After Anya returned to the palace, she naturally went to see her father as soon as possible.
Outside the imperial study room, I could hear my father's angry voice coming from inside.
Anya asked curiously: "What happened to father?"
Eunuch Li replied: "On the night of the New Year's Congratulations Ceremony, there is still no news about the group of thieves who robbed the Nine Layers Prison.
The Lords from the Prison Division and the Demon Slaying Division have already gone after him, but Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Supervisory Office have no clues at all. Even the memorials they handed in were all about passing the blame on each other, so that's why Your Majesty acted like this.
Your Highness Anya, please wait here for a moment, we will go in and report."
Not long after, Eunuch Li left and returned, leading Anya into the royal study.
Emperor Ming threw down the memorial in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Everyone of them is a waste. When they really want to do something, they are all embarrassing!"
"Father, calm down and don't hurt your body." Anya comforted her.
When Emperor Ming saw the apple of his eye, he pinched his brows and slowly calmed down his depressed mood: "Let Anya see my gaffe."
Anya shook her head and then said: "A thief who can avoid the Heavenly Supervisor and escape from the God-Suppressing Siyu must be extraordinary.
It is reasonable for the Third Division to need time to collect clues. No matter how anxious my father is, it will not help."
Hearing this, Emperor Ming snorted coldly: "If it's just a lack of time, that's fine. The key point is that these people don't even know which direction to pursue.
There are so many people in the Third Division, and above the court, they promote their own people very quickly. They criticize each other louder than anyone else, but at the critical moment, none of them are useful!
What use do I need these wastes for?!"
Anya stood aside quietly without answering.
After a while, Emperor Ming calmed down a little and then he asked: "Why did Anya come to see me?"
Anya took out the white statement written by Qin Feng from her arms and handed it over gently: "There is something here that I want my father to take a look at."
"What is this?" Emperor Ming was curious and took Bai Xuan, only to see the four characters "Imperial Examination System" written on the title page.
He slowly opened Bai Xuan, glanced at it a few times, then raised his eyebrows slightly, and murmured: "Select people by subject, compete fairly, and recruit the best. It's interesting."
At this moment, Emperor Ming was like Anya who was learning about the imperial examination system for the first time. The more he watched, the more devoted he became, and the more he watched, the more fascinated he became.
And when Emperor Ming saw the sentence "Break the monopoly of the court by the powerful, all the heroes of the world will join me", he couldn't help but shout "good".
“My great cadres are full of outstanding people and recruit talents, as it should be!
Anya, did you come up with this imperial examination system?" Emperor Ming raised his head and asked.
Anya shook her head: "It's a good friend who gave it to me today and asked me to present it to my father."
"Friend?" Emperor Ming thought for a long time, and he didn't know who among the people he knew had such a talent in the world.
"What is his official position?"
"I have no official position."
"Could it be someone you met in Haowen Academy?" Emperor Ming asked again.
"Strictly speaking, he should be considered my junior brother." Anya answered truthfully.
"Qin's eldest son, Qin Feng?"
"Reply to Father, it's him."
Emperor Ming suddenly realized.
As the current emperor of Daqian, the information he possesses must be extraordinary.
The Imperial Master Tianjian is the backbone of Da Qian, so how can he not pay attention to the disciples he has accepted?
What's more, after coming to Fengtian City, Qin Feng has done many shocking things - inventing gunpowder, showing superb medical skills, and establishing a poor academy.
It is reasonable for him to send people to collect all the information about the other party.
Because of this, Emperor Ming knew that Qin Feng was the eighth disciple accepted by Master Tianjian, but their names as master and disciple were a bit far-fetched and weird.
"He is a talented person." Emperor Ming sighed with emotion.
"Does my father think this imperial examination system is feasible?"
Emperor Ming nodded: "If this can be implemented to the entire Daqian, it is not an empty talk, but..."
Emperor Ming didn't say the rest, but Anya knew very well that it was too difficult to implement, and the resistance was bound to be huge.
"Have you ever let Master Tianjian see this thing?" Emperor Ming asked.
"The teacher returned a favor."
Emperor Ming understood this and stood up. He kept thinking in his mind that if he proposed this policy, he would definitely be opposed by a large number of officials.
If you enforce it forcefully, it will only hurt your muscles and bones, making it difficult to move forward.
The best thing is to let him find an excuse after proposing this policy, first implement it in Fengtian City, and then continue to spread it to the entire Daqian.
However, how can this excuse be so easy to find?
On the other side, in the third prince's palace, Tang Fei reported one by one the changes in Hanmen Academy during this period.
"After the pressure from officials and verbal warnings, nearly half of the students from poor families have withdrawn from the academy.
I believe it won’t be long before there won’t be any more students in the Poor Academy.”
"That's right." The third prince nodded in approval: "But your plan won't be just these small fights, right?"
"Of course not." Tang Fei smiled slightly, and then said: "Removing the students from the Poor Academy is just a preparation for what will happen next.
My ultimate goal is to anger Qin Feng and make him take over the academic dispute with the Imperial College."
The third prince frowned, wondering what he meant: "It's just an academic dispute, what kind of trick does it count as?
Even if Qin Feng loses to the Imperial Academy, he will not lose anything."
"The Third Prince doesn't know that the academic battles in the Imperial College have always been held at Tianxin Terrace.
Competing academically with others above will continuously consume your literary spirit and consume your energy.
And if you lose academically to others and have a weak will, your heart may even be shattered, and you will never be able to follow the path of becoming a saint again.”
Hearing this, the third prince suddenly realized: "You mean, you want to use this academic dispute to shatter Qin Feng's conscience?
But I once heard you say that Qin Feng broke through the academy in Haowen Academy, and his willpower is far beyond anyone's comparison.
How can he let your plan succeed?"
"Qin Feng is indeed extraordinary. It is not easy to break his conscience through one defeat, but what if he loses in a row?
No matter how determined the Wen Sheng Taoist is, he cannot withstand such a blow."
After a pause, Tang Fei smiled again and said: "If Qin Feng really takes over the academic dispute, His Highness can even send someone to secretly publicize the matter so that everyone in Fengtian City knows about it.
Under the eyes of everyone, being defeated by the people of the Imperial College through academics and shattering Qin Feng's Heart-Quest Platform is a sure shot!"
The third prince paced back and forth in the hall, and then asked: "What if your Imperial College is not Qin Feng's academic rival?"
Tang Fei shook his head and laughed: "His Highness thinks too highly of him. He is just a literati who relies on medical skills. Even if he knows some strange and obscene skills, what can he do?
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the others in the Imperial College lose, I am confident that I can defeat him."
"Oh?" The third prince looked sideways.
Tang Fei confidently said: "Your Highness is unaware of something. Master Mo and I have been studying the art of war for countless years.
Among the entire Haowen Academy students, I am afraid that only Fei Xun, a disciple of Tianjian Imperial Master, can compete with me.
And Qin Feng's desire to surpass me in the art of war is tantamount to wishful thinking.
Now, as long as I wait for him to fall into the trap and engage in an academic dispute, I can defeat him in front of everyone and make him unbearably humiliated, so that the platform of inquiry will be broken!"