Chapter 187: Pressure from both inside and outside

Author: Emei Swordsman

In the imperial study room, Feiyuwei was reporting to Emperor Jingfeng’s news that he had heard in the past few days.

"…'Gu Yunji will soon become the third person in this dynasty to win the three-yuan in a row'. Such remarks are unknown. When his subordinates and others realize that, they have quickly swept across the city, and the streets and alleys are talking.

The elderly, weak, women and children are no exception.”

Feiyuwei knelt on one knee on the ground, his face calm when he spoke without any guiding hints or tone, but simply stated the facts: "For a time, everyone is following him, and he is rushing to get along with Gu Yunjipan to get involved in the so-called "

Wenquxing is happy, "Even a trend has been ripped out among vendors, and they have used the 'several three yuan in a row' as a gimmick to attract customers."

"There are also fellow villagers of Gu Yunji who have begun to prepare to celebrate the firecrackers, plaques and other utensils to celebrate the 'Three Yuans'. When they talk to each other, they speak with confidence, as if Gu Yunji's top scorer in high school has become a fact."

Emperor Jingfeng listened quietly, holding the pen holder with a little force, and pinched it white. After a while, his fingers loosened, and his voice was chilling: "Ha, I don't even know who the top scorer in this year is, they

Let's decide for me first."

Emperor Jing Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, and the dark color in his eyes was dark: "According to the current situation, if I do not point Gu Yunji as the top scorer, wouldn't I still have the expectations of the people? It would be a good way to force me to use public opinion."

Feiyuwei buried his head low and did not dare to answer the conversation.

He let out a breath slowly, Emperor Jing Feng raised his head slightly and stared at Feiyuwei: "What is Gu Yuanhui's reaction to this matter? Have you ever found out that he is adding fuel to the fire?"

"Gu Yuanhui..."

Feiyuwei was about to answer, when Ning Fuhai walked in from outside and said to Emperor Jingfeng, who was in charge, "Your Majesty, Lord Gu Yuanhui, the Minister of Justice, bring the palace examination papers to ask Your Majesty to award the imperial examination title."

"I just mentioned him, and he came by himself, which is quite a coincidence." Emperor Jing Feng raised his eyebrows and his expression was a bit unexpected, "Let him come in."

Feiyuwei stood up and said, "The subordinates should avoid it first."

Emperor Jing Feng nodded: "Yes."

After a while, Gu Yuanhui walked in with a stack of test papers and knelt down in front of Emperor Jingfeng: "My minister, Gu Yuanhui, see Your Majesty."

Emperor Jingfeng raised his hand and asked him to get up, smiling warmly: "No gifts. The palace examination has just been completed and the papers will be read in a few days. I guess Gu Qing must have been busy these days and didn't sleep much, right?

Thanks for your hard work."

Gu Yuanhui said: "It is the duty and honor of the minister for the imperial court. I don't feel the hard work in my heart. Besides, Lord Fang, Lord Cai and others are also reviewing the papers together. I dare not take credit for myself."

Listening to Gu Yuanhui's sleek answer, Emperor Jing Feng smiled slightly and did not comment.

Gu Yuanhui bowed his body, held the answer sheet in his hand high, and asked respectfully: "Your Majesty, the answer sheets of the 300 candidates in the palace examination have been read. I just wait for Your Majesty to order the grade. Do you need me to read the paper for Your Majesty?"

The nominal examiner of the palace examination is the emperor himself, so strictly speaking, there is no real examiner, only the "reader" - reading the papers from the emperor so that the emperor can rank.

However, due to too many answers and the emperor was busy with all his time, it was impossible for him to personally judge each test paper. Therefore, the cabinet officials often followed the review in advance and then selected some of the better answer papers for the emperor to determine the ranking. This emperor

The process of personally evaluating rankings requires the reading officer to read the paper.

The work of reading papers is tiring and boring, and in most cases it is held by Hanlin officials. Although emperors usually prefer to mark papers themselves, this process gradually becomes a pretext. However, there are also many emperors who sometimes have a whim and randomly order people to themselves.

When reading papers, they are either small officials with low rank or eunuchs who are literate, they are not as powerful as Gu Yuanhui.

It seemed that Gu Yuanhui had never expected that he would say this. Emperor Jing Feng paused slightly, looked up at him, and asked with interest: "Gu Qing is a minister and a minister in the cabinet. He has been dismissed from handling important affairs of the court on weekdays.

If you don’t open your body, can you still do such trivial things as reading papers?”

Gu Yuanhui lowered his head, his posture was neither humble nor arrogant: "Your Majesty said he was serious. No matter how big the officials were, they were all for the court, and there was no difference in nature. What's more, Gu Yuanhui could have today, all depends on His Majesty's support. As long as he could share his worries, I have nothing to do

Can't do it."

"Gu Qingguo is a loyal minister of my Daxia Dynasty. I can feel at ease with a pillar of the court like you." Emperor Jingfeng praised him casually, not knowing whether it was true or false, "But you have this one."

Just be happy. If you really want to read the paper, you don’t have to. You can just present ten best-answer papers and I can read them myself.”

"Yes." Gu Yuanhui responded, and then presented the prepared papers in advance.

Emperor Jingfeng took it with a smile, but when he saw the name "Gu Yunji" written on the top paper, the smile on his face instantly stopped and his eyes suddenly became cold.

With a "bang", Emperor Jingfeng threw the paper on the table, and the fierce momentum of Emperor Jingfeng leaked out, and his words were filled with a dangerous aura: "Why, Gu Qing is like them, I think I should give your good nephew-

Gu Yunji, is this the top scorer?”

Gu Yuanhui knelt down decisively and lay down on the ground: "I dare not."

"Don't dare? Hey." Emperor Jingfeng sneered and raised Gu Yunji's paper, "What does Gu Qing mean? Put Gu Yunji's paper on the top so that I can see it at a glance. This means you.

Is it an attitude? Or is it not just Gu Qing’s decision alone, but the result of Fang Shu, Cai Zhichuan and others’ discussion?”

The first few palace examinations will be appointed by the emperor. Before this, the reviewers will screen out some excellent answers and arrange them according to their level and then hand them to the emperor, which is equivalent to providing the emperor with a reference. And this

The order of arrangement basically represents the inner tendency of the examiners, that is, the higher the papers, the more qualified they are to rank first.

There are people's wishes outside and officials' attitudes inside. Now, the situation is like a united inside and outside putting pressure on Emperor Jingfeng, forcing him to call Gu Yunji as the top scorer.

Emperor Jingfeng hated being forced the most in his life. Thinking of this, his anger slowly rose and gradually became a prairie fire. The emperor who had been in power for a long time pressed towards Gu Yuanhui like a mountain of pressure, his voice was biting cold;

"I put pressure on me with public opinion, intending to influence the results of the palace examination admissions with public opinion. Gu Qing's move is because he feels that I am still young and cannot completely control the government, so he wants to remind me that if you have left you, the entire court will not be able to turn around.

Move, right?"
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