Monument Yangmen

Chapter 118 Palace Examination ([-])

The students entered the hall, and after paying homage, they sat cross-legged behind the low table under the leadership of the eunuch.

Xue Juzheng led the mission to completion, walked to the first vacant seat under Zhao Pu and sat down.

In the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo, the palace examination is just the beginning.

Zhao Guangyi swiped his pen and wrote two big characters that are flying like dragons and phoenixes.

Wang Jien picked up the calligraphy from the dragon case, and walked around the inner ring of the hall, so that all the students could see clearly what the two big characters on the paper were.

Discuss politics!

This is the topic of this palace test.

The two words are like two ink plums rendered on the paper.

Yang Yansi knew this kind of characters, and its name was Meihua Xiaozhuan.

Zhao Guangyi likes calligraphy and is also good at calligraphy, so his skills are very solid and his handwriting is beautiful.

However, these two words put a lot of pressure on the students present.

This is a macro topic.

There are many decrees in the Song Dynasty, and which one will hit the weakness of the emperor's heart. This is a question worth thinking about.

Some of the students were scratching their heads, some were looking left and right, and some were confident.

For example, Su Yijian, who was sitting at the top, folded her arms around her chest, closed her eyes and meditated for a while, then picked up a pen and began to flick a pen, not even intending to write a draft.

When Yang Yansi saw this topic, he thought about it for a while.

He picked up a pen and wrote three words on the manuscript paper on the case table.

"On border politics..."

He himself came from the general family, and his father Yang Ye was the general guard of the Yanmen Pass. The most intriguing thing in his ears and eyes was about the border gates of Song and Liao.

Combining some of the realities of the Song and Liao borders that I heard from Yang Ye, and some of my own understanding, I wrote it in classical Chinese.

According to general regulations, the palace examination must be more than [-] words.

Therefore, it takes nearly two and a half hours to complete the five links of reviewing questions, conceiving, solving questions, writing, and transcribing, which is equivalent to five hours.

The students began to write articles, and the six ministers also began to watch the students whispering among each other.

The three prime ministers are very old, and they are sleeping with their eyes closed.

Zhao Guangyi was not idle either, he took out a book from the dragon case and read it.

The time is moving forward by one needle and one second.

About an hour later, the sun had risen, and it was time for breakfast.

Zhao Guangyi put down the books in his hands and ordered Wang Jien to start serving meals.

The books on the dragon case were quickly removed, but delicious food was served on the table.

The three prime ministers and the six ministers also placed tables in front of them, as well as delicious delicacies.

The students naturally eat some, because this is a manifestation of the emperor's kindness.

It's just that they don't have the same treatment as the three ministers and the six ministers.

The eunuchs gave them only some pastries and a jug of water.

Even so, some students were so moved that they wept bitterly, saluted, and knelt down on the ground to thank the emperor Long En.

Yang Yansi felt that this was a shameful behavior. Since ancient times, people's waists have become more and more bent, and their knees have become softer and weaker. It is because of this bad habit.

It is precisely because there are some sycophants who shamelessly lower the bottom line of being a human being.Only then did the monarch and his ministers sit and discuss politics, and it developed into a monarch sitting and his ministers standing and discussing politics, and in the end, it became a monarch sitting at a high position and ministers kneeling and discussing politics.

Yang Yansi was not in the mood to kneel down to the emperor.

After thanking the emperor for his kindness, he grabbed the pastry and ate two bites.Then I drank a pot of water, felt the hunger in my stomach disappeared, and continued to write articles.

After breakfast, Zhao Guangyi ordered the eunuchs to clean up the mess.

Quiet and thinking of moving, he, along with Zhao Pu, Shen Lun and Xue Juzheng, began to patrol the hall in turn.

Zhao Pu had a clear goal, and immediately moved to Yang Yansi's side.

After looking at the article on Yang Yansi's draft, he didn't speak, just pouted, shook his head and left.

Xue Juzheng turned around half a circle, and approached Yang Yansi.

After carefully reading Yang Yansi's paper, Xue Juzheng nodded and left quietly.

After a while, Shen Lun, who was walking around, also came over. He wanted to see if his disciple's writing had improved.

Yang Yansi's article has been written so-so. Although the diction is not gorgeous, it does have something to say.

Shen Lun looked at Yang Yansi's paper, nodding and shaking his head for a while.

Before leaving, he let out a long sigh.

Yang Yansi originally thought that his article was not bad.

The three behaviors of these three elders immediately made Yang Yansi feel guilty.

In the end, Zhao Guangyi also joined Yang Yansi and began to watch Yang Yansi's scroll.

Yang Yansi didn't have much awe of Zhao Guangyi, so even if Zhao Guangyi stood beside him, he didn't have any fear.I still write articles in my own way.

Zhao Guangyi looked at it for a while, and was just about to make a speech.

However, Su Yijian, who was sitting in the leading position, suddenly stood up and applied to submit the paper.

Someone handed in the paper, so naturally Zhao Guangyi couldn't continue wandering around.

Back to the dragon case, let Wang Jien present Su Yijian's interview.

Zhao Guangyi reviewed it carefully.

Su Yijian's article was written very well, and Zhao Guangyi also read it carefully.

After a long while, Zhao Guangyi stroked the dragon's beard and laughed heartily, "Three thousand words can be written in one stroke, the pen is brilliant, and the writing is natural."

Zhao Guangyi looked at Su Yijian who was standing beside him, without hiding the admiration in his eyes.

"The monarch and his ministers met for thousands of years..." (not fabricated by the author, historical facts)

Zhao Guangyi ticked off the ink pen, drew a circle on the paper, and handed it to Zhao Pu and others for circulation.

After Zhao Pu and others circulated it, they nodded frequently.

When the paper returned to the dragon case, there were already nine more circles.

Su Yijian handed in the papers ahead of time and won the first place. The students below were also anxious. Some students started to make frequent mistakes when they were anxious.

Someone was in a hurry and directly left a large ink dot on the scroll.

Looking at the dots of ink on the scroll, the student felt like crying.

Yang Yansi was not affected. After finishing his article, he began to copy it.

While he was copying, some students began to hand in papers one after another.

However, Zhao Guangyi was not satisfied with many of these papers, and Zhao Guangyi did not express the same appreciation as before.

Among them, the most circles are only six circles.

"Huazhou Kou Zhun?"

It was the Minister of the Ministry of Officials who spoke, and the Minister of the Ministry of Officials held Kou Zhun's paper, looked at the nine circles on it, and asked with a frown.

Standing bowed, Kou Zhun heard the question from the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, first saluted Zhao Guangyi, and then saluted the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

"The student is Kou Zhun."

Minister of the Ministry of Officials looked at Kou Zhun's immature face, frowned and said: "I look at your face, you don't look like 19 years old, you look like a 15-year-old child..."

Hubu Shangshu took a closer look at Kou Zhun's face, and agreed: "I didn't look at it just now, but now I look at it carefully, it really looks like a 15-year-old child..."

Zhao Guangyi on the dragon chair frowned.

"Huazhou Kou Zhun, did you lie about your age?"

(End of this chapter)