Liang Chu did a good job as a Beijing official, especially as an examiner. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, when he presided over the township examination in Nanjing, he began to recommend Tang Bohu to his friends.

Tang Bohu's fate was changed by Zhu Houzhao in the twelfth year of Hongzhi.

He was beaten to the point of a broken arm, and although he was unable to participate in the imperial examination that year, at least he was not involved in the eucalyptus of the imperial examination fraud. However, even so, in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, the imperial court did not let him be admitted.

The main reason is that Emperor Hongzhi did not let him be admitted.

Because this person is indeed a conceited maniac, not to mention the prodigal shape, every time he comes to the exam, he feels that he will definitely be able to pass it, and everyone else has become a foil.

In addition, after all, Tang Bohu had something to do with the deaths of Marquis Jianchang and Marquis Shouning, and Empress Dowager Zhang now mentions this surnamed Tang with itching hatred.

At that time, Emperor Hongzhi didn't want to make the harem uneasy, so he continued to keep him out of the gate of Jinshi.

However, this time, he came again.

Moreover, Liang Chu also became a deputy examiner, and Zhu Houzhao frowned slightly when he looked at the palace test papers.

Among the people who voted for the imperial examination in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, there were three names that he cared about.

One is this Tang Bohu.

The other one is naturally Yan Song Yan Ge Lao.

There is another person who has something to do with the current court situation, and this person is named Xie Pi. Historically, his future official position will not be low. But at this time, Zhu Houzhao was because of his identity.

He is the second son of Xie Qian.

Of course, there will also be first assistants in this subject in the future, such as Gu Dingchen and Zhai Luan, but with Zhu Houzhao's historical knowledge, he should not know these two people.

In the Qianqing Palace, Li Dongyang, Liang Chu, and Yang Tinghe are all examiners, and now it is time to sort the scholars.

This is Zhu Houzhao's first appointment after ascending the throne, but he did it before when he was in charge of the country, so there is nothing new.

"If you want to take Tang Yin, do all three of you have this opinion?"

"Your Majesty." Li Dongyang replied: "Tang Yin is indeed talented, the words and sentences of the article are good, Tang Yin fell off the list in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, which has already caused Shilin to discuss, if the Yi Chou Ke is not taken, the ministers are afraid of more criticism."

Zhu Houzhao didn't want to get along with Tang Bohu.

Maybe Koji still had some special affection for celebrities when he first came in the eleventh year, but now he doesn't have it. In his eyes, he is the emperor, and Tang Yin is a lifter. Whether the court takes it or not depends on whether he is useful or not.

Or to put it more bluntly, what the Ming Dynasty needs is Wang Shouren and Yang Tinghe, even if it needs a general like Xu Guan, it will not need a literati who likes to visit brothels.

"But I heard that he was hanging out in the Jiangnan area, and his friends persuaded him to break off his friendship. What is he going to do after he has taken him? Do you manage the Faculty Division?"

Yang Tinghe and Liang Chu have always been steady people, but they couldn't help but want to laugh when they heard the emperor say this.

Li Dongyang was also slightly embarrassed, "This person ...... After Hongzhi failed to make the list for 15 years, he said that he had corrected a lot."

"Corrected? The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change." Zhu Houzhao still didn't think so, but he didn't seem to hold on to this, "That's it. As Li Ge Lao said, the imperial court always has to be fair, according to the number of imperial examinations, since people's articles are well written, then I can't lose justice. You can look at the rankings."

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The champion, the list eye, and the tanhua are hand-picked by the emperor, and the other emperors can't be ranked. And the article is good or bad, the emperor doesn't understand, and it's not up to the ministers.

"Yes."

Li Dongyang also sighed, he didn't expect Tang Yin to have such a bad impression in the emperor's heart.

But in fact, Zhu Houzhao's set also has the meaning of showing the Empress Dowager Zhang.

This means: Tang Yin wants to take it, otherwise someone outside will talk, but if he takes it, the emperor doesn't like it.

In this way, Empress Dowager Zhang finally felt some comfort in her heart.

"Xie Yizhong (Xie Pi) is the son of Xie Gelao, right? The tiger father has no dog son, but he will give birth."

At the mention of this, Zhu Houzhao became happy again. And Xie Qian is also because of this, so he is not an examiner.

In fact, sometimes, emotions, joys and sorrows are also a tool to show political attitudes.

"It's the second son of Xie Ge Lao, only twenty-four years old, young and promising."

"Do I have an old precedent of father and son?"

"All of them are Jinshi, but they are all champions, and they have never been."

Xie Qian is the champion, but Xie Pi is a tanhua in history.

Zhu Houzhao didn't know this, in fact, according to his heart, he wanted to point out a person named Lu Shen, this year's policy topic is biased towards the economy, that is, why the state had more fiscal revenue in the Song Dynasty mentioned earlier.

Looking at the depth of the strategy, Lu Shen wrote the best. It may have something to do with his family background, as his father was a small businessman.

But at the moment, the court situation is involved in the matter of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian.

Send Wang Wei and Wang Shouren to go, there are ten good, but one is unavoidably bad.

is the cabinet, and the political status of Li Dongyang and Xie Qian is very embarrassing.

The two major events of the imperial court, one is a complex and the other is open to the sea, the complex is the special responsibility of the Military Aircraft Department, and the opening of the sea is the most critical for the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, but they did not get involved in either of the two major events.

In addition, Liu Jian also went to Shandong.

Do you think it's fatal?

But from Zhu Houzhao's point of view, it is impossible for him to continue to drive Li and Xie to some place in a short period of time.

First, these two people are already very cooperative.

Second, they are all capable ministers for a while, and the court needs them, so why should they be driven away?

Third, he is the new monarch who ascended the throne, Liu Daxia and Liu Jian have had accidents one after another, and the court is turbulent, so it will be stable for at least two years.

So he wanted to keep these two elders, but the development of the situation led to him having to send Wang Wei.

So although he didn't want to exclude Li and Liu from the court, the actions he could make were like this, and others didn't care what you thought, they would just look at what you did.

As soon as the decree of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian came out, I don't know how many people wanted to go up and join these two elders, because they received the message that the emperor wanted to move the two of them.

In that case, if someone gives up his position, why not cooperate?

If the old people don't go, the new people don't go, this is the simple truth.

So after arranging Wang Wei and Wang Shouren, Zhu Houzhao was actually thinking about this hand, and he wanted to maintain the balance of the court.

Xie Pi is a point of prying.

"According to what you can see, Xie Yizhong's answer can be the champion?"

….

When the emperor asked this, Li, Liang, and Yang were not very easy to answer. Because according to reality, there are not only talented people such as Tang Bohu, Gu Dingchen, the champion in the original history, and Dong Xi, but also Yan Song, Lu Shen, and Cui Miao, who are actually no worse than Xie Pi.

Xie Pi is excellent and good, but it is also very far-fetched to say that among so many talents, he is directly recognized as the champion, and no one else is worthy except him.

But there are some words...... If you say it, I don't know if it will offend Elder Xie Ge......

Probably only Li Dongyang dared to speak, he said: "Xie Pizhi's talent is true, but Weichen thinks that it is rare to be the champion. And Xie Pi is the second son of Xie Gelao, which is not worthy of his name, but it is even worse."

Is it bad to be unworthy of the name?

The corners of Zhu Houzhao's mouth were crooked, it was not good for Xie Pi to be unworthy of his name, he would rely on his father to be the champion in the future, but the situation at this time was very good.

The emperor did such a thing at this time, and it was clear that he was looking at Xie Ge Lao's face.

Moreover, the matter of the father and son has never happened before, and it will definitely cause extensive discussion after it comes out, and the government and the opposition feel that while Xie Ge's old favor is still there, they will also ignore some embarrassing issues in the cabinet.

In modern political terms, this is called the diversion of contradictions.

So what's so bad?

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Hou Zhao lifted the Zhu Pen, and before putting down the pen, he asked, "Is it that I appointed him as the champion, and someone will sit in Chengtianmen tomorrow?"

How could such a perverse thing happen? Li, Yang, and Liang all shook their heads,

Liang Chu said more clearly, "Your Majesty's words are serious. That's not going to happen. It's just that...... If Xie Pi's father is not Xie Ge Lao, it is not impossible to appoint him as the champion."

That's it.

Zhu Houzhao thought that Xie Pi's original history was also Tanhualang.

can be admitted to this ranking, who can say that he has done a problem with his article?

Now it is only a matter of slightly unconvincing people, and compared to the embarrassing position of the cabinet, this problem is simply not a problem.

So Zhu Houzhao didn't care about so much, and used a red pen to write the words "first" directly on it.

Li, Yang, and Liang were all a little suspicious, but the emperor never did anything without reason, and they knew that. So since it's decided, don't fight it.

"Bangyan and Tanhua will be given to Gu Dingchen and Yan Song."

Gu Dingchen's article is doing well, and Yan Ge Lao, he is also looking forward to it. As for Lu Shen, as long as he is in the top two, there will always be a chance for him.

"Yes."

After this matter, Zhu Houzhao sat down cross-legged, blowing a slight breeze, and said slowly: "I have already issued a holy decree, and the attendant Mu Fengxi went to Fujian to serve as a political envoy, and Guo Shangkun also followed him to Yingtian to inspect the yamen. In this way, there is a shortage of people in the chamber. When the gold list of the palace examination is announced, Elder Li Ge, you remember to remind me to let Xie Pi enter the attendant's room."

Li Dongyang had even deeper doubts in his heart, what did the emperor mean by suddenly showing kindness to the Xie family like this?

"Yes, Wechen understands."

After Feng Xi and Guo Shangkun left, Jin Gui and Wang Xian were left in the attendant room. Jin Gui is an old man from the original East Palace, and his personality is too quiet, so it's good to do some writing work.

Wang Xian's sense of existence is even lower, but he is the person recommended by Wang Wei. When Wang Wei disseminated the doctrine of 'applying it to the world, it was best to learn from this person.

These two people didn't report to Zhu Houzhao before, and they didn't seem to want to, unlike Feng Xi who still wanted to perform, Jin and Wang only buried themselves in work, and some of them looked like Feng Xi and Guo Shangkun's secretaries. Sorting out the correspondence of the imperial court, recording the tasks issued by the emperor, and urging the documents at the appropriate time, this is the most important thing to do.

can be ranked according to seniority, and it should be them in line.

And after Xie Pi came in, there was actually one less.

Zhu Houzhao rubbed his fingers and thought silently, maybe he could let Yan Song come over and try it......

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