Chapter 99
Zhou Yi continued to work in the Imperial Academy.
The life of the Imperial Academy is relatively leisurely, especially when meeting a lazy emperor, most of the work is waived, and the head of the academy seldom sees the emperor, let alone these people.
Most of the time is spent revising books and looking at history.
Zhou Yi's location is by a wall next to the window. Zhou Yi likes to drink a cup of fragrant tea in the morning, bathe in the spring, read the history books leisurely all morning, or chat with his colleagues in the Imperial Academy about poetry. Ah, articles and the like, no one who can enter the Imperial Academy has two talents, and Zhou Yi feels that he has benefited a lot from hearing their chats. Of course, there are not many times like this. They talk more about how difficult the family is and how to make some extra money.
Just like this, Zhou Yi also listened with great interest. Sometimes I also participate in the discussion and give them advice, so these people who have studied for half a lifetime like this new champion very much.
Once, it was the old man who cried that the family couldn't open the pot, and whispered in Zhou Yi's ear: "Zhou Yi, if you have a connection, you should go as soon as possible. This Hanlin Academy used to be a noble place, but now there is only one. It’s not expensive anymore.” The man quietly pointed upwards, intending to the emperor, “There is no need for the Hanlin Academy today, we are just a decoration, and the way to rise is blocked. You really shouldn't waste yourself here with a bright future."
Zhou Yi thanked with a smile, and after the man left, he shook his head, not to mention that he had no connections, even if he had connections, he wouldn't be in a hurry to leave now. In this way, what would others think of him? He has just entered the dynasty, and he has not even figured out the most basic official situation in the capital. Now he is running around like a stunned green man, what good results can he get. Now that he is a newcomer, he can study books every day, live a leisurely life, and there are not so many intrigues among colleagues, which is good. As for more, at least wait until he understands the court.
It's just that Zhou Yi was not in a hurry, someone was. The next day, Zhou Yi heard the news that the second place was transferred to Zhan Shifu. If the Hanlin Academy is the emperor's secretarial department, then the Zhan Shifu is a special institution to serve the prince.
Zhou Yi rubbed his chin. When the second place was fair, he looked like an unsmiling middle-aged uncle. Unexpectedly, he had a lot of plans in his heart. Seeing that the current emperor was unreliable and had no bright future in the Imperial Academy, he went directly to Zhan Shi Mansion, that's right, bet on the prince now, if the prince really becomes the emperor, then the good day of the second place will come.
This incident had a great impact on the new batch of Scholars who came in. Everyone was led to feel a little ready to move, only Zhou Yi, who still looked leisurely every day, didn't see him running around, and didn't see him. Get together with this newcomer and mutter.
Wen Qu, the head of the courtyard, naturally saw these situations in his eyes. He could only touch his beard helplessly. Everyone has their own ambitions. There is nothing wrong with wanting to climb to a higher place. The appearance is really embarrassing, and he has nothing to do.
But these people are still too impatient. Those who are in the officialdom are not top-notch. If they are so anxious, they are likely to be broken.
He just paused when his eyes glanced over Zhou Yi, this child is quite different from these people...
Another day later, Tan Hualang also left suddenly, and he went to the Ministry of Officials, such a powerful department wants to go like Guo As long as the crucian carp of the river can enter, there is no need to worry about promotion and wealth. It is really hidden that Tan Hualang can enter such a place.
Now everyone's eyes are on Zhou Yi, wanting to see how long the No. 1 scholar can hold on to the top three, and Tanhua, who is second in the list, is gone.
But Zhou Yi disappointed them all. He clocked in on time every day, read, sorted and numbered books in the morning, and revised them in the afternoon. After returning from the Hanlin Academy, he didn't see any important person's house running around. The life was very rhythmic, and he was happy all day long, as if he was very satisfied with this kind of life.
It seems that Zhuangyuan Lang is a man with no ambitions. These people stared at him for a few days and saw that his daily life was like this, so they looked away again and actively planned for themselves.
Zhou Yi didn't pay attention to these things, what he was thinking about now was how to return Li Yingru's wishes.
When riding the horse that day, Li Yingru threw him the embroidered handkerchief with her boudoir name embroidered on it, the meaning was already obvious. Zhou Yi can't say that he is in love with Li Yingru now, but it is true that he likes Li Yingru to a certain extent. Li Yingru is very in line with Zhou Yi's three views, both in temperament and in the world. This is much better than most blind marriages. Cultivate feelings after marriage It will be very easy too.
Now that the girls are so active, he is a big man, and it is a bit unreasonable not to do anything to respond.
Zhou Yi thought for a while, then wrote a love poem by himself, and after the court went down that day, he strolled outside Li's residence with green bamboo.
At this time, it was already dark, and the gate of the Li Mansion was closed.
If you go in now, the Li family might not let Li Yingru out at night.
Zhou Yi took the green bamboo and walked around the Li family's courtyard.
Qingzhu was very surprised: "Master, what are you doing? If you want to go in, just call the door."
Zhou Yi waved his hand: "What do you know? What's the fun in going straight like that?"
Qingzhu didn't understand Zhou. What did Yi mean, but he didn't ask further.
Zhou Yi roughly estimated the location of Li Yingru's residence, asked Qingzhu to squat down, and climbed onto his shoulders by himself.
Qing Zhu was two years younger than Zhou Yi, so it was hard for Zhou Yi to bear it: "Master, you... what are you doing?" Zhou Yi hissed
, signaling Qing Zhu to be quiet, and then imitated the cuckoo bird in the courtyard. Cuckoo cried out.
Li Yingru was studying in the room, when she suddenly heard cuckoo and cuckoo calling outside, she asked Qing'er, "Did you hear that?" Qing'er listened carefully, and said with a smile, "What's the matter,
miss, isn't it just a bird call?" , Spring is here, and the birds will naturally increase."
Li Yingru listened again, "No, why does this sound sound like a human being, I'll go out and have a look."
Outside the wall, Qing Zhu was confused by Zhou Yi, but he still complained: "Young master, what you learn is not like that at all, others will know it's a fake." Zhou Yi replied:
" Nonsense, if you can’t hear it, what’s the use of me calling it.” Turning around, he went on to Cuckoo Cuckoo.
Li Yingru walked out of the room. Naturally, her residence is in the backyard of the Li Mansion. She likes quietness. Usually at this time, the maids and mother-in-law will be sent away by her, leaving only Qing'er by her side, so this is not like the cry of a cuckoo at all. Called for so long, but did not attract the attention of others.
Li Yingru walked in the direction where the voice came from, took a few steps forward, and saw Zhou Yi emerging from outside the wall at a glance. He covered his mouth.
"Zhou Yi? What are you doing?"
Zhou Yi was happy to see that Li Yingru had come out, thinking that he had found the right place.
"Come here to give you this, throw it with a papaya, and repay it with Qiongyao." Zhou Yi struggled to maintain his figure, pulled out a letter from his sleeve, and handed it to the wall vigorously. He wanted to throw it over like this. However, Li Yingru is quite skilled, and with such a light jump, she directly took the letter from Zhou Yi's hand.
"What kind of letter is this?" Li Yingru held the letter in her hand and looked at Zhou Yi with a mischievous light in her eyes. A little blush.
Zhou Yi suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and rubbed his nose: "You will know when you go back and read..."
At this moment, Li Yingru was about to speak again, when suddenly there was a loud shout: "Who is it! Rhubarb, go!!!"
Zhou Yi's legs tightened when he heard that, he still remembered the voice, it was Li Yingbi who met once. No matter what, he hooked up with his sister, Zhou Yi thought about it, and brought him in. If any man dares to do such absurd things to his sister before getting engaged, he will definitely be blacklisted by him. Panicked, he hurriedly shouted to Qingzhu: "Quick, quick, let me go."
Qingzhu also heard the barking of the dog inside, he was a coward, he didn't know before, now he saw what Zhou Yi and Miss Li said, what is unclear, my God, the young master actually hooked up with the young lady, It's worth it if you get caught! In a panic, the whole person fell to the ground, Zhou Yi was thrown to the ground unexpectedly, and was about to yelp a few times, when he saw a big dog sticking out its tongue out of a dog hole not far from them. Eyes full of green light towards them. "Run, the dog is coming." Zhou Yi yelled, stood up and ran wildly. "Wow, woof, woof..." Dogs are like this. If you don't run away, you may have to examine it. When people run away, it will become more energetic. "Master, wow, dog..." Qingzhu cried out, wiping her tears while running desperately after Zhou Yi. Li Yingru heard the movement outside, and punched Li Yingbi on the shoulder: "Why are you zooming in on Huang? " , but little girl, the night is already dark, who are you talking to, and "Li Yingbi looked at the courtyard wall, "and you are talking through the courtyard wall." Li Yingru was also angry at Li Yingbi's indiscriminate release of dogs. He replied, turned around and went back to the house. Back in the bedroom, Li Yingru pressed her beating heart, opened the envelope, unfolded it under the lamp, and studied it carefully. At the end, the blush spread from her neck to her ears: "This idiot." After speaking, she smiled sweetly and shyly. . Zhou Yi is at the front, Qing Zhu follows behind, and a big dog follows at the end. On West Street in early spring, there is a show of chasing souls. "Hoohoo..." Zhou Yi ran with stars in his eyes, and asked out of breath, "Dog... is the dog still behind?" Qingzhu was also about to lose his temper, and he said with a sad face, "No... I don't know." " You Look...take a look." "Oh." Qingzhu looked back while running, and saw that the dog was only a few steps away from them, not barking, but staring at them with a pair of green eyes.
"Wow...young master, this...what kind of dog is this, why don't you see him barking, just chasing us so desperately!" "Stop talking
, run quickly." He just wanted to be romantic, handing love poems under the moon, how wonderful, and then he said a few vague love words to Li Yingru, who would have thought that he would provoke such a dog, who chased them half their lives away.
Zhou Yi and Qingzhu were chased by the dog for two full streets, from West Street to East Street, across the entire city of Beiping. When they got home, the two of them had already passed away.
After resting for a while before recovering, Qingzhu stretched out her thumbs to Zhou Yi facing him: "Master, you are really..." "
What do you want to say?" Zhou Yi looked at him threateningly.
Qingzhu changed his words in a second: "It's really amazing, I thought of such a way. Now, I'm afraid that Miss Li will cry because of being moved. It seems that this yard will welcome the mistress soon." Zhou Yi waved his
hand , Let the green bamboo go down. Taking a breath, I thought, I made a mistake today, I knew I shouldn't be playing romantic games, and I just have someone pass the letter to Li Yingru.
Well now, at least he is the number one scholar in the new department, and now he is chased by a dog for two streets. It seems that dating in ancient times is different from modern times!
On the way to Dianmao in the Imperial Academy the next day, Zhou Yi subconsciously hid when he saw a dog.
He bought two steamed buns on the way, and ate them all the way to the Hanlin Academy. It was very beneficial for sesame officials like them, at least they didn't have to go to the morning court, and the daily o'clock time was after eight o'clock. to nine o'clock. You can sleep until you wake up naturally.
Zhou Yi got rid of the embarrassment of being kicked out by dogs last night, shook his robe, and became that stable young champion man again.
After entering the Hanlin Academy, I greeted every colleague early.
Because the new Jinshi who came in with Zhou Yi were trying to get out of here, and they were absent-minded all day long. These were seen in the eyes of the old Hanlin. They had stayed in the Imperial Academy for most of their lives, and they had feelings for the Imperial Academy. In the past, many people in the Imperial Academy couldn't do it, but now you still despise it, why are you so big-faced! And Zhou Yi's down-to-earth attitude naturally won the love of many old Hanlin, every time Zhou Yi said hello, people would ask him kindly.
But today, these people's eyes were both kind and joking. As soon as Zhou Yi came in, they looked him up and down as if they were curious.
"What's the matter, what is this?" Zhou Yi didn't know, so he looked at the clothes carefully, all the buttons were buttoned, and the clothes were not put on backwards.
"Zhuangyuan Lang, I heard that you were chased by dogs for two streets last night." Someone stepped up and asked cheerfully, "Hahaha, Zhuangyuan Lang just has leisure time, and was chased by dogs at night to play."
Zhou Yi almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, why does it seem that everyone knows that the ancient gossip industry is so developed? Unscientific!
"How do you know?" Zhou Yi wondered.
"Hey, Xu Shidu saw it yesterday." The man smiled and pointed to Xu Shidu.
Oh, Xu Shidu is the one who cries that the family can't get rid of the pot.
Zhou Yi wanted to cry, but he was already very unlucky to be kicked out by a dog. How could he be seen by acquaintances without dying? If you see it, you will see it. The key point is that this person has a big mouth, and everyone who directly makes noise knows it. Xu Shidu, this is not kind, he saw this guy crying pitifully, so he donated a tael of silver!
Xu Shidu stroked his beard and said, "Last night, when I went out to buy wine, I saw Editor Zhou running from West Street, followed by a dog, but I called Zhou Xiu, maybe Zhou Xiu didn't hear it, It just blows away like a gust of wind."
Zhou Yi gritted his teeth, he was running for his life at that time, didn't it look like he was blown by madness!
Zhou Yi's face was extremely calm, and he said nonsense in a serious manner: "I am exercising, and it happens that the dog at home runs fast, so I let it run behind and urge myself."
These people actually believed it, and they all praised: "That's right, editor Zhou is young, and he thought of using this method to exercise his body. I'm afraid we old bones can't do it." Those who can stay in the Imperial Academy for most of their lives People still don't have so many twists and turns, and what Zhou Yi said was serious, which was particularly credible. No one mentioned this matter after the morning. But in the afternoon, a piece of news swept through the Hanlin Academy like a tornado. Yang Zhiwen and Yang Shoufu were recruited! This is too rare. Since Yang Zhiwen became the first assistant, he has firmly controlled the cabinet in his hands. Those few assistants didn't know what to think in their hearts. Anyway, on the surface, Yang Zhiwen was the only one who followed suit. In addition, the current Emperor Chongzheng didn't take much care of things, and the court said that Yang Zhiwen's words were a bit exaggerated, but the government and the public could still afford it. Such a fierce man was ginseng, which naturally caused a shock in the court. It was only after Zhou Yi listened to these discussions in the Imperial Academy that he figured out what happened. Speaking of which, Zhou Yi was still a witness. Not long after Zhou Yi came to the Fu Inn, he witnessed Yang Zhiwen's dog legs arresting a person who spoke ill of Yang Zhiwen, and it was still in front of so many people. At the time, Zhou Yi felt that this was a little brainless, but as expected, now the retribution has come. That Juren came to the capital to rush for the exam, but because he scolded Yang Zhiwen a few words, he was taken into prison and tortured. His ass was beaten to pieces, and then he was thrown out like a sack. Naturally, he would not be able to participate in Chunwei in this way, and this Juren missed the imperial examination this time, so how could he swallow this breath. A paper pleadings sued Yang Zhiwen to Dali Temple, but Dali Temple dared to accept this hot potato, and the reason given by him was justified, Dali Temple was in charge of review, and cases above the cane of the capital were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Punishment. The Ministry of Punishment has nothing to push, so it implements the dragging formula.
This annoyed the scholar, and he directly made matters worse. The capital still has many candidates who failed the rankings. The scholar directly encouraged these people, saying that Yang Zhiwen controlled the government, the government was weak, he despised the scholars all over the world, and intentionally or unintentionally. The reason why these people failed the rankings was that it was because of Yang Zhiwen that the imperial examinations were chaotic and talented people could not be nominated.
This aroused the emotions of these candidates who failed the rankings. They originally thought that they were so talented, not because they were useless, but because the examiners were blind. Now that they had a ready-made reason, they naturally followed suit.
This incident became more and more troublesome. At this time, the scholar beat the Dengwen drum again, directly complaining that he was beaten by Qu, that Yang Zhiwen's power was all over the government, and that the Ministry of Punishment's aid was inferior.
With the support of the scholars in the capital, this incident has become a mighty trend. At this time, someone from the Inspectorate directly read Yang Zhiwen's book, saying that Yang Zhiwen was careless about human life and formed a party in the court for private interests. All officials only knew about Yang Shoufu but not the emperor.
Zhou Yi gasped when he heard this, he dared to say this, it can be said that he was put to death and then reborn.
Emperor Chongzheng directly opened the early court for this matter, reprimanded Yang Zhiwen severely for the first time, and directly demoted him from the position of the first assistant to the second assistant. The current first assistant is the original second assistant Xing Jing.
But in one morning, Yang Zhiwen changed from the chief minister with power to the second assistant. Although it seemed that he was only downgraded by one rank, the first assistant could make decisions about the cabinet, but the second assistant could only do some auxiliary work.
It is not an exaggeration to say that one day and one place are here.
Yang Zhiwen, who is under one person and above ten thousand people, was exiled like this?
Most people are a bit confused. But there are also many people in the imperial court who have seen the essence of the matter.
Yang Zhiwen made Emperor Chongzheng feel threatened.
Zhou Yi got a glimpse of the leopard, he can be sure that there must be someone behind the scholar. This scholar is already a Juren, so it is impossible for him not to know the difference between Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, but he still goes to Dali Temple to file a complaint first, why, because he wants to give others the impression that the whole government and the public dare not take care of Yang Zhiwen's affairs.
Then he united with scholars, causing huge pressure from public opinion, coupled with the participation of the inspectors, the most ruthless thing is that all officials only know Yang Zhiwen but not the emperor's words, it is a lore.
No matter how tired Emperor Chongzheng was, he was also an emperor, and he had a natural desire to monopolize power. Now that someone threatened him, it was okay, so the ground was shocked by thunder, and Yang Zhiwen was directly pushed down.
Everything was linked together, and Zhou Yi even wondered if the arrest of the scholar at that time was also planned.
Going home at night and sitting in the study, the more Zhou Yi thought about it, the more he felt that the depth of the water in the hall was unpredictable.
The seemingly invincible Yang Zhiwen was defeated by one move? Moreover, although the emperor has ignored the government for a long time, he still has a lot of control over the court, otherwise it would be impossible to deprive Yang Zhiwen of his rights so neatly.
The emperor's mind!
And someone was keenly aware of the emperor's thoughts, and he didn't know how long it was brewing before he made such a lore to Yang Zhiwen. As for who is behind the scenes, just see who benefits!
This is also a talent, a great talent.
Zhou Yi sighed. In front of these big guys, he should just sit around obediently. To be honest, if people don't offend me, I won't offend them. He tries not to provoke these deep-minded guys.
But then Zhou Yi laughed again, he is a small shrimp, there is nothing to worry about, who will notice him!
The situation in the capital is changing, but Guang'an County far to the south is still peaceful.
However, in the past few days, Guang'an County has been a complete sensation, and Guang'an County has a champion!