Wangfu little dumb wife

Chapter 764 Palace Examination, Crown Prince Proposes a Question (1 more)
Xu Jia chose to go back to Beijing, she couldn't stay under the same roof with Yun Huai without distractions.

Even though they have known each other for many years, in her opinion, there is no friendship between them, but some embarrassing memories.

Yun Huai did not stop him, arranged the affairs here, and took Xu Jia and two apprentices on the way back to Beijing.

……

East Palace, Chengming Hall.

Zhao Xi received Yun Huai's letter, and his eyes lingered for a long time on the phrase "Who the princess marries, the state of Chu has the final say".

Eunuch Sanbao came to serve tea, and reminded in a low voice: "Your Highness, you have been reading Patriarch Yun's reply letter for almost a stick of incense."

Zhao Xi came back to his senses, put the letter on the desk, took the tea from Father-in-law Sanbao, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Beiyan took the initiative to ask for peace, and Chu State had the final say on who the princess would make peace with. He didn't understand this truth. Most of the reason why he wrote to Yunhuai was to test out.

Testing Yun Huai's mind is also testing Yun's intentions.

If Yun Huai directly agreed without even thinking about it, then perhaps he should doubt whether the Yun family had the intention of colluding with Bei Yan in order to rebel.

But fortunately, Yun Huai is a smart person, with a simple sentence, he threw back the burden and picked himself up clean.

Chu State had the final say on who the princess would marry, so naturally the crown prince had the final say. If the princess still married into the Yun family, it would be the crown prince's will. The court had no reason to suspect that the Yun family had colluded with Beiyan.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xi laughed silently and shook his head.

Eunuch Sanbao was a little puzzled, "What are you laughing at, Your Highness?"

Zhao Xi said disappointedly: "I laugh, until today, I can be regarded as really understanding father."

In the past, he always felt that his father was too suspicious, and he could also be suspicious of a loyal minister whom everyone praised.

It wasn't until he took over the regime that he discovered that suspicion was an indispensable barrier for those in power.

If you want to protect the country from danger and the stability of the society, you cannot put full trust in anyone. Whether it is the favorite concubine of the harem or the emperor's close minister, you must always have some reservations.

In the eyes of the former Zhao Xi, Yunhuai was a rare chivalrous man with a heart for all sentient beings, a noble character, and definitely worthy of close friendship.

But in the eyes of Zhao Xi after he came to power, the Yun family tree is too big and easy to attract wind. If he is not careful to stare at it and let the enemy country take advantage of the loopholes to form an alliance with it, it will be a disaster for the Chu country. Unpredictable disasters are more terrifying than the plague in northern Xinjiang.

After confirming Yun's intention, Zhao Xi returned a letter of credence to Beiyan, and the only thing written in the letter of credence was what Yun Huai said.

——The state of Chu has the final say on who the princess will marry.

Now it is Beiyan who wants to take away the Chosen Son, begging Chu to hand him over, so the initiative must be firmly held in Chu's hands.

……

In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the imperial examination.

This year's Chunwei is very special, because it is Enke, the general examination will be moved one month earlier, and the palace examination time will be moved to March 26, and the list will be released one month later. The tentative time for the list is April 26.

It was the wedding day that Qin Tianjian had chosen for Zhao Xi, and it was also the day when Song Yuanbao married a girl from the Ye family.

Early in the morning, the [-] tributes who had been admitted to the examination entered the Palace of Preserving Harmony along with officials from the Ministry of Rites.

As a hall dedicated to the imperial examination, the Hall of Preservation and Harmony occupies a very large area, with carved beams and painted buildings inside, resplendent and resplendent, with a Kowloon golden chair at the top, which should have been reserved for emperors.

However, it has become a well-known fact that Emperor Guangxi is seriously ill. Everyone knows that Prince Zhao Xi is the one who will preside over the palace examination this year.

Candidates sat down according to their seat numbers, and each had a desk in front of him, on which a pen, inkstone, inkstone table and manuscript paper had already been prepared, and no take-out was allowed.

The crown prince has not arrived yet, and there are imperial guards guarding the palace outside. After all the candidates are seated, they are quiet, not daring to make a sound.

Except for those who ranked high in the general examination, the rest of the candidates were all uneasy.

Prince Zhao Xi’s name is known to all the students in Chu Kingdom. He is a ruthless man who drove himself to death when he was six years old. Answer all questions.

When there were first rumors in the market, no one believed it, from the kings and grandchildren to the poor children. Later, Song Yuanbao entered the palace to study with him, and after two years of tossing, he returned to the Imperial College. Some classmates asked him about the prince. Rumors, Song Yuanbao replied with a smile: The rumors are true.

Since then, Zhao Xi's scalp-numbing self-discipline habits have become a model that everyone in the Confucianism is eager to emulate.

However, after so many years, there are very few people who can persevere, at least [-]% of the people are only three-point enthusiastic, some persist for ten days and a half months, and some persist for half a year, then shake their heads and give up with a sigh, and find a place for themselves The reason, saying that His Highness is the proud son of heaven, is naturally very comparable to others, and it is normal for them not to persevere.

The remaining adults are still persisting. As for how long they can persist in the future, only they themselves know.

But today, the master who made them both admire and fear became the person who presided over the palace examination.

In other words, after today, they will all become disciples of the prince.

In the hearts of these candidates, being a disciple of the prince is far more difficult than being a student of the prince.

If the emperor came to ask the question, it might be more compliant, and he would not be too nervous when answering the question, but the prince...

Regardless of his seventeen years of age, since he took over the regime, every time he made a major decision, the officials in the Palace of Political Affairs would have nothing to say. His iron-blooded wrist was even worse than that of Emperor Guangxi.

Such a temperament at such a young age is enough to show that he is a born emperor. When this kind of genius comes up with a question, the general angle will be particularly tricky.

This is the place where the students are most disturbed.

Everyone was still immersed in their thoughts, when the voice of Father-in-law Sanbao suddenly came from outside, "His Royal Highness is here—"

All the examinees got up and went out when they heard the words, and knelt down to pay their respects.

Zhao Xi was dressed in formal attire today, wearing an apricot-yellow python robe, a purple gold crown on his head, and panlong boots on his feet. He walked slowly and steadily. He walked to the golden chair in Nine Dragons and sat down. Then he lowered his eyes and looked at the three hundred candidates below. Light, "flat body."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Following the sound of thanksgiving, the examinees returned to their seats one after another, and no one dared to look up at the real face of the prince.

At the age of 17, his aura is already strong enough to send chills down the spine.

Zhao Xi took a panoramic view of the calm, nervous or anxious reactions of the candidates, and especially focused on Song Yuanbao. The other party didn't seem to regard this as an examination room at all, and he was as lazy as ever, no different from his own home.

Zhao Xi withdrew his gaze without a trace, and said slowly, "Recently something happened in the capital. It was rumored that there was a child of the Jiuli tribe hidden in the Governor's Mansion of the Left Army. , The common people think that the Su family should hand him over to burn him to sacrifice to the sky in order to achieve an early victory in the northern border war, what do you think of this matter?"

One examinee stood up and replied: "You don't talk about strange powers and gods, not to mention that there are no monsters in this world. Even if there are monsters, it is just a three or four-year-old child. If he is burned to sacrifice to heaven, then human How is it different from a demon?"

Zhao Xi turned his attention to Xu Dengke, "You are the top of the list in this session, what do you think about it?"

Xu Dengke got up and said: "Returning to Your Highness, the students think that the root cause is not in the demon gods, but in the fusion of Chu culture and Jiuli culture."

Zhao Xi raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked Song Yuanbao next to him, "What about you?"

Song Yuanbao stood up, "Go back to Your Highness, and I will second Mr. Xu's statement."

Zhao Xi hooked the corners of his lips in satisfaction, let the three of them sit down, and then said: "That's right, the reason why there are 'monsters' in the Su family is not because there are really monsters, but because the people of Chu State don't know enough about the Jiuli tribe. Culture, this is exactly the question I want to give you today, how to quickly and effectively integrate the cultures of the two countries."

As soon as the exam questions came out, most of the candidates were confused.

There are no more than two political hotspots these days. One is the war in northern Xinjiang, and the other is the "Jiuli tribe monster" that has been making a lot of noise recently. The border war was to let them solve the "demon" problem, but no one expected that the crown prince would use the "demon" to lead to the fusion of the cultures of the two countries, and use it as a question for this year's palace exam.

Difficult, so difficult!
Everyone here, everyone knows that since Huashan was destroyed, the people of Chu State have not been able to accept the Jiuli people and their custom of believing in ghosts.

This is a sensitive topic.

Writing this article under the premise that the people of Chu state unanimously reject the Jiuli people, if you are not careful, you can become a public enemy of the whole people and destroy your future.

After studying the ink well, the examinees secretly complained, and dared not write for a long time.

(End of this chapter)