How to make a famous minister

Chapter 13

Fan Xuanchao, who has gone through the college entrance examination, actually has little fear of various examinations.Shun Shundang had passed the county examination and the government examination in April, so he only had to wait for the hospital examination in August.

In May of this year, an inconspicuous but far-reaching incident happened in the deep palace. Wei Zhongxian replaced Wei Chao as the counterpart of the Hakka family, and then squeezed away the king by virtue of the fact that the Hakka family was the wet nurse of Emperor Tianqi. An, became the eunuch in charge of the ceremony and took charge of the power in the palace.

Wang An made great efforts to help Guangzong Emperor Zhu Changluo and Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao successfully ascend the throne. He made great contributions twice. The Donglin Party has a very good relationship with him. He himself served three generations of emperors and has many contacts in the palace.But all of this is nothing compared to a word from the emperor's wet nurse, Keshi.It didn't take long for Wang An to be dealt with without anyone noticing, and he reported a disease and died.

The Donglin Party can't control the appointment and life and death of a eunuch anyway, not to mention that there was no procedural error in his illness and death.But they can't help Wang An's grievance, and they won't cooperate with the person who killed Wang An.The Donglin Party saw Wei Zhongxian's future as the new generation of eunuch Liu Jin here.No matter how Wei Zhongxian wins them over, the Donglin party members are unwilling to be with him.

Even if Wei Zhongxian, as the supervisor of ceremonies, all the memorials of the eunuch have to pass through him, even if Wei Zhongxian is the counterpart of the Hakka clan, and the Hakka clan is the person who has the greatest influence on the emperor.

For the Donglin Party, this is not enough to make them lower their stance, let themselves get off the shore, and step in the mud to associate with Wei Zhongxian's party.

And Wei Zhongxian lived up to expectations, successfully became a treacherous eunuch, and far exceeded the expectations of the Donglin Party, surpassing Liu Jin.

Wei Zhongxian's weapon, apart from the Hakka family, is the Emperor Tianqi.Emperor Apocalypse did not love government affairs, but only liked carpentry.Wei Zhongxian reported political affairs to him when he was addicted to carpentry. Over time, in order to be able to play carpentry happily, Emperor Tianqi let Wei Zhongxian handle everything by himself.If Emperor Tianqi wants to read the excerpts, Wei Zhongxian also has a way.Emperor Tianqi was illiterate and needed someone to read the scriptures to him.The eunuchs, the supervisor of ceremonies and the eunuch Bingbi, were all Wei Zhongxian's people, so it didn't matter how many scriptures they read, they just edited them up now, and all of them turned into colorful good news.Emperor Tianqi often happily praised Wei Zhongxian for his effective work.

After becoming a character, some people gathered around Wei Zhongxian. Gradually, at some point, they had a unified name - "Eunuch Party".

At this time, in the eyes of Donglin Party, the eunuchs were just treacherous ministers who played small fights.National affairs are all placed on the confrontation between Liaodong and Houjin.

Fan Xuanchao didn't even know that the famous Wei Zhongxian was already in power, ready to bring the heaviest blow to the country.

He did very well in the hospital examination in August, and jumped from the third place in the government examination to the top of the court examination.The entire Fan family was in high spirits, Ma and Zhang paid homage to their ancestors again and again, and gave Mr. Chen many gifts.Fan Jingwen was so happy to write a letter to Mr. Fan who was far away in Tongzhou, he was happier than he was a 14-year-old scholar.His son is 13 years old and is the case!

Even the British government sent gifts of pens, inks, papers and inkstones to congratulate Fan Xuanchao for winning the case.Mrs. Zhang went to the British government, and when she came back, she said to Fan Jingwen with a smile on her face: "My sister-in-law said that the British government has sent someone to study politics, and said that Brother Chao will definitely enter the Imperial College."

Those who did well in the college entrance examination entered the Imperial College for further studies, and after a certain amount of credits, they could come out and become officials.This feeling is like someone else is still preparing for the college entrance examination, and you have already been admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University.

Fan Jingwen was happy, Mrs. Zhang was happy, Mr. Chen was also happy, everyone was happy except Fan Xuanchao.

Although Fan Xuanchao himself was happy to do well in the exam, he was not as happy as Fan Jingwen and Zhang Shi and others. After all, there were only a thousand people in the college exam.That's what it looks like -- the first-grade degree.

As for studying in the Imperial College, when Fan Jingwen told him that his British uncle was going to send him to study in the Imperial College, Fan Xuanchao sent someone to inquire about the Imperial College.If you don't inquire, you don't know. When you inquire, you will be shocked.The rules in the Guozijian are strict, and they were set in the first period.It’s fine to study during the day and memorize at night, you are not allowed to talk about what to eat, and you are not allowed to discuss how the food is, otherwise you will be beaten and sent back to your place of origin.Also, if you are accused of forming a clique (at a time when the Donglin Party is everywhere, you are still in charge of the Guozijian students not forming a clique), you will be fined to be a servant in the Guozijian forever, and you will not even be sent back to your original place up.

Even the college entrance examination factory is not so scary!

Fan Xuanchao is not willing to go to this crime anyway, how good it is to learn by himself at home, eat and drink, Mr. Chen disciplined him a little bit more strictly, but he never beat him, and he was not sent back to his place of origin or served as a The possibility of a lifetime of servanthood.

Before Fan Xuanchao had time to mention to Fan Jingwen about not going to the Imperial College, when he heard that his biological uncle had settled the matter for him, he was so frightened that he hurried to intercede with Fan Jingwen.

Fan Jingwen was also open-minded. He laughed out loud when he heard that he was afraid that he would be used to being wild, that he would be sent back to his hometown and that he would not be able to conduct scientific research again. "What do you worry about every day? You are a son of a serious official. I won't talk about a junior official of the fifth grade, but your grandfather is a high-ranking official from another province, and your uncle is a British prince. Who would dare to trouble you? ? Although the rules of the Guozijian are great, they are not rigid and unreasonable. As long as you don’t make big mistakes, you can play the rest yourself.”

Fan Xuanchao rolled his eyes and thought: Does Mr. Fan mean that I am also a half-playboy, and I also have a backer behind me, and if something happens, I just pay a small amount of money?

He was very reluctant to go, so he lost his mind, and said: "The masters of the Guozijian are not as good as Mr. Chen. Without Mr. Chen's constant teaching, I am afraid that I will not be able to improve my studies." Fan Xuanchao knew that Fan Jingwen was most afraid of becoming a subordinate. A Fang Zhongyong, every few days would chatter into his ears such words as "learning without thinking will lead to death, thinking without learning will lead to peril", "learning is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will fall back", Fan Xuanchao's ears are getting callused .

Fan Jingwen said: "It's not like you won't come back. When you get home, why don't you ask Mr. Chen for advice?"

"It's not as convenient as asking for advice anytime at home." Fan Xuanchao struggled.

"How about this, you ask Mr. Chen to give you homework and take it back, and then ask Mr. Chen to correct it when you are on vacation next time. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Now that Fan Jingwen's talk has come to this point, Fan Xuanchao is too embarrassed to pester him any longer. He can't act like a baby like his little daughter, so he reluctantly agrees, with two or three points of reluctance and reconciliation. A lot of homework assigned by Mr. Chen went to the Imperial College to go to school.

He didn't know until he arrived at the Imperial College that the rules he was afraid of were all from the old emperor's calendar during the Hongwu period, and now the Imperial College has become a pasture for noble children.Since everyone is here to hang out, how can you detain everyone, so the rules of the Imperial College, except for the few that cannot be changed, have been deleted, deleted, and changed, and no one cares about it in the end.

Knowing that it is actually not that strict, Fan Xuanchao finally felt relieved and concentrated on studying.

The rules of the Guozijian are to memorize lectures during the day and review at night. There are also many things to learn, mainly the Four Books and Five Classics, Mencius chapters and sentences, and the great edict, that is, the law.The Four Books and Five Classics, Mencius chapters and sentences are all familiar to Fan Xuanchao at home, but the most troublesome part of "Dagao" is that it is so numerous and complicated, it is not so difficult to use Dagao to interpret the case.But for Fan Xuanchao, it was not difficult at all to write from memory, and it was quite easy.

Because Fan Xuanchao remembered faster than others, at least he could find time to finish Mr. Chen's homework.However, the time is tight, and we have to seize every bit of time every day to get things done.

It wasn't until later, when I got used to the life of the Imperial College, that I became more relaxed and less busy.Also made friends.Said he was a friend, but Fan Xuanchao felt that they all regarded him as a younger brother. After all, Fan Xuanchao was only 13 years old, while the others in the Guozijian were as young as fifteen or sixteen years old, and the oldest were in their thirties.Being an older brother at home, but becoming a younger brother when he came to Guozijian, Fan Xuanchao couldn't laugh or cry.