If people are focused, time will pass quickly, as if in the blink of an eye, it has been six years. In addition to the required reading lists such as "Women's Rules", "Women's Rings", "Women's History", and "Women's Filial Piety", Zhou Xiaoniang also read "Zizhi Tongjian", and her thoughts and insights are incomparable.

At that time, it was the second year of the Apocalypse, and Zhou Xiaoniang was twelve years old.

At this time, Chen Rending's teaching no longer adopts the method of "cramming", but first hands over the content to Zhou Xiaoniang, let her read and understand it first, and then find him to debate when she feels that she has a feeling, and he decides whether to teach new content depending on the situation of the debate.

Zhou Xiaoniang doesn't have much experience, but she is less bound by experience, and she only cites scriptures and classics during debates, which often makes Chen Renjin speechless.

Chen Renjin was full of joy, in order to increase Zhou Xiaoniang's knowledge, in such a situation, he invited Wen Zhenmeng and other celebrities to come over to participate in the debate, and Wen Zhenmeng and other celebrities were helpless.

On this day, the master and apprentice were debating, and Wen Zhenmeng broke in one step. Wen Zhenmeng has always been light on red tape, and he never needs to be reported when he enters the Chen family. Therefore, when they saw him come in, the master and apprentice were not surprised, but when they saw him with a happy face, they turned to him together.

He didn't speak, went to sit down, took the tea offered by his subordinates, took two sips, and then said: "There is a big test this autumn, I wonder if Brother Chen has been prepared?" ”

Chen Renjin pondered: "Forget it, Chen won't join in the fun." After speaking, he was unwilling.

Wen Zhenmeng looked at him puzzled and said, "Learning to become a literary and martial artist and selling it to the emperor's family is the fate of our literati." Brother Chen is full of articles, and he is only eight buckets, why do you talk like this? ”

Chen Renjin sighed and said, "What Brother Wen said, can Chen Mouyan not know?" Presumably Brother Wen also knows that Chen has fallen to Sun Shan seven times in a row.

Chen asked himself if he was arrogant, but Chen was confident that the seven times he lost Sun Shan was not because Chen's articles were not good, but because Chen refused to give money to the examiner like other candidates.

Chen also wants to sell to the emperor's family, but he must have a good character to be a man, this is Chen's bottom line as a man, and Chen would rather die than bribe. ”

When Wen Zhenmeng heard this, he suddenly laughed, finished laughing, and said seriously: "Brother Chen's high style and bright festival, Wen admires, but this time is not the other time." ”

Chen Renjin was stunned for a moment, stared at him with his eyes and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Wen Zhenmeng paused for a moment, and said with a straight face: "Brother Chen doesn't know anything, after the Apocalypse ascended the throne, he reused the Donglin Party people, and made him in charge of the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the six departments, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong and other loyal and upright people have held important positions in the court, Fang Congzhe and other traitors have been gradually squeezed out, just Ying Dynasty, officials rule Qingming, where do you need to pay bribes again?"

Not long ago, our Apocalypse Lord also rehabilitated Zhang Juzheng, hired Fang Xiaoru's heir, gave preferential compassion to the father, and gave him a funeral and a nickname, which is really a Ming Jun.

On the issue of Macao, Tian Qiye had a tough attitude, and fought with the Dutch twice in Penghu, and won both big victories. In addition, there was also the move of recalling the mine supervisor and pacifying Liaodong. ”

Chen Renjin said: "As Brother Wen said, our Heavenly Apocalypse Lord is really a Ming Jun, but it is difficult to return to it, Chen heard that the eunuch Wei Zhongxian is gaining momentum day by day. Wei Zhongxian is just a gangster, and he won't do much, but after all, it's a cancer. ”

Wen Zhenmeng said: "Because of this, Brother Chen should come forward to assist Mingjun and return the people of the world to a clear mind." ”

Wen Zhenmeng's words were impassioned and righteous, and Chen Renjin was speechless for a while, and turned to look at Zhou Xiaoniang.

Zhou Xiaoniang was listening attentively to the two of them, and when she saw Chen Renjin turning to her, she knew her intentions, and stepped forward to give a deep salute and said: "Xiao Niang is just a woman, although she has been taught by her teacher and uncle, her knowledge and knowledge are still not as good as those of her teacher and uncle, but Xiao Niang thinks that what Uncle Wen said is very true.

When this is the time to make a contribution, the teacher may wish to give it a try. If you can be on the high school list, you will not lose the teacher's full knowledge. Anyway, we won't bribe, if it doesn't work, Yu's character will not be damaged. ”

Wen Zhenmeng said sincerely: "Ling Gao is extraordinary, admire, admire." ”

Chen Renjin pondered for a long time, paused, and said, "Okay, Chen will leave for Beijing tomorrow." After that, he turned to Zhou Xiaoniang and said: "It's just that I can't accompany you as a teacher, you must study more, and you must not slack off." ”

Zhou Xiaoniang nodded hurriedly and agreed, and turned around to help her mother pack some bags for her teacher.

The next day, Chen Renjin set off for Beijing. It's not just a day, when I get to Beijing, the Beijing test is approaching. Chen Renjin didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly went through the relevant procedures.

The results of this Beijing test were different from the previous ones, and the procedures were much simplified, not to mention, the officials refused to even accept the prescribed money. Chen Renjin was in a good mood, and his pen was like divine help, and he won the jinshi in one fell swoop.

Next is the palace test, after the palace test, Chen Renjin returned to the inn and waited for news. Perhaps because of some more expectations, Chen Renjin was inexplicably irritable.

At the same time, another person is also restless waiting for the results.

Who? Empress Zhang Yan.

Why? I'm in a hurry to find a teacher for the emperor. There was no way, after the court situation stabilized a little, the emperor became obsessed with carpenter work. Although the emperor also had a hobby of carpentry before, he was not as obsessed as he is now.

This is obviously a trick of the Hakka family and the gelding Wei Zhongxian, and Empress Zhang repeatedly persuaded him, causing Ke Wei to hold a grudge, but the emperor just refused to listen, but favored Ke Wei more and more. Not long ago, Wei Zhongxian was promoted to become a eunuch of the ceremonial pen.

What to do? Find a resolute and upright teacher for the emperor. Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and the days are long, and the emperor does not worry about changing his ways.

But where do you find this teacher? Naturally, you can only find it from the top three in the palace examination. These three designations are only eight buckets high, if they can be resolute and upright, they will not fail in their mission.

How do you decide? Send someone to check? It's doable. But who will be sent? Now who else in the palace can be trusted, no. Since there is none, it is better not to send it. If he sends one at random, won't he suffer from it when he comes back and talks nonsense?

Zhang Hou pondered, there was nothing to be done, and suddenly his eyes lit up: by the way, the text is like his person, if the text is characteristic, this person is not bad.

However, this person must not let him be the champion and the leader, because the champion and the list are always sent separately according to the convention, even if his literary talent is high, he can only be wronged to be a tanhualang.

In a hurry, the top three rolls came in, and he fell in love with the original champion Chen Renjin at a glance, so he took advantage of the emperor's inattention and changed him to Tanhua. The emperor's mind is not on this, and he will approve it without looking at it.

Chen Renjin naturally couldn't know this, he was walking around the house. Whenever he was restless, he would go around the house at a hurry, and he would have to lie down and fall asleep, and when he woke up again, he would be refreshed.

This time, Chen Renjin was tired and lay down, but he still couldn't sleep. No, to be precise, I can't sleep as well as I used to, and I'm always half-asleep and half-awake.

It wasn't until the early hours of the next morning that he finally fell asleep. However, after a while, the deafening sound of firecrackers suddenly sounded outside the inn.

Chen Renjin got up busily, and the shopkeeper had already broken in, and said, "Congratulations to the master, congratulations to the master." ”

Chen Rentin's heart was excited, and he pretended to ask calmly: "Thank you, but I don't know where the joy comes from?" ”

The shopkeeper couldn't wait to say: "The old man has explored the flowers in high school——"

"Tanhua?" Chen Renjin asked in disbelief, but when he saw the shopkeeper nodding vigorously, he was confused for a while, he obviously didn't expect that it would be such an ending, let alone that he would enter the Hanlin Academy three days later and be promoted to the emperor.