On the wedding night, the substitute princess cured the war king's poison

The officials were originally here to attend court, but after the court was over, they were unexpectedly arranged to enter Jiying Hall to take part in a sudden examination.

The examiner was the emperor himself.

Xiao Huai has only been on the throne for two months this year and has not yet had the opportunity to hold the imperial examination.

Today I experienced being an examiner for the first time, and I was very excited.

He decided to judge the officials based on the results of this test and promote Concubine Liu to the rank of queen as soon as possible.

After all, the child in Concubine Liu's belly was growing up and he couldn't wait any longer, and he didn't want his beloved to worry.

However, when the imperial court came to power recently, there were always censors admonishing her, saying that the emperor should not make Concubine Liu Guifei his queen, not do this, not do that, and there were a lot of restrictions.

Especially those of the regent line, it feels like they are supervising him as the emperor.

Xiao Huai was annoyed to death, but he wanted to maintain the image of a gentle and wise king so as not to punish them.

Today I just take this opportunity to sort out these disobedient people.

If you don't do well in the exam, you will have no face in the future to quote scriptures and give advice in front of officials.

"Your Majesty, who came up with such strange and bizarre test questions?"

When the officials got the test papers, most of them looked confused.

"The Emperor doesn't take the Four Books and Five Classics exam, why do you take this exam?"

The most angry ones are the three males and three orphans.

They used to be the right-hand men who assisted Xiao Huai in ascending the throne.

I have read thousands of books and am rich in knowledge, but I have never seen such strange test questions.

Many of them were from the Imperial Academy.

When I saw this kind of test questions, I felt that the emperor was thinking wrongly.

Xiao Huai said seriously:

"This is the test question used by the regent to select officials in northern Xinjiang. It is intended to select useful talents with both ability and political integrity for the Yan Kingdom."

"You are all the outstanding ones who have passed the imperial examination. I believe that it is not difficult for you to do this kind of question. I have not long since ascended the throne, and I want to use this test to understand the true talents and learning of all of you."

"If there is something you don't know how to do, I will understand that you also have unread books and work diligently on them in the future."

It means: If you don’t know how to do the questions, don’t show off your knowledge in front of me from now on, and study hard.

The exam questions were not written by me, but by the regent. If you don’t want to be embarrassed, it’s Xiao Ding who is to blame.

Let the regent raise more enemies and kill two birds with one stone.

These words made it difficult for all the officials to protest. Who dared to scold the regent?

Not only was he a massacre, but his princess was even worse.

Many people could only curse the regent in their hearts a dozen times.

As the emperor gave the order to start the exam, everyone immersed themselves in doing the questions.

It’s just so difficult…

For example, the first question.

Four people conspired to commit burglary, and one of them killed someone indoors. After being caught, the four people bit each other in the hall and refused to plead guilty.

After separate confessions, each person confessed as follows.

A said it was not him who killed him.

B said it was Ding who killed him.

C said it was B who killed him.

Ding asked if he killed him.

Question: Who is the real murderer?

The experts at this question should be officials from the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Most other civil servants can only guess the questions.

The second course: graphical change reasoning.

There are very few people who know how to do it.

The third and fourth tracks are all numerical reasoning.

The civil servants were confused, but a few of the military attachés had a clue.

Then there were six big questions, involving knowledge about industry, commerce and agriculture, which made many officials feel dizzy.

After handing in the papers, the ministers were uneasy.

It would be embarrassing if you failed the exam.

Especially the officials of the Third Division, who usually specialize in trying cases. If they make a mistake, they may lose their official position.

After the half-day exam was over, Xiao Huai said with a fair face:

"I will personally review the test papers for this exam, and your results will be posted outside the Jinluan Hall tomorrow."

"I have clear rewards and punishments. If you fail the exam, you will be fined two months' salary. Those who rank among the top three will be rewarded with three hundred taels of silver each."

After saying that, he asked the eunuch to take the paper to the imperial study room.

That night, Xiao Huai felt more accomplished in grading test papers than in grading memorials.

Ninety percent fail.

The remaining 10 percent of officials barely got seven questions correct.

In the morning of the second day, all officials saw the results posted outside the Jinluan Hall.

Those who fail to meet the requirements are ashamed and hide their faces. Among them are high-ranking civil servants such as prime ministers, princes and tutors, and Imperial College officials.

The imperial censors were all unqualified.

Therefore, during the morning court today, the imperial capital proposed to canonize Concubine Liu as queen, and there were only a few opponents.

Therefore, Concubine Liu was successfully established as the Queen of Yan Kingdom.

A few days later, the emperor also invited a Taoist master to be the national preceptor to practice Taoism.

Some ministers objected, so the emperor moved out the regent. The princess was also a Taoist disciple and could serve the country.

In this way, all officials are helpless.

Xiao Ding received the news immediately.

"I didn't expect that the emperor knew how to use his strength to establish his authority."

"It's a pity that I don't have to use it for business."

Ning Luo advised: "My lord, don't worry. After northern Xinjiang is settled, we will return to the capital to Qingjun. It will take several months for Mrs. Liu to give birth. If she wants to take power, she will have to wait until the child is born."

"What Luo'er said is true. I have my king's people in Kyoto watching, so there won't be any big chaos for the time being."

In the next month, the regent and the princess began to deal with the surrounding small countries that had attacked Yan Kingdom one by one.

The first one to be dealt with was Qing Guo.

They failed to pay war compensation within the deadline and did not take Ning Luo's warning to heart.

So one day when the Emperor of the Qing Kingdom was in court, he suddenly heard the imperial guard coming to report in panic: "Report! Your Majesty, it's not good. Xiao Ding, the regent of the Yan Kingdom, and his princess suddenly appeared outside the palace gate and said they wanted to see him. you."

When the old emperor heard this, his beard trembled with fright.

"How many troops did they bring?"