[Red Mansion] Adopted daughter and child

Enke only has two exams, the general examination and the palace examination, and the palace examination does not select people at all.

That is to say, as long as the tribute students are on the list in the general examination, at worst they will get a fellow Jinshi.

In the past, the fame of the same Jinshi was often avoided by everyone, but this time it was as good as Jinshi in the exam, and became the sweet pastry sought after by everyone——

There is a lack of officials in the court, even if they are only Jinshi, they will definitely be reused by the emperor.

but……

A total of 25 female candidates took part in the exam. Ke Liangyu had to withdraw from the Enke due to physical reasons, and there were still 24 female candidates left.

Excluding the nine female candidates who left early and were too weak to support the nine-day high-intensity exam, out of the remaining fifteen female candidates, ten female candidates made the list.

Although six of them are ranked outside the top 1, who makes No.[-]...

Is it a woman?

This is really surprising——

In order to prevent candidates from cheating, in every imperial examination, every candidate must use the same font, square and square.The more correct this type of font is, the better it looks, and the examination strictly prohibits any "artistic processing" of this type of font. Once the font is unqualified, the only result is failure.

Of course, there will be no accidents in this exam. Everyone uses the pavilion style.

The examiners of the general examination have no way to distinguish the gender of the candidates from the same font.

In other words, there is no possibility of cheating in the scores of all candidates.

But it is precisely because of this that Sheng Man's result in Huiyuan is so eye-catching, so unbelievable, and makes those male scholars who originally looked down on women doubt life.

Not only Sheng Man's No.1 is dazzling enough, but Lin Daiyu's No.8, Xue Baochai's No. 45, and another woman named Jian Xiaojian who ranked [-]th made everyone's eyes wide open.

In addition, the two-thirds rate of female candidates on the list also made all scholars dumbfounded.Even with the addition of Ke Liangyu who dropped out of the exam and other candidates who gave up halfway, there is an astonishing 40.00% acceptance rate.

This data is too terrifying. Compared with the male candidates, thousands of candidates only got more than 100 results, which is even more crushing.

Although there are also some of them, these female candidates are all born in powerful families, and the reason why they received the top private education in the country is——

Girls from poor families are basically illiterate, so they are not eligible to apply for Enke.

But others don't care what the origin of these women is, they only see gender, and the astonishing admission rate.

Those scholars almost wondered whether the examiners photographed by the imperial court were more tolerant of these female candidates and falsified their grades in order to please the emperor because a female emperor is currently in power.

However, the top three test papers for each test will be posted together with the admission list.

Those scholars who suspected that the examiner was unfair immediately flocked to Sheng Man's examination paper.

But looking at the clean, well-organized, and perfect answer sheet that looked like a reference answer, all the candidates standing in front of Sheng Man's exam paper fell silent.

What makes Sheng Man more outstanding than Daiyu and others is that she writes excellent strategies and theories.

Daiyu and other girls may have not experienced too many things, did not know enough about major political affairs, and were not familiar with the genre of policy theory before, so they suffered a lot from policy theory in this exam.

Daiyu is okay, she traveled to many places with her parents when she was a child, and she also heard Lin Ruhai, Lin Liu and others talk about the lives of the common people outside, and occasionally heard a few brothers talk about important affairs in the court, so the strategy is still worth talking about There is something.

In addition, she has outstanding literary talents, so she took No.8.

But girls like Xue Baochai, who rarely go out and don’t know much about the lives of ordinary people at the bottom, hardly know how to start writing when faced with theoretical topics——

To get this result in the exam this time, it was all due to the knowledge I had read from the book before, as well as the temporary assault before the exam.

Xue Baochai has accumulated more than Jian Xiaojian, so the ranking is naturally higher.

But Sheng Man is different. Although she used to have a very bad life in her husband's house, when she worked with her husband, she also met many ordinary people. Every word these ordinary people said to her can open up for her. vision.

Not only did the experience after getting married give Sheng Man more insight, but her years in the temple were not in vain. Not only did she often talk with eminent monks, but she also had contact with ordinary people at the bottom. Look, naturally get more content.

The policies she wrote are more meaningful than those of men who are not restricted by travel.

Such an article, even if it is cheating, is not something that ordinary people can write.

Yes, even after reading Sheng Man's article, some people still suspect her of cheating.These people not only thought so in their hearts, but also spread this argument without hesitation, as if by doing so, they could change the results of the exam and make him a name on the list.

They suspected that someone in the imperial court had missed questions for these female candidates.

Otherwise, how could these women do better in the exam than men like them who have studied hard for more than ten years?

Women, aren't they all trash?

The other male candidates either stood by and helped—

No way, they didn't take these women seriously before, and they didn't have a sense of crisis, so it didn't matter whether they took the imperial examination or not.

But now, they felt a huge threat from Sheng Man, Lin Daiyu and others.

In order to reduce the number of people competing, they naturally want to suppress these women when they are just emerging, and it is best to prevent them from taking the imperial examination in the future.

It's their self-cultivation not to follow and attack female candidates.

but……

Lin Ruhai and Ji Song went to the palace one after another to ask for an interview, all for this matter.

Ji Song's thinking is more direct, he can't figure it out, since it's an exam, then compare it with real skills, what are you doing so many tricks outside the exam room?

Lin Ruhai is also a literati, and he roughly understands their thoughts, but he only feels ashamed: "These male scholars have monopolized the interests of the imperial examination for a long time, and now a group of women suddenly appear, who want and have the ability to take a share of it, so these people are anxious. gone."

The cake is only that big, and if there are more people sharing the cake, the chances of everyone getting it will naturally be smaller.

Worrying about Lin Liu's misunderstanding, Lin Ruhai explained: "Although this rumor seems to be aimed at female candidates, it is not aimed at female exams. Scholars have always liked to fight among themselves, but now there is only a female group that unites them. But they also criticize each other internally. As long as Sheng Man and the others survive this time, those scholars can only accept it."

As long as the number of admitted students does not increase every year, every time a part of the potential competition group is added, these scholars will rush to intimidate and bite like mad dogs.

Lin Liu smiled: "I'm very glad that they reacted this way, at least it shows that these scholars have not ignored their existence."

Only when you exist in the eyes of the other party, it means that you already have the ability to fight for your own interests.

Though she disapproves, Scholars is not targeting women.

Lin Ruhai was stunned for a moment, remembering that the imperial decree that women can also participate in the Enke was announced before, and those scholars just made a fuss for a few days, and then completely silenced.

Compared with the turmoil for so long now, the rumors are still enduring...

Lin Ruhai shook his head helplessly: "These scholars were really praised too highly before."

Ji Song thought for a while, and said: "If these rumors continue to spread, I'm afraid they will not be friendly enough to the female candidates who passed the Gongsheng examination."

Lin Liu smiled and shook her head: "For the next palace exam, my father will invite the dean of Hanshan Academy, and he will write the questions on the spot and approve the papers on the spot. This way, there is no possibility of missing questions, and the dean of the academy has never entered the court for his own sake. Officer, there is no need to please me, the results given are naturally convincing."

The dean of Hanshan Academy is a well-known Confucian, and he has countless students. A small half of the officials in the former court have studied in Hanshan Academy. Even now, there are still several officials from Hanshan Academy in the court.

And these people have great respect for the dean of Hanshan Academy.

The questions posed by the dean of Hanshan Academy, as well as the ranking given at the end, will never be questioned.

But for Lin Liu, the most important thing is that the dean of the academy is a rare scholar who does not favor boys over girls. He also respects female literati very much, and he has studied under the name of a female teacher before.

Such a person is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate for writing the questions and judging the papers.

As early as the moment Sheng Man's name appeared on the list of candidates, Lin Liu, who knew Sheng Man well, expected this scene, so he thought of a solution early on.

The palace exams are all taken in one place. Although men and women will be separated by a wider aisle, they can see each other's actions.

Everyone can see clearly whether they are cheating or not.

If this is the case, and some people say that female candidates cheat, other scholars will say that Lin Liu doesn't care, but ordinary people will only think that they are small-bellied.

If the scholar's reputation is ruined, even if he becomes an official in the future, it will be difficult to get promoted.

……

After the exam results came out, there was a lot of commotion outside, but Lin Daiyu and other female candidates all stayed at home and studied hard——

Daiyu even forgot the agreement she had made with Lu Sui, that after the exam, she could read the script from Jia Min.

All her attention is now on the upcoming palace examination, almost to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep, where can she remember a "mere" script?

Daiyu thought that with her accumulated knowledge, she might not be able to compare with other candidates, but the results of this exam greatly encouraged her.

Although she is only No.8, she has surpassed most of the candidates.

Daiyu was already proud of herself. Seeing this result, she immediately felt that she could pass the No. 8 exam without devoting herself to preparing for the exam. If she worked hard like her brothers and sisters, wouldn't she be in the top three?

Even if it's not as good as Mr. Sheng, it's still good to be second or third!

At this time, Daiyu's mentality is actually a bit naive, but she just refuses to admit defeat, thinking that she can actually do better in the exam, but she has no obsession with the final result.

But just at this time, rumors spread everywhere.

Xueyan said to Daiyu angrily: "It is said that the girl can get such a good result in the exam because the imperial court leaked the questions to you. Those scholars are really bad, because the girl's exam rank exceeds Most of them, they are unwilling to accept this result, and they have made up so many rumors to ruin the girl's reputation."

After hearing this, Daiyu felt a little bit indifferent, and went straight to Lin Ruhai and her two elder brothers, asking them to teach her how to write a policy theory.

"I must let those stinky men know that the previous Jinshi list was full of men, just because women never took the imperial examination!"

Lin Ruhai and others looked at Daiyu's hard-working attitude, helpless and funny, but they still did not hesitate to pass on what they had learned.

In order to let Daiyu get a good grade in the exam, Lin Ruhai even dragged out Maoshou, who was obsessed with inventions and creations, and even missed the Enke registration this time, from the room.

Maoshou still likes Daiyu's elder sister very much. After being caught out, he worked hard like his two elder brothers, and told Daiyu all his methods and tricks of writing policy theory.

Even Guiling, who was far away in the disaster area, after receiving the news that Daiyu was going to take the imperial examination, took the time to write a letter about how to write policy theory, as well as solutions to various problems such as governing the country, water and disasters, and provided a copy of his own. train of thought.

Lin Liu also wanted to help Daiyu, but was stopped by Lin Ruhai and Ji Song.

Ji Song saw that she was worried about Daiyu, and said with a smile: "The second girl has been extremely intelligent since she was a child. She used to be just not interested in game theory. Now that she wants to learn, she can definitely master the method of writing strategy theory in a short time. As for other aspects of knowledge , you'd better not tell the second girl."

Lin Ruhai nodded: "Many of your ideas of governing the country are different from the existing ones. Once Daiyu writes the answers to the questions according to your ideas, it's okay if she doesn't get in the top three in the exam. Once she gets in the top three, I'm afraid it will cause unnecessary problems. Trouble."

Lin Liu had no choice but to give up.

But she still specially wrote a letter and asked Lin Ruhai to bring it to Daiyu.

There was no content in the letter, it just said that she believed that Daiyu would definitely get the rank she wanted in the exam, and told her not to be too nervous and just try her best.

Therefore, under the comprehensive care of the whole family, Daiyu spent the period between the general examination and the palace examination very fulfillingly.

Then came the imperial examination.

The day before the palace exam, Lin Ruhai went to Hanshan Academy to invite the dean to come to the palace to write a question, and directly released the news to let all candidates know that this palace exam was a temporary test.

After the dean of Hanshan Academy entered the palace, he was locked in a royal library.

Apart from eating and drinking, the dean didn't even have anyone to talk to.

And the exam questions will only be told to all candidates by the dean of Hanshan Academy before tomorrow's exam.

That is to say, the emperor himself can only know the exam questions at the same time as the candidates.

Absolutely no one will leak the question.

There is absolutely no possibility of someone getting the exam questions in advance.

After all, Dean Hanshan is a dean who likes to communicate with students very much. He is in the eyes of all students almost all the time.

But before Lin Ruhai went to invite people into the palace, no one outside the academy had contacted the dean of Hanshan Academy at all.

Coincidentally, none of the candidates in this class came from Hanshan Academy.

Lin Liu blocked almost all places that might cause rumors and speculations, and people had to accept that the palace test this time was an absolutely fair and just result. If someone was overwhelmed in the palace test, it would only mean that he was incompetent up.

Some of the Gong students who had passed the rumors had cold sweat on their foreheads. It was almost predictable how much ridicule they would receive when they returned if their rankings in this exam were still lowered by those few female candidates.

The officials who came out of this exam, if nothing unexpected happened, would be an important part of her own power, so she would naturally come to sit in the town in person, and communicate with the winners who stood out as soon as possible.

After roll call, loose papers, praise and other etiquette, the exam will start soon.

The dean of Hanshan Academy's eyes are black and blue, but his mental state is excellent. In his own words, he is now so energetic that he can run around the palace three times.

There is only one palace test, strategy theory.

——The paper will be handed in at sunset.

This is actually a bit of a disadvantage for female candidates, but it has always been like this in the palace exams before, so it cannot be changed this time.

This is also the reason why Lin Liu was so anxious to make up lessons for her when she learned that Daiyu wanted to get a better ranking.

Hanshan Academy couldn't figure out Lin Liu's character, nor did she know her governance policy, so the questions in this exam were quite standard, and the topic of policy discussion was almost a badly done disaster relief problem.

Just before the floods in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, this topic is timely and quite satisfactory.

All the candidates present were pulled to the same level in an instant——

After all, if you want to be an official, you must never avoid the problem of disaster relief. Every candidate present, even those female candidates, will never let go of this problem when they are practicing strategies.

Since everyone has done this question, it is their own literary talents and unique insights on the problem that make the fight.

Everyone started to write vigorously, not daring to relax at all.

Lin Liu originally wanted to go around among the candidates, but after thinking about it, it seemed a bit annoying, so he had to give up.

The day is quickly over.

When the sun jumps from the mountain peak to the river valley, the exam time is over, no matter what the answer is, you must stop the pen in your hand.

Several young eunuchs stepped forward to collect all the test papers, sealed the titles with their names written on them, and after asking Lin Liu for instructions, they sent them directly to the eight officials of the Imperial College, waiting for them to grade each test paper. , After selecting the best [-] test papers, they were placed in front of the dean of Hanshan Academy through the hands of the little eunuch.

Because the sky was getting darker and darker, Lin Liu ordered people to light hundreds of palace lanterns in the hall.

The lights are bright and bright, as bright as the day.

Lin Liu, Lin Ruhai, Ji Song and others all stood aside patiently waiting for the result.

The dean of Hanshan Academy contacts hundreds of students every day, and there are hundreds if not hundreds of articles that need to be corrected every day. There are only twenty exam papers, which is completely difficult for him.

After some reading, the dean of Hanshan Academy quickly picked out ten answer sheets, and then handed them over to the eunuch, who sent them to Lin Liu.

Lin Liu held the test paper in front of him, looked at it, and smiled: "The dean should rank the ten candidates himself, after all, there are... ahem, there are several female candidates."

As soon as these words came out, all the candidates stared wide-eyed.

Among them, the male examinee's eyes widened even wider.

The dean glanced at Lin Liu, and said: "In the palace examination, the officials always select the top ten candidates, and then the emperor personally ranks the ten candidates. The emperor's own preferences already occupy the largest position in the ranking of the top ten candidates." proportion."

Lin Liu smiled lightly: "That's not acceptable. When the test results came out before, many candidates felt that I favored female candidates, and some people suspected that I leaked questions to female candidates. Besides, one of the candidates this time is My sister, if I am asked to rank them and spread the word, it will not be good for my sister's reputation."

The dean glanced at Lin Liu, stood up and saluted: "If Your Majesty insists, then just follow the order of the test papers and read them backwards, and that will be the top ten in my mind."

Lin Liu was taken aback for a moment, and then looked at the dean meaningfully.

It is said that people become mature when they grow old, which is very reasonable.Look at the dean of the academy, doesn't he perfectly explain this point?

Lin Liu smiled lightly: "Since the dean has already determined the ranking, it will be the same no matter who gives it to read. In this case, Xiao Dezi, I remember you can read? Come here and read the top ten in order."

Xiao Dezi stepped forward, took the test papers and turned them upside down, then opened them one by one, and read the names on them——

"No.1 Champion, Sheng Family Sheng Man."

"No.2, Hu Xiujin, the Hu family."

"No.3 Tanhua, Lin...Lin..."

Everyone looked at Xiao Dezi, and looked at the examination paper in his hand suspiciously.

Xiao Dezi swallowed, and raised his voice sharply.The eunuch's unique high-pitched voice almost pierced everyone's eardrums——

"Tan Hua is Lin Tao, the Lin family!"

Lin Tao is Daiyu's real name.

Everyone looked at Lin Liu in disbelief, then turned to look at the dean of the academy after reading it, and finally landed on Lin Ruhai.

There are two girls from the Lin family, one is the emperor and the other is Tanhua.

If they remember correctly, Lin Ruhai was also a candidate for the imperial examination back then?

Besides, the children of the Lin family seem to be very good at reading: Lin Song was three yuan and ranked first, but it was lively for a while; the other three children always took the top three in the exams, and they were there. Yuan will never fall into the hands of others.

A few boys are good enough, but I didn't expect the only girl to be so good!

Xiao Dezi's voice didn't stop: "No. 4 Chuanlu, Xue Jia Xue Baochai."

Everyone was stunned again. Why does this name seem to be a woman?

The others looked at the female candidates, and sure enough, they saw that one of the young girls' eyes were red, and she kept holding back the tears in order not to lose her dignity in front of the hall.

After that, the fifth to No.9 are all men.

But wait until No.10...

"No.10, Jian Xiaojian from the Jian family!"

boom--

Even though they knew that everyone was in the imperial palace and they would be punished if they made loud noises, the candidates in the hall still couldn't help themselves and started talking with the surrounding candidates in disbelief.

Among the top ten, female candidates accounted for four of them?

The top three are even more exclusive?

The surprises brought by these female candidates are not just the top ten——

A total of 200 people were on the list in the general examination, and there were ten Gong students who had passed the imperial examination before but did not participate in the palace examination due to various reasons. A total of 210 candidates participated in the palace examination.

There are three people in the first class, 70 people in the second class, and the rest are all third class and Jinshi.

Last time, there were four people before the top [-], but this time, nine of the ten female candidates squeezed into the first and second grades through hard work.And the only fellow Jinshi ranked very high among the top three. If it wasn't for some bad luck, he might be able to enter the second class this time.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and did not expect such a result at all.

Lin Liu did not expect that these female candidates would give her such a face in this palace examination.But when her eyes fell on the faces of every female examinee, seeing their identical dark circles, which were almost comparable to the national treasure giant pandas, she immediately understood everything.

Lin Liu was happy and touched: "You guys are really nice!"

No matter what reason they were willing to show their faces and take part in the imperial examination, their actions did let Lin Liu see that she was not working alone.

Really, really good!

By the time the test results came out, the sky had already reached the point where you couldn't see your fingers.

After some encouragement, Lin Liu said: "The imperial examination will be held in three days. Except for the top three who will be awarded to the Hanlin Academy and the Imperial Academy respectively, other people who intend to enter the imperial court as officials must not miss this time. After the exam After that, I will appoint officials for you immediately."

After Lin Liu finished speaking, he left the hall with a group of officials.

At the gate, Lin Liu left first, and Lin Ruhai took other officials and the dean of Hanshan Academy to leave the palace together.

Hanshan Academy is outside the city, and now that the city gate has been closed, Lin Ruhai took the dean directly back to the Lin family.The other officials also returned to their mansions in twos and threes.

After they left, Bichun, the servant girl beside Lin Liu, stepped forward and said to the two hundred male candidates: "It's getting late now, the emperor is worried about your safety, so he specially asked the guards to escort you home. Please also give your address Tell the guards at the door, they will send people back to your residence in batches according to your address."

After finishing speaking, he looked at the ten female Jinshi who had just been released from the oven, "The emperor was worried that the road would be unsafe, so he specially ordered someone to clean up the hall near his bedroom for everyone to rest, and also invited all adults to follow the servants to rest."

The male Jinshi watched Lin Daiyu and the others leave eagerly, and couldn't help muttering.

But soon, the leading guard glanced at them, and these people obediently lined up according to their respective addresses, and then the leading guards each arranged a team of guards to send them back to their residences.

In the early morning of the next day, the results of the palace examination were posted outside the palace.

All the people who were interested in the results of the palace examination gathered outside. After seeing the ranking above, they asked around and immediately figured out the ranking.

Someone looked at the familiar names of No. 1 and No. 3 in the imperial examination, and said with some doubts: "Didn't someone say before that these female candidates cheated to get such good grades? Why do I look at these women? The ranking seems to be better than last time?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I remember No.3 this time, and I only got eighth last time."

"Then the fourth one didn't even make the top ten last time."

"Also, many women didn't make it to the top [-] last time, not to mention all of them made it this time, and there is only one fellow Jinshi."

"And this woman named Sheng Man, isn't she too good? If she hadn't participated in the provincial examination before, she would have won the top spot twice in a row, and she could have won a triple award!"

"..."

"Why do I feel that those who said people cheated last time were lying?"

As soon as these words came out, the common people outside the gate of the palace fell silent instantly.

The common people are not stupid. If all the female examinees' grades are worse than last time, those rumors still have some credibility, but now the results come out, and everyone's grades are better than last time. This is...

"So, no one cheated at all last time!"

This remark was a final word, and it directly put an end to the rumors that had been raging before the palace examination.

Not only that, the examinees who had previously suspected Sheng Man and others of cheating received varying degrees of suspicion and contempt after the news spread.

Then there was the imperial examination, those women lived up to expectations, except that the wife who had failed the exam before, and fell into the same Jinshi, only got a post of magistrate, and the others all passed the exam and successfully entered the Hanlin Academy.

Nowadays, men and women are seriously guarded against men and women, so Lin Liu specially asked someone to vacate a room for Daiyu and others to use for their office.

There is nothing to say about the Hanlin Academy. The well water on both sides does not interfere with the river water, and there is nothing wrong with each other.

The only one, Shen Hualu, who was on the outside, had a little problem——

It was also at this time that Lin Liu found out that Shen Hualu would sign up for Enke because her husband was dead, and she never gave birth to a son for him before his death, so her deceased husband's family wanted to wipe out their family and send her With the daughter forced to die.

In order to protect herself and her daughter, Shen Hualu had to seize every opportunity that might change her destiny.

It just so happened that Lin Liu was furious because of Ke Liangyu being killed by his father Shen Tang. Others saw that Lin Liu attached great importance to Enke this time, and no matter how many thoughts he had since then, he dared not affect Enke.

Just because she saw this, Shen Hualu immediately signed up.

After signing up, Shen Hualu's husband's family really didn't dare to attack her anymore.But if she fails to pass the Jinshi exam, she and her daughter will be killed by her late husband's family sooner after the imperial examination.

So she had to read at night, forcing herself to study.

It's just that other people have family members to help, but Shen Hualu can only rely on herself and the books brought from her natal family in her dowry, so no matter how hard she studies, she can only pass the Jinshi examination.

But Shen Hualu was very satisfied with this result.

When she saw Lin Liu, Shen Hualu directly knelt down and kowtowed to her: "Thank you for your kindness, for giving this concubine... this humble minister a chance to change his fate. In the future, if you have something to do, just give orders, and this humble minister will definitely die. No excuses!"

Lin Liu was stunned, and it took a while before she came back to her senses.

She straightened her expression and nodded calmly: "Remember what you said today. When you arrive at the place, you must treat the people under your command well. If you let me know that you have failed my trust..."

Shen Hualu bowed his head: "I dare not."

After the palace examination was over, Lin Liu immediately announced the decree. Except for a few Shuji scholars, all other new scholars were discussed with Lin Ruhai and Ji Song, and they were placed all over the country.

At the same time, the transfer orders of the Ministry of Officials to local officials, and the transfer orders of the Ministry of War to each general and deputy general were also sent to everyone.

In the next six months, the officials in every place have undergone tremendous changes, almost completely shattering the reorganization.

Among them, many officials were naturally sacked, and the treasury once again gained money.

But at this time, because Sheng Man won the meeting and attracted everyone's attention, Lu Sui had to give up publishing the storybook, and instead published the news that Sheng Man won the championship and two-thirds of the female candidates were awarded in the Newspapers, sent to all parts of the country.

Unsurprisingly, this incident caused an uproar, and many scholars could not accept the result——

Who knows that after studying hard for more than ten years, or even decades, the final exam results are not as good as those who are pampered and empty-headed in their eyes. They couldn't accept it when they were dressed as trash.

But in the end, whether it is unable to accept the fact that women are not inferior to men, that they are not trash, or the fact that they are probably not as good as a woman, no one else knows.

Not surprisingly, those who read the newspaper, or the mansion newspaper, were blown away by the news.

Many people, like those scholars who were suppressed before, also started to fabricate rumors.The literati in the south of the Yangtze River were even more powerful, and even thought of picking up a pen to satirize the court directly or covertly, and at the same time satirize the "female" emperor Lin Liu even more covertly.

The people in the book shop in the south of the Yangtze River were scared to death when they received such submissions. They hurriedly took the submissions to ask Zhao Shishi for instructions, and wanted to ask her if they wanted to send these submissions to the capital.

Zhao Shishi raised his eyes and sneered: "You have to trust your boss, they work for the emperor, if the result of this exam is really worthwhile, your boss would not dare to publish the news and distribute it to the whole country."

"There's no need to send the manuscript to the capital, it's too slow." Zhao Shishi chuckled, "Since they want to publish it, let them print it."

The shopkeeper was stunned: "But, if these articles scold the court and the emperor, if the people in the capital find out, we will be beheaded."

Zhao Shishi glanced at him sideways: "It's a big deal, it's worth your fuss? The literati in the south of the Yangtze River are making such a fuss. Will the capital be calm? Have you heard the news that the emperor killed someone?"

The shopkeeper was taken aback and let out a long sigh of relief.

"However," the shopkeeper was surprised, "if we don't send the manuscript to the capital, don't we just publish and distribute the newspaper on our own without notifying the owner?"

Zhao Shishi was impatient: "Yes, the bookstore prints itself, the sooner the better! We must let more people see the faces of these literati. Only in this way, after the results of the imperial examination come out, they will not be ashamed of the black and white content in the newspaper. , and feel ashamed, and will not dare to talk nonsense and slander others indiscriminately when encountering things in the future!"

Seeing that Zhao Shishi was angry, the shopkeeper didn't dare to ask any more questions, and hurriedly left Zhao Shishi's study with the manuscript.

After he left, he called several editors directly, and after typesetting, he sent it directly to the printing workshop.

The workers in the printing workshop received a lot of overtime pay, and they worked extremely vigorously, and before dawn the next day, they printed tens of thousands of newspapers in a daze.

The shopkeeper of the book store delivered the newspapers to the newsboys and asked them to sell them in the streets.

In less than half a day, almost every literate household in Gusu City had a new newspaper.

The printing workshop continued to work after changing shifts, and soon more newspapers were printed, and these newspapers were directly sent to Jinling, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other places.

Within two days, this newspaper successfully spread throughout Jiangnan.

The contents of the newspaper were quite bold. Apart from those who cheered for the contents of the newspaper, there were quite a few who were worried because of the contents of the newspaper, and specially wrote to them to persuade them to recall the newspaper and destroy it.

but……

The shopkeeper was completely unmoved.

Those who were worried about the bookstore saw that the shopkeeper was stubborn and cursed angrily.But in the end, he didn't want to see the bookshop go bankrupt, so he went to Gusu in a horse-drawn carriage, trying to persuade the shopkeeper.

But as soon as he arrived, he heard that there was another newspaper from the capital.

The man frowned and asked someone to buy one.

After reading it, the man was stunned for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "I was wondering why the people in the bookstore are so bold, they dared to upload the articles written by those literati reflecting the emperor, so it turned out that they got the news in advance."

After speaking, he laughed three times, and instead of going to the book shop, he asked the coachman to turn around and go home.

The coachman was surprised: "Master, are you not going to the bookstore?"

"No, the book shop did nothing wrong, so why recall the newspaper and destroy it?" The man laughed loudly, "The people who want to recall the newspaper for destruction now are probably the literati who published articles in the newspaper! Tsk , If you don’t know anything, talk nonsense, now I’m afraid I’ll lose all face!”

After speaking, the carriage turned around and left Gusu City directly.

Just as the gentleman expected, when the newspapers from the capital city were sent to Jiangnan again, and the cause, effect and final result of the palace examination were published, the most happiest dance on the Jiangnan side