It's several, not one! So, if only one hits the water, is that their good luck?

Zou Ming, the three young men who were able to test for the title of the laurel list in their early twenties, were the best among all the scholars in the province, even if they didn't listen to the things outside the window and only read the sages and sages, it was not difficult to discern at least this meaning. As for the other people in the second hall, there is not a single stupid person, and they can't help but change color at this time.

Even Zhu Ying, who has always been respectful of creatures like Juzi, couldn't help but scold angrily: "How can this be reasonable! Which of the lifters is not a fame that has been obtained after decades of hard study, and which one is a fluke, he is angry with others because of jealousy, and he should be cut with a thousand knives! Can you get into the celebrant with a knife in the head? He thinks of the celebrant as a pickling place! ”

Zou Ming and the three of them were all in a passionate mood when they heard the words of the previous one, secretly thinking that Miss Zhu, who was known for her domineering in the capital, turned out to be quite knowledgeable. But when they heard the second half of the words, their faces instantly froze, and they couldn't help but clamp their legs.

The description of being stabbed in the head is really terrible for a man! Except for Zhu Ying, which daughter can say such explicit words unscrupulously?

And Shen County's order, who was afraid that he would not be able to ask for a confession and make a cold case just now, didn't care about the dignity of a man at this time, anyway, he didn't say it. Since Ah Liu asked for a confession, he only felt surprised and happy, and hurriedly glanced at Zhang Zhutou.

Seeing that the people immediately dragged Lin Laohu out very knowingly, and after a while, he invited Ah Liu in, and he said to Zhang Shou with a smile: "There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and Dr. Zhang's command is really full of talents." ”

"First of all, the generals of Zhao Guogong's mansion heroically saved people, and then it was Dr. Zhang's capable people who asked for confessions, today's case may have shocked the capital, but now it was solved in one fell swoop, and no one was injured, all thanks to Dr. Zhang and the eldest lady! I heard that the two of you are going to tie the knot next month, and I must disturb a glass of wedding wine at that time! ”

Zhu Ying likes others to say how she and Zhang Shou are, and when she saw Shen Xianling say this, she naturally smiled. But before she could speak, Zhang Shou slowly rushed in front: "Ah Liu, after you just asked for a confession, can you have someone draw a detainment, but there are other witnesses present?" ”

"Of course there is!" Ah Liu's eyes didn't blink, and he said indifferently, "The confession is in the hands of the witness." ”

Zhang Shou glanced at Zhang Zhutou and Lin Laohu, who were a little at a loss, and had already guessed in his heart who the so-called human witness was. And unlike him, who knew what he knew, Shen County's order, who didn't count in his heart, immediately asked: "Dare to ask the little brother, the outsider's certificate is ......"

"The Four Princes." When Ah Liu said these four words, he seemed to be talking about an ordinary child next door, until he saw Shen Xianling stunned for a moment, and then choked and coughed so much that he almost lost his breath, so he said lightly, "I took the four princes out of the Jiangdu Palace, and I heard someone talking about the young master and the eldest lady saving people, so I looked for them all the way." ”

When they learned that the two of them had just gone to find Ah Liu, the child who thought it was insignificant and left behind turned out to be the fourth prince, Zhang Zhutou and Lin Laohu were going crazy! Zhang Zhutou really hasn't seen the Four Princes, but Lin Laohu has seen it!

When Lin Laohu first saw Ah Liu talking to the fourth prince, he didn't treat people as nobles in the palace at all, coupled with the four princes' clothes that didn't show much luxury—the emperor often taught the brothers to be simple, so the third prince was really simple—so he didn't care at all.

But who would have thought that the child who was squatting next to the half-dead strong man wrapped in a quilt and wrapped in zongzi was the fourth prince?

Shen Xianling, who was easy to adjust his breathing, saw Zhang Shou and immediately stood up, called Ah Liu over, and hurriedly got up and walked out, and he also hurriedly left his seat to follow. As for Zhu Ying...... When he saw Zhu Ying beckoning Zou Ming and the three of them to go out with her to meet the fourth prince, he felt that the eldest lady was not as pampered and willful as rumored. People at least put the four princes in their eyes!

Although the court officials in order to flaunt their integrity and demeanor, even if they really met the four princes in the past, at most they would only salute respectfully on their faces, and they would not take people too seriously, let alone say a word. But even if the four princes are different from the three princes who are about to be crowned princes, they are definitely not what they used to be. At least, who would dare to ignore him?

When Shen County ordered Zhang Shou to hurry outside, he saw a scene that made him jaw-dropping, and he saw a boy with a general horn not far away who was sitting boredly on the back of a big man on the ground, with his feet on people's heads, and from time to time he moved his feet to give people a heavy blow to his head, as if he was an ordinary folk naughty boy who bullied honest people.

However, when they saw a group of people coming out, they immediately stood up, and then ran over with a smoke: "Teacher, Sister Yingying!" ”

The fourth prince's face was full of elation, and he smiled at Ah Liu next to Zhang Shou and said, "Sixth brother, I asked again according to the method you just left!" This guy doesn't know where he heard the saying, saying that the cabinet is the foreign minister, and the celebrant is the internal minister, as long as he can get in, he will have a better future than those serious jinshi in the future, so he is excited to prepare to go to the palace! ”

When it came to the word Zigong, the fourth prince didn't even pause - although he didn't understand what the so-called Zigong meant, it didn't prevent him from expressing contempt for someone.

"Hmph, what kind of pickled place does he think of the celebrant as a pickle?" These words are exactly the same as Zhu Ying's words, but then, what the four princes said, to Zhang Shou's ears, is that he has only heard of a little bit, or he has never understood pure dry goods.

"I heard Liu Feng say that the Shantang of the Master of Ceremonies will adopt a lot of abandoned babies every year, and then select the smartest and clever ones to raise them until they are six years old, and then select a group of people according to their qualifications to focus on training. Among them, those who read the best books and took the best exams will be sent to the inner study hall of the celebrant supervisor. The celebrant will teach them from an early age that those who take care of their children are not worthy of being called parents, and that loyalty is the fundamental ......."

The fourth prince casually said that Liu Feng told him that the celebrant supervisors had developed rules, and he didn't notice that Shen Xianling frowned when he heard it, and at this time, Zou Ming, who was wrapped like a zongzi, forgot the identity of the four princes, and couldn't help but retort: "This is a bad word, how can parents who are all in the world slander because of abandonment?" Besides, even if it is an orphan, the celebrant should not be so abusive......"

It wasn't until one hand was pinched vigorously by his companion that Zou Mingfang shut his mouth, but he was still full of anger. But the fourth prince was not angry, but his eyes widened slightly, and he said with a puzzled face: "Why did the celebrant abuse him?" Didn't that Wang Si in Nancheng open a good hall before? That's called abuse. Very few of the people who came out of the celebrant hall entered the palace, and most of them were doing things outside! ”

As soon as the four princes said this, Shen County's order suddenly changed color. How the celebrant accepts people is the affairs of the inner palace, not the foreign ministers, just because they have always strictly controlled the opening of the palace, and the number of attendants in the palace has always been strictly controlled, so even though the celebrant has always had all kinds of messy rumors, but because it cannot be confirmed, the foreign ministers cannot put their beaks.

But at least, if a poor family sells a child and castrates it into the palace, this dynasty is almost extinct, because it is not accepted at all!

But in this way, where did the eunuchs in the palace come from? Now listening to the tone of the four princes, it is already very clear that the celebrant actually set up a private good hall, selected abandoned children with good qualifications to cultivate, and then cut off the relationship between people and their parents, and even instilled the sin of abandonment by their parents, artificially created hatred for their parents, and then put people into the palace! It is ridiculous to only talk about loyalty and not filial piety!

The most important thing is that except for the group that entered the palace, the rest of the people are doing things outside? Obviously, in addition to the small group of people on the surface, the celebrant also has a large number of people in secret! This year has been in business year after year, and Shen County Ling can't imagine the scale!

The four princes didn't have much of a good impression or dislike for the celebrant eunuch, and at this time he just wanted to explain that the celebrant was by no means able to enter if he wanted to. He didn't care about Shen County's expression at all, and continued to say to himself: "There are many rules for the celebrant supervisor, only the Beijing dialect is allowed, and the local accent is not allowed. It is not allowed to climb the township party, it is not allowed to recognize relatives, and it is forbidden to attract people into the palace...... Oh, I heard that among the orphans, there are also young children from the Beiyu......"

Shen Xianling was certainly shocked, and Zou Ming and others were also shocked!

Since ancient times, eunuchs have never been cut off, and this dynasty is naturally no exception, but because Emperor Taizu has repeatedly emphasized in the people that it is forbidden to go from the palace, and will never accept people from the palace, plus the number of eunuchs in the palace has been controlled at a very low level, and the palace people are also released on time when they reach the age, so the civil officials naturally welcome such moral politics.

Who would want a large number of eunuchs to blow their ears in front of the Son of Heaven and then fight for power with themselves?

Because I don't know that anyone has been castrated into the palace, and eunuchs are not likely to appear outside the capital, so Zou Ming, a scholar from other places, has never thought about how to supplement eunuchs in the palace.

Shen Xian Ling endured and endured, and finally said in a deep voice at this time: "Orphans are also raised by their parents, but they are castrated and sent to the palace when they are adopted, and they are cut off from family and hometown, where is the reason and human affection?" This is just too much! ”

Hehe, what's too much? You haven't seen the system of castrating Christian teenagers as slave guards! Besides, the little bit of slavery and maidservant in the literati and ink writers' house, in addition to not castrating people, where is it cleaner than the palace?

Zhang Shou knows it well. The scholars and eunuchs were naturally opposed to each other - this is also normal, in essence, it was a game between the imperial power represented by the eunuchs and the scholar group. In addition to the late Tang Dynasty, the eunuch who controlled the Son of Heaven and abolished the imperial power, while the feudal towns held the military power, and the civilian group tried to suppress the eunuchs internally and collect the military power externally, but in the end they were defeated.

Even the eunuchs don't seem to be so famous in the Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty has Tong Guan Liang Shicheng who was cultivated by Song Huizong, who is the best at playing with power, and the Southern Song Dynasty has Dong Songchen, who is known to advocate science but governs the country with a mess of soldiers, which is not a lackey of imperial power?

"What's too much, I asked Liu Feng to secretly take me to the inner study hall last time to read it, and the sound of books there is very interesting! It's not that I haven't studied in Guozijian, but there are many prisoners in it, and it's not as good as the inner study! ”

The fourth prince has always been reckless and impulsive, and even a little rebellious, so of course he is not very interested in a righteous old man like Shen Xianling, and he will open his mouth at this time.

At this moment, not to mention Shen Xianling's pale face, even Zou Ming and the three of them couldn't bear it. The scholar who thanked Zhang Shou for saving people before said word by word: "Four princes, how can the inner study hall of the celebrant eunuch be compared with the national eunuch?" Most of the prisoners of Guozijian have serious reputations, and they have been studying hard for decades, and a group of abandoned children adopted by eunuchs are reading what kind of sage books! ”

"All I know is that Liu Feng told me that there are hundreds of thousands of Gyeonggi orphans who are admitted to the Seondo Hall every year, and only one-tenth of them can pass the annual and monthly exams after studying, and finally enter the Inner Study. And through the three selections of the inner study hall, the last one to enter the palace is only one-tenth. And after entering the palace, those who can enter the ceremonial supervisor are three big exams, and they are still only one-tenth! ”

"Every time I was brushed off in the exam, I cried bitterly, regretting that I didn't work hard to study and learn! But I see that among the six halls of Guozijian, I have been going around and around in it for ten or eight years, and there are more people who have dropped out of school but Guangye Hall, and these prisoners are not ashamed! ”

"Four princes, that's enough!"

Although Zhang Shou also wanted to hear more about the large pile of ceremonial goods that the fourth prince suddenly poured out today-after all, even if these things were not easy for him to probe indiscriminately, otherwise they would be genuine snooping palace eunuchs-but he still shouted loudly at the moment. When he saw that the fourth prince was unconvinced, he shook his head at him.

"You have to be measured when you speak, but what Liu Feng said to you can also be used as evidence when arguing with others? Besides, what are you only doing staring at the rat in the Guozi Prison who don't learn and spoil a pot of porridge? There have also been talents in the country, such as ......"

"For example, Sister Yingying's eldest brother." The fourth prince snorted sullenly, but under Zhang Shou's stern gaze, he finally just muttered in a low voice, "They are all scholars, why look down on others?" ”

The four princes are all scholars, and Shen Xianling, Zou Ming and others turned pale.

Knowing that they were absolutely unwilling to be compared with a group of future celebrant "elites", the current celebrant Shantang was born as an outcast, Zhang Shou could only put his face on the table again. But before he could stop the four princes again, Shen Xianling suddenly asked, "Dare to ask Liu Feng, who the four princes keep saying, who is it?" ”

Zhang Shou was stunned and looked at Shen Xianling. Liu Feng is also the manager of the Qianqing Palace, and Shen County Commander is Wanping County Commander, so he won't know it, right? However, seeing that people were still so solemn, he realized that Shen County's order was for the four princes to say it personally.

Sure enough, where did the young fourth prince understand these doorways, and immediately said without thinking: "He is the steward of the Qianqing Palace?" He said that he didn't need to study hard back then, so he couldn't get into the waste wood of the celebrant supervisor. ”

Zhang Shou was still deeply impressed by Liu Feng's fickleness, and when he heard the four princes say this, he only felt a little unbelievable. Liu Feng is so dignified that he has nothing to tell the four princes what he is doing, do you know that the four princes are sometimes easy to be open-mouthed? Sure enough, the next moment, he heard Shen Xian Ling say stiffly: "It turned out to be him...... If you dare to bewitch the prince like this, I will definitely impeach him! ”

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