Chapter 188 The Imperial College

Author: Emei Swordsman

"Have your majesty calm down."

Gu Yuanhui leaned down lower, and seemed to be frightened and panicked, but his face was calm as usual: "I have no intention."

"Oh? Is that right?" Emperor Jingfeng looked at him with a smile, with a chill in his eyes, "Then please tell me, what do you mean?"

Gu Yuanhui's throat rolled, trying to make his voice calm: "Your Majesty appointed me and others as the reviewers to review and screen the candidates' test papers on your behalf. I dare not be careless. However, the imperial examination is of great importance, and the palace examination is the top priority of the imperial examination. It is related to the future of the court. In the end, whoever is deposed should be decided by Your Majesty. Even though I am the reviewer, I dare not interfere with the sage."

"Therefore, the ten test papers presented to Your Majesty are arranged according to the candidates' examination rankings, not by me. I am doing this to avoid the attitude of my worker affecting the overall situation, so that all the power of ruling will be attributed to Your Majesty."

As he said that, Gu Yuanhui's tone became excited and his eyes turned red: "My dear Gu Yuanhui is full of loyalty and fears that he cannot go through fire and water for His Majesty. How dare he threaten His Majesty to take charge of the government alone? Please give him a clear guide!"

Emperor Jingfeng was slightly stunned and immediately went to look through the remaining papers: Gu Yunji is Fang Zigui below, and after Fang Zigui, Cheng Yan, and then... a total of ten copies. Although the list is a little different from the top ten in the exam, it is indeed arranged according to the ranking of the exam.

Seeing this, his expression slowed down, the chill in his eyes instantly dissipated, and his face changed only in an instant. Before the eunuch and palace maid kneeling on the ground could react, Emperor Jingfeng had already walked down the steps and helped Gu Yuanhui up with his own hands: "So that's the case. I blame Gu Qing wrongly."

Emperor Jingfeng patted his hand, smiling kindly and kindly: "I didn't hold back my temper for a while, did I scare Gu Qing? Gu Qing is a veteran of two dynasties and is loyal. How could I not know? I'm just talking, don't take Gu Qing to heart."

Gu Yuanhui raised his hand to wipe his tears, looking sad and sad: "As long as your Majesty is willing to believe me, I will be satisfied."

Emperor Jingfeng looked Gu Yuanhui's face and showed concern: "I see Gu Qing has become much haggard these days. I think it's because the imperial examination affairs are complicated and it's hard to worry."

"Come here." As he said that, Emperor Jingfeng waved, "Get two red ginseng that the Goryeo Kingdom paid tribute to him last year and let Lord Gu take it back to replenish his body."

"I thank Your Majesty for the reward." Gu Yuanhui burst into tears and immediately wanted to kneel down to thank him, but was stopped by Emperor Jingfeng.

Emperor Jingfeng smiled and said, "Gu Qing has been tired for so many days, so let's go back and rest first. As for those papers, after I have finished reviewing and set the ranking, I will send someone to Gu Qing."

Gu Yuanhui said respectfully: "Yes, I will leave."

As soon as he walked out of the imperial study room, Gu Yuanhui's legs became weak and almost fell to the ground.

He touched his clothes soaked in cold sweat, his face was pale and bloodless, and he was very scared. Even though he guessed Emperor Jingfeng's attitude towards this matter, he probably expected the other party's reaction, but when he was really under Emperor Jingfeng's intimidating power, he was still scared to his mind blank and almost couldn't say a word.

The so-called accompanying the king is like accompanying a tiger, it is indeed not just a saying.

In the imperial study room, Emperor Jing Feng looked at Gu Yuanhui's departure in a distant way, and the smile on his face faded little by little.

After a while, he suddenly asked: "What did Gu Yuanhui react to the rumors you said about Gu Yunji winning three yuan in a row?"

Feiyuwei quietly showed his body and replied: "Reply to Your Majesty, Gu Yuanhui did not make any explanations and clarifications on this. He only restrained the servants in the family and ordered them not to follow the mess. He also refused all banquets on the grounds of congratulations to the first place in the family. Even the congratulations given by his colleagues were completely removed."

"At the same time, Gu Yunji has been staying in the guild every day these days and has not interacted with anyone. The subordinates guessed that he might have been instructed by Gu Yuanhui, so he stayed in the door."

"Hmph, this old fox Gu Yuanhui." Emperor Jing Feng snorted lightly, turned around and returned to the table to sit down, "I was afraid that I would blame him for rumors, so I rushed to me to express my loyalty. But he also created this battle to suppress me first and then promote me, so that I could not be punished first, but also had to appease him angrily. It was really easy to plot."

After saying this casually, Emperor Jingfeng pressed the matter down and then looked at the answer sheet of the candidates who went to the palace examination.

After reading the papers one by one, Emperor Jingfeng's face calmed down a little bit, and his voice was chilling: "Gu Yunji, the cousin of Gu Yuanhui, the Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice; Fang Zigui, the son of Fang Shu, the chief assistant of the cabinet; Zhang Ji, the younger brother of Zhang Xiang, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Rites... This imperial examination refers to the comprehensive selection of talents in an unconventional manner, but in fact, most of the people who passed the exam were children of aristocratic families, and the poor scholars were squeezed so that they could hardly occupy a few places."

"When they entered the court, 80% of them still followed the footsteps of their fathers and brothers, each with their own established camps. How many can they listen to me and be loyal and pure ministers? They passed on from generation to generation, and after the imperial examinations, the imperial examinations were still in the hands of those people."

As he looked at it, Emperor Jing Feng suddenly paused and looked up and asked Feiyuwei: "Which family is this... Cheng Yan?"

Feiyuwei said: "Your Majesty, Cheng Yan is from Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture. He has worked as a farmer for generations in his family. He has no noble family and no nobles to rely on. He is a real poor person."

"Is that true?" Emperor Jing Feng raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, looking disbelieving, "But if he was from a poor man, how did he pass the exam all the way? Can his family's few acres of thin fields support expensive shrines?"

Feiyuwei replied: "As far as my subordinates know, Cheng Yan had received funding from Gu Kaizhen, that is, Gu Yunji's father, so he had the fee to go to Luxi Academy to study. But only this is limited to this. Gu Kaizhen's funding was from his personal behavior and did not mean that the Gu family in Songjiang. Moreover, after Cheng Yan passed the imperial examination, he never asked for money from the Gu family again."

"This is rare. You can go from the provincial examination to the palace examination by just one's own efforts. The results are so outstanding, it is really not easy."

After carefully reading Cheng Yan's paper from beginning to end, Emperor Jing Feng showed an admiration in his eyes: "Cheng Yan's experience should be the best interpretation of 'Whether the kings, princes, generals and ministers are still alive.' However, this should be the case for the imperial examination. However, in terms of talent and knowledge, regardless of origin, simply picking up talents from the fields and thatched houses is also the true meaning of obtaining scholars."

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Jingfeng took the pen and dipped it in ink, thought for a moment, and then he dropped large red characters on ten papers in turn.

After completing the rankings in one go, Emperor Jingfeng called Ning Fuhai: "Sent someone to send these papers to the Ministry of Rites and ask them to fill in the list according to this ranking in two days."
Chapter completed!