Emperor Mingxi immediately realized that Qin Zhi must be extraordinary, so he deliberately stopped beside Qin Zhi's desk, looked around, pretending to inspect the whole place.
Xia Miaoyuan took the opportunity to continue looking at the title of Qin Zhi's scroll, and saw that it said, Qin Zhi, a native of Yuzhou.
[Yuzhou Qinzhi, I remember this person! ]
He's in the book. I remember him as being well-educated, handsome, and of good character.
[What's rare is that he remained loyal to Daxia. After Grand Tutor Jiang attempted to usurp the throne, he preferred to abandon his official career and become a teacher in his hometown rather than take the imperial examination and serve the traitor.]
【Later, Liang Chaozong recruited talents and recruited him.】
Initially, Qin Zhi was unwilling to work for Liang Chaozong, but Liang Chaozong eventually lied to him, saying that he was trying to drive out the traitors and return the country to Daxia.
Qin Zhi was kind-hearted, yet he was deceived by Liang Chaozong.
When Xia Zhengqi heard this, he was startled.
Unexpectedly, the plot was reversed in this life. With the addition of the special examination, Qin Zhi actually passed the palace examination. This is truly rare.
I hope he can pass the exam this time and stay in the imperial court as an official.
Xia Zhengqi silently repeated in his mind several times: Yuzhou Qinzhi.
Okay, he remembered this name and would definitely keep this person in mind when marking the papers.
Xia Zhengqi continued to patrol the area with his daughter in his arms.
Xia Miaoyuan discovered another talent in the book: Xu Jingan.
Xu Jing'an is the son of the magistrate of Wuping County, near the capital.
Although I come from a family of officials, I don't have any of the bad habits of officials' children.
He was very diligent and hardworking. Moreover, having followed his father in office since childhood and having watched him solve cases many times, he became quite interested in the criminal justice system.
He had read numerous books on criminal justice and case investigation, and before he was twenty, he had already mastered the art, even leading yamen runners in solving cases.
[It can be said that he is simply a criminal investigation genius chosen by God. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the reincarnation of Di Renjie.]
Xia Zhengqi nodded slowly: Okay, he also remembered this Xu Jingan.
After finally enduring two hours, the palace examination finally ended.
The candidates lined up and walked out of the hall in an orderly manner.
The eunuchs in charge of miscellaneous tasks collected the papers on the table one by one, sorted them out, and handed them to the examiners.
Just as several examiners were holding the test papers, bowing to Xia Zhengqi and preparing to leave.
Xia Zhengqi suddenly said, "Please keep the papers for this year's palace examination. I will read them first and then give them to you."
When the examiners heard this, they were stunned.
Because according to convention, the examiners would first read all the papers from beginning to end, eliminate the top three candidates, and then select dozens of the most outstanding ones and submit them to the emperor.
The emperor selected the top three from the first class and the top ten from the second class from these papers.
The four deputy examiners looked at each other and then looked at the chief examiner, Lord Yan.
Lord Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "Since the emperor wants to read it first, we will leave the paper with him."
Although Yan Wenjing was somewhat surprised by the emperor's proposal, he believed that Emperor Mingxi must have his reasons for doing so.
When the four deputy examiners heard that the chief examiner agreed, they suppressed their confusion and did as they were told.
Immediately afterwards, Xia Zhengqi set up two rooms in the Qianqing Palace as temporary examination rooms and assigned more people to guard them day and night.
He also ordered that during the examination period, no one was allowed to enter the Qianqing Palace unless summoned.
In the following days, Xia Zhengqi lived and ate in the Qianqing Palace, and even brought his daughter to accompany him to review the papers.
I told others that it was too boring to mark the papers alone.
Only the Crown Prince and the Queen understood him. They brought Xia Miaoyuan with them to review the papers because they were worried about missing out on talented people.
However, this made things difficult for Xia Miaoyuan.
For several days in a row, he followed Emperor Mingxi to the Qianqing Palace to review papers from morning to night, and he was not allowed to bring pets with him.
Because Emperor Mingxi was afraid that his little Juzi and Maomao would be naughty and chew the test papers.
On the fifth day of marking the papers, Xia Miaoyuan could no longer bear it.
"Father, I want to go out and play!" Xia Miaoyuan tugged at the corner of Emperor Mingxi's robe and begged.
"Miao'er, be good and wait a little longer." Xia Zhengqi comforted her.
"I want to go out and play! I don't want to be here! Ahhhhhhhh!" Xia Miaoyuan wiped her tears.
"Miao'er, please be patient. Your Majesty will only finish looking at a few papers left." Xia Zhengqi held his daughter in his arms and showed her the rest of his papers.
He even flipped through the papers to show Xia Miaoyuan the names of the candidates.
"Miao'er, do you think any of these papers are good?" Xia Zhengqi asked softly.
"I don't understand!" Xia Miaoyuan pouted and turned his face away.
Xia Zhengqi smiled helplessly and ordered Debao to send the little princess back to Kunning Palace first.
Before Xia Miaoyuan left, Xia Zhengqi tried to comfort her, saying, "Miao'er, go back to Kunning Palace first. I'll come find you after your father has finished reading these papers in half an hour."
As soon as Xia Miaoyuan returned to Kunning Palace, he was like a pony running wild.
After being intimate with the queen for a while, Xia Miaoyuan picked up Xiaojuzi and wanted to take Maomao out to play.
It just so happened that the Fifth Prince came to play with her.
"Miao'er, Fifth Brother hasn't seen you for several days. Are you bored living in the Emperor's Palace of Heavenly Purity?" The Fifth Prince asked with concern.
Xia Miaoyuan said in a baby voice, "Living in the Palace of Heavenly Purity is so boring. It's not fun at all."
The brother and sister chatted and laughed, and took Maomao and Xiaojuzi to visit the Imperial Garden together.
Xia Miaoyuan was riding on Maomao, looking very leisurely.
At this time, Maomao was almost grown up and was already very tall. Xia Miaoyuan's small body was just right for riding on Maomao.
The fifth prince helped Xia Miaoyuan hold Maomao's leash to prevent it from running around.
When the two siblings reached a corner of a palace road, suddenly, the voices of two palace maids came over.
"That Miss Rong Er is so beautiful!"
"Yes, how could Concubine Rong's niece not be beautiful?"
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