After Kou Zhun and others discussed it, they decided whether to stay or leave the new Jinshi. Zhongshushe drafted the edict, stamped it with a seal, and sealed it in the palace.
The next day.
People gathered in front of Donghua Gate.
The new scholars gathered in front of Donghua Gate again.
The eunuchs in the palace were divided into dozens of waves, stretching from the Chui Gong Hall in the palace to the entrance of Donghua.
Chen Lin followed the imperial edict and announced that Xinke Jinshi would enter the palace.
According to the ranking, from back to front, one call is given.
Commonly known as the Golden Palace.
When the new Jinshi entered the Chui Gong Hall, a young eunuch announced the rewards that the imperial court would give them after they passed the imperial examination, and they had already assigned officials.
Some of the first-class and second-class scholars that Kou Zhun and others have not yet decided will be sent to Dali Temple or will serve as supervisors and assume a false position.
The top three Jinshi scholars are almost all officials assigned to the court.
They were either sent to serve as promotion officers in the Xiang army, or sent to remote areas to serve as county magistrates and other positions.
Wait until the new champion enters the palace.
After leading the new scholars, they all paid homage to Zhao Zhen.
Zhao Zhenhui gave him palace flowers and allowed him to go to the streets and praise his officials.
Under the leadership of the new top scholar, new scholars will get on horseback and parade around the streets to praise their officials in front of the public.
The scene of tens of thousands of people crowding out to pursue the new scholars is very spectacular.
It’s no wonder that Han Qi, a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty, would say, “He who rolls names outside Donghua Gate is a true man.”
Even if a person who is admired by the whole country is not a hero, he will still be praised as a hero by the people.
After the imperial street praises the officials, there is the Qionglin Banquet.
Zhao Zhen personally presided over it, accompanied by Kou Zhun, Wang Zeng, Li Di and others.
After the Qionglin Banquet ended.
Zhao Zhen, Kou Zhun, Wang Zeng, Li Di and others were the first to leave.
Kou Ji stayed in Qionglin Garden for a while.
Then we saw an extremely exaggerated bride-grabbing situation.
In Bianjing City, anyone who has a daughter at home but lacks a desirable son-in-law will send someone to snatch the bride.
The new scholars were all drunk.
He was wrapped in blankets and quickly resisted by the servants of the major wealthy families.
Occasionally, there are one or two people who are not drunk, and they will be quickly suppressed and quickly resisted.
The officers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army guarding Qionglin Garden not only did not stop the servants of wealthy families from doing anything, but instead personally helped arrest them after receiving their benefits.
"It is still the most primitive method and the most effective. If this method can be continued to future generations, there will not be so many singles in future generations..."
Kou Ji leaned on the railing in Qionglin Garden, looking at the heated scene of snatching the bride, and sighed sincerely.
The words just fell.
I heard loud shouts.
"There is another one in the pavilion over there, don't let him escape..."
"Young Master said that if you can help the young lady get a good husband, you will be rewarded with ten taels of gold..."
"..."
A group of powerful servants with big muscles and round waists rushed towards the pavilion where Kou Ji was.
Kou Ji glanced around and saw that he was the only one in the pavilion.
Suddenly my heart skipped a beat and I ran away.
Kou Ji ran all the way to the temporary residence of the Forbidden Army soldiers in Qionglin Garden, and asked the Forbidden Army soldiers to go out and clarify their identities, and thus he avoided the trouble of being robbed.
"If I had known earlier, I should have passed on the official uniform..."
After watching the soldiers of the Forbidden Army defeat the powerful servants who were robbing people, Kou Ji let out a sigh of relief and whispered.
The captain of the imperial army who was carefully waiting beside Kou Ji heard Kou Ji's words and smiled softly, "Kou Ministry of Industry, those people are not stupid. When they came to rob people, they had already figured out the details of all the new scholars.
Those people know who can and who cannot rob."
Kou Ji was stunned and looked at the captain of the Forbidden Army in surprise, "According to your statement, those people know my identity?"
The captain of the Forbidden Army smiled and said: "We are inseparable..."
Kou Ji said in astonishment: "Then they still..."
The captain of the Forbidden Army said quietly: "No matter how good those new scholars are, they can't compare to you. Those people obviously want to take you back to your home by taking advantage of the opportunity of catching your son-in-law.
When you wake up from their house tomorrow, they can also lie and claim that they caught the wrong person.
But the news that you spent the night with the lady in their house will inevitably spread.
When the time comes, your wife will have no choice but to hold her nose and ask you to welcome their young lady to the house."
After a pause, the captain of the imperial army sighed: "It is much better to climb up to you than to climb up to those new scholars..."
When Kou Ji heard these words, he trembled all over, and told the captain of the imperial army righteously: "I will stay in your barracks tonight and let your people protect me.
If I make any mistake, I will let Zhu Neng hit you."
The captain of the Forbidden Army solemnly agreed and respectfully asked Kou Ji to stay in the cleanest barracks.
Those outside the barracks who wanted to capture Kou Ji's son-in-law wanted to use this opportunity to seize Kou Ji.
So why not the captain of the imperial army?
Otherwise, why would he explain to Kou Ji the reason for seizing his son-in-law?
It's not just to win Kou Ji's favor and ask Kou Ji to put in a nice word for him in front of Zhu Neng.
Under the arrangement of the captain of the Forbidden Army, Kou Ji spent the whole night in the barracks of the Forbidden Army soldiers.
He returned to his house the next day.
I stayed at my house for two days.
Some of the new scholars came to the Kou Mansion to visit Kou Ji, carrying heavy gifts.
Kou Ji hosted a banquet in the side hall to entertain them.
They saluted Kou Ji as a disciple and called him their mentor.
As soon as they said "mentor", they became Kou Ji's disciples from now on.
Kou Ji looked at the sudden increase of more than fifty disciples and felt filled with emotion.
In an instant, there are more than fifty official disciples, more than fifty people who can help you speak in court, and more than fifty more people running up and down to do things for you.
Who can say no?
Suppose that among the more than fifty of them, three or two were promoted to high-ranking positions by Kou Ji.
It is not an exaggeration to call them a faction in the court.
It’s no wonder that the important ministers in the court, every time there is a scientific examination, they want to be the chief examiner or deputy examiner.
No wonder Kou Zhun, Wang Zeng, and Li Di tried their best to make Kou Ji serve as a scientific examiner.
"Grandpa treats me... so well..."
Kou Ji looked at the disciples, smiled and whispered.
"It's good for you kid to know..."
An old voice sounded in Koji's ears.
Kou Ji stood up in shock and saw Kou Zhun walking up to him and appearing in front of people.
"Grandpa, you are not in the palace..."
Kou Ji said hurriedly.
Kou Zhun waved his hand, interrupted Kou Ji's words, and looked at Kou Ji's disciples with a smile.
Kou Ji's disciples quickly stood up and saluted Kou Zhun.
Kou Zhun smiled and nodded, asked them to sit down, and talked with them.
The official positions of some of them were arranged by Kou Zhun, so Kou Zhun also gave them some guidance on how to manage politics after they took office.
Seeing this, Kou Ji understood Kou Zhun's thoughts.
Kou Zhun was obviously afraid that these disciples would see that he was young and had a shallow foundation, and would not be willing to truly surrender to him, so they all stepped forward to help him.
Kou Zhun told his disciples with practical actions.
Don't think that my grandson can't protect you just because he's young.
Behind him is my awesome and coaxing grandfather.
You are right to follow my grandson in a down-to-earth manner.
With the addition of Kou Zhun, the banquet became much more serious, but Kou Ji's disciples did not leave the banquet because the atmosphere became much more serious.
On the contrary, everyone wished they could live in Kou Mansion for a long time and talk to Kou Zhun more often.
Kou Zhun had the rare opportunity to chat with Kou Ji's disciples for a long time, and it wasn't until night fell that he was sent off to see them off.
After seeing off Kou Ji's disciples, Kou Zhun looked a little tired.
Kou Ji worriedly helped him sit down in the bedroom, "Grandpa, you don't have to do this..."
Kou Zhun lay on his side on the bed, glanced at Kou Ji and said: "Everyone who can pass the Jinshi examination is a ghost. If I don't come forward to help you, how many of them do you think will sincerely surrender to you?"
you."
Kou Ji opened his mouth, but Kou Zhun interrupted him with a wave of his hand and continued: "I know that you have the means to win people's hearts, and I also know that you are very picky when recruiting people.
But you can obviously cast a wide net and wait for talented people to jump out and make use of them.
Why go to all the trouble to choose someone?"
Speaking of this, Kou Zhun patted the bedside, let Kou Ji help him lie down comfortably, and continued: "If I come forward, it only takes a few words to make them deeply remember you as a person with a profound background.
's mentor.
If there are talents among them, you don't need to dig them out or carefully screen them.
After they enter the official career, they will actively jump out for you to choose.
Some talented people can be promoted to Bianjing City step by step without any support from you and become your own help.
If you carefully select and train, you won't be able to train the people you want."
After listening to Kou Zhun's words, Kou Ji felt deeply.
Kou Zhun's words were indeed good words to him.
Before that, when he trained people, he always followed the records in history books, selecting famous ministers and training generals.
So he recruited Fan Zhongyan, Di Qing...
He even thought about recruiting Liu Yong.
But ever since he saw Liu Yong's style and conduct, he became a little disappointed with Liu Yong.
His intention to select people for training also began to waver a little.
When a person is recorded in history books, there will always be some deviations.
Later generations wrote history.
I always like to beautify some people I like.
It is inevitable that he will be a little misleading.
Now after listening to Kou Zhun's words, Kou Ji's thoughts on selecting famous ministers and carefully cultivating famous generals have faded a lot.
As Kou Zhun said, as long as Kou Ji always occupies the status of the superior, or the title of mentor.
No matter who the famous officials or generals are, they will all jump out and let him take advantage of them.
There is absolutely no need for him to cultivate carefully.
Kou Ji bowed deeply to Kou Zhun and said, "My grandson, thank you very much for your grandfather's teaching..."
Kou Zhun rolled his eyes and muttered: "One family does not speak the same language..."
After a pause, Kou Zhun said earnestly: "When you recruited Di Qing and Fan Zhongyan, I wanted to tell you this. It's just that you were not old at the time and your official position was not high. I thought you should go.
It's not a bad thing to hit a wall, so I won't tell you.
I didn't expect that your official position would be promoted so quickly.
If I don't tell you these words now, I'm afraid I'll never have the chance to tell you again.
Let you keep going further and further on the detour."
Kou Ji said seriously: "Grandpa will definitely live a long life."
Kou Zhun glared at Kou Ji angrily, but the smile on his lips could not be concealed.
There is no shortage of flatterers around Kou Zhun.
But Kou Zhun felt that even all the flatterers combined would not be as comfortable as Kou Ji alone.
Kou Zhun was secretly happy for a while, then stared at Kou Ji and said, "I'm going back home today. In addition to helping you open your eyes, I have one more thing to ask you."
Kou Ji asked: "What's the matter?"
Kou Zhun said suspiciously: "How did you get into trouble with Li Di? Li Di actually suggested to me today that he would send you away from Beijing to work abroad."
Kou Ji was stunned, smiled bitterly, and told Kou Zhun the truth about the scene that happened in the Gongyuan.
After listening to Kou Ji's description, Kou Zhun curled his lips and said, "Li Di, this stubborn donkey, I am trying to guard against you."
Kou Ji nodded, shook his head, and muttered: "Maybe it's to protect our ancestors and grandchildren."
Kou Zhun thought for a moment, nodded and said: "That's right...I have a high position and great power. You are good at planning and layout, and you have laid out a shocking situation without knowing it."
If you and my grandsons and grandsons join forces, it will be easy to create a bigger world-shaking situation.
It is normal for him to be on guard against you and my grandson.
If we don't guard against you and my grandparents, it will be abnormal.
With his temperament, even if he has a good relationship with me and you, he will never watch us do something rebellious, let alone accompany us to do something rebellious."
This is a matter of loyalty and righteousness.
Li Di is a good minister and a wise minister.
Therefore, when loyalty and righteousness intersect, one must choose loyalty over righteousness.
Kou Ji sighed: "On this issue, none of us are wrong."
Kou Zhun nodded in agreement and said: "That's right... none of us are wrong... He likes to be on guard, so let him be on guard. It's not a bad thing to have him guard against you, my grandson and grandson."
You, my ancestors and our grandchildren are walking on the edge of the cliff now. If we are not careful, we will be in catastrophe.
With him by our side reminding us all the time, we can wake up a lot."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "My grandson thinks so too..."
Kou Zhun chuckled, "It's a pity that Li Di was so wise all his life, but in his old age, he became a villain in vain."
Neither Kou Zhun nor Kou Ji had any intention of rebelliousness, so even if Li Di defended him for the rest of his life, there would be no results.
Kou Zhun knew this, so he laughed at Li Di.
Kou Ji grinned and said: "This is not his fault. Who told you to be in a high position? Who told you that I am not a mediocre grandson?"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Kou Zhun laughed loudly.
After laughing, Kou Zhun seemed to have remembered something, and his smile became a little sneaky, "Li Di's stubborn donkey only knew a little bit of your plan, and he was so frightened that he looked like this. If he knew everything,
Will you be scared to death?"
Kou Ji said with a smile: "Grandpa, if Grandpa Li knew that you were laughing at him like this, he would fight you to the death."
Kou Zhun said nonchalantly: "He thinks of me as a villain. Can't I still laugh at him?"