Feng Xing

It was snowing heavily in mid-winter, and the outside was dripping with ice.

At this time, the street in front of Wei Wang's mansion was full of cars and horses, very lively.

Today is a good day for the young master of Wei Wangfu's full moon. Although the Wangfu didn't send out a few posts, but it's at the root of the imperial city, it's not enough to wink, so since the past few days, there have been many gift-giving They came to the door one after another. Usually when people come to give gifts at this time, they know that they will not be able to enter the door on the right day.

Now who doesn't know that Wei Wang is a hot stove, even though he has been keeping a low profile since he joined the household department. These princes and lords have been fighting for so many years. In fact, the meaning of the Holy One and even the current situation can be seen with a little discernment.

Wu Wang, Zhao Wang, etc. may be a little hanging, and the real hope will fall on Hui Wang and Wei Wang.

Who told others that one is the son of the concubine of the middle palace, and the other is the son of the favorite concubine.

Because King Hui had been deposed once before, most people were still on the sidelines, but it was King Wei, the son of a concubine who was inconspicuous and inconspicuous, who caught the attention of many people. Especially this time the court called for the restoration of the prince, and the emperor pushed Wei Wang out, which made many people secretly speculate.

Combined with the fact that King Wei has always opened his own academy in a low-key manner before, and has never been contaminated by the government, it is really a bit of a sign that the Holy One wants to protect the crown prince in his heart, so it is not easy for Wei Wangfu to have a happy event, and those who can come can not come.

This full moon banquet also gave Feng Sheng some headaches.

Although she is confinement, she is not responsible for any major and minor matters in the mansion, but she is the mistress of the palace. will report to her.

Like this time, Dequan came to find her specially.

There is no other, because there are too many people who give gifts, and these people give gifts very differently.

Generally, the royal palace does not accept gifts casually. If you are not ugly, you will not even be notified for you. I guess he also understands the style of the palace, some people will definitely not accept the gift of revealing their identity, and many people just put their things away, and they leave, and they can't catch up.

When I turned around and opened those brocade boxes, there were famous posts inside, most of them were with a certain surname and a certain official position, and some didn't even attach the official position, but only left a name.

Things like this happened too many times, and things piled up all over the matter. Dequan really had no choice but to disturb the concubine who was in confinement rashly.

For this matter, Feng Sheng had a special talk with King Wei.

The king of Wei meant to accept as soon as someone gave it away, Feng Sheng was quite critical of being cautious in handling things, but after thinking about it, he understood why King Wei would do this.

"This matter has passed the Ming road, and I am afraid that the emperor also knows. We are different from those officials, and there will be no hindrance."

Tsk, look at what this said.

But this is true, can a prince be the same as an ordinary official? Even if an official is a first-class official, he still has to pay attention to his official voice, for fear of being criticized for being greedy, ugly, and so on. But to be born as a noble prince, he is at the top of the pyramid, and everyone in the world has the surname of the clan. If the emperor doesn't say anything, others naturally can't say anything.

Of course, it doesn't mean that being a prince can be lawless. First of all, there must be a limit, otherwise it will be too ugly and not good.

Another thing is not to get the king's heart. If you get the king's heart, there will be countless diners like the prince in those days. These diners are all filial, and I didn't see what Emperor Jianping said, otherwise there would be no trouble in the future. The case of embezzlement of silver and ink by salt.

Those people can be so unscrupulous, not in the name of the prince. So sometimes it is not a good thing to have a big family and a big business. You have to take advantage of the benefits, and you have to wipe your **** if something goes wrong.

Now the situation of the king of Wei is similar to that of the prince, and it is still in the initial stage, but it is essentially the same. As long as the above show their attitude, those people will swarm over like flies smelling fishy smell, and they can't even hide.

To put it bluntly, it is just a sentence, where are you going now, what are you panicking about.

As for whether to accept these gifts or not, King Wei replied as follows——

"Others accept you but don't accept it, you are too out of gregarious."

Feng Sheng blinked, but understood what he meant, just follow the crowd.

Everyone else is like this, but you are not like this. To put it bluntly, it is called false Qinggao, and if you go deeper, maybe Emperor Jianping will think too much. This is the last time he needs to think about it. He needs someone to suppress King Hui, so just be that person.

Thinking of it this way, Feng Sheng felt relieved, and ordered De Quan to follow suit.

Of course, a book must be made after receiving the gift. This book is for Wei Wang to read, and it will also allow him to know how many people are coming to burn his hot stove.

At this time, at the archway at the entrance of Wangfu Street, a group of more than ten people were a little dumbfounded at the situation that the road was blocked by cars and horses.

They were all in brand new clothes, obviously they had packed up specially before they came here. Comparing the luxury of these chariots and horses, as well as the accompanying guards in front and back, it seems somewhat shabby.

In fact, it is not impossible for them to hire a sedan chair for their current status. Several of them hired sedan chairs specially, but they were blocked at the intersection. After all, the hired sedan chair is inconvenient, and it is impossible for people to stay here all the time. In addition, all the companions who have been appointed have come, so they will get off the sedan chair and come on foot.

Looking at the current situation now, I'm afraid it may not be possible to walk in, and we still have to wait.

Seeing this, the group couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Get up, get up, what are you doing standing here if you don't go!"

Following a burst of shouting and scolding, coupled with the turbulent carriages and horses, the two young men standing on the outermost side were almost not hit. Fortunately, their companions pulled them and narrowly escaped.

Even so, somewhat embarrassed.

The man in the blue robe was immediately annoyed. He stamped his feet and clenched his fists, glaring at the carriages and horses.

The person standing beside him gave him a hand and said, "Forget it, one thing more is worse than one thing less."

"The people who can come to the palace to congratulate them today are either rich or noble, we really can't afford to offend them, so forget about Brother Kong Xian." Some people persuaded.

Brother Kong, if he said he was annoyed, he wasn't really annoyed. After all, he was able to pass the examination and then become an official in the court. Regardless of the size of the official, he was an official in the capital for a few years. He just did it subconsciously, and was dissuaded by his companions. Seeing that he hadn't lost face, he lost his anger at first. Unexpectedly, there was an honest and uninterested person next to him who said he couldn't afford to offend.

He immediately annoyed: "I am also an official of the imperial court, why should Brother Wang spoil his prestige with other people's aspirations, but he is just a small coachman, what else can he not provoke?"

The coachman is small, but it depends on the owner to beat the dog.

This Brother Wang also has a personality, he doesn't know what to say, so he doesn't bother to talk to him anymore, but the people around him tried to persuade him.

"Today is His Royal Highness King Wei's pleasure. Don't make troubles, or you will ignore our intention of coming here."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help being shocked.

They sound like upstarts in the court, but in fact they are just low-ranking officials, and some are even low-ranking miscellaneous officials. It is only because they are in a critical position that they can walk with their classmates today.

Yes, no matter what status or age these people are, they all have one thing in common. They were all students of Jinjiang Academy before they passed the exam.

Or a student who has been sponsored by the academy.

Ever since everything in the academy was on the right track, the rules and regulations in the academy were becoming more and more standardized.

The academy already subsidizes poor students from their families. In the first year, it waived the board and lodging fees for the admitted students. After that, they found ways to subsidize the children from poor families. After all, there are many people and mixed populations. In order to avoid disputes, the college has drawn up a series of funding regulations.

For example, there are work-study places in the academy every year, and students can do something within their ability in exchange for free board and lodging fees, or a short-term study; the academy has monthly exams, quarterly exams, and annual exams. Each ranking has different rewards.

Therefore, only talented people can study in the academy, instead of spending much money, they can be self-sufficient. For example, there are a few recognized talents in the academy, and the rewards are won every year, which not only offsets the board and lodging of Shuxiu, but also saves a sum of money to support the family or supplement other expenses.

Even if one can get a ranking in the examination field, there will be rewards from the academy, a sum of money for winning a prize, and another sum of money for winning a Jinshi.

Some people in the academy jokingly called it the settlement fee. Of course, some people thought it was the academy deliberately buying talented students for their own use. Combined with the king of Wei behind the academy, it naturally made people think about it.

In fact, these are acceptable or not. In the past, some people refused to accept it, and the academy didn't say anything. It was useless to worry about being retaliated, but more people would accept it, because since entering the academy, they have been stamped with the mark of King Wei.

Others may not understand these things, but those who have entered the court and become officials can't understand them better. Even if you take the initiative to tell people that you are not from the royal family of Wei, and the others don’t say anything on the surface, just play haha ​​and perfunctory, in fact, you still think what you think behind your back.

After going back and forth like this, he naturally accepted his fate.

Of course, there are only a small number of people who will move these thoughts, and more people are grateful. After all, it is not difficult to raise a scholar nowadays, but what is difficult is how to get ahead after passing the exam.

People like them had no family background, and they were not amazing and talented people. They could be looked up to, less likely to be difficult and excluded in the officialdom, and more likely to have this golden signboard behind them.

So even if they entered the court and became officials, they did not lose contact with each other, and still maintained the friendship of classmates. Like this time the Wei Palace was overjoyed, no matter how you usually avoid suspicion, if you don't show up at this time, you will be branded as ungrateful and ungrateful, so several people discussed it and chose a day to quietly give a gift from the corner gate.

Although the ceremony is light, it represents a heart.

I was thinking that I might not even have a cup of hot tea, but who knows that a manager came out from the palace, and said that since he came to congratulate him, or came on a regular day, he couldn't afford other entertainment, so there must be a glass of thin wine.

These words seemed inconspicuous, but they just revealed a piece of information—the Wangfu allowed them to come to the door, because they regarded them as their own people.

That's why we come together today.

"Brother Fan's words are very reasonable, let's avoid troubles."

After a few words, these people also recovered the appearance of being at ease, avoiding the carriages and horses all the way forward.

When we got to the gate of the Wangfu, it was too busy here. Fortunately, the servants of the Wangfu are well-trained, so they can be busy and not chaotic. Seeing that everyone was waiting in line, they quietly followed the team that almost had a conflict with them just now.

When I got closer, I saw the emblem on the carriage, which was from the Yuyang Houfu.

These low-ranking officials don't know much about the ways of the princes and nobles. They only know that this is from the Houfu, and they are lucky that they didn't cause trouble just now.

And the other party didn't recognize them, maybe they did, but seeing these people in poor clothes, they didn't pay attention at all.

After waiting against the cold wind for almost two quarters of an hour, it was finally their turn.

Because the people of Yuyang Hou's Mansion had carriages and horses, they stepped aside just now to give way to the outgoing carriage. Waiting to come over again, this group of people has already come to the front.

"Where are you so poor, why are you robbing..." He didn't finish the rest of the sentence, after seeing the steward of the palace read the other party's greeting post, and personally led these people in, he took the initiative to silence.

"Shut up!" It was the master in the carriage who spoke, and the coachman was even more afraid to speak.

Seeing this, the group who had been ridiculed just now couldn't help but straighten their backs, and followed them in.

At the same time, the palace is also busy and lively.

Since yesterday, the mansion has been busy with today's banquet, how to arrange the guests, how to arrange the male guests, how to arrange the female guests, these are all things.

In particular, the palace doesn't know who will come to congratulate them at the time, so they can only make a rough guess, and more of them have to adapt to the situation. Fortunately, there are many servants in the Wangfu, usually Feng Sheng still thinks that the Wangfu has so many servants, and there are only a few masters, it is too wasteful, and it will be seen when it is really used.

Feng Sheng didn't have too many things to do today, she just gave birth to confinement, the only thing she had to do today was to go out to show her face with Brother Xuan in her arms, and to entertain the sisters-in-law from various palaces.

Concubine Liang had already arrived, and she helped Feng Sheng come out first to support the scene.

Over the past few years, through the exchanges between the two sisters-in-law, the relationship between the two palaces is fairly close. Now that the king of Wei has entered the court, the king of Liang has become a firm party of the king of Wei, so others are not too surprised by Princess Liang's all-encompassing.

It is inevitable that some people will say some acid words, such as Princess An, it is not a secret that she has always disliked Feng Sheng. However, Princess An's life has not been very good in the past few years. Others may not know it. The sister-in-law understands each other's situation too well, so her sour words are heard by Princess Liang and Feng Sheng, but they are just a joke.

"Does the seventh sibling envy the third sister-in-law? Who doesn't know that the seventh sibling is the most blessed, and has raised many children under her knees."

As soon as these words came out, Princess An's face suddenly turned ugly.