Because the Son of Heaven did not return from his southern tour, the palace examination could not be held as scheduled, so the Ministry of Rites issued a document to arrange more than 300 Chinese-style lifters in the current section of the examination to study in the Guozijian, waiting for the return of the Son of Heaven and then holding the palace examination, during which all the food and accommodation were provided by the government free of charge.

Although the new Kegong scholars complained, it was always good for someone to take care of the food, and finally they all accepted the arrangement of the Ministry of Rites and entered the Guozijian to study. Xu Jin is naturally no exception, but he chooses to go to school and goes home to live every day.

However, time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and in a blink of an eye, it is the golden autumn and August when the osmanthus is fragrant, the Son of Heaven is still stranded in Jinling and does not return, the palace test seems to have become far away, and the new Kegong scholars who are disgruntled almost every day run to the noon gate to protest.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in the fifteenth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty was night, and a round of bright moonlight hung in the middle of the sky, overflowing with the clear light of the courtyard. Xie Xiaowan and Yue'er set up a table of melons and fruits in the courtyard of the back house, and after worshipping the moonlight, the family sat together, eating moon cakes and melons and fruits, while enjoying the cool and eating homely food.

The cool breeze was blowing, Xu Jin lay comfortably on the rocking chair, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, but his heart was full of shame, he broke his promise, at this time he should marry Ruyi in Leadshan County, Jiangxi, but the plan can't keep up with the rapid change.

Originally, Xu Jin had plans to leave for Jiangxi in June, but Fei Maozhong and his senior brother Wei Yang both advised him to wait a little longer, maybe the Son of Heaven would return to the capital immediately, and it would take three or four months to go back and forth to Jiangxi to marry a relative, and if he missed the palace test, he would lose a lot. Later, Fei Hong and Ruyi also wrote successively, asking him to wait for the palace test in Beijing with peace of mind, and Xu Jin dispelled the idea of returning to Jiangxi to propose marriage.

Although Xu Jin knows the general trend of history, and also knows that the year name of Zhengde is only sixteen years, but he does not know when Zhengde died. Therefore, Xu Jin can only wait for the return of the Son of Heaven like other tributes now, and as for the situation in the court, it is not at all what he can glimpse now.

Xie Xiaowan saw that Xianggong's mood was a little low, so she naturally understood what the reason was, peeled a grape and put it in Xu Jin's mouth, and said softly: "Xianggong, tonight's Mid-Autumn Festival night, people and the moon are reunited, can there be good poems?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Mei Wan Yue'er, Chu Chun and Chu Xia, and Xiao Yudie all looked at each other together. Since being hooliganized by someone after drinking that day, Xiao Yudie has tried to avoid Xu Jin as much as possible, and today's Mid-Autumn Festival, under Xie Xiaowan's strong invitation, she reluctantly attended tonight's moon viewing party.

Xu Jin naturally understood that Xiao Wan was changing her way to make herself happy, so she scratched the tip of the latter's nose dotingly, and said with a smile: "I have it, there are many good poems in Xianggong's stomach, but just Xianggong's poems are boring, so everyone has to take turns, how about it?" ”

Mei Wan Yue'er stuck out her tongue and said, "Master, this is obviously bullying people who don't read much, and the maid won't come!" ”

In the early summer, he was eager to try: "Come on, don't be afraid!" ”

Xie Xiaowan's original intention was to coax Xiang Xiang to open her heart, and said with a sweet smile: "Okay, but if we don't do well, Xiang Gong is not allowed to make fun of us." ”

"That'...... The servant is also participating! Yue'er saw that this little hoof in early summer was so active, and immediately said that she would also participate in it.

Xu Jin smiled: "That's good, if you can't do it, you will be punished......"

Xu Jin originally wanted to say that he would be punished for a glass of wine, but since he was drunk last time, he did Yue'er Na Nizi in a daze, and Xu didn't dare to get drunk anymore. ”

This punishment is novel, the girls giggled and agreed, but classmate Xu soon regretted it, how could he think of such a ...... Evil punishment too.

After a few rounds, all the girls took a banana to eat there, even Xiao Yudie was no exception, and Yue'er even received three. Watching the girls chew bananas slowly, and their beautiful eyes still glanced over here from time to time, Xu Jin thought of some aspects, and couldn't help but sweat evilly, it was too evil!

On the third day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was finally good news that the Son of Heaven had returned to Beijing in early August, and it was expected that he would be able to return to the capital in October. Zhejiang's crazy Lu Yan estimated that he had healed his scars and forgotten the pain, and he even spoke again and vowed to win the first place.

However, Xu Jin, who roughly knew the historical trend, vaguely felt that the palace examination should not be so smooth, because there were still a few months before the sixteenth year of Zhengde, and the year of Zhengde was only sixteen years!

A group of tributes were enthusiastically waiting for the palace test, but it was October in a blink of an eye, but the Luan of the Son of Heaven only went to the boundary of Shandong, walking and stopping, as slow as a snail.

After the autumn, the weather is getting colder and colder, on the tenth day of the lunar month, there is a goose feather snow in the sky above the capital, the snow is very large, and it accumulates nearly a foot thick overnight. However, it was in this bad weather that early the next morning, Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, took a group of bigwigs from the court, braved the severe cold to go out of the city, and hurried to Tongzhou, leaving only the second assistant Liang Chu to guard the cabinet.

At the same time, a piece of news spread quickly in officialdom circles that the Son of Heaven had returned to Tongzhou, but he was seriously ill, so he summoned Yang Tinghe, the first assistant, to rush to Tongzhou to wait.

In an instant, the capital was turbulent years ago, and even ordinary people obviously felt that the city defense had become strict. The main generals of the imperial city and the nine gates of the outer city have been replaced, for example, Guo Xun, the Marquis of Wuding, was arranged to be in charge of 3,000 battalions to guard the safety of the imperial city. These noble sons are loyal royalists!

Xu Jin is studying in the Guozi Prison, and there is no shortage of noble children, so all kinds of insider gossip emerge in an endless stream, and the atmosphere in Beijing is becoming more and more dignified. Xu Jin knew that a storm was estimated to be coming soon, and Emperor Zhengde's life was afraid that it would come to an end in the near future.

In the fifteenth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, on December 15, the Son of Heaven ordered the execution of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, in the palace of Tongzhou, and burned the body to ashes, his children and relatives, as well as a number of thieves and criminals were all executed, and thousands of people were killed.

The next day, the Son of Heaven drove back to Beijing, and asked the Jinyi Guard to carry the heads of a group of prisoners on the flagpole, Hao Hao entered from the Zhengyang Gate on the spot, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military stood on both sides to welcome the "triumphant" return of the Son of Heaven. Emperor Zhengde was dressed in a majestic military uniform, holding a sword and standing on the Jinshui Bridge for officials and people to worship and pay respects, and to promote the virtue of the Son of Heaven.

Xu Jin and a group of Guozi prisoners were also among them, but they were a little far away, and they could only see a guy wearing golden armor and a red tasseled hat, standing on the Jinshui Bridge very stinky. This is the first time Xu Jin has seen this strange emperor who has been controversial in history, and it is estimated that it will be the last.

After picking up the car, Xu Jin returned to the Mingshifang Mansion and saw smoke coming out of a certain room, thinking it was on fire, so he hurriedly ran to check and found that it was Xiao Yudie's room that was smoking, and there was a faint cry from inside.

Xu Jin suddenly realized, it is estimated that Xiao Yudie is secretly burning paper to mourn the deceased, just yesterday, King Ning, King Ning Shizi and other thousands of people have been executed in Tongzhou, including some of the main members of the Lou family, and the mountain chief Lou Wei is also impressively listed. This is the price of failure in rebellion in feudal society!

Xu Jin sighed secretly, quietly turned around and walked away, and after returning to his residence, he also asked Xiaowan to prepare paper money and other items, he did not want to mourn King Ning, but to mourn the mountain chief, and at the same time comfort those who died in King Ning's rebellion, such as Governor Sun Sui, Grand Master Xu Kui, Nanchang Prefect Song Yifang, and a group of soldiers.

The Spring Festival of the fifteenth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty passed in the bustle, but the court was as solemn as ice, and the silence was like a volcano waiting to erupt.

In the sixteenth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the fourteenth day of the first month, the Son of Heaven vomited blood and fainted when presiding over the suburban sacrifice, the ceremony had to be interrupted, the Son of Heaven was escorted back to the palace by Teng Xiang Guard, and the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital rushed into the palace with the medicine box on their backs for the emperor's treatment.

The atmosphere in the capital is becoming more and more weird and dignified, of course, Xu Jin, who is not yet in the officialdom circle, naturally does not feel the pressure, and still goes to school in Guozi Prison every day, and goes home after school.

At the beginning of February in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Tinghe, the first assistant of the cabinet, proposed to disband the regimental training battalion composed of the elite of the border army and repatriate him to his hometown. At the beginning of March, the guards around the capital were ordered to enter Beijing to garrison.

On March 18, a news that shook the government and the opposition broke out that the red man around the Son of Heaven, the Governor of the Five Armies, the Zuo Governor, and Pingyu Bo Jiangbin were arrested for attempting rebellion, and then their homes were raided, and 70 cabinets of gold, 2,200 cabinets of silver, and countless other treasures were copied out of their homes.

On March 19th, the Inner Bell and Drum Division, the temple bells rang 30,000 in unison, the whole imperial city cried and shook the sky, and then the Ministry of Rites mourned, the Zhengde Emperor of the 15th year of the Imperial Pole was seriously ill and died, and died on March 14, and the whole city shook in an instant.

The death of Emperor Zhengde has long been expected by Xu Jin, and the wheels of history are rolling along his trajectory. What made Xu Jin sigh was Yang Tinghe's political skills, which easily solved Jiang Bin, avoided a major turmoil, and firmly held the military power in his hands.

The next thing is to welcome the new monarch, the little slave Zhu Houxi is about to appear, the lucky man of history, is about to start his imperial career of more than 40 years!

Xu Jin chose the path of the imperial examination, originally just to get rid of his own predicament, he had no big ambitions, at best, he was to find a small county official and live a comfortable life.

However, after living in Xingwangfu in Anlu Prefecture for a period of time last year, Xu Jin's mind quietly changed. Xu Jin found that his actions could influence Zhu Houxi, and even transform the future emperor's outlook on life and values.

And at this time, Xu Jin will feel that he may be able to do something for Daming if he can!