Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 686 Who to send?
Glancing at the ornaments on the beautiful woman's head again, Du Jinning hurriedly saluted: "Minister Du Jinning, please greet the Empress Dowager and Princess Lu."

Empress Dowager Zheng saw Du Jinning's unusually handsome face, her beautiful eyes shone slightly, and she said calmly, "Let's get flat."

Du Jinning stood up, stepped aside, and made way for Queen Mother Zheng and her daughter.

The people in the room heard the commotion outside, and Eunuch Wu rushed out to greet him: "The Empress Dowager, Your Highness the Eldest Princess."

Empress Dowager Zheng nodded slightly, walked in, and said to Zhao Yu: "The Ai family heard that the eunuch said that you forgot to eat at noon, so they came over to have a look, what's going on."

Zhao He looked at the hourglass in the room, only to realize that it was already past noon, and it was already time to go to the Yamen in the afternoon.

It was almost noon in the morning, and he wanted to know Du Jinning's thoughts, so he didn't pay attention to the time, and announced Du Jinning's arrival.We were talking about it just now, and even forgot about it.

When he was discussing important matters with his ministers, the eunuchs did not dare to interrupt him rashly.Usually at noon, he would go to have dinner with his mother. If he didn't go at this time, the queen mother would naturally ask. Seeing that it was too late, she couldn't help but come to remind her.

He said with a smile: "In the future, if this happens, the Queen Mother will send a court lady and eunuch to say it. There is no need to come here in person."

As he spoke, he said to the little eunuch next to him: "See if Master Du has left, and if he hasn't left, leave him and have dinner together."

The little eunuch hurried out, and saw the young and handsome Lord Du standing there with a bitter face, and Princess Lu talking excitedly.

The queen mother in the house also realized that her daughter who was following behind her had disappeared.

The minister Qi Bokun is still here, the queen mother should have saved face for her daughter.But thinking about her daughter's virtue, she couldn't help saying to the maid: "Go and call the eldest princess in."

Outside the hall, Du Jinning was already hungry, Zhao Wen asked her to go back, she thought she could go back to have lunch, but Zhao Mingyue stopped her and kept asking her about the follow-up plot of "Chang Tian Ji".

Is she hungry?For the sake of urgency, she had breakfast at five o'clock in the morning.Looking at the sky now, I'm afraid it will be two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

"I'm asking you something, why don't you speak?" Seeing that she was the only one talking, but Du Jinning didn't answer a single word, Zhao Mingyue suddenly became unhappy.

Just as Du Jinning was about to speak, there was a loud "grunt" sound from his stomach.

The two were taken aback for a moment, and Zhao Mingyue burst out laughing.

At this time, the little eunuch came in a timely manner to convey Zhao Yu's will.

The maid sent by Queen Mother Zheng also followed: "Princess, the Queen Mother calls you into the palace."

In fact, Du Jinning was very reluctant to go back and have dinner with Zhao Yu, because she was afraid of indigestion.But the emperor dared not disobey the will.She had no choice but to agree, and seeing Zhao Mingyue going into the hall, she slowly followed behind and entered the hall together.

Seeing Zhao Mingyue and Du Jinning walking in one after the other, the Empress Dowager Zheng's expression turned a little ugly, and she said to Zhao Yu: "Your Majesty, you are welcome to eat, Mingyue and I will go back." She said without looking at Zhao He Mingyue glanced at her, turned around and left.

Zhao Mingyue also knew why her mother was upset, she bit her lip, looked up at Du Jinning, turned around and left with her mother.

Seeing the powerful Empress Dowager Zheng leave, followed by the annoying Zhao Mingyue, Du Jinning secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao He said that they were eating together, but in fact they were not. Instead, Qi Bokun and Du Jinning were given some food to eat in a side hall, while he himself ate alone.After all, he is the emperor, in order to prevent others from being poisoned, the rules of eating are relatively strict, so it is not suitable to eat with his courtiers.

Seeing this, Du Jinning breathed a sigh of relief.

Back at the Imperial Academy, I saw Qi Muyuan pacing back and forth in the room anxiously.Seeing her coming back, she rushed up and asked, "Why is it so long?" Then asked, "Have you eaten yet? I've saved the food from the canteen for you. If you want to eat, I'll heat it up for you." .”

After hearing the news, Wei Tong who followed in listened, and said with a smile, "I never thought Mr. Qi would be considerate."

Du Jinning glanced at Wei Tong and Yao Rongguan who came out of the room, smiled and said to Qi Muyuan: "I haven't eaten yet, I'll do it myself."

Then he asked Wei Tong: "Does Master Wei have something to explain?"

Naturally, Wei Tong came to inquire about the news.

Seeing Du Jinning's eagerness to go back to the house for dinner, he didn't want to make a long speech, he just said: "Master Deng asked someone to ask, what is the emperor's intention?"

Du Jinning shook his head and said: "The emperor knew that I wrote "Chang Tian Ji", so he was very interested, so he asked more questions. After asking, he told me to step down, and he didn't say anything about it."

She smiled: "Even if the emperor has any orders, I won't let me bring them. I will definitely send eunuchs to give orders to Lord Chengzhi."

Wei Tong smiled sheepishly: "In that case, I won't disturb Master Du's meal, I'll go ahead." Then he turned and left.

Du Jinning ignored Yao Rongguan and went into Qi Muyuan's room: "Where is the rice? I'll heat it up." Seeing that Yao Rongguan didn't follow, she whispered to Qi Muyuan, "I ate with your grandfather in front of the hall. "

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In the main hall, after Du Jinning left, Qi Bokun was called to the study by Zhao Wen. Zhao Wen asked, "If I want to send someone to Guangdong to take charge of business affairs, who do you think Master Qi should send?"

Qi Bokun understood Zhao He's meaning as soon as he heard it, and asked, "The emperor wants to send Du Jinning over?"

Zhao He nodded: "He put forward and perfected these suggestions. Although Du Jinning is young, he has quick thinking and broad vision. You have praised him before for his outstanding ability. I think he is the one who is sent to take care of this matter. .”

Qi Bokun did not speak.

He knew that Zhao He hadn't finished speaking.

Sure enough, Zhao Wei went on to say: "But he has only been in the Imperial Academy for a few days, and he has not yet been trained and experienced. I am reluctant to send him to a foreign post like this."

Du Jinning's talent is so outstanding, he wants to train Du Jinning as a minister of Honggu stock.Just letting it out like this, he worried that Du Jinning would be criticized when he entered the cabinet in the future.

"Furthermore, he has no political achievements at all. I can't give any reason to convince the ministers to suddenly release him and promote him by one or two ranks."

Qi Bokun also disapproved of Du Jinning letting go of his post.

Du Jinning is a junior he is very optimistic about. He hopes that Du Jinning can enter the cabinet and assist Zhao Huo to govern the Song Dynasty better after he delivered his speech.

He thought for a while and said, "Actually, I have a very good candidate."

"Oh, who is it?" Zhao Wei asked.

"Guan Lehe."

"Guan Lehe?" Zhao Mo frowned and thought about it.

There are too many ministers in the court.Like Guan Lehe, who is qualified to go to the court, but stands at the end and has no sense of presence. Zhao Hu has no impression of him at all.

　Going back to the question raised by book friends in the previous chapter: "New Book of Tang" No. 20, the second volume records: "In the first year of Xianheng (670), he sent an envoy to He Ping to Goryeo. Later, he learned Xia Yin a little bit, hated the Japanese name, and changed his name to Japan. The emissary said to himself, because it was published recently, he thought it was famous." That is to say, Japan had changed its country name to Japan long before Wu Zetian ascended the throne.Those who read the materials before writing, otherwise dare not write randomly.

　　
　
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