I have to say that the extremely smart Li Qingchen is in trouble.

Fan Chong and Li Kui are both the targets he needs to attack. Let alone Fan Chong, in the sixth year of Yuanyou, Li Qingchen, who had been living in exile for many years, as an important minister of the Shenzong who had the merit of supporting the establishment, was written by the prime minister Lu Gong at the time. Censor Zhongcheng Liu Zhi remembered that he had planned to transfer Li Qingchen from a local position to the court to serve as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

But in the end, it was destroyed by a bitch. Of course, this bitch was Fan Zuyu, who was a low-ranking and powerful person in the service at that time. It was also during this period that Fan Zuyu started the crazy mode of complaining in his life.

This gentleman wrote in the memorial: "I observe what the Qing ministers did. When Han Qi is alive, he will follow it, and when Han Qi dies, he will carry it out. When Han Qi succeeds, he will follow it, and when he fails, he will destroy it. The repeated advances and retreats are nothing but for profit. Once summoned, As a result, it will have the potential to be reused and lose the hope of the world."

This was almost as good as calling Li Qingchen a repetitive villain in the final summary.

With these words alone, Li Qingchen wanted to bite Fan Zuyu to death. He was still Fan Zuyu's senior. In terms of qualifications, Li Qingchen's qualifications were absolutely high. He and Fan Chunren were the same generation in the examination room. This guy was disrespectful and even spread rumors and slanders. His character. Scholars rely on this character as a fig leaf to live their lives. Fan Zuyu jumped over and tore off his fig leaf. How could Li Qingchen not want to fight him to the death?

By the time Fan Zuyu became a Jinshi, Li Qingchen had already become a high-ranking official in the court.

This was mainly due to the fact that he was admitted to Jinshi at an early age. He was only fourteen years old when he took the provincial examination for the first time. Because he was too young, he was not admitted. A few years later, he passed the imperial examination.

In terms of ability, because he wrote well, all the articles were the articles that Emperor Shenzong most wanted to see, and his writing style was majestic, but without losing the rhythm. It can be said that he was the first author of the temple in the Shenzong Dynasty, and his The articles were all articles that impressed Shenzong and echoed his own thoughts. Li Qingchen's official career was naturally prosperous, and it was natural for him to be reused. At the same time, Fan Zuyu also followed Sima Guang in Luoyang to write "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", which was even correct. There is no official body in the Eight Classics.

On the surface, Li Qingchen seems to be a villain who relies on his articles to attract people.

But if he really didn't have any ability, would Wang Anshi use Li Qingchen?

The official reform during the Shenzong period was vigorous, and the person in charge of the official reform was Li Qingchen.

This man's talents are recognized by many people, but his character is also very poor. He is also the son-in-law of the Han family, and the person who presided over the wedding was Han Qi. He actually betrayed the Han family twice, which is disgusting.

But disdain is disdain, and the one who can say it to his face is Fan Zuyu. The two of them are also amazing. Fan Zuyu thinks Li Qingchen is a villain, but Li Qingchen firmly believes that Fan Zuyu is Sima Guang's lackey. They are not good at each other, but they want to hurt each other.

Of course, Fan Zuyu would never care, and had probably even forgotten about the feud between him and Li Qingchen. When he was doing his job, there were so many important ministers of the Shenzong who were criticized by him, so who was Li Qingchen? Who was he? His status in the reform sect was not as good as that of Zhang Dun and Lu Huiqing, and even Cai Bian's status in the reform sect was much higher than him.

In Fan Zuyu's eyes, Li Qingchen was just a trash fish among the reformists. She just stood on the shore, threw rocks into the water, and killed Li Qingchen. It was bad luck for her. If it affected Li Qingchen, I would be in trouble. I want you to wear small shoes, how dare you dance?

As for why Li Qingchen had trouble with Su Che, the main reason was that he wanted to replace Su Che's position as deputy prime minister. Because Zhang Dun was in charge of the Zaifu earlier in history, Fan Chunren deliberately backed down, causing Li Qingchen to lose the best chance to become the governor of Tongzhong.

An opportunity to smooth things over in the Shu family. Speaking of which, Su Che’s official position of Vice Minister of Zhongshu was devised by Li Qingchen back then. Before Shenzong, the official position of Vice Minister of Zhongshu did not exist and had never appeared.

The reason for adding the ministers under Zhongshu was because Emperor Shenzong wanted to take away part of the power of the prime minister, so he established the ministers under Zhongshu and his disciples, and the proposer was Li Qingchen.

At the same time, the official position of Councilor for Political Affairs was also abolished during the Yuanfeng period. Before that, although Councilor for Political Affairs was the head of the consuls, his official position was deputy prime minister, and his status was slightly lower than that of the Prime Minister. However, the previous status of Councilor for Political Affairs was

One thing that is very special is that Tong Zhongshu's subordinates Ping Zhangshi and Shenzhi Zhengshi took turns holding the imperial seal.

Unclear authority often occurred in the Song Dynasty before Shenzong.

Sometimes, when the prime minister wants to use his seal, he has to ask the deputy prime minister to take charge of political affairs. Although this can restrain each other in official positions and avoid the threat of a dominant family, it also causes a lot of trouble. The speed of the court's work is slow, and the subordinate officials

Don't know who to listen to.

The original mutual restraint in official positions was naturally to prevent power from being concentrated on a single important minister. However, after Shenzong began to reform, he found that such shortcomings caused mutual blame-shifting in the court, resulting in many new laws being rejected in the court.

It was blocked and could not be implemented. Li Qingchen reformed official positions as a Hanlin scholar and knew how to make imperial edicts. In a short period of time, he managed the affairs of the court properly. It can be said that his ability is not bad. At least it is better than scolding him repeatedly.

Fan Zuyu, a villain, is not a star at all.

But because of his bad character, the emperor's favorite was promoted too quickly, but his colleagues ignored his ability. To put it bluntly, they were jealous of his rapid rise and good luck.

In addition, Li Qingchen and Su Shi had a very good relationship. They often greeted each other with poems and poems, which lasted until the early years of Yuanyou.

In terms of qualifications, Li Qingchen's position as the examiner of the provincial examination was almost a kind of compensation. He also knew that he would definitely be promoted. There would be a big promotion before the palace examination.

Deputy Prime Minister.

There is no doubt about this, after all, he became a Hanlin bachelor twenty years ago.

But the deputy prime minister and the deputy prime minister are not different. Is it the minister of Zhongshu, the minister of the subordinates, or the left and right minister of the minister?

The Vice Minister of Zhongshu is in charge of two yamen: Zhijianyuan and Tongjinsi.

These two yamen are both important yamen in the temple, and they are much more important than the other yamen. Tongjinsi, the chief officer is Shizhong, is in charge of the three provinces, the Privy Council, the six departments of the Shangshu Province and various temples, supervisors and other official offices

In the memorial, the key points are excerpted and submitted. After receiving approval, they are promulgated.

The other Zhijian Yuan is even more important. The chief official is Yushi Zhongcheng, which is also commonly known as Taijian.

Controlling these two yamen is equivalent to controlling the speech of all officials. Even the Vice Minister of Zhongshu can make the emperor only see the important national events he wants the emperor to see. This is obviously not just the ambition of the deputy prime minister.

Li Qingchen thought of using the Minister of Zhongshu as a springboard to directly compete with Zhang Dun for the position of prime minister. Even though Zhang Dun was now sitting on the position of prime minister, as long as Li Qingchen became the Minister of Zhongshu, he would not lose. Compared with seniority,

He is much more senior than Zhang Dun. Su Che is also his junior.

Moreover, once there is a vacancy in the phase, the responsibilities of the Vice Minister of Zhongshu on behalf of the Prime Minister can become permanent as long as it is operated properly.

How could one be an official without any ambition? Li Qingchen had been in office for forty years. If he had not become an official too early, he would have had enough qualifications to become a high-ranking official. Even he himself would not believe it if he did not have the intention to become prime minister now.

As for dealing with Li Kui, at the beginning it was just a matter of hunting rabbits, because he didn't like the people of the Su clan.

But now Li Qingchen does not dare to despise Li Kui so much. In just a few days, Li Kui has changed the emperor. His ability to influence the emperor's mind is much stronger than what he did back then. It once caused him to worry. Back then, Li Qingchen was appreciated by Shenzong

, that is the reputation accumulated over more than ten years, one article after another.

And what about Li Kui?

It only took two days to twist the emperor's temperament. If Li Kui really passed the Jinshi examination, the emperor would probably be reluctant to let Li Kui go out. Staying in the court would be a disaster.

Li Kui may be the enemy who disrupts his work, so he has to be cautious. Even in his mind, he is more privately angry towards Fan Chong, and more wary towards Li Kui.

But Li Kui's paper disappeared during his planning. It didn't disappear. The paper was still there, but he couldn't tell that it was Li Kui's paper.

The same is true for Fan Chong's papers.

This put him in a dilemma. The examiner openly looked for papers that were hostile to the candidates out of personal anger, which would have caused ridicule.

Fortunately, he didn't care too much.

There was no trace of the papers of these two people in the two examination rooms of Tianzi and Dizi. There was no trace of the papers of these two people in the four marking rooms. This made him feel like a lump in his throat. Suddenly, a marking officer uttered an exclamation, which caught Li Qingchen's attention: "Qianfu

Brother, why are you surprised?"

The person being questioned had a strange face and handed a paper to Li Qingchen. Li Qingchen took a look at it and immediately calmed down. He found a place to sit and sat down to read quietly. The article was cadenced, like mercury pouring down the ground. This

This kind of momentum shows that he has seven or eight points of skill. It is rare to see a good article, and Li Qingchen couldn't help but sigh: "Yes, this article is a rare masterpiece among today's scholars."

"Sir, haven't you noticed that this article looks familiar?"

Seeing that Li Qingchen did not react, the marking officer pointed to the article and said to Li Qingchen: "If what I remember is correct, this article seems to be a play written by your old man twenty years ago."

"I write?"

Li Qingchen was asked, when had he written such an examination-oriented article? He was a Jinshi during the Renzong period. Although he had experienced the Qingli New Deal, in the third year of Qingli, he was still young and did not even have an official status.

How is it possible to take part in the imperial examination?

As for more than ten years ago, he was in the Hanlin Academy. Although he was a Hanlin bachelor, for some unknown reason, he never presided over the provincial examination.

There is no possibility of writing a sample essay.

No...it seems to have happened once. I remember it was at a banquet with Su Shi. Su Shi happened to be presiding over the Kaifeng Prefecture Examination at that time. I think it was seventeen or eight years ago.

Su Shi's original topic was mainly about comparing the hegemony of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Of course, Li Qingchen dismissed such a topic, and Li Qingchen was not unlucky enough to be a consul in the capital at that time.

So he wrote such an article while he was drunk. There were many people attending the banquet. Zhang Dun seemed to be there, as well as Su Shi, and several of his students, Huang Tingjian? Qin Guan?

Suddenly, he thought of Huang Tingjian, and suddenly he remembered everything.

That's right, it's Huang Tingjian. Otherwise, his article was not widely circulated, so how could it have been copied by the candidates. Looking at the examination paper in front of me, could it be that it was Li Kui behind the unclear name?

How dare this guy be so bold, pretend to write his article, and also want to snipe himself in the provincial examination that he is taking.

Traitor!

Li Qingchen gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "This paper will be sealed. After all the scholars' papers have been accepted, this paper will be opened and the candidates will be reprimanded for their conduct. From now on, they will not be allowed to participate in the provincial examination."

"Sir, is this not too much?"

"The examinee used the main examination article to answer the questions. Not to mention that his intentions are extremely sinister. My reputation will also be damaged. How can I let him live in peace? He must be punished and this person will not be allowed to participate in the provincial examination in the future."

"Best regards, sir!"

…

Finally finding one of the two enemy juniors, Li Qingchen felt a sense of refreshment and clarity, running up from the soles of his feet. When he left the marking room, his steps became much lighter.

At first, he thought that the test papers had been disrupted and that Li Kui's papers had been placed in other marking rooms. If he had to go through all ten marking rooms, he would have to read thousands of test papers one by one. Even though he was full of energy, this huge

The pressure hit him like a mountain, making him unable to breathe.

He is no longer young now, and his energy is not what it used to be.

If you really waste it on such a trivial matter as 'revenge', I'm afraid it will be a bit out of your depth.

It's a pity that this guy Fan Chong ran away.

In the Tianzi marking room, he was finally disappointed and failed to find Fan Chong's paper. But even so, at least it was not in vain. He let this kid slip away and trouble him again during the palace examination.

Speaking of which, if the provincial exam chief examiner really comes to the palace exam, he will not be the chief examiner.

Of course not the emperor.

If the emperor were to grade the papers of hundreds of people, he would probably not be able to bear it. The palace examination was a contest between the top powers in the Song Dynasty, a battlefield where Zhang Dun, Fan Chunren, Su Zhe and other vice-presidents competed for the right to speak, and that

At that time, he should be one of them, but I am afraid that he will not be able to become a one-spoken existence.

A total of seven or eight days were spent on marking the papers and preparing for transcribing and blurring names.

On this day, ten grading examiners, plus him as the chief examiner, gathered in the largest hall of Gongyuan to begin selecting the top twenty candidates for this provincial examination.

According to custom, only the top ten or twenty rankings have ranking value. If the ranking is really too low, they are basically ranked in order.

"Master Wang recommends this volume as the twentieth. Do you have any objections?"

"Good deeds should be taken away from the name."

"Examiner Li Kui, a scholar from Yizhou, Jingdong East Road."

After Mr. Wang finished speaking, Li Qingchen's eyes almost popped out of his head. Didn't he find Li Kui's paper? How could Li Kui appear again?

Baokangmen, Li Zhai.

Li Yun looked arrogantly and said to Li Kui confidently: "Second brother, you are looking down on others, so I went to the army to attack. This time I used a strategy to obtain the qualification of tribute, just like picking something out of a bag. When the list is released tomorrow, I, Li Yun, will definitely have a place."
Chapter completed!