Straight man of steel

Chapter 346
Are candidates afraid of death?
They must be afraid. They may not feel much awe of King Wuqiu Shou, but they can't help but have awe of the stainless steel sword that is shining brightly in front of them.

"Okay, let's wait here for Tai Xuecheng to give me an explanation.

Please also tell the general inside, if Taixue Cheng refuses to see us, please tell the imperial historians in Taixue. "

The rumormonger took out a few golden beans as big as soybeans from his sleeves without missing a beat and handed them to the leading palace guard.

There are only two groups of people here, one group of candidates who want to enter, and one group of palace guards blocking the door.

Everyone has seen this swaggering bribe, but they all act as if they have not seen anything.

"Xiang Yang, go in and report."

The leading palace guard put away the golden beans and wanted to call out, and then a palace guard ran in.

Bribery is the most common thing in Dahan, and the trend of officials accepting bribes started from this time.

In the pre-Qin period, many officials accepted bribes, but who dared to openly accept bribes?
But the big man is different.

These emperors of the Liu family are also wonderful.

They believe that people are not perfect, and once you have reached a certain level of innocence, you cannot reassure the emperors.

At this time, in order to save his life and reassure the emperor, he could only choose to defile himself.

Accepting bribes has become the best choice for officials.

Xiao He, one of the Three Heroes in the early Han Dynasty, even plundered the people's property in order to dispel Liu Bang's suspicion of him.

It is conceivable what the general environment of the big Han officials is like.

When Tian Fu was arguing with Dou Ying in the East Palace earlier, he directly said in front of Liu Che and the Queen Mother that he loved money and women, and even took bribes by robbing women and seizing people's land.

Did Liu Che care at that time?

Everyone subconsciously ignored this matter.

But when Tian Fu accused Dou Ying and Guan Fu of intending to rebel, the situation was completely different.

One is an unfounded crime, and the other is an admission that he has committed a crime.

That's the difference between the two.

When this kind of atmosphere is formed, there is no way to eliminate it only by the efforts of one or two people.

That's why the palace guard accepted the money as he should, and his face didn't turn red, and his heart didn't beat. As long as he took the money to do something for others, and the matter was harmless to Liu Che, everyone would be happy.

King Wuqiu Shou naturally knew that a large number of candidates gathered outside the Taixue Gate.

This matter is his order, how could he not pay attention.

It was also expected by him that the palace guards came to invite him over.

There is a force behind the candidates directing and pushing them.

Although their actions were not very clever, but if King Wuqiu Shou sat in Zhang Yuan's position, he would definitely not be able to handle it.

There are many reasons, the most important one is that King Wuqiu Shou has too much consideration.

Zhang Yuan is naked, even if the Zhu Jiu Clan will at most implicate those servants in the family, the rest will not be implicated at all.

Furthermore, Zhang Yuan guessed that the status of the messenger behind the scenes was not high.

King Wuqiu Shou will guess whether there are still people standing behind the messenger behind the scenes.

The more you think, the more mistakes you will make.

"They said they wanted to see me, did they say they wanted to see anyone else?"

"Tai Xuecheng, we had some friendship earlier, so I made it clear to you directly.

Those candidates said that if you don't want to go, they should go to the censors in Taixue. They probably thought that these censors would support them. "

The palace guard who came to communicate was called Xiang Yang, and he was a Lang Guan.

King Wuqiu Shou was also a literary attendant before, and one of their tasks was to accompany Liu Che to hunt and play.

So the two of them were considered acquaintances, and based on their close relationship, Xiang Yang turned around and sold out all those candidates.

"Okay, it seems that there is really an expert instigated behind it.

A group of children in their teens actually know how to use their strength to fight.

In the future, I will definitely invite you to have a good meal, Xiangyang, and now I have to trouble you to invite the three censors to the gate of Taixue. "

Xiang Yang didn't know why King Wuqiu Shou did this, so he hesitated.

Zhang Yuan was unlucky, Xiang Yang could stand aside and watch the excitement, but King Wuqiu Shou also had some friendship with him, if King Wuqiu Shou could continue to be promoted in the future, he might not be able to become a high official as a Lang Guan.

"But wouldn't this simply boost the morale of those candidates?"

"There are some things that I can't tell you clearly yet, so just do it.

Arms can never twist thighs. Now we are thighs, understand? "

Now that King Wuqiu Shou has said so, Xiang Yang will not try to persuade him again. These words once made people feel caring, but if they are said, they will make people feel bored.

"Okay, then I'll go find those censors, do you want to go directly to the gate of the Taixue now?"

"You go first, I'll hang them for a while.

Let their arrogance burn a little longer. "

After Xiangyang left Taixueling's residence, King Wuqiu Shou returned to his room.

It was Chenshi when it was dawn, and it was almost Sishi now.

Some people may be surprised that the twelve hours of the day are fixed, but the length of night and day varies with the seasons.

Why is it the hour of dawn every day? This is completely unscientific.

If he meets such a person, Zhang Yuan has nothing to do.

The precise timing of the copper pot hourglass, except for a set in the palace, is not even considered in other places.

Sundials were not very accurate at this time.

In addition, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the time was not named after the twelve earthly branches, but in the middle of the night, cock crowing, Pingdan, sunrise, eclipse time, corner, daytime, daytime, evening time, sunset, dusk, and meditation. To name the twelve hours.

So as long as the sun comes out at dawn, everyone thinks it is Chen time.

Work at sunrise and rest at sunset, the habit becomes natural.

Of course King Wuqiu Shou went back to his room to see if Zhang Yuan was up, otherwise he was worried that he might not be able to restrain the group of examinees and the three censors later.

As a result, when he entered the room, he found that Zhang Yuan was still lying flat on the bed, and the quilt had been kicked to the ground.

The whole person is placed into a word too.

Whether to wake Zhang Yuan or let Zhang Yuan continue to sleep, he had to make such a choice twice in an hour.

King Wuqiu Shou felt very tired at this moment and needed someone to care for him and comfort him.

"Cough cough cough."

It was too risky to wake him up directly, so King Qiu Shou began to cough, hoping to wake up Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan vaguely heard bursts of coughing, and did have some reaction.

He was sleeping on his back just now, but now he was sleeping on his side when he was disturbed.

One of the hands was unconsciously placed on the ear to cover it.

If he knew how difficult it was to be the Taixuecheng, King Wuqiu Shou would have chosen to continue to be a happy literary servant, writing articles every day and accompanying the emperor to play around. What a happy life it is.

(End of this chapter)