There are many alleys in the capital, and all the alleys have no names at first, but as the people living there are famous for a while, the market entrances or shops gradually become popular, there will often be a custom-made name.

For example, Lige Lao Hutong was named on the day when Li Dongyang entered the palace in the eighth year of Hongzhi. Now Li Dongyang has become the chief assistant from the second auxiliary, and this Lige Lao Hutong has naturally become the hottest place in the entire capital. This can be seen from the scene of Li Dongyang's 60th birthday on this day.

However, Xu Xun, who came to celebrate his birthday today, was surrounded by a group of people, and there was a faint attitude of being overwhelming. He had been a count for nearly a year. However, in the past, everyone knew that the old and old ministers did not like this young and famous count. After all, the few people dared to place bets at this time, but now it is different. Three or five officials who have been to the Xu Mansion surrounded him, rushing to explain to him the officials in the hall. Some even turned Yin Xian's eyes to Zhang Cai behind Xu Xun, and his good luck was jealous of him.

This person who was previously a doctor in the Wenxuan Department was deeply supported by Ma Wensheng. Now that Ma Wensheng has just fallen, he has a new nobleman to favor him!

"Zunge Ge is here!"

With a shout, Xu Xun, who was shaking the folding fan, saw Li Dongyang slowly coming out of the hall. He nodded slightly to the surroundings, and immediately many people made his debut. After walking forward a few steps, he gave up his hand and bowed with a smile. Then he said: "Yuan Fu's sixty birthday today is a hasty birthday, so I just packed up a few colors of fruits. In addition, I just got a pair of Doucai vases from the Jingdezhen official kiln during the Chenghua period. He came to congratulate his birthday in person and asked for a glass of birthday wine!"

As the saying goes, he has just gotten it, and others can't hear the hidden meaning. Li Dongyang knew in his heart that it must be something given from the palace. Seeing that Xu Xun dared to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, he was slightly stunned. He wanted to refuse. It was a smile on his lips. He moved his heart and he half-suppressed it and took it away. He asked Xu Xun to sit alone in the small flower hall. Although he said he would not celebrate his birthday the day before yesterday, as soon as the emperor gave the gift, the servants of the family quickly prepared and invited several famous chefs to the house and prepared ten tables of tables. However, now seeing the endless situation of the guests, he couldn't help but feel silly. While perfunctory Xun, he was planning to find someone to give him a few instructions. Xu Xun put down the teacup in his hand.

"Yuanfu, I see that your house is big, but today there are many guests who come to celebrate the birthday celebration today. I think it may not be able to accommodate it in the end. So, before I came here, I had already booked three hundred birthday cakes in the famous cakes in the capital, and I could deliver them later. I knew that Yuanfu was honest and would not accept gifts when he came. I would not be in vain to send such a thing back like this." Speaking of this, Xu Xun smiled and said, "As for the pair of porcelain vases, they were from the palace treasury. The emperor originally wanted to give you together yesterday, but I couldn't stand my words, so I borrowed flowers and offered Buddhas to deliver them."

Today, Liu Xie retired and returned home, but he made his birthday and spread it. Some honest censors, or those who like to invite fame, or even have a feud with him, are likely to make a big fuss. If Zhu Houzhao rewarded the things he gave yesterday and that pair of porcelain bottles, Li Dongyang would have no need to think about how uproar would it be. And when sent by Xu Xunzhi, it would be a few words to mock him at most.

"Ping Beibo has trouble."

"I can't talk about it. To be honest, I'm just afraid that Yuan Fu would give up his pick and leave, and the trouble would be great at that time." Xu Xun saw Li Dongyang's face froze, and he seemed to have not seen it. He put away the folding fan and said with a smile, "The candidates from the Ministry of Personnel, Justice, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War, have been sent to the court. The emperor just hooked up one by one last night, but he has not written a document and issued a tribute to the cabinet."

Li Dongyang has been an official for decades, but his temperament is not as radical and impulsive as Liu Jian and Xie Qian. Although he was surprised when he heard this, he did not ask in Xu Xun's tone. Sure enough, the next moment, Xu Xun said it himself.

"Lin Han, the Minister of Personnel in Nanjing, was the Minister of Personnel, Zhang Fuhua, the Minister of Justice of Nanjing, was the Left Censor of the Censorate, Yang Yiqing, the Right Censor and the General General of Yansui, Gansu, Shaanxi, was the Minister of War, and Tu Xun, the Left Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice. What does Yuan Fu think about this when dealing with it?"

Li Dongyang passed the purpose of the list of court recommendations. Although he knew that Lin Han, Zhang Fuhua and others were already famous, and with Xu Xun's support, he had a great chance of winning. But now he really learned that everything was as Xu Xun had calculated, he still felt deeply powerless. After a long time, he asked in a deep voice: "Pingbei Bo can actually get such a gain when he went to Nanjing. All the people who deliberately sent you out of Beijing miscalculated. However, Lin Heng, Da, Zhang Jiexuan are both gentlemen, and Shilin admired them. If they dare not speak, they may lose all their reputation. If they dare to speak, they may not be able to take care of you as the recommender. Are you not afraid of shooting yourself in the foot?"

"Of course I'm afraid." Xu Xun spread his hands calmly. Seeing Li Dongyang as if he was surprised by this answer, he said with a smile, "As soon as I came to the door today, some guests who had originally celebrated the birthday of Yuanfu, followed me and flattered me, and in just a few days, the threshold at home was almost broken. Everyone knows that the direction of the wind has changed, so it is a common sense to flock to me. If these people are abandoned, it is short-sighted, but if these people are used for this, it is stupid. In contrast, Yang Zongxian was just passing by Datong, and he dared to take heavy responsibility to lead the Datong army to help. Lord Lin and Zhang once supported me after the major case in Jinling. They are also righteous gentlemen with great talents and have the same feelings as me. Of course I should recommend them."

Speaking of this, Xu Xun paused slightly, and said slowly: "As for shooting himself in the foot, let alone me, throughout the ages, the recommendation of the master has been hurt by the recommended people. There are many examples. Will everyone not recommend talents because of this? Yuan Fu knows how I said to him when I invited Lord Lin to Beijing before? Listening to the ears is false and seeing is true. What kind of person is Xu Xun? I also asked him to come to Beijing to see it. If there is any bad thing and spitting on others, wouldn't it be better than gritting my teeth at me in Nanjing?"

"You are very confident." Li Dongyang simply felt that Xu Xun's confidence was a bit arrogant, but the previous series of facts proved that this young boy became the winner of the fight again and again. The next sentence he said was a little calmer after all, "Since you are so confident in Lin Hengda and others, we are the three of us who are in the cabinet to resign together, why are we leaving me alone?"

"Although Lord Lin and others are good, they still have no strength to enter the cabinet. Jiao Mengyang and I have a grudge. Did you see him picking the position of chief minister in one fell swoop?" Xu Xun revealed this without hesitation, and then said with a smile, "Besides, I heard that Yuan Fu was the best in the cabinet in the past, and there are so many people who will use this ability in the future."

This kid is really bold to speak out!

Although Li Dongyang was so upset by Xu Xun's words, even though Xu Xun once mentioned Jiao Fang's turnaround, he had no way to verify it, but he knew in his heart that this year could do such a two-faced thing. Thinking of Ma Wensheng, who retired in disgrace, Liu Daxia, who retired in anger, finally took a deep breath.

"Do you want me to be the prime minister who is mixed with me? Or do the emperor want to keep me to be the prime minister who is mixed with me?"

"Yuan Fu's words are heavy, and he is not mixed up, and time is wasted on those useless things. When Yuan Fu returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, he wrote poems on the road and sighed that there were bandits starving by the passing, and now it is not good to spend time on these important things?" As for this, Xu Xun stopped keeping it, so he stood up and said, "Instead of staring at the eight tigers in the palace, it is better to take care of the world's floods and drought disasters. The people's bandits are rampant, and the Tartars knocked on the pass and plundered the people. I have said this, so please let Yuan Fu consider it."

Seeing Xu Xun bowing, Li Dongyang suddenly spoke out, "If Pingbei Bo can watch over the eight tigers in the palace so that he cannot lure the emperor astray, even if he is called the head assistant of the mud, I, Li Dongyang, would be happy."

"Don't worry, Yuan Fu, I will take the initiative to do this!"

Xu Xun answered without looking back. He didn't let out a sigh of relief until he left the small flower hall. He thought secretly whether Li Dongyang's words were just to relax his heart, or was a little sincere. It was hard to make a conclusion after thinking about it, so he simply stopped thinking about it. He spread his fan and slapped it twice, and then led the servant in front to the main hall where the birthday party was held.

At that time, many guests had arrived. Because the birthday cake had been delivered, the unrelated guests could not send the birthday gift, so they had to return home in a bad mood. Most of the people present were Li Dongyang's old friend, a fellow villager of the same year. Xu Xun looked around and felt that it was dark and he didn't know a few. It was not until Zhang Cai waved to him that he walked over happily, but found that there were many acquaintances on the same table with him, so he nodded with a smile.

"Brother Bo'an, Brother Yuan Ming, long time no see. Changgu is here too? Are you... Yan Weizhong?"

Although Zhang Cai is a fifth-ranked person, he is now sick at home. Today he is with Xu Xun, so he is too lazy to pay attention to the old rules of ranking according to his official position. There are ten people at a table, and others have to arrange for him to have a seat with Wang Shouren and Zhan Ruoshui and three Hanlin Shujishi in the room. At this time, Xu Xun came over and called everyone the words "The Name" and the other two on the table couldn't help but look at each other. When they saw Xu Xun sitting down next to Zhang Cai, the two people who had just whispered quietly for a moment.

Wang Shouren came to Li Dongyang's birthday party today because of his father's words. He felt a little depressed. Seeing Xu Xun coming over and greeting them lightly, he even sat down. He was immediately amused: "Why do you sit here and let those people on the first table handle themselves?"

"Brother Bo'an is wrong. I won't go there. Everyone can only breathe a sigh of relief. Most of them are old masters in their seventies and eighties. Who would be happy that my grandson and rich people are wandering in front of me, and even have to speak carefully?" Xu Xun smiled slightly, waved to a servant who was serving the Li family at the meal, and said that he would sit here. Then he sent people away without thinking. Then he smiled again, "As for me, I don't know a few people at the table, so why is it called a birthday wine? It's better to go back and eat my own. I'll sit here. Brother Bo'an, you don't want to find someone else!"

Before Wang Shouren could speak, Zhan Ruoshui suddenly smiled: "The word "something else is really good to use - those who don't know, I think you are fighting for some official position! OK, Bo'an, don't stare at others. Without looking at our table, many people from all directions are looking at this place, be careful to make a fool of themselves!"

Xu Xun was used to the situation that thousands of eyes looked at, so he sat calmly. After a while, he called the servant to add tea, but he went over to Zhang Cai to talk about Tang Yin to Xu Zhenqing, who was sitting next to him, and asked Yan Song about the homework of Hanlin Shujishi, and told Zhang Cai about the current situation of the Censorate, and asked the body of the Chen family, the mother of Zhan Ruoshui. Even the others at the table smiled and asked Wang Shouren one by one, just with a tiger-faced look. Until the end, he couldn't help it, and when the servant came over, he stood up and took the teapot, walked forward.

"What the hell do you want to do?" Wang Shouren covered the teacup with one hand, his face feeling helpless and annoyed. "I celebrated Yuanfu's birthday today on behalf of my father. If you have something to say, I'll listen."

Today, when Wang Shouren thinks about the fact that he was fooled by Xu Xun's words, he feels both emotion and melancholy. During that period, he finally has learned what he has learned, but it has also brought him great trouble.

Especially when he finally returned to the Ministry of War, the life of dealing with documents all day long and not paying attention to anything he said really rubbed his edges and corners. At this moment, although he saw Xu Xun's gaze a little bad, he was a little curious about what Xu Xun would say without shocking words.

Xu Xun held the teapot in one hand and swept everyone during the meal. Seeing that everyone seemed to be interested in what he was going to say, he smiled slightly and poured a cup of hot tea for Zhan Ruoshui next to Wang Shouren, saying meaningfully: "There are too many people here. Brother Bo'an really wants to listen?"

Although Xu Xun is more than twice as old, Wang Shouren is afraid that when he gets alone, he will be fooled by Xu Xun in a few words and immediately said with a heart-warming voice: "That's right, you're just talking here!"

"Okay, I'm not polite." After putting down the teapot, Xu Xun ignored the atmosphere gradually calming down in the huge main hall and said with a smile, "Duke Baoguo and Wuding Hou proposed that the 12th Regiment Battalion is not as good as before. Most of the soldiers are old and unbearable. Moreover, the soldiers do not train but often do the construction work, which is not the principle of training. Therefore, the emperor intends to select elite troops from the 12th Regiment Battalion, establish the right official hall of the King, and set up the generals. Brother Bo'an had previously had military talents, so he would be willing to be a military supervisor in the form of a civil servant?"

Xu Xun's voice was not loud, but countless ears on both sides were raised. At this moment, it was spread to ten thousand times. The guests in the hall had heard it. For a moment, even the whispers disappeared, and it was silent. Li Dongyang, who had just come in from outside the door, learned the whole story from the servant who reported it. He was shocked and confused, and immediately looked at the side.

"you……"

The crimes committed by Duke Zhu Hui and Wuding Guo Liang in front of him were severely said that he could confiscate the family, but the emperor seemed to have forgotten it. Therefore, Xu Xun sent them to write this note, which was naturally easy to turn around. Wang Shouren did not know so many twists and turns, and looked at Xu Xun with shocked eyes. In the past, when he had the ability, he could only perform among the five hundred young troops of unknown troops, but now what Xu Xun is talking about is the elite of the 12th Regiment Battalion!

"Brother Bo'an thinks slowly."

Xu Xun naturally would not force Wang Shouren to express his opinion now, nodding and smiling, he returned to his seat. At this time, a servant came forward and bowed his body and asked carefully whether he really didn't go to the first table. He waved his hand and sent people away. Seeing that plates of side dishes were on the table one after another, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of hot tea.

"Sir, I'm really a good army!"

Hearing Zhang Caidiu's whisper, Xu Xun glanced at Wang Shouren. Seeing that he was really unscrupulous, he shrugged and said, "What general? I really like his military strategy. Now that I have proposed it, it depends on him whether he agrees or not... Alas, it is easy to get a general but it is hard to find a general. The emperor has always been ambition to pacify the enemy. It's a pity that the subordinates are not good at it..."

Although Xu Xun's voice was light, Zhan Ruoshui, who was sitting next to him, could hear it clearly. It could not be easily passed to Wang Shouren. The head of the Ministry of War, who was in his early thirties, turned darker. Yan Song, next to Xu Zhenqing, suddenly brushed the chopsticks gently and then used the excuse to pick it up. He bent down and laughed secretly for a while, then straightened his waist. At this moment, a voice came from beside him.

"I'm sorry for my sins. I'm late. I really thought about that poem to celebrate my birthday so hard that my mind was broken, ah?"

When Xu Xun sat down, there were two empty seats left at the table. Li Mengyang rushed straight to Wang Shouren. Who knew that when he got here, he found that Xu Xun was also sitting far away from the first table. His eyes suddenly stared like copper bells. Kang Hai, who was following him, knew the opportunity quickly, and quickly drove Li Mengyang to Wang Shouren and sat down, and then sat next to Yan Song.

"It's all Kong Tong who wrote poems there and he was crazy. Even if he was anxious, the thirty-eight rhymes were no better than usual quatrains. It took him a lot of effort to write them." Kang Hai said as he glared at Li Mengyang fiercely. Seeing that he turned his head reluctantly, he looked at Xu Xun and said with a smile. "I didn't expect that Ping Beibo would sit in this table too."

"Since I'm sitting here, I'll just talk about my age, regardless of my official position." Xu Xun nodded slightly at Kang Hai, and then said with great interest. "Since Li Kongtong has a wonderful article, I'll listen carefully later."

Seeing that Kang Hai was actually joking with Xu Xun, Li Mengyang became even more frustrated for a moment. Suddenly, he found that Wang Shouren next to him was full of worries. He couldn't help but cross his elbow, then frowned and whispered: "Why are you stunned?"

"Uh... It turns out it's Kongtong." Wang Shouren discovered that Li Mengyang was coming. After being stunned for a while, he whispered to Xu Xun's proposal. Seeing that Li Mengyang was also shocked to himself, he smiled bitterly, "I have it all for myself, and my long-cherished wish is ahead... This is really hard to make a fortune..."

Li Mengyang wanted to persuade Wang Shouren to withstand the temptation, but he thought that if this matter was changed, he might not be able to withstand such great temptation. Seeing that the wine cup in front of him was filled with people, he suddenly poured a big glass into his mouth as if he was cruel. At this moment, with the sound of urging Yuan Fushou's birthday, people on the tables stood up and were lively around him. However, while paying attention to Li Dongyang, who had successfully reached the highest peak of the civil minister, the same many eyes fell on Xu Xun's table.

At that time, Li Dongyang was famous for his child prodigy at the age of four. Emperor Jing summoned and rewarded many times. Yanzhi Shuntianfu School and became a Jinshi at the age of eighteen. Even so, he still entered the cabinet until fifty times. However, he was a rare civil servant. Now if Xu Xun was replaced by a civil servant, even if he was very talented, he would have to be very talented. How could he have become so outstanding? How could he be like this? His words were full of awesome momentum?

The sun that has been rising in the sky for more than ten years has already set. Now this rising sun is clearly the rising trend!

Not to mention that it was someone else, even Li Dongyang was paying attention to Xu Xun, thinking about Xu Xun's previous words to him and his suggestions to Wang Shouren, and feeling that the Yangtze River was pushing the previous waves. Therefore, when he drank several glasses of wine amid the many birthday celebrations, he thought about the successor he had never thought about before.

Although he is only sixty years old, how many years can he last in such a court today?

Therefore, when Li Mengyang stepped forward to present a birthday poem, Li Dongyang, who was already a little drunk, saw everyone watching the good words of his favorite disciple, but he had no intention of looking at those beautiful words. He only had Xu Xun's spirit in his eyes. Even when his descendant Li Zhaofan was provoked by everyone, he was in a daze and almost didn't listen to it.

"The Dragon Horse Ten Years Meeting, Song Gao forever, and the Eternal God, and the map of Zeng Yisheng, the Qi is born again..."

The little emperor clearly because the Beijing camp and the 12th Regiment battalion had changed before, and was preparing to pack up the most elite troops and firmly grasp it in his own hands! Since Xu Xun was able to invite Wang Shouren in public, he naturally had already obtained the position of general by the emperor.

"……………… I got drunk when I was talking on the stance, and I gave it to the palace. The articles and horses are the Taoist techniques and mellow..."

If so, it shouldn't be a dream to expect Xu Xun to compete with the eunuchs in the palace!

"………………Guo’s mission is to keep Yuan Bi, and now the former minister of the emperor’s court. He is strong and safeguards the country, and public opinion is in the court gentry..."

Since that's the case, he would even nail it to the court. When the late emperor was dying, he was the only one left!

"………………The ancient meaning is the same, and the middle-in-law is written with it. I wish to be a metal and stone to help you forever."

When Li Zhaofan finished reading the last sentence, he cheered all over the house. However, no matter whether it was Li Dongyang, who was a birthday star, or Li Mengyang, who had a lot of poetry and prose, there was no sign of too much happiness. Instead, Xu Xun stood up with a smile. In front of everyone, he held the pot with one hand and raised the glass with the other, walked to Li Dongyang, filled it with his own hands, and poured a glass for himself. Then he put down the wine pot and held the glass with both hands and said, "I would like to use this glass of wine to serve Yuan Fushou!"

Seeing Xu Xun drinking all the drinks, Li Dongyang just stood up and held up the wine glass with both hands, but he didn't say anything and slowly drank it. When he put down the wine glass, he saw Xu Xun nodding and smiling and about to leave. He said in a deep voice: "Pingbei Bo, please stay here. Today, I have a glass of wine to toast you!"

He gave Xu Xun a glass of wine as he drew, and he said word by word: "Don't let the holy hope!"

"That's natural!"

The old and the young looked at each other and drank it all in a moment.

The fifth volume of sharpening the knife
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