On the second day after the imperial examination cheating was solved, Emperor Jianing issued an imperial decree.
Dismissing Du Zeru from his post as Minister of the Minister of Household Affairs, deporting his family to the north of the desert, stripping Qi Shan of his succession rights to the title of Marquis of Zhongyi, reprimanding the Marquis of Zhongyi for his incompetence in teaching his son, and fining him a thousand taels of silver, and placing the army in the northwest under the command of General Shi Yuan Lang.
Qian Guangjin, who was still a junior Minister of the Household, was promoted to Minister of the Household by the Emperor Jianing. On the same day that the top three ranking in the Imperial examination came out, Ren Anle, who was praised by all the officials and the public, was also appointed as the Minister of the Da Lisi.
Since then, Ren Anle has never been absent from a gathering of eminent scholars or a poetry banquet for noble women. All the banquets were honoured to invite her to attend.
It had only been three months since she had entered the imperial capital to serve in the name of the fierce female bandit that the city disliked.
The spring breeze was so fast that she saw all the flowers of Chang'an in one day.
[chūn fēng dé yì flushed with success; proud of one's success (in exams, promotion etc)]
Every three years, a grand banquet is held on the banks of the Qin River for successful candidates. The young man and official son on high horses and in red robes often turn a river of romance attracting countless daughters.
Despite the twists and turns, this year's examination did not detract in any way from the popularity of the several exam candidates who passed the examination. Especially notable was the famous Wen Shuo, who was applauded by the Emperor during the Imperial Examination, which became a well-known story.
On this day, a group of exam candidates who passed the imperial examination paraded through the imperial capital to the sound of gongs and drums, with Wen Shuo at the head of the group dressed in a crimson zhuang yuan robe, as gentle as a crown jade. Wherever he passed, the flowers thrown from the hands of the noble women in the street restaurant laid a foot on the floor.
[zhuàng yuán- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light ]
In the evening, the Emperor gave a Qionglin banquet at the palace. Even the Crown Prince, who rarely attends banquets, was graciously entertained. The news from the palace was that the prince was overwhelmed with joy, and all of the wine toasted by the scholars was unrefused.
[ The Qionglin Banquet was a banquet for the new scholars after the palace examination, which began in the Song Dynasty.]
Under the starry moonlit sky, Ren Anle was accompanied by this grand and lively Qiong Hua ceremony and rode into the palace in a carriage at a slow pace.
Inside the carriage, Yuan Shu blinked her eyes and looked at Ren Anle, who was dressed in a navy blue robe, shaking her head and sighing.
She was hoping that Ren Anle would wear the clothes and ornaments sent by the Crown Prince to the palace, so that the princesses and noble women would be jealous. But she didn't know that Ren Anle had already put the gifts in the treasury and sealed them, and instructed them to be used for her future trousseau.