Ministry of Rites, Minister of Rites Jiao Fang is walking around anxiously.
His only son Jiao Huangzhong was taking the imperial examination. As a father, he was naturally very anxious.
He was extremely doting on his son Jiao Huangzhong. Although Jiao Huangzhong was uneducated and arrogant and cruel, he still had high hopes for Jiao Huangzhong and gave him a lot of support.
In history, Jiao Fang was a member of the eunuch party because she colluded with the eunuch Liu Jin. Therefore, after Zhu Houzhao became emperor, she was promoted very quickly. She became the junior master and the prince's grand master, a bachelor of Huagaidian, and a senior cabinet minister.
Later, because of a falling out with Liu Jin and because he was really old, he had to resign and return home.
But because of Liu Jin, Emperor Hongzhi's intestinal carbuncle was cured and he was very healthy. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao is still the prince, Liu Jin is still the little follower beside the prince, and Jiao Fang has not been promoted as quickly as in history.
He is just the Minister of Rites.
Jiao Fang is a very unscrupulous person in order to get promoted. When he was young, he came from a poor family and had no basis in the court. Even if he passed the Jinshi examination, it was not easy to get promoted.
So he went to meet his fellow villagers. At that time, Li Xian, the great scholar, was from the same hometown as him, both from Henan. Jiao Fang tried her best to please Li Xian, pretending to be very honest and simple with Li Xian, and tried her best to please Li Xian like a servant.
Li Xian naturally liked him very much, and then he strongly recommended Jiao Fang as a scholar, and he was awarded the rank of editor and lecturer at the Hanlin Academy. It was with Li Xian's help that he was able to quickly gain a foothold and gain an early reputation.
The opportunity to rise to prominence.
But once he gained a foothold, he showed his villainous face again and told people directly that Li Xian was no longer of use to him and that he had to look for someone else to support him, so he hugged Liu Jin's lap again.
In order to be able to enter the cabinet, he often asked people to continuously impeach and criticize Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian in the cabinet, hoping that after defeating these three people, he would have a chance to enter the cabinet.
It can be said that such a person will do whatever it takes to get promoted.
But the situation is a little different now. Emperor Hongzhi is still in good health, and some of his affairs have been exposed. Therefore, the big shots in the court do not like him, and the position of Minister of Rites is almost the pinnacle of his life.
.
But he still had high hopes for his son and tried his best to pave a smooth path for his son.
If you want to prosper in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, you must at least get a good name in the imperial examination.
The second-level Jinshi is the lowest level. If you are in the third-level, you will reach the point of knowing the state in your lifetime. It is absolutely impossible to get to the top level.
It is best for the second-level A to be at the front. If you are at the back, you can only be a county magistrate or something. If you are younger, you can still make arrangements. Now that you are older, it will not be easy to pave the way in the future.
.
Therefore, it is best to be able to enter the first class, and it is best to be the number one scholar. In this case, it will be easier to get along in the Ming Dynasty.
The top picks in all previous imperial examinations were promoted very quickly. For example, Wang Shouren's father, Wang Hua, was now a third-rank official. There was also Xie Qian, who was already the top pick in the cabinet. Looking at Liu Jin, he was only ten years old.
Years have passed, and now he is the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, waiting for someone from the three cabinets to retire and join the cabinet.
If you get the top score, you can still be promoted quickly even if you don't have many connections.
So Jiao Fang really wanted her son Jiao Huangzhong to become the top scholar in this imperial examination.
If you want to become the number one scholar, the first step is to pass the joint examination, and it is best to achieve good results in the joint examination, and then get the number one scholar appointed by Emperor Hongzhi in the palace examination.
So now that his son is taking the entrance examination, he is also waiting anxiously, especially since today's exam is still about policy questions, so he has no intention of working and is waiting for news.
"There's news, there's news~"
“This time the policy question is about today’s Ming Dynasty!”
While waiting anxiously, a messenger hurried to the Ministry of Rites and shouted.
"Today's Ming Dynasty?"
When Jiao Fang heard this, she was immediately dumbfounded.
Liu Jin's question is really unexpected.
But soon, Jiao Fang couldn't help but cursed.
His son Jiao Huangzhong was uneducated and did not have much knowledge. He was also arrogant, domineering, arrogant and fierce. Jiao Fang had to use all kinds of methods to get into the imperial examination.
Now that he is taking the exam, Liu Jin asks such questions, which is a fatal blow to his son.
Can you expect an uneducated, arrogant, fierce, and domineering person to have any in-depth views and insights into the situation in Ming Dynasty today?
Even though I have a father who is a minister of the Ministry of Rites, it stands to reason that I will have a relatively deep understanding of the current Ming Dynasty under the influence of my ears and eyes.
But Jiao Fang knew very well what level and urine quality her son had. He might fail the exam this time. He wouldn't even be able to pass the examination, and he wouldn't be able to take the imperial examination. How could he be the top scholar?
"Liu Jin's son~"
"Despicable, shameless and extremely obscene~"
"The imperial court's ceremony of honor and talent, a very serious matter, unexpectedly made random questions and killed people."
"If my son fails, I will scold you like a bitch to your face."
Jiao Fang started to scold him in front of many officials from the Ministry of Rites. She was furious when she thought that her son Jiao Huangzhong's future career would be bleak if he was not even a Jinshi.
Historically, because of the incident in Jiaohuangzhong, Wang Hao placed his son in the second class because of Li Dongyang. Jiao Fang was extremely unhappy, so she often insulted and slandered Li Dongyang.
However, Li Dongyang is not as old as Jiao Fang. As a cabinet minister, Li Dongyang is not easy to quarrel with Jiao Fang directly, which makes him even more unscrupulous.
Now that he thought that his son might not even be able to pass the imperial examination, he became so angry that he almost died and began to insult Liu Jin with extremely unpleasant words.
Of course, insulting Liu Jin was not just because of this incident.
In fact, Jiao Fang will do whatever it takes to get promoted. He has always done whatever it takes to smear, criticize, and impeach those who are above him and don't like him. He has secretly colluded with many officials and enemies.
The ministers, cabinet ministers, etc. impeached, slandered, and insulted.
Regardless of whether it was Liu Jian, Li Dongyang or Xie Qian in the cabinet, he always attacked, especially Xie Qian, because Xie Qian suppressed a imperial memorandum he proposed. He especially hated Xie Qian, so he hated Zhejiang people.
, Jiangxi people dislike it very much, and curse every time it is mentioned.
Although Liu Jin was not an official from the south, Liu Jin was the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, and was a heavenly official. At the same time, Liu Jin was young and already ranked above him in his early thirties.
This made Jiao Fang extremely envious and jealous, and wanted to replace Liu Jin. Therefore, she often impeached and criticized Liu Jin in the past, but now she was so angry that she started to curse.
Here at the Ministry of Rites, many officials looked at the furious Jiao Fang and were immediately speechless. This Jiao Fang has always had a bad mouth and likes to curse, and dares to curse anyone, including Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Zhang Mao.
, Wang Hao, etc., everyone was scolded by him.
The same goes for Liu Jin. Liu Jin is upright and upright, and he always does things fairly and honestly. Jiao Fang once tried to hug Liu Jin's lap, but Liu Jin was too lazy to offend him. This also offended him and was scolded by him.
"Yawn~"
In the Gongyuan, Liu Jin, who was sitting on the examiner's seat, did not know at this moment that the test questions he asked had caused a huge commotion in the capital. A large number of officials were writing memorials to impeach him, and some were scolding him.
Looking at the many students taking the exam, Liu Jin suddenly couldn't help but yawn, as if someone was scolding him.
Shaking his head slightly, after thinking for a while, Liu Jin also casually began to patrol the Gongyuan.
It's getting cold and I feel a little cold just sitting all the time. It would be more comfortable to move around more and move my body.
Time passed slowly, and soon the examinations were over. The students stretched themselves and walked out of the Gongyuan with a lot of fatigue. Their test papers were immediately collected, and then their names were anonymized, and there were some copies.
Officials, copy down the test papers one by one and wait for the ministers in the court to review them.
As for Liu Jin, he also received news from all over the capital.
"Jiao Fang, the Minister of Rites, insulted me?"
Liu Jin was not surprised by the news that someone wanted to impeach him. It was a surprise that no one wanted to impeach him. It was completely normal for someone to impeach him.
But he didn't expect that Jiao Fang would be here at the Ministry of Rites, yelling at him in front of many officials of the Ministry of Rites, which made Liu Jin couldn't help but frown.
I recalled in my mind the records of Jiao Fang in history, and I also knew that Jiao Fang was petty, narrow-minded, and would do whatever it took to get promoted.
He must have insulted himself because his son was in the imperial examination this time. He randomly set the questions. It is estimated that it will be difficult for his son to write any good answers. If he fails to pass the imperial examination, he will have to wait.
In three years, I will either go to work as a local official.
"Jiao Fang~ Your son must be a bad candidate for Jinshi~"
