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Yan Xinru checked the test paper in her hand and sighed slightly in her heart.

As expected, there was no secret note on the test paper that my father and others had ordered.

It seemed that Liu Qingqing had taken precautions and asked His Majesty to replace the test paper with a new one without telling everyone.

No, Yan Xinru carefully sorted out her thoughts.

Liu Qingqing must have guessed that these ladies approaching her and agreeing to participate in the imperial examination were deliberately done by the Qing Party since last year, when they, the noble girls of Yingchuan, took the initiative to attend Princess Pingyang's women's poetry meeting.

She pretended not to know, in order to use her trick to win the talented women in Yingchuan City who were restricted by their family elders to take the imperial examination.

After all, high-ranking families like theirs train personal maids, and perhaps many commoner women are well-informed. With them participating in the imperial examinations, the results of the female candidates will not be too ugly.

Originally, the people who purged the party made secret notes on the examination papers, and planned to only send the marked examination papers to the women taking the exam.

Officials from the Ministry of Etiquette are responsible for issuing, collecting, and submitting test papers to examiners for correction.

The original plan of the Qing Party was to send these women's examination papers to Liu Qingqing for correction, while the remaining examiners would mark the men's examination papers and deliberately give low marks to the male scholars.

A trial list will be released at that time, and most of the top 100 people will be women.

In this case, anyone would think that there is something fishy about Jinke's results.

By then, as long as some rumors are spread that Liu Qingqing leaked test questions to female scholars and manipulated test results, and incited the male scholars to cause trouble, then Liu Qingqing would be hammered to death by public opinion even if she did nothing.

Once she is labeled as cheating in the imperial examination, His Majesty will not be able to protect her even if she wants to.

Even if he knew she was innocent, he could only kill her or demote her to calm the resentment in the hearts of many scholars.

Furthermore, it is necessary to re-select the examiner and hold the examination again.

In order to prevent the talented women in this department from being selected as candidates by Liu Qingqing, the members of the Qing Party did not hesitate to let the girls whose families had been raised to study from childhood to appear in public to participate in Princess Pingyang's poetry meeting, and pretended to yearn for freedom. Liu Qingqing was promised to participate in this imperial examination.

As for the exam questions, Yan Xinru had already learned about them through her father's channels, and her family members had already written many policy papers for her in advance.

Yan Xinru and other noble ladies only need to go to the examination room and write silently.

There are also secret notes on the test papers. When they correct the male test papers, they will naturally add the secret notes to ensure that the corrected male and female test papers are exactly the same.

In this way, even if His Majesty re-examines the test papers, he will not find any clues. Even if he finds that someone gave low marks to some good articles, it will only be a mistake and the impact will not be big.

The only surprise was that there were a lot of foreign female talents arriving in Yingchuan this time and they did not mark so many test papers. However, this did not affect the overall plan.

But now, Liu Qingqing actually persuaded His Majesty to become the examiner of this examination, and also changed all the examination papers.

The examiner is Liu Qingqing, they can scheme, but the examiner is Qi Yun, who dares to act rashly?

Liu Qingqing's move directly drained the firepower from the bottom of the cauldron, causing her father and the others to be completely defeated.

Yan Xinru couldn't understand what kind of virtue and ability this woman had that could make His Majesty obey her words like this?

She knew that she was a little jealous of her.

Although they are both women, why can she be an official? But myself...

Yan Xinru took a deep breath and temporarily stopped letting her thoughts continue to spread.

The plan to purge the party was foiled, and there was no need for her to continue taking exams.

Yan Xinru raised her hand to signal.

"What's the matter?"

A female officer who was near her came over, leaned close to her and asked in a low voice.

Yan Xinru replied in a low voice: "My little girl is feeling unwell and wants to withdraw from the exam."

The female officer looked at her face and said displeasedly: "All candidates can leave the examination room only after the exam is over. No one is allowed to hand in their papers in advance. There is a doctor waiting outside the hall. If you really can't insist, I can take you to see a doctor." Once the diagnosis is complete, come back and continue taking the exam.”

"No, thank you sir, the little girl can still hold on."

Seeing that the rules of this examination room were so strict, Yan Xinru gave up her plan to leave due to illness.

"Well, Your Majesty has given us women the opportunity to become officials in the imperial examination. This is a blessing that cannot be obtained in a lifetime, so cherish it."

The female officer's expression softened slightly and she patted her on the back.

Yan Xinru expressed emotion: "Yes, thank you sir, the little girl has learned a lesson."

After the female officer left, Yan Xinru breathed a sigh of relief.

On the shelf directly in front, a stick of incense, representing the exam time, burned just a little.

Sitting idle and bored, she looked at the test paper in her hand.

Twelve simple Mo Yi questions.

It is a short answer question. You are given a passage of scripture and asked to answer its meaning. As long as you can memorize the commentary of the passage and write it down silently.

Yan Xinru had participated in the provincial examination, so she naturally understood that the test questions in this imperial examination were much simpler than those in the previous dynasty, otherwise so many women would not have passed the examination.

His Majesty wants to implement the New Deal and new etiquette, which requires a large number of like-minded people to govern the country and speed up the implementation of the New Deal, thus greatly lowering the admission threshold.

The test questions such as Mo Yi and Tie Jing all involve the most basic and simple, and are not tricky at all.

What your Majesty really looks at is the three subjects at the end: Policy Theory, Divine Literature and Arithmetic.

A policy essay is a semi-propositional essay that gives you a main theme and asks you to write an article.

This purpose, of course, is centered around the implementation of the New Deal.

Her Majesty used this article to select people who were willing to work with her to implement the New Deal.

Divine literature and arithmetic are tests of students' basic skills.

Yan Xinru wrote the answer absentmindedly while thinking in her heart.

Unconsciously, I thought of Liu Qingqing again.

She has been smart since she was a child, has a photographic memory, and has received the best teachings. Her talent and ability are not inferior to Liu Qingqing's, and her background is countless times higher than hers.

But how could someone like Liu Qingqing be able to spar with her father and other ministers of the DPRK, while she could only be a slightly important pawn in their struggle.

Yan Xinru paused with the pen in her hand, and she thought about how she used to be innocent and longing for the world outside the inner house when she was young.

But rebellion again and again resulted in bloodshed again and again.

She knelt in the ancestral hall, touched the board, slapped the palms of her hands, endured hunger, and copied the instructions for women and girls countless times.

Later, people slowly learned to behave, became sensible, and accepted their fate.

She became the eldest daughter of the Yan family who was praised by everyone, the daughter that her parents and elders were satisfied with, the standard of a legitimate wife for princes and princes, and the one that everyone wanted to marry.

In this life, the highest point she can reach in her life is to find the right family, marry her, raise a husband and raise a capable son.

After taking part in the provincial examination, she didn't think that a woman's official career would end well.

Her father and others would not give her this chance. Liu Qingqing's current glory was just a flash in the pan.

But now, father and the others have lost.

Liu Qingqing is more skilled.

Although if it doesn't work this time, there will be a next time, but the officialdom cannot be smooth.

Your Majesty will not allow all officials in the court to have only one voice.

The two forces checking and balancing each other is something that the emperor likes to see.

Now Liu Qingqing is weak, so His Majesty tries his best to help.

But if her family becomes the dominant one in the future, His Majesty will definitely use others to check and restrain her.

Father and the others are old.

After this imperial examination, His Majesty will definitely re-appoint a group of female officials. When these newly promoted female officials adapt to handling government affairs, those who purged the party will be gradually replaced and kicked out of the core.

Just like Xu Jiangwei, the former Minister of Household Affairs, was promoted by His Majesty openly and secretly, and now he can only retire in the cabinet.

The household department is now controlled by the female official Qi Ya.

As soon as the imperial examination was over, Liu Qingqing and other female officials knew that the situation was over, and the purge party was no longer able to reverse the situation.

Being temporarily out of the situation at this moment allowed Yan Xinru to see the future situation clearly.

Thinking of her father's eyes asking her to adapt to the situation before leaving, an idea suddenly came to Yan Xinru's mind. The self that had died when she was young was slowly resurrected, which made her heart beat fast.

This is what my father told me to adapt to circumstances.

Since the conspiracy fails, then let's carry out an upright conspiracy.

I want to be the person who can rival Liu Qingqing in court in the future.

Yan Xinru thought of this and lowered her head to write the test paper carefully, but found that she had already finished it casually.

Oops!

She checked it from scratch.

Fortunately, although the handwriting was a bit casual, the answer was correct.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Yan Xinru put the test paper aside and waited for the ink to dry.

After the first exam, Liu Qingqing rang the gong and ordered everyone to put down the pens in their hands, stand up and stand in the side passage, and leave in an orderly manner. No items on the table were allowed to be taken away, otherwise the exam results would be invalid.

Some scholars who planned to take the draft away to discuss with their friends had to give up the idea.

"Everyone remembers his/her own table number, and the afternoon exam will be held at the original location."

"Remind everyone not to discuss the morning exam content with other candidates, so as not to affect the afternoon exam."

After all the scholars walked out of the main hall as instructed, the guards on duty in the hall began to collect the test papers and manuscript papers from the candidates.

Yan Jue stood next to Liu Qingqing. After holding it in for more than an hour, he was finally able to speak. He couldn't help but yin and yang with her, "Master Liu, you have asked for such a great favor for Jinke Xiucai. You are so kind-hearted and kind!" "

Liu Qingqing smiled lightly and said, "Master Yan has given me the reward. If I have to say favorably, it is better for Your Majesty. I just mentioned it to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty readily agreed. It is truly a great grace!"

As she spoke, she bowed respectfully in the direction of the Yangxin Hall.

Yan Jue only felt angry and resentful, but he couldn't say anything, otherwise it would be disrespectful to His Majesty.

This time, all of them were plotted by this woman!

Yan Xinru could see that after the female officer group's joint examination, the general trend must have been achieved, so why couldn't Yan Jue see it?

But now, even if they can see it, there is nothing they can do.

They never expected that Liu Qingqing would be able to resist the temptation of huge benefits from becoming this year's chief minister and directly push His Majesty to the front as a shield!

And their majesty, the Queen, who acted so imaginatively and unconstrainedly, actually agreed with all her dignity!

The purge of the party had been planned for a year, but now all efforts were wasted.

Failed, this time it was a complete defeat...

Just let the servant girl become the leader!