Cai Jing held the teacup, blowing the salvia slices and bitter rods floating on the water surface of the teacup, and while wrinkling a cup of tea, a pair of white eyebrows wrinkled deeper on the already wrinkled old face.

"Are you deliberately amusing the old man, or do you think you're dying slowly?"

Bai Sheng said embarrassedly: "The husband also has the ambition to serve the country, and he also asks the Taishi to fulfill it." ”

Cai Jing was furious: "Are you going to serve the country? Do you think you are Yang Ye? Or Di Qing? Are you comparable to Chong Shiheng? Or are you comparable to Zhe Kexing?"

Lao Cai listed the four most famous generals of the Northern Song Dynasty since the founding of the country, and these four famous generals have one thing in common, that is, they have made outstanding achievements in the war against foreign enemies, which terrified the enemies around the Great Song Dynasty.

Bai Sheng said: "Famous generals also need thousands of soldiers for their commanders, right? Without soldiers, how can generals coordinate the battle? Of course, if the Taishi can help, it would be better for me to lead the way. ”

Cai Jing's eyes turned black with anger, handed the salvia bitter tea in his hand to the maid, closed his eyes to calm down, and stared at Bai Sheng's eyes for a long time when he opened them again, as if to judge whether what Bai Sheng said was true.

After a while, he said: "You tell the old man first, you go to the west, how will the old man's illness be regulated?"

Bai Sheng had been prepared for this question for a long time, and answered calmly at the moment.

The treatment cycle he told Cai Jing before had already been foreshadowed, and the war of the Great Song Dynasty against Western Xia would begin in the early spring of next year, and by that time he would no longer need to give Cai Jing physiotherapy every day, but once a month.

He plans to give Cai Jing a physiotherapy session in early February and come back again in late March, so that he has two months.

Even though he said the truth, Cai Jing still shook his head: "That's not good! How can you predict how long this war will last? And how can you guarantee that you will not die in the war?"

Bai Sheng was speechless, there was no way, so he had to put on an embarrassed smile that had been exposed as a lie, and told another lie: "Taishi Mingjian, in fact, I just want to get some military merits, in exchange for high-ranking officials, after all, the official that the emperor gave me is too small, isn't it? As for the Western Expedition, I'm not stupid, can I rush forward if I really fight? At most, I'm just mixing up my qualifications in the army." ”

After many days, he had already learned from the awakened Xiao Feng that the imperial martial arts captain that Zhao Ji gave him was a sesame petty official, and he had no real power and no real power, no one could control it, and it was worse than Sun Wukong's Bi Ma Wen, so he secretly scolded Zhao Ji for not saying anything, but only saying that right now, it is more appropriate to lie with this reason.

It is often easy to succeed in deceiving the villain with the heart of a villain, because the villain will always spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. In the thinking of villains who chase fame and fortune, everything others do is done for fame and fortune.

Sure enough, Cai Jing smiled after hearing this "truth", pointed at Bai Sheng and said: "You day rat, what kind of loyal martyr are you pretending to be a martyr with the old man?

Don't look at Cai Jing's boasting in front of Zhao Ji that Bai Sheng is a chivalrous man, it is all nonsense to keep Bai Sheng, a personal doctor. In his mind, there are no truly chivalrous people and loyal martyrs in the world. Even if they are like Yang Ye and Di Qing, aren't they also forgetting to die for the sake of honoring their ancestors and sealing their wives and sons?

Bai Sheng was very helpless when he heard this, although Cai Jing believed his words, but it was obvious that Cai Jing still did not allow him to participate in the Western Expedition.

Sure enough, Cai Jing said again: "Our Song Dynasty is heavy on literature and suppressing martial arts, no matter how big the military attache is, what is the merit? Do you think you are strong and high? If you want to be an official, the old man will accept you as a protégé, and you don't have to participate in next year's autumn festival, that is, you will be a talent." ”

If you have to find out what good things Cai Jing has done in his life, it is nothing more than to work hard in education, he has devoted his life to running schools and lecturing, and has sent a large number of literati to the imperial court.

Cai Jing's protégé is at least a talent level. If you let Cai Jing's students take the township exam, doesn't that mean that Cai Taishi's education is not high enough? Not to mention that Cai Jing will definitely give you small shoes because of this, just say that you can only learn better than Cai Jing if you ask yourself?

Cai Jing said: "In the next year, you can memorize the book of sages, and the old man can also guide you, and when the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites is the year after tomorrow, the old man will naturally have a way to let you pass, and even the palace examination can help you Donghuamen roll call." ”

The so-called Donghuamen roll call is the one who made the list in the palace examination. At least he was born as a Jinshi, which was a hard "diploma" for civil officials in the Great Song Dynasty.

A few officials who did not have a jinshi background, and were promoted by the emperor through some special meritorious service, no matter how big their actual positions were, were a head shorter than those officials who were born as jinshi for life.

Cai Jing can be said to treat Bai Sheng with sincerity, as a powerful minister of the current dynasty, he promised to do his best to do so, even if it was Emperor Zhao Ji, he couldn't promote a certain white body to such a point, otherwise why would Gao Yu only be a military attache for life?

Gao Yu has been with Su Shi, and he also knows poetry, songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but his level is not high enough. Even Gao Yu can't be a civil official, it can be seen that the imperial examination system of the Great Song Dynasty is so strict, thousands of pairs of eyes are staring at it, and the emperor can't cheat if he wants to!

How did Cai Jing know that he treated him so affectionately, but he couldn't meet Bai Sheng's real needs.

Seeing that Bai Sheng fell silent, he couldn't help but be very surprised, and said in his heart that if such a condition of mine rests on the body of a student in the world, he will not be crazy with joy? How can you still be so calm? Immediately asked: "What difficulties do you still have? Could it be that you question the old man's ability?"

Bai Shengyi gritted his teeth and said: "The students dare not question it! It's just that the students think that they will not be able to become officials until the year after tomorrow, isn't it too late? What the students think is...... Can this be carried out simultaneously? Anyway, the students are now military attachés, so can't they take advantage of the east wind of this war to go further?"

Hearing this, Cai Jing was immediately so angry, do you kid want to become a martial artist? You want to be a civil official and a military attaché, why don't you learn from Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe and forget it! This is simply a lack of greed and a snake swallowing an elephant!

Immediately said angrily: "Okay, okay, it's all up to you, you want to join the army, just go to participate in the martial arts before Yuan Xi, what kind of talk do you have to talk to the old man here? As for whether you can be promoted after joining the army, that is the authority of Tong Shumi, and the old man can't help!"

Bai Sheng was waiting for Cai Jing's words, and immediately saluted: "Taishi is angry, the student's original intention is to participate in the martial arts, but Taishi, don't you let the student go out? That's why I came to ask Taishi for help." ”

Cai Jing suddenly realized, and said angrily and funny: "It turns out that you have made a big circle for this matter, and there are still more than 20 days before the martial arts exam starts, why did you come to beg me so early?"

Bai Sheng said: "In fact, it is not only this matter that students seek to be a master, just because students still want to go to the Imperial Boxing Gym to learn martial arts before the martial arts exam begins, so as to sharpen their guns in battle." It's just that the Imperial Boxing Gym is too strict in accepting people, so I want to ask the master to recommend it to the students. ”

Cai Jing immediately shook his head and said, "I really can't help you with this." That Zhou Dong was a lazy man, and the old man couldn't control him. At the beginning, the official family asked him to go to Fang La alone, but he hid, that is, the prince wanted to go to his imperial boxing gym to learn boxing, and he reluctantly agreed, so don't think about it. ”

Bai Shengxin said that this Imperial Boxing Gym was really difficult to enter, but he didn't pin his hopes of entering the Imperial Boxing Gym on Cai Jing, and he now proposed this matter just in exchange for the freedom to go out.

So he said: "There is a way for students to enter the Royal Boxing Gym, but when this matter is done, I also ask the master to allow students to leave the house." ”

Cai Jing said in surprise: "I can't see it, you have other ways, okay, if you can really let the Royal Boxing Gym accept you, the old man will give you this convenience." ”