Xie Zhenglai's purpose is indeed related to Xie Qian, he took a bunch of articles, handed them to Xu Qian, and said to Xu Qian: "My father knows that Zirong is going to take the palace exam in the near future, so he asked people to send some manuscripts quickly, Zirong might as well take a look at it, it will definitely be of great benefit to your palace exam." ”

Xu Qian took the manuscript of the book, but it was a policy paper, in addition, there are some Xie Qian's previous recitals, such as "On the River Sparse" and the like, this kind of recital is a standard policy essay, as long as some of the words in it are modified, it is a typical model essay.

Among them, there are several policy papers, Xu Qian can see that this is written by Xie Qian according to the recent situation, and they are all in the style of the cabinet, although the time is in a hurry, but it is very serious.

Although I don't know what the topic of this year's palace examination is, there are ten **, which is for today's current situation, when today, there are several major events, one is that the Japanese are gradually rampant, the second is the resurgence of Mongolia, the third is that the people of Guangxi are getting worse, and the fourth is that there are more redundant people, and the court is miserable, in addition, there are water control, people's livelihood, etc., but these things, after all, are still ever-changing, as long as you understand the rules inside, you can do twice the result with half the effort.

Xu Qian was full of joy and invited Xie Zheng to sit in the hall, drank a few sips of tea, Xie Zheng smiled and said: "Senior brother is young and promising, this time the palace test, we must work harder, when the time comes, you and I will be in Hanlin together, and we will also take care of each other." ”

He is compiled by Hanlin, if Xu Qian can enter the first class, then he is a steady and stable Hanlin Shujishi, at least he has to stay in Hanlin for a few days, and the brothers can indeed take care of each other. Being an official in the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China is inherently concerned about the relationship between the cadres, classmates, the same year, and fellow villagers, but as long as there is some relationship, everyone becomes an ally, and only by helping each other can there be a day when they can develop their ambitions. Xu Qian and Xie Zheng are both fellow villagers and brothers, this relationship is already extremely close, and it is not an exaggeration to be regarded as half a brother.

Xu Qian nodded his head and said, "Naturally, do your best, I hope so." ”

Xie Zheng then said: "I'm a senior brother, some words have to be unhappy, what about you, learning is good, inside, senior brother can also see that you are not a cunning villain, but you are still young, sometimes you are still a person, you are still lacking some heat, as an official, you must not offend people, I hope you can be restrained, don't live up to your father's ardent expectations, these words, outsiders are inconvenient to remind, but after all, I am your senior brother, duty-bound, naturally I can't bear to offend you too much, okay, you don't want to hear these words, I'm here today, the most important thing is the palace exam, this time the eight examiners, are all drawn up by the palace and the cabinet, there are two of them, you don't have to worry, one is the Hanlin bachelor Gui, I heard that he has also been selected as a paper reader, and the other is Zhou Chang of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the former is your old acquaintance, naturally not much to say, this Zhou Chang, you must not recognize, this person, is my uncle's proud protégé, and now he is the imperial envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, although he is young, but he is promising, so this time, gave him this important task, and he can be regarded as a member of the Xie family. I say this to tell you that you must not have any pressure during the temple examination, and you can make a decision as you want. ”

Xie Di is Xie Qian's younger brother, a jinshi in the 12th year of Hongzhi, and later Xie Qian Zhishi, Liu Jin hit Xie Di, so that this Xie Erye's life has a lot of ups and downs, until Liu Jin fell, Xie Di began to recover, first served as the right senator of Jiangxi, at the beginning of this year, he was appointed as an envoy to Henan, the future is promising, and sooner or later he will become a feudal official.

Xu Qian was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "If this is the case, I can also feel more relieved." ”

Xie Zheng got up and said, "Okay, don't delay your schoolwork, you can work hard." ”

Xu Qian kept sending this senior brother out before returning to the room, and told Gui Zhi'er the truth about Xie Zheng, Gui Zhi'er read the manuscript sent by Xie Qian, and couldn't help but sigh: "Your teacher is really attentive, many articles here are written temporarily, he is so old, but he is willing to write so many strategies in just a few days and send them to Jingshi quickly, it can be seen that he has great expectations for you." ”

Xu Qian said triumphantly: "Of course, my teacher has always valued me very much, he once said that the world's scholars, I am the only blue-eyed Xu Zirong, and the rest of the people are not enough." The latter sentence is obviously his bragging, Xie Qian will never say this kind of thing about overturning a boatload of people with one rod.

Gui Zhi'er was suspicious, but she still nodded, and said: "Since this is the case, then you can't live up to his old man's good intentions, if you think about Master Xie writing strategies for you without sleep, you should work harder, you have to read these strategies well." ”

Xu Qian nodded, sat on the desk, first picked up a policy paper and read it aloud word by word, Gui Zhi'er was not bothered, and went to get a lamp, afraid that Xu Qian would look at it for a long time and burn his eyes, so he held the lamp to the front, and then tiptoed to bring a plate of melons and fruits that had already been cut, and quietly retreated.

For a few days, Xu Qian was immersed in the strategy paper, the previous eight strands of knowledge, eager to throw all of them out of the clouds, the eight strands are just a stepping stone, now the door is knocking, it is useless to ask for it, and the strategy has been related to his future, naturally he is eager to replace all his eight strands of knowledge with the knowledge of the strategy.

Gui Xiang didn't come, he had promised to come a long time ago, but he was named a paper reader, so he inevitably had to avoid suspicion, although the relationship with Xu Qian was unclear, just try to keep some distance, but it was also very necessary.

Fortunately, he was not idle, and he also collected some questions and answer sheets from the palace exams in previous years and asked someone to send them, Xu Qian is young after all, and his understanding is not comparable to others.

It can be seen that in this world, it is still somewhat useful to hold Buddha's feet temporarily, in fact, this batch of tribute students, they have not paid too much attention to the strategy before, everyone is on the starting line, whether this palace can strive for the top, it depends on everyone's understanding and resources, such as Xu Qian, the resources are extremely rich, there are Hanlin bachelors and former cabinet scholars for him to 'guide', naturally not ordinary people can compare.

In the blink of an eye, the palace examination has been getting closer and closer, the selected eight paper readers, on April 14 will enter the palace, the next three days, they will eat and live in the palace, and do not contact with people, these three days, they will negotiate together to come up with the test questions, and then submitted to the emperor for approval, but under normal circumstances, once the eight paper readers on the test questions, the palace is bound to Zhu approval, there is no reason to fail.

However, in the Dongnuan Pavilion, Jiajing looked at the test questions, but couldn't help frowning, this test question is about the problem of displaced people, at present, there are more and more displaced people in the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court has no land resettlement, so it has caused a lot of chaos.

For the sake of this homeless people, the court has also had a lot of arguments, and now it is quite appropriate to take this out of the question.

It's just that Jiajing doesn't like this topic, he pondered for a while, and said to the reader who sent the question: "This question is okay, but in the Hongzhi year, there seems to be a question like this, and now the old trick is repeated, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”

The reader who sent the paper was Liu Xi, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Liu Xi said: "There is indeed such a question in the third year of Hongzhi, but now decades have passed, and the problem of displaced people is related to the national economy and people's livelihood. ”

Jiajing shook his head and said: "Of course, the displaced people are related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but there is a major matter in the imperial court at the moment, but it is also a headache. Zhejiang and Fujian, the Japanese are wreaking havoc, abusing and killing the coastal people, looting property, from the Hongzhi year to the present, there are more and more Japanese robbers, I heard that the number of these Japanese is not less than 100,000, the danger is very great, and there are even Japanese robbers ashore, attacking the prefectures and counties, rampant to this point, the imperial court has repeatedly issued orders to suppress, but it is in vain, and then go on like this, but it is not a way, it is better to take the peace of the Japanese as the topic, let the candidates make suggestions. ”

Liu Xi couldn't help but be stunned, and said: "If this is the case, I'm afraid it's not fair to many candidates in the Northland, they were born in the Northland, and most of them haven't even heard of the Wokou, wouldn't it be difficult for them to give advice?" ”

Jiajing said: "I Wenxiu knows the world's affairs without going out, if the candidate just blindly reads, his vision is not broad, and he ignores the world's major affairs, what is the use of me?" Such a person, it is already good to give him the top three. Besides, the country has not known how many times the country has come up with such topics as river governance and displaced people, and it is unfair to use this as a topic, these candidates, I am afraid that they have collected a lot of such policy papers and read them well, I want to test the candidates' impatience, not let them be a microphone, this question is decided, Aiqing will go back and discuss it with other readers. ”

Liu Xi was helpless, seeing Jiajing's resolute attitude, if he would take the test, the emperor would make a claim, and he would inevitably have to argue with reason, after all, it was a palace exam, theoretically speaking, the Son of Heaven was the real examiner, and if people had to come up with this question, what could you do? So I had to nod my head and hurriedly went to discuss with the examiners below.

Jiajing sent Liu Xi away, and couldn't help sneering, he picked up the tea cup on the imperial case, and said slowly: "Huang Banban, don't hide anymore, come out and talk." ”

Outside the pavilion, Huang Jin hurriedly came in and said with a smile: "The slave is here." ”

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