Stirring up with the old enemy

In the spring of the 11th year of Yong'an, the imperial court really made it known to the world, announcing the reform of the Qiuwei system in the future.After the restructuring, starting from the 14th year of Yong'an, officials were no longer only selected from aristocratic families, but from poor families.

The imperial edicts were posted in the streets and alleys, and the Taoist government went all over the countryside with drums and gongs to publicize them.

Chen Jingming huddled among the bustling crowd on Chang'an Zhuque Avenue, raised his head vigorously, his lacquered eyes were bright, and his eyes were fixed on the lines of small characters.

He has never been recommended by a noble person so far, so he must miss it this year.The next time will be three years later, the 14th year of Wing On.

In the 14th year of Yong'an, the imperial court is about to open the Enke and change the recommendation system to the imperial examination system. All scholars in the world, regardless of whether they study Confucius, Mencius or Mingjing, can try it.Even those who are not fluent in reading and can only wield knives and sticks can participate in the military election after the literary test.Emperor Yong'an Qin Su personally sits in the town and selects the champion of the military.

Tears poured out of the boy's eyes layer by layer.

Before he realized it, Chen Jingming was already crying.He clenched his fists tightly, and through the mist of sight like hot tea soup, he heard the beating sound of his own heart.There was a lot of laughter and chatter in his ears, but he felt very quiet at this moment.

Very quiet very quiet.

When it was so quiet, he heard the sound of reading in the dilapidated private school in the country again.He raised a hundred households in Chenjia Village, and begged his father to sue his grandmother to dig out a scholar from a neighboring village. The down-and-out scholar taught for two years, and then went to join relatives and friends in the clan.Three years after Kaimeng, the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall was deserted again.He scratched the handwriting on the yellow ground with a stone lump, identified each one, and chanted.

After 12 years of bumpy schooling, all kinds of hard work, now I finally see the dawn of my wish.

Chen Jingming tried his best not to lose his composure, repeating that a gentleman doesn't enjoy himself with things, but when he turned around, he burst into tears in the bustling Chang'an market.

The heavens have eyes, the selection of officials has finally been restructured!If one day Chen Jingming is able to enter the court as an official, he must... must, live up to today's oath!Oh no, he must have captured that Marquis Pingle alive, and put him in Luowei!

**

In the winter of the 12th year of Yong'an, a piece of good news was passed from outside Hangu Pass to Chang'an.After exhausting the five stage horses, the news of the great victory finally reached the hands of Emperor Yong'an Qin Su.

Emperor Yong'an Qin Su rose up against the court, suddenly stood on the court hall, and laughed aloud in front of the civil and military officials of the court.

"Great victory, great victory at Hangu Pass!"

In the winter of the 12th year of Yong'an, Hao Chun, the young master who was once ridiculed for his meritorious service, became famous in the first battle.

**

In the spring of the 14th year of Yong'an, the dry grass roots of cattail cattails were shrunk by the wind, and they could not grow tender green even after years.

Hao Chun sat in the tent of the commander in the Western Regions, rolled up the imperial documents, and grinned. "I heard that the Qionghua in Chang'an City is in bloom, and the Holy Majesty called me back to Beijing to enjoy the flowers."

"Hou Ye has been stranded in Hangu Pass for several years, it is indeed time to return to Beijing."

He is a newly promoted tooth general, and he usually likes to praise Hao Chun's stinky feet, answering everything.Whenever Hao Chun speaks, he will be the first to cheer.

But he wasn't the only one.

Hao Chun bared his teeth and looked at the generals in the tent with a smile, all of them were flattering.

"The defenses outside Hangu Pass have just been erected, and the city walls are not yet strong." Hao Chun hesitated on purpose, and sighed faintly. "Hey! Otherwise, Lord Ben would really like to go back to Chang'an. If nothing else, at least the tent will be warm."

"That is that is!"

"In Chang'an City, there are more than just hibiscus tents warming up. In this season, flowers are blooming all over the city."

"Master Hou, didn't you just respond to the sentence when you went back this time, the spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease?"

Hao Chun picked up the rolled-up documents with his fingertips, and heard the same flattering sounds in his ears, suddenly lost interest.Chang'an City is just a strange place to him. His hometown has been destroyed, his parents are dead, and even the only elder brother who has ever depended on him died when he entered the palace to serve the immoral heroine Empress Min.

Everyone said that he was proud of his spring breeze, horseshoe disease, what a fart!If you ask Hao Chun, it's not decent to recall the messy things of his old Hao's family.

It's better to stay in this bitter cold place and be king at ease.

"Ah, Qionghua." Hao Chun smiled casually with his teeth bared, his expression turned light, and he said indifferently: "I don't know if it is similar to my scenery outside Hangu Pass? Orchids in Chang'an City probably don't come here either." His wife is beautiful."

As expected, all the generals in the tent burst into laughter.

"Master Hou, if you like the wife of Kucha Kingdom, you can bring it back with the army."

"That's right, Lord Hou, you should get more women to give birth to your baby."

"Master Hou is romantic!"

All the disturbance was filled with unsavory and obscene words.

Hao Chun smiled like a real playboy, squinting his eyes, slightly curved his lips, put one foot on the desk, and said loudly: "How can a few women be enough? We must have a dozen!"

The laughter in the tent resounded through the sky.

Hao Chun also laughed along with the generals.In the army, he had to be vulgar.If the vulgarity wasn't enough, not only were these veterans disobedient to him, but even his aura lost half when they yelled at each other.

But after abandoning the vulgarity of these social occasions, what he doesn't want and can't admit is that he feels more and more deserted now.In the middle of the night, there was no one next to the pillow in the tent, and when he returned to the camp after being wounded, he was served by a dull military doctor. God knows how depressed he was!

He was so bored that he wished he could tear down the wall, or kill all the barbarians in the Western Regions in one go.

"When will Lord Hou plan to return to Chang'an?"

Hao Chun came back to his senses, his eyes drifted over the desert outside the Great Wall, where there were no flowers in spring and March outside the tent, and he grinned. "I'll be back at the end of the month."

As a result, they encountered an attack on the camp the next night.Hao Chun led the crowd to rush out from the blazing tent, mounted their horses one after another to fight back, but the opponent was nowhere to be found like a ghost.

Hao Chun couldn't be angry, and the next day he personally ordered three thousand heroes, took advantage of the newly bright sky to chase all the way, and was ambushed in the hinterland of the desert.The two sides were evenly matched, and fought fiercely again. In the end, Hao Chun narrowly won by luck.

All the people under the account came to persuade him again, saying that since he won, he should return to the court as soon as possible.One is that the current Emperor Yong'an urged him to go back to enjoy the flowers, and the other is that Da Sikong Cheng Huaijing also specially acted as a matchmaker for the young master Hao Chun and proposed a pretty good woman.

Whenever Hao Chun saw someone coming to persuade him, he would just smile and say nothing, but his offensive against the barbarian army in the Western Regions became more and more fierce.Gradually, everyone realized that the young master did not want to return to Chang'an.Not only don't want to, even don't want to mention it.

"kill--!"

Once again, Hao Chun fell off Jiujue, angrily issued an order to attack in the army, and then rushed out in the first place.

The sun in the desert is extremely fierce.After nightfall, the snow-white salt-alkali frost formed, and after the moonlight, it became whiter and more miserable.Over the years, the young master Hao Chun, who was wrapped in a bright red robe, looked like a sharp arrow off the string, galloping in the Western Regions, and suddenly the sound of horseshoes rolled up smoke and dust all over the place.

The Qionghua in Chang'an City bloomed and withered, and it was late autumn. The imperial court's new imperial examinations were all over, and Hao Chun, the Marquis of Pingle, was still stranded in the Western Regions.The memorial was diligent, and a fief flew to Chang'an, or Gaochang people attacked the camp, or a new Loulan spy was discovered.

In short, it is just one sentence, do not return to Chang'an.

In the autumn of the 14th year of Yong'an, the court meeting on the second day of September received a battle report from Feng Ping Lehou from the Western Regions.

"Who the hell allowed him to stay in the Western Regions!" Emperor Yong'an Qin Su got up furiously, glanced at ten lines, and then smashed his paper in public.

The censor Chen Jingming raised his head and glanced calmly.

"Your Majesty, cough cough... Rong Zhi."

Da Sikong Cheng Huaijing, who was sitting side by side with Emperor Yong'an Qin Su, coughed, raised his eyelids, frowned and said displeasedly, "Sit down first!"

Emperor Yong'an Qin Su, who was standing on the steps, waving his arms and swearing at his mother, suddenly went dumb, looked back, drooped his thick eyebrows, and obediently returned to sit on the dragon chair.

Emperor Yong'an and Qin Suren sat down, but his anger was still burning. "No, this kid from the Hao family has become determined after eating the weights, I must screw him over!"

Hao Chun went to the Western Regions for ten years since Yong'an, and with the superb Hao family spear, he conquered the old gang of Hao family when he arrived.Almost without resistance, the rebel generals recognized him when they saw the red-tasseled gun.Seeing that the situation was not good, Bai Sheng turned around and fled.Xu Changping took 300 cronies into the vast desert, and his whereabouts are still unknown.Hao Qiu, the leader of the bandit, was put to death, escorted back to Chang'an in a wooden cage cart, and sentenced in the winter of the 11th year of Yong'an.

Before Yongan's ten-year expedition, Hao Chun completed the tasks assigned by Emperor Yongan meticulously, even far exceeding expectations.

But Emperor Yong'an just felt uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty," Da Sikong Cheng Huaijing leaned slightly, speaking in a calm and unhurried manner. "Marquis Ping Le has been in the Western Regions for nearly four years. The imperial court's frontier defense is changed every five years. When the five-year period expires, the general must return to Beijing to report on his duties."

Emperor Yong'an's eyes lit up.

Seeing that he finally understood, Cheng Huaijing nodded slightly and smiled, bright red tears and moles under Tao Hua's eyes. "That's right, Your Majesty, why don't you wait until Pinglehou returns to Beijing to report on his duties?"

Emperor Yong'an Qin Su coughed twice and cleared his throat, and instantly turned his anger into joy. He said in a deep voice to the officials standing below the steps: "Is there anything else you need to report to the court meeting today? Report it quickly."

The matters concerning the Western Regions and Pingle Hou Haochun will not be mentioned here.

Chen Jingming stood at the end of the civilian line, and lowered his head calmly.

At a distance of more than a hundred feet, Da Sikong Cheng Huaijing, who was sitting side by side with Emperor Yong'an, slightly raised his eyelids, his eyes fell on the green official robe of the new champion of the humble family, and he smiled silently.

**

After the court, Chen Jingming walked behind the officials and slowly walked down the imperial steps.

"Chen Yushi! Chen Yushi stay!"

Chen Jingming raised his head, and as expected, he saw that it was the Minister of the Ministry of War who once made a fuss about catching a son-in-law.

This fall, the imperial court was restructured for the first time, with a wide selection of poor families, and he was well-known as the top of the list.On the day when the list was announced, he had just appeared on Zhuque Street, and immediately asked the servant of Yuan Shilang's family to arrest him and put him in the carriage.At that time, the Minister of the Yuan Dynasty smiled and said to him in the car, Zhuangyuan Lang is in high school, the old man congratulates first!

dare not.Chen Jingming was turned around by several servants, full of reluctance.Besides, he couldn't see the list at that time, he hesitated for a moment, and then answered cautiously, the student hadn't seen the list yet, the word champion...

The old man has already seen it for you!Yuan Shilang patted the empty seat beside him affectionately, and smiled at him kindly, "Your name is Chen Jingming?"Nanyang people?

Exactly.

Then you can't go wrong!Yuan Shilang laughed out loud.You are the number one scholar who was newly released after the imperial reorganization this year. Now the whole city of Chang'an is in turmoil. Many officials' families want to arrest you and go back to be their son-in-law.The old man is not talented, one step ahead, one step ahead, haha!

Yuan Shilang said haha ​​on the left and haha ​​on the right, Chen Jingming was at a loss as to what to do, so he could only bow his head and say quietly, the students were ignorant, and they were lucky enough to win the first prize, so they dared not compete with the girls of your house.

Hey, why is it called Gao Pan?Yuan Shilang said repeatedly, this is the old man who loves you and is talented, and the old man is admirable.

The memories of that day in Yuan Shilang's carriage flooded into his mind for a moment, Chen Jingming frowned subconsciously, and looked up at Yuan Shilang who was standing at the bottom of the steps waiting for him.

"Your Majesty, I have seen the servant!"

"Don't be restrained, don't be restrained." Yuan Shilang waved his hand nonchalantly, and smiled at him very eagerly. "The weather is good these days, and the chrysanthemums are blooming in my house. I wonder if Chen Yushi would like to come and sit at my house?"

Yuan Shilang is only forty this year, but he has three daughters under his knees, all beautiful and beautiful. The eldest daughter has made a name for herself as a talented girl early, but still no one cares about her. Yuan Shilang is unavoidably anxious.

No, Lalang pulled to the imperial steps of Chaohui.

The rest of the officials are well aware that this year's department is unusual, and Cheng Da Sikong sits in charge in person, and this new champion student... is a talented person marked by Cheng Da Sikong himself.

In the civil and military dynasties, everyone wanted to curry favor with Cheng Da Sikong, but couldn't find a way out.

Cheng Da Sikong is neither greedy for money nor lustful, the mansion of Da Sikong is useless, and he only eats and lives with the emperor on a daily basis.When he went down to court, all the officials couldn't even see his face.Not to mention door-to-door gifts!

Fortunately, this Cheng Da Sikong selected a champion this year, and personally received it under his sect.To curry favor with this new top scholar is not to curry favor with Cheng Da Sikong.

In the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, everyone was vying to recruit a son-in-law, and everyone wanted to rob Chen Jingming.

I hate Yuan Shilang for being too quick!

"My lord servant," Chen Jingming, who was regarded by all the officials as a favorite, was miserable, cupped his hands, and declined, "I'm not feeling well recently, I'm afraid I won't be able to go."

"Oh, discomfort? What is the discomfort? Do you want to find a more experienced doctor to take a look?" Yuan Shilang immediately hit the snake and put it on the stick, becoming more and more eager.

The author has something to say:

Yuan Shilang: Where is Chen Yushi feeling unwell?

Chen Jingming (frowning, caressing his heart): My wife is still at the border and refuses to come back. I feel uncomfortable everywhere.