After a long night, the sun rose and the sky brightened.
The candles and lights in the tribute courtyard were extinguished, and the officials had different postures, and there were a lot of appearances.There are those who express their wonderful thoughts directly, those who scratch their temples and lift their beards to meditate, and those who snore like thunder and give up on themselves...
Yan Chongjin walked around the field and found that nine out of ten answers were the same. Apparently, many people disassembled the answers he threw.However, there were a few that were not even touched, and those paper bags were thrown on the ground intact.
With a correct mind, Fang is a pure minister.Those with a simple mind and a penchant for crooked ways will die early when they become officials.Yan Chongjin secretly wrote down the names of these candidates so that Liang Han could catch the fox in the palace exam.
Taking a small notebook to write down most of the time, he stopped walking when he passed a small room at the corner.
Sensing the person coming, Tantaiye flicked the tip of his pen, and quickly painted the face on the painting into ink bumps.
Yan Chongjin has never seen such a madman before. Defaced exam papers will be banned for life. How dare this guy draw beauties on the exam papers? !
Seeing that there were no invigilators around, he walked over and said in a low voice, "Mr. Tantai is quite courageous, he dared to scribble on the examination paper."
Tan Taiye raised his head and smiled so that his eyes turned into crescent moons: "My lord wrongly blamed the students, how dare I make mistakes on the examination papers? I don't know which grandson threw in a pack of toilet paper last night, and let me take half of it." Come to wipe your ass, and doodle with half of the sheet left."
Yan Chongjin coughed dryly and reminded: "Within the Dragon Gate, there is a moment of gold. You should answer the questions with peace of mind, don't think wildly. When you leave the examination room, what kind of beauty can't you ask for?"
But Tantaiye sighed quietly, and put on a sad appearance of a young man thinking about spring: "A daughter is easy to get, but a beautiful woman is hard to find..."
Yan Chongjin was too lazy to save this romantic young man.He even suspected that this guy had cheated in the exam.
Forget it, even if he passed the test, Liang Han would beat him to death in the palace test.
Anyway, it's death, brother, you should die early and be reborn early.
The day passed quickly, and before I knew it, it was time to hold the lamps.The invigilator blew the gong to collect the papers, and the students packed up their pens and ink one after another and left the examination room one by one.
The next step is sealing, transcribing, and marking.
In order to avoid collusion between examinees and curtain officials, the method of obfuscating names and changing books is always adopted.The official Mi Feng folded and covered the birthplace of the surname on the examination paper, pasted it with white paper and stamped it on the seam.Then the transcription hand transcribes the ink volume into a Zhu volume, and after proofreading by the readers, it enters the final review procedure.
The chief examiner this time is Emperor Yang Luqing.Mr. Yang was nearly eighty years old, trembling, with white beard and hair, and his eyes were so dim that he couldn't distinguish between people and dogs. He was basically the mascot Liang Hao used to suppress the examination room.Therefore, the important task of reviewing the examination papers still fell on the heads of four deputy examiners: An Daoru, a scholar of Wenxuan Pavilion and doctor of Guanglu, Zhang Yunhe, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, Qu Jian, Minister of Rites, and Pei Yong, Minister of Officials.
The four deputy examiners were all handpicked by Liang Han, the first two were for the Grand Scholars, and the last two were for the Ministers.
Qu Jian is a corrupt official and will not let go of the once-in-three-year opportunity to make money.If Liang Han wanted to purge the imperial examinations, he must find a powerful leader, so after the imperial examinations, the position of Minister of Rites would change hands sooner or later.
As for Pei Yong, it really has nothing to do with him, but the fact that the Pei family is too powerful in the court and has already produced three civil servants and one general.With the lessons learned from the Tantai family, Liang Han did not want any of the Pei family's disciples to enter the court.
However, this matter is not as easy to operate as grabbing a bag. It must moisten things silently and leave no traces.Otherwise, once it is discovered that the new king has the idea of suppressing the family, the other families will twist into one rope and attack him in groups.At that time, the dragon chair in Fengtian Temple will be like a red-hot iron, and whoever sits on it will know.
Yan Chongjin observed Pei Yong from behind the mask, and found that this senior official, who was nearly fifty years old, looked normal and did not feel anxious.Either he hasn't noticed that the emperor is sharpening a knife on his neck, or he is prepared.
If it is the latter, this game of chess will be difficult to play, and the chess players must be reminded to keep their back moves.
In the middle of the night, the clouds are soft and the wind is calm.
The silver-sand-like moonlight poured down, reflecting the majestic city as bright as day.The streets and lanes in the city are criss-crossed, and the houses and buildings are row upon row, surrounded by layers like coiled snakes, setting off the magnificent vermilion palace in the center of the imperial capital.
A figure came out from the shadow of the corner door, raised his breath, flew into the high palace wall, and landed lightly like a bird without making a sound.
He skillfully avoided the patrolling guards and guards in front of the palace, leaped over two ritual gates like a civet cat, and finally approached the heart of the palace.
Just as he was about to approach the palace in the night, he suddenly heard a low voice: "Who is it?!" A burst of cold air suddenly struck from behind, and the golden knife slashed down from the sky, almost shattering the moonlight.
Yan Chongjin quickly retreated half a step, sideways holding the opponent's weapon.
"Why are you?" Chu Qing asked in bewilderment.
Yan Chongjin let go of her knife and boasted, "That's right, the reaction is pretty quick."
Chu Qing snorted: "If you enter the palace late at night and don't leave the door, I'll take you as an assassin."
"If I'm really an assassin, it means that the defense of the imperial palace is useless, and it's too easy to sneak in." Yan Chongjin walked towards the Qiongchang Palace, "This year's guards are still not good, thinking about the group I trained back then... .” He suddenly got stuck at this point.
Chu Qing blinked suspiciously: "You were back then?"
"It's nothing." Yan Chongjin ordered without looking back, "The emperor's bedroom needs to be protected three times. Tell the guards and hidden guards at the gate that if I slip in so easily again, each of them will go and get thirty. Army stick."
"Thirty is too little, isn't it?"
Yan Chongjin: "..." I forgot.Chu Qing used to be in charge of military discipline and was a well-known female overlord in the Yan family's army. She was much darker than him in handling the top soldiers.
When Xia Rong, who was standing in front of the dormitory, saw the second ancestor's visit, the old heart immediately raised his eyebrows.
"My lord Yan, the emperor has approved the paper for half a night, and I just fell asleep right now." He persuaded in a low voice, "If there is nothing urgent, can we wait until Long Live Lord wakes up?"
The matter of the Pei family is indeed urgent, otherwise he would not have entered the palace late at night.But Liang Hao has always been a poor sleeper, and now he wakes people up, and he probably has no good fruit to eat.Yan Chongjin thought about it and said: "Eunuch, don't worry, I'll go in and have a look. If the emperor is asleep, I won't disturb him."
Only then did Xia Rong let him go, and at the end he worriedly reminded: "Master Yan, remember not to climb the dragon bed..."
"..."
It was very quiet in the warm pavilion.The bright moonlight came in through the window, illuminating the furnishings in the room very clearly.
Yan Chongjin walked around the obstacle silently and walked to the bed.Hearing the movement inside, he raised his hand and opened the gold curtain embroidered with dragon patterns.
Suddenly, a cold light flashed in the darkness.A dagger stabbed obliquely out of the bed like lightning, poking its head like a poisonous snake, and went straight to the door!
Yan Chongjin slid to avoid the sharp edge, raised his hand to catch the opponent's wrist with a small grab, and choked hard, the dagger fell to the ground with a clang.
"Let go!" Liang Han said in pain, "Why is it you again?"
Yan Chongjin let go of him, and snorted coldly: "Fortunately, it's a humble minister. If it were someone else, I'm afraid it would be a corpse by now." Go around in a circle.Once someone approaches and touches the silk thread, the person on the bed will wake up immediately.
Liang Han rubbed his wrists, and said angrily: "What kind of a good person can you be to sneak into my bedroom in the middle of the night? It's not bad to kill him."
Where does such a heavy hostility come from?Yan Chongjin picked up the dagger, glanced at it and threw it aside casually: "Your Majesty, it's better to use these weapons sparingly. There are ministers and guards in the palace, so there is no need to worry about safety."
Liang Han looked at him with raised eyebrows, but didn't speak.
Yan Chongjin coughed dryly: "This minister came tonight to report something important."
"Is something wrong with Pei Yong?"
"Your Majesty has already noticed?"
Liang Hao shook his head: "I'm not a god, how can I guess which move Pei's move? It's just about the examination room, what else can make you enter the palace late at night besides the Pei family?" This time, I'm afraid there will be no Pei family. In the first place.Pei Yong was indeed a cautious old tortoise, as soon as he saw that the limelight wasn't right, he immediately retracted into his shell, even if he asked him to cut it.
"Then how does His Majesty plan to respond?"
Liang Han wiped the cold sweat off his head and sighed.
How else to deal with it?There is no way to kill it, only checks and balances.The Pei family cannot dominate, so they must support new forces to fight against it, and the emperor's power will be stable only if the bottom is well controlled.
Who can support?
"Tantaiye." Yan Chongjin suggested, "Now only the Tantai family has the strength to contend with the Pei family. As long as His Majesty takes precautions and the two families keep an eye on each other, there will be no trouble."
When someone's name was mentioned, Liang Hao boiled like water in a boiling pot: "What good did that dirty talent do you? He actually spoke for the traitor over and over again!"
"Is it important to be rebellious or loyal? People's hearts will change." Yan Chongjin said, "The emperor doesn't need to cultivate loyal ministers, as long as they don't have the ability to rebel."
"They didn't... What about you?" The person on the dragon bed raised his eyes and looked over, his eyes under the moonlight were crystal clear, like a pair of broken pearls.
"Yan Chongjin, do you dare to say that you won't change your mind?"
The Yan family is also in serious trouble.He also felt the other party's killing intent more than once, and dreamed of being pierced by an arrow more than once.He is guarding against the civil and military affairs of the court and the whole world, so can he trust this person in front of him?
"I can't promise to be loyal to the emperor forever." Yan Chongjin admitted, "but I can promise that I won't be the one who broke the contract first." If you don't want to kill me, I will never betray you.This is the maximum promise he can make in this life.
Liang Han pursed his lips, and there was a suppressed suffocation in his voice: "But you have resigned from office before..."
This kid really holds a grudge.Yan Chongjin thought about it again, and he could somewhat understand it.
Liang Han's parents are dead, his brothers turned against each other, and he became a lonely family at the age of 16.Sitting in that high and unbearably cold position, intrigues and intrigues all day long, like walking on thin ice, no one can be convinced, no one can have a deep friendship.He even left once, and even secret passages appeared in the deep palace. How could he feel safe in such a living environment?
If this goes on like this, I'm afraid that Liang Hao will eventually follow in his footsteps and become that lonely and violent monarch.
"I will not resign in the future." Yan Chongjin untied the silk thread in his hand, and put down the bed curtain again, "Your Majesty, go to sleep, you don't need these things."
Across the tent, no one could be seen outside, but a voice of peace of mind was clearly conveyed.
"As long as I'm here, I can protect you."
The candles and lights in the tribute courtyard were extinguished, and the officials had different postures, and there were a lot of appearances.There are those who express their wonderful thoughts directly, those who scratch their temples and lift their beards to meditate, and those who snore like thunder and give up on themselves...
Yan Chongjin walked around the field and found that nine out of ten answers were the same. Apparently, many people disassembled the answers he threw.However, there were a few that were not even touched, and those paper bags were thrown on the ground intact.
With a correct mind, Fang is a pure minister.Those with a simple mind and a penchant for crooked ways will die early when they become officials.Yan Chongjin secretly wrote down the names of these candidates so that Liang Han could catch the fox in the palace exam.
Taking a small notebook to write down most of the time, he stopped walking when he passed a small room at the corner.
Sensing the person coming, Tantaiye flicked the tip of his pen, and quickly painted the face on the painting into ink bumps.
Yan Chongjin has never seen such a madman before. Defaced exam papers will be banned for life. How dare this guy draw beauties on the exam papers? !
Seeing that there were no invigilators around, he walked over and said in a low voice, "Mr. Tantai is quite courageous, he dared to scribble on the examination paper."
Tan Taiye raised his head and smiled so that his eyes turned into crescent moons: "My lord wrongly blamed the students, how dare I make mistakes on the examination papers? I don't know which grandson threw in a pack of toilet paper last night, and let me take half of it." Come to wipe your ass, and doodle with half of the sheet left."
Yan Chongjin coughed dryly and reminded: "Within the Dragon Gate, there is a moment of gold. You should answer the questions with peace of mind, don't think wildly. When you leave the examination room, what kind of beauty can't you ask for?"
But Tantaiye sighed quietly, and put on a sad appearance of a young man thinking about spring: "A daughter is easy to get, but a beautiful woman is hard to find..."
Yan Chongjin was too lazy to save this romantic young man.He even suspected that this guy had cheated in the exam.
Forget it, even if he passed the test, Liang Han would beat him to death in the palace test.
Anyway, it's death, brother, you should die early and be reborn early.
The day passed quickly, and before I knew it, it was time to hold the lamps.The invigilator blew the gong to collect the papers, and the students packed up their pens and ink one after another and left the examination room one by one.
The next step is sealing, transcribing, and marking.
In order to avoid collusion between examinees and curtain officials, the method of obfuscating names and changing books is always adopted.The official Mi Feng folded and covered the birthplace of the surname on the examination paper, pasted it with white paper and stamped it on the seam.Then the transcription hand transcribes the ink volume into a Zhu volume, and after proofreading by the readers, it enters the final review procedure.
The chief examiner this time is Emperor Yang Luqing.Mr. Yang was nearly eighty years old, trembling, with white beard and hair, and his eyes were so dim that he couldn't distinguish between people and dogs. He was basically the mascot Liang Hao used to suppress the examination room.Therefore, the important task of reviewing the examination papers still fell on the heads of four deputy examiners: An Daoru, a scholar of Wenxuan Pavilion and doctor of Guanglu, Zhang Yunhe, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, Qu Jian, Minister of Rites, and Pei Yong, Minister of Officials.
The four deputy examiners were all handpicked by Liang Han, the first two were for the Grand Scholars, and the last two were for the Ministers.
Qu Jian is a corrupt official and will not let go of the once-in-three-year opportunity to make money.If Liang Han wanted to purge the imperial examinations, he must find a powerful leader, so after the imperial examinations, the position of Minister of Rites would change hands sooner or later.
As for Pei Yong, it really has nothing to do with him, but the fact that the Pei family is too powerful in the court and has already produced three civil servants and one general.With the lessons learned from the Tantai family, Liang Han did not want any of the Pei family's disciples to enter the court.
However, this matter is not as easy to operate as grabbing a bag. It must moisten things silently and leave no traces.Otherwise, once it is discovered that the new king has the idea of suppressing the family, the other families will twist into one rope and attack him in groups.At that time, the dragon chair in Fengtian Temple will be like a red-hot iron, and whoever sits on it will know.
Yan Chongjin observed Pei Yong from behind the mask, and found that this senior official, who was nearly fifty years old, looked normal and did not feel anxious.Either he hasn't noticed that the emperor is sharpening a knife on his neck, or he is prepared.
If it is the latter, this game of chess will be difficult to play, and the chess players must be reminded to keep their back moves.
In the middle of the night, the clouds are soft and the wind is calm.
The silver-sand-like moonlight poured down, reflecting the majestic city as bright as day.The streets and lanes in the city are criss-crossed, and the houses and buildings are row upon row, surrounded by layers like coiled snakes, setting off the magnificent vermilion palace in the center of the imperial capital.
A figure came out from the shadow of the corner door, raised his breath, flew into the high palace wall, and landed lightly like a bird without making a sound.
He skillfully avoided the patrolling guards and guards in front of the palace, leaped over two ritual gates like a civet cat, and finally approached the heart of the palace.
Just as he was about to approach the palace in the night, he suddenly heard a low voice: "Who is it?!" A burst of cold air suddenly struck from behind, and the golden knife slashed down from the sky, almost shattering the moonlight.
Yan Chongjin quickly retreated half a step, sideways holding the opponent's weapon.
"Why are you?" Chu Qing asked in bewilderment.
Yan Chongjin let go of her knife and boasted, "That's right, the reaction is pretty quick."
Chu Qing snorted: "If you enter the palace late at night and don't leave the door, I'll take you as an assassin."
"If I'm really an assassin, it means that the defense of the imperial palace is useless, and it's too easy to sneak in." Yan Chongjin walked towards the Qiongchang Palace, "This year's guards are still not good, thinking about the group I trained back then... .” He suddenly got stuck at this point.
Chu Qing blinked suspiciously: "You were back then?"
"It's nothing." Yan Chongjin ordered without looking back, "The emperor's bedroom needs to be protected three times. Tell the guards and hidden guards at the gate that if I slip in so easily again, each of them will go and get thirty. Army stick."
"Thirty is too little, isn't it?"
Yan Chongjin: "..." I forgot.Chu Qing used to be in charge of military discipline and was a well-known female overlord in the Yan family's army. She was much darker than him in handling the top soldiers.
When Xia Rong, who was standing in front of the dormitory, saw the second ancestor's visit, the old heart immediately raised his eyebrows.
"My lord Yan, the emperor has approved the paper for half a night, and I just fell asleep right now." He persuaded in a low voice, "If there is nothing urgent, can we wait until Long Live Lord wakes up?"
The matter of the Pei family is indeed urgent, otherwise he would not have entered the palace late at night.But Liang Hao has always been a poor sleeper, and now he wakes people up, and he probably has no good fruit to eat.Yan Chongjin thought about it and said: "Eunuch, don't worry, I'll go in and have a look. If the emperor is asleep, I won't disturb him."
Only then did Xia Rong let him go, and at the end he worriedly reminded: "Master Yan, remember not to climb the dragon bed..."
"..."
It was very quiet in the warm pavilion.The bright moonlight came in through the window, illuminating the furnishings in the room very clearly.
Yan Chongjin walked around the obstacle silently and walked to the bed.Hearing the movement inside, he raised his hand and opened the gold curtain embroidered with dragon patterns.
Suddenly, a cold light flashed in the darkness.A dagger stabbed obliquely out of the bed like lightning, poking its head like a poisonous snake, and went straight to the door!
Yan Chongjin slid to avoid the sharp edge, raised his hand to catch the opponent's wrist with a small grab, and choked hard, the dagger fell to the ground with a clang.
"Let go!" Liang Han said in pain, "Why is it you again?"
Yan Chongjin let go of him, and snorted coldly: "Fortunately, it's a humble minister. If it were someone else, I'm afraid it would be a corpse by now." Go around in a circle.Once someone approaches and touches the silk thread, the person on the bed will wake up immediately.
Liang Han rubbed his wrists, and said angrily: "What kind of a good person can you be to sneak into my bedroom in the middle of the night? It's not bad to kill him."
Where does such a heavy hostility come from?Yan Chongjin picked up the dagger, glanced at it and threw it aside casually: "Your Majesty, it's better to use these weapons sparingly. There are ministers and guards in the palace, so there is no need to worry about safety."
Liang Han looked at him with raised eyebrows, but didn't speak.
Yan Chongjin coughed dryly: "This minister came tonight to report something important."
"Is something wrong with Pei Yong?"
"Your Majesty has already noticed?"
Liang Hao shook his head: "I'm not a god, how can I guess which move Pei's move? It's just about the examination room, what else can make you enter the palace late at night besides the Pei family?" This time, I'm afraid there will be no Pei family. In the first place.Pei Yong was indeed a cautious old tortoise, as soon as he saw that the limelight wasn't right, he immediately retracted into his shell, even if he asked him to cut it.
"Then how does His Majesty plan to respond?"
Liang Han wiped the cold sweat off his head and sighed.
How else to deal with it?There is no way to kill it, only checks and balances.The Pei family cannot dominate, so they must support new forces to fight against it, and the emperor's power will be stable only if the bottom is well controlled.
Who can support?
"Tantaiye." Yan Chongjin suggested, "Now only the Tantai family has the strength to contend with the Pei family. As long as His Majesty takes precautions and the two families keep an eye on each other, there will be no trouble."
When someone's name was mentioned, Liang Hao boiled like water in a boiling pot: "What good did that dirty talent do you? He actually spoke for the traitor over and over again!"
"Is it important to be rebellious or loyal? People's hearts will change." Yan Chongjin said, "The emperor doesn't need to cultivate loyal ministers, as long as they don't have the ability to rebel."
"They didn't... What about you?" The person on the dragon bed raised his eyes and looked over, his eyes under the moonlight were crystal clear, like a pair of broken pearls.
"Yan Chongjin, do you dare to say that you won't change your mind?"
The Yan family is also in serious trouble.He also felt the other party's killing intent more than once, and dreamed of being pierced by an arrow more than once.He is guarding against the civil and military affairs of the court and the whole world, so can he trust this person in front of him?
"I can't promise to be loyal to the emperor forever." Yan Chongjin admitted, "but I can promise that I won't be the one who broke the contract first." If you don't want to kill me, I will never betray you.This is the maximum promise he can make in this life.
Liang Han pursed his lips, and there was a suppressed suffocation in his voice: "But you have resigned from office before..."
This kid really holds a grudge.Yan Chongjin thought about it again, and he could somewhat understand it.
Liang Han's parents are dead, his brothers turned against each other, and he became a lonely family at the age of 16.Sitting in that high and unbearably cold position, intrigues and intrigues all day long, like walking on thin ice, no one can be convinced, no one can have a deep friendship.He even left once, and even secret passages appeared in the deep palace. How could he feel safe in such a living environment?
If this goes on like this, I'm afraid that Liang Hao will eventually follow in his footsteps and become that lonely and violent monarch.
"I will not resign in the future." Yan Chongjin untied the silk thread in his hand, and put down the bed curtain again, "Your Majesty, go to sleep, you don't need these things."
Across the tent, no one could be seen outside, but a voice of peace of mind was clearly conveyed.
"As long as I'm here, I can protect you."
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