I've been in the palace for so long, and I've really forgotten all about this busyness.

Wu Jie was taken aback, this Jiajing Emperor has a lot of things, he is writing manuscripts, reading excerpts and settling accounts for him, and accompanying him to talk about metaphysics and Taoism, and engage in superstitious activities. In addition to the emperor's set of gods and ghosts, he has really learned a lot of things and gained a lot of knowledge.

It's just too tired and busy, if it weren't for Jiajing's reminder, I really forgot about the township test.

Seeing Wu Jie's surprised face, Jiajing suddenly said: "What, I am reluctant to go out, I don't want to make a name for myself?" Do you want to stay by my side forever, or go to the celebrant and walk. ”

His expression was still cold, but there was a rare hint of a smile between his eyebrows.

Wu Jie was shocked: "Zhenjun, the so-called unfilial piety has three, and no queen is great." The three generations of ministers have been passed down alone, and they have not yet married. ”

Jiajing suddenly laughed: "It's okay if you don't say it, I'm a little moved, Huang Jin, arrange it." ”

Huang Jin also laughed.

Only then did Wu Jie know that Jiajing was joking with himself, and in peacetime, Emperor Jiajing was a cold-faced person, and he looked like someone else owed him money all day long. I didn't expect to be lively today, obviously in a very good mood.

Jiajing: "I didn't get married, well, I can't do this kind of thing." When you are promoted and famous, you are still worried that there is no wealthy family and you will come over to propose. ”

Wu Jie is not good at picking up this stubble, and after a few sounds, he is about to retire, saying that he wants to go back to the study to sort out the manuscripts processed during this time, and he will be out of the palace tomorrow.

"Wait." Emperor Jiajing put away his smile, frowned, and suddenly asked, "Wu Jie, how are you preparing for this township test?" ”

Wu Jie: "If you go back to Your Majesty, the minister has already been prepared, and it should not be difficult to be on the list." ”

"That's fine." Jiajing said lightly: "You are a person close to me, if you can't even be hit, it will be passed out, but it is a joke." Huang Jin, you are outstanding in learning, and point out Wu Jie. Sharpening guns in battle is always useful. I'm tired, so stand down, all of you. ”

"Yes, my lord." Wu Jie and Huang Jin slowly exited the door at the same time.

After coming out of Jiajing and returning to the bookstore, Wu Jie put together the drafts of the "Stone Records" written during this time, put them into the baggage, and put the official documents handled during this period one by one, and handed them over to a celebrant and secretary office on the side of the waiter.

Waiting for the little eunuch to go out, Huang Jin was sitting in the room leisurely sipping fragrant tea.

Wu Jie looked at the time and said with a smile: "Huang Gong, do you really want to tutor me?" There are still two or three days to go before the township test, and it is useless to surprise it now. Besides, your old man has not come to me here to mention his life, rest assured, this township test Wu Festival will definitely pass. ”

Huang Jin put it in the teacup and smiled: "Long live the Lord has a will, let me sharpen the gun with you, Huang Jin will not dare to resist the will even if he has ten heads." However, depending on your talent, this exam should not be a problem. Therefore, when it comes to tutoring, there is no need. But our family is not good, so we will leave, there is nothing to do left and right, so let's talk about it. ”

Wu Jie also refilled his teacup with some water and sat down next to Huang Jin: "Huang Gong, don't say it, enter the palace these days." You and I sit together, either talking about learning, or talking about business, and I really don't have the opportunity to drink tea so leisurely and talk about it. Today, I just got this opportunity to steal a half-time of leisure. ”

"Stealing half of the floating life, stealing the floating half of the idle life, that's a good point!" Huang Jin repeated this sentence twice, and sighed: "I have been fighting in this palace all my life, and when I look back, how can I have more than half of my leisure, and my heart has not been quiet for a moment." ”

Wu Jie smiled, took a sip of water, and was about to talk again.

Huang Jin suddenly asked: "Have you signed up for the township test in Shuntianfu?" ”

Wu Jie: "Ah! He stood up: "I forgot about it, no, Huang Gong, I have to leave the palace immediately." "Tomorrow is the Double Ninth Festival, during the festival, the Shuntianfu Xuezheng Yamen will definitely have a holiday, and as soon as the festival is over, the daylily will be cold.

According to the rules, this matter should be registered by the Lu Family School. But after taking such a long vacation, I don't know if the Lu Family School helped him report his name?

This is negligent.

"Don't worry, I'll send you out later." Huang Jin didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, and asked rhetorically: "Wu Jie, do you know who is the main examiner of this township examination?" ”

Wu Jie was a little puzzled: "Huang Gong, I don't know about this." Besides, who is the main examiner of the Shuntianfu Township Examination and what does it matter, I don't need to figure out the examiner's taste. I got into the exam room, took the paper, and wrote it directly. ”

Huang Jin smiled: "This person is your old acquaintance." ”

"Acquaintance, who?"

Huang Jin: "Your mentor Bao Yingxia Bao when you took the Sichuan Academy exam. ”

"Ah, it's him!" Wu Jie was taken aback: "My mentor has returned to Beijing, isn't he out on patrol?" ”

Huang Jin: "It's been more than ten days since I returned to Beijing, and as early as a month ago, the Ministry of Rites sent a letter to ask him to return to Beijing to take the main exam. He explained the reasons for the succession, explaining that because the township examination is very important, once the candidate is selected, he has the qualification to be an official, and the court attaches great importance to this matter. Therefore, according to the usual practice, each province must send someone from the Hanlin Academy to do the main examination during the township examination.

Bao Yingxia happened to be sent to Shuntian Mansion to preside over this year's township test.

For example, the system of formal civil service examinations such as the township examination is very perfect, and in addition to the principal and deputy chief examinations, there are also a number of marking officers, transcriptions, and seals. However, whether or not to be admitted and judge the final name of a paper still has to be decided by the principal and deputy examiners.

Bao Yingxia is the chief examiner, and what he says naturally counts, but he has to nod his head from the deputy chief examiner.

"The deputy chief examiner of the Shuntianfu Township Examination is called Lu Fengyi." After saying this, Huang Jin suddenly said lightly: "This person has just been transferred back to the capital from Nanjing, Wu Jie, have you heard of this person?" ”

During this time, Wu Jie came into contact with a lot of excerpts and official documents, and he also had a preliminary impression of the political affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Although he didn't understand why Huang Jin had this question, he still sorted out the memories in his mind and replied: "I've heard of this person, it seems that he is a jinshi in the eleventh or twelfth year of Jiajing, and this person was only in his early thirties when he was a jinshi. But the eunuch journey has always been smooth, and he has been out for many years. When Jiajing was sixteen years old, because he was old, he was sent to the household department in Nanjing to provide for the elderly.

Last month, he didn't go on a bullet to impeach Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, for the ten crimes of bullying and embezzlement of silver, roughly speaking: Hu Zongxian was originally a fellow villager with Wang Zhi, the leader of the pirates, and Jiang Zhou, Chen Keyuan and others appointed by him were all cobs. In the Jiangnan crackdown, Hu Zongxian played with the soldiers, and allowed Wang to be the coastal defense officer, and swore to make peace with him. Recently, I have been drinking for a long night, sitting back and watching the Kou of Jiangxi and Fujian. Encroaching on military salaries, cutting down people's wealth, accumulating silver in the governor's mansion like a mountain, gathering annihilation like friends, Xuanyin is excessive, taking concubines, deducting cloth and silver taels for the year, indiscriminately giving and advocating excellence, selling official positions in the city, and serving officials and soldiers in private service. Please punish him severely.

Because the battle on the front line was at a critical time, His Majesty left this fold in the middle.

What's the matter, this person has come to Yanjing? ”

"Wu Jie, you are really good at remembering your surname." Huang Jin nodded: "His Majesty also nodded when he returned to Yanjing, probably to be used, and to preside over this year's township test in Shuntian Mansion." After the township test is over, there will be dispatch. ”

Wu Jie was silent for a while, and understood in his heart that although there are also six departments in Nanjing, it is a nursing home, and this Lu Fengyi is old, and it is estimated that he will retire honorably after two more terms in the position of the household department. But because of the impeachment of Hu Zongxian, he won the emperor's favor and was about to be promoted.

It seems that Jiajing is determined to move Yan Song this time. If you want to move Yan Song, you must first cut off Hu Zongxian's right-hand wing.

Poor Governor Hu is also a personal masterpiece, and he can be regarded as a meritorious person for the country and the nation in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, but because he followed the wrong person, he had to end up like this, which is a pity.

It's this Lu Fengyi who has a good sense of smell and good eyesight, but for the sake of her personal future, she even ignores the battle situation ahead, and her character is really not very good!

However, what did Huang Jin do in front of me?

Wu Jie was puzzled in his heart, and glanced at Huang Jin: "Why did Huang Gong talk about this Lord Lu?" ”

Huang Jin: "It's just a conversation by the way, not really." By the way, because I am an internal servant, I have not passed the imperial examination, and I am quite curious about what is going on inside. Speaking of Baguwen, our family really hasn't seriously figured it out. I heard that if the eight-strand article is well done, you can inlay a few words in it at will, no matter what the word, add it, but there is no disobedience. ”

Wu Jie: "If you are a master, it is not difficult. "This Huang Jin, how did you mention the eight strands. Although he said it modestly, Wu Jie knew that this guy was also a good player in the Eight Strands of Shiwen.

Huang Jin: "By the way, I got a question. A few days ago, the four attendants of our celebrant were idle, and it suddenly occurred to me that we had been studying in the inner study hall since we were children, and our academic skills were not much worse than those outside. If you really go to the exam room, you don't know what ranking you will get. So, the big guy drew up a few questions to compete, and the results were not up or down.

Later, I thought about it, who can enter the celebrant is not a well-educated person. For general topics, you can't tell the winner if you write another 100 articles.

So, someone suggested that there should be a simple embedding game, that is, a problem is given, and then four words must be used when solving the problem. This topic is really difficult, but our family lost to Chen Hong's descendant, and he is still haunted by it. Wu Jie, can you help me think about it, how to solve this topic? ”

Wu Jie: "Huang Gong, please speak." "I suddenly felt a shock in my heart, and I felt that something was wrong.

Huang Jin's eyes suddenly brightened, like a knife stabbing him, making Wu Jie feel a faint swelling between his eyebrows: "The title of that is "Zi Xia Yue", a small question, and four 'one' words should be used in a row to solve the problem, which is really embarrassing for our family." Wu Jie, can you - do - come out - come out? ”

The sentence "Zi Xia said" comes from the "Analects", and Zi Xia said: "Women are gentlemen and Confucians, and there are no villains and Confucians." ”。

Meaning: Confucius said to Zixia: You must be a noble Confucian, not a small person who takes Confucianism as a profession.

Huang Jin's word was stunned, and the bite was extremely heavy.

Wu Jie's body froze, and he said casually: "But it's also simple, isn't it just to solve the problem?" And it sounds: Confucianism is different, and the saint is one admonishment. ”

Huang Jin was shocked and shouted, "Good, very good!" ”

With a sigh of admiration, he looked at Wu Jie deeply: "In this way, Wu Jie, you are going to test in Tianfu Township today, and you should be worry-free." Take the test well, you must pass, otherwise you will live up to Your Majesty's expectations. Okay, leave the palace immediately, and I will send someone to send you to the Lu family to study. ”

When Huang Jin said such strange words, Wu Jie's signal was always even more awe-inspiring, and he suddenly thought: "Is this a missed question, could it be that the topic of the Tianfu Township Examination in Keshun today is "Zi Xia Yue"? No, no, the information I have on hand is obviously not this topic! ”

(To be continued)