Chapter 571 Parents Enter Beijing

More than twenty days passed in a flash. Wang Ping'an was living comfortably in the palace of Mount Li. The test papers were decided by Chu Suiliang and the Minister of Rites, and several other masters of the exam were also taken by Wailang, but he didn't really do much.

These days, he stayed in the hall where the papers were drafted, and he was with Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji and others for a few days, soaking in hot springs, scraping and so on. Although he had not done many things, his relationship with the emperor and a group of important officials was increasing day by day, and the more he got along, the better.

Li Shimin originally had the intention of suppressing Wang Ping'an and wanted to leave it to his son, but after getting along these days, he felt that although Wang Ping'an was talented, he was a very "naive" good child. No wonder everyone said that he was a good person!

As a minister who governs the country, especially a major in the court, good children are not good. You have to be scheming and calculating. Good children cannot cope with all kinds of government affairs.

On this day, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji were soaked in Xingchen Soup, with no one around, and only his king and his minister were talking about things in the pool.

Li Shimin leaned against the edge of the pond, took a hand towel, wiped his sweat, and said, "Wuji, do you think Wang Ping'an, a child, can he bear the heavy responsibility?"

Changsun Wuji has seen these days that the emperor's favor for Wang Ping'an has increased greatly, and asking himself this privately shows that he is considering adding burdens to Wang Ping'an and may have to entrust important tasks in advance.

He thought for a while and said, "It still needs to be tempered and jade cannot be made without being carved. According to the old minister, he should assign him some specific positions so that he can understand the government affairs early and learn to handle matters."

Li Shimin nodded and said, "I think so too. Last time, Zhi'er said he wanted to be the Minister of the Secretariat, but you stopped him, but why?"

Changsun Wuji said to himself: "Of course I want him to be the Minister of the Secretariat and take charge of the Secretariat in the future. If he takes charge of the Secretariat, isn't it equivalent to me? But this road must be paved for him in person."

He said: "Wang Ping'an is still too young. The old minister sees that he has a good grasp of the overall situation, but he has great shortcomings in the execution of various matters. He does not have the ability to do it, and he can only be considered a counselor, not a minister."

Li Shimin nodded slightly. He also felt this way, but he still asked, "How can he see what he is just saying and not doing it?"

"That's too many, almost everything is like this." Changsun Wuji grabbed the tray floating in the pool, took a cup of tea from it, and presented it to Li Shimin. He took a glass of wine himself, took a sip, moistening his throat.

He said: "He proposed the new law on disaster relief, but the implementation of the governor of Xuzhou and the racing conference. He also gave the advice, but the various departments cooperated to do it. I won't talk about it anymore. The old minister heard that he wanted Xu Jingzong to go and set up some pedestrian streets. Why did he want Xu Jingzong to go? It's not that he couldn't do it well, so he found a helper."

Li Shimin tasted the tea, put the teacup by the pond, and said, "If you say this, I feel that this is true. Wang Ping'an's execution ability is far inferior to his planning ability."

Changsun Wuji intentionally made the emperor feel this way. When the matter was done, he could tell Wang Ping'an that the emperor told me privately that you were so good, and then how I recommended you. In this way, Wang Ping'an would be grateful to him and felt that relying on the prince alone was not enough. The emperor did not listen to the prince's words, but only listened to him.

Changsun Wuji said, "So the old minister said that Wang Ping'an still needs to be tempered!"

Li Shimin smiled and said, "Trial training is a must. I have been thinking these days that the Secretariat is doing planning. If Wang Ping'an goes there, he can play his strengths. If he is good at executing, he will not have to go to the Secretariat and directly join your Secretariat and be your deputy."

Changsun Wuji smiled, and was about to go with the flow, so he advised the emperor to let Wang Ping'an enter the Secretariat directly.

Li Shimin's next sentence came immediately, and he said, "But when you say this, I feel that it is unnecessary to let him go to the Secretariat directly. Anyway, he is already good at planning, and even if he is tempered, he doesn't have to train in the Secretariat."

Changsun Wuji's eyes grew and he thought to himself: "I don't want him to go to my Shangshu Province, do you? I have a radish and a pit in my place. If one enters, I have to drive away one. Who should I drive away?"

Li Shimin said: "If you want to exercise your execution ability, it is best to be a local official and go to the poorest place to be a local official. First, it can help him understand the sufferings of the people and know what water can carry a boat and can also overturn it; second, it can handle civil affairs, and best practice your execution ability to make up for his shortcomings. Only in this way can I leave him for Zhier to use with confidence!"

The pool water was already hot, and Changsun Wuji had already sweated a lot. After hearing Li Shimin's words, he sweated more! He thought to himself: "Send him to the poorest place to be a local official? No need to do so! If you really send Wang Ping'an to a poor place, it wouldn't be me paving the way for him, but I set up a checkpoint for him!"

He said, "Your Majesty, this...is not necessary. In fact, the old minister had a long time ago, and wanted Wang Ping'an to hone his fiefdom, but he didn't want him to stay away from Chang'an."

Li Shimin said strangely: "Why don't you want him to stay away from Chang'an? Oh, you are afraid that Yiren will marry him. If he is far away, Yiren will miss home. There is no need to worry about this. Yiren is still young, and I actually can't bear to leave her. After the marriage is settled, he will settle the marriage. After a year or two, he can return to Beijing, and then enter the Secretariat and marry Yiren as the deputy prime minister. Only in this way can I show that I love my young daughter and be worthy of your sister."

When the Empress was mentioned, Changsun Wuji was speechless immediately. Li Yiren was his niece and Empress Changsun's biological young daughter. It was normal that Li Shimin couldn't bear to let her get married early. He could not say anything else, so he would be distracted from his flesh and blood.

Changsun Wuji thought for a long time and didn't come up with any good idea. He had to bite the bullet and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister doesn't want Wang Ping'an to be too far away from Chang'an. The main reason is... The old minister's health is not good, and many ministers in the court are older. Wang Ping'an's medical skills are superb. Isn't it more guaranteed to stay in Beijing? It's convenient to call him!"

Li Shimin frowned, feeling a little unhappy, but feeling warm. He thought to himself: "It's not necessarily for you, it's for me, I want Wang Ping'an to stay in Beijing to see me. Alas, Wuji is still thinking about me for more!"

He waved his hand, raised a splash of water, and said, "I heard from Monk Xuanzang that he said that birth, old age, sickness and death are all arranged by God, and he has his own fixed numbers and cannot be forced. I agree with it. I keep Wang Ping'an in the capital and treat people specifically. What did that become? Isn't that a doctor? What I want is not a doctor, but a capable minister who can be left for the treatment."

Changsun Wuji felt embarrassed and said, "Emperor, I am old..."

Li Shimin shouted: "It is because you are old that you have to find a young man to take over. I have decided, so there is no need to discuss it anymore!" After a pause, I felt that the words were a bit too choking, and then said warmly: "You arrange a county for Wang Ping'an... Forget it, arrange a state and let him be the governor, but don't be too close, it's too close, just like there is no expatriate. If you have anything to do or not, run to Chang'an. What's the point of training?"

Changsun Wuji had no choice but to say, "Yes, the old minister obeyed the order."

Although it is comfortable to soak in the hot spring palace in Lishan Palace, you can't always soak. Chu Suiliang deliberately extended the time to sort out the papers, and he ordered it for a full month, and could no longer delay it, so he had to organize the test papers and hand them over to the emperor for review.

Li Shimin has always been very happy in his work, and there was no such thing as a palace examination in this era. The real palace examination started with Wu Zetian. She selected ministers very carefully. The scholars could not do it just to make their articles in a colorful way, and they had to please her with their words and deeds. However, Li Shimin did not have this habit. As long as the paper was answered well, everything would be fine.

With a big stroke, the list of Jinshi was not changed. He would call him the pen as he reported it. The first Jinshi was a head-on, which was the top scholar in later generations. Without any suspense, he became Di Renjie's possession, and the second Jinshi was a scholar in Xuzhou and the son of Qiu Wenpu, the famous scholar Qiu Tingxuan.

Both of these people were Wang Ping's stable. Di Renjie's ranking was unchanged. The emperor said that his paper was eye-catching. If they did not let Di Renjie shine, wouldn't they say that the emperor was blind? As for Qiu Tingxuan's paper, Chu Suiliang had carefully considered it. He felt that he was enough to be the Jinshi, but the second place seemed to be insufficient.

But I couldn't resist Wang Ping'an's constant persuasion, and the Minister of Rites also made concessions to Wang Ping'an. Wang Ping'an told him privately, "Aren't you scolding the three people I recommended in the end? I'll give in and don't recommend them three, but you have to give in. Together, I recommend Qiu Tingxuan to Lord Chu, so that he can win the second place. Even if we are equal, we will be good brothers and good colleagues in the future.

In the officialdom, compromise is necessary! The Minister of Rites is willing to give in, so Qiu Tingxuan did a good job and had a father of a famous scholar, so he could get second place.

The two deputy examiners unanimously recommended Qiu Tingxuan, and Chu Suiliang was irresistible, ranking Qiu Tingxuan as second. The most important thing in the Jinshi class was. After the ranking was set, other miscellaneous subjects were also completed one by one, and the papers were approved.

After leaving Chang'an for a while, Li Shimin got up and returned to Chang'an. Prince Li Zhi left Chang'an and greeted Li Shimin on the way. The father and son met, rested for a night on the way, and set off together the next day at dawn and entered Chang'an City.

I returned to the capital on the first day, and the list was announced on the second day, and the results of the scientific examination were announced all over the world.

On this day, Wang Ping'an did not attend court. It was not a grand ceremony. He did not need to attend court. He stayed in the Inspiration Temple and accompanied Di Renjie and other news. He had already told Di Renjie that the emperor nodded him as a lie.

But before the news came out, Di Renjie was relieved. He was sitting and lying in the backyard of Lingyan Temple, walking around constantly, muttering, not knowing what he was talking about.

Seeing him like this, Ouyang Li said to the two little girls: "Didn't the master say that he was hit by a head, why did he still look like this? Why is he in a hurry? He actually went to the cottage one by one?"

The two little girls had just served Wang Ping'an to wash. Ding Danruo held a basin in his hand and poured water on the ground, saying, "I'm so anxious, I'm going to the cottage. Why don't you go to the cottage?"

Ke Lianwu said, "I'm afraid of changing my mind temporarily. I'm afraid that the emperor will change his ranking temporarily, so he won't be rude."

Wang Ping'an walked out of the house and heard their conversation, saying, "Because he had too high expectations, he was so nervous. When he planned to take the Ming Dynasty, he didn't look at him at all. Later, he changed to the Jinshi exam and began to care. Now he learned that he was going to be a stool. If he didn't go to the cottage a few more times, he would be too calm...or, his stool was dry!"

The two little girls made a face together and looked at Di Renjie. Seeing Wang Ping'an coming out, Di Renjie jogged over and said, "Brother, should you send someone to see the list? Brother Ouyang, you run fast, why not go!"

Ouyang Li smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go and see for you." He said yes, but there was no place to move.

Wang Ping'an waved his hand and said, "No need. You must be calm now and understand. You just can't be nervous. You must be as stable as Mount Tai. This is the demeanor of a famous scholar. Be careful not to let the person who reports the good news come, and you will faint happily. You can wake you up by slapping it. That embarrassing thing." Don't happen to him when Fan Jin passed the imperial examination.

Di Renjie sighed, it was impossible to make him not nervous. After walking around the yard for a few more circles, he ran to the cottage again.

Suddenly, someone came to the door, but Hamiti and the others, Hamiti, Aiding and Yin Jiu arrived all the way. The three of them used their cars to pack four or five baskets of copper coins, and each of them was tied with a small red rope to serve as wedding money.

As soon as Hamit entered the backyard, he shouted: "Have you read the list? Did Xiao Dike win the Jinshi?"

Wang Ping'an smiled and said, "I didn't send anyone there. I've known the result for a long time, so why bother so nervous?"

Yin Jiucheng said: "How can you not be nervous? This is a big deal!"

Hamiti and Aiding also nodded together. Being a Jinshi was a major event that the ancestral tomb was filled with blue smoke. If he was hit, what would the ancestral tomb of Di’s family look like? The thick smoke would roll!

While speaking, Ouyang Yi ran up and shouted, "Great joy, great joy!"

Wang Ping'an said: "Yes, it's a big joy. Has the person who reported the good news arrived in the front yard?"

From a distance, Di Renjie shouted, "Has he been hit? Is he a shaped head? It's not changed?" He held his pants and didn't even tie his belt, and ran in from behind with mud.

Ouyang Li said: "I wonder if he just opened the big or small, and if he wiped it clean!"

Ouyang Yi glanced at Di Renjie and said to Wang Ping'an: "Master, it's not the one who released the results to report the good news. It's our master and wife who arrived from Xuzhou. Before entering the city gate, the servant who reported the news was blocked in front of the temple. There were too many people who couldn't get in."

Wang Ping'an shouted, "My father and mother are here? It's great. Come with me quickly!" As he said that, he ran away and hurriedly turned back halfway. There were too many people in the front door and couldn't get out, so he had to go to the back door.
Chapter completed!