In the ninth year of the Holy Dragon, Yao Chongzheng, the chief examiner, was injured in a falling horse while drinking, and was replaced by Zheng Hong, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and there were more than 1,000 candidates for the Jinshi subject, of which 26 were the first.

Nine out of ten of them are the children of official eunuchs, and the top three on the gold list are taken by gate valves:

Cui Yao, the grandson of the patriarch of the Cui clan in Qinghe.

Pei Donglai, the grandson of former Prime Minister Pei Tao.

Chen Yize, the son of Chen Jing, the head of the household department.

However, Shen Nan was born in poverty, and was recommended by the female official Ouyang Zijin to be the empress, ranking fifth.

Liu Qingshan and Xue Cheng have no shade, and they have no immortal talents, and they only have a reputation at the banquet of Cui Xiangfu, and they have no accident to fall off the list.

Seven township tributes in Beizhou, Liu Chenxing was absent from the exam, a total of six people referenced, Cui Yao won the championship in one fell swoop, Du Yuanlang was good friends with Cui Yao, and also won praise for writing a poem at Cui Xiang's banquet, plus the waiter of the Ministry of Rites was his father Shangfeng, and he was also on the list, ranking at the end of the list.

Therefore, Beizhou Township Gongju seven people into the second, the results of this year's imperial examination for the past years, no merit and no fault.

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This year's results of the Jinshi Department were released on the sixth day of the first month of February, and the next morning, the King of Wei criticized the prevalence of the "request" in the imperial examination, and it was difficult to obtain talents in the imperial examination.

King Wei played: "The noble are entrusted with power, the rich are entrusted with wealth, the relatives are entrusted with affection, and the poor have nothing to trust, resulting in the poor and talented people falling off the list, but the well-dressed children are not talented." Chen Yize, the third place in the Jinshi Department today, is the youngest son of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and only answered two of the five articles in the third essay test, but when the first three articles were qualified, Chen Yize should have fallen off the list, but he ranked third, which is favoritism! ”

"The original intention of the imperial examination was that the sages sought merit for the sake of the community, and when they were only able to take it, what is the difference between it and the current door shade? Why bother setting up more imperial examinations? Give hope to students all over the world, but make them have no way out! Therefore, the minister today asked His Majesty to severely punish the crooked trend of favoritism in the imperial examination, and to correct the atmosphere of the national examination! ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was in an uproar.

Those who can go to court in the seventh year of the first month are all officials above the fifth grade, and eight out of ten of them are from the well-dressed clan.

At least half of those who entered the Shike branch this year were related to the officials present.

King Wei's words are undoubtedly enemies of most of the court, especially the son of Chen Jing, the head of the Hubu Shangshu, and the first is to support him, and the Hubu Shangshu Chen Jing was the father of the King of Wei, the late Prince Huaide's companion, and the King of Wei's move can be described as a self-cutting right-hand man.

The officials of the dynasty were all former ministers of the Shen family, the ancestor of King Wei, and all the emperors since ancient times passed on the throne. Therefore, in the hearts of all civil and military officials, the descendants of the empress and Gaozong are the most justifiable Tianhuang nobles and future heirs to the throne.

However, the King of Wei now puts them and other officials on the opposite side, Rao is that they still have the Shen royal family in their hearts, but how can they support the King of Wei again?

After being shocked by King Wei's performance, except for a few officials from poor families who seconded the atmosphere of the imperial examination, most of the remaining officials were silent, as if they were already dissatisfied with King Wei.

The supporters of the Gu clan led by Gu Daoan and Gu Daosi brothers are even more proud, King Wei as the only concubine of Prince Huaide, the eldest son of the empress, and the son of the empress was imprisoned in the land of Bashu and Luoyang, King Wei should be the best candidate for the next throne, but he has no political talent.

At this time, King Wei, as the grandson raised under the empress's knees since childhood, and the only grandson who was raised by the empress herself, highlighted his advantages.

The king of Wei is reasonable, Chen Yize and the first are indeed cheating for personal gain, the empress should be accountable, but if the weight is light, take Chen Yize's results in this imperial examination, and degrade the chief examiner Zheng Hong as the assassin of Yanzhou, and then he has been on the side of the king of Wei with the administrative means of encircling high-ranking officials and gate valves, thinking that the imperial examination should be taken by meritocracy, and let everyone recommend the virtuous to the examiner, which is to recommend truly talented people, not for private recommendation, completely ignoring the style of "line papers" and "request", It's basically the empress herself who listened to the government before it became more and more intense.

As for the results of this scientific examination, in order to let King Wei offend some courtiers less, and he has always been kind to the courtiers, the empress did not order the people to retake the examination, but only ordered the original chief examiner, Yao Chong, the servant of the household department, to re-examine and the first examination paper.

Three days later, Yao Chong, the head of the household department, was reinstated, and the remaining twenty-five people should have passed.

The empress personally reviewed the top five test papers, and let the king of Wei accompany her, although the top five are four of the best dressed scholars, but they are all worthy of the name, especially the champion Lang Cui Yao, worthy of the Qinghe Cui family descendants, outstanding literary talent, the empress praised.

Then, the king of Wei played again, and the test papers of these five jinshi should be made public to the public, in order to dispel the anger of the sons of the cold door, and also to justify the names of the jinshi who relied on their strength this time.

The Empress gladly agreed.

As soon as the test paper was announced, the angry Hanmen Juzi who was angry for Chen Yize's imperial examination case saw that the poems on the paper were impeccable, especially the five essays, all of which had something to say, compared to what they answered, their vision was obviously better, and the anger naturally subsided, but they couldn't help but sigh one or two, the essays require the candidates to have a certain political, military, economic and other aspects of government affairs, and the children of the eunuchs have been exposed to it since childhood, and they are not comparable to the children of the poor family. Fortunately, after King Wei's attack on the wind of "asking for help", they should be able to have a place in the provincial test next year.

Thinking that the imperial examination was no longer desperate, Hanmen Juzi couldn't help but be grateful to King Wei for exposing Chen Yize's case.

For a time, Chang'an was full of praise for the King of Wei with poetry.

And because of King Wei's proposal to publish the examination papers, the people and the first not only eliminated the influence of "asking" and the first, but also made their talents known to the world, and corrected their true talents and names.

If this is the case, the people and the family behind him also correspondingly have less concern for the King of Wei, and even secretly said that it is fortunate that the King of Wei exposed the case of Chen Yize - this is selfish.

Another way is that everyone still has a certain amount of justice in their hearts, when the superior is a person who only knows conspiracies and tricks all day long, or a moody person, or a faint king who does not care about the people's livelihood, how good can their situation as a courtier be?

The arrogant and lascivious late emperor of the previous dynasty is a vivid example, and many old ministers have also experienced the period of Emperor Taizong, when the monarch was virtuous and clear, the politics were clear, and the famous and famous ministers came out in history.

Let me ask, as a courtier, who doesn't want to follow Ming Jun, and who doesn't want to go down in history?

Taizong is the great-ancestor of the King of Wei, although he still can't see that the King of Wei has the legacy of Taizong, but at least he has justice in his heart, and he is willing to oppose a group of officials for the sake of the atmosphere of the imperial examination.

Remembering his biological father Prince Dehuai, filial piety and benevolence, sympathetic to the people's feelings, once as a prince, highly respected by them, they are also willing to assist, but the body is sick and died young. Fortunately, he left a son, King Wei, so that there would be no successor.

In this way, from King Wei's actions today, a group of courtiers recalled his biological father, Prince Huaide, and yearned for the Ming monarch and capable ministers during the period of Emperor Taizong, and they were already inclined to King Wei again.

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