Chapter 434: Prelude
In the golden autumn of October, the wheat waves are slow.
There are no wheat waves in the capital, but you can see the whole car of millet transported into the city from the land and waterway, and the granaries of each square are full one after another, and the treasurers are so busy every day that their feet do not touch the ground, and they are as tired as dead dogs.
Sheng Taiyang, the eldest grandson of the Sheng family's fourth room, is the treasurer of Jingdong Yuzhenfang, this person is a typical senior and young, only seven years older than Feng Zhiping, twenty-four this year, and is the closest "cousin" to Feng Zhiping.
Unlike other descendants of the Sheng family, Sheng Taiyang actually doesn't like to study at all, but he was born in this kind of family, if you don't want to read, someone will force you to read, Sheng Taiyang has to resist and can only obey, procrastinating, until he was twenty-two years old, he didn't get fame until he was twenty-two years old, and he became a typical example of "not fighting" in the mouth of the Sheng family, and was often used to educate younger generations.
To tell the truth, the 22-year-old Tongjinshi was still said to be "unlucky", and he would be beaten to death if he took it out.
There are tens of millions of students in Tianyuan, and the candidates who went to Beijing in the previous big examinations are less than tens of thousands and more than millions, and only the first three Jinshi and the first are taken among the hundreds of thousands of people, the second and thirteenth are given to the Jinshi and the third and thirty-three are given to the same Jinshi background, and the number of the Dayan is forty-nine, and the rest are selected according to the results of hundreds to thousands of the four and five first, respectively, the second Jinshi and the second Jinshi are given the same subject, and the total number of together will not exceed two thousand, and the difficulty can be imagined.
Whether it is the top three Jinshi or the fourth or fifth Jinshi, in the eyes of ordinary people are the top of the million, is the object of worship of the students of Guangzhou, the family out of a top five Jinshi is enough to glorify the ancestors, some people can not be on the list for a lifetime, Sheng Taiyang is only twenty-two years old on the three list nominations, absolutely not bad, in the eyes of ordinary people it is a real genius, Wenxian descended, but he was born in the Sheng family.
There are too many people in the Sheng family who can read, and they not only know how to read, but they are also very good at exams, but the average age of the ten exams is less than twenty, compared to Sheng Taiyang, it is indeed "too late".
Of course, looking all over the world, the Sheng family dares not to take the three lists of Jinshi seriously, Sheng Taiyang himself is also very open, anyway, he can be successful, and he will not embarrass his ancestors by completing the task, which is enough.
He doesn't have the ambition to help the people in the world, nor does he have the ambition and courage to be a traitor, after winning the list, he mixed a small errand step by step, with his family background and his own good character, he took over the mantle of the old boss in less than two years and became the treasurer of the official warehouse of Yuzhenfang in the capital.
After Feng Zhiping lived in the Sheng Mansion, he was the most diligent runner, the reason was very simple, he was not dirty at all, but a little funny - he loved to play, he had money, he lived a very nourishing life, but he was also very boring and lonely.
The first time they met, Sheng Taiyang confessed frankly in front of a group of "grandsons" of the same age, and everyone else laughed, making fun of him not knowing the blessing in the blessing, only Feng Zhiping didn't laugh, because he knew this feeling too well.
Outsiders think that brocade clothes and jade food are good, but they don't know that no matter how good the material is, it can only satisfy the body and not the heart, just like the thrush in a cage, you take gold to make a cage for it, is it happy?
He was physically tired, and his parents locked him up in Quanzhou City for safety reasons, and he was locked up for more than ten years.
Sheng Taiyang is similar to him, first he was tired of his studies, and then he was tied to his legs and feet by his duties, he has not been out of the capital a few times since he was a child, and he also followed his own parents or business trips, for the face of the family and his official prestige, where can he let go?
When their hearts were revealed, the two young people found out that they had found a soulmate, and they immediately sympathized with each other, and their feelings quickly warmed up, and they became each other's confidants.
And this pair of uncles and nephews who are not very concerned also made a lot of jokes, the most powerful of which is that the brother and sister were privately called brothers and sisters were heard by Sheng Zhongzhang, who happened to come to find Feng Zhiping, and the old man Sheng was reluctant to scold his great-grandson for various reasons, so he caught the little grandson and opened the knife.
In the blink of an eye, Feng Zhiping had lived in Sheng Mansion for nearly a month, and Sheng Taiyang had not shown up for more than ten days.
After inquiring and learning that he was busy at the grain depot, Feng Zhiping couldn't help but secretly snicker, let that funny guy do such a trivial errand as a treasurer, I really don't know which genius gave the idea in the first place.
Shaking his head, he told Xiao Tao to call Niu Chunhan, and the two met in the pavilion on the west side.
Skipping the matter of chickens and dogs, Feng Zhiping focused on asking about Tianyuan Dabi.
Not surprisingly, the original rumors have become a reality, and the imperial court has announced various matters of the Tianyuan Dabi, especially pointing out that there is "Taishi VIP coming to advise", pay attention to "advice" rather than "seeking advice" and "observation", and its deep meaning is self-evident.
Sure enough, this imperial list was like a fire, lit up the Tianyuan martial arts, up to the famous factions, down to the market for loose cultivation, all filled with righteous indignation.
The Tian Yuan royal family has been weak for many years, and now it can only entrust the Tian Yuan Sword to others to take charge on its behalf, but this does not mean that Tian Yuan is weaker than Tai Shi, in terms of national strength, the two countries are half a catty and eight taels, and Tai Shi is not too strong, if it is not for the fight against the Tai Shi Sword, but also to reduce its own attrition, Tian Yuan can fight evenly without uniting with Kong Xuan, what is the result?
Who gave Tai Shi the courage to be so arrogant, and dared to come to the door to challenge me Tianyuan Qunhao?
My Tianyuan is a little white in the east, there is a black bone cliff Yao Tongba in the west, there is a yew cloud in the south, there is the abbot of Songshan Temple in the north, the fairy Gu Tan Zhenren of the Falling Moon View, and Sun Cai of the Blood Knife Gate, and the main battle of the Broadsword Gate, which of these world-shattering martial gods can't give you a beating?
This is still on the rivers and lakes, there are more masters in the hands of the imperial court, King Zhan has guarded the east stiff for thousands of years with a magic spear, Yan, Zhao, Li, Fan, and Fang's five generals each guard a corner like a needle in the sea, known as the "headless prince" of the Jingguo Gong, nicknamed the "blood drop" Chongyang Hou, and the true biography of the master, the first swordsman of today's Yuan Dynasty, "Red Sword Marquis" Feng Moxiu, etc., etc., these world-shaking martial gods, martial spirits, Quasi-martial souls can pick a few at will to beat you crying dad and shouting mother, who gave you the confidence to dare to come to the door to provoke?
Oh, it's not the top masters, it's the masters of the Spiritual Consciousness Period and the Divine Treasure Period, that's better!
We Tianyuan lacks everything, the most important thing is the middle and lower level martial artists, they don't need the imperial court, only the rivers and lakes, the eight major factions and the various factions are famous in the rivers and lakes, and there are countless masters who can be called famous in the rivers and lakes, and the number of lights can give you a number of dizziness, do you dare to challenge?
Don't cry at all!
The angry people automatically skipped the people of the Void Xuan Kingdom who had come to "visit" with them, and pointed all the fingers at Taishi.
And at the end of the list, an inconspicuous piece of news that seemed to be mentioned casually added fuel to the fire, completely detonating everyone's last trace of forbearance.
Taishiren, the princess who wants to marry Tianyuan!
They used various means to force the imperial court to hold this conference in advance, hoping to use this matter to prove to the Tianyuan royal family and all the Tianyuan people that the Taishi people were the best, and the relatives were the Tianyuan royal family, and Tianyuan should cry and shout and beg to marry the princess.
Can this be endured?
Bah, it's a shit fuck!
The people in the rivers and lakes blew up, and the court was not calm, most of the people knew that the envoy Taishi was coming, but they didn't know what they were doing, but now they know, and they have written to ask His Majesty to severely reprimand and expel them.
This is the practice of civil officials, the military attaches are more direct, they don't talk to you at all, they surrounded the Honglu Temple on the same day, and the Taishi delegation almost jumped off the wall, and the little princess Zongya hid behind the door and patted her big chest with "fear", and knocked two catties of melon seeds in one go.
Later, the forbidden army was dispatched, which quelled the riots, and the right Shaoqing of Honglu Temple came forward and apologized with a smile, and the attitude was called a good, no matter what the Taishi mission threatened to protest anything, he nodded with a smile and a "hmm", and did not mention how to deal with it, and he said goodbye to the Taishi people before he left, and after it spread, it became the hottest joke in the capital in recent days.
The emperor had expected the reaction of the people below, but what the emperor thought, the people below did not know.
It stands to reason that His Majesty should refuse this kind of door-to-door slap in the face as soon as possible, and should not endure those threats, and should have beaten the rampant envoys and driven them out.
But the emperor didn't, but refused in this very roundabout way, and even did not hesitate to expose his family shortcomings, which made people confused at the same time, and also sighed that the You royal family was really not as good as in the past, and it was so weak. Worry-free Literature Network
Feng Zhiping didn't think so, he knew very well that Taishi was powerful, and if he dared to send someone to come, he would not be sent over to be beaten, this time the big competition, the outcome is difficult to say.
At the same time, he also firmly believed that the emperor and his core must have other plans, which came from the old man who claimed to be nameless in Qiankun Pavilion, if he wasn't afraid of being detained, he really wanted to go to his father or You Jinglian now to ask what was going on.
Now, all the best players in Tianyuan are gathering in the capital, and various rings on the outskirts of the capital are also being built, and it is said that the preliminary selection will be held in these places.
The emperor seems to be determined to show his muscles and suppress the arrogance of the Taishi people, and the scope of the competition is not limited to the spiritual consciousness period proposed by Taishi, but covers the three levels of acquired, innate spiritual consciousness, and innate divine treasure like previous competitions, that is to say, everyone below the divine treasure period is eligible to participate.
One thing worth noting is that before the last session, Tianyuan Dabi did not have the Shenzang period, and the Shenzang period was added from the previous session, and this session continued, which can be said to be silently announcing a fact - the Three Kingdoms War, and Shenzang's participation in the war is a foregone conclusion.
After many people of insight found out this, they couldn't help but secretly worry, since it has become a routine for Shenzang to participate in the war, what about the form, what about the martial soul?
Will the balance between the three kingdoms, which has been maintained for tens of thousands of years, be completely shattered in the next war or the next few wars, and the three continents and the sea of clouds will become the chaos and barbarism that they were before the emergence of the Three Kingdoms?
Feng Zhiping doesn't care about this, he is very excited and looking forward to the upcoming event, don't get me wrong, he is not interested in fighting, he is interested in the people who fight.
Niu Chunhan heard that the people of Diancangshan had already set off, and it was not clear whether Zhao Kang and Lao Dong were among them, but as long as he could meet an acquaintance, it would be good, he really missed them, and he wanted to have worries and worries but still a good time in the New Year.
"Young master, the thirteenth uncle is here. Xiao Tao entered the door and interrupted Feng Zhiping's thoughts.
Before Feng Zhiping could speak, a dissatisfied voice floated outside the door.
"How many times have I said it, don't call me Uncle Thirteen, it's hard to hear to death, when no one is around, call me 'Shize' Gongzi, and Brother Thirteen is okay. ”
Xiao Tao shook her head with a serious face: "No, I will be scolded by the ancestors, absolutely not!"
Sheng Taiyang came in with a belly that had just seen the scale, grinded his teeth at Xiao Tao, and turned his head to complain: "How did you raise this girl, what a tendon!"
Feng Zhiping smiled, hugged his fists casually, and asked, "Are you done?" Are you sure you're going to order food, not stealing it? It's only been a few days, why have you gained weight again?"
"It's so bold to make fun of the imperial court officials!"
Sheng Taiyang feigned anger, and then patted his belly in distress: "I'm really tired these days, this year's harvest, the grain that came in was two percent more than last year, except for sleeping, I wasn't idle for a moment, so busy that I couldn't eat, I should be thin, who knew that I was also fat! Alas!"
Feng Zhiping's heart moved, and he thought about it: "I remember that Mr. Zhang once said that some people have special physiques, and if they are too tired, they will gain weight, and you may be that kind of person." ”
Sheng Taiyang was stunned: "Mr. Zhang, which Mr. Zhang?"
Feng Zhiping said with a smile: "My Mr. Zhang is the famous doctor Zhang Baoquan who is known as the 'Xinglin Ghost Hand' in the rivers and lakes. ”
"It turned out to be Doctor Zhang!"
Sheng Taiyang suddenly realized that he didn't know the rivers and lakes, but he was no stranger to Zhang Baoquan.
The emperor was mad when he saw the epidemic area gradually expanding to the capital, thanks to Zhang Baoquan's timely development of the drug to control the epidemic, which eliminated a catastrophe.
Afterwards, the imperial court solicited, the emperor personally wrote the edict, and Sun Changfa, the chief of the Tai Hospital, dragged his old body to look forward and invite him, but they were all refused, and the invitations of the rest of the parties were the same, and finally somehow he looked at Feng Moxiu, and the ghost hand Zhang entered the Feng family since then.
"Since Doctor Zhang said so, that's right! Yes, my fat is either eaten, or tired, haha, just tired!"
Sheng Taiyang was overjoyed, and patted Feng Zhiping and shook his head: "Go, make up for it!"
Feng Zhiping was stunned: "Make it up, how to make it up?"
"You don't care, just come with me!" Sheng Taiyang put his arm around Feng Zhiping and dragged him out, "Today, the boy of the Wang family invited me to dinner, and his cousin will be transferred to me in a few days, please help take care of it, so I will give up my blood and set it in Man Tingfang, all inclusive! You may not know, Man Tingfang's place is precious, I have a lot of money, I may not be willing to go once a year, I will not forget you for this kind of once-in-a-lifetime good thing, I will play openly, don't save him money!"
Of course, Feng Zhiping knew about Man Tingfang, it was a Fengyue field similar to Drunken Jinlou, so even if he wanted to refuse.
"Don't, wait, I'm not going, my great-grandfather won't let me go out!"
"Come less, it's not like you haven't gone out these days, when I don't know? Why, do you only like to eat 'solitary food', or do you look down on me, my 'uncle', and don't give face?"
"No, I, I'm clean and don't go to that kind of place!"
"Who doesn't know that Tianyuan is no less romantic than Ling Zun, 'the pioneer in the red gauze tent, the true husband under the peony flower', haven't you heard of these 'elegant names'?
"No, I'm good, ahh
Sheng Taiyang stood still and turned back dissatisfied: "You are a person, I am not harming you." There are a lot of people here tonight, all of them are well-known figures in Beijing, you Feng Sanshao has never shown up in Beijing for so long, just meet you tonight, and it will be convenient to act in the future, this is a good thing, what is there to be afraid of?"
Feng Zhiping smiled bitterly, he couldn't say what he was afraid of, and saying it could scare this fat uncle to death.
Sheng Taiyang paused, and said: "Why are you in Man Tingfang tonight? It's not because of you? I know this little face, if it weren't for you, why would Wang Shan personally come forward to set up this game, his cousin is not so close." Wang Shan is now the deputy commander of the city defense battalion, pinching the pulse of my treasurer, if you want to get some oil and water without the help of him, the 'door god', you should do me a favor, okay?"
Feng Zhiping hesitated again and again and nodded.
Recently, the world has been peaceful, the old man and You Jinglian have not moved, presumably it is related to the great-great-ancestor, there is a great god Sheng Zhongzhang covered, and they don't dare to tie themselves up forcibly when they think about it.
Taking a step back, even if they dare, their legs are on their bodies, won't they run?
Now it's not what it used to be, even if you send a god treasure, it will take a lot of trouble to catch him.