The whole family of villains criticized her wildly, but the princess treated her with medical treatm

"Hmph, it's unseemly to say anything. I'm afraid that children from poor families and common people will become officials, squeezing out the official positions of children from outside the family."

Mu Tingxue bluntly exposed it.

"This is true."

Xiao Wangzhi took out a document from his sleeve and handed it over, "This year, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Personnel, there are a total of fifty-six new officials, of which forty-five are from famous families, and eleven are bought with money. Officials, and among these forty-five people, ten of them are all named Li."

Lord Jing, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, is Shi Ta's father, the chief minister of the eldest princess's palace.

Twenty or thirty years ago, it was Xiao Wangzhi who promoted him.

Therefore, it was very easy for him to get the detailed information on the appointment and dismissal of the imperial officials. He just opened his mouth.

"This message says that these people were elected to the office through filial piety and integrity."

Mu Tingxue found it ridiculous, "It's such a coincidence that the recommended people who are filial and honest happen to come from famous families. Are all other ordinary people in the world unfilial and corrupt?"

Xiao Wangzhi raised his eyebrows: "Whether you are filial or not, whether you are honest or not, who is filial and who is honest, it is not the recommenders like them who have the final say."

Mu Tingxue flipped through the information and said, "According to the rules, Xiaolian should be over forty years old. Who are these recommendations? The eighteen-year-old seventh-rank minister Zuo, the twenty-one-year-old Shi Yushi , there are even sixteen-year-olds who are from the sixth rank of Dali Temple, and from the fifth rank of Yundu Sima?!"

It’s really shameless.

At the age of sixteen, they entered Dali Temple and became sixth- and fifth-grade officials. Just because they were born into a good family, their surnames were Li, Lu, Yang, Wang, and Yan...

Why isn't Yunhuang finished yet?

The imperial official system has been so corrupt for two hundred and sixty years. It is really blessed by gods.

How many people in Chinese history have worked hard to take the imperial examination for decades, and only passed the examination when they were thirty or forty years old. Very few of them were able to take the imperial examination. After working hard all their lives, they only got tickets to the officialdom and were assigned an eight-year-old. A junior official of the ninth rank starts to work hard for qualifications and political achievements, but he may not be able to reach the fifth rank until he dies.

"Your Highness, calm down."

Xiao Wangzhi said sternly, "This has been a long-standing shortcoming. It cannot be changed overnight. It can only be reformed slowly based on the original foundation."

Mu Tingxue knew very well that taking too big a step would result in all the efforts made before the meeting being wasted, so she nodded and said, "Then take your time and find a way to get the cabinet to pass the proposal to open the imperial examination."

"Shizhong Yang's attitude is ambiguous and he has no comment."

Xiao Wangzhi frowned slightly, "Probably still waiting and watching, not nodding immediately. After all, opening the imperial examination will harm the interests of the family."

Mu Tingxue was thinking that Old Man Yang's negative attitude was basically equal to opposition.

Because Old Man Yang has always been a good guy and nodded to everything.

Not nodding or shaking his head is equivalent to shaking his head.

"Yan Youxiang encountered an unexpected incident again and was ill at home to recuperate. Yan Nanye, the minister Zuocheng, could only handle some daily government affairs on his father's behalf, but he did not have the power to veto cabinet votes on his behalf."

"So, you only have one vote for this imperial examination proposal?"

"Yes."

"You don't have to worry about Prime Minister Yan, I will convince him." Mu Tingxue stopped the work, "When he recovers a little and is able to get out of bed and walk, I will ask him to go to the cabinet. I signed the proposal to open the imperial examination."

"That's great, that's two votes."

Xiao Wangzhi looked at her, "Li Gong has a grudge against you, so there's no need to bother. He also set up poisonous schemes to frame Huang Zhu, and I didn't even bother to win him over."

In other words.

The most critical third vote belongs to Yang Shizhong.

Mu Tingxue thought for a while and said, "My relationship with the Yang family is pretty good."

Xiao Wangzhi smiled helplessly and said: "Just having a good relationship is not enough. Opening the imperial examination is very important, it will seriously shake the foundation of the family and hinder the descendants of their family from entering the officialdom. They will not nod easily. Unless -"

"Unless what?"

"Unless it's for profit, we're really tied to the same boat!"

Xiao Wang meant something and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Just like the indestructible relationship between Your Highness and the Regent, Yan will spare no effort to implement any of your opinions."

Mu Tingxue's heart skipped a beat.

She heard what Mr. Xiao meant.

"You mean to make the Yang family our in-laws?"

"Your Highness has two young masters. The young prince, who is only five or six years old, is the regent. He will inherit the Yan family in the future. Mr. Wuya will take your surname as Xie. If you can achieve great things in the future, Mr. Wuya, in comparison, It’s more orthodox.”

Xiao Wangzhi analyzed, "I heard that Shizhong Yang has a granddaughter who is from the direct line of the eldest son. When the Zhou Zhou Banquet was held, Your Highness and the Regent came to congratulate her in person and gave Miss Yang the name Yang Tongyue."

Mu Tingxue's head exploded.

No way, no way, no way...

Mr. Xiao's suggestion was that her son should marry the Yang family's youngest daughter? !

As a modern woman in the 21st century, she is still a bit unable to use her biological son to marry, consolidate interests, and win over power...

"Ze Bao and Ya Bao are still young, so they will have to talk about marriage in at least ten years."

Mu Tingxue quietly wiped away the cold sweat.

Seeing that she was reluctant, Xiao Wangzhi said: "Since ancient times, let alone royal marriages, it is the marriage of children of aristocratic families. Who can be independent? Most of them are parents' orders and matchmakers' words. Families marry each other. for the common good.”

Mu Tingxue said: "What if the child doesn't like it? Aren't the parents doing something bad?"

"At a young age, you can slowly develop feelings. When you get married in the future, it will not be difficult to bring the case together."

Xiao Wangzhi gave another idea.

Mu Tingxue asked back: "If we arrange a baby marriage for Jin Yu now and use her to win over the forces in the DPRK, would you be willing, Mr. Xiao?"

Xiao Wangzhi fell silent for a moment.

His whole family was beheaded, and tens of thousands of his relatives died.

A cousin's little granddaughter was lucky enough to survive. She lived among the people as a beggar for seven years and endured countless hardships. How could he, the grandfather, have the heart to use that child as a bargaining chip in the transaction?

"This veteran is confused. Please punish me, Your Highness."

Xiao Wangzhi bowed deeply and bowed his hands.

To express what he said before, if he didn’t say it, Your Royal Highness, Princess, just think that an old minister has just farted.

Mu Tingxue thought about it again and again, and decided not to use her son's marriage as a bargaining chip, but came up with another plan: "Yang Lin also has a grandson who is six years old. Let him come over and be my fellow disciples, Zebao and Yabao. ."

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November 31st.

The wedding ceremony of the eldest princess and the regent was held in Yundu.

The wedding was different from usual and very strange.

The eldest princess did not "come out of the palace" and leave from the eldest princess's palace, with ten miles of red makeup and a mighty wedding procession heading to the regent's palace, but the other way around.

As the eldest princess's consort, the regent "married" into the eldest princess's mansion.