Chapter 34: Who's Going to Fall

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Liu Ziqiu paced back and forth in the room for a long time with this list of candidates, his brows tightly locked, and it was difficult to decide

Gao Xiu'er looked at it from the side and couldn't help asking: "Husband, since you said that you want to hand over all the imperial examinations to Mr. Wei and them, why bother with it?"

Indeed, the half a year of traveling with Liu Ziqiu made Gao Xiuer feel very deeply, giving up part of her power, but in exchange for a large number of zìyou, the family is happy, this is the life she wants, and Gao Xiuer's words also reminded Liu Ziqiu that with the jīng clarity and rigor of Wei Zheng and others, how could she not find that the names of the eldest grandson Wuji and Li Jiancheng appeared on the list of candidates, and they reported the list to Liu Ziqiu, not in favor of letting these two people participate in the imperial examination, but to test Liu Ziqiu

Liu Ziqiu once revealed an idea that everyone is equal before the law and the law, and the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, for the ministers of the DPRK and China, there are not many people who agree with it, because they are all in power now, they are all vested interests, let them and ordinary people sit on an equal footing in front of the law, they will feel at a loss, and now he put this difficult issue in front of Liu Ziqiu, didn't you say that everyone should be equal, then according to the regulations, Changsun Wuji and Li Jiancheng meet the conditions for the imperial examination, you let them not participate

The lesser of two evils, letting Li Jiancheng and the eldest grandson Wuji be officials will indeed bring some kind of hidden danger, but compared with overthrowing the ideas he wants to implement, it is nothing, thinking of this, Liu Ziqiu suddenly laughed and said: "Xiu'er, you are so right, I know how to do it, what are you doing, Xiu'er, what are you doing?"

This is not Gao Xiu'er's bedroom, she came here to accompany Liu Ziqiu on purpose, because Liu Ziqiu has been reviewing the list, Gao Xiuer was bored, so she started needlework, heard Liu Ziqiu ask, Gao Xiuer hurriedly put the things in her hand behind her, and whispered: "Didn't do anything"

Liu Ziqiu had already snatched it over, but it was a child's clothes, and he couldn't help laughing: "It seems to be a little smaller"

Gao Xiu'er blushed: "It's not for Gen'er"

"It's not for Gen'er," Liu Ziqiu was slightly stunned, and suddenly understood, "Xiu'er, you have it again"

Hua Yun and Lin Qiao'er are about to give birth, but Gao Xiu'er is now the queen, and it is impossible for her to help them make children's clothes by herself, and these clothes are obviously prepared for herself

Sure enough, Gao Xiu'er nodded lightly: "It's been two months."

Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but get excited, gently touched Gao Xiu'er's still flat lower abdomen, and sighed: "What a good piece of land"

"Husband," Gao Xiu'er said coquettishly, "You're still worried about how to deal with that."

What Gao Xiu'er is talking about is another major event that is about to happen in Luoyang City recently, the canonization ceremony of Liu Ziqiu's palace

When Liu Ziqiu ascended the throne in Luoyang, in addition to sealing Gao Xiu'er as the queen, he also named Huayun as Concubine Yun, Tuoba Qianyu as the jade concubine, Lin Qiaoer and Mu Duoli were all nobles, these were just titles that Liu Ziqiu said casually, and there were no special regulations, and he didn't want to divide them, because in Liu Ziqiu's view, they were all their own women, and they had to take care of them equally

However, Wei Zheng and others did not think so, especially Zhao Ling, who turned out a lot of classical texts and drafted a set of regulations, according to this set of regulations, under the queen, there should be four ladies, namely Guifei, Shufei, Defei, and Xian Concubine, and under the four ladies, there are nine concubines, namely Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, and Chongyuan, and under the nine concubines, there are twenty-seven women, namely Jieyu, beauty, and talent, and there are nine women each, and there are eighty-one imperial wives under the world, that is, Baolin, the royal maid, Liu Ziqiu was dumbfounded by the scale of twenty-seven women, but Zhao Ling didn't think it was much, because he was comparing Liu Ziqiu's harem with Yang Guang, you must know that there are hundreds of famous ladies and beauties in the Sixteenth Academy of Shanglin alone

But Liu Ziqiu is not Yang Guang, not to mention that so many titles give him a headache, that is, if these one hundred and twenty-two women really marry into the palace, I am afraid that after a long time, he will not even remember all the names, and each of these one hundred and twenty-two women must have a bunch of people waiting for them, just Shang Gong, Shang Yi, Shang Fu, these female officials with positions need as many as seven or eight hundred people, if this is the case, Liu Ziqiu's entire harem will immediately become huge, and the expenses will be astronomical, and this is something that Liu Ziqiu absolutely cannot allow

In Liu Ziqiu's view, who he marries and becomes a woman is completely his family matter, but the cabinet ministers do not see it that way, in their eyes, Liu Ziqiu has no family affairs, and Liu Ziqiu's family affairs are state affairs, of course, Liu Ziqiu also thought so, but the views of the cabinet ministers are actually two completely different concepts

Originally, Wei Zheng, Zhao Ling and they didn't plan to put this set of regulations in front of Liu Ziqiu now, after all, the most important thing now is the country's talent ceremony, but after Liu Ziqiu returned to Luoyang and arranged the war in western Liaoning, he asked the Ministry of Rites to choose an auspicious one, planning to canonize Xie Muyu as the rain concubine, although Xie Muyu followed Liu Ziqiu along the way, but the two of them did not officially get married, for Xie Muyu Liu Ziqiu still felt a little guilty, after all, a beautiful girl can do it to the point of breaking off the green silk, how much courage does it take, and the root of all this is that he took other people's Geng posts and didn't take it seriously, in order to compensate him, he wanted to give Xie Muyu a beautiful wedding, and only then did hewill make Xie Muyu truly his woman

But it was Liu Ziqiu's plan that made Wei Zheng and others wake up, and they could no longer let Liu Ziqiu decide the titles of the ladies arbitrarily, so they put that set of regulations in front of Liu Ziqiu

To say that these cabinet ministers are really difficult, listening to Gao Xiu'er's words, Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but feel a little helpless: "No matter what, I won't compromise, I knew earlier, so I might as well save those sisters in the Sixteenth Courtyard of Shanglin, and let me pick draft girls and disturb the people."

"This time it won't disturb the people, those show girls must be eunuchs and girls from the family," Gao Xiu'er is obviously more familiar with the regulations than Liu Ziqiu, after all, she is the queen and has the position of the commander-in-chief of the harem, after saying this, she quickly laughed again: "Actually, I also have two good sisters who have been staying in the palace, or you choose them first"

This sentence was half joking and half serious, but Liu Ziqiu shook his head: "What you are talking about are Xie Xiangwen and Yuan Ziyan, two girls, waiting for the end of this imperial examination to choose two young talents and marry them."

Gao Xiu'er glanced at Liu Ziqiu with a pair of beautiful eyes and said: "Sister Ziyan is the best at stargazing, but I said that I have a fate with you, I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to marry."

When they were in Qiyīn Academy, they did have the best relationship with Gao Xiu'er, since they volunteered to stay, Gao Xiu'er was not easy to refuse, as for Yuan Ziyan always said about providence, fate, astrology, etc., Gao Xiu'er didn't believe it at all, because when Yuan Ziyan was in Qiyīn Academy, he also said that fate was destined, and as a result, none of the three of them was favored by Yang Guang, which showed that Yuan Ziyan's fortune-telling skills were not effective at all

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Of course, the canonization ceremony will not involve Liu Ziqiu's jīng force too much, anyway, in his eyes, Xie Muyu is only fifteen years old, and there is time, he can wait, his focus is still on the Cai Cai ceremony, October 16, the first imperial examination of the Han Dynasty, which has been planned for a long time, was officially held in Luoyang, the eastern capital, the entire imperial examination lasted for three days, and there were more than 30,000 candidates, and the competition was extremely fierce, especially for many poor students, this opportunity to enter the officialdom was something they could not have imagined before

The whole examination of liberal arts involves a lot of knowledge in the subset of scripture and history, in addition, it is necessary to complete a policy discussion, the martial arts department is relatively simple, mainly examining the military book and war strategy, and the other is to practice martial arts, but the martial arts department was originally arranged to have a section of martial arts, considering that there is a certain danger to life, and it is too bloody, it was revoked by Liu Ziqiu, which is also the only suggestion put forward by Liu Ziqiu in the entire imperial examination process, after all, the martial arts department is to select talents for the army, and most of the generals at all levels are trained by the military system itself, and the opening of the martial arts department is just an attempt by Liu Ziqiu, and the engineering department is simpler, and the materials provided by the imperial court who produces the best works will pass the exam

Three days later, it was nervously marked, countless candidates were anxiously waiting for the announcement of the results of the examination, but the results of the engineering did not need to wait to be announced on the spot, the six candidates who finally passed the test put on red and hung colors, sounded the gong to open the way, and after the end of the street in Luoyang City, these candidates will directly enter the Ministry of Engineering, and will not enter the Tai Academy, but for these six candidates, it is already a great honor, after all, they are only lowly craftsmen

Because most people took the liberal arts exam, and did not go through the county examination and the elimination of the county examination and the county examination in advance, the test papers were piled up, and Wei Zheng and others were busy for half a month before they finished the review, even if they tried their best, it was inevitable that there would be some omissions, this was also because they had no experience for the first time, and they would definitely be much better in the future, and with the control of the county examination and the county examination, the number of people participating in the imperial examination would eventually be greatly reduced

When the names of the three hundred and sixty candidates who had passed the liberal arts examination and the sixteen candidates who had passed the martial arts examination were posted outside the imperial city gate, the entire city of Luoyang was boiling, and not only those candidates, but also many ordinary people crowded over like cháo water, and they all wanted to know who would win the first imperial examination of the Han Dynasty