The rather eye-catching Xinglin Banquet ended successfully.
The Jinshi scholars returned to the city one after another with great satisfaction. The young people were very satisfied.
They remembered the voices and smiles of the two ministers, the exquisite food at the banquet, the fine wine specially provided by the court, and the grace and majesty of the empress.
Of course, I also remember that so-and-so stole the show at the banquet and received an enviable reward.
All the things at the banquet can be said to be quite impactful to them. After recalling the grand occasion of the banquet and looking forward to a bright future, each of the new scholars who are full of wine and food will bring these back home, and then use the help of relatives and friends to
My friend's lips and tongue spread again.
At the same time, the failed candidates also received gifts from the court.
Not only did they receive tax incentives and some preferential policies, they were also allowed to go directly to Beijing to participate in the Beijing Examination without having to take the Provincial Examination during the next Beijing Examination.
After discussions between the DPRK and the Central Government, it has been decided that the provincial examination will be held every year and the Beijing examination will be held every three years.
From the imperial court's point of view, it was necessary to include scholars in the provincial examinations, without fear of recruiting too many candidates.
The Beijing Examination once every three years is too long, but the imperial court is now preparing to eliminate redundant officials and redundant posts, so it has abandoned the proposal of having the Beijing Examination every two years.
After the official administration is sorted out, let's see if it can be used by the scientific examiner. If it can be used, it won't be too late to modify it.
In fact, this is why the government did not need so many officials to govern when the population was greatly reduced in the early Tang Dynasty.
Those who came to Beijing for reference this year received great preferential treatment, which would be unmatched by those who came later.
For example, each candidate was given a jade pendant engraved with the year and month of the examination and their names, as well as a seal from the imperial court.
The candidates who come to Beijing for reference next time will not get this. It is exclusive to the first batch of candidates. It can easily give people a sense of honor and has a great publicity effect.
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The next step is the palace examination. There are no certain rules for the palace examination. The emperor will meet the Jinshi when he is happy. If he is not interested, there will be no such link.
It's all up to the emperor to make the decision, it's not an inherent procedure.
For example, this year, Li Po did not plan to hold the palace examination. He just planned to meet the scholars at the Xinglin Banquet.
However, because there had been a big commotion before, Ce Wen was temporarily added, and the first number one scholar of the Tang Dynasty was born in the fifth year of Yuanzhen of the Tang Dynasty.
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The queen returned to the palace and first went to the Tai Chi Hall to report to her husband.
Both husband and wife are in a good mood. In two or three years, from the time the imperial court issued an edict to open the imperial examination and solicited opinions, until today, the important matter of the imperial examination has been completed.
Although it hasn't come to a satisfactory end yet, it has made a good start, and there will be no need to work so hard next time.
The couple exchanged a few words with each other. At dusk, Li Po took his wife out of the palace and left.
He wanted to visit his mother-in-law, and since his father-in-law left Beijing, he had to go and comfort her, right? He could still eat some chicken by the way, Li Po thought happily.
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In fact, Ms. Chen doesn't need her daughter or son-in-law to comfort her at all. She has long been used to it since her husband is away from home all the time.
On the contrary, in the past few days since Li Jing came back, the house had become crowded, which made her very bored.
Even now, even though Li Jing has left, people still come to visit often and give gifts here and there. The chickens and ducks at home are so surprised that they have laid less eggs, which makes Mrs. Chen very annoyed.
What particularly upset her was that the ancestral hall of the Miyuan Li family was going to be moved to the capital. Seeing that her home was getting busier and busier day by day, Mrs. Chen, who was used to living a quiet life, was a little dumbfounded and planned to move.
In fact, this is what a prosperous family looks like. When no one cares about it, it only means that the men in the family are incompetent and can only live a pure life.
Of course, if most people reach that point, it is impossible to live a pure life.
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"It's the same thing for my grandma. She didn't try to persuade him when he left. After he left, she came to complain to me. He ignored me and often entertained guests at home. He was drunk and difficult to serve.
Moreover, there were more people coming and going at home, and she was not very satisfied, feeling that her life was not as solid as before.
When I saw those people who greeted me with smiles, I was still upset, saying that those people looked at me with ill intentions..."
Li Bi was sitting on the horse talking to her husband. When she was talking about my mother, she couldn't help but say a few more words, which sounded very unfilial.
Even Ashina Rongzhen, who was following him, couldn't help but curl up his lips, thinking that he should give his daughter a few good kisses after going back, so that she wouldn't dare to make plans behind her back to dislike him in the future.
Li Po laughed, naturally he wanted to say something nice for his mother-in-law.
"Okay, my mother-in-law is a rare sensible person, so she just gossips with you and is a follower of others. Isn't that because she has bad intentions?"
Li Bi laughed and immediately pursed her lips, "Humph, you are only thinking about the chicken over there, how can you know what my mother is suffering?"
Li Po was unhappy, "Well, Li Sanniang, after that, my mother came to arrange for her husband. It's really a fight."
Li Bi finally couldn't help it and started laughing so hard that it was the wrong time. Otherwise, she would have been shaking her fists and legs with her husband to increase the interest.
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The Li Mansion moved into the Imperial City, which was indeed very convenient. It didn't take long to arrive in front of the Li Mansion.
After receiving the news, everyone in the Li Mansion came outside to greet them. Li Bi's two brothers were also there. When they saw the couple arriving, they all paid their respects to them.
Mrs. Chen was very happy to hear that her daughter and son-in-law had arrived together.
Speaking of which, her daughter didn't often go back to her parents' home, but her son-in-law came every now and then. She didn't know why the emperor was so free.
And the son-in-law and daughter came back together... This was the fourth time, it was very rare, and Ms. Chen was a little worried.
Only when she saw her son-in-law and daughter chatting and laughing did her doubts disappear.
Li Po dismounted and nodded to his two uncles. The two men were still shy and far inferior to their father.
A tiger father and a dog son, nothing more than that.
Li Po stepped forward and held Chen's arm. The couple, one on the left and one on the right, carried Chen into the house.
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In the back house of Li Mansion, while Li Bi and his mother-in-law were chatting away, Li Po finally got to the point where he would interrupt from time to time to ask about his mother-in-law's current situation.
Chen's mood is stable and his body does not look much worse than Li Jing's.
He took the time to talk to the Li brothers again.
Li Bi's eldest brother is called **Jian, and he is currently working as a craftsman supervisor. He is somewhat useful in Li Po's eyes, and he can talk to him about serious matters.
As for Li Bi’s second brother ** award...well, the name Li Jingqi is really hard to describe.
The eldest son's name is difficult to identify, and the second son's name is rather strange, which makes Li Po feel awkward hearing it.
**Zhang hangs out in the Ministry of Household Affairs, just messing around. When Li Jing was an official in Mayi, his family was in embarrassment and almost starved **Jiang's family to death.
Later, it was still Li Jing who raised chickens that prevented Li Jing from feeling the pain of losing a son. Do you think this son is a waste?