When Huang Liji, the head of the cabinet of the dynasty and the head of the civil officials of the eunuch party above the court, saw Wei Zhongxian's arrival, he hurriedly stepped forward and welcomed the nine thousand years old into a delicate and secret side room on the right side of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Because the emperor and other faction cabinet officials were not present, and the side room was full of eunuchs' own people, Huang Li was extremely eager to curry favor with Wei Zhongxian, and some of them directly called Wei Zhongxian "Chitose".

"Chitose."

"Let's do as usual!"

The so-called practice in his mouth is that except for the first and third who clearly entered the Hanlin Academy, the other Jinshi were scattered in various departments of the government and the opposition according to their closeness to the eunuchs.

Those who have a background in the eunuch party, or who have clearly taken refuge in the nine-thousand-year-old and have repaired the ancestral hall for Wei Zhongxian in their hometown, are naturally arranged in powerful and critical departments; For example, in addition to Lin Pingzhi, those Jinshi from Donglin and some Jinshi with local faction backgrounds, but their backgrounds are not strong enough, are arranged to enter some Qingshui Yamen who have no future.

It can be seen that the imperial examination at this time has become an important means for the eunuch court to absorb new blood, so Wei Zhongxian attaches great importance to it, and after listening to the report of the cabinet chief, he lowered his head and pondered for a while.

After half a ring, the eunuch, who was already standing at the peak of the power of the Ming Dynasty, slowly spoke.

"Others can arrange according to the convention, but the champion Lin Pingzhi can't!"

"As soon as this champion entered the Hanlin, he was revised from the Hanlin of the six grades, and he was qualified to attend the 'scripture feast' to contact the emperor."

"Our family, we must be on guard!"

The "scripture feast" in the mouth of Duke Wei was a special imperial lecture for the Son of Heaven to talk about the history of the scriptures in the Ming Dynasty, and to put it bluntly, it was a lesson for the Son of Heaven.

Of course, because Emperor Qi is usually busy with carpenter work today, he doesn't like to hold "sutra feasts" very much, but at the end of the year, he will still cope with the errands held several times.

Probably because Lin Pingzhi was the first to hand in the palace examination, and after the Emperor of the Apocalypse personally read the content of the article, he felt very satisfied, which undoubtedly left a deep impression on today's son.

When the Son of Heaven was doing carpenter work this morning, he specially inquired about the life of Lin Pingzhi, the champion, and seemed to be very interested in him.

This kind of action instantly made Wei Zhongxian vigilant.

It is one thing to send a famous Lin Pingzhi to the royal family, to decorate the face of the clan, and to please the Son of Heaven and those old monsters in the Zongren Mansion; And it is another thing to give an official of the Hanlin Academy with a Donglin background the opportunity to contact the emperor and offer "slander".

He didn't want Lin Pingzhi to have a chance to compete for the "Emperor's Favor"!

No matter how small the risk is, the cautious Wei Zhongxian can't take that risk!

Huang Liji, who stood opposite Wei Zhongxian, can become the first assistant of the cabinet, even if most of it is borrowed from the eunuch party, but he is not without talent.

Otherwise, there are many officials who have taken refuge in the eunuch party, why did he become the first assistant?

The first time Lin Pingzhi's name was mentioned in the nine thousand years old words, Huang Liji reacted, keenly aware of the possible risks that Lin Pingzhi might have after becoming a Hanlin official, and couldn't help frowning.

This eunuch who can be called an old man below one person and above ten thousand people, after thinking carefully for a while, he replied to Wei Zhongxian.

"This champion Lang became a Hanlin official from the sixth grade, which is the rule of my Ming Dynasty, and it is best for us to change this."

"But the rumors between Lin Pingzhi and the county lord of the Xinwang Mansion have also been spread for a long time, for the sake of the reputation of the clan, I also ask Chitose to let the Zongren Mansion put pressure on Lin Pingzhi as soon as possible, so that he can marry the county lord."

Huang Liji's expression was serious, and he stroked his long beard and continued very calmly.

"In this way, Lin Pingzhi will not be a Hanlin official for a few days, and he will become the county lord's guest of honor and the clan noble."

"Then let's do it again, put it out to Ying Tianfu, and send it to a spare job!"

In the Ming Dynasty of this time and space, the princess's husband "Concubine" and the county lord's husband "Yibin" are very similar to a kind of noble title that cannot be hereditary, in which the treatment of "Concubine" is above the earl and below the marquis, and the "Yibin" is almost the same as the treatment of the earl.

In addition, after a normal person is awarded the title of "concubine" and "guest of honor", the imperial court will generally add another vacant position of more than three ranks, so that he can receive two "salaries" by himself.

However, it is not without a price to be treated so well.

As mentioned before, after becoming a "horse" and "guest of honor", not only can he not serve as a real position, but even the scholars of the relatives within the five suits, if there is an official award, they must resign and go home, for the official family of the Ming Dynasty, the price is not small, and they avoid it like a tiger and a snake.

Through "rumors", Lin Pingzhi "went smoothly" to become the husband of the noble daughter of the clan, which was originally an arrangement calculated by the eunuch party before, and it was naturally impossible for Wei Zhongxian to disagree.

Hearing the arrangement in Huang Liji's words, Wei Zhongxian stood with his hands in his hands, nodded and said calmly.

"Very well, then let's arrange it this way!"

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A few days after the end of the imperial examination, the magnates of the capital lived in the eastern city.

"Bang!"

"Whoa!"

This is the main hall of the Xinwang Mansion, the sound of a delicate vase being smashed to the ground by the owner and broken into pieces.

The only prince of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing, when today's younger brother Xinwang Zhu Youzhen, and the future famous Emperor Chongzhen of the dead country, is roaring with anger on his face.

"Those eunuch traitors are really too deceitful!"

Because the previous teachers were all from the Donglin School, Zhu Youzhen, the king of letters, was extremely inclined to the officials of the Donglin lineage and disgusted the powerful of the eunuch lineage.

He has not been beaten by reality, and stubbornly believes that the imperial court controlled by the eunuch party is cholera in the world, making the people on the Shenzhou continent miserable.

This noble-born prince did not expect at all now that although the eunuch party was corrupt and domineering, in the end of the apocalypse, there were few large-scale popular uprisings, and the nine-sided army never lacked food and grass; On the contrary, after he came to power in the future, with the assistance of the Fushe bureaucracy known as the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty", there was a shortage of silver and grain, the peasant army continued to revolt, and his braided hair entered the customs several times, successfully making him the son of heaven and the last emperor.

In the Son of Heaven, I ordered a person I admired, and a person from Donglin was the champion.

's daughter got a good son-in-law who is unique in the Ming Dynasty.

If these two things are looked at separately, they are all things that make Zhu Youzhen feel happy, but the two happy things put together, but it makes him extremely angry now!

Zhu Youzhen, who has been taught by several Donglin teachers, is much more responsible than when Emperor Qi is today, and he knows that this imperial examination is for the country, not for the imperial family.

Since the birth of the imperial examination, in the long history of 10,000 years as the time unit, only the middle of the former Tang Dynasty produced a champion horse, and the ending ended in tragedy, so since the founding of the Ming Dynasty for thousands of years, in addition to the founding period, the husbands and daughters of the noble daughters of the clan have all been selected from the people.

Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the Xinwang Mansion, followed closely behind Zhu Youzhen, and when he saw that his master was furious, he hurriedly walked over with a tea bowl in his hand, and whispered comfortingly.

"Your Highness is angry, the reason for the Zongren Mansion ······"

However, he didn't expect that as soon as he spoke, he was directly interrupted by Zhu Youzhen.

"Ridiculous! The Shougong sand of Yu Ning is still there, and Lin Pingzhi is innocent at all. ”

Xinwang Zhu Youzhen can stay in Beijing after he became an adult, and he was not driven to the fiefdom by the eunuchs, so naturally he was not as harmless as he usually behaved in front of the eunuchs, and he saw the conspiracy of the eunuchs.

"Then Wei Gelding thinks I don't know?"

"Doesn't he just want a Donglin champion to enter the court and get in the way for him?"

"I am the father of Yu Ning, I don't agree with this family matter, I want to meet the Son of Heaven!"

After that, Zhu Youzhen walked directly out of the gate of King Xin's Mansion and strode towards the direction where the Forbidden City was located.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen didn't know that the eunuch party was so powerful in the face of threats! Lin Pingzhi is now in the imperial city, standing in front of the Son of Heaven and the elders of the clan to personally appear on the table, ready to marry Zhu Yuanning, the eldest daughter of King Xin·······