Xue Pan was in the outer room of his mother's house. While guarding his mother, he was not idle and took the time to study.Now he only feels that time is pressing, and he dare not waste every day.But there are some things, and some communication, that have to be done.

Xue Pan reads "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" during the day. He can only understand [-] to [-]% of the articles in them, so he can only memorize them by rote. In this life, he seems to be enlightened, and his memory is much better than in the previous life.

After he had dinner, he took the time to read and practice calligraphy with the pavilion-style copybook given by Uncle Liu.Practicing calligraphy can really calm the mind. While practicing calligraphy, he is also thinking about his own business and the future plans of the Xue family.

But there is no rush, just do it slowly.What is imminent now is the matter of Baochai's small election, and I don't know how Xu Qian's inquiries are going.

In this life, they came to the capital much earlier than the last time, and the draft has not officially started yet, so they have the opportunity for Xue Pan to plan slowly.

Although Baochai failed in the election in the previous life and came out of the palace smoothly, many things have changed now, and Xue Pan doesn't want to pin everything on the facts of the previous life.

What if my younger sister succeeds in being elected in this life?At that time, it will be too late to regret.

He wanted to completely eliminate the possibility of this eventuality.

Xue Pan was thinking about this when Xu Qian came back to report.

As expected of his father's capable second housekeeper, Xu Qian checked the draft process clearly.

The draft is divided into primary selection, re-election and final selection.Eunuch Wang Yan, head of the House of Internal Affairs, is in charge of the primary election, and the judging criteria are appearance and posture; the secondary election is conducted in the palace, and Shang Gong Yuan Gongzheng is in charge, and it takes three days to live in the palace before the result is released; the final selection is by Mrs. Zhen The concubine is in charge, she can keep the ones she likes, and pick them out if she doesn't like them, the selection criteria are unknown.

In the previous life, Baochai lost the re-election.

Xue Pan didn't know if he thought Mrs. Wang too badly. Although there was no evidence, he intuitively felt that Mrs. Wang was related to Baochai's defeat.

Now Yuan Chun is still a female historian, she is already in her 20s, she has been in the palace for more than ten years, and the youthful years of a girl are no longer.

The four big families in Jinling have always been prosperous and humiliated together, and now the four big families' help in the palace is not only Princess Zhen, but also Jia Yuanchun.

After all, the Supreme Emperor has given way to the current emperor. Although Concubine Zhen is still in charge of the harem, sooner or later the power of the harem will be handed over to the empress.But they, the former ministers of the Supreme Emperor, have no one around the emperor, except Jia Yuanchun, who is now a female official next to the empress.

Therefore, for these families, all support, including money and support from the previous dynasty, is on Yuan Chun.

Once Baochai is selected as a female official, because Baochai is far younger than Yuanchun, the four major families are likely to put more than half of these supports on Baochai.

Once Baochai is lucky enough to become a concubine, she will overwhelm Yuanchun, Yuanchun will never have a bright future, and Xue's family will also overwhelm Jia's.

Only when Baochai loses the election, Yuanchun is the only one, and the four major families will do their best to push Yuanchun up.

At this time in the previous life, Xue Pan himself was an overlord, and he was turned into a gangster with a life on his back. As long as he made a report, he could be killed openly at any time.As long as Mrs. Wang wins Mrs. Xue and Baochai into her hands, she can calculate the Xue family's millions of wealth.

If Baochai entered the palace, it would not be so easy for Mrs. Wang to calculate the property of the Xue family into her own hands.

Whether it's for Yuanchun's status or for the property of Xue's family, Mrs. Wang has the motive to play tricks on Baochai's young election.

But now it is different.

There is no life lawsuit against Xue Pan, as long as he is around, Mrs. Wang will never take away the property of the Xue family.

But for the sake of Yuanchun, Xue Pan is not sure whether Mrs. Wang will prevent Baochai from entering the palace.

Regardless of whether Mrs. Wang is scheming or not, Xue Pan does not plan to put her expectations on her. He must think of a perfect plan and must not let Baochai enter the palace.

In the palace, it is possible to fight for wealth and honor, but the price to pay is the woman's life. Xue Pan is unwilling to sacrifice Baochai for the sake of the Xue family.As he said to his mother before, only by sacrificing Baochai can he have a chance, in exchange for his glory, he would rather become a monk and become a monk.

However, many people don't think so.

This time, the draft is said to be a small selection, but it is not a selection of court ladies, but a selection of female officials.The current Holy Majesty has just ascended the throne for less than a year. When he was the fourth prince, he was not taken seriously. Except for the fourth concubine, there were only a few women from poor backgrounds around him. Now that he is the emperor, he has not been selected for a show. Only one empress, two concubines, two concubines and a few Chang Zai agreed, so many aristocratic families arranged their concubine daughters into this small election, and some daughters of small official families and royal merchant families like the Xue family also signed up run for election.

Therefore, this draft is extremely competitive.

This is good news for Xue Pan.

The competition is fierce, presumably he will remove Baochai's place from the list, and others will not only not make trouble, but will try their best to facilitate it.

The Shang Palace, Yuan Gong, and Zhengxue's family in the imperial palace cannot be reached.However, the Xue family has been an imperial merchant for many years, and they still have a little relationship in the House of Internal Affairs, so they can inquire about Eunuch Wang.

Xu Qian inquired outside for a few days, and found out about Eunuch Wang's private house outside the palace.When Eunuch Wang was not on duty in the palace, he would spend the night in a private house.Xu Qian has already been watched by people. If Eunuch Wang returns to his private house, he will be reported.

After waiting for two nights, he finally waited for Eunuch Wang to return to his private house.When it was getting dark in the evening, Xue Pan tidied up, put on some unremarkable clothes, and brought Xu Qian to the door.

Xue Pan saw several people waiting outside Eunuch Wang's gate.Everyone tacitly understood each other, looked at each other a few times, and did not communicate.

Xu Qian talked to Menzi, and Menzi asked them to wait outside, saying that the master has a guest now, so we can talk later.

Xue Pan waited for more than an hour, and it was completely dark before entering the flower hall of Wang Mansion.

The two exchanged a few polite words, Xue Pan saw that Eunuch Wang was a little impatient, and didn't hide it, so he went straight to the point.

"My lord Wang, my sister also signed up for the draft this time, but my sister's qualifications are mediocre, and I know that I am not worthy to serve the saint and the royal princess princess, so I voluntarily failed the election, and I hope you will be successful." Xue Pan opened the gift box he brought, Inside is a one-foot-high red coral and a silver ticket of 5000 taels of silver.

Eunuch Wang held the bank note in his hand, flicked it with his fingernails, and sneered: "The people who give presents all hope that their daughters can enter the palace smoothly and get a good position, and it is best to send them to saints." Around you, you are the only one who wants your sister to lose the election, interesting, really interesting."

Xue Pan was a little anxious, he couldn't figure out what this Eunuch Wang was thinking, this time it wouldn't be self-defeating, the cold sweat came out on his face.

"The number of places to enter the palace is very tight. Your family members don't want to go, but many people are willing to go. Since you have come here as a gift, I have nothing to do with the money. I just want to fulfill you." Eunuch Wang put the banknote into his sleeve, directly agreed.

Xue Pan was happy when the peak turned around.

Xue Pan then thought, this Eunuch Wang was obviously a little unhappy just now, but he agreed so happily, I don't know if he was thinking of some dirty tricks.Xue Pan thought carefully, he might not want to give Yin Baochai the reason for losing the election.

Xue Pan took out the 2000 taels of silver note from his sleeve, and handed it to Eunuch Wang respectfully, "My lord, the reason why my sister-in-law failed the election, I hope it will not affect her future marriage."

Eunuch Wang looked at Xue Pancheng's frightened and trembling look, and felt a little interesting rarely.This Xue Pan may not know, in fact, he and Xue Pan's father, Xue Mu, had dealt with each other before.

At that time, he was still a young eunuch who had just entered the palace. He was only eight years old. He was assigned to the Guangchu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Zhao Dui finds fault.

Once he accidentally fell down, got up quickly, slapped the ashes off his body in a hurry, and ran to work, but unexpectedly got a little mud on his sleeve, but he didn't notice that the mud was stuck to the door of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. on a piece of fabric.

This piece of fabric was originally a tribute to the palace, but there was a small flaw, which was knocked down by the clothing bureau in the palace.Otherwise, it wouldn't be the turn of a little eunuch like him to get involved.

Even though this piece of cloth was knocked down by the palace, it was still very valuable. He stained the cloth and made a big mistake.Zhao Dui punished him and made him kneel in the open space, waiting for the follow-up.

He was so terrified at the time, he didn't know what the result of waiting for him would be, would he die?Even kneeling under the sun, he broke out in a cold sweat.

It just so happened that Xue Mu was on business at the House of Internal Affairs and passed by.

At that time, Xue Mu, with his clothes and sleeves wide and elegant, was with Yuan Hua, a director of the Construction Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A little eunuch like him is a picky thing, and he should not block the eyes of adults.Wang Yan hurriedly walked on his knees and moved to the side to make way.

Xue Mu had already passed by him, turned around again, and walked up to him: "Why are you kneeling here?"

"I, no, it was a villain who stained a piece of fabric and was punished to kneel here, waiting to be dealt with." Wang Yan said tremblingly.He is afraid of making mistakes now, and he is afraid that kneeling here is also wrong, and he will be scolded by adults.

"What treatment?" Xue Mu continued to ask.

"The villain doesn't know either." Wang Yan was a little helpless and at a loss.A low-level eunuch like him would not have his own life in the palace, and if there was a little bit of wind and waves, they would be blown away like duckweed.

Just at this time, Zhao Dui came out, took out the punishment for Wang Yan, and fined him 100 taels of silver.If the money cannot be handed over, it will be sent to the Department of Punishment, where it will be hit with [-] big boards, and the monthly penalty will be deducted for half a year.This kind of injury caused by punishment is not treated by anyone.Thirty boards, if he hasn't been treated, it will probably kill him.

He didn't know if Zhao Dui took the opportunity to retaliate, but he had no other choice but to suffer.

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