Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

The scroll in Xie Ying's hand was wider than the usual scroll, and it was not neatly bundled into a single scroll, but rolled from the two scrolls to the center, which looked like a scroll book rolled up by hand. He spread the painting on the table and dialed the animation axis with both hands, slowly revealing the magnificent hall in the center of the scroll.

A gilt four-character "Lingxiao Hall" plaque hangs under the flying eaves on the top of the hall. In the hall are covered with cloud-like purple gauze. On both sides of the censer’s treasure beast display, the Jade Emperor in golden crown and brocade is sitting in front of the uppermost painting screen. Behind him is a fairy wearing a tall fan holding a fan. The more you look down, the more the space between the jade pillars on both sides of the hall becomes wider, as if you are standing outside the hall and looking at the throne through the huge tall and open hall.

And in the main hall between Yuan and his painting viewers, there are two teams of gods and Buddhas on the left and right that come to celebrate their birthdays. On the left are the Tathagata and the Four Bodhisattvas, a number of arhats; on the right is the queen mother with the jade girl fairy. Carrying a basket full of flat peaches.

Although the immortals and Buddhas were walking towards the temple, the Tathagata and the Queen Mother both turned sideways and looked back, seeming to be smiling and talking to the people behind them. And those two pairs of eyes didn't look behind him, but outside the picture-the **** Gao looked at the painting from the front, and there was an illusion that the two fairy Buddhas were looking at him with a smile, and greeted them to enter the hall together.

The high **** stared at the picture and said, "This painting is still painted by the talented man the previous time, right? This hall is well painted. It is like inviting people to go up to the sky and enjoy the fairy banquet together!"

Xie Ying didn't say a word, standing behind the table, unfolding the scroll with both hands, spreading the whole picture, revealing the gods lined up by clouds on both sides of the palace:

An Antarctic fairy with a tall skull and a longevity peach in his hand rode down on a deer. The Fulu twin stars turned around and looked around, holding Ruyi and Yugui with a smile; there were four sea dragon kings driving through the sea of ​​clouds, each holding coral treasures , The dragon queen and the dragon girl’s words laughed and Yan Yan accompanied him; there was also a swinging fan for the Eight Immortals in the upper hole, and the stepping instruments were arranged from the bottom of the screen to the waves, and the face was like a girl’s Lan Cai and the fairy flowers from the flower basket were sprinkled towards In the air...

The side of the fairy is surrounded by clouds and mist, and the fairy in the painting is divided into several parts, showing the imaginary posture of the fairy.

And these immortals who came to offer their birthdays also looked back and looked around, their eyes flowed, as if they were looking outside to appreciate paintings. The treasures held in the hands of the immortal are all slightly out of the painting, and I don't know whether it is dedicated to the emperor Jade in the temple or to the emperor who will open the painting.

The high **** held his breath for a long time before he sighed deeply and patted the table: "Okay! Good thinking! So chic! This is the fairy birthday! Xie Zhenfu, where did you find this painter? People hurt!"

It really hurts. These days he watched Cui Xie running around, staying up all night to paint, and writing a defense for the teacher and sending it to the Secretary of General Administration. He was very distressed.

Xie Ying smiled slightly, and said to the **** Gao: "The painter must be pleasant, but this painting is not pleasant enough. After all, it lacks some literary thoughts, talents and fun, and it is really a good work for the emperor's life."

The high **** leaned over and looked at the picture from beginning to end, looking at the large blank space next to the ink and the seal on the left of the screen, he smiled and said: "Such a wonderful picture should have a good title and postscript to match it. Ordinary people But it is not worthy to write this painting. I have to be the first gifted master to write a wonderful poem on this painting dedicated to the emperor's birthday."

Xie Ying handed over and thanked him: "It was still arranged by the Gaogong Guild. In this way, Li, Liu, and Yang were rescued by her husband. The husband was willing to save the three gongs regardless of their interests. Later, in the hearts of scholars in the world, under a thousand years of history, it will be Like Li Tangshi, Zhang Gongdeqing, who saved thousands of people, is as good as the sun and moon!"

The high **** told him to be a few catties lighter than his bones, and said with a smile, "Master Xie, don't worry. If you want to be a loyal man, will our family be willing to be a villain? Then Li Xueshi’s disciple, Cui Juren, is also with us. My family has some fate, I know he must have come to your door, even though I didn't come to beg me, I also blame him, and I can always help him."

Xie Ying said: "Why doesn't he want to come to ask her husband? It's just that he is young and shy, so he doesn't dare to go to the door easily. He didn't dare to hide his husband. This painting was made specially when he heard that I was coming to ask my husband for help. It’s for my husband."

Father Gao was really taken aback, and raised his head to look at Xie Ying: "He can still paint? I know he has a study in the hands of his servants, so he can paint himself?"

Xie Ying nodded: "My father-in-law doesn't remember the "Antian Conference"? The official found him to draw it. Fortunately, Cui Xie is a person who knows his gratitude. Otherwise, where can the official find a scholar, he will How about Jin Yiwei's mind painting? It's just that he is a young man, and he is somewhat implicated in Cui Meiren. I'm afraid that people will know that he has learned that kind of painting and talk back to him, so he has never admitted.

The **** Gao recalled the old story and said with a laugh: "No. A Cui Meiren, a Cui Shusheng, even an incomplete person like me can hardly avoid thinking elsewhere. It's strange that he kept the secret and refused to say it. Nothing, he At this time, I am embarrassed enough, but I don't dare to add such a famous fame. Let's keep it secret for him."

He looked at the scroll in his hand, and the more he looked at it, the more he realized that the fairy painting was more vivid, and the fairy palace was more realistic than others. Sure enough, the scholar's paintings have aura, which is better than the painter's set... Tsk tsk, maybe the one who helped Su'er with the stage setting was actually himself, not the shopkeeper used by his old servants?

The high **** became more and more aware of Cui Xie's heart, rubbing the smooth fragrant wood shaft, nodded to Xie Ying: "You can rest assured to go back, wait for my news. Also asked Xiao Cui to stop messing with someone, this is not his child Things to manage."

Xie Ying was determined in her heart, smiled gratefully, and gave a deep salute to the high eunuch: "It depends on her husband."

The father-in-law Gao rolled up the scroll in the same way, and then asked someone to take the gift he sent, pick up a few fine jade carvings, tooth carving ornaments, crystal cups and plates, etc., and bring those ornaments into the value. In the palace, it was given to the **** Tan.

Although he is the **** of Si Li Bingbi and the second person among the supervisors of Si Li, Qin Chang is now the **** of the palm seal. He wanted to check the staff of the supervisor of the ceremonies, or pushed people out to frame Liang and Wei, but he couldn't get around the boss.

He took the "literati admiration" and "famous" words that Xie Ying had used to persuade him to persuade the **** Tan, and asked him to help himself to check in the prison. Qin Chang pondered: "How do you know this was done by us? If it's the outside ministers..."

It won't be Wan Guifei's home anyway. The two knew that Wan Niangniang wanted to dismiss the minister, so she would just beg the emperor for a while, and she needed to be careful to frame her?

"Even the lords did it, and they would not quarrel with Duke Tan for Liang Fang and Wei Xing's two lost villains." The **** Gao decisively persuaded him: "Liang and Wei Xiaoren, they emptied Neikuyi earlier. Fat oneself is the crime of beheading. But it is the kindness of the emperor who does not want to care about them. Tan Gong is a righteous man, how can he allow this generation to continue to mess in the palace?"

If you don't accuse these two people, those civil servants are impeached day and night, and the nobles of thousands of families enter the palace crying, how can the emperor and the empress' bodies stand it!

The high **** analyzed the points and finally persuaded Tan Chang to secretly check out the people who had been linked with the imperial eunuch.

The prison guards all had records, and the two of them started investigating the inmates who were on duty that day, and investigated one by one who might change the chapter.

In fact, as a foreign minister, Li Dongyang was more likely to have a grievance with the center. When the memo was sent to the cabinet, he was revised. Their eunuchs are used to impeachment by ministers, and the emperor has always protected them, so there should be no need to do such things. However, the investigation continued, and they actually found Li Gong, an **** who had been in contact with the imperial **** in the superintendent.

Eunuch Li usually looked inconspicuous, but was transferred to the Superintendent because he could write a good word, and he also had the ability to change the word.

The memorials of Li Dongyang and others were presented inside. At first, because the emperor didn't look at it, those who had not been impeached didn't take it seriously. The **** Li, because he had a good relationship with Liang and Wei, told them about the incident, and the two men then ordered him to modify the memorial, each adding words that violated the imperial name and temple name, and thought that they were on duty. The Zhou **** discovered this.

But these are their inferences, because revising the memorial is only a one-off matter, and there is no evidence. Their only evidence is that Eunuch Li had had several contacts with Wei Xing, and he had contacted Eunuch Zhou when he was not on duty, and he might have the opportunity to revise the memo.

These are their inferences, and there is no real evidence, but the palace investigations never need evidence, only a word from the upper authority.

——Even if not, he must be!

Behind them, they befriend Liang Fang and Wei Xing, and they tell outsiders the content of the memorial at will. Such people cannot stay!

Tan and Gao secretly sent their confidants to stare at Eunuch Li, while he was on duty to check his residence, and found some treasures that were not in the palace register and did not fit his identity. They confirmed that Eunuch Li was the one who revised the memorial. .

The two of them sat in the duty room and lamented that they had relaxed the supervision of the superintendent of ceremonies, causing the inner court to be in a mess. When the matter was over, they must be reorganized. After comforting each other, they asked people to return to Li Gong's house as they were, to keep the matter away, and to wait for the right time.

At the time of the Longevity Festival, gifts from various places were sent to the palace like flowing water. Liang Fang and Wei Xing also took the opportunity to present the treasures, ancient calligraphy and paintings collected by the sons from the south of the Yangtze River. Although the emperor was still angry with them, he still liked the things offered.

In particular, there is an authentic landscape of Fan Kuan in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is very much in the mind of Emperor Cheng Hua. The emperor has enjoyed playing for a long time, and sighed to the **** Tan and senior eunuchs who were serving around him: "Liang, Wei, etc., can actually find this painting, it can be said that I know my heart."

The **** Tan became a woodcarver, and he remained silent, but quietly winked at the **** Gao. The high **** nodded slightly and walked to the emperor to bow, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the emperor! Congratulations to the emperor! This treasure can enter the palace, it is the proof that the emperor Houdeze is the world and the people admire the sage! "

He was a bit disgusted with his exaggerated shooting of Mapei, so he glanced at him and said lightly, "How do you say?"

The high **** didn't seem to see the disgusting eyes of the emperor, and said with a smile: "Fan Kuan's landscape is worth a lot of money, and all my life as a housekeeper belongs to the emperor. Where can I have money to buy such an antiquities? Grandpa Liang can offer this treasure. It must be because the people of the Quartet are grateful for the grace of God, know that the holy birthday is approaching, and want to repay the grace in case, they choose to pick up the treasures in their homes and put them in the hands of the palace people!"

The emperor thought of his empty Neiku again, and his joy at seeing Fan Kuan's landscape faded a bit.

The **** also said: "Actually, I am also admiring others. I also have a picture of an immortal man who was asked by an outsider to offer me a birthday greeting. It was just because I wanted to offer him a better occasion on the day of the holy birthday, I never told the emperor to know. That's it."

The emperor sullenly put down the landscape map in his hand and asked, "Who is it that gave it to you?"

The high **** replied with a smile: "It is Xie Ying, the town caretaker who was brought up by the emperor a few months ago! Xie Zhenfu Zhien's report, specially asked someone to draw a birthday greetings chart for me to offer. He is a small town caretaker , I can’t come up with such famous paintings as Fan Kuan Shanshui, but the heart of admiration for Divine Grace is the same as that of others."

The emperor Chenghua has watched "Wang Yao Niang" for so long, and he is quite familiar with Xie Ying's handsome, smart and judicious image; and because he has a face when he decides the case and has a good impression of him, he is willing to appreciate him. His birthday picture.

The emperor only said the word "present," and Gao Gonggong immediately turned out of the hall door and asked the apprentice to go to his room to fetch the painting, hold it with his hands, and unfold it in front of the emperor.

The gods and Buddhas in the painting are like life, and the immortal spirit is faint, as if to welcome the viewers to join the immortal world, and as if holding a treasure to come down to celebrate his holy birthday. Although it doesn't have the refined artistic conception of that landscape painting, it seems to have brought a fairyland to the world, and there is another fascinating place.

The look of the emperor in the audience, the fairy Buddha, was in a trance, watching the fairy move through the gate, and the fairy also saw him and smiled and called him into the heavenly palace together.

After the painting is done, Xie Ying, who dedicated this painting, is also sensible. And this person who does not conceal the true identity of the painter and does not greedy the merits is even more sincere.

The emperor took a bright look and nodded slightly: "Go, reward him."

The high **** gave a salute and agreed. The **** Tan also came up to look at the painting pretendingly, and praised the painting's exquisiteness and novelty. It is truly a masterpiece of the world. After exaggerating a few more words, staring at the left side of the screen intently, he suddenly sighed: "This painting is generally good, but there is too much white space in this corner, which seems to be heavy."

In fact, the white space there is not excessive, and the picture is more light. Before Xianzong can find the fault, the high **** happily admitted: "There should be a postscript here, but Xie Zhenfu is just a warrior. Although I could find a painter to paint, but I could not find a good talented literati inscription. When he gave me this painting, he also asked me to find an article for everyone to inscribe, and then I would offer it to the emperor.

It is a pity that Li Dongyang, who is the number one in the article, is still in prison.

The emperor Chenghua followed his words for a moment, and immediately thought of Li Dongyang.

There are many excellent articles in the Imperial Academy, but when it comes to contemporary poets, he is still the first. Emperor Chenghua frowned when he thought of him, and he frowned, saying, "Li Dongyang, it is rude to write memorials by mistake."

The high **** sighed: "Li Xueshi and Liu Yang are both masters of essays. They have been in the court for so many years. They have been respectful and courteous. It is really strange that they have committed the same sacred taboo for a time. Is it a ghost..."

Xianzong frowned slightly when he heard the words of ghosts and gods in the palace, and glanced at Gao Eunuch displeasedly. Just as he was about to beat him, a young **** who accompanied him suddenly knelt down and said loudly: "Return to Bingsheng, this incident is definitely not caused by ghosts and gods, but a man-made disaster! The little **** found that three people had been privately changed in the palace. The adults' memorials, the adults do not mean to be disrespectful!"

After the little **** shouted, he knelt on the ground silently and persistently. The emperor Chenghua turned pale, staring at the little **** underground, but he was too anxious to speak for a while.

The high **** peeped at the face of the emperor, and eagerly asked: "Don't be fooled, how can there be such a bold and arrogant person in the palace! If this is the case, he dares to act arrogantly today, why not tomorrow? Even the imperial pen approved by the sage... dare to change it without authorization?"