Xie Yun'er seemed unwilling to face Shen Xi anymore, so she packed up the embroidery and went to the stove room.

Shen Xi prepared the tools for making forgeries, and he had never made any more forgeries since he embarked on the imperial examination, and after three or four years, he had to make fake ancient paintings again, but this time he made forgeries, but this time he made forgeries of his own works.

In order to strive for authenticity, Shen Xi wants to use colored brushes to paint, and then use the method of old-age painting after painting, and make the painting old for 20 to 30 years. He only needs to make the characters in the painting as vivid as possible with the beautiful woman in the previous painting, which requires a solid foundation.

A lot of materials need to be prepared, fortunately, there are three girls at home, Ning'er, Zhu Shan and Xiu'er, let them go to the street to buy lime, toner and other necessary things in the future, Shen Xi will paint the painting first, and then complete the follow-up work in the next day.

Shen Xi was busy, and soon it was time for dinner.

Lin Dai came in to ask Shen Xi to eat, but found that Shen Xi was drawing a picture of a beautiful woman, and after looking at it for a long time, she looked at Shen Xi curiously and asked, "Who is this?" ”

"Peach Blossom Fairy, do you think it's beautiful?" Shen Xi said with a smile, finding that Lin Dai's face was somewhat displeased, and added, "It was drawn according to your appearance." ”

Lin Dai couldn't help laughing: "Where are people so good-looking?" ”

Lin Dai's smile and bright flowers add a bit of color to the scenery of this dusk and sunset. Shen Xi put aside half of the painting and repainted it, but this time it was completely based on Lin Dai and brought her to life.

Lin Dai held it in her hand, the more she looked at it, the happier she became, and finally took it to Ning'er with her eyebrows fluttering, which actually contained the meaning of demonstrating against Xie Yun'er.

Sending Lin Dai away, Shen Xi continued to finish the "Peach Blossom Lady", Tingting Jade Shadow stood under the peach blossom tree, looking at not the splendor of the peach blossoms on the tree, but the withered peach blossom petals on the ground, with a bit of sadness for spring, containing the helplessness of the beauty to sigh Shaohua's passing.

After Shen Xi finished painting, he looked at it for a long time, before completing this painting, he didn't expect to be able to paint such a temporary painting with what kind of artistic conception, and after seeing the finished product, even he himself was a little intoxicated by the characters in his painting.

"Alas! It's really getting more and more narcissistic, after so many years of painting, what painting has not been painted? It's long overdue to get used to it! Shen Xi sighed and put the painting away for the time being.

Because the time is very fast, in addition to framing, but also to make the old, especially tomorrow to participate in the palace banquet, in fact, there is not much time for him to complete this, the day of the painting is a little rushed.

After dinner, Shen Xi was still busy.

He was the only one in the room, and after Xie Yun'er arrived in the capital, the other two rooms each added a **, whether it was Xie Yun'er or Lin Dai, they would not come over to disturb him after nightfall.

Before going to sleep, Shen Xi saw that the light in the next room was still on, thinking that Xie Yun'er couldn't sleep and was doing embroidery work, so he went out to the window and looked inside, only to know that Xie Yun'er was holding a dim tung oil lamp, and was reading a medical book, wiping his tears while reading, Shen Xi didn't know why Xie Yun'er suddenly felt so nostalgic.

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April 19 is the day of the palace banquet, and everyone in the Hanlin Academy is dressed in court clothes and looks well-dressed.

Officials of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the clothes they wear daily, must have two kinds of clothing: court clothes and official clothes, among which the court clothes, hence the name, are worn when meeting the Son of Heaven, officials must wear court clothes when they meet the emperor, and the emperor also needs to wear court clothes to accept the worship of officials.

After the officials retired from the court, the uniforms they wore to deal with daily official duties were called official uniforms, and the magistrates sat in the public court in the yamen and wore official uniforms. The main difference between official uniforms and court uniforms is that the wearing of official uniforms is not so complicated. Just as you must wear court clothes when you go to court, you must wear official clothes when you are in the office.

The court dress and the official dress are both formal dresses, also known as legal clothes, and the opposite is the regular clothes, also known as civilian clothes, that is, daily life wear, which is counted as "wild clothes". The word "wild" here is the opposite of "chao", not the meaning of barbarism.

Because he was used to wearing official clothes, Shen Xi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable wearing court clothes, and he felt very awkward.

Zhu Xizhou saw that Shen Xi's court clothes didn't fit, so he couldn't help but come over and smile and said, "Shen Xiu's clothes don't fit very well at first glance, why don't you find someone to redo it?" If the banquet of this palace is not in good clothes, it will not be proper. ”

Shen Xi looked down at his clothes and shook his head: "I think it's very good." ”

It is also Shen Xi who is used to living a frugal life, after he was awarded by the emperor as the historian of the Hanlin Academy, the imperial court issued an official uniform from the sixth grade, but it didn't fit well for him. Shen Xi thought that in the past few years, it was the time for him to grow his body, and it would be good for his clothes to be a little bigger, so he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that he didn't have much chance to wear court clothes to enter the palace anyway, who would have thought that he would enter the palace for an audience just a few days after becoming a Hanlin cultivator.

Zhu Xizhou shook his head disappreciatively, it was obvious that it was too late for Shen Xi to find someone to make court clothes, and even the modification was not suitable, even if it didn't fit well, he could only make do with it first.

While he was talking, someone sent a congratulatory message written by Wang Wei.

The Hanlin circulated it, and all of them praised Wang Wei's literary brilliance.

The Hanlin selectively ignored a problem, that is, Wang Wei's article was basically written with reference to a few drafts sent yesterday, and was not Wang Wei's original.

But it doesn't matter, because Wang Wei is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and he is a close minister of the emperor, and he has already come out of the Hanlin Academy.

And now these people in the Hanlin Academy are still continuing to boil, waiting for the seniority to be promoted and appointed in the future.

"I heard that the political envoy of Henan Youbu went to Beijing to sue the governor of Henan for embezzling special funds for the control of the Yellow River, and at the same time turned the disaster relief grain into personal gain, and sent it to His Majesty yesterday, Your Majesty was furious!" The news of the Hanlin Academy is always better than that of other places, and Shen Xi soon knew that there was another big mess in the place.

Shen Xi didn't know who the right political envoy of Henan was, but he knew that the governor of Henan was Gao Mingcheng, the former prefect of Tingzhou.

But Shen Xi knows very well that Gao Mingcheng is a big corrupt official, and the Hongzhi Dynasty has a lot of water in the Yellow River, so that the imperial court allocates a lot of funds to Henan to control the river every year.

When his colleagues talked about the affairs of the imperial court in the past, Shen Xi would not care, but this time when it came to his old acquaintance Gao Mingcheng, Shen Xi couldn't help but ask: "Who is the political envoy of Henan?" ”

"Wang Qiong, born in Jinshi, I heard that in recent years, he has managed water in Shandong, Henan and other places, and His Majesty has wanted to recruit him into the court many times." Someone mentioned it.

When Shen Xi heard the name "Wang Qiong", he suddenly felt sad for Gao Ming City.

Although this Wang Qiong is not well-known among the people in later generations, this person is recognized by historians as one of the "three ministers of the Ming Dynasty", and the other two, one Yu Qian and one Zhang Juzheng, show how brilliant his resume is in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of Wang Qiong, he formed an indissoluble bond with the management of the river and the Cao Yun in the first half of his life, and has been in Henan and Shandong for a generation to govern the Yellow River and the Cao Yun, and compiled the eight volumes of "The Illustrated Chronicles of the Cao River", which became famous. In the Zhengde Dynasty, he was promoted to the right deputy capital of the imperial history, responsible for supervising the Cao Yun, and later served as the left servant of the household department, the servant of the ministry, and the secretary of the household department. After he took over as the secretary of the military department, he recommended Wang Shourenping to "the rebellion of King Ning", and then "used the secretary of the military department and the commander of the right capital of the imperial history to supervise the trilateral military affairs", used troops in the northwest, annexed various tribes, and maintained the stability of the border.

Wang Qiong, who was in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, was just thirty-eight years old, in the prime of life, and was conscientiously working in Henan to control the water, but the imperial court parachuted a Gaoming City to the head as a governor, this Gaoming City actually had no experience and means to control the water, and the Tingjiang River flood was at the beginning, thanks to the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce to help plan and dispatch.

Since Wang Qiong personally went to the capital to sue the emperor, it means that Gaoming City has covered the sky with one hand in the place, so that the Henan land can not reach the capital with his recital, and what Wang Qiong played must be true.

If it is true, the emperor can't ignore it, right?

In fact, Shen Xi didn't have a very intuitive impression of Gao Mingcheng, but Gao Chong, the grandson of Gao Mingcheng, really did a lot of evil, and Hong Xun and Su Tong were beaten by Gao Chong one after another...... Cultivating such a grandson who bullies men and women, Gao Mingcheng can be seen.

Zhu Xizhou Shunzui mentioned: "I heard that the governor of Henan was the prefect of Tingzhou before, Shen Xiuzhu should know about him, right?" ”

Shen Xi nodded: "Three years ago, in the Xia Yingting Prefecture Mansion, Governor Gao was the chief examiner. ”

Zhu Xizhou praised: "This Tingzhou is really an outstanding person, three years ago he was the prefect of Tingzhou, and then he was the governor of Henan...... Alas, Shen Xiu is even more, he only participated in the government examination three years ago, and now he has been the top student in high school for Hanlin Xiu, but I have not moved for three years in this son! ”

When Shen Xi took the government examination, Zhu Xizhou had already won the champion and became the Hanlin Revision, and three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Wang Zhan, the leader of the department, has been promoted to the first level, and Zhu Xizhou is still stagnant, and Shen Xi, the new champion, is already on par with him.

For an ordinary scholar, the entrance examination is very different from the top student, and there is no thought of it for more than ten or twenty years, but on Shen Xi, it can be completed in three years with a flick of his fingers, as if everything is falling into place.

Shen Xi said with a smile: "The next candidate for the waiter is probably Brother Mao Zhong." ”

Zhu Xizhou smiled and waved his hand, looking extremely modest, but in fact, it has been spread all over the Hanlin Academy these days, Zhu Xizhou has already been included in the next promotion list, and he will be promoted to the Hanlin Academy, the promotion is not large, but he is still serving in the Hanlin Academy, and if he does it for a few more years, he will definitely take a temporary post in the Zhan Mansion or the Ministry of Rites in the future, which is clearly the route of entering the cabinet.

Of course, this is the most idealized path to Jinshi, countless people take this road, and in the end most of them are squeezed down, and only one or two people can enter the cabinet like Xie Qian and Li Dongyang to become scholars and become the emperor's right and left hand.

In the morning, the Hanlin Temple presented the list of all the people who were with the banquet to the Honglu Temple, and just after noon, the Honglu Temple sent someone to send all the seats of the Hanlin Temple.

Where everyone sits, how many people sit at a table, are clearly listed.

Now that it's been listed, even if you suddenly get sick, you still have to go. However, no one said that he happened to fall ill on the day of the palace banquet, and he was in good health in the morning, but in the afternoon he said that he was not sick, and the emperor would definitely think that you were in a mood and did not want to attend, and he would definitely be investigated afterwards.

The emperor's banquet is a gift to you, if you don't know each other, you have touched the emperor's scales.

Shen Xi, as a Hanlin cultivator, from the official of the sixth grade, is almost the same as the last seat among all the people, even if he is not at the end of the seat, and among all the people who are with the banquet, there are very few of his official positions that are inferior, and most of them are colleagues of the Hanlin Academy.

However, this is also a great opportunity for Shen Xi to get to know the members of the imperial court, so that the various ministries and high-ranking officials of the temple who attended the banquet can familiarize him with him...... If you want Shangguan to remember you, you must first start by letting them remember your appearance.

"Shen Xiu, you and I are really fateful, and we happen to be at the same table with you today." Zhu Xizhou took the seating table and walked to Shen Xi's desk with a smile.

Originally, it was the same as the Hanlin Cultivation, and the official position and official character were the same, and there was no one who could attend the palace banquet from the sixth grade, and in the case of two people having a table, Zhu Xizhou had to have a table with Wang Zan if he didn't have a table with Shen Xi. Zhu Xizhou had to run over and tell him that he was fated, but Shen Xi couldn't save his face, so he said a few polite words.

Everyone was about to set off, and Liu Daxia, the head of the household, suddenly came over in a hurry...... To say that a big man like Liu Daxia who does practical things rarely sets foot in a retreat place like the Hanlin Academy.

"Liu Shangshu, what kind of wind ......"

Zhu Xizhou was about to go up to greet him, only to realize that there was a figure behind Liu Daxia's sturdy body, it was Wang Wei, the young Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu and a bachelor of Hanlin Academy, who wrote a congratulatory message on behalf of the Hanlin Academy yesterday.

Liu Daxia didn't say anything, and Wang Wei's first sentence was: "Yesterday's congratulatory message was directly withdrawn." ”

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