Prime Minister

Chapter 236 How to do it

Going out from Cai's mansion, Zhang Yue can be described as relaxed.

It's a good feeling to finally let go of the boulder that was bothering me, and finally realize that my worries are unfounded.

Zhang Yue saw a carriage parked at the corner of the alley in front of Cai's mansion, and Zhang Yue recognized that this carriage belonged to Ouyang Xiu's mansion, and he and Ouyang Fa had ridden several times.

Zhang Yue bid farewell to Lu Huiqing immediately.

Seeing this, Lu Huiqing smiled, and Zhang Yue saw that the other party did not take the initiative to invite, so he took a step forward and said, "I don't know where Lu Yuanwai is staying in Beijing? I will come to ask for advice in a few days after I make a wish."

Lu Huiqing said: "I can see that Saburo has state affairs in mind. If you have the same heart, you will have the same morals, and if you have the same morals, you will be comrades. He is also a like-minded person with Lu Mou. How can you ask for advice?"

Zhang Yue was very moved when he heard this, bowed to Lu Huiqing and left.

Zhang Yue got into the carriage and saw that it was Ouyang Fa's entourage. Zhang Yue was also familiar with this person. It turned out that Ouyang Fa sent this person to support him.

The other party saw that Zhang Yue was fine, and after saying a few words, he drove Zhang Yue back to Taixue in a carriage.

Sitting in the carriage, Zhang Yue thought that he saw Cai Xiang, but what was even more surprising was seeing Lu Huiqing.

Zhang Yue was thinking about Lu Huiqing all the way, and the conversation just now was very pleasant and harmonious from the beginning to the end. The other party's words seemed to speak to his heart, and it hit the itching spot, and he felt like old friends at first sight.

is that so?As a rookie in the officialdom, how can I have a very speculative chat with the other party when it comes to experience in the officialdom and experience in governing the local area.

Therefore, the only answer is that Lu Huiqing is a very high-ranking person, and she always talks with herself from the beginning to the end.

Zhang Yue suddenly figured this out in the car, so he could only call the boss secretly.

If it weren't for knowing the other party's evaluation in history, I would have filled up the other party's impression points in my mind at once.

But having said that, why did Lu Huiqing deliberately put down her figure and use her scheming to make friends with herself?
The more Zhang thought about it, he guessed that it might have something to do with Ouyang Xiu.But this is also a good thing for Zhang Yue. Although Lu Huiqing has the name of a treacherous minister, he can actually do things, and when it comes to political career, he is not only longer than Wang Anshi, but even Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu.Zhang and Zeng, two new party bosses have fallen one after another, but he hasn't fallen yet.

If it hadn't been for being implicated in Zhang Huaisu's treason case, Lu Huiqing would still be able to continue to dance in the political arena.

It is better to deal with such people early than late.

A few days after Zhang Yue returned to Taixue, the fraud case in the examination room came to an end with a lot of thunder and a little rain.

Li Dalin was punished and demoted to Chuzhou to supervise taxation because he mistakenly took the candidates. However, within a month, Li Dalin had just walked halfway and was restored to his original post and returned to Beijing to serve as an official.

As for the seven candidates who obviously failed to understand the essays, they were disqualified from the provincial examination, and their qualifications to solve the next subject were also disqualified. He Qi was one of them, but fortunately, he was not expelled from Taixue.

After Zhang Yue heard about He Qizhi's incident, he sat alone in the dormitory for two days without a drop of water.Come back on the third day, talking and laughing happily with classmates, as if nothing happened.

As for the candidates who caused trouble in front of Kaifeng Mansion, not only did they not make up the admissions, but the leaders were not allowed to participate in the next test.

In the end, Cai Xiang settled the case on this basis.

Zhang Yue knew that if the case was further investigated, not only these people would be arrested, but in the end the investigation could not be continued, otherwise many people would be involved.

Examiners, examinees, bookstores, officials in the examination room, and dignitaries all have a vast interest chain behind the imperial examination. If you look down, it must be a big one, and you will offend too many people.

From the attitude of the officials, it is also known that he did not strictly investigate, and the court only punished several people symbolically.The looseness of court laws and regulations in the Song Dynasty can be seen.

After all, examiners have personal needs to take care of, and the anonymous system has not been implemented for a long time.So how to find a balance between seeking scholars for the country and the selfish desires of the examiners.

This is not only the subtleties of selecting scholars through the imperial examination, but also the difficulty for a ruler to deal with things.

Some places are obviously bad, but you can't change them immediately, you have to change them slowly. This is what Zhang Yue learned through this imperial examination fraud case. At the same time, he also has an understanding of the official means of governing the country.

Although Zhang Yue felt flustered from the beginning to the end, and he was frightened for a while in vain.

Letting go of his worries, Zhang Yue started to prepare for the provincial examination after the case of the examination fraud disappeared. It is now September, and the provincial examination will be in January next year, with an interval of only four months.

The ecstasy of solving the exam and passing the exam has not passed yet, and the other side has to study hard to prepare for the provincial exam.

In the Song Dynasty, there was no reputation for juren, so if you fail the examination of the Chinese style in the examination, you have to start all over again.

As for the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as long as they become Juren, they can take the Ritual Examination for unlimited times until the day they pass the Jinshi examination.

Therefore, failing the provincial examination is like zero, and the results obtained now are not counted.

Zhang Yue, Fan Zuyu, and Huang Lu in Zhaishe are all for examination.

Sun Guo went to Luoyang, and now Luoyang is staying behind because of Wen Yanbo who has resigned from the position. Sun Guo may have another chance in Luoyang.

But Zhang Yue has no intention of asking Wen Jifu to take care of Sun Guo.Zhang Yue knows who can and cannot help, even if this person is a good friend.

As for Huang Haoyi, he gave up on himself, turned grief into desire, and it became a common thing to walk around, so the money was spent like water.Huang Haoyi was even in debt, borrowing money from Zhang Yue almost every month to go whoring.

Although Huang Haoyi spends a lot of money, he also has an advantage that he must repay what he borrows, no more than two months at the latest.

However, Huang Haoyi's frequent behaviors caused jokes about him to spread in the Taixue.Even Zhang Yue made up a paragraph for Huang Haoyi in an extremely unkind way.

The story goes like this, when Huang Silang went to the brothel one day, the bustard warmed him a pot of wine as a treat, when Huang Silang saw a prostitute in the distance and provoked him.

Huang Silang was not angry, so he stood up.The old bustard stopped and said, the wine is already hot, drink it before going.

Huang Haoyi said, no need, someone will come when he goes.

Suddenly there was loud shouting, like the sky falling and the earth collapsing, and the mountain collapsed. The old bustard was about to inquire, but Huang Haoyi had already opened the door and walked out.

Everyone sees it... the wine is still warm.

This joke quickly spread in Yangzhengzhai and Taixue, and Huang Haoyi came back from the brothel every time afterwards.

Everyone looked at each other and smiled, and then asked, "Shiro, is the wine still warm?"

Huang Haoyi didn't know why, so he just replied naively: "Be gentle and gentle."

From then on, Huang Haoyi had the nickname Shangwen.

Another thing is that the son of the state, Yuan Wang Kui, and the grand-niece of Zhao Wenxiang Fu Bi agreed to be a Jinshi and get married later.

It is necessary to know that Guoziyuan and Xieyuan have a very high probability of being a Jinshi. Since the opening of the imperial examination, I have not heard of many people who can fail the ranking.However, Jinshi Jidi is the top Jinshi, which may not be satisfactory for Wang Kui.

But when the news got out, all the Tai students still expressed their envy to Wang Kui, after all, they were married to the prime minister's family.

But Wang Kui is the son of the state, and there are many right and wrong in him. More than one student said that Wang Kui had a marriage contract in his hometown or that Wang Kui was in love with a prostitute in Beijing. The other party gave her a title after becoming a Jinshi, but he abandoned the prostitute.

There are many rumors, and I don't know which one is true.

Literati have been neglecting each other since ancient times. Wang Kui was born in a humble family and was envied by many people for being able to win the son of the country.Overtly and secretly, many people hoped for his bad luck.

Zhang Yue didn't pay attention to this matter, he was still busy studying, even if Wang Kui wasn't Guo Ziyuan, he couldn't take his place.

On the contrary, Zhang Yue also said a few good things about Wang Kui, but there are too many people talking about it in Taixue.

This day Yangzhengzhai was discussing this matter, and a classmate asked Huang Lu, "If you are Wang Junmin and you have a married wife in your family, who is appreciated by the prime minister and wants to marry your daughter to you, how do you decide?"

Zhang Yue shook his head. Don't you see that Chen Shimei has been scolded for thousands of years. Although it is selfish, the mainstream values ​​of the common people have long been defined.

But some people still want to clear themselves up after doing it, which is deceiving the world.

Huang Lu was not happy when he heard this. There was a married woman waiting for him at home.

Huang Lu said: "If you want to marry the chancellor's daughter in the future, don't make an engagement with a good family girl, but as long as you make an engagement, even if the official orders you to be a son-in-law, you won't go."

Zhang Yue clapped his hands, what he said was good, the three views were correct, and it was exactly what I wanted.

The man asked relentlessly: "If this marriage contract is the order of your parents, why can't you push it away?"

Huang Lu said: "Since it's the order of my parents, I can't push it away. Isn't it in the name of being unfilial and unrighteous?"

Zhang Yue praised again, well said.

The man got the answer in Huang Lu and felt that it didn't fit his heart, so he asked Zhang Yue, "What does the head of the house say?"

Zhang Yue thought about it and said: "Then I also have to worry about it. When a woman can recognize me in a humble age, it goes without saying that I will make a fortune in the future. If I am down and out, she will still stick to me, so I think I am a poor wife. Don't give up."

"If it's the prime minister's daughter, I can't do it. She knew me when I was in glory, and then I fell into poverty. What will happen to her? Even if she doesn't say it, can the Yue family not say it? There is no reason for a person to be rich all his life."

The man said with a smile: "The words of the chief minister are true and false. Can you still be down and out after marrying the prime minister's daughter?"

Zhang Yue smiled, as long as the meaning is reached, there will be no debate on the following.

The man left after chatting boringly.

Huang Lu couldn't help complaining to Zhang Yue: "Some people think so in their hearts, but they are afraid that they are alone, so they look for like-minded people everywhere. As long as they hear something that doesn't suit them, they will feel that others are hypocritical."

Zhang Yue said: "You only know one thing and don't know the other thing. I heard people say that his hometown also had a marriage. The woman and him are childhood sweethearts. They only waited for him to be a Jinshi and returned home to get married, but the woman had waited a long time. For seven years, he failed to pass the Jinshi exam.

"In the end, it was a coincidence. The son of a good friend of the woman's father was also an official. His wife died not long ago and he had no children, so he married this woman as his continuation. , but couldn't stand his father's repeated persuasion, and the official had just been promoted to Dazhou's general sentence...finally...the woman wrote him a long letter...now he has become like this."

Huang Lu was stunned for a while, then got up immediately.

Zhang Yue asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to apologize to him."

Zhang Yue said with a smile: "Hey, sit down, there is nothing to say about it. He will be even more sad after talking about it."

Huang Lu sat down again with a dignified expression.

(End of this chapter)