Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 196 The biggest gain!

In Chuxiu Palace, after Zhu Houzhao left, Yang Yan couldn't sit still.

She originally thought that His Majesty wanted to see her on purpose, but the other court ladies didn't think so.

Jealousy made these beautiful girls from the south of the Yangtze River lose their minds for a while.

At first, they just ignored Yang Yan and pushed all the hard work that was originally done by the maids to Yang Yan.

Tao Jianxiu has been favored recently.

She knew that if she lived in the Hall of Mental Cultivation for a long time, sooner or later she would be found out by the Queen Mother, and her status would be lost. At present, there is only one way, to blow the pillow breeze beside His Majesty's pillow.

Zhu Houzhao also couldn't stand Tao Jianxiu's pillow storm. After adopting Tao Jianxiu's suggestion, he moved all his daily life to Xiyuan.

Zhu Houzhao also has an ingenious hobby, which is raising small animals.

In terms of imperial examinations, the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty followed the system of the Song Dynasty. Most of the articles were stereotyped essays.

The same is true for the general examination, with three exams for three days each.

There is only one question in the exam, and only one essay is done in each session.

If it is a title on the gold list, only one essay is needed in the palace examination, and the emperor personally is in charge of hand-picking.

When the imperial examination begins, all candidates are very excited. Who will become the overlord among the candidates?Everyone has no idea.

After reading through the memorials submitted by the cabinet, Zhu Houzhao considered that the imperial examination had been going on for two days, and the final exam would end tomorrow.

It takes a long time for the chief examiner to mark the papers, ranging from one month to 20 days, and the test papers submitted by the chief examiner have to be reviewed and judged by His Majesty.

Zhu Houzhao walked out of Qianqing Palace, the summer wind was warm, and headed to the Imperial Garden, Xiao Fangzi followed closely.

As soon as he arrived in the back garden, he saw a familiar figure.His cousin Zhang Xuan was pruning flowers and plants alone in the back.

"cousin."

Zhang Xuan turned his head to look at Zhu Houzhao with joy on his face. Her hands and face were covered with mud.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Hou looked at Zhang Xuan pruning the flowers and trees, and asked suspiciously.

"Cousin, I really can't stay in the palace. Besides, all those beautiful women who are fighting each other look down on me. I'd better come here to relax."

"What? Why do they look down on you?" Zhu Houzhao asked, frowning slightly.

"They said that they are all concubines who have a chance to be favored by His Majesty, but I only got into the Chuxiu Palace because of my blood relationship."

Zhu Houzhao immediately understood the meaning of Zhang Xuan's words. Although Zhang Xuan was protected by the queen mother, from the perspective of identity, Zhang Xuan was only the daughter of the uncle of the country, no more than the daughters of those rich families. She only came in through the back door, that's all.

In terms of status, these court ladies favored by the emperor will definitely have a much higher status than Zhang Xuan's after being made concubines in the future.

However, Zhu Houzhao really didn't dare to look down on his uncle of the country. Although he has such an excellent daughter, his own character is not flattering at all in the court.

"How about this, you just say it's what I said, you go manage Chuxiu Palace, after all, Bai Xue is also pregnant, you go and train those gang of beautiful girls from Jiangnan."

"I heard from Jianxiu that all of them are proud of themselves, and I will not pamper them in the future."

"Oh, I see that one of them is an old acquaintance of mine, you let her come to my side, and the rest can just stay."

When Zhu Houzhao came out of the imperial garden, someone came to report that it was the Tiedan God of Hulong Villa who came to see him.

In Xiyuan's room, the uncle and nephew greeted each other, and Tie Dan respectfully knelt down in front of Zhu Houzhao, holding a big seal in his hand.

"Your Majesty, I have thought it over clearly, I am willing to hand over the military power in my hand, and be a law-abiding person from now on."

Zhu Houzhao frowned, glanced at Tie Dan who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "You don't have to do this, you should invite him to the palace more often in the future."

With that said, Zhu Houzhao asked Xiao Fangzi to take over the seal.

"Uncle Huang understands righteousness deeply, and it's really my great blessing!" Zhu Houzhao said, supporting Tiedan Monkey.

Within the territory of the Ming Navy.

Qi Jingtong led the Ming Navy to carry out three patrols, and finally wiped out the surrounding pirates.

However, because of Qi Jingtong's advanced age, when he returned to the court, Zhu Houzhao agreed with him to go home for the elderly.

Qi Jingtong looked at the place where he had been glorious in the past, and couldn't let go of it for a long time.

Shangguan Haitang entered the palace and met with Zhu Houzhao.

"I just asked you to go out to convince the No. [-] village in the world, why didn't you come back? If I didn't let the people from Beizhen Prefecture go, you probably would never come to see me?"

"His Majesty."

Shangguan Haitang was crying like pear blossoms with rain. She had many sad things to tell Zhu Houzhao, but she didn't know where to start.

(End of this chapter)