Jiapingguan Chronicle

Second Master Jiang looked at these little guys who had gone and returned, raised his eyebrows at Qin Zheng, Uncle Yan, and Uncle Wang, with a smug smile on his face.

"Look! Look! Did I hit the mark?" He shook his head triumphantly, "What did I just say? As long as they notice something is wrong, they will definitely come to us to ask for clarification. Yes. These little fellows are impatient, let alone wait until dawn tomorrow, it’s just a cup of tea, they won’t wait.”

"You are amazing, we are convinced!"

"You can't just be convinced!" Second Master Jiang stretched out his hand towards Qin Zheng, Uncle Yan and Uncle Wang, "I'd like to bet and admit defeat, you don't want to renege on your debt!"

"Are you serious?" Yan Bo looked at the outstretched hand and said dumbfoundedly, "Aren't you joking?"

"Of course not. Since we made a bet and now we have won or lost, of course we have to fulfill the contract."

Qin Zheng and Yan Bo looked at each other. Yan Bo reluctantly took out his purse from his arms, poured out a piece of broken silver and put it in front of Second Master Jiang. regret.

"Old Wang! Old Wang! It's your turn!"

"Understood, don't rush!" Uncle Wang sighed, and shook his head helplessly at the standing children, "Tell me about you, why are you in such a hurry? Why can't we wait one more night and let us lose so much Silver!" As he said, he took out a bunch of copper coins from his pocket and threw them to Second Master Shen, "Hey, it's just a little short!"

"It's a small difference, a thousand miles away!" Jiang Erye happily put away the money he won, and said cheerfully, "What does this mean? It only shows that you don't know them well enough. If they can bear it Ask again tomorrow, it’s not them.”

"Are you..." Xue Ruitian and Jin Jing looked at each other, "You made a bet on our reaction?"

"Isn't this obvious?" Second Master Jiang took a sip of his wine, raised his chin at Qin Zheng, Yan Bo and Wang Bo, "They insisted that you don't want to bother us, and they will ask me tomorrow, but I think you wait If it’s not tomorrow, I want to get the answer today. The result is, I’m right!”

"Second Grandpa, isn't it appropriate for you to do this?"

"What's inappropriate? I think it's quite appropriate."

Xue Ruitian thought for a while, then leaned over to Second Master Jiang in a cheap way, and said, "Then since we're making a bet, do we have a share in the meeting?"

"That's right, that's right!" Jin Jing also joined in the fun, "You've earned a lot this evening, should you share some with us, so that we can enjoy your happiness too?"

"Why should I share the money I earned with my own ability with you? Why?" Jiang Erye felt Shen Cha staring at him, and to be precise, he coughed lightly against the wine glass in his hand, and put The wine glass was placed on the table, and he pointed to another table that had already been set up, and told them to sit down, and then he said, "You come to me to ask questions, beg me to answer your questions, and I am very worthy of confiscating your money." You guys! It’s too good to think about splitting the meeting in half, right?”

"Hey, you are..." After hearing what Second Master Jiang said, Xue Ruitian clapped his hands and sighed, "You are really a businessman now, and you put your interests first!"

"Of course, business is business!"

"That's right, it's good to think so, we don't have to worry about you losing money."

"Are you worried that I won't suffer? You are worried that we won't be able to meet each other in the future." Second Master Jiang looked at Shen Haolin and then at Shen Cha. This silver, where is it like you, it looks like it fell into the eyes of the money."

"That's enough, that's enough, I can't listen to it anymore!" Uncle Wang patted Second Master Jiang's arm, "I don't know who among us has lost money, but I have the nerve to talk about his children."

"That's right, that's right!" Xue Ruitian held up the teacup and respected Uncle Wang from a distance, "Substitute tea for wine, I'm done!"

"This kid is really..." Uncle Wang shook his head helplessly, picked up the teacup in his hand, and took a sip, "Okay, the part of the game is over, it's time to talk about what you want to ask."

"I want to ask if Ningchang Kingdom is the real Ningchang Kingdom, or is it an imposter." Xue Ruitian recounted their guess just now in the shortest words, "If Ningchang Kingdom is not Ningchang Kingdom, then who is he? I made a fake for him back then. What's the end of the man, now?" He looked at Second Master Jiang, and asked tentatively, "Second Grandpa, you will be targeted by him, is it because of this? Although these old-fashioned people are not likely to put the clan's children in their eyes But at least there is respect, at least on the surface it can live, like old man Ning, who will attack the royal family's children, is it because you have pinched his sore spot?"

"This guy has a lot of sore spots, and I'm not the only one holding it. Why is he holding on to me?"

"Impersonation and falsification of household registration are different from other sore spots. In addition, he has always advocated the fallacy that the emperor and the clan should divide the world equally. It's hard for people not to doubt his origin, isn't it?" Xue Ruitian rubbed his chin, "Students from a poor family are not so... rebellious."

"I just said that these children are smart, and they will definitely guess the most important thing." Second Master Jiang nodded, and moved his hand to the wine glass quietly. Just when he was about to touch it, he heard Shen Chaqing Clearing his throat, he retracted his hand again. "Little tea, don't be so scary, okay? I didn't drink too much, not even half of what I usually drink!"

Shen Cha didn't speak, but just looked at Second Master Jiang indifferently. Second Master Jiang was a little scared, so he could only reach out his hand to the teacup.

"Okay, okay, don't look at me like that, I won't drink any more." He took a sip of tea, pretending to moisten his throat, and said, "Ningchang is indeed not from Zhongzhou, he was born in the Ning family of Chaozhou. The youngest son of the patriarch of the Ning clan."

"The Ning family of Chaozhou?" Shen Cha raised his eyebrows, "When the Great Xia Dynasty was established, it was clearly stipulated that several big clans were not allowed to participate in the scientific examination. You can enter the court as an official through recommendation and scientific examination. If I remember correctly, this Chaozhou Ning family is one of them, right?"

"You remember correctly." Jiang Erye nodded, "There are nine major clans in the south of the Yangtze River that cannot enter the court as officials. These clans are all big clans that the previous court relied on. The same treatment as the emperor, so they thought that Daxia would continue the previous dynasty. Taizu once said that these clans made this request to him when Daxia established the dynasty. But they must hold the same power as the Son of Heaven."

"Is it so natural?" Jin Jing couldn't help but sneered after hearing this, "Are they too self-righteous?"

"Because they take this as a matter of course, so they don't think they are self-righteous. What's more, the nobles of the clan headed by the royal family are all military generals. They feel that these military generals do not know how to govern the world. They must Depend on them."

"Isn't this face too big?" Xue Ruitian clicked his tongue. He knew that some big clans had abnormal brains, but he didn't know that they were so abnormal. "Taizu will definitely not allow it."

"Of course, Taizu didn't like the big clan very much. His brothers and friends were persecuted by the big clan in the previous dynasty. Of course he would not allow such a situation to happen, so he sternly refused. Those big clans refused to give up, entangled Taizu persistently, and found that Taizu was not fooled by them, so they changed their strategy."

"Changed strategy?" Xue Ruitian recalled what he learned in the East Palace, and shook his head lightly, "I don't have any impression!"

"Those old masters in the Eastern Palace will not tell you this. They are scholars, and they stand in the same camp as those big clans. They really hope that those big clans can defeat the imperial power, and their power can override the imperial power. But Emperor Taizu didn’t agree, what should we do? They came up with a way to force Taizu to commit crimes.”

"What way?"

Second Master Jiang smiled faintly, and slowly uttered two words.

"Spoofing!"