Chapter 354 Examination Room
King Xin and Zhou Bida, the Minister of Rites, were both stunned. Unexpectedly, Guan Li could be so scrupulous and honest in front of Ye Qing.
So the two looked at each other again, and finally said to Wang Xin: "Since you have met it, then you might as well open it and take a look. In this way, it can be regarded as an example for other students. What's more, I also believe that with Ye Qing's talent, I naturally disdain to cheat. I will go through the motions and show it to other students. How about it?"
When they said the last moment, the eyes of King Xin and Zhou Bida naturally moved from the book box to the person involved Ye Qing.
"I hope you are the king." Ye Qing bowed and smiled.
Princess Xin's beautiful eyes moved to Ye Qing's face at this time, and then casually moved to Prince Xin's face.
Both men had warm smiles on their faces, but for some reason, she could feel the undercurrents between them.
After all, Zhu Xi was finally removed from the ranks of examiners, which was inseparable from what Ye Qing said to her in front of the palace saint and the queen that day.
If it weren't for the reconciliation between him and Ye Qing that day, I'd probably be difficult for the emperor to make a decision.
So the next day, the court must have been a little disappointed last week, because the emperor exempted Zhu Xi and Lu Zuqian from being the examiner. The reason was that when Zhu Xi and Lu Zuqian were officials, they once impeached Tang Zhongyou, the current governor of Taizhou.
Now both of them resigned, but Tang Zhongyou is still an official in the local area. If Zhu Xi is appointed and removed, it will inevitably make Tang Zhongyou, the imperial official, a local official, dissatisfied. As the emperor of the Song Dynasty, naturally, he cannot let his ministers be wronged because of Zhu Xi and Lu Zuqian, right?
After such words, although everyone in the court understood that it was just the remarks of the emperor dismissing Zhu Xi and Lu Zuqian as examiners.
But as a court minister, I can't shoot myself in the foot, which will only add a hurdle to being embarrassed and criticized to my future career?
Therefore, the ministers in the court knew it well, and Zhao Ju, the king of Xin in the palace, was furious.
He did not dare to take his anger on the priest, but he knew in his heart that the incident of Zhu Xi and Lu Zuqian being dismissed by the priest was definitely inseparable from Ye Qing.
The tacit Ye Qing and Xin Wang both smiled kindly, and their eyes never fell on the book box that Guan Li opened.
But Princess Xin, who looked at the book box, could feel the undercurrent confrontation between the two men. Their purpose and their attention were obviously not related to the book box that Guan Li opened.
Zhou Bida and Guan Li carefully checked, Princess Xin was exploring intently, and in his heart he compared it with what she prepared for Ye Qing yesterday. In the end, it was impossible to tell the difference between the two.
But even so, Princess Xin still felt a little dissatisfied with Ye Qing for no reason. Why did she have to take your fiancée to prepare it instead of me? That night, under the palace wall, I said, "Do you want to take revenge on Prince Xin with me?"
The emotions in his heart were complicated and the thoughts in his mind were also full of thoughts. After losing interest in the bookcase, he slowly left with the palace maid Fangfei.
King Xin glanced at the bookcase lightly, and when his eyes returned to Ye Qing, Guan Li had already begun to search himself under King Xin's gaze to see if there were any other cheating places and objects.
Ye Qing cooperated with Guan Li's body search and stretched out his arms and let Guan Li's hands check from top to bottom, from left to right.
"Since that's the case, I'm relieved. I wish you a good ranking here." King Xin waved his hand and signaled that Guan Li could put away the bookcase.
"How can I want a good ranking to restore the Yuanyou Armpitous Heavenly Statistics? If I fail the leader, it will be a loss for me, Ye Qing." Ye Qing had a hint of crazy arrogance and said lightly.
Zhou Bida and King Xin looked at Ye Qing's cunning look, especially King Xin, and couldn't help but frown.
Ye Qing's insights and abilities are definitely something he has never seen before in his life. Although his talent cannot be understood clearly, he is definitely not an incompetent person with no brains. But if he is talented, he is a bit arrogant.
"Then I will wait and see." After King Xin finished speaking, he took Zhou Bida away first.
Zhou Bidaze followed Ye Qing and then left behind after he performed the ceremony.
It seemed as if no one of the few people noticed that Princess Xin left too early, just as they checked Ye Qing’s book box just now, and Princess Xin never appeared from beginning to end.
When he walked into the examination room with Guan Li, Ye Qing realized that it was already full of people, but in the most inconspicuous corner, the most pure corner of the examination room, there was no scholar in the place where one table and one chair was placed. There were two guards from the guards standing on both sides, as if guarding the table and chairs.
Guan Li smiled and handed the bookcase to Ye Qing and said, "You can sit there for a while now. After a while, you will come out again. In the room opposite, you have prepared tea and question papers, as long as you copy one."
"Why don't you go in directly now?" Ye Qing looked at his neighbor's table. The guy with white hair probably must be in his sixties or seventies. He is not at home to look at his grandson, and he even came over to take the yarn exam!
If you ask yourself a question or something in a while, or chat with yourself, do you have a common language?
And if I ignore him, would I be considered a respectful elder who doesn’t understand?
"You must be the one who wants to be the one who is the one who believes in the king will come to see it in person, so no matter what, you have to sit here for a stick of incense after the start..." Guan Li continued to explain.
"If I leave after a stick of incense and then King Xin comes over, wouldn't I be able to discover it?" Ye Qing asked with his eyebrows raised.
"No, there will naturally be solutions to deal with it at that time, such as... you have already submitted the question and left, and you are anxious and anxious," Guan Li said confidently.
"Okay, then follow your arrangements. I'm really here to go through the motions anyway." Ye Qing carried the bookcase and patted the chair and the young man on the chair that occupied half of the passage next to him, and said coldly: "A good dog doesn't block the way. With your qualities, why do you still participate in the imperial examination? Why not get back and forget it."
"How are you...why are you talking? Everyone is a scholar of the same class, you..." The scholar stood up from his chair and fought back inexplicably.
Guan Li, who was about to leave, smiled helplessly and waved his hand. The guard at the door rushed in immediately, holding the scholar and threw it out first, and then said coldly: "Wait until this scholar is ready to sit down, you can go in."
"I..." Just as the Scholar was about to speak, the guard's waist had already pulled out half of it, so he had to hold back the next words.
Ignoring the scholar who occupied the aisle and was asked by the guards to go to the examination room, which suddenly became silent, walked to the table guarded by the guards, and said softly that he put down the bookcase. After the two guards left, they sat on the chair and began to look out the window in a daze.
In Ye Qing's view, since the Song Dynasty, the reason why there has been no rebellion in various dynasties and dynasties has an inseparable relationship with the imperial examination system.
The predecessor of the imperial examination system was an advisory system formed by the power of recommendation monopolized by high-ranking officials and noble families. The biggest beneficiary of the advisory system was obviously the aristocratic families that ruled the world with the royal family, and these aristocratic families often have deep connections with the families of founding emperors.
The five surnames and seven hopes before the Song Dynasty had little influence on the scholars of all literati. It is precisely because of this, coupled with the complex and complex relationships of the founding wealthy families, it is easy to easily increase the family, making their influence above the court, or even surpass the imperial family.
As long as you recommend more talents you think are useful as officials, and even less than a generation, you can develop a prestige in the court that is sufficient to compete with the royal family.
If the emperor's balance technique cannot achieve balance and control various aristocratic families, then it is easy to force the aristocratic families to rebel under the conflict of interests.
With the emergence of the imperial examination system, the power of recommendation in the hands of aristocratic families was gradually weakened. With the maturity of the imperial examination system, the five surnames and seven hopes in the historical river gradually declined.
The influence of aristocratic families in the court is getting lower and lower, and there are more and more so-called poor families among the officials. It is obviously difficult for aristocratic families to compete with the imperial family on their own.
With the Confucianism's strategy of fooling the people, the thoughts of the family and the world were indoctrinated and formed in the minds of poor officials. The powerful ministers, slanderous ministers, treacherous ministers, and powerful ministers emerged, but they had to be shackled by the grand thinking mode of the family and the world, and they would never be able to reach the other side of the rebellion.
Even since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the ninth rank of Zhongzheng was adopted, and most officials were selected from the children of powerful families in various places.
The children of powerful and nobles can be officials regardless of their pros and cons. However, many people with low backgrounds but real talents cannot serve as senior officials in Beijing and local areas, which also allows the aristocratic families to maintain sufficient influence and have a great impact on the imperial royal family.
With the emergence of the imperial examination system to the era when Ye Qing was sitting in the examination room, the imperial examination system has gradually improved itself after hundreds of years of development, exposing his flaws in the hands of the imperial family.
What makes people helpless is that at this time, Zhu Xi's appearance perfectly connected, making up for the shortcomings of the imperial examination system.
This made everything about Zhu Xi become the Quran-like existence in the hands of the rulers after the fall of the Song Dynasty.
From the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial examinations formed a complete system, divided into four levels: college examinations (i.e. Tongsheng examinations), provincial examinations, metropolitan examinations and palace examinations. The examination content is basically Confucian classics, with the "Four Books" as the title, and the article format is stipulated as the eight-part essay, and the explanation must be based on Zhu Xi's "Four Books Collection Notes".
Even though it was Die Mao, Ye Qing was still staring out the window until Ye Qing, an examiner whom Ye Qing didn't know, walked up to Ye Qing and said to Ye Qing in a low voice: "Sir Ye, you can leave. The room opposite has prepared tea and water for you. If you are free, you might as well copy it. Just think it is to cultivate your body and cultivate your character. If you are not free, it is okay not to copy it."
"Uh..." Ye Qing turned around, with a hint of confusion in his expression. He looked at the examiner in front of him who was about forty years old, then carried the bookcase and smiled: "Then I'll be in trouble. I remember you, thank you."
"It should be, Lord Ye, please." The examiner quickly whispered a false request, looking at Ye Qing carrying the bookcase and happily and relaxedly left the examination room.
Chapter completed!