Today, Zhu Yunxi and the old man came out incognito. Firstly, they came to the imperial list to watch the excitement, and secondly, they wanted the old man to relax, so they temporarily captured Song Guogong Feng Sheng to accompany them.
Hearing this, the old Duke smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, you know that I have done a lot of good and bad things in my life, but I have never let my fellow villagers suffer!" After saying that, he smiled and said, "Although we in Fengyang are not
I fought my way out of Wenquxing, but the students over there have been wronged, so I really want to show off my old face and talk to those...students who have suffered from the plague."
"Haha!" The old man laughed and said, "Yes, damn it, our fellow Fengyang fellows, they dare not take the seeds of reading in Fengyang, it's a big deal!"
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Not long after, the unsuccessful candidates openly shouted that there was something fishy about the imperial examination, and it spread like wildfire in the capital. The more rumors spread, the more evil it became.
On the long street, the common people had not seen the new scholars parading on horseback, but first they saw the people who went berserk and complained everywhere.
In several provinces in the north, as long as there were officials in the government or high officials, they were immediately chased and intercepted by the students.
Cao Guogong Li Jinglong just came out of the Lifanyuan Yamen. The Lifanyuan has not even set up a framework yet, and has just chosen an office location. Just next to the Daming Gate, the former vassal residence of King Jingjiang and his family in Beijing was taken over by the Ministry of Rites and Zongzheng Mansion.
It was sitting idle after I came back, but now I can just take it and use it.
Li Jinglong's carriage was luxurious and spacious, and it felt quite comfortable to seat three or five people inside.
He and Yang Shiqi sat opposite each other in the carriage, drinking tea and chatting.
"Congratulations!" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "The tenth place in the first class is well deserved!"
Yang Shiqi cupped his hands and said, "They are all cultivated by my father-in-law!"
"I don't dare to take it!" Li Jinglong waved his hands hurriedly, "I can't cultivate this kind of thing. You have to live up to your own merits and write a good article!" He said, "Long live the Lord!"
"Student, I am grateful for the divine grace!" Yang Shiqi hurriedly raised his hands to the sky and sighed slightly, "Shiqi is so virtuous and capable that he can be valued by the emperor. It is really hard to repay such kindness!"
"Just work hard from now on!" Li Jinglong said with a smile, "Tomorrow you will go to the Ministry of Etiquette with me, and then go to the Ministry of Personnel in the afternoon. After the passing ceremony, you will come to the Lifan Courtyard." After saying that, he patted the other party on the shoulder and said, "Shi
Odd, I come from a military background, so I need more help from you in this civil service matter!"
"Shiqi dares not to die!" Yang Shiqi lowered his head.
At this moment, the guards suddenly shouted loudly from outside, "Who are you! Get away quickly!"
Then there was the sound of a knife being drawn, and Yang Shiqi in the carriage was startled. Looking out, he saw dozens of people surrounding him in darkness.
Suddenly, he was stunned.
"This... the capital city, in broad daylight, these people...?"
Li Jinglong, on the other hand, had a calm face. He just frowned slightly and looked out the window, then said to the guards outside the carriage, "Who is making a fuss?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a scholar outside shouted, "We are scholars from Jinke, and we want to see Duke Cao Guo!"
"We have suffered injustice, please ask Mr. Cao Guo to make the decision for us!"
"Cao Guogong, among the candidates selected for Jinshi in this examination, no one from the five northern provinces, Zhili, Huguang, and Guangxi, was selected. Those who were selected were all from Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi. There must be someone among them who engages in malpractice for personal gain and disrupts the national agenda!"
"Please, Mr. Cao Guo, please give me your life. We are wronged!"
"It is unheard of in the past dynasties that all the people from the north failed! Not only were all the people chosen to be selected from the south, but so were the examiners. How could there be anything ulterior motives among them?"
As soon as the words fell, Li Jinglong and Yang Shi's expressions suddenly changed.
Li Jinglong was shocked, while Yang Shiqi's face was blank.
Throughout the dynasties, cases of fraud in imperial examinations have been a major cause of death.
"How did you find me about this matter?" Li Jinglong wondered, "I'm not the one who cares about this matter!"
Yang Shiqi muttered to himself, "It's over, no matter whether there is fraud or not, if the students start a fight, this case will be spread all over the world..."
At this moment, Li Jinglong's personal guard Li Laowai opened the car curtain and said, "Master, please leave quickly. Those stupid scholars are going crazy and are running forward. Brothers don't dare to say hello to them for fear of
It can’t be stopped!”
Yes, those men who blinked even if their heads fell off on the battlefield. Now facing the students approaching step by step, their palms are sweating with anxiety.
These are all scholars, and the swords of warriors like them would not dare to fall on them.
"Where is Mr. Cao Guo?"
"Come out and meet us!"
"As a minister of the country, how can Duke Cao sit idly by and do nothing?"
As he spoke, Li Jinglong quickly turned over and walked out from the other side of the carriage. Then in the blink of an eye, he got on the guard's horse and rode away.
"Hey, I...I'm still here?" Yang Shiqi was stunned for a moment and shouted.
"Gong Cao Guo?"
With a shout, the car curtain was forcefully opened, and several soldiers broke through Li Jinglong's escort and came over.
"Hey, how many are there?" Yang Shiqi saw that the other party's eyes were red, and he quickly smiled and handed over his hands.
"Who are you? Where is Cao Guogong?" a scholar asked loudly.
"This... Duke Cao Guo is not here, I am his relative... a relative!"
Yang Shiqi was so anxious that he must not let these students know that he was also a newly admitted Jinshi. Otherwise, he would be a Jinshi sitting in Li Jinglong's sedan, and it would be really hard to explain.