The first rebel of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1721 Can the imperial examination be postponed?

Let's say that the moment Fang Xuanling arrived, he saw Li Shimin turning his back on him, while Cheng Yaojin was guarding him.

The two were very close, touching each other.

In his opinion, the two seemed to be fighting.

So, he hurried over in a hurry.

Still shouting:

"Zhijie, what are you doing?"

Unexpectedly, when he first arrived, Li Shimin jumped up and threw the basketball into the basket.

The basketball flew out and hit his head directly.

"Ouch!"

The beating made Fang Xuanling dizzy.

One staggered and almost fell to the ground!

But he is wholeheartedly for Li Shimin.

It doesn't matter so much, just ask directly:
"Your Majesty, what can you do, Your Majesty?"

Li Shimin and Cheng Yaojin looked at him blankly, why did this guy come and interrupt his practice.

So, Li Shimin asked angrily: "Why are you here, don't you know that we are playing and practicing?"

Fang Xuanling was completely fooled.

"Huh? Practice?? What?"

"Ah what? Get up quickly, don't occupy your seat!"

Cheng Yaojin shouted.

After finishing speaking, Fang Xuanling was about to be driven away.

Fang Xuanling tried to get up, but couldn't.

In the end, it was Li Shimin who pulled him up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Fang Xuanling said.

"Okay, you go to the side and watch, don't disturb me!"

Li Shimin said.

But Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, I need to find you for something!"

"Is something wrong? What's the matter?"

Li Shimin also knows the severity.

he asked with the ball.

"About the imperial examination!"

"You will still preside over the imperial examination this year, isn't it agreed?"

Li Shimin thought it was a matter of presiding over the imperial examination.

It's a new year again.

The imperial court is recruiting new recruits again.

As the economy develops, more and more people are needed.

There are also a lot of people who signed up in previous years.

Now it must be more.

However, Fang Xuanling said: "Your Majesty, so far this year, only more than 1000 people have participated in the imperial examination."

"what?!"

Li Shimin didn't even have the heart to play.

1000 people signed up for the imperial examination.

How much does that have to be.

If the top [-] people were selected, one tenth of them would be Jinshi.

This is obviously wrong.

The probability of being a Jinshi is too high.

"is this real?"

Li Shimin asked again.

"Yes, Your Majesty! There are less than ten people signing up every day!"

It's almost over now.

If the number is still insufficient, then the imperial court will not have much fresh blood this year.

This is not a good thing for Datang.

Li Shimin didn't know that [-]% of the people here belonged to Li Yin.

That is, there are more than 500 people.

The probability of Jinshi among these people is extremely high.

It was also calculated by Li Yin.

"Less than ten people a day, this is too little, it was not like this before."

Li Shimin said.

And compared to last year.

The imperial examination last year was really hot.

Didn't expect this to happen today.

"Yes, Your Majesty, so I came here to ask for instructions, and I have an idea."

Fang Xuanling said.

"Say! What an idea."

"Postponed! Maybe it's because some people didn't have time to enter Chang'an, so they missed it."

It's not impossible.

Cheng Yaojin said: "Postponement, that has never happened before. How can it be like this?"

Yes, how could it be like this.

It has never been postponed before.

This year it will be postponed.

This seems unreasonable.

Li Shimin was also thinking about whether to postpone it.

Fang Xuanling said again: "Why not? If the number of Jinshi this year is not enough. Compared with last year, the number of Jinshi this year may drop to half of the previous one. Or even less."

Fang Xuanling was not talking nonsense.

His words are justified.

Li Shimin was naturally worried too.

But if there is a hasty postponement, one is that there is not enough time, and the other is how to explain the sudden delay to the court?

Just because there are not enough people, is it postponed?

Obviously not.

If you really want to postpone it, you have to come up with a better way.

So what is the solution?

This made Li Shimin have no clue.

There he scratched his head.

So what should I do?

How to do it?

At this moment, Cheng Yaojin suddenly said: "Why don't you ask the sixth prince?"

Fang Xuanling said at this time: "That's true, it must be the best to let the sixth prince come out and make moves!"

Li Shimin didn't speak, but his expression already approved the proposal of the two.

Then he stood with his hands behind his back.

Then turned around.

Not a word was said.

Fang Xuanling understood what Li Shimin meant.

Then he picked up the phone.

He dialed Li Yin's phone.

And it's hands-free.

After a few beeps.

Li Yin's voice came.

"I'm Zili, who is it?"

"It's me, the sixth prince, someone from Fang!"

"Fang Xuanling, what's the matter? What do you want from me?"

Fang Xuanling glanced at Li Shimin.

At this point he still didn't say anything.

"It's like this. Regarding this year's imperial examination, I don't know why. There are only a thousand candidates entering Chang'an this year. For this reason, we are in a hurry. So I would like to ask the sixth prince if there is any way to let the imperial examination candidates More people?"

He didn't mention Li Shimin's side either.

In fact, it is what they themselves want to ask.

Li Yin on the opposite side thought about it.

Then he said: "There are three options, it depends on what you want to do."

When Li Shimin heard this, his expression changed slightly.

But from his heart, he could feel that he really wanted to know what the three plans were.

"You say!"

"The first, the most expensive plan. The Zhenguan newspaper will announce the imperial examination for the imperial court, so that more people can participate. But it will cost a lot of advertising money!"

Fang Xuanling glanced at Li Shimin.

Still expressionless.

So, I asked again:
"What about the second?"

"Secondly, the imperial court recruited a large number of young people to take the exam. Of course, they also came to make up the number. In this way, it looks like it is prosperous."

Li Shimin's expression remained the same.

It can be felt that he does not want to use this method.

"What about the third one?" Fang Xuanling continued to ask.

"Thirdly, let the world know that these 1000 people have been strictly selected, but if there are better people, they will be added, and that this year's Jinshi pass rate will be higher than in previous years. Anyway The 1000 people did not know exactly how many people came.

They were naturally happy to hear it.

When the common people hear it, they will create hot spots themselves.Then there may be more people who sign up. "

When Li Shimin heard this, his expression changed obviously.

Fang Xuanling said, "Thank you sixth prince, I understand!"

Then hung up the phone.

Instead, he turned to Li Shimin and said: "Your Majesty, this third is the most suitable for us, how about..."

"You are responsible for this matter, Zhijie, let's continue to fight!"

Li Shimin was about to play, which proved one point, that is, he agreed with Fang Xuanling to use the third solution to solve the problem.

(End of this chapter)