Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 322 Three Imperial Edicts
While talking, He Linggu inserted a glass six-petal peach hairpin on her head, and Meng Xiaowan pouted when she saw this.Seeing that she was silent, He Linggu picked up a pair of crystal pendants and put them on her ears.

Meng Xiaowan finally couldn't help shouting: "You should know that although Liu Da was taken, there was more than one who wanted to tie you up. You didn't hide well on the mountain and took such a big risk to go down the mountain, but only to harm me. s things?!"

He Linggu blinked, bullying Meng Xiaowan's inconvenience, she chose a bronze peacock crystal hand mirror and put it in her sleeve.

Bailu pouted and came over, fixedly staring at He Linggu, his eyes wide open.

He Linggu took another yellow glass bracelet, and Bailu's eyes got bigger.Curiously, He Linggu took another artificial amber plum blossom ring. Sure enough, Bailu's eyes had already widened. When He Linggu finally took the bone china comb in her hand, Bailu couldn't widen her eyes any more.

"So I can only stare to this extent," He Linggu then took out all those things, while Meng Xiaowan lay on the beauty's couch, clutching her belly and laughing.

"Senior sister, why are you so rambunctious? She is honest, why are you teasing her?"

Bai Lu didn't care about being amused, hurriedly put away all Meng Xiaowan's jewelry, and ran away in a hurry.

As soon as she got out, Bailu saw Baiying. She stuffed everything to Baiying, then rubbed the corners of her eyes, and muttered in a low voice: "Next time it's your turn. Playing a fool is no fun at all."

Baiying covered her mouth and just laughed.

In the room, He Linggu was telling Meng Xiaowan the reason why she went down the mountain.

"My mentor has already arrived in Gyeonggi, I'm afraid I won't be in Chang'an in the next few days. I got a letter from her old man, so I went down the mountain to sort out the Grand Master's residence. I will visit you by the way and report you a letter."

Meng Xiaowan was overwhelmed with surprise immediately: "I came from Jiangling, and there is not a single day that I miss her old man. Her old man only said to wait until the autumn heat is over before leaving. I don't know if this journey will be safe?"

"I read that letter, but it's very healthy. You can rest assured to raise your baby and wait to be the most vulgar champion lady, that's the most important thing!"

Meng Xiaowan deliberately suppressed the smile on her face, showing some haughty expression: "You know why you came here empty-handed, and you don't care about my imposing number one lady? I just tell the person on the door to come down." If you don't bring a gift weighing more than twenty catties, who dares to let you in?"

The voice and demeanor were that of another He Linggu.

He Linggu was so angry that she pinched Meng Xiaowan's face: "Well, you Xiaowan, there is no limit whether you are big or small? Master hasn't arrived in the capital yet, so you are taking advantage of the momentum?"

Meng Xiaowan couldn't hide, so she could only resist stubbornly: "You bullied me today, and you must let the teacher decide for me!"

After laughing for a while, Meng Xiaowan finally asked her with a serious face: "Senior sister, if the arrangement of the Grand Master's Mansion is arranged, I am afraid that people from the Central Mansion will take care of it. You just came down to look at the layout of the study room and chess room. How many things can you do?" ? But there are other bad things, so you come to make trouble with me, so that you can relax?"

He Linggu sighed, and looked at her with a smile: "I hate your husband more and more when such a well-known junior sister has gone to someone else."

"This time, the master also asked me to go to the Prince's Mansion of Hedong County to get the marriage for that Xiao Chan'er. I feel bored thinking about it."

Meng Xiaowan was also taken aback. Although she found that Mrs. Shentu treated Xiao Chan'er differently from her and He Linggu, she never thought that He Linggu would be asked to do such a thing. Her senior sister hates such mundane things the most. of.

Guyuan Mountain Palace, the first lights are on.

The twenty test papers were lined up, and the old emperor picked up the papers one by one, looked at them and put them down, and quickly picked out two papers from the middle.

He has almost all the autographed works of Zhang Xinzhi in his hand, and Jiang Shangyang will send him his homework from childhood to adulthood, so it is easy for the old emperor to pick out the test papers of these two people from the twenty copies.

The emperor looked at the two test papers, hesitated at first, and finally read his grandson's test paper first, because he was worried that he would look at Huzi after reading Zhang's test paper, which would be "unfair" to Huzi.

Emperor Zhang Hua took Liuhou as the topic, but in fact he was really trying to test the movement of Shilin in order to end the southern campaign.

According to the emperor's original intention, Jiang Shangyang's article was actually far from the standard answer in his mind.But Jiang Shangyang wrote about Zhang Liang's efforts to secure Liu Ying's position as the crown prince, and he strongly praised his philosophy of emphasizing ethics and caring for elders and children.

Who is Jiang Shangyang is the emperor's youngest grandson.This article, which was hit by mistake, directly touched the soft spot of the emperor.Although the emperor loved his youngest son and grandson who were raised outside, as an emperor, his natural suspicion made him have scruples about his own youngest son and grandson.Because human nature is too complicated, what if Jiang Zhongchao and Jiang Shangyang were able to live in peace and contentment after their identities were restored?

"Good~! Excellent~!" The emperor held the article in his hands, as if he had found a treasure, and he couldn't stop praising him.His last doubt about his little grandson dissipated, and he felt relieved, so he picked up the ink pen and marked it on Jiang Shangyang's paper.

Thanks to Sanfu's quick hands and quick eyes, he hugged the emperor immediately.

"Master, you can't do it~! Are you trying to push the Eighth Master's family into the pit of fire?"

Only then did the old emperor come back to his senses, and smiled to himself.That's right, if this Zhubi really selected Jiang Shangyang's champion, his sons would definitely unite and be the first to kill Lao Ba's family.

Reluctantly putting down his grandson's article, the emperor read Zhang Xinzhi's test paper.

After reading it once, the emperor nodded. It was indeed Zhang Xinzhi. The writing style was really extraordinary, and his sensitivity to state affairs was also outstanding.When I read it from the beginning for the second time, Zhu Bi unconsciously drew a circle on the paper.

After reading Zhang Zhe's (Su Dongpo's) "Liuhou Lun", and then reading other test papers, the emperor frowned slightly.The delicacies of mountains and seas have just left my mouth, and then I turn around to eat simple food, which really makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

However, the emperor was still extremely serious in grading the papers, and everyone's papers would be read twice.

As an emperor, there are many things that can be informal, but when it comes to financial, personnel, military and political affairs, Emperor Zhang Hua never let go of a detail.

Many talents are left behind in these inconspicuous links. In the time of great controversy, there is never enough talent.

Even if the country does not need it now, it will hoard it, so that talents will not be lost to the other six countries.

The emperor's vision is naturally higher than that of his courtiers. After a closer look, there are three people's articles that make the emperor bow his head secretly, and silently remember these three people in his heart.

Li Zhaofeng from Macheng, Chen Yuanchen from Zhaobei and Guo Xunran from Yannan.

Among them, Li Zhaofeng's article in Macheng impressed the emperor the most, because this was another person who saw his intentions.It’s just that Zhang Xinzhi chose to go along with the emperor’s ideas, while Li Zhaofeng connected the struggle between Liuhou and Chu-Han regardless of the dangers of the situation, and clearly supported the two-front war. out.

And what's interesting is that this person's paper is the first one recommended by the chief assistant, Sun Gezheng.

In the end, Li Zhaofeng's paper was marked with two dots by the emperor, Chen Yuanchen's paper was marked with three dots, Guo Xunran's paper was marked with four dots, and Jiang Shangyang's paper was marked with five dots.

The sacred meaning is that Zhang Xinzhi is the champion, Li Zhaofeng is the second, Chen Yuanchen is the third, Guo Xunran is the first in the second class, and Jiang Shangyang is the second in the second!As for the remaining [-] papers, the emperor did not comment on them, and will send them back to the prince to decide on the rankings.

Sanfu was about to go out with these papers, but was stopped by the emperor.

"Sanfu, where is Junior Sister?"

Sanfu replied with a smile on his face: "If you want to go back to the master, Madam stopped in Songcheng County for half a day before and asked people to prepare the boats. She said that she would change to the waterway, and everyone would be more relaxed. But the next morning, Even the eighth master got into the carriage together, and galloped out of Songcheng with the five hundred imperial cavalry. Only the baggage and servants around him were left behind, and they all slowly returned to Beijing by water. In this way, it will be either tomorrow or the day after We have arrived in Beijing."

The emperor laughed when he heard this.

"Junior Sister is indeed a Junior Sister. Many people in Songcheng must have been taken aback, aren't they?"

Sanfu bowed: "Madam, these abilities are not taught by the master in the past. As soon as Madam left the city, the slaves ordered people to seal the four gates of Songcheng. No matter who they were, they had to rest in the city for two days. Madam asked to keep Songcheng. The people in the city have prepared some food and scattered money, and they will not let those trapped in the city go hungry.”

"So, I'm afraid the old man already knows?"

"Look at what you said, master," Sanfu joked, "Eighth Master is honest, but not really stupid. It's all like this, why don't you know?"

"Hehe," the emperor suddenly laughed a few more times, "You only acted as junior sister to get rid of my sons' subordinates, but I don't know that her actions are also forcing me to act earlier! Whatever, whatever."

The emperor stepped aside, took out a key with a golden dragon pattern, opened a small box carved with wind, and took out three wills from it.

"Today, Huzi showed his face in front of these people. They will inevitably guess, especially my prince. I simply give the prince peace of mind. This is an imperial decree and two edicts. You answer it yourself I went to Beijing, and after sending the papers, I took advantage of the presence of the three assistant ministers, and I also took care of these errands by the way!"

"No!" Hearing the emperor's words, Sanfu immediately suppressed his smile, knelt down to accept the three orders.

When Sanfu rushed to Beijing Zhonghua Palace with his things, it was Gu Chiu who was on duty here.

Gu Chiu accepted the [-] test papers on behalf of the reading team, opened them each, and as expected, Zhang Xinzhi was the champion.But Gu Chiu didn't care, and directly turned to Jiang Shangyang's article.

No.5!
Sure enough, Gu Chiu smiled wryly, and it was true!The quality of Jiang Shangyang's articles is at best about fifteen, but the emperor gave it a No. 5.He has read Jiang Shangyang's article, so he naturally knows what the purpose of this person, who may be Jiang Biao's grandson, is to write it.
Gu Chiu could guess that "Jiang Biao" probably squinted his eyes when he saw this article.

San Fu looked at Gu Chiu's actions, and knew that he might have guessed everything.It's just that Gu Zou's sad face made San Fu feel a little bit unsatisfied.

"Old Gu, why are you frowning? What a big deal!"

"What's the big deal?" Gu Zhe's eyes widened, and his voice was low, "That's Shen Tuxiu's grandson! Sanfu, are you pretending not to understand or you really don't understand!!! You are very shrewd in other things, but you can't touch the word Shentu, you still don't know?"

Sanfu was still sprayed by Gu Zhe, and smiled: "Are the other two prime ministers here? I have a decree, and they have to follow the regular path of Zhongshu and Shizhong Temple. At dawn, our family will be in the same place." Going to make an edict."

As soon as Gu Chiu heard it, he knew it was a big deal.

"Both Sun Xiang and Li Xiang fell asleep in Yuye Court and didn't go home. What's the order, so urgent? We still have to go through the whole procedure."

Sanfu directly gave Gu Chiu the three wills, and Gu Chiu immediately read them by candlelight.

"Quick!" Gu Chiu hurriedly finished reading and let Zhang Jing from outside come in, "Go ask the two prime ministers to get up and use their seals."

When Zhang Jing ran all the way, Gu Chiu also breathed a sigh of relief.

"With these three imperial edicts, the matter of the country is really settled. Gu can be regarded as letting go of his heart that has been hanging for a long time."

Sanfu laughed at him: "He's still a prime minister, so impatient, our master naturally has his rules!"

"That's it!" Gu Zhe said angrily, "I'm still waiting for the imperial decree later, it may scare many people in the capital to death!"

The Wenhua Palace was in the palace city, and it was faintly busy in the middle of the night. The officials on duty at Zhongshu and Shizhong Temple were all called up.On the second day, just after dawn, Sanfu came to the East Palace with a scroll of imperial edicts that had gone through all the formalities.

The prince didn't sleep all night, and talked with several counselors until the first hour of Yinshi (after three o'clock) before falling asleep.

The reason why we talked about it so late is because Mr. Liu made an astonishing judgment. According to Jiang Shangyang's age, the biggest possibility is "Shen Tu"!That is also the most unfavorable possibility for the prince.

The prince fell asleep at three o'clock, but tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep at all.

It was just dawn, and when the prince couldn't help feeling drowsy, the princess hurriedly shook him awake.

"Prince, get up quickly, Eunuch Sanfu has arrived with the imperial father's imperial edict!"

"Is there a decree?"

Seeing that the prince was still a little confused, the princess hurriedly asked the palace people to change the clothes for the prince.

"It's not an edict, it's an imperial edict! By Sanfu's side, there are all the reliance on the government's edicts, and there are people from Zhongshushe beside me. I'll ask someone to set up an incense table in the front hall, your highness, hurry up!"

Imperial edict, reliance, Zhongshu Sheren, these three terms woke the prince up immediately!

Sweat broke out from his back immediately, could it be that the father is really so ruthless? !And what happened to Li Xiang, why didn't he refute this kind of decree?He remembered that Li Danian also stayed in the palace last night just in case.

When the prince and concubine arrived at the front hall, Changshi Liu Jiansheng, Xianma Wangjie, and secretary Hou Chaoqing had all arrived.Soon the two sons of Prince Donggong, Yang Shangmo and Yang Shangchuan, also rushed over.

"Erchen Han leads everyone in the Eastern Palace to welcome the imperial decree!" Everyone in the Eastern Palace knelt on the ground.

Sanfu had a slight smile all over his face, and he seemed to be fine even if he didn't sleep in the middle of the night.

He slowly unfolded the imperial decree, and the first sentence was: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the edict says."

As soon as these eight words were uttered, the expressions of the prince and several subordinates suddenly changed.

Probably because the eight characters "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, Zhaoyue" are not like those in TV dramas, they can be used for even big things.These eight characters are generally only seen when the queen and prince are abolished.Ordinary imperial edicts usually start with a simple "There is an edict".

Liu Jiansheng, who was lying behind the prince, saw the prince's body trembling for a while, and hurriedly pulled the prince's feet secretly to stabilize him.

Sure enough, the next moment, what Sanfu said surprised the entire Eastern Palace, and it was almost like shouting wildly.

".Emperor's eldest grandson, Mo Xiaogong, virtuous and virtuous, established as the emperor's grandson! Hereby."

The prince was numb all over his body at the moment, and was supported tremblingly by the ecstatic princess, watching the ecstatic and excited eldest son take the imperial edict from Sanfu's hand.

At this time, Wang Jie whispered from behind the crown prince: "The foundation of the country has been established, and it is time for the crown prince to fight for it!"

This is to tell the prince that the time is ripe to drive the kings out of Chang'an.The prince has been established, and today the grandson is established, and the legal system has completely reached the line of the prince.From now on, the prince no longer needs to be too hypocritical and obedient with the kings, and is about to use the opportunity of canonization as the grandson to fight against the forces that divide the kings.

The prince looked back at Liu Jiansheng.

Liu Jiansheng also nodded: "The crown prince is fighting for his son at this moment, and His Majesty will not criticize too much. But before the grand grandson's canonization ceremony, don't go too far, otherwise the kings will spare their faces and go to the ancestral temple to make a fuss, which will hinder the canonization." The grandson's matter."

After Liu Jiansheng said this, he looked at the happy faces of all the people in the surrounding East Palace, and couldn't help but quietly glanced at a person who had kept his head down.That was the prince's youngest son, Yang Shangchuan, the young man's face was ashen.

Seeing this, Liu Jiansheng secretly sighed, this kind of thing in Tianjia will never end.

Sanfu left the East Palace, turned around and went to the imprisoned Prince Qi and Prince Han residences.

Soon two news spread to the East Palace, and the prince couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Shangyu, Qi Wangxi and Han Wangchun will go to the title of prince, and change the titles of Banan County King and Dengyang County King..." It turned out that the emperor finally issued the punishment for King Han and King Qi. Although the confinement of the two palaces was lifted, he went He took the title of prince of the second king and changed them to county kings.

From now on, all the brothers of the prince, not to mention seeing the prince, even the grandson of the prince must perform courteous rituals.This is the emperor's announcement to the whole world of the 20-year struggle for the heir to the empire, and it has been completely settled since then.

On the side of Zhuchi Xiaoyuan, seven or eight officials who announced the good news were crowding the gate, and they all shouted loudly: "Congratulations to Mr. Huo Jiyuan of Wuling County, he was awarded No. 10 in the top three of the Jinshi Division!"

Huo Bingcheng's ranking in the imperial examination has been greatly improved!Huo Bingcheng's face flushed with laughter, if Guan Hai hadn't hugged him tightly, he would have given away the hundreds of pennies in his sleeve just now!
Zhang Xinzhi and Jiang Shangyang were also speechless about Huo Bingcheng's good luck.Just because of No.10 in the top three, this ranking is so interesting.

As a rule, the first and third people entered the Shizhong Temple as servants, and the second and third best went to various ministries to observe politics for half a year.Half a year later, the 12 members of the second class and the top ten of the top three stayed in Beijing for appointments, and all the top ten of the top three went down to the local government as officials.

Relying on his correct analysis and judgment of the situation in the south of the Yangtze River, Huo Bangwei hit another Beijing official's tail!
There is really nothing to say about this shit luck.

(End of this chapter)