The spring equinox of the twenty-seventh year of Fu Rui, today's dynasty, this is the first heyday after the New Year, except for the real power officials stationed in the border states, almost all the foreign officials and pillars of the imperial court have come to the capital with the great momentum.

Among them, there are state pastors from various states, and some relatively large counties and county guards, who follow the torrent when the waning moon in the sky and the early red of the east meet, and fold from the high-gate mansions in all directions to the imperial road in front of Donghua Gate, and slowly pour out of the imperial city gate.

And the reason why so many foreign officials from the imperial court entered Beijing this time was because they wanted to bring the most famous scholars from their respective places to the capital to take an exam, an exam that could directly change their fate!

Because as long as you pass this exam, even if you are fifty percent sure that you will put the position of a Beijing official into your pocket!

The previous year's college led by Lu Xiangrui has finally come to an end today, and Jinghua College will recruit their first class of students today.

In fact, Jinghua Academy was completed and completed at the end of last year, but at that time, it was a good time for families to reunite, and it was really inconvenient to recruit all the scholars into Beijing to take any exams, so this pushed the day to today.

Today is not so much a court meeting, but an invigilation meeting led by Chu Zheng and led by hundreds of civil and military officials, because after Chu Zheng met with the courtiers, he waved his hand and said that he wanted to go to the examination room to have a look.

Hundreds of officials had just entered the Donghua Gate, and they immediately walked out in a line, but they were pitiful for those who had been in power in the local government all their lives, and finally seized an opportunity to take a good look at the Jinluan Palace, but they couldn't see it clearly.

And behind Chu Zheng, Chu Wushuang and Chu Tianxiong were by his side, one left and one right, since Chu Tianxiong entered Beijing, the two brothers, who still had some deep feelings, went farther and farther.

After Chu Zheng and the others staggered all the way to the south of the city, the entrance examination had already been carried out for most of the time, because it was just a simple enrollment, so the content of the examination was far less complicated than the imperial examination, and it only took two hours to complete all the examination content.

But what is worth mentioning in this exam is that in addition to the literary candidates, there are also martial arts candidates, and Chu Tianxiong established the martial arts academy as he wished by virtue of the letter he brought back to the capital that could ensure the stability of the border between the Southern Tang Dynasty of Great Chu for ten years.

With his help, Da Chu selected fifty small flag officers and twenty small flag officers from the border armies of the three border states and the standing armies of the remaining five states to come to the capital to take the exam.

The small flag officer is a special position set up by Da Chu to train low-level officers, if you want to eat in the barracks, then you must seriously polish the position of the small flag officer for a few years.

Compared with the literary candidates, the items of the martial arts candidates are more complicated, in addition to the regular horseback riding and archery, they also have to test the art of war, strategy and the arrangement of troops! From this, it can be seen that in Chu Tianxiong's heart, this martial arts academy is regarded as heavy!

Chu Zheng led the hundred officials to stop and go in the examination room, and after making sure that this examination did not buy and sell places like the previous imperial examination, he could be considered at ease, if someone cheated in the first year's examination, then there was really no need for this academy to continue!

"Fat Zhao, how much does this entire academy cost!"

After looking at the entire academy, even with Chu Zheng's critical eye, he had to nod with satisfaction, there should be a place with pavilions and pavilions, and there should be a water pavilion and a cloud residence!

Speaking of Zhao Yunqing, the head of the household, Chu Zheng's heart is still quite satisfied, although he is sometimes greedy for some silver, but he is also very neat and neat.

Hearing the emperor's shout, there was a fat man in the crowd who was covered with muddy flesh and pushed everyone away and trotted to Chu Zheng's side, as a celebrity around Chu Zheng, he almost didn't have to buy anyone's face.

"Hey... Hey, Your Majesty, the little fat man is here!"

"You stay away from me, don't be disgusted with me, how old are you and you still call yourself a little fat man, the old fat man is about the same, hurry up and tell me how much money this academy has cost me?"

Seeing that Zhao Yunqing was about to stick to him, Chu Zheng immediately stretched out his hand to stop him, and Zhao Yunqing also stopped obediently with great interest.

"Hehe, Your Majesty, I said don't blame me, we have built the academy before, and the cost is generally about 150,000 taels, but now our academy has another martial arts academy, which counts, it will have to be a practice ground, a martial arts field, and there must be..."

"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense, I just want to know how much money this academy has spent!"

"Three hundred thousand taels!"

Hearing Chu Zheng's request, Zhao Yunqing changed Luo Li's long-winded problem, and immediately said it concisely, but Chu Zheng looked at him with a smile.

"Fat Zhao, there must be 100,000 taels in this into your own pocket!"

Hearing Chu Zheng's words, Zhao Yunqing's face immediately collapsed, but his fat face was about to make a look of grievance, looking like a girl from a good family who had just been spoiled by a man, but the man was not picky a bit.

"Your Majesty, you are wronged, you are a great wrong, even if you lend me ten guts, I don't dare to put 100,000 taels in my pocket!"

Chu Zheng was not angry, but was still a little happy, as if he was very happy to tease this little fat man.

"Then tell me how much you both. ”

Seeing Chu Zheng's question, Zhao Yunqing immediately put away his cowardly posture, probably in front of Chu Zheng, he was used to it casually, and pretended to hesitate for a few seconds before speaking.

"Hehe, no more, no less, it's only 50,000 taels. ”

"Fifty thousand! Fifty thousand is not much!"

Chu Zheng's tone suddenly became serious, and Zhao Yunqing immediately knelt on the ground by the car, and then flicked his sleeves, crying with tears and snot, looking at his appearance, I am afraid that it is not the first time he has done this.

Every time the emperor heard that he was greedy for money, he had such a tone, and he already knew how to deal with it.

"Uh... Your Majesty! This money didn't all go into the minister's pocket, although the minister's official hat was relatively large, and he was also the director of the academy, but he also had to feed the people under him before he would do things for me wholeheartedly! As the so-called king of Hades is better, the little ghosts are difficult to deal with, and 40,000 of the 50,000 silver I greedy for ink have been divided by those little ghosts, and only 10,000 taels really go into the minister's own pocket! This was taken away by the evil lady at home, and no money was left for the minister, the emperor, the old minister's heart is bitter!"

"I know that you are this shameless, skinless dead virtue. !"

"Hey, thank you Emperor Longen!"

Hearing Zhao Yunqing's crying words, Chu Zheng really didn't continue to embarrass him, and the latter simply put away his tears and snot and got up from the ground, a little more neat than him doing practical things, as if the person who just begged for mercy was not him.

In fact, Chu Zheng is not afraid that the officials under his command are greedy for money, if the officials are not greedy for money, then what is the point of wearing this official hat?

What's more, Zhao Yunqing, an old fat man, knows the truth of feeding the people below, why doesn't he Chu Zheng understand?

It's just that he thinks that officials have to be greedy for money, as long as they don't exceed his bottom line, then there is no problem.

Just like Zhao Yunqing, he also does things beautifully after taking the money, of course Chu Zheng will not blame him, this is probably the reason why Chu Zheng prefers this Zhao Fat Man who has nothing to hide in front of him!

After they walked around, the examination in the academy was nearing the end, in order not to disturb these scholars, Chu Zheng went back to the palace before the end of the exam, in order not to trouble, he also dispersed the court meeting at the gate of the academy, and benevolently did not let the hundred officials run again.

At the gate of the academy, many officials have already gone back to their respective homes and gone to find their own mothers, but only officials from outside the capital are still here.

They had to know the exam status of the scholars they had brought with them as soon as possible, and then choose the best ones to follow.

For them, foreign officials of the imperial court, being able to enter the capital and become a Beijing official is the most glorious thing, even if it drops one or two grades because of this, it doesn't matter.

But it is unlikely that they will be promoted by themselves, so they have to pin their hopes on these scholars.

In addition to them, there are two people who have not left, it is the second prince Chu Tianxiong and Shangshu Ling Cheng Yijie.

"Second Prince, you have to go to the Martial Arts Academy to see the situation anyway, why don't you stop by and go to the Liberal Arts Academy to have a look? This is a good opportunity to buy people's hearts!"

Regarding Shang Shuling's suggestion, Chu Tianxiong did not agree and shook his head.

"The reason why I want to go to see the Martial Arts Academy is because I have high hopes for it, but the group of students in the Academy of Letters are different, the more I value them, the more they will treat themselves as onions, once they feel that they are invincible, it will be difficult to suppress them in the future. ”

After listening to Chu Tianxiong's words, Cheng Yijie nodded approvingly, those readers are really such a urine.

"The second prince is right, but the old minister didn't think it through. ”

Chu Tianxiong looked at Cheng Yijie and then smiled.

"Lao Shangshu, you haven't thought it through, you haven't understood it yet! If I go to the Faculty of Letters this time, the people who immediately pounce on me and pat me on the back are some people who tend to be inflammatory, what is the use of such people? Most of the rest of those people are also people who sell their fame and reputation, and they are even more dispensable, and the most disgusting people in the world are those who pretend to be high-minded scholars, and even if there are really a few fairly good scholars in them, they are not something that I can buy after a visit. ”

After Chu Tianxiong finished speaking, the bell for the end of the academy exam behind him rang, and without paying any attention to Cheng Yijie, he turned around and walked into the academy.

"It seems that the second prince has really become the emperor, which is not bad!"

Looking at Chu Tianxiong's back, Cheng Yijie muttered outside the gate of the academy alone.

...

In fact, in addition to the opening of the academy today, there is also a lively event in the capital, the restaurant that was built with the academy and claimed to have a big man behind it has also opened!

As soon as this name came out, the people in the capital didn't know that this was the property of the three princes, so all the characters who were still famous in the capital came to cheer.

Originally, these people went with the intention of giving gifts, but after eating the food of Fusheng Restaurant, they realized that the craftsmanship here is no worse than that of Manxianglou!

In the seventh floor, the highest building of Fusheng Restaurant, which is never open to the public, is Chu Fusheng's exclusive box.

At this time, Chu Fusheng was sitting alone in the room, looking at the lazy movements of his hands on the chair, it seemed that he had been sitting here for a long time.

There were only four dishes in front of him, and these four dishes were the same four dishes he had used to entertain the two dogs.

After being silent for a long time, Chu Fusheng said softly.

"Ergou, the restaurant that promised you has been built, when will you come to the capital to taste it?"

It is estimated that he remembered such a friend as Jiang Ergou, and he was a little happy, so he picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of the Jiangnan drunken crab that had not been named at the beginning, he chewed a few bites carefully, then swallowed it, and then said softly again.

"You're just calling Ergou's crab!"

...

The smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River are gone, and Xiaomo in the south of the city is in spring again.

In the spring, Gusu City is covered by the continuous spring rain, which is always unreal, especially in the morning when there is a layer of hazy mist.

A young scholar-looking scholar walked out of a compound with an unknown book under his arm. Looking at the scale of this compound, it should be a scholarly family, and no matter how poor it is, it is a rich and compelling family.

It was estimated that there was still a little humidity in the air in the early spring, so the young man tugged at his shirt and left in a hurry.

He walked all the way to the east of the city in the dew, stood still in front of a courtyard door full of books, and hesitated for a moment before he went up and knocked on the door.

I didn't wait too long, the door was opened, and it was a very clever little girl who opened the door, if Ergou was here, he would definitely recognize this little girl as Chen Xici.

But this little girl full of aura was obviously not very happy at this time, and her small mouth was gently pursed, with a little playfulness in her appearance.

"Lu Dongshu, didn't I tell you that my grandfather no longer accepts disciples!"

The young reader was not annoyed by this, on the contrary, he was a little embarrassed.

"Miss Chen misunderstood, the students did not come to apprentice, but to study. ”

"Reading!?surnamed Lu, don't try to lie to me. ”

The little girl Chen Xici laughed as if she had heard some big joke, and just as she was about to drive this annoying Lu Dongshu away, a voice came from behind her.

"Little girl Xici, let him come in. ”

After the little girl heard the voice coming from inside, she didn't know what illness her grandfather had, so she snorted coldly at Lu Dongshu and turned away.

The latter smiled dumbly, then walked into the courtyard with his feet raised, and walked to the lower position of Chen Mu, who was sitting in the position of the gentleman.

Chen Mu didn't speak, just looked at Lu Dongshu quietly, and Lu Dongshu didn't speak, and after standing quietly for ten breaths, he bowed to Chen Mu and went to find a place to read by himself.

Chen Mu's academy is not big, even very small, only thirty or fifty children, and it is even more incomparable with the Jinghua Academy in the capital, which has only been renovated.

However, although there are large and small academies, there is no difference in learning, so when the mind is calm, where can we not do learning?