Falling plum

There is nowhere to go to Lantai, and the king of Xiao Hanmeng will not return.

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When Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty was in his later years, he would tell everyone about a ridiculous incident in his early years.He was still a prince at that time, he had concealed his identity, had participated in Xin Weinian's imperial examination, and was still a role model hand-picked by the late emperor.

When he was a teenager, he was originally a lively young man who liked to travel far and make friends, but later he was hindered by political affairs and gradually became rigid and serious.

In order to have a realistic experience of taking the imperial examination, he even dressed up as a scholar and stayed in an inn where candidates gathered.That night, the young Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty experienced the warmth and coldness of the people, and the heavy rain fell from the sky, which completely drenched his mattress.

As a last resort, he knocked on the door of the candidate next door, and when he knocked on the sixth room, the people inside were finally willing to take him in.

Then, he saw a tall and straight bamboo.

The bamboo rod pulled him into the door with a smile, locked the door, and gave him the bunk inside the bed.Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty had never slept with a man before, so he felt a little awkward, but he had no choice but to move his body to get on the bed. At this moment, he heard a voice slowly coming from the other side of the bed.

"My mother said that if you drag someone into your bed, then you have to be responsible to them. Why don't I marry you?"

Emperor Ming Hui almost rolled off the bed.

The examinee was already holding his stomach and laughing so hard that Emperor Minghui had no choice but to give that person a hard look, thinking that this person was too bad.

I saw that candidate again, it was in the palace examination of the Golden Luang Palace, he was ranked among the many candidates, the late emperor did not expose him, only to see that he answered smoothly and smoothly, but there were failures, every time he finished his answer , there was a slow and lazy voice, refuting his point of view to be useless, useless, and bruised.

At that time, Emperor Ming Hui was young and energetic, and was so choked that he couldn't speak. He only thought that the candidate in Tsing Yi was hateful and vicious, but he didn't expect that he would argue with this person for a lifetime.

In fact, that matter was of no benefit to his social status or political image. The only thing that was beneficial to him as a king was to bring Lu Yin to his side.

So the listener remembered who Xin Weinian's number one scholar was.

That is Prime Minister Lu, who will be in power in the future.

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Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty and Prime Minister Lu did not get along, which seems to be a well-known fact to passers-by. One monarch and one minister, one elegant and calm, one Zhilan Yushu, when they meet each other, they are like two fried roosters, insisting on pecking at each other. What to do next.

But even with such a bad relationship, it is a miracle that Lu Xiang can survive till now.

So some people said that it was because Lu Yin and the emperor had suffered together during the change of Seizing the Concubine's Palace.

It was the saddest time for Emperor Ming Hui. The emperor's uncles and elder brothers all rebelled. tough days.

They escaped the pursuers under the palace wall full of gunfire, and waited for the dawn in the endless black clothes.

The young emperor and his equally young counselor lost their identities on the dragon bed, sat cross-legged, and once confessed their hearts to each other, the emperor asked him, "At that time, you knew that I was the prince, what did you think?"

"At that time, I thought, I offended His Royal Highness, and my official career was over, but fortunately, my family left me a fortune-telling booth, and I planned to go home and inherit the ancestral booth." Lu Yin said seriously.

Emperor Ming Hui laughed, "Then I might ask you to tell your fortune?"

Lu Yin said, "It doesn't count."

"why?"

Lu Yin shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, my fate is up to me, how can I and other mortals be able to figure it out."

Ming Huidi knew that he was trying to boost his morale, so he smiled, "Finally, you still said something pleasant, so what about your own life?"

Lu Yin said seriously, "I will die by accident." Ming Huidi was annoyed, no one would curse himself to die by accident, and Lu Yin did not continue this topic, but instead talked about Lu Yin's hometown, Muzhou in the south of Wannan.

"Land of fish and rice, there are reeds everywhere, and there are so many beauties. Just look at me." Lu Yin said very seriously, although Emperor Ming Hui gave him a supercilious look.

"If I can't be the emperor, you can take me to your hometown to see." Emperor Ming Hui sighed.

It's a pity that Emperor Minghui later became emperor and never visited Lu Yin's hometown once.

But Lu Yin really died unexpectedly.

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During the years when Emperor Ming Hui was in power, he often felt that when he recruited Lu Yin to be an official, he just found someone to quarrel with.

However, this quarreling person was sharp-tongued, and the emperor couldn't beat him.

He had no choice but to stuff mung bean cakes into Lu Yin's mouth and let him calm down for a while. Lu Yin was also tired, sitting on the threshold of the palace and eating mung bean cakes angrily. Emperor Ming Hui couldn't laugh or cry, even the queen had never quarreled with him .

He laughed at him, "It seems that only delicious food can stop Aiqing's mouth." But he couldn't laugh after he finished speaking, Lu Yin's cheeks were bulging, his lips were red, like rouge, he was a little Feeling distracted, I had no choice but to turn my face away.

But when they really arrived at the court, the two still quarreled endlessly over whether to push or not to implement the New Deal.When Lu Yin put forward this new policy, it was already shocking the world. It promoted water conservancy, leveled land rights, encouraged trade with foreign continents, and abolished the Hu slave trade.

When he came down to court, his colleagues advised him that he should be more tactful in life, don't always think about pulling the dragon's beard, maybe one day Longyan will be furious.

But Lu Yin just laughed, "But what Your Majesty wants me to do is a sharp knife?"

The world is as transparent as Lu Yin, so how could he not know that if Emperor Minghui wanted to kill him, he would have been hacked to pieces several times. The emperor pampered and pampered him so much, not because the emperor was fatuous or flattering. Because of--

There are some things that the emperor cannot say.

There are some things that the emperor is inconvenient to do.

The emperor needs such a knife that unsheaths him and penetrates the false reality and false prosperity.

There are already many round stones in the world, but only Lu Yin has a knife that is willing to unsheath for him.

His colleagues couldn't persuade him, so he could only sigh again and again, but Lu Yin still went his own way, completely ignoring whether those who sweated for him could bear it or not.

In that year, under Lu Yin's vigorous promotion, the New Deal was finally implemented.

When those Hanlin Pavilion elders recalled the days when they fought for the implementation of the New Deal, and when they thought of Lu Yin who refused to give up half a step, they always sighed and sighed, and then used these words to describe Lu Yin——

"I have never seen such a stubborn person like Lu Yin in my life, and I have paid for it all my life."