It is true that no one in Xiao Jining's family is an official. If you want to look into it carefully, the Seventh and Eighth Princes, as imperial envoys on his behalf to inspect the capitals of various states in the Great Xiao, are also considered officials, but this official is still given by Xiao Jining.

But what Wen Yu said just now, what really surprised Xiao Jining was that Wen Yu knew that Jing Yuan knew him.He also chatted with Wen Yu here for a while, looking at Wen Yu's appearance, it seemed that he did not know his identity. Since Wen Yu didn't even know him, how did Wen Yu know that Jing Yuan knew him well?

And if Wen Yu knew that he was familiar with Jing Yuan, how could he not know his identity?

"you……"

Therefore, after Wen Yu finished speaking, Xiao Jining stared at him in surprise.

Wen Yu has a handsome appearance, a fair face, and an elegant smile. If he had a folding fan in his hand and spread it a few times, he would look like a talented scholar, but he put his hands together in front of him, respectfully and respectfully. , the whole body is full of the atmosphere of a student who has read poetry and books thoroughly, and just after he finished that sentence, Wen Yu denied himself again: "But it is not accurate to say that Mr. Qi and General Jing Shao are just acquainted. I am ashamed to say it. Since I was seven years old, I have been studying with my teacher, and since the teacher is a friend, I have also been fortunate enough to meet General Jing Shao, although I have never been close friends, I know a thing or two about his temperament."

At this point, Wen Yu raised his eyes to look at Xiao Jining, Xiao Jining was a little nervous, and answered a sentence indiscriminately: "What kind of temper is Major General Jing?"

"Major General Jing is used to being arrogant and indifferent. He seldom interacts with people, and he has never heard of any close friends." Wen Yu smiled, looked around the lobby of Yipin Building, and continued: "There are few people here. It is said that there were more than a hundred people, but as soon as General Jing stepped into this first-grade building, he found Young Master Qi among the hundreds of people in just a moment, so it seems that Young Master Qi and Young General Jing probably have a very close relationship."

Xiao Jining still wanted to try to explain a few words: "It's not necessarily true, maybe he just looked up at random and just happened to see me?"

"Young Master Qi—" Wen Yu looked at Xiao Jining with some amusement, "I saw General Jing at the Xiangfu that day. The general only looked straight at the teacher, and the others..."

Wen Yu didn't finish his sentence, and replaced the unfinished words with two chuckles of "hehe".

"That's why when Major General Jing came in, I saw him. This time I also looked carefully. The way that Major General Jing looks at you is not just serious." Wen Yu shook his head slightly, and snorted, "As the saying goes: Indecent Don't look at it, it's shameful that General Jing is doing this."

Xiao Jining: "..."

Why did he listen to Wen Yu's words, as if Wen Yu really knew that he had a "very close" relationship with Jing Yuan?

All the evidence has been presented, and it's meaningless to deny it, but Xiao Jining couldn't just say that he knew Jing Yuan very well, so he kept his voice hoarse for a long time, and could only choke out one sentence: "Mr. Don't let him hear it."

"Thank you, Mr. Qi, for reminding me that Wen would not say such things in front of Young General Jing." Wen Yu bowed to him when he heard the words, and then said, "I had a good conversation with Mr. Qi today, but there is no strong enemy here. It's better to read the book, Mr. Qi, I will take my leave first."

It turns out that Wen Yu came to Yipin Building today to see if there is any opponent in the palace examination in a few days?

But since he was going to leave, Xiao Ji Ning would not keep him. After all, he seemed to be the one who would be embarrassed to talk with him any longer.So Xiao Jining also nodded, and said: "Mr. Wen, go slowly."

After watching Wen Yu leave the first-class building, and because Wen Yu said that the students gathered in the lobby today did not have any amazing talents, Xiao Jining also stopped thinking about continuing to "search" for talents, and went directly to the second floor, toward Jingyuan. Walk in the direction of the private room where you are.

Xiao Jining was not polite to Jing Yuan, he didn't even knock on the door, Xi Shu pushed the door open for him, and Xiao Jining went straight in.

Jing Yuan half-bent his lips, seeing Xiao Jining entering the private room, he immediately put down his teacup and looked at him with a light smile: "Mr. Qi and Mr. Wen hit it off right away. Since we hit it off so well, Mr. Qi will stop chatting with Mr. Wen?" ?”

Xiao Jining was already used to Jing Yuan's sly words sometimes, so he sat down in the armchair beside him, took a sip of tea and said: "He wants to leave, I can't stop him."

"That's right." Jing Yuan raised his eyebrows, "After all, there will be more opportunities to chat in the future."

At this moment, although there was only a small plate of peach cakes on the Eight Immortals round table in the private room, Xiao Jining had already smelled the smell of acetic acid. In order to appease the powerful minister, Xiao Jining immediately pinched a piece of peach cakes and put them on the small plate in front of Jing Yuan. Concerned that there were still Xi Shu and a few attendants in the room, Xiao Jining said in a low voice: "I don't think he is destined, the only one who is destined is Brother Jingyuan."

Xiao Jining was so tired of himself when he said such small deceitful words, but he had heard so many idiots complaining about women in Yipinlou, it was not difficult to say a few words of deceitful love.

In the end, Xiao Jining didn't expect that Jingyuan's dialect book also listened to a lot, so he immediately exposed him: "If Mr. Qi's two words were not from "Peony Talk", Brother Jingyuan would be very moved." After finishing speaking, Jing Yuan also pushed the whole plate of peach cakes on the table in front of Xiao Jining, "Mr. Qi likes to eat sweet short cakes, and brother Jingyuan specially ordered this peach cake for you."

Xiao Jining lowered his head to eat peach cakes, not daring to speak up.

"That chair is hard. It's soft here, Mr. Qi, let's sit here." Xiao Jining didn't talk to Jing Yuan, so Jing Yuan told him.

Hearing this, Xiao Jining raised his eyes, and saw Jing Yuan patted his leg. This gesture was clearly asking him to sit on his leg.

Xi Shu, who was standing right behind Xiao Jining, also saw this scene, he immediately turned his head to look aside when he saw this, his movements were stiff for fear that others would not know that he had seen everything.

Xiao Jining had half a mouthful of peach cakes in his mouth, neither swallowed nor spoke.

In the end, it was Jing Yuan who "showed great mercy" and said with lowered eyes, "You all go down."

The people who were serving in the room, including Xi Shu, felt relieved after hearing this, bowed their heads respectfully, and then retreated to wait outside the private room one by one.

When only the two of them were left in the private room, Jing Yuan raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Jining again. Xiao Jining continued to eat peach cakes, but got up and walked in front of Jing Yuan, then sat down on his lap, and let Jing Yuan Yuan hugged him.

In order to conceal his embarrassment and pretend to be bold, Xiao Jining commented nonchalantly: "It is true that General Jingyuan's legs are comfortable to sit on."

Jing Yuan smiled and asked him again: "How comfortable is it?"

Listening to Jing Yuan's words, Xiao Jining suddenly remembered a sentence for some reason - don't ask if you are comfortable, if you are really comfortable, you will call yourself.Of course, he wasn't brave enough to say that in front of Jing Yuan.

After thinking carefully for a moment, Xiao Jining said: "The chair I usually sit on every day can be used by other people, but General Jing's legs are only for me to sit on, and I like to sit on this one the most."

The chair that Xiao Ji Ning sits on every day, what else can there be besides the dragon chair?Therefore, Jing Yuan is quite satisfied with this answer, and is willing to expose the matter: "Your Majesty came to Yipin Building today, did you enjoy yourself?"

As soon as Jing Yuan called him, Xiao Jining understood that Jing Yuan was in a good mood, so he said boldly, "I didn't play anything, I was busy chatting with Wen Yu. By the way, General Jing, do you know Wen Yu?"

Hearing this, Jing Yuan glanced at Xiao Jining, while the young man just lowered his head and continued to pick peach cakes from the food plate in front of him to eat. Seeing that he finally chose a piece that he was satisfied with, Jing Yuan remained silent, stretched out his finger and took it from Xiao Jining's hand. He snatched the peach cake from his mouth, put it in his mouth and bit it and said, "Xie Xiang's beloved disciple, I've heard of it."

Having been robbed of peach cakes, Xiao Jining neither dared to be angry nor spoke up, so he could only squeeze another small piece to eat: "Is he famous?"

Jing Yuan only gave a four-word evaluation: "The talent of the prime minister."

It is already a very high evaluation for a person to be rated as a prime minister by the world, let alone such words come from Jing Yuan's mouth.

"Really?" Xiao Jining leaned on Jing Yuan's shoulder, opened his eyes wide and said, "Then if I let him be the number one scholar, and later be promoted to be the prime minister, will you agree?"

"You are the emperor, you can decide what you want." Jing Yuan returned the peach cake he had bitten off to Xiao Jining, and fed it to his mouth, "He has the heart to protect the country, so he is very suitable as a prime minister."

Xiao Jining didn't mind that piece of peach cake being bitten by Jing Yuan, and then said while eating: "I see that he doesn't seem to like you very much, I'm afraid that if I reuse him, you will be wronged."

"...wronged?"

Jing Yuan was still stunned when he first heard these three words, Xiao Jining was not afraid that he would be sad, nor that he would be angry, but that he would be wronged.For a moment, Jing Yuan had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but he didn't know where to start, so he could only shake his head and sneer: "He doesn't have that ability yet."

"That's good." Xiao Jining was relieved when he heard the words, "I heard from Wen Yu that there are not many available talents who come to Yipin Building today, do you think there are?"

Jing Yuan said: "There is no one more brilliant than Wen Yu."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jining felt that it would be meaningless to stay here any longer: "In that case, let's go back to the palace."

Knowing that with someone as famous as Wen Yu, Xiao Jining felt that this trip to search for talents was quite rewarding. After returning to the palace, he also asked Xi Shu and Mu Kui to sort out the information of other students in the palace examination candidates for him.But the information is dead, Xiao Jining can't know the true temperament of these students one by one, and with Wen Yuzhuyu in front, looking at other people, Xiao Jining also feels that there is nothing special about them, but there are still a few days before the palace test Time, everything can only wait until the day of the palace examination to see the truth.

And autumn is often the season with frequent accidents.

If the harvest is good this season, the people will be happy; if the harvest is not good and there is a famine, the capital will have to send people to relieve the disaster;

Before Xiao Jining came to the throne, the forces in Beijing and China had changed several times, and the emperor had changed three rounds. All kinds of forces were ready to move. He thought that this year's agricultural harvest would not be too good, and the people would not pay too much tax, so he would have to be poor for a while. But I don't want this year's harvest...to be surprisingly good?

There was no famine or riots, especially in the several state capitals that the Seventh Prince and the Eighth Prince had inspected, the corrupt officials there had been dismissed and investigated, and the officials with higher moral values ​​specially selected by Xiao Jining took office later on. , There is no problem to pay the tax there.

After the Ministry of Household Affairs was liquidated, Xiao Jining found that his treasury was actually quite rich.

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