Chapter 666 The Hanlin Academy is full of heroes, and the lord and ministers of Changgeng City meet secretly
Huangfu Ping slowly stood up, hesitated for a moment, and said softly: “Prince, the official is so ruthless that you can’t die, you’re dead, Huangfu Ping will never be the Gu Jiantang of Beiliang in this life.”
After the new Emperor Liyang ascended the throne, he attached importance to civil rule, especially Hanlin, and his love for the latter was extremely unparalleled. First, the yamen site on the Zhaojiaweng was moved to the right side of the middle line between Wuying Hall and Baohe Hall. Then, the imperial edict was issued to jointly preside over the imperial examinations after the Hanlin Academy and the Ministry of Rites, which was established as the custom of this dynasty. Therefore, the saying that “there will not be allowed to enter the cabinet unless the Hanlin Academy is in the future” has spread everywhere in the capital.
Today, the Hanlin Courtyard, which was a joy to move in, is full of heroes, and it looks like a dazzling array of prosperous scenes! Jin Lanting, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, who made his fortune here, Li Jifu, the new top scholar in the first year of Xiangfu in the Hanlin Academy, was not only a detective but also a rookie in the chess world. Song Keli, the Song family’s Chufeng, who was moved from the local area to the Hanlin Academy, and Yan Chiji, the son of the Grand Secretary of Dongyuan Pavilion, was already Chen Wang, the attendant of the Zuo Sanqi, a third-rank official in Liyang, and Sun Yin, who was once the right priest of the Imperial College. Before this group of young men who were oldest, who were only thirty years old gathered together, many important officials and ministers who had a connection with the Hanlin Academy had dispersed one after another. For example, Qi Yanglong and Zhao Youling, the first and second leaders of the Secretariat, Tantan Weng Huanwen, who is recognized as an old Hanlin Academy, Yin Maochun, who has been in charge of the Hanlin Academy for more than ten years, and Lu Baijie, the Minister of War Tangxi Sword Immortal, who is the title of Xia official. Whether they come alone or come together, it really makes this brand new Hanlin Academy shine brightly, full of official spirit and elegant fairy flavor.
At this time, in the quiet courtyard at the beginning of spring, under a green tung tree with tender yellow as yellow as jujubes on the branches, everyone was enjoying a game of chess. However, the chess players were not chess-at-home players, and they were not even famous for losing three national players in the capital. They were people who felt the same age difference between the two governments and the country. There are four stone benches on a stone table, and there is a yellow pear chessboard with “Old Wei Mijia” on the table. The black and white chess boxes facing left and right are packed with white and black chess pieces. There are beautiful mats on the stone bench. Of course, the two playing chess are sitting and talking, but the remaining two stools are the pinnacle of the world’s honor – today Zi Zhao Zhuan and Queen Yan Dongwu.
The opponent who competes in the chess game, in addition to the handsome young man nicknamed “Little Bookcase” by His Majesty the Emperor, there is also a Liyang people who are still Bai Ding’s identity. This person is Fan Changhou, a native of Xiangzhou, Guangling Road. He is known as the “Double Nine” together with Wu Congxian. In previous battles, Fan Changhou was also more skilled, so he also has the reputation of “Fan Shi Duan” in Yilin, Tianxia. At the same time, because Fan Changhou is good at painting three things: dead stone, wild plum and winter bamboo, among which wild plum is the best, and is proud and noble, now Tai’an City has the saying that Fan Changhou “a tree that leads to the spring of the world”. His paintings are worth a thousand gold in the officialdom of the capital and have no market value. Before exploring Wu Congxian’s fame, Changhou, who was hidden in the deep boudoir, was specially summoned to the capital by the emperor. OfTherefore, this order was due to the fact that his true identity was the small bookcase of the Imperial Heaven Supervision Supervisor. At the instruction of the emperor, he played six games with Wu Congxian in one breath, three slow and three fast. Wu Congxian lost flawlessly, so Fan Changhou, who is known as the number one in the chess world today, naturally came into the emperor’s sight. The chess game set by His Majesty himself is quite a big hit. If Fan Changhou wins, he can stay in the Hanlin Academy and serve as the Huangmenlang. Today, Hanlin Academy is the well-deserved Dragon Pavilion among scholars all over the world, and everyone who watches chess is the smartest group of people in the Liyang Dynasty. In fact, I know it well that Changhou Fan’s winning or losing on the chessboard is not important. If he can get the emperor’s eyes, Fan Shi Duan has already won outside the chess.
Although the little bookcase is extremely talented, the child is in the end. He is tilted, holds his cheek with one hand, and makes a move like flying. He almost knocks on the plate when Fan Changhou makes a move. On the other hand, the simple-dressed Changhou of Fan was invisibly at a disadvantage in the demeanor of a laity, but this disadvantage was only for the weirdness of the Imperial Heaven Supervision Supervision. In fact, Changhou of Fan was calm and focused and sat upright. Whether it was the “move” of slowly picking up the chess pieces from the chess box or the “unmoving” of picking up the pieces during the long-term exam, he was very master-like. Regarding the aggressive offensive inside and outside the small bookcase chessboard, Fan Shiduan responded without any haste. The two of them had no clues to gain or lose for the first time. Even Emperor Zhao Zhuan, the person who can stand by and watch chess, not to mention Wu Congxian, who has extremely high chess skills, even Chen Wang, who has never played chess with others, has certainly no bad eyesight. Even the queen Yan Dongwu, who was known as the “Female Bachelor of Northern Liang” in the past, was blinded and focused.
Yan Chiji stood behind this sister who is the mother of Yitianxia. He gave up halfway through the border of Guanzheng, and parted ways with the brigade of the War that had gone from Jibei to western Liaoning, and returned to the capital alone. This incident damaged Yan Chiji’s reputation in Shilin, but with the great amulet of the uncle of the dynasty, no one dared to jump out and say so far. Yan Chiji looked at the snare on the chessboard and quietly raised his head to look at the old sycamore tree that was green on the branches, showing his face full of fatigue. If the trip to Liangzhou disappointed him and Kong Wuchi, then the trip to Jibei made Yan Chiji angry. The Jibei Defense Line has been a key military rank in the Central Plains to resist Beimang since the Han family. Although Li Yang attaches more importance to the two Liaos, all the military generals who can hold military power in Jibei are carefully screened by the Ministry of War who are highly expected by the court. However, Yan Chiji saw what retreated before the war was in Jizhou Beiguan and actively contracted the defense line! Faced with his reprimands, several border generals were vague, while Gaotingshu, who was picky on Beiliang Road, became surprisingly silent, obviously receiving instructions from some people in the capital. Yan Chiji withdrew his gaze and looked coldly at Shinsanro not far away. The latter also keenly noticed the young uncle’s bad eyes, but responded with an impeccable gentle and elegant smile. Yan Chiji looked at him, and suddenly, Yan Chiji felt his sleeves being pulled, lowered his head, and saw his sister pointing at a chessboard and laughing softly, “Little Superintendent seems to have played a wonderful chess game, do you see, right?”
The child heard the Queen’s praise and raised his head and grinned brightly.
Yan Chiji sighed softly, no longer confronted the minister, but instead watched the chess game.
The response of Changhou Fan’s backup plan was still lukewarm, which made Chen Wang, who was also a royal relative like Yan Chiji, suddenly looked at him with some admiration. It is difficult for ordinary poor scholars to meet the beauty of heaven, but the peacocks can open their tails. It is not easy for them to always be soothed and moderate as Fan Changhou. The top scholar Li Jifu was a child of a noble family in Liaodong. He was not as good as the top scholar in poetry and essays, and was far inferior to Wu Congxian in terms of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Therefore, most of the court and the country thought that he, a somewhat dull top scholar, was not worthy of his name. In fact, in the poetry club founded by Jin Lanting, there are few people who hear how Li Jifu talks loudly. It was only a few days ago that Bai Guo, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, said that Li Jifu was not as unpleasant as he appeared. Today, Chen Shaobao, the only one among the group who could compare with Jin Lanting to the size of an official hat, only talked to Li Jifu. Wu Congxian originally wanted to come up without any trace and get familiar with Zuo Sanqi Changshou, but it soon became a mess.
Compared with everyone present, Song Keli’s appearance today is the most unexpected. The two masters of the Song family who had dominated the literary world for decades could not be called “extremely mourning and honor”. After their death, they were all considered as middle-aged and lower-level posthumous titles. At that time, Song Keli was even transferred from the Hanlin Court of the Qinggui to the local area as a county lieutenant. Jin Lanting, who became more and more familiar with the rules of the officialdom, was very curious. How could the Song family Chufeng, who had already knocked down from the mud, return to the capital? He clinged to a line of undercurrents. The royal family members do not have this ability yet. Tantanweng has always had a bad impression of the Song family, which led to the fact that even the old Zhang Lu people would not have a good face to Song Keli, and he had never heard of the intersection between the Secretary of the Secretariat Qi Yanglong and the Song family. Jin Lanting thought for a while, but couldn’t figure it out, so he was too lazy to care. The ups and downs of Song Keli are destined to not affect the overall situation. At that time, Jin Lanting did show his love for the eldest grandson of the Song family who was also a yellow party man in the Hanlin Academy, and wished he could send hundreds of knives to his own hand to make his own signature, but now the Minister of the Secretariat can turn a blind eye to this person. At the small dynasty meeting full of courtesy, Shinsanlang could only respect the last seat, but was just the “phoenix tail”, but at this time, he was a well-deserved phoenix head. As the Hanlin Academy rose in the Liyang court, the status of the Ministry of Rites would inevitably rise. It would be a foregone conclusion that he would take charge of the Ministry of Rites in the future. In the imperial examination, the Ministry of Rites will be the main and the Hanlin Academy will be the auxiliary. Then Jin Lanting will be the common “teacher” of all scholars during the Xiangfu period!
Jin Lanting smiled and bent down, looking down at the chess game, holding one hand on the mutton fat jade belt on the waist given by the emperor, and holding the other hand quietly.
The world’s context is in my hands, so why worry about the connections in the temple?
Wu Congxian may be the person who cares the most about the outcome of the chess game. He looked at the Changhou Fan who played with him many times with a complicated expression, and his heart was bitter. Fan Changhou, a survivor of the Spring and Autumn Period, whose courtesy name was Yuetian and his pseudonym was Fozi. When he was in Xiangzhou, he was the thorn that could not be pulled out no matter how hard he was. No matter how much they had had a good conversation when they were having each other publicly and privately, Wu Congxian knewI both despise this person and envy this person. I despise the Queen of Changsha who ignores the imperial examination and envy the Queen of Changsha who is as if he is “there are heaven and man on his side, and he is planning for him.” Before and after he lost to the three major players in a row, Wu Congxian did not mention this Changhou at all, but the well-informed capital still quickly learned that there was a Fan Shi Duan in Xiangzhou. Before summoning Changhou Fan to the capital, His Majesty had a relaxed Q&A with the monarch and ministers. Wu Congxian had to bite the bullet and say an insincere saying, “My minister and Fan Yuetian are mixed.” Unfortunately, it still couldn’t stop the Emperor’s curiosity, especially after he suffered a series of defeats to the child who was simply the reincarnation of the chess immortal, according to Shisanlang, the emperor urged the Ministry of Rites almost every day to ask when Fan Shiduan would enter the capital. If you can get such honorary treatment, the prime minister who was “who is not like the people” before.
After Fan Changhou entered the capital alone, Wu Congxian went to the inn that night. “The words “really speaking, the chess style of the child prodigy was told to Fan Changhou. “The layout of the first move seems to be sloppy, and it is powerless. When the middle plate falls, it suddenly changes, and it is like a rubble ruin. A towering tower suddenly emerges, with the power of a lion fighting against a rabbit from a high place.” Of course, Wu Congxian also knew this kind of illusory statement. It was equivalent to not saying it. It was useless after hearing it. As for why he only said that he was in the middle of the game first and did not end, it was not that Wu Congxian intended to hide his personal interests, but that Wu Congxian played chess with the child, so there was no more than two hundred games. Wu Congxian, who valued the most reputation, was embarrassed to say anything more.
Wu Congxian finally made a big splash in the capital, how could he be willing to Fan Chang take the limelight in Tai’an City and hope that Fan Changhou would be defeated. Simply put, Wu Congxian, a powerful player in the chess world today, can lose to the genius boy who is rumored to be from the Imperial Heavenly Prison. It is like the top martial artist in the world who loses to the land god without losing his reputation, but he must not lose too much to Changhou Fan. This is like Li Chungang lost to Wang Xianzhi back then, and Wang Xianzhi lost to Xu Fengnian. After losing once, he lost completely.
Fan Changhou’s “slowness” in playing chess is only as fast as lightning than the small bookcase of the Imperial Heaven Supervision. One hour later, after Fan Changhou’s “long-term test” for more than ten consecutive moves, he made a victory and defeat in the first time with lightning speed. The child with a leisurely and leisurely expression seemed to have seen his opponent for the first time. He no longer held his cheeks, no longer looked around, and sat up straight, but did not look at the chess game, but stared at Fan Changhou who was lowering his head and stretching out his hand to roll up his cuffs. Even Wu Congxian could not see the essence of this move, and the other spectators watching the battle were naturally falling into clouds. Among them, Jin Lanting couldn’t help but turn his head and ask Wu Congxian in a low voice, and the latter did not dare to speak nonsense.
Sun Yin stretched out his fingers and rubbed his earlobes, and yawned. Song Keli narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips tightly. Chen Wang was carefully examining the changes in the expression of the young supervisor. Li Jifu looked carefully at His Majesty the Emperor who was frowning and leaning forward. Yan Chiji, who was all focused on the chessboard, bent down and whispered to his sister Yan Dongwu.
If the authorities are added with a calm expressionIn the Hanlin Academy, there are as many as four people from Beiliang Road under the Qingtong Tree: Chen Wang, Sun Yin, Yan Chiji, and Jin Lanting. There is Wu Congxian on Jiangnan Road, Fan Changhou on Guangling Road, Li Jifu on both Liao Roads, and Song Keli in the capital. From this point of view, it seems that today’s Zi is more focused on Beiliang than the late emperor.