Chapter 348 The Disaster of the Nation

Kong Jie suddenly sweated and rained.

Does he have any real evidence that Yunshang really likes male pets? How can he say this? If a man encounters such a thing, it's enough that he can't kill the other party with shame, but he can't even "forget" such a small request!

Besides, His Majesty's question today is too strange. Although it is a positive tone, how do you want him to answer it? Yes? Or not?

He swore to be loyal to His Majesty in front of his ancestors. He wholeheartedly and never cheated and concealed; but now, the left and right are wrong...

Fortunately, Kong Jie's dilemma did not last long. While he had almost made up his mind to be loyal and risked offending Longyan to declare the "private" matter between Yunshang and him, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the door in due course, and the clear and indistinguishable footsteps. He said with a smile, "You can wait here. You don't have to follow up."

Then there were bright black and white eyes, flashing in with a smile. Before opening the door, he saluted: "I have kept Your Majesty waiting for a long time."

Feng Zifeng didn't answer. She went to hold Yunshang's hand, pulled it straight to the table, and looked at the scars on her face with a candlelight.

Kong Jie naturally won't be so eye-catching. Taking this opportunity, he hurried out of the door, carefully closed the door for them, and then breathed a sigh of relief. Speaking of his abnormality, it was only a momentary. The light in the room was dim, and now Feng Ziqi's attention was completely attracted by the person who appeared at the door. I guess he may not be able to find his moment of hesitation, right?

Wipe the forehead with almost evaporated clean cold sweat. Kong Jie turned around and gritted his teeth gently. The person in the door, the humiliation and harm caused to him, were unforgettable for a lifetime; however, he could not revenge - even if the day before, someone came to him specially, Xiaoyi Mingli wanted him to help in addition to this great disaster... He still couldn't, just for, Your Majesty.

It's just night. There are a few stars in the sky. In this "princess house", now it looks more and more haggard under the colorful lights in the "Lotus Heart Building"; in the worry-free princess's bedroom behind her, the light is also brighter and brighter. The emperor, who was tempted by the rumored "fox spirit", was "Dami" with his subordinates, and laughed.

Kong Jie gently leaned on himself. Jumping to the roof, sitting cross-legged in the corner, monitoring all directions around. It is the local people brought by Yunshang who are on the open surface not far away. It seems that he is well-trained and keeps his duty, only staying around the lotus heart from afar; and closer. It is the Yulin guards who are indispensable for His Majesty to leave the palace. List the formation without a trace. It is divided into the inside and outside of Lianxin Xiaozhu, but it is also far away from this room; only Kong Jie. Because of generational loyalty, he also has the absolute trust of the emperor... Although he avoided the room, he still stayed in the range where he could hear the movement in the room by exerting internal force.

In the room, Yunshang said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, Miss Wang, she is also kind. I hope your majesty will not be angry."

Feng Ziqi brushed her sleeves and almost staggered Yunshang, who was pulling his sleeve, "Are you kind? Who has the courage to use her to touch the minister in the court?! If it hadn't been for the timely discovery of Lian Zhundu, who knows what would have happened?!"

In fact, this is a little ridiculous. Without evidence, it is said that a weak daughter "moves" a minister? Even if you don't find it, what will happen?

It's just that since it's the emperor, then naturally it's his University of Science.

"Lou Qing, don't worry, tomorrow I will reprimand Wang Ge and vent my anger on you!"

"Thank you for your concern, but there is nothing wrong with me. Your Majesty has no responsibility to blame Wang Gelao for my minister. Wang Gelao has high expectations, and his students are all over the world..."

Kong Jie frowned openly and eavesdropping on the roof. The mode of the relationship between the kings and ministers is very strange. That is, the next meeting, they always keep changing their style, sometimes they are serious; sometimes they are tender; sometimes they are eloquent; sometimes they are relatively speechless... I don't know which one they are playing today. It sounds like your majesty is hugging Yunshang, and it seems that Yunshang is insting your majesty to the king. The young lady is dissatisfied, but he always feels a little weird...

Sure enough, His Majesty suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, Louqing, stop pretending. I know that you don't like the girl in the Wang family, and I don't like it either... You have a good reason. I accept it. Can't you throw your poisonous fake ointment on Wang Ge's old face tomorrow? Don't toss yourself like this in the future, huh?"

Later, the voice gradually became low and gentle, and then there was a silence in the room, which was ambiguously silent... Kong Jie suddenly felt a little inappropriate and quickly took his mind and only focused on the protection outside the room.

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In the room, there was no spring in Kong Jie's imagination. After Yunshang handed over a list of people, he sat leisurely on the opposite side of Feng Ziqi, shaking his feet to look at Feng Ziqi's eyebrows and thinking.

"What is this? Where did you come from?" Feng Ziqi's expression became solemn. The paper handed to him by Yunshang is full of statistics on the candidates' names, candidates' family background and literary ability... Most importantly, he has seen some of the names above, which have appeared on the list of candidates who have something to do with the examiner in the secret report of the Yulin Guard.

"These are the ministers. Qiu is going to be promoted this time.

Feng Ziqi couldn't laugh or cry, "Then why do you show it to me? Do you still expect me to cheat for you? The imperial examination of the Dafeng Dynasty has accumulated a lot of malpractices for a long time, and many important ministers of the imperial court will have some such "lists of people". However, this year, when Feng Zihong returned to power, all parties have been restrained and what they have done more and more hidden.

"Your Majesty's imperial examination is to accumulate 'talent' for the court, but now it has become a means for officials to accumulate 'money' themselves. Doesn't your majesty have any idea?"

What do you think? Feng Ziqi stared at Yunshang's slightly delicate face by candlelight. The eyelashes on her face drooped low, casting a thick shadow, which also covered her true mood.

I remember that when Qiu Yan three years ago, the two of them were also sitting together, but they were drinking side by side. In Yunshang's ear, he whispered, "If one day I can take charge of the government, the first thing I will do is to kill all the corrupt officials; then open a new subject and select some really talented people. Come on!"

The words are still in my ears, but the attitude of the two people is no longer the past. Killing greed is simple to say. It touches the whole body with one hair. At the time of internal and external troubles, the most important thing in the court is still the word "stability"; local officials, magistrate magistrate, six ministers, and cabinet elders are all pulled out. Who will manage this huge and heavy family and state institution for him? Relying on the imperial examination to select new officials? These sons are mostly white house scholars, and some of them are even from remote places. Once they are a scholar, they turn over and leap over the dragon gate. In addition to the words of the article, do they really know how to be an official? From the central to the local, the blood can only be changed slowly. Even in today's imperial examination, he can't pursue such corruption. He can only turn a blind eye.

"Let's do the next subject," he closed his eyes and said almost to himself, "The next subject can rectify this officialdom almost, and the next subject will grasp the transcript, so as to turn the imperial examination into a clean and clean material selection road that is not contaminated with any dregs."

The next subject... That's three years later. Yunshang bit his lip and suddenly raised his eyes, "Your Majesty, in fact, this imperial examination is probably useless."

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Yunshang bit her lip and suddenly raised her eyes, "Your Majesty, in fact, this imperial examination is probably useless."

" Lou Qing?" The emperor Feng Zi was surprised.

"Dafeng Dynasty has been in the country for more than 300 years, and the imperial examination system has reached its peak. The national selection of materials mainly relies on the autumn examination in these three years. However, with the passage of time, the corruption of the imperial examination has also formed a trend of accumulation. First, it is what I just said, including, plagiarism, replacement, changing papers, and even buying examiners. , through joints, missing test questions, and blatant violations - this has become a grand thing in the officialdom, just like what I did today.

Yunshang said that he actually raised the list of people in his hand. "And I know that your majesty is in a dilemma. The court is mainly stable, the law does not blame the public, and it is difficult to reverse the situation in a hurry - so your majesty said that you have to wait until the next subject, and I agree with it. Of course, your majesty can also give a thunderous blow to the people who participated in this imperial examination fraud. As soon as I deal with it, but I know that in this way, I'm afraid that the world will be shocked, and the disaster will not be under the cult and chaos.

Feng Ziqi nodded gently, but the doubts in her eyes did not go away: Yunshang has always had the same opinion on his "stability" strategy. Although he spoke lightly in the cabinet, he always encountered disputes and always stood on his side. In the eyes of others, this is naturally the act of a villain who flatters the emperor, but he knows that the two of them have always had the same mind and the same opinion in many aspects when discussing political affairs together since childhood. This is also one of the reasons why he insisted on transferring Yunshang from martial arts to literature to cabinet despite the opposition of the ministers.

But today, Yunshang put out the banner of "the imperial examination is useless". Obviously, it is not to express his agreement with his strategy of slowly combating corruption. I don't know what it is. It is worth dating him in private and putting forward it so solemnly.

"But these days. I thought about it carefully and felt that the drawbacks of this imperial examination were not only one aspect of the destruction of the system. In addition, the more serious drawbacks are still in the imperial examination itself.

Feng Zi raised her eyebrows. Look at her in silence.

"The imperial examination system originated in the previous dynasty. At that time, the power of the door valve was too strong, and the selection of scholars was opened in order to concentrate the power of people and land in the court - a scholar. What is the glory of the son of heaven? However, since the imperial examination, what has been taken in this imperial examination has always been the focus of the country's consideration.