After seeing Wu Minato's body, Dong Palace just quietly took the body away as Shan Tao expected, but did not go to Jingzhao Mansion to cause trouble.
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He even acquiesced to the reason why Jingzhao Mansion killed Wu Minato——
That is, he pretended to be a lieutenant in the East Palace and defrauded the Jingzhao Mansion. After being discovered, he was executed by the order of Jingzhao Yin Cui Guangyuan.
Just like that, a strange scene appeared.
It was clear that he was Wu Cao, a general who served in the East Palace, but was unanimously considered a liar by the East Palace and Jingzhao Mansion, and Xilihu Tu lost his life.
In the East Palace, Dou Shen looked at Wu Minu's body and took a breath of cold air.
What went wrong?
According to his understanding of Jingzhao Yin Cui Guangyuan, he is just a weakling.
Moreover, the eucalyptus in Zhuque Bridge has nothing to do with Cui Guangyuan. Why did he kill Wu Minu?
Dou Shen couldn't figure out what happened.
Moreover, Cui Guangyuan's behavior is tantamount to starting a war with the East Palace. He has no backing, Jing Zhaoyin, who gave him the courage?
Wait, has he already taken refuge with Queen Zhang and Li Fuguo?
Dou Shen was shocked.
Nowadays, the status of the East Palace is very unstable.
Empress Zhang and the great eunuch Li Fuguo have been pushing King Nanyang to seize the throne. This King of Nanyang has just rebuilt the iron workshop in Nanyang and made great achievements in the court.
You must know that Nanyang has been the iron smelting capital of the Central Plains since the Han Dynasty.
One of the important reasons why Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, was able to dominate the world was that he had the official ironworks in Nanyang as his back.
The King of Nanyang has done a good job in rectifying the Nanyang Iron Works. I heard that the emperor intends to give him a higher title.
Among princely titles, a two-character title is higher than a three-character title.
And the princes of Qi, Lu, Qin and Zhao were the highest level.
Now there are rumors in the court that the emperor is planning to reward King Nanyang as King of Qi, so the situation in the court becomes even more subtle.
The Crown Prince is still known as King Guangping, but King Nanyang wants to be crowned King of Qi. This also shows the subtle changes in the court.
If Cui Guangyuan defected to Empress Zhang's faction, things would be terrible.
Dou Shen paced back and forth in the room. The corpse under the Suzaku Bridge was related to the prince's great cause of alchemy.
If I can't get it back now, I'm afraid it will be too late to find the "Alchemy Furnace" to make alchemy before the emperor returns to Luan Chang'an.
What makes Dou Shen even more worried is that the rumors in the market that the East Palace is related to the two fatal cases are getting more and more intense. It is also unknown who revealed the news about the prince's promise to the Uighurs by plundering Chang'an in Chang'an.
Chang'an was in an uproar now, and Dou Shen did not dare to go through the main entrance when leaving the East Palace.
Things that were originally a sure thing turned out to be complicated, and Dou Shen just felt that everything was not going well.
Dou Shen was still worried in the East Palace, but Wang Chengwei was at ease "recuperating" in the Longyou Guild Hall.
First, Gu Kuang, Wei Yingwu and other friends came to visit, and everyone praised Wang Chengwei for his righteous deed of praying for the people.
Immediately afterwards, Jingzhao Mansion sent decoctions and medicines to express condolences.
Then Wang Chengwei sought justice for an ordinary brothel woman and was punished for the security of Chang'an, which further boosted Wang Chengwei's reputation.
One night, Prime Minister Pei Miandu sent a steward and brought him some healing soup.
More importantly, Pei Mian revealed to Wang Chengwei that his paper had been among the stack of papers that passed the Jinshi examination and was sent to the emperor of Fengxiang Mansion for final decision.
For this Jinshi examination, after rounds of screening, thirty-two qualified candidates were finally selected.
These examination papers were all those that passed the poems and verses, passed four or more of the five questions on scriptures, and the strategies were highly praised by fellow examiners. Finally, after the examiner Pei Mian judged them to be correct, they were sealed in a treasure box and sent to
Capital.
The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty did not have the concept of the top three in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Everyone has the same starting point to pass the Jinshi examination.
The only thing they have in common is that they all have the top prize.
In the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty, there was no second place or top scorer. The number one scholar was also called the top candidate, and he was considered the leader of the current high school candidates.
The number one scholar is responsible for convening banquets of the same year and arranging regular gatherings of the same year. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, Jinshi came from more noble families, and the status of the number one scholar at this time was also higher.
But being the number one scholar is not that easy.
After the imperial examination, the examiner will organize a deer-crowing banquet.
This is a banquet held at the expense of the imperial court, and it is also a banquet that clarifies the relationship between the examiner and the examinees as teachers and students.
This money is naturally paid by the examiner, but those who can serve as examiners are already high officials in the imperial court, so they can naturally afford this amount of money.
And after the Deer Ming Banquet, it will be the "Wen Xi Banquet" held by the number one scholar.
Imperial officials will not attend the wedding banquet, which is a separate banquet for the new scholars.
Naturally, the court would not pay for this money; the champion would have to pay for it out of his own pocket.
Since the beginning of the emperor's reign, extravagance in Chang'an has become more prevalent, and the cost of holding a wedding banquet has also increased.
The new top scorer in each subject will work hard to organize the Wen Xi Banquet and try to surpass the previous Wen Xi Banquet.
As time goes by, many champions from poor families are overwhelmed and have to sell their land or houses just to hold wedding banquets.
Although the imperial court restricted the upper limit of the amount of money spent on Wen Xi Banquet, as long as this trend existed, Wen Xi Banquet was destined to be a prosperous time for new scholars.
In addition to organizing the wedding banquet, the number one scholar also needs to collect personal chronicles for all the people of the same year, compile the chronicles of the same year and a collection of poems of the same year.
Regular gatherings of the same year are held, and of course the champion has to pay for these out of his own pocket.
But even Wang Chengwei is not sure whether he can win the top prize.
As long as you can pass the Jinshi exam, your goal will be achieved.
In Fengxiang Mansion, the emperor asked his companion Li Fuguo for the third time:
"General, have the papers from Chang'an been delivered?"
Li Fuguo used to supervise the grain management in Guanzhong, and recently returned to Fengxiang Mansion.
The powerful eunuch returned to the palace, and the other eunuchs immediately gave way. Li Fuguo immediately became the most trusted person around the emperor.
Even Cheng Yuanzhen and Yu Chaoen, who had been active in the harem before, could only ask themselves to leave Fengxiang Mansion and did not dare to compete with Li Fuguo for favor.
Li Fuguo, like Gao Lishi, not only held a position in the inner court, but was also a general of the auxiliary state personally awarded by the emperor. He was also the commander of the Shence Army. He was a truly powerful faction.
Li Fuguo smiled and said: "Sage, I have sent someone to wait at the gate of Fengxiang Mansion. As soon as the examination papers from Chang'an are delivered, they will be escorted to the saint as soon as possible."
Now Li Heng's impatient mood was relieved a little.
Opening examinations to obtain scholars was a major event in the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that this was Li Heng's first imperial examination after he ascended the throne.
The topic of practical policy was also proposed by Li Heng himself. It can be said that this imperial examination was of great significance to Li Heng.
The topic of literary quality was also a test by Li Heng for young scholars. Lingwu ascended the throne in a hurry. Although the emperor later announced his abdication, it was also tacitly announced that Lingwu's ascension to the throne was the emperor's abdication.
But Li Heng was still uneasy. He also wanted to know from the young scholars what the world thought of his ascension to the throne.
After a while, two eunuchs carried a gold box and delivered it to the emperor.
"Sage! The exam papers for Fengxiang Mansion have been delivered!"
The two little Huangmen were about to enter the palace when a high-level eunuch serving the emperor stepped out and stopped the two low-level eunuchs who were about to enter.
This high-ranking eunuch took the wooden box, turned around and entered the palace with a smile on his face, and presented the answer sheet for the Jinshi examination to the emperor.
The two little Huangmen stood at the gate of the palace and waited for several hours in the cold weather.
Their faces were frozen, just to show their faces in front of the emperor.
If the emperor remembers them when he is happy, he will have the opportunity to prosper in the future.
The two young eunuchs recognized Li Fuguo as their godfather, and they paid tribute to him for a long time before they got such a good job.
Unexpectedly, at the entrance of the palace, that damn eunuch Sun took the lead.
The more they thought about this, the angrier the two young eunuchs became.
Li Fuguo's face immediately turned ugly when he saw that it was not his two godsons who were delivering the examination papers, but eunuch Sun who was beside the emperor.
Li Fuguo stepped forward and snatched the wooden box from Eunuch Sun's arms, then turned around and raised it above his head, handing it to the emperor who had been waiting for a long time.
Li Heng couldn't wait to pick up the paper and read it.
After skipping a few articles discussing the changes in the Wenxia, Shang and Zhou dynasties in ancient times and admonishing the current emperor, Li Heng finally came across an article that made him shine.
"Okay!" He first saw Wei Yingwu's article.
The article takes the Sui and Tang Dynasties as examples, and at least it describes the legal system of the Tang Dynasty. The article quotes the scriptures magnificently, and it is indeed a good article!
Li Heng took Wei Yingwu's article aside, feeling a little disappointed in his heart.
However, these young scholars have not yet entered the official career, so naturally they cannot understand their own thoughts. It is already good to be able to write such an article.
But then, Li Heng shouted again: "Okay! Okay!"
After hearing the emperor's two cheers, Li Fuguo also raised his head and glanced at the name "Gu Kuang" on the examination paper.
Li Fuguo had an extraordinary memory, and he immediately remembered that Gu Kuang was a disciple of Li Mi.
However, Li Fuguo and Li Mi were in the same situation, and Li Fuguo did not want Li Mi's disciple to win the first prize.
Li Fuguo rolled his eyes and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty for acquiring a talented person. This Gu Kuang is Mi Gong's disciple."
Disciple of Li Mi?
No wonder Gu Kuang's article was able to touch his heart. This theory of alternation of literary qualities was used in his succession, which demonstrated Lingwu's manifest destiny for ascending the throne.
But when Li Fuguo said that he was Li Mi's disciple, the emperor was a little confused.
Li Mi was a close official of the emperor. He found out that the test questions were not difficult. Li Fuguo's reminder made Li Heng feel uncomfortable.
What if it was Li Mi who ordered it?
Li Heng took out Gu Kuang's paper and put it under Wei Yingwu's paper. Then he saw Wang Chengwei's paper.