Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 678
When the two guards came to Du's mansion quietly and overheard the location of Du Jinning's courtyard from the subordinates, they sneaked there all the way.

Then the two guards were a little dumbfounded.

Generally, this kind of ancient house is relatively spacious, and some trees are usually planted in front of the house and behind the house, so that the environment is good, it can block the summer sun, and there are fruit or flower fragrances, which can be obtained in one fell swoop.

But Du Jinning's yard, do you think the environment is not good?Absolutely not--the walls were covered with roses.It's spring now, and the flowers are big and numerous. At first glance, it looks like a waterfall of flowers, which is amazingly beautiful.

In addition to the roses on the wall, some shrubs and flowers were planted at different heights in the middle of the yard.But they are all very low, and the tallest shrubs are only half a person's height, and there are only a small cluster of them, which are mixed with various foliage or flower viewing plants, forming a combination and a small flower border.

Yu Weijia couldn't help but said: "Why is this like the imperial palace?"

He said the same thing, not that Du Jinning's courtyard was as magnificent as the palace, but that there was no big tree like the palace - the palace didn't plant big trees to prevent assassins from hiding.The same is true for Du Jinning's yard. Not only does it have no big trees, it doesn't even have a small tree.The roses on the four walls look beautiful, but they are thorny.Anyone who wants to climb over her courtyard wall will be stuck with holes all over his body.

"Do you think Mr. Du has something shameful?" Yuwei Yi said, "Or, why is the courtyard so well guarded?"

Yu Weijia glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense."

Just from the fact that the emperor sent them to protect Du Jinning, it can be seen that this new champion is highly valued by the emperor.So you can't talk nonsense.If it was heard and spread to the emperor's ears, in order to show his trust and respect for Mr. Du, the emperor might move their heads.

Yu Weiyi also knew that he had made a slip of the tongue.

As imperial guards, they see too much of what they should see and what they shouldn't see. If they don't keep their mouths shut, they will definitely not live long.

Not talking about it, the two were a little worried: "What should I do?"

There are trees outside Du Jinning's yard, which are quite big, but they are a little far away from her yard.If something happened to Du Jinning in the yard, they might not be able to find out in time.

Among the two, Yuweijia has always made up his mind.

He said: "We will stay on the tree during the day, and go to his roof at night. If someone wants to harm Mr. Du, it must be at night, and they will not come here in broad daylight. Except for the holidays, Mr. Du is in the Imperial Academy during the day. , so it doesn’t matter whether you can approach his yard during the day or not.”

After a pause, he continued: "Besides, His Majesty said that we should protect Lord Du, not monitor him, so we only need to keep people from getting close to Lord Du and assassinate him, there is no need to keep an eye on him.

"What you said makes sense, so let's do it." Yu Weiyi heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this.

So the two stayed in the tree.Of course, not a tree, but every person.

But to their dismay, another big tree that could hide was farther away.The Du Mansion is different from other houses, there are not many houses, and there are many empty places to grow flowers and grass. There is even a farmland next to Du Jinning's yard.

So the two wanted to find a vacant house where few people went to stay, but they couldn't find it. They wanted to work in shifts and the other had a rest plan, which was difficult to realize.In particular, Du Jinning's yard is far away from other people's, like an isolated island in the center of the east side of Du's house, so it is even more difficult to find a vacant room to rest.After all, they can't be too far away. When the person on duty sends out the signal, the other person needs to be able to arrive in time.

"This Lord Du is really weird." The two said depressedly.

Du Jinning didn't know that she had been "protected". She was in the hall of the courtyard, discussing with Lu Jiuyuan, Shi Xiu, and Peng Shicheng about publishing a book.

These are the three people she sent to specially invite after she came out from Qi Bokun's place.

Why would the aristocratic family target her after handpicking the No. [-] scholar?It's nothing more than because she is from a poor family, weak and weak, with no backer or backer.

Even though Qi Bokun admired her very much, the two were not related by blood.If she is killed, Qi Bokun may take revenge for her within his ability, but he will never try his best to fight with others - but if Qi Muyuan is killed, Qi Bokun will definitely start the madness of dying with others model.And the strength of the Qi family is something that those aristocratic families dare not provoke at will.

This is a typical pick and choose.

Next, under her proposal, under the leadership of Zhao Huo, and under the implementation of Qi Bokun and others, Da Song will enter a period of reform, which will definitely touch the interests of the aristocratic family.In the battle between the two sides without gunpowder, she, the proposer of the reform proposal, will surely become cannon fodder.

Du Jinning has always believed in "relying on others is worse than relying on oneself", so she must become stronger.

It is impossible to become a powerful family except dreaming.So what power does she have?

Only Confucianism.

A master of Confucianism stands behind thousands of Confucian scholars.These Confucian students will become his loyal followers because they believe in the philosophical theories preached by Confucian masters.And what are Confucian scholars?It is the reserve force of a country's talents, and it is where the new forces will succeed the current ministers in the future.

What kind of power will they explode once a certain master of Confucianism they regard as their model is killed by the family for no reason?
This kind of power, Du Jinning believed, not only the aristocratic family, but also the emperor Zhao Yu would be afraid.

This is her backing, this is where her strength lies.

Originally because of the unequal status, and because the imperial examinations were one after another, she had no time to take into account the achievements of Confucianism.And now, it's time for her to make an effort in this regard.

Lu Jiuyuan and the others had been reading articles for Du Jinning and others before Chunwei.After the palace examination, Du Jinning saw Feng Xuezheng's enthusiastic attitude, so he asked him to introduce him to the four schools.Because Du Jinning, Qi Muyuan, Guan Jiaze, Liang Xiankuan, Fang Shaohua, and Xu Chengyuan, tutored by the three of Lu Jiuyuan, all won Jinshi, and they also had a number one scholar and a Tanhua, and their teaching achievements were particularly remarkable. Si Shuxue readily agreed with Lu Jiuyuan and the three of them to enter the Simen School and become masters .

A few days ago, the three of them returned to their hometown and took all the family members over, planning to settle down in the capital in the future.For this reason, Du Jinning bought three courtyards next to each other in Beijing, and gave them to Lu Jiuyuan and the other three as a reward for their hard work as tutors some time ago.

After Qi Muyuan, Guan Jiaze and the others heard about it, they all sent bank notes one after another, expressing that they should have a part of their return to their master.Even Xu Chengyuan, who is not financially well off, sent a bank note.

(End of this chapter)