As for the other Huang Chao, as a leader of the peasant rebel army, everyone may think that he was born poor and could only pretend to be a god stick and had no culture, but in fact, Huang Chao was born in a wealthy family, both civil and military, and later he was admitted to the martial champion, but when he met the emperor, he frightened the emperor because of his ugly appearance, and the emperor was angry and dismissed Huang Chao's martial champion! Huang Chao chose a completely different way to fight than Zhong Kui, he launched a peasant rebellion and became the emperor himself!

This is the disadvantage of the feudal imperial examination system, for the scholars of this era, participating in the imperial examination is their only chance to change their fate, but such an opportunity is ruined because of such a strange reason as not good looks, it is no wonder that Zhong Kui and Huang Chao will choose the most fierce way to fight!

Now Hong Chengchou is also facing the same situation, the Donglin Party wants to classify him into the top three for the reason of not being good-looking, thanks to a person who stood up to help him speak at this time, this person is the new first assistant --- Li Tingji!

At this time, Zhu Geng had died of illness in the first assistant, the cabinet was unmanned, the Wanli Emperor promoted Li Tingji to let him take over as the first assistant, Li Tingji is a rare Qing official in the Ming Dynasty's successive first assistants, Ming history records that he "is persistent, especially incorruptible, but the nature is deep, but also quite biased, not familiar with the general situation." ”

Li Tingji is probably not familiar with the general situation because he is the first assistant who has submitted the most resignations in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Li Tingji really has no choice, when he meets Wanli, the laziest emperor, even if he has three heads and six arms, he is also weak, and at this time, the party competition in the imperial court is fierce, and the Donglin party even dares to scold the Wanli Emperor, not to mention that he is the first assistant, Li Tingji was already messed up by the mess thrown to him by the Wanli Emperor, and he was scolded by the Donglin Party every day, his face is not as thick as the Wanli Emperor, so he can only submit his resignation to the Wanli Emperor, But Emperor Wanli didn't even bother to read his resignation, Li Tingji was also a tendon, and he really spent it with Emperor Wanli, and wrote 123 resignations in a row, and then simply donated the house to the poor, sent his family back to his hometown first, and ran to live in the temple and waited for Emperor Wanli to approve his resignation, so he also got the nickname of "Temple Zhu Ge Lao", but he still didn't wait for Emperor Wanli to approve his resignation, and finally Li Tingji completely collapsed, risking his head, and ran back to his hometown, finally Emperor Wanli still has a little conscience, He was not held accountable.

From this, we can also see how aggrieved Li Tingji, the first assistant, should be, so under normal circumstances, Li Tingji is also very reluctant to have a bad relationship with the Donglin Party with many people, you must know that the reason why the Donglin Party can become an important force affecting the government in the middle and late Ming Dynasty is because they are very united, and it is difficult to meet opponents in a verbal war, once they bite it, it is really very difficult!

The reason why Li Tingji is willing to stand up and help Hong Chengchou speak this time is that in addition to the fact that he really admires Hong Chengchou's talent and thinks that he is a talent that can be created, Hong Chengchou is also his hometown, all of whom are from Quanzhou, Fujian, and more importantly, he has had a similar experience to Hong Chengchou. Shen Shixing felt that the candidates in the whole country counted Zhu Guozuo (Zhu Guozuo: the champion of the 11th year of the Wanli Palace Examination) was pleasing to the eye, so he threw the hat of the champion to him, which made Li Tingji's stomach full of resentment.

It is precisely because of this experience that Li Tingji did not hesitate to make friends with the Donglin Party members to stand up and help Hong Chengchou speak, but although Li Tingji was the first assistant, at this time, the Donglin Party members had gradually recovered from the party struggle between the "Yisi Jingcha" and the Zhejiang Party, and four of the eight examiners were Donglin Party members, so it was not easy for Li Tingji to help Hong Chengchou uphold justice.

The two sides of this matter were in dispute, and in the end they could only make trouble to Emperor Wanli, Emperor Wanli was too lazy to pay attention to this kind of thing, but when he heard that the reason for the dispute was actually for a scholar from Dongfan, he was also surprised, his impression of Dongfan has always been an overseas desert island, so he has been enduring not to attack Guo Zhiyuan, but now that Dongfan Academy can teach so many outstanding talents, then he has to pay attention!

Emperor Wanli took the article written by Hong Chengchou submitted by the ministers and looked at it, don't look at Emperor Wanli is lazy, but his vision is still very poisonous, which can also be seen from the first and auxiliary ministers he appointed, Zhang Juzheng needless to say, the later Zhang Siwei until Ye Xianggao is a mediocre talent, which can be done for more than 20 years without going to the court to maintain the complete collapse of the government, so after reading Hong Chengchou's policy article, he knew that this is definitely a talent that can be created, if Hong Chengchou is not from Dongfan, he will definitely reuse Hong Chengchou!

Looking at Li Tingji and the others who were arguing in front of him, Emperor Wanli waved his hand a little impatiently and said, "Stop arguing!" Go and summon that tribute named Hong Chengchou to see me, I have my own decision! ……”

Hong Chengchou faced the saint for the first time, and it was false to say that he was not nervous, but thinking that Guo Zhiyuan had taught them in Dongfan Academy that people were equal to each other, and there was no distinction between high and low, his waist straightened again, and he raised his head without humility or arrogance to look directly at the majestic scrutiny of Emperor Wanli.

Emperor Wanli frowned slightly, and the other courtiers saw that if it was not fear in his eyes, if it was not flattery, only Guo Zhiyuan was very respectful when facing him, but he always looked directly at him with a gaze that was neither humble nor arrogant, and now he saw the same gaze in Hong Chengchou's eyes, which made him very uncomfortable, deliberately aggravated the coercion, and asked slowly: "Your name is Hong Chengchou?" From Dongfan? I may not have seen Guo Zhiyuan for a long time, how is he now? ……”

"Enlighten the saint, trust the saint to Hongfu, the mountain chief is in good health, everything is fine, Dongfan is in peace under the governance of the mountain chief, and the people live and work in peace and contentment...... Hong Chengchou replied without humility or arrogance.

"Mountain Chief?" Emperor Wanli's brows furrowed even tighter, and he said in a somewhat sarcastic tone: "I didn't expect Guo Zhiyuan to have a hobby of being a good teacher, if I remember correctly, he is an official who is specially allowed to be a talent, and he has not even taken the Xiucai exam......"

Hong Chengchou worshiped Guo Zhiyuan to the extreme, even if he knew that he might anger the Wanli Emperor, he still plucked up his courage and said: "The saint forgives the sin, Weichen thinks that fame does not represent a person's knowledge and talent, Li Taibai has never been famous, but he has become a poet immortal, praised through the ages, since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the champion who passed the imperial examination does not know how many, but there are only a few people who can leave a name in history and become a generation of famous ministers......