Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Regardless of whether Lu Ci is willing or not, he can only honestly bring his painting tools when he is appointed by the official's royal mouth, and is ordered to survey and prepare for the administration of Cai in the gap between the end of the early dynasty and the lecture to the prince. Regarding matters related to the river water, while walking through the streets and alleys of Luocheng, I made up for the 54 squares that were left unpainted.

Considering the vastness of the project, Zhao Heng asked Lin Neichen to ask if Lu Ci needed the post of Quanzhi Hanlin Academy of Painting, so that he could call the forty Hanlin Academy of Painting waiters.

After Lu Ci heard about it, he was a little tempted at first, but after careful consideration, he politely declined.

For him to have such an extra job temporarily, he was already forced to offend the technical officers of the Hanlin Academy of Painting.

Now even if it is promised, the work provided to them is clearly centered on him, and the work is done for him. It may not be able to sell the other party's benefits, but it may cause more resentment and deliberate revenge.

If some narrow-minded people take this opportunity to secretly trip him up, then whether he uses it or not at that time, he will be a different person inside and out.

Without knowing anything about the character of the officials in the Academy of Painting, Lu Ci had to speculate about others from the worst angle.

Anyway, the officials are only on a whim, and they are more concerned about the progress of the drawing, so it should only be a recent matter.

In addition, there is no specific stipulation on the complete deadline for the painting, so he might as well follow his own pace and take his time, which is not bad.

After Lu Ci thought it over, he calmly accepted the new assignment.

Next, after finishing the scriptures to the prince, he used the allocated official money to purchase painting tools.

However, to Lu Ci's surprise, the little prince Zhao Zhen, who has always endured minor ailments and endured afflictions in terms of his attitude towards learning, has for the first time shut himself down on the grounds of 'being sick'. In the bedroom, I don't want to see anyone in the next few days.

Lu Ci: "..."

Although he could guess the main reason, but as an innocent person who was implicated, he didn't have the energy to promise the depressed little prince that he could draw an identical picture as soon as possible as compensation.

Simply avoid seeing him for the time being, and let the little prince heal the trauma of being robbed of the toy again.

After learning about Lu Ci's new assignment, Zhu said it was okay, because he knew the little secret that Lu Ci used to contribute to a bookstore under a pseudonym in Mizhou, so he just took it for granted.

Liu Qi was different, he was shocked when he heard it, and excitedly said: "When Yu Yu completes a painting, can you allow brother Yu to recommend himself and write an inscription on it?"

Liu Qi was full of curiosity about his good friend's outstanding painting skills that only occasionally showed and attracted the attention of the officials, and because he knew that Lu Ci had never liked writing poems and poems, he insisted on making this request regardless of presumptuousness. .

Besides, aside from the fact that they are painting for the palace, among literati, one person paints, one inscribes, and two names are left on one painting, which is a very common and elegant thing. It is the friendship between two people in the eyes of others. Bad symbol.

Even if Liu Qi is not his friend, but just a big boss in Chinese textbooks, now he is vying to solve his problems, Lu Ci has no reason to refuse.

He smiled, readily agreed, and joked: "I really want it. But you must not mention in your lyrics about where is the best place to have beautiful and gentle singing girls."

Zhu said that he was worried about this, he breathed a sigh of relief, nodded in agreement, and agreed: "Brother Lu's paintings must be stored in the Hanlin Academy of Painting at that time, brother Liu must not do anything ridiculous."

Liu Qi smiled expressionlessly.

Look at what these two people said, can he be such an unreliable and stupid person?

In any case, after receiving Lu Ci's answer without hesitation, Liu Qi was delighted, but his resentment against the little Taotie who tricked him into writing questions and trying to stay in Beijing subtly faded a lot.

After all, whether it is Lu Ci's poems or inscriptions on Lu Ci's paintings, these two honors are his only one.

Lu Ci naturally didn't know, because of this trivial matter in his opinion, Liu Qi, who had a unilateral cold war with him, decided to forgive him unilaterally.

Liu Qiyi's decision to "reconcile the old relationship" with Lu Ci was naturally not only expressed in his heart, but also manifested in his actions.

Since the result of the museum examination has not yet been released, after Lu Ci went out every day, although he lost his 'control', he also remembered that Chongniang Xu was still waiting for him in a certain Qin building, but miraculously restrained I just honestly stayed at Lu Ci's house with Zhu Di, lying on the rocking chair in the courtyard together in the warm winter sun, reading books, writing some poems and poems, all of which were all about Lu Ci's praises.

——It's a pity that in Lu Ci's opinion, no matter how beautiful and eloquent the words are, they are still rambling and exaggerated rainbow fart poems in essence, so they can only be collected by themselves first.

In the next few days when he didn't have to lecture the prince, besides painting, Lu Ci invited the old friends from the pavilion to his home as guests, so as to introduce them to Liu and Zhu and get acquainted with each other.

Because Zhu said that he was rigorous and introverted, good at reading, and Liu Qi was talented and good at composing lyrics, the two of them got the approval and acceptance of Lu Ci's former colleagues very smoothly. Forgot about it.

Lu Ci was so happy that he downplayed his sense of existence, and after sitting with him for a while, he went back to the study by himself, sorting out the letters that he hadn't had time to look at these days, and only his health servants put them on the desk for him.

Since he re-entered the capital, not only has his official rank increased, but he still holds a post that is difficult to get into the East Palace official, but the backyard is still empty. Naturally, some officials, big and small, who have never met before, can't stop calling him. The idea of ​​a rare talent as a son-in-law.

Because Lu's mother did not go to Beijing with her son, some powerful families who pay attention to etiquette and self-restraint chose to stand still for the time being.

Those who can't hold back are basically the elders in the family who have decent official positions, but due to their advanced age, it is difficult to make further progress, and the children, nephews and younger generations are all of mediocre qualifications, and it is difficult to maintain the family business. Officials and eunuchs value Lu Ci's future future, Only then do I want to act first, so as not to be unable to climb high in the future.

In addition to these, there are also noble civil servants who value Lu Ci's status as "three yuan and first" and want to compete with him, as well as those who were on the list at the same time as him, but because they fell into the fifth place, they are still waiting for vacancies in Beijing. In the same year as Quanqian, the treatment was very different.

After Lu Ci screened them one by one based on what he knew, soon there were only a few thin sheets left in the thick stack.

You can't go to the cheap father-in-law's house who wants to fool him into a blind date or sell his daughter; it's not suitable to go to the invitation of the fifth Jia who wants to ask him to intercede or send bribes to him in the same year; I want to invite him to appreciate it at home For friends of famous paintings, those that have too much to do with the work and are likely to be disgusting are eliminated, and then it depends on the situation.

After some harsh selection, there was only one letter from Wang Zeng left.

Lu Ci glanced at the date of the invitation, ten days later, it happened to catch up with him to take a rest.

He thought about keeping the appointment, so he pulled it out and put it aside alone.

Unexpectedly, last time because he was busy carving wooden turtles, he missed Yan Shu's recommendation, and because his friend came to Beijing, he was busy for a while, so he didn't find the right time to make friends with him, but now he can get his wish.

What came earlier than the date of meeting was the appointment of Liu and Zhu.

Both of them really passed the library examination, only slightly different in the position of specific debriefing.

Liu Qi was appointed as the collation of the secret pavilion, as a preface for the selection of candidates, without rank, and belonged to the secret pavilion.

Although it can't keep up with Zhaowen Museum and Jixian Academy, it is enough to make people admire, and he is even more satisfied.

The place of work that Zhu said is a bit subtle-Tianzhang Pavilion, while the official position is on a waiting basis.

Tianzhang Pavilion was built by the government during the Dazhong Xiangfu years when they were keen on praying to gods and worshiping Buddha. It was mainly used to store some insignificant private documents of the emperor.

In terms of development prospects, Tianzhang Pavilion is definitely at the bottom of the embarrassing end; in terms of leisure, it is probably a well-deserved number one.

And the so-called waiting system, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than the emperor's servant.

From Lu Ci's point of view, this is purely a leisurely job for a salted fish to go in for the elderly and rowing. Even if it falls on him, it is much more suitable than falling on Zhu Shuo.

But for Zhu Shuo, being able to stay was already the happiest thing. He couldn't help smiling on his usually steady and introverted face, and looked at Lu Ci expectantly.

Seeing him like this, Lu Ci was reluctant to speak out against him. After thinking about it, he only said in a positive way: "As far as I know, Tianzhang Pavilion is located on the west side of Huiqing Hall and north of Longtu Pavilion. Zhudi will not only You can see His Majesty every day, and if you have the right time, you can also speak to Your Majesty."

After all, Zhao Heng is not doing business properly, and is more interested in his private documents than handling government affairs—otherwise, it would be impossible to specially select a group of handsome men for the documents that were affected and burned in Tianzhang Pavilion, just to restore those documents up.

The importance of Tianzhang Pavilion, in a practical sense, is probably the lowest among the pavilions, but it may be the one that the emperor cares about most.

As Lu Ci heard from Yan Shu, the officials would go to the Tianzhang Pavilion under restoration every day. If Zhu said he could seize the opportunity, it meant that he didn't need to write memorials in advance, and he didn't have to go through The Zhongshu Ministry and other official departments reviewed many procedures, and finally decided whether to open it according to His Majesty's interest that day. Instead, he can directly speak to His Majesty and express his political opinions.

Zhu said hearing what Lu Ci said, his eyes lit up, and he immediately fell into deep thought.

Lu Ci's heart relaxed, he turned his head slightly, and was caught off guard by the envious look in Liu Qi's eyes.

Lu Ci: "..."

——This person's official position is obviously better, so why envy him?

In any case, the days passed by.

When the little prince finally got over his breath and went back to class lazily, Liu and Zhu also changed into new official uniforms in high spirits, and took office in a graceful manner.