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Next, the president of the Hanlin Academy will make work arrangements for the new Hanlins after they join the company.

As an editor of the Hanlin Academy, Jia Cong's main responsibilities were to compile the Veritable Records, record the emperor's words and deeds, lecture on classics and history, and draft documents related to ceremonies.

Of course, Jia Cong is not the only editor in the entire Hanlin Academy.

Not only was the top scorer in each subject a compiler, but even the second and third place winners had to wait for several years.

One can also be promoted from editor in the Hanlin Academy to compiler in the Hanlin Academy.

Therefore, Jia Cong was a new editor in the Hanlin Academy and had just started working.

It is certainly impossible to arrange a job for him immediately.

It will take at least a few months for him to become familiar with the job and learn it before we can assign him some relatively simple work.

This process of familiarity and learning may even take several years.

The subsequent arrangements made by Liu, the president of the Hanlin Academy, also confirmed this.

Next, Jia Cong’s job was to read the imperial edicts and other documents collected in the Hanlin Academy.

However, what made Jia Cong and other newly promoted Hanlin scholars curious was that the two editors, Banghuang and Tanhua, were actually assigned to participate in the compilation of history books.

Compiling history books sounds like a very boring and unprofitable job.

And in fact - that is true.

However, these two people were only newly promoted editors of the Hanlin Academy. Allowing them to participate in the compilation of history right after they came in could be considered a great use of them.

Once it is repaired, it will be a political achievement for both of them.

However, the dean ignored the editor who was the top scorer in the imperial examination and instead reused the editors who were the second and third place winners.

This is enough to explain many problems.

Dean, this is to suppress Jia Cong and promote the runner-up and third place winners of this subject!

This is going to be fun to watch.

I have to say that this disciple of Prime Minister Kou is really miserable.

But there is nothing that can be done about it, since Dean Liu is an official from Qin Xiang's faction.

Moreover, this number one scholar who won the top prize six times in a row also offended a veteran Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy, the Hanlin Attendant Reader Mei Hanlin.

The reason was that Mei Hanlin's son was originally engaged to the eldest daughter of the second branch of the Xue family, so the second branch of the Xue family brought their daughter to Beijing to prepare for the marriage.

However, because Mei Hanlin was promoted to the position of attendant reader in the Hanlin Academy, he began to dislike the identity of the second daughter of the Xue family as a businessman.

So she called off the engagement, but unexpectedly, the second branch of the Xue family married their legitimate daughter to the new number one scholar as a concubine.

If this isn't a slap in Mei Hanlin's face, then what is?
This newly crowned number one scholar offended the president of the Hanlin Academy and a reader there successively, which was really miserable.

I’m afraid that within three to five years, there will be no chance of making any progress.

Even if Prime Minister Kou came, there would be nothing he could do about it.

He could only wait until he had stayed in the Hanlin Academy for six years before leaving the academy and either go to serve as an official in a local area or be transferred to one of the six ministries to serve as an official.

Anyway, he has no chance of turning things around in the Hanlin Academy.

However, Jia Cong didn't take it too seriously.

Jia Cong had actually anticipated that he would be coldly treated after entering the Hanlin Academy.

Prime Minister Kou also gave him a shot of prevention in advance.

Therefore, Jia Cong was not angry or disappointed, and even felt like laughing.

Because Emperor Yonglong had promised to let him be in charge of the proofreading and publication of the Daxia Monthly.

I'm afraid the decree will be issued in the next few days.

Jia Cong really wanted to know how the president of the Hanlin Academy and other onlookers would react when the time came.

Thinking of this, Jia Cong couldn't help but smile.

Jia Cong's reaction was beyond the expectations of the Hanlin Academy's fellow scholars.

They really had not expected that this young man, who was not even twenty years old, would be the new top scholar with six consecutive wins.

Suffering such humiliation, he was not angry or depressed, but was able to take it calmly. In terms of this skill of nourishing Qi, more than half of the people in the entire Hanlin Academy could not match him.

However, no matter how good he is at cultivating his Qi, he still cannot change his current situation!

Next, Jia Cong came to his duty room - an office he shared with several other colleagues.

With his current rank, he is not worthy of having a separate office.

Jia Cong spent the whole morning fetching some documents from past years and reading them carefully.

This made his colleagues in the same room admire Jia Cong even more.

After lunch in the afternoon, an imperial edict suddenly came down.

The Hanlin Academy was responsible for drafting imperial edicts.

Therefore, seeing the imperial edict was a very common thing and no one took it to heart.

However, when they heard that this imperial edict was actually issued to this year's new top scholar Jia Cong, they couldn't help but become curious.

They really couldn't imagine why the current emperor would issue an edict to this top scholar.

It can't be that it is to promote this top scholar, right?
He has only been working for one day, it's impossible that he was really promoted, right?

Amidst everyone's confusion, they accompanied Jia Cong and received the imperial edict.

It turned out that this imperial edict was that the emperor was planning to establish a monthly newspaper in Daxia.

The emperor actually gave this task to the newly crowned top scholar Jia Cong and asked him to be in charge of this matter.

He was also allowed to select ten people from the Hanlin Academy to assist him in editing the Daxia Daily.

This imperial edict stunned everyone else in the Hanlin Academy.

Especially the President of the Hanlin Academy, Liu Hongsheng, and the Imperial Reader of the Hanlin Academy, Mei Hanlin, their heads were buzzing.

They had just teamed up to trick Jia Cong this morning and gave him a warning.

Unexpectedly, the imperial edict arrived in the afternoon.

Aren't you going to assign a job to this top scholar?

It doesn’t matter, I’ll assign him a task!

This decree seemed to be specifically designed to slap them in the face!
Dean Liu and Hanlin Mei are not afraid of offending Prime Minister Kou.

Because behind them, Qin Xiang was also standing.

But this time, they are most likely to offend the emperor.

This made the two of them feel uneasy, and they both secretly tried to figure out the emperor's intentions.

I keep wondering why His Majesty issued this imperial decree?

What they care about most is why they didn't hear any movement in advance?
They had no idea that His Majesty was going to establish the Daxia Monthly Newspaper.

They don't even know what the Daxia Monthly Report is.

This in itself is a very strange thing.

While they were in a trance, the imperial edict had already been read.

After Jia Cong received the imperial edict, the imperial edict officer said, "Jia Xiuzhuan, the emperor has ordered that after Jia Xiuzhuan has selected the personnel, he should come to the palace to meet the emperor."

Jia Cong hurriedly said, "Yes, I obey your order!"

Next, Liu Hongsheng, the president of the Hanlin Academy, had to come over hypocritically to congratulate Jia Cong.

Since the dean came to congratulate, it was natural for others to follow suit.

Jia Cong smiled and returned the greetings one by one.

After everyone left, Jia Cong began to select his own team.

The Daxia Monthly Report was actually founded by the Daxia court, and Jia Cong was only the chief editor.

He could seek help from the ladies in the Grand View Garden, but in reality, the real employees in name only should be found in the Hanlin Academy. (End of this chapter)