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After standing still, Xia Jing was about to kneel down to salute, but Mingde held his wrist: "It's done, you're exempt, you're arrogant enough to ask Zhen and Zhongchang to wait for a long time."

But these words were full of jokes, and there was no intention of punishing others in the slightest.

Xia Jing took advantage of the situation and stood up straight, smiling brightly: "How dare I keep His Majesty waiting for so long, I just entered the house before I even had time to drink tea, and His Majesty's edict came, but I rushed here without stopping, I don't believe you Ask the father-in-law who came to announce the decree."

After saying this, he turned his gaze to Zhou Yi, as if nothing had happened on this trip to the south, with a slight smile, he exchanged light greetings: "It's only been a while since we parted, and I met Master Zhou again."

Zhou Yi replied calmly: "After all, you and I are ministers of the same dynasty, it is inevitable."

Mingde looked at the invisible gunpowder between the two of them, shook his head and sighed: "At any rate, we went back to the south of the Yangtze River together, why are we still such enemies." Then he asked Xia Jing, "We should have returned half a month ago. , why is it so late?"

Xia Jing said deceitful words without changing his face: "It was supposed to come back half a month ago, and I blamed my poor health. I fell ill on the way back to Beijing, and it took half a month for recuperation before I got better. Hurry back immediately."

"Sick?" Mingde was surprised, and looked him up and down again, "What's wrong with him? Is it all over? No, I'd better see the imperial physician Xuan to feel at ease." He really wanted to summon the imperial physician.

Xia Jing hurriedly stopped him: "Thank you, Your Majesty Long En, but you don't need to bother the doctor, you see, the minister is already well! But I dragged Mr. Zhou on the way and delayed for half a month, which made me feel guilty."

At this time, Zhou Yi of course wanted to say some polite words: "Master Xia, don't feel guilty lightly. The illness comes and goes like a mountain, and no one wants to think about such a thing."

The two of you come and go, pretending to be fake, but Mingde still remembers to take care of him: "Well, if you still feel uncomfortable, just use my oral order to ask the imperial physician."

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I won't be polite to Your Majesty. You can't just keep a group of imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital for nothing. You have to use them more."

The look of "I am thinking of His Majesty" on his face made Ming Delong very happy.A person like him really wants to please others, and there are really few people who can resist his sugar-coated bullets, but there are few people in this world who are worthy of his heart to please.

After the gags are finished, it's time to talk about business. This is the main reason why Zhou Yi and Xia Jing were summoned into the palace in a hurry.

Mingde turned around and went back to the back of the case, and sat down on the dragon chair with confidence: "Okay, now it's time to talk about the Jiangnan Enke incident, you two, who will go first?"

Zhou Yi and Xia Jing turned their heads and looked at each other tacitly, as if they had an agreement, and neither of them spoke first.

Ming De glared at the two people who were silent, quite speechless. After a while, he cleared his throat and looked at Xia Jing: "Zigao, you are the chief examiner of this year, you speak first."

Now that the words of Jinkou have been delivered, Xia Jing can only obey the order and say: "This time Jiangnan Enke, I am honored to have His Majesty's trust and appointment as the chief examiner. As soon as I arrived in Jiangnan, I made intensive arrangements for tribute courts, examinations and other matters. After nine days and eight nights After the exam, all the examiners will jointly review the papers, unanimously select [-] students, and arrange to come to Beijing in August to take part in the palace exam, and His Majesty will hand-pick a champion, second place, and third flower."

Mingde did not question this errand, it sounds like the process is in line, and Zhou Yi, who has been the chief examiner for many times, is watching beside him, and Xia Jing himself is also capable of handling errands, but it was just a small Enke's appointment as an official can't go wrong.

What he is interested in is: "I heard that before the Enke exam started, an examiner was investigated for malfeasance. Zhong Chang was the one who handled this matter. Can you tell me what happened?"

Zhou Yi cupped his hands and said, "Yu Hongsheng neglected his duty and took advantage of his position as an examiner to help his son-in-law commit fraud in the examination room. Fortunately, the minister noticed the clue and arrested him early. He also confessed to the crime in prison. Therefore, according to the Huang Yaozu's reputation was abolished by the law, he was punished with fifty sticks, he was paraded in the streets with shackles, and he was not allowed to take part in the imperial examination again for life; Yu Hongsheng, as the chief academic and political official of a province, knew that he violated the law, so he was sentenced to cut officials and put him in prison, waiting for the emperor to deal with him."

"You are very stern and selfless, and you have thrown all the problems to me." At the first moment, you were emotional and calm, but the next moment you put on a straight face, raised your voice, and reprimanded sharply: "Zigao, you say, as a The chief examiner, but failed to discover such a bad deed, what should I do!"

These last four words undoubtedly reveal the king's heart. When he is in a good mood, he can be friendly and joking with you. When he is in a bad mood, the thunder's wrath will press on you every minute.

Xia Jing bent his knees and kneeled unambiguously with a "putong". He knew this man's heart well, and he didn't even open his mouth to explain: "I really have an inescapable responsibility for this matter. If Lord Zhou didn't take action in time, I'm afraid I'm going to really chill the hearts of the literati, and I'm willing to be punished for my negligence."

He took all the blame for the crime in one gulp, and put a top hat on Zhou Yi by the way. Although he said he was willing to be punished, he actually acted as if he had done his best. This kind of negligence was something he didn't want to see. Earning enough sympathy, this tactic is extremely effective in retreating.

However, his genuine kneeling caused Zhou Yi's heart to beat wildly twice. This person's body needs to be taken care of carefully now. Kneeling down so hard, I don't know if his body can bear it.

Hearing that Xia Jing recognized it so straightforwardly, Mingde didn't continue to question the crime for a while, with a look of love and hatred on his face: "You, you really deserve to be punished, because you have no credit and hard work this time, I will punish you." You... fine your salary for one year, so, are you convinced?"

Although these words were said to Xia Jing, the person Mingde looked at was Zhou Yi. Obviously, he wanted to protect Xia Jing this time, and he was afraid that Zhou Yi would hold on to this matter and would not let him go. To preemptively punish Xia Jing first, so that no matter what Zhou Yi said, he would be unreasonable.

In fact, this one-year penalty salary is nothing to Xia Jing. Based on the amount of property in his hand, this year's salary is thrown on the road, and he doesn't even bother to bend down to pick it up.

Things have developed to this point, and the situation has become very clear.

If it was the past, Zhou Yi would always have to argue hard, even if he couldn't hurt Xia Jing, he would have to find a way to bite off a piece of his flesh.

Now, he admitted that he did have selfish motives.Even though he knew that doing so had violated the code of conduct for many years, he still couldn't continue to open his mouth to attack Xia Jing.

"Since your Majesty has already received a holy order, I have nothing to say. I only hope that Master Xia can learn from this incident, and never make a big mistake because of my own negligence in the future, harming others and myself!" After making a decision, he still had to spend more time with Xia Jing on the surface, and gave up arguing too easily, and there was a problem at first glance. The person on the dragon chair is not stupid.

"Then I really want to thank Mr. Zhou for his teaching. Jing is very grateful. I will definitely not let Mr. Zhou catch any mistakes in the future." One sentence was said in a strange way, with the meaning of a run on both inside and outside, and put the calm on the surface. The turbulent undercurrent below is vividly displayed.

Mingde loves to see them fighting openly and secretly, reaping the benefits for himself. It is lonely without them two in the past two months, and he finally saw enough of this good show today.

"That's how it is. Yu Ming's official position is impossible. In view of the fact that he has worked hard for me for many years, I will give him a grace today and sentence him to ten years of imprisonment. Ten years later If he still lives, let him go free."

This is already a good ending. Compared with the death penalty and exile, it is not difficult to live in a prison for ten years, free from wind and rain, and have family members send some benefits to the jailer.

Mingde would judge like this because he knew that Zhou Yi and Yu Ming had a good relationship, and it would be uncomfortable to dispose of the old friend with his own hands, so he specially sold Zhou Yi's face in this matter, and gave both kindness and power, a stick and a sweet date.

In this way, both of them have to miss him.

It's a pity that Zhou Yi and Xia Jing are no longer the two people who would follow his will to fight openly and covertly. Once some connections are formed, they will never be separated again.

After talking about the business, it was time for dinner. A eunuch came into the hall to ask where the dinner was placed. Mingde waved his hand, "Place it in Dongnuange," and said to Zhou Xia, "You two, You have to have dinner with me today, so don't let anyone slip away!"

Zhou Yi smiled slightly: "Since His Majesty has a decree, I always want to taste the royal meal with a straight face."

Xia Jing was even more blunt: "It sounds like someone is going to sneak away. You have already spoken, who dares to be so ignorant!"

"You talk too much," Mingde blamed with a smile on his face, "Look at Zhongchang, and then look at yourself, how can you have the slightest stability of a first-rank official."

"Oh, I don't dare to compare with Mr. Zhou. I really need to talk about it carefully. I still have to call Mr. Zhou a teacher. How can any student rush to compare with the teacher? It's too disrespectful for the teacher." Xia Jing Half joking and half serious, "Your Majesty, you can't fall into injustice with a single word."

Zhou Yi said indifferently: "Old Master Confucius said that if three people walk together, there must be my teacher. As long as you choose the good and follow, who can't be a teacher? Master Xia is serious."

"Master Zhou is too modest. Most of the civil servants in the court call you teacher. Master Zhou thinks that Jing is not worthy of being your student?"

"Master Xia is now in charge of the guards and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. I am afraid that he is no longer among the civil servants."

Seeing that the two of them had only been working together for a while, Mingde seemed to be about to quarrel again, so he hurriedly said something to comfort him: "It's okay, you two should be in moderation, I don't want to have a meal without peace."

He said that he led the way into Dongnuan Pavilion first, Xia Jing and Zhou Yi looked at each other, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief silently, the corners of their slightly curved and smiling eyes seemed to be able to speak, and they followed in with countless tacit understandings.

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So if the emperor invites you to dinner, will Xia Xia vomit?

Oops, it's too early, it's tomorrow!