Madam, protect me!

It took a long time for Li Nuo to recover from his shock.

In order to determine whether this was a common phenomenon, he turned the book forward to the beginning and back to the end, and checked the number of champions in the imperial examinations of each year.

Then he found that he was not making a fuss.

Since the founding of Daxia and the establishment of the imperial examination, for hundreds of years, except for Li Xuanjing, no one has been able to become the champion of six subjects in the same imperial examination. It is truly unprecedented and unparalleled.

In the past, the most powerful champion was only the first in three subjects.

This has already been recorded in history. This book also specifically records that the adult has become the prime minister of the dynasty, second only to one person and above ten thousand people.

At this moment, he somewhat understood the look that Aunt Song Zhen gave him.

One person monopolized six subjects.

He was still so handsome.

Which woman could resist such charm?

The fourteenth year of Daxia Zhisheng was undoubtedly the year of Li Xuanjing.

Li Nuo stared at the page blankly for a long time, and even forgot what he wanted to do.

Song Zhe was not surprised by his performance. Although many talented people emerged in that imperial examination, they were all like stars compared to the bright moon in front of Li Xuanjing, and were completely overshadowed by his brilliance.

After a long time, Li Nuo gradually recovered and glanced at the remaining names. He actually found a few familiar faces among them.

In this imperial examination, his father-in-law ranked third, and Chang'an County Magistrate Pei Zhe ranked 42nd, just the last Jinshi...

Unexpectedly, the three of them were Jinshi in the same year.

Li Nuo didn't know whether his father-in-law climbed too slowly or County Magistrate Pei was promoted too quickly.

The third place in the imperial examination, just after entering the officialdom, will be awarded the sixth rank. After nearly 20 years, he was promoted to the fifth rank, only three levels higher.

County Magistrate Pei was the last one to pass the imperial examination. He was probably only a minor official of the ninth rank at the beginning, but in the same period of time as his father-in-law, he was promoted eight levels. Regardless of the size of his power, at least his official position was equal to his father-in-law's. He was a model of a loser's counterattack...

In this year's imperial examination list, Li Nuo also saw a name that surprised him.

Wang Duo.

Wang Duo, the examiner, ranked fifth among the Jinshi in this imperial examination, and his ranking was also very high.

Li Nuo did not expect that Lord Wang, who was a bad father and allowed his officials to accept bribes, had such a glorious past.

Li Nuo found it hard to believe, thinking that they just had the same name and surname, and asked: "Is this Wang Duo the Imperial Examination Doctor Wang Duo?"

Song Zhe nodded, with some emotion in his tone, and said slowly: "It's him. Wang Duo was a top figure in Qingfeng Academy back then. When he was still a student in the academy, he led his fellow students to make a scene in Chang'an County Government, angrily scolded the Chang'an County Magistrate for taking human lives lightly, and forced the court to dismiss the then Chang'an County Magistrate. He was in the limelight for a while, but he didn't expect that 20 years later, he would actually donate all his property and resign to return to the countryside..."

Li Nuo was stunned: "Ah, he resigned?"

Song Zhe glanced at him and said lightly: "People from the Dali Temple went to Wang's house and asked him to hand over his son who violated the law. How dare he, a fifth-rank doctor, not resign and wait for death?"

Li Nuo also knew about this for the first time.

It turned out that after handing over his son that day, Imperial Examination Doctor Wang Duo donated all his property and resigned to go home.

It seems that the fear of the officials in the court for his father is deeper than he thought.

But Li Nuo did nothing wrong...

Wang Duo's son broke the law, and he could not be arrested just because his father was a meritorious official.

If Wang Duo still had the feelings he had twenty years ago, it would not be Li Nuo's turn to take action.

Twenty years is too long. Time can change many things, enough to turn a passionate and righteous young man into a dirty worm in the corrupt officialdom...

It's not just Wang Duo who has changed. Judging from Gu Wenhan's resume, some of his deeds before becoming the magistrate of Qinghe County are also remarkable...

A breeze blew from outside the hall, and the book on Li Nuo's desk was turned by the wind, and it came to the eighteenth year of Zhisheng.

There were far more Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Zhisheng than in the previous session, with a total of one hundred. Li Nuo glanced at them inadvertently and saw Gu Wenhan's name in the last few.

Gu Wenhan, a Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Zhisheng, ranked ninety-sixth in the imperial examination.

Wu Zongguang, a Jinshi in the 18th year of Zhisheng, ranked 97th in the imperial examination.

Zheng Tianxing, a Jinshi in the 18th year of Zhisheng, ranked 98th in the imperial examination.

Li Nuo was about to turn the page back, but his hand suddenly stopped and looked at a name on the page.

It was not Gu Wenhan.

It was Zheng Tianxing.

Li Nuo confirmed that he had never known a person named Zheng Tianxing in his two lives, but he felt that this name was familiar, extremely familiar, as if he had seen it countless times somewhere...

Familiar, but for a while, he really couldn't remember where this familiarity came from.

He received too much information in the past two days, his mind was messy, and he even felt that his thinking was a little slow.

He flipped back a few pages and found another problem.

After the 18th year of Zhisheng, the imperial examinations in the 22nd, 26th, and 30th years of Zhisheng, the number of Jinshi admitted by the court was about 100.

Before the 18th year of Zhisheng, each imperial examination only admitted less than 50 people. The imperial examination in the 14th year of Zhisheng was an obvious watershed.

Li Nuo couldn't help but ask, "Why has the number of Jinshi candidates increased suddenly in the recent imperial examinations?"

Song Zhe glanced at him indifferently and said: "The forty-two Jinshi admitted in the Fourteenth Year of the Holy Saint, two years later, sixteen of them were executed because they were involved in a treason case, and the Seventeenth Holy Scholar In 2000, Li Xuanjing joined Dali Temple and killed hundreds of corrupt officials within a year. If we don’t recruit more people, the court will not have enough manpower..."

Li Nuo was wise enough not to delve into this issue further.

But he still refused to give up and asked instead: "What kind of conspiracy is it?"

Song Zhe said: "If you are so curious, you can go back and ask your father."

That being said, if he could ask his father this question, would he still come to the staff department to investigate it himself?

There are many things that he is curious about. He is also curious about where his mother-in-law has gone, why they separated back then, whether it was because they couldn't get along with each other or because there was someone outside. Didn't he ask...

Li Nuo complained a few words in his mind, and for a moment a light flashed through his mind, and he suddenly remembered why he was so familiar with the name "Zheng Tianxing".

Isn't Zheng Tianxing the same as Zheng Yuanwai, the poor man who was killed by his concubine and adulterer on his fiftieth birthday?

No wonder he is so familiar with this name. He personally wrote the file on the case that Zheng Yuanwai closed.

At that time, in order to test the longevity bonus of different sentences in the "Code", he changed a sentence countless times. Naturally, he also wrote the name Zheng Tianxing many times...