In the palace of diligent government, hundreds of officials stand according to their positions, waiting for the arrival of the monarch. A quarter of an hour later, there was a sound outside the hall, "Hundred officials stand solemnly, welcome my king into the palace", King Lu walked into the hall with a tiger step, and sat on the dragon chair. After King Lu sat down, Chief Manager Hu (King Lu was the personal eunuch and concurrently served as the head of the Internal Affairs Office. He said loudly: "Hundred officials salute." The hundred officials bowed and shouted in unison: "Long live my king, long live, long live!" King Lu looked at the ministers and said, "The ministers are flat." "The hundred officials returned to their solemnity. Mr. Hu: "My king has an order, if there is something to do, it will be played early, and there will be nothing to retreat." Lord Qin, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, waited for a while, and saw that the three princes and six kings did not move, so he came out and said: "Qin Xuewen, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, has something to play. King Lu said: "Qin Aiqing, what do you want to play?" Qin Xuewen said: "Back to Your Majesty, yesterday, the saint before the person Zhang Xun made a peerless word "Linjiang Immortal, Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water", the minister was ordered by His Majesty to go to the Donghua Gate to welcome him into the city, and conveyed your Majesty's words, let him enter the palace with the minister today to meet His Majesty, on the way to the palace in the minister's carriage Zhang Xun gave the original work to the minister, the minister felt that he was immoral and incompetent, and he was not blessed to have this treasure, and he was willing to dedicate it to His Majesty. King Lu said: "Qin Aiqing has a heart! The widow will hang this work in the Taimiao to control my country's fortune." (Manager Hu came to Qin Xuewen to take the long box and then returned to King Lu, and the little eunuch on the side took it and went out of the hall and put it in King Lu's palanquin.) He asked again: "What else do you Aiqing have to play?" Yin Zhao Weigang of Qufu Mansion came out and said: "Yin Zhao Weigang of Qufu Mansion has something to play." King Lu said: "Zhao Aiqing has something to play?" Zhao Weigang said: "The minister returned to His Majesty This matter is still related to the holy former Zhang Xun, yesterday afternoon, Zhang Xun came to the gate of Donghua, one of the two city guards on duty saw that Zhang Xun face, he made it difficult, and his words were disrespectful, and he also asked for two thousand taels of silver, otherwise Zhang Xun would not be allowed to enter the city. Zhang Xun was angry, but only then did the peerless words come out. Yesterday afternoon, the two Hanlin Fu Rong and Chen Haitao, who learned of the incident, came to the Qufu Mansion to protest to the ministers. Please ask Your Majesty to decide how to deal with this matter. King Lu said angrily: "How can this be reasonable? A little city guard dares to ask for money because of his position, this is still Zhang Xun's special identity, and I am afraid that this matter will not be exposed." This is still happening in the capital, and the prefectures and counties below are only afraid that the situation will be more serious. Is this the country ruled by the widows? Ladies and gentlemen, how should you tell the widows how to deal with this matter? The widows will give you three days, and after three days, the widows will see your plan. All right! The widow is tired. Qin Aiqing, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, stayed, and the rest of Aiqing retreated!" After the hundred officials bowed and retreated, King Lu said to Qin Xuewen: "Qin Aiqing, the widow has returned to the imperial study first, you can take Zhang Xun to the imperial study to see the widow later." Qin Xuewen replied, "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Lord Qin walked out of the Qinzheng Palace, came to Zhang Xun and said, "Your Majesty will see you in the imperial study, and you will go with the official." Zhang Xun followed Lord Qin's footsteps to the door of the imperial study, and when Manager Hu saw the two of them coming, he first said to Zhang Xun: "Your Majesty is inside, you go in!" After Zhang Xun went in, he said to Lord Qin: "Lord Qin, you wait here, Your Majesty will see you later." Lord Qin said: "Yes, I'm tired of Grandpa Hu!"

After Zhang Xun entered the imperial study, he saw King Lu sitting on a chair to review the folds, so he stood in place and waited. After a while, King Lu raised his head and said to Zhang Xun: "You have composed two peerless poems in a row this month, winning glory for my Lu country, and the widow is blessed! Zhang Xun bowed and said: "Xiaosheng Zhang Xun has seen His Majesty the King, the ancients said that the priest dies for his confidant, and Xiaosheng is willing to do his best for His Majesty and Lu Guowendao. When King Lu heard this, he said happily: "Good! good! good! good!" "If all of us and the like can do this, then the people of our Lu country will be very fortunate, the country will be very fortunate, and the widows will be very fortunate. Zhang Xun replied: "Your Majesty, Xiaosheng is still young, it is still too early to say the future, the imperial examination is approaching, Xiaosheng is ready to study quietly to prepare for the exam, and strive to make a good name in the next year's examination, and then it is not too late to talk about the future." King Lu nodded and said, "It's okay, that widow is here to wish you the top high school student in the coming year." Zhang Xun said: "Your Majesty, Xiaosheng must work hard to live up to Your Majesty's high expectations." King Lu said: "That's it, you go out!" Zhang Xun left the imperial study after retiring, and Lord Qin said to Zhang Xun: "You go back to the carriage first and wait for me, Your Majesty still has something to tell me." Zhang Xun nodded and said, "Lord Qin, please, Xiaosheng will go first." ”

After Lord Qin entered the imperial study, King Lu instructed him to focus on Zhang Xun a few months before the imperial examination, and leave the rest to the people below. If Zhang finds you, you can help him with all your might. Lord Qin agreed to come down, and then retired.

After Lord Qin got into the carriage, he instructed the coachman to go to the mansion given to Zhang Xun by His Majesty King Lu first, and when he arrived at the door of the mansion, Lord Qin said to Zhang Xun: "This is the mansion given to you by Your Majesty, you settle down first." The official also has official business, if you have anything to do with it, come to the Qin Mansion to drink at night, and we will talk while drinking. Zhang Xun nodded and said yes, got out of the carriage, and watched Lord Qin's carriage go away. After taking out the key and unlocking it, he pushed open the door, walked in, and looked around, the mansion given by His Majesty was naturally good, and Zhang Xun was very satisfied. Zhang Xun walked out of the mansion and went straight to the Longsheng Inn. Zhang Xun came to the small courtyard and talked to the four girls, then got into the carriage together, told the coachman the address, and went back to the mansion. Zhang Xun, Xin Lan and Wen Xin came to the living room to sit down and discuss the expansion of manpower. Bihe and Yuchan began to tidy up the mansion, and it was only basically completed by noon.

Zhang Xun and the four daughters came to Juewei Building again, and when the running hall saw Zhang Xun coming, they greeted him and said, "Welcome to Zhang Xun and all the ladies to the shop." Zhang Xun said to the running hall: "Just arrange a private room for me today, just make four dishes and one soup, and then serve two pots of Confucian banquet wine." The running hall called a small servant to take Zhang Xun and his party to the private room on the third floor, and he went to the back kitchen to find the chef and said, "Master Lei, please make four dishes and one soup yourself." Master Lei responded: "Okay, you can rest assured that you will leave the cooking to me!"

Zhang Xun and the four girls finished lunch and left after checkout. Zhang Xun asked Bihe and Yuchan to return to Zhang's mansion, and in the afternoon, the housekeeper and several nurses sent by Xinlan's second brother He Wentao will arrive, and she can also take care of them. Zhang Xun and Xin Lan Wenxin went to buy some gifts so that they could go to the Qin Mansion for a banquet in the evening. Zhang Xun knew that it was not appropriate to buy expensive gifts, so after thinking about it, he went to the wood processing workshop to draw the chessboard diagram and chess pieces of Chinese chess for the carpenter to process them, and after half an hour, the carpenter handed over the finished chessboard, chess pieces (no words) and the wooden box containing the chess pieces to Zhang Xun. After Xin Lan and Wen Xin went to the rouge gouache point to buy a good set of rouge gouache, the gift was also bought. Back to Zhang's house, Zhang Xun went to the study and began to process the chess pieces, first with a carving knife to engrave the words, then the black chess pieces were scratched with a brush, and the red chess pieces were painted with red mud and placed on the table to dry. Pick up the pen and write down the rules (of course, there will be no Chu River and Han realm) and go out of the study.

When I came to the living room, I met Steward Tian, a thirty-year-old man who had just arrived, and had previously been the shopkeeper of He's shop. After chatting, I felt pretty good, so I said to Steward Tian: "In the future, this Zhang Mansion will depend on you to take care of it in the future, and if there is something difficult, I will discuss it with Mrs. Xinlan and Wen Xin, I haven't had the energy to ask about these things in the past few months." Steward Tian replied: "Don't worry, the little one will take care of these chores and not let the master be distracted." ”

In the evening, Zhang Xun came to Qin's mansion, and the housekeeper led him to the living room, and when he saw Lord Qin and Mrs. Qin, he saluted and greeted him. When Lord Qin saw Zhang Xun carrying something, he said, "Come on, what kind of gift do you give?" Zhang Xun replied: "It's not a valuable thing, it's just that I invented a kind of chess myself, and I made a chessboard chess piece for Lord Qin to have fun in his spare time." And then there are some rouge gouaches that my two ladies gave to your lady. With that, he handed over the gift. Lord Qin was quite interested in Zhang Xun's chess, so he opened the wooden box containing the chess pieces, looked at the rule description, and then compared the chessboard, and roughly understood. Lord Qin said to the butler, "Let's start serving!"

After dinner, Lord Qin and Zhang Xun went to the study to talk about things. Lord Qin said: "If there is anything, just get straight to the point! I will definitely do what I can do." Zhang Xun told Lord Qin about his father-in-law's desire to be the lord of Laiwu Outer City. When Lord Qin heard this, it turned out to be a six-rank official position, and Laiwu was a small border city, if it weren't for Zhang Xun, a saint, no one in the court would pay attention to this small city. So he said: "You call your father-in-law to come to Qufu the day after tomorrow, and I will call the servant Wang Xingwu Wang to have a meal together in Juewei Building, and this matter will be done." After talking about business, the two played chess, played three games, and the two sides won one and lost one and drew one. Zhang calculated that it was not too early, so he said goodbye and left.

The next day, Zhang Xun sent a nurse to Laiwu on horseback to inform his father-in-law to leave for the capital Qufu. Near noon on the third day, Zhang Xun went to Donghua Gate to pick up his father-in-law and rushed to Juewei Building, and when Lord Qin and Lord Wang came, Zhang Xun first introduced his father-in-law to Lord Qin and Lord Wang, and then introduced Lord Qin and Lord Wang to his father-in-law. Of course, it was still in Tingtao Courtyard, and each of the four of them drank a pot of Confucian banquet wine, and the matter was settled.

What Zhang Xun didn't know was that the day after he gave the set of chess to Lord Qin, Lord Qin entered the palace and dedicated it to King Lu. King Lu felt that this chess was good and worth promoting, so he ordered the craftsmen in the palace to make a hundred sets of it. After a few days, after the production was made, King Lu gave all the rest to the officials except for a few sets for his own use. As a result, chess became popular in Qufu officialdom. In fact, Zhang Xun decided to give chess as a gift in order to give his second brother-in-law a business, but he didn't expect Lord Qin to dedicate chess to King Lu, which greatly advanced the time. But Zhang Xun thought, this is fine! I can prepare for the exam with peace of mind. Zhang Xun brought He Wentao and asked him to make chess to promote it to the people, and He Wentao was grateful. He Wentao moved quickly, bought the carpentry workshop that made chess, and then expanded the manpower to start large-scale production, and the business was naturally very good, and he could be regarded as gaining a firm foothold in Qufu.