Nothing was said all night.

The next day, the first thing Xia Ren did when he woke up was to ask Dian Wei to go to the summer capital to find people, take them around the summer capital first, and then bring those summoned characters to the palace and wait for his reception.

And Xia Ren himself is going to have a big court meeting, this is Xia Ren's first New Year's court meeting, so he has to accept the worship of hundreds of officials in the Imperial Palace.

After the pilgrimage, I will visit several queen mothers to express my filial piety, and then I will go to worship the ancestors, and finally I will have a meal with the royal family to celebrate the New Year.

When these are done, it is estimated that the day will pass, so Xia Ren asked Dian Wei to take those people to visit first, otherwise even if he came to the palace now, Xia Ren would not have time to meet him!

After a while, Xia Ren came to the Huangji Palace, this time the number of officials in the Huangji Hall is still very large, although it is not as good as when Xia Ren ascended the throne, but it is also a lot more than usual, after all, it is a tradition over the years, on the first day of the new year, he must meet Xia Huang.

It took an hour, and after accepting the congratulations of the hundred officials, Xia Ren retired from the court, and he also went to the harem to visit the former emperor and concubine, that is, the queen mother and the concubine, to express his filial piety.

After seeing those people, it was also afternoon, and Xia Ren took the adult prince to the imperial tomb to worship the ancestors, and another afternoon passed.

In the end, in the evening, the royal family members had to have a banquet together, and many princes and princesses who were not very familiar with Xia Ren before would attend, looking happy.

Such a feast was eaten until late at night.

Back at the Yongsheng Palace, Xia Ren instructed Dian Wei to bring all the summoned talents to the Yongsheng Palace and meet him himself.

After a while, Lu Bu and the others walked in under the leadership of Dian Wei.

"Your Majesty. ”

"Haha, you don't have to be polite. ”

After some introductions, Xia Ren also got to know these people.

Then Xia Ren spoke: "Lu Bu, Tai Shici, Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, Chen Gong, the five of you will go to the Mingwu Army later, and I will send a message to General Chang Yuchun, and he will appoint you to specific official positions." ”

After speaking, he looked at Ouyang Feng and Duan Zhixing and continued: "The two of you will go to Sizhou to find Xiongba, Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong are also over there, and I will send a message to the past later." ”

Finally, looking at the four first-class generals, the heroes of Liangshan, Xia Ren spoke: "As for the four of you, go to the Holy Martial Legion to find General Yue Fei, and he will arrange for you." ”

Immediately, everyone clenched their fists and took their lives, and then left.

After they left, Xia Ren also informed Yue Fei Xiongba of the arrangements of these people through the transmission note.

In the following days, Xia Ren stayed in the palace, and at the beginning of the new year, the ministers also had to take a holiday, and the court meeting would not start until the seventh day of the first month.

At this time, the atmosphere of the New Year is a little stronger than before, because today's tax system has been changed, so many people have surplus food at home, and there is also extra money to buy some new things.

The people are very simple, whoever is good to him, they are grateful, and now the most mentioned by the people is Xia Ren, and there are people who are grateful to Xia Ren all the time, which makes those families want to cry without tears, and they almost vomit blood in anger.

Time flickered, and seven days passed.

It was another court meeting, Xia Rengao sat on the dragon chair, listening to the hundreds of officials below constantly report on the situation in various places, how the harvest was last year, whether there were disasters, whether there were wars, etc.

In fact, Xia Ren has already seen these things in the cabinet, and these things are generally done by officials from all over the country before the end of the year, and then submitted to the cabinet for review.

Nowadays, I pick some more important things in the court meeting, and say it again for the sake of formality.

After these ministers finished speaking, Xia Ren made a summary: "Last year, the development situation in various places was still in a state of stagnation, and there were even some regressions, and I ordered the cabinet ministers to focus on investigating those places where the development had regressed from today, and if it was found that officials were inactive, all of them would be removed from their posts and investigated." ”

"In the areas where development is stagnant, the local officials should also be monitored to see why they can't contribute, and if not, then replace them." ”

After speaking, Xia Ren's face was serious.

Liu Bowen and other cabinet ministers suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured." ”

The hundreds of officials below also shouted: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

They can't refute this matter at all, the local development is backward or stagnant, and it really has nothing to do with the local officials, but Emperor Xia has been in retreat before, so no one has ever cared about these, and most of those local officials are children of the family, and they don't care about those.

As a result, I didn't expect that after Xia Ren took the throne, he vigorously targeted the family, and those children of the family reacted, but it was too late, how many things could they do in that little time?

So this time, Xia Ren took this opportunity to weaken those families, although it would not hurt the muscles and bones, but if he came a few more times, it was estimated that the families would not be able to bear it.

After summing up last year's events, Xia Ren began to say another thing.

"Lis!"

"The minister is here. ”

"I have appointed you as the minister of Donghai Prefecture, responsible for supervising all the imperial examinations held in Donghai Prefecture this year, once anyone is found to be cheating, candidates will not be allowed to participate in the scientific examination for ten years, and all previous results will be invalidated, and the officials will review them according to the severity of the circumstances. ”

"If the circumstances are minor, you will be dismissed from your official position and put in prison, and if the circumstances are serious, you can be executed, during which you have the power to cut first and then play, and all officials in Donghai Prefecture will cooperate with your investigation. ”

After speaking, Xia Ren looked at Li Si with a solemn face, and continued: "This year's imperial examination in Donghai Prefecture is the first imperial examination in the history of Daxia, so Li Aiqing must supervise it well for me, so that this imperial examination can be held fairly, justly and openly." ”

After hearing this, Li Si's face suddenly turned grim. He said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, rest assured, as long as the minister is in Donghai Prefecture for one day, I guarantee that no one will dare to destroy the imperial examination." ”

Xia Ren nodded, he still believed in Li Si's ability, and with the management of Du Ruhui in Donghai Prefecture, he believed that this imperial examination would be held smoothly.

As long as this imperial examination can be held smoothly, then the children of the poor families in the world will definitely see hope, and when the time comes, it will definitely make this matter bigger and make those families even more embarrassed.

After all, Donghai Prefecture is too far away for all scholars who want to participate in the imperial examination to reach it.

As soon as Xia Ren finished speaking, an official below spoke, it was a supervisor of the Inspectorate.

"Your Majesty, supervising the matter, this is the duty of our Inspectorate, and I also ask Your Majesty to hand over this matter to our Inspectorate, I believe that Your Majesty will not be disappointed. ”

Xia Ren ignored him, and didn't let me down? Do you think that if a child of your family tells me this, you can make me believe it? What are you thinking?

I wanted to scold this person in my heart, but on the surface, Xia Ren still said in a deep voice with an unchanged face: "I have handed over this matter to Li Si to take full control, if Li Si needs manpower, he can be transferred from the Inspectorate, otherwise, no one else is allowed to interfere, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the will." ”

After speaking, his face was fierce.

The Inspector Yushi's face turned pale suddenly, and he said respectfully: "Obey Your Majesty's holy orders." ”

Xia Ren's confidence is getting harder and harder now, not only because his strength is gradually becoming stronger and the family is gradually weakening, but also because this matter was originally denied by the family at the beginning.

Now that he wants to intervene rashly, he is afraid that he doesn't know that Xia Ren's sword is unfavorable.

Didn't you see that although a few Shangshu frowned and had ugly faces, they didn't intervene, because they knew that it was impossible for their family to intervene in this matter.

If it was better in their territory, but in Donghai Prefecture, where Xia Ren's lair was uprooted, how could they interfere?

If it weren't for the imperial examination, which was a matter of great importance, Xia Ren would not have said it at the court meeting, and would have carried it out directly in Donghai Prefecture.

Like what actions will Donghai Prefecture take in the future, only Du Ruhui needs to submit an application to the cabinet, and then after Xia Ren agrees, he can go straight to work.

Then he talked about some inconsequential things, and the first pilgrimage of the new year ended.

Five days later, Li Si arrived in Donghai City.

The reason why it took five days was also because Li Si had to do some preparations, otherwise how could he supervise the imperial examination in the entire Donghai Prefecture by himself.

This year's imperial examination was held in January, the township examination, then the general examination in June, and finally the palace examination in November.

Because the imperial examination has just begun, it will be held once a year, and when the imperial examination system is completely mature and there are more talents, then it will be delayed, such as once every three years and once every five years.

"Lord Li, Your Majesty's order has been received, and this imperial examination is going to trouble Lord Li. ”

As soon as Li Si arrived in Donghai City, he was taken by the city lord of Du Ruhui.

After listening to this, Li Si just said flatly: "Lord Du is polite, Li Mou is valued by His Majesty, and he is responsible for supervising the imperial examination, and he still needs Lord Du's full cooperation." ”

Du Ruhui said with a smile: "This Lord Li can rest assured, this official has basically made the preliminary preparations, the corresponding examination room, the manpower has been prepared, and the test questions have also been sent to the cabinet some time ago, and the adults have also reviewed it, and there is no problem at all." ”

Li Si nodded after listening, and then said: "This time I still need to worry a lot about Lord Du, Li has just arrived, and the manpower is not very sufficient, so he may not be able to monitor the entire Donghai Prefecture, and he still needs Lord Du's assistance." ”

"This is no problem, now the official has also trained a lot of talents, although the ability is not enough, but the loyalty is still enough, and it will be assigned to Lord Li when the time comes." ”

"Okay, then thank you, Lord Du. ”

In fact, Li Si was still quite confident in supervising the imperial examination this time, because Xia Ren gave him a secret order before he left, so that he could mobilize the Jinyi Guards in the East China Sea, and it was too easy to use the Jinyi Guards to monitor whether there was cheating.

Therefore, Li Si basically didn't worry about the problems of the imperial examination, and he borrowed people from Du Ruhui just to be more secure.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the first day of January, which is the day when the imperial examination township test begins.