Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 7 The Son of Heaven Questionnaire, the first score!

Zhang Haogu turned his head and left.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking: "Brother, can you leave your name?"

"My name is Zhang Haogu, and my name is Baorui!"

Zhang Haogu left his name, but he wasn't worried at all, the dog emperor must have taken the bait.

Sure enough, Zhu Youxiao told the eunuch beside him: "Follow up and see where he lives. Then ask about his origin!"

The eunuch responded: "Long live, this matter is left to the servant. It's just that Wan live has been out of the palace for a long time, and it is not suitable to be outside the palace anymore. Please return to the palace as soon as possible."

"Okay, okay, I get it!"

Zhu Youxiao holds the clockwork made by Zhang Haogu in his hand. Although it is simple, it seems to have opened a new door for himself.

Zhuge Liang's wooden cow and horse.

Really interesting.

After the harem, he was still interested in that gadget. Sitting in front of the royal case, all the piles of memorials were swept away and ignored.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the clockwork over and over several times, followed Zhang Haogu's example, wrapped the bamboo strips and then let go. After repeating many times, he showed an expression of enlightenment, and then an expression of thinking again. .

The maids who came to add the palace lanterns were used to seeing the emperor like this, knowing that the emperor was interested and hated being disturbed when he was concentrating, so they lightly added the lanterns and left outside the palace.

At this time, the chief examiner who was in charge of this year's imperial examination came to ask for an interview. After the report, he waited outside for a long time before finally entering.

"Long live, I have read the papers of this year's imperial examination one by one, and the articles of these three people are the best. The three of them are tentatively ranked first, and they are ranked in the top three. Long live Take a look and make a decision.”

Zhang Ruitu, the chief examiner, presented the paper, but the emperor didn't even bother to look at it. He just asked someone to put it aside, and continued to play with the clockwork with relish and joy.

This is also the right time for Zhang Ruitu to choose.

This is also the secret discovered by Wei Zhongxian.

When the dog emperor was doing carpentry work, he hated being disturbed the most.

At this time, show the emperor the list, and it is easy to pass.

The chief examiner sweated, thinking that it was a good thing that the emperor didn't read it, because the papers he answered for Zhang Haogu were among them, and it would be best if the emperor didn't read them. .

Just as he was about to leave, he saw the eunuch hurrying towards him, and he possessed himself to the emperor and said something.

That is the eunuch who went to inquire about Zhang Haogu's news came back.

"Those who participated in the imperial examination?"

Hearing the emperor's words, Zhang Ruitu was so frightened that his hairs stood on his head.

I wondered why the emperor suddenly cared about the imperial examinations, and only hoped that the emperor would never know about Zhang Haogu, let alone read Zhang Haogu's paper.

In the end, I was really afraid of something.

In the hall, Zhu Youxiao heard what the eunuch said about Zhang Haogu, so he looked at the imperial examination paper that had just been delivered.

"Bring the test paper, I want to read it myself."

Zhu Youxiao finally put down the clockwork that had been in his hand since returning to the palace, put it aside for the time being, and set his eyes on the examination paper.

According to the process of the imperial examination, after the chief examiner and others have reviewed them one by one, they will select the best works among them, and they will be awarded the first grade.

But what they say doesn't count, and it doesn't count until the emperor finally reads it and nods his approval.

If the emperor thinks that the second one is better than the first one in the first grade examination paper, he can redefine it.

For this reason, in order to meet the emperor's wishes and not embarrass themselves, the examiners, like useless mediocre officials, will carefully consider and be cautious when ranking the order in the first class.

Among the three first-class examination papers, Zhang Haogu's is the most special, because the chief examiner wrote the questions and answered them himself.

Fearing that the emperor would see the handwriting, the examiner purposely made the essay a little less perfect, revealing some small flaws.And cautiously set it as the second, not daring to give him the first position.

So after Zhu Youxiao uncovered the top exam paper, he saw Zhang Haogu's name written in black and white on the lower exam paper.

"Strange, strange!."

Zhu Youxiao read Zhang Haogu's article wholeheartedly, and couldn't help frowning after reading it.

The chief examiner saw that the emperor's face was not right, and he was so frightened that cold sweat ran down his back. This is cheating, cheating in scientific examinations, and this is a serious crime that will kill his head!
At this moment, seeing the thoughtful expression on Zhu Youxiao's face, besides being so strange, I just felt that my soul was about to fly, and I almost knelt down on the spot and said, "The emperor spares my life!"

Zhang Ruitu is trembling: "This person's article is good, but it is slightly inferior to the first one, so it is ranked second, which is comparable to the third article. I am also evaluating whether it is appropriate, and it is more appropriate to rank third. I don't know what is so strange about His Majesty."

Zhu Youxiao didn't say a word, and read the article carefully again, still frowning, very displeased.

Zhang Ruitu knelt down with a thud: "Long live, it's the fault of the ministers who failed to win the world's talents in the imperial examination this year, but there are no other articles that can be classified as first-class. Let Wan live read this clumsy work, and the ministers are ashamed."

The emperor read it from the beginning to the end, and finally looked up, without questioning Zhang Ruitu: "This article is well written, it's a pity to be the second, let's be the first!"

what?
Zhang Ruitu was dumbfounded.

"Long live!" Zhang Ruitu asked cautiously, "Number one!"

"First, you step back."

Zhang Ruitu backed out of the hall tremblingly, but also felt baffled, wondering what the emperor wanted to see in his article?
Zhu Youxiao, who put down the exam paper, fiddled with someone's clockwork again: "I still can't figure it out."

Just now he patiently read Zhang Haogu's article twice, just to find out whether there is any mention of the wooden cow and the horse, but he found nothing, and he was inevitably disappointed.

Come to think of it, even if this imperial examination article wasn't even written by Zhang Haogu.

Even Zhang Haogu wrote it.

It is also impossible to write about wooden cows and horses, physics knowledge.

If this was written, it would be impossible for Zhu Youxiao to write it down for you.

Now, he already knew how to do this, but he still didn't understand it thoroughly. Although Zhang Haogu had pointed out a lot, Zhu Youxiao still had many doubts.

The eunuch Wang Tiqian, who was in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies, stood aside: "Long live, you can summon this person and ask him face to face."

Zhu Youxiao said: "Can you find out where he lives now?"

"The old slave followed him to an inn on West Chang'anmen Street. He took a entourage and settled there for the time being. Long live but want to summon? The old slave will go to announce it."

"No need."

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while, and then ordered: "The imperial examinations will be released tomorrow, and I will go find him."

(End of this chapter)