Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 316 The Township Examination Begins

  Liu Jian and others also looked at each other in blank dismay.

   It shouldn’t be, it’s just such a trivial matter, you also write a book?

  Liu Jian said seriously: "The fleet of the Eastern Palace is not flying the flag of Ming Dynasty."

  Emperor Hongzhi shuddered, but in fact he almost softened his heart.

  But when Liu Jian reminded him like this, he remembered it instantly.

  The fleet of the Ministry of War is under the flag of the Ming Dynasty's official fleet. If the emperor grants the ship number to your several private ships, wouldn't it be equivalent to the status of the imperial court?

  Fang Jifan is such a thief that he actually wants to use this method to get a title.

  Emperor Hongzhi smiled lightly, intending to shelve this memorial, but after careful consideration, he felt that it was inappropriate. After all, Fang Jifan had worked so hard and made great achievements.

   After all, they are also working for the court, can you ignore them?

  Emperor Hongzhi shook his head, showing a wry smile, then he took up the ink pen himself, and wrote in the memorandum: "Qing judges himself."

   After finishing speaking, he clicked on the memorial: "Let's send it out."

  The so-called self-destruction, of course, does not mean self-destruction, that is how vulgar people understand it.

  This means, Fang Jifan, you can make up your own mind, whatever you want, do whatever you like.

  So Fang Jifan took His Majesty's order and went directly to find Zhu Houzhao.

  Zhu Houzhao is also very interested in going to sea.

  In fact, Zhu Houzhao is not interested in all things that can show off.

   "Your Highness, Your Majesty has come to your senses." Fang Jifan looked at Zhu Houzhao suspiciously.

   Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up immediately.

   "Old Fang still has a way, how did you guess that the father will let us commit suicide?"

  Fang Jifan said with a stern face: "Your Majesty is arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily arbitrarily judged, and the holy and new are unpredictable. How can I guess his thoughts? Your Highness, don't wrong the minister like this."

  Zhu Houzhao glanced at him and said, "Old Fang, can you talk nicely?"

  Zhu Houzhao gave Fang Jifan a white look, with his hands behind his back, looking very excited.

  He paced back and forth, and said in his mouth: "There are four ships in total. The small one is a little smaller, but it is also a sea ship, isn't it? What is the name of the main ship? The General?"

  Fang Jifan also wants to roll his eyes, so can't there be something new?

  He shook his head and said, "It doesn't sound good."

  "Champion Hou?" Zhu Houzhao thought for a while, and seemed to think that Champion Hou was more to his liking.

"..." Fang Jifan looked at Zhu Houzhao fixedly, and said, "Your Highness, in fact, I think we should use some more elegant ship names. After all, this is the first time after tens of hundreds of years after sailing to the West. Set out on a voyage, it is bound to leave a name in history.”

  Zhu Houzhao frowned, and said: "Why is Champion Hou so unrefined? What a good name! Good, good, good, I won't argue with you, I will think about it again..."

   "How about, let me get one." Fang Jifan looked at Zhu Houzhao with a smile.

  Zhu Houzhao stared at Fang Jifan, listening attentively.

  Fang Jifan said word by word: "It's better to call it: the scum of the world... the king... no... official... number..."

   "What?" Zhu Houzhao looked confused: "Wang... Wang Bushi, it should be a personal name, who is this? Does he have any grudges against you?"

  Fang Jifan said sternly: "How can Your Highness guess the intentions of this minister? The minister just thinks that this name is both shocking and majestic. There is indeed a man who is not an official, but I don't even recognize him. What kind of hatred can there be?"

  Zhu Houzhao obviously didn't believe it. He looked at Fang Jifan suspiciously for a while, then narrowed his eyes and said: "It's a good name, at least it's fresh, and it's more shocking than Champion Hou!"

  …

  In the Hanlin Academy, the atmosphere has become more active recently than before.

  Xu Jing, a concubine, has finally left and is about to go to sea! In private, there were rumors that this might be because someone had impeached Xu Jing, so the palace simply made him suffer.

  Go to sea.

  Who doesn't know how risky it is to go into the sea. If you go into the sea, you will probably never come back.

  The Hanlin Academy is a place where rules are respected, how can it allow people to beat up their superiors.

Ever since, Wang Bushi, the attendant of the Literature and History Museum, can be said to be elated. He is like Xianglin's wife, who complains first when he catches someone. That Xu Jing... is really not a thing. Heh...but is this officer afraid of him? No, he wanted to run amok, but I stepped forward and was beaten by him. These people are really insane and have no manners at all.

  But the old man is not afraid of him, the old man is the Hanlin, the Hanlin, the Qingliu, hmph, this kind of person is just like his mentor...

  When it came to this point, Wang Bushi always had to look around to make sure that there was no one else, and then continued righteously: "Sooner or later, you will be notorious, not only harming others, but also harming yourself."

   Colleagues all sympathized with him and nodded in agreement.

Wang Bushi became even more excited, and continued to catch people and said over and over again, he rolled up his big sleeves, showing the bruises that had disappeared: "This is the one who beat Xu Jing. Humble..."

   Enough scolding, I finally feel more at ease, and Wang Bushi's mood gradually became happier. In any case, although he suffered from Xu Jing, he was not wronged. Hmph, do you really think that scholars are easy to bully? I, Wang Bushi, will scold you to death in this life and ruin your reputation.

   "The prince...the prince..."

  But at this time, in his duty room, a scribe hurried over, looking very frightened.

  Wang Bushi didn't seem to care about it, and said calmly and calmly: "What's the matter?"

   "Something...something happened..."

  Wang Bushi calmly said: "What are you panicking, the sky won't fall, so talk about it if you have something to say."

   "This is an imperial edict issued by the Eastern Palace, ordering the household department to assign some boatmen and followers to board the ship... You... have a look first..."

  Wang Bushi received the imperial edict, and looked down. This imperial edict...seemed to be nothing special.

  It’s just... when he saw the 70 boatmen and strong men kept by the household registration department, they went to the "Human Trash Wang Bushi" for drills and prepared to go to sea...

  Wang Bushi's face suddenly turned red.

   "I...I...I *he** eighteenth generation!" Wang Bushi broke out, and finally swear words that he couldn't swear in the first half of his life.

   Lack of morality, which lacks something of great virtue.

  Wang Bushi can almost imagine that in the memorandum, this voyage will be recorded in its original form, and this "human scum XXX" will remain until the sea dries up.

  Wang Bushi held the copybook and burst into tears.

  ...

  The original rural examination was held in August, and it was called Qiuwei.

   It's just a pity, because the weather is very different now, and the imperial court postponed the time for three months in order to show compassion for the students, especially the remote students who went to the provincial capital to catch the exam.

  At this time... on the first day of November, the autumn of the thirteenth year of Hongzhi finally began.

   Early in the morning of this day, the sky was still hazy.

  Liu Jie took Kao Lan and disappeared quietly into the vast snow outside Liu's residence.

  He didn't go through the middle gate, but went out through the small gate of Liu Mansion.

  Liu Jie didn't even remind the people in the house. After tidying up the house, he went out.

  Failing to succeed after repeated trials is nothing to ordinary students, but it is extremely embarrassing to the only son of the chief assistant of the dynasty!

  After a famous family, he failed the provincial examination. The pressure Liu Jie has been under these years is really too great.

  In fact, everyone in the house knew that he was going to rush for the exam today, but everyone tried their best to avoid touching this matter. Liu Jie set out from the small gate, and that's what he meant! He was afraid to go out through the middle gate, he would meet too many people in the house, and even complimented him, saying that the young master must go to high school, he felt very harsh.

  He just hoped that he would go to take the exam in peace, and after that, everyone would act as if nothing had happened. Even if he lost his reputation as before, at least he would feel better.

   However, when Liu Jie just tiptoed away, Liu An, the manager of the Liu Mansion, hurried to the study.

  In the study room, there were no candles lit. Liu Jian had been sitting here, as if waiting for something.

  Liu An gently opened a crack in the door and came in, bowed and said: "Master...Young Master has gone out."

   "Oh." Liu Jian sighed: "He has enough clothes."

   "Well, that's enough. The young master walked through the back door, sir..."

Liu An, who was in charge, seemed to want to say something, but Liu Jian suppressed his hand and said: "This is why the old man told you, pretending to know nothing, and asking you to warn the people in the house, never He mentioned the township examination in front of him, he is a virtuous person, but unfortunately... his aptitude is too poor, he failed repeatedly, he should feel more uncomfortable than the old man in his heart, the pressure is too great."

"Yeah, the young master has been taciturn all these years..." Liu An also sighed: "The villain watched the young master when he grew up, but he was not like this when he was young. He liked to visit friends everywhere and always laughed. But later on, he became more and more withdrawn, and he was even less willing to interact with people.”

  Liu Jian stood up, with a look of loneliness on his face, and said: "Don't talk about it, this is fate! Go and change the old man's clothes. It's getting late, and the old man should be on duty."

   Liu An looked at Liu Jian with concern and said, "Master, you haven't slept all night, you should take a nap first..."

  Liu Jian shook his head and said: "Business is important. I will fall asleep in the sedan chair later."

   This night, Liu Jian actually didn't dare to sleep, so he just sat in this study, and it wasn't until Liu Jie set off with Kaolan that he felt more at ease.

His heart is complicated. He knows that if he personally sends Liu Jie to the country test, his son will be under more pressure. It is blue, even when trying to stand up from the chair, it is unavoidable that the feet are a little frivolous, top-heavy.

  But deep down in his heart, how can he not know the pain in Liu Jie's heart.

  In the eyes of the civil and military ministers who are full of the ruling and opposition parties, what they see is that he is proud of his scenery, how simple he is in the emperor's heart, but who knows, he also has unspeakable pain.

  (end of this chapter)