Bachelor

Chapter 377 He Dong ([-])

Sun Dan heard what Emperor Jiajing said, and calculated it. Before the test, Empress Chen had already asked the emperor to take the Empress Dowager into the palace to take care of her. Calculating the time, it should be time.

Anlu, Hubei Province, was originally a water and land hub during the Jiajing Dragon Dive, and the shipping was convenient.The Queen Mother can go south along the river by boat, but it takes only a week to reach Nanjing, which is convenient and quick.After arriving in Nanjing, you can divert to the north of the Grand Canal and go straight to Tongzhou.In ancient times, waterways were modern highways, so the Queen Mother has only arrived in Beijing now, which is considered too late.

The fact that the queen mother came to Beijing was originally planned by Sun Dan to give Empress Chen a firm favor.Today, Empress Chen has regained the emperor's favor.Even better, yesterday, Empress Chen also sent a secret envoy to tell Sun Dan that Empress Chen was pregnant, and everything was going as Sun Dan expected.

But there was one thing wrong. The arrival of the Empress Dowager made the already fierce dispute over rituals even more uncontrollable. Her appearance made the emperor and all the civil officials completely turn their faces, and there was no room for reconciliation.

That's because, in history, this queen mother was a powerful figure.

The emperor excitedly lowered his voice and said to Sun Dan: "Sun Qing, this idea is really good. Now that the queen mother has arrived in the capital, I am going to welcome her into the palace with the empress dowager etiquette. As long as she enters the city, the queen mother's name will be guaranteed. The title of father and king has also been settled."

Sun Dan said in his heart, the emperor thought things too simply, he still underestimated the determination of the courtiers.

Sun Dan: "Then, Your Majesty only needs to send ministers to pick up the Queen Mother. Why did you send ministers to Tongzhou immediately?"

Emperor Jiajing: "Sun Qing, I have already arranged the etiquette required for the Empress Dowager to enter the city, but..." He hesitated for a moment, his face suddenly became angry, and his eyes were red: "However, the officials in the Ministry of Rituals made many excuses, so they just let you go." Think of a buffalo, go down with a whip, take one step and retreat three steps. The Queen Mother has already gone to Tongzhou to rest overnight, and they have not made any preparations. Sun Qin, didn’t I give you a set of Wang Mingqi? Greet the deputy envoy, and go to Tongzhou immediately with Mao Cheng, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and urge the officials of the Ministry of Rites to welcome the Queen Mother into the palace."

It was only then that Sun Dan understood what was going on. It is estimated that the Minister of Rites was quite disapproving of the fact that Jiajing wanted to welcome the Empress Dowager into the palace with the etiquette of the Empress Dowager.The emperor also had nothing to do with Mao Shangshu, and his subordinates did the calculations, and only Sun Dan was a talent, so he simply handed over this problem to Sun Dan.

Thinking of Mao Cheng's righteous face gave Sun Dan a headache. This old master studied Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism, and he was the most stubborn. He valued etiquette, justice, integrity and shame, human ethics and ethics more than life. There is nothing Sun Dan can do about such a person.He didn't have any confidence in asking himself to do this.

The greatest possibility is that Sun Dan and Mao Shangshu went to Tongzhou together.Sun Dan wants to welcome the queen mother into the city with the etiquette of the queen mother, while Mao Shangshu wants to welcome the queen mother with the etiquette of the queen mother.Then, Sun Dan will completely turn against Mao Cheng, and there will be a lot of trouble.

This is still the surface, Mao Cheng does not represent himself, Yang Tinghe and scholars all over the world are standing behind him, Sun Dan doesn't want to poke this hornet's nest.

I will be an official in the court in the future, if I offend all the officials and scholars now, how will I work in the future.Besides, the ministers of the same dynasty are all colleagues, and they can't see each other when they look up.If you offend them all at once, will you still mess around in the future?
Figured this out, Sun Dan immediately put on a look of embarrassment, and said, "Your Majesty, I am currently taking part in the imperial examination, so I'm afraid it's inappropriate to leave like this?"

The emperor did not take it seriously: "I know what you are worried about, but it is just a palace examination. The palace examination is nothing more than a ranking. As a Huiyuan, you are afraid that you will not be able to enter the top three?"

Sun Dan smiled wryly: "Your Majesty, we can't say for sure about the examination room."

The emperor looked pale: "Sun Dan, I always thought you were a great loyal minister, but I didn't want you to take your personal fame so seriously."

Sun Dan was also a little annoyed, Jiajing, the chairman of the Ming Dynasty, turned his face faster than turning a book.You are greeted with a smile when you are needed, but once you are rejected, you will look like this.

This boss is really not cute!

But since the emperor said so, Sun Dan had to hesitate a few times.He pretended to be terrified: "Your Majesty, I don't take my own fame seriously. Your Majesty trusts me so much that I can hardly repay you. However, the imperial court has its own system. If I leave now, if I don't It doesn't matter if you win the middle school. But if you win the top three, according to the court system, you need to wear flowers and ride a horse. If you can't find someone at that time, wouldn't the minister become a rebellious person who doesn't know etiquette?"

According to the rules of the imperial court, after Gongsheng won the top three in the first class, the champion, second place and Tanhua must wear flowers and ride in a parade in the capital to receive congratulations from the people.This is the most glorious moment for a scholar, and Sun Dan doesn't want to miss it.

The palace examination is only a few hundred words of essay, and the number of candidates is also small. After handing in the papers today, the rankings will be released tomorrow, and the ceremony of riding a horse with flowers can be held the day after tomorrow.

Sun Danxi went to Tongzhou to meet the queen mother, and if he couldn't get it done in three or five days, he would definitely miss it.

"You, Sun Dan, have the confidence to enter the top three!" The emperor sneered: "In the end, you still take your fame very seriously. Don't worry, the top three will naturally have your share. Even if you are in the top three, or even It’s not a big deal even if you can’t win a good scholar. Of course, with your talent, Sun Dan, you must be able to win. Let me tell you a word here, as long as you can successfully bring the Queen Mother and her old man into the palace , I promise you to join the cabinet within ten years. At that time, no matter what others say, I will naturally be arbitrary."

The emperor's words have reached this level, and Sun Dan has no choice but to nod in agreement: "Then... I have no choice but to go."

He cursed secretly in his heart: Jiajing, you selfish fellow, take pity on my parade of flowers!

If nothing else happened, Sun Dan felt that there was nothing wrong with being the No. [-] pick.However, he had to miss the opportunity to receive congratulations from the people, which made him somewhat unacceptable anyway.

Fortunately, the emperor also saw that Sun Dan was in a bad mood, so he comforted him gently, and then he led Sun Dan out of the palace.

When Sun fades out of the palace, he will only look like the later generation at ten o'clock in the morning Beijing time.

Sun Dan also had no choice but to go to the Ministry of Rites to meet Mao Cheng, the Minister of Rites, and together with a large group of officials from the Ministry of Rites, they drove towards Tongzhou in a mighty manner.

I have to admit that being with the officials of the Ministry of Rites is a painful manager.This group of gentlemen was outrageously pedantic, their words and deeds were all in line with etiquette, and no one could find any faults, but their faces were hideous and dull.

After Sun Dan said a few words to several officials, he felt his mouth was so dry that he was about to burst into flames, but Mao Cheng simply refused to say a word to Sun Dan.

(End of this chapter)