This shadow guard is kinda nice

The catkins are flying every now and then, which is a good time in March.

Qingshi street, stepping across the small flowing water bridge, Mingyangju became lively early in the morning, many people were talking about this palace examination, but the most talked about was not the number one scholar, but the university student in the palace examination. Shining brilliantly, but only got the second place Zhao Tingzheng.

It's fine if it's more ordinary, but there are rumors that Zhao Tingzheng is a child brought back by the current emperor and raised by his side. He has personally raised him for several years. The wonderful performance in the palace test is also impressive.

However, when the gold list was posted, Zhao Tingzheng was ranked No. 2 and ranked second.

"If you want me to tell you, it's because His Majesty avoided suspicion and brought out the person himself, because he was afraid that others would talk about Zhao Tingzheng behind his back, so he gave this second place."

Someone immediately echoed: "I think so too, but if I were Zhao Tingzheng, I might feel aggrieved. I have the strength to be the top of the list, but now I am ranked second because of my relationship with His Majesty."

"What is there to be wronged?" One person put down his chopsticks, and cast a sideways glance at the person who spoke before, "Where did the opportunity come from for others to be taught by His Majesty himself? Don't think he is the second place right now, and the future will not be better than the current number one scholar." many."

"that's true……"

Everyone said that Zhao Tingzheng, who was wronged and had a better future than Zhuangyuan Lang, was in the palace at the moment, waiting for the emperor to summon him.

The young man is tall and tall, with a jade crown and hair, eyes like bright stars. Compared with a few years ago, he has lost his childishness and is a little more heroic.

Wang Gonggong stepped forward, that is, the former steward of Prince Xuan's mansion, since King Xuan Xiao Yichen ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor five years ago, he and Ran Yue came to the palace together to serve Xiao Yichen.

Wang Gonggong thought about asking Zhao Tingzheng to wait in the side hall. Although the sun is not strong now, it will still be hot after standing for a long time.

Zhao Tingzheng waved his hand and smiled at the prince. The young man's smile was a bit more dazzling than the flowers in early spring.

"No, I'll just wait here for a while."

Knowing his temperament, the prince knew that Zhao Tingzheng could not be persuaded, so he sighed and went back to Linhua Palace, leaving Zhao Tingzheng to go.

The Linhua Hall is still the same as before, time has not left many traces, everything is as before, only the people sitting in the high positions are different.

Xiao Yichen was talking with Lin Sheng, Shangshu of the Ministry of War. Wang Gonggong took a pot of tea that Ran Yue had just brewed, and walked in lightly, and filled their teacups with tea. After finishing this, he bowed, Stepped aside.

Lin Sheng played with the teacup for a while, and then said to Xiao Yichen who was sitting behind the desk critiquing papers: "Actually, Zhao Tingzheng can afford the champion this time, so why do you have to give him the second place?"

Xiao Yichen put down the pen in his hand, took a sip of tea, and said lightly: "You are still young, I am afraid that he will drift away."

Lin Sheng couldn't help laughing, what's the point, he was about to refute a few words, when he raised his eyes and looked at Xiao Yichen's expressionless face, the smile on his face gradually dissipated.

The first emperor passed the throne to Xiao Yichen five years ago, and became the Supreme Emperor himself. He has been cultivating his body in the palace, not caring about the affairs of the court. Not very good, after all, he didn't survive an ordinary wind and cold, and died two years ago.

When Xiao Yichen first came to the throne, the government and the public were still unstable. Although there were no external troubles for the time being, but during the empress period, his energy was not as good as before, so there were many moths in the court. The position of prime minister had always been vacant, so Xiao Yichen had to come in person for many things, and it was common for him to be busy until late at night.

Later, during the Chongde years, many old ministers left one after another, and new faces gradually appeared in the court. The current team of the dynasty was completely established, and the promulgation of various policies and regulations made Daliang stronger than before. .

In the past five years, Xiao Yichen's five years of proclaiming himself emperor, Lin Sheng has watched every step. He is worthy of the people of Liming, worthy of the country, Lin Sheng just sighs that he is ashamed of himself.

He played the role of a good emperor, but he forgot Xiao Yichen himself in a corner.

After a while, Lin Sheng came back to his senses from five years ago. He curled his lips and said, "What's the matter? How many girls' favors have been won."

As Lin Sheng spoke, he curled his lips into a smile, and the scene from that year seemed to be right in front of him, as if it was yesterday.

Xiao Yichen didn't pick up his words, and mentioned Shen Yinan, so he took advantage of the situation and asked, "Is he still in Jizhou?"

Lin Sheng shook his head, "I don't know, I haven't received a letter for nearly half a year."

Xiao Yichen frowned.

Back then, Shen Yinan almost traded his own life for the prince's life, admitting in front of the former emperor that he was involved in the prince's rebellion, and in order to gain the prince's trust, he switched Zhao Kai, who was supposed to be sentenced to death.Under the wrath of the first emperor, Shen Yinan couldn't escape with a death sentence.

And when he went to prison to send Xiao Beining off for the last time, he chatted with Shen Yinan for a long time, and Shen Yinan told him that he wanted to go back to his hometown of Jizhou.

Xiao Yichen was unwilling at first, after he ascended the throne, he had decided to give Shen Yinan the prime minister's seat early in the morning, but Shen Yinan said that if he wanted to go back to his hometown, he naturally didn't want to let him go.

However, after thinking about it, Shen Yinan went to the prince's side in order to repay the favor of saving his life, and won his trust, which led the prince to think of treason. to offset.

The first emperor may have loved and favored Xiao Beining in the past, but after one thing after another was tiring, he could no longer let Xiao Beining go. No matter what, the first emperor put the Xiao family's country first.

It is not child's play if it is about the country and the country.

So in the end Xiao Yichen let Shen Yinan go and let him go back to his hometown in Jizhou. He didn't use the position of Prime Minister Liang to tie him down. At that time, the person who went to the execution ground instead of Shen Yinan was a death row prisoner.

The beheading officer is still Wei Jun. When Zhao Kai was beheaded in the past, Zhao Kai was handed over by Shen Yinan, and now when Shen Yinan is beheaded, Shen Yinan was handed over by Xiao Yichen.

The two processes are similar, but the ending is different. After learning that Zhao Jin and Zhao Kai and his son were still alive, the former emperor sent someone to kill the Zhao family and his son, while Shen Yinan completely left Jinling under the cover of Xiao Yichen. , Back to my hometown in Jizhou.This time, it was five years.

Staying away from the officialdom, the five years of being unrestrained and carefree.

After that, Wei Jun also handed over the letter of resignation to Xiao Yichen, who was already proclaimed emperor, on the grounds that he was not doing well. After that, his official career ended here, and what's more, his fate also ended here.

Xiao Yichen has never been a good talker, Wei Jun knew it well, so he handed over the letter of resignation himself, Xiao Yichen didn't bother to argue with him, and approved his letter of resignation, and the new Minister of Rites was soon replaced by the servant.

Except for Dong Qian who is still the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, five of the six officials in the Chongde period were replaced by newcomers. Up to now, in the fifth year of the beginning, the position of prime minister is still vacant.

Xiao Yichen has always kept the position of prime minister, waiting for Shen Yinan to come back to Jinling one day.In the past, many people said that with Shen Yinan's talent, the 16-year-old high school champion should be Daliang's future prime minister, but he went to become the secretary of the Ministry of punishment.Now, going around, Shen Yinan is indeed the best candidate for Prime Minister Liang.

"After five years of wandering away, it's time to come back."

Lin Sheng nodded, he should have come back long ago, they have worked so hard these past few years, the new emperor ascended the throne, and everything was waiting to be done, but Xiao Yichen only let Shen Yinan be at ease for five years.Shen Yinan was fine in the first few years, and he would write letters every few days to report his safety or something, but this year there was no news for more than half a year, and fortunately Xiao Yichen finally didn't intend to let him go now.

"When you are free in a few days, go to Jizhou to find him."

Lin Sheng agreed, and the two chatted casually for a while, Lin Sheng got up to say goodbye, Xiao Yichen waved his hand and said go ahead.

When Lin Sheng was about to walk to the door, he suddenly remembered something, turned around, and said, "By the way, Chu Yunhe is about to ascend the throne, who do you plan to send to congratulate him?"

Xiao Yichen paused his hands, and the ink smeared.

……

When Zhao Tingzheng came out of Linhua Hall, it was already late, he walked out of the palace.

The dark sky and the red wall caught people's eyes even more. Zhao Tingzheng stopped, and not far away, Lin Sheng leaned against the wall with his arms folded. Seeing him coming out, he grinned.

The two went to Lin Sheng's house. Compared with Xiao Yichen, Zhao Tingzheng and Lin Sheng had more contacts in the past few years, so they naturally became familiar with each other.

Seeing him coming, the housekeeper in Lin Sheng's mansion went to bring him pastries with a smile on his hands. Zhao Tingzheng's hard work in the past few years left a good impression on the housekeeper.

Lin Sheng waited for the housekeeper to leave, and he sat on a stone bench beside him, jokingly said, "Good boy has candy."

Zhao Tingzheng snorted and said yes.

Although Lin Sheng is usually full of ruffian and not in good shape, he has always been in the military camp since he was a child, and some things in his bones can't be changed. For example, at this moment, Zhao Tingzheng propped his head up and looked at Lin Sheng sitting upright, and couldn't help but click in his heart commend.

Lin Sheng didn't pay as much attention to him, he has been like this for so many years, he has long been used to it, and he was thinking about how to get something out of Zhao Tingzheng, after all, Xiao Yichen called someone in and chatted all afternoon, if he didn't believe it, he would take a palace test That little thing.

"Afternoon, Your Majesty..."

"Huh?" Zhao Tingzheng tilted his head slightly and looked at him suspiciously.

"Did Your Majesty tell you that you didn't give the number one prize?" Lin Sheng bit the tip of his tongue and abruptly changed the subject. He didn't really care about this, he just wanted to know...

"You want to ask if His Majesty sent me to Nanchu?" Zhao Tingzheng was silent for a while, looking at him with a half-smile and said.

amount……

This child, Lin Sheng frowned in embarrassment. He was really cute when he was young, and he would blush when he teased him twice. Now that he's grown up, he can figure out other people's thoughts.

Lin Sheng didn't say anything, so Zhao Tingzheng didn't say anything, just sat there.

Lin Sheng: "..." It's even more annoying.

After a long time, Lin Sheng couldn't sit still. He was impatient. He glared at Zhao Tingzheng and said, "Did His Majesty send you there?"

Zhao Tingzheng blinked innocently, then spread out his hands and said cheerfully, "It's sent, and there is King Cheng."

This time, without waiting for Lin Sheng to ask a question, he said, "Your Majesty asked me and King Cheng to take congratulatory gifts and set off for Southern Chu in a few days, saying that this is my first errand and that I should perform well."

Lin Sheng leaned forward with his elbows on the table, and Zhao Tingzheng, who was very discerning, also leaned forward.

"I went to Nanchu, do you know what to do?"

Zhao Tingzheng was a little puzzled at first, isn't it because Chu Yunhe ascended the throne?Do you want to talk to him so deliberately?However, the next moment, he widened his eyes and suddenly realized something.He nodded immediately and said, "I know."

"We will definitely find out about Mo Ran's whereabouts in Southern Chu." Zhao Tingzheng promised.

Lin Sheng was satisfied, he waved his hand and said, "It's done, you can go back."

Zhao Tingzheng: "..."

Zhao Tingzheng: "The cakes haven't come yet."

"Oh, I forgot." Lin Sheng said flatly, "Let's go after eating."

Zhao Tingzheng: "..."