When the empress came, her cronies were the first choice.

If you come to the power department of Shangshu Province again, if you don't have a certain status, even if you come on the orders of the empress, you will inevitably be despised.

The miscellaneous servants first went to the marking court to inform the empress to send someone to inquire about the progress of the provincial examination, and Zhigongju and the four same examiners immediately guessed who the envoy was.

Hurriedly walked out of the court, and sure enough, I saw a palace beauty with cloudy sideburns and high buns walking in the courtyard.

Na Liren was tall and slender, wearing a white topless dress sprinkled with orchids, and a light blue large-sleeved brocade robe on her upper body, covering her breasts, so that the snow-white skin on her upper body was faintly exposed, and her arms were holding a blue shawl.

In between the lines, as the weather warmed up in mid-February, the breeze swept the skirts of the clothes, and the end was inexhaustible and soft and elegant.

She looked at the age of about thirty, with a duck egg face, starry eyes like waves, and a flying look in her eyes, which made people forget to see the vulgar, and she couldn't help but praise a quiet and vulgar beauty.

In the prosperous world, all like flashy and flashy, noble ladies and ladies are all wearing heavy makeup, and only she likes a light blue dress, and dislikes the tediousness of the head full of pearls, often wears a bowl of orchids on the high bun like a cloud, but there is no trace of blandness, and probably because she is full of poetry and books, she is like the profound and beautiful article, the content is profound, and the words are wonderful.

And such an outstanding woman is not an ordinary woman, and there is only one person in the entire Chang'an City, and that is Ouyang Zijin.

At the age of fourteen, because of his outstanding talent, he was appointed as a female official by the empress who was still the empress of Gaozong, and since then he has been accompanied by the holy car so far, it has been twenty-two years, and he is deeply trusted by the empress, and he is named "Neisheren", entrusted with the right to deal with the Baisi watch, and has the right to go to the court every day, participate in government affairs, and the power in his hands has been greater than that of the Shen Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Therefore, although Ouyang Zijin is called the "Neisheren", because of his authority, he is comparable to the Zhongshu Order, the governor of Zhongshu Province, and belongs to the post of prime minister, and has the name of "women's prime minister".

It seems that the empress is also unwilling to wronged Ouyang Zijin, in the seventh year of her title of "Inner Sheren", that is, three years ago, although Ouyang Zijin was not given another official position, but gave the three-grade life woman court clothes, since then, Ouyang Zijin officially sat on the name of "women's prime minister".

The five examiners have two squires, who are also three grades, and they are still real official positions and ranks, but Ouyang Zijin is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and he also came by holy order, so he has to give more face.

Even if the empress is the world, but the corporal doctor is deeply influenced by Confucianism, Confucius Sage has a saying that "only women and villains are difficult to raise", there is a certain prejudice against women in his heart, but Ouyang Zijin is outstanding in learning, and his poems are highly respected by literati, and he is a representative of the current "Qi wrong and charming" poetry style, and some even call the current popular flashy style "Ouyang style".

Yes, although Ouyang Zijin is a woman, she is also an existence comparable to a Confucian in the literary world, and she does not compromise her identity when she sees such a woman.

Seeing that the person who came was Ouyang Zijin who had guessed, Yao Chongzheng, the waiter of the household department, and Yang Guanzhi, the waiter of the ministry, looked at each other, and then led the three examiners to meet each other, and saluted with their hands, "Ouyang Neisheren." ”

Although she has a three-grade life woman court dress, but it is not as good as Yao Chongzheng and Yang Guanzhi is the justifiable official position of the provincial squire of the third grade, Ouyang Zijin has been a slave in the court since he was a child, and after the age of fourteen, he accompanied the empress from the queen all the way to today, what he has seen and heard is extraordinary, and he will not accept the gift of the two.

Ouyang Zijin turned sideways to avoid it at the moment, and said with a smile: "Yao Shilang, Yang Shilang, and all the ministers have worked hard to read the papers, Ouyang has led the life of the saint to come to condole, how can I accept such a great gift from you." ”

The voice is not slow, the smile is like a spring breeze, and the bookish atmosphere that is immersed in poetry and books all the year round makes people feel close to him and think that his character is gentle.

However, not to mention the farthest is the imperial examination in front of her, ten years ago, the empress suddenly increased the female imperial examination, it was Ouyang Zijin who single-handedly promoted it, and her courage was not as gentle as she seemed on the surface.

Yao Chongzheng did not comment on Ouyang Zijin's words, he only said politely: "It is not hard to say, it is our honor to choose talented people for the saints." However, Ouyang Neishe is a person, who often accompanies the saint and solves problems for the saint, which is the high degree of hard work. ”

If so, the two of them came to the marking court in the guest room.

Ouyang Zijin glanced at the court without a trace, and saw a low case in the middle of the hall, and two short cases on the left and right sides, which should be the book cases of the five examiners.

At this time, there were no papers on the left and right cases, only a few pieces of rice paper were placed on the main case directly above, knowing that the current progress had probably begun to summarize and discuss the final ranking here with the chief examiner Yao Chongzheng.

Then he withdrew his eyes, and looked at Jia Zhang, a scholar from the middle school, and nodded slightly, seeing that Jia Zhang nodded slightly, the smile on Ouyang Zijin's face instantly opened like a spring breeze in March, but he was down to the truth: "You have been reading the file for ten days, I don't know how it is progressing now, but there are outstanding talented people?" The saint had been praying about it for days. ”

She said and smiled, as if it was ordinary gossip with others, "The sage said that this year's examination style is upright, Yao Shilang and everyone are honest and honest people, and they will definitely be able to choose truly talented people impartially." "Words are full of compliments.

Yao Chongzheng's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this, and when he thought of the word "justice" on the note, he couldn't help but feel relieved, and said more and more calmly: "Ouyang Neishe people came by coincidence, we have just finished reading the papers, and the gold list ranking has just been drafted." ”

When Ouyang Zijin heard this, he smiled and said again: "The list has been prepared, that's really a coincidence, the sage sent me here this time just to see this year's list ranking and the top ten test papers." ”

Compared with the imperial examination, the main way to enter the court as an official is still the door shade, so the emperor generally does not interfere with the ranking of the imperial examination, and because there is no palace examination for the emperor in the imperial examination in later generations, it is equal to whether the candidate is on the list and the ranking, all of which are determined by the examiner, and then directly announced on the list.

Now that the empress wants to look at the test papers and lists, Yao Chongzheng couldn't help but rejoice that this time it was completely ranked according to the results of the papers, and he immediately packed the list on the case and the top ten test papers with the examiner, and then handed them to Ouyang Zijin.

When he got the box, and thought about Jia Zhang's nod, Ouyang Zijin smiled unconsciously, held the box with both hands and bowed, and said, "Then don't disturb you, the saint is still waiting for Ouyang to return to his life, and Ouyang will leave." ”

After that, Ouyang Zijin left Shangshu Province, boarded the chariot, and went to Miyagi.

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