Chapter 385 The Guardian Goddess Plan and the Major Events of the 23rd Year of Chenghua

"It actually doesn't matter if I enter the palace and become a concubine. What happens outside is just a matter of..."

On the bed in the room, Murong Shu suddenly spoke calmly. Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by a small-minded man.

"Murong Shu, remember, you can only have one man for the rest of your life, and that's me!"

Xu Xin swore her sovereignty domineeringly, saying that no matter what happened to the woman he had obtained in the past, he would only be his man in the future. He never took the emperor seriously.

"The emperor is no longer the resolute and courageous emperor he once was. He is old and dim. He can't even tell whether his woman has been framed. What kind of man is he?"

Xu Xin's words instantly touched Murong Shu's heart. The reason why she indulged that night was to start a random act with someone, and she was also dissatisfied with the emperor.

"If you choose to enter the palace, I will naturally find a way to gain superficial favor from you, but I will not let the emperor get close to you. You are mine!"

After Xu Xin said this, he continued talking.

"If you don't want to return to the palace, I will have someone arrange for you to fake your death and delay it for a few years until the emperor dies. But if you enter my Wang family again, I'm afraid you will only be with Xian'er, and you can't..."

"Wang Lang, it doesn't have to be like this. Shu'er will never dare to think about getting married again in her entire life!"

Murong Shu quickly covered his mouth. Everything this man said was so rebellious, but it made her heart beat.

"Is there anything I dare not think about? Even if you really enter the palace as a concubine again, I will accept you gracefully, and no one can stop me. Didn't Xiao Yanyan, the former Queen Mother of Liao Dynasty, also marry Han Derang? !”

"It was different back then. The Liao Kingdom was considered a barbarian!"

Murong Shu finally suppressed her words. Xu Xin was willing to accept her gracefully, but she did not dare to accept such a thing.

It's not that she doesn't like Xu Xin and doesn't want to remarry, but she knows that such a thing is definitely against the world's disapproval, even involves rebellion, and may be infamy for thousands of years. She doesn't want her lover to do such a thing.

"If the predecessors have done it, there is nothing for future generations to do!"

Xu Xinhun said nonchalantly, showing no respect for the imperial power. What a joke, he was the founding emperor of the country, the emperor who never sets on the colonial world, how could he take the mere imperial power of the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains so seriously.

"People thought you were a scholar, but I didn't expect you to be bolder than Huang Chao!"

Murong Shu rolled her eyes at him. Huang Chao had no way to make progress back then, but the man in front of him had no respect for the emperor.

"You are telling people these things today to ask them to enter the palace and compete for their favor?"

"Why bother to fight? You should become the most noble woman in the palace. This is what the emperor owes you."

"Jiang Biehe has a plan to send his daughter to the palace to compete for favor and create some kind of guardian goddess. The most important thing about this plan is that the guardian goddess can be any woman."

"If the emperor dreams about you, he will only think that he is thinking and dreaming..."

After hearing what Xu Xin said about Jiang Biehe's plan to protect the goddess, Murong Shu's eyes suddenly lit up. It could be said that it was tailor-made for her. Among the women outside the palace, no one knew the emperor better than her.

"Of course, there is a premise for all this, and that is that Concubine Wan Gui must die!"

Xu Xin's voice was calm, and Concubine Wan Gui's life was just a fluttering word in his eyes.

He had met Concubine Wan Guifei, who was doted on the Sixth Palace, several times from afar. She was indeed very beautiful, a mature woman, but she was still very sultry. Most men would really want to have something happen with her.

But Xu Xin knew that just as Emperor Chenghua was willing to depose the queen for Concubine Wan Gui, Concubine Wan Gui only cared about the child emperor she had raised since childhood, and they were a true love.

Xu Xin had no interest in destroying this kind of "love", so he should let Concubine Wan Gui die a "normal" death. Anyway, it was not him who wanted to kill, but Fengli Dao who killed her in order to avoid exposing her identity.

"When will that bitch Wan Zhen'er die?"

Concubine Shu is very concerned about this matter, which involves her own return.

"Do you really want to go back?"

"No way? I wish I could be with you every day. Anyway, before I go back, you are mine, every day and every night..."

Concubine Shu was very eager and took the initiative, using her emotional body to prove that she was telling the truth.

Xu Xin rested for a short while, and then naturally resurrected with full blood, and once again started the journey of concubine Shu to beg for mercy. If this happened in the palace, it would all be the crime of deceiving the emperor by Xiao Xiaole of the Nine Clan.

Over in Beijing, two major events are about to happen.

The first thing is that the crown prince's selection of his concubine is about to come to an end, and it will probably be decided in February of the 23rd year of Chenghua.

Another major event that happened in February also made the entire court busy.

The triennial Jinshi examination was also held in February of the 23rd year of Chenghua.

Before the first month of the 23rd year of Chenghua, Xu Xin took a large group of people from the Jiang family and the Murong family to Beijing to take the exam.

That's right, Mr. Xu, who was admitted to the Juren Examination just a few months ago, is going to compete in the joint examination of this subject, strive to enter the palace examination, and officially become a member of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.

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"Rich families don't need to buy fertile land...the book has its own golden house...the book has its own beauty like jade..."

The name of this poem is Encouraging Learning, and it is an advertising poem. The author's name is Zhao Heng. The cowardly emperor went to great lengths to promote his country's civil service and restrain his military power, and publicized their family's imperial examinations.

They did succeed in pitting the Chinese nation. The dynasties of later generations gradually developed into emphasizing culture over military power, and the Ming Dynasty after Tumu Fortress was no exception.

In February of the 23rd year of Chenghua, after three years of selection, a new batch of Juren and the failed candidates of previous years gathered in the capital to prepare for the triennial Ministry of Rites joint examination, launching a new round of attacks on the last hurdle of the imperial examination...

Although passing the Juren exam is equivalent to joining the ruling class, being able to find an official position, having no worries about food and clothing for life, being respected, and having a pension in old age, it can be considered a successful person.

But if you want to rise to prominence and live the top life of "golden house, thousands of bushels of grain, and beautiful face", you still have to pass the Jinshi exam.

There are thousands of candidates in the two capitals and 13 provinces, and each Juren master has three to five or even more than a dozen attendants. Tens of thousands of people flocked to the capital at once, and the capital during this period was naturally very lively.

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It was chilly in February in Yanjing, especially in the morning and evening, when the north wind blew, just as the saying goes, ‘the spring breeze in February is like a pair of scissors’.

On February 15, the 23rd year of Chenghua, when Xu Xin came out of the Imperial Examination Hall in Beijing, the carriage that had been waiting outside for a long time quickly pulled the future Lord Xu and headed to the Prince's Eastern Palace.

The wedding of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had originally been chosen on an auspicious day, February 10.

But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who had always followed etiquette, insisted on waiting until the examination was over, and asked Xu Xin, the Crown Prince's tutor, to attend his wedding and serve as the bride-receiving person. Such a favor really made many people envious.