Tibet

Chapter 184 Passing Signals

At noon the next day, Zhang Ping hurried to Taixue to find Li Ye.

Li Ye hugged his broad shoulders and smiled, "Let's go! Let's go out for a drink."

Li Ye took Zhang Ping to a small tavern opposite Taixue, called Sanyuan Tavern. There was no one in the tavern at noon, but the business would be booming in the afternoon, and it would be lively until evening.

Li Ye asked for a pot of wine and a few dishes, Zhang Ping said with shame on his face, "Even this tavern has fish-flavored shredded pork and twice-cooked pork, hey! I really failed."

"Don't worry about this little thing, talk about your gains!"

Li Ye knew that Zhang Ping came to find him, so he must have gained something.

Zhang Ping nodded, "Coincidentally, the father of one of my disciples works in the Yuan Mansion. He knows the situation better. Yuan Xiao is now studying at the Guozi Academy. His family plans to train him to become an official. After the broken leg incident, Yuan Xiao Xiao didn't hang out with Yuwen Siwu anymore."

"What about Yuwen Siwu? Is there any news about him?"

Zhang Ping said with a smile: "It's easy to find out about Yuwen Siwu. He is very famous and notorious. He entered the palace last year as a guard, and he was even more arrogant and arrogant. Bullying men and women is a piece of cake. He broke the legs of the director of the teaching workshop like him, and the people of Chang'an are all afraid of him, and he has a nickname, "Mo Tian Wang."

"Where is Yuwen Huaide?

Yuwen Huaide is the former Li Huai, who has now taken his mother's surname and has become a member of the Yuwen family.

"That bastard is now Yuwen Siwu's son-in-law, and he hangs out with him every day, and he also does all kinds of evil."

Li Ye suddenly realized that when he met Yuwen Siwu yesterday, it was very likely that Li Huai was also on the second floor, but he didn't dare to come down to see him.

The news was not bad, and Li Ye instructed again: "Continue to send apprentices to keep an eye on Yuwen Siwu, but be careful not to be discovered by him."

"Don't worry, I understand them! These bastards have eyes on the top of their heads, and they will never pay attention to the little people below."

Yang Guozhong's entry into the prime minister is the general trend and cannot be stopped, but Yu Wenjing must not be allowed to enter the prime minister. This is the consensus of Li Ye and his grandfather Li Linfu.

Li Linfu mentioned the Yuan family. If there was anyone who was most reluctant to see Yu Wenjing in the prime minister, it was the Yuan family.

The Yuan family is a good move, but only if it is played well, Li Ye decided to take the first step for his grandfather.

Li Ye didn't expect Yuan Xiao to study in Guozixue. Guozixue is also in Wubenfang, close to Taixue, but there are not many students, only more than 100 people, almost all of them are the children of high-ranking officials above the third rank, and they are the same as those who went to Taixue. Unlike the scholars who take the imperial examinations, the children of high-ranking officials who enter the Imperial College to study are basically those who want to be officials after they finish their studies.

It doesn't mean that you can be an official if you can enter Guozixue, that's not what it means.

Most people say that the Tang Dynasty must use the imperial examination to select scholars, but if this is true, the court will not be able to maintain it.

You let those high-ranking and powerful children compete with the children of the aristocratic family and the poor?is it possible?

Therefore, while the imperial court repeatedly emphasized the need to obtain scholars through the imperial examination, it also secretly opened two small door gaps at the back, one small gap called Menyin, and the other small gap called Congwu.

High-ranking officials and dignitaries all have one or two quotas for their sons to be officials. Of course, they are all for the legitimate sons. Fame is the best gold plating.

Therefore, the scholars who study in Guozixue are basically the children of high-ranking officials who are sure that they can get a yin official, so they come to be gilded.

There is another one from Wumen, which is prepared for the Guanlong nobles and the Pianzhi royal family. The path is to be a bodyguard, and then promoted to a military position. After reaching a certain level, the military position will step into the civilian position. There are too many such situations. For example, Li Linfu, who belonged to the partial royal family, first served as a bodyguard, then rose to the official position step by step, and when the time was ripe, he stepped into a civil position, and finally became a prime minister.

Yuan Xiao is the favorite grandson of General Yuan Yuan, and Yuan Yuan also prepared a family for him, so Yuan Xiao first studied at Mingde College, and then went to Guozi Academy for three years, and he could become an official after getting the honor.

Yuan Xiao never dreamed that Li Ye would come to find him, and he invited him to drink.

After being dazed for a while, Yuan Xiao finally nodded in agreement.

The two were drinking in the Sanyuan Tavern at noon. At this time, the tavern was full, and it was full of students.

At a small table in the farthest corner, Li Ye poured Yuan Xiao a glass of wine and said with a smile, "I just found out that brother Yuan is also studying in Guozi Academy, otherwise I would have bought you a drink."

"You don't mind what happened last year?" Yuan Xiao asked puzzled.

"The incident last year has nothing to do with you. The only ones who wanted to put me to death were Yuwen Siwu and Li Huai. I don't care about the others at all. In officialdom, having multiple friends is better than multiple enemies."

Li Ye's last sentence made Yuan Xiao untie the knot in his heart. They are all people who want to mess with the officialdom, so why should they care about a little conflict when they are ignorant, not to mention that he was just a bystander in the incident last year.

Yuan Xiao nodded, "Brother Li is right, my grandfather said that you are a person who can do great things, and your future is limitless."

Yuan Xiao asked curiously again: "Is your Baoshou card still on you?"

Li Ye took out the Baoshou token from his pocket and handed it to him, Yuan Xiao quickly took it for a closer look, it was indeed Gao Lishi's Baoshou token, no wonder Gao Lishi was willing to help Li Ye back up for what happened last year.

"Why did Gao Weng give my brother the Baoshou token?"

"I'll play polo for him!" Li Ye said frankly.

Yuan Xiao suddenly realized, "Could it be that my brother is a flying shark?"

Li Ye nodded, "Not only the flying shark, but also the white wolf!"

Yuan Xiao gave a thumbs up, "Amazing! If I had known you were Flying Shark and White Wolf, I would have bet on you, and I could have earned some pocket money."

Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "Next is the top five matches, I will still participate, especially the first match of the Tianpeng polo team, I will bet a thousand times on the Tianpeng polo team, you can also bet a little more .”

"Okay! With your words, I will bet all my money on it."

Yuan Xiao took the initiative to fill a glass of wine for Li Ye, and Li Ye raised the glass and asked, "Brother Yuan is still with Yuwen Siwu?"

Yuan Xiao shook his head, "After he recovered from his leg injury, he came to me a few times, but I ignored him. This man is too violent, has no bottom line in his actions, and is too dangerous. If you are with him, you will be implicated by him sooner or later."

"Yes! I heard that he has a nickname now, called Demon King."

Yuan Xiao sneered, "The nickname he gave himself was Motianhuang, and a few friends persuaded him to change it to Motianwang."

"You know a lot about Yuwen Siwu's situation?"

Yuan Xiao nodded, "Do you still remember that Wu Gui? The one whose face was swollen by you, he is also studying in Guozixue, and he is still hanging out with Yuwen Siwu, so I didn't call him tonight."

"Where is Li Huai? His name is Yuwen Huaide now! What is he doing now?"

"He just hangs behind Yuwen Siwu's ass. This person is very bad. Yuwen Siwu still shows some loyalty, but this person is bad in his bones. I dare not provoke him. By the way, his mother remarried."

Yu Wenluo remarried, and Li Ye suddenly became interested?
"Who did she remarry?"

"The seventh son of Hou Mochen's family, I call him Uncle Qi, and his first name is Hou Mochen Nu. If he is just like his name, he has a very violent temper. If you marry him, you will probably suffer a lot."

Today is the first time to drink alcohol, Li Ye didn't have a deep talk with Yuan Xiao, he ordered it to the end, but he invited Yuan Xiao to drink, which in itself sent a signal to the Yuan family, Yuan Xiao is a very smart person, he will definitely report to his grandfather .

Li Ye left the tavern and returned to the school. When he walked to the gate of Taixue, suddenly a flying knife flew past him and nailed it to the wall.

Li Ye stared at the flying blade carved a foot away, drew out the sword at his waist, and walked towards the dark place.

"You come out!"

A person came out from the darkness, it was Hei Spear who had fled from the polo field, he held a child in his arms, stepped forward and knelt down in front of Li Ye, crying bitterly.

(End of this chapter)