"What? The world's protégé? This word is a bit fresh, Wu Zetian was slightly stunned.

Cui Geng explained: "The protégé of the Son of Heaven mentioned by Weichen has two meanings. First, His Majesty presides over the promotion examination of the four superintendents, and it is not an exaggeration for these people to call you a teacher. Second, there are three main ways to enter the official career now, in addition to the shadow seal: one is the imperial examination; the second is to recommend; Three-dimensional outflow inflow. ”

Wu Zetian grabbed something vaguely, nodded with great interest, and said, "Go on!" ”

Cui Geng continued: "Let's not talk about the flow of outflow and inflow for the time being. The official of the imperial examination, the jinshi of the same subject and the first call each other in the same year, call the examiner the master, the master or the enmen, and call himself a protégé. The person who recommends the winner is also a protégé of the person who recommends him. Nowadays, these "four for learning" prisoners are all because of His Majesty's Chrysostom and Yuyan, why not? ”

"The protégé of the Son of Heaven, the protégé of the Son of Heaven!"

Wu Zetian muttered a few words, and his eyes seemed to be able to emit light!

Cui Geng understood that his words had scratched the itch of Mrs. Wu again.

In these years, the weight of the "protégé and teacher relationship" is extremely heavy. In the moral concept of the world, this kind of "teacher" who makes himself an official is much more important than any emperor. You can find all kinds of reasons for betraying the emperor, but betraying the "teacher" will be shameful to the world.

Wu Zetian himself admitted this moral concept, and four years later, the Shenlong coup d'état, Wu Zetian was forced to the palace by Zhang Cambodia, Jinghui, Huan Yanfan, Yuan Shuji, and Cui Xuanwei.

At that time, Wu Zetian questioned Cui Xuanwei and said: "Other people have been recommended by others to become officials, only you were hand-picked by me, why are you here?" ”

Cui Xuanwei was full of shame, so he had to reluctantly explain: "I did this to repay Your Majesty's great kindness to me. ”

It can be seen that she trusts the people she promotes, far better than those who are promoted through other means.

Now Cui Geng directly formed a clear concept of this vague feeling.

All the students of the "Four for Learning" are Wu Zetian's "protégés". This title must be lowered, and no one in the whole world is more loyal to Wu Zetian than them.

What does this mean?

Now the Wu family and the Li family are silent on the surface, but there is an undercurrent behind them, and they may rise up at any time. Her own sons and nephews are unreliable, and these orphans who have become military prisons are her most reliable people.

Wu Zetian has nearly 200 hardcore subordinates, and it is no problem to control tens of thousands of forbidden troops, with their support, who dares to make trouble?

"Good, good, good."

Wu Zetian even said a few good words, and said: "From today onwards, the four inmates can call themselves protégés of the Son of Heaven. After passing the evaluation later, all of them will be promoted to the rank of lieutenant of the Sixth Rank Guoyi of the Royal Forest Army, and they will take office immediately. ”

Okay, it was still excellent in the evaluation, but now it has been changed to passing the evaluation, can you pass it, isn't it just Wu Zetian's words?

Zhang Changzong couldn't help but think in his heart, this time he wholesaled two hundred Guoyi Lieutenants, and Wu Zetian's position was stable, but what about Cui Geng? As the person who single-handedly promoted these Guoyi Lieutenants to enter the national prison, and even won the office, can they not be grateful? In the future, Cui Erlang's power will not be able to go to heaven!

"No way!" Zhang Changzong immediately objected.

"Well, why not?"

"This ...... This ......" Zhang Changzong couldn't tell the truth, and his eyes rolled wildly: "Cui Jian is the secretary of Chengjun Prison, and he was ordered to reform Chengjun Prison." Now that His Majesty has transferred all the prisoners of the four schools, won't he be embarrassed to cook without rice? ”

Wu Zetian waved his hand and said, "What's so difficult about this?" After the invigilators of the fourth school pass the evaluation, it can be determined that Cui Siye's proposal is feasible, and there is no need to carry out any more pilots. ”

"What about Cui Siye?"

After Wu Zetian was woken up by Cui Geng's sentence "protégé of the Son of Heaven", how could he see how pleasing Cui Geng was, and said: "Since there is no prisoner, Cui Aiqing no longer has to serve as the supervisor of Chengjun." He is so talented that he should be reused. ”

There is another sentence that she didn't say: "In order to prevent Li Xian from usurping the throne, it is better not to let Cui Geng's real power be too great." What is enough to hate, and not so much to let Xian'er add wings to the position of Cui Geng. I'm still fine, and I'm thinking about it. ”

However, this alone is enough for Zhang Changzong to be angry.

He thought to himself, Cui Erlang, Cui Erlang, the protégé of the Son of Heaven? Another reuse? You're really beautiful right now.

However, everything has to be explained by the inmates in the examination later.

Otherwise...... Not only do you have to be happy in vain, but you also have to bear the monstrous wrath of the old lady!

Thinking of this, Zhang Changzong said: "The sage is extremely right, uh...... It's too early to say this, why don't you give a feast first, and then make plans after the exam this afternoon? ”

Wu Zetian said: "That's fine." Someone ...... coming."

"Wait! Wechen has something to say! Zheng Su finally couldn't help it and said, "Weichen thinks that what His Majesty said just now is inappropriate. The same students are also students of Chengjun Prison, why only the four students have the honor of being called "disciples of the Son of Heaven", and the others can only follow the step-by-step process? Please also ask Your Majesty to treat them equally. ”

"This ......"

Of course, Wu Zetian can't treat everyone equally, as the saying goes, rare things are expensive. If there are too many "protégés of the Son of Heaven", then these people will not have much gratitude, and their loyalty will be greatly questionable.

And the most important thing, the four are all orphans. How reliable is it that these people are almost dead even their relatives, without any bonds? The inmates of the other six schools in Chengjun Prison will be affected by various factors, but they are not so trustworthy.

Of course, even though Wu Zetian thought so, these two reasons couldn't be said directly, and said, "Didn't I say it just now? These loyal servants should then be compensated. The other students of the Sixth School don't have to have broken families, right? ”

Zheng Su stiffened his neck, raised his head as a loyal minister, and said: "Although these people are not ruined, their fathers and brothers are all serving the country, is it not okay to be too negligent?" Therefore, Weichen thought that even if they couldn't treat everyone equally, they should be allowed to take the exam and choose the one who excelled as the "protégé of the Son of Heaven". ”

Zhang Changzong said helpfully: "Yes, yes, please show mercy to Your Majesty." ”

Wu Zetian glanced at Zhang Changzong, and said indispensably: "Accurate!" ”

And so it was settled. At noon that day, Wu Zetian gave a royal banquet and invited the prisoners to eat.

Sung Kyun Prison, in an empty room.

Cui Xiufang, as Cui Geng's personal guard, ripped off the mask, came to Cui Geng's side, and said, "No, Qiu Fengyun, those people, it seems that they didn't follow Wu Sansi today." ”

Cui Gengdao: "Maybe he shouldn't be on duty, so we can only find another way." ”

"The slave family is not worried that he is not worthy of duty." Cui Xiufang said distressedly: "This person is too clever, I'm afraid that he will find the traces of the slave family and run away in advance." ”

Cui Geng comforted: "If you run, just run, if you don't die, you won't be rotten, just continue to chase and kill." These days, when you are on vacation, accompany your husband. ”

Cui Xiufang's face was slightly red, and she said; "Hmph, the ghost wants to accompany you!"

"Uh...... If you don't accompany me, then even if I accompany you,"

"That's pretty much it...... Hey? Isn't this the same as before? Are you treating me like a monkey? Begging! ”

"Madame's life!"

……

……

It's rare for the two to be alone, you and I are tender and sweet, affectionate and full, and don't eat much.

Dangdang~~

An hour later, the bell rang, Cui Geng and Cui Xiufang sorted out their slightly messy clothes and came to Wu Zetian's side to wait.

Cheng Junjian, the four for the school exam, has finally begun!