[Jian Wang III] Prosperous Tang Dynasty

After confirming that Yang Tian was just asleep and nothing happened, Su Jixian was relieved, and asked someone to take him down to settle down, and invited Ye Ying to have dinner together, "The master is tired all the way, let's have dinner together? It's just this banquet The taste is strong, can the owner get used to it?"

"It's okay, thank you Taifu for your hospitality."

"My master is not picky." Ye Xuan smiled and helped Ye Ying onto the chair, "Master, Ji Xian has been promoted now, it's the prime minister!"

"Really? It really is a hero born a boy, congratulations to the prime minister."

"Hey, there is nothing to congratulate, the higher the position, the heavier the burden." Su Jixian watched Lu Lingfeng go out to deal with things, and smiled when he heard this, "Cang Zhu, take Ye Huan to your table for dinner. "

"Yes."

Ye Huan thanked repeatedly, and then followed Cang Zhu to eat with Yinwei next door.

Because what happened just now needs to be dealt with, the meal ended not long after eating, Ye Ying took Ye Xuan and Ye Huan to bid farewell and went back to the other courtyard, Su Jixian and Chen Yue continued to sit in Hu Yulou and wait for Liu Mengyang.

Not long after Ye Ying left, Liu Mengyang rushed to follow Fu Ling, and the moment he saw Yang Tian on the soft couch, tears finally flowed out, and hurried forward to hold the child in his arms, holding back his sobs.

Chen Yue couldn't bear it, so she stepped forward and handed her a handkerchief, "Don't worry Madam Yang, Yang Tian is fine, he's just asleep."

"Okay...okay..." Liu Mengyang wiped away tears indiscriminately, and bowed deeply to Su Jixian, "Thank you, Prime Minister, for saving my Tian'er..."

"I didn't save it, it was the owner of Cangjian Mountain Villa who happened to save him." Su Jixian sat on a chair with Yuan Xiao in his arms, and looked at Yang Tian with a gloomy gaze, "I'll send someone to take you back to your residence later, Tomorrow you bring Yang Tian to my residence to formally apprentice, and he will live with me from now on, are you willing?"

"Be willing." Liu Mengyang said without hesitation, "As long as Tian'er can become a talent and grow up safely, I can give up anything. Besides, it is a good thing to be with the prime minister, so what can I be reluctant to do?"

Su Jixian nodded, "Don't worry, I will let Yang Tian come back to you on a regular basis, and it won't make it difficult for you mother and child to see each other. You can also come to see him at the Xiangfu on weekdays."

Liu Mengyang nodded in thanks.

After they were escorted home, Su Jixian and Chen Yue left Hu Yulou and wandered in the street.

Chen Yue bought two masks, the white fox one was given to Su Jixian, and the smiling Buddha one was put on by herself, and she pulled his sleeves to walk towards the float.

The float was made by the government for the common people to play with. It was very delicate, and the silk flowers were lifelike. The flower girls on the float were surrounded by flowers and illuminated by lanterns, and they looked extraordinarily delicate than flowers.

Chen Yue looked up for a while, then dragged Su Jixian away, and said next to him, "I'm not as good-looking as my brother."

Su Jixian nodded her forehead, "That's a girl, how can you compare her beauty with me?"

"Brother is the prettiest."

He smiled and patted her on the head, and took her to buy lanterns.

Chen Yue didn't want to buy it, but dragged him to the lantern riddles, "The most beautiful lanterns in the Shangyuan Festival are not the ones that can be bought with money, but the lanterns that can only be won by guessing riddles. I haven’t been out for a long time—brother, I want that.”

"Which one?" Su Jixian looked at her finger, sighed, "This lamp needs to guess hundreds of lantern riddles... just wait."

As he said that, he walked towards the lantern riddle stand, guessing the riddles at a god-like speed, and killing them all the way.Chen Yue followed behind him and watched him answer the puzzles with ease, answer them, answer them again, and answer them again, pursing her lips and smiling.

It didn't take long before the exquisite lantern came into Chen Yue's hands. The candlelight cast a lotus koi-like light spot through the lavender colored glass, spinning slowly in her hand, and as the koi swam, it seemed that there was something in her ear. He heard the sound of gurgling water flowing past his ears.

This is the last Lantern Festival of the Lantern Festival that Chen Yue and Su Jixian spent together as a girl.

Not long after, Ye Xuan, who sent his master back to the other courtyard, came back and took Chen Yue away to the world of two people. Su Jixian returned to the private room on the third floor of Hu Yulou, ordered two jars of wine and drank slowly , leaning against the window to see the noise of the crowd outside, the lights and shadows are blurry.

When Lu Lingfeng came back, he had already drank more than half of the first jar of wine, and Yuan Xiao, who was secretly drinking, was lying beside him sleeping on his stomach, snoring.

"Are you back?" Su Jixian looked back at him with a piece of orange in his mouth, there was a faint blush in the corner of his eyes, his eyes flashed like black glass soaked in water.

"Yeah." Lu Lingfeng sat next to him and peeled the oranges for him, "The two of them couldn't find any useful clues, but they found a lot of dismantled fireworks nearby, and the gunpowder piled up half the house."

"Have you dealt with it all?"

"Of course, Jingzhao Mansion was notified, and the whole city checked out the hidden dangers, and they have been dealt with." Lu Lingfeng poured wine from his cup, "Why, do you have a guess in your heart?"

Su Jixian turned around and lay down on the beauty's couch, eating oranges leisurely, "Well, I think it's the remnant of Spike Fang, Shi Chaoyi's confidant lurking in the capital. But it's just a guess, and I can't be sure."

Lu Lingfeng sat next to him, and put his head on his lap as a pillow, "You probably won't go wrong with your guess."

"Now they are hiding too well, but this time they showed their tails but wiped away the traces." Su Jixian raised his hand and grabbed his red hair, "I will talk to His Majesty when we open the court, and see how he decides. "

Lu Lingfeng touched his face, bowed her head and kissed him.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the court opened.

Because the war had just been quelled, many things were in a mess, and the emperor did not dare to let the emperor deal with the unclear matters in the court. The morning court ended soon, and the prime minister talked with King Jianning in the palace.

Su Jixian told the emperor what happened on the night of Shangyuan Festival, and also expressed his own guesses, but he didn't say how he thought it should be solved, full of expressions of "I don't care about this matter as you see it".

The emperor was a little helpless, holding his teacup and looking at King Jianning.

Li Tan looked at him silently, and cupped his hands: "This matter will be explained to Brother Huang."

"Ah Tan will do as I see it." The emperor successfully dumped the blame on his younger brother and expressed his happiness. After thinking for a while, he looked at Su Jixian again, "Prime Minister Su, when he left the capital in a hurry, many ministers stayed in the capital and were punished by the wolf teeth." Poisonous hand, I dare not use it anymore after taking refuge in Spike Fang, and now I have a lot of power to spare, but there are so many job vacancies."

Su Jixian looked cold, "What does Your Majesty mean?"

"The Chunwei Imperial Examination will be held again in March to select officials." The emperor smiled and said in a very gentle tone, "I know that Prime Minister Su has deep feelings, so this time Prime Minister Su will come up with the questions for the Chunwei Examination. "

Is there anything else you can say other than what you can do?Su Jixian glanced sideways at the emperor, but the good-tempered emperor didn't care at all.

"There is no shortage of military officers in the court. This war has discovered many great generals, all of whom can be promoted." The emperor said, "It's just that many civil servants were lost in the chaos of the war, so the matter of Chunwei still needs a lot of attention from Prime Minister Su. .”

The three years of war can be said to be long or short, but there are quite a few civil servants who died in this troubled time. As for whether it was really because of the troubled times, or whether they were purged because of the failure to stand in line during the change of the throne, it is unknown. Now Although the emperor has a good temper and tolerance, he is not a weak bun character.

Su Jixian cupped his hands: "I obey the order."

"The imperial examination is too hasty this time, and I'm afraid we won't be able to select many pillars of talent." Li Tan said.

"Then we will hold an additional imperial examination next year, and when the court stabilizes, we will change it back to once every three years." The emperor said that this is not a problem at all, "I have ordered Mr. Taibai and Mr. Zimei to assist in organizing the Spring Festival, and Prime Minister Su will be the examiner .”

"Mr. Taibai and Mr. Zimei are both in Qiandao Lake now," Su Jixian reminded lightly, "Today is the [-]th day of the first lunar month, and the Spring Festival will be held in March. Is there enough time to hurry along, draw up questions, and arrange the examination room?"

The emperor said that this is not a problem, "When I just returned to Beijing, I had ordered the two gentlemen to come to Beijing, but I was just preparing for the matter of Chunwei. I haven't told Prime Minister Su because the dynasty didn't start a few days ago. Days, the two gentlemen will arrive in Chang'an in early February."

Oh, it turned out that I had already prepared.Su Jixian and Li Tan toasted him: "Your Majesty is wise."

The emperor smiled modestly.

After discussing some important matters with each other, Su Jixian left the palace, and Li Tan stayed in the palace for dinner.

There was still some time before lunch, and the emperor played chess with Li Tan, with Li Tan playing black and the emperor playing white.

A few chess pieces landed on the nanmu chessboard, and the situation had not yet formed. The emperor said slowly, "Ah Tan, the old man wants to return to Beijing."

Li Tan was slightly taken aback.

"However, Chang'an has not yet been fully restored, and I am afraid that there will be remnants of wolf teeth along the way. I let the old man continue to stay in the palace in the middle of Shu. The warmth of the middle of Shu is also convenient for the old man to take care of."

Li Tan nodded, "It should be so."

"It's just that the old man feels that his body is quite strong. I'm afraid this set of rhetoric won't last long." The emperor slammed down and formed a continuous battle line.

"Is this the reason why brother is in a hurry to re-elect officials?" Li Tan also fell down, and the offensive gradually became clear, "Su Xiang and I are on brother's side, don't worry."

"There's no rush, isn't this prepared for any danger?" The emperor smiled. "At the beginning, I only eliminated a few people who could not be won over. I didn't deal with those Qingliu scholars. , I'm afraid they will poke the spine. Literati, unafraid of power, hmph."

Li Tan pondered, and stopped Bai Zi's attack with one blow, "Su Xiang is very familiar with the literati. He fought Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong for so long, but he never fell behind."

"If Su Xiang is here, I'm afraid you will be beaten to death." The emperor shook his head and laughed, and sealed Li Tan's chess pieces with one piece, picked them up one by one, and put them at hand, "Su Xiang said, Let me grasp both military power and financial power, but I feel that I must also grasp the literati and public opinion."

Li Tan held the chess piece, without looking up, "Brother, do you have an idea?"

"A bit...as long as you don't betray me, Ah Tan, I'll be at ease."

"...Brother, I'm worrying too much."

"Hey, people always like to think about things when they are old, so don't worry about it, Ah Tan."

"..."

The emperor smiled and made a move, while Li Tan looked down at the chess game and remained silent.

The author has something to say: the almighty Prime Minister Su, who can lead troops to fight in war, and is the chief examiner of civil and civil examinations, hehehe.

By the way, I made complaints about kneeling seven times in a row on the battlefield today, Keke.