"The Empress Dowager? Is that Empress Xiaozhuang Wen? She is the shaper of two generations of emperors. I don't know why this old lady wants to announce my entry into the palace... This is the real great god of the Qing Dynasty, and she also holds great power.
, but the reputation among the people is much better than that of Cixi later..."
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) thought and felt anxious all the way. After dozens of inspections, it was already the moment when he was brought into Cining Palace.
Outside the Cining Palace, Baoyu saw the person he most wanted to see in the palace, and that was Eunuch Liang. Although he always had an annoying and charming smile, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) now felt that Eunuch Liang was now
The dearest person in the world.
"Good luck, father-in-law."
"Good luck to you, Mr. Jia."
"What's going on? Why did the Empress Dowager announce my entry into the palace?" Baoyu took out a two hundred tael silver note from his arms and put it skillfully into Eunuch Liang's hand.
"It may be a good thing or a bad thing. Anyway, the young master has been inside for most of the day. If the situation is particularly bad, the Queen Mother will not be able to summon you to Cining Palace, so Mr. Jia does not need to worry."
What a cunning person. "It may be a good thing or a bad thing" is the same as not saying anything, but I can't care about that much now.
Following a fat girl with a round face into the palace, I came back to my senses. I didn't expect that all the maids in the palace had persimmon faces. It seems that the Empress Dowager likes to celebrate. Maybe the Empress Dowager herself is a round person.
Fat-faced old lady.
"Suma, is the person here?"
A gentle and dignified voice sounded. Baoyu knew that this was the Empress Dowager, and quickly looked away.
He lowered his head and tightened his chest and neck, looking like he was walking on thin ice.
"There is no need to imitate those ministers who can only act pretentious. A young man should look like a young man. He should raise his head and let me see what kind of heroic son he is. He dares to challenge the Russian strongman alone, and dares to compete with our first warrior in Manchuria.
Your Majesty, I challenge you. How dare you be called the new Poet Immortal? How dare you buy half of our capital."
I didn’t know if I didn’t tell you, but I was shocked when I told him. I didn’t expect that I had done so many great things in the past year since I became Baoyu. But the more I heard about it, the more I felt something was wrong. Why did I have a strange feeling?
When I looked up, I saw a rich old lady with a fat, round face, and very kind eyebrows. She looked like her own grandmother. The young man standing next to her was the little emperor.
The little emperor stood there and winked at him, not looking like an emperor at all.
"I'm afraid it's in Cining Palace and the Empress Dowager that the little emperor behaves like this. He always has a sullen face. It's really tiring..."
When the Empress Dowager saw the young man's handsome features, she fell in love with him. In addition, his eyes were smart and pure, and she knew at a glance that he was not a treacherous person, so she couldn't help but feel more favorable towards Baoyu.
Aunt Sumala saw that the Empress Dowager's face was becoming more and more relaxed and happy, so she quickly asked Baoyu to kowtow, and then arranged a pony stool for him.
In Cining Palace, being able to sit on a pony stool is a supreme favor and reward. Even the little emperor has to stand when he comes.
"Seeing that you and my grandmother look alike, I kowtow this way. This kowtow ceremony is so fucking awkward. The little emperor must change it in the future; and
It's even worse to call yourself a 'slave' at every turn. However, according to Qing history manuscripts, only palace nobles of considerable status can call themselves slaves in front of the emperor. It is really like what Mr. Lu Xun said, a man who 'wanted to be a slave but wanted to be a slave.
It’s a bad era’…”
Seeing someone dare to be distracted in front of her, the Empress Dowager couldn't help but become angry again.
"What were you thinking about just now, our Head of Household Affairs?"
"Ah, I am thinking about what kind of gift of immortality it is that the Empress Dowager has been given such a young and promising minister!"
Seeing a little kid acting serious and pretending to be an adult, the Empress Dowager burst into laughter again.
"Are you self-recommending? You are still a child. Although you happen to have a few coincidences, it does not mean that you have the strength. You cannot always be opportunistic in doing things, especially when you are an official. You are still a little bit
You have no experience at all. Although your father is behind your back to guide you, you do the work yourself and cannot always rely on others. Your lack of experience is your biggest shortcoming."
"The Empress Dowager, I dare to say a few words. First of all, please forgive me for being disrespectful."
"Say, I forgive you."
"To become famous, you must start early. Xiang Luo became Confucius' teacher at the age of 7; Gan Luo became the prime minister at the age of 12; Sang Hongyang entered the palace at the age of 13 because of his good mental arithmetic; Wang Bo passed the Jinshi examination at the age of 16 and became Chaosan Lang; Yue Fei was 20
He became the commander-in-chief of an army at the age of 18. What’s more, Zhuge Kongming’s miraculous calculations were astonishing to the heavens. Did he have any experience in being an official when he came out to assist Liu Bei?”
What a "Zhuge Kongming had no experience when he came out"!
"Let's not punish you for the crime of rhetoric. Please tell me how you encouraged the emperor to let the children of the Eight Banners go into business. Don't you know that it is the rule set by Taizu that not allowing the children of the Eight Banners to do business?"
"The Book of Changes says, 'If you are poor, you will think about change, if you are poor, you will be able to adapt, and if you are general, you will achieve success'; Wang Anshi, the famous prime minister of the Song Dynasty, also said, 'There is no need to fear changes in nature, no law for ancestors, and no sympathy for people's words.' Everything has its own laws.
We can only deal with it based on the actual situation, and practice is the only criterion for testing truth. The current support system of the Eight Banners Internal Affairs Office obviously lags behind the changes and needs of the times. If it lags behind, it must be changed. It has become a big burden on the royal family.
It might hinder the emperor's ability to govern the people of the world, so I have the courage to petition the emperor to reform the system. The Empress Dowager clearly understands that if the system is not reformed, I am afraid it will really become the last one."
A half-written and half-white piece of persuasion mixed with some truths from ancient times to the present. Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) became more and more excited as he spoke, even a little impassioned. I don’t know how much the Empress Dowager could listen to it. Anyway, he was throwing out
went.
It also borrowed the theory of "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth" from another great man in modern times, and almost gave the more elegant but far-reaching sentence "A black cat or a white cat is a good cat if it catches mice".
Brought it out.
Time travel really kills people!
The Empress Dowager looked at Baoyu with a smile on her face and said nothing.
Baoyu also likes to use this method the most. Because of silence, no one knows your trump card.
Baoyu suddenly came to his senses. This sophisticated Empress Dowager was not here to ask for guilt. She was here to guard her grandson.
Seeing Baoyu's sudden awakening, the Empress Dowager smiled and said: "I won't take back the title of Head of the Internal Affairs Bureau for now, but being an official is not a piece of cake. You should also know that the official position you have been granted is just a false position. If you
If you want to make progress, you must take part in this year's examination, and I would like to invite you to take part in the big exam this fall."
"Isn't the test next year?"
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) was shocked. He hadn't even read a few ancient essays, let alone written eight-legged essays. He could still make up a few impassioned words, but getting into the imperial examination was even more difficult than climbing to the sky.
.
Isn’t this a set that I have coded for myself?
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) regretted so much that his intestines turned blue.
"In order to test your true ability, the Queen Mother has specially held an encore to recruit scholars. You have one month to prepare." The little emperor said from the side.
My God, my God!
You really dug a big hole to bury yourself. If you had known this, why would you have done it in the first place?
Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) walked out of the palace dejectedly.
What should I do? What should I do? I actually have to compete with three thousand old masters of ancient prose in the eight-legged essay. This is really more difficult than climbing to the sky.
(How did Baoyu take the imperial examination? Please read Chapter 21 when he was 18 hours old and take the Qing Dynasty college entrance examination.)
