Just a few days before Li Longji killed his three sons in one day and shocked all strata in Chang'an, a report letter from Youzhou was sent to Li Longji's desk through the fast horse of the post station.

But this Son of Heaven didn't have time to care about those trivial things, and he was unwilling to let the foreign dynasty interfere with the "secret letters" sent by the assassins and feudal officials in various places.

He would rather go to the pear orchard to listen to music and compose music more than be bothered by boring state affairs all day long, so he handed over the letter to Colliers to deal with.

The letter was written by Fang Youde, the envoy of the Youzhou Shogunate, in which Fang Youde complained to the Yongqiu County Commander Linghu Chao, who had just taken office this year, and asked the imperial court to remove him.

Fang Youde said in the letter: Although Ling Huchao is a graceful person, he is not grateful for the kindness of the imperial court, and his misconduct in private is despicable.

This is not groundless, but there is detailed evidence.

Fang Youde detailed in the letter the "romantic affair" of Ling Fox Chao.

Ling Fox Chao has a staff member named Gao Shang, the two are like brothers and sisters, and they have a very close personal relationship. Linghu Chao also has a beautiful concubine in the family, he and the noble two often play with this beautiful concubine, the three of them have sex together is extremely debauched, this matter is famous far and wide.

Later, the beautiful concubine gave birth to a daughter, but she didn't know who her father was, so she recognized her as a noble girl and made Hu Chao her "father-in-law", which was ridiculous.

How can such a misbehaving person be a local governor, please ask the court to remove him.

That's how the letter was written, and that's all it takes.

Originally, Gao Lishi almost forgot about this trivial matter, but when he saw Fang Chongyong today, Gao Lishi thought of his father Fang Youde's ridiculous whistleblower letter.

This letter has long been "left in the middle and not sent", and it was shelved by Colliers, and he didn't even bother to look at it again.

You said that you are an observer and disposal envoy in Youzhou, and if you want to observe, you are also an official who observes Youzhou, even if you say that the imperial court should take out Zhang Shouqi, the envoy of Youzhou Festival, it is a serious matter!

You can write a letter to complain, asking the imperial court to remove a county order of Henan Province, what does this mean? Is it because you are too idle in Youzhou?

Gao Lishi was puzzled, Fang Youde, as the number one supervisor placed by the imperial court in Youzhou, what did he do about the miscellaneous affairs of Henan Province, and what was his motive?

Don't say it's a cross-district manager, even if Fang Youde is the observation and disposal envoy of Henan Province, Li Longji doesn't bother to take care of similar things, and Gao Lishi doesn't want to pay attention to it at all!

What's the matter, is this worth talking about?

Gao Lishi felt that Fang Youde was completely ignorant, and he was ridiculously naïve.

When Fang Youde came back to report on his work, Gao Lishi felt that he had to recommend it and let the sage open his eyes.

With some ridiculous thoughts in his head, Gao Lishi came to Daming Palace. Before entering, there is a legend that Gao Lishi returned to Xingqing Palace quickly, and the saint was waiting for him to return to his life in the diligent government building over there.

Gao Lishi, who was sweating profusely, had to rush back to Xingqing Palace in the dust, and when he saw Li Longji, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was watching the music, and his face was slightly gloomy.

"Have you figured things out?"

Li Longji put down the piece and asked in a calm tone.

"Back to the saint, find out."

Gao Lishi began to talk about it from the beginning when he saw Fang Chongyong and others go to the post station, until not long ago, the "Three Kings" were hastily buried with the gifts of civilians.

Listening to the whole funeral process, Li Longji was slightly stunned.

He really wanted to clean up Fang Chongyong's gang in the name of righteousness, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that he couldn't find anything wrong!

The funerals of the three kings were all held in "civilian specifications". Li Ying and the others were deposed, aren't they civilians?

"Who planned this?"

Li Longji asked with an unkind face.

"Hui Sheng, he is a child, and he is still the son of an old minister of the Qiandi."

Colliers laughed.

"Former retainers?"

Li Longji was stunned for a moment, and now there are only three of the remaining former ministers of the Qiandi back then, Chen Xuanli, Gao Lishi, and Fang Youde.

Originally, a few years ago, there was also a Wang Maozhong, who was in charge of the forbidden army.

However, because of that man's arrogance and arrogance, he committed Li Longji's taboo, and was finally demoted to death.

Wang Maozhong is not as indifferent to fame and fortune as Fang Youde, low-key and undemanding, and not as good as Gao Lishi, and not as good as Chen Xuanli who doesn't ask about Li Longji's affairs at all.

Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, under the survival of the fittest, there will naturally be people out. And there is only one result of being out, and that is death.

"Fang Youde is the son of virtue, Fang Chongyong."

Colliers said softly.

"That idiot?"

Li Longji was almost amused by Gao Lishi's words.

"Lux is not allowed to deceive me, Fang Youde's only son, isn't that the ...... You've seen it before. If it was a successful instrument, he would have entered the country to study a long time ago. ”

Li Longji waved his hand and said.

Guozijian has existed since the Han Dynasty, and the names of each dynasty and generation are also different.

In the first year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty changed the name of Guozixue to Guozijian, and at the same time established it as an independent educational administrative institution.

There is a sacrificial wine in the prison, who is the highest educational administrator. There is one person and one main bookkeeper, who is responsible for specific matters such as students' academic performance and student status. There are six schools under Guozijian, namely Guozixue, Taixue, Four Studies, Law, Calligraphy and Arithmetic, with a teacher-student ratio of about 1:20.

During the Kaiyuan period, there were more than 2,000 students, many of whom were foreigners who "studied" in Datang.

The entrance threshold of Guozijian is not low, only the children of officials and eunuchs with normal intelligence and a certain level of official positions in their parents' generation can only be admitted after the interview, showing the officials who hold a certain level of official positions in the family and writing a letter of recommendation.

Fang Chongyong's father Fang Youde's official position must be fine, but at that time, Fang Chongyong's IQ could not pass Guozijian's interview.

That's why Li Longji said this.

Back then, if Fang Chongyong's intelligence was fine, he would be like an ordinary official eunuch, first enter the national prison for a time of chaos, and then see if he could take the road of the imperial examination.

Of course, in terms of Fang Youde's identity, there is no difficulty for Fang Chongyong to become an official in the future.

There may be people who don't understand the "market" who think that the entrance threshold for Guozijian is very low. But in fact, in addition to being a place to look at the background of status and status, Guozijian also leaves a way for some civilian children to enter and study in a "supplemental" way.

In order to enter the Guozijian, these children of civilians have to take the entrance exam of madness! The difficulty is not ordinary.

Moreover, after entering, they have to study hard and cope with various exams!

That's right, the exams in the country are very frequent, in addition to the entrance exam, the promotion test, and the proctored exam, there are also the ten-month exam, the annual exam, etc., and the role of each type of exam is also different. The content and method of the test are different for different subjects.

Of course, the children of the eunuchs can not take the examination seriously, but the children of the commoners cannot, because this is one of the ladders for them to participate in the imperial examination.

Although the actual effect of Guozijian is not very good, it has really reserved some talents for the imperial examination, and objectively improved the overall education level of the bureaucracy.

Among them, the mode and content of the examination are closely related to the imperial examination, which can be regarded as participating in the imperial examination mock examination training class in advance.

After all students complete their studies, they have to take the imperial examination, and like the Xianggong Jinshi, they will pass the official examination after obtaining their origins.

Li Longji actually wanted to send Fang Chongyong to Guozijian to study, and now that Gao Lishi mentioned this stubble, he remembered that this child should be a fool.

At least it used to be.

"From a slave point of view, this person is not only not stupid, but he is very wise and a young man."

Colliers said softly.

"That's weird."

Li Longji muttered to himself.

"It is not uncommon for people who are dull when they are young and become talented when they grow up. What is the saint going to do about this? ”

Colliers asked very respectfully.

"What do you think?"

Li Longji nodded slightly and asked noncommittally.

"Back to the saint, this matter will stop here, and it is better not to mention it again. If a courtier writes, he can press down the cantata, and there is no need to reply. After a while, the matter faded away. ”

Colliers bowed and said.

"Let's do it according to this."

Li Longji sighed, he vaguely felt that this time it seemed to be a bit "too strong", but he couldn't pull his face to make some remedies.

Seeing Li Longji's expression, Gao Lishi continued to suggest: "The heirs of Li Ying, Li Yao, and Li Ju can be passed on to the names of other princes, and the others don't need to be mentioned, and there is no need to restore the names of King Ying (Li Ying was King Ying before he became the crown prince), King E, and King Guang."

However, at the same time, captivity is necessary. ”

Colliers' suggestion was very apt not to deal with the descendants of the three kings, but to pass them under the names of other princes and confine them down.

If you don't have a confinement, what should you do if you want to take revenge all day long?

I have to say that this kind of power trick is really very mature, which can eliminate hidden dangers to the greatest extent, as well as downplay the adverse political impact caused by "killing three sons in one day".

"If you do this, then how should Fang Chongyong deal with it?"

Li Longji nodded and continued to ask, he didn't want to think about what to do, the matter of killing three sons in one day was a bit bad, which made him a little confused. At this time, he didn't want to do multiple-choice questions, let alone do quiz questions.

Only true/false questions are his dish, Li Longji only wants others to come up with ideas now, and he just answers "yes" or "no".

"I heard that there are three scholars who participated in the imperial examination this year and also followed Fang Chongyong to coax and help, it is better to advance the secretary of the ward rite department and not admit these three people as a punishment."

Colliers suggested in a whisper.

"Very good. As for the others, except for Fang Chongyong, they must also be domestic slaves, so there is no need to punish them. ”

Li Longji waved his hand and laughed.

The dust of the times finally passed by Fang Dafu Fang Laique's father and son dangerously, and did not crush them into meat paste under the mountain.

Ordinary people's jokes are often just laughing; The jokes of the nobles are often the capsizing of the dead. The same thing is said by different people, and the effect is completely different.

"As for Fang Chongyong's child, the slave will bring him to Xingqing Palace and let the saint meet him. It's up to you what to do with the saints.

If there is nothing to do, isn't his house behind Xingqing Palace, and he can go home when he leaves the palace. If something happens, then detain him in the palace to teach him, and the saint should only be the disobedient heir of Fang Youde, so why not? ”

Gao Lishi looked at Li Longji's mouth slightly hooked, and knew that the other party's mood had improved.

"Don't be busy, let him squat in the prison of Dali Temple for three days first. Three days later, when I brought the disobedient child to Xingqing Palace, I also wanted to see how this little rabbit cub had gone from being stupid and unteachable to being gifted and intelligent now. ”

Li Longji's mood improved, and he said to Gao Lishi: "I will go to the pear orchard to see how Aunt Gongsun teaches her a few disciples and grandchildren who are not successful." Fang Chongyong's matter, let's watch it. Let the people over there in Dali Temple take care of it a little, don't be hungry. ”

Li Longji waved his hand and walked outside the diligent government affairs building, Gao Lishi sighed in his heart, in the past few years, Li Longji has spent more time going to the pear orchard than going to the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace.

Sure enough, if today's singing and dancing are leveled, Li Longji also wants to enjoy it.

Gao Lishi walked out of Xingqing Palace and saw that the sun was about to set, and the drums of the curfew were already beating. He exhaled a breath of turbidity, and thought to himself: This time I saved Fang Chongyong's life, and the next time Fang Youde returned to Chang'an to report on his work, he would have to extort a sum of money from him.

……

In a small cell in Dali Temple Prison, Fang Chongyong looked at Yan Zhuang, who was almost unrecognizable and unkempt, and sighed with emotion: "It turns out that you are also here!" ”

"Look at what Xiao Langjun said, I have been looking forward to you and Zheng Yuanjun fishing out so-and-so. As a result, Zheng Yuanjun didn't come, but you actually came in, how good is this! ”

Yan Zhuang lamented, Fang Chongyong's imprisonment dispelled the only extravagant hope in his heart. In his eyes, Uncle Zheng, who is full of old bureaucrats who run trains, is not reliable at all. Or this little Langjun can look forward to it.

Of course, yesterday he thought so, and now he doesn't.

"When you go to jail, you're just in jail. But when I'm in prison, I'm experiencing life. ”

Fang Chongyong didn't dislike Yan Zhuang's bad taste, sat down beside him, and then said in a heartfelt voice: "If XX is not mistaken, tonight, at most tomorrow morning, XX will leave here." ”

"This ...... Unlikely, right? ”

Yan Zhuang asked with some suspicion. He has read a lot of books, how can he not know that Dali Temple is easy to enter and difficult to exit?

"Then we'll see."

Fang Chongyong snorted twice, ignored Yan Zhuang, and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

After a while, Yan Zhuang really couldn't help it, and he asked in a somewhat uncertain whisper: "What is the reason why Xiao Langjun entered Dali Temple?" You're still a kid! ”

"It's nothing, the saint killed three sons in one day, and then I collected the bodies of the three princes and buried them, one of them was the former prince."

Fang Chongyong had an indifferent expression and said indifferently.

"Oh, it turned out that it was just to bury the prince......"

Yan Zhuang suddenly sensed that something was wrong, and suddenly looked at Fang Chongyong and asked, "What are you talking about, the saint kills three sons in one day, and then you ......"

"That's right, at that time, the corpse was hanging on the beam of the lobby of the Chengdong Station, and the tongue was sticking out, looking strange and scary."

Fang Chongyong continued to say indifferently.

"And then you were caught?"

Yan Zhuang wanted to cry without tears, and looked at Fang Chongyong with a sad face and asked.

"Almost, you should stay overnight and leave, it's not a big deal."

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly.

"It's over, it's all over, you can't do it and die before me, why are you so calm now!"

Yan Zhuang kept pounding the ground in the prison, crying incessantly. The hope in his heart was completely shattered.