There was also an 800-mile urgent head and a paper of guilt with King Qi into Beijing, and then the emperor was furious after seeing the paper of guilt, and immediately pressed the hat of Li Zaixiao to act in a certain way, Chang Ming is a second-grade official sent by the imperial court no matter what, and it is also a chess piece used to balance Li Zaixiao, so he will kill and kill, not to mention that His Majesty the Emperor is disgraced, and even those old ministers in the cabinet have stopped at Li Zaixiao and Chen Maochuan with strange eyes.

An edict was issued, the criminal department presided over the trial, and the Yushitai and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were ordered to investigate the matter thoroughly at the same time, and the head of the Yushitai was the Yushi Li Zaixin, don't look at the crimson official mansion embroidered with larks, but the word etiquette is indispensable when the second-grade member of the six departments sees it, after all, the word Yin Cao written in large letters behind him really makes the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty shudder.

During this period, Chen Maochuan was grounded in the Yishui Hall in the eastern suburbs of the imperial city, and Li Zaixiao was painted in the back hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion as a prison, for a while no one could figure out whether this was the ruthless wrist of the young Majesty, or the secret instruction of the Prime Minister Li, if it was the former, there should be a lot of people who were happy to see it, and His Majesty, who had been weak for more than ten years, finally had the idea of wanting to straighten his waist, but if it was the latter, he did not dare to have too many people to speculate, Li Zaixiao intended to return the power to the Chen family, undoubtedly a stick discounted Li Jucheng's leg, I am afraid that this kind old man for a long time will show his fangs again, and how much blood will rain in Kyoto at that time, but in short, Chang Ming's matter will come to light sooner or later, but there are still many things to do during this time, such as the imperial examination, such as the entrance examination of the university.

On the first day of the imperial examination, Li Jucheng personally went to the examination house, walking through one by one, during which the scholars who worked hard to write even if they couldn't recognize the old man of the thirteen virtues who hung on his lips all day long, they were not so clumsy that they couldn't see the purple lark robe of the super grade, or they stood in place and didn't know what to do.

This old man who single-handedly created the military and political affairs of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the most he has done over the years is to put the literati who have long been forgotten back to the front of the stage, the Western Chu split the two countries, and finally the Southern Tang Dynasty was still dominated by the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was more powerful in force, plus the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was called the literati bookbox, was trampled into a ruin by the iron hooves of the Northern Wei Dynasty in just a few months, and it was also in Kyushu that a wave of abandonment of the pen from Rong arose, but all the military generals who had some military exploits, life was extremely comfortable, on the other hand, those scholars who had no power to tie the chicken, in addition to writing some sour poems to make people laugh, they were only left to fight for the wind and be jealous, and they were not yet twisted into a rope, even more unable to escape the fate of being pressed by the military generals who became famous during the establishment of the Three Kingdoms such as Li Zaizhong.

However, since Li Jucheng was reappointed as the first assistant, he has vigorously suppressed the military generals who have made outstanding achievements in the past, especially his own righteous sons, who have ruthlessly dismissed the military power and threw it in some positions with no power, and after the civilian forces raised by one hand entered the other five departments other than the main military department, they finally had a posture of fighting against the court, so that the world is saying that Li Jucheng is old, and he has long lost the pride of galloping the world in the past, and there are only some means to win people's hearts。

The officials behind him followed cautiously, I don't know where Lord Shoufu is interested in personally supervising the candidates today, originally Li Zaixiao's entry into Beijing was enough for him to be anxious, could it be that there is still something that can't be seen, I don't dare to speculate in my heart, I just hope that something will not go wrong today.

Li Jucheng walked all the way, no matter which candidate reported to him about his home, even if he did not hesitate to move out of the ancestral Mengyin, but he never let the prime minister of the two dynasties pause for a moment, and came to a remote examination room with a small room, where the four treasures of the study needed for the exam, a table and chair, and a bed, the scientific examination lasted for three days, in which all the affairs of the candidates need to be solved in this examination room, even if they give up the scientific examination, they may wait for the last day before leaving.

A man in plain clothes in the examination room worked hard to write, and did not look up because of the large shadow that suddenly appeared in front of him, although the face that had been polished by wind and frost was thin, but it revealed a perseverance that had been tempered thousands of times, and his eyes were staring at the test paper in his hand, and he was full of energy, as if this year's Kuijia had been collected by him as confident.

If others turn a deaf ear to the stop of the most powerful old man in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the accompanying officials will definitely secretly note down his name, even if the article is well written, this crime of disrespect alone is enough to cut off the official road in this life, but after seeing the other party's appearance clearly, everyone tacitly closed their voices and watched with interest, because the other party is no one else, it is the scholar Tan Junzi who has failed in five scientific examinations and five times, but still tirelessly sues Tan Junzi, a scholar who has committed the four major crimes of the first assistant.

Li Shoufu looked down at the title of the other party's article, "The kneeling literati can have the word arrogance." The corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up, and he waved his hand to order a steward to move a seat, and sat opposite Tan Junzi with a big knife, one to write, and the other to read.

Although it has passed the height of summer and the weather is gradually turning to autumn, today's sun is particularly scorching, but in the middle of the hour, the officials of the Ministry of Rites who are pampered on weekdays are already sweating, the whole official robe is wet and dry from the inside out, dry and wet, and the posture has also become a little loose with the initial respectful standing salute, and the old man is still sitting with his back straight, looking at it without hurry, and his eyes that seem cloudy because of old age are becoming more and more bright.

Tan Junzi, who had written two pages, finally stopped writing and rested for a moment, then raised his head and looked at the old man, without the slightest surprise, let alone the groveling of those candidates before, the two sat across a thin wooden wall, and finally Tan Junzi took the lead in asking, "What did Lord Shoufu see?" ”

"I saw the arrogance of the reader and the arrogance of the interrupted, since they were all interrupted, what difference does it make if he kneels or not, of course, there is a scholar who does not know whether he is alive or dead. The old man smiled indifferently, his kind face was more like an old man from an ordinary family, and he did not have the prestige of being the prime minister at all.

"What Shousuke-sama said is very true. Tan Junzi didn't put the four words that don't know life and death on himself, and put aside the hard and a few pieces of Huangzhou bud paper in exchange for the strong handwriting in Huangzhou, but the grinding was much inferior, and he couldn't reveal the refreshing fragrance.

"Thirty years ago, Lord Shoufu jumped from the head of the heavenly people to the sneering military department, whether he had seen the weakness of the literati, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty died in June, that is, the iron cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty was invincible, and did it mean that the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was said to be half a country master, was only weak and could not help the wind, and the Lord and Wu Anhou had already crushed the arrogance of the literati thirty years ago with their raw iron hooves. ”

Tan Junzi took a sip of the water that had no tea leaves in his hand, and pushed it forward, signaling the other party if he wanted to take a sip, even the smallest official department here had already forgotten what this kind of pure well water tasted like, not to mention that it was the first-class prime minister who watched the official ships full of gold and silver enter the house.

But in front of everyone's eyes, the old man did not pause at all, and there was no displeased anger on his face, and he casually picked up the cup of tea that was not considered tea and tasted it on his lips, and even smacked his lips with taste.

Tan Junzi continued: "But no matter what, the adults have always been literati who were born with sage books, whether they have foresight or selfish intentions, they can't bear to watch the defeat of the literati, so the grass people dare to guess that in the battle of the Li River that year, no one chose Li Zaizhong, who had more military achievements and more experience, but chose the teacher who had been unknown all along, whether there was also a desire to let the world take a look, and the arrogance and arrogance of the literati were also not to be underestimated. ”

Li Jucheng smiled and said nothing, waved his hand to the people behind him, and the people accompanying him immediately bowed and left, Fang Cai's remarks were no longer something that they could participate in as soft bones who only cared about making money in the Qingshui Yamen, but when they heard it, they all felt that the chill was better than the scorching sun overhead, and they were able to leave with a sigh of relief at this moment, and they accelerated their pace one by one, for fear of hearing another half a word of disrespect.

You continue. The old man smiled slightly, as if no one had spoken to him so frankly in a long time.

Tan Junzi moistened his throat and said: " It's a pity that the literati enter the military profession after all, it seems nondescript, even if they are fortunate to become a generation of Confucian generals, but they are still more general than Confucianism, you need to know who mentioned Li Zaixiao in the past ten years is not a Tsing Yi military god, especially Cangzhou is a happy and sincere call for the general, where is this to straighten the arrogance of the literati, it is clearly in the pain of cultivating for 30 years and hammered a punch, and this punch is the most deadly, interrupting the thoughts of the world, try to ask if you Li Jucheng can find a second person in the world。 ”

Tan Junzi, who was not ashamed to call his name, simply stood up in the depths of interest, sat on the table and stared at the old man's eyes, aggressive.

"But even so, isn't there still a guy like you who sits at the table and scolds the head of the court?" Li Jucheng extended his smile and said unhurriedly, it is difficult to find a second Li Jucheng in this world, unprecedented, it can not be said that it is a strong stroke in the history books of any dynasty, but at this moment it is so sad, if you let Tibi Ge list a new list of Kyushu military generals, I am afraid that every year I will have to replace a stubble of people to sit on it, but in recent years, the literary list with the name of the martial arts list is thunderous, in the first Li Jucheng is the first literati who is understandable, a glory is incomparable, but the second Southern Tang Dynasty gentleman Du someone, in addition to the cynical poems can be called popular, but also Erer, the third Tang Yibai, said that the world is in the world, but he is just a citizen of the country, and he still talks about the romance of Lao Shizi, is it true that there is a law in the dark, fifty years ago, the rivers and lakes were depressed, and now this situation has fallen on the literati.

"The scholar in your article who does not respect ghosts and gods, but is willing to kneel and break his knees for the common people, is there arrogance? In the end, I do have selfishness, but this selfishness is not so selfish that I will not be dizzy to hand over this great mountain and river to the hands of a group of wine bags and rice bags, you Tan Junzi has scolded the old man for five years, and now you want to scold the arrogance of the people in the world, then I may ask where the arrogance in your mouth knows. ”

Tan Junzi jumped off the table with a solemn expression, stood respectfully in front of him, and bowed sincerely to Li Jucheng and said.

"Before the adult's death, he did not exchange his fame for sycophancy, and after the death of the adult, he did not seek the future with evil words, he wrote the merits and demerits in one stroke, and he was a scholar who was upright and upright. ”