Probably nine times out of ten, it's stable!

Zhou Bowen thought silently in his heart, but he lowered his eyes, looking calm, this look made those who paid attention to him a little more appreciation, of course, among the candidates, there were some righteous indignation, and some hated Zhou Bowen and Lu Wei'an.

After the emperor set the rankings inside, the candidates went in one after another, and they all walked in the hall to listen to the emperor's announcement.

"Xuan! Zhou Bowen—"

Sure enough, the first person to be called out by the emperor was Zhou Bowen.

Zhou Bowen walked out of the candidates and strode forward.

"Student Zhou Bowen, knock to see the emperor."

Zhou Bowen has always been gentle and calm, and there was no emotional fluctuation on his face at this time, and this calm appearance made the emperor sitting at the top nod his head.

"I really never thought that Zhou Aiqing could bring me such a big surprise and win the champion, Zhou Qing is still happy?"

"Minister, naturally I am happy." Zhou Bowen listened to the emperor's tone, and said very neatly to himself.

"Zhou Qing won the champion, not to mention, he has made meritorious contributions to disaster relief before, and he has not been rewarded before, why don't you directly give you an official promotion, is it good to study for the position of bachelor in Hanlin?"

The emperor's words were as if a stone had suddenly dropped on the surface of a calm lake, and everyone was in an uproar.

According to the practice of previous years, the champion should be the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and the next level of revision should be the bachelor's degree.

Zhou Bowen won the champion not to say, directly promoted to the next level, everyone is not surprised to be strange, the Hanlin Academy is all the previous champion Tanhua, talented people abound, Zhou Bowen is even the youngest one among the candidates of this year, this year is only eighteen or nineteen years old, less than twenty years old, some people can't take the exam and have been taking the exam year after year, the oldest of them is also in his forties, he is less than twenty years old to become the champion is already shocking, it is the first one in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Now he is directly promoted to one level.

"Emperor Xie is not kind, but the grass people, they are still young and their qualifications are still shallow, so they can't afford this errand, I beg the emperor to take back this sentence, how it was in previous years, how it will be this year!"

Although Zhou Bowen wants to be a whole process and can do more and better things for the people, he also knows that he can't become a big fat man by eating in one bite, and the road has to be walked step by step.

Even if there is the emperor's protection, but the emperor can't protect it in all aspects, above this court, the unpredictable people's hearts are sinister, and Zhou Bowen doesn't understand.

I really don't understand, does the emperor really want to promote himself or what?

If you really want to promote yourself, you can give a position to explore flowers, and then send it down to the next to accumulate qualifications for a few years, and then transfer it back justifiably after you have merit.

When Zhou Bowen was thinking about how to persuade the emperor, one of the candidates was bold and straightforward

He stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty! Students have objections! ”

Although everyone was dissatisfied with the emperor's care, but they never said it, on the other hand, this candidate actually stood up directly, attracting many people's side eyes, everyone turned their eyes to that person, only to see that although the person panicked, but still insisted.

"If you have any objections, just say it." The emperor probably knew that he would attract criticism if he did this, and someone suggested that it would be better to go over there, so he said it directly.

"If the emperor wants Brother Zhou to be the champion, with Brother Zhou's talent, the students have no objection, but the students feel that this year's paper is biased!" This person said directly what the other candidates didn't dare to say, and everyone lowered their heads and muttered in their hearts, this scholar is really bold, and he didn't dare to look at what kind of expression the emperor sitting on it was, and they were afraid of implicating them.

The scholar said with everyone's eyes: "Everyone knows that this time this time this area happened together, the emperor appointed Brother Zhou and Brother Lu to go to disaster relief, the two of them have had close contact, naturally quite experienced, and this year's topic has disaster relief, the two of them have a little more experience than us other candidates, is this move biased?" Please Emperor Mingjian. ”

After Qin Shangming said this, he stood in place, although he left some cold sweat, but he still looked firm.

The emperor stared at this person for a long time, he did not waver, but nodded with satisfaction in his heart and said: "I know that some of you must have some thoughts in your hearts, you are Qin Shangming!" It's a bit like your father Qin Taishi! Speak up, good! ”

It turns out that this person is Qin Shangming!

Zhou Bowen and Lu Wei'an thought in their hearts.

Hearing this, Zhou Bowen and Lu Wei'an would also recognize it, Qin Shangming was the one who talked about their family's gossip among the scholars they met a few days ago.

All right! The Lord has come out.

No wonder he knows so clearly, it turns out that his father is a historian!

I just don't know if the person in front of me knows if the guest at the table next door to them that day is the person he questioned in the court now.

I don't know if I want to see him like this!

"Well, since you want to know, I'll tell you." The emperor said: "For some reason, there are no other ministers in the court who are willing to go to the disaster relief, so I called the two of them to go, the big and small things that happened in Jiangsu and Zhejiang must have already reached the ears of all the candidates in the capital, and what is the process, I think you should know no less than me." ”

"But look at the articles you wrote, and then the articles written by Zhou Bowen and Lu Wei'an, there is a huge difference."

"Someone's coming!" The emperor beckoned and said, "Take out the top three rolls and show them, and you will know where the difference between them and others is." ”

"Huh!"

Immediately, a eunuch pasted the paper on a wooden board and set it up, so that all the candidates could see it clearly.

After seeing what was written on the paper, all the candidates were amazed.

"I didn't expect that there would be such an idea, it's really wonderful, wonderful!"

Even Qin Shangming, who had stood up to question fairness before, couldn't help but admire.

"I really never thought I'd be able to start with that."

After reading this article, everyone praised one after another, and also realized the gap between themselves and Zhuang Yuanlang, and no one dared to say that they were biased.

(End of chapter)