Six, playthings are not lost

Zhou Xuan pointed at the man and asked the two respectful imperial physician ministers around him: "Who is this person?"

An imperial physician chief replied: "He is the assistant professor of the Shouzhou Medical Office. He died of a doctoral degree in the Shouzhou Medical Office. The Imperial Medical Office intends to make up for the vacancies and summon him to take the exam. If he passes the qualification, he will be promoted to a doctoral degree in the Shouzhou Medical Office."

"cousin--"

Qin Que looked up and saw that the young man in blue was indeed her cousin Lu An. He screamed in surprise, then turned to look at Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan smiled at Qin Que, walked over to meet Lu An, who was uneasy and said, "So it's Lu An's cousin. Why can't I get together in my mansion when I come from Shouzhou?"

Zhou Xuan has risen all the way in Beijing. I don’t know how Lu An in Shouzhou will be, but he has no shame to see Zhou Xuan. When he came to Beijing, he just wanted to pass the medical doctor's assessment early and then returned to Shouzhou. He never expected to meet his cousin and Zhou Xuan here, and his face was flushed and he couldn’t speak.

The Imperial Physician Ling and the Imperial Physician Chief of the Imperial Physician Department were very surprised. Assistant Teacher Lu was actually the cousin of the Duke of Xinzhou County. He had never heard Assistant Teacher Lu say that, and they also accepted Assistant Teacher Lu's valuable gifts. They had to return the gift to Assistant Teacher Lu later. This assessment was of course passed.

Zhou Xuan asked: "When will Cousin Lu come to Beijing?"

Lu An was sweating on his forehead and did not dare to look up: "I arrived three days ago."

Zhou Xuan said: "I just brought Que'er and the others from Jiangzhou three days ago. How are Cousin Lu always good?"

Lu An Weiwei said: "Okay, okay."

Zhou Xuan said: "When you go to the mansion with Que'er, I will go to the palace first and come back. Everyone is a relative, so don't be separated."

Qin Que was secretly grateful to Zhou Xuan and said to himself: "My husband is really open-minded. My cousin treated him so much. This time he met, my husband still had no sarcastic tone. My husband's character is really not comparable to my cousin."

Qin Que and Lu An have been childhood sweethearts since childhood. Both elders said that Qin Que wanted to marry Lu An when she grew up, so Qin Que regarded her cousin as her future husband. In fact, family affection is far more than love. Zhou Xuan came out halfway and gradually occupied her heart. Especially after Dr. Qin was imprisoned, Lu An did nothing. Zhou Xuan gave her great support and comfort. Lu An's performance in the lobby of the Criminal Prison Fair made Qin Que extremely sad. Now that he met his cousin again, he was in a calm mood and smiled: "Cousin, everyone is good now. Don't take some things too seriously. No one is wrong, right?"

After Qin Que said this, Lu An was even more ashamed. It seemed that the entire Imperial Medical Office knew about his dirty things. Lu An himself did not understand how he could say those despicable words at that time. It could only be said that he was jealous and was chasing his head.

Zhou Xuan, the Minister of Taichang Temple, the Imperial Physician Ling and others were polite and wanted to say goodbye. The deacon of the Imperial Physician Department brought out 360 taels of silver, saying that it was the annual salary, food and food, coupons, tea and soup and other allowances for the new Imperial Physician Ling Qin.

The salary was paid when he went to work on the first day. Zhou Xuan smiled and asked his family member Wangcai to take the money out of the government gate. Officials from the Imperial Medical Office gave it to him together.

Zhou Xuan said to Qin Que: "Please invite cousin Lu to the mansion, I will come back at noon." He rode on the "Yunzhonghe" and went to Daxing Palace under the escort of Sanchi.

Qin Que was dressed in men's clothes today, bowing and graceful, saying goodbye to all the adults from the Imperial Medical Office, and said to Lu An: "Cousin, pack your luggage and move to my mansion."

Lu An asked in a stutter, "Have your aunt and uncle come?"

Qin Que said: "The people of Jiangzhou tried hard to keep their father, so their father decided to stay. They had to go and pick up two old men in a few years. Xiaodi followed him and would ask his husband to teach him six arts in two days."

Lu An was uneasy. Last time, Xiaodi still remembered the incident of hitting him with a slingshot. His aunt was not here, and it was even more meaningless to go to the county duke's mansion. No one would welcome him. Why bother to look at the faces of others and said, "Okay, I'll pack my luggage and have a servant. When I go to the county duke's mansion together, the girl will take the lead and I will come later."

Qin Que said: "I'm waiting in the hall, cousin, go and pack up your things."

Lu An hurriedly entered the side door of the Imperial Medical Office. Qin Que, Xiao Xun and Xiao Ju sat in the pavilion waiting. The carriage was parked aside, and there were six sword-wielding soldiers accompanying him. These soldiers were all soldiers of the Fenghua Prefecture, and now they have become military soldiers of the Xinzhou County Duke's Mansion.

After waiting for a while, before seeing Lu An come out, Qin Que paced at the pavilion and looked at the Imperial Medical Office, but saw a deacon of the Medical Office quickly stepping over and saying, "Mr. Qin, please let his cousin Assistant Lu take his servant away from the back door, somehow?"

Qin Que took a "ah" and stopped after taking two steps. He sighed and said to himself: "My cousin is too cowardly and has no courage at all. You know how to escape. Oh, let him go." After thinking about it, he walked into the Imperial Medical Office and asked the other two Imperial Medical Orders: "Two sirs, have my cousin Assistant Professor Lu passed the assessment?"

Lu An hadn't even taken the exam yet. The two imperial physician orders looked at each other and said in unison: "It's passed, and the doctoral appointment document of Shouzhou Medical Bureau will be issued soon."

Qin Que was relieved and thanked the two imperial physicians and went out to take a bus back home, feeling unhappy.

As soon as Zhou Xuan entered Danfeng Gate, he saw a small inner official and said, "Mr. Zhou, Prince, please go to the East Palace to meet."

Li Jian knew that Zhou Xuan was coming today, so he ordered this little inner official to wait in Danfeng Sect.

Zhou Xuan went to the East Palace to meet Li Jian first. The two entered the study room to discuss in secret. It turned out that yesterday, Mr. Chen sent a quick horse to send an urgent letter from Jianzhou. The letter was sent on June 19, saying that Chen Ji was willing to work hard and went to Zhangzhou to see Pan. The clan leader of the two surnames, Pan Yujiao and Lei Meng, were both suspicious, but they had ordered the leaders of the village to strengthen their defense. They secretly sent Deli Shanha to Quanzhou to explore the movements of Chen Si'an's Qingyuan soldiers. Lan Lianchang had also passed Xianxia Ridge on the tenth day of this month. It is estimated that he would definitely be able to go to Quanzhou twenty days ago.

Li Jian smiled and said, "Chen Si'an has always been wary of the four surnames of the Barbarians. Qu Yijie Na Lan Lianchang clan, on the surface, seems to have received the support of the largest family of the Barbarians, but the rift with the other three tribes is deepening. Cousin Xuan's plan is at the right time. Ten thousand soldiers in Zhennan have already set off for Tingzhou. The Fenghua army of Lin Dudu is also ready to go south to fight at any time. I will not inform the subordinates before the war begins. The two provinces of the Secretariat will report to the two provinces of the Central Secretariat and talk to them when the fight begins, so as not to restrain them."

Zhou Xuan nodded and said, "Mr. Chen is a soldier who is a god and is also a minister of the Ministry of War. With him in Jianzhou, it is not difficult to capture Zhangzhou - by the way, is there any news about Xiahou Liusu?"

Li Jian looked at Zhou Xuan and smiled and said, "Cousin Xuan is really pity for flowers and jade. Mr. Chen did not mention Xiahou Liusu in his letter, but Xiahou Liusu must have returned to Quanzhou. He will not come to Jinling, haha."

Zhou Xuan also laughed and bowed, "Then I'll go to see my aunt first, the map of the equestrian obstacle course has been drawn."

When Li Jian heard this, he hurriedly said, "What picture? Let me see it."

Zhou Xuan spread out the sketch of the equestrian obstacle course he spent two hours last night to Li Jian. Li Jian asked while looking at it. After listening to Zhou Xuan's explanation, he said happily: "This kind of competition can also be carried out in the army. Our Tang infantry and navy are very combat-effective, but the cavalry are weak, and the Song and Liao cavalry are fierce. If they do not catch up, they will be bullied."

Zhou Xuan said: "I will first show it to my aunt and build an equestrian venue in Shanglinyuan to demonstrate, and then the various Protectorate Houses will come to observe. From now on, a national equestrian competition will be held every year, and the winning Protectorate House will give you a heavy reward. In this way, a trend of practicing equestrians can be formed across the country, and the cavalry combat power will be improved."

Li Jian was overjoyed and accompanied Zhou Xuan to Linde Hall to meet his mother, and told Zhou Xuan's suggestions.

The young Zhou Hou praised: "The ancestors had the same sages, such as the sounds of the sages and the horses and the games, but Nephew Xuan was always able to contact military and national affairs. He was really interested." He ordered the Ministry of Works to build an equestrian venue that was 150 meters long and 100 meters wide in the southwest of Shanglinyuan.

After coming out of Linde Hall, Zhou Xuan asked Li Jian's entourage to Jingxu Palace to report Princess Qingle, and said that he had something to do today and would not paint anymore, so he would definitely go tomorrow.

When passing Jixian Palace, Mr. Pan knew that Zhou Xuan had entered the palace and kept waiting. He quickly went up to visit the Grand Secretary to inspect the residence and said, "The talent of the county magistrate is shocking the past and the present. The movable type printing technique created greatly saves labor. Currently, the residence is an issue of this month, with twenty pages per issue, and a thousand copies were printed. It is transmitted to every state and county for people to read and educate the people, which is of great effect."

Zhou Xuan gave an important instruction: "Don't Jixian Palace have the right to manage academies across the country. It set up a liaison officer in major academies to collect opinions from local officials and people on the liaison newspaper, and do a good job in issuing and promoting the liaison newspaper. In addition, two articles should be written for the liaison newspaper according to the local conditions every month. There will be prizes at the end of the year. The liaison newspaper can be appropriately expanded and added. Banks are not a problem. If the liaison newspaper is completed, it will not only cost money, but also make profits. In the next issue, the liaison newspaper will write an interview with Abu, and a student from the Imperial College will interview Abu. Abu has sponsored 3,000 taels of silver for our liaison newspaper."

Mr. Pan nodded repeatedly and said yes, and he wanted to arrange for Tai students to visit Lord Abu, Chaosanlang.

Zhou Xuan stopped and said, "Wait, Abu has been recuperating in our mansion recently. I will interview him next month. I will first interview Guangling salt merchant Wang Shizhang, mainly promoting Wang Shizhang's grand act of donating 60,000 taels of military funds last time."
Chapter completed!