Being able to enter the Hanlin Academy means that there is a high probability that one will be promoted to the cabinet in the future and cultivated as an important official. Of course, nothing is absolute, and no one can say for sure until the imperial court's decree comes down.
There are so many successful candidates in each imperial examination, but most of them are actually sent out to other places.
If you are sent to a remote county, not under the emperor's feet, it will be difficult to get promoted. If you are unlucky, you can only be a minor local official in your life and will never be able to return to Beijing.
After dinner, Liu Yu called Yu Qizhe to the study to talk, and Liu Yaoyu called Yu Jiao to go back to the backyard together. She had recently bought a few interesting storybooks and was reading them obsessively. She was eager to know what happened to the scholar who went to Beijing for the imperial examination and the female ghost in the deserted temple in the storybooks.
Yu Jiao shook her head. She still had to accompany Yu Fuling and Yu Zhizhou, and the birthday gift she had prepared had not been given to Yu Qizhe yet, so she asked Yaoyu to go back by herself.
The maids came in to clear the table, and Yu Jiao led Yu Zhizhou and Yu Fuling out of the flower hall and showed them around the mansion.
Gu Yun, who was talking to Liu Ziqi, saw Yu Jiao leaving the flower hall and wanted to follow her out, but Liu Ziqi held his shoulder.
"Why are you trying to stop me? You should talk to my father about Lingnan. The emperor will never let me leave Beijing." Gu Yun was talking to Liu Ziqi, but her starry eyes were fixed outside the flower hall. She murmured in a low voice, "I haven't seen Yu Jiao for a long time, and I haven't had a good talk with her."
Seeing that Gu Yun's heart was entirely devoted to Yu Jiao, Liu Ziqi was happy to see it happen, but he was also afraid that Gu Yun would act rashly and annoy Yu Jiao.
"Yu Jiao is still young. Everything is too much or too little." Liu Ziqi reminded him, "The emperor will not allow our two families to marry."
Gu Yun calmed down a little and sat down on the chair again. Now he was willing to listen to what Liu Ziqi said about Lingnan.
"Is the military report about unusual movements at Wuyi Pass and the Baiyue causing trouble true or false?" Seeing Liu Ziqi nodding seriously, Gu Yun said, "I thought it was just a lie you made up to trick the man who let my father go back to Lingnan."
Liu Ziqi said, "With your father in Lingnan, the Baiyue dared not cause trouble easily. But when your father returned to Beijing, the Baiyue must have heard the news and invaded Wuyi Pass several times after the New Year. In the spring, the Baiyue people were short of food. Although they did not mobilize troops on a large scale, only a small group of Baiyue troops invaded the border at night each time, but they had looted dozens of villages. Fortunately, your father had made arrangements before returning to Beijing. But if he did not return to Lingnan, the Baiyue would become more rampant."
Gu Yun frowned slightly. He grew up in Lingnan and had deep feelings for every tree and blade of grass in Wuyi Pass. He often went in and out of the villages at the border. The people of Wuyi Pass were simple and warm-hearted, and treated the Lingnan Army very well. In order to control the troops in Lingnan over the years, the imperial court had never had enough military rations and supplies. In winter, the people of Wuyi Pass spontaneously made cotton clothes for the soldiers of the Lingnan Army to keep them warm.
If Liu Ziqi had not secretly run a business and sent food and military pay to Lingnan over the years, countless people in the Lingnan army would have starved to death.
When Gu Yun thought of this, his chest seemed to be on fire, and blood came out of his throat. "The emperor only cares about military power, not the lives of the people on the border!"
They just had bad luck, being born in a border area, where they had no peace every day and lived in fear, and they didn't know when they would die in the war.
Compared with this prosperous capital, it is really ridiculous. They are obviously all Taiyan’s people.
The man on the dragon throne enjoyed the peace and stability gained by the soldiers on the border who fought bloody battles, but he was obsessed with power. Fearing that his achievements would frighten the ruler, he treated the lives of the people and soldiers on the border as ants.
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