Jia Cong, the God of Dancing Through the Red Mansion

No matter what the final ranking is, after the palace examination, nothing happened. Jia Cong, who thought he would not have to touch the Four Books and Five Classics for a short period of time, was shocked by the news that Tu Su brought to Lei.

Need to rewrite an article?Want to be mediocre?To hand in tomorrow morning?

A bunch of requests kept going back and forth in front of my eyes, but Wen Siquanyong's head seemed to have froze. He had been sitting in front of the desk for more than half an hour, but he couldn't write a single word...

Tu Su, who was by the side, was a little distressed when he saw his frowning face. It was getting late, and if he kept going, he would have dark circles tomorrow, so he simply grabbed the pen in his hand and put away the paper, "I can't write , don’t write it anymore, it’s not a big deal! The one in Mingming Palace Examination is very good, but brother Huang wants to be troublesome..."

Jia Cong glared at him. What he said was really against his will. He clearly knew that the emperor had such a request in the meaning of love, but he still said that, so he didn't know what was good or bad. Even if Tu Sui was his own younger brother, how many more times would he come? The second time will also make people feel cold!

How could Tu Su not understand this truth? It was just because he was his own brother and he was an omnipotent and indestructible existence in his heart, so he acted recklessly.

Seeing Brother Cong's eyes rounded in disapproval, "Hey~hey~" he laughed dryly and stopped talking.

When Tu Su woke up in the morning the next day, he habitually reached out and touched around, looking for the warmth that had been with him yesterday, but he couldn't find it for a long time. Could it be that he remembered wrongly, brother Cong didn't sleep here, no Maybe?

A Jiling woke up, stretched his upper body and lifted the bed curtain, and looked outside, but there was no one in the room, "Chonger, Chonger..." Called a few times but did not hear a response. Wanting to go out to find someone, he heard Fei's voice outside saying, "My lord, Mr. Cong is having breakfast outside!"

Tu Su said "Oh!", shook his head and shouted to the outside, "Come in and wait for Master to wash up."

Fei agreed and walked in quickly.

By the time Tu Su packed up and went outside, Jia Cong had already finished his breakfast, and took a piano score to read by the window.

"Chong'er, why is it so early today? You didn't answer when I called you just now!" Hearing someone's complaint, Jia Cong only gave the back of his head. This guy definitely did it on purpose, and he knew what "Chong'er" he disliked the most. Yes, but they yelled endlessly early in the morning.

Tu Fu finished his breakfast with a smile, and leaned over with a playful smile, "It's not yet dawn, why did you get up so early?"

Jia Cong raised his eyebrows, and nodded to Fei, Fei immediately took the article he wrote early in the morning with a wink, "I have something on my mind, I can't sleep well if I continue to lie down, so I just got up and read the article." It's done."

Tu Su carefully read the article in his hand, frowned and said, "I still think what you said in that article is the truth. Although this article is full of flowers and flowers, it is not so sharp after all." Speaking of this, he sighed again , "It really fits the rules of the emperor's brother!"

"Since the prince also thinks that this article is in line with His Majesty's intentions, then help me to submit it!

I didn't go back home after the palace exam yesterday, I didn't know what to worry about my father, so I went back first. "

Today is not the day of the Great Court Meeting, but Tu Su still wanted to go to the palace, and seeing that it was getting dark outside, he said, "I'll see you off on the way."

Jia Cong nodded.

When he returned to Jia's mansion, Jia Amnesty was already waiting there. Looking at the blue color in his eyes, he knew that he hadn't slept well all night. "My son is not filial, and my tired father is worried!"

Jia Amnesty waved his hand, "It's none of your business, after all the palace exams are over, it's okay to go out with someone to relax."

Although he said so, he still hesitated to speak, presumably because he was worried about his exam. After all, with the Huiyuan sign, it is human nature to think that his son can win another first place.

Although Jia Cong's EQ is not very high sometimes, but the emperor specially asked him to hand in another test paper, it can be seen that the emperor valued him to some extent, so he was very confident when he comforted his father, "Don't worry, father. , my son's ranking will definitely not be low!"

Hearing what he said, Jia She felt a little comforted in his heart, and suddenly thought of another thing, "Cong is Ruiyu, and Yan has the meaning of continuation, so my father wanted to give you the word Yanrui, but I didn't want to, but the sound was offended by His Majesty. , it is a bit disrespectful to read, so I can only discard it.

After thinking about it for a long time, it suddenly occurred to me that when you were born, when you went to criticize the horoscope, the old Taoist once said that in your horoscope, the five elements, water, wood, soil, gold, and fire are also mediocre, so you named it that day. For Cong, since ancient times, Huang Cong has honored the earth, and the earth is born with earth and gold, which is exactly compatible with you.

For my father, I thought it would be better to complete your fire line now. Chizhang is in the south, and the south belongs to fire. How about calling it Yanzhang? "

Jia Cong thought for a while, and he still had a good impression of the word "Yanzhang", which was much better than the word "Chong", and now that he had the word, that person would have no reason to mess around with "Chonger Chonger" After shouting, he nodded happily, "Thank you, my son, for the word!"

Mr. Jia managed to choose a word for his son, not only thought it had a good meaning, but also won his son's liking. He changed his cautious appearance just now and was afraid of being rejected, so he almost danced with his arms and legs.

"Although my son is young, he has also taken part in the palace examination and will be in the imperial court soon. Now that he has taken his character, Dad is thinking, when will he prepare a coronation ceremony for you."

Jia Cong just wanted to shake his head when he heard what his father said. This crowning is an ancient ritual of the Han people, but because the royal families of the Sui and Tang Dynasties all have Hu people's blood, and they have been suppressing those big clans during the ruling period, so this thing is like a woman and Ji ceremony. Similarly, it is no longer so popular. Only a few men and women who are particularly valued by the family, or for some special purposes, the elders will hold the crown ceremony and the ceremony for the younger generation, and that is still when the man is 20 years old and the woman is 15 years old.

Not to mention the elders of the Jia family, none of Jia Zhen, Jia Zhu, and Jia Lian among their peers had a coronation ceremony. Although Baoyu was considered extraordinary by the old lady and others, she had nothing to show for it, so she would never hold a coronation ceremony.

But a bastard like him wants to hold a crown ceremony?When he was still 13 years old, this was definitely causing hatred, so he quickly tried every means to persuade Jia Shen to give up this unreliable idea.

Jia Amnesty was not very happy at first, his son was already Huiyuan at a very young age, and the Jia family has not had this honor for eight generations, so why can't they perform the crowning ceremony once?

But thinking about Jia Cong's words of "a tree that is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it", I feel that there is some truth, although I am unwilling, but I will not mention this topic after all.

It was just that I felt that I had treated my youngest son badly, and before noon, I sent a large box of my beloved famous paintings and antiques to Jia Cong's house, two of which could even be considered priceless!

However, that's another story, now that Jia Cong wiped off the cold sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, he really felt that being too cared about by his father was a trouble.

……

Since there were only 290 five papers for the palace examination, they were easy to review. It only took two days for the ministers who were in charge of the examination to finish all of them.

Circle the top ten and let the emperor go down to determine their final ranking. This has long been a well-established convention.

However, usually the emperor would not be too arbitrary in this matter, and there is nothing wrong with listening to the opinions of his courtiers occasionally.

As we all know, the most attention-grabbing candidates in the imperial examination are the top three and the top two. Not everyone can be the No. [-] champion.

Among them, whether it is a teenager or a young man, the most important thing for Tanhua is to have a handsome appearance; Chuanlu must have a loud and clear voice; No requirement!

This year the courtiers presented the top ten. According to their intention, they wanted to arrange Jia Cong in the position of Tanhua. The number one scholar was about 35 or [-] years old, with a beautiful beard, and he was also a personable person. Relatively speaking The second place is much inferior. She is slightly fat and smiles when she sees everyone.

Chuanlu's position is a child of a noble family, and he is used to seeing big scenes, so he guarantees that he will not be stage fright during the roll call.

The list came to the emperor, but there was a little disagreement between the emperor and his ministers today. Tu Rui didn't take those invisible rules very seriously. It was an objective need for Chuanlu to choose someone with a loud voice and not stage fright, but Tanhua must be handsome and young?That's pure bullshit!

I read all the test papers of these ten people. Needless to say, Brother Cong’s article, even though it has been modified to be less sharp at my own request, is still not comparable to others, so I directly picked it up and placed it in the No.1 position. .

The original No. [-] Scholar's style of writing is relatively simple, and it can be seen that he is stable. It is also suitable to be the second place, um, in the second place.

Immediately afterwards, he picked up another article. This style of writing was also his favorite. The sentences were serious but sharp. Judging people from articles should be the type he likes, and he directly placed it in the No.3 position. The biography remains unchanged, Shen Feng is originally the talent he wants to cultivate, and he takes on the important task of starting the roll call.

The chief examiner of this subject looked at the wayward emperor in front of him, and really didn't know what to say, the others are fine, but Tanhua, the No. , He couldn't afford it, "Your Majesty, other ministers have no objection, but I don't know if your Majesty can reconsider the candidates?"

"Oh?" Tu Rui just raised his eyebrows, obviously not showing any dissatisfaction, but it still made people feel the pressure.

"Your Majesty, this Jiang Zhengqing has pockmarks on his face..." Under Tu Rui's half-smiling eyes, Han Zhiwen's voice became softer and weaker, and finally he couldn't speak a word anymore, and the cold sweat on his back even wet his clothes .

Tu Rui raised his head and glanced at the other people, "Aiqing, you think so too?"

How can the hard-working assistant examiners dare to say "yes"?Although the emperor is still alive, the new emperor is no longer the cold and silent emperor with no sense of presence because he has more and more power in his hands. On the contrary, his prestige is getting heavier and heavier. Sometimes, they can still allow their confidantes to be presumptuous.

But His Majesty's mood is not very good today, they can only pretend to be quail as subordinates now, although they don't want to go against their will, but they can still do it without saying a word.

Seeing these people resisting silently, Tu Rui felt even more irritable. He was already in a bad mood today because he heard the news that the emperor intended to release the fourth child, but now he was even more upset by the passive resistance of these courtiers. He said, "Remember, I am selecting talents for the imperial court. I look at talents and virtues, but I can't look at faces!"

Han Zhiwen couldn't help slandering in his heart, "Anyone can say it, I hope His Majesty will not regret it!"

Knowing that the emperor was probably provoked by something and was venting his anger, although he still disagreed, he didn't dare to refute it blatantly. On the contrary, he had to take the dragon fart of that person, "Your Majesty said yes, it's the minister. Wait until the cart is turned upside down."

Tu Rui actually wanted these people to fight with him, at least he could vent his anger by cursing a few words, and finally rearranged the rankings, and he could still gain a reputation for being good at accepting advice, but what is going on now? ?

These cowards!

Thinking of the young scholar who was not good looking during the palace examination, but looked at him with fanaticism, hehe, I'll give it to me, will I regret it because of such a trivial matter? ! !

Once the rankings of this year's palace examination were spread secretly, it can be said that it caused confusion among people who paid attention from all walks of life. People blindly criticize in public.

Of course, there were also those who were greatly moved by the emperor's actions. Such an emperor who valued talent but not appearance could be regarded as a wise king in the hearts of the people!

On March [-]th of the third year of Deyou, all the candidates who passed the imperial examination gathered outside the Jinluan Hall. Han Zhiwen, Minister of Rites, the current chief examiner, announced the name of the Erjia Chuanlu in this palace examination, and then Shen Feng, the new Jin Chuanlu, rolled their names to see them.

Among them, the most exciting and the most popular one is Xinke Tanhualang. Jiang Zhengqing never dreamed that he would be able to become a Tanhualang one day. To be honest, Xiao had thought about the position of champion, but this Tanhualang... …

Although the occasion was supposed to be very serious, although it was still so quiet, the atmosphere was inexplicably weird. Almost everyone couldn't help but secretly looked in Jiang Zhengqing's direction. After a while, his back almost burned out. hole!

On the contrary, classmate Lang Jia Cong, the youngest number one scholar since the founding of the People's Republic of China, was forgotten intentionally or unintentionally. Hey, he was born at an untimely time. It's fate that such a high-profile person can be robbed of his demeanor.

Standing on the first seat in the front row, Jia Cong's face was full of sorrow, but his heart was full of joy. Jiang Zhengqing is indeed his friend, and his ability to prevent disasters is really extraordinary!

Even when he was parading through the street afterwards, most of the exclamations and exclamations on both sides of the road were directed at Jiang Zhengqing. Not only did that face not let him get rid of the most attention-grabbing custom of previous Tanhua Langs, it was even worse than those of his predecessors. It's even better.

Jia Cong thought that he could keep a low profile like the second-best guy next to him, but he didn't expect that the emperor wanted to let him go, Qionglin Yan; Then he caught Jia Cong and asked, "I've heard that little Jia Aiqing intends to serve as the Heavenly Supervisor or the Ministry of Rites. I don't know why?"

Jia Cong's first reaction was: How did the emperor know?

With a thought, he suddenly remembered that Tu Su seemed to have told him about this matter, but why did the emperor ask here?

Thoughts were spinning thousands of times, but his face didn't move at all, he stood up and walked out of the seat, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, that's just to fulfill the ambition of the minister."

"Oh?" What he said not only caused the emperor to be puzzled, but also the Xinke Scholars and all the civil and military ministers below did not understand the meaning of this sentence.

As we all know, although this Qin Tianjian has been indispensable in all dynasties, it only has a special status and actually has no real power.

The same is true for the Ministry of Rites. It ranks first among the six ministries, and there is even an invisible rule that only those who have served as ministers of the Rites can enter the cabinet. But in terms of actual power, this department is the least of the six ministries. No hospital can compare!

Entering these two departments at a young age, or is it to realize one's own ambitions, this...?

Jia Cong looked around puzzledly, but without any timidity, Jia Cong clasped his fists and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, when I have nothing to do these years, I can also say the last sentence that I have read a lot. Among them are not only the classics of our dynasty or the previous dynasty, but also some books passed down from some small neighboring countries and even Western Persia and other places.

If you read a lot of books, you will always find some problems. In Chen's opinion, the biggest one is that the chronology used in these books is too confusing. Every time I want to confirm the correct year of an event, I have to After consulting a large amount of information, some of them are confirmed, and some of them are not clear even after searching through the books.

What's more, according to different data, several different conclusions can even be drawn. It is obviously the same thing, but the inferred time can be different by ten or even decades. "

"Master Jia is right. Not only those foreign countries, but also in the history of my Central Plains, there are many historical materials that clearly record a certain year, but when I look it up, there are always discrepancies in certain places, especially the wars like the Southern and Northern Dynasties. There are too many eras and titles, and they are very chaotic." These things are most deeply felt by the historians of the Imperial Academy, and Jia Cong seemed to feel the same way when he heard Jia Cong say this.

Jia Cong nodded to the speaker, then turned around and said, "It can be seen that the current dating method is not without flaws, so I want to redefine a new dating method." He raised his eyes and glanced in the direction of Tu Rui, and after confirming that this person was just contemplating and had no other emotions, he continued, "For example, if a certain year is determined to be the first year, and every year that passes thereafter, an additional year will be added. , that is... it is just superimposed year by year, rather than restarting the calendar."

Jia Cong paused for a while after the word "Yes", and didn't make it clear, but these people knew in their hearts that it should be "change of the throne" or "change of dynasty", but these are all taboo things, even if people Everyone knows that the emperor cannot live forever, and the imperial court cannot last forever, and no one will really announce it. It is suspected of being a curse!

The room suddenly became quiet. This matter can be said to be a major event. If it is done well, it can be passed down through the ages, but it is not an urgent matter. In addition to the age, there are other functions. Otherwise, every emperor would not pay so much attention to his own year name when he ascended the throne. Some emperors even changed it from time to time, just to find a year name they liked.

Tu Rui stared fixedly at the young man for a while, and saw his silly brother's anxious face out of the corner of his eyes, he couldn't help but smile, and waved to Jia Cong, "Jia Aiqing, go sit down first."

After Jia Cong thanked him, he turned and returned to his seat.

Those who were a little moved by Jia Cong's thoughts just now couldn't help but feel a little discouraged when they saw that the emperor hadn't made a statement. He didn't know whether the emperor agreed or disagreed?

They wanted to ask clearly like cats scratching in their hearts, but they didn't know that Tu Rui's heart was not at peace. The first thing he thought of was not those historical books, but the surrounding small countries that Jia Cong said.