It's time for a showdown, all the powerful officials in Beijing are my students!

Knowing that all the officials of the Ministry of Rites who participated in this year's Spring Festival had accidents, Cao Zhiqing was so angry at being disrupted by his son at the beginning, and now Cao Zhiqing is so grateful.

During the meal, it was rare to hold a chicken leg for Cao Peng himself.

Cao Peng, who was still spoiled by Mrs. Du, disliked him for not sharing chopsticks, picked them up and threw them under the table, and a cat that Mrs. Du loved ate them.

Being so disgusted by his son, one can imagine how exciting Cao Zhiqing's face is.

Thinking of the other son of his father who never came to the capital and never came to see him, Cao Zhiqing's expression became even more gloomy.

He already knew that his son had passed the examination, and he was also the No. 1 leader of Chunwei this year, which was much better than when he only got the last few places at the bottom of the list.

However, since Li Ziyu never came to see him, Cao Zhiqing knew that this evil boy hated him because of the past, so it would have been fine if he failed the exam.

But now...

There was a flash of light in Cao Zhiqing's eyes, and a smile of unknown meaning suddenly appeared.

*
An Xin received a belated congratulatory gift to Li Ziyu and the others from someone she had almost forgotten.

Although he was still pretending to be sick and unable to go out in person, he still sent Ling Yun by his side to bring six gifts.

Li Ziyu and Leng Xiangbai both knew that Kong Xun sent it, and they all accepted it silently. After all, they also had some affection for him at the literary conference last year.

There is also Zhu Shijing's aunt's husband's Chen Bo's house. Before he came to Beijing, he knew about his aunt's family.

However, the aunt was still thinking about his nephew, and when she learned that he passed the exam, she still sent a letter to a dowry nun who stayed in the mansion to send 1000 taels of silver.

When An Xin learned about it, she laughed and said that it's still true for her to give things away. If those who send things come to think about how many people will have a good career in the future, let's not talk about it.

With this awareness, she might not be able to resist the temptation to accept all the officials who made friends with them first.

Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing and Jiang Zhou couldn't help but smile slightly when they saw how rich their family Xiaoshan looked like.

Everyone knew that An Xin, who protected them like an old hen and chicks, would not easily accept congratulatory gifts from people who were obviously impure in order to prevent them from being used in the future.

This is also the reason why they can trust her with such trust in this matter that is said to be important or not, but if it is not handled properly, it will affect the official career of several people.

Even Li Ziyu and Leng Xiangbai felt that as long as An Xin was happy, their official career didn't seem to be that important, because of their abilities.

Regardless of whether Li Ziyu wanted to find a husband for thousands of miles but was abandoned, and was assassinated on the way back, in order to give birth to his mother who gave birth to him and died, she asked that man for the justice she deserved.

It's still Leng Xiangbai who wants to get rid of his selfish brother and sister-in-law's troubles.

They both have self-confidence, even if they don't take this career path, both of them have countless ways to achieve their wishes.

An Xin wrote a letter and put it together with the family letters of the other four, and sent it to the post station to be delivered by a courier.

However, such departments only dispatch official documents and letters from officials, and generally do not accept correspondence from ordinary people.

However, for people like Li Ziyu who have half a foot in the officialdom, as long as the messengers give them some extra benefits, the post station will send them a few letters from home by the way.

Not long after, Uncle An's husband and wife in Lin'an County, Zhu's family whose son and nephew went to Beijing for the exam, and Jiang Zhou's parents received letters.

Knowing that their children, who were looked down upon and secretly called useless in the past, will pass the exam, they are so excited that they almost want to take a heart-relief pill to slow down their beating hearts.

There was also Zhang Qiguang, who had been beheaded for selling private salt, and Uncle Jiang Zhou, who was acting as the county magistrate, after learning in Sun Zhi County that his nephew had passed the general examination.

Immediately wrote the official document Baofang Zhijin, let him remove the code as he wished, and was officially promoted to the second in command of Lin'an County.

Although there is only one level difference between the county magistrate and the chief secretary, they are both eighth or ninth rank officials at the bottom of the local yamen, but the difference of this level is worth the leap.

This position may be transferred away after the term of the magistrate of the county is over. If one's own ability is enough to make some achievements, it is not impossible to move up to another promotion after a round of operation.

From the initial acting county magistrate to the end of their promotion to officials in this way, they became an official county magistrate.

But this is just a possibility, and it doesn't have much to do with An Xin and the others now.

After a few people told the family the good news, the palace examination will soon be ushered in.

Here, Prime Minister Xiao has been extremely careful since he learned that his son, whom he has always valued, used his contacts to cheat in the exam.

He who didn't stand in line originally also had a tilted direction, but it wasn't the concubine Xian's mother and son who had been secretly trying to win him over, but someone else.

And it was because of an incident that made Prime Minister Xiao make this decision.

Xiao Wenrou, the only daughter of the prime minister's mansion, encountered a villain on the way to Shangxiang, and was rescued by a pair of passing masters and servants, but no one knew who was helping.

When the prime minister's daughter, who was frightened and seriously ill, woke up again, she looked at the antique room, where the objects were exquisite and elegant.

His eyes changed from initial confusion, surprise, disbelief, to joy.

*
In the glorious halls of the palace.

This day was filled with hundreds of students who were going to take this year's mid-term exam. Emperor Sheng'an personally set up the questions, and everyone went through a contest of rhetoric or practical arguments.

No matter what the answer was, when the time came, the paper was taken away by Gong Shi.

After the palace examination is over, the papers will be graded the next day, and the rankings will be released every day again.

Emperor Sheng'an picked up an answer sheet and nodded with a smile after reading it. The official who accompanied him to read the paper glanced at it with the corner of his eye, knowing what he knew.

Although they couldn't see the name and place of origin, the handwriting was still there.

The person who finally answered this paper, as expected, became the first person in this palace examination, commonly known as the number one scholar.

No.2 second place, Emperor Sheng'an hand-picked a student with a solid academic record who was over thirty years old.

Leng Xiangbai never imagined that his millennium second child would one day miss out on being appointed by the emperor as Tanhualang in this year's palace examination because of his fair age and fair appearance.

If the candidates do not make major mistakes, the results of the second list of the palace examination and the ranking of the general examination will not change much.

Zhu Shijing will try No.4 this time. I don't know if Emperor Sheng'an deliberately released the water, or if he really has that ability.

After the palace examination list came out, his ranking remained the same as it was during the general examination, except for the top three, the second place, and Tanhua.

He was firmly ranked first in the second list and became the legend of this session.

Jiang Zhou and An Rui are also in the top [-]. Only Liu Boxing, who loves martial arts more than literature, is outside the top [-].I don't know how many people passed the exam, but they will definitely not be reduced to the ranks of Jinshi.

Although the rankings of Li Ziyu and Leng Xiangbai were eye-catching, they were not the first to become popular.

Because there will be a group of No. [-] Scholar Tanhua Scholars in three years, but there are not many people who can teach No. [-] Scholar, Tanhua, Chuanlu and the other three Jinshi at the same time.

An Xin, who was raped by the princes, nobles, aristocratic families, and officials of all sizes in the capital, now wanted to see if there was a mouse hole in the house that she could slip into and hide in.