The sun is blazing.

Zhongzhou Zhongdu.

Not long ago, scholar Ai Xueyi ranked second with the results of the first grade of the capital meeting.

Now through the Guozijian Hanlin Academy recruitment top results, through the final recruitment.

High school Tanhualang, with a prominent reputation.

The scholar who should have won the list eye, due to the last article, did not agree with the concept of the Great Xia National Teacher, and got Tanhua.

Ai Xueyi actually doesn't have much to do with this, and the exam questions are very profound, on how to govern the world.

The scholar Yu wrote strongly recommended the county system, exempted from harsh taxes, promoted filial piety and honesty, selected the virtuous and capable, followed the advice, promoted learning and education, and established at least one school palace in each state, and there was no class of education......

Ai Xueyi's article greatly admired Confucianism and Taoism, and the Great Xia National Teacher was taken aback, and did not dare to be too careless, so he gave the top three and doubted his identity as a scholar.

In particular, the idea of establishing a school palace academy in various states has been appreciated and unanimously recognized by the right servant of the Shangshu, and the Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs has also highly respected the reform of scholars' counties and counties.

For a while, it caused the right servant to shoot and the national teacher to make a fuss, and complained about the top three scholars of the scholar.

In the end, the champion and the leader became the foil.

Scholar high school Tanhualang, and was shot by the right servant of Shangshu to accept the protégé, personally in the temple admonished, the national teacher can't, it's not that Ai Xueyi is not good, but the background needs to be studied, and finally the court jointly finalized, Ai Xueyi was appointed as a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion and the right to fill the que.

The government and the opposition were shaken, sighing, and the right servant shot to admonish in person, and the national teacher acquiesced, so naturally there was no discussion.

Originally, it took a long time for the government and the opposition to take office, but now it is impossible to fill the gaps quickly.

The ministers advised each other, and it became an internal finalization.

The champion is the middle general, and the list is the left to fill the que.

According to the words of Shang Shu's right servant, the so-called champion list should all be in the bag of scholars who have now obtained Tanhua, all because of the disagreement of Zhang Juzheng, the national teacher of Great Xia, who values the society and ignores the people.

Naturally, it is especially not treated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

And now the sixteen-year-old scholar is already holding two important positions and is in a high position.

Naturally, he has become a popular figure in the capital, he is young, he is backed by Shangshu and his right servant, and the national teacher is also to be seen, and he naturally has a bright future.

It's just that in the past few days, it has been covered up by the limelight of "half a reader", and the poems and articles written by this half of a reader have swept the entire capital and become a popular figure in every reader's mouth.

And that period of romance with the flower fairy, even more made the red-faced woman yearn for it, and the street also had a whim of reading style, between the words, all of which were the poems of the "half of the reader", and the more prescient traders, copied in the book, and the pot and bowl were full, and they got a good business opportunity, and the half of the scholars became the god of wealth.

And the fairy gate on the mountain was even more shocked by this "half of a scholar" who was born out of nowhere, and his language and writing skills were too big, which provoked the love of the fairy.

Temple.

The national teacher Zhang Juzheng, the right servant and the new scholar of Longtu Pavilion, Ai Xuewen, are having a copy in their hands and are talking fiercely.

"What do you think of this person?"

Ai Xueyi replied, "National teacher, after this person's writing skills, these dozens of articles and poems, although they are exaggerating and appreciating flowers and plants, are brilliant, and there is no need to talk about it, this person is extraordinary." ”

"Oh? Do you know this young man? If you hadn't known the news in advance and banned Cao Jiming's real name, now it can't be said that the city is full of wind and rain, although you don't know his name at the bottom of the mountain, everyone on the mountain knows it...... How can the news be forbidden in the capital city of Nuoda? People who have a little popularity already know that this Cao Jiming's great name ......."

"The national teacher is too worried, just let it be, why forbidden, I want to come to this person who is very talented and romantic, naturally I am not afraid of being known, if I find it, I can't say that he is a master of the world......"

The right servant rolled his eyes, "I don't think so, this son doesn't know what to say, such a big article is all about praising the fairy flower fairy, mostly for the sake of popularity, extravagance, and shamelessness......"

Ai Xueyi was speechless for a while.

Zhang Juzheng also squinted at this Shangshu, who had been with him all his life, and was also an enemy and friend, and said with a smile, "You can't do it when you're old, and you don't allow others to be romantic......"

"You ......"

Zhang Juzheng said again, "This person doesn't have to think about it, he must be a monk on the mountain, he is a normal person, he has that capital, unlike someone who has been in a mess all his life, looking at the gods in his eyes, and he is at ......ease."

"Ahem! I said Zhang Juzheng, we are both virtuous, worldly and elegant, what are you doing with the people on the mountain? Are you in charge?"

"Returning the elegance...... Come, pour out the ink in your belly, but if there is a sentence better than what is contained in this book, I will hand over to you as a teacher......"

"I'm not rare...... I'm comfortable with this book. ”

Ai Xueyi has a big head, and he still earns a lot when he is old.

"Tanhualang, can you see what you follow?" Shang Shu's right servant asked.

The scholar shook his head, "This article is novel in writing, and it is indeed rare to dare to write and speak." ”

Zhang Juzheng was taken aback, "Could it be that it came from somewhere......?"

Ai Xueyi shook his head again, he was not sure, after all, his identity was a secret, and he couldn't talk nonsense.

"Ahem...... You're a fake Longtu Pavilion scholar, right? Someone has other plans?" Zhang Juzheng squinted.

Ai Xueyi was stunned.

Shang Shu's right servant slapped the book on the table violently, "Zhang Juzheng? What do you mean, you are older than my official, Lao Tzu is afraid of you? It's not that you are troublesome, you don't prosper in farming, and you can learn righteousness to explore flowers, at least you must be the eye of the list? You still have no hair on your mouth when you are in the age of flowers? Your beard has grown white? Or do you see that I have accepted a protégé, and the atmosphere is not enough?"

The national teacher's heart tightened, and he was really a little unhappy.

"Ahem. I just think that the county system and land reform need to be discussed again...... Nothing to be seen......"

"It's been almost a lifetime, in addition to vigorously repairing the northern forces, repairing the border defenses, and skillfully arranging, what else do you have to do on the table. ”

Zhang Juzheng blushed for a while.

"Mention this very much. I'm just a secular person, and I'm not as good as a thousand-year-old Confucian and Taoist sage. ”

"Phew. You also know. ”

Ai Xueyi and the two old men, you come and I go, on par.

"Xueyi, do you really think that the county system and land reform are feasible?"

The scholar hurriedly hugged the salute, "National teacher, not to mention the mountain, it is feasible, this is the fundamental solution to the people's hunger, especially the land reform, the allocation of good seeds in the temple, and the elimination of harsh taxes, the most important." Every year, I don't know how many people are displaced, all of them are hungry, become bandits, and then suffer from chaos. There are immortals on the mountain, but the immortals can't solve the stomach problems of secular people, and only if the court solves the hunger first, can they be qualified to talk about others. The people that the dynasty wants to protect, not the immortal monks who are high above!"

Zhang Juzheng was speechless for a long time, and he understood the truth, but how to take the first step was the most difficult.

"Hey...... What you say is not necessary, but the immortal forces have to manage it...... A mountain is thousands of miles of enclosure, all of them are treasures of mountains and rivers, and it is difficult for Daxia, if it weren't for the dragon and tiger mountain master to shock the world, and I have a lot of help in Daxia, this capital city would have been secretly taken away by someone ......"

"And the school palace you talked about earlier is even more indescribable...... How did the dynasty now build its five universities? What is the location of the school? The most important thing is the teaching gentleman and the master, where are they? Is it possible to find us half-baked scholars from this court? Or do you want to invite the immortals under the mountain? Be a gentleman? Isn't that the top of the sect and a place of cultivation? The academy must be a place of pure smelting, and you can't enter anything......

Ai Xueyi was silent for a while, it seemed that his article had long been transparent by Zhang Juzheng.

"I really miss the thousand-year-old contention, there are many ...... readers"

Shang Shu was taken aback, "What are you talking about? Don't want to have your head?"

"I'm afraid! I'm old and there is no one to govern the world for the world, but it's really messy...... I can't wait for the ink...... In the drag on, the Great Summer will ...... sooner or later"

Ai Xueyi was trembling, this national teacher dared to say anything.

"The people under the mountain, the temples are not well managed, how can they restrain the mountain. ”

"There is still a lack of scholars in the world, the kind of scholars who can explain the truth clearly, but the people on the mountain don't listen...... What about now? Half-baked readers......"

"Alas...... I'm getting old, I can't see the peaceful and prosperous world, I just want more people like this, and I care about the people of the world......" Shangshu sighed fiercely, really helpless.

Now although this Tanhualang is a practicing scholar, but after all, there are too few, he always becomes a sage, and he can talk to the top of the mountain to make some sense, and when he moves, he always suffers, and his two fists are difficult to reach his four hands......

The scholar is also in a reverie, the world is short of some scholars, governing the world and learning, but it seems that he is not alone, at least there is a classmate friend Zhuang Yu, he is an understanding person, but also a person who wishes for the world to be good.

"National teacher, I have a good friend, although he is not a university scholar, but he is also concerned about the world, and he is expected to be among the top of the mountain in the future and conspire with the general trend of the world. ”

Zhang Juzheng glanced at Ai Xueyi, and had doubts about his origin from beginning to end.

"Oh. Let's hope so. ”

As a national teacher of Great Xia for many years, Zhang Juzheng worked hard to worry about it, and even in his twilight years, he was still worried about the future of the imperial court.

Different from the immortals on the mountain, secular government affairs have to be personally advised by the temple, even if it is Longhu Mountain or Baiyun Temple, after all, it is a blind eye.

How can you govern the world if you are on top?

The people on the mountain have their own difficulties on the mountain, and it is already remarkable to maintain order on the mountain and not hinder secular official business. What's more, in the demon realm north of the Beihai Sea now, the barbarian prisoners are faintly committing crimes, which naturally has to become a major event for the temple and the immortal gate to join forces, and both of them are indispensable.

The Keqing Mountain, which is enshrined and supported by the dynasty, is particularly important.

The orthodoxy of Great Xia has been nearly 3,000 years, but the people are still poor, hungry, and unpopular. To put it bluntly, is the court too poor, too little money, the territory is as large as the sky, and there are two taels of silver in the pocket?

The harsh taxes are not small, and they can't be said to be too high, and the imperial court is also poor, and they can't even squeeze out the red glaze money on the walls of the palace......

The emperor is living well, and the general trend of the world is like this, who doesn't want to keep a good reputation, and the prosperity of the future? Half of the harsh taxes have to be taken out to feed the immortal sects everywhere, and the poor dynasty's luck has been hidden in the temples for thousands of years, and some of the harsh taxes have been hidden in the temples and shrines, and some of the harsh taxes have been used to feed the civil and military officials, and then there are very few left, how can they give money to the prefectures, cities and counties?

The emperor is not easy to be, and the civil and military officials are not rich.

There is always a shortage of people in the world who govern the world and learn to give advice, who can travel around the mountains and sects, survive in desperate places, and make a few decent transactions, then there is still ......

It's just that the current temple doesn't seem to have such a person, who doesn't have the ability to dare to turn his face with the people on the mountain to keep accounts.

Director Zhang, who was full of wrinkles, glanced at Ai Xueyi, who had just entered the officialdom, it was not enough, it was still too far away, and he couldn't afford to wait...... The temple is always vigilant, and the Yuefu order that jumped out of the stove is a living example.

Although the world will not be much better in the future, it will be better than today, and that is progress. ”

Zhang Juzheng nodded, hoping so......

When he was young, he was full of enthusiasm, and he was white-headed unconsciously, and he entered the court as an official for sixty years, and the first admonition was beaten down, after many years, he served as the national teacher of Daxia, and after supervising the government, he secretly asked the emperor who was only in his twenties at the time.

Emperor Xia Qi once said, "The law of the national teacher has indeed created the world, but now that the treasury is empty, the mountain fairy gate that is good with the Xia Dynasty is limited, and there are few fairy money...... How do you pry it away?"

Zhang Juzheng, who was 28 years old, was silent for a while, and opened up four vertical and four horizontal desecrations in the territory of Nuoda, attracting seawater to pour in, relieving the people, and breeding water transportation, which is good for everything in the world, but it is not just a matter of money.

The young Zhang Juzheng is full of ambitions, so what, it seems that the world is not the final say of the temple, especially the rivers and lakes, the mountains, and the mountains, which cannot be moved, and mortals can't move......

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Zhuang Yu and his entourage lasted more than three months and arrived in Zhongdu.

As the location of the capital of the court and the opposition, the central capital is naturally boundless, with thousands of purples and thousands of reds, and the scenery is unique.

With the ancient megalithic walls, it is hard to imagine how the gentleman drove the puppets or the monstrous magic to create such a magnificent masterpiece.

Thousands of people, thousands of faces, all different.

Zhuang Yu got off the back of the cow, the little girl was reluctant to come down, and as for Xia Dongliu, he also received the bamboo horse that was transformed by the talisman early, and he spent a lot of fairy money in the past few days.

The middle capital is big, and there is nothing to show off.

After handing over the papers, several people entered the city.

Xia Dongliu stepped forward again, "Go to my house to sit?"

Zhuang Yu was taken aback, thought about it and was relieved, yes, this guy seems to have said that his father is a small official, but I don't know how small this official is in his eyes.

Long Qianyue squinted, she had long known that Xia Dongliu was from an extraordinary background, could it be that she was really a golden beetle son-in-law?

"Big man, isn't your house far away?"

The young man glanced at the little girl on the back of the cow, patted the folding fan, and said with a smile, "Big, big, what's the Nanfu Yadu to look at...... My family is naturally big ......"

"Forget it, you buy me a sugar gourd first, you see...... Right behind you......"

Xia Dongliu shrugged his shoulders, took a string from the vendor's hand, thought about it and took another one, and handed it to the little girl and the woman respectively.

Long Qianyue was a little surprised.

The young man paid, and the few slowly walked towards the inner city.

A few hawkers saw Xia Dongliu's clothing temperament, and naturally saw the dignitaries, and hurriedly surrounded a few people.

"How many guest officers, come from afar, do you have a place to stay? A few servants lead a few of them, and it's very ...... fair."

"Guest officer...... Walked a little way...... But if you're hungry, why don't you go to my drunken fairy building and sit down? The wine and food at home are good, and the girl's music is also excellent......

"Let's go...... A few people don't have the eyesight to see, a few masters are running along the road, they must be tired, you might as well go to me to get drunk and sit in Hongchen, there are a lot of new girls these days......" A small guy squeezed in with great effort, and said.

"It's like a vassal country...... Or the cat lady and fox girl found from the North Sea, the poor ...... Good wine and good food to stay in the red bed, make sure that the uncle lingers......"

Zhuang Yu's face was flushed, and women were no exception.

Xia Dongliu hurriedly asked, "But it's really ......?"

"This is natural, uncle must have been to me drunk Hongchen?"

Xia Dongliu coughed, "I've heard others say it...... Damn visit. ”

"The little ones are waiting for a few masters, come early. ”

The more the little girl felt ashamed of this guy.

There was also a hawker selling books, sweating profusely, and a few hawkers hurriedly asked in a whisper after they finished speaking.

"A few masters, do you need some good words and articles...... This is everyone who has been in the wind and water recently, and it is really romantic, and now everyone in the royal city knows about it, and a few masters have missed it, but it's a pity......"

"Oh, the great merry, let's see......"

The little servant took out a copy and handed it to the young man.

"No, you say a thing or two first, otherwise if you deceive me, won't I spend money in vain?"

Zhuang Yu shook his head, a poetry article should not be enough.

"That's that, it's a little sloppy, this poetry article costs two taels of gold, so naturally I should explain it to a few masters......"

Xia Dongliu was taken aback, "Two taels of gold? What article is so expensive? Could it be that there is a golden house in the book?"

The little guy smiled and said, "Master, it's funny, there is no golden house, and Yan Ruyu is a lot of ......."

“......？”

"These dozens of brilliant poems and articles have already shaken the imperial court, and the minions don't know the names of the romantic characters, so don't blame ......"

"I'll hear ...... you say."

The peddler owes a debt, "These poems are big articles describing the flower fairy, different from the existing twelve flower fairies, this is more than three months ago, suddenly flowed out of the mountain, said to be a "half reader", in the later promotion of the twelve flower fairies, tossing and turning, lyrics and articles continue to ......"

Xia Dongliu squinted his eyes and looked at Cao Jiming, and his heart was ecstatic.

"Half a reader?"

"Yes, have you heard of its name?"

The young man opened the folding fan, "That's nature, it's just thunderous, brilliant "half a reader"...... In this way, this book is not expensive...... After all, that scholar is very ......."

Zhuang Yu's face darkened, and he felt uncomfortable, "That's enough...... I want this book...... Hurry up and ......."

The hawker hurriedly handed out the ......

"Slow, I'm telling me a little bit about it, I've got ...... in your pocket."

The hawkers were glad and rejoicing.

Such a big deal, naturally have to do it, take back the poem, don't go to see Zhuang Yu at all, after all, you can't offend the big deal, and sell a copy, you can get two taels of silver errand money, it's really a lot, in recent months, many traders have made a lot of money.