Chapter 442 The Confused Queen Mother is Confused

The mist and rain were hazy, and the new green of the city was shrouded in a layer of mist, and the raindrops wetted the land.

The Imperial Academy was an important place for the imperial examinations, guarded by soldiers and guards, and all the students gathered here.

After entering the venue, each person was led by a guard into a compartment: five feet long, four feet wide, and eight feet high. There

was a desk cushion, a pen brought by the examinee, and three candles distributed to each person, nothing else.

Jiang Zhiyu, with his hands behind his back, looked back and forth.

It wasn't that they were checking cheat sheets. Before entering the tribute hall, everyone had to be searched. They had to be clean and frank during the search. Moreover, the people who searched were all servants of the Xu family, so there would be no mistakes. What

she was mainly looking for was the third place winner who had haunted the empress dowager and even told him about the rebellion plan.

Everyone is curious, and she also wanted to see how handsome the third place winner was.

Halfway through the walk, Jiang Zhiyu found the person.

He was wearing a green robe, with long hair like ink draped over his shoulders. He held a brush in his hand, pursed his lips slightly, and seemed to feel the gaze, so he raised his head.

The cinnabar mole between his eyebrows was bright and eye-catching, his eyes were like water, his lips were red, and his teeth were white.

He looked at Jiang Zhiyu, nodded slightly, and continued to write quickly.

He has a good appearance and a cool temperament.

No wonder the empress dowager was so confused by him.

Jiang Zhiyu glanced at his test paper. His handwriting was neat and his name was as his name suggested, Ji Qing.

Having satisfied her curiosity, Jiang Zhiyu walked back to her seat leisurely.

When Jiang Zhiyu rested at night, He Yanting would watch over her. When

Jiang Zhiyu was around, no one dared to do anything, let alone now that He Yanting was around. Everyone

was counting the time tremblingly.

After three days, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Next, they would wait for the Ministry of Rites to finish reading the papers and copy the names, and then they could announce the results.

Jiang Zhiyu was not confident in the people from the Ministry of Rites, so she replaced them all with people from the Hanlin Academy.

Firstly, she had warned these people, and even if they had evil intentions, they were only individual individuals. If she really did something, she could uproot them.

Secondly, although some of them got in through the backdoor, most of them had passed the imperial examinations, and they could more or less understand the difficulties of these students, and would be more meticulous in their work.

The Minister of Rites was quite dissatisfied with this, and a memorial was submitted the next day.

His fourth son Gao Yan was once the same as Lu Daizong. After banning Lu Daizong's qualifications for the imperial examinations, the emperor issued another decree, banning Gao Yan's qualifications for the imperial examinations.

As soon as the decree was issued, Gao Yan's life was ruined. He spent all day lingering in Qingfeng Pavilion, and the Minister of Rites no longer cared about him.

The news that his eldest son Gao Zilun ran naked in the street naturally reached the emperor's ears. The Minister of Rites even went to the Dali Temple several times because of this matter.

The emperor looked at the memorial presented to him, then looked at the Minister of Rites who was speaking passionately below, and sighed faintly.

Was he blind at the time? How did he choose the Minister of Rites? !

"Stop."

The emperor was troubled by his nagging, rubbing his eyebrows and said: "I have handed over the matter to Zhiyu. What she wants to do is her business, and she is responsible if something goes wrong. In other words, she has also reduced your work pressure. Such a good thing, you still come to report her?"

Is this person stupid? !

"What do you mean by work pressure?" The Minister of Rites frowned.

Perhaps because he has been with Jiang Zhiyu for a long time in the past few days, the emperor's words have been assimilated by her.

The emperor was stunned when the minister pointed this out to him. It took him a long time to say, "It's a burden. If you don't have to read the papers and copy the names, wouldn't the Ministry of Rites be happy to have some free time?"

The minister threw his sleeves and said,

"We are officials to serve His Majesty and share His Majesty's worries. How can we be greedy for leisure!" The emperor just felt a little relieved when he heard the minister say, "Please ask Your Majesty to issue an order to let us take charge of this matter again." The emperor

pondered for a moment and came to his senses. What he said just now was good, but why did he have to make it difficult on this matter?

There were other cases of overstepping one's authority before, but the minister of rites had never written a memorial to him.

Thinking of this, the emperor's eyes suddenly turned cold.

"Why do you have to be so hard on this matter? I think the Hanlin Academy has already read half of it. Now sending only the Ministry of Rites again is just a waste of time. If you really want to share my worries, you might as well prepare for the Qionglin Banquet after the palace examination."

Hearing the words "you have to be hard on this matter," the old face of the Minister of Rites turned pale, and cold sweat slid down his temples.

He hesitated to say yes, and did not dare to stay any longer, and walked away quickly.

Seeing him like this, the emperor snorted coldly, raised his hand and threw the memorial he presented on the table down: "An eyesore!"

Obviously he was not talking about the memorial, Fuping quickly bent down, picked up the memorial, and put it in the hands of the eunuch beside him.

When he went back, the emperor's anger had subsided a little: "Fortunately, Zhiyu is smart and changed people. If it really fell into the hands of this old man, I can imagine what kind of situation my Tianqi officialdom would fall into in the future!"

Fuping hurriedly followed his words and flattered him.

...

On the other side, the Minister of Rites left the palace, returned to the mansion and hurriedly wrote a letter, and sent someone to deliver it to the Sixth Prince's Mansion.

Xiao Yanli looked at the letter and remained silent.

"Your Highness, this..."

The subordinate next to him whispered.

"It doesn't matter, I expected that he would not succeed, so let's wait for the one in the palace." "

But that person has no status in the harem, so he can't help."

If Shang Anlan had become the queen, maybe she could still be of some use in this matter, but now she is just a concubine and can't even leave the palace.

"Who told you it was her? Besides, she is not my person."

"Your Highness, are there others?"

Xiao Yanli looked at him with a smile, but did not answer.

The subordinate immediately realized that he had said too much, and quickly stopped talking, looking at the nose and the heart.

Xiao Yanli then retracted his gaze.

In theory, the person in the palace should have received the news.

...

In the palace, Chao En's eyes flashed with the light of the candle.

He stared at the letter in his hand for a long time before he put it on the candle and let the flame engulf it.

He sat there in a daze, thinking about what had happened in the past few days.

When he was thrown into the lake, he really thought he was going to die, but with God's blessing, he came back to life.

It's just that there is an extra memory in his mind.

In the memory, it was the Sixth Prince who ascended the throne, and he was standing next to the Sixth Prince.

He didn't believe it at first, thinking that he had hysteria, but when the Sixth Prince contacted him secretly, he realized how terrible the Sixth Prince was. He

pretended to be crazy and stupid for several years, and when he was still young, he was able to open the Drunken Moon Cage in the capital, and it still stands today.

He also buried a lot of hidden clues.

If Jiang Zhiyu had not interfered several times, the emperor would have valued the Sixth Prince the most.

He actually had no intention of switching to the Sixth Prince before. After all, the emperor was valuing him, allowing him to get close to the Queen Mother and make meritorious contributions, and replace Fu Ping as the new chief eunuch. Step by step, everything was moving in a good direction.

But why did he suddenly return to the starting point?