Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo congratulated Gu Yonglin together. Both of them spoke sincerely and smiled brightly. Anyone who saw it knew that they were really happy for each other from the bottom of their hearts.The other people who heard the rumors nodded in their hearts immediately, regardless of what was going on, Gu Cijiu took the initiative to congratulate him calmly, which is considered a generous and open-minded person.

But what about Gu Yonglin, he turned around to accept the gift, but his face was still gloomy, he didn't even return the gift, just like Shangguan, he nodded calmly and turned around? !

Now the rest of the scholars gave him a cross in their hearts, Gu Yonglin is too small.

Gu Cijiu [Look, have you gained fame? 】

Duan Shaobo [Senior brother hit the stick! (*^▽^*)】

system:………………

After meeting Taizong, all the new scholars beat horses and paraded through the streets.

This is the most prominent and glorious moment in the lives of most scholars. From then on, it is very difficult for the people of Qiyang to come and watch with joy and joy.Even if it is an extremely powerful minister in the future, it is almost impossible for him to be appointed as a marquis and worship the prime minister, unless he wants to usurp the throne, or make great contributions that will last forever.

It stands to reason that although this parade is a parade for all Jinshi, the folks directly call it the No. [-] Scholar Parade, and the No. [-] Scholar is also riding a horse at the forefront. At first Gu Yonglin was also excited and proud, but it didn't take long for his complexion to get worse and worse— — No one is looking at him!

At first, it was just a feeling, because the people on both sides were looking in the same direction, but seeing him approaching, the people turned their necks and looked behind him.And the shouts on their mouths are "No. [-] is so elegant!" "Tanhualang is so handsome!"

What's even more embarrassing is that when passing by restaurants and teahouses, the windows on the second floor were opened, and a group of girls in bright clothes were lying on the windows, most of the courageous ones leaned out.When the Jinshi passed by, flowers, sachets, nettles, handkerchiefs and other small objects fell like rain, and they all perfectly avoided Gu Yonglin...

If it is simply because Gu Yonglin is old, but there are also Jinshi who are about the same age as him later, and they have received many gifts like him.

It's not that someone deliberately messed with Gu Yonglin. After all, even if it was the emperor's order, the common people might not be so uniform, let alone Taizong didn't have such leisure.

It can only be said that Gu Yonglin is unlucky. Duan Shaobo and Gu Cijiu behind him are too eye-catching. Although Duan Shaobo still has an ordinary appearance, his temperament is too outstanding. It was brewed out of his life, and when others see him, they think that this is what a scholar should look like.

Tanhualang Gu Cijiu is the only one with real flowers on his hairpins according to the rules of the Great Wei Dynasty—golden flowers are stuck on the hats of Zhuangyuan Lang—most men in ancient times had the habit of hairpins, especially literati, peonies, chrysanthemums Begonias, peonies, and begonias, big and big flowers, no matter young or old, ugly and handsome, put hairpins on their heads. Naturally, some people can hold them down, and some people can't.Gu Cijiu belongs to the kind that can be suppressed, and the flowers reflect people and complement each other.

Gu Cijiu is too conspicuous!Because he has been with Duan Shaobo for a long time, the temperaments of the two are compatible. If he notices Gu Cijiu, he will not ignore Duan Shaobo.The people behind them can still make the common people return to the country and pay attention again, but the champion Lang Gu Yonglin who is walking in the front...isn't it just ignored?

Gu Yonglin couldn't help but clamp the horse's belly with his legs. They were parading through the streets, just in case, the horses were led by sergeants.Naturally, the sergeant couldn't let the horse go too fast, and the horse stamped its hooves and shook its neck in discomfort.Gu Yonglin simply bent over and snatched the reins!Let the horse trot away by yourself.

When he left, everyone else was stunned.

"Are you following?" Someone asked in a low voice.But seeing that Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo were still waving on the left and clasping their hands on the right, the others felt relieved.

This is their moment of glory, why make your own glory incomplete because of what others have done?

But after all, it was a bit of a shock, someone muttered in a low voice: "Then what is Gu Yonglin? Do you really treat the Yongzhou Gu family as a thing?"

Seventeen of these Jinshi are from aristocratic families—there are more poor families than expected—compared with the families of some of them, the Gu family in Yongzhou is really nothing.

An old man shook his head solemnly, and persuaded: "Then Gu Yonglin is probably stupid in his studies, and he became a little hysterical after winning the number one prize. After all, everyone is from the same department, please be considerate."

After discussing for a short while, everyone re-entered into this happy event of their own.

When they returned to the gate of the palace, Gu Yonglin had already been waiting there, and his eyes, no matter who he was looking at, were all gloomy.

"I owe you money?" Someone muttered in a low voice.

Not to mention the children of aristocratic families, but relatively speaking, the children of poor families who acted more prudently, they were not happy at this time, and some people even touched their waists subconsciously.

The scholars of Great Wei are not cowards when they go to battle to kill the enemy. Many of them have a bloody and violent temper. If they need to change places, they will even have to draw knives to kill people!

But it doesn't matter if they don't have a knife, they have fists, and some people have already started to roll up their sleeves.

Fortunately, a eunuch came out and brought them into the palace, it was time for a Qionglin banquet.The sleeves rolled up were shaken again, even if they were released, they were not released so quickly. If you want to beat Gu Yonglin, you don't need to rush for a while, and it will be more enjoyable to cover him with a sack in a few days!

At last nothing major happened at the Qionglin Banquet, no matter how confused Gu Yonglin was, he finally knew not to shake face in front of Taizong.

The Xinke Jinshi's unrestrained appearance today can be tolerated to the maximum extent. Even if they are drunk and crazy, the emperor and old ministers will only touch their beards and laugh.Therefore, when the Qionglin banquet was over, most of the people were drunk, and the eunuchs drove them out in twos and threes.

Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo were not drunk and could walk by themselves, but there were also eunuchs to guide them.But as they were walking, the two of them stopped. Gu Cijiu pointed to the direction they came in, and asked, "My father-in-law, is our direction wrong?"

The eunuch bowed his hands and didn't let it go: "That is indeed the place to leave the palace, but Your Majesty wants to see two new Jinshi."

"Your Majesty?" The two looked at each other, thinking it was the prince, but they didn't expect it to be Taizong, "I'm sorry to trouble you, Eunuch."

"Working for His Majesty, it should be."

The three of them didn't say anything anymore, knowing that the eunuch took the two of them to a small side hall, and indeed Taizong was waiting there.When the two met, Taizong bestowed a seat, and asked them directly in the first sentence: "Is there any place you two want to go?"

Duan Shaobo was stunned [This is... I know we have a good relationship with the prince, so I take care of him? 】

Gu Cijiu was stunned [Probably...? 】

"You two don't need to think too much. Although the imperial court decides where to let you go, we still have to ask."

Gu Cijiu & Duan Shaobo: "..." Really?So I called people out in the middle of the night to ask?This explanation is simply unbelievable.

Gu Cijiu replied: "Your Majesty, if you have to say where the two of us want to go, it is the two counties that we want to go to next to each other."

"Next to it?"

The two said together: "Next to each other."

Taizong thought about the recent rumors, and thought that it was not groundless, but true. He asked again: "Is this the only requirement?"

The two became more and more confused, Duan Shaobo said: "Those who can make meritorious deeds."

Taizong was stunned, and then laughed: "This idea is interesting. Who doesn't want to make meritorious service? After all, if you make meritorious service, you will be promoted. But... you two should know that there is merit to be made. There are difficulties or risks in every place. Otherwise, the credit would have been left to others, so how could it be your turn?"

"The minister will know."

Seeing that the two of them were not flustered by his laughter, but were extremely calm, Taizong nodded: "Okay, I understand, you two go back and rest."

They came and left in a daze, but they didn't know that Taizong did all this to make up for the two of them.

It turned out that when the ministers of the palace examination brought the top three papers for Taizong to have a look at, Gu Cijiu should have been the first champion.However, seeing Gu Cijiu's name, knowing that the crown prince knew him, and that the two had a good relationship, Taizong's envy, jealousy, and hatred as a father suddenly came out-why my son is blind and now the crown prince who is good Can't do it anymore, but this kid is going to reach the pinnacle of life? !

However, Taizong was still sensible, and he knew that Gu Cijiu was really talented, and he didn't want to ruin this talented person, so he just played a prank very restrainedly, and changed Gu Cijiu's paper from No. [-] Scholar to Tanhua.

Today, Taizong finally accepted the fact that the prince is blind, and even felt a little guilty towards Gu Cijiu, and the Wei family, who had a close relationship with them, also had a close relationship with the prince. If these two children can still be with the prince in the future Good friends are also the help of the prince in court.

Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo didn't know what the emperor was thinking, so they went back to the inn inexplicably, and within a few days, the official positions of the new scholars came down.

Both of them are county magistrates, and they are in the same prefecture, Hu prefecture.

Gu Cijiu is the county magistrate of Liangshan County, and Duan Shaobo is in Ningshui County, and the two places are next to each other.

The two got the appointment, and they still have a month's vacation to return home, so they will be able to take office within four months.However, the two of them hurriedly packed their luggage and prepared to set off, because if they really missed the time to reach Huzhou, it would be winter and it would be difficult to get on the road.

Just two days after the things were packed, someone suddenly came to invite me, saying that it was "an appointment with old friends".

These days there is an endless stream of people coming to invite people of all kinds, but this is the first one who calls himself an "old friend".Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo secretly said that they were coming, and got into the carriage of the visitor.The carriage didn't go far, and it took them to a courtyard in the south of Qiyang, and brought them to the flower hall.

The system breathed a sigh of relief when it saw the person waiting there—the prince.

The crown prince turned his head when he heard the voice: "There is something at home, and I can only come to congratulate the two virtuous younger brothers until today. Please don't blame the two virtuous brothers."

He behaves naturally, although his eyes are somewhat dull, but if you don't look closely, you can't see anything wrong at all.

It has been more than a month since the last farewell, which is not a long time at all.The prince has been blind for almost such a long time, but he has adapted and adjusted to this point, which is really not easy.

Duan Shaobo said: "Brother Zhao's matter, we both already know. Seeing Brother Zhao now, I just feel admiration and joy, why is it strange?"

"?!" The crown prince was puzzled at first, wondering whether the two of them had confused himself with others, and then thought of what Liu Xueniang had told him back then, that the two of them probably already knew his identity, and suddenly felt a little nervous. Feeling, and a little embarrassed, sitting there, I don't know what to do.

"Brother Zhao's prepared wine and dishes are really rich, and since that's the case, we're not going to be polite." Gu Cijiu grabbed the chopsticks and had already put them down.

The food and wine are rich, and they are all little soup and piecemeal. Each dish is either a small piece or a relatively large piece, the kind that is easy to hold, obviously taking care of the prince.

The three of them exchanged cups, chatted and laughed, but it was no different from usual. The prince even wondered again whether the two really knew his identity, or did they recognize the wrong person?

When the two sides were almost finished, Gu Cijiu suddenly said, "Have you ever thought about changing your name, Your Highness?"

"Ah?" At this time, the prince suddenly synchronized with the system at a certain time - this topic jumped too fast, right?etc!What did he call me just now?So, as expected, you already know my identity... Knowing it, you still eat and drink with me so frankly?I'm happy but still a little bit angry.The prince's mind was in a mess for a while, and he subconsciously asked, "Rename?"

"Yes, because of His Majesty's imperial decree, the matter of His Highness's eye disease has become known to the whole world. The rumors about His Highness outside... are quite unpleasant."

Gu Cijiu's words made the prince's eyeballs pop out, he couldn't see it, it was a subconscious reaction under excitement.What Gu Cijiu said is the truth, but this kind of words... change to someone with a bad temper. Although he can't pull you down and kill you immediately, he will walk away with a wave of his sleeves. From then on, you will form a deadly enmity with the prince ah!

Fortunately, Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo still knew how to give people a little time to think. They didn't continue to talk, but still ate the food in small bites.

The prince sat there for a while, and finally understood a problem. The two of them said these words because they knew the unfavorable situation outside and wanted to give him advice.

The prince also knew about the rumors outside. Although the princess couldn't bear it, neither Taizong nor the queen concealed him.Because this is the way of education of the supreme couple since childhood, the prince knows that he can't ignore some words just because they don't sound good, otherwise when something happens, it must be a big deal.

Like now, even though Taizong's imperial decree allowed him to stabilize the crown prince, after everyone was shocked, many people were talking about it, saying that it was he and the queen who talked about it. Taizong and the queen are very affectionate and love the prince , I couldn't bear to issue such an unprecedented imperial decree.

——He resigned from the position of prince because he was afraid of such a thing. As a result, now his mother was also brought in.However, the prince can no longer resign, because from the imperial decree, the prince has seen his father's expectation and love for him, just like his father made him the prince when he was still a child, now his father In this way, he continues to support him who is already blind.

Everyone in the world said that the royal family has no family affection, and there are many incidents of fratricide in history books, so he has to do everything possible to repay his father.

Last time, I called Father Father Huang just out of solemnity. It seems that Father has been suffering these days?

The crown prince blamed himself for being a little distracted, but when the two of them saw that the table was almost out of food, Gu Cijiu immediately coughed: "Ahem!"

The prince came back to his senses, and then remembered the business: "This... I still don't know, what is the relationship between the current situation and the name change of this palace?"

Gu Cijiu replied: "The two things are not related, but the name change has always been to express one's ambition."

"Ambition?" The prince pondered, and then suddenly realized, "It should be so! Thank you two virtuous brothers!"

The main problem of those rumors outside is that the father will leave too early, and the grandson will be too young by then, so he will use this as a reason to take over himself!And as a blind man, he will become a puppet for others not long after he ascends to the throne. This puppet points directly at the Sun family who was born as a queen and the Zhao family who is the princess's mother's family.

Although, even if he becomes the Supreme Emperor and the grandson of the emperor succeeds to the throne, he still has the right to participate in the government affairs, but after all, there is a layer of separation...

"This is also a method I came up with after a while. I don't know if it will work." Gu Cijiu said.

The prince laughed, more or less it can be of some use, it is better than nothing.

The prince got excited and ordered a few more dishes. The prince was very restrained before and didn't drink a few glasses of wine, but this time he drank to his heart's content.Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo didn't realize that he was drunk, but the two over there lowered their heads to take a bite of the food, and when they looked up again, he lay still on the table...

The host is like this, so the guests can only say goodbye.

A few days after Gu Cijiu and Duan Shaobo returned home, someone gave a great gift, and the name card handed over turned out to be from the prince himself—in fact, the name card is the most important gift, a serious princeling Not necessarily a baby.

After packing up their things for another two days, the two set off for Huzhou. On the way, the smiling Uncle Liu followed the people from the double-yellow carriage. This team was going to set up a branch in Huzhou.

According to the rules of the Great Wei Dynasty, the county magistrate who is going to take office should first go to the state capital to meet with the prefect and register, and then he can go to his own county.However, the prefect of Huzhou, Ning Bin, is a sturdy literati who leads his troops to fight with the Yanrong people outside all the year round, and leaves "household" affairs to the governor Fan Zuohui.So Huzhou is full of civil and military upside-downs. When they arrived, Ning Taishou went out to kill people again, and only the governor saw them.

Fan Dudu has a rigid face with Chinese characters, which is tall enough, with his hands stretched out, a thick layer of hard calluses on his tiger's mouth, but his skin is much whiter than ordinary generals, and there are obvious dark circles under his eyes .Just looking at the piles of official documents on his desk, you can see what's going on. It would be strange if he handles official business indoors all year round.

Fan Dudu's meeting with them was very short, there was no official talk, and he didn't stay for a meal, and he didn't even call for a cup of tea.I just checked their official documents, handed them two stacks of official documents, and let them go...

"By the way, before you came here, you should have known how the previous magistrates of Liangshan County and Ningshui County died, right?"

"Yes." Gu Cijiu said, "The magistrate of Liangshan County was killed by wolves, and the magistrate of Ningshui County was starved to death."

"Oh? I even let you find out the real cause of death. Not bad, not bad." Fan Dudu laughed, because Huzhou reported that both of them died at the hands of Yan Rong people, but the real situation was also reported. Yes, the higher-ups know it, and understand that this is to make the death of these two people look better to the outside world. Obviously, the higher-ups also agree, "If this is the case, then work hard, but don't repeat the same mistakes."

"Yes, my lord."

In other words, how did the former county magistrates of Liangshan and Ningshui die?

First of all, let’s talk about the overall situation in Huzhou. It has been almost 60 years since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, especially in the last 20 years. The population of most areas has increased, but the population of Huzhou has been increasing every year. However, the area of ​​Dendrobium ranks firmly in the top three among the many states in the Great Wei Dynasty.

As a result, in most areas of Huzhou, there are more wolves than people, and tigers and leopards also have businessmen every year, and there are more wild animals like bears and wild boars that like to run down the mountain.

In recent years, even more people have been injured by wild beasts than Yanrong people.

As a parent of a county, when encountering such a beast, I naturally roll up my sleeves!As a result, the former county magistrate of Liangshan encountered a group of wolves. Although he succeeded in killing the wolves and returned, he died of wound infection in the end.

As for the cause of death of Ningshui county magistrate, it was another problem that plagued Huzhou—the poor harvest of the land.

The winter in Huzhou is relatively long, and the time for farming is shorter than other places.Also, Yanrong people often came to plunder. When they came, the common people could not farm safely, so the harvest was less.The harvest is small, the tax is low, the people can't eat enough, and they will have no energy to cultivate the land in the coming year. This is a vicious circle.

The former magistrate of Ningshui County was good at farming. He felt that rice was a crop in the south, and wheat and sorghum were in the north. They should have a crop suitable for them in the northerly place.I just want to find a crop that adapts to the land here and can produce more food.

He became a Shennong who tasted all kinds of herbs. As a result, he didn't know what kind of poisonous weed he ate, his whole face and throat were swollen, he couldn't eat anything, and he starved to death.

These two people are worthy of admiration.

Leaving Jinge, the state capital of Huzhou, the two went to the place where they were appointed. They happened to arrive at Ningshui first. The county magistrate thought that one day, crops suitable for the local area would be planted in their place.

The two went to pay homage together. If this old man were in the modern world, he might be another Druid who has been blessed by the common people.

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