Royal Palace.

At dawn, dawn was revealed, and snow was covered with snow in front of the Golden Palace.

The Third Duke Prime Minister Xie Huyong, the Grand Marshal Li Rong, and the Censor Kong Han led all civil and military officials wearing thick coats and court robes to enter the hall one after another, and were placed on both sides of the hall.

"The Emperor is here!"

The sharp voices of Cai and the eunuch echoed in the quiet hall.

"I will meet the emperor, long live my emperor."

All the ministers greeted each other with courtesy.

"All the ministers are calm! Give them three thrones."

Xiang Yanran was escorted by the eunuchs and servants, and sat down at the Golden Throne. He ordered the eunuchs to give the three ministers a seat and said indifferently: "Can you report?"

The civil and military ministers stood up with their hands, and were in a state of solemnity. According to the customs of the court, the three dukes led the report on the important affairs of the military and political affairs of the world. Then the ministers discussed and the emperor made a decision.

However, today is a little different from the usual morning court.

There was an extra bamboo slip of a ox cart in the hall, which was carried by ten imperial guards near the hall.

When the ministers saw this caravan of bamboo slips, they were whispering and looked strange.

Some ministers knew what was going on, but they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, just waiting to see how Prime Minister Xie sued Xiaohunhou.

In the last volume of bamboo slips, Xiaohunhou regarded himself as the prime minister's talent, and almost smashed the bamboo slips with the aggravated Lord Xie.

The son-in-law of King Ping Li Rong, the grandson-in-law of Xie Zhuxiang, Xiaohunhou, may be punished by the emperor again when he gets into trouble this time.

"Old minister, I have a brief report!"

Xie Huyong immediately stood up, stepped out slowly, and handed over a bamboo slip. "This year's 'Year Award' list has been drafted. Please review it and decide."

Every year, starting from the winter solstice and ending in the Laba Palace Examination, the first priority of the court at the beginning of the year, and it is also the primary government affairs of the Prime Minister's Office.

This list of candidates was reviewed and drafted by Xie Zhuyin himself. However, whether the candidates are allowed to participate in the palace examination in the end will still require the emperor to make a judgment.

Immediately, a eunuch from the pillar received the list of the year from Xie Zhuxiang and presented it to the emperor for review.

Xiang Yanran glanced at the bamboo slips with a complicated expression.

Slightly disappointed, and a little numb.

How to say it.

Since Emperor Taizu established a dynasty, he ordered the ten major families and wealthy families in the world to move to Jinling City to enrich the imperial capital. It has been more than 60 or 70 years since then.

These ten major families in Jinling have long been deeply rooted in the court with their ancestors.

There are the Li family in Longxi, Xie family in Chenjun, Wang family in Langya, Cui family in Qinghe, Lu family in Fanyang, Liu family in Pengcheng, Zheng family in Xingyang, Wang family in Taiyuan, Yang family in Hongnong, and Xiao family in Lanling.

The heads of the family family, Xie Hu Yong, Li Rong, Wang Su, Yang Chu, Taichang Lu Zi,... were ranked among the third duke and the nine ministers, and the daughters of the clan had royal relatives and descendants. The marriages between the family family were countless and complicated.

Although the Three Duke Censor Kong Hanyou is not the top ten clans in Jinling, Kong Hanyou's Kong family inherited the Confucius lineage. It was the unshakable Confucian Confucian clan in Qufu, Shandong, and its strength is even more unfathomable than the top ten clans in Jinling...unfathomable.

In the Great Chu year, the rule was "A king, prince, three duke, nine ministers, county magistrate, officials of more than 2,000 stones, and a population of 200,000, and one person per year."

The top ten clans in Jinling account for less than half of this annual list every year. The remaining half of the list is the most prominent clans in the world, and they are almost divided up.

There are only three or two candidates every year, and they are not among the children of prominent families.

The censor, great scholar Kong Hanyou, recommended his disciples Dong Xianliang and Chao Fangzheng, who were not his clan members. But even if they were not his clan members, they were also his disciples, and their relatives were more favorable than their own children.

This is already the practice of educating.

This is how it is done every year. I have seen the list at a glance and it is a group of "old acquaintances".

Every year when Xiang Yanran looks at this list of annual lists, he feels like he is familiar every year, and naturally feels a little numb.

I was disappointed because the list was innovating.

But if you don’t mention these people, who else should you?!

The top ten families in Jinling have strong financial resources and spend a lot of money to run private schools to train family children to study. The scholars followed the elders of the family and were influenced by them since childhood, and their knowledge and knowledge were also the best.

There are many other Confucian scholars, but most of them are narrow-minded and it is difficult to pick useful talents from many Confucian scholars. The other common people don’t even know a big word, let alone.

Xiang Yanran was helpless about this.

He looked at the list again.

There is a person on the list named Master Yan. His name is strange, and he is obviously not a prominent family. This person was recommended by Yang Chu, one of the nine ministers, and he has no relatives.

"Yang Qing, who is this master's father Yan?"

Xiang Yanran was a little strange.

The Great Governor Yang Chu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this man is a poor man, but he has learned a lot. He is not a Confucian, a Taoist, or a legalist. He studied in Jinling and has a good knowledge of hundreds of schools of thought. Because of his extensive knowledge and poor family background, he was quite exclusion from Confucian scholars and scholars.

Seeing that he was alone and was quite pitiful, I talked to him. I didn’t want to have a good conversation and became a confidant. As the saying goes, ‘The Tao is the same, but it coincides with each other’. Therefore, I recommend it!”

Xiang Yanran smiled and said, "What a 'the same way, but coincidental'. Yang Qing's actions are indeed as unique as ever."

There is finally one candidate on this year, and he is interested in it.

There is no problem with this list of annual lists.

But Xiaohunhou Chu Tianxiu was not written into the list.

"Has Xiaohunhou's self-recommendation letter been rejected by the Prime Minister?"

Xiang Yanran asked with a smile.

Master Xie Hu Yong looked a little aggrieved, "Your Majesty, the Hunhou Mansion is a marquis' 'heredherence-free' marquis. I am just a marquis who have 's surrendered for generations' and dare not dismiss Xiao Hunhou's self-recommendation letter without authorization.

But Xiaohunhou made a ruthless statement in his letter of recommendation, and actually claimed that, "I have the resources of the Prime Minister, I am willing to share your worries!"

Because his remarks involve me... I dare not make a decision, please ask Your Majesty to decide whether to allow him to participate in the annual election!"

Xiang Yanran went down the steps of the hall and came to the middle of the ministers, in front of the bamboo slips of the ox cart.

A pile of hundreds of bamboo slips.

He was a little curious about what Xiaohunhou Chu Tianxiu wrote in his self-recommendation book. After reading a few volumes, he really refreshed him...an alternative and amazing feeling.

For the first time, he discovered that Xiao Hunhou was so capable of making up. He even wrote a story of thousands of words in a word from someone else.

However, there are too many, even if you spend a morning court, you can’t finish watching it. You can only wait until you leave the court and take the time to watch it.

Open the last bamboo slip.

Xiang Yanran opened it and saw at the end of the scroll. At the end of the scroll, he suddenly saw the angry words of Prime Minister Xie’s silhouette. He was also commented by Master Xie in Dahong: The priest is so angry that he is also awesome.

Xiang Yanran already understood what Prime Minister Xie meant.

Prime Minister Xie was unwilling to reject it himself and wanted to ask the emperor to come forward to reject it.

"What do you think of all the people?"

Xiang Yanran asked without comment.

"Your Majesty, if Xiao Hunhou has the resources of the Prime Minister, where should those two Prime Ministers be?"

"Mr. Xiaohun said unscrupulously and collided with the Prime Minister. I beg your Majesty to reject Xiaohun's self-recommendation letter!"

Immediately, several officials who were close friends with Prime Minister Xie stood up to complain to the Prime Minister and asked for a report.

...

The Grand Marshal Li Rong led the military officers to be above the court. The listeners and civil officials criticized Xiaohunhou, and couldn't help but have a headache.

He was preparing to say a few good things to his son-in-law who was covered in darkness and was causing trouble everywhere in the morning court, so that the emperor could change his opinion of Xiaohunhou. After the palace examination, he could give his son-in-law a small official.

But the self-recommendation letter of this ox cart compares himself with the Prime Minister, which makes Master Xie very angry... How can this make Prime Minister Xie calm and restore the bad impression in the emperor's heart?

He was about to leave the list and ease it.

"Wait! I have also submitted a report!"

But he saw that the censor Kong Hanyou had already taken a step forward and directly interrupted the ministers' discussions.
Chapter completed!