I don't know how long later, he suddenly heard a loud shout: "It turned out to be, it turned out to be ......" but the last few words were never spoken.

"Grandpa, who is it?" Chen Yonghua felt strange when he heard his words and asked.

After a while, Chen Baoguo came back to his senses, solemnly put the jade pendant back into Chen Yonghua's hand, and said: "You must take good care of this jade pendant Yonghua, in the future, this is your future." No, it's still grandpa who keeps it for you. As he spoke, he carefully placed the jade pendant on the table, found a book and sandwiched it in the book, and said to himself: "It's safer to find some cotton to wrap in it." ”

"What?" Yonghua felt even more confused and wanted to continue asking, but Chen Baoguo stopped answering and turned around and went out.

Yonghua said to himself puzzled: "What is the identity of the person who gave me this jade pendant?" Let grandpa pay so much attention? ”

The day passed quickly. Early the next morning, Yun Xi returned to the front hall of the Qianqing Palace, and saw several slightly unfamiliar faces standing in the hall nervously, and some people were sweating on their heads. Chen Ji walked over and said a few words to them, but Yun Xi couldn't hear them from a distance, but he shook his head when he saw them.

Yun Xi took a few steps closer, and one of them suddenly turned his head as if he expected him to return, and then bowed down and said to Yun Xi: "Chen Zhou Shu has seen Your Majesty. ”

When the others heard this, they immediately turned their heads and saluted him, saying, "Your ×× have seen Your Majesty." ”

"Everyone, love Qing, get even." Yun Xi walked into the Qianqing Palace and said to them.

Naturally, these people were selected to be by his side among the jinshi of this subject as Zhongshu Sheren. Although the imperial examination system has also led to the production of some high-scoring and low-ability people, but those who can go all the way to the Jinshi may have a dead eye, but there are absolutely no high-scoring and low-ability people, and most of them are also the most outstanding talents in the Ming Dynasty, so Yunxi has to select a few new Jinshi to his side for the Zhongshu Sheren.

Yun Xi said a few words to these people, to the effect that they were all talented people of the Ming Dynasty, and they were serious about running errands by my side, and so on.

After saying this, Yun Xi instructed the little eunuch to go and get two tables and two chairs. Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu and Wang Gen went to the foreign court as officials, and vacated three tables and three chairs, and only needed to make up for two.

At the same time, Yun Xi sat down and asked them to come forward to talk one-on-one in turn to enhance their understanding. After all, this group of people is different from the group three years ago, and that group of people are all outstanding talents who have passed the test of history.

Because the emperor's expression was kind and his tone was not stern, a few people involuntarily relaxed during the conversation, but the others were still very respectful from beginning to end.

He saw all of this, kept it in his mind for the time being, and then wrote it into his comments on them. Being an official by Yun Xi's side is regarded by most officials as a fast track to promotion, which is true, but if Yun Xi feels that this person is not suitable for being an official when he is around, he will be an old man for a lifetime or transferred to the Hanlin Academy.

The last new Kejin to be met was Zhou Shu. He attaches great importance to him. Zhou Shu's two exam strategies were very close to his mind, and his impression of him was also very good after consulting with Jin Shan and other Jiangxi fellow villagers; Of course, the more important thing is that his younger brother Zhou Wei likes astronomy, and Yun Xi Aiwu and Wu look at him differently.

So at this time, Yun Xi praised him slightly, and asked: "I am actually a little curious, you live in the countryside, how can you solve the three policy questions in this way?" ”

"The questions of the palace exam are not bad, because the time is not long, so it is not difficult for me to come out; But how can Aiqing answer the two questions that will be tested? Even the answers of some courtiers are different from what I thought. ”

Yun Xi has been puzzled by this. There are people around him who can't accurately grasp his thoughts, why can Zhou Shu grasp it? If it is impossible to leak secrets, the test questions were still out when he was in Guangzhou, and they were sent to the capital in an expedited manner for 600 miles, and they were taken out by Xi Yao and handed over to the invigilator on the day of the start of the test.

"Your Majesty, Chen Jianye was raised in the middle of the first year, and although he was unable to come to the capital to participate in the examination because of serious illness in the following year, he has always been concerned. Later, I heard from my friend that His Majesty liked to discuss policies like the Tang and Song Dynasties, and he emphasized the "Five Classics", so the minister read through the "Five Classics", and went to the county government every month to copy a newspaper and came back to ponder carefully, so he was lucky to answer the question of His Majesty. Zhou Shu said.

"Even so, Aiqing is extremely talented." Yun Xi smiled after hearing this.

Yun Xi actually didn't want the local scholars to care about the government. Local scholars often criticize the inappropriateness of the imperial court's administration, but they don't know that people who are not in their positions cannot know the difficulties of the rulers at all, and in many cases, the reason why they are forced to deal with them in this way is that they can only choose the lesser of two evils.

But since he attaches great importance to policy theory, it is natural for people to pay attention to Di Bao; In order to be able to select talents who are more suitable for officials, he cannot ignore strategy because of choking. As mentioned above, the lesser of two evils.

"That day outside the palace, I saw the handwriting of Zhou Wei, the brother of Aiqing, and the calligraphy was very good; And listen to him and say that your calligraphy is better. It just so happens that Jin Shan went to the foreign court as an official, so you will work with Chen Ji in the future to draft and polish the holy decree instead of me. Yun Xi said again.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. The ministers should do their best. Zhou Shu was very happy in his heart, but said with a blank face. The person who drafted the decree was able to show his face at Yun Xi on a regular basis, but it was a good errand, and of course he was happy.

Yun Xi gave him a few more words, and Zhou Shu kept nodding his head in agreement. At this moment, the Storm Zhao Ticket finished preparing a batch of folds, stepped forward and put them on Yunxi's table, took out two folds, put the first one on the table first, and said to him: "Your Majesty, this is the Yamen drafted by the Anthology Division this year, except for Zhou Chongshu and other new science and technology scholars to view the government, please make a decision on it." ”

He put down the second copy again: "Your Majesty, this is the list of officials who have been promoted from the fifth rank to the seventh rank drawn up by the Ministry of Officials for three or six years, please take a look at it." ”

Yun Xi nodded, and after Storm Zhao retreated, he gestured to Zhou Shu, opened the first fold and looked at it.

I don't care how others arrange Yun Xi, only Zhou Wei's view of the government is very important. Yun Xi quickly found Zhou Wei's name, and when he saw that the yamen proposed by the Anthology Division was the household department, he immediately frowned. The Ministry of Household is almost equivalent to the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other more than a dozen ministries and commissions in the later generations, there are many things, it is the busiest department of the six, he went to this department as an official, how can he have time to ponder astronomical things?

Yun Xi thought about it for a while, crossed out the arrangement for Zhou Wei, and wrote next to it: "I will be appointed to observe the government in the Ministry of Industry." "The Ministry of Industry is relatively idle, and nominally manages the Gezhi Academy, so Zhou Wei is arranged in this yamen.

He then glanced at the arrangements for the others, counted the number of people arranged by each yamen, folded the music, looked up and saw Zhou Shu, and asked him, "Aiqing, do you know what your brother is busy at home these days?" He already knew Zhou Wei's attitude through Jin Yiwei, so he asked him.

Zhou Shu wanted to know which yamen his younger brother was assigned to, but the emperor didn't dare to ask if he didn't say it. He looked around again, and when he saw that there was no one beside him, he replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the younger brother of the minister spends most of these days in the public rental house allocated to the minister's brother, and gets up at night to watch the stars and record the changes in the stars. ”

"The courtier sometimes writes and calculates in the house, as if he wants to use the calculations to calculate the laws of the movement of the sun, moon and stars, but if he does so, he will soon become very restless."

"Because the deputy of the Cao Yuan is now preparing for the Gezhi Academy, there is less time for the younger brother to study with him."

Yun Xi listened, pondered for a while, and then said to him: "When you go back, tell him that you can try to think about astronomical things from the perspective that the earth is a sphere." ”

'The earth is a ball? How is this possible! Zhou Shu felt in his heart that this was the sequelae of the emperor's witchcraft, and he thought that the earth was a ball. He was afraid that Yunxi's 'wrong' idea would delay his brother's research on the 'correct' theory, so he just agreed very lightly: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Yun Xi couldn't help but sigh secretly when he saw his reaction, and then instructed: "This is my order, you must tell Zhou Wei." ”

After instructing this matter, Yun Xi asked him to step down, and then instructed Wang Xi: "You go to the original Qintianjian Yamen, and instruct the former Qintianjian Deputy Sichengtang to make a copy of all the existing astronomical instruments in Qintianjian and send them to Zhou Wei's residence on unobtrusive days." ”

He added: "Now Zhou Wei and Brother Zhou Shu live together, but the place is a little smaller. Then you tell the person in charge of public rental housing to choose two other houses next to each other and arrange for their brother to live in. ”

"Yes, official." Wang Xi agreed, bowed and retreated.

Yun Xi thought about it and was still not at ease, and ordered Huang Lu to wait for the time to go to the home of Zhao Haode, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, and Qi Tai, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and told them that they must not ignore the needs of the money, food and utensils of Gezhi Yuan. Qi Tai and Zhao Haode are both his cronies, and they must still listen to what they say in private.

After being instructed on this matter, Yun Xi has nothing else to command, and looks at the second part.

He flipped through the fold with the list of officials from five to seven grades, looked at it roughly, and was about to put it down, when he suddenly saw two somewhat familiar names.

"Jiangning County Commander Zhou Yuan, plans to be promoted to the Ministry of War's Arsenal Division? Ying Tianfu sentenced Li Guan and planned to be promoted to lieutenant of Ying Tianfu? It seems that Huang Huai has a high opinion of the two of them, and they can both be promoted. ”

Yun Xi was not good for Zhou Yuan because of what he saw and heard when he left the palace again, and Li Guan because of the records in the history books, so he had a bad sense of the two of them, and felt that their character was not good, but he didn't expect that Yin Huanghuai of Ying Tianfu had a very high evaluation of them.

"Spread Huang Huai to the palace for an audience." Yun Xi said to the little eunuch beside him.

After a while, Huang Huai entered the palace and bowed to Yun Xi: "Your Majesty, what is the matter with summoning the ministers?" ”

"Huang Qing, Zhou Yuan, the commander of Jiangning County in Tianfu, and Li Guan, how have you evaluated them in the past three years?" Yoon-hee asked.

"Your Majesty, Jiangning County ordered Zhou Yuan to be in office for three years, diligent and diligent, hard-working, and the ministers admired him a lot, so the first year was rated as upper and lower, the second year was Shangzhong, the third year was Shangzhong, and they were all superior for three consecutive years."

"Ying Tianfu sentenced Li Guan, although he was greedy for power and very keen to be an official, but he was also very diligent in the general judgment and did his errands very well, so the minister was rated as upper middle in the first year, upper middle in the second year, and upper and lower in the third year, and he was also promoted. It also happened that Lieutenant Ying Tianfu died of illness in office, and there was a vacancy, so the minister discussed with Li Ren, the secretary of the ministry, to promote him to Lieutenant Ying Tianfu. Huang Huai said.

He really admires Zhou Yuan, but he doesn't really like Li Guan. Although Li Guan did not show his shameless temperament after Zhu Di entered the capital in the Battle of Jingjing, his enthusiasm for being an official and following the emperor in the past three years still made Huang Huai dislike him.

If it had been a few years ago, Huang Huai would definitely not have been willing to promote him. But since he came to Ying Tianfu a few years ago, he finally understood that local affairs are not easy to do, and many times they are forced to do it, and he can't help but have much lower moral requirements for people, as long as they don't violate the "Da Ming Law" and don't violate the bottom line of being a man, they really can't take care of the rest. In addition, Li Guan has done an excellent job in the past three years, and the security of Xicheng has been greatly improved under his management, which is far better than that of the other four cities, and it will be much easier for him to be a lieutenant in the palace, so he is determined to promote Li Guan in this way.

Hearing his faint meaning, Yun Xi smiled and said, "What Aiqing said is good, but I thought it was wrong." In this case, I approved the promotion of these two people. As he spoke, he put a √ on the names of the two of them in agreement.