A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

The six official offices of the previous dynasty were built on both sides of the main gate of the palace. It was originally to facilitate the office of each department to go to the court. Who would have guessed that an irritable prince suddenly forced the palace and took the six officials into one pot. After that, the emperor learned his lesson and built the six yamen outside the palace to form a guard.

At present, the official office of the Ministry of Rites is built on the street outside the south wall of the palace, and the neighbor next door is the Hanlin Academy, which is even poorer than them.

The most well-built official department is the household department, and even the stone lion at the door is more stylish than other departments. Even so, every time at the great court meeting, the Minister of the Household weeps and weeps poor, which is simply shameless.

It was getting colder and colder, and officials of the Ministry of Rites were surrounding the brazier, shaking their hands to handle political affairs.

"Today is foggy and cold, His Royal Highness King Chen should not come."

"It seems that you haven't seen anyone from the Chen Palace come to say a lie?"

Ming Jingzhou has a hand warmer on his lap, which his daughter specially stuffed for him before he went out. Listening to the chats of his colleagues, he shook the dossier in his hand and made a note in the footer with a pen.

"Master Ming, do you understand?"

Ming Jingzhou glanced at the person who was talking, and said with a smile, "Lord Wang is joking, Lord Shang Shu doesn't know it yet. As a subordinate, Ming is naturally even more unclear."

The person who asked the question laughed inexplicably. Who doesn't know how Ming Jingzhou's title came?

According to the old rules, only the father of the queen was eligible to be awarded a title due to in-laws. King Chen was not even a prince, so His Majesty would add officials and titles to his future father-in-law, almost putting his eccentricity on the bright side.

"My lords are here very early." King Chen walked into the room, took off his cloak and handed it to the long attendant: "This king seems to have heard an adult mention this king. I don't know what happened?"

"Meet Your Highness." All the officials stood up in unison and bowed to King Chen.

"You don't need to be more polite." King Chen walked to Ming Jingzhou and raised his arm: "I still have some things I don't know, please teach me."

"Your Highness is very kind." Ming Jingzhou looked at King Chen in a gorgeous robe, and turned to pick up the file on the table that had already been remarked: "If there is nothing wrong with Your Highness, take these and memorize them first. Wei Chen believes that, With His Highness's ingenuity, he must memorize all the content quickly."

"There is Lord Laoming." King Chen took the file and turned back to the office room specially prepared for him by the Ministry of Rites.

"Lord Ming, what did you ask His Royal Highness Chen Wang to carry?" After King Chen left, the official who was familiar with him asked aloud.

"The tenth imperial examination questions, the first-class list, the visiting list of envoys from various countries and the list of important gifts in the past 20 years." Ming Jingzhou said with a smile: "The affairs of the Ministry of Rites are trivial and complicated. Your Highness should start from the most basic places. Although it is always changing, it is inseparable in the end, as long as you clarify the beginning, things will be much simpler in the future.”

Other officials: "..."

Is Ming Jingzhou really the future father-in-law of King Chen, not the enemy?

Previous exam questions followed the list of scholars, and the imperial court has announced it to the outside world. Apart from wasting time, what is the use of memorizing them?

It's no wonder that early this morning, he turned over the files that had been dusty for many years. It turned out that he was waiting for King Chen here.

As expected of the Ming family who would rather be sent to the frontier than surrender.

King Chen waited for the Ministry of Rites to resign before returning to the palace. Looking at the file and painting tube on the table, he leaned lazily on the soft couch and said to the eunuch, "Fugui, bring the painting."

Fugui carefully opened the lid of the painting tube, took out the painting, untied the tether on the painting scroll, and opened the painting.

Taking a look at the painting, King Chen widened his eyes, sat up unconsciously, and waved to Fugui: "Take the painting closer."

"Your Highness, is there something wrong with this painting?" Fugui poked his head over to see what was painted.

"Close your eyes." King Chen stood up and took the painting into his hands: "You go out first, this king wants to enjoy the painting alone."

Fugui closed his eyes: "Your Highness, I'll go and make you some hot tea."

"Go." Putting the painting on the table, King Chen frowned at the painting.

What is this drawing...what is it?

Where are the koi?

Where is Lian?

Picking up the scroll, looking upside down and looking sideways, I can barely recognize the ink ball in the middle of the painting, which may be a chubby carp.

Recalling the little girl's red nose and sparkling eyes, King Chen sighed and put away the painting: "Come on, get the painting box."

When the next person brought the painting box, he put the painting in the box and locked it.

"Ms. Ming... her painting skills are outstanding, and this king loves her very much." King Chen put away the keys, "Other people in the mansion, etc., please do not tamper with it."

"Yes." The attendants looked at the wooden box with the paintings in awe, wondering how amazing the future princess' painting skills would be, making Her Highness so respectful.

After putting away the scroll, King Chen remembered the scroll he had forgotten for a long time. Picking up the file, he leaned back on the soft couch again and opened the file.

Topics of the tenth imperial examinations and the list of the first grades?

After casually flipping through two pages, King Chen was not surprised by Ming Jingzhou's perfunctory attitude. Speeding up and flipping a few times, as he was about to throw the file aside, he noticed the small print in the corner.

The main purpose of a Jinshi policy theory.

Ming Jiyuan, Li En, Zhou Rui, Ming Zengsheng, Zhao Boxen, Sun Yong, Lin Zhongling, Chen Zhixing...

Counting down this list, the names of most of the important ministers in the DPRK are in it.

After reading Ming Jingzhou's comments on the themes of the answers to the questions of several important officials in the imperial examination policy, King Chen's hand was getting tighter and tighter, and he didn't even notice it was dark outside the window.

"His Royal Highness." Fugui lit the candlestick in the house, seeing the seriousness of the prince's expression, he was apprehensive

He asked, "It's getting late, and you haven't eaten yet."

"Got it." King Chen looked at the flames shining on the candlestick: "Place the meal."

At the dinner table, Jiuzhu scooped a bowl of soup for Ming Jingzhou: "Father, please have some soup."

The hot soup exudes a faint medicinal smell, which is Ming Jingzhou's least favorite taste.

The soup scooped by my daughter, no matter how unpleasant it is, she has to drink it with her teeth.

Seeing Ming Jingzhou obediently drinking the soup, Shen shi showed a satisfied smile: "The weather is getting colder and colder recently, so I asked someone to make you a few new jackets, which are warm and light, and wear them under the official robes. Nothing, go ahead tomorrow, remember to change."

"Madam, don't worry, recently the Ministry of Rites has enough charcoal, so it won't freeze me." Since King Chen came to the Ministry of Rites, not only the charcoal is more abundant than before, but even the tea and the ingredients in the public kitchen are more particular than before.

"By the way, Mingyue Palace sent someone this afternoon to say that Jiuzhu will be brought into the palace tomorrow morning to accompany the noble concubine to speak with the concubine." Shen shi added two more spoons of soup to Ming Jingzhou: "I agree."

Ming Jingzhou held up the bowl with bitterness and hatred and drank it: "I heard that Concubine Su likes jade, and there is a Qiongzhi jade carving ornament in the storeroom, and I will bring Jiuzhu to the empress tomorrow, so that such a good thing will not end up in the storehouse. Dusty."

Shen shi glanced at her daughter, smiled and nodded slightly: "Okay."

Jiuzhu looked at the two of them, and she clearly listened to their conversation without saying a word. Why did she still feel that their smiles were inscrutable. Could this be the wisdom of the elders?

"His Royal Highness, after King Chen arrived at the Ministry of Rites, all the ministers were more than polite, but not close enough, and no one dared to make close friends with him."

"What is Ming Jingzhou's attitude?" Under the candlelight, Wang Qi's handsome face was expressionless.

"He only gave King Chen a copy of the previous imperial examination questions and the list of jinshi, and let King Chen memorize it. His attitude was very perfunctory, he was very indifferent to King Chen, and even wanted to make things difficult." The adviser said: "Ming Jingzhou's move only I'm afraid that my daughter is treated as an abandoned son, and I don't care what kind of treatment my daughter will be treated when she marries in the palace of Chen Wang in the future."

"Really?" King Qi turned over the Buddhist scriptures in his hand: "If that's the case, why does Concubine Su Gui still win Ming Jiuzhu?"

"Concubine Su has always favored King Chen, so she thought that all parents in the world treat their children the same way." The counselor said ironically, "Now your majesty has promoted Ming Jingzhou to the title of nobility, but if he doesn't want to be among the literati by selling daughters for glory and flattery Concubine's notoriety makes it impossible to help King Chen."

"Isn't he afraid of angering his father?" King Qi closed the scriptures, got up, picked up scissors, and cut off a section of the wick.

"Your Highness is afraid that he forgot that sixteen years ago, the three brothers of the Ming family were sent to the frontier for His Majesty's sake, and suffered a lot." The advisor explained: "Your Majesty, even if you are dissatisfied with Ming Jingzhou because of these things, you will not add too much. blame him."

"So even if the Ming family doesn't support King Chen, the sacrifice is only a daughter." The counselor smiled: "What you get is countless good names."

King Qi remembered the naive and ignorant girl from the Ming family, put down the scissors, and lowered her eyelids slightly: "Well."

Pity.

"Niangniang." Jiuzhu looked at the thick stack of scriptures on the table: "Do you like copying scriptures?"

"Ms. Ming, these are not copied by the empress." Fragrant silk brought tea into the room: "It's all the other empresses in the palace, who are grateful for the kindness and virtue of the gods, so they copy it every day to repay the will of God."

Jiuzhu was stunned, the ladies in the palace really respected God.

"If it weren't for you to come today, they would also come to copy it today."

"Thank God is the most important thing, how can the ministers influence the important affairs of the ladies." Jiuzhu said to Concubine Su Gui: "Miss, let the other ladies continue to copy, and the ministers can accompany you."

"Since Jiuzhu said so, then do as she wants." Concubine Su said with a smile: "Our family Jiuzhu is really sensible and considerate, I blame this palace for not being thoughtful enough."

"I don't blame the lady." Jiuzhu shook her head quickly, "It's the servant girl who came here by accident."

"What a coincidence." Su Guifei nodded Jiuzhu's forehead: "It's a coincidence, I'll take you to see other empresses copying scriptures later."

"Will it disturb the girls?"

"How can they be disturbed by foreign objects?" Su Guifei raised her eyebrows: "Unless they are not sincere."

In the meditation hall, the concubines were copying scriptures in meditation, and footsteps and voices came from outside the window.

"Your Majesty." Jiu Zhu lowered her voice: "The ladies are so serious in copying."

Concubine Su smirked: "Maybe it's because of sincerity?"

"Before all the niangniangs copied the scriptures, did you put three pillars of fragrance in front of the statues?" Jiuzhu reminded in a low voice, "What if God can't hear their sincerity?"

"Jiuzhu's reminder makes sense." Concubine Su Gui sighed: "Come here, bring the best incense from this palace, let the ladies clean their hands and light the incense, and rewrite today's scriptures, so that God must feel their sincerity. ."

Jiuzhu held her face and looked at Concubine Su with her eyes shining brightly.

The concubine is so kind and considerate. In order to let the gods hear the sincerity of the concubine, she even took out her best incense.

The concubines who were copying the scriptures: "..."

Can these two women standing outside do something that people do?

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Jiuzhu: Niangniang is the best, Niangniang is the kindest! [I wish all the little angels who see Jiuzhu good luck~

Concubine: Hello, are you there? Do some personnel?

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