Every time he had an in-depth chat with Qiu Wanshan, Chu Qing always gained new insights.
Lao Qiu's meaning is very straightforward. There are no "good people" in the court. This good person is not about character and morality, but about means.
The more skillful the means, the higher one can occupy a high position. There are many means and many tricks, and he can stand above the court.
If you don't have any means, let alone a time-traveler, even if you are a time-traveler, his father is still nothing. At most, he is just a left-hand minister of the Ministry of Industry.
After returning to the Chu Mansion, Chu Wensheng told Chu Qing that he would go out for a while and go to Liao'an. He would be back in as little as a season or as little as a month. He said that the imperial court wanted to build a batch of large ships. As the left of the Ministry of Industry, he The minister is going to Liao An's place to check the quality of the wood.
Chu Qing didn't think much about it. He didn't even know where Liao An was. He went back to the house after saying a few words to pay attention to safety, worried.
Sitting on the bed, Chu Qing was a little tired of this feeling of caution.
This feeling of embarrassment that he should be able to "get ahead" and have the ability to shine, but cannot shine and get ahead, made him very tired.
For other travelers, opportunities are everywhere.
There are pitfalls everywhere for him.
Chu Qing looked at his blurry face in the bronze mirror and sighed helplessly.
People always have to succumb to reality. Not all those who travel through time will be able to get ahead. In many cases, it also depends on the environment and opportunities.
I had no appetite, so I lay on the bed and fell asleep after a while.
On the second day, when Chu Qing took Fu San to the palace, he always looked back and forth subconsciously and walked along the main road where there were many people.
He already had a preliminary understanding of the Li family, or Li Lin.
This guy said he wanted to fuck himself, and he would definitely do it, and he would do it right away, right away, very quickly, without any foreplay.
So Chu Qing was afraid that while he was walking, some unscrupulous people suddenly rushed up and stabbed him twice.
However, his worries were completely unnecessary. There were official sedans all around, and Li Lin would not dare to kill officials in the street no matter how brave he was.
After entering the palace, he arrived at the Yangyi Hall with ease. When he opened the door, Chu Qing saw an old man.
There were three people in the room, and there was one more. It was not Nangong Shou. This guy didn't come today, but an old man with white beard and hair. He was sitting in the Yangyi Hall, shaking his head and reading "Mencius".
Two little guys, Prince Edward and Chang Laoer, were also there. The latter was also reading a handwritten version of "Mencius" and the former had a bitter look on his face.
Seeing Chu Qing coming, Chang Laoer just saluted. The prince also stood up and called "Mr. Chu".
The old man put down "Mencius" and smiled slightly: "Are you the one who teaches Chu Qing in arithmetic in the palace?"
"you are?"
The old man is thin, wearing a Confucian shirt, with squinted eyes. He looks ordinary, but he looks a bit domineering.
"I'm Li Yunjin."
Just after he announced his name, before Chu Qing could speak, Li Yunjin suddenly changed his face and asked sternly: "You are a dandy in the capital, you fly like an eagle, you bully the people, you have a bad reputation, you set fire to the government offices, you act erratically, how can you, Chu Qing, be so virtuous?" How dare you boast and call yourself sir in the palace!"
Chu Qing looked stunned.
"Are you... looking for trouble?"
Li Yunjin suddenly stood up: "The emperor doesn't know your bad reputation, but I am not like that. A rat has skin, a man has no manners, and a man has no manners. What's the point of not dying? You have such a bad reputation. Why don't you hide in the mansion and reflect on yourself? I dare to come to the palace to teach the prince knowledge, so shameless."
Chu Qing looked at the two princes, confused.
What's going on? I came to class early in the morning and I met an old man. He scolded me. The most important thing was that he didn't understand the second half of the sentence. What the hell is that? Say I'm... too naughty?
The two princes had different expressions. The prince had an expression of "there's an unexpected surprise" on his face. After sitting down, he went into a melon-eating state.
Changxian frowned and looked deeply at Li Yunjin.
Li Yunjin can appear in Yangyi Hall, so he is certainly not an ordinary person.
This old man is also a teacher in the palace, has no official position, and is a famous Confucian in the capital.
There is only one official position of Prince's Young Master, but that does not mean that there is only one Prince's Young Master who is responsible for teaching the Prince. There are other teachers, including the Six Arts of the Gentleman, the Four Books and the Five Classics, and more than twenty tutors.
The prince has more than twenty teachers in total, but they are taught by different people at different ages, stages, and fields.
Most of these teachers were famous Confucian scholars. They had no official positions but were well-known. They were hired by the emperor to teach the prince in the palace.
But in fact, there are still some famous Confucian scholars who say they are the prince's teachers. In fact, they do not need to attend the palace to teach, because they just have a name, which is regarded as an honorary title, just like the visiting professors, honorary professors and the like in later generations. .
Tao Yao, the prince's young master, is a serious professor, and his only job is to teach the prince.
Chu Qing, on the other hand, is considered a visiting professor. He has obligations and responsibilities, but he only teaches the prince at a certain stage, which is considered a part-time job.
As for Li Yunjin, he is an honorary professor.
He has the ability to teach the prince, but he rarely comes to the palace to teach the prince anything.
But one thing is that Li Yunjin can enter the palace at any time and teach the prince Confucianism.
Since Li Yunjin became an "honorary professor", he has visited the palace twice, once before the year before and once after the year after, but he has not been here since.
But today, he suddenly came to the palace, under the guise of "spot-checking" the two princes, which was very baffling.
The second prince Changxian is not a fool. Just now, he was surprised that Li Yunjin suddenly appeared. Now he was angry when he saw Chu Qing. He immediately understood that this old man was here to cause trouble for Chu Qing.
But what Changxian couldn't figure out was that Chu Qing clearly acted like he didn't know Li Yunjin at all. Why did the old man go to the palace to cause trouble?
There is no love without reason, and there is no hate without reason.
Chu Qing was scolded horrendously. He was still thinking about when he had offended the other party when he suddenly thought of the other party's last name, Li!
"You just said, what is your name, Li Yunjin?" Chu Qing frowned and asked, "Li from the Li family, right?"
Li Yunjin sneered and said nothing, which was regarded as acquiescence.
Chu Qing suddenly realized.
Classmate Xiao Li is indeed a happy person. Yesterday he said he was going to mess with himself, but today he sent someone to cause trouble. He is worthy of being a member of Beijing Central Society.
Changxian said: "Mr. Chu, Mr. Li used to be responsible for my and my brother's studies, teaching Confucianism."
"Didn't Eunuch Sun say that I have been teaching arithmetic recently?"
Li Yunjin interjected: "You deserve it too!"
Changxian wanted to smooth things over and explained: "Mr. Li came to the palace today to check the academic performance of me and the emperor brother. Today, Mr. Chu is still teaching arithmetic to me and the emperor brother."
"Oh, I understand." Chu Qing saluted Li Yunjin: "May I ask this old gentleman, what rank do you live in?"
"I have no official position, but I am taught by the palace, how about that?"
Chu Qing was happy.
If you don't have an official position, that's no problem.
Great Confucian, haha, what a fart great Confucian is!
Ordinary scholars, including civil servants, are most afraid of the so-called Confucian celebrities.
This is because civil servants are scholars and belong to the scholarly circle, and the great Confucian scholars and famous scholars are all big bosses in the scholarly circle. Just a word can make a scholar's reputation stinky.
With a bad reputation, it is naturally not easy to get involved in officialdom.
But although Chu Qing was a civil servant, he was not afraid at all.
Because of his reputation, there is no room for "stinking".
Turning slightly to one side, Chu Qing pointed to the door behind him: "Please."
Li Yunjin, who had already prepared a lot of words, was slightly stunned: "What do you mean?"
"Then let me put it another way." Chu Qing opened the door, turned around, and smiled slightly: "Get out!"
