"In this way, it can be regarded as a meritocracy of you, the Ming Emperor, who opposes appearance discrimination. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lin Yi continued--the facts are already obvious, Xiao Mu's final lottery to catch the champion is the original Liu Ruozai who was only ranked eleventh because of his poor appearance.

"In this way, I don't have to feel unfair for He Ruizheng, who was originally ranked first, after all, this is all God's will." Xiao Mu nodded and replied, "And since that's the case, then I should pick out all the other candidates who were affected by their poor appearance, and rank them according to the level that their original articles should have, instead of just taking care of Liu Ruozai." ”

"Well, that's right, so you are equivalent to setting an example against judging people by their appearance, and there will definitely be praise from the government and the opposition at that time." Lin Yi nodded in agreement and replied, of course, she still didn't say half a sentence later, that is, no matter what decision Xiao Mu made, as long as it was his own decision, rather than referring to the minister, as long as it was not particularly outrageous, it would be praised by the government and the opposition, after all, the words "the emperor is wise" have been heard too much since Lin Ye crossed over to now.

Saying that, Xiao Mu selected other candidates who did not get a fair ranking because of their appearance from these twenty test papers - but in the end they did not find it, after all, people with poor appearance only account for a minority of human beings, and most people's appearance can still be maintained at an ordinary level, at least not to subtract points from their test scores. And even if there are candidates with poor appearance who have been almost screened out in the previous rounds of examinations, unless they have extremely outstanding literary talents like Liu Ruozai, they can continue to be eligible to participate in the palace examination.

Of course, special situations like Liu Ruozai are not common, Xiao Mu and Lin Yi rummaged through the twenty test papers, and found that except for Liu Ruozai's one, the other test papers are arranged according to the score given by the examiner in order of merit and disadvantage, it is obvious that except for Liu Ruozai, at least the ranking of the top 20 candidates can be said to be fair, of course, this is only based on the judgment of the examiners' scores, as for reading through all these twenty articles, it is a little unrealistic, and it is basically incomprehensible for Xiao Mu, For Ringo, it was more than enough to be able to read word by word, after all, it took a lot of energy to study it word by word.

After deciding who was the champion of the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, a stone in Xiao Mu's heart finally fell to the ground, as for the ranking order of other candidates in these twenty exam papers, compared with the ownership of the champion, it was not so important, Xiao Mu finally came to a conclusion, "Well, it seems that the ranking of the top twenty candidates can be determined, and there is no need to adjust it." ”

"But in addition to these twenty, have the other more than 200 candidates been treated unfairly because of their appearance?" Lin Yi further added, "Since you intend to oppose judging people by their appearance, then you should readjust all the three hundred candidates according to Liu Ruozai's example. ”

"Well, that makes sense." Xiao Mu also nodded in agreement, "I'll tell Lai Zongdao about this request when I go back, and ask him to rearrange the ranking of the test papers with more than 200 points in the back, remove the influence on appearance, and then rearrange it again." ”

Finally, the problems about the ranking of the palace examination have basically been solved, and the form of the solution is basically quite perfect - the ranking of the top twenty test papers sent by Lai Zongdao has been adjusted by Xiao Mu, the emperor, and it has also been adjusted in the most critical champion candidate, which fully reflects the existence of Xiao Mu, the emperor, so that even if he has been in charge of the cabinet before, and handed over all the state affairs to the cabinet to deal with, Xiao Mu's prestige will obviously not be damaged, and then get rid of Wei Zhongxian's residual prestige, There is also this adjustment to the selection of champions, Xiao Mu can continue to maintain an image of a "unpredictable" Ming Jun in the eyes of the courtiers below.

Since there was nothing left at the moment, Xiao Mu decided not to continue to disturb Lin Yi's rest, and had the idea of leaving first, "The candidate for the champion has been decided, and the ranking of the other nineteen exam papers has also been finalized, so I won't continue to bother here." ”

Saying that, Xiao Mu was about to say goodbye and leave, but he didn't make it, because Lin Yi's state today seems to be good, especially the process of drawing lots that just decided the ownership of the champion made her very excited, and at this moment, there was no sense of fatigue that a pregnant woman should have, and in a blink of an eye, he talked to Xiao Mu about the next topic, "Wait a minute, have you forgotten, what you told me when the palace exam just ended, the candidate who didn't hand in the paper until the end, and impressed you?" ”

Lin Yi smiled and asked, "Didn't you say that he must be extraordinary?" Now that the final results of the palace examination have come out, I don't know how this candidate did in the end? ”

"This ......" Xiao Mu was a little speechless for a while, because when he got the top twenty exam papers, he paid attention to it, but he didn't find the name of the last candidate to hand in the papers, and at that time Xiao Mu knew that his guess was basically half wrong - since there was no candidate among the best candidates, if he also didn't get a final score, then his reasoning could probably be declared bankrupt. And on the day of the end of the palace exam, when he talked to Lin Ye about this matter, he was very confident, and Xiao Mu did not forget the feeling of saying "let's see" to Lin Ye, but he was so confident that if he was ruthlessly defeated by reality in the end, it would definitely not be fun.

Seeing that Xiao Mu's face was flushed and he didn't answer for a long time, the smile on Lin Yi's face became more and more obvious, so she continued to tease and said, "The candidate who handed in the paper last should be this Liu Ruozai, right?" ”

"Not really." Xiao Mu really wanted to admit it, and he also very much hoped that the candidate who handed in the paper last was the champion - Xiao Mu could swear that if he was really the first in the original ranking, then even if he was against judging people by appearance, he would definitely want him to be the champion, and Liu Ruozai could only be the leader.

But Xiao Mu knew very well that Lin Yi was just trying to mock herself, even if she said yes, she would definitely not believe it, so she had to change her tone a little, and replied with a lack of confidence, "All in all, that candidate must be a very special person, a person can be reflected in many places, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a particularly ...... grade."