marquis of jingan

Chapter 85

After Fan Shilang and his nephew left the academy, Shen Yi followed Master Lu's instructions and honestly hid in the academy for a few days.

After all, he didn't want to have any confrontation with a servant from the Six Departments right now, and if he saw Shilang Fan at this moment, he would definitely kneel and kowtow to him.

Shen Yi didn't want to kowtow to the Fan family.

After Shen Yi stayed in the academy for five or six days, Fan Shilang, who went back to his hometown to visit his relatives for a few days, finally left for the capital.

In this era, due to the inconvenient transportation, most officials return to their hometowns to visit relatives, and the time is calculated on a monthly basis. Some will spend several months or even half a year in their hometown before returning to Beijing to work.

But Fan Shilang did not stay in Jiangdu for long.

Or he couldn't stay in Jiangdu for long.

Firstly, it was because Jiangdu was too close to the capital, and he could come back anytime, but more importantly, the imperial court was at a critical juncture!

After the last time Yang Xiangguo publicly wrote "retirement", the young emperor has slowly started to take over the government.

One emperor and one courtier.

The reason for this saying is that whether it is the imperial court, the yamen, or even local academies and shops, if the new boss wants to speak with weight and use his words after taking office, the first thing to do is to appoint cronies.

At this time, it is necessary to be nepotism.

Only cronyism can take over the "company" in the shortest time, from the nominal leader to the actual leader.

The emperor is no exception.

Since the little emperor wants to take over the government, the first thing he has to do is to replace a group of ministers, and then promote a group of ministers.

In this way, the court will become a new dynasty.

And at this juncture, a relatively young servant like Fan Shilang has the best chance of being pulled up by the little emperor. In fact, since the last time the little emperor sprayed Yang Xiangguo at the court meeting, it has been a few months now Here, there are already many big Chen "turned from turtles to eagles" in the court hall.

Among them, Fan Shilang was included.

Fan Shilang didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would be able to pull him to the position of six ministers or some kind of prime minister in one go. With his qualifications as a servant for just three years, it was not realistic either.

As long as His Majesty the Emperor can pull him from the Ministry of Punishment to the upper three departments, that is, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households, and still be a servant, he will be satisfied.

As for the Ministry of War...

Fan Shilang didn't even think about it.

Da Chen's Ministry of War is a very sensitive government office. When doing things in the Ministry of War, one has to walk on thin ice. If one accidentally offends the emperor, one will lose his head.

At this time full of opportunities, Fan Shilang naturally couldn't vacation in Jiangdu. Although he hadn't returned to his hometown in Jiangdu for several years, he only stayed for five days before going to work in the capital.

Fan Shilang left, and Shen Yi also heaved a sigh of relief.

He knew in his heart that as long as he avoided Fan Shilang, Fan Chu, who was a dignified sixth minister, would disdain to do anything to him in secret.

But it is worth mentioning that on the day Fan Shilang left, Shen Yi received a letter.

A letter from Fan Dongcheng.

The content of the letter was not complicated, the general idea was to make fun of Shen Yi who studied hard and didn't even have a scholarly reputation, yet he was already going to Jiankang Guozijian to be a supervisor.

The subtext is that no matter how much Shen Yi thumps, he will always be trampled under his feet.

Some of Da Chen’s Guozijian students are descendants of princes and nobles and scholar-bureaucrats, called Yinjian, and some are Gongjian, which means that outstanding "problem writers" will be sent to Guozijian for special training.

In addition, there are various kinds of prisons, regular prisons, etc., which are full of conflicts of interests, and it is difficult to say clearly in three sentences.

Guozijian students can go through the normal scientific examination process, and there will be some special channels to become officials. Anyway, after entering the Guozijian, theoretically speaking, the future must be much greater than that of "children" like Shen Yi.

For this childish provocative letter, Shen only glanced at it before throwing it into the brazier.

To look more often is an insult to his IQ.

Now that the Fan family's uncle and nephew have left Jiangdu, Shen Yi does not need to pay attention to the Fan family's affairs for the time being, but focuses on the upcoming government examination.

Because the county examination is held twice every three years, the time is not fixed. The time of the examination is announced by the academic officials one month in advance. However, before the date is decided, the county government still needs to communicate with the government office. It's better to be after the government test.

Generally speaking, it is the magistrate who first sets the time for the government test, and then distributes it to the counties below. After the county government gets the time for the government test, it will then book the time for the county test.

In previous years, the county examination and government examination were usually held from spring to the turn of spring and summer, but Chen Fuzun loved autumn so much that he set the government examination in late autumn and October, so the county examination in Jiangdu had to be completed in September.

This year's Jiangdu Prefecture Examination is scheduled for October 29th. It is said that Chen Fuzun asked someone to calculate the auspicious day of the zodiac, and it is very auspicious for the exam.

For this government test, Chen Fuzun still attaches great importance to it.

Because this is his first government examination since he arrived in Jiangdu.

He came to Jiangdu last year. Although he has been here for more than a year, when he arrived in Jiangdu last year, Jiangdu's government examination had been completed, and Chen Fuzun did not catch up with the presidency of last year's government examination.

And this year because of the food price issue, Chen Fuzun has been fined by the court. This time, the government examination must be done beautifully, so as to earn some political achievements for himself.

The so-called beautiful management naturally refers to the number of students admitted in the Jiangdu Prefecture Examination, and the number of scholars who passed the examination.

The large number of scholars shows that the local parents and officials have "educated the merits".

The time is approaching day by day, and in a blink of an eye, ten days have passed since the county examination, and only 20 days are left before the government examination.

But Shen Yi, who had been studying in the academy for more than ten days, felt a little excited at this moment.

Because... Tomorrow the County Examination is going to happen!

Although he was a man in two lifetimes, and even though he was quite sure about the county examination, Shen Yi still felt a little uncontrollable excitement at the moment when the examination results were about to be announced.

For a whole day, he couldn't read any books.

In the afternoon, Shen Yi put down the "Journal of Annotations" handed to him by Master Lu, and after speaking a few words with his younger brother Shen Heng, he wandered around the academy with his hands behind his back.

Just after walking around for a couple of times, I saw the students of Ganquan Academy gathered together in twos and threes, chatting about something.

Shen Yi was a little curious, and happened to see a "classmate", so he stepped forward and asked, "Senior Brother Cheng, what happened?"

This senior, surnamed Cheng, is in his early 20s. He has passed the scientific examination twice and passed both the county and government examinations, but he got stuck in the college examination both times.

Senior Brother Cheng looked at Shen Yi, a little curious: "Junior Brother Shen doesn't know?"

Shen Yi shook his head.

"In the past few days, Mr. Qin arranged three policy theories, and gave a few collections of essays. Some of them still have to be memorized. I am dizzy after memorizing. I really don't know what happened in the academy."

"Young brother is really hardworking."

Senior Brother Cheng smiled, and said: "The students of our academy who participated in the county examination this year, after I saw the county examination, they were all playing around. I am afraid that after the case is discovered, those who have passed the county examination will study hard. Coming to Junior Brother Shen, he is already confident enough to pass the county examination."

"How can there be any certainty."

Shen Yi smiled modestly: "Anyway, it's not a bad thing to read more books. By the way, brother, what happened?"

"It's not a big deal."

Senior Brother Cheng said: "This morning, Yan Mingli from our school bumped into Mr. Xie from the academy, and it is said that he alarmed the head of the mountain. The head of the mountain was very angry and wanted to expel Yan Mingli from the academy."

Having said that, he sighed.

"Although Yan Mingli doesn't pay much attention, he is from our school after all. Mr. Qin is pleading with the head of the mountain."

(End of this chapter)