The General is Pregnant: His Majesty Abstinence and Sexual Devotion Every Night

Chapter 18 Martial Arts Examination

The young general, whose smile was as bright and unrestrained as the morning sun, was looking at him with a smile.

Qi Yunjin couldn't help but feel a little moved, but he still made the decision.

Just give in!

In this case, Ji Rang, who inexplicably became the chief examiner and was often ridiculed by some officials in the court, just glanced at Gu Junqing with a gentle smile in the corners of his eyes.

After the court session, Gu Junqing did not leave the palace immediately, but continued to stay in the palace. After all, he still had that damn position of captain.

So he hurried into the palace.

As a result, nothing major happened throughout the day, except that in the evening, the Shen family's carriage appeared at the palace gate. Gu Junqing recognized it as the carriage that belonged to Duke Shen.

She saw the carriage slowly stop at the palace gate, and then the curtain was drawn open. Duke Shen got out of the carriage, looked at her, and after a simple greeting, he took the guards and servants to the imperial study, as if he wanted to discuss something with the emperor.

Gu Junqing frowned, and was still wondering what Duke Shen was up to until he returned home.

Could it be because of today’s imperial examination?

He did come to see the emperor because of today's imperial examination.

Duke Shen looked at the new emperor sitting upright in the chair. He put his hands together and did not look at the neatly stacked memorials on the desk. He just looked at the teacup in his hand casually, and blew on it from time to time, as if waiting for his next words.

Duke Shen lowered his eyes, saluted slowly, and then said slowly:

"Your Majesty, the chief examiner for today has been decided. Ji Zuoxiang is very talented and has both civil and military skills. He is indeed very good. However, the questions in the imperial examination are complicated and I am worried that Ji Zuoxiang will not be able to cope with it and will inevitably be too overworked. Therefore, according to previous years, someone must be there to assist him."

Of course Qi Yunjin knew this. When he saw Duke Shen not saying a word this morning, he intuitively felt that he was definitely not as indifferent as he appeared to be, and would definitely find time to have a serious discussion with him.

Tampering with the imperial examination, wouldn't this be done during the reign of the previous emperor? After the last imperial examination, many Shen faction forces appeared in the court, but at that time the previous emperor believed in Duke Shen and felt that he would be very relieved to have him as the chief examiner, but now.

Qi Yunjin was loyal in his heart, but his face remained unchanged, as if he was casual, as if he trusted Lord Shen, and said in a gentle tone:

"Of course I know, but there are so many scholars with both good character and good learning in the court now, I am overwhelmed by the choices. Could you please recommend someone to assist Ji Zuoxiang, Duke Shen?"

Duke Shen is also an old fox, and he knows that serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. Who knows what kind of storm this seemingly gentle and natural conversation will turn into in the next second. He smiled, his smile was warm and elegant: "I dare not speak nonsense, but there must be only a few people in the court who are truly talented in literature."

He didn't say who it was, but Qi Yunjin knew that there were only a few people, and those people were either from Shen's party or other princes of Prince An. His own people had already been arranged to other positions in the imperial examination. Now, in addition to Ji Rang becoming the chief examiner, the person who assisted him must be someone he trusted, not a member of aristocratic family or party. Now it only looks calm, but in fact the division of power is becoming more and more fierce and they will do anything to maintain the power in their hands. They know it very well.

He nodded: "What the Duke said does make sense. There are only a few truly talented people in the court."

It seemed that he had a candidate in mind, but he didn't say it out loud. Seeing him like this, Duke Shen thought that his hint had worked, and the smile on his face looked even more sincere.

After all, most of the officials in the court have been recruited by his Shen family. Except for those stubborn and inflexible people who remain neutral, there is nothing to worry about. Duke Shen does not believe that the emperor can recruit those stubborn and noble people as his own people. After all, no matter how he threatens and tempts them, they remain indifferent.

Since the hint was successful, it would not be appropriate to stay here any longer, so he said a few polite words to the emperor and tested him a few more times without showing any emotion. After all, the emperor had just ascended the throne not long ago, so how could he be compared with an old fox like himself? After testing him a few times, he was immediately convinced that the people in the emperor's heart were the people around him.

He left the palace contentedly and returned to his own home.

Qi Yunjin smiled lazily while sitting on the chair, his peach blossom eyes reflected by the candlelight looked even deeper.

He pretended not to know about Duke Shen's temptation and deliberately made his words vague. People in the court occasionally have similarities, or it is impossible that there are only a few of them serving in the same place.

Ah.

As for Da Qi, the provincial and county examinations were held a few years ago, and now they will all be completed in a few days, and the local Juren and Jieyuan will be selected, waiting for these Juren scholars to go to Beijing to continue taking the examinations. Even so, the imperial examinations will still take several months. Now that the candidates have been selected early, there will be plenty of time to study the examination questions. This year's examination questions are exactly the same as in previous years, concerning the Four Books and Five Classics, and the topics of the policy questions are also Confucianism, and the main points of Da Qi's current politics.

A few days later, the provincial and prefectural examinations in various places were completed, and many scholars went to Beijing to take the exams. On the other hand, the military examination was put on the agenda and started the next day.

In her previous life, she was the chief examiner of the military examination. After all, in today's Da Qi, General Weiyuan is like a god of war in the eyes of the people, so naturally he can attract many people to take the military examination.

Of course it was the same after rebirth, but because a lot of officials had been demoted recently, even some military generals had been implicated, but most of them were from the aristocratic families. So the deputy examiner in the previous life who always found fault with him and gave easy scores to the martial arts students during the martial arts exams has now been replaced by a different person.

It was Cao Anshan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War who had just been promoted by Qi Yunjin. Since it was an open-air competition and the martial arts exam only took two hours, they simply set up the competition platform, with a few long tables and wooden chairs at the top, a few snacks and tea on the table, and nothing else.

Such simplicity and sloppiness was naturally because the Great Qi Dynasty valued civil officials over military officials, and civil officials in the court always considered themselves superior and looked down on military officials like her, thinking that they were not refined, elegant, and noble enough.

Most military generals also looked down on civil officials, thinking that they were nothing special, weak and vulnerable, and some were even treacherous and despicable.

The military officers disliked the civil officials for being timid and weak, while the civil officials disdained the military officers for being vulgar and casual, and their manners were not refined and noble.

No one can stand anyone else, and this is an insurmountable gap and an unsolvable problem in Da Qi and in history.

Gu Junqing couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Outside the venue, there were many people who came to join in the fun, including parents or brothers and sisters of the examinees. They all had rosy faces and smiled excitedly and curiously, making the place very lively. There was still an hour before the exam officially started, but the martial arts examinees were pacing around the venue from time to time or pumping their fists to cheer.

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