Crown Tang emperor

People in the capital are well-informed, and they can talk about no matter how strange and strange scenery there is.Some spectators were curious, so they approached the past and looked left and right, and there were many well-meaning people shouting and reminding: "That sad Hu'er, don't make a funeral near the official road, there will be a guard of honor passing by here later. Expulsion, that's more mourning than mourning!"

But this team of barbarians didn't seem to hear the noise around them. Instead of avoiding the official road, they stopped directly near the posthouse. A group of people faced east and worshiped. The scene was somewhat sad.

Seeing that these barbarians couldn't understand kind words and advice, the people around them simply stopped reminding them, making up their minds to see how unlucky this group of people will be later.

Nearly an hour later, there were banners waving on the east side of the official road. Although the warriors were covered with dust and dust, their majesty remained undiminished. They just rode their horses slowly. Covered with felt cloth, the most eye-catching feature of the entire team is the weathered head hanging on the instrument pole, whose face can no longer be seen clearly.

"Your son is mighty!"

As this team came, people clapped and cheered continuously on the official road, and some pedestrians took off their water bags and sprinkled water and dust in front of the team, in order to show their respect and love for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. .

At this time, the officials from Beijing and China who had been waiting in the pavilion also walked on the official road one after another, and each lined up a long welcome team in front of the pavilion according to their status.

However, these officials are not the most eye-catching in the whole welcoming team. As the triumphant team approached the post, there was a tall red-robed officer in the hall, surrounded by several Xuanjia internal guards. Go out and stand directly at the front of the welcoming team.

"Yang Zhonglang has already entered the hall early, what a disrespect, disrespect!"

Seeing the appearance of this middle official, a group of officials all looked solemn and bowed in front of them.

This tall middle-ranking official is Yang Sixuan, an internal servant. Although Yang Sixuan is only an internal official, he is also well-known in the foreign court. He was ordered to go north to Qikou to reward the army, and it happened that the Tie Le rebels attacked the imperial envoy and wanted to snatch the reward. Yang Sixu put on armor to kill the enemy, beheaded dozens of Hu soldiers, and accompanied the Anbei army to gallop thousands of miles across the desert, and personally beheaded several Tiele chiefs, so that Xie Wan, who was the governor of Anbei at the time, was a representative of him. Please credit.

Although he was a minister who was honored and favored by the saint, Yang Sixu was humble and low-key at the moment, he just waved his hands and said with a smile: "I was ordered by the saint to go out of the city to meet the meritorious men in Yingzhou. I am just a messenger at this time, so you don't need to be polite .”

While speaking, the team had already stopped in front of the posthouse, and the soldiers led their horses to stand still. One person in the team rode out.

Song Jing returned home this time with meritorious service, and had already attracted much attention from the official circles. Seeing that the saint sent Yang Sixu out of the city to welcome him early in the morning, it showed that he valued Song Jing's courtesy.The officials present were also more convinced of the rumors they had heard before, that Song Jing was expected to return to the pilgrimage this time.

Seeing Song Jing's appearance, everyone couldn't help being more enthusiastic, and followed behind Yang Sixu to welcome him step by step.

Song Jing turned over before seeing the tide coming, but before they had time to talk to each other, the Hu funeral team that had been staying near the posthouse suddenly burst into tears.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, but it is always a bad luck to see a bad journey, not to mention that these Northeast fighters have traveled thousands of miles and just arrived outside the capital. When there was a burst of crying and mourning, it was naturally quite disappointing.

"What is so annoying over there! Hurry up and drive away, don't let the bad luck disturb the heroes!"

Yang Sixuan's expression darkened immediately after hearing these sounds, he turned his head to look over, and raised his hand to order his entourage to drive them away.

"Yang Zhonglang wait a minute!"

Song Jing glanced at that place, his expression became very interested, he raised his hand to stop Yang Sixuan, and said with a smile: "If you kill Hu in the Liao border, you can't help but lie on your corpse, but with the protection of the Holy Grace and the might of the army like a mountain, all of you are naturally Eliminate evil, don't be afraid of darkness! This funeral procession is the custom of Mohe, so there are still remnants of thieves in Beijing, who want to mourn for dead thieves?"

While speaking, he saw a burly man in mourning in the team crawling close to the ground, stepping over the welcoming team and continuing to crawl forward, kowtowing his head in the dust as he crawled, until he was several feet away, his face was covered with dirty dust.

Song Jing was surrounded by armored soldiers, looked down at this strange man, his brows were already wrinkled, and there was a sinister aura that had been soaked in from the Northeast battlefield and had not yet dissipated.

Before Song Jing and the others could ask, the strong man barely suppressed his crying, still choked up and paid respects to Song Jing, and then said in a trembling voice: "East Hu ministers are human beings, and I thank you, the king of the Song government, Zhu Nu The evil thief who killed his father and enemy and disrupted our tribe begged Sibiyu! As a slave, as a son of man, as a court official, he has only a six-foot body, but he can't go to the battle in person, kill a thief to avenge the hatred of his family and country, Tianxing's mansion is majestic , to punish the leader of the bandit, to vent the slavery..."

It turned out that this strong man was Zuorong, the son of Qiqi Zhongxiang, another leader of the Mohe tribe. Earlier, Mohe took advantage of the Khitan rebellion and fled eastward. Bi Yu killed Qiqi Zhongxiang and annexed his tribe. For Zuorong, it was naturally a vendetta against killing his father.

However, in the early years, Zhang Ren was willing to sit in Yingzhou to suppress the rebellion. Zuorong was captured by the Tang army and escorted to Chang'an. He stayed in Beijing to serve as the general of the Imperial Army in the Beijing camp, but did not repatriate him to Liaodong.

Song Jing has been in the Liao border for several years, and he has heard of Zuorong's name. After seeing this, he smiled and said: "Qi Sibi Yu is fierce and disobedient, and the crime cannot be pardoned. Now it is inevitable to be punished. You wait for the rest of Mohe to be lucky." You are protected by the grace of the king, and you can not be involved in pollution, so you must take this as a precept, and you will not violate it!"

After hearing the words, Zuorong kowtowed again, and immediately turned his palm over, holding a dagger in his palm, stabbing directly on his left arm, cutting off a piece of flesh, and said in a painful voice: "The revenge of killing my father, I can't cut it with my hand, This Cheng has hated me all his life. But living in slavery in the capital is not a waste of time. The king who lived as a guardian can be worthy of his father. The lord of the government has favored me, and I sincerely need to sacrifice my heart and disembowelment. Only the emperor's life is still in use. I would like to use this flesh and blood I implore the lord of the government to give the thief a slender piece of meat, and allow the slave to sacrifice to his late father and eat to vent his hatred!"

Seeing that Zuorong's shoulder was already bleeding profusely, and the fresh flesh and blood on the tip of the blade was even more shocking, Song Jing frowned slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "It's human nature to have a miserable life experience, and to have lingering hatred in your heart." Of course, the lives and corpses of thieves are also things covered by the emperor's order, and they cannot be given and shared outside the law! Step down, and stop indulging in chaos."

Chapter 1000 The official career has not progressed, but the king's grace has been enjoyed

It was almost evening when Song Jing and his party arrived at the Jingdong Pavilion Post.

Although it is said that it is possible to enter the city before dark all the way, but considering the large number of attendants and carrying a lot of luggage and materials, it needs to be delivered and received by the Beijing Zhongyou Division, and it will take a long time, so they simply stayed in the post Stay overnight.

Some of the officials who came to welcome them knew each other, and some didn't. Regardless of the depth of their friendship, Song Jing only exchanged pleasantries and did not receive these people in the hall.Even Yang Sixu, after expressing the sage's condolences and inquiring about the exact time of entering the court tomorrow, saw that Song Jing had no plans to entertain guests, so he simply raised his hand and said goodbye.

The Tianxia Posthouse system is mainly used to receive official personnel, who can check in for free and accept board and lodging hospitality with orders.There are also different hospitality levels for various levels of official duties and personnel.

But in many cases, these regulations cannot be strictly enforced, because the management of most of the posthouses are local states and counties, and they dare not neglect and offend those important personnel who travel to and from the capital.

Border guards like Song Jing, who have returned to the court with great achievements, and even the officials in Beijing and China are eager to welcome them, although there are standards and upper limits for reception, but if they really exceed the standards, these post officials naturally dare not care too much.Whether they will abide by the regulations depends mainly on the conduct of the officials.

Previously, the imperial court treated state officials favorably and gave some officials who went to Yuanzhou a lot of subsidies for their official career.As a result, some people took advantage of the loopholes of this decree, and the entourage brought a large number of personnel that had nothing to do with the official position, and they had to be received by the posthouses along the way, which brought a huge financial burden and deficit to the local government.

Many seemingly generous government decrees, but due to the different interests of the people involved in them, were used for private purposes, so that the imperial court had to strengthen supervision and take back the management rights of some main arterial roads from the prefectures and counties. be regulated.

Those who are familiar with Song Jing naturally know his character well. His fame and great future are not due to the military and political achievements accumulated in foreign affairs, but because of his integrity and law-abiding.

Especially in the early years when following the sages to enter the customs to settle the chaos, as many as 10,000+ refugees were appeased and controlled, and the law was strictly prohibited and impartial.So much so that even the sage praised Song Jing's nature: "Human preferences have different standards. But if someone is not appreciated by Song Jing, then this person's nature and morality need to be judged."

Therefore, even though many officials who came out of the city to greet Song Jing felt that Song Jing was a bit harsh and mean, they didn't dare to complain too much, so they could only say goodbye outside the posthouse.

But there is also a group of people who are exceptions, that is, the Mohe people led by Na Zuorong.

That Zuo Rong gouged out his own flesh and blood in exchange for some rotten bones that killed his father and enemies to vent his anger. Although this approach was somewhat cruel and was rejected by Song Jing, it still won the respect and applause of a group of spectators.

People in the Tang Dynasty advocated filial piety, and felt that those barbarians who were alienated might not be able to abide by human relations and friendship. Seeing Zuorong's sorrow and filial piety, he naturally felt a little good in his heart.

They didn't think Song Jing was wrong, after all, no matter where the Hu chiefs betrayed the laws of the Tang Dynasty, they would be heinous bandits, and all life and flesh they owned were stolen goods. It only depended on when the sage would send the king to ask for them.

But there are human feelings beyond the law, and many people couldn't bear to see this strong man in Huzhong, who endured the pain of losing his father, wailing on the road, so some people couldn't help but stepped forward to advise: "Since the strong man is a brave general who has been guarding the capital, It is not an idler who has nothing to do, so instead of embarrassing the Song government with your feelings here, it is better to kowtow to Tianque, implore the saint to sympathize with the grief, and give the enemy flesh and blood to vent his anger."

Although Zuorong was still crying in disappointment, he nodded his head and thanked each of these voices of advice, but he still refused to stay away. go.

It was getting late, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the official road.The Mohe people were still venting their grief outside the posthouse. After Song Jing had dinner in the hall, he was checking the documents to be submitted tomorrow when he returned to the court tomorrow. Jiang Zuorong also ordered his servants to present property outside the hall, saying that he wanted to thank the Lord for his revenge."

After hearing this, Song Jing frowned darkly, stood up and walked out from the hall, and immediately saw several armored soldiers carrying two huge boxes and cages to the front of the hall with great difficulty. It can be seen that the items in the cage are really heavy.

"Wait, don't open it!"

Seeing this, Song Jing raised his hand to stop him, and went back to the hall. When he came out again, he was already holding a saber in a leather sheath, which was directly placed on the cover of the box, and then said in a low voice. Said: "Send this together and tell Na Zuorong that this knife was once stained with the blood of Sibiyu thief. If he just feels his father's hatred and takes it with him, if he still wants to confuse and harass the officials, then It’s just to test the sharpness of the sword!”

After saying these words, Song Jing turned around and retreated back into the hall. After a short while, the mourning of the Mohe people outside the post stopped, and another official came to tell Zuorong to withdraw his knife and make a move. Thank you, and then led the tribe to leave.

Since then, there was nothing to say all night, before dawn the next day, Song Jing and his party set off from the post house again, and they were accompanied by officials who were specially in charge of welcoming and guiding them into the city from Chunming Gate.

The group of meritorious men who accompanied them to Beijing to present their victories were escorted away by the officials of Guanglu Temple to accommodate them, while Song Jing hurriedly entered the imperial city again, first went to the Ministry of War to record his merits, and then registered the obtained personnel with the Privy Council, and finally came to other provinces Waiting for call.

As soon as the various divisions walked down, the morning court was over, and the provincial officials who returned from the court naturally did not dare to neglect this hero. The attendant Yang Zaisi rushed to greet him, and took Song Jing's memorabilia on the case, and first sent it to the ban , and then looked at Song Jing with a smile and said: "It will take time to go back and forth, why don't I introduce Song Jun's colleagues in the department first? This case will come to the minister's seat in the future, and it will be beneficial to get acquainted with colleagues early thing."

The general officials only guessed that Song Jing's return to Beijing was due to the hope of worshiping the prime minister, but Yang Zaisi himself was the prime minister of the Zhengshitang, so he naturally knew that Song Jing's return to the court to worship the prime minister had already passed the court's discussion, and the book making of Song Jing's appointment as the servant of Huangmen under the province had already been made a few days ago It was drafted by Zhongshu, and it was only to be sent to the door, because of this statement.

Naturally, Song Jing also knew his future well. Facing the superior's overtures, he just bowed and said: "The award has not yet been issued, and the subordinate officials are still low-level positions in other states. There is no need to disturb the case of the officials. Thank you for your concern."

Seeing that Song Jing was so serious, Yang Zaisi didn't say anything more, but he couldn't help feeling a little bit in his heart that the atmosphere in the Zhengshitang would not be too friendly in the future.

Although it is said that the sages are the largest in the court nowadays, and all the prime ministers who have orders are only signed and signed, but the prime ministers have different personalities and styles, which have a great influence on the atmosphere of the Zhengshitang.

In the past few years, the Zhengshitang has also undergone quite a change. Starting from the dismissal of Yao Yuanchong and Liu Youqiu at the end of the fourth year of Kaiyuan, there have been several personnel updates successively.

Except for Yang Zaisi, the prime ministers in the early Kaiyuan either passed away, were honored, or went to other places.For example, Wang Fangqing was transferred to Guozijian Jijiu, Zhu Jing was appointed as the governor of Yizhou, Li Zhaode returned to the imperial court for honorary support, Zhang Renyuan continued to Heshuo and then the frontier town, and Pei Shouzhen served as the left-behind envoy of Qinghai.

The substitute prime ministers are Zhongshu servant Li Qiao, Shangshu Zuopushe Wang Shaozong, Hubu Shangshu Jiang Shidu, military minister Yan Yanfan, and another Huangmen servant Fang Rong. There are still a few replacements among them, but during the phase time They changed jobs after a short period of time, such as the mascot King Murong Wan of Qinghai, Guo Zhiyun who returned from Anxi to the imperial court, and Zhong Shaojing, the former prisoner of the Shaofu.

Officials of these prime ministers, either by favor or seniority, but they also have one thing in common, that is, the style is not too strong.From the year before last when Zhang Renyuan came out of Beijing to the present, the atmosphere in the Zhengshitang is quite harmonious, big matters are handled by sages, and the prime ministers can also discuss small matters.

Yang Zaisi didn't have much contact with Song Jing, but he has been immersed in officialdom for a long time. It may be exaggerated to say that he can see people to the bone at a glance, but he does have a bit of knowledge. Sitting with Song Jing for a while, he felt It turns out that this person is too principled, and I'm afraid it's not easy to get along with.

But no matter what kind of turmoil Song Jing will stir up in the Zhengshitang, it has nothing to do with him.

Yang Zaisi is now more than 70 years old. Even counting from the first year of Kaiyuan, he has been worshiping the prime minister for nearly ten years. It's time to submit a letter to resign and transfer to a vain post.

Who can not love the honor of the prime minister.However, Yang Zaisi was already content to survive the demonic chaos during the Wu Anniversary, and to be favored by the new dynasty for many years.The "Kaiyuan Law" edited by Yao Yuanchong three years ago has been written and promulgated all over the world, and he is still leading the continuation and commentary today.

The grand ceremonies of the country are based on laws and proprieties. There have been innovations in laws and regulations, and it is natural to make new ones in terms of etiquette and righteousness.

Yang Zaisi's resignation at this time has nowhere to go, even for the sake of years of hard work, the sage has also hinted a little recently that Yang Zaisi will lead the compilation of the new "Kaiyuan Rituals" to mark his ups and downs in his official career. A perfect full stop.

Not long after the two chatted in the hall, Le Gao personally went to the door for some internal affairs, and ordered the sage to summon Song Jing to meet at the Yanying Hall.

As the son of the former prime minister and a long-time valet, Lego is also well-known in the foreign court, and took charge of the construction of the inner treasury last year, known as the Ouchi Finance Supervisor.The sage sent Le Gao to welcome Song Jing, which shows that he values ​​him.

Under the guidance of Lego, Song Jing quickly passed through China and North Korea, and arrived outside the Yanying Hall of the Inner Dynasty.

Originally, the performance of the Yanying Hall was just a convenient method, but as time went by, it gradually became a formal occasion for the performance of the monarch and his subjects, and there were also direct scholars who waited here on a daily basis.

After arriving outside the Hall of Yanying, Lego apologized first and then entered the hall to pass the news. Song Jing was not alone in staying where he was, and a direct scholar from outside the hall came forward to meet and chat.

This straight bachelor is not a stranger, but Pei Yaoqing, who was a student of Song Jing when he was in Zhiying Hall.Today's Pei Yaoqing is no longer that young and frivolous child prodigy in the past. She is dressed in an eighth-grade deep green official robe, and her speech and behavior are quite stable, but when she stands in front of Song Jing, she seems a bit reserved.

It's not that Pei Yaoqing is timid to see high-ranking officials and nobles. He is the son of the prime minister himself, and he was proud of his youth. Staying with the imperial court, waiting to be controlled in such an important venue as the Yanying Hall, the characters are naturally well-informed, and even if they meet the prime minister, they will not be stage-frightened.

But this person in front of him is not an ordinary high-ranking official after all, but a professor of library studies back then, a teacher who could knock his head and reprimand him. Although we hadn't seen each other for a long time, the shadow of being dominated by the lessons of those years has lasted forever, so that Pei Yaoqing didn't dare to get too close.

Although he has been known for his intelligence since he was a child, he should be selected as a child prodigy early on. It can be said that he is a child of other people's family who is admired by the masses.But it is inevitable to be frivolous and frivolous in his youth, and he was not such an honest and responsible student when he was studying in Jiyingkan.

It would be fine if I met other teachers, but in front of Song Jing, the arrogance of that youthful arrogance can't be shaken, and Song Jing regards it as a typical daily beating lesson, so the shadow is naturally a bit thicker.

For example, right now, the reunion after a long absence is more or less joyful, but Song Jing's expression froze when he saw Pei Yaoqing here, and he subconsciously raised his hands to pull his ears, but fortunately he realized that the occasion was not right, so he put down his hands and remained stern Looking at Pei Yaoqing, he said bluntly: "The territory is vast, where is the husband's achievements? He has a good reputation when he is young, and his teeth are getting older, but he still has the posture of a dolphin dog guarding the household, and his ambition is still low. Yu old man, is this what the library taught you?"

Pei Yaoqing knew the teacher's temper, and was obviously annoyed that he still stayed in the court, thinking that his ambition was low and that he failed what he had learned, but he really didn't dare to quibble, so he could only lower his head and say in a dejected manner: "Students have listened for a long time. Teaching, how dare you shrink yourself into wealth and comfort. But without learning, you only know that there are people outside after entering the military, and you are rejected from the selection after the first round of examinations, and you have no choice but to stay in the embassy..."

With the increasing standardization of imperial court selection, especially the development and expansion of imperial examinations, the number of electors has also increased day by day. Therefore, the imperial court's original system of selecting scholars for specialties is no longer held, but this form of scientific examinations has been incorporated into the public selected.

Today's public elections are no longer just four tests of words and deeds. In addition, there are special tests for special official positions, such as the palm seal officer of the prefecture and county, and the general judge of the court.

These official positions are all vacancies, and there are naturally many people competing for them. In every competition, there are countless candidates competing for opportunities.

Although Pei Yaoqing has few talents and reputations, compared with those candidates who surpassed him in age and experience, especially the experience of being an official, he still has obvious shortcomings. When he ran for the election, he went to various examination rooms, but none of them got it. He just got a ninth-rank humble job.

This batch of candidates in Jiyingguan was selected by the sage in charge of the exams. Pei Yaoqing is rare in talent and reputation, but his performance in the selection is so poor. It seems that the education in Jiyingguan has not improved in the past few years.And the selection officials are also very tricky, and there are many ninth-rank positions, but they only awarded him a humble position as the head of the Jiying Pavilion, which means that you are almost ready, go back to the furnace and start again.

So not only Song Jing was furious when he saw Pei Yaoqing staying in the palace, the saint was also embarrassed by this kid, taking advantage of the increasing importance of the Jiying Hall and having to go straight to the Yanying Hall, he called this kid to make up lessons. The reputation of the emperor's disciples cannot be weakened.

Although Pei Yaoqing was close to his courtiers, he had no chance to participate. Apart from offering pen and ink all day long, he would bury his head in mountains of books and slips of paper. It could be described as miserable.

Hearing that Pei Yaoqing said that he was clumsy and not pretentious, Song Jing's complexion improved a little, but he still said seriously: "Jiying Hall was established, and all the students in the library are paid for by the public treasury. The official career has not progressed, and the king's favor has been enjoyed. The depth of talent and learning is no longer a private matter of one person. Although the kid has a family background to rely on, if he doesn't know how to make up for his shortcomings, he will never have a bright future in the future!"

Hearing this, Pei Yaoqing accepted the teaching awe-inspiringly, and bowed her head in response. Now it was no longer an ordinary instruction between a teacher and a student, but a rather stern admonition from the prime minister who was about to enter the court to the inferior position.

"Currently Li Xianggong, Zhongshu, and Zhang Shilang, Minister of Rites are still playing in the palace. Why don't you move to another room and wait for a while as a bachelor?"

After receiving a lesson, Pei Yaoqing said hastily again.

After Song Jing heard the words, he looked at the gate of the palace for a while, seeing that the saint really had no time to summon him in a short period of time, so he nodded and moved to another room.

He is upright and rigorous in his daily life. Although he is not as perverted as Zhang Renyuan, he also has extremely high requirements on his appearance and behavior.Especially when I am about to meet the saint, I can't help but feel more nervous, lest I will be rude, and I want to meet the saint with the best demeanor.

He set off from the posthouse outside the city at dawn, and went back and forth after entering the city. At this moment, he really wanted to find a private place to tidy up his appearance.Pei Yaoqing has a closer relationship than his colleagues in the officialdom. He also wants to take this opportunity to ask the original Jiyingkan students what their future is. Shame and plead guilty for previous dereliction of duty.

Chapter 1001 Heaven abandons its kind, wrong love will hurt

The two people who are playing in Yanying Hall are Li Qiao, the Minister of Zhongshu, and Zhang Shuo, the Minister of Rites. They are mainly playing the scientific examination this spring.

After many years of vigorous promotion by the imperial court, the various subjects of the imperial examination have developed to a very large scale, and this year, the number of people taking the tribute examination for each subject has also reached a new high.When the Ministry of Rites presented the list of applicants who had signed up for the exam, the sage was delighted that all the talents from all over the world had joined me.

Although the number of candidates for the examination has reached a new high, the imperial court has also accumulated a wealth of experience in the imperial examinations in the past few years. Especially in the early years of the Kaiyuan period, the imperial examinations were changed to a system of anonymous names and transferred to the Ministry of Rites to prepare for these two important reforms. There is no need to make any major adjustments this year.

Although the imperial examination has not yet been officially held, since the fall of last year, tributes from various states began to enter Beijing one after another, and now they have been hanging out in the capital for a long time.

In the past few years, the imperial court has repeatedly issued regulations to prevent high-ranking officials from interfering with the imperial examinations, so the trend of dry greetings is not very prevalent today.

But this does not mean that the scholars who applied for the examination have no way to show off their talents and learning. For example, various literary conferences have been held since last autumn, and the Chinese Literature Museum hosted by the Imperial Academy has also edited a few volumes of those who applied for the examination. Selected Poems and Proses of Scholars.

Especially the latter, since it was edited in the fifth year of Kaiyuan, has been hailed as the vane of the scientific examination of the Ministry of Rites.Generally speaking, as long as poetry and prose can be selected, as long as they perform normally in the imperial examination room, they will pass the exam with a high probability.

For example, in the selection of poems and essays in the first year, the famous "Yingzhi Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" emerged in the two capitals. "Moonlight Night on the Spring River" is an old title of the Yuefu. The sage had a new one when he was young, and there are only two couplets and four sentences, but it is already extraordinary.

Afterwards, Shiliu Yin's continuation was often written, with the title of "responsive system" as the theme, and good articles were frequently published.As the era entered the Kaiyuan period, it became an enduring poetic game in the scholarly literary world. Almost all the talented streams with a slight poetic name corresponded to Chunjiang's poems.

With so many talents participating, it is not easy for Chun Jiang to come up with new surprises.And in the fifth year of Kaiyuan, Zhang Ruoxu, the candidate for the Wuzhong Examination, published a new chapter, which was also based on a sage's story, which can be described as rich in literary talent and long in artistic conception.

This song "Yingzhi Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" was widely praised once it was interviewed. In particular, it was highly praised by Shen Quanqi, the leader of the poetry circle who was Taichang Shaoqing at the time. , the rest of the Spring River pens can all be stopped.

There are even rumors that it was because of Shen Quanqi's appreciation of Zhang Ruoxu that year that he asked the imperial court to compile the Selected Works of Juren by the Huawen Museum, and Zhang Ruoxu passed the exam and was among the best that year.Therefore, among the Shilin folks, this selection of poems and essays selected every year is also called the Spring River List.

Various folk rumors are mixed, but the matter is basically in line with the facts.

At that time, the sage seduced Shen Quanqi with two couplets and four lines of "Moonlight on the Spring River" to help him renovate "Vientiane", which can be said to have won the first pot of gold in the world.

But the pride in the officialdom still can't make up for the regret of "Spring River Flower and Moonlight Night". After all, this is the beginning and witness of his friendship with the saint, monarch and minister.The sage stopped writing and did not continue, and although Shi Liufan's continuation is not lacking in beautiful articles, he always feels that it is quite contrary to the charm of the sage's old sentences.

Li Tong still remembered that when Shen Quanqi heard Zhang Ruoxu's Spring River Poetry in the workshop, he was very pleasantly surprised, and even returned to the imperial city in the evening, recorded the whole poem and sent it to the palace overnight.

What happened to Chunjiang Poetry, Li Tong naturally knew it well.

The reason why he stopped writing after only starting one is because he hopes to leave a bright future for the younger generations. He is not sure when Zhang Ruoxu drafted this question, but seeing that he was inspired by himself when he was applying for the exam. Even when the whole book was published, he was very happy about it, and he also had a strange feeling of being connected with ancient poetry and prose through thousands of years.

So that night, he summoned Shen Quanqi, and agreed to his request to play a selection of poems to help the younger generation become famous, and also hoped to help Zhang Ruoxu with this.

It's just that although Zhang Ruoxu's poetry is rich and beautiful, his diction is not serious, and Chen Zi'ang, who presided over the imperial examination, was a pioneer in advocating the innovation of poetry and prose. Han Xiu made it to the top of the Jinshi list.

But in any case, Zhang Ruoxu has become a representative figure of Jiangnan scholars with his poem "Spring River Flower and Moon Night". The encounter at that time can also be regarded as the return of the sage for his poetic talent.

This year's selection of poems and essays on the Spring River List has also been selected for engraving. Although there is no such astonishing masterpiece as "Moonlight on the Spring River", all kinds of poems and essays selected are also brilliant.