Farmer’s Blessed Girl

It's just that the Ministry of Rites has already determined the ranking, and showing it to the emperor is just for him to take a final look. If there is no problem, it will be decided.

In the past, the emperor had no objection, but this time, the crown prince was considered to be half the chief examiner. He went into the palace and talked to him for a while, saying that some examiners of the Ministry of Rites ordered the order directly according to the general list, and the emperor was a little unhappy. .

Therefore, when Kong Jijiu sent the papers and the list, the emperor looked at them carefully. He went through the list first, and found that Bai Shan, his consort Bai Cheng, and Wei Yu were all there, and only then did he read the papers.

The emperor took it very seriously, and read the thirty-six papers from the beginning to the end according to the ranking. Among them, there were four to be selected. Because of the inspection by Kong Jijiu and several doctors, the attached four papers were all famous. It is not known, but the papers are written well by candidates.

In order to read the papers, the emperor put all other political affairs on hold, and all the officials who came to report the matter were called in by him to sit in a row with Kong Jijiu, and the papers he read were passed down for them to read.

After reading the thirty-six papers, their eyes would be dazzled, so the emperor ordered a meal, and talked about the list with his beloved ministers while eating.

The emperor hadn't seen the exam papers of these candidates, but he had seen it early in the morning.

Although he wanted to hand over the reform of the imperial examination system to the crown prince, so that he could stand out, but he didn't want to be fooled by it now.

So while eating, he asked Wei Zhi and others for their opinions on a few papers.

Li Shangshu is not good at expressing his opinions on this kind of thing, mainly because he is a minister of the Ministry of War who is not good at speaking about the study of classics. He can say something about current affairs, but...

He glanced at Liu Shangshu on the side. It was almost the end of the year. After the new year, the allocation of the Ministry of War had to be calculated. He decided not to trouble Liu Shangshu this year, and only hoped that he would not trouble him either.

Therefore, Li Shangshu bowed his head to eat and did not express his opinion.

But Wei Zhi can't do it. Even if his son is taking the jinshi examination this year, he is not a person who avoids relatives, so seeing that other people didn't want to say anything, he simply commented on it. He didn't say that he had set thirty Which of the two places is not good, but the two articles that were put in for selection are particularly good.

Thirty-six articles, from poetry to classical studies and current affairs policy, are all glued together. Poetry and poetry are clear at a glance, and classical studies are almost fixed answers. He said it very well, and naturally it is current affairs policy.

Wei Zhi thought it was a pity that someone with such talent was dropped.

The emperor thought so too. He was about to speak when he heard someone say, "If you have fallen on the jinshi list, you can go to the Ming Jing."

The emperor choked in one breath and turned to look at the speaker.

Wei Zhi didn't get choked, but sprayed it back directly, "Is this Jinshi list the same as the Mingjing list? Why doesn't Master Han want to let his children study the Mingjing?"

Han Shangshu choked and said, "I didn't say this, it was the doctor of the Imperial College."

Kong Jijiu was sitting across the bank watching the fire, and the fire suddenly burned himself. He simply asked Han Shangshu directly, "Which doctor said that?"

Han Shangshu stopped talking, but he could quietly tell Kong Jijiu in private, saying in front of everyone that he seemed like a villain.

The emperor swallowed the choked breath and waved his hand: "Okay, let's pass this question first. Since the exam paper is out, it should still be the exam paper."

He directly picked out two exam papers and said, "Let's lose these two."

Everyone took a look and found that one was Cheng Wenhai from Tangzhou and the other was Nie Xiu from Luzhou. They were all disciples of Guozijian. All the people present except the emperor had read their scrolls, and they thought it was pretty good at the time.

Liu Shangshu simply turned his head and asked Kong Jijiu, "How did they do in the Imperial College?"

"Since it can be in the top 20 on the general list, it is prestige, and the results should not be bad."

Wei Zhi asked, "Is their paperwork done during school, or did they do it themselves?"

Kong Jijiu paused and said, "There are all of them, but there is more to do."

Wei Zhi snorted: "As the exam is approaching, the current affairs policy topics published by the Guozijian are very comprehensive. I remember that Bai Shan's booklet was selected from the coursework he had done and put it in a booklet. The two of them are really interested, and they have thought about other topics themselves, and they are so close to the government, whether they really have an opinion or something else is unknown."

Although Kong Jijiu also felt that the two of them did not do well in this paper, he did not allow others to maliciously speculate on his students without evidence, so he countered: "Master Wei thinks people too badly, If you don’t have evidence, please speak carefully, if you have evidence, you can bring it to our country’s Zijian to appeal.”

Seeing that the two Aiqings were about to quarrel, and they were the two most eloquent Aiqings, the emperor hurriedly made peace, "Weiqing is also worried about raising the virtuous, and Mr. Kong will forgive him."

He also knew about Wei: "Wei Qing speaks carefully, it is not easy to talk about it without any basis."

Wei Zhi apologized at the right time, Kong Jijiu snorted, and the matter was temporarily revealed.

The emperor turned the topic back again, "Change these two papers, and discuss the ranking with you."

Kong Jijiu saw that the two people selected by the emperor were students of his Imperial College, so he simply selected another from the remaining two candidate papers and said, "Your Majesty, this minister thinks this paper is also very good. , which is on a par with these two.”

The emperor glanced at it and saw that they were not equal to each other. Although they did a good job, they were still close to the two.

Looking at the name, it is also unknown, and looking at the birthplace is a student from Yangzhou Fuxue.

I can't let him replace one of the two, and Kong Jijiu said that they are not equal to each other, so how to choose?

The emperor and Kong Jijiu looked at each other, and immediately understood what he meant. This old thing is to let him pick another person from the established quota, and he can no longer be a member of the Imperial College.

emperor:……

Wei Zhi glanced at the paper, refreshed, and then suggested, "Your Majesty, do you want to take another look at Bai Cheng's paper?"

emperor:……

Bai Cheng has already been assigned to No. 32. His future father-in-law didn't even think about moving forward, but you still want to fall behind?

Seeing that the emperor didn't speak, Wei Zhi said more cautiously: "Your Majesty, Bai Cheng is still young and not as good as the weak crown. It's still too early for him to go to office at this time. He has passed the jinshi examination, is he going to be released?"

That was out of the emperor's eyes, and it would be hard to control this person if he was outside.

The emperor pondered, but he wasn't worried that Bai Cheng had other thoughts after he was released.

Cheng Wenhai and Nie Xiu can occupy the top 20 on the list, which shows the strength of the foreign ambassadors. It would be really bad if they were alone, but if he added his son-in-law...

For the stability and unity of the court, the emperor closed his eyes and picked out Bai Cheng's papers and put them aside.

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