reborn monarch

Xie Jiuyuan asked the guards to keep Xie Jingqing and Xie Shishi under strict guard at their residence, and then went to the Jinling Tribute Courtyard with peace of mind.

Jiangnan is a large province that merged Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Huizhou. The governor of a province should have been the governor, but the Great Chu Dynasty specially appointed the governor of Jiangnan Province for Jiangnan Province. a governor.

In such a vast and fertile land, talents are naturally like crucian carp crossing the river. The Jiangnan examination room is the one with the largest number of candidates among the five examination rooms in the country, and the number of invigilators is also the largest. Two examiners are required for each examination , two inspectors, and sixteen fellow examiners.

Xie Jiuyuan and the other examiners gathered outside the Jinling Tribute Courtyard. Taking time, they worshiped Confucius' ancestor at almost the same time as the people in the Ministry of Rites in the capital. Only then did the officials enter the Tribute Courtyard and climbed up to the Mingyuan Building.

Xie Jiuyuan stood upstairs in Mingyuan, looking at the entrance of the Gongyuan. Wuyang Wuyang's disciples were lined up, and they were searched and checked their belongings before they could enter the Gongyuan.

He was also one of them. He was young and frivolous at the time, self-confident and talented, and he was not nervous at all when he entered the Gongyuan. Kung fu, also really experienced the taste of peeling off the skin.

Seeing this scene, not only Xie Jiuyuan, but also other officials couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic. Xie Jiuyuan chatted with the two examiners about some interesting things about taking the exam back then, and sighed for a while.

As the supervisors of this imperial examination, Zhejiang governor Feng Weixiang and Jinling prefect Jia Siyuan were not very energetic when they showed up and kept silent. Feng Weixiang finally woke up, took a sip of tea, and snorted at the examiners outside the gate of the Gongyuan , sighed: "there are as many people as pigs."

The prefect of Jinling agreed and laughed.

No matter what, the two chief examiners are bachelors of the Hanlin Academy after all, so they still have some self-restraints. They don't think much of Feng Weixiang, a person like Feng Weixiang who has not had an imperial examination, who has become an official by relying on his father, and flattered the left. They all frowned, Xie Jiuyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, and said nothing.

There was a commotion at the bottom, some examinee had brought a cheat sheet into his inkstone, was found out, and was detained crying.

Everyone entered the venue, searched again, handed out candles and test papers, and locked every dormitory. The first test was officially started, and the content of the test was the Four Books and Five Classics.

In the first two days, Feng Weixiang still had the interest to occasionally go down to watch the candidates scratching their heads. On the third day, he stopped, saying that the candidates were unkempt, and some dormitories had sour smell from the food, which he couldn't bear.

Xie Jiuyuan was originally a special imperial envoy. In order to prevent the candidates from affecting their performance because they recognized him, he made nonsense that he was inspecting on behalf of the emperor and should not show his face. When he went to the examination room, he covered his face with a black veil. No. [-], seeing him writing quickly, Xie Jiuyuan took two steps over and took note of the location, which he did not pass in the last two exams.

After the three-day exam, the papers were collected, and the second exam began the next day. This exam was about theories, imperial edicts and judgments, that is, official documents and regulations.

After another three days, the papers were collected, and the third round of the exam began the next day.This last test is about policy questions.

After another three days, the papers were collected and the test was over.

After nine full days of exams, the candidates who had only cold water and dry food to eat were exhausted. Many of them could no longer walk out of the dormitory by themselves. It was okay for those who had family servants to greet them at the gate of the Gongyuan. If they were alone and had no money to hire someone, they had to Walking back to the residence by myself, it was quite desolate.

After the examinees unloaded their heavy burdens, the examiners entered a tense period of marking papers. The sealed examination papers were transcribed one by one by the scribes in standard fonts. What the examiners reviewed was the transcribed copy.

The test papers were checked on the seventh day, the list was filled out on the eighth and ninth days, and the day when the list was released finally arrived on the tenth day after the exam.

Xie Jiuyuan didn't have the job of grading papers, but he couldn't leave the Tribute Court. He couldn't leave with the examiners until he finished filling out the list on the ninth day.He saw that the two chief examiners seemed to have strange looks, so he went forward and said a few gossips for an excuse, but the two chief examiners were absent-minded and anxious to leave.

Xie Jiuyuan's heart skipped a beat.

I'm afraid something will happen.

Before dawn, there were servants or eunuchs waiting outside the gate of the tribute courtyard. When the sky was bright, the servants who posted the list finally came.

Xie Jiuyuan couldn't wait for Su Wei. He was anxious and squeezed himself into the crowd. Finally, he came to the front of the list. When he saw No.1, he couldn't help being startled.

It was Wei Cai!

There were whispers among the scholars looking at the list at this time. I don’t know who shouted, "The son of the salt merchant won the first place! Is it a joke for us to be a Jiangnan Juren!", and immediately a scholar who didn’t know the truth retorted, "Why, the son of the salt merchant Can’t you take the first name?”, the previous voice screamed, “I don’t know about other sons of salt merchants, but he, Wei Cai, is a fool who can’t even recite the Four Books!”.

There was an uproar.

The discussion grew louder, and two or three people spoke loudly about Wei Cai, "Wei Cai lives in the Yuelai Club, and I saw him being thrown into the Qinhuai River for molesting boys!" "His original name is Wei Cai, and he is rich! The township examination is a ghostwriting, and everyone in Huai'an knows about it!"

The sentiment is exciting.

Xie Jiuyuan immediately withdrew from the crowd, found Su Wei, left two of them to investigate the situation, and returned to the residence with the rest.

An accident is going to happen in Jiangnan, he must immediately write a memorial and submit it to the Holy Majesty.

Back at the residence, he sternly stopped hearing that there were some uncles and nephews who wanted to sneak out. He went into the study and saw the paintings on the table. Only then did he remember that he and Jiang Zaidao had agreed to sign and present the paintings.

Xie Jiuyuan thought for a while, but didn't let the guard go out, signed his name in front of them, stamped his private seal, rolled it up, handed it to a guard, and asked him to "send it to Jiang Zaidao's residence, by the way", saying Halfway through, I remembered that at the teahouse, Jiang Zaidao was indignant because of what my uncle and Shiyi said, and provoked himself. He must be a passionate person, and it is impossible not to participate in this matter. Swallowing it back, he just said, "Forget it, just send it for me."

Su Wei took the painting and sent it out.

Xie Jiuyuan asked the other guards to step down as well, spread out the blank memorial, sorted out his thoughts, and wrote down some evidence that the guards found and the truth about Huiyuan in Wei Cai's high school. At this point, a guard knocked on the door hurriedly, He shouted anxiously: "My lord! The disciples gathered at the gate of the Jiangnan Gongyuan and started to make a fuss! Master Feng is going to send messengers to arrest people. The two bachelors, please go there immediately to discuss!"

"understood."

Xie Jiuyuan responded, hurriedly added a few words, took clean rice paper to absorb the remaining ink, sealed it immediately, walked out of the room and handed it to the captain of the guard, and asked him to send the memorial back to the capital immediately.

Then he grabbed Shangfang's sword, took five guards, and rushed to the Gongyuan with the guards who reported the news.

Before getting close to the surroundings of the Gongyuan, you can hear the sound of crying and crying.

Feng Weixiang was pointed and scolded by angry scholars. He was pampered since he was a child. How could he have experienced such a thing? He was so angry that he blushed, his neck was thick, and he shouted: "Do it! Give these troublemakers I grab it!"

The guards were frightened by Juren's frenzied attitude and dared not take any action, and they were stalemate for a moment.

The guards received Xie Jiuyuan's signal, and immediately shouted loudly: "The imperial envoy on behalf of the inspector, Jin Wuwei, Xie Jiuyuan, thank you for coming!"

An imperial envoy, moreover a acting patrol imperial envoy, since Xie Jiuyuan used this name, everyone, including Feng Weixiang, had to kneel on the ground facing the direction of the capital, shouting, "Long live, long live, Your Majesty!"

After paying homage to the Holy Majesty, Feng Weixiang was the first to stand up with a stiff face, while the officials lower than Xie Jiuyuan still knelt.

Xie Jiuyuan passed by the still kneeling Juren, when someone suddenly yelled sadly: "Master Imperial Envoy, please justify my name in the Jiangnan Examination Center!"

His grief and indignation infected the other Juren, and they also shouted together with him. For a moment, the mournful voice shook the heavens, frightened countless birds, and the mournful cries of the Juren resounded throughout Jinling City.

Xie Jiuyuan stopped in his tracks and remained silent until the crowd also calmed down before opening his mouth slowly.

"I am ordered by the Holy Majesty to supervise the Jiangnan imperial examinations. With Shangfang's sword, I will act on behalf of the emperor. Your Majesty has allowed me to cut first and then play. If it is true as you said, I thank Jiuyuan. I will definitely live up to everyone's expectations. However, since you are juren, The exam is a general exam, so you should understand that everything must be done according to the rules, and there are grievances, which cannot be resolved by gathering a crowd to make trouble. You should disperse first, and I will give you an explanation after I find out the case."

People whispered to each other, and some of them had already started to quit.

Xie Jiuyuan looked at the ashen-faced Feng Weixiang, and asked, "Master Feng, do you have any objections?"

"Lord Xie is a favorite minister of the Holy One, how can I have any objections?" Feng Weixiang said flatteringly.

Favorite?That's not a good thing to say.The people looked at Xie Jiuyuan with more scrutiny.

Xie Jiuyuan clenched the sword in his hand, but his face remained calm.

"I remembered, Xie Jiuyuan was the late emperor's last imperial examination, Xieyuan in the rural examination, Huiyuan in the Jiangnan examination room, Tanhualang in the palace examination!"

Compared with Feng Weixiang, who was an official because of his family background, Xie Jiuyuan, who was in the second grade and a high school student, naturally became close immediately, and someone took the lead in responding to Xie Jiuyuan's words, and everyone dispersed.

Xie Jiuyuan looked up at Feng Weixiang, and met a pair of dark and cloudy eyes.

"Come here." Xie Jiuyuan stared at Feng Weixiang and said.

A guard stepped forward: "This subordinate is here."

"Arrest Wei Cai and bring him to justice immediately! There must be no mistake!" Xie Jiuyuan gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes!" Su Wei took the order and left.

Xie Jiuyuan relaxed his application, walked slowly past Feng Weixiang, and said to Jia Siyuan, the prefect of Jinling behind him: "Master Jia, I have already rushed to the Holy Majesty, and I will return to give instructions in a short time. After all, the Jiangnan examination room is in Jinling, and Master Jia is still needed." You help me find out the facts of the case, and give an account to Jiangnan Juren, Jiangnan people, and the Holy One as soon as possible."

Unexpectedly, Xie Jiuyuan could play directly in front of the imperial court!

Jia Siyuan's back was sweating, but he had no choice but to respond: "Your official understands, I will do my best to assist Mr. Xie."

Afterwards, Feng Weixiang left in a hurry, and things got easier. The two scholars didn't speak, and Xie Jiuyuan ignored them. How did I find out in such a short period of time, I just pretended to be confused and did not dare to say a word.

Fortunately, after Su Wei caught Wei Cai, Xie Jiuyuan led them back to their residence. Jia Siyuan wanted to keep him in the prison in Jinling Mansion, but Xie Jiuyuan asked two more questions that he didn't dare to answer, so he could only watch helplessly. Seeing Xie Jiuyuan take him away, he immediately ran to Feng Weixiang to discuss countermeasures.

So, not long after Emperor Qiyuan received the rush, Wen Jinli also received a secret letter from Feng Weixiang's cronies.

Wen Jinli was furious and scolded Feng Weixiang for being stupid, but Feng Weixiang sent him a large sum of money early in the morning and was forced to wade into the muddy water. With such a serious stain on his face, Wen Jinli was so angry that he almost fainted.

Gu Zhen was not surprised after watching the rush play, and then read the two consecutive messages from the hidden pile, and there was no trace of anger on his face.

In the previous life, Feng Weixiang hit the board for making trouble in front of the Jiangnan Tributary Courtyard, and even made sarcasm. A Juren couldn't bear the grief and indignation, and fell to the pole and died.

With Xie Jiuyuan's timely intervention in this life, the situation has improved a lot.

"It's important to make him feel wronged," Gu Zhen sighed to Zhuo Zhuo.

Actually, Gu Zhen has been thinking about a problem.

Is it good or bad for Xie Jiuyuan to draw Xie Jiuyuan to his side too early?

only……

Thinking of his previous life, the 37-year-old Jiangnan Governor Xie Jiuyuan who had to take care of the people, quell the Japanese invasion, and deal with the greed and oppression of Wen Jinli's faction, Gu Zhen closed his eyes and grasped the memorial in his hand.

...Even if it's not good, he won't let go.

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I will update it at night, because I remember that I am a working party~ The time of daily update is still uncertain, because there is no manuscript saved~

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