After the New Year, although there were constant disputes between the Donglin Party and the Qichu and Zhejiang parties in the court, Li Hongyu's eyes fell on another matter: the Emperor of the Apocalypse... lā?? (a)?? (viii)

Although the ancients were twenty crowns, that is, twenty-year-old men were considered adults, and they were able to take "words" by performing crown salutes, such as Li Hongyu, who only had "names" and no "words" due to his lack of age, which was a symbol of scholars.

The Son of Heaven is naturally different from ordinary people, and he needs to appoint a prince as soon as possible to stabilize the country and stabilize the people's hearts, so the young Son of Heaven can usually marry at the age of sixteen, and Emperor Wanli married the queen at the age of sixteen.

Since the moment Emperor Taichang died, the matter after the election of Emperor Tianqi has been carried out in an orderly manner according to the existing process, and the queen was selected from among the innocent and beautiful girls in the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, all the weddings in the world also stopped giving way to the big wedding of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and all the school-age girls who did not marry were all candidates for the queen, that is, "ladies", and the yamen of each state and county were responsible for selecting them from the townships and towns up the levels.

As a close minister around the Apocalypse, Li Hongyu naturally understands the "post-election" procedure, if you want to become the queen, the ladies who are running for the election have to go through eight levels in a row, and finally the Emperor of the Apocalypse will appoint the queen from the selected several outstanding candidates, and the rest of the losers will become concubines.

Li Hongyu secretly felt fortunate in his heart, fortunately no one knew that Zhao Xin was his daughter, otherwise Zhao Xin's appearance would definitely stand out from many ladies and enter the last level.

Whenever he thought that Zhao Xinkong had a stunning face but wanted to appear as a man, Li Hongyu would feel extremely guilty in his heart, and felt sorry for Zhao Xin's infatuation, if it weren't for Zhao Xin's deep love for him, he would never have made such a big sacrifice.

Today, Zhao Xin has become Li Hongyu's most important and trusted person, and the reason why he went south to run the Customs Department was because Zhao Xin took care of him in the capital, so that he had no worries.

Zhao Xin's current identity and status are beyond the reach of Jinshi in the same department, and there are very few opportunities to become the teacher of the imperial grandson, and the teacher of the imperial grandson can be promoted to the scholar of Youchunfang University is even rarer, which all indicates Zhao Xin's excellence, and also shows that Zhao Xin's current position is irreplaceable for Li Hongyu.

As the left and right Chunfang scholars, when the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not have a prince, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin and other Zhan Shi were responsible for teaching Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Huiyuan and other princes and princesses.

Since Li Hongyu was going to leave the capital and go south to the Customs Department, only Zhao Xin could get close to Zhu Youzhen, so he naturally shouldered the burden of gaining Zhu Youzhen's trust, and only in this way could Li Hongyu stay at ease in the Customs Department.

In March, the ladies selected by the three provinces of the two capitals rushed to the capital, ready to participate in the selection of the palace, and the unsuccessful ones will enrich the harem and become concubines and palace maids at all levels.

For those ladies who are not deeply involved in the world, the palace is an incomparably mysterious and majestic place, and they are shocked and amazed by the majestic capital and the splendid Forbidden City.

Whenever the carriages that sent the ladies into the palace from various provinces arrived in the capital, they would attract a large number of people to gather around the roadside to watch the excitement and judge the ladies who dared to look out of the car windows.

Of course, the casinos in the capital also secretly opened gambling tables in accordance with current events, betting that the lady could win the queen's crown, which made gamblers flock to it.

Li Hongyu had a good errand and was sent by the Emperor of the Apocalypse to oversee the selection of those ladies with Wei Zhongxian, which was a feast for the eyes.

Of course, Li Hongyu was just feasting his eyes, and things like tailoring the ladies and other close contacts were completed by Wei Zhongxian with the eunuchs and female officials.

Those ladies didn't know the identity of the young official in front of them at all, and when they saw that Li Hongyu was young, they thought they were Wei Zhongxian's followers, and secretly laughed and talked about this handsome and elegant little official.

However, some ladies who have seen the world recognize Li Hongyu's official uniform, and know that this is the costume of a dignified and second-class civil official in Daming, and they immediately guessed Li Hongyu's identity while being shocked, and they were quite in awe of Li Hongyu in their words and deeds.

After all, civil officials are different from military positions, and the titles of civil officials are all taken down step by step, unlike the hereditary military position, so the only young civil officials in the Ming Dynasty are today's new champions, Hanlin editors, Zuo Chunfang University scholars, and Li Hongyu, the assistant minister of Tuogu.

It is worth mentioning that Li Hongyu's main job was compiled by Hanlin, and he was later appointed by Emperor Wanli to serve as a horse wash in the Zhan Shifu Economic Bureau, which he used to participate in the two substantive positions of the court.

Since the Customs Department is a newly established yamen, he is now abandoned, so the outside world usually does not mention his post of Customs Department Secretary Guan Tongzhi.

After Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, Li Hongyu was still compiled by Hanlin, after all, the promotion of the Hanlin Academy mainly depends on seniority, and Li Hongyu is still young and naturally will not be promoted, but his position in the Zhan Mansion was promoted and promoted to Zuo Chunfang University.

Hanlin compiled from the sixth grade, Zuo Chunfang University Scholar is the fifth grade, and Li Hongyu's official rank is high enough, far ahead of the fellow scholars.

After Emperor Tianqi inherited the throne, Li Hongyu was awarded the title of the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and he was suddenly promoted to the third rank in terms of grade, which was finally in line with his identity and status as an assistant minister.

Who would have thought that there would be a fire in the Luan Palace, and Li Hongyu's title was greatly improved by mistake, and he became the prince and young master of the second grade.

I am afraid that Li Hongyu is the highest-ranking and youngest Hanlin editor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and the title of the crown prince and young master has made the vast majority of officials in the officialdom out of reach.

Because of this title of the crown prince and young master, Li Hongyu was able to wear the official robe of the second grade, and he really had the prestige of the Ming Dynasty's auxiliary ministers.

Therefore, when facing Li Hongyu, those ladies who recognized Li Hongyu's identity performed with all their might, hoping to leave a good impression on Li Hongyu, and then take the lead in front of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, everyone knows that Li Hongyu is the confidant of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and a few words of kind words in front of the Emperor of the Apocalypse can change the fate of their lives.

Li Hongyu was purely here to see the excitement this time, and Emperor Tianqi knew that he had been so busy that he couldn't sleep and eat during this time, so he leisurely watched Wei Zhongxian busy there, after all, he was a foreign minister, and it was not appropriate to have any entanglement with those ladies.

For the empress of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Li Hongyu knows some information, remembering that the empress of the Emperor of the Apocalypse is surnamed Zhang, a beautiful and gentle woman, when the Dashun army broke through the city of Beijing, she chose to commit suicide and martyrdom, and she is a loyal woman.

According to some records or rumors in later generations, Empress Zhang was a virtuous empress who admonished Wei Zhongxian several times when he deceived the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so she was murdered by Wei Zhongxian and became infertile, and made great contributions to Emperor Chongzhen's accession to the throne, and was deeply respected by Emperor Chongzhen.

Although Li Hongyu didn't know what Wei Zhongxian would do in the future after gaining power, now Wei Zhongxian was just a nominal eunuch who was suppressed by Wang An.

Moreover, Emperor Tianqi is not the rumored "carpenter emperor" who was played by Wei Zhongxian and the nursing mother Ke clan, he was able to endure in the palace transfer case so far, which has already shown his deep city government and wisdom, and without the support of Emperor Tianqi, how could a eunuch Wei Zhongxian defeat the Donglin Party in just three years?

From another point of view, Wei Zhongxian's ability to call for wind and rain in the court is not because of how powerful he is, but because he is a spokesman that the Emperor of the Apocalypse is looking for, which makes the courtiers all in awe.

This also explains why Emperor Chongzhen, who ascended the throne at the age of seventeen or eighteen, was able to overthrow the Emperor of the Apocalypse in a single night, and Wei Zhongxian, who was in power during his lifetime, made the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty compete to give him a shrine, because Wei Zhongxian lost the protection of imperial power, and those who once feared him would naturally abandon him.

In the final analysis, Wei Zhongxian was just a pawn used by Emperor Tianqi to consolidate imperial power, and after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he became an outcast, so he naturally avoided the fate of being abandoned.

Li Hongyu has seen the nurse of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the Ke family, is a middle-aged woman who still has charm, and has been staying in the palace to serve since becoming the nurse of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and is the confidant of the Emperor of the Apocalypse's biological mother, Wang Cairen.

Li Hongyu scoffed at the rumors that the Hakka family seduced the young Emperor of the Apocalypse, and then made the Emperor of the Apocalypse obsessed with it, you must know that the Emperor of the Apocalypse used to be raised by Wang Cairen, and he was deeply concerned by the Wanli Emperor.

However, the relationship between the Hakka family and Wei Zhongxian is very close, after all, both of them are close servants of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and it is strange that they have been getting along with each other for more than ten years without feelings, in the final analysis, Wei Zhongxian is also a man, a man with disabilities, and he also hopes to live a normal life, and the loneliness of life in the palace is not something that ordinary people can understand.

After a series of strict selections, Wei Zhongxian and the eunuchs and female officials who were in charge of the selection selected eight talented and beautiful ladies, and then gathered all the ladies in the courtyard of a large hall, and let the eight ladies stand in front of those ladies in two rows.

Li Hongyu and several officials of the Ministry of Rites had to verify the talents of the eight ladies, and then report the results to the Emperor of the Apocalypse for reference.

At this time, on the steps in front of the main hall, Li Hongyu and several officials of the Ministry of Rites sat in a row and looked at the beautiful ladies in the courtyard, among these ladies were the future queen of the Ming Dynasty and the concubines.

Seeing that the young Li Hongyu was sitting in the middle of the middle-aged and elderly officials of the Ministry of Rites, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites were very respectful to him, this surprised many ladies standing in the courtyard, it seems that this handsome young official is not the petty official they thought before.

"Scholar, this is the roster of selected ladies, please take a look." Under the nervous and concerned gaze of all the ladies, Wei Zhongxian took the roster in his hand to Li Hongyu.

Hearing the words "university scholar", the ladies at the scene who didn't know Li Hongyu's identity suddenly understood, it turned out that the "little official" they thought was the new champion of the Ming Dynasty, Li University Scholar of Zuochunfang in the current dynasty.

Now Li Hongyu's name has already spread all over the Ming Dynasty, and the youngest champion and scholar of the Ming Dynasty once defeated Jiannu on the battlefield of Liaodong, and then turned the tide and reversed the unfavorable situation on the battlefield of Liaodong.

Li Hongyu looked through the roster, and couldn't help but have a look of surprise on his face, although the eight ladies selected were beautiful, there was no one surnamed Zhang, but he clearly remembered that the queen of the Emperor of the Apocalypse was surnamed Zhang, could it be that something happened here?

"Manager Wei, all the ladies are here?"

After pondering for a while, Li Hongyu closed the roster and looked at Wei Zhongxian quietly, he just glanced around at the ladies in the courtyard, there was no one in them who was outstanding in appearance and temperament compared to the eight ladies standing in front, so he wanted to see if anyone was missing.

"Back to the university, it's all there." Wei Zhongxian thought that Li Hongyu was doing a routine business, so he looked at a tall and thin eunuch standing beside him, and the tall and thin eunuch bowed back with a smile on his face.

"Everyone?" Li Hongyu looked at the tall and thin eunuch and asked.

"Yes, everyone." The tall and thin eunuch's face changed slightly, and then he bowed back.

"Count the number of people." Li Hongyu noticed the change in the face of the tall and thin eunuch, and knew what was hidden in it, so he said to the tall and thin eunuch.

The thin and tall eunuch was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and his face became a little panicked, but since Li Hongyu opened his mouth, he couldn't refuse, so he could only reluctantly let his inner servants go to count the number of people.

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