Chapter 67 Familiar Name
It took a long time for Li Nuo to recover from his shock.
In order to determine whether this was a common phenomenon, he flipped the book from the beginning to the end and checked the top scorers in the imperial examinations every year.
Then he realized that it wasn't him who was making a fuss.
Since the founding of Daxia and the creation of the imperial examination system, for hundreds of years, except for Li Xuanjing, no one has been able to become the top scorer in six subjects in the same imperial examination. He is truly unprecedented and will never be surpassed.
In the past, the most outstanding top scorer was only the first in three subjects.
This has already left his name in history. This booklet also specifically records that the gentleman held the highest position of prime minister of the dynasty, second only to the emperor and above everyone else.
At this moment, he began to understand the way Aunt Song Zhen looked at him.
One person took the top spot in six subjects.
Still so handsome.
Which woman can resist such charm?
The fourteenth year of the Great Xia Dynasty's Holy Era undoubtedly belonged to Li Xuanjing.
Li Nuo stared at the page blankly for a long time, and even forgot what he wanted to do.
Song Zhe was not surprised by his performance. Although many brilliant people emerged in that imperial examination, they were like stars compared to the bright moon in front of Li Xuanjing, and were completely overshadowed by his brilliance.
After a long time, Li Nuo gradually recovered and glanced at the remaining names. He actually found a few familiar faces among them.
In this imperial examination, his father-in-law ranked third, and Chang'an County Magistrate Pei Zhe ranked 42nd, just the last Jinshi...
Unexpectedly, the three of them were Jinshi in the same year.
Li Nuo didn't know whether his father-in-law was climbing too slowly or Magistrate Pei was promoted too quickly.
If one ranks third in the imperial examination and enters the officialdom, he will be granted a sixth-rank official position. Almost twenty years later, he was promoted to the fifth rank, only three levels higher.
County Magistrate Pei was the last one to pass the imperial examination. At first, he could only be a minor official of the ninth rank. However, in the same period of time as his father-in-law, he was promoted eight levels. Regardless of the size of his power, at least his official position was equal to his father-in-law's. He was a model of a loser's counterattack...
In this year's imperial examination list, Li Nuo also saw a name that surprised him.
Wang Duo.
Wang Duo, a Langzhong in charge of examinations, ranked fifth among the Jinshi in this imperial examination, which was also a very high ranking.
Li Nuo did not expect that Lord Wang, who was a poor parent and allowed his officials to accept bribes, had such a glorious past.
Li Nuo found it hard to believe, thinking that they just had the same name, so he asked, "Is this Wang Duo the Imperial Examination Doctor Wang Duo?"
Song Zhe nodded, with some emotion in his tone, and slowly said: "It was him, Wang Duo, who was also a big shot in Qingfeng Academy back then. When he was still a student in the academy, he led his fellow students to make a scene in Chang'an County Government, angrily scolding the Chang'an County Magistrate for taking human lives lightly, and forced the court to dismiss the then Chang'an County Magistrate. He was very famous at the time, but no one expected that twenty years later, he would actually be reduced to donating all his property and resigning from office to return to the countryside..."
Li Nuo was stunned: "Ah, he resigned?"
Song Zhe glanced at him and said calmly, "People from the Dali Temple came to the Wang family and asked him to hand over his son who had violated the law. How dare he, a fifth-rank doctor, not resign and wait for death?"
This was also the first time that Li Nuo knew about this matter.
It turned out that after handing over his son that day, Wang Duo, the examiner, donated all his property, resigned from his post and went home.
It seems that the officials in the court were more afraid of his father than he thought.
But Li Nuo didn't do anything wrong...
Wang Duo's son broke the law, but we cannot ignore him just because his father was a minister in charge of imperial examinations.
If Wang Duo still had the same feelings as he had twenty years ago, it would not have been Li Nuo's turn to take action at all.
Twenty years is too long. Time can change many things. It is enough to turn a passionate and righteous young man into a dirty parasite in the corrupt officialdom...
Wang Duo is not the only one who has changed. Judging from Gu Wenhan's resume, some of his deeds before he became the magistrate of Qinghe County are also remarkable...
A breeze blew in from outside the hall, and the book on Li Nuo's desk was turned a page, which read the eighteenth year of the Holy Year.
The number of Jinshi candidates in the eighteenth year of Zhisheng was far more than that of the previous year, a full one hundred. Li Nuo glanced at them casually and saw Gu Wenhan's name among the last few.
Gu Wenhan, a Jinshi in the 18th year of Zhisheng, ranked 96th in the imperial examination.
Wu Zongguang became a Jinshi in the 18th year of Zhisheng, ranking 97th in the imperial examination.
Zheng Tianxing became a Jinshi in the 18th year of Zhisheng and ranked 98th in the imperial examination.
Li Nuo was about to turn the page back when he suddenly stopped and looked at a name on the page.
Not Gu Wenhan.
It was Zheng Tianxing.
Li Nuo was sure that he had never known a person named Zheng Tianxing in his two lifetimes, but he felt that the name was familiar, extremely familiar, as if he had seen it countless times somewhere...
Although it was familiar, he really couldn't remember where this familiarity came from for a while.
He received too much information in the past two days, his mind was in a mess, and he even felt that his thinking was a little slow.
He flipped back a few pages and found another problem.
From the 18th year of the Holy Sheng to the 22nd, 26th, and 30th years of the Holy Sheng's imperial examinations, the number of Jinshi admitted by the court was around 100.
Before the 18th year of Zhisheng, each imperial examination admitted less than 50 people. The imperial examination in the 14th year of Zhisheng was a clear watershed.
Li Nuo couldn't help but ask, "Why has the number of Jinshi candidates increased suddenly in the recent imperial examinations?"
Song Zhe glanced at him calmly and said, "In the 14th year of the Zhisheng Emperor, 42 Jinshi candidates were admitted. Two years later, 16 of them were executed because they were implicated in a treason case. In the 17th year of the Zhisheng Emperor, Li Xuanjing entered the Dali Temple and killed hundreds of corrupt officials within a year. If we don't admit more candidates, the court will not have enough manpower..."
Li Nuo wisely decided not to pursue the issue any further.
But he still didn't give up, and asked instead: "What kind of treason is it?"
Song Zhe said: "If you are so curious, you can go back and ask your father."
Having said that, if he could ask his father about this issue, would he still come to the Ministry of Personnel to check it himself?
He was curious about many things. He was also curious about where his mother-in-law had gone, why they had separated, whether it was because of personality incompatibility or someone had someone else outside, but he didn't ask...
Li Nuo complained a few words in his heart, and suddenly a light flashed through his mind, and he suddenly remembered why he was so familiar with the name "Zheng Tianxing".
Isn’t Zheng Tianxing the same person as Mr. Zheng, the poor man who was murdered by his concubine and adulterer on his 50th birthday?
No wonder he was so familiar with this name, the case file of Zheng Yuanwai was written by him personally.
At that time, in order to test the life span bonus of different sentences in the Code, he revised the verdict countless times, and naturally wrote the name Zheng Tianxing many times...
(End of this chapter)
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