Chapter 18 Section 18

The topic that has been buzzing for more than a month: the cause and effect of Prince Gong being expelled from the military plane by the Empress Dowager Cixi, since the edict of the mighty grace of heaven was issued, it has quickly disappeared.This is not because there is nothing to talk about when Prince Gong is reinstated, but there is a more interesting topic: Who will the former Ke Hanlin's "disbanded hall" be awarded and the number one scholar of the undergraduate program? In the "Sanguan" big test, Zhang Zhidong ranked first in the first class. He turned out to be Tanhua, which is not a surprise.Immediately after that was the palace examination. As usual, on April 21st, in the Palace of Preserving Harmony, the emperor would take the examination in person.Talents from all over the world come from this place, which is related to the prosperity of the country, so the ritual system is extremely grand, and Jia Zhen and Bao Yun are the examiners.There are a total of 265 new tributes in the first list of the examination and the first place. They all arrived at the Meridian Gate before dawn. Each of them has two or three relatives and friends who sent for the examination. Heap chatted quietly.At Maozheng time, enter the hall by roll call, odd numbers enter from the left Yemen, even numbers enter from the right Yemen, gather in front of the hall, and the ritual officer sings praises and performs the grand ceremony of kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times. Sit down, do what you have learned in your life, and go for the "No. 1 Scholar".

As usual, the palace examination used strategy and theory, and asked four questions in total. First, the origin of "Zhengxue", then the administration of officials, and then the method of calming the people and eliminating robbers and the way of rectifying the military system. Classes are used to clarify political achievements, weeds are used to clean up the country, and the army is used to calm the border areas. These are the long-distance goals of establishing a country and the important tasks of governing. Toshi has been studying for a long time, and he has made no secrets about each of them. I will personally see it!"

It's called "Prospect", but in fact it only reads ten papers.The examiners of the palace examination are called "Ministers for Reading Papers". If they like it, a circle will be added on the surface of the papers. This time, a total of eight "Ministers for Reading Papers" will be sent out.Therefore, the best volume has eight circles, and that is the final volume.The order of the following nine books is also arranged according to the number of circles.Then it went to Cheng Yuqian, and Zhu Bi appointed it.Sometimes the original order does not change, and sometimes due to some special reasons, the one who was originally listed in the second class is changed to the first place. It all depends on everyone's luck.

One day of the palace examination, two days of "reading papers", and on the morning of April 24th, the empress dowagers of the two palaces brought the little emperor to the Palace of Mental Cultivation, and summoned the ministers of military aircraft and eight ministers who read the papers. As the leader, he put the ten neatly folded papers on the imperial case.The Empress Dowager Cixi has personally selected the champion twice in the first year of Tongzhi in Renxu and in the second year of Guihai, so she doesn't read the article, just read the circle.He skillfully picked up the first paper, and used his long fingernails to pry open the seal, to see who the number one scholar is?

After looking at it, he couldn't help but whispered: "It's him!" Then he stared blankly at Empress Dowager Ci'an. "Who is it!" "Sai Shang Ah's son Chong Qi." The most surprised by this announcement was the group of military ministers, but in such an occasion, they could only keep silent. Let's see what the empress dowagers mean? "What should we do? There has never been such a rule in this dynasty!" Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Ruichang and said. Seeing that everyone still didn't express it, the Empress Dowager Cixi was quite displeased.Since Manchu and Han were divided into lists, no matter whether they are from Manchuria or Mongolia, the banner people have never been among the top three.Because banner people have a wide way to enter the ranks, or they can win titles, or military merits, and they can be ministers of the ministry without any ink. Privileges only available to Han Chinese.How can the minister who read the paper not know the painstaking efforts of the ancestors?Although Mi Feng's paper does not know the name of the person, but this paper is from "Mongolia", there is a mark on the paper, but this selection, is it not to deliberately despise the heroine and not be able to personally judge A and B, and deliberately destroy the established law?

The Empress Dowager Ci'an didn't think so, but she didn't think that the minister who read the paper had any contempt, but she was always cautious, and always felt that "no rules can't be done, and rules can't be destroyed". The "Mongolia Champion" is here! So between the expressions, I fully support the Empress Dowager Cixi. "What should I do?" Empress Dowager Cixi asked her in a low voice, "I see..." "I think let the military plane discuss with the eight of them again?" This is a way out of nowhere. The Empress Dowager Cixi hates herself for not being bold enough in these things, nor knowing enough, and not being able to say as much as the emperor of the previous dynasty—especially "Lord Qianlong", as she pleases. After a lot of reasoning, the ranking of the top ten books has been changed.Then we had to agree with the Empress Dowager Ci'an's proposition.

Rui Chang still took the paper.This has never happened before, and everyone doesn't know what to do?Ruichang is a Mongolian, and it is inconvenient to speak. King Gong is frightened and refuses to speak. How can I describe it in words?If the established situation is broken, and another champion is selected, and the cheap person is won, it is not necessarily grateful, and Chongqi must have made a life-and-death enemy.Why bother? So Gu Moran, an unprecedented stalemate appeared.In the end, it was the younger ones who couldn't hold their breath, so Yanxu, a cabinet scholar, said: "If you only study characters, how can you divide them into bannermen?"

"Not bad!" Everyone agreed in unison, relieved. At that time, Cao Yuying drew up the pen and drew up a simple fold, with Prince Gong and Rui Chang leading the replay, and it was a foregone conclusion. As soon as the news spread, it caused a sensation in Nine Cities. Some people were amazed by it, some regarded it as a good story, and of course some people were not convinced, but there was only one person who cried loudly, and that was Xinke No. 1 Scholar Chongqi. Ever since his father, Sai Shang'a, was appointed as the imperial envoy as the Minister of Military and Aircraft in the early years of Xianfeng, to supervise the military affairs of Guangxi and to be in charge of suppressing Hong Yang, and was dismissed for breaking the law. Out of elation, naturally weep with joy.

After entertaining Yingmen's congratulatory guests a little bit, Chongqi has a big thing to do: to express her gratitude.It is necessary to visit Weng Zengyuan, the number one scholar in the previous department. There is such a long-standing rule that the number one scholar in the new department must ask the number one scholar in the previous department to copy the format. Respectfully.When he arrived at Weng's house that afternoon, Weng Zengyuan was foaming at the mouth and lying ill on the bed; but it was inconvenient to stop the family's big happy event, so Weng Zengyuan's uncle Weng Tonghe had to see him.

Weng Tonghe was also the number one scholar, so Chongqi, who usually called him brother and brother, changed his name to "old senior", and must pay a big respect. "Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it!" Weng Tonghe tried his best to pull him away, and the two host and guest pushed aside for a long time, and finally met each other with respect.Weng Tonghe sent his congratulations and talked about the situation of the palace examination. Chongqi was not only proud but also excited, talking about how he worked hard on writing the big papers and how he seemed to be helped on the day of the palace examination.He also said that he won the first prize is an odd number, and this is immortal.That look of complacency completely forgot the "Cheng and Zhu Zhixue" that he had worked on for ten years, and the true nature of the fake Taoism was exposed, and Weng Tonghe couldn't help but feel cold.

After copying the format of the Thank You Form, I also asked a lot of notes on the etiquette and notes that the champion should sing in the next day's Golden Palace. Chongqi thanked and said goodbye, and went home to discuss and invite guests to congratulate her. She was so excited that she didn't close her eyes all night.And on this day, the Mongolian literary star was shining brightly, and the general star fell, and the monk king died in ambush in Shandong.