“No problem!”
Yang Zhao interrupted Uncle Chen with a faint smile, "Uncle Chen, go!"
After hearing this, Uncle Chen didn't dare to say anything more.
After getting off the carriage, Uncle Chen went to Butler Yan. When Butler Yan saw Uncle Chen coming towards him, he bent down to pick up something, and suddenly he showed a painful expression on his face as if his waist was hurt.
Uncle Chen was still confused.
With the help of the servant, Butler Yan slowly moved to the front of Yang Zhao's carriage. He bowed to the people in the carriage, smiled bitterly and said something, then he retreated to the back.
This scene was seen by everyone around.
after.
Everyone saw a figure coming out of the carriage.
"It's Duke Yang of Qi..."
Someone shouted.
Now everyone at the entrance of the Imperial Examination Hall looked at the person who slowly got off the carriage.
attic.
Emperor Wenyuan frowned.
Old Master Bai also saw Yang Zhao getting off the carriage. Compared to Emperor Wenyuan's ambiguous expression, he had a smile on his face: "So this girl is here too! I thought she wasn't here. It seems that the relationship between these two siblings is indeed deep!"
Emperor Wenyuan did not speak.
There are so many things on my mind!!
As an emperor.
Especially for a narrow-minded and petty emperor, his mood instantly became bad after seeing Yang Zhao show up.
Even though he didn't mention anything about the Marquis of Zhenbei's Mansion giving gifts to the poor family.
In fact, he had been unhappy for a long time.
The Marquis of Zhenbei's behavior was simply an attempt to win over others! In fact, this kind of thing had been done by people throughout the dynasties, but they had always done it in private, or even more secretly.
But the Zhenbei Marquisate is doing it with great fanfare! !
As if afraid that people don't know.
Now that Yang Zhao, the 'Duke Yang of Qi', has shown up in public, I'm afraid those people will be even more tempted to join in!
Emperor Wenyuan looked at Yang Zhao, who had gotten off the carriage and walked to the entrance of the Imperial Examination Hall under everyone's eager gaze, and his expression couldn't help but turn ugly...
Eunuch Li was sweating beside him.
He knew Emperor Wenyuan best, and he could guess most of what was going on just by looking at his expression.
His Majesty has always been wary of the Marquis of Zhenbei's Mansion.
After the identity of Duke Yang of Qi was exposed, His Majesty did not sleep well for two or three nights. Later, it seemed that he calmed down a little after learning that Duke Yang of Qi was a woman.
Now the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion is doing this in public again...
Old Master Bai glanced at Emperor Wenyuan's expression and guessed what the emperor was thinking, and sighed slightly in his heart.
But he said, "I just heard from that Meng family kid that even Old Man Meng praised the food there. Eunuch Li, why don't you send someone down to get some?"
Eunuch Li looked at Emperor Wenyuan.
Only after seeing Emperor Wenyuan nod slightly did Eunuch Li leave.
Not long after.
Eunuch Li actually came up carrying a food box.
"Your Majesty, I only brought back the food box. As for the exam basket, I will not give it to you if you are not a candidate." Eunuch Li said as he put the big food box on the table.
Then he opened the lid of the lunch box.
The contents were exactly the same as what Butler Yan had shown me before: flatbread, dried vegetables and meat, and some toasted naan underneath...
but.
What was surprising was the words printed on the inside of the food box lid: 'Emperor's Merchant, bestowed by His Majesty.'
When Emperor Wenyuan saw this, he was slightly stunned.
Old Master Bai laughed heartily. "This girl is quite interesting. She's using the name of the Marquis of Zhenbei Mansion, but she's actually giving gifts on behalf of the Emperor. This girl probably wants to piggyback on your influence and build up her own reputation as an imperial merchant!"
"This little thought is really the same as her mother's!"
"Back then, her mother used the late emperor's name to attract a lot of business. When the late emperor found out, he was furious and scolded her for being useless, thinking she was using her cleverness for something else. In fact, the late emperor once considered appointing a female official, but unfortunately, that Qi girl was unambitious and only had eyes for a little bit of money..."
Mr. Bai seemed to be thinking about the situation at that time, and spoke with a nostalgic smile.
Emperor Wenyuan was stunned.
"The late emperor wanted to appoint female officials?" How come he had never heard of this?
"Yes, the late emperor had mentioned it privately to several cabinet ministers at the time. At that time, Minister Shen was quite in favor of it, but unfortunately the other ministers disagreed. They argued for quite a while. Later, the girl Qi really had no intention of becoming a female official, so the late emperor conferred her the title of Duke Yang of Qi."
In fact, a lot of things happened.
Facts have proved that even if the late emperor had the ambition to change some court situations, there were times when he was powerless.
Emperor Wenyuan looked towards the entrance of the Imperial Examination Hall.
Many people had already gone up to ask for the food boxes. Yang Zhao didn't know what he said to the maid, but after a while he saw the guards really started to give them out one after another. However, the people they gave food to were all elderly people, children, or even beggars.
During this period, some candidates were able to get things.
Boxes were brought in one by one, and empty boxes were taken away one by one.
As if it were endless.
"Go and get an exam basket." Emperor Wenyuan ordered Eunuch Li.
"yes."
Eunuch Li went out quickly.
And soon.
An "examinee" arrived at the entrance of the Imperial Examination Hall, lined up like other examinees, reported his name, received his things, and entered the Imperial Examination Hall...
But the things were soon delivered to Emperor Wenyuan.
Eunuch Li opened the examination basket.
really.
There are also those big words written inside the exam basket.
Even under the basket, and on the inkstone that was given as a gift of writing brush and ink, those words were engraved on them.
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