His Royal Highness, he is plotting against me

More than half a month has passed,
Xindi finally straightened out the recent affairs and had a chance to breathe.

The Ministry of Households took over the taxation and imperial business affairs, and the Ministry of Punishment was responsible for the review of the pardon. The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Guozijian were responsible for a more important matter.

That is, in the spring of next year, the first official selection examination will be held in the first year of Jiajing, as the new emperor's enthronement to the world's students.

And except for slaves, criminals, and lowly people, everyone can take the exam.

Now it is June, and there is only half a year. The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials must first send people to organize state, county, and county-level examinations across the country. take an exam.

The time node is handled quite tightly.

His Majesty made a clear decree, considering the vastness of a county, it would take time for candidates to take the exams in each county, so they gave each county four months to complete the county-level exams.

In another three months, the exams for each state will be completed in early next year. Candidates from all over the country will gather in Shangjing Guozijian in April next year to complete the final selection.

Some of these people will enter various departments in the court, such as the Sixth Ministry, Dali Temple, Guozijian, etc.

Most of them will be sent to local areas, either to be in charge of local farming, to develop production, or to co-organize government schools and so on.

Of course, the matter of running an official school has also been pushed to the end of the palace examination next year.

The reason why Qin Ao took so much trouble to first hold an exam across the country was not only to replenish the fresh blood in the officialdom and find available talents for the new dynasty, but also to let the new generation of officials adopt the land equalization system, the business-oriented system, and the official school Do it well in various places and do it stably.

Official schools were established by the state, and their purpose was naturally to train talents for Dajing.

To establish a government school in Dajing, which has a vast territory and a large population, money is a problem, but it is not the most important problem.

The most important question is how they can cultivate the "talent" that Dajing needs.

It has to be said that this matter was inspired by the Chen family's establishment of ethnology in Runan last year to the new emperor.

The ethnology of the Chen family included elementary schooling for young children, and then in addition to continuing to study Confucian classics, there were also schools specializing in teaching various skills, as well as a women's school specially set up for women.

In this way, within ten years, the descendants of the Chen family will not only be proficient in Confucianism, suitable for managing one side, but also proficient in law, calculation, engineering, martial arts and other skills.

At that time, why should the Chen clan not be prosperous?

Similarly, their Dajing did not need to cultivate so many generalists, most of them needed people who were gifted and extremely good at certain aspects.

The court hall is that big, and there are nearly a thousand officials, big and small, but except for the big court meeting once every half a month, there are no more than a hundred people who are eligible to appear in the daily small court meeting.

Not to mention those important ministers who can enter His Majesty's royal study and become a "little court".

Qin Ao temporarily handed over the matter of running the official school to the Imperial College, and asked them to draw up a charter before the end of the year.

Before that, Guozijian will also assist the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials to set the content of the official selection examination, so as to select the talents needed for running official schools in the future.

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in the evening,
When Eunuch Kang saw that His Majesty finally had some free time, he remembered what Mr. Jing Huai had mentioned to him this morning.

He took the tea from the little eunuch and passed it over.

"Your Majesty, Eunuch Jing was sent by the Imperial Concubine Yihuang earlier to ask, you have been enthroned for almost a month, what are the rules for the noble masters of the Eastern Palace, and the empress is a little undecided..."

Qin Ao rubbed his sour brows, and was at a loss for a moment when he heard the words:
"What charter?"

Whether it's his own regulations or asking someone to issue them recently, his ears have become callused.

Eunuch Kang reminded: "It's just the two side concubines, and a few other young masters, what do you think?"

Eunuch Kang is like a bright mirror in his heart.

His Majesty had already forgotten about these people in his heart, and he couldn't remember them anymore when he got busy.

The Lord is confinement, and His Majesty didn't even take the time to take a look, so how can he control other people?
Qin Ao sat there silent for a while, and asked, "Is Yanxi Palace ready?"

Counting it, she will give birth in a few days.

Similarly, it will be her birthday in a few days.

Eunuch Kang can really answer those words, he just went to Yanxi Palace this morning!

It is said that the inner mansion received the word from Zhong Cuigong that the Yanxi Palace was a bit of a violation of the regulations as the imperial concubine's bedroom.

Everything that the inner government does is according to His Majesty's orders, and if it violates the rules or not, doesn't it depend on His Majesty?

If His Majesty said no, then there would be no.

In the end, the Empress Dowager suddenly intervened, and the people in the inner palace didn't dare to say anything, so they could only quietly send someone to find Mr. Kang.

When Eunuch Kang went there later, he also saw Aunt Linglong, who was adopted as a righteous daughter by the empress dowager and was recently begging His Majesty for the position of princess.

Aunt Linglong was very powerful, she never mentioned the Empress Dowager, she only said that the Yanxi Palace was somewhat against the rules as the residence of imperial concubines, she just pointed it out out of kindness.

Eunuch Kang did not hesitate to concede, and said with a smile that this was His Majesty's intention, and the ancestral system did not stipulate the regulations for the royal concubine's bedroom. If Aunt Linglong felt that there was something wrong, she would just go and speak to His Majesty.

The ancestral system does not stipulate how to build a palace for the slightly special status of imperial concubine, but it is always lower than the queen's bedroom.

Apart from Zhongcui Palace, Yanxi Palace, which is closest to Taiji Hall, was once indeed inferior to Zhongcui Palace.

But that was once.

Now that the palace has been renovated, the layout inside is comparable to that of Zhongcui Palace.

It stands to reason that the gates of the Yanxi Palace were closed during the renovation period, and the people around the Empress Dowager shouldn't have known what was going on inside, but Aunt Linglong "coincidentally" found out.

When Eunuch Kang was young, he suffered a lot with His Royal Highness, half of which was given by the Empress Dowager, and the other half was given by the Wang family.

In fact, he even has a grudge against our empress dowager.

So he had no intention of hiding anything, and told His Majesty about his going to Yanxi Palace today.

"Aunt Linglong is worthy of being someone that the empress dowager values. She is really delicate. There is nothing big or small in the Palace of Yanxi Palace that she doesn't know."

Eunuch Kang's application of eye medicine can be said to be aboveboard.

Qin Ao frowned.

His wife and children are his bottom line.

He couldn't put them in a harem with as many minds as a sieve.

"Did the Supreme Emperor tell me when they will leave the palace?"

Eunuch Kang replied: "The Supreme Emperor means to leave after the little prince is full moon."

The original is not a few days.

But Eunuch Kang watched coldly, the Empress Dowager didn't have the slightest intention of leaving.

At the beginning, His Majesty was benevolent and filial, thinking that the Supreme Emperor and the Empress Dowager were going to leave anyway, so he thought about it and didn't let them move to the palace immediately.

He thought that after they left, the inner government would take care of the matter and renovate Zhongcui Palace and Qiyang Palace.

As a result, the Empress Dowager didn't know which tendon was wrong. Seeing that the little prince's full moon was only a few days away, not only did she never mention the matter of moving to the palace, she didn't even pack up her luggage at all.

He looked like he was afraid that others would stay in Zhongcui Palace.

Fortunately, His Majesty did not intend to give the Zhongcui Palace to the imperial concubine, but to renovate the vacant Yanxi Palace.

Eunuch Kang was thinking in his heart that the Supreme Emperor wanted to wait for the little prince to leave after the full moon, so there is still something to talk about!
few days...

Qin Ao stood up and said:

"Tomorrow, find two people to impeach the Queen Mother, let her move out of the Zhongcui Palace, and that bell, and find an excuse to deny the Queen Mother's intentions."

He just saw that the Queen Mother was not young, otherwise he wouldn't have reminded her in such a gentle way.

"Also, you should say hello to the inner palace first, and ask them to give you a copy of the roster of palace personnel who have been in the palace for more than ten years, and you can give it to Chenxi."

As for what to do with it, it is natural to investigate the ancestors for eighteen generations, and all the unclean ones will be cleared out directly.

Eunuch Kang is happy in his heart, but on the surface he still wants to be a good eunuch who advises the king:
"Your Majesty... the impeachment of the Empress Dowager, isn't it..."

Qin Ao gave him a cool look: "Why? Don't want to? Then forget it!"

Eunuch Kang:! ! !

"The servant obeys the order, the servant will do it immediately!"

As soon as Eunuch Kang finished speaking, he turned around and walked outside, for fear that His Majesty would regret it.

That posture, as if there is a vicious dog chasing him behind his buttocks.

After a while, Eunuch Kang came back again.

"Your Majesty... I just remembered, the girl next to the Empress Dowager is not called Bell, but Linglong."

Qin Ao: ...

Fortunately, Qin Ao didn't have a big sword at hand.