Ancient promotion routine

King Wei stepped forward and said, all the people his sister sent to assassinate Zhang Yanjin died in the hands of Zhang Yanjin, it must be strange that this person can return to Beijing alive.

"I agree with King Wei and King Zhao." King Jin said suddenly.

"You go back first." The emperor listened to these princes' remarks against Zhang Yanjin, and looked at Zhezi sharply. Regardless of whether Zhou Qin's son was involved in this matter, the tolerance of these princes really made him disappointment.

As for the prince, the emperor only hoped that his health would get better, and naturally it was impossible to push him to the top of the wave.

Ningguo Mansion.

Ning Guogong came to Zhang Yanjin's courtyard, but he was in vain.

"Where are people?" Ning Guogong frowned and looked at the deserted courtyard, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Grandpa, Erlang didn't come back from the restaurant last night." Ruifu replied.

This country's father-in-law has come to this yard every other day since he came back from Erlang, it's really not a coincidence every time.

Ruifu dare not say that Erlang has stayed in this yard for a while since he came back and then left.

"Forget it, let him do it." Duke Ning thought of something and shook his head.This Li Rongniang... He sighed, never expecting to encounter such a thing.

Besides, after Zhang Yanjin came back, he didn't go back to Ningguo Mansion at night except drinking in the restaurant. Ruifu came to the restaurant three times a day to find someone, but Zhang Yanjin drove them back.

"It's rare to have a bosom friend every thousand cups of wine, haha, my bosom friend, let's have a toast." Zhang Yanjin held up the wine glass and made a gesture of toasting.

Ruifu came to the restaurant again to look for people, saw Erlang was drinking again, and hurriedly stepped forward to tell him to go around, "Erlang, it's terrible, the Duke is angry, you haven't seen anyone for half a month, Lord Li and Lord Chen are here Visiting from the mansion, the Duke didn't see you, he knew you were in the restaurant, he had already called someone to come, I came out from the backyard, so they came here first."

"Hey, Ruifu, if you want to drink, sit down. Uncle and the others have come to see me, right? I'm fine. You just let them go back. I'm fine, I'm fine." Zhang Yanjin shook his head, as if he had really lost consciousness up.

"Hey, Erlang, drink some hangover soup first." Ruifu always brings this hangover soup when he comes to the restaurant every day, but Zhang Yanjin has never drank it.

"Ruifu, haven't you heard of it? If you don't get drunk, everyone gets drunk. I'm drunk. I'm drunk." Zhang Yanjin sneered at herself. Is he really drunk? Maybe it's just some people themselves. He was pretending to be drunk and unwilling to wake up, he was just doing it to show those people.

"Hey, why did you drink so much?" Li Lian couldn't help being dumbfounded as he looked at the jugs all over the floor.

If you drink it like this, don’t drink it badly, he persuaded, "A man does something and doesn’t do it. What are you doing? Is this what your husband did? Spoiled in wine every day, that’s a villain and a bad man." What the governor did."

Afterwards, Chen Derang, who followed, saw Li Lian showing an official reassuring posture, and instead of stopping him as usual, he nodded and said, "Master Li is right, everything you have done has amazed me, so don't let this matter cause you to become depressed." , although there are many dangers this time, Qingshan is still..."

"Thank you uncle for your concern. I, Zhang Yanjin, are fine. I'm fine." Zhang Yanjin raised his glass and drank.

"Hmph, don't worry about him, Nizi." Later, Duke Ning Guo was furious when he saw this, but fortunately, his servants helped him so that he didn't fall to the ground.

Everyone surrounded Ning Guogong, Zhang Yanjin smiled wryly when he saw this, but actually poured the wine in his hand into his stomach.

……

"What are you talking about, that Duke Ning was overwhelmed by Zhang Yanjin?" Princess Yuyang immediately stood up upon hearing this.

Zhang Yanjin became angry with his uncle because of a woman and became the laughing stock of the capital. Princess Yuyang couldn't imagine that scene.

"Yes, Master Li and Master Chen were also present. Now the news has spread in the capital, and the subordinates have sent people to confirm that Zhang Yanjin is still in the restaurant."

"Haha, Zhang Yanjin, you have today too." Princess Yuyang laughed heartily, and she finally let out the bad breath in her heart.

This is what is called people don't behave themselves, they deserve it, and they don't know each other.In fact, she was also jealous in her heart, and jealousy made people crazy.

"Why is sister so happy?" King Wei asked curiously when he heard Yuyang's laughter when he stepped into the gate of the Princess Mansion.

His elder sister is usually insidious, she always smiles on the surface, why is she so forthright today, but elder sister's intelligence is not comparable to that of ordinary women.

"Nothing?" When Princess Yuyang saw King Wei coming to the Princess Mansion, she returned to her usual appearance. Her younger brother went to the Three Treasures Hall for everything, and she was afraid that there was something she needed to help.

"Sister, the emperor seems to be researching something these days, and he often summons the minister of the Ministry of Industry."

Princess Yuyang squinted her eyes, thinking that Zhang Yanjin was playing dumb, if the actions of the Ministry of Industry hadn't been for that Zhang Yanjin, how could it be possible to develop something that interested the emperor, she seemed to be happy just a little too early.

"What do the people from the Ministry of Industry say?"

"Our people haven't heard the news yet. The emperor seems to only let Huang Xiujun be in charge, and no one else can get the news."

"Take good care of Zhang Yanjin. If the emperor uses him again, the prince will have an extra helper. Zhang Yanjin refuses the favors of all the princes except the prince. If it doesn't work, then..." Princess Yuyang wiped her neck.

In Imperial City, under the Son of Heaven, only she, Yuyang, dared to do this.

……

Zhang Yanjin didn't expect that she would be missed by others even after she became like this.

"What wave is this?" Zhang Yanjin asked in the dark.

He has been accompanied by people since he came back from the capital. On the way to the city, he thought about how to face those powers in human skin.

But before he could think clearly, the prince sent someone over, saying that the emperor was worried about him.

Zhang Yanjin did not doubt the words of the crown prince because these people were sent by the crown prince, and he did not express any objection, but the crown prince was sincere or it was to repay his kindness or the emperor's instruction.

He didn't care about these things, his current enemies were those who wanted to kill him, and Li Ying didn't know what to do.

"Three waves."

Heh, can't wait so soon, the snake heart is not enough.

"How is Zhang Yanjin doing recently?" The emperor fiddled with the Thousand Machine Crossbow in his hand. This thing is really useful. If Zhang Yanjin had second thoughts and brought this thing with him early, no one would be able to do anything to him for a while.

"Father, it's still the same." The prince replied from the side, his breath was stable, and he didn't have the feeling of sickness in the past.

Did the emperor know, the prince thought in his heart.But his face was really calm, looking ahead.

The prince looked at the thousand machine crossbow in the emperor's hand, his eyes were full of admiration.

"Why didn't you say Zhang Yanjin, a greasy boy, took this person who still wanted you with him?" The emperor said unintentionally, "This is for you, so that you can defend yourself, so that you don't have any troubles when there are no people around you."

"Father, this thing is best used for surprise attacks, but if you know it for no reason, this crossbow will be useless if someone is holding that shield."

"Don't you understand, this thing is very fine, and it's not the same as the bows and arrows in the army. The Ministry of Industry has been working on them for three months, and only two of them have been produced."

People from the Ministry of Industry have this ability, the prince asked in his heart when he heard what the emperor said.

Naturally, Huang Xiujun didn't have this ability. He often went to ask Zhang Yanjin late at night to make this Qianji crossbow, and the final product was debugged by Qianji crossbow himself.

The emperor naturally didn't know the details of how the thousand machine crossbow was cast, even if he knew, he wouldn't pay much attention to it, the emperor valued the result.

"How is the private salt investigation going?"

"There are some clues, and it has something to do with the Ruiguo government, but the seventh brother and the fourth brother seem to have invested in some salt business."

"Both of these have gotten into Qian's eyes. How about Zhang Yanjin's snow medicine? Does it have any effect on private salt?"

Prince: "It was because of the appearance of snow medicine that it was discovered that the smuggled cigarette dealers had some relationship with the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family followed the convenience of the government's transportation and sent out more salt. In fact, the amount of salt transported was not the amount specified by the government. Slowly, the extra white The salt flowed to the people, even the Turks."

"However, because of this, the salt smuggling profits of those aristocratic families have dropped a lot, which made those people mess up and find out the people behind the smuggling of salt." The prince said in a word.

The emperor appointed the prince as the investigator of private salt this time, but in fact, he valued that the prince has no power behind him. If it was replaced by any other prince, the emperor would not be at ease.

It's okay to be rampant in salt smuggling, but going to Turkic will shake the foundation of Wei. Naturally, the emperor wants to rectify it, and the family has too much power.

All of this has become a serious worry for the emperor.

***

On the fifteenth day, the moon is sixteenth round, and this folk lantern festival is also opened on the sixteenth day as in previous years.

The emperor held a banquet in the palace, and Ningguo Duke's Mansion naturally received the post, and other aristocratic families were no exception.

Ning Guogong asked Zhang Yanjin not to enter the palace, lest those aristocratic families would make trouble in the palace, Zhang Yanjin naturally agreed.He was afraid that when he saw those people, he couldn't help but shoot them through the heads with the Thousand Machine Crossbow.

"Uncle, go slowly." Seeing Duke Ning and his two cousins ​​getting into the carriage, Zhang Yanjin was about to turn back to the mansion for a good night's sleep. It was finally peaceful these days, probably because the emperor used some means.

Zhang Yanjin looked up at the big moon in the yard. Most of the servants in the mansion were sent home by Ning Guogong for the festival, only the vigil and the necessary manpower remained.

Even that kid Ruifu has gone home.During festive seasons, Zhang Yanjin misses her relatives a lot, but Zhang Yanjin dare not at this time.

"Zhang Shilang, are you interested in enjoying the moon and drinking with us?" Li Ying jumped off the wall and said with a smile.

"The gate is open, why don't you go from there?" This kid really likes to climb walls, and I don't know when he got this problem.

"Today there will be a lantern festival and guessing puzzles on the street, why don't we go together to ask for a lottery?" Li Ying said.

"Why didn't you stay with your uncle and parents at home?" Zhang Yanjin asked. Although Li Ying usually looked a little unscrupulous, he was a real dutiful son.

"They all went to the palace to accompany the emperor to celebrate the festival. I'm not used to the rules in the palace, so I didn't go with them." Li Ying waved his hand and asked again: "You don't want to go to the palace either, what? I'm alone, why don't you spend a holiday with me?"

Zhang Yanjin looked at her friend and smiled, probably because this kid was afraid of being lonely, so it was true to come to accompany her for the festival. Although he didn't have much intention to go to the lantern festival, since his friend specially prepared this kind of intention, Zhang Yanjin naturally didn't Will not know what is good or bad.

The two of them left the Ningguo Mansion all the way, dressed like Brother Erlang, and came to this crowded lantern festival.

"Why don't you usually see so many people on the streets of the capital?" Zhang Yanjin looked at the crowd in front of him, there were too many people, and it wasn't such an exaggeration to say that it was a lantern festival.

"Of course there are too many people. This is the Lantern Festival and it's a good day for shopping. Many things today are rare. Come and let me take you to a good place where there are fewer people."

Zhang Yanjin was dragged into a moat by Li Ying. There were fewer people, but the voices of people were indeed noisier than before.

"Those are for guessing lantern riddles. There are hanging lanterns over there, and there are lantern festival words over there. How about it? Do you want to try it?" Li Ying suggested that he was well prepared to take Zhang Yanjin out today, and he must bring one today. Come back home.

Zhang Yanjin came to a small stall with the word "Wenhu" written on it. There were the most people gathered here, and the lanterns prepared by the stall owner were also exquisite in style and extremely meticulous in workmanship.

There are glazed cups the size of a palm, and Kongming lanterns half as tall as a person.

"Okay, let's ask this Erlang to answer." There was a roar from the crowd, Zhang Yanjin raised her head and found that everyone was looking at her, a little confused.

"Erlang, you picked up the glazed cup from the stall, but you want to make this tiger-fighting puzzle?" The stall owner looked at Zhang Yanjin with a smile. Five qian, today he made a lot of money with this glazed cup.

"You took the lantern to answer the question." Li Ying explained beside him.

"Erlang, listen carefully. There are three questions here. If Erlang answers all of them correctly, Erlang can choose the lanterns at the stall."

"Why don't you write it down?" Zhang Yanjin asked, if there is paper and pen to solve the problem, there is an [-]% certainty that it can be solved.

"Erlang, this is not a joke. The scholars who can write and read are the work of Erlang. Where do we have the money to go?"

The peddler smiled wryly.

"The first question is a category called "Someone is coming from the spring at the edge of the mountain""

"The second question is to play an idiom called "Li Kui sends Jiang Li to the bow of the boat""

"The third question is to type a word, named" The two of them crossed the single-plank bridge together and ran forward in order. "

"Narcissus, help each other in the same boat, Cong" Zhang Yanjin said, the last question posed by the stall owner is all introductory knowledge from books, so why can it be the final question.

There was bursts of applause from the crowd, and the sad face of the stall owner was pulled down. He bought these puzzles from that down-and-out scholar at a high price, and he guessed them right away. The scholar asked carefully.

"Give this to Erlang. Compared to Erlang, he must be a well-educated person." The stall owner handed the glazed cup to Zhang Yanjin, hoping that this person would leave immediately so as not to disturb his business.

Zhang Yanjin was surrounded by the crowd, and her body got goosebumps, and Li Ying, who was watching the fun, laughed until her stomach ached.

"You are embarrassed to laugh, this is the good place you said?" Zhang Yanjin looked at Li Ying, when did this kid have the leisure to play tricks on himself.

"This is not to get you into the fire. You don't always say you want to be down-to-earth, but today's going deep into the people is what you call down-to-earth."

Seeing what Li Ying said, Zhang Yanjin knew that his friend was worried about him, but he heard what the stall owner said just now, and asked, "There are few scholars in Dawei?"

"It's not too rare. Basically, all the children of the family and the officials come from the academies controlled by the family. Those academies still have rigid regulations that the children of non-family families cannot enter."

"Before the founding of the country, there were nobles like you. Now that the family has grown up, all the officials in the court are the children of the family," Li Ying said casually.

Zhang Yanjin did not expect that the official structure of the Great Wei was so simple. No wonder the emperor did not attack the family for a long time. Instead, he backed down everywhere and used him to fight against the family. In turmoil, the people are in dire straits.

"Then the common people don't read and can't read?"

"That's not true. People like merchants will also set up some folk schools, but the aristocratic family is more strict about the preservation of paper and books. If you don't have enough money to hire someone to engrave, you will not be able to see the books in the collection."

Zhang Yanjin knew it in her heart.

This time it was the princes who harmed him and Li Rongniang, and the princes were fueled by the aristocratic family, if he hadn't tossed out snow medicine, which completely affected the interests of the aristocratic family, the princes wanted to kill him, and the aristocratic families would not listen.

Now that he has become a mortal enemy, he cannot be blamed.

"Li Ying, I'm going back first, you come to see me tomorrow, I have something to show you." Zhang Yanjin couldn't wait now.The fundamental solution is to diversify the talents of Wei, so that the aristocratic family no longer monopolizes the court.

Zhang Yanjin went back to the Duke's Mansion, and didn't sleep all night. It wasn't until Ruifu opened the door the next day that Zhang Yanjin realized that it was already dawn.

"Erlang, what are you doing?" Ruifu asked curiously.

The floor of the room is full of boards, and there is almost no place for anyone to stay.

"Master Lu and Wang Jiu and Wang Shi are back?" Zhang Yanjin asked with big bags under her eyes.

"Back, I'm back." Ruifu looked at Erlang's face and almost ran out of the door in fright, with disheveled hair and dark circles around his eyes.

"Okay, let them wait for me in the backyard in the afternoon, I'll sleep first." Zhang Yanjin yawned and walked to the bed.

"Erlang, do you want to take out these things on the ground?" Rui Fu had no place to stay, so he could only ask in the corner.

"Take it out and throw it away, and call me at noon." Zhang Yanjin struggled all night to figure out such a clue, and he had to ask Master Lu about the method of condensing the Great Wei.

Otherwise, it will not last long if it is rigid with mud, and it will be easily damaged.

Zhang Yanjin slept until it was almost sunset in the afternoon, during which time Li Ying came to look for him, saw someone sleeping and thought Zhang Yanjin was playing tricks on him, so he went back to the restaurant.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Zhang Yanjin yawned and asked, "Ruifu, what time is it?"

"Erlang, it's almost time for dinner, do you want me to bring it to you or you go to the lobby to eat?" Ruifu said.

In fact, he already had a lunch box in his hand, and Erlang hadn't eaten all day, so he must be extremely hungry at this time.

"Why didn't you call me? Forget it, is Master Lu still in the backyard?" Zhang Yanjin thought that he was dead asleep, and that Ruifu couldn't drag him up, so he asked about Master Lu's whereabouts.

"Master Lu is waiting for Erlang." Seeing that Zhang Yanjin was dressed and washed, Ruifu quickly put the lunch box on the table.

"Go over and let Master Lu and the others eat first, and I'll go find them later."

After Ruifu went out, there was another sound at the door, and Zhang Yanjin asked, "Why are you back again?"

"How dare you dig a hole in front of my door, causing me to miss the afternoon when I practice martial arts in the morning." Zhang Xiuwu walked in with an angry face.

Zhang Yanjin saw that Xiuwu's face was not right, he couldn't help but said in his heart, except for the garden at the back, the only place where there is dirt in the Ningguo Mansion is the martial arts training field in Zhang Xiuwu's yard. He took some dirt from there last night to save trouble.

"Hey, I drank too much last night, didn't I? Look at this, as compensation, how about I give you a pair of new horseshoes, made of pure silver?" Zhang Xiuwu is not a reasonable person, let alone what happened last night. He was wrong first.

"Why didn't I know about the new horse iron shoe?" Zhang Xiuwu didn't believe it, thinking that Zhang Yanjin was fooling him.

The second brother hasn't been to the Ministry of Industry for quite a while, so where is there anything new?

"I said yes, of course there will be. How about I give you the first one?" Seeing that the time is almost up, Zhang Yanjin promised Zhang Xiuwu a lot of benefits before sending him away.

"Master Lu, it's hard work." Zhang Yanjin came to the backyard, and saw that Master Lu and the others had already vacated a space for him.

"This time I'm going to make a printing template, that is, I can print the book directly on the paper."

"Will that allow many people to read?" Before Master Lu could speak, Ruifu asked beside him.

"Yes, with this printed template, we can mass-produce and increase the number of bibliographies, so that the dissemination and preservation of books will not be restricted by the manpower required for copying." Zhang Yanjin explained the benefits of the printed template in detail. Listen to a few people.