On March 18th, the Golden List was released and the palace examination rankings were released.

The final three tripods were the top scholar Chen Maoxue, the second-ranked Zhang Sixiu, and the Tanhua Zeng Chaojie.

Among them, Chen Maoxue was from Xuanfu, Nanzhi and was born in Yufeng Academy.

Zeng Chaojie and Zhang Sixiu are both from Huguang. In addition, 25 of the 2016 are from Huguang. The Huguang fellow villagers showed up this time, but this time they caused a lot of criticism.

It is said that this is Zhang Xianggong openly using his power for personal gain and increasing his fellow villagers' rankings.

Even Chen Maoxue's black material was dug out. Legend has it that because his two sons passed the juren, Xianggong Zhang wanted to give them a high reputation so that he would not be abrupt in the end. So he wanted to find a few people with real talents and knowledge as a foil.

When Zhang Juzheng found out that the most popular talented juren at this time was nothing better than Tang Xianzu and Shen Maoxue. He sent someone to win over the two of them, saying that as long as you come to be friends with our young master, you will be the first in high school. And you will be Zhang Gong’s person in the future, and you will definitely rise to the top!

Tang Xianzu was busy rehearsing the "Peony Pavilion" on the first hand, but also had a pride. He felt very disgusted by this open fraud, so he refused on the spot and said, "I'm sorry, I don't deserve a woman who lost her virginity!"

So he didn't go to Beijing to take the exam and stayed in Nanjing to continue his "Peony Pavilion".

However, Chen Maoxue failed to withstand the power of the prime minister and the temptation of the three tripods. So he went to Beijing to learn Jingxiu, and then he succeeded in winning the top scorer.

Everyone laughed at him for being the "joint top scholar".

Zhang Sixiu was ridiculed as the second best person.

Even the Tanhua Zeng Chaojie was ridiculed as the "Tanhua of the Countryside Friendship".

The three-legged master was covered in dust, and the following series of celebrations such as the parade of the top scholar have changed a little.

But now, I can only turn a deaf ear to it, hoping that time will dilute these noises.

However, when the library was selected, it was still balanced. Only ten new Jinshi from Huguang were selected as Shujishi, and the rest were all under the sect of science.

It also made Mr. Zhang feel bad. Before, Zhao Hao's subordinates won three subjects and three masters in a row, he did not cause criticism. In order to avoid suspicion, he did not dare to win the top scorer, so he only won the second place, and was scolded for being scolded.

Is Bugu just arousing physical condition?

Mr. Zhang just had such a flash of thought. He had to worry too much about it and could not let this little storm involve too much energy.

The next top priority is to choose an empress for Emperor Wanli.

Emperor Wanli will be sixteen next year, and it is the age of emperor marriage. Empress Dowager Li is very worried about this matter. In the first month of the year, she issued an imperial edict to select the capital and Beizhili and other places. She is over 14 years old and under 16 years old. She is blessed with her etiquette, elegant and innocent, and a girl with her parents' wealth that is not bad for her.

In order to prevent the chaos of foreign relatives and endanger the imperial power, Taizu, who was particularly lenient in his administration, stipulated in the ancestral teachings that "all emperors, princes, concubines, palace concubines, and concubines should be carefully selected for good daughters."

So, except for Empress Xu of Zhu Di, the emperor's concubines were later selected from low-level officials and small families. If they were children of poor families, it would be great. It is said that this can assist the emperor in cultivating the virtues of thrift and diligence.

There was no autocracy of foreign relatives in the Ming Dynasty, but Lao Zhu obviously didn't know what a good woman was to be prosperous for three generations...

Although Zhang Juzheng complained about this, no one could challenge the ancestral teachings of two hundred years.

So he ordered the Ministry of Rites to select more than 450 girls who meet the requirements and send them to the Forbidden City, and ask the two empress dowagers to take a look.

After strict comparisons of appearance, birth date, deeds, family background, etc., Wang Xijie, the daughter of Wang Wei, the deputy envoy of the Wensi Academy of the ninth rank of the Ministry of Works, was finally selected as the queen.

According to the convention of the National Dynasty's selection of the first and second concubines, the daughters of two other small families were selected as concubines.

It is said that this is a great joy in the country. Mr. Zhang has always regarded Emperor Wanli as his own, and he is even more sincerely happy. But he is also worried because spending money is like flowing water...

Although Empress Li believed in Buddhism, she was very particular about extravagance and felt like she had been a wife for many years. In March, her youngest son, King Lu, paid a full million taels of silver.

The money that was really spent was only 300,000 taels. The rest fell into the pockets of Wuqing Hou and his son.

Now the emperor's wedding is even more careless, and Wu Qinghou is also ready to make a big fuss. Zhang Xianggong calculated and asked for a lottery, asked for a name, Najib, Na Zheng, and asked for a schedule of appointments. I am afraid that it will not be able to fight two million taels.

This doesn't count the cost of next year's wedding...

In fact, being serious can't cost so much money, but you have to reserve the corruption of the Marquis and his son.

Mr. Zhang couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, but this man not only couldn't do anything about it, but also had to wipe their butts frequently.

Because Wu Qinghou is the biological father of Empress Dowager Li.

Wuqing Hou was the Wuqing Bo Li Wei who had previously snatched the imperial shop from the eldest princess and then managed a mess. In the Wanli Dynasty, Concubine Li became Empress Dowager Li, and Wuqing Bo was promoted to Wuqing Hou.

Li Wei and his son have made a lot of money over the years. Relying on Empress Dowager Li’s protection of his shortcomings, they did not dare to make any money. Now their family not only controls the imperial shop, but also monopolizes all goods entering and leaving Liaodong.

The father and son were not satisfied, so they got together with Lao Xier and took over a big deal of making winter clothes for the soldiers on the Jiubian side. As a result, they embezzled 80% of the money allocated by the Ministry of War and used dead grass as cotton tidbits into the cotton jacket.

As a result, last winter, the winter dress was distributed, and dozens of soldiers were frozen to death in Jizhen alone overnight. Jizhen general Qi Jiguang was furious and went to Beijing overnight to find Zhang Xiang to announce the case.

Zhang Juzheng was naturally furious. How much effort did he spend to rectify the border defense? After finally getting better, someone dared to commit crimes against the wind and did such a bad thing to freeze so many soldiers to death, which made the soldiers’ hearts even colder!

He immediately ordered a thorough investigation, no matter how high the official rank or what background he was, he would be killed once it was verified!

After checking the results, I'm fucking, it's Li Wei, this stupid guy...

Mr. Zhang was stunned, but he couldn't just let it go, so he broke the matter into Empress Dowager Li.

Holding the fake cotton jacket presented by Mr. Zhang, Empress Dowager Li felt disgraced and said on the spot that Zhang Lang... Oh no, Mr. Don't worry, the prince is still guilty of the same crime as the people. This palace will definitely deal with his father according to the national law!

How could Zhang Juzheng be so naive? His power sources are three, one is the identity of the chief minister and the imperial teacher, two, the close cooperation of Eunuch Feng, and three is the wholehearted dependence of the empress dowager.

The most important one is the third one. He saw it with his own eyes. The empress dowager could get out with just one word from the empress dowager. So after he took office, he flattered the empress dowager in every way, and tried his best to satisfy all kinds of requirements. Sometimes he felt embarrassed. But this was the empress dowager who favored him and obeyed him. How could Zhang Juzheng make the empress dowager embarrassed?

He took the initiative to persuade the marquis to be the emperor's grandfather after all, and the royal family's face should be preserved. In this way, the empress scolded him and punished him to make winter clothes for the soldiers on the nine sides immediately. This is considered to be both good.

Empress Dowager Li was very grateful to Mr. Zhang for his thoughts, so she called her father to the palace, scolded him, and then made him stand in the snow for a long time. Finally, Li Wei was asked to spit out all the embezzled money...

But as soon as the Chinese New Year was over, Empress Dowager Li forgave her father again. In her simple understanding, of course, her sons' major life events must be managed by their elders.

Li Wei was also sure that his daughter was not cruel to him, so of course he had to make back all the money he had lost.

Zhang Juzheng was very impressed by this marquis and felt even more distressed about money. So he naturally thought of Zhao Hao.

Zhang Xiaojing's belly was getting bigger and bigger. Zhang Juzheng ordered her to get pregnant in the capital and not run around anymore. Zhao Hao naturally had to accompany her. Therefore, he did not leave Beijing after the palace examination. However, Mr. Zhao was not idle either, and just took advantage of this time to rectify the Xishan Group.

Prince Zhang called Zhao Hao to Wenyuan Pavilion and asked him to come forward on his behalf to deal with Li Wei and his son.

Moreover, Zhang Juzheng told Zhao Hao that the total amount is only one million taels, and you can give it yourself if you have more.

Mr. Zhao responded with a bitter face, looking like he had taken over the hot potato, but he was a little happy because he had long wanted to meet this greedy marquis.

Mr. Zhao is not afraid of being greedy for money, he is afraid of not being greedy for money... Didn’t the people around him come together just to get rich?

So after submitting the post, he asked the British Duke to accompany him to the Marquis' Mansion in Wuqing.

When he heard that he was going to Li Wei's house, the British Duke was very scared, but when Mr. Zhao spoke, he could only sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman.

On the carriage, the British Duke reminded Zhao Hao: "I will arrive at Li Wei's mansion later, don't eat his food."

"How do you say it?" Zhao Hao asked in confusion.

"Our grandfather, our emperor, is extremely greedy for money. He is not only greedy for other people's money, but also for his own money." The British Duke smiled bitterly, "Since he became the No. 1 foreign relative of Tianzi, we are not easy to ignore him, so we went to his mansion to visit him one after another. But a few times, he thought the tea and desserts he received were too expensive. So the miser made some fruits with wax and placed them on the table at home."

"Good guy..." Mr. Zhao gasped and thought to himself that Grandet had never been like this.

"It's a big fucking bad luck. I caught up with it not long after it was put on. I was old and looked unsatisfied. I picked up a fruit and bit it. I fucked it..." The British Cop said with lingering fear, "I thought it was like eating wax. I looked closely and saw that it was just made of wax?"

"The stingy guy is embarrassed. I quickly explained that it was hot and I couldn't hold on. I even caught flies, so I made some fruits to see." The British Duke said in a hilarious and crying manner:

"I told you again, hurry up, give me some real one for you."

"Get one?" Zhao Hao said astonished.

"Yes, it's enough to get one. The man is old and eats too much..." The British man learned Li Wei's tone, and after saying that, they laughed loudly, tears came out of tears.

"Later I realized that I am still very proud of my face. If ordinary customers go there, they will not be able to eat a fruit." The British Duke reminded again: "I heard that in order to avoid such a thing, he would put a real fruit on the fake fruit plate later. But not everyone will put it on. Only distinguished guests can receive this treatment. In short, it is better not to speak!"
Chapter completed!