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Chapter 1600 The Marquis who lives a good life

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    On March 18th, the gold list was circulated, and the rankings in the palace examination came out.

    The final three Dingjia winners are Shen Maoxue, the top pick, Zhang Sixiu, the second pick, and Zeng Chaojie, the top pick.

    ??Among them, Shen Maoxue was from Xuanfu in Nanzhi and came from Yufeng Academy.

    Zeng Chaojie and Zhang Sixiu are both from Huguang. In addition, there are also 25 people in the second class who are from Huguang. The appearance of the Huguang fellows this time has caused a lot of criticism.

    People say that this is Xianggong openly using his power for personal gain to improve the ranking of his fellow villagers.

    Even dirt on Shen Maoxue was dug out.  Legend has it that Xianggong Zhang wanted to give his two sons a high reputation because they were selected for the examination, so that their high rankings would not be out of the ordinary.  So I wanted to find a few people with real talents and learning to serve as foils.

    Zhang Juzheng found out that the most popular talents at this time were Tang Xianzu and Shen Maoxue.  So he sent someone to win over the two of them, saying that as long as he came to be friends with our young master, he would guarantee that you would be ranked first in high school.  And in the future, he will be Mr. Zhang¡¯s man, and he will surely rise to great heights!

    Tang Xianzu was busy rehearsing "The Peony Pavilion" on the one hand, and he was very proud on the other.  I felt very disgusted by this kind of blatant fraud, so I refused on the spot and said, "I'm sorry, I don't want to lose my virginity!"

    So he didn¡¯t go to Beijing to take the exam and stayed in Nanjing to continue working on his "Peony Pavilion".

    But Shen Maoxue could not resist the power of the prime minister and the temptation of Sandingjia, so he went to Beijing to study with Jingxiu and Sixiu, and he won the first prize.

    Everyone laughed at his champion and was not right, and it was the ¡®joint champion¡¯.

    ? And Zhang Sixiu was ridiculed as "the second in the list".

    Even Tanhua Zeng Chaojie was ridiculed as "Tanhua of Xiangyi".

    Sandingjia was made disgraced, and a series of celebration activities such as the champion parade and so on were a little changed.

    But now, I can only turn a deaf ear and hope that time will dilute these noises.

    However, during the selection of the academy, a balance was struck, and only ten new science scholars from Huguang were selected as Shujishi, while the rest were assigned to the science sect.

    It pains Mr. Zhang to say that Zhao Hao¡¯s disciples have won three subjects and three tripods in a row without causing any criticism.  In order to avoid suspicion, he didn't dare to get the No. 1 pick. He only got the No. 2 pick and was scolded.

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    Mr. Zhang only had a fleeting thought. He had too many things to worry about and he couldn't let this little turmoil take away too much of his energy.

    The next top priority is to choose a queen for Emperor Wanli.

    Emperor Wanli will be sixteen next year, reaching the age for imperial marriage.  Empress Dowager Li was very concerned about this matter. In the first month of the year, she issued an edict to select young girls from the capital and Beizhili, who were aged between fourteen and below sixteen, with good appearance, good etiquette, and whose parents had no financial problems.  Enter the palace draft.

    In order to prevent his relatives from disrupting the government and endangering the imperial power, Taizu, who had a particularly lenient control, stipulated in his ancestral precepts that "all emperors, princes, concubines, and concubines should carefully select daughters from good families."

    Therefore, with the exception of Zhu Di¡¯s Empress Xu, the emperor¡¯s concubines were all selected from low-level officials and small families.  It would be best if they were children from poor families. It is said that this can help the emperor cultivate the virtue of thrift and diligence.

    It is true that in the Ming Dynasty, there was no exclusive power by relatives, but Lao Zhu obviously didn¡¯t know what it means to be a good woman who will prosper for three generations

    Although Zhang Juzheng criticized this, no one can challenge the two hundred years of ancestral precepts.

    So he ordered the Ministry of Rites to select more than 450 young girls who met the requirements and send them to the Forbidden City for the Queen Mother of the two palaces to see.

    After a strict comparison of appearance, birthday, words, deeds, family background, etc., Sister Wang Xi, the daughter of Wang Wei, the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Culture and Thought, was finally selected as the queen.

    According to the custom of selecting one concubine and two concubines in the imperial dynasty, two other daughters from small families were selected as concubines.

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    It is said that this is a great joy for the country. Mr. Zhang has always regarded Emperor Wanli as his own son, and he is even more sincerely happy.  But he is also worried because money is flowing like water

    Although Empress Li is a Buddhist, she is very particular about extravagance and ostentation, and she feels like a daughter-in-law who has been a mother-in-law for many years.  In March, the crowning ceremony of her youngest son, King Lu, cost a million taels of silver.

    The money that is actually spent is three to five hundred thousand taels.  The rest fell into the pockets of Wu Qinghou and his son.

    Now the emperor's wedding is even more careless, and Wu Qinghou is also gearing up, waiting to make a big fortune.  Zhang Xianggong calculated over and over again, and went through a set of procedures of receiving lottery tickets, asking for names, accepting gifts, accepting taxes, and applying for appointments. I am afraid that even two million taels will not be able to stop it.

    This doesn¡¯t include the cost of next year¡¯s wedding

    In fact, you can¡¯t spend that much money if you are serious, but you have to"Good guy" Mr. Zhao took a breath, thinking that Grandet had never been like this.

    "It's damn unlucky to say that I caught up with you not long after we started playing. I'm old and my eyesight is bad. I picked up a fruit and bit it. Damn it" The British man stuck out his tongue with lingering fear and said: "My heart  He said it felt like eating wax, but if he looked closely, wasn't it made of wax?"

    "The miser was embarrassed. He quickly explained that it was hot and the real fruit couldn't be kept, and flies were attracted, so he made some fruit." The British father said at a loss of laughter and tears:

    "He also ordered, quickly, bring the real thing to the father-in-law."

    "Take one?" Zhao Hao said with a sigh.

    "Yes, just one is enough. My father-in-law is old and his teeth fall out after eating too much" The British father-in-law imitated Li Wei's accent. After speaking, the two of them laughed so much that tears came out of their eyes.

    "Later I realized that I am still a proud person. If ordinary guests went there, they wouldn't be able to eat a single piece of fruit." The British Duke reminded again: "I heard that in order to avoid this kind of thing happening, he would later  Put a real fruit on top of the fake fruit plate. But it doesn¡¯t apply to everyone, only distinguished guests can get this treatment. In short, we¡¯d better not talk!¡±

    "Yes, we two can't share the same fruit, right?" Mr. Zhao nodded with deep understanding, and the two of them started laughing together again.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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