Beiyang new warlord

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Responding to the tone of Mr. Dong's order, Liu Botao was submissive again, but before he finished speaking, Dong Shiyun was already arrogant and did not turn his head back.

Once again, something in my heart was stabbed fiercely, and he helped the thick diorama glasses heavily, gritted his teeth, and Liu Botao followed in.

After crossing the Jinshui Bridge, the majestic Qianqing Palace came into view. Rows of neat seats were placed in front of the Qianqing Palace. In all directions, the Liaozhen riflemen surrounded the examination site like a wall. After a full lap, Liu Botao's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up a bit.

Chapter 6 and One. The Prince Regent's Student

When candidates and scholars entered the arena one by one, Mao Jue was frowning in the former director of ceremonies that had been converted into Tianxia Hall.

A message from Boss Luo Ningluo.

Following Dongjiang these years, whether it is the sugar business in Yiwu or the overseas business in Hangzhou, the Luo family has made a lot of money. In the past, many people urged Luo Ning to get married, but now, Luo Ning is 24-[-]. This era is definitely Overage leftover girls, in the past, there were old members of the Luo family who were gossiping and wanted to marry Luo Ning and vacate the position of patriarch earlier, but now there is not even a voice, and there are even other big families who want to propose marriage, these The elders of the family have to try their best to evade it.

Everyone knows that the head of the Luo family is having an affair with a certain dignitary in Liaodong, and it is Luo Ning's face that the various branches are now clamoring to distribute the money back.

It is precisely because of the interests, the Luo family, as Liaodong's staunch ally in the south of the Yangtze River, also paid back to Liaodong in every detail. This letter is like this. He actually inquired about the news of the six core departments in Nanjing.

Not good news though.

Just like in history, Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang who held an ice fist in the succession to the throne, finally had the last laugh. He contacted eunuch Lu Jiude, Huang Degong, the general soldier of Luzhou, Gao Jie, the general soldier of Huaisi, and Liu Liangzuo, the general soldier of Xuzhou, and took the lead in supporting those who fled south. Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, forcibly sent troops to each other to send Zhu Yousong to Nanjing to proclaim himself emperor when the Donglin Party was in full swing to support the virtuous and support Lu.

When Mao Jue entered Beijing last month, Nanming was officially established.

Then there is the division of spoils. Because Ma Shiying won the first place, he got the biggest victory. The scholar of Kadong Pavilion, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the right deputy are the censors. Moreover, he has not given up the real power of the Governor of Fengyang, so he has the right to have soldiers. , the power is in the hands of the government and the opposition.

Moreover, Ruan Dacheng, the former Eunuch faction, who had been unemployed at home, was also supported by him, and became the Minister of the Household Department.

However, Donglin is also powerful enough to support Shi Kefa, the former Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing who was inclined towards Donglin. Liu Zongzhou is the inspector Zuodu Yushi. According to Gao Hongtu, a cabinet minister of Donglin, Zhang Shenyan's statement is to try to let "gentlemen" occupy important positions, so as to create a new atmosphere for the new dynasty.

As for being a gentleman?They Donglin Fushe said that whoever is a gentleman is a gentleman.

There will be an extra split regime that is equal to itself.Although the news was not good, Mao Jue was mentally prepared. It had been more than four months since the fall of the capital, and many bureaucrats had fled to Nanming.

The problem is that the Donglin Party did not have an absolute advantage in supporting it, and the pure sense of innocence actually came to him again, Uncle Mao. I don’t know who took Mao Jue back to the capital, and the news of defeating Li Zicheng was sent back. When Jiangnan went, a group of Donglin Party members who had just lost a hand cheered happily. For several days, Donglin people enthusiastically wrote letters to accuse them like a salmon going upstream.

That's right! It's just to ask the crime! Blame Mao Jue for the crime of protecting the capital's disadvantages! Impeach him to cut his prince, and at the same time order him to send troops south immediately to welcome Emperor Hongguang to go north to return to the old capital.

The military envoy who questioned the crime had already set off on the road with Qing Fang.

When he saw the news for the first time, Mao Jue's first impression was whether the bureaucrats in Jiangnan had their heads caught in the door. Not only him, but also the other ministers looked at each other in blank dismay.

"The prince is here, but King Fu dares to preside over and proclaim himself emperor. It's a great treason! Please punish him!"

After all, he is still a traditional bureaucrat, and he is extremely fancy about his name. The first person who was furious was Hong Chengchou, Ge Laozi! You are orthodox in the imperial court, where is Laozi, the minister of the Ministry of war?A black face flushed with anger, he cupped his fists and arched his hands heavily towards Mao Jue.

"This is not in a hurry!"

Mao Jue was clear-headed. Conquering the south of the Yangtze River was different from conquering the Japanese. He didn't just rush and run away, so he needed a huge amount of military supplies to send southward. Before the construction of the Xulei Railway was completed, he had no rush to send troops to the south of the Yangtze River.

In layman's terms, you can't just go up and beat someone up if a big idiot scolds you, wouldn't that bring your IQ to the same level as the big idiot?

It's just that this name must never be given up. After rejecting Hong Chengchou's suggestion, his eyes fell on Song Xiance again.

"How about Prince Yongwang?"

"Back to the Regent, the three princes, Prince Yong, have not changed anything. They have been living with the old man. Since the news has always been kept secret, not many people know about it. It's just that Lu Zhong tried to control a few people several times, but they were all caught by the old man. blocked!"

"Wait for the imperial examination to be completed, and the ministries are full of talents. It's time to increase their exposure. After all, this king is still a son-in-law, the prince's regent, and this big banner has to be carried on."

"However, if someone posts the crown prince too close"

Mao Jue didn't say the rest, but the pupils of the important ministers and generals showed an extra chill, after all, Lao Mao's family is worth the world now!

After a delay, Mao Jue's figure finally appeared in front of the main hall of Qianqing Palace after a group of scholars had already taken their positions for a long time. This time he was in a grand robe of a dragon king, and his scarlet crown was reflected in the sunlight , looked extraordinarily mighty.

Now there are eunuchs in Dongjiang, and there are quite a few eunuchs in the palace who are willing to use them. However, Mao Jue really doesn't like these disabled people who are as perverted as women, so another tall and strong Liao Wang Qinwei was carried out, and Mao Li slammed his fist hard on his crotch. With tears and vibrato, the guard yelled like a tenor.

"The Prince Regent is here!"

"Meet the Regent Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose!"

Liu Botao immediately turned over on the edge of the chair and knelt down, kowtowing his head unceasingly. However, when he peeked to the side, he couldn't help but sweat on his back. Dong Shiyun, his frivolous young master, sat upright on the chair without moving. , didn't mean to salute at all.

Fortunately, he wasn't the only one sitting upright, even standing up, maybe he was trying to get Mao Jue's attention with his frivolity, or he just had ulterior motives to mess things up. There are at least 200 of these rude scholars. It's not eye-catching that Dong Shiyun is mixed in.

The news from the south today is bad enough, compared to Mao Jue, he didn't care too much. Since he was selected from the scholars in the previous Ming Dynasty, he had already prepared the bastard mung bean mixed with it. Mentally prepared, I didn't see these people at all, and started to preach on my own.

"The first emperor was killed, the capital was in a catastrophe, and now my Ming Dynasty is in the midst of a thousand wastes waiting to be rebuilt. I am overjoyed to have so many talented and talented people joining us!"

"I hope you will be diligent, work hard in this examination room, and show what you have learned! In the future, I will serve the imperial court, and this king will regard you as disciples and disciples to protect the country together!"

This title has to be determined first, it is the official that Lao Tzu Mao Jue gave you, and you have to know who you should be loyal to!

"Thank you King Regent for your generosity!"

A babysitter has been arranged among the candidates. As soon as Mao Jue finished speaking, the scholar who had been arranged before knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily. Well, the voice had been suppressed under the din, and there was no chance to make trouble. When the thank you sound stopped, Mao Jue had already gone nowhere.

Taking a sneak peek at his young master Dong Shiyun sitting on the table all the time, although he didn't salute, but at least he didn't cause any trouble, Liu Botao finally heaved a sigh of relief, as the invigilator shouted, he sat back between the seats again, helped him Holding on to the Western glasses, waiting for the arrival of the examination paper.

However, as the soldiers holding the baskets of examination papers handed out the examination questions like picture scrolls, just as the examination papers were opened, Liu Botao couldn't help but froze there.

He has participated in the imperial examination for more than ten times, and at the end of the examination, he was really helpless and unable to support himself, so he had no choice but to give up. He went to become a master. All the previous examinations were in the Gongyuan, where each examinee had a single room and prepared his own pen and ink to answer the questions. In three days, I made a beautiful article. The form of this side-by-side exam is already extraordinary. I never expected that this exam question is also so special. Instead of taking the test of the Four Books and Five Classics, it is the most troublesome question for future generations of students. All kinds of application questions are arranged one by one.

Just the first question made Liu Botao raise his eyebrows. This question was directly excerpted from the official document of Liaozhen, and asked the examinee to answer. If he was the chief officer, how should he implement the requirements in the official document.

In particular, there are a few words filled in under the test question, which is limited to [-] words!

Looking further down, the questions at the bottom are either arguments or calculations, like how to collect money and grain, balance income and expenditure, and how to settle cases in some legal tests.The content of the Four Books and Five Classics is not absent, and it only occupies one-third, and each question is followed by a strict word count requirement.

This stunned the scholars of the Ming Dynasty who were used to long speeches, and there were so many surprises and sighs at the same time.

But amidst the discussion, Liu Botao suddenly picked up his pen and answered quickly.When Dong Qichang was appointed as the county magistrate of Huzhou, he was a teacher, and he almost took care of these trivial government affairs by himself. After the initial astonishment, the problem in front of him was tailor-made for him, a knife and pen master!

I don't know when he lost all his heavy royal clothes. Wearing casual clothes, Mao Jue walked around to the back of the examination room. Although he didn't have much hope for these native scholars of Ming Dynasty, but seeing more than 6000 people, more than 4000 were all Holding a pen and staring at the test paper, Mao Jue still couldn't help shaking his head in disappointment, and was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly turned around in surprise and amazement.

An examinee who was writing quickly to answer the question turned around as if he felt something, and today he flirted with the majestic king regent, and he threw a big wink at him.

"It's really a mixed bag! Even women are here!"

Looking at a familiar figure, but thinking about the unfamiliar one, Mao Jue couldn't help shaking his head helplessly.

Chapter 6. The Trouble of Charm

Liao Zhen is simply a reckless man, impatient in everything! It should have been three days for the scholars to comfortably prepare a beautiful article, but it was over in half a day, so that many scholars who are used to taking things slowly are beating the gong I didn't finish answering when I closed the paper.

There are so many questions, even a teacher like Liu Botao can barely finish writing, the ink is still slightly wet, but for other scholars, this test paper is a torment, but for him it is simply a kind of enjoyment. The test questions are simply a summary of his years of work.