Sun Qilang went to meet the account, and several people left the restaurant and walked along the river to the post house.

At this time, the lights are on, and the riverside is full of people enjoying the shade, and all kinds of hawkers are interspersed with it, which is very lively.

Xu Ping looked at this familiar scenery and sighed, after a long absence from the Central Plains, he finally came back.

If it is better to say that Beijing or Yongzhou is better, Xu Ping has no answer, but since he came to this world, he grew up near Kaifeng, and has a different kind of feeling, which seems to be his hometown.

And in the whole world, is there a better place than home?

In the sky, the moon was round and bright, hanging high overhead, shining like a silver glow. In the moonlight, people dragged their families and enjoyed this peaceful life, and in the secluded place, they did not know which family their children were, leaning on each other and whispering.

I haven't seen this kind of scene for a long time, and Xu Ping's heart flew to Kaifeng City all of a sudden.

Unknowingly arrived at the door of the post house, Gao Daquan suddenly said: "Hey, why is there a person going around there?" ”

Everyone looked together, and by the moonlight, they saw a middle-aged man in his forties at the door of the post house, wearing a half-new and not old robe, and walking around the door like a grind. I don't know what I was holding in my hand, and I was talking to myself.

Everyone was curious and walked forward together. Gao Daquan was afraid of an accident, so he handed over the lacquerware in his hand to Sun Qilang, and walked in front by himself, tensing his nerves.

Not far from the door, the guard guarding the door saw it, saluted from afar, and said in a loud voice: "Xu Guanren, this official said that he was coming to see you, and he has been waiting until now." ”

Xu Ping responded, curious in his heart, he didn't have any acquaintances in Xiangzhou.

When the middle-aged man heard the words of the post man, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked over, but was stopped by Gao Daquan: "The official surnamed Gao? What's the important thing about looking for my family official? ”

The middle-aged man hurriedly tugged at his clothes. He took a breath and straightened his demeanor, and said to Gao Daquan: "In Xia Hu Quanquan, my father's secretary and supervisor are surnamed Hu Zhendan, and I am ordered by my father to pay tribute to Xu Guanren. ”

Xu Ping sighed, but he forgot. There is also Hu Dan, the champion who has been forgotten by time, lives here. When he was demoted to Xiangzhou General Sentence, he mourned for his parents, and soon after the funeral, he lost his sight, so he was promoted to the secretary of the provincial junior eunuch, and later promoted to the secretary and supervisor. Since then, he has been living in Xiangzhou, and it has been many years.

Gao Daquan saw Xu Ping nodding, so he took Hu Quanquan's name card and came over to hand it to Xu Ping.

The paper was poor, but it was a thick stack. Xu Ping opened it and could see it clearly by the moonlight. I saw that the name post not only listed the high-ranking officials that Hu Dan had been, but also wrote the "Zhi Zhi Hui" in large characters, but also listed the year and month of Hu Danzhong's champion, and even the test questions at that time were listed. What's even more excessive is that it actually lists several major books that Hu Dan is proud of, such as "Han Chunqiu", and even the comments of the emperor at that time are listed in it.

Where is this the name of worship. Is it clearly a resume?

is also a secretary and supervisor, and Ding Wei's name is simple. But whoever saw him had to shout out to him. This former Hu champion is eager to list all the proud things in his life, but no matter how flattering he is, he can only call him "Hu Dajian". This is a different experience and different temperament, Ding Wei's secretary and supervisor are degraded again and again, and Hu Dan's secretary and supervisor are promoted after Zhishi.

After reading the famous post, Xu Ping sighed in his heart.

In his previous life, Xu Ping had heard a story. said that he was a scholar in ancient times. When I went to study in other places and was treated by a county magistrate, I made a poem, one of which was: "Picking up the cold winter dream is not possible". This poem was seen by the son of the county order, and the joke scholar was "thirsty and sleepy". Soon the scholar was the top student in high school. Send a letter to the son of the county magistrate, "Thirsty and sweaty to be the champion!" The county commander sneered: "Wait for me to be the second and first next year, and lose the king." In the second year, he was the top student in high school.

Of course, the story is absurd, and it becomes more and more bizarre in later generations, but it does have a point. The scholar in the story is Lu Mengzheng, and the son of the county commander is Hu Dan. The two may not have this kind of legend, but this story vividly illustrates the relationship between the two.

Lü Meng is the champion of the second year of Taiping Xingguo, and it is the first session of the imperial examination in Chinese history to expand the recruitment of scholars, but Taizong is still not satisfied because of the urgent need for new civil officials to serve him, and in the name of fearing that there are sages in the wilderness, he ordered the second year of Taiping Xingguo to take the exam again in the third year of Taiping Xingguo. Hu Dan is the champion of the Taiping Rejuvenation for three years, so the story talks about the second person and the first, although he also won the champion, but he was the champion of the re-examination under Lu Mengzheng.

Hu Dan himself did not participate in the imperial examination in the second year of Taiping Xingguo, but because his session was the re-examination of the last year, his reputation was naturally under Lu Mengzheng. I can't figure out if it's because of the stimulation of this incident, and because he is completely different from Lu Mengzheng in terms of personality and political concepts, Hu Dan has looked down on Lu Mengzheng all his life.

Hu Dan is talented, enthusiastic about fame, and enterprising, but he acts carelessly and does not do things carefully. His articles are beautifully written, and he is naturally comfortable with the two systems, but his ability to govern makes people shake their heads. There are no political achievements in the central government, and there are no political achievements in the local government, and promotion almost all depends on the stick of a pen. However, Hu Dan didn't feel that he couldn't do it, and he thought that he was a prime minister, but his luck was not good, and he was bent on camping, and the fierce party struggle in the Song Dynasty started from Hu Dan's party in the same year. In the capital, Hu Dan and his party often planned at Zhao Changyan's house at night, and the people of the capital called his party Chen Xiangyu "Chen Sanchang" and Dong Yan "Dong Midnight", which left the idiom of "three watches in the middle of the night" for future generations.

Later, Hu Dan still did not learn a lesson, and then took refuge in Wang Jien, and even got involved in the dispute over the abolition of the crown prince, but the speculation failed again, and he lost the opportunity for promotion.

Before Hu Dan participated in the imperial examination, he famously said: "If you should be the champion, you will not be the champion, and the eunuch will not be the prime minister, but you will be a false life." ”

As a result, in the end, he was the best official, and he was still a thousand miles away from the prime minister. And Lu Mengzheng, who he has always looked down on, not only became the prime minister himself, but even his nephew Lu Yijian became the prime minister, he was still nested in Xiangzhou, except for the neighbors around him, the world has almost forgotten him.

After sighing for a long time, Xu Ping put away the famous thorn and said to Hu Quanquan, who was waiting beside him: "Eunuch Domeng Hu can afford to be below, and he will come to visit tomorrow." ”

When Hu Quanquan heard this, his face was full of joy: "Since this is the case, I will return to my father and sit at home tomorrow to wait for the official." ”

Xu Ping watched Hu Anmin reply and left happily, and couldn't help but shake his head. When he arrived in Daozhou, Ding Wei rushed to the post house to visit him as soon as he got the news, but this Hu eunuch was much bigger than Ding Wei, and he had to come to the door by himself. (To be continued.) )