Liu Xian’s surname is Gong, or is he from Nanchang?

Wei Guangde really didn't know much about this. After all, the civil and military are different. Who would care about a general if he had nothing to do?

What's more, I don't know anyone I've never met before.

When the few people were talking vigorously, there was a figure shaking at the curtain outside the door, as if someone had come to the front of the door and wanted to come in, but was blocked by the gatekeeper.

"Listen to the news I just received."

There was a voice coming into the room outside the door, and everyone's eyes were cast.

Seeing this, Li Fang hurriedly walked away quickly, opened the curtain first and went out, so naturally to see what was going on.

Now the house is having fun chatting with several adults. It is best not to disturb the prince's interest if there is nothing big.

Soon, Li Fang lifted the curtain and returned to the house. He handed a note in his hand to King Yu in the eyes of everyone, and said, "Just just got the news from the court, Lord Lei Lilei, the Minister of Works, submitted a memorial to resign as the official of the book reading on the grounds of supervising the worker."

"The three halls are about to be completed, and the projects on Tianshoushan Mountain in Changping are probably very busy."

Zhang Juzheng said with a caress.

King Yu took it and looked at it. He handed it to Yin Shidan, and said, "Shu Lei resigned, and I don't know who the free reading officer will be?"

No one in the room answered the conversation, and I really couldn't figure out who would be replaced in the end.

The reading official appointed by Emperor Jiajing this time was a bit wonderful. It seemed to convey a certain signal, but it seemed that it did not, making people unable to find a way.

Of course, the memorials involving the palace examination were immediately sent to the hands of Emperor Jiajing of Xiyuan.

In Yuxi Palace, Emperor Jiajing had already read Lei Li's memorial and placed it gently on the imperial desk. After thinking for a moment, he said to Huang Jin: "Lei Li cannot read the paper, nor can he force it, and it will still be kept in it. Li Chunfang, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, added the reading of the paper."

"I'll go and pass the order."

Huang Jin hurriedly agreed, then quickly walked out of Yuxi Palace and sent someone to pass the decree to Li Chunfang.

Emperor Jiajing's attitude was very clear. He agreed with Lei Li's request and did not participate in the palace examination reading. He just kept his name among the readers of the papers. After all, he was the Minister of Works.

Wei Guangde learned the news early the next morning and was not surprised.

If he really took his name from the reading officer according to Lei Li, no one from the Department of Works will participate in the reading of the paper.

Relatively speaking, the examiners who read the paper should come more from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel, and it is impossible for the Minister of Works to replace the Minister of the Shangshu to participate in the reading papers.

However, I don’t know if King Yu felt disgusted with sending Li Chunfang to take over Lei Li’s responsibility to participate in the reading of the paper.

Speaking of which, the Minister of Rites seems to be more involved in reading the papers.

Now that Xu Jie and Yuan Wei have the job of reading the paper, Wei Guangde can only temporarily release the entrustment from Nanjing.

On March 14, officials from Honglu Temple and Guanglu Temple began to get busy, and they had to set up the palace examination room in advance.

Of course, these things have nothing to do with Wei Guangde, but he also has to prepare. After all, for tomorrow's palace examination, all the officials in Beijing have to dress neatly to attend court.

Emperor Jiajing had just attended court, and even the three major dynasties in a year were habitually cancelled, but he insisted on participating in the palace examination every three years. After all, for most Jinshi, perhaps he had the opportunity to see the emperor in his life.

On the day of the palace examination, Wei Guangde put on his court uniform like other Beijing officials and went out of the Meridian Gate early. Unlike previous years, he is now in the officials of the Zhanshifu Office. After all, he is already a member of the Ministry of Justice and is still in charge of the affairs department, although his four subordinates are not qualified to attend such a ceremony.

When it comes to the Sijing Bureau, there are not many official positions, namely, Xima, who is from the fifth grade, and the remaining four are from the ninth grade proofreader and from the ninth grade proofreader.

As far as their grade is concerned, officials who are not up to standard naturally do not need to attend the palace examination ceremony.

Not long after standing outside the Meridian Gate, footsteps came from behind. Wei Guangde turned around and looked at him. Officials from the Ministry of Rites came with a kind of tribute student. Three hundred people were in a dark place.

When he saw them, Wei Guangde felt a little dazed and couldn't help but think of himself a few years ago. He seemed to be like this, and came with a nervous mood. At that time, the officials in the capital might have looked at him.

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he shook his head gently.

He didn't have time to find Duan Mengxian in the tribute student group. With his ranking, he probably went behind the crowd like him, and it was hard to go there.

As time had arrived, Wei Guangde entered the Forbidden City with the officers, passed through the Meridian Gate and arrived outside the Fengtian Gate, and then continued to enter it. When he arrived at the Fengtian Hall Square, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple had already divided the positions for hundreds of officials to stand, and there was a space left behind, which was naturally a place for the tribute students.

However, when Wei Guangde entered Fengtian Gate and saw the newly built Fengtian Hall, he was still slightly shocked. He felt that it was not much the same as the Fengtian Hall in his impression?

The main project of the three halls has been completed, and now the rest is actually the interior decoration. So when standing in the square, it feels no different from the past. But the more you look at it, the more you feel that the Fengtian Hall seems to have been reduced. The more you look at it, the more you feel that the ratio between the main hall and the third-level platform is somewhat out of tune.

The third-level platform looks big, while the Fengtian Palace looks small.

Fengtian Hall is the highest-level building in this era. It will only be used when the emperor ascends the throne, the wedding book, the birthday festival, the winter solstice, the ceremony of the personal dynasty, the emperor's court, and other most solemn ceremonies in the country.

The double-eaved hip roof of Fengtian Hall is covered with yellow glazed tiles, with a width of nine rooms and a depth of five rooms. Nine is the extreme of the yang number, five is among the yang number, and nine is the most powerful and supreme. The building area is also thirty feet wide and fifteen feet deep.

But now in Wei Guangde's eyes, why do you feel so much smaller?

Since the fire that year, Wei Guangde has never entered Fengtian Gate again, and naturally knows nothing about the three major halls being rebuilt.

In the 38th year of Jiajing, because the three major hall projects were underway, the square was filled with wood collected from all over the place, so naturally it could not be used to hold the hall examination. Therefore, the ceremony was held outside Fengtian Gate, and Emperor Jiajing just climbed to Fengtian Gate and took a look.

This should be the first time that the three halls have welcomed the arrival of all officials in the court after the reconstruction of the three halls.

Wei Guangde counted it carefully in his mind. The Fengtian Palace is still as small as 95, and the area should be reduced a lot.

There are obviously many people who are the same as Wei Guangde. Many of them quietly pointed at the Fengtian Palace in front of them with the people around them. However, there are obviously no officials from the Ministry of Works, and perhaps they have been here or learned about this matter a long time ago.

Wei Guangde could only guess that perhaps it was because it was difficult to find large materials, so the newly built Fengtian Hall could only be reduced.

After all, the wood for building Fengtian Hall is not an ordinary thing, and the growth of trees also takes time.

Perhaps in the past, the north and south forest resources were abundant on the land of China, and there was also a lot of wood available for mining. However, as the population grew, the demand for land became extremely large, and a large number of trees were cut down, so that even the wood for rebuilding the hall was difficult to find.

He could only sigh in his heart and Wei Guangde took back his thoughts.

There is no way, the difference between building materials in the East and the West. If Western buildings encounter big fires, as long as the fire can still be controlled, the appearance of the building will often not have much impact. After all, it is mainly stone, and at most it will be redecorated afterwards.

And when we arrived in the east, a fire was enough to turn the ingenious buildings into ashes.

All officials stood firmly, and soon the candidates also entered Fengtian Gate and stood behind all officials.

Amid the ritual music, the emperor's ceremonial guard appeared. Emperor Jiajing walked onto the platform in a robe suit, stood outside the Fengtian Hall, and sat on the imperial throne that had been prepared.

The emperor ascended to the palace.

"Ba,ba,ba"

The sound of the whip sounded at the right time, and all officials performed five kneelings and three kowtows in the harmony of the officials of the Honglu Temple. After that, the emperor naturally gave the exam questions.

"In the 41st year, the Renxu court tried the tribute scholars in the world. The system said: I only have no emperor since the past, but no saint than Yao and Shun. History says that Yao and Shun put on their clothes and the world was governed. However, when the people of the lower world still consulted for the disaster of water. If there were no seeds, there were still people who had not fully managed. How could the two emperors not be polite? The ministers were appointed to the lower people, and the upper people could do nothing, otherwise how could they put on their clothes and manage them?

The entire palace examination ceremony was carried out in an orderly manner, and Wei Guangde stood in the queue of officials and listened quietly to the question.

"Therefore, I have been to govern without any effort. I have praised it and admired it very much. I have been pacifying the world for forty years. I have been respectful to the emperor every night. The emperor's constitution and ancestors selected civil and military officials to serve as civil and military officials, and they have been diligent and diligent. There has never been any slack in the past. The flood and drought caused disasters, and the people blocked hunger. During the Rong Di period, the border was not calm, and the southern thieves were even worse. After a few years, I have not yet realized my heart and the people were in vain, so that the people who chose it did not get the person, and they may have dereliction of duty."

The question for this test was obviously not the question requested by the Cabinet and the Ministry of Rites. It should have been the question that Emperor Jiajing himself asked for.

From Yao and Shun hanging their clothes and ruling them to Zhou Wu, and then to the present.

Emperor Jiajing was dissatisfied with the administration and was very dissatisfied.

The only thing Wei Guangde could think of was this, "If the person who chose the candidate had not obtained the person or was he dereliction of duty, the ministers of the generals and the border failed to exert their strength to control the enemy", and even said, "The present and the past are not like those of the ministers who were appointed in ancient times."

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde couldn't help but think of the lord who was still in the position of prime minister and seemed to be shaky. When thinking about what Nanjing entrusts, Wei Guangde couldn't help but smile.

In fact, the matter of the Ming Dynasty was not something that could be solved by appointing and removing one person, but two officials were the matter of the entire group, but whoever asked Yan Song to become the chief minister of the cabinet became the culprit of the corruption in the administration.

At this time, in the eyes of the officials, it seems that the source of all evil lies with Yan Song. As long as Yan Song is taken down, the administration of the Ming Dynasty will become clear. Is there really such a good thing?

In the current Ming Dynasty officialdom, most of the people are dirty. The officials who have been dismissed and replaced actually continue to corrupt according to the previous "convention".

Even if Wei Guangde didn't have real power, he wouldn't have been spared.

Either he was confused and learned from his ex to continue to float money, and he would receive the filial piety from the people below, so that he would be enemies with all officials and the entire group of officials. He asked himself that he did not have the courage to do so.

But at present, things in Nanjing seem to be easier to handle this time.

With Xu Jie's experience, he had never thought of the emperor's heart, which made him speak out in the cabinet and argue with Yan Song, which seemed to be simple.

As for Yuan Wei, I don’t think I can’t guess the emperor’s thoughts.

Soon, the grand palace examination ceremony ended, and the officials left the scene from both sides. Officials from Honglu Temple directed the eunuchs to bring the examination table to prepare for the exam.

When Wei Guangde left, he finally saw Duan Mengxian behind the crowd.

Soon, all the officials in Fengtian Palace Square were gone, and only the document reading officers were left there.

Inadvertently, Wei Guangde looked back at Emperor Jiajing on the imperial throne, hoping that this person would leave soon.

Looking up at the sky, the weather is pretty good today, with clear sky and no need to move the test desk to the corridors on both sides of the square to hide from the wind and rain.

After leaving the Forbidden City, Wei Guangde walked towards Prince Yu's Mansion, and soon he met with Yin Shidan, Zhang Juzheng and others.

They were all carriages and sedan chairs, and the four of them quickly entered Prince Yu's mansion.

The four of them walked together and soon returned to the wing room in the yard.

"Why does this Fengtian Palace feel much smaller than before? I haven't heard of this before."

Wei Guangde finally couldn't help it and spoke.

"It's hard to find big materials. I heard that the current materials were found by the Ministry of Works for a long time."

Zhang Juzheng may have heard some news from Xu Jie before, so he explained.

“It’s really too small.”

Yin Shidan also echoed casually.
To be continued...