Every year of the Great Comparison, the emperor is enshrined in the Heavenly Palace, and it has always been a grand event. Although the vast majority of Jinshi didn't dare to really raise their heads to peek at Tianyan, it was an opportunity to meet the Son of Heaven after all, and it was also the beginning of their brilliant life. Early in the morning, hundreds of Jinshi gathered outside the Fengtian Gate, all of them were so excited that no one cared about the same year around them, so Xu Zhenqing, who had his right hand down, naturally did not attract attention at all.

After entering the Fengtian Hall to meet the Son of Heaven, Emperor Hongzhi retired after announcing the exam questions in the court, and the candidates sat down one after another. As soon as Xu Zhenqing waited for the answer sheet and scratch paper to be sent, he took out the splint prepared in the examination basket and clamped his right hand with the skillful movements that he had often practiced in the past few days.

His name is still known only to a few people such as Emperor Hongzhi's crown prince Zhu Houzhao, Xiao Jing, Sun Hong, etc., and they are all ignorant and ignorant along with all the bigwigs. At this moment, an official who was supervising the examination next to him saw his situation, and couldn't help but step forward and reprimand: "What's the matter with your hand? ”

"My lord, I accidentally broke my hand before."

As soon as these words came out, the official was immediately stunned, and then lowered his face and said: "Imperial Palace, what kind of system have you become, why didn't you report it before?" ”

"My lord, there is no rule in the palace test that those who fold their hands cannot be tested, and besides, there is nothing wrong with the visit to the holy car in the late life, and now the splint is just to write an article, so I implore you to make it convenient."

There were people who returned to their hometowns because of sudden worries, but it was almost unheard of for those who folded their hands to participate in the palace examination, and for a while, the official suddenly hesitated. Thinking of Xu Zhenqing's sincere attitude, it was really unlucky to encounter such a thing, although he frowned, he nodded lightly after all. When Xu Zhenqing worked hard to write, he quietly returned to the ranks of several prison officials, and whispered what happened just now, most of the people sighed again and again, and only a few science and road officials exchanged glances with each other.

The same examination is only presided over by those two examiners, which is very different, the lineup of officials who read the examination papers in the palace has always been extremely luxurious, the three elders of the cabinet, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and one of them, and the six Shangshu from Ma Wensheng and Han Liu Daxia and below are all present, plus Shi Daishan, the imperial envoy of the left capital, Shi Lin, etc., almost all the Hongzhi ministers are all in one net. Although this does not guarantee that the results of the palace examination are fair and fair, at least the level of the papers that can be presented to the imperial examination by this series of ministers is not much worse.

However, as soon as the Heavenly Temple Examination ended and the reading paper began, a series of impeachments were suddenly sent to the center, and he was immediately on the desk of the celebrant and supervisor. The original intention of the eunuch Xiao Jing was to read the paper in the palace at the most important moment, not to disturb those bosses, but Li Rong insisted that the matter was important and could not be reported, and the two could not fight, so Li Rong took these bullet seals and pulled Wang Yue, who was in charge of the East Factory, and went straight to the palace.

After reporting the abridgements of those bullets to Emperor Hongzhi one by one, Li Rong raised his head and said: "Your Majesty, the palace test is a national material ceremony, and the first thing to take the virtuous must be to take virtue. Moreover, this person and Tang Yin, who was deposed by the emperor and retired as a minor official in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, have a good relationship, and the poor character can be seen......"

Li Rongyang said a lot of things, and Emperor Hongzhi frowned for a while, but what he thought of was why he asked Zhu Houzhao why he came up with such an idea on Empress Zhang's Thousand Autumn Festival, and where those few music poems came from, Zhu Houzhao's triumphant answer.

"Father, give your son to his mother as a gift, that was Xu Xun's idea, and his son used it when he thought about it. But the idea of wishing the father and the emperor for ten thousand years was thought by the sons themselves, originally, the most important thing for the queen mother was the sons and the father...... No, it's the father and the sons, where does she care about other things outside the body! As for Nale Mansion, it was written by Xu Xun by someone, what is it called Gusu Xu Zhenqing, by the way, Erchen was afraid that this person who wrote the poem would have a bad character and desecrate the Qianqiu Festival of the Queen Mother, and asked Gu Dayong to take someone to check his ancestors for eight generations. Gu Dayong said to his son, this Xu Zhenqing learned literature from Wu Kuan in his early years, and learned calligraphy from Li Yingzhen......"

Therefore, at this moment, although Li Rong asked Wang Yue to report the results of Dongchang's investigation one by one, Emperor Hongzhi listened and chewed at the same time, and found that compared with what he had heard from Zhu Houzhao before, it was completely different, and he couldn't help but gradually sink his face, and finally suddenly said coldly: "Wang Yue, Dongchang is idle and has nothing to do, and actually went to inquire about a mere tribute?" ”

Wang Yue and Li Rong have always had a good relationship, so Li Rong often overstepped his authority to send Dongchang's fans to do something, and Wang Yue acquiesced. At this time, the emperor suddenly opened his mouth to reprimand, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and then knelt down in fear, and only said after a while: "Your Majesty, the slave maid just heard about this Xu Zhenqing splint for the exam, so I am afraid that this person is out of trouble with others to the point of damage to his limbs, and his character is ......."

"You're so daring!"

Although Li Rongping has always believed in his holy grace, but at this moment, seeing that the Son of Heaven was angry, he couldn't help but be afraid, and he didn't dare to really put all this on Wang Yue's head, so he knelt down and said: "The emperor is angry, it's all slaves and maids who see that there are more and more impeachments, so they take it upon themselves to let Wang Yue's people check ......"

"What a self-inflicted one! If you really find out, it's just a matter of being untrue, confusing black and white! Emperor Hongzhi, who was rarely close to the inner servants, threw out those few folds, and angrily promised Sun Hong to the Qianqing Palace on the side, "Sun Hong, you personally go to Beizhen Fusi and Ye Guang to spread the message, and limit him to report the details of the origin of the tribute Xu Zhenqing before the Golden Palace, hurry up!" ”

Seeing that Sun Hong was going in a moment, Li Rong on the ground only felt trembling in his heart, but he didn't know where this thunder of the Son of Heaven came from. However, Emperor Hongzhi didn't mean to explain at all, and then said lightly: "If Ye Guangcha is about the same as Dongchang, it would be fine, otherwise, Dongchang should also take care of it!" Hongzhi's 12-year fraud case has been going on for so many years, and he still turned it out to talk about things, and he thought that he could fool me with such a means of making trouble? ”

"Slaves should be damned!"

In the face of this rare heavy talk, both Li Rong and Wang Yue all kowtowed without crowns, and they didn't dare to have a word of defense. Although the two were finally able to retreat from the Qianqing Palace, after all, there were still many Qianqing Palaces present who agreed, and the news that these two top Da Jue were blamed was revealed in a moment. When the news reached Xiao Jing's ears, he remembered the news that Xu Xun had asked Ruisheng to hand over in advance, although he only smiled and didn't say a word on his face, his heart was full of joy. And when the news reached Chengqian Palace, Liu Jin Gu Dayong and others were very happy. Gu Dayong even pulled Liu Jin and his brothers for a drink.

"Now, let's see how Wang Yue can be. Xu Xun's kid still has a lot of ghost ideas, if it goes on like this, the reopening of the West Factory will definitely not be far away, and when the time comes, Lao Liu, we don't have to look at Lao Wangyue's face anymore! ”

"Okay, I'll just wait for that day!" Liu Jin said this, but he couldn't help muttering in his heart. It's just an insignificant tribute, but it has caused such a storm. The prince sent Gu Dayong to find out the details of Xu Zhenqing was what he told Xu Xun, but when Xu Xun said that he asked him to tell Gu Dayong, it is better to find out the news and not let go of all the advantages and disadvantages, he still thinks so, now it seems that this prince is really a master!

When Jiao Fang learned that Li Rong and Wang Yue in the palace had been reprimanded by the emperor, it was already near the end of the palace examination paper. Unexpectedly, things suddenly took such a turn, and he only felt caught off guard for a while, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure out why the situation had taken such a sharp turn. However, what made him even more shocked and angry was still to come.

Those few officials of science and Taoism were grandiose because they had no basis for doing things, and some were fined for three months to half a year, and some were demoted to foreign officials!

And because of this, Li Rong temporarily complained about his illness and recuperated in a private house! Jiao Fang's eyes and ears in the palace mostly rely on this extremely old celebrant Bingbi, and two of those officials are his henchmen, both of them are in the ranks of degrading foreign officials, and he actually lost his wife and soldiers!

So, when he arrived at the Golden Palace, although he was standing on the main hall in good spirits, when he heard the roll call one after another, he was still resentful and angry in his heart. When a familiar name suddenly came into his ears, he only felt that the whole person was shocked, if it weren't for the years of Chaoyi experience that had been immovable like a mountain, he would almost want to turn his head to see clearly the nameless scholar who insulted his father and son and caused him to lose a lot.

As the real initiator, this palace trial list, Xu Xun did not only send a Jin Liu to the list like before, he took a half-day vacation from the avant-garde of the government army, and invited Wang Shouren to go to see the list together.

When they arrived at the ground, most of the crowd in the black pressure were watching the excitement and relatives and friends, but the real new scholars had to go to the Fengtian Temple to listen to the rankings in person, and it was not surprising that those with poor psychological quality fainted on the spot.

He was already in a very good mood knowing the series of changes in the palace, and when he was waiting for the list to be released, he joked to Wang Shouren: "Brother Wang, you have participated in the Golden Palace, what was your mood when you heard your name at that time?" ”

"What are I ......" Thinking about the first hall test, Wang Shouren couldn't help but squint his eyes in confusion, and then sighed softly, "Of course I was happy at that time, I was able to win the sixth place in the second grade, and it can be regarded as worthy of what I have learned for many years." Compared to my father's champion back then, my ranking is really not worth mentioning. ”

The sixth in the second class is the seventh in the country, which is not worth mentioning?

Xu Xun was feeling that Wang Shouren was worthy of being a person who was determined to become holy, not comparable to ordinary people like him, and there was a shout from the other side: "Zhang Bang, Zhang Bang!" ”

(To be continued)