"What?"

"The emperor wants to summon me!"

"When did this happen?"

"Are you sure it was the news from the princess?"

In the mountains and forests outside the capital, Han Sheng heard the news brought by Hu Dao and immediately asked repeatedly, feeling a little unbelievable.

Hu Dao nodded repeatedly and said with great certainty:

"This is the news from the eunuchs around the princess."

"I walked with him all the way to the capital. He is one of the princess's most trusted confidants."

Shaking her head slightly, Han Sheng didn't think Zhu Huijing would have any confidant in the palace. Even if she really had some people around her, those people were likely to be bribed by Wei Zhongxian.

Thinking of his killing of Li Zuoxing, Han Sheng instinctively doubted this matter and asked Hu Dao:

"Is there any news about this before?"

"Or news suddenly came from the palace?"

Hu Dao thought for a while and then returned to Han Shengdao:

"The princess has never said it before, and my subordinates just heard this news."

"It is said that the Zhongji Hall was built today. The princess said this when His Majesty was happy. His Majesty was curious and wanted to summon the lord to meet you."

Zhu Youxiao, the current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is an emperor who loves carpentry. After ascending the throne, his biggest action was to rebuild the three damaged halls during the Wanli period.

The Huangji Hall among the three halls has been completed last year, and the Zhongji Hall and the Jianji Hall have been delayed until now. Emperor Tianqi could see the three halls completely completed when he was seriously ill, so the joy in his heart can be imagined.

Therefore, Zhu Huijing took advantage of his happiness to talk about Han Sheng, which is theoretically very likely.

"But, is it really that coincidental?"

"How did Jing'er know about me outside the city?"

Unlike other men and women who are in love who want to be together every day, Han Sheng can also treat his own feelings calmly after understanding his heart and nature. Although he knew about Hu Dao when he came to the capital, he did not let him tell Zhu Huijing. Zhu Huijing, a princess in the deep palace, could not know the news of his coming to the capital without external force.

When asked about Hu Dao, he learned that he had never spoken to Zhu Huijing's people, Han Sheng asked him again:

"I killed Li Zuoxing, is the Jinyiwei wanted in the capital?"

"And Li Zuoxing's colleagues and friends, what are their reactions recently?"

Hu Dao investigated this matter the most in detail, and replied to Han Shengdao after hearing this:

"There is no movement on the Jinyiwei side. Li Zuoxing was transferred from another place. He used to be the head of the East Factory and was responsible for monitoring the Jinyiwei."

"So, no one complained to him at the Jinyiwei in the Beijing City. But he had a few friends from the Dongchang side, who had been forcing Jinyiwei to investigate this matter these days."

"But the Jinyiwei only said that he had written the article to the King Kong Sect to question this matter, and he did not mention the lord's lay identity at all."

Frowning and wondering why, Han Sheng said thoughtfully:

"So, the matter of killing Li Zuoxing is basically over."

"Things are calm, it's really weird!"

Even if the Jinyiwei is just to appease the hearts of the people, the Jinyiwei cannot ignore it. Knowing Han Sheng’s identity, the Jinyiwei now has this attitude, which really makes Han Sheng feel strange.

Hu Dao also thought the matter was a bit strange, so he did not suggest that the lord go to the palace, but just thought about what was wrong with this matter.

"The palace is controlled by Wei Zhongxian, and I am not sure that I can't go in easily."

"No matter whether the emperor summoned me was fake or true, I cannot enter the palace at this time."

Although he did not think that Wei Zhongxian would set up this game for him, after killing the other side, Han Sheng would not naively think that he could get along with Wei Zhongxian safely. Even if the summoned him this time was true, Han Sheng would not place his safety on an emperor who was terminally ill and had little actual power.

So after thinking about it, Han Sheng thought about how the Ming Dynasty literati resisted the order and said to Hu Dao:

"No matter whether the matter of Mr. Mian is true or not, when they find you again, they say I am preparing for the provincial examination. Without the imperial edict issued by the court, I am not in a state of noodle now."

"Anyway, you should try to shirk this matter as much as possible and don't agree to it."

The literati of the Ming Dynasty never paid much attention to the emperor's imperial edict issued by the cabinet. Although Han Sheng is not a literati now, and the news Zhu Huijing asked someone to bring is also not an order, he could barely tell the truth about his confrontation on the grounds of preparing for the provincial examination.

Hu Dao nodded when he heard this and said that he understood. In fact, he also felt that the matter of Hou Jun seemed a little strange this time, and he did not recommend that his lord take risks easily. So after hearing Han Sheng's decision, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and knew that his lord was a person who accomplished great things.

When Han Sheng saw this, he said again:

"There is also the matter of the provincial examination. How are you and Lu Guangyao doing?"

"Are all the procedures for the provincial examinations completed?"

After Hu Dao learned about this, he had been preparing with Lu Guangyao. Hearing this, he presented various provincial examination procedures to Han Sheng and said:

"It's ready!"

"Lu Chenshi donated the prison student to the lord, and moved the lord's parents' hometown to Shuntian Prefecture, and he could directly participate in the provincial examination in Shuntian Prefecture."

"This year's chief examiner's reputation is a bit bad, and it will be difficult for the lord to borrow power from the provincial examination staff in the future."

The master is a juren, and the honorific title of the Jinshi to the examiner is an important relationship in the Ming Dynasty's officialdom. Although Han Sheng did not intend to hang out in the officialdom, he was still a little concerned about his master and said:

“Where is the bad reputation?”

"Is there any flaw in people?"

Hu Dao told Han Sheng:

"The examiner of the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination was Xu Shitai. He was not until he was in his forties and became a juren under the care of Shen Shixing. He was not well-known in the Shilin. He is now just a idler in Taipu Temple."

"He has a cousin named Xu Shaoquan who once gambled with Wang Xianchen's son and used all the sexies that were all scary to deceive the Wang family's clumsy administrator's garden."

"When the Humble Administrator's Garden was built, he was assisted by Wen Zhengming, who was a descendant of Wen Tianxiang. Not only was he known as the four great talents of Jiangnan together with Tang Bohu and others, but his great-grandson Wen Zhenmeng also won the top scorer five years ago."

"The Wen family has a great influence in Jiangnan. The Xu family used tricks to deceive the Wang family's Humble Administrator's Garden. Although the Wen family could not help to ask for the return, they always felt a little disliked when they looked at the Xu family. Therefore, the Xu family was rejected by literati in Jiangnan. The eunuchs' party members saw that he was easy to control, so they chose him as the chief examiner."

"The person who actually presided over the provincial examination was actually Sun Zhixie, the deputy examiner of the eunuch party..."

"Wait!" When Han Sheng heard this name, he frowned and asked Hu Dao:

"You said that the deputy examiner of the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination was Sun Zhixie?"

"Is he actually presided over the provincial examination?"

Sun Zhixie, the vanguard of hair shaving, is a famous traitor in history. The shaving order he promoted after the Later Jin Dynasty entered the pass, and countless people killed in history. If this person was really the deputy examiner of the Shuntian Prefecture Provincial Examination, Han Sheng needed to carefully consider the matter of taking the provincial examination.

"It's really a shame to be a disciple of such a big traitor!"
Chapter completed!