Shen Yuyao slept until noon.
Zi Su has come to see the python costume several times.
Seeing Shen Yuyao wake up at this time, he hurried to help her wash and dress.
"Zi Su, has the little princess woken up?"
Shen Yuyao asked Zi Su while tying the Luan belt.
"She hasn't woken up yet. The little princess is exhausted after moving here from the palace yesterday."
Shisu answered with a smile.
Shen Yuyao looked out the window. The prince had specially bought this villa for her to make it easier for her to handle cases.
The villa is called "Luyuan".
The yard is not big, but it has an ingenious layout.
Pavilions, pools, rocks and corridors are connected to each other. Flowers, plants and trees are dotted in the courtyard, and there is also a towering tree that is lush and green.
Shen Yuyao could tell at a glance that these trees and rocks were arranged according to the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. It would be difficult for an ordinary person to find the exit if they walked into the yard without someone to lead them.
The entire villa is elegant and quiet. Shen Yuyao’s favorite thing is its wonderful location.
The courtyard is right next to Shangheji and not far from the government office in the capital.
As the saying goes, when you close the door, you can be as still as a mirror, but when you open the door, you can drink and sing.
After just a few encounters, the prince was able to understand her preferences. It was fortunate for the Great Xia Dynasty to be in the hands of someone who understood human nature so well and was both benevolent and virtuous.
Shen Yuyao smiled slightly.
"The concubine hasn't woken up yet?"
Zi Su served a cup of tea. Shen Yuyao had the habit of drinking tea after getting up.
"I haven't woken up yet."
Shen Yuyao remembered that Xu Yunxuan once said that the young people in their area usually slept until about three quarters after noon before getting up too early.
"Early on" means breakfast!
Shen Yuyao turned to Zi Su and said:
"Zi Su, ask the porter to prepare the carriage for use after breakfast."
"yes!"
"I need to go to the government office today. You don't need to follow me."
Shen Yuyao paused briefly.
"When the concubine wakes up, tell her to wait for me to return and not to run around!"
Zi Su responded and bowed before retreating.
Shen Yuyao put on her black gauze hat and looked at herself in the diamond-shaped mirror.
I saw the person in the mirror. He was wearing a red brocade robe with a black background and embroidered python patterns with golden silk thread. He was wearing a black gauze on his head and a phoenix belt around his waist, also embroidered with a round python pattern. He was also adorned with several thin round Hetian jade pendants.
Shen Yuyao in the mirror was a young man of about sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in gorgeous clothes!
There was a heroic look between the boy's brows.
The young woman was not tall, and was even slightly smaller than the average person. Her eyes were bright and clear, and her thin lips were slightly raised, giving people a sense of warmth yet an inexplicable sense of distance.
Shen Yuyao was the principal wife, and the emperor specially granted her the python pattern, while Xu Yunxuan was a concubine, so she could only wear the flying fish pattern.
Shen Yuyao smiled and was quite satisfied with her outfit!
After breakfast, Shen Yuyao set off for the Black Dragon Guard Yamen.
The carriage moved slowly on the streets of the capital. Shen Yuyao lifted the curtain and looked out.
There were crowds of people walking on both sides of the road, hawkers hawking their wares and maids bargaining, creating a prosperous and bustling scene.
Beside the carriage were the prince's four personal guards, riding horses. In the capital, citizens of the Great Xia Dynasty and civilians of other ethnic groups from the previous dynasty lived together, and there was a mixed crowd of all kinds of people.
After all, Shen Yuyao is a princess and cannot afford to make any mistakes.
After about a quarter of an hour, the carriage arrived at the Gongwei Division.
The Gongwei Division was an institution specially established by the emperor when the Great Xia Dynasty was first established.
The emperor of this dynasty came from a commoner background and was well aware of the sufferings of the people and the darkness in the officialdom. The original function of the Guard Bureau was to supervise all officials.
There are a total of 10,267 registered Black Dragon Guards, who are in control of every move of officials in the capital and various prefectures and counties.
If any official behaves abnormally, or if three to five officials report an official at the same time, the Black Dragon Guards will arrest the person immediately.
After the case review is completed, it will be reported to the emperor, who will decide the punishment for the official.
Therefore, the Black Dragon Guard is a special agency that directly obeys the emperor. All officials in the Great Xia Dynasty are afraid of it and want to avoid it as much as possible.
Even when the princes went to their fiefdoms to take office, they would be escorted by troops commanded by the Black Dragon Guards.
They would protect the safety of the royal family and the stability of the fiefdoms of the vassal princes, but they would also report the actions of the vassal princes in their fiefdoms to the emperor truthfully.
After Shen Yuyao entered the Guard Bureau with her badge, she completed the formalities with Lord Jiang, the commander of the Black Dragon Guard, and then directly reviewed the information of the candidates who passed the imperial examination this year.
A total of 51 candidates were admitted in this year's imperial examination. These 51 candidates will participate in the palace examination at the beginning of next month. Fifty of them are from the south, and only one is from the north.
Six days after the announcement of the spring exam results, all the failed candidates from the north wrote a joint letter to the Ministry of Rites to complain about their grievances, accusing the chief examiner Liu Sanxing, Bai Shicheng and others of favoritism and fraud.
Dozens of candidates were crying out for justice on the streets of the capital, blocking officials' sedan chairs to petition. Rumors were rife in the streets and alleys, and rumors of various cheating in the imperial examinations were growing louder and louder.
The emperor had originally ordered the Black Dragon Guard to thoroughly investigate the imperial examination cheating case. Coincidentally, the crown prince and Shen Yuyao reported that a princess of the previous dynasty had sneaked into the academy and was successfully admitted as a tribute student, and was going to assassinate the emperor during the palace examination.
The emperor immediately ordered Shen Yuyao to be responsible for investigating both the imperial examination cheating case and the assassination attempt on the princess of the previous dynasty. To facilitate her actions, she was also granted the command token of the Black Dragon Guard.
The emperor asked Shen Yuyao to investigate this matter and make sure to catch all the spies from the previous dynasty who infiltrated the current dynasty and all the officials of the current dynasty who were corrupt and abused their power for personal gain!
The resume information Zhang Ying provided when he participated in the imperial examination was among the 118 southerners.
Just by looking at his appearance, you can tell that Zhang Ying is a genuine northerner!
So, as Shen Yuyao expected, Zhang Ying's name and resume information were all fake.
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