Journey Through the Plane of the Lord God

Chapter 20 Palace Exam (Part 2)

In the long history of this time and space, there are always a small number of unruly supreme beings in the world, and their power reaches its peak at a certain point in time.

For example, this is the case with the current Emperor Tianqi. The upright Donglin forces have been weakened to the extreme by several political turmoils. Several large-scale official factions in the inland areas are now defeated. The eunuch bureaucratic forces that rely on imperial power have arrived in the Ming Empire.

unprecedented heights.

In a sense, this can be regarded as the end of the long partisan dispute that began when Wanli was thirty-three years old and has lasted for more than four hundred years. During this period, almost all the hundreds of millions of people on the land of China have been enveloped.

Under the influence of the political forces with 9,000-year-old Wei Zhongxian as the core.

At this time, because of Lin Pingzhi's sudden behavior in handing in his paper early.

On the whim of Emperor Apocalypse, and with the cooperation of the eunuch forces, the young-looking emperor skipped the grading process of the grading minister and picked up Lin Pingzhi's paper to read it in advance.

Lin Pingzhi's previous guess was indeed correct. The emperor skipped the first question, which was about "how to govern a country and strengthen its army." The emperor's eyes were all focused on Lin Pingzhi's second question.

At this time, almost all the Ming Dynasty officials in the Fengtian Palace focused their attention on the emperor, especially Li Biao, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was nervously paying attention to the supreme leader of the world.

Although he did not face the emperor directly, the moment Emperor Tianqi raised the test paper to check it, the clothes on his back were directly wet with cold sweat.

The only remaining senior official of the Donglin faction was afraid that Lin Pingzhi would be like those radical young Donglin scholars and wrote some fierce words to persuade the emperor to give up carpentry. If the emperor was angered, the eunuch would retaliate afterwards.

, sweeping away the few remaining official forces in Donglin.

Under the attention of many high-level officials of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Tianqi, who held Lin Pingzhi's test paper and read it for a while, hummed slightly, then handed the paper to Wei Zhongxian beside him with a smile, and placed his hands behind his back to continue to surround the golden circle of cultural rituals.

Going in circles.

Wei Zhongxian, who thought the emperor would be furious after reviewing the papers, was a little surprised, but he knew Lin Pingzhi's profound background in Donglin, and his mentor was Gu Dazhang, an old man who was on the same page as the eunuchs.

He didn't think that under the education of that old guy, Lin Pingzhi would put down his face and flatter the emperor. When Emperor Tianqi handed him the test paper, the nine-thousand-year-old man quickly took it with both hands.

The 9,000-year-old Wei Zhongxian, who has advanced martial arts and even specially trained his eyesight, can see much faster than Emperor Tianqi who only knows some health-preserving internal skills. Although he only glanced at it briefly, he handed the paper to the marking minister behind him.

They, but the contents of that paper have been imprinted in his mind in this very short period of time.

Wei Zhongxian's expression changed slightly, as if he didn't expect the article in Lin Pingzhi's test paper to be so cleverly written.

The emperor's smiling expression already showed that he was satisfied with the paper. As the emperor's hawk, he naturally would not seduce a scholar who was about to "marry" into the clan and was not a threat to the eunuchs.

The nine-thousand-year-old man secretly winked at the first grading minister of the eunuch faction who was waiting for his instructions. After signaling for approval, he quickly trotted to Emperor Tianqi's side and continued to follow him.

Standing at the end of the team, Li Biao, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was also considered a member of the scoring ministers, breathed a sigh of relief.

After wandering around the golden circle with many senior Ming officials for half an hour, Li Biao was the last one to take Lin Pingzhi's test paper from his colleague in front.

Unfolding the rice paper, he glanced over it, and the flowing handwriting along with the content of the article fell into Li Biao's eyes.

Although Li Biao did not have much say in the review of this palace examination, he was one of the judging ministers after all. The emperor could not read the first article, but he had to read it.

At this glance, we naturally discovered the highlights of Lin Pingzhi’s article which was slightly ahead of its time.

“This article is really well written!”

After reading it with a glance, Li Biao couldn't help but say hello in his heart, moved the rice paper, and looked at the second article written by Lin Pingzhi.

Lin Pingzhi's second article, with a word count of about 1,000, focuses on describing the deeds of some ancient sage kings such as the "Youchao clan" and the "Suiren clan".

Due to the emergence of extraordinary power in this time and space, the historical records of the ancient sage kings such as the "Youchao Clan" and the "Suiren Clan" are much more numerous than the records of these ancient sages in the ordinary world of Lin Pingzhi's previous life.

What are the most important deeds of these ancient saint kings? It is not just the invention and manufacture of houses, the invention and manufacture of clothes, the invention and manufacture of pottery... In a sense, it can be said that these ancient saints have become more important.

Kings are all craftsmen with broad minds. In addition to their noble status as holy kings, they naturally have the color of "worker" in "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce".

"This young man is really clever!"

After reading the article, Li Biao couldn't help but praise Lin Pingzhi in his heart. With such an off-topic description, why wouldn't the Emperor Tianqi, who also has a craftsman's temperament, feel happy?

The most important thing is that if you have enough literary accomplishments, you can also see from the descriptions of the deeds of the saint kings in Lin Pingzhi's articles that the author is using the wisdom of these ancient saint kings as an introduction to advise the monarch to correct his mistakes and be diligent in government.

The connotation of loving the people.

This one is awesome!

Not only did he please the emperor, but he did not lose his scholarly character.

The old man looked at the marking strips next to the test paper. As expected, the other marking ministers had all marked the highest "circle" among the five levels of "circle, sharp, dot, straight, and cross" in the palace examination marking, and he suddenly jumped out of his body.

The attendant eunuch nearby took the writing brush and solemnly drew a "circle" on the marking slip.

"What a pity, what a pity!"

After drawing the "circle", Li Biao secretly regretted Lin Pingzhi's talent, because under normal circumstances, only three papers with "circle" evaluations could appear in each palace examination, as long as the emperor did not particularly dislike these three articles.

, generally all the authors of the "circle" papers can obtain the "First Class" honor, which is commonly known as the "top scholar, second place, third flower" among the top three in the imperial examination.

It was a pity for him that Lin Pingzhi had such a good start in officialdom, but was favored by a noble daughter of the clan. Although he would have a noble status in the future, he would never be able to obtain any real position. He could neither worry about the division of the country nor protect Donglin.

In the eyes of the literati of this era, this ending was extremely cruel to Lin Pingzhi, who had a first-class academic reputation and a world-wide literary reputation.

On the other side, Lin Pingzhi in the side hall did not know that Li Biao, the boss of Donglin in Fengtian Hall, felt sorry for him.

At this time, he was wearing an elegant round-necked shirt with large sleeves and a square scarf on his head. He was happily sipping the royal tea that was always available in the side hall and thinking about the future.

After the examination, the seemingly self-defeating remarks he made deliberately on the streets of the capital must have reached the ears of the major officials in power.

A scholar who is attracted by a noble daughter of the clan will not be regarded as a threat by the vested interests of the top Ming Dynasty, especially the eunuchs.

This time, the eunuch forces who had an absolute advantage in reviewing the exams would not only not deliberately embarrass themselves, but maybe in order to please the royal family, they would give them a push during the exams.

After all, the greater Lin Pingzhi's reputation and the more outstanding he is, the more honor he will bring to the entire royal family, including the emperor, when he becomes your daughter's husband in the future.

Even if the eunuch doesn't help, without external intervention, he will definitely get a good ranking with his own writing skills.

The Prince Consort Yibin cannot obtain actual civil power, but after all, he is a member of the royal family, and his promotion must be very fast. For orthodox and promising literati, it will naturally do more harm than good, but for Lin Pingzhi, it is not that he will not do anything.

Ways to turn disadvantages into advantages.

Things have happened so far. Since he initially attempted to enter the officialdom and become a big boss, transforming the Donglin Party into a political machine that can truly "fight" and help him completely change this era and obtain a huge amount of deflection points, his thoughts have gradually changed.

The spread of rumors about the power of the Eunuch Party was facing failure, so he might as well try another method, a somewhat drastic method with bayonets and blood!

Thinking of this, Lin Pingzhi put down the cup of imperial tea, walked slowly to the door of the side hall and stared at the constant sun in the sky. That straight figure somehow added a touch of light to this majestic imperial city.

Awe and coldness·······

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