Originally, Liu Mingqi felt that she was too popular.

As a result, after Emperor Jing He added, he found that many tribute men looked at him with a fanatical gaze.

Although Liu Mingguan next to him was not jealous, he was also very envious.

not good!

The young man who was floating up muttered in his heart.

It is obvious that Brother Mingguan should have been so popular, why am I even more so than him?

Especially on this Baohe Palace, I faced these tributes.

You must know that these tribute men will definitely become the mainstay of the Great Kang Dynasty in the future.

If they firmly stand on their own in the future, wouldn’t I have to be forced to compete with Brother Mingguan?

Neither must be nor must be!

So how can they get rid of this feeling?

I will praise Brother Mingguan directly?

no.

This is too explicit, and everyone will think that the gap between me and him is even bigger.

Or...I'll give the emperor a hand?

No, no, I praised the emperor's uncle. Isn't this just giving myself extra points?

The consequence of the extra points is that if he can't give birth, wouldn't I become the prince?

I can't do such a loss-making deal!

So, just as the boy was struggling, the entire palace examination ended.

Next, the imperial court officials began to review the papers and then handed them over to the emperor to make a decision.

This has no longer anything to do with Liu Mingqi and Liu Mingguan.

But the whole thing is not over.

Facts have proved that this world belongs to people who can never forget it.

The tributes who left the palace immediately copied Liu Mingqi's "Talk of the Master" on various occasions.

No word is bad.

Then the group of tribute scholars praised Liu Mingqi together.

The one who danced the most was Jing Ruisi, the number one talent in Jiangnan.

He claimed in the inn, "His Royal Highness De is equivalent to half of my husband, and I will pay my discipleship to him for life."

If others say this, perhaps others will think that this person is clinging to the powerful.

But no one would doubt it at all when it comes to Jing Ruisi, who has always been strong in character.

Especially after they shaking their heads and reading "The Teachers' Talks".

Not only Jing Ruisi, this time, the "leading figures" of several scholars spared no effort to praise Liu Mingqi when they came back.

This made Liu Mingqi's reputation as a saint soar again, and also firmly suppressed Liu Mingguan's reputation.

King Ning was originally a humble and gentle and talented setting, but now compared with Liu Mingqi's saint setting, he suddenly felt that it was far behind.

Such a clear gap made King Li, who was determined to include his posthumous title in the category of emperors, feel a little unhappy.

Gong Yuan, the leader of a talented man in Jiangnan, did not participate this time.

The reason is that he had already left the capital during the last Grand Canal shipping period of the year.

Gong Yuan carried a silver note of 100,000 taels of silver, and more than twenty craftsmen who were seconded from the printing workshop of Prince Yu's Mansion.

Of course, there is also a newspaper handwritten by Liu Mingqi.

This is like the blackboard newspaper behind the classroom when I was a child. Liu Mingqi wrote softly, and it was not the case at all.

As the first edition of the newspaper, he was not as subdivided as well. It was enough to write two single-sided and 16-page pages for Gong Yuan.

The font doesn't have to be too small, it doesn't matter if it's a little bigger.

Although there is not much content published, it will be in the form of a daily newspaper in the future. Are you afraid of not having any material when writing so much?

Anyway, even in Jiangnan, those who are literate are less than one-tenth of the total population, and people can only listen to newspaper storytelling at most. The sixteenth edition of the newspaper has been read for a long time.

...

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are sad.

These tributes who finished the palace examination had other things to do in addition to praising King De.

The stupid things Cao Suping did in the Cao family in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be hidden.

But the news in Jiangnan spread very quickly.

Before, Jing Ruisi and others were busy preparing for the palace exam and had no time to pay attention to it. Now that they have finished the exam, it is time for them to preside over justice.

Anyone with a sense of justice hates being rich and unkind, and is even more powerful than hating bad people.

The Cao family owns hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Jiangnan and is the largest landlord in Jiangnan.

But when the Yangtze River and the Yellow River were hit by disaster this time, they were silent. This is unkind!

When the imperial granary was resold on a large scale, they were unwilling to sell it to the imperial court at all. This is injustice.

It would be fine if they didn't sell it. They actively stopped and cursed when other landlord grain merchants were selling grain, and organized people to slander and fight against Jiangnan Governor Liu Renhuai. This is despicable and shameless!

Such an unkind, unrighteous, despicable and shameless person is actually the prime minister's family. Do you think the scholars are angry?

In the past two days, there were many scholars shouting loudly at the entrance of Cao's mansion.

But Cao Yi did not come out to explain, which was completely different from his previous explanations with the princes for the sake of the emperor.

The embroidered guards only dared to guard the side and did not expel these scholars.

The Dakang Dynasty never was guilty of remarks. Even if it cursed the emperor, for example, last time Gong Yuan rushed to the gate of the palace and scolded the emperor for being weak, they were not punished by the emperor.

Not to mention that because of this, many ministers in the court already had their opinions on Cao Yi.

They felt that as the prime minister and the head of all civil and military officials, Cao Yi not only did not set an example, but also indulged his son in doing such a miserable thing. Is it really unreasonable?

If everyone is like him and only cares about his own interests, how can we do things?

Especially the people of the Legalists were particularly dissatisfied with Cao Yi.

Miao Yan, who was about to go to Jiangnan, asked Cao Yi about this when he was attending the imperial meeting.

Cao Yi couldn't explain that it was because his carrier pigeon was several days slower than others, so he caused such a big trouble.

Because even if the carrier pigeon arrives late, if Cao Suping's selfishness is not that great or so dizzy, this situation would not have happened.

In the final analysis, Cao Suping is indeed too selfish.

Cao Suping is the helmsman of the Cao family in Jiangnan, but who doesn’t know that Cao Yi is the real master of the Cao family?

Even if Cao Yi tried his best to defend this matter, he could not make it successful.

So most of the time, Cao Yi remained silent.

For example, tonight, I came back from Wenyuan Pavilion in the palace. Before Cao Yi entered the door, he was scolded by the surrounding scholars again.

This made the old butler who was guarding the door feel very distressed.

If possible, he really wanted to go up and scold these people directly.

But he understood that once he did this, he was causing trouble for Cao Yi and creating excuses for others to attack Cao Yi, so he could only ignore these insults.

However, the old butler did not expect that Cao Yi was not that depressed.

After dinner, Cao Yi sat on the chair to rest. He accidentally saw the old housekeeper standing beside him with a frown and smiled unconsciously.

"What? Are you still worried about these little things?"

The old butler was stunned when he heard this: "Master, this is called a small matter? Our Cao family's reputation has plummeted. Whether in Beijing or in our hometown, it is almost... it is almost stinking. How can you say it is a small matter?"

Cao Yi shook his head and said, "Although these are blows to our Cao family, they are not something that is too unacceptable."

The old housekeeper still disagreed: "No, no, no, that's because you are still in power. If you retire and return to Jiangnan, look at the faces of those people, you will definitely turn against others!"

Cao Yi was not a strong prime minister.

His presence in the court was not strong.

It is not as brave as Liu Renhuai's courageous position, and he manages the vast Jiangnan in an orderly manner.

It is not as good as Miao Yan, who is not afraid of the powerful and has made the people praise him.

Therefore, the old housekeeper believes that if Cao Yi resigned as prime minister and went home to retire, he would not be able to respond like others.

On the contrary, because of the current scandals, no one paid attention to him after he went back.

Cao Yi nodded: "What you think is also right, but this is not bad."
To be continued...