Kaolin Flower Raiders Guide

The Ministry of Rites prepared the test questions in advance and sent them to Emperor Yunkang. Emperor Yunkang flipped through them casually. The way to stabilize the country and the whole army, how to be a righteous man, the gains and losses of education... are all the same, nothing new.

How the test questions were obtained, and returned to the examiners as they were.Emperor Yunkang left an oral order, and when it came time for the palace examination, he would personally preside over it and reveal the test questions for the tribute students this time.

The date was set in advance, and all the tribute students sat at a table under the verandah, bowing their heads and waiting for the examiners to distribute the palace examination papers stamped with the seal of the Ministry of Rites.There was only one test question, and after Gong Sheng finished answering it within an hour, he retreated outside the palace and waited.There is no need to transcribe, the examiner will read out the content, and if you are lucky enough to win the favor of the emperor, you can enter the hall to accept the question from the Holy Master.For the rest, the examiners will draw up the first grades, and Emperor Yunkang will decide the rankings.

Like everyone else, Lu Xiao didn't know the topic that Emperor Yunkang personally set until the day of the exam——

The way of the monarch and his ministers.

Since ancient times, the relationship between monarch and minister has always been a relationship that is difficult to balance.To sing praises is to flatter courtiers, but to dare to criticize the emperor is to always worry about the head of the king.For thousands of years, there has been no shortage of these two types of extreme courtiers, and their endings are mostly the same.The courtiers are spurned by thousands of people, and there is no place to die. A man of strong bones is not afraid of life and death, and his name will be left in history.

Therefore, most of the ministers are like Lu Xiao, who are clear in their hearts, but they don't have to fight to be the first in everything.

It is difficult to be a minister, and it is even more difficult to be a king.Today's rulers and lords are not enough for our counties and counties within the four seas.The emperor is rich all over the world, but he is still worried that someone will steal food from the tiger's mouth.Even if the ruler of a state is extremely busy, the ruler of the world shoulders the responsibilities that others cannot share.

Emperor Yunkang was not the late emperor's favorite successor at first, but when the late emperor passed away, only Emperor Yunkang was left by his side.Emperor Yunkang has been in power for more than [-] years. He knows people and makes good use of them.Although he was wrongly judged and killed, he was an emperor who kept the people safe and filled the treasury.

The way of the monarch and ministers is limited in the rules and regulations. Confucianism advocates the obedience of the monarch and the ministers. The superiority and inferiority are determined by nature.

Lu Xiao stayed by Emperor Yunkang's side for nearly a year, and faintly noticed that the fourth emperor of the Zhou Dynasty seemed a little...unconventional.

Not sticking to the books of sages and sages, unconventional, this is an embellished statement.

Lu Xiao read the Four Books and Five Classics at home, unlike other students who spend their days in the academy, who regard the scriptures as the righteousness of life and regard being an official as the only smooth path.Therefore, to press this kind of statement on his head is four bright characters, deviant.

Why did Emperor Yunkang ask such a question?This question is definitely not for the flattery of the students.If you do the opposite and overthrow the master-slave relationship, it will definitely cause a huge shock in the court, and even His Majesty himself may not believe it, but will breed anger.

Incense candles curled up, and an hour passed by in a hurry between talking and laughing. The supervisor rang the bell to collect the papers, and Gongsheng retreated in order.

Not long after, [-] scroll readers stood on both sides of the main hall.Lu Xiao listened with bated breath, raising her head to glance at it from time to time, during which there were many brilliant and beautiful writings.A hundred or so articles passed by my ears, all of which are full of Confucian style, from Mingjun to loyal ministers, from observance of propriety to benevolence and righteousness.

Emperor Yunkang raised his hand to press his temple, closed his eyes and concentrated, with a look of lack of interest.

Suddenly, one of the examiners paused, and the voices in the hall stopped abruptly.Emperor Yunkang opened his eagle eyes slightly, staring at the examiner, and slowly said: "Why did Yang Qing stop suddenly?"

The examiner surnamed Yang was still holding the palace examination paper in his hand, his knees bent uncontrollably, he knelt down on the ground, and shouted: "Report to Your Majesty, I dare not speak lies!"

Emperor Yunkang winked, and Xiao Huizi immediately stepped down the jade steps and took the tissue paper from Yang Zhao.Lu Xiao unconsciously twitched the corner of her mouth. The person that Emperor Yunkang was looking forward to meeting appeared around here.

When one person knelt down, the rest of the people in the hall took a step back as if telepathically.

The seal of the Ministry of Rituals is shining brightly on the top, and the ink-black handwriting is neat and impressive. At a glance, the wording of the article is strange and gorgeous.Emperor Yunkang held the corner of the white paper, but he didn't intend to read it intensively at all.

Only the first scroll made hideous blue veins appear on his forehead.

Emperor Yunkang suddenly picked up the animal-shaped paperweight on the desk and threw it at His Highness, and the gold-painted object rolled down to Yang Zhao's feet with a thud.

Everyone was startled and knelt down together, the sound of Emperor Yunkang's heavy breathing, the sound of everyone's terrified gasping, and chaos mixed together, and the hall returned to calm.

Emperor Yunkang twirled the light and insignificant inscription paper with his fingertips, his eyes reflected the clear handwriting, stared at the front of the scroll sullenly, and slowly read: "Su Wen, Zi Wangzhi, year 23, born on the tenth day of the fourth lunar month , Father Zhao originally passed through Luoxia Town, Yunzhou..."

Year 23, born on April [-].On the tenth day of April in the third year of Yunkang, all the courtiers firmly engraved this day in their hearts.Marquis Wen was executed, the queen hanged herself, and the rebellious party entered the palace. Duke Yi Yang came to escort him and beheaded [-] soldiers on the spot.The Hou's mansion was searched, and everyone from the seventy-year-old woman to the eight-year-old child died, and blood flowed like a river.

Su Wen, father Zhao.There is also a word Zhao in Wenhou's name taboo.

The courtiers were terrified, but Lu Xiao turned a deaf ear to it. Since Emperor Kang read this passage deeply, five words as light as fluttering catkins penetrated into his mind like thunder.

——Luoxia Town, Yunzhou.

Lu Xiao's expression remained unchanged, but her teeth were already biting her upper and lower lips secretly.As far back as he could remember, the first scene he saw when he opened his eyes was the clouds and mist in Fufeng Mountain, and Luoxia Town was the place where he stayed for three full years.But Luoxia Town is sparsely populated, and Lu Xiao has never heard of a household with the surname Su.

Emperor Yunkang actually laughed softly: "There are more than twenty examiners, but none of them found this person when they unpacked and sorted the papers? 400 people participated in the re-examination, and this person is still safe and sound?"

The examiners who knelt on the ground did not dare to raise their heads, and the chief examiner Cui Yu who stood on one side took a step forward: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there is indeed a student named Su Wen between the general examination and the re-examination period. Zipao guarantees that this person must have made up the content of his hometown at the time of the palace examination, if this was the case before, the Imperial Academy will never know and not report."

Emperor Yunkang's face was full of ruthlessness, he stood up suddenly, and said: "Bring people to me!"

A dozen or so people in official robes trembled and slowly got up, without exception, rushing to the place where the test answer sheets were stored.

Such an incident greatly delayed the time for Emperor Yunkang to take the decoction, and the decoction in hand was already cold.Xiao Huizi brought the freshly brewed soup, but Emperor Yunkang remained silent with his fingers on his forehead.Xiao Huizi silently winked at Lu Xiao, implying that he said something nice, but Lu Xiao had no choice but to speak.

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body, don't hurt yourself."

"Su Wen...Su Wen..."

Emperor Yunkang muttered in his mouth, repeating these two extremely inconspicuous words over and over again, as if trying to find out some secret from them.

More than 20 civil servants rummaged through the paper as thick as a hill. The funny thing is that the unlucky Yang Zhao can be said to have a beginning and an end, but he pulled out the answer sheet of "Su Wen" from a stack of papers.

After opening it, it turns out that this person is from Chang'an, and it is very easy to find by following his hometown.Yang Zhao's joy did not linger for a moment, the people he sent returned empty-handed, and the information they brought back made the situation even more rigid.

There was no one in "Su Wen"'s house. The neighbors testified that there was indeed a man named Su Wen in this family, but he died young more than ten years ago, and the old couple had died two or three years ago.

Emperor Yunkang was furious, and personally sent Chang'an to command the guards to search and arrest.Except for the people from Chang'an, six out of ten of the Gongsheng students came from all over the world and temporarily lived in large and small inns.Several groups of people scattered in the streets and alleys, broke into many inns with weapons in hand, and four hundred students were taken to Dali Temple and the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice for custody.

In the wide or narrow streets and alleys, people turn their backs on their backs, and soldiers with horses and swords can be seen everywhere.Those who raised their heads and shouted for injustice were beaten unconscious on the spot, tied up with hemp rope made of thorn rattan and thrown into the cage.What's more, he was punched and kicked by a burly soldier, bleeding from the corner of his mouth.Killing chickens to warn monkeys has always been useful. The blood made the students dare not speak out, and carload after carload of Gongsheng students were transported to prison.

Street shops on the roadside closed their doors one after another, the Tian family was angry, and the people suffered. It would be a sin to take a second look.

Lu Xiao was terrified when he looked out through the window pane. He deliberately avoided the main road, so he could only see such a scene in the alleys. The big inns on Chang'an Street were probably even more crying.He had just lowered the curtain on his side, but he didn't know that he was stopped the next moment as a truant.

Coincidentally, the one who left the mansion today was a small carriage, not the well-known one with the wooden plaque on it.

Before getting out of the carriage, Lu Xiao said from a distance of several feet, "Your Excellency has arrested the wrong person."

The leader, a man as strong as an iron tower, sneered and said, "I was ordered by His Majesty to arrest the thief. You weak scholar, you dare to hire a carriage to escape, because you are afraid that others will not notice it!"

The coachman said: "My lord, you have misunderstood. The younger one belongs to Lord Yushitaiqi's residence, and the one in the carriage is..."

A gust of fist wind whizzed past, the stout man couldn't help but punched the coachman, and said with a sneer: "Who do you think I am? You want to borrow Lord Qi's prestige, sir, I have met Lord Qi before. so!"

Lu Xiao jumped down immediately, hid the coachman behind him expressionlessly, looked up at the man, and said calmly: "My surname is Lu, Lu Xiao, and I have a relationship with Commander Ge for a few times, please excuse me. Commander Ge came out to have a look."

Commanding the guards stationed in the northern suburbs, Ge Zhongxi often enters the palace, and it is true that Lu Xiao met him.In recent years, the number of times these soldiers who rely on their fists to eat have entered the city can be counted on the fingers. Lu Xiao used to have a low official position, but later served more in the forbidden middle school.

It's a pity that Lu Xiao didn't know that Ge Zhongxi was sent by Emperor Yunkang to search for people, and he didn't know that Ge Zhongxi had fallen into the trap of a mermaid.

"How dare you take advantage of Mr. Ge's momentum? You, a scholar, know a lot. It's a pity, Mr. Ge doesn't have the time to listen to your nonsense!"

As the strong man said, he clasped Lu Xiao's shoulder blades with his rough hands, and pulled the hemp rope with his other hand, and tied them neatly around Lu Xiao's body.

Lu Xiao turned her wrist and slammed the big man's waist with her backhand. The big man was caught off guard and staggered back two steps.He didn't expect that a scholar who had no strength to restrain a chicken would have the power to fight back, so he called a few companions over with a stern face, with the violent intention of wanting Lu Xiao to look good on his brows.

He can barely beat one, but together there is no chance of winning.But Lu Xiao wasn't afraid at all. If these people hurt him regardless of right and wrong, no matter whether he was escorted to the Ministry of Punishment or Dali Temple, he would not be the one to suffer.

However, these people seem to have lost the chance to hurt him.

A yell came from a distance in the wind, it seemed that the superiors of these people came on horseback, and those sturdy soldiers stopped their movements immediately.

Lu Xiao couldn't see the figure on the horse clearly. As the people and horses got closer, the vague outline gradually solidified.

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