In Gongyuan, all the examiners were as silent as a chill. They all felt the chill radiating from Li Qingchen's body. The feeling of being fooled by the enemy, the anger that seemed to tear everything apart.

"Twenty Li Kui?"

Li Qingchen almost growled through gritted teeth. He was the examiner. The examiners present also knew that Li Qingchen was very prejudiced against Li Kui. But the problem was that Li Qingchen had also read Li Kui's article on "Gongshi" and nodded.

.If you change the ranking, it will be a slap in your face.

If they go back on their word and remove Li Kui's ranking from the list of Gongshi, then their subject will definitely be the biggest scandal in the history of the Song Dynasty imperial examination.

Deposed?

The examiner from Dizifang secretly glanced at his colleague, who also did not dare to speak, waiting for Li Qingchen's reaction.

But before Li Qingchen was about to get sick with the anger in his chest, he took out a breath and said: "Yes!"

Li Kui is just Li Kui. If he doesn't believe that he is a high-ranking official in the Song Dynasty, he will not be able to control Li Kui, a little miscellaneous fish from the Su clan.

What is the use of bewitching the emperor?

If it is really a dispute above the court, the current emperor is no match for the princes in the court. Besides, the emperor's antipathy towards conservatives is already well-known. Even if Li Kui is let go this time, let this person

After the boy became a Jinshi, Li Kui would not be able to thrive for at least the next six years. According to the official system of the Song Dynasty, after serving as an official for six years, a newly promoted Jinshi had no major faults and had more than three middle- and high-ranking officials as guarantors.

You can get a relatively big promotion.

Before that, people usually held the official positions of professor, county magistrate, and county magistrate.

Li Qingchen doesn't care about the official department now, but he can definitely speak in the official department. If he really doesn't want to see this guy when the time comes, he might as well let him stay somewhere far away and don't let Li Kui be an eyesore in the capital.

Thinking of this, Li Qingchen finally showed a normal attitude and nodded to his deputy Zhang Shangying: "Continue."

"Nineteenth place, Ma Yu, a student from Taipei University, is from Jiangning Prefecture on Huainan Road."

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"The sixth place is Bi Jian, a scholar from Jingzhou, who is from Qianjiang, Jingzhou on Lianghu Road."

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Suddenly, Zhang Shangying's expression changed again and he paused, which made Li Qingchen, who was already a little impatient, say in a deep voice: "Read it!"

"The fifth place is Su Guo, a student from Taipei University, who is from Meishan, Meizhou, Sichuan."

Sure enough, when Li Qingchen heard Su Guo's name, his face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. But he still maintained his demeanor and laughed angrily: "Zizhan gave birth to a good son! Speaking of which, I

Guan and Zizhan are also close friends, so logically we should look after Su Guo, our nephew, and rank him third."

What is the difference between fifth and third?

Not big.

Anyway, Zhang Shangying felt that Li Qingchen must be confused. Of course, this cannot be blamed on Li Qingchen. There are some things that he can do, but he cannot say it. To suppress the Su clan, he can say and do it in the court, but in the court's talent promotion ceremony

, he can only do it, not say it. This is a bitter pill to swallow after knocking out his front teeth. Even if he doesn't want to, there is nothing he can do.

A trace of worry flashed through Zhang Shangying's mind, and she thought to herself, "Isn't something going to happen next?"

Speaking of which, after Zhao Xu took office, reformist officials were recalled to the capital one by one from various places, and high-ranking officials were generous and generous. It seems that since the Xining Reform in the Song Dynasty, the reform trend will once again sweep the entire Song Dynasty.

However, the reform faction is not in harmony. Zhang Dun is the strongest, and the brothers Cai Bian and Cai Jing follow Zhang Dun, and others cannot threaten Zhang Dun's position for the time being.

Next is Li Qingchen, who is the examiner of the provincial examination. This is a sign of the emperor's trust in him. Before the palace examination, Li Qingchen will inevitably be promoted to the position of deputy prime minister.

But among the vacant official positions, it seemed that he could only choose from the positions of Minister-General and Minister Youcheng. However, he did not like these two positions.

Finally, there is Zeng Bu. Zeng Bu is a perverse person. No one knows what he thinks.

However, the Zeng family has a profound background and is a powerful force. There is a reason why they can become a leader among the reformists. At least Zhang Shangying, an upstart who has never held a high-level official position, will never dare to provoke him. There is no shame in joining Li Qingchen. Besides, he does not have an emperor.

He has no family with deep foundation to rely on, and even his descendants Cai Jing and others have done much better than him in his thirty years of officialdom. He can only take sides among the three factions. For him, Li Qingchen is undoubtedly the best.

Good choice.

Of course there is also a leader of the reform faction, Lu Huiqing.

This person was relatively unlucky. He was once the second leader of the reform sect, but Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu, and Li Qingchen jointly killed him in the northwest, without giving him a chance to return to the court.

What are you afraid of, what will come.

Zhang Shangying read out a few more names, and when it was the turn of the first one, he was completely dumbfounded. Li Qingchen had few personal grudges against conservative officials, but there was only one person he could not get around.

This person once made Li Qingchen embarrassed with one sentence. It can be said that this person is Li Qingchen's only enemy among the conservatives who has a personal grudge. But what made him nervous was that, except for the name-defying paper, the name of the scholar jumped out of the paper.

He is actually the son of Li Qingchen’s enemy. What should he, a subordinate of Li Qingchen, do?

Li Qingchen was a wealthy man, but he was also aroused by successive accidents. He finally understood that he had been tricked by two guys, Su Che and Huang Tingjian. Why didn't Su Che want to see Su Shi's disciples?

It was all an illusion. It turned out that he was deliberately acting for himself. He was the only one who was still kept in the dark. Maybe at this moment, the treacherous brothers Su Che and Su Shi would be so happy.

Seeing Zhang Shangying standing there stunned, he seemed to understand Zhang Shangying's dilemma.

It can't be that kid, right?

Li Qingchen grabbed the paper and glanced at the place where the name was revealed. He staggered a few steps and his vision suddenly went dark. He held on to the desk with great difficulty so as not to fall. He gritted his molars and said word by word: "Shao

The first place in the provincial examination in the first year of the Holy Year, Fan Chong, a student of Taipei University, was born in Huayang County, Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Road."

After saying that, Li Qingchen's whole body was shaking with anger.

Zhang Shangying whispered: "Sir, do you want to copy names?"

"Why not?" Li Qingchen proudly turned around and glared at Zhang Shangying, and said, "Although I am the examiner of this subject, how can I be selfish in the imperial court's talent promotion ceremony?"

Zhang Shangying curled her lips and said in her heart: "As long as you are happy."

In fact, things have reached this point and cannot be changed. As the examiner, Li Qingchen, the top twenty papers, if he didn't circle them and nod his head in agreement, how could they be confused?

It can be said that these twenty people are the best among the scholars of this subject who were personally nodded by Li Qingchen. They will be the most proud students of Li Qingchen, the examiner of this subject. Among these twenty people, Li Qingchen at least wants to strangle him to death with his own hands.

Three people. But he couldn't do anything about it. If he was really an excellent examiner, he would have already recognized the other party's identity as Bagong and was deposed. He would definitely be the one who was disgraced in the end.

The only thing Li Qingchen could do was to change the rankings of these people, but even he didn't bother to do this kind of self-deception.

He waved his hand to Zhang Shangying and asked Zhang Shangying to take the transcribed list and prepare it for posting. However, he locked himself in the government office alone, staring at the examination paper using his article, and couldn't help but open it.

After naming him, Li Qingche slapped himself in the mouth angrily.

He should have thought a long time ago that Li Yun would be able to do such a shameless thing.

Just when Li Yun was bragging to Li Kui, he was about to reach the peak of his life.

Li Qingchen, who was in Gongyuan, encountered the darkest experience in his life.

In fact, there is not much problem with his character. It is rumored that he has a tendency to become a fanatic, but in fact he is still a famous scholar who can keep his true nature. There are also rumors that among the top 20 of Sumen's top 20 high schools, the chief examiner Li Qingchen smacked his lips.

1. It seems that Li Qingchen is an out-and-out treacherous official who failed to frame Zhongliang and ended up having to harm himself.

As for the trend of inflammation, is there actually another hidden reason?

But Li Qingchen was an extremely proud man. He didn't care what others said about him behind his back. He supported the reformists. What happened?

What's more, after he boarded the ship of the Reform Sect, he never got off the ship. In fact, he still had the opportunity to get off the ship and get a chance to rise to prominence, but he did not choose to do so. When Yuanyou was in his early years, his

The situation is much better than that of Zhang Dun, Cai Bian, Zeng Bu and others. During the Xining Reform period, he implemented official reform, and the conservatives did not have much hostility towards him.

Speaking of which, Zeng Bu was a true believer. He was a reformist and an opponent of the reform. In this regard, he almost caught up with Su Shi. Because of his opposition to the "Shi Yi Law", Zeng Bu was demoted by the boss Wang Anshi. Wait until

After the death of Shenzong, as long as he showed his dislike for the reformists, he could easily enter the court and no longer have to travel around the capital to serve as an official. However, Zeng Bu refused to do so, insisting that in Xining's reform, except for "

Except for the Market Change Law, all other laws are good and we will never bow to conservatives.

In this way, he was in trouble at both ends, but the Zeng family was not the Li family. It had a profound foundation. The reputation of Nanfeng Qizeng was hard to match in the Song Dynasty. The most famous thing is that in the second year of Jiayou, the Zeng family had

Four brothers passed the Jinshi examination together.

Compared with these big families, Li Qingchen did not have any family background to rely on.

His ancestors were all commoners, but his father was a Jinshi. However, he served as a county magistrate and died of illness while still in office. It can be said that Li Qingchen could not even maintain the dignity of an official family.

The only one I can rely on is my wife's family, that is, the Han family.

Han Qi’s recommendation and Han Jiang’s importance.

But for Li Qingchen, Han Jiang's ideas conflicted with his. Coupled with the life-and-death struggle between Han Jiangzheng and Wang Anshi at that time, Li Qingchen was also in a dilemma.

After finally following his heart, he was scolded as a repeating villain.

For him, sticking to his original intention is even more important than his life and death. Because for Li Qingchen, if his original intention is lost, then he will lose the bottom line of his life.

The Gongyuan official list was about to be released, but Li Qingchen was hiding in the official office.

For scholars, this is the most important moment in their lives - looking at the list.

At Li Yun's insistence, Li Kui had no choice but to follow Li Yun on the streets in the middle of the night. They did not go directly to Gongyuan, but to Fan Chong's residence. When they arrived at the small courtyard where Fan Chong rented, Li Kui suddenly felt that the atmosphere was not quite right.

Fan Chong was sitting in the yard with a lonely expression. There was a large fire pit in front of him, and the flames were very strong. The beating flames were especially weird in the dark night, and they made Fan Chong's expression even weirder.

"Brother Fan, did you fail the exam?"

Li Kui felt that if Fan Chong did not do well in the exam, he would probably be in doubt. Fortunately, Fan Chong shook his head and said, "No."

"Why is that?" Li Kui walked in and discovered that Fan Chong was burning manuscripts and manuals, as well as some memorials that were left behind due to mistakes. Fan Chong raised his head and said with a wry smile: "I still remember what the teacher said about my father offending the provincial examination chief.

Is it about Li Qingchen?”
To be continued...