Now is the early years of the dynasty, the weak and strong imperial power is highly concentrated, and it is the best time to defeat the house of the saint who has become the same day as the national Xianxiu.

Especially Zhu Yuanzhang's background, he is not a Confucian disciple, and he has not received a serious Confucian education, but his merits are too great, so even if he indirectly forced the previous Yan Shenggong to death, everyone should not see it.

Zhu Biao naturally wants to seize the opportunity, if he doesn't have his father, it will be extremely difficult for him to bring down the Confucian Mansion, after all, the prince also has to respect his teacher.

It is useless for the descendants of the Kong family who were killed by the black hand to die out, how many years has the Confucian family been scattered since the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are still side lines when the descendants are dead, and the scholars don't care what kind of dog is sitting on the seat of the Yan Shenggong, anyway, as long as it is the blood of the saint, it is enough.

Now this situation is no better, there is a pro-military governor's mansion to add fuel to the fire, it is a matter of time before Kong Xi learns to come to Beijing, and when he comes, he will have to run for Mencius, but Zhu Yuanzhang does not let go, who can do it.

Nuan Yu brought up the lotus seed soup: "Master, come and taste it, it's delicious." ”

Zhu Biao came back to his senses and smiled: "How do you know that it is delicious, don't you eat it secretly?" ”

Nuan Yu pouted and said, "The slave didn't steal it, you see that this lotus seed is big and round, and it is delicious at first glance." ”

Zhu Biao took the bowl and said, "Okay, the saliva will come out later, there should be more than one bowl later, and you can divide the rest." ”

Nuan Yu's eyes lit up, but she still waited for Zhu Biao to run to eat lotus seed soup, and she could also share it with those well-behaved little palace maids, so that they would help her wash her clothes.

Zhu Biao didn't bother to care about her, there were Yun Jin and Liu Jin watching in the East Palace, no one dared to make waves, Zhu Biao leaned back in his chair, and when the news that Yan Shenggong was coming to the capital came out, the smart people in the court would react.

In this era, don't underestimate anyone, all the officials who can achieve more than three grades are outstanding talents, and few are simple, Zhu Biao feels that Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and others have probably guessed it.

However, when they become officials, they are not simple scholars, they pay more attention to their own net worth and life than Yan Shenggong, the more they understand Zhu Yuanzhang, the more they know that he is terrible, and there is no good end to going against him.

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On the other side, thousands of scholars from the scientific examination gathered together, waiting for the emperor's list, whether the carp can jump over the dragon gate depends on today, and farther away, you can see a lot of big men holding wine jugs and talking about meat gathered together, looking at the scholars of Yushu Lingfeng like ducks.

In the restaurant next to it, there were several middle-aged men wearing monochrome coarse cloth silk clothes, which were not very comfortable to wear, but their food and wine were unusually rich.

One of them, a little fatter, said, "Yes, these scholars are not very old, and it would be better if there were still those who had not made a marriage contract." ”

On the side, he said elegantly: "Then find some young and generous people, even if you don't pass the exam this time, please go home and be an uncle, and you can also educate the children in the family to study in the future." ”

There was also a mouth full of beards and said: "I heard that the Holy Lord specially ordered the state capitals to recommend young scholars to participate in Enke, it seems that it is prepared for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, a rare and good opportunity." ”

The rest of the people all laughed tacitly, if these people can enter the East Palace after passing the exam, they will not be a long journey in the future, not to mention that those who can participate in Enke are excellent young people in the country.

He said elegantly: "Today, the Holy Lord is gracious, not only does he collect less business taxes, but also allows me and other children to participate in the imperial examination, what a kindness. ”

The rest of the people also chimed in, although they are still at the lowest level of the Shinong industry and commerce, but as long as they can participate in the imperial examination, then sooner or later they will be able to transform from the lowest level to the highest level of taxis.

Zhu Yuanzhang disagreed with the discriminatory stipulation of the Tang and Song dynasties prohibiting that "businessmen are not allowed to be officials", believed that "businessmen are all people", and did not agree with the proposition that "the sons of industrial and commercial skills are not allowed to be soldiers", and treated merchants with an equal and humble attitude, so they allowed their children to participate in the imperial examination.

After a while, the emperor's list was brought out, and all the scholars were boiling at once, but fortunately, the officials holding the list were escorted by messengers, and the golden list was finally hung high, and the candidates below also had different looks, some joys and sorrows.

A few wealthy businessmen in the restaurant also walked down just now, and the fat ones and beards were all eyeing the happy wave of people, while Wen Ya wrote that he was selecting those young and magnanimous scholars, even if they didn't win, they could still have a peaceful mind.

The official who released the list didn't care about it after a few glances at them, you like me if you like it, no one can take care of it, and Liu Jin on the other side looked around, and then turned around and returned to the East Palace.

All the way to the gate of Huigong, Liu Jin showed the next token. It is not so easy for the eunuchs in the palace to leave the palace, and they must have a token issued by the celebrant to be allowed to leave the palace.

Of course, Liu Jin's status in the eunuch system is similar to Zhu Biao's, everyone knows that he will be in charge of all the eunuchs in the internal officials in the future, so naturally they all hold him, and no one dares to take back this token.

The general on duty today arched his hand at Liu Jin: "Father-in-law Liu is too polite, don't we know what you look like, why bother to take out a token." ”

Liu Jin smiled and said, "There are free rules in the palace, and I don't want to be an exception." ”

Liu Jin said a few polite words to them, and made an appointment to find a free day to drink together, Liu Jin walked into the palace happily, and then the smile on his face was closed, and his expression was a little tired, he was on duty yesterday, and he didn't sleep at night, he was afraid that Zhu Biao would wake up in the middle of the night, he didn't know.

In fact, with his status, he naturally doesn't have to be on duty at night, after all, he has to run errands for the prince during the day, and Zhu Biao also said that he doesn't need to be on duty at night, but Liu Jin didn't agree.

Along the way, many palace maids and eunuchs greeted Liu Jin respectfully, and those with higher grades came up to compliment a few words, and some small gifts were quickly stuffed into Liu Jin's arms.

Finally returned to the East Palace, Liu Jin patted his face, then cheered up and walked in, first put all the things in his arms on Da Shuang'er's side, this is the rule set by Yun Jin.

They are the prince's most personal slaves, and there are naturally people inside and outside the palace who want to slap them, Yun Jin has set things that can be collected, but they must be written down, and they will be seen by His Royal Highness the Prince every month, so that His Royal Highness also knows what to do.

What's more, His Royal Highness has always been generous to them, and they don't care about these things at a glance, so why bother sneaking around, if something happens, they will lose the trust of His Royal Highness the Prince.

And at this time, the people inside and outside the palace didn't have much money, and the things they gave were just gadgets, at most ten taels of silver.

What's more, Liu Jin has never cared about these things, what is the use of him saving money as a peerless person, and the other eunuchs are afraid that they will be kicked out of the palace when they are old, so they are in a hurry to collect money, but he doesn't know who his Royal Highness is?

His Royal Highness misses the old, as long as they don't make big mistakes, they can spend their lives comfortably in the palace, with His Royal Highness's letter, does he still need to spend money on what Liu Jin wants?

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