Thinking of the private letter written by the prince to himself, Li Shimin opened the drawer and found it.

After reading it again, he felt that he should really send important ministers of the court to approve the students' papers, and even if he was the best of them, he should read them. When he first received the letter, he didn't think so, thinking that this was the prince's move to put gold on the face of the academy. Now it seems that this is beneficial to the academy and the court!

After putting away the letter, Li Shimin immediately ordered Li Jian to summon the ministers to discuss this matter.

On the other side, Li Chengqian, who returned to the East Palace, was satisfied. It's just the second time we met, and it's gratifying to get such an achievement. It's just a pity that except for the queen, no one else really can bring out a little woman who has not come out of the cabinet.

I didn't feel it well when I hugged it.,It seems,This girl is really developing quite early....

With a punch, he knocked his strange thoughts away and rushed to the desk, and Li Chengqian began to prepare for the distribution of the year-end bonus.

There are really more Donggong industries now, and it is difficult for one person to manage them after all. Therefore, it is necessary to set up a management class under your own command. Counting money until your hands cramp and sleeping until you wake up naturally are easy to conflict. If you want to earn money lying down, you have to distribute your work.

Just when Li Chengqian was concentrating on dividing the work, Li Jian walked in, and waited until His Royal Highness the Crown Prince stretched his waist before saying: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has ordered that the chief officials of the three provinces and six departments will take turns to go to the college to review the students' graduation theses, so you can arrange it." ”

"I'll go...."

Seeing that it was Li Jian, Li Chengqian patted his chest: "Next time, can you make some movement before talking?" Besides, you can't just report it and come in? ”

Li Jian arched his hand and said: "You can't blame the slave for this, it was Zhang Yun who said that he could come in directly." ”

Glancing at Zhang Yun at the door, Li Chengqian could only sigh.

"What did you just say? Say it again. ”

"Your Majesty has ordered that the chief officials of the three provinces and six ministries will take turns to go to the academy to review the students' graduation theses, so you can arrange it."

"Great, have you gone to confirm the time with the chief officer of the three provinces and six departments?"

"Except for the military department Shangshu who is not due to illness, the rest of the chief officers have been rotated, and it is not a problem to temporarily leave their posts for a day or two."

"In this case, you go to inform Fang Xiang, and say that the academy will ask him to review it first, and the specific time will be notified separately."

After Li Jian left, Li Chengqian couldn't help but wave his fist hard.

That's good, compared with the big exam, the paper is the best platform for these students to show. As the vice president, arranging this is already the ultimate he can do.

After calling Zhang Yun and asking him to send someone to the academy to inform him, Li Chengqian began to arrange worksheets for the bigwigs of the three provinces and six departments.

When people are in a desperate situation, they may not need much comfort, but a push, and get closer to the abyss.

The students, who had been complaining for days, suddenly shut up when they learned that His Majesty the Emperor had agreed to the prince's proposal and put the examination of the thesis on the agenda. Before the winter break of the college, all the students completed their papers, which were packaged by the officials of the Ministry of Rites and transported to the East Palace.

The review of the paper will be carried out in the East Palace.

Several old gentlemen elected by the academy were also arranged by Li Chengqian to live in Chang'an City, and there would be a carriage to take them in and out of the East Palace every day. Although it will be the big man of the three provinces and six departments who will make the decision, before that, it is still necessary to let them go through it first to see how far their disciples have reached. In the end, it is the crystallization of hard cultivation, and Li Chengqian does not want them to lose the qualifications to appreciate it in the end.

There is so much content in the paper that the time spent is definitely not a grade compared to the folds. Therefore, Li Chengqian arranged the assembly line audit method, first the old gentlemen of the college passed the first time, and then the minister on duty and Li Chengqian conducted the second time together, and the final assessment was also carried out by the minister on duty and the two of them. The emperor also ordered that those with excellent grades should be sent to him.

This kind of arrangement is still mixed with a little selfishness of Li Chengqian, for fear that someone will write nothing at all, and there are old gentlemen, and if they encounter something really bad, they can directly call back and order the students to rewrite it.

The old gentlemen's place of work was in the Mingde Palace, while Fang Xuanling and Li Chengqian were in the study of the Lizheng Palace, waiting for the first batch of papers that had completed the preliminary examination to be delivered.

After a full morning, only a few papers were sent in, and it was clear that everyone's papers were heavy, but the old gentlemen still did not treat them roughly, but reviewed them from beginning to end.

"Hehe, the old minister thought that today would be very busy, but I didn't expect it to be so easy, Your Highness, the old minister is going to start the review."

Putting down the teapot, Fang Xuanling walked to his desk, opened the first paper and read it, and groaned from time to time.

Li Chengqian also opened a paper, and did not start reading it from the first page, but directly looked at the comments at the back.

"Zhongping", which shows that even with the blessing of the old gentlemen, this paper does not have much value.

In this case, there is no need to read carefully, just a cursory glance.

After reading it, Li Chengqian found that this guy named "Cui Shuhai" really didn't write much paper. The whole article is to introduce his views on some things in ancient books, without any claims about politics and people's livelihood, to put it bluntly, he is a fool who drills into the pile of old papers. Such a person, even if he passes the big exam, can only enter the Ministry of Rites to live a mixed life, and he really has no future.

Putting down the first book, Li Chengqian directly picked up the second book.

This one is already strong, and the "top" score is not so easy to get, even if it is the old gentlemen who are in the first instance.

After reading it carefully, Li Chengqian found that this student called "Li Yifu" had a strong understanding of the system of officialdom, and he specially stated that he hoped to enter the Ministry of Officials, and he had extremely unique views on the method of selecting and appointing officials.

Of course, the reason for holding back is because his name is "Li Yifu"!

In the future, a lawless level character! Gaozong's idea of abolishing Wang Liwu was supported by him, and then becoming the confidant minister of Empress Wu was also a matter of course. During his tenure as prime minister, he made friends with a wide range of friends, sold official positions, gained power, and did illegal things. One by one, all of them show the high level of his officialdom methods. Because whether it is opportunistic or making friends, how can you get good results without some means.

The old gentlemen are still too simple, this bastard has studied officialdom so thoroughly from now on, and he doesn't know what it will be like to enter officialdom. However, many of the bad guys themselves are capable people. Didn't Gao Yu also get the emperor's appreciation because he played well?

Such a person, if he uses it correctly, may be able to return to the right path.

After thinking about things, he found that Fang Xuanling next to him was looking at him with a strange look.

"What's the matter, Lone is just distracted for a while, why do you look at Lone so much?"

Fang Xuanling opened his mouth, but still said, "Why does His Highness disdain the first thesis and pay so much attention to the second thesis?" They are all disciples of the academy, and His Highness will not treat them differently. ”

Li Chengqian laughed dryly, handed Li Yifu's paper to Fang Xuanling and said, "This Li Yifu is an academy that entered through Li Daliang's door. can make a non-relative Shangshu Baoju, which shows that this person still has some means. Sure enough, you look at his paper and tell me how it feels. ”

After handing over the paper to Fang Xuanling, in order not to waste time, Li Chengqian had to pass the paper that Fang Xuanling had already reviewed, plus his own review. Only with the comments of both of them can the paper be considered final.

Soon, just after Li Chengqian finished reading the third paper, Fang Xuanling let out a loud laugh.

"This guy is such a bastard! Seriously, when he saw this paper, the old man had the idea of dealing with him, and this was really a dangerous guy for the court. ”

"Then why don't you just have an idea?"

After taking a sip of tea, Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "It's not a troubled time now, and it's not a good time to 'take materials but not virtues', but if a talented villain is used properly, it may not be able to play a good role." This Li Yifu is indeed bad enough, but the one who guides his talents to the right path and may not take the old man's position may not be him! ”

It is already the ultimate honor to be able to get Fang Xuanling's comments.

As for Fang Xuanling's evaluation of Li Yifu, Li Chengqian could only stretch out his thumb.

After Li Yifu's thesis also wrote the comment of "Shangshang", Fang Xuanling said: "We have to tell Zhao Gong, this Li Yifu still needs a lot of experience, such a person needs to be polished, and he can't give a too high starting platform, and if he has been in the eunuch for ten or twenty years, maybe he can really cultivate a formal talent." ”

"Coincidentally, Lone also sees it that way."

The two looked at each other and laughed, and then Fang Xuanling began to review the paper that the prince had read, and Li Chengqian took the opportunity to write a letter to the eldest grandson Wuji.

The time to read papers is always fast, so after it was dark, Li Chengqian ordered Zhang Yun to go to the Mingde Hall and invite a few; The old gentleman finished his work and went to the Chongjiao Hall for dinner.

A whole day's work made everyone feel tired, only Li Chengqian was not so unbearable because of his age.

At this time, even if the dishes are exquisite, they will not make people taste good. Therefore, several people just ate with their heads bored.

After eating a full meal and drinking a few sips of wine, Yang Du breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Chengqian with a smile: "I also want to thank Your Highness for the arrangement, the old man and the others have seen the achievements of their disciples, and now they are all satisfied." At least on the first day, not a single paper has been returned. ”

Li Chengqian said: "You are all gardeners, and you have worked hard to cultivate these students for so long, you should still see their achievements." It's just that the East Palace can't keep outsiders overnight now, and a few people still have to go back and forth. ”

The East Palace has already booked the matter of the concubine's stay, and several old gentlemen still know about it, so they don't take it to heart.

After finishing a day's work, Li Chengqian ordered Zhang Yun to send a few old gentlemen, and then showed Fang Xuanling the letter he wrote, and wrote it on paper separately, ready to send it to the emperor along with the paper.

After adding their own seals, Fang Xuanling and Li Chengqian looked at each other and smiled, like two villains.

No matter what, the eldest grandson Wuji will definitely sell the face of the prime minister and the crown prince. In this way, it is not easy to put an official who does not conform to the process on the table. As for the emperor, he will also turn a blind eye to this matter, because if it were him, he would also do it.

That's the end of the first day of paper review, and the second day is still the same, but it is not particularly outstanding.

On the third day, Li Chengqian finally saw a familiar paper, Feng Zhidai's.

This guy really dares to write anything, he describes the relationship between the Central Plains and Lingnan from the perspective of a Lingnan person, and has made a lot of valuable suggestions on how to deepen the exchanges between the north and the south and break the barrier. There is no doubt that such a paper naturally received "superior" comments from the old gentlemen, and after Fang Xuanling and Li Chengqian's research and judgment, they broke the rules and gave a "excellent" evaluation.

In the afternoon, I met a familiar one.

Qiu Haiqing!

The one who drew a big picture in the paper, and so far only this bastard. Everyone else's is bound into a book, but he's a box, which has both papers and drawings. After reading all of them carefully, Li Chengqian realized that he was the hardest working and most laborious of these papers.

Because they were under the command of the prince, they successfully obtained the family's non-transmission drawings, and all of them were brought to Chang'an and sent to the College of Engineering. What is presented on paper today is the crystallization of the integration of the School of Engineering. It is no exaggeration to say that with this drawing, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Engineering can be directly driven crazy, and those drawings that they keep secret can be burned in one fire.

"This student is good, he should enter the Ministry of Engineering, at least he is also the director!"

Not surprisingly, such a peculiar paper successfully attracted Fang Xuanling's attention, so much so that he left the table and came over to read it together.

Putting away the drawings and finding out the thesis part, Li Chengqian smiled and said: "Don't worry about him, Gu has already made an appointment with him in advance, and he will enter the East Palace to serve." As for the return, after Gu ascended the throne, he would be the best candidate for the Ministry of Works and even Shangshu. ”

Faced with this answer, Fang Xuanling could only laugh dryly. The prince is the right one, and people value the merits of Conglong, and they choose to be patient, which is also right. At this point, he, the prime minister, is really hard to say anything.

It was another day of review, and unlike the first day, seven or eight papers were selected today and needed to be handed over to the emperor.

After looking at the papers that had not yet been reviewed, Fang Xuanling sighed regretfully.

He has been away from Zhongshu Province for two days, which coincides with the approaching New Year's Festival, and delaying it for another two days may lead to problems. Originally, he thought that the emperor and crown prince were grabbing free labor, but after really participating in the audit, he found that he had gained much more than he had paid.

Young people will always have some wild ideas, some of which seem ridiculous, but the more you look at them, the more they make sense. And the views put forward by some talented people, even he, the prime minister, couldn't help but applaud.

"Tomorrow is Wei Zheng's coming, and the old minister is really a little reluctant to say it. In addition, the dog's paper, when the time comes, His Royal Highness remembers to send it to the old minister, and the old minister also wants to see what kind of thing he can write. ”

Such a request is naturally to be granted.

After sending Fang Xuanling away, Li Chengqian was very worried about the upcoming Wei Zheng. With Lao Fang's character, when he met a student like Li Yifu, he was willing to give him a chance to see if the training could change his temperament, but when he came to Wei Zheng.

Roar, if you don't deal with it directly, you just picked it up, and you still want to get into the court? There are no doors.

Li Chengqian was worried here, and in the Liangyi Palace, the emperor was also worried, and his brows were tightened, so that the eldest grandson was reluctant to drive him to other concubines.

Although she shouldn't interfere in politics, when she saw the emperor's appearance, she couldn't help but want to ask.

Pouring a cup of tea for the emperor, the eldest grandson asked helplessly: "Your Majesty, these papers are just written by the disciples of the academy, why do you feel so sad?" ”

took out a paper, Li Shimin said: "In the end, I still underestimated the academy, I read these articles selected by Fang Xuanling and Cheng Qian, and many of them made me, the emperor, stunned, it can be seen that these students are all elites." What worries me is that I ordered them to send the best ones in the first place, but I don't know what the inferior ones look like. The first batch of graduates of the college, in addition to those who voluntarily joined the School of Medicine, the School of Engineering, and the School of History, there are more than 480 people, so many people, take them all, for the time being, there are not so many places to be placed in the dynasty, but if they don't take them all, I feel distressed. ”

After listening, the eldest grandson was speechless for a moment. Where is this depressed, it is clear that the emperor is complacent. Unlike the talents who were recommended, these students, without the protection of their families, are the most pure, and the appearance of so many talents at once is a happy trouble for the emperor.

"Okay, you, let's put these papers away first, and go to the harem concubines for a few days and nights, so as not to make people think that the concubine is a queen, and the emperor is not allowed to go to other concubines. More children, more blessings, your children are still fewer. ”

"It's a lot, it's a lot, how do you want me to divide it? I know what the Emperor thinks, although he regrets it now, but I can't deal with those children ruthlessly, and if I don't deal with them, it will be difficult for Cheng Qian to attack them because of filial piety.

The problems that the Emperor Taishang left for me, I don't want to leave them to Cheng Qian like him. In any case, this country must be inherited by cadres. A prince who has been recognized by the royal family, the ministers, and even more difficult is the prince who has been recognized by the people, but he can't be criticized when he first ascended the throne because of such a trivial matter. ”

Hearing the emperor say such words, the corners of the mouth of a palace maid in the corner of the Liangyi Hall curled slightly.

It's not just these people's approval....

We also hope that His Highness can reign over the world....