Su Qiong couldn't sleep, so he asked the girl to make a pot of strong tea to wake him up.

Su Qiong didn't believe it at first and started to scratch her head.

The people who were selected to invigilate the exam this time were either people from the Zhen Guogong faction or people who were timid and afraid of getting into trouble. They would definitely keep their mouths shut.

Nothing will happen to our own people. The only ones who can be are Jia Rong and some students.

The relationship between Jia Rong and Youshilang remains to be verified.

Jia Rong and Taishi Zhang’s family are quite close.

First, Zhang Dingyuan often visits Ningguo Mansion.

Second, on New Year’s Eve, besides Ning Guo Mansion setting off colorful fireworks, there was only Taishi Zhang Mansion.

People from Taishi Mansion personally admitted that these fireworks were sent by Jia Rong.

There is a 50% chance that Jia Rong can persuade Taishi Zhang to intercede with the emperor for him.

Still need to verify it.

Su Qiong stopped sleeping and got up immediately to go out.

He asked his confidant, "Go immediately and find out where the pomegranate pattern blue and white porcelain in the main hall of the Right Minister's residence comes from."

"Yes."

He went into the palace to report to the emperor on the scientific examination.

Along the way, he thought of various words to say something bad about Jia Rong in front of the emperor.

Eunuch Xia stopped him and said, "The emperor is getting excited when talking to the grand master. It would be better for you to go in later."

Su Qiong: "What books has the emperor read recently?"

Eunuch Xia thought for a while and said: "It seems that the book "The Preface to the Examination of Dayi and Weiyan in Spring and Autumn Biji" is a book passed in from outside. It seems to be written by a man named Jia Ziqian."

Others don’t know who Jia Ziqian is, how can he, Su Qiong, not know?

Aren’t the books passed in from outside brought in by Master Zhang?

If Grand Master Zhang can recommend Jia Rong's books to the emperor, he will definitely whisper in the emperor's ears for Jia Rong.

Jia Rong is extremely talented, and there are few people who dislike him.

If there were no grudges, maybe he could be friends with Jia Rong.

Do you want to continue?

On one side is the entrustment of the eldest son of the benefactor, Duke Zhenguo, and on the other side is his official title. Which one should I choose?

Su Qiong is in a dilemma.

Su Qiong didn't know that the book was not brought in by Taishi Zhang, but was given to Yuan Chun by Jia Rong as a New Year gift.

Yuanchun likes reading and thinks it is good, so he cherished this book very much when he got it.

The emperor saw this book when he went to Yuanchun and was attracted by its contents, so he took it and shared it with Master Zhang.

Confucianism is profound and profound, and the more educated Zhang Taishi became more and more interested in reading it. Every time he met with the emperor, he shared his experience of reading this book. The eunuch remembered the name of this book every time he went there.

Everything was carefully arranged by Jia Rong.

He put a letter in the book and told Yuan Chun what he had experienced.

Yuanchun learned that Jia Rong was treated differently because she helped her father. She was willing to help her in order to help her father repay Jia Rong's love.

This book was not valued by the emperor for the first time, but Jia Yuanchun picked it up the second time, and the third time, it was finally seen by the emperor.

Hence today’s conversation.

"Master Su, please come in. Your Majesty, please come in."

Su Qiong went inside to report the situation of the scientific examination.

When Su Qiong went to court the next day, she saw the sly smile of the right servant, and felt uneasy and thought a lot.

Did the right servant already know this?

Is the Right Assistant Waiting for him to make a mistake so that he can take his place?

The right servant must know a lot, so he smiles at me like this.

Standing in her position, Su Qiong thought of the hard times she endured when she was a local official.

Do you still want to go back and be a local official?

Do you really want to be demoted to the frontier to become an official?

Su Qiong thought for a long time and made a decision.

I have been busy for half my life and finally entered Kyoto to serve as an official. I can no longer go out.

There is still room for redemption if you offend the Zhenguo government. If you lose your good impression in front of the emperor, you will never have a chance to turn around in the future.

With this decision, Su Qiong no longer struggled and stood calmly.

After leaving the court, he immediately returned to the government office where the papers were reviewed and said to his people: "Put up Jia Rong's papers. What is his is his."

"Yes."

……

Recalling the struggles of the past few days, Su Qiong knew that she should apologize.

He got up and prepared to go to the Zhenguo government office to plead guilty.

He prepared a set of rhetoric: the founding of the Ming Dynasty restored the imperial examination, and most of the people who passed the Jinshi examination were students from the south.

After the founding of this dynasty, the imperial examination was resumed, and most of those who passed the examination were students from the south.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of the students who have won the top prize have come from the south, and the superiors no longer want students from the south to win the top prize.

I don’t want Jia Rong to be on the list, but it’s a pity that there are people above to protect Jia Rong. The people above said that there must be a number one scholar in Kyoto, and it must be three yuan and three.

As long as he kills the "person above", Zhen Guo Gong will not do anything to him. Could it be that Zhen Guo Gong goes to confront the emperor?

He was already prepared to be angered by Duke Zhen and beaten by Niu Jizong. At least he could still be an official in Kyoto and at least have a chance to be reused.

Su Qiong went out depressedly.

……

Zhang Dingyuan went to find Jia Rong, who was counting the silver.

Zhang Dingyuan sat down and asked him, "How did you turn defeat into victory?"

Jia Rong didn't want to say it at first, but seeing that he had taken advantage of him, he decided to say it.

He waved Yuanyang and others to go down.

Yuanyang happily took his money bag, and Dongzi and others also made a fortune.

"Can you tell me?"

Jia Rong pushed the money into the box and said: "There are only two uses."

"Which two?"

"One is you, and the other is Niu Jizong." He put the money box away, "The right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs likes to read story books, and his confidants often go to the Absurd Academy to catch up with novels."

"My people will recognize the right servant. I told the right servant that Su Qiong wanted to harm me, and Niu Jizong was the evidence.

When Niu Jizong saw people from the Jia family, he would ridicule him and badmouth me. When the confidants of the right minister saw this, they could guess that Su Qiong would attack me."

Zhang Dingyuan didn't believe it, "This is just superficial. There is no evidence, and the right servant can't help you."

Jia Rong said: "The evidence is very simple, my handwriting, my test papers, and my own petition paper. As long as the right servant hands me over, Su Qiong will be able to walk around without food."

Zhang Dingyuan pointed to his nose, "What about me?"

"I told Su Qiong that if you harm me, I will join forces with the Right Minister and Grand Master Zhang to pull you down.

You are the evidence that Master Zhang will help me. Su Qiong believed it, so he did not dare to attack me."

Zhang Dingyuan still felt that it was too ridiculous to make Su Qiong avoid him and betray the Zhenguo government.

Zhang Dingyuan asked again: "Why does the Right Minister want to help you? Since you are taking advantage of both sides, are you not afraid that the Right Minister will hate you?"

"I gave him an antique, blue and white porcelain with pomegranate inscriptions, a royal jade pendant, and ten thousand taels of silver."
Chapter completed!