The heavens begin with Hongquan

"Your father is not a prince, and you are not a grandson, but he can directly promote me, a layman, to the rank of Minister of Rites. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Is your Jin Kingdom's court such a child's play?"

Huang Yaoshi was wearing official uniform and his speech was sarcastic.

"Shilang Huang..."

As soon as the name Wanyankang came out, Huang Yaoshi's face suddenly darkened.

Gein, when the word "Huang Shilang" is called quickly, it sounds almost like "weasel".

"Okay, Mr. Pharmacist."

Seeing the other person's expression was different, Wan Yankang smiled slightly and then changed his words.

"Mr. Pharmacist has met with Chen Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites in the past few days since he took office. What do you think?"

"Chen Jian, Minister of Rites, is one of yours, right?"

Huang Yaoshi seemed to be asking questions, but his tone was very sure.

"In other words, the entire Ministry of Etiquette is already under your control, right?"

He only went there a few times and found out that the people in key positions in the Ministry of Rites were all related to Prince Zhao's Mansion.

Wanyankang smiled and said nothing.

"In short, the Ministry of Rites will fully cooperate with Mr. Pharmacist's mission."

"If necessary, there are people from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War who can provide support."

Huang Yaoshi frowned.

"You must know that if the name is not correct, the words will not be correct. If you are promoting this matter as a prince, are you not afraid of the emperor's suspicion?"

"Any time the reputation of being a courtier is too great, it is not a good thing."

"Don't you see what happened to Lord Xinling during the Warring States Period?"

Wanyankang smiled.

"Mr. Pharmacist, are you worried about me?"

Huang Yaoshi snorted.

"I just don't want this wind to stop blowing before it starts."

Wanyankang chuckled a few times.

"Prince, grandson, etc., are easy for me to get. But there are some things that are difficult to do when the position is high, at least not to do it personally."

Since ancient times, the emperor has been the mediator.

If an emperor personally ends up "fighting" with his ministers, then he must be a failed emperor.

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Open nine subjects to get scholars.

This incident caused an uproar in the government and the opposition.

Needless to say, more than 90% of the civil and military officials opposed it, with different reasons.

Some say that it violates the ancestral system and is unseemly; some say that calligraphy, painting, and music are useless for governing the country and are not elegant...

The emperor could not make up his mind.

At the whisper of the accompanying eunuch, he asked the Ministry of Etiquette for his opinion.

Minister of Rites Chen Jian stood up and said, "The imperial examination was popular during the Sui and Tang dynasties. At that time, the examination subjects were divided into two categories: regular subjects and special subjects. Among them, the regular subjects included more than 50 subjects such as scholar, Mingjing, Jinshi, Junshi, Mingfa, Mingzi, Mingsuan, etc., so this is not without precedent."

What Chen Jian didn’t say was.

Among them, subjects such as Mingfa, Mingsuan, and Mingzi were not taken seriously at that time, and subjects such as Junshi were not often held. Therefore, these regular subjects were gradually abolished.

The emperor heard this.

It turns out there is a precedent, and it’s not something new and unusual, so it doesn’t matter.

Then after retiring from the court, Huang Yaoshi was subjected to overt or covert harassment, ridicule, and insults from other officials...

If it had been before, Huang Yaoshi would have shot it with a "bone-attached needle".

But now, he felt inexplicably funny.

These are the Gong Gong princes in the court. Under their gentle skin, they are just full of flies and dogs.

This was true for the Jin Kingdom, and it was similar to the Song Dynasty.

Huang Yaoshi didn't even bother to respond. He gave them a slap in the face, strode away gracefully.

"This this……"

"Ignorant fanatic, simply disrespectful..."

But not all officials are barking.

in the crowd.

Some officials either looked on with cold eyes, defended themselves wisely, or remained silent...

The news from the Jin Kingdom quickly spread to the Southern Song Dynasty.

When the court of the Southern Song Dynasty learned that the Jin State had introduced nine subjects to recruit scholars, there was a lot of discussion. The words were basically contempt, ridicule, and a joke. "They are indeed barbarians outside the Great Wall, and they are in vain for the righteousness of the saints." Someone sneered.

"I don't want to think about the background of their Jurchen clan. Their ancestors are just natives in the white mountains and black waters. How can they understand the teachings of sages!"

"If you don't know poetry and books, and don't know the meaning of scriptures, you can still be a high-ranking person in a temple! The Kingdom of Jin is in danger, hahaha..."

Some people are overjoyed that Jin Kingdom has made such a stupid move.

"Who came up with this "cool trick"? I have to write an article to praise this person."

"I heard that he is the Minister of Rites of the Kingdom of Jin. His surname seems to be Huang. What is his name..."

"Huang Gu."

"Yes, it's Huang Gu."

"Huang Gu? I've never heard of him. What's so special about this person?"

"It seems to be a representative launched by Prince Zhao's Mansion of the Kingdom of Jin."

"Prince Zhao's Mansion? Could this matter be related to the internal struggle of the Jin clan?"

Some people's first reaction was something like "consecrating the king and seizing the direct descendant".

But there are also many people in the Song Dynasty who are moved.

"Tell me, should I go to Jin Country and give it a try?"

"You want to abandon the Song Dynasty?"

"What betrayal? It's such an ugly thing to say. I'm breaking into the enemy's camp to monitor the truth. Haven't you heard the saying "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get the tiger's cubs"?"

"...What you said seems to make sense."

"Besides, you and I are not good at studying. We only have martial arts skills. In the Song Dynasty, even if we wanted to serve the country, there was no way to serve the country. The Jin Kingdom seems to have opened martial arts exams."

Everyone knows that the Song Dynasty valued literature over martial arts, and Han Xianggong's saying "The one who rolls names outside the Donghua Gate is a good man" is widely circulated.

"Okay, let's try our luck."

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Minister's Mansion.

Compared with the simple and majestic villas in the north, this place has a different atmosphere.

After all, the decoration inside was designed by Huang Yaoshi himself.

The interior of the villa is gorgeously furnished, with carved beams and painted pillars, showing great ingenuity, and is faintly covered by a rock formation.

In the center of the yard.

Huang Yaoshi instructs a lame middle-aged man to practice leg exercises.

He is lame, middle-aged, with gray hair, a hunched back, and a disabled left foot. He looks much older than Huang Yaoshi, but in his speech and behavior, he is a disciple, and he is full of admiration for Huang Yaoshi.

"Hey, Mo Feng, I was too impatient back then and wrongly blamed you senior brothers."

Then another sigh.

This lame middle-aged man is Feng Mofeng, a disciple of Huang Yaoshi.

Huang Yaoshi looked around.

There were three men and two women in the yard.

Feng Mofeng, Wu Mianfeng, Lu Chengfeng and Huang Rong are still happy and silly girls.

Looking at everyone, Huang Yaoshi couldn't help but feel a trace of regret in his heart.

"Mr. Pharmacist, in order to help you catch the wind, I have specially prepared a gift for you."

He did not expect that Wan Yankang's gift to him would be to retrieve the disciples who were expelled from the school after he broke their hamstrings.

At the same time, it also brought him some bad news.

Qu Lingfeng, a disciple with the highest martial arts skills, sneaked into the Song Dynasty in search of famous paintings and antiques, but was beaten to death by powerful masters, leaving only a silly orphan girl.

Thinking of this, Huang Yaoshi felt angry and sad.

"If it hadn't been for the hamstring being picked, with Lingfeng's martial arts, how could anything happen to those people in the Song Ting Palace!?"

This made him very dissatisfied with Song Ting.

I, Huang Yaoshi’s disciple, can kill anyone?

Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng were besieged by the Mongols because they captured Mongolian soldiers practicing evil martial arts. Died by random arrows.

After hearing about the deaths of Mei and Chen, Huang Yaoshi was silent for a moment, and then sighed with sadness.

Death is like a lamp going out.

Everything that happened back then has gone with the wind.

Three of the six disciples have passed away, and Huang Yaoshi can't help but feel sad like a man with white hair sending a man with black hair away.

Simply Mo Feng, Mian Feng and Cheng Feng are still in the world.

It's just that Mo Feng is half a hunchback, and Mian Feng has been suffering from illnesses all year round, so Cheng Feng can only save a fortune in Taihu Lake and live a better life.

Among them, Huang Yaoshi felt the most indebted to Feng Mofeng. (End of chapter)