and became the head of Huainan Academy. For the level of "experience" such as strategy and judgment, he is simply proficient!

"The grass people have seen the Taishi!" Li Dan had no choice but to bow deeply.

"Why do you have to be like this, please get up!" Zeng Qun held his elbow and said: "My identity should not be publicized, Gongzi should remember that the old man is Zeng Qun, and he is not a master." ”

"Yes."

"Zeng was entrusted by His Majesty to teach Yu Gan to teach you, is the son willing?"

What's not to be happy with here? But....... "The grass people are cloth clothes, how dare Mr. Labor teach them personally?"

"Cultivating talents for the country is what I wish in my life."

Hearing this, Li Dan had no choice but to ask Zeng Qun to return to his seat, kowtow to tea and complete the teacher's ceremony, and became the same junior disciple with the little emperor in anxiety. Zeng Qun gave him a comment every day, a policy and a judgment, and then asked him to do another one himself.

After a month, when Lou Liang read his article again, he found that he had improved by leaps and bounds, and only after inquiring did he know the existence of Zeng Qun. Lou Liang prepared a gift to visit, and when he left, he was convinced, found Li Dan and said:

"With Mr. Zeng here, don't talk about lifting people, I'm afraid a Jinshi background can't run away

In the summer, Li Dan successfully won the fame of Xiucai, and the family was also very happy, and then arranged for Mao Zai to follow him to Nanchang to participate in the exam.

In fact, this is not difficult, because according to the rules of this dynasty, those who have won the medal can be added one grade, just like the extra points of the college entrance examination in the previous life. As long as Li Dan gets a medium score, there is a high probability that he will be selected as a tribute student.

This exam only has no strategy, and like the other township exams, it can be regarded as a small preliminary exam.

After the Jiangxi Gongyuan issued the question, it was also a three-day test. But the third session is actually only half a day, in addition to the temporary poems, there will also be a test of rhyme, pairing and comments on the artistic conception of ancient poems.

Originally, Li Dan was still thinking about whether he was going to visit Shi Hao after the exam, but he felt that it was not appropriate, so he held back. Zhao Chongbi is still in Nancheng, and he is not in Nanchang at present, Li Dan only sent Mao Zai to his house to deliver posts and give some gifts.

The Lou family suffered a great loss of vitality after the last internal purge, and the departure of many generals led to the successful recovery of Nancheng by the official army. When Lou Shiyong fled to the mountains, there were only a few thousand people left around him, and it is said that Zhao Chongbi was talking to him about recruiting him.

Li Dan wanted to stop it, he was a little worried about Lou Shiming's tragic death, but now he has no official position and is just waiting for the exam, so he has to sigh lightly and let go of this heart when he thinks of this.

The most inexplicable thing is that Liu Xi, for some reason, was not in a hurry to return to Beijing after Li Dan resigned, he walked around every day, played quite freely, and followed him to Nanchang.

You said that Li Dan is a candidate, if it is found that there is always an eunuch around him, what is the matter?

Of course, there are not no eunuchs in his family now, after Shangrao lifted the siege, the king of Fengning County sent a guard to send two eunuchs and four maids again, saying that they were serving Ning'er and Trance.

But there's no reason to be with such a person around me! "Don't you have to go back to Beijing to restore your life?" Li Dan asked Liu Xi.

"Are you in such a hurry to let us go?" Liu Xi pouted: "We don't have relatives in Beijing, and we don't have any important things to deal with, how can we go back and follow the lord to play?" ”

"Yes, no one cares about you, and there are people who pay for your room, tea and dinner, which is very beautiful!" Li Dan's eyes widened, Liu Xi knew that it was a joke, and he was not annoyed, and laughed eatingly.

He, Li Dan, now lives in the backyard of "Sihaiju", who doesn't know that this is his property, as if he really pays rent.

Fortunately, there is also a King Peng in this city, and it is not too uncommon for a powerful eunuch to appear in the city occasionally, Li Dan told him not to do much, anyway, there are people from the news department who follow in the periphery, and the rest will be natural.

Unexpectedly, four days after the third exam, Li Dan himself was arrested.

Two low-level officials came to the prosecutor's office, looked up and down with surprise for a long time, and then took out a file and asked him to press his fingerprint.

Li Dan sneered, but there were still those charges, and there were only two new charges: secretly communicating with bandits and abducting palace maids.

Without saying a word, he pressed it, and then asked, "Do you want to be shackled?" That's not a small crime! ”

The two smiled bitterly: "Sir, let's say that you are strong in martial arts, but you don't count this level, Your Excellency has both a rank and a meritorious name, and in any case, there is no reason to be tortured without being convicted." Please get into the carriage and follow after the inferior. ”

"And the carriage sitting, really?" Li Dan went out and saw that there was indeed a cloth carriage parked, if it weren't for a few government officials around, he would have thought that it was really used to pick up guests.

"Wait a minute, may I give a command to the scholar?" Li Dan asked. The officials looked at each other and nodded.

Li Dan called Brother Mao Tsai: "You wait here for Mr. Liu to come back, whether to stay in Nanchang or go back to Yugan, and listen to his orders." Brother Mao understood and immediately agreed.

Liu Xi came back from the street humming a little song, and was frightened when he heard Mao Zaidi.

This is worth it, the emperor let himself follow this young master without leaving him, everything must be recorded and reported, and now the good man has gone to the cell, how to follow?

"Who can't get along with Li Sanlang, can't you see us live a comfortable life for two days?" He jumped up in a hurry and told Brother Mao to wait and not move, and he hurriedly went to the street to find someone to discuss.

In fact, Mao Zai didn't have to move at all, the hidden line of the news office and the personnel arranged around the security office had already reported the news when Li Dan was taken away, and the person who went back to report the news at this time must have been in the cabin of the passenger ship, and the news would arrive at Baimapo in the evening.

Liu Xi has his own channels. He first found Cai Du, the commander of the Wing Long Guard in Nanchang, who publicly identified himself as the head catcher of the Yali in Hongdu County, and then through him first learned about the details of Li Dan's detention, before and after the case, his attribution, and the informant.

"What, his own uncle denounced?" The news that Cai Du brought back made Liu Xi's jaw almost fall to the ground: "Why? ”

"Ahem, his uncle fled to Nanchang before the war, and Li Sanlang confiscated his family property to offset military expenses, so he became resentful. Previously, Li Su jumped up and down in Nanchang and shouted grievances, which everyone in our public gate knew. ”

After Cai Du finished speaking, he comforted him again: "Don't worry, the eunuch is not in danger for the time being, but he is just being detained pending trial." Besides, he has merit and rank, and he is not locked in a cell, but now he is locked up in a separate courtyard behind the palace. ”

"And when will it be tried?"

"I don't know this for the time being, but I have to continue to learn about it from the two channels of the judge and the government."

Liu Xi crossed his waist and thought viciously for a while, and said, "This thing is too sudden, I have to secretly play Your Majesty immediately." Find pen and paper! After writing the fold and sealing it to Cai Du, he muttered again before going out: "Strange! ”

"What did you say?" Cai Du didn't hear clearly.

"I mean, it's not right." Liu Xi turned around: "Then Li Su didn't tell his nephew about his property, but he was talking about all this nonsense?" If there was no previous impeachment case, it is now coherent.

Some people want to say that the last impeachment was also right, but it just shows that these two things are related! ”

"What do you mean...... Someone deliberately manipulated Li Su? But this ...... Why? Cai Du frowned:

"If you want to say that Li Dan was an official in the past, some people complained because they were jealous that he rose too fast, and they can barely say it. But now that he's just a kid, why sue him, and what's the purpose? ”

"He is a talent that His Majesty wants to cultivate." Liu Xi replied faintly: "Otherwise, why do you think you want to send our family to him?" Otherwise, why would you arrange for Master Zeng to accept him as a student?

Oh, by the way, and why are there two of your colleagues there? I guess they'll be here tomorrow if it's fast. ”

Cai Du was sweating on his head, and he knew that someone in this Nanchang City must have touched the dragon scales.

He swallowed and foamed at the mouth and decided to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity no matter what! "Understood, what do you need to do with the Wing Loong Guard, waiting for the eunuch to order at any time!"

Liu Xi hoped that Yilongwei would do a very simple thing, and immediately find out who was pushing Li Su to come out, and who was in charge of the case according to the Prosecutor's Envoy Division, as well as the attitude of Shi Hao, the political envoy, and Lin Zhongtai, the envoy.

At this time, Liu Xishang did not know that the lights were bright in the yamen of the political envoy, and the adults had their own opinions on the matter of Li Dan's detention.

Cai Du, who learned of this situation, flashed into Sihaiju in the early morning of the next day and found Liu Ximen to report, and he learned the details of what happened last night.

Some people died, but not completely......