Dressed as Tang Bohu

Time passed bit by bit, and by the time of application, Tang Ziwei had already copied the exam papers, and sat in front of the case for a long time.

"Have you finished the paper?"

Tang Ziwei followed the sound and glanced up, and the person who asked the question was Yang Yuanjian who had been patrolling here.

"The answer is over." Tang Ziwei replied.

Yang Yuanjian lowered his head and stretched out his hand to press on the paper, only to see that the ink was completely dry, obviously it had been finished for a while.He picked up the answer sheet, shook it in the air, adjusted it and spread it on the table, and it looked like that.

Tang Ziwei raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing?"

Yang Yuanjian didn't answer him right away, his eyes moved slowly from the left side of the scroll to the right side of the scroll, until he finished the last column of words, he paused for a moment, then looked at Tang Ziwei, and said: "I am the examiner handpicked by His Majesty today, this scroll is pressed Your Majesty means, I want to present it to His Majesty for review..."

"Then you can just submit it like this." Tang Ziwei smiled, turning a deaf ear to his obviously implicated words.

He knew what he wrote, if there was no impact, how could he test the emperor's attitude?

Although Zhu Youtang dealt with Yang Renzhen as he wanted, but he let Yang Yuanjian appear in front of him on the day of the palace examination.Tang Ziwei couldn't guess which side Zhu Youtang was leaning on, so he had to try him.Regardless of success or failure, at least one can clearly see the thoughts in the heart of this man who has been praised by history as a wise king.

Yang Yuanjian took a deep look at him, picked up the examination paper, turned around and walked to the front of the hall to present it to the emperor.

One after another, other tributes also stopped writing.Zhu Youtang, who was sitting high on the dragon chair, also ordered the test papers of several other people, and after being read by the examiner, he handed them over to him for reading.

Among them, in addition to the top three in the spring, the examination papers of Xu Jing, who experienced the fraud case with Tang Ziwei, are also impressively listed.

Zhu Youtang flipped through the examination papers one by one, and finally stopped on Tang Ziwei's paper, frowning slightly.Seeing him ordering Tang Ziwei's test paper, Zhu Houzhao leaned over to look at it.At first glance, a thoughtful expression appeared on the playful face at first.

The few cabinet ministers in the hall didn't know why the emperor suddenly proposed to review the papers, and they all looked dazed.Only Li Dongyang looked at the emperor, and at Tang Ziwei, who was watched by the emperor, with a thoughtful expression.

Maybe Tang Ziwei didn't realize it, but in fact, he did have an aura that was out of tune with this era.

Anyone in this Fengtian Temple, including his old opponent Yang Yuanjian, has monarchs and ministers, family and country in their hearts.So even if Yang Renzhen was dismissed from office due to Zhu Youtang's suspicion, and the status he had gained through decades of hard work was instantly taken back, as long as Zhu Youtang gave an order, his son would have to come back with a grateful attitude to wait for orders.

But Tang Ziwei has nothing in his heart. If he really wants to say anything, there is only the unified China more than 500 years later.

He has no loyalty at all to the current dynasty and the monarch of this dynasty.

And this is also the source of the sense of instability that Zhu Youtang felt from him from the beginning.

At the end of the Shen Dynasty, all the tributes in the hall stopped writing.

After the examiner asked the emperor for instructions, someone put away the examination papers placed on the case one by one, and the desk case was removed.

All the tributes greeted the emperor, and the palace people led them outside the hall.

I didn't feel it inside, but when I came out, I found that the sun that was originally high in the sky had already slanted westward, and the red clouds were layered and gorgeous on the horizon, dyeing the light into a warm color.

Tang Ziwei stopped and looked at it for a moment, then sighed, lifted the hem of his clothes and was about to go out, but was suddenly grabbed by the elbow by Yang Yuanjian, who followed behind at some point.

Tang Ziwei tilted his head, looked back and asked, "What's the matter?"

Yang Yuanjian's expression at this time was different from that in the palace. He was originally a restrained person, but now he seemed to have remembered something that was really irritating, and said in a deep voice: "Tang Yin, I hope that the grievances between us will not involve innocent people. s life."

"What did I do?" Tang Ziwei blinked blankly, but really didn't know what he was referring to.

"It was a coincidence that I got a young crow and called it Li'er. It has been more than four years. The prince asked me for Li'er a few days ago, but he kept saying that he listened to what you said." Yang Yuan said angrily.

"Oh, this one. Isn't it fine?" Tang Ziwei smiled slightly and looked up into the sky.

A black shadow was swooping down, its short gray beak piercing the air, and it spread its wings more than half a meter away from them less than three feet away!The body of the crow called Li'er drew an incredible arc, and landed firmly on Yang Yuanjian's shoulder.A pair of energetic round eyes turned twice, looking straight at Tang Ziwei.

Yang Yuanjian raised his hand to stroke Li'er's shiny black feathers, and said to Tang Zi in awe: "I hope you can make the prince stop thinking about taking Li'er away."

"This little guy has done a lot for you, right? He and Du Mu exchanged information and framed me together."

Tang Ziwei stretched out his hand to pinch the crow's short beak, but the crow moved its neck and pecked at it fiercely!Tang Ziwei quickly withdrew his hand, looked at Yang Yuan with bent eyes, and said, "From our standpoint, why do you think I can help you?"

"Today, I am not in my capacity as Yang's eldest son, but in my own name, Yang Yuanjian, please do me this favor. I owe you this favor." Yang Yuanjian said.

He really has nothing to do with the prince. After all, the Yang family is a courtier, and it is impossible to refuse the prince's order, but it is not an easy thing for Yang Yuan to deliver Li'er to that little devil Zhu Houzhao. .

He originally intended to release Li'er back to the forest, but the crow is the most psychic type of bird, and after four years of raising it, how could he leave without saying anything.He had no choice but to come to Tang Ziwei, the chief culprit who instigated the crown prince, for help.

Yang Yuan talked about Chen Ken, but Tang Ziwei didn't take it to heart. Instead, looking at the getting darker sky, he remembered the appointment with Fu Xin.

"I'm afraid it's time for you now, Yang Yuanjian, do you know the wine shop outside Chongwen Gate?" Tang Ziwei asked.

"Winehouse?" Yang Yuanjian was taken aback, "It's a little remote outside Chongwen Gate, there may be two or three wineries for postmen to rest. What do you ask?"

Seeing his reaction, Tang Ziwei assumed that he didn't know about Fu Xin's meeting with him, so he quietly planned to expose the topic.

Before he could open his mouth, he saw Zhu Houzhao coming out of Fengtian Hall at some point, walking behind Yang Yuanjian on tiptoe, and grabbed the crow by the ankle!

"Haha, I caught this thing!" Zhu Houzhao shouted excitedly.

Yang Yuanjian was taken aback by him, he didn't know whether he should kneel down and worship the prince first, or rescue Li'er first.

In Zhu Houzhao's hand, the crow flapped its wings even more vigorously, and its slightly tough feathers fluttered down on Zhu Houzhao's face.

Tang Zi was afraid of his eyes and hands, so he reached out with two fingers before Yang Yuanjian and pinched the crow's short beak, no matter how hard it struggled, he would not let go.The other hand went around its head and pinned down the wings from the neck down.Tang Ziwei's movements were extremely fast, and he freed Zhu Houzhao from the attack of feathers before the guards rushed over.

Zhu Houzhao shook his head and poohed twice, but instead of being annoyed, he was in high spirits.

Tang Ziwei curled his lips and said, "His Royal Highness, you should be careful. This crow has a short beak and sharp claws. A crow that no one raises in the wild can eat flesh and blood raw. It is really a bird of prey. The one raised by Brother Yuan Jian is a bird of prey. It's even more powerful, as far as I know, you can still track people down, very clever."

"So powerful? Who can it track, and can it bring it back?" Zhu Houzhao heard the word raptor, not only not afraid, but eager to try.

"The prince can make a copper ring to fasten the crow's paw, and then connect it with a rope strong enough to lead him to look for it. As for who to catch..." Tang Ziwei paused, and said, "Can the prince help me?" , Bring back Du Mu who fabricated criminal evidence and intentionally framed me in prison? For some reason, this pet of brother Yuan Jian seems to be very familiar with Du Mu."

"You!" Yang Yuanjian pursed his lips tightly after saying one word, and stared at Tang Ziwei with heavy eyes, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Tang Ziwei pretended not to see, and looked at Zhu Houzhao with a smile.

The latter looked at the two of them left and right, and said with a smile: "Brother Yang, I can borrow your crow for a while, and catch Nadumu first, it's not worth it. If I have a better one in the future, I will use it again." Back to you."

"Yes." Yang Yuanjian looked at Zhu Houzhao, feeling helpless.He gave a salute and said, "Please His Highness the Crown Prince, please take care of her, Xiaomin is very grateful."

Zhu Houzhao nodded casually, Tang Ziwei saw it, his face remained unchanged, but he felt a little pity in his heart.

Tang Ziwei deliberately mentioned that Du Mu and the Yang family might be related to the fraud case, in order to see how the prince would deal with it, and it would be great if he could deal with it by the way.

But although Zhu Houzhao is only a teenager, he is very transparent and will not be provoked by him at all, let alone be used as a spear by Tang Ziwei.Fortunately, he didn't care about the entanglement between the two, as long as he played freshly, it went smoothly for Tang Ziwei.

On the other side, in the Fengtian Palace, the industrious Emperor Hongzhi and a group of ministers have not left work yet.

Zhu Youtang was supported by the eunuch beside him and stood in front of the hall, while the cabinet ministers stood beside the table, and what was spread out on the table was Tang Ziwei's examination paper on the system of ritual and music.

Zhu Youtang glanced over everyone's faces one by one, coughed twice, and said, "You don't have to be scruples about what you think, just speak up."

Before his words fell to the ground, Liu Jian, one of the chief ministers of the cabinet, said loudly: "This son is arrogant! The system of rites and music of the sage Confucius is a gift from our ancestors. It has been passed down for thousands of years. It is still beneficial to our court. From his mouth How did he become a tool like a ruler? No matter how deceptive his words are, in my opinion, they are nothing but crazy words!"

Liu Ge's old words were so loud that they immediately aroused a lot of support.

Today, Confucianism is on its way, and the words of Confucius are naturally highly respected and even deified.Even Zhu Youtang himself was a supporter of the system of ritual and music, deeply influenced by Confucianism.

But among this group of people, there were three people who did not agree, and two of them even frowned, showing a thoughtful look.

These three are the chief assistants of the cabinet Xie Qian and Li Dongyang, and Yang Tinghe, a cabinet scholar.

Of course, on such an occasion, Master Yang didn't have much chance to appear on the stage. The first thing Zhu Youtang noticed were the two old elders who didn't say anything.

Xie Qian and other people's voices gradually faded, and they stroked their beards and said, "Your Majesty, I have a different opinion. From this volume, Tang Yin's handwriting is clear and meaningful, and his writing is calm and powerful, so it must be a speech from the heart. , clarifying that the system of rites and music began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was formed by the Duke of Zhou in order to build the community and regulate the people. The words of the sages are certainly respectable, but they can be interpreted from the perspective of regulating the people. I think there is nothing wrong with it.”

After hearing this, Zhu Youtang nodded without commenting.Looking around, there seemed to be no one talking, so he turned to Li Dongyang and asked, "What's Li Aiqing's opinion?"

Li Dongyang's expression was indifferent. Hearing his question, he unhurriedly stretched out his hand from his rolled-up sleeves, pressed it on the test paper, and said, "I believe that the person who made this paper deserves the title of number one scholar!"

The person who seems to care the least about this matter speaks the most loudly!Even Xie Qian and Yang Tinghe, who approved the test paper, were taken aback by his words.

A hint of interest appeared in Zhu Youtang's eyes, and he asked, "Why did Li Aiqing say that?"

"Your Majesty may forgive me for answering this question." Li Dongyang paused and said, "Compared to the Son of Heaven, which one is higher or lower? The system of rites and music compared to the law of the Ming Dynasty, which one comes first? When your majesty asks about the system of propagating ritual and music, the answer must be based on the premise of the emperor's use. Your majesty governs the world with ritual and music, so isn't ritual and music a tool for your majesty?"

"If Your Majesty wants a virtuous minister with both ability and virtue, one in a hundred can be found; if a capable minister can rule the world, one in a thousand will be found. Tang Yin's vision is beyond the standard, even if there are millions of people, it is hard to find. Yea!"

After Li Dongyang finished speaking, the people around him also thought about it.

Zhu Youtang nodded, shook his head again, and said: "Of course what you said is true, but Tang Yin's temperament is good, and his behavior style is not without criticism. The crown prince is just at the age that loves to play, and he also knew him. If this person Recruited into the palace, if the prince is influenced by him..."

When Zhu Houzhao was mentioned, all the cabinet ministers shut up.

Yang Tinghe looked around, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I think this is not a bad thing. Now that the crown prince is young, it's normal not to like those rigid old men."

(Liu Jian, Xie Qian and other rigid old men glared.)

"Tang Yin has always been famous for his talent, and he also got along well with the prince. As long as His Majesty urges him, it would be better if the prince communicates more with such people, so that he can become an independent person in the future."

Yang Tinghe's words reached Zhu Youtang's heart, he nodded, with a decision in his heart.

……

At the time of You, compared with the bright lights in the palace, the night on the street has gradually spread from every corner.

At this time, it was more than half an hour later than the time agreed with Fu Xin. After Tang Ziwei met Heisha who was waiting outside the palace to pick him up as instructed, he was in no hurry and walked leisurely to the place where the carriage was parked.

Zhang Chengcheng was in the carriage, wearing the same frost-white Confucian shirt as Tang Ziwei's. Hei Sha tied his hands and locked him in the carriage, not daring to move.

Tang Ziwei bought two steamed buns on the side of the street, and the lady kept staring at him while paying.Tang Ziwei smiled at her, turned around and left.

Heisha cheerfully followed behind him, and the two of them walked all the way to the edge of an unremarkable alley. Tang Ziwei suddenly raised his arms to wrap Heisha around him, leaned over and whispered in his ear:

"Someone is following!"