The first ray of sunlight in the early morning through the sky pouring down to earth, through the West Garden Hall of Seongnyeon gossip window fell into the hall, sprinkled with a mysterious gossip pattern halo, in the gossip pattern of the two poles of the middle of the two people stood, one wearing a dragon robe, one wearing a grey and white gossip Taoist robes.
“What is the explanation for this dream of mine?” An enquiry came from within the hall.
Hearing Emperor Jiajing’s enquiry, Tao Zhongwen, who was clad in grey and white Bagua Taoist robes, performed a salute to Emperor Jiajing, then closed his eyes, extended his right hand out of his Taoist robes, and curled up his five fingers to pinch and calculate.
“One counts Kan Ruoxi two counts Kun, three Zhen four Sundance counts in the middle of the score, five sends the middle palace six Qian is, seven兑 eight Burgundy nine Lei Gate ……”
Tao Zhongwen while pinpointing, while softly chanting.
After about two minutes, Tao Zhongwen suddenly opened his eyes, a face of joy, towards the Jiajing Emperor performed a big salute, joyfully to the Jiajing Emperor to report up: “I, congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty.”
Jiajing sniffed his nervousness and stretched the muscles on his face, then asked, “Where does the joy come from?”
“Ying in Xun, full in Kan, this is a sign of great luck and eternal prosperity.” Tao Zhongwen stroked his white beard against the sunlight, and the sunlight hit him, causing his godly aura to rise several notches at once.
Jiajing was overjoyed at his words.
“Just, why did Emperor Taizu Gao, his old man, stand on the bank of a river full of green floating weeds and look at me, not saying a word, and then finally pointing at his feet he feathered his feathers and flew away?” After Jiajing Emperor was overjoyed, but with some misgivings, he opened his mouth to Tao Zhongwen and asked.
“This is your majesty’s family affairs, I am an outsider, it is inconvenient to comment.”
Tao Zhongwen looked at Jiajing Emperor and shook his head slightly, with a I’ve got it all figured out but can’t say it expression on his face.
This is His Majesty’s family matter!
If Zhu Pingan was there, he would definitely despise Tao Zhongwen’s behaviour, old man’s trousers are down and you’re telling me this? This old clergyman is also too good at excuses, Emperor Jiajing is high on drugs and hallucinating, the hell knows what it means, this old clergyman is too good at this trick. This is a family matter for His Majesty! Your ancestors are manifesting in your dreams. Communicating with you, this is your family business, Your Majesty, and it’s hard for a clean officer to judge family affairs, let alone your imperial family, I know all about it. But I’m not at liberty to say.
Jiajing Emperor’s perspective of thinking is obviously not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Jiajing listened to Tao Zhongwen’s words, nodded, pondered for a moment, felt Tao Zhongwen said very reasonable, this is the Great Ancestor High Emperor his old man gave himself a dream. His old man will not dream to himself for no reason, must be to our old Zhu family of the mountains and the earth and grain related, this is not to say that the country, rather than say that the family is more appropriate.
Ancestor’s words to his children and grandchildren, how can they be conveyed through other people’s mouths? Well, Tao Zhongwen has a point.
At the time when Emperor Jiajing inquired about his dream in Tao Zhongwen, the south gate of the West Garden – Yangde Gate outside the Cabinet’s straight hut, Yan Song and other eight Jiajing-appointed ministers of the reading of the scrolls are in a feverish reading of the scrolls.
Yan song is the cabinet chief minister, is the temple examination is the first read the paper minister; In addition to Yan song, the other seven are also famous ministers of the dynasty. The minister of the ministry of ministry of ministry of administration, the left minister of the ministry of rites, the university sergeant of the academy of Hanlin, the left royal secretary of the inspectorate, the secretary of the dali temple, the secretary of the guanglu temple, and the remaining one is a group of ministers of the cabinet.
The temple examination three days later to pass on the list, leaving them to read the time is less than two days time only. The temple exams do not brush people, but to determine the ranking, which is also a lot of work, especially the temple exams eight reading ministers read the way decided that their speed is not fast.
The temple test reading is different from the township test, yan song eight reading ministers sitting on a large table, need to review each temple test paper in turn, simply put is the first person to read the test paper after reading, and then passed to the second person. This is passed on to the eighth reading minister before being considered complete. Each minister has to mark the examination papers, and there are five grades in the marking of the examination papers, which are conventionally graded by “○”, “△”, “＼”, “1 “, “△”, “＼”, “1”, “×” five symbols to indicate the five grades, “○” is the first class is the best. “△” is the next best, and “×” is the lowest grade. Everyone has to mark the question paper using this symbol.
At the end of the day, the more “○”s on the paper, the better the paper is, and all the other symbols are counted and compared to arrive at the final ranking. According to the usual practice. Eight ministers read the paper, if you want to get one or two a, at least seven “○” can be, if the paper score less than seven “○” that basically with one or two a have no chance, not to mention what the first prize scholar.
The 11th to 400 of the temple examination paper they can decide on their own rankings, the emperor will not care, the emperor would like to care also have no energy is not.
Yan song their eight read the main task of the minister is to get “○” on the paper paper selected the best ten to be presented to the Jiajing emperor, by the Jiajing emperor from the ten test papers selected the first prize, the top, the scout to.
Yan Song is very responsible, each of the Mi Feng examination papers to his hands, he is dedicated, impartial assessment! Only two test papers except! No, all of the test papers Yan Song is dedicated, impartial assessment.
Yan Song is completely based on the quality of the examination paper to give points, he can figure out Jia Jing’s meaning, more can see the merits of the examination paper good or bad.
Font, current affairs policy and so on are reference factors, but as long as the test paper to improve the Jiajing emperor did not do enough, the highest can only get a “△”!
Yan Song to set an example, the other seven reading ministers are naturally dedicated, they are masters of this road, reviewing the examination paper naturally, are also dedicated to impartial review.
However, but only two marking ministers to two points of the examination paper exception!
One is the examination paper contains “the officials through the top and bottom of the feelings, the country’s important also. Respect the power of the king, choose the appointment of the officials, class the duties of the officials, supervise the performance of the officials, public rewards and punishments …….” The one with the words “The government is the most important thing in the country.
The other is the paper containing the words “The world is public, the holy ruler is united, the order of heaven is accepted from above, and the feelings of the people are considered from below ……”.
These two papers, Yan Song all gave the highest score “○”, the other seven reading ministers in five also all give the highest score “○”.
But there are two exceptions, one is the Ministry of Rites, a left minister, a cabinet Qunfu. Both of them gave the first paper a “△”, but gave the second paper the highest score of “○”.
Ministry of Rites, left minister in the first paper, “the officials through the top and bottom of the feelings, the country’s important also. Respecting the power of the ruler, choosing the appointment of officials, classifying the duties of the officials, supervising the performance of the officials, and making the reward and punishment public …….” When the words, immediately thoughtlessly gave a “△”. The Ministry of Rites left minister finished reviewing, passed to the cabinet group of ministers to review, without a trace of his hand gently pressed his hand two times, and then the cabinet group of ministers will be understanding nodded, the same gave a “△”.
The first test paper in this paragraph, the Ministry of Rites left minister remembered too clearly, by no means wrong, this sentence is that the temple examination is sitting on the east side of the first person wrote!
Turnip greens to each his own, the temple exam reading allows reasonable error exists, but the difference can not be too big, what is a reasonable error, that is, eight reading ministers on the same paper to give points across not more than three grades, that is, someone to a first class, someone to the second class, you then give people the fourth or the fifth class, so that is not reasonable. Even if you choose vegetables, you can choose vegetables, but you can not eat meat ah, the difference is too obvious. The difference is too great, but we have to pursue the responsibility, and the responsibility is very heavy!
This Ministry of Rites left minister and the cabinet Qunfu two people scoring is very scheming, others give first class, we two give second class, but also very normal ah, I just don’t like it too much, give second class how, this is a reasonable error.
In this way, contains “the officials through the upper and lower feelings, the state of the important also. Respecting the power of the ruler, choosing the appointment of officials, classifying the duties of officials, supervising the performance of officials, public reward and punishment …….” This paper, which contains the words “Honour the authority of the ruler, choose the officials, teach the officials, supervise the officials’ behaviour, and make the reward and punishment public”, received only six “○” marks.
The other paper with the words “The world is public, the holy ruler is united, the order of heaven is accepted from above, the people’s sentiments are considered from below ……” The other paper with the words “The world is public, the holy ruler is united, the order of heaven is carried out above, and the feelings of the people are carried out below ” got a full eight “○”.
Only the first ten people will be sent to the Jiajing Emperor, competing for this Enke Scholar, while the rest have no chance.
The first paper got six “○” 2 “△”, less than seven “○” that basically with one or two a have no chance, with this temple examination top ten is also much worse. There are several people who got 8 “○” alone in this examination, not to mention the 7 “○”.
Therefore, this paper is not get Jiajing Emperor’s opportunity to read! Don’t even think about it! Don’t even dream of it!
The left minister of the Ministry of Rites looked at the grading symbols on this exam paper and revealed a satisfied smile.
