His Royal Highness, he is plotting against me

Early July.

Qin Xi went to Dongming Mountain with his brother after his mother celebrated her birthday.

Chen Fulin could only stay in the palace bitterly, staring at his youngest son.

"Oh, your mother, my life is really hard. Not only can't I go back to your grandparents' house this year, but I can't go with your brothers and sisters to escape the summer because of you brat..."

Less than two months old, Shishi couldn't understand his mother's words at all, but he could hear his mother's voice.

A pair of grape-like black eyes stared at the person in front of him without blinking, and spit bubbles from time to time.

"Well, very good, let me spit it out again..."

When His Majesty came back, she was so bored that she was talking to herself with a milk doll.

He shook his head amusedly: "I told you, I told you to leave him in the palace and go to Dongming Temple, but you won't go by yourself."

He even thought it would be okay to take this kid with him, boy, why is he so delicate.

And with Master Mingyuan around, the temple wouldn't mind if they brought an extra nanny or maid.

Master Mingyuan went to Tianzhu for a few years, and he just came back two months ago when he was enthroned.

Chen Fulin said, "Children can't be taken to the temple casually."

A two-month-old child can't even go out, let alone go so far?

It's better for the two children, Qin Xu and Qin Xi, to go away relaxed and happy.

Just envy.

Ugh!
Qin Ao was very dissatisfied to see that she was focusing on her youngest son again.

Stepping forward to pick him up, ignoring the astonished expression of the other party, he said seriously:
"It's getting late, Xiao Shitou has a nanny watching over him, so it's time for us to rest."

The two returned to the main hall and closed the door, and soon there was a "creaking" sound from the bed frame, as if they were fighting...

The bright moon is looming in the sky, I don't know if it is because of shyness and hiding.

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During the Spring Festival,

There is also good news from everywhere.

In addition to doubling the food production in various regions due to the cultivation of sweet potatoes, the pro-business policy has also greatly boosted the financial growth of various regions.

Examinations in counties and states have also been successfully completed, and it is only in the spring of the next year that outstanding students from all over the country will rush to Beijing to take the final entrance examination.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials, together with the Guozijian, are also making intensive preparations, striving to perfectly complete the first scientific examination after the new emperor's ascension to the throne.

At the first court meeting after the New Year, the Minister of the Household Department was even more joyful for the first time, facing various ministries asking for money and food, and no longer crying about the emptiness of the national treasury.

In the new year, everything seems to be booming.

But on the other side of the light, there is always darkness...

Just ten days before the palace examination was about to start, a young man with bruises all over his body passed out in front of the gate of Lord Qingzhuang's mansion in Dali Temple.

Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice are in charge of prisons, and people often come to the door to complain about injustice, so this is not surprising.

Everyone in Shangjing didn't care about this trivial matter at all.

But the next day it was just dawn,
Lord Qingzhuang of Dali Temple rushed into the palace to see His Majesty.

Dali Temple also sent people to a certain place in Yuzhou to find Mr. Xiaozhuang.

Imperial examination fraud.

After dawn, all darkness has nowhere to hide.

With His Majesty making no effort to hide it, all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty knew the news.

The key point is that the cheating is extraordinarily arrogant.

Due to the limited manpower of the Ministry of Rites, some of the people who were sent to the localities to deliver the test questions came directly from the Eastern and Western camps, and they were not easy to bribe like those soft-boned civil servants.

Everyone is upright, free from all evil, no matter it is money or beautiful women, they are unmoved.

However, the recommendation system has lasted for thousands of years, and many places are accustomed to passing on official positions from generation to generation.

For example, Lord Zhuang of Dali Temple, his son Lord Xiaozhuang was also recommended to Dali Temple because of his criminal reputation.

But the officials in Shangjing are better. Even if they are recommended, they must pass the joint assessment of the recommended department and the Ministry of Officials.

It is different in the local area, as long as the superior department issues a stamped document and submits it to the official department.

For example, if the governor of Runzhou wants to recommend his son, he only needs to submit a letter of recommendation from himself, as well as a certificate stamped by the governor's office of Jingzhou, and this person can be successfully recommended and hang up in the official department. name.

Of course, these recommended people are generally considered capable or famous, but it is hard to tell whether they are true or false.

But now His Majesty is going to change this system all of a sudden, and use the method of sub-subject examination to select officials, and many people of insight from the people will inevitably enter this circle of interest.

They have controlled this channel for many years, how could they easily back down?
Those who came to Beijing did not enter, and rumors of the civil scientific research spread so fast that they didn't even want to block the news.

So they came up with another way.

It is to directly replace the test papers of those exceptionally outstanding people with those close to him.

Although they were not the ones who set the questions, and they couldn't buy the answers, the local government was the one who graded the papers!

Who is allowed to go and who is not allowed to go, isn't it still up to them?

Qing Ming was such a victim.

After Mr. Zhuang left, he thought for many days, and finally took the county test.

He even won the first place, which caught the eyes of some people.

Then came the county test, the state test, and Qingming took the top spot firmly.

When she saw her name on the notice in front of the Governor's Mansion, Qing Ming, who had always been calm, couldn't help but smile.

According to the announcement, he went to the governor's mansion to collect the money to go to Beijing to participate in the palace examination, but unexpectedly, he was kicked out directly.

The people in the governor's mansion said that he was bluffing and tricking people into coming to the governor's mansion, and beat him severely.

Qing Ming, who was covered in injuries, handed over her guide before she could react, trying to prove her identity.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yin was snatched by the servants of the Governor's Mansion and torn to pieces.

Qing Ming was left half dead at the entrance of the alley, and lay there all night.

It was not until dawn that he struggled to open his eyes amidst the exclamations of passers-by.

Fortunately, the man just tore off his guide, and there were still some entanglements on his body.

Qing Ming tried to move, but found that he couldn't get up, so he asked his elder brother passing by to take him to the nearest clinic.

Qingming has been with Mr. Zhuang for many years, and his food and clothing are arranged by the mansion, so he has some monthly money in his hand, so he can go to Beijing even without the court's money.

However, he was not prepared to give up what he should have spent, but he did not expect to encounter such a thing.

Qingming couldn't figure it out.

He lay in the hospital for two days, and did not leave the hospital until he could stand up slowly.

He is not stupid, it is useless to go to the governor's mansion if he wants to find out the truth of the matter.

Qing Ming thought of someone.

They were students who had taken the same exam as him. As it happened, they were all from Runzhou.

Fortunately, in order to curry favor with him as the "top name", that person specially invited him to his house as a guest, but Qingming refused.

But he took note of the man's residence.