Prime Minister

Chapter 292
Surrounded by Yijia's advocacy, Zhang Yue and other Jinshi came to the Daqing Hall. There are bell towers on the left and right in front of the hall.

The seal of the Taishi Bureau is engraved and leaked every day, and every hour, the tooth card is played.

During the grand ceremony on weekdays, the emperor will fast and stay here, and the grand court on the first day of the first lunar month is also here.

In front of the Daqing Hall, you can see the majestic Xuande Tower.

This is the south of the palace.

There are five gates in Xuande Tower, all of which are decorated with gold nails and red lacquer.

As for the Xuande Building, it is even more carved and painted, steep and multi-layered, and covered with glazed tiles.The Duolou on both sides are in the shape of a curved ruler, all decorated with colorful sills.

Now Tang Jie, the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture, is on the royal road in the center of the gate tower of Xuande Building, and there are officials from Kaifeng Prefecture on the left and right.They are waiting for Huang Bang and all Jinshi.

Zhang Yue had heard about Tang Jie for a long time.

Song Renzong once planned to appoint Zhang Yaozuo, the uncle of Concubine Zhang Gui, as a military envoy. Bao Zheng was annoyed by this matter, and the officials of Zhijianyuan headed by Tang Jie objected and said no.

Song Renzong was very angry at first, and later discussed it with Tang Jie. Now that the Jiedushi is a rough official (without real power), what are you arguing about.

Tang Jie hated him when he was in the palace, and Taizu and Taizong also served as Jiedu envoys.

Song Renzong was speechless, but he still gave Zhang Yaozuo the post of Xuanhui Envoy. Tang Jiejie asked what this meant?
Song Renzong said, the prime minister (Wen Yanbo) also agreed to this matter, so don't talk about it.

Tang Jie impeached Wen Yanbo, saying that he had given Shu brocade to curry favor with Concubine Zhang, and asked him to dismiss him.

Another royal censor, Wu Kui, had planned to go to court with Tang Jie for impeachment, but seeing that he also impeached Prime Minister Wen Yanbo, this made things worse, and Wu Kui decided to stop when he saw that the situation was not good.

Tang Jie simply impeached Wu Kui together, saying that he was a wait-and-see, not a good person.

Song Renzong had seen a single-minded person, but he had never seen such a single-minded person, so he wanted to demote Tang Jie. Tang Jie said that I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that I will not be demoted.

As a result, Wen Yanbo was dismissed as a prime minister, and Tang Jie was demoted because of this.

But Song Renzong regretted it, not only let Tang Jie come back, but also kept promoting him to the official position, and now he is the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Facing Tang Jie who "moved the world with his straight voice", I have to say that the Jinshi were still a little afraid.

At this moment, Tang Jie didn't have a straight face, and the officials on the side presented hairpins to Zhang Yue and all the Jinshi.

The more I don't like hairpins, I feel a bit like Napoleon likes to wear silk stockings. It was indeed fashionable at the time, and even the later emperor Song Huizong especially liked hairpins.

But Zhang Yue still couldn't accept it in his heart.

Not only is Zhang Yue such a straight man, Sima Guang didn't want to wear hairpins when he was a Jinshi, but it was bestowed by the emperor, and Sima Guang had to persuade him to wear it.Wang Anshi, who is also a good gay friend, does not object to hairpins even though he does not take a bath all day, otherwise there would be no good stories about four-phase hairpins.

In short, Sima Guang is also an interesting person. When Bao Zheng toasted, Sima Guang didn't drink at first and finally had a drink.

The emperor asked him to be a living officer, and Sima Guang refused several times, but finally he went to the post.

Seeing the hairpin, Zhang Yue rejected it and said, "I won't wear it."

Tang Jie said: "Is there any reason why the number one scholar in Yujie praises officials not to wear hairpins?"

Wang Zhichen said at the side, "The number one scholar doesn't wear hairpins, how dare we wait for hairpins."

Zhang Yue said silently for a while: "Forget it."

In the end, there are hairpins on the left and right of Zhang Yue's official hat, and the rest of the Jinshi also have hairpins.

In the Tang Dynasty, people picked flowers and wore them. In the Ming Dynasty, hairpin flowers were the number one scholar. In the Song Dynasty, everyone wanted hairpin flowers.

There are three horse-mounting stones standing under the Xuande Gate, and three royal horses of the gods are led by the imperial army and stand beside the horse-mounting stones.

"Please get on the horse!" Tang Jie cupped his hands and said.

Zhang Yue thanked him, he occasionally did horseback riding, and practiced archery in the archery on weekdays, so he was hardly a frail scholar.

Zhang Yue got on his horse immediately, and after seeing others wearing the flowers, he secretly took off the two hairpin flowers on his hat, and urged the horse out of Xuande Gate.

Tang Jie was taken aback when he saw this, and it was too late to stop him, so he watched him off and said: "This Zhuangyuan is also a stubborn person."

Seven Zou Jinwu Guards lead the way, Yijia advocates to keep up.

Bianjing Imperial Street runs directly from Xuande Gate to Nanxun Gate. Among all Jinshi scholars, they should first thank the emperor, and then thank the saints. Therefore, after leaving Xuande Gate, they should walk along the imperial street to the Imperial College next to Nanxun Gate to pay homage to the saints.

This road is also the origin of Yujie Kuaguan.

At this moment, countless people crowded the Royal Street, vying to see the demeanor of the number one scholar.

Shiyun, on the pavilion in front of Twelfth Street, who doesn't look at the gods with the rolling shutters.

The Wu family's car is returning to the mansion through the left door.

Passing by the Royal Street, it was blocked by the imperial army and could not advance or retreat.

Now in the carriage Li Taijun's face is almost green, facing the two daughters-in-law Fan, Wang has a bad face.

Just now on the high platform.

When Empress Cao asked Zhang Yue whether he was married, no one came forward to answer.Li Taijun pointed out that Xue Shi, Ouyang Xiu's wife who is Baoshan, came forward, but she didn't know that the other party didn't say a word.

Finally, on the high platform, let it go.

After the roll call, these officials and women chatted on the high platform.

Li Taijun also heard a lot of gossip. First, his in-law Fan Zhen wanted to dismiss Zhang Yue in the provincial examination, and then another in-law Wang Anshi tried to prevent Zhang Yue from winning the first prize.

Li Taijun sighed deeply, the Wu family really has the virtue and ability to get into such a good marriage.

Seeing Li Taijun's furious expression, Wang's is fine, anyway, she is not favored on weekdays, but Fan's is different.

Fan's family was uneasy, Li Taijun said to her: "Nowadays there are too many things at home, you don't have to worry about it so much, you gave the housekeeper key to Shi Qi, let her work for a while, otherwise how can you manage the house when you get married in the future."

"And your cousin, the water transportation errand that I asked for last time has also stopped. There have been a lot of mistakes recently, and the officials may not be able to deal with them strictly. I am afraid that your cousin will not be able to please, I am thinking about it. I can arrange for the errand to go to Xixia to deliver winter clothes, and I will tell your cousin later."

Fan's body is trembling, his cousin is fine, he has only been in charge of the house for more than a month, so he just gave it away, what will the servants in the family think of him?Will he still accept her in the future?
Seventeen Niang and Fan Shi have always been on good terms, and she couldn't bear to say: "Mother, my sister-in-law has presided over Zhongfu for more than a month, everyone in the family has agreed, and even took out the box-pocket money to renovate the courtyard in the mansion. My daughter can't convince everyone." , let alone be as good as my sister-in-law."

Upon hearing this, Fan gave Shi Qiniang a grateful look.

Li Taijun said softly: "I just let you practice more, so that you will have a sense of place in your heart when you are in charge of the house in the future."

"Mother, in fact, Mr. Zhang Sanlang is not from a noble family, and he doesn't need to raise so many servants to serve him, so he doesn't have much housework to take care of. Today I heard the story of the empress empress and Yan Taijun talking about the number one scholar from a poor family in this dynasty. Someone on the high platform said that Mr. Zhang Sanlang has long been engaged to our Wu family, and he might embarrass the empress."

Li Taijun was overjoyed when he heard the words, and then said: "Mr. Zhang Sanlang became engaged to us after he became a Jinshi. It doesn't matter how outsiders pass it on. At the beginning, I met Mr. Zhang Sanlang because he came from a poor family and did not have the habits of rich and noble families. , the relatives in the family are also simple, and they will definitely not treat you poorly in the future, I didn't expect him to become the number one scholar now."

Seventeen Niang said: "Daughter, thank you for your quiet arrangement."

Li Taijun smiled and said to Shi Qiniang: "Actually, marrying someone, such as a good family background, a good job, or a good appearance, is not as good as treating you well."

Li Taijun wanted to say more, but he saw the carriage stopped by the side, and someone came to report that Ouyang Xiu's wife Xue Shi saw the Wu family's carriage here, and came to say hello upon hearing the news.

It turned out that Ouyang's carriage was also blocked here.

Li Taijun nodded upon hearing this.

Two cars and horses lined up on the street, and the two wives talked through the curtain of the car.

Seventeen Niang, Fan guessed that she must be talking about Zhang Wu's marriage, so she was inconvenient to attend and got out of the carriage together.At this time, the sound of gongs and drums sounded, and the long line of imperial scholars boasting officials happened to be not far from Xuandemen.

Seventeen Niangs and Fan Shi are inevitably caught in the crowd, and both of them are wearing veiled hats.

Immediately, I saw people standing on both sides of Royal Street, and the restaurants and shops facing the street were also full of people.

Many women in the boudoir also went out to see the scene of Jinshi boasting officials and imperial streets.Along the royal street where officials and eunuchs look at the street, the women also rolled up the curtains, put aside their women's reserve, and watched the scene from afar.

"Who is this year's number one scholar?"

"You'll know when you come."

"If it's an old man in his 80s or [-]s, life will be boring."

All the women talked in one go.

Seventeen Niang stood aside, Fan pointed to the female relatives watching on the left and right and said with a smile: "There are quite a few people who came to see Mr. Zhang Sanlang."

Seventeen Niang lowered her head slightly, and then said: "If I knew it was like this, I wouldn't help you out in the future."

Fan laughed and said: "Okay, I was wrong, we seem to be coming soon."

It is said that Fan took Shiqi Niang's arm, but he heard the people on the left and right say: "Come on, come on!"

"The champion is here."

"What a handsome gentleman."

But hearing the sound of the trumpets getting closer, all the men and women on the street rushed forward, standing on tiptoe to look, but Shi Qi Niang and Fan Shi were stopped outside.

Shi Qi Niang and Fan Shi held their own identities, and they would not squeeze with others, so they simply retreated to the side and whispered.

From a distance, I could only see a yellow umbrella cover coming, with flags flying left and right, others could not see it, but saw a young man in green robes, without hairpins, riding a big The horse is coming...

Immediately, Seventeen Niang's eyes were fixed on the other party.

Zhang Yue was riding on the horse, but seeing the people on the street, he felt speechless at the moment, many passers-by waved to him, and even the women from rich families in the upstairs of the street also threw down the hairpins on their temples.

Zhang Yue rode his horse and glanced back at Huang Lu, remembering that he also passed by Yujie in the imperial examination to see the favor of the woman upstairs.

Now Huang Lu is also among the Jinshi crowd, following behind him.

Walking from Yujie, along the way, many relatives and friends of high school Jinshi came forward to hold each other's hand and talked to each other with tears.Those high school Jinshi also ignored the marching team and kowtowed in the street to thank them for their years of nurturing.

Zhang Yue was a little moved when he saw this, and looked around in the crowd.

Unexpectedly, he saw a familiar figure under a shop.Zhang Yue immediately stopped his horse, jumped off, and ran straight into the crowd.

The officials of Kaifeng government and the forbidden army who cleared the way were stunned. What happened?

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, what is the champion doing?

But Jian Zhang walked up to a woman wearing a veiled hat in the crowd, stuffed the two imperial hairpin flowers in her pocket into the opponent's hand and said something.

"Give you!"

(End of this chapter)