Chivalrous Song Dynasty

Therefore, Cai Jing strictly ordered Bai Sheng not to leave the mansion without authorization. If something really happened, he had to get his consent and send additional personal guards before he could go.

And under the premise of Li Biyun's paralysis, this extra-regulation principle will not work at all, because Cai Jing believes that Bai Sheng's safety can only be guaranteed by sending all the guards, but if that is the case, who will guard the safety of the Grand Master's Mansion?

Unable to go out, Bai Sheng had no choice but to let Shi Qian go to Cai You's Prime Minister's Mansion to check the situation, and learn about Wanyan Wulu's recovery by the way.As a result, Shi Qian came back and told him that the Prime Minister's Mansion had been sealed.The three Wanyan Zongwang brothers and sisters are missing, and they probably returned to the Kingdom of Jin.

Bai Sheng was helpless, and thought about whether he could go to the catacombs in Wei County, but Shi Qian told him that the tomb had collapsed, and the reason was that the Longque Sword and the Golden Bird Mountain Ax were the hubs of a certain mechanism in the tomb. , took these two things away, and the tomb collapsed and annihilated.

As a result, Bai Sheng could only put down his thoughts of looking at the rubbings for the time being.Anyway, with the magic knife in hand, I have finally fulfilled my big wish. As for the jade horse, I will store it in Cai Jing's study first, and it will not be too late to take it away when I don't live in the Grand Master's Mansion.

In the next few days, Bai Sheng was in a state of waiting, not going out of the Grand Master's Mansion.

Every morning, he gave Cai Jing and Li Biyun physical therapy as usual. At noon, he took Li Biyun to the zoo to practice. In the afternoon, under Li Biyun's guidance, he strengthened his memory of some martial arts moves. The stick will kill Li Biyun, and the night is the time for him to practice the fake red boxing mental method.

As for the Wanxiang Divine Art, because of Li Biyun's instructions, he has never practiced it. Since he can't practice it at all, what's the use of practicing it?

To say that he is in a state of waiting means that he is waiting for Ma Lin's return. Ma Lin took a lot of money to invite Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian.

Bai Sheng is not a master who can be manipulated by others.Cai Jing didn't allow him to leave the house, so he asked Cai Jing to help him with errands. If you don't help me with errands, don't stop me from going out.

"I'll do whatever you want, but you're not allowed to leave the house!" Cai Jing said to Bai Sheng.

Cai Jing is not cheating Bai Sheng, he has indeed done many things for Bai Sheng.

The first is that Li Qingzhao's father, Li Gefei, was reinstated;

The second thing is that Cai Jing found Sun Fu, the Minister of the Ministry of War who temporarily replaced Gao Qiu in charge of the Forbidden Army Xiangjun, and gave Bai Sheng the right to operate coal mining.

This second matter is really timely help for Bai Sheng, because Guo Sheng and the others have found a coal mine outside Bianliang City, and they have dug out the shallow coal mine and transported it to Bianliang for sale.

If Bai Sheng hadn't ordered someone to send Guo Sheng the government's approval in time, I'm afraid Guo Sheng and the others would have already fought with Xiang Jun, because Xiang Jun wanted to confiscate their charcoal carts.

In this cold winter, especially when the new year is approaching, Bai Sheng has already made a fortune from coal, and the purchasing power of the people in the capital is still abundant. Who doesn't want to spend the New Year warmer?

Baisheng's coal has an advantage in price, because he has no transportation costs, so the selling price he sets is twice as cheap as that of Tangyin's coal.

The coal produced in Tangyin was originally intended for the consumption of high-ranking officials and dignitaries. Ordinary people have always only envied it. Only a few residents can figure out a way to help those relatives and friends who work in nobles' homes to buy a little on their behalf.

Therefore, as soon as Baisheng's coal was listed, it immediately ignited the Bianjing market. Even though Guo Sheng recruited hundreds of villagers to work as miners to mine day and night, the mined coal was still in short supply.

When he was rich, Bai Sheng began to arrange to buy real estate. It would be impossible for him to live in Cai Jing's mansion all the time. While blackmailing Cai Jing with the excuse of medical treatment, he also had to face the fact that Cai Jing was holding him back.

In addition, he could not place more and more subordinates in the Grand Master's Mansion.At least to buy real estate for the families of Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian who are about to come, and the families of Wang Dingliu who have already arrived, right?

This morning, after giving Cai Jing physical therapy, Bai Sheng brought up the third thing: "Master, I'm going to fight Xixia, and I want to ask you for a favor."

Chapter 208

Cai Jing held the teacup and blew on the slices of salvia miltiorrhiza and kuding stalks floating on the water surface of the teacup. While blowing on a cup of tea, a pair of white eyebrows frowned even deeper on his already wrinkled old face.

"Are you deliberately entertaining the old man? Or do you think you died too slowly?"

Bai Sheng said embarrassingly: "Everyone also has the ambition to serve the country, so please ask the grand master to fulfill it."

Cai Jingle: "Are you going to serve the country? Do you think you are Yang Ye? Or Di Qing? Are you comparable to Zhong Shiheng? Or Zhe Kexing?"

What Lao Cai listed are the four most famous generals in the Northern Song Dynasty since the founding of the country. These four famous generals have one thing in common, that is, their outstanding achievements in the war against foreign enemies, which made the enemies around the Song Dynasty frightened.

Bai Shengdao: "Famous generals also need thousands of soldiers to be the commander, right? Without soldiers, how can the general coordinate the battle? I am not talented, and I would like to be a pawn in the army to conquer the west. Of course, if the grand master can help, let me lead the troops It's even better."

Cai Juede's eyes were black, and he handed the red sage root tea to the maid, closed his eyes to calm down, and then opened them and stared at Bai Sheng's eyes for a long time, as if judging what Bai Sheng said Is it real.

After a while, he said: "You tell the old man first, you go to Zhengxi, how can the old man's illness be recuperated?"

Bai Sheng was prepared for this question, and answered calmly at the moment.

The treatment cycle he told Cai Jing before has already laid the groundwork. The war between Song Dynasty and Xixia will start in the early spring of next year. At that time, he no longer needs to give Cai Jing physical therapy every day, but once a month instead.

He plans to give Cai Jing a physical therapy in early February and come back at the end of March again, so he will have two months.

Even though he spoke clearly and logically, Cai Jing still shook his head: "That's not okay! How can you predict how long this war will last? And how can you guarantee that you can survive the war?"

Bai Sheng was speechless, and had no choice but to put on an embarrassed smile of being exposed by others, and uttered another lie: "Taishi Mingjian, in fact, I just want to make some military achievements in exchange for high officials and rich salary. After all, the emperor entrusted me with too little rank, right? As for the Western Expedition, I’m not stupid, can I go forward in a real fight? At most, I’m just a mixed bag of seniority in the army.”

After many days, he has already learned from the awakened Xiao Feng that the Yuwu Xiaowei that Zhao Ji granted him is a small official with no real position and power, and no one can control him, compared to Sun Wukong's Bi Mawen It's not as good, so he secretly scolded Zhao Ji for being stingy and didn't say anything, just said that at the moment, it's perfect to use this excuse to lie.

It is often easy to succeed in deceiving a villain with a villain's heart, because a villain will always use a villain's heart to save a gentleman's belly.In the thinking of a villain who is chasing fame and fortune, everything that others do is for fame and fortune.

Sure enough, after hearing the "truth", Cai Jing smiled, pointed at Bai Sheng and said, "You white rat, why are you pretending to be a loyal man with this old man? You can't just say that earlier? It's human nature to want to be promoted. It's normal, but why go to the Western Expedition?"

Don't look at Cai Jing boasting that Bai Sheng is a chivalrous man in front of Zhao Ji, it's all nonsense to keep Bai Sheng, a personal doctor.In his mind, there are no truly chivalrous and loyal men in the world.Even people like Yang Ye and Di Qing, didn't they risk their lives for the sake of honoring their ancestors and making their wives and sons?

Bai Sheng was very helpless when he heard this. Although Cai Jing believed his words, it was obvious that Cai Jing still refused to allow him to participate in the Western Expedition.

Sure enough, Cai Jing said again: "Our Great Song Dynasty emphasizes culture and suppresses martial arts. No matter how great a military officer is, what is the future? Do you think you are too strong? If you want to be an official, the old man will accept you as a student, and you don't have to participate in next year's competition." Qiu Wei is a scholar."

If it is necessary to find out what good things Cai Jing has done in his life, it is no better than hard work in education. He devoted his life to running schools and giving lectures, and sent a large number of scholars to the imperial court. They are collectively referred to as "Students of the Son of Heaven", but in fact these people are all benevolent by Cai Jing.

Cai Jing's disciple is at least at the level of a scholar.If you let Cai Jing's students take the provincial examination, doesn't that mean that Cai Taishi's culture is not high enough?Not to mention that Cai Jing will definitely wear small shoes for you because of this, just ask yourself if you can compare with Cai Jing in terms of talent and learning?

Cai Jing said again: "In the next year, you can memorize the books of sages and sages, and the old man can also guide you. When the provincial examination of the Ministry of Rites in the next year, the old man will naturally have a way to let you pass, and even help you pass the palace examination. You call the Donghua Gate."

The so-called Donghuamen roll call refers to those who are on the list in the palace examination.At least he was born as a Jinshi, which was a hard "diploma" for civil officials in the Song Dynasty.

A few officials without a Jinshi background who were promoted by the emperor through some special meritorious service, no matter how great their actual positions were, would be a head shorter than those officials with a Jinshi background throughout their lives.

It can be said that Cai Jing treated Bai Sheng with sincerity. As a first-rank official in the dynasty, he promised to do so with all his strength. Even the emperor Zhao Ji couldn't break the rules and promote a certain Bai Sheng to such a level. a military officer?

Gao Qiu was like Su Shi, and he also knew poetry, song, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but his level was not high enough.Even Gao Qiu can't be a civil servant. It can be seen that the imperial examination system in the Song Dynasty is so strict that thousands of eyes are staring at it. The emperor can't cheat even if he wants to!

How did Cai Jing know that he treated each other so affectionately, but he couldn't meet Bai Sheng's real needs.

Seeing that Bai Sheng fell silent, he couldn't help being very surprised, thinking that if my conditions were placed on the body of all the students in the world, wouldn't he go crazy with joy?How can you be so calm?Immediately asked: "What difficulties do you still have? Could it be that you question the old man's ability?"

Bai Shengyi gritted his teeth and said, "Students don't dare to question! The grand master's kindness, the students are very grateful. It's just that the students think that it's too late to be an official until the next year? What the students think is this article. Can martial arts be carried out at the same time? Anyway, the students are already military officers now, so why not take advantage of the east wind of this war?"

Hearing this, Cai Jing was immediately furious, cooperating with you, do you want Wencheng Wude?You want to be a civil servant as well as a military officer, so why not just follow the example of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and add yourself to the yellow robe!This is simply greedy and insufficient!

Immediately he said angrily: "Okay, okay, it's all up to you. If you want to join the army, just go to the martial arts before Yuanxi. What are you talking about with the old man here? As for whether you can be promoted after joining the army, that's Tong This old man can’t help you with the privy’s powers!”

What Bai Sheng was waiting for was Cai Jing's words, and immediately saluted: "Teacher calm down, the student's original intention is to participate in the martial arts, but grand master, didn't you let the students go out? That's why you came here to ask the grand master for help."

Cai Jing suddenly realized, and said angrily and amusedly: "It turns out that you have made a big circle for this matter. There are still more than 20 days before the martial arts exam. Why did you come to me so early?"

Bai Shengdao: "Actually, this is not the only reason why the students seek the Grand Master. It is because the students want to go to the Yuquan Gym to learn martial arts before the martial arts exam, so as to sharpen their guns before the battle. It's just that the Yuquan Gym's admission is too strict. So I would like to ask the grand master to recommend it to the students.”

Cai Jing immediately shook his head and said: "I really can't help you with this matter. Zhou Tong is a lazy person, and I can't control him. When the officials asked him to single out Fang La, he hid. It was the crown prince who wanted to go to him. When he was learning boxing at the Yuquan Gym, he reluctantly agreed after pushing and resisting, so don’t even think about it.”

Bai Shengxin said that the Yuquan Gym is really difficult to enter, but he didn't pin his hope of entering the Yuquan Gym on Cai Jing, he just raised this matter now in exchange for the freedom to go out.