A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

"You're being polite." Gu Qing said to Li Yifu, "At the beginning I promised you to recommend you to His Majesty. Now I have an opportunity. I don't know if you are interested."

"Master Hou, please tell me." Li Yifu knew that his chance had come.

Xu Jingzong stood aside and listened. After a long silence, Gu Qing said, "Would you like to supervise the construction of Daming Palace?"

"Daming Palace?" Li Yifu didn't immediately agree. Daming Palace is a hot potato. Everyone knows that His Majesty's attempt to rebuild Daming Palace was rejected by the ministers at the meeting today. If anyone wants to rebuild Daming Palace, it must be It will become the target of public criticism by the ministers of the DPRK and China, but this is another good opportunity. If the reconstruction of the Daming Palace is successful, and credit for the credit, one's official position can also be improved.

"It doesn't matter if you refuse." Gu Qing said again, "Now that the court is employing people, I can place you in another position."

"I am willing!" Li Yifu replied immediately.

"Very good, very good." Gu Qing nodded, "You go to visit Yan Liben tomorrow, this time Yan Liben will assist you, tell me what you need, and I will help you."

Li Yifu bowed and nodded, "I understand, let's make arrangements now."

Seeing that Li Yifu had left, Xu Jingzong took out a piece of paper from his pocket, "Master Hou, this is the exam question prepared by the academy."

"Has the test questions been leaked?" Gu Qing looked at the question. This question was the question of calculating the height of trees when he was fighting with Songtsan Gampo. "Isn't it a bit simple?"

"It didn't leak out, only Brother Fang and a few editors knew about it, and it's actually not easy." Xu Jingzong also said, "At the beginning, the academy drew up a lot of topics, and old master Kong Yingda chose this one. Knowledge is only possessed by college students, there are many students in Datang who have never studied physics, if they make things difficult, it will make the college fail, so this question was chosen.”

Everyone in Chang'an knows what happened back then, and the answer can be known with just a little inquiring. It's almost a sub-question.

Xu Jingzong said again, "Did Hou see anything?"

"I know the intentions of old master Kong Yingda." Gu Qing said with a smile, "He just wants the academy to go through a formality, let the students who come to take the imperial examination this time know that the academy has a question, just let the students know The existence of the academy and the importance of the academy, what the topic is is no longer important, the important thing is to make the academy a place that students want to come to.”

"Master Hou has a good opinion." Xu Jingzong also said, "This is the intention of the old master Confucius. The academy cannot take the lead in the imperial examination."

"You are jealous of Li Yifu." Gu Qing put away this question and burned it under the candlelight. "Your Majesty entrusted me with the reconstruction of Daming Palace, and I can naturally decide the personnel."

"I'm not jealous." Xu Jingzong laughed.

"You must be honest." Gu Qing looked at him, "In fact, you only need to stab Li Yifu to death, and you can replace him. Maybe all the benefits in the future will be yours."

"Master Hou, stop making trouble." Xu Jingzong said bitterly.

"This time the imperial examination is being prepared by my teacher." Gu Qing looked at Xu Jingzong, "Once the imperial examination starts, you must be transferred to the central government to preside over the imperial examination. I can recommend you to the teacher and let you be an examiner."

"Thank you, Lord Hou!" Xu Jingzong bowed immediately.

"Change the status of the imperial examination examiner, and the supervision of Li Yifu will be much better." Gu Qing patted Xu Jingzong on the shoulder, "As long as the imperial examination students are excellent, they will be officials in the court in the future, and you are this time. Examiner, do you know the position weight now?"

"I understand." Xu Jingzong bowed again and saluted, "Don't worry, Lord Hou, I will definitely do things well."

"Why don't you just stab Li Yifu to death? You are the supervisor of the Daming Palace, and you are also the examiner of the imperial examination. Both sides will benefit from it. In the future, you will definitely lose your head."

Chapter 279 Weighing

Xu Jingzong bowed and said, "I forgot, I still have to write a magazine today. It's getting late for Lord Hou, so I will take my leave first."

Gu Qing smiled and watched, Xu Jingzong, who left the Hou Mansion, let out a long sigh. Why does this Lord Gu always ask me to stab Li Yifu to death? , What did Lord Hou say to you?"

"Hehe..." Xu Jingzong laughed, "Master Hou said that your head will fall to the ground."

"I think you are jealous." Li Yifu said with a smile, "I am already the supervisor of Daming Palace, and I will definitely enter the Ministry of Industry in the future, maybe I will become the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, but you are still a small editor. .”

"Heh." Xu Jingzong smiled disdainfully, "Are you so happy to let you go to work as a coolie?"

"Why? Do you think that one of your editors is as important as my supervision." Li Yifu said again.

"Let's wait and see." Xu Jingzong said.

Yang Sheng came with Wang Yuan, Wu Mei had been wanting to ask Wang Yuan how to pay attention during pregnancy, Wang Yuan was holding the child and talking to Wu Mei, while Gu Qing stood with Yang Sheng.

"The monk went to check the details of Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu." Yang Sheng said to Gu Qing, "Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu arrived in Chang'an at about the same time. It is not difficult to find out the details of the two. There is one thing you may not know. Both of them fell in love with an official prostitute in Pingkangfang."

"Is there such a thing?" Gu Qing was puzzled.

"Well." Yang Sheng said, "It's actually not difficult to find out. The matter of Pingkangfang is especially easy to find out. You only need to inquire about it a little bit. The two of them had a big fight over that official prostitute."

"It's hidden deep enough." Gu Qing nodded thoughtfully, "These two guys seem to be brothers, so it turns out that they have one thing in front of them and the other behind their backs."

"Hah." Yang Sheng spat out a mouthful of saliva and nodded, "For official prostitutes, what virtue!"

Gu Qing also nodded, "So these two are enemies who are jealous when they meet? They are smiling on the surface and thinking of stabbing each other in their hearts?"

"Eighty percent yes." Yang Sheng also said.

Balance is a very wonderful thing, the superior can control the weight to determine which side is superior, if there is a harmony between Li Yifu and Xu Jingzong, then it is not good.

If these two guys fight, that is the result that Gu Qing wants. Only with competition can there be motivation. If the people under him are all harmonious, then they have to consider whether these two guys will team up to deal with him .

"Old Yang." Gu Qing whispered to Yang Sheng, "You ask the monk to send someone to take that official prostitute."

"What do you want to do?" Yang Sheng glanced at Wu Mei, "Could it be... Let me tell you Gu Qing, if you dare..."

"Where did you go?" Gu Qing quickly explained, "I want the monks to buy the official prostitutes directly, and then develop them into our secret lines, instigating Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu."

"Okay, I'll tell the monk." Yang Sheng was still worried, "Gu Qing, you really didn't do it for..."

"Where do you want to go, am I that kind of person?" Gu Qing pretended to kick Yang Sheng, and then said, "You send someone to Luoyang to look for Zhang Yugong, this kid hasn't heard from him for a while, I Worried about what's going to happen."

"Well, I'm worried too." Yang Sheng nodded.

Wu Mei's morning sickness has become more and more serious recently, Gu Qing said to Fan Jian, "You send more people and spend a lot of money to buy plums in the Lingnan area."

"Husband, no need, the family has enough." Wu Mei pointed to a few cans of sour plums, "I can't finish it all."

"It's okay, the family has plenty of money." Gu Qing looked at Wu Mei with a smile, "What if there is a second child in the future?"

Wu Meiqiao glared at Gu Qing, "What are you talking about, when there is a second one... are the plums still edible?"

"I can't eat anymore, so I'll go shopping again." Gu said again.

"Spending money indiscriminately." Wu Mei said, but she was still very happy in her heart, "Husband, there is one thing that I have wanted to say for a long time."

"Let's talk." Gu Qing nodded.

"Recently, Zhang Jie is always haunting the Taoist temple." Wu Mei whispered, "It seems that he has taken a fancy to the maid next to Princess Changle, because he is an old member of our Wu family, and my concubine taught him, but it was useless."

"This kid really likes it." Gu Qing nodded.

"Also!" Wu Mei said again, "My husband was in Dali Temple a few days ago, maybe I don't know what's going on, this Zhang Jie has been coming to the Taoist temple to help, if there is water in the Taoist temple, he will fetch water, he picked a whole ten The water in the big tank almost flooded the Taoist temple, and I was worried that Zhang Jie would offend the princess, and I was also worried that Zhang Jie would be hit if he was rejected."

"I'll go talk to Princess Changle." Gu Qing was about to go to the Taoist temple.

"Husband, don't go." Wu Mei pulled Gu Qing again, "How can I let my husband do this kind of thing, if my husband intervenes in the affairs of my daughter's house, it's nothing, it will break the rules."