166. Chapter 166
Wei Shao was stunned, but fortunately he reacted very quickly. Before Xiao Qiao could unfold, he took the file away from her.
Xiao Qiao glanced at him, spread out her white and tender hand, and reached straight towards him.
Wei Shao put the hand holding the file behind him and laughed dryly: "This article is not well written, look at something else..."
"I want to see."
Xiao Qiao looked at him with a smile.
Wei Shao remained motionless.
Xiao Qiao reached behind him and sucked the file in his hand.
Wei Shao held it tightly.
The smile on Xiao Qiao's face disappeared.
"let go!"
Wei Shao loosened his hand and she pulled the file away.
Seeing her open the file, browsing the article, her eyes finally fell on the column, and she was concentrating on thinking, suppressing the sourness that bubbling in her heart, and said, "Gao Heng's article is just a pile of words, but in fact it's nothing. What does Manman think?"
Xiao Qiao put down the file.
"On the way I came, I happened to meet Dr. Fang, and I asked me about the test paper. The doctor's opinion is completely opposite to your Majesty. According to the doctor, Gao Bohai's answer point is Dingyuan, which is well deserved."
Wei Shao was embarrassed and coughed dryly: "I have to slander the previous dynasty! How did those people like Fang Xi become doctors in the Imperial Academy? It was clear that a piece of cake was forced to be said to be a Dingyuan article! It was not because of Gao Heng's reputation that it was written as a shit, and they smelled the same..."
He looked full of indignation, but when he saw Xiao Qiao looking at him, his voice gradually softened and finally stopped.
"Continue!"
Xiao Qiao was sitting sideways on his lap. Seeing that he stopped, she urged him and raised her delicate eyebrows.
Wei Shao looked at her four eyes for a moment, and suddenly said, "Did you mean to go against me? I'll just say it! I just can't stand this Gao Heng! What's more..."
He looked at her squintingly: "What's more, he came to the exam, it was obvious that he had other plans! Do you dare to say you don't know?"
Xiao Qiao stared at him for a moment, and was already tense, but suddenly she couldn't hold it in, and she laughed out loud.
"What's the other way? Tell me clearly!" she said with a smile.
Wei Shao said in anger that he was a little worried that Xiao Qiao was annoyed. Suddenly, he saw her laughing and looked as lustful as a lotus. He took the opportunity to hug her: "But you want me to say it, I said, don't blame me! I used to know that Gao Heng had other intentions for you! You clearly married me as a wife, but he said you were his confidant. That's all, and he dared to invite you to see the Yunmen Cliff? He didn't have other intentions for you? Originally, I thought that after so many years, I didn't care about him anymore! I didn't expect that he would come again now..."
He stopped for a while.
"What's coming?"
"Come to attract your attention again!"
Wei Shao became more and more annoyed the more he thought about it. "In the name of Gao clan of Bohai, he wanted to be an official. He had done it in the previous dynasty! He didn't come out early or late, so he had to come out to participate in the imperial examination at this time. It was obvious that he heard that the imperial examination system was advocated by you, so he deliberately voted for your preferences and attracted your attention!"
"Are you shy? How many years ago, Philip and Philip are three years old. You still remember such a small matter that is so big! When the imperial examination system first came out, there were many oppositions from the gentry in the world. I know that your Majesty, you are wise and powerful, and you don't want to rely on the old local gentry to stabilize the country. But if they really join forces and oppose it, the place is unstable. Your Majesty, you can't cut off their heads because of this, you have to find a way to settle it, right? Gao Bohai not only publicly supported Your Majesty, but also withstood the pressure to participate in the imperial examination. With his influence, he blocked the mouth of the gentry. What is the purpose of the imperial examination in Dayan? It is not only a matter of being confined to attract talents from all over the world! Now that he has reached the imperial examination with his talent, you not only do not reward, but also make unreasonable trouble!"
Xiao Qiao stretched out a finger and poked his heart: "I think you, your heart is not much bigger than a needle or a nose!"
"I'm just like that, it's not the first day you know!" Wei Shao was in a silence, "If those gentry make trouble again, they will annoy me. Some are ways to kill them. There is no need for him, Gao Heng, to come out and serve me as a good person!"
Xiao Qiao frowned slightly: "Why do I think you have the potential to be a fool?"
"The tyrant king is the tyrant king!" Wei Shao didn't blink for a moment, "No matter what you said, I just dislike Gao Heng! No matter how well he wrote his articles and how capable he is in the world, I can't imagine me recording him!"
Xiao Qiao stared at him, took away both hands holding his waist, stood up and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is happy. I'll take your leave first."
Turn around and go out.
When the emperor and the empress were in the same room, there was an unwritten rule in the palace. If it were not for summoning, the palace ladies would take the initiative to retreat outside.
So at this moment, there were only the emperor and the empress in the huge Xuan room.
"stop!"
"return!"
"etc--"
Xiao Qiao walked to the door, and there was a sound of footsteps behind her. Wei Shao chased after her and grabbed her hand from behind.
"I'll record him as second place! Is this OK?"
Xiao Qiao turned around.
"I can't give him the top of this list! Although I didn't keep the children of the gentry out, the purpose of this first game was to show the court's determination to use talents to the people of the world without any restrictions. You should tell me this! Even if Gao Bohai's article is good, taking him as the top of the list in the first game is contrary to the original intention of the new policy! I will give him the second place, at most I can give him some extra rewards, which is considered to be the compensation for taking his top spot!"
"Will you be satisfied?"
He smelled a stinking face.
Xiao Qiao slowly smiled. She stretched out her arms to wrap her waist, tiptoed, kissed him, put her lips in his ears, and said softly: "My husband is obviously wise and wise, but he just wanted to be jealous and not afraid of laughing at people..."
Wei Shao's face became soft and gentle.
"In Manman's eyes, there is only His Majesty. Not to mention that the rest of the men in the world have never beat His Majesty anymore, even if there are real people, Manman will never take a look at him..."
Finally, when the beauty said this, Wei Shao's body was soft and his anger disappeared. He hugged her, holding her ears and suddenly thought about it, and said, "Manman, I know you have always wanted to see the cliff in the clouds. I have said before that I want to take you to see, but I can't get out of here. It's not time yet. Why not let it go and I will take you and Philip out of the palace!"
Xiao Qiao was stunned and shook her head with a smile: "You can watch the cliffs or not, my husband doesn't have to go out for a lot of effort for me."
Wei Shao responded vaguely at that time, but he was holding this matter in his heart. The next day he summoned Gongsun Yang to show him the top three imperial examinations he had planned. Then, he focused on revealing to him his thoughts on leaving the palace for a while.
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Gongsun Yang for a bunch of reasons that sounded very reasonable.
The emperor was depressed and had to suppress his thoughts.
Half a month later, Dayan's first imperial examination was released on the imperial list.
The most eye-catching Bohai Gao Heng won the second place.
In the first three scientific tests, two poor scholars and one gentry were among the first three. This result was a happy ending.
Although Gao Heng failed to occupy the Kuiyuan, he had achieved his original intention and had no regrets.
That day, the palace was given a banquet, and the emperor and the empress came together. After many years, they were finally able to meet with the woman who painted the inscriptions with the Queen Mother of the West again, which made Gao Heng very excited.
In his mind, Empress Qiao has long become a goddess-like existence, without any blasphemy. What's more, with her status, how could she be disrespectful?
He had no intention of becoming an official, not to mention that nowadays, a talented literati like Gao Heng, who was born in aristocratic family, might not really take it seriously, but the wife of Yan Hou who was unforgettable to her at first sight was different. She is now the queen. He also heard that the new imperial examination system issued by the imperial court was first advocated by Qiao Hou. When he learned that the geniuses were opposed by him, he immediately became excited and thought about nothing. He stood up and expressed his support.
Gao Heng is honored to be able to help Qiao Housu with his own slim power.
Therefore, when the palace was given a banquet today, he knelt down and received wine from Empress Qiao. Seeing Empress Qiao nodded to him with a smile and asked him kindly, he was extremely excited and his eyes were gone for a while, so he lost his composure and could not help but say, "I have rubbings of the top ten cliffs in the world, especially the cliff rubbings in the clouds, which I personally remade, and are almost exactly the same as the original work. If the queen does not abandon her, I would like to offer her to the queen and show her loyalty."
The emperor's face darkened slightly. The queen smiled and declined, saying that she did not dare to take away love. Gao Heng looked regretful, but the emperor's face was a little better.
Half a month later, the emperor was appointed as an official and sent Gao Heng out of Luoyang from afar, and finally felt much more comfortable.
But he was still thinking about something in his heart.
One day two months later, a huge monster was finally packed in a large enclosed box three meters tall and four or five meters long. It was led by six horses in front. Under the command of Jia Wei, a team of soldiers escorted it to the southern gate of Luoyang.
This huge box, which looked very heavy, swam across the city and penetrated half of the imperial city. It was so grand that it attracted almost half of the residents, watching it watch it finally be sent into the gate of the palace.
What exactly is in the box?
Passers-by were talking, and in the end everyone agreed with the same statement. Judging from the weight and the level of guard, the box should be filled with gold, silver and treasures.
When the passers-by's hot discussion drifted into Jia Wei's ears with the wind, his tense face was almost collapsed.
He was quite worried that if the people of Luoyang knew that the box was actually a piece of big rocks that were rolling in their eyes that the locals in the clouds dared not speak out, they recruited dozens of stonemasons to chisel from the mountain day and night, and in order to transport the big stone into Luoyang smoothly, they would have been circulating continuously by water and land in the middle, and they consumed countless manpower and material resources. In fact, it was just a matter that the emperor did to please the queen, even in his opinion, that even in his opinion, would the people arrange behind the scenes of the emperor being a fool who was very likely to perish the country in his lifetime?
Chapter completed!