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The general in the matter screened and screened the dialogue between Menxia Province and Kuimen Prime Minister, and finally selected his words of loyalty to relay to the emperor.

The emperor touched the jade ring on the finger of his left hand, "Eat the emperor's salary, and be loyal to the country. Lu Xiang and the late emperor have shown him the kindness of knowledge and understanding, must we repay him?"

"Yes, that's how Prime Minister Kui returned as a minister. In terms of qualifications, Prime Minister Kui is slightly inferior to Prime Minister Lu. However, during the first emperor's time, he served as Zhi Gong Ju and presided over the imperial examination together with the former Can Zhi Zheng Shi."

"I'm not familiar with him, and I don't know how he got together with Master, what is his ability?"

"Zhang Xiang is older than Lu Xiang in age, and his ability is comparable to that of Lu Xiang, but his background is slightly inferior, but he is also a son of a lord, and he has a son who is... an illegitimate son. A Tai student, and the son of Dongping Bo are classmates. A professor at the Imperial College said that he left his father's demeanor as the best among the Tai students. This year he did not take the Shangshe exam but went to Qiuwei in the capital. It is said that it was because of his classmates. I look down on his background, I want to wait for the official's Long Feibang, and I don't want to enter the officialdom as the son of a high-ranking official."

"I don't want to become an official as the son of a high-ranking official..."

"The minister once went to Kui Xiang's house. Zhang Jiansheng said that the Taixue quota is limited and only accepts the children of the clan and high-ranking officials and lords. The qualifications are uneven, and it is impossible to distinguish one or two from them. Therefore, I want to use the imperial examination to compare with the world. , Your Majesty." Ge Shizhong suddenly shouted.

"If you have something to say, just tell me, there are no outsiders in this hall."

"Prime Minister Kui's heart is unknown. Although his son retains his father's demeanor, the father and son are two people with completely different personalities. Perhaps this son can become an opportunity to bring down the prime minister."

The emperor lowered his face, "Lou Qing thinks that I am afraid of the power?"

"I don't dare. Your Majesty is the ruler of the world and the Son of Heaven. The Prime Minister leads a hundred assistants, and they are all ministers of the Son of Heaven."

"What's the name of the young man from Zhang's family in the Imperial College?"

"Zhang Hou, I have his articles." Gi Shih took out a scroll from his sleeve.

After the servant took it and forwarded it, the emperor looked at the rolled up article and lowered his head with a smile, "The preparations are so thorough, it seems that Lou Qing had expected it long ago."

"Your Majesty, I..." He knelt down and said, "I do have selfish intentions in it, but I also really like his articles, so I often put them in my sleeves."

"I'd like to see how good this weak-crowned young man's literary talent is so obsessed with Qing." Then he picked up the scroll held by the servant and unfolded it.

After a long time, "Pianshi Hanling, if the article is well written, it does not mean that the official will be able to do well. He is not the only one who does not want to be an official's son."

"Does the official refer to Jiang Zhongcheng, who was selected by the former emperor in the dynasty? Zhongcheng misjudged because of Dali Temple..." I remembered that Jinshang was the head of Dali Temple at that time, so I closed my mouth, "I made a mistake."

The emperor put the scroll back, stepped on the bed, got up, and walked down the hall steps with his hands behind his back, "I've made a note of this person, and you will go back to the door to explain." Said: "Be more careful, don't fall in front of your brother-in-law, and you will lose all your personal feelings."

After hearing the matter, he bowed his head and knelt down in a daze, "Everything I said is true, I dare not hide anything, let alone have a heart to cover up."

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In mid-August of the second year of Qianyuan, the Autumn Announcement was released, and in late August, the candidates sent by the prefectures and counties went to the capital to report to the Ministry of Rites and submit their petitions.

An empty palace near the Wei Ninghe Hall was vacated as an introspective martial arts hall. Qi Liu took a stack of booklets and opened them one by one and translated them one by one. Everything else in Zhan Luan has responded, and the tribute remains the same."

Tang Dao, which had disappeared from the battlefield, was picked up again. When the two swords collided, tiny sparks could be seen.

Qi Liuhe closed the booklet, picked up another one, opened it, and read: "The envoy from the Japanese country in the east arrived with the merchant ship of the country a few days ago, and the envoy said that the tribute ship will arrive before mid-December. The bandits are rampant, and the Japanese envoy hopes that the Heavenly Chaoshang Kingdom can send ships to respond."

The emperor took down the long knife that had been cut horizontally, "Fusang Kingdom? I haven't seen Laishi for many years."

Xue Jin took a deep breath and put away the sharp edge of the ring-shou knife, bowed and said: "When the first emperor Fusang was in a local war, their monarch and generals were incompetent, and the court was unable to suppress the rebellion. They sent envoys to our court to ask for help. Now This sudden visit to court is also a request."

"Let the Ministry of Rites and the Department of Shipping see how to handle it."

Qi Liu nodded and continued flipping through the brochure, "The envoys of the imperial court came to Xixia Xingqing. The king of Xixia greeted them personally and hosted a banquet as in previous years. He also asked our envoys about the meeting. He wanted to add the late emperor to Shizhou. Agreed market exchange.”

"I have been with Song all the time because the civil strife in Xixia has not yet settled down."

"Pro-Liao and Song have always been the practice of Western Xia. When the first emperors had no spare power to recover Hexi, they got a respite and tried to expand eastward. They also wanted to be called emperors and sit on an equal footing with the emperors of the country."

"Stand on an equal footing...send someone to Chengdu to put pressure on them, and tell them that if they can't make firearms for siege and armor-piercing within five years, they don't need to make any more."

Qi Liu froze in place holding the brochure, "Compared with the previous batch of firearms and crossbows and arrows, the lethality was several times higher, but it took many years to develop it, and there are manpower, material and financial resources. Although the villain does not I understand this, but I also know that beating people is different from besieging a city, so craftsmen have to consider a lot more things. Most of the Hexi is a few feet wide earth wall. The bed crossbow and seven guns cannot be broken. Is it too eager gone?"

"If you haven't met Li Yuanhao, you won't know this person. It is definitely not an ordinary person who can be forbearing and vicious at the same time. I won't beat him. He will come and beat me in the future when he recharges his energy. I have no intention Keep Xixia, because Hexi is my land in the Central Plains, let the secret agents over there keep an eye on their movements."

"Yes."

"Officials, the tributes from Zhuzhou have come to the inner hall to wait for their summons."

"Let them wait, I have to go back to Kunning Palace first."

"Yes."

In the early winter of the second year of Qianyuan, people from all over the country gathered to meet the emperor in Que Qun.

The emperor, who had changed his robes, leaned on the waist of the former province, leaned on the armrest and asked, "How is this year?"

"According to the statistics of the Ministry of Rites, it is several times that of the last list of the Xiandi Dynasty, with as many as thousands of people."

"Pause."

Before the vermilion lacquered city wall entered the palace, the emperor stopped, and Qi Liu helped him down, "This is the official?"

The emperor stepped down from his waist, and immediately climbed up to the tower of the palace corridor next to him. He saw a bunch of people in white shirts standing in front of the palace court, lined up chaotically. The servant roared impatiently, and Qi Liuduan followed the emperor with his hands, "Country people don't know the etiquette of the court, so the first emperor only saw Zhuzhou Jieyuan."

"What is etiquette? It's not something that is used to restrain people. They don't need to be controlled by this before they become officials. Of course they don't know if they don't learn it. Among them, there will be ministers from my dynasty. It has nothing to do with the previous emperor or the previous dynasty. A clean and bright child," the emperor said with his hands on the city wall, "only belongs to my dynasty."

A young man in a shirt at the south gate of the inner palace jumped off the carriage, straightened his head scarf while running, and when he reached the gate of the palace, he took out the documents from his pocket out of breath.

"So it's Jieyuan from the capital, please." After the guarding soldiers greeted Juzi, they saw the purple robe coming out of the palace, then waved their hands and walked forward, clasped their hands and said, "Han Xianggong."

In the palace, there was the sound of drums beating continuously, "Chaoguang sends out, ten thousand households open, and all the ministers pay homage..."

Young people also bowed to him.

Listening to the familiar sound of telling the time, Han Si stood still with his sleeves folded, and called out to the young passerby, "Wang Jieyuan."

The young man looked back at Zipao's back and said in a daze, "Master, do you know the tribute?"

"I don't know, but I know that Xie Yuan's surname is Wang in the capital." Han Si turned around.

Wang Wenfu turned around and folded his sleeves in a bow, "Wang Wenfu, the tribute member, has seen the Deputy Privy Envoy."

"Oh? How did Wang Jieyuan know that I am the Deputy Privy Envoy?"

"There are several ministers with the surname of Han in the country, but there is no other person who wears the purple gold fish bag at such a young age except for the deputy envoy and tribute."

"Wang Jieyuan was late for the first group meeting. This is not a good start."

"When the tribute officer was about to go out, the lady at home suddenly fainted, and the tribute officer sent her to the medical center to confirm that she was fine before rushing to the forbidden center."

"It seems that in Wang Jieyuan's eyes, his official career is not as good as his wife's."

"Of course, my wife gave birth to children for the tribute officials and traveled to hell. I, Wang Jiezhi, am not the kind of person who abandons his wife and children for the sake of official career. If I lose this time, I will never enter the court again, but if I lose it Lady, there will be no second virtuous wife."

Hearing Juzi's explanation, Han Si asked with a smile: "Supposing Wang Jieyuan had to choose between his wife, Jiangshan Sheji, and all the people in the world, which one would Xieyuan choose?"

Wang Wenfu folded the sleeves of his shirt, lowered his head and smiled and said, "Han Xianggong asked really embarrassing tributes, but tributes are not gentlemen and don't want to be hypocrites, so tributes are not so noble to give up their families to protect the country, but this is a hypothetical , So there is no if, if a tribute member enters the official career, he must put the hearts of the people at heart." Wang Wenfu raised his folded sleeves and bowed to Han Si, "dedicating himself to the king's society."

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The servant helped Han Bang board the carriage and drove all the way to the southwest of Yushitai, "This young Xie Yuan dares to say anything."

Han Bo took out a piece of paper filled with lowercase letters from his sleeve, "Poets, the articles are also written very well, but they just don't know how to avoid their sharp edges. It's different from a rotten scholar like Su Yu. If the officials know It should be very important."

"Xianggong is saying that the officials will love this Xie Yuan?"

"Yes, it seems that he was right in failing the rankings last time. Others have lost their names and have no hope of returning home, but he did it wrongly."

"A blessing in disguise?"

Han Si shook his head, "I can't say that. It's not just the monarch that governs the country. The prosperous age needs the help of Mingjun and good ministers. Every dynasty has good ministers, but Mingjun is different."

Under the steps of the palace outside the palace, the candidates from various state capitals lined up in a chaotic order, and the servants in the palace held the roster and shouted one by one, looking at the chaotic crowd, their heads grew big.

"Wang Wenfu?"

"Wang Wenfu?" The waiter shouted at the crowd holding the roster.

"Your nobleman, Wang Wenfu doesn't seem to be here."

"See you today, how dare the capital not come?"

"Here we come!" Someone in the crowd yelled again: "Master Zhong, Wang Wenfu is here."

Wang Wenfu ran into the queue, propped himself up on his knees, took a few breaths, then straightened up and bowed his hands to several officials, "I came late because of something at home, and invited some officials and nobles to Haihan."

The imperial servant in the palace was about to get angry and reprimanded, so the servant at the side leaned forward and whispered: "He is a distant relative of Mrs. Lu Xiangguo's family, and his wife Cao is the daughter of the port envoy of Liangzhe Road."

Qing Pao was stunned for a while after hearing these words, and then suppressed his anger, "Wang Jieyuan is the leader of the group meeting this time, so I can't be so polite when I face the emperor for a while."

"The tribute officer understands, thank you officer for pointing it out."

The servants in the hall went to the front of the hall steps, and played loudly to the court: "Call the Jinshi Kefa and the Juren to the gate to enter the right."

The servant censor in the palace first inspected the appearance of all the candidates, and then greeted him: "I have explained the rules to you, and it is a serious crime to ask questions before the emperor, so you only need to answer the officials' questions today if you are in a match. "

"Yes."

"If you are right, you can only answer. There are so many officials who can't ask questions one by one. Could it be that the tribute officials can't speak?"

"If you want to ask, you need to ask the official to give you an answer. You will need this in the future. The official once hurt the body and hurt the throat and can't speak loudly. You should be smart when answering."

"Yes."

So he and his servants led all the white robes to ascend to the court.

The author has something to say: Fajie: Juren who passed the solution test and passed the provincial test. (In the Song Dynasty, if you failed the provincial examination or palace examination, you needed to take the examination again. Of course, if you failed too many times, you would be given extra favors. The supplementary examination of the palace examination is generally held on the second day of the palace examination.)

Taixue is one of the subjects under the Imperial Academy. Students in the Imperial Academy do not need to pass the imperial examination. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were three houses (Wang Anshili's). The first entry was the outer house. Those who passed the exam went to the inner house, and then entered the upper house. Those who pass the Shangshe examination and those who are excellent can become officials (No. 1 is commonly known as Shi Brown Champion) and Guozijian students can be admonished, so there is an alias of Wuguan Yushi.Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated nutrient solution during 2020-06-0119:13:00~2020-06-0207:02:23~

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