As long as Lin Daguan wanted to, he had eighteen ways to attract the interest of Emperor Wanli, but now he was completely unwilling to provoke Emperor Wanli too much.

First, the upper limit of Wujinshi's fame in politics is too low, and no matter how powerful he jumps, he can't get much direct benefit.

It's better to wait until I go back to finish my studies, and then jump back next time when the liberal arts competition makes a comeback.

Lin Daguan is still very confident in this, if he can't even pass the exam, then Shen Shixing, the first assistant, still has the face to continue to be a person!

The second is that now Emperor Wanli is estimated to be shaking people all over the world to support the third son of the emperor, and Lin Daguan does not want to be favored by the emperor at this time.

Third, the foundation of the south is not stable, and it is still necessary to go back and clean up.

So for Lin Daguan, it would be good to go through the motions honestly today and get the vanity of the champion.

With the end of the palace examination, which focuses on saving trouble, the martial arts examination of the fourteenth year of Wanli has come to an end.

Zhang Jiayin, the chief of the military department, also breathed a sigh of relief, and the horse riding was safely over. He has been an official for 40 years, and he has never seen such a tiring martial arts test.

It turned out that there was no attention to the martial arts exam, and it was over if you did it casually, how could it be your turn to be the secretary of the military department, this martial arts exam actually had the effect of intrigue, and it has always been mixed with the situation in the temple.

In fact, there is one last procedure for this year's martial arts, and the martial arts emperor list is hung outside the gate of the Ministry of War!

Since the crossing, after more than a year of hard work, Lin Daguan has stepped on thousands of wounded, punched the north and south, and stepped on the two capitals, and finally became the first macho man in the world officially certified!

After the newly baked champion Lin Daguan participated in the ceremony of hanging the emperor's list, he rode on a tall horse at the gate of the military department, and a sergeant escorted the new champion back to his residence.

All the way over, it was also a trumpet, suona, gongs and drums, anyway, it was quite lively.

Obviously, this is also a street parade ceremony that imitates the champion of liberal arts, that is, the beating of horses and the praise of officials.

is the decency of Wu Zhuangyuan, which is not a little worse than Wen Zhuangyuan.

That night in the Shen Mansion, Lin Daguan accompanied Shoufu Shen Shixing to dine together.

Shen Shoufu ate half a bowl of rice, put down his chopsticks and said, "Today in the Wenhua Palace, the old man saved you once, don't forget this kindness." ”

Lin Daguan recalled that Shen Shoufu only appeared once today, and just when the emperor wanted to let him practice with fifty internal supervisors, the old man Shoufu spoke out to stop him.

"Is that what saves me?" Lin Daguan was a little unconvinced, "It's obviously blocking my opportunity to perform in front of His Majesty." ”

Shen Shoufu asked rhetorically, "What happens after the performance is finished?" After the martial arts, the Son of Heaven may choose you to be the Jinyi Guard and serve as the imperial front arm, can you stand the restraint? ”

Lin Daguan said decisively: "Can't! ”

The weapon in front of the palace that Shousuke said is probably the imperial guard in the middle. With his Lin Tailai's temperament, of course, he can't bear this kind of boring and powerless work.

Immediately, Lin Daguan changed the topic and said: "Now that the exam is over, I don't want to stay in Beijing for a long time, and I will be ready to return to the south in a few days, there are still many careers I need to work." ”

Now Shoufu also understands that the "hard work" in Lin Daguan's mouth is not only a noun or adjective, but also a verb.

Shen Shixing subconsciously said: "You have to leave so soon? ”

Lin Daguan said with foresight: "The battle for the national capital has begun, and the monarchs and ministers are all angry in the early stage, and the intensity will not be low.

As a person who is deeply entangled with Zheng Guotai, when will I stay if I don't leave? Waiting to be used as a spear by someone else or by the emperor? ”

Shen Shixing was speechless, Lin Tailai's sense of smell was even better than that of a dog, and he frowned and asked, "Did you forget the most important thing?" ”

After thinking twice, Lin Daguan was still confused. "Now that the champions are all in hand, what else can be the most important thing? Have it?

Or is Shin Xiang going to give me a font size? It's not impossible. ”

As the defender of the imperial court system, Lao Shoufu almost vomited blood, "Have you forgotten, you still have to choose officials!" ”

"Ah, can you not choose this? In the future, I will go back to Jiangnan to study and study, and prepare to go further in the literary world. ”

Lin Daguan has little interest in military attachés at the moment, all he needs is fame and prestige.

What a military attache can do, he can do with hundreds or thousands of men under his hands; He can do what a military attache can't do, such as collecting a protection tax.

And if the official position is not selected well, he will be constrained, which will affect his pace of dominating Jiangnan.

Shen Shoufu shouted: "If you don't choose an official, you just don't give the emperor a son, and you break the rules of the court."

You can choose to resign, but you can't choose not to choose, that's the rule! ”

Lin Tailai was a little surprised, is it appropriate for you, an old Shoufu in his early fifties, to be full of underworld? Who did you learn from?

"I choose! I choose! I'll go to the military department tomorrow! "Lin Daguan can only be forced to accept the constraints of the rules of the rivers and lakes.

As the saying goes, people in the rivers and lakes can't help themselves.

And the next day, Shen Yongmao, the uncle of the Shen Mansion, went to work in the military department, and Lin Daguan followed Shen Yongmao away.

Uncle Shen works in the Car Driving Division, but it is the Military Selection Division that is responsible for the selection of military attachés.

After arriving at the Ministry of War, Shen Yongmao still personally led Lin Tailai to the Wuxuan Division.

Theoretically, ordinary people can only wait for appointment outside, and cannot personally enter the military election department to run for office, and they will definitely be reported and impeached if they are too ostentatious.

However, Lin Daguanren, as the first martial champion of the Ming Dynasty, still has the qualifications to be preferential.

On the way, Shen Yongmao introduced the situation to Lin Tailai and said: "Wuxuan Shilang's surname is Yu, and Longqing is a five-year jinshi. ”

Lin Daguan was taken aback, "Longqing is a five-year jinshi, can he still hold such an important position?" ”

The Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War is responsible for the promotion and selection of military attachés, and the weight of authority is also among the best in the entire six departments.

And the teacher of Longqing's five-year jinshi is Zhang Juzheng, in today's political arena, this wave of politically incorrect jinshi is relatively poor, and it is difficult to obtain key positions.

For example, the second master Feng, who is still struggling for fame in the literary world, is a five-year jinshi in Longqing, and he retired in the prime of life.

Therefore, when they heard that Wuxuan Shilang was a five-year jinshi of Longqing, Lin Daguan was a little surprised.

"He's over half a hundred years old." Shen explained the sentence succinctly.

In his fifties, he is only a five-grade lang, and it seems that he is indeed not very good, and the other Shen Shoufu is only fifty-two this year.

Lin Daguan couldn't help but think of Yang Wei, a seventy-year-old official of the Ministry of Officials, and couldn't help but complain:

"Does this Yu Langzhong have anything to do with Shen Xiang? Does Shin Xiang like to arrange for old men to occupy important positions? ”

While talking, the two walked to the main hall of the courtyard of the Wuxuan Division.

Shen Yongmao went straight in and pulled Yu Liangshu in the Wuxuan Shilang to the side hall to sit down and talk.

Lin Daguan took a look, this Yu Langzhong is really not young, and he is relatively old among the six Lang officials.

Shen Yongmao leaned on the Taishi chair, held the teacup and said, "Say it, I, an outsider, don't talk much." ”

Yu Langzhong was speechless, it's an attitude for you, the first assistant prince, to sit here, is there a difference between talking more and not talking more?

But he still took the initiative to Lin Tai with a smile on his face: "Congratulations, Lin Zhuangyuan is really a young talent." ”

Lin Daguan also said politely: "Today, I want to ask Yu Xuanwu to take care of me." ”

Yu Langzhong also stopped talking nonsense, and went straight to the topic and said: "In previous years, Wujin Shi selected officials, and the two paths of staying in Beijing and returning to his hometown could be chosen to show the preferential treatment of the imperial court.

There are more preferential treatment for the first martial arts test for civilians, at least the fifth grade of real jobs, and the position is generally voluntary.

On this basis, you can give Lin Zhuangyuan more preferential treatment, after all, this is the first champion of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"What are the positions and how to choose?" Lin Daguan asked curiously.

Yu Langzhong responded: "First of all, do you want to stay in Jingshi, or return to your hometown?" Or do you want to go to the border towns with style?

If you stay in Jingshi and are not appointed by the Son of Heaven, you will generally enter Jingying as a martial arts instructor in the first year.

After a year, when he was familiar with the situation in the Beijing camp, he was awarded the commander of the Beijing camp.

Before Yu Langzhong finished his introduction, Lin Daguan shouted: "Don't stay in Beijing!" Don't stay in Beijing! Back to your hometown! ”

I heard that I wanted to be a martial arts instructor in Beijing in the first year of my stay in Beijing, wasn't this the "800,000 Forbidden Army Instructor" in it?

Lin Daguan has become the head of the Lin sect, is this auspicious?

Seeing that Lin Tailai refused to stay in Beijing, Yu Langzhong did not care, and expressed his understanding, so he continued to introduce:

"If you choose to return to your hometown, you will generally send it back to the province, and the governor of the province will command the envoys and the chief military officer of the town guard, etc., and report to the court according to the needs of the position.

However, the situation of the north-south direct subordinate is different from that of the provincial, town, and metropolitan divisions, and can be directly appointed by the military selection department. ”

Lin Tailai nodded, this is not bad, you can do it directly at one time, and you don't have to go to the province to run officials.

The special feature of the North and South Zhili is that many affairs are arranged directly by the imperial court, which is different from other provinces.

I also heard Yu Langzhong say: "There are three major plates in the South Zhili Army, the Jiangbei plate, the Jiangnan plate, and the Nanjing Jiangfang plate."

Lin Daguan felt like he was playing a strategy game, choosing opportunities step by step.

Thinking of the next strategic focus, Lin Daguan said tentatively: "Yangzhou? ”

Yu Langzhong was like a novice guiding NPC, and responded mechanically: "Within the boundaries of Yangzhou, the guard system has Yangzhou Wei and Gaoyou Wei, and the Zhenshu system has Tongzhou Langshan Deputy General Barracks, Yizheng Garrison Battalion, Guazhou Garrison Battalion, Taizhou Haiphong Battalion, etc. ”

Lin Daguan clicked on the option with great interest: "Yangzhou Wei!" ”

If he is a military attache in Yangzhou Wei, he has at least a thousand soldiers under his command, plus the support of the household department and the support of the Suzhou base camp, it will not be easy to dominate the Yangzhou salt industry!

"Wait!" Shen Yongmao, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke up and interrupted Lin Daguanren's game operation.

Lin Daguan looked at Shen Yongmao suspiciously, didn't you say much?

Shen Yongmao couldn't help but remind Lin Tailai: "You should be sober, after you become an official, you can't leave the territory at will!"

That is to say, if you are an official in Yangzhou, you can't leave Yangzhou without being sent by the imperial court.

Do you just want to stay in Yangzhou in the future and don't want to go back to Suzhou? ”

Lin Tailai: "."

It seems to make sense, Suzhou is the base camp, and it has only been a year since the foundation was established, and it is impossible not to be unbreakable at present, and it is impossible not to return to Suzhou.

After thinking about it again and again, Lin Tailai asked Yu Langzhong: "Is there an official position in the territory that includes Yangzhou and Suzhou at the same time?" ”

What kind of greedy request is this? Yu Langzhong was speechless for a long time, and then replied: "Yes, the governor of Zhejiang back then was, but this is not a military attaché. ”

Lin Daguan sighed: "I think I have the courage of Jinbu, but if it is peaceful today, there is no suitable position." ”

Then he patted his ass and wanted to leave, but the election officer lost his freedom, so he still didn't choose.

The fifty-year-old city government of Yu Langzhong was also made angry by Lin Daguan.

When others seek to seek officials, they are all cautious and do everything possible to curry favor, lest they be thrown to a place they don't want to go.

This Lin Zhuangyuan picks and chooses not to take it seriously, and he disrespects his profession too much!

So Yu Langzhong couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Lin Zhuangyuan! If you don't choose an official, how can you get promoted? Isn't this champion in vain? ”

Lin Daguan said proudly: "In the next three cases, it is the head of the three cases of the Suzhou Liberal Arts County Examination, the Government Examination, and the Dao Examination, can't you go back to your hometown to continue studying?" ”

Yu Langzhong gasped, this son is terrifying!

Shen Yongmao stood up and complained: "If you don't choose an official, won't I help you for nothing?"

Military attachés are different from civilian officials, they can go back to their hometowns to take up posts, and you don't cherish the opportunity to return to their hometowns in such fine clothes. ”

Lin Daguan was about to say something, when he suddenly heard Yu Langzhong say: "I can create an official position reasonably and legally, so that Lin Zhuangyuan can travel freely between Jiangnan and Jiangbei." ”

Lin Daguan immediately turned around and warmly invited: "I hate to see the old gentleman late, tonight the Goulan Hutong of the West Courtyard of the Jiaofang Division will not be dispersed, I will be the east!" ”

Yu Langzhong explained: "There are three guards and seven battalions in the entire Suzhou Prefecture, and it is Suzhou Wei who is stationed in Suzhou City.

If he returns to Suzhou City to take up a post, according to the system, Lin Zhuangyuan can at least award Suzhou Weizheng five products and thousands of households.

However, Suzhou Wei is also responsible for transporting grain, so it is natural to set up officials to supervise.

Therefore, Lin Zhuangyuan might as well serve as the commander of Suzhou Wei Qianhu and the Department of Superintendent and Command, such a five-grade official plus four-grade dispatch is worthy of the identity of the champion.

And the most suitable place is that you can use the reason for supervising the transportation of grain, and there is no problem in going back and forth between Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Suzhou, and Yangzhou. ”

Hearing this, Lin Daguan felt so satisfied, isn't this a tailor-made official position!

Then he smiled and said, "Very good! I ask the old gentleman to pay for a month! ”

Shen Yongmao is right, the military attache is slightly more comfortable than the civilian official is that he can go back to his hometown to take up a post.

In addition, the rank of the military attache is quite high, and he, the martial champion, can directly start with four or five grades, and he can't even think of it in the civil service system.

As for the noble and lowly civil and military officials, there is a phenomenon of military attachés being bullied by civilian officials today, Lin Daguan feels that there seems to be no civil official in Suzhou City who can oppress him, and it would be good if he did not bully civil officials.

The Ming Dynasty does not seem to stipulate that military attaches are not allowed to take the imperial examination, and they can be military attaches while studying in the county.

First work as a military attache for a year or two to seek practical benefits, and then resign to participate in the township examination, climb the political peak, and there is nothing wrong with the plan!

Looking at Lin Daguan's face at this time, Shen Yongmao couldn't help but think of another big official in a recently popular book with golden characters, who also dominated the place with the title of punishing thousands of households.

Literature is indeed derived from life, but it is always less magical than life.

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