Chapter 2051

  It’s just that the Ministry of Rites has already determined the ranking, and showing it to the emperor is just for him to take a look at it for the last time. If there is no problem, that’s it.

In the past, the emperor didn’t have much opinion, but this time the prince Jinshi test was considered half the chief examiner. He went to the palace and talked with him for a while, saying that some examiners from the Ministry of Ritual directly ordered the order according to the general list. The emperor was a little unhappy. .

  So when Kong Jijiu sent the paper and the list, the emperor took a closer look. He went through the list first and found that Bai Shan, Li Ma Baicheng, and Wei Yu were all there, so he went to read the paper.

The emperor took it seriously and read the 36 papers from beginning to end according to the rankings. Among them, four were to be selected. Because of the inspections of Kong Jijiu and several doctors, the four papers included were all with some names. Not well-known, but the paper is well written by the candidates.

  In order to read the papers, the emperor put aside other political affairs, and the officials who came to report on the matter were called in by him to sit in a row with Kong Jijiu, and the papers he had read were passed down for them to read.

  After reading the thirty-six papers, their eyes were lost, so the emperor ordered a meal and talked about the list with his beloved friends while eating.

  The emperor had not read the test papers of these candidates, but the Tongbang had been seen early in the morning.

  Although he wanted to hand over the imperial examination reform to the prince so that he could gain power, he didn’t want to get over it now.

  So while eating, he asked Wei Zhi and others for their opinions on several papers.

  Li Shangshu is not good at expressing opinions on this kind of thing, mainly because he is a military official who is not good at Confucianism, but he can say something about the current affairs policy, but...

  He glanced at Liu Shangshu on the side. It was almost the end of the year. After the new year, he had to calculate the funding for the Ministry of War. He decided not to trouble Liu Shangshu this year. He only hoped that he would not trouble him either.

  So Li Shangshu just bowed his head to eat and did not comment.

But Wei Zhi can’t do it. Even if his son also took the Jinshi exam this year, he was not a person to avoid relatives. So seeing other people didn’t mean to speak, he simply commented on it. He didn’t say that he had already set 30. The two places are not good, but the two articles that were put in for selection are particularly good.

   Thirty-six articles, from poems to classics and Shiwu policies are all glued together. The poems are clear at a glance, and the classics are almost fixed answers. He said very well, and naturally it is the current policies.

  Wei Zhi thinks it is a pity that people with such talents fail the rankings.

  The emperor also thought so. He was about to speak, so he listened to a human speech: "If you fall on the list of scholars, you can go to the Ming Scriptures."

  The emperor choked in one breath and turned to look at the speaker.

  Wei Zhi was not choked, but directly sprayed back, "Can this Jinshi ranking be the same as the Mingjing ranking? Why doesn't Han adults want his children to study the Mingjing?"

  Han Shangshu choked and said, "I didn't say this, but the doctor of the Imperial College said."

  Kong Jijiu was sitting across the bank watching the fire, and the fire suddenly burned on himself. He simply asked Han Shangshu directly, "Which doctor said that?"

  Han Shangshu stopped talking, but he could quietly talk to Kong Jijiu in private, saying that he looked like a villain in front of everyone.

  The emperor swallowed the choking breath and waved his hand: "Okay, let's pass this question first. Since the examination papers are out, the examination papers should be the main one."

  He directly picked out two test papers and said: "These two are missing."

  Everyone took a look and found that one was Cheng Wenhai from Tangzhou, and the other was Nie Xiu from Luzhou. They were all students of the Imperial College. All the people present except the emperor had seen their scrolls, and they still thought it was pretty good.

  Liu Shangshu simply turned around and asked Kong Jijiu, “How did they do in the Imperial College?”

   "Since you can be in the top 20 on the overall list, you have prestige and your results should not be bad."

  Wei Zhize asked, “Did they do their work in school, or did they do it by themselves?”

  Kong Jijiu paused and said: "Both are, but there is more to do."

Wei Zhi snorted: "As the exam is approaching, the current affairs policy questions issued by the Imperial College are very comprehensive. I remember that Bai Shan's booklet was selected from the homework he had done and put it into a volume. The two of them have the intention, and they have also thought about the topic, and they are so close to the government, whether they really have insights, or the other is unknowable."

Although Kong Jijiu felt that the two of them did not do a good job in this paper, he did not allow others to speculate about his students in such a malicious way without evidence, so he countered: "Master Wei thinks people's minds are too bad. If you don’t have evidence, please be careful. If you have evidence, you can bring the evidence to our country’s sub-supervisor to appeal."

Seeing that the two Aiqings were about to quarrel, they were still the two most eloquent Aiqings. The emperor hurriedly became a peacemaker, "Wei Qing is also worried about the talents, and Mr. Kong will forgive me."

   knew to Wei again: "Wei Qing said carefully, it’s hard to talk about it without evidence."

  Wei Zhi apologized in due course, Kong Jijiu snorted, and the matter was temporarily revealed.

  The emperor brought back the topic again, "Replace these two papers, and you will discuss the ranking."

Kong Jijiu saw that the two people selected by the emperor were both students of his Imperial College, so he simply picked another one from the remaining two candidate papers and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks this one is also very good. It’s not the same as these two."

  The emperor took a look, and it was no match. Although he did a good job, it was still a little short of the two.

  Looking at the name, it is also unknown. It seems that the native place is a student from Yangzhou Fu.

  You can’t let him replace one of the two, and Kong Jijiu has said that it’s not the same, so how do you choose?

  The emperor and Kong Jijiu looked at each other and understood what he meant. This old thing was for him to pick another person from the established quota, and he could no longer be a member of the Imperial College.

Emperor:……

  Wei Zhi took a look at the paper, refreshed, and thoughtfully proposed: "Your Majesty, should you take another look at Bai Cheng's paper?"

Emperor:……

  Bai Cheng has been assigned to thirty-two. His future father-in-law didn’t even think about moving forward. You still think about falling back?

   Seeing the emperor did not speak, Wei Zhi said more cautiously: "Your Majesty, Bai Cheng is still young and he is not as weak as a weak crown. At this time, it is still too early to be an official. He passed the entrance examination. Is he going to be released?"

  That's out of the emperor's eyelids. If this person is out there, it's not easy to worry about it.

  The emperor began to ponder. He didn't worry that Bai Cheng would have other thoughts after he was released. He was a bit uncomfortable to refuse Shang Kong Jijiu and Wei Zhizhuo's scorching eyes.

  Cheng Wenhai and Nie Xiu-neng occupy the top 20 in the general list. It can be seen that the strength of the foreign envoys is really not good if they are alone, but if he adds his son-in-law...

  For the stability and unity of the court, the emperor closed his eyes and picked out Bai Cheng's papers and put them aside.

  　See you at nine in the evening

  　　

  　

  (End of this chapter)