To The Land of Nevernight

"I haven't seen the scenery of the desert for many years, please tell me about the scenery."

Tang Shen respectfully told Zhao Fu about his trip to Youzhou and the magnificent scenery he saw along the way.

Zhao Fu listened with gusto, he turned to Ji Fu and said, "Have you seen it before?"

Ji Fu had a bitter face: "The slaves have entered the palace since they were young, and accompanied and served the officials. It has been more than 50 years, and they have never left Shengjing."

Zhao Fu showed a surprised expression: "You have never been out of Shengjing City?"

Ji Fu smiled and nodded obediently.

"Then next time I go to the palace to escape the summer heat, I will take you with me."

Ji Fu was so excited that he knelt down and said, "My servant thanked the officials for the reward."

Zhao Fu turned his head to look at Tang Shen again, and said, "Jing Ze is still used to eating the food in Youzhou?"

Tang Shen: "Although it is not as exquisite as Shengjing, it has a special flavor."

Zhao Fu smiled and said, "Have you ever tasted any ingenious delicacies?"

Tang Shen's heart moved, he thought for a while, and said: "There are indeed many delicacies that are hard to find in Shengjing. Many delicacies need to be adapted to the locality, such as courgettes that can only grow in the northwest, and Northwest specialties. Mutton. I was fortunate enough to see a large fat lamb with fresh and tender meat, and it was extremely delicious when it was roasted slowly on the fire."

Zhao Fu took a fixed look at Tang Shen, he laughed, and said to Ji Fu: "Look at our Master Tang, who would believe that he is an official, I'm afraid he is not a seasoned chef! Jing Ze is really young, you just won the crown , the trip to Youzhou is full of food, can the errands be handled properly?"

Tang Shen immediately bowed and saluted: "I dare not disappoint Your Majesty's expectations." Then he talked about the errands of Yin Yinsi that he supervised.

After finishing speaking, Zhao Fu said: "Jing Ze is indeed my servant."

These words were highly commendable, Tang Shen immediately put on a look of sincerity and joy, and said some scene words.Ji Fu also took a second look at Tang Shen.As a person close to Zhao Fu, he naturally guessed that Tang Shen's errand in Youzhou this time was not the supervision of Yin Yinsi.It's just that as an eunuch, he still can't figure out what to do.

In the past, when Zhao Fu favored Tang Shen, he regarded him more as a useful knife than as a confidant.If one compares Tang Jingze with Wang Zifeng, Su Feiran and others, it must be far behind.But in the future, it may not be necessary.

Ji Fu thought in his heart: In the future, we need to have a better relationship with Mr. Tang. They all work for the officials.Wang Zifeng is a wonderful person, and this Tang Jing is his younger brother. He is also very clever and will get along very well.

After Zhao Fu asked a few more words, he let Tang Shen go back to Qinzheng Hall.

After Tang Shen left, Zhao Fu suddenly said, "How old was he when I first saw him?"

Zhao Fu suddenly said this for no reason, there were only two young eunuchs on duty in the Chui Gong Palace, there was also a living man and a living roomer.These four people didn't know what Zhao Fu was talking about, only Ji Fu knew that if the emperor didn't specifically refer to someone when he spoke, he was often asked to respond.

Ji Fu bowed his waist and laughed softly: "It was five years ago, Mr. Tang seemed to be only 15 years old at that time."

Zhao Fu thought for a while: "Is it the time of the Imperial College?"

"It was that time when officials went to Piyonggong Palace to give lectures."

Zhao Fu: "Look at him, he seems to have changed a lot." Before Ji Fu could answer this time, Zhao Fu said to himself, "I've grown taller, and I'm not as sharp and tender anymore." Suddenly, Zhao Fu laughed out loud, making Ji Fu confused and afraid to answer.After laughing for a long time, Zhao Fu laughed until the corners of his eyes were full of wrinkles, he finally stopped smiling, and said to Ji Fu: "Look at him, he looks like that Wang Zifeng now!"

Ji Fu was taken aback for a moment, and thought: Where does it look like?

But he said again and again: "That's not true, the slaves only found out after the officials pointed it out, it looks very similar."

After Tang Shen returned to Qinzheng Palace, he first went to see Xu Wei.Xu Wu is his immediate boss, and Tang Shen must go to see him first when he comes back.When Xu Yan saw him, he immediately asked him to sit down and gave him a bowl of sour plum soup.

Xu Wu: "Shengjing is no better than Youzhou. In June, the sun is scorching like fire. Are you still used to it?"

Tang Shen replied cautiously: "The lower official has been back for a few days, and I'm used to it."

Xu Wu: "When you came back, did you meet Xianzhi, is he okay?"

Xianzhi is Yu Chaosheng's character.

Tang Shen: "Your Majesty met Master Yu once, and Master Yu is in good spirits, and he is used to the customs of Youzhou."

Xu Wu nodded, and when Tang Shen was about to leave, he said, "Master Tang, since you just came back from Youzhou, you should read more of the brochures from Youzhou, and it will be easier for you to read."

Tang Shen saluted respectfully: "Yes."

"I'm afraid there won't be so many excerpts to read in the future."

Tang Shen raised his head abruptly, only to see Xu Wei was holding a bowl of sour plum soup, looking at him gently.Tang Shen couldn't see the expression behind Xu Wu's back, his lips moved, so he could only say goodbye and leave.

As Xu Wei said, in mid-June, Tang Shen returned to Qinzheng Hall to do business.Within three days, the Chui Gong Palace issued a decree, appointing Tang Shen as the right deputy censor of Yin Yinsi, an admonishment doctor, with a rank of fourth rank.

When the edict came out, although everyone was surprised, they were all expected.

Tang Shen is only 20 years old this year. He was a high school student at the age of 16, and he was promoted to the third rank within four years, which is already very rare.During the reign of Emperor Kaiping, only Wang Zifeng was promoted faster than him. Even Su Wenyun was promoted to the fourth rank Dali Temple Shaoqing at the age of 20, and was promoted to the third rank right minister of the Ministry of Industry at the age of 24.

Tang Shen's errand in the Yinyin Division was very popular with Zhao Fu, so he got a job as the right deputy censor of the Yinyin Division.Admonishing doctor is a false civil title, but this false title means that Tang Shen is likely to be promoted again.

Tang Shen was too young, so Zhao Fu didn't give him a third-rank official position.But at the same time as this edict was issued, an edict traveled thousands of miles to Youzhou City, and Zhao Fu appointed Yu Chaosheng, the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, to concurrently serve as the left deputy censor of the Yinyin Division.

This is intriguing.

Both are deputy censors of Yinyin Division, Yu Chaosheng is a third-rank official, and Tang Shen is a fourth-rank official.

Zhao Fu's behavior implied that although Tang Shen was still a fourth-rank official, he was a highly-ranked official and was almost an invisible third-rank official.

Yu Chaosheng is the right servant of the official department and the left deputy censor of Yinyin Division.Tang Shen was different. Tang Shen was directly transferred to the right deputy censor of Yin Yinsi, an admonishment doctor.He is no longer a member of Zhongshushe, as Xu Wei said, in the future he will not read those books given to Zhao Fu.Tang Shen lost a table in the Hall of Qinzheng, but he really held the real power.

Whether to be promoted or demoted depends on Zhao Fu's will.

After Tang Shen received the imperial decree, he was also filled with emotion: Even if Zhao Fu suddenly showed signs of depression, he was still the Kaiping Emperor, the Great Song Emperor who ruled the government for 31 years!

Tang Shen, as the right deputy censor of the Yinyin Division, was supposed to go to Youzhou.But Zhao Fu gave him the false title of advising doctor, so he entered Yushitai soon, and worked with other Yushi Cheng and Yushi doctors.

The promotion of Tang Shen and Yu Chaosheng did not attract too many people's attention. In other words, many people noticed that Wang Qin's official power was divided by these two people!

In the court, the royal party is too popular, so there are naturally enemies.

Knowing this, someone clapped their hands behind his back, feeling very happy.Some people were very puzzled, and even wrote a letter home from thousands of miles back to Beijing, and asked someone to deliver the letter along with the letter to their teacher.

Xu Yan received Yu Chaosheng's letter and shook his head with a smile.He took the brush, replied with a sentence, and sent it back to Youzhou.

After Yu Chaosheng received the letter, he opened it and saw that there was a line written on the letter——

"Feng Zhi won the Sacred Heart deeply, and Xian Zhi's is several times better than it, but can't match it." 』

Yu Chaosheng suddenly understood as if he had cleared the clouds and mists.In the middle of the night, he read the letter, sat alone at the table and meditated for a long time, and finally burned the letter.Looking at the curled and blackened letter paper, Yu Chaosheng seemed to have seen 12 years ago, when he was only 25 years old and ranked second in high school.But that year, Wang Zifeng, who was seven years younger than him, stole all the attention. His second place in the list was not remembered by anyone compared to the previous Jinshi!

Yu Chaosheng didn't feel jealous or resentful, he had been observing all these years, why Wang Zifeng was so favored by Zhao Fu?

Now he seemed to finally have a glimpse of the truth.

The Langya Wang family and the Right Prime Minister Wang Quan, these are all external forces.Ordinary people have insight into the world, at most they only look at January and February, half a year or a year.But Wang Zifeng had buried Tang Jingze's pawn four years ago.

Yu Chaochang sighed: "It's a good move to retreat! Others only said that you were divided, but two years ago, Zhao Jing divided your rights, but in the end you ended up being demoted to Qinzhou, and your momentum is even stronger. Then Tang Jing is from the same school as your teacher, and the two of you have a deep brotherly relationship, so now you want to take the knife against me and your husband?"

Yu Chaosheng is far away in Youzhou, so he has no way of knowing what is going on in Shengjing, so he can only take a glimpse of it.

Wang Qin got an oriole recently, he likes it very much, put it outside the study, and teased it every day.When Tang Shen came to see him, Wang Qin was playing with the birds.Holding a handful of bird food in his palm, he gently fed the bird with his fingertips.Tang Shen looked at it for a while, and Wang Qin asked, "Do you want to try, too?"

Tang Shen: "Okay."

Wang Qin evened half of the bird food and poured it into Tang Shen's palm.

"Brother, why did you suddenly think of playing with birds?"

"The thing I really want to tease is always far away in the sky. I have to tease this bird. I can't wait for the plum to quench my thirst."

Tang Shen was taken aback: ...What are you talking about?

"Could it be me that brother said?"

Wang Qin was surprised: "Why do you say that?" He poured the remaining bird food into the trough, clapped his hands, and said sincerely, "How can I make my junior misunderstand?"

Looking at Wang Qin's sincere expression, Tang Shen felt suspicious, but he could only admit that he was thinking too much.

Originally, he is a big living person, this is an oriole bird, how can it be the same?Besides, Wang Zifeng can tease him if he wants to?I'm afraid he will be teased in turn!

Seeing Tang Shen's changing expression, Wang Qin smiled leisurely, and said with satisfaction, "Today made me feel very happy, very happy."

Tang Shen was stunned.

Wang Qin: "It just so happens that Jinling mansion sent a batch of high-quality whitebait in the morning, and asked the kitchen to make it. Today's table is my banquet for my junior brother. I thank my junior brother for his support."

Tang Shen asked in surprise, "Brother, what do you mean by supporting me?"

"Why are you here?"

Tang Shen was a little embarrassed: "I was promoted, but my brother's power was divided."

"Coincidentally, what I'm talking about is exactly the same. Last month, when I went to Xiantai, the Holy One said a few words, which solved some of my confusion over the years."

"What confusion?"

"Emperors in ancient and modern times have spent a lot of painstaking efforts to establish a crown prince. Our sage has never taken care of this matter."

Tang Shen was startled, he didn't expect that what Wang Qin was going to talk about was actually this matter.He thought for a moment, and said, "The Holy Majesty doesn't have many princes, only three. Brother, do you think that the Holy Majesty already has his own heart?"

Wang Qin touched his lips with his index finger, and smiled slightly: "Shhh, the heavenly secret must not be revealed."