Chapter 474 Spring Examination

Nan Xi knew his temper, so she didn't try to persuade him too much.

Many things can't be persuaded by words, and it takes time to fade.

"The spring examination should have been decided in February, but now it's already March, and there's still no outcome." Nan Xi smiled lightly, "Do you think you, the regent, have failed in your duties?"

Rong Yu lowered his eyes and looked at his son. The little guy was already asleep, sleeping soundly and cutely.

He called Yin Yue and asked her to take the child to the small bed in the side hall to sleep.

After Yin Yue took the child away, he whispered, "I failed in my duties. Your Majesty, are you going to punish me?"

"How?"

Rong Yu's attitude was particularly obedient: "No matter how Your Majesty deals with me, I am willing to accept it without any complaints."

"Really?" Nan Xi raised her eyebrows, "Then punish you to sleep on the bed for four hours."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Rong Yu smiled softly, took her hand and kissed it on his lips, "I obey your order."

After saying that, he really cooperated very well and took off his boots and got on the bed, holding her in his arms.

"I've been exhausted these past two days." Nan Xi stroked his eyebrows and eyes, as if to wipe away the tiredness. "Don't torture yourself anymore in the future. I told you to rest well a long time ago, but you never listened."

"I've slept enough these past two days, and I always have nightmares." Rong Yu said in a low voice, "You used to dream a lot, but these two days it's my turn."

Nan Xi was silent: "What did you dream about?"

"A lot." Rong Yu stretched out his hand to hook her hair, wrapping it around his fingertips in circles, "Good and bad, happy and sad, intermittent, very messy."

Nan Xi couldn't sit for a long time during the confinement period, so she lay down soon. Rong Yu followed her and lay down, holding her in his arms and not wanting to let her go. Even though they had been married for a year, he still couldn't help but be greedy for this kind of warmth that could bring him a sense of security.

"You're so close, aren't you afraid that the smell of my sweat will suffocate you?" Nan Xi teased.

Women after childbirth sweat a lot, and drinking a cup of hot water can make them sweat all over.

Rong Yu smiled and said, "I only smelled the fragrance on your body."

"Your nose is problematic."

"Yes, your majesty is right." Rong Yu obeyed unconditionally, without any resistance, "Didn't your majesty punish me to sleep?"

Nan Xi also explained, "If the matter of the Spring Examination is arranged earlier, the two tutors around you will have a legitimate opportunity to enter the officialdom. And Xie Jin, even if he runs errands more times, everyone in the imperial capital knows that he is a favorite of the emperor, but after all, he has no official title, and it is inevitable that people will not accept it."

Rong Yu smiled softly, "I understand."

Nan Xi glared at him.

Rong Yu did understand that he had been a powerful official for two lifetimes, and in this life he was the regent of the Great Zhou and Dongling countries. What kind of things in the court did he not know?

It's just that he has been around Nan Xi for the past two days, and all the affairs in the court have been left to the ministers who are more capable and do more work. The palace examination needs to be presided over by the empress and the regent personally. The time for the entrance examination has not been determined, and Prime Minister Lu can't make the decision on his own.

Nan Xi knows this, so she reminded him not to forget this important matter.

Rong Yu agreed and promised to explain it early tomorrow morning.

Nan Xi let him go.

Rong Yu couldn't help but sigh secretly. Her Majesty's majesty is back, and her innate sense of responsibility has obviously returned with it. Should he be happy or sad?

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There is an aristocratic academy called Yulin in the capital of Dongling. Although there is no explicit regulation, this name was given by the ancestor emperor. For a hundred years, it has mostly trained talents for the court. Only the children of the powerful and noble families in the imperial capital are qualified to study there.

Xie Jin once studied in Yulin Academy for two years, but he was young and smart, knowledgeable and talented, and was considered a leader among students. He didn't go there much after he was fifteen years old.

The Spring Examination in February happened to coincide with the birth of the prince by the Empress. The Regent was so focused on the Empress that the Spring Examination was delayed. Fortunately, Prime Minister Lu was very capable. Before the Regent issued an order, he reminded the respected teachers in the Imperial Academy to prepare and prepare a list in advance, so that students who were qualified and confident this year would have the opportunity to participate in the Spring Examination.

This would prevent them from being in a hurry and not even having time to prepare their homework.

As the son of Prime Minister Xie, Xie Jin also needed to go through this stage if he wanted to officially enter the government.

In addition to Xie Jin, royal relatives and children of the rich and powerful who did not have the title of king or marquis were also eligible to sign up for the entrance examination held by the court. If they could stand out in the examination, they would naturally be qualified to enter the government.

Because this is the first year of the empress's accession to the throne, and also the first time to hold an imperial examination after her accession to the throne, the process is simpler than before, and some unnecessary restrictions have been cancelled. Of course, it is also because it is an exception - at the beginning of the new emperor's accession to the throne, it is necessary to select talented and learned children from aristocratic families to inject new forces into the court, and also for the harmony of the relationship between the monarch and his subjects.

Therefore, this spring examination is different from the usual three-year imperial examination system. The autumn examination that has been missed can only be cancelled, so the poor children who need to travel thousands of miles to Beijing to take the examination are not included.

Originally, the palace examination was scheduled for April after the spring examination, but now it is mid-March, and the preliminary examination can only be scheduled before April. After the preliminary examination, the examiners still have to mark the papers, so the palace examination in April is definitely too late.

Rong Yu set the time for the palace examination on the sixth day of May.

Although the process is simple, the difficulty of the Spring Examination is not low, and Prime Minister Lu is aware that the Regent has a cold and strict temperament and will not tolerate any fraud or cheating, so the selection of examiners is arranged with great caution. After the Regent's order was issued, Prime Minister Lu and several cabinet ministers have been discussing the matter for the past two days.

Prime Minister Xie was in charge of military affairs, and the Spring Examination was not within his jurisdiction. Besides, Xie Jin was also going to participate, so he had to avoid suspicion.

After consultation with Prime Minister Lu and other cabinet ministers, a list was drawn up on March 16 and submitted to the Imperial Study, and Xuanyuan Hua was asked to present it to the Regent for review.

Rong Yu had no objection after reading it, and the matter was settled.

For the children of the rich and powerful, this was a very rare opportunity that no one wanted to miss.

But for Xie Jin, it was just a process that he didn't care much about but had to go through.

"Spring Examination?" Xuanyuan Yao sat by the window on the second floor of Yuelai Restaurant, his eyebrows raised high, "You are the legitimate son of the Xie family, Master Xie Jiu, known as the No. 1 son of Dongling, and even the King of Hell has to give you some face. You actually have to take the exam with those children from aristocratic families?"

"Why?" Xie Jin took a sip of wine slowly with a wine cup in hand, and said in a light voice, "You think it's incredible?"

Xuanyuan Yao frowned: "It's not that I think it's incredible, but I can't imagine that scene."

After all, Master Xie's behavior doesn't look like a scholar who takes the imperial examination.