Xu Jin and others waited for about half a stick of incense in the living room. The last participant also arrived. As soon as they entered the living room, they bowed to everyone and said apologetically: "I'm late in Gusu Zhu Wan, I'm sorry for waiting for you for a long time."

Zhu Wan is about twenty-five or six years old, and is from Changzhou County, Suzhou Prefecture. She is named Zichun, and has a tall and strong figure. Instead, she looks like a heroic martial artist. This body shape is an anomaly among the southerners.

After Zhu Wan greeted everyone, she sat down in Xu Jin's neighbor seat, sitting upright with a straight face. Xu Jin smiled and nodded at him, and responded with a slight slightest response. She was obviously a serious and serious guy who was serious.

Not long after Zhu Wan was seated, a man in a housekeeper dressed in his face entered the living room and politely said to everyone: "Please take me to Shifang Pavilion, the prince is already waiting there."

Everyone stood up and followed the butler out of the living room. It was originally Xu Jin ranked first in the order of the invitation list. However, Lu Yu took the lead in taking the first place and glanced at Xu Jin provocatively.

Xu Jin naturally disdained Lu Yu's childish provocative behavior and simply fell behind a few steps, walking side by side with Fei Maozhong and Wei Yang, chatting while walking. In this way, the two of them had a clear judgment on their demeanor.

Yang Weicong, who was originally ranked second, couldn't help but slow down. Occasionally, he had a few conversations with Xu Jin and others. Lu Yu walked in front alone and suddenly seemed alone. Although he still looked like a madman with a high-profile look, his expression was obviously a bit unnatural.

Under the guidance of the housekeeper, everyone walked through the corridor and passed the yard for more than ten minutes. After passing a moon gate, they finally came to a vast yard. The moment of the beauty was filled with joy, which shocked everyone.

The yard in front of me is probably five or six hundred square meters, and it is full of flowers. But I see the pink and green willows, green grass, mist, peach blossoms, roses, peonies, apricot blossoms, plum blossoms, red mountains, and orchids blooming in like a fairyland.

Xu Jin couldn't help but be surprised. Although these flowers in front of him were all spring flowers, the months of the flowering period were different, and now they were all blooming in the same place. It would be nothing strange if it was modern greenhouse cultivation, but in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, this cultivation technique was enough to be amazing.

At this time, the other nine judges were stunned, including the crazy student Lu Yu of Yin County.

The butler in charge of the road was so gloomy that he could not help but look at the face. These flowers were cultivated by gardeners and masters in the Duke's Mansion using hot springs, and then transplanted here. Except for the plum blossoms during the flowering period, all other flowers will wither at most three days.

Therefore, for this spring appreciation ceremony, Duke Wei spent all his efforts and money.

There is a pavilion in the middle of the courtyard hidden by the flowers, called Shifang Pavilion. There is a rockery fishing pool outside the pavilion. Three or five ducks are playing in the pool. The mist in the pool rises, and it is flowing and circulating. It is obviously the hot spring water drawn from the source.

At this time, a circle of tables had been placed in the pavilion pavilion, and there were three strips of cases on the top of the top, and five people were already sitting behind the cases.

"Haha, the top ten talents among the imperial examination students in the Ming Dynasty have arrived. Welcome!" The man in brocade clothes who was sitting alone behind the few cases in the middle stood up with a smile.

This man in brocade clothes was the organizer of this literary conference. Xu Pengju, Duke of Wei of the Ming Dynasty, was about twenty-seven or eight years old. He was born with a handsome appearance.

"I have met Duke of Wei!" Yang Weicong took the lead, and the sons bowed and bowed.

Xu Jin couldn't help but be a little surprised. He didn't expect that the Duke of Wei was so young.

Xu Pengju smiled and said, "You don't have to be polite, please sit down!" He looked like a polite and polite person.

After hearing this, the group of students sat down according to the seats. This time, Lu Yu did not dare to take the first place, and sat in the third place in a regular manner.

After everyone sat down, Duke Wei Xu Pengju smiled and said, "I will introduce several VIPs to all the talents." After saying that, he looked at the two people next to the left-handed cases and introduced, "This British Duke Zhang Lun!"

A young man dressed in luxurious clothes immediately nodded slightly after several cases. The young man looked younger than Xu Pengju, probably in his early twenties, with a signature playboy smile on his face.

The disciples quickly stood up and saluted, saying, "Greetings to the Duke of England!"

British Duke Zhang Lun waved his hand with a smile and said, "You guys don't have to be too polite. I'm just here to join in the fun and drink."

This guy is smiling but doesn't have the majesty of a Duke, but he gives people a very friendly feeling.

Xu Pengju continued to introduce the middle-aged man next to the British Duke. This person is also a nobleman, Wuding Marquis Guo Xun. The title of Marquis of Marquis was lower than that of Duke, so his seat was naturally behind the British Duke Zhang Lun.

After Xu Pengju introduced Wuding Hou Guo Xun, his eyes turned to the cases on the right. Two people sat there. Seeing that they were dressed up, they should be literary men, and probably they were seniors in the literary world who acted as judges.

Sure enough, Xu Pengju introduced: "This is the right censor of the Naidu Censorate, Lord Xiao Huai and Xiao."

"I've seen Lord Xiao!" The disciples immediately stood up and saluted, with their attitudes even more respectful than saluting to the two nobles of martial arts just now.

Although the Duke is noble, it is not true. However, the Censor of the Censorate is different. He is a real and powerful figure. Moreover, the Censor of the Censorate is a supervisory agency, responsible for supervising all officials. He has great power and his status is equivalent to that of the Six Ministry. The Censor of the Left and Right Ministry (the second rank) is the highest official of the Censor of the Censor of the Censorate, and his status is almost the same as that of the Six Ministry.

Xiao Huai was about sixty years old, and stroked his long beard and smiled, "You don't have to be too polite for all students." After that, his eyes gently swept over Xu Jin, who was in the chief.

Because Xiao Huai wrote a letter to reveal that King Ning's illegal affairs were made, after the Ning King's Rebellion was put down last year, Emperor Zhu Houzhao was promoted to the Right Censor of the Censorate, and was directly promoted to two levels.

This credit was undoubtedly given to Xiao Huai by the governor Sun Sui, because Sun Sui ordered someone to secretly bring the jade seal made by Ning Wang to Beijing and gave it to Xiao Huai. According to Sun Sui's plan, Xiao Huai found Jiang Bin, a popular man next to the emperor, and sent the jade seal to the emperor. Then he wrote a letter to impeach Ning Wang, and successfully defeated the party of Ning Wang and Qian Ning.

Due to Xu Jin's request, Sun Sui did not mention him when contacting Xiao Huai, so Xiao Huai did not know that it was Xu Jin's contribution to finding the jade seal. In fact, even the leverage of Jiang Bin was the idea that Xu Jin gave to Sun Sui.

Of course, although Xiao Huai didn't know about these things, he and Sun Sui were very good friends, and Xu Jin and Sun Sui had an extraordinary relationship. As the saying goes, love the house and the mistress, so Xiao Jingshi had a good impression of Xu Jin.

At this time, the civil servant who sat on the same table with Xiao Huai stood up without waiting for Xu Pengju to introduce him, and said, "I am Xia Yan, Guixi County, Jiangxi Province, Tian is the military department chief!"

"Xia Yan?" Xu Jin couldn't help but feel a little moved and subconsciously looked at it more, because the name sounds a bit familiar.

Xia Yan was about thirty or forty years old, with a wide forehead and a square face, three long beards under the jaw. He was handsome, with sparse eyebrows and bright voices, and was impressive as soon as he opened his mouth.

However, the military officer was just a seventh-rank official, so the generals didn't care much, so they bowed their hands and sat down.

The Duke of Wei laughed and said, "Today is the New Year Festival, and all the talents gather. Before the Spring Festival Ceremony begins, all the talents may as well introduce themselves."

Xu Jin was in the chief, stood up calmly and bowed: "In Xu Jin, Shangrao, Jiangxi."

Xu Jin is handsome and calm and composed, so he is naturally unspeakable.

Duke Wei smiled and said, "It turns out that he is a young talent, no wonder he was appointed as Jie Yuan by the emperor."

British Duke Zhang Lun even gave a thumbs up and said, "I'm afraid I'm the first person in the country to win four yuan in a row. If I take the 4 yuan in this exam and then be named the top scorer by the emperor, it would be even more unprecedented. Both the three yuan in size and size are in the pocket, and I'll be one person forever!"

Xu Jin frowned imperceptibly. The British Duke seemed to be praising him, but Xu Jin felt a sense of malice. There is no doubt that this guy is praising him and trying to put himself on the fire!

Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Lun said this, all the attendants looked at him hostilely, especially the crazy Lu Yuan.

At this time, the Marquis of Wuding Guo Xun said leisurely: "Xu Jin, I heard that you were chosen by the emperor as Jie Yuan after you took the path of Eunuch Zhang. I can't see that you are young, but you can play these evil ways and be a scholar in vain!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the disciples were wonderful, and Lu Qi could not hide his excitement. He looked at Xu Jin with gloating pleasure. Xu Ziqian, aren’t you very crazy? He just called me a bad mouth, and now he is a bad mouth, even if he has the ability, he will scold Wu Ding Hou for being stubborn!

Fei Maozhong and Wei Yang both changed their faces, especially the former, and their faces were even more red. Wu Ding Hou's words were too excessive and outrageous!

Xu Jin looked calm and said indifferently: "Why did the marquis say this? The emperor appointed him as Jie Yuan. It was just a commendation of his merits. The imperial edict was clearly written. What does it have to do with Eunuch Zhang? If the marquis is dissatisfied with the emperor's imperial edict, you can submit a memorial to impeachment!"

Wu Ding Hou's face darkened. Zhang Zhong was a celebrity around the emperor. It was too late for him to flatter him. He dared to submit a memorial to impeach him. He was just unhappy with the topic Xu Jin answered at the Luming Banquet.

Speaking of which, at the Luming Banquet, Jishui's son Xiao Wan proposed to compete with Xu Jin for a strategy, and the title was: How to strengthen my Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Xu Jin answered the existing main questions of the Ming Dynasty. Two of them were undoubtedly harmful to the interests of the nobles in the court. The first was to clear the fields and return the land occupied by the powerful to refugees. The second was to reform the hereditary titles of honor and relatives. Each generation of the titles of descendants must be reduced to a higher level, thereby reducing the burden on the country's finances.

At that time, Wang Shouren and Liu Hanlin praised Xu Jin's argument for the topic of strategy and ordered people to copy and circulate it, so it has been widely circulated. Now even the circle of powerful people in Beijing knows it.

Of course, this is just a topic of a disciple. Most nobles don’t take it seriously. Hey, the ignorant Huangkou child actually wanted to clear the world and reform the title and hereditary. It was simply a fantasy.
Chapter completed!