The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 523 Cherishing feathers is a good habit

"This..." Ma Zhou pondered for a while: "Your Majesty, after the Spring Festival, the Jinshi who have been promoted will enter the palace for a banquet. Your Majesty might as well make a fuss about this banquet."

What Ma Zhou meant was that after all the Jinshi had entered the palace for the banquet, His Majesty Li Er would have a good idea of ​​the Jinshi who will take the exam this year at the banquet, and then wait for the results of the exam from the Ministry of Officials to discuss with each other. Compared.

As for the imperial examination, although it is said to be beneficial to the country and the people, it must not be rushed. We must boil the frogs in warm water, and start from the sidelines. To put it bluntly, if the humble officials in the court can work together, then this matter will be inevitable, but the process will be long.

For this kind of thing, Ma Zhou also wanted to realize it sooner, and was very anxious, but it was useless just to be anxious. Officials from aristocratic families in the court were like a mountain, pressing down on them, the children of poor families. Half of it is on His Majesty's body.

After listening to Ma Zhou's words, His Majesty Li Er was thoughtful. Indeed, what Ma Zhou said could be regarded as a breakthrough. Since he could not directly promulgate the decree, perhaps he would encounter fewer obstacles by making sidesteps. Moreover, entering the palace with the help of Jinshi Even if someone wants to object to the opportunity to go to the banquet, you have to take care of your face. Scholars are still a little different from ordinary people. If someone speaks out against His Majesty Li Er's idea of ​​wanting a palace test, spread it through the mouths of these scholars. There is no escape from the reputation, once the reputation is confirmed, it will be poked in the back of the whole world all day long, no one dares to commit this taboo.

The so-called aristocratic families all cherish their feathers, and it is precisely because of this that His Majesty Li Er was given a chance to see through the gaps. Back then, Wu Zetian was able to successfully carry out the palace examination and focus on promoting poor scholars, which is almost the same as she wiped out the aristocratic families in the pass relationship.

Now that the first month is out, seeing that February has come to the last few days, the beginning of spring is about to usher in March, that is to say, the spring of spring in early March is about to kick off. The method of the palace examination proposed by Xuan Shijing, Li Er Your Majesty can't wait for what Ma Zhou said to be done slowly, so His Majesty Li Er intends to wait for the end of the spring, and then he intends to entertain this year's Jinshi by the Grand Master's pool, and take the school exam himself. By the way, he will also take a look at the noble families in the court hall Officials' response.

"Ma Zhou, this year's Chunwei, those scholars who are taking the exam, you should pay attention secretly. If you find someone who is outstanding, feel free to report it to me." His Majesty Li Er said.

"Yes, I obey the order." Ma Zhou was overjoyed, and clapped his hands in agreement.

With His Majesty Li Er's will, Ma Zhou's current position is much more convenient than the chief examiner.

In Shenhou's Mansion, Xuan Shijing held Marshal Zhao's letter in his left hand, and tapped on the desk with his ten knuckles in his right hand.

The identities of a merchant's son and a good family's son are like a natural barrier under the system of the Tang Dynasty, but Xuan Shijing pondered, this matter is actually not difficult.

If you want to have the status of a good family, you just need to give Marshal Zhao some credit, for example, the case in the eastern suburbs.

Now Xuan Shijing doesn't need credit, what he needs more is to keep a low profile and avoid the current turmoil as soon as possible, but the credit can't be wasted, it's better to change Marshal Zhao's status as a good family son.

This matter has to be dealt with with the Ministry of Households. Xuan Shijing is not familiar with the Ministry of Households, but Li Ke is familiar with him. Li Ke, who has been in the army all year round, has never lacked opportunities to deal with the Ministry of Households. If you are not familiar with it, it will be a bit confusing.

The Ministry of Households is in charge of the world's money and food, and all expenditures of the army are inseparable from the support of the Ministry of Accounts. As the commander of the army, Li Ke competes with the group of hobs in the Ministry of Households all day long. Body, for Li Ke, is not easy to capture.

Xuan Shijing figured out what happened to Marshal Zhao, and the next step was to go solo.

Now Shan Chong is still recuperating in Lu Guogong's mansion, and there is no danger for the time being. When he entered the palace today and talked about the case in the eastern suburbs with His Majesty Li Er, the official "businessman", whether it was Xuan Shijing himself or His Majesty Li Er, Just passing by, perhaps in the heart of His Majesty Li Er, the biggest thorn in his heart in the court today is those so-called aristocratic families.

When he came out of the palace, Xuan Shijing first went to the Duke's Mansion and saw Cheng Yaojin's so-called solution.

As Cheng Yaojin said, it is a big family, and there is no one under their hands. It's just that most people didn't investigate, and they didn't dare to offend them.

And Cheng Yaojin, just as he said, started to investigate the Wang family.

Now everyone with a certain status in Chang'an City knows that Wang Gui's disease caused the two sons to fight fiercely in private. Now, on the surface, the youngest son is in the limelight, but Cheng Yaojin's root is that the so-called limelight is nothing but nothing. As a result, he arranged for people from the house to investigate Wang Jingzhi's reality.

This investigation really allowed Cheng Yaojin to find out something useful. The current two certifications are all locked in the Duke's Mansion, waiting to be used at a critical moment.

One can prove that Wang Jingzhi colluded with local officials in Changzhou to search for people's fat and people's anointing, and plundered them. It was a housekeeper at the official's mansion in Changzhou, and the other was a pimp for Wang Jingzhi.

You know, Wang Jingzhi is the captain-in-law, and His Majesty Li Er personally decreed to marry Princess Shang Pingyang. Now that the captain-in-law is misbehaving outside, it is not just the face of the Wang family that has been lost.

In fact, the concubine of the Tang Dynasty has a good friend outside, which is also reasonable, but it is only outside to follow the official business to find flowers and ask Liu, has a famous name, but like Wang Jingzhi secretly raised several concubines in Chang'an In the mansion on the Zhuangzi outside the city, it is indeed rare, and among the concubines kept, there are innocent civilian girls who were robbed by force.

After finding out what Wang Jingzhi was doing, Cheng Yaojin, who was originally an outsider, lost his temper for the first time. He smashed a low table with two fists and yelled at Wang Jingzhi that he was inferior to a beast. Now he pushed Wang Jingzhi here. On the cusp of this matter, Xuan Shijing's uneasiness is gone, anyway, keeping this kind of person is a disaster.

At first, the idea was to find a random scapegoat and push it out at the critical moment as a step on the court, but now, it seems that this step has broken another layer.

I really don't know what Wang Jingzhi was doing outside, whether Wang Gui knew about it or not, with Wang Gui's current state, if he knew, he would be pissed to death by his own brat.

(End of this chapter)