Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1468, Anxious Jiao Fang
The Ministry of Rites, Jiao Fang, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, was walking back and forth anxiously.

His only son, Jiao Huangzhong, was taking the imperial examination, so he, as a father, naturally seemed very anxious.

He dotes on his son Jiao Huangzhong very much. Even though Jiao Huangzhong is ignorant and arrogant, he still places great hopes on Jiao Huangzhong and gives him a lot of support.

Jiao Fang in history, because he colluded with the eunuch Liu Jin, was a member of the eunuch party. Therefore, after Zhu Houzhao became emperor, he was promoted very quickly.

Later, because of a quarrel with Liu Jin, and because of his advanced age, he had to resign and return to his hometown.

But because of Liu Jin, Emperor Hongzhi's intestinal carbuncle was cured, and his body was very healthy, so Zhu Houzhao was still the prince, Liu Jin was still the prince's little follower, and Jiao Fang did not get promoted as fast as in history. Just the servant of the Ministry of Rites.

Jiao Fang was a very unscrupulous person in order to get promoted. When he was young, he came from a poor family and had no basis in the court. Even if he passed the Jinshi examination, it was not easy to get promoted.

So he went to recognize his fellow villagers. At that time, Li Xian, a university scholar, was from the same town as him, both from Henan. Jiao Fang tried her best to please Li Xian.

Li Xian naturally liked it very much, and then vigorously recommended Jiao Fang as a good scholar, and taught the editor of the Imperial Academy as a lecturer. Opportunity to rise to the top.

But once this person gained a firm foothold, he showed his villainous face again, and directly told people that Li Xian was no longer of use to him, and he wanted to find another backer, so he hugged Liu Jin's thigh again.

In order to be able to enter the cabinet, he often makes people impeach and attack Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Xie Qian in the cabinet, hoping that after they can be brought down, he will have a chance to join the cabinet.

It can be said that such a person will do anything to get promoted.

However, the situation is different now. Emperor Hongzhi is still in good health, and some things about him have been exposed. Therefore, the big bosses in the court don't like him, and the position of Minister of Rites is almost the pinnacle of his life. .

But for his son, he still had high hopes and tried his best to pave the way for his son.

If he wants to be successful in the officialdom of Ming Dynasty, at least he needs to get a good name in the imperial examination.

Second-A Jinshi is the minimum. If you are in the third-A, you will be at the point of Zhizhou for the rest of your life. It is absolutely impossible to get here at the top.

It is best to be at the front of the second class. If you are at the back, you can only be a county magistrate or something. If you are younger, you can arrange it. Now that you are older, it will not be easy to pave the way in the future. .

Therefore, it is best to be able to enter the first class, preferably the number one scholar. In this way, it will be easy to get mixed up in the Ming Dynasty.

The champions of the previous imperial examinations were all promoted very quickly, like Wang Shouren's father, Wang Hua, who is now a third-rank official, and Xie Qian, who is the champion, is already a cabinet elder. Looking at Liu Jin, he is only ten. In [-] years, he is now the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and he is waiting for the elders of the three cabinets to retire and join the cabinet.

If you are admitted to the No. [-] Scholar, even if you don't have too many contacts, you can still be promoted quickly.

So Jiao Fang really wanted her son Jiao Huangzhong to be the number one scholar in the imperial examination.

To become the number one scholar, the first step is naturally to pass the general examination, and it is best to get good results in the general examination, and then get the number one scholar hand-picked by Emperor Hongzhi in the palace examination.

So now that his son is taking the exam, he is also anxiously waiting, especially since today's exam is still about policy questions, he has no intention of working and is waiting for news.

"There's news, there's news~"

"The target of the policy this time is today's Ming Dynasty!"

While waiting anxiously, the messenger hurriedly came to the Ministry of Rites and shouted.

"Today's Daming?"

When Jiao Fang heard this, she was immediately dumbfounded.

It is really unexpected that Liu Jin came up with a question.

But soon, Jiao Fang couldn't help but curse out.

His son Jiao Huangzhong was ignorant, he didn't have much knowledge, and he was domineering, arrogant and fierce, and Jiao Fang exhausted all kinds of methods to be admitted to Juren.

Now that he is going to take the exam, Liu Jin came up with such an exam question, which is a fatal blow to his son.

Can you expect an ignorant, arrogant, fierce, arrogant and domineering person to have any in-depth views and insights on the current situation in Daming?
Even though he has a father who is a servant of the Ministry of Rites, it is reasonable to say that he will have a deeper understanding of the current Ming Dynasty under the influence of his ears and eyes.

But Jiao Fang is very clear about her son's level and urgency. This time, he may fail the exam. He will fail the general exam and the palace exam. How can he become the number one scholar?

"Child Liu Jin~"

"Despicable and shameless, extremely obscene~"

"It's a dignified court ceremony of ethics and talent, which is extremely serious, but it's a random question, which kills people."

"If my son misses the mark, I will scold you bloody face to face."

Jiao Fang began to scold everywhere in front of many officials from the Ministry of Rites, thinking that if her son Jiao Huangzhong was not even a Jinshi, his official career would be bleak in the future, Jiao Fang was furious.

In history, Jiao Fang was extremely unhappy because of what happened in Jiao Huangzhong, and because Li Dongyang and Wang Jia put his son in the second class, so she often insulted and slandered Li Dongyang.

However, Li Dongyang is not as old as Jiao Fang. As a cabinet veteran, Li Dongyang is not very good at fighting with Jiao Fang directly, which also makes him more unscrupulous.

Now that he thought that his son might not even be able to win a Jinshi, he was so angry that he started to insult Liu Jin, and his words were extremely ugly.

Of course, insulting Liu Jin is not just because of this matter.

In fact, Jiao Fang used unscrupulous means in order to get promoted. He had always used unscrupulous means to smear, attack, and impeach those who were superior to him and did not like him. Impeach, slander, and insult the Shangshu and Ge Lao on the Internet.

Whether it is Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, or Xie Qian in the cabinet, he has attacked him a lot, especially Xie Qian, because Xie Qian suppressed a memorial to the imperial court he proposed, and he especially hates Xie Qian, so he treats Zhejiang people , Jiangxi people don't like it very much, and they have to curse every time they mention it.

Although Liu Jin was not an official from the south, Liu Jin was the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He was in charge of the Ministry of Officials and was a heavenly official. At the same time, Liu Jin was young and already ranked above himself in his early thirties.

This made Jiao Fang extremely envious and jealous, and wanted to replace Liu Jin, so she impeached and criticized Liu Jin a lot in the past, but now she is so angry that she directly curses.

Here in the Ministry of Rites, many officials looked at Jiao Fang, who was in a panic, and all of them were speechless. This Jiao Fang has always had a very bad mouth, and he likes to scold people, and anyone dares to scold. Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Zhang Mao , Wang Jia, etc., everyone has been scolded by him.

The same is true for Liu Jin. Liu Jin is just upright and has always been fair and honest. Jiao Fang once tried to hug Liu Jin's thigh, but Liu Jinniao didn't bother with him.

"Yawn~"

In the Tribute Court, Liu Jin, who was sitting on the examiner's seat, didn't know at this moment that the exam questions he gave had caused a huge disturbance in the capital. A large number of officials were writing memorials to impeach him, and some were scolding him.

Looking at the many students taking the exam, Liu Jin suddenly couldn't help but yawned, as if someone was scolding him.

Shaking his head slightly, after thinking about it, Liu Jin also casually began to patrol the tribute courtyard.

It's cold, and it's a little cold to sit all the time. Walk around more, and it's more comfortable to move around.

Time passed slowly, and soon the exams would be over. The students stretched their bodies and walked out of the Gongyuan with a whole body of fatigue. Officials, copy down the test papers one by one, and wait for the ministers in the court to review the papers.

As for Liu Jin, he also received news from all over the capital.

"The servant of the Ministry of Rites, Jiao Fang, insulted me?"

Liu Jin was not surprised by the news that someone wanted to impeach him. It was a surprise that no one impeached him. It was really normal for someone to impeach him.

But he didn't expect that Jiao Fang would be here in the Ministry of Rites, yelling at him in front of many officials of the Ministry of Rites, which made Liu Jin couldn't help but frown.

I recalled the records of Jiao Fang in history in my mind, and I also knew that Jiao Fang was small-hearted, narrow-minded, and unscrupulous in order to get promoted.

He must have insulted himself because his son Jiao Huangzhong was in the imperial examination this time, and he came up with random questions. It must be difficult for his son to write a good answer sheet. If he fails to pass the imperial examination, he must wait Three years, or go to the local government as a petty official.

"Jiao Fang~Your son must have passed the Jinshi~"

Liu Jin smiled immediately.

(End of this chapter)