Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 454 Exam Paper
Seeing Wu Cou's body, Donggong just took away the body silently as Shan Tao expected, but did not go to Jingzhao Mansion to make trouble.

He even acquiesced in Jingzhao Mansion's reason for killing Wu Chun——

That is to pretend to be Donggong Zhonglang to cheat in Jingzhao Mansion. After being discovered, he was ordered to be killed by Jingzhaoyin Cui Guangyuan.

Just like that, a strange scene appeared.

It was obvious that he was the Zhonglang general Wu Cou who served in the East Palace, but was unanimously considered by the East Palace and the Jingzhao Mansion to be a liar, and lost his life out of nowhere.

In the East Palace, Dou Shen looked at Wu Cou's body and took a deep breath.

What went wrong?
According to his understanding of Jing Zhaoyin Cui Guangyuan, this is a soft bone.

Moreover, the Suzaku Bridge case had nothing to do with Cui Guangyuan, why did he kill Wu Cou?

Dou Shen couldn't figure out what happened.

Moreover, Cui Guangyuan's behavior is tantamount to launching a war against Donggong. He is a Jing Zhaoyin who has no backer, who gave him the courage?
Wait, has he already taken refuge in Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo?

Dou Shen was startled.

The position of the East Palace is very unstable now.

Empress Zhang and the great eunuch Li Fuguo have been pushing Nanyang King to seize the throne. This Nanyang King has just rebuilt the Iron Square in Nanyang and has made great contributions to the court.

You must know that Nanyang has been the capital of iron smelting in the Central Plains since the Han Dynasty.

One of the important reasons why Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, was able to swallow the world with anger was that he was backed by Nanyang's official iron workshop.

Nanyang King has done a good job in rectifying Nanyang Iron Square. I heard that the emperor intends to give him a higher title.

Among the princely titles, the two-character title is higher than the three-character title.

And the princes of Qi Lu Qin Zhao are the highest rank.

Now there are rumors in the court that the emperor is planning to award the King of Nanyang as the King of Qi, so the situation in the court is even more delicate.

The crown prince is still the king of Guangping with three characters, but the king of Nanyang is going to be the king of Qi, which also shows the subtle changes in the court.

If Cui Guangyuan had defected to Queen Zhang's faction, things would have gotten worse.

Dou Shen paced back and forth in the room. The corpse under the Zhuque bridge was related to the prince's great cause of alchemy.

If you can't get it back now, it may be too late to find the "pill furnace" to make alchemy before the emperor returns to Chang'an.

What made Dou Shen even more worried was that the rumors about the connection between the East Palace and the two murders in the market intensified, and the news that the prince promised the Uighurs by robbing Chang'an did not know who revealed Chang'an.

Now Chang'an was in an uproar, and Dou Shen didn't dare to go through the main entrance when he left the East Palace.

Things that were supposed to be safe and secure had side effects, and Dou Shen only felt that everything was not going well.

Dou Shen was still worrying in the East Palace, while Wang Chengwei was "healing" in the Longyou Guild Hall with peace of mind.

First, Gu Kuangwei Yingwu and other friends came to visit, and everyone praised Wang Chengwei for his righteous act of pleading for the people.

Immediately afterwards, Jingzhao Mansion sent soup and medicine to express condolences.

Then Wang Chengwei asked for justice for an ordinary brothel woman, and was punished for Chang'an's public security, which pushed up Wang Chengwei's reputation even more.

One night, the Prime Minister Pei Mian sent a steward to deliver soup and medicine to heal his wounds.

More importantly, Pei Mian revealed to Wang Chengwei that his papers had already been included in the stack of papers raised in the Jinshi Division and sent to the emperor of Fengxiang Mansion for final ruling.

After rounds of screening for the Jinshi examination, 32 qualified candidates were finally selected.

These examination papers are all qualified in poetry and prose. They have passed more than four of the five questions in the pasted scriptures. capital.

The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty did not have the concept of the top three in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

To be able to pass the Jinshi examination, everyone's starting point is the same.

The only thing they have in common is that they all have champions.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were no second-place candidates and third-ranked candidates in the imperial examinations. The number one scholar was also called the champion, and he was regarded as the leader of the second-ranked candidates in this year.

The number one scholar is responsible for holding the banquet of the same session, and also arranges regular gatherings of the same year. After the mid-Tang Dynasty, the background of Jinshi is more valuable, and the status of the number one scholar at this time is also higher.

But being the No. [-] scholar is not so easy.

After the imperial examination, the chief examiner will organize a feast of deer crowing.

This is a banquet held at the expense of the imperial court, and it is also a banquet to clarify the relationship between the examiner and the examinee, the teacher and the student.

This money is naturally paid by the chief examiner, but those who can serve as chief examiners are already high officials of the imperial court, so this amount of money is naturally affordable.

And after the Luming Banquet, it will be the "Wearing Banquet" held by the No. [-] Scholar.

Court officials will not be present at the Wenxi Banquet, which is a separate banquet for Xinke Scholars.

Naturally, the imperial court will not pay this money, it is for the champion to pay for it himself.

Since the emperor came to power, extravagance became more prevalent in Chang'an, and the cost of holding a wedding banquet also increased.

The new champions of each subject will try their best to organize the Wenxi Banquet, trying to surpass the previous Wenxi Banquet.

Over time, many champions from poor families were overwhelmed, and they sold their fields and houses because of holding wedding banquets.

Although the imperial court limited the upper limit of the amount of Wenxi Banquet, as long as this kind of atmosphere exists, Wenxi Banquet is destined to be a prosperous age for new scholars.

In addition to arranging the wedding banquet, the number one scholar also needs to collect biographies for all the same year, and compile the same year's anthology and the same year's poetry anthology.

There are regular gatherings of the same year, and of course the money must be paid for by the champion.

But even Wang Chengwei is not sure whether he can win the first prize.

As long as you can pass the Jinshi exam, your goal will be achieved.

In Fengxiang Mansion, the emperor asked his companion Li Fuguo for the third time:

"General, has the paper from Chang'an been delivered?"

Li Fuguo was in Guanzhong to supervise the grain handling before, and he just returned to Fengxiang Mansion recently.

When the eunuch returned to the palace, the other eunuchs immediately gave way, and Li Fuguo immediately became the most trusted person around the emperor.

Even Cheng Yuanzhen and Yu Chaoen, who were active in the harem before, could only leave Fengxiang mansion at their own request, not daring to compete with Li Fuguo for favor.

Li Fuguo, like Gao Lishi, not only held the position of the inner court, but also the general of the Fuguo personally awarded by the emperor, and the commander of the Shence Army. He is a veritable powerful faction.

Li Fuguo said with a smile: "Saint, I have already sent people to wait at the gate of Fengxiang Mansion. As long as the examination papers from Chang'an are delivered, they will be escorted to the saint immediately."

Now Li Heng's impatience was relieved a little.

It is a major event in Datang to start a subject to obtain a scholar, not to mention that this is Li Heng's first imperial examination after he ascended the throne.

The topic of practical policy was also proposed by Li Heng himself. It can be said that this imperial examination is of great significance to Li Heng.

Repeating the topic again and again was also Li Heng's test for young scholars. Lingwu ascended the throne in a hurry. Although the emperor announced his abdication later, he tacitly announced that Lingwu's ascension to the throne was abdicated by the emperor.

But Li Heng was still uneasy, and he also wanted to know from the mouth of the young scholar what the world thought about his ascension to the throne.

After a while, two eunuchs carried a gold box and sent it to the emperor.

"Saint! The exam papers from Fengxiang Mansion are here!"

Just as the two small yellow doors were about to enter the palace, a high-level eunuch who was serving the emperor stepped out and stopped the two low-level eunuchs who were about to enter.

The high-ranking eunuch snatched the wooden box, turned around and entered the palace with a smile on his face, and presented the policy answer sheet of the Jinshi examination to the emperor.

These two little yellow gates stood at the gate of the palace and waited for several hours in the cold weather.

Their faces were freezing, just to be able to show their faces in front of the emperor.

If the emperor remembers them when he is happy, he will have a chance to make a fortune in the future.

The two young eunuchs recognized Li Fuguo as their godfather, and they had been filial for a long time before they got such a good job.

Unexpectedly, at the gate of the palace, the damn eunuch Sun took the lead.

The more I thought about this, the angrier the two little eunuchs became.

When Li Fuguo saw that it was not his two godsons who sent the examination papers, but the eunuch Sun beside the emperor, his face immediately turned ugly.

Li Fuguo took a step forward and snatched the wooden box from Eunuch Sun's arms, then turned around and raised it above his head, and handed it to the emperor who had been waiting for a long time.

Li Heng couldn't wait to pick up the paper and read it.

After skipping a few points discussing the changes of the Wen, Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties in ancient times, and exhorting the current emperor, Li Heng finally saw the article that made him shine.

"Good!" He first saw Wei Yingwu's article.

The article takes the Sui and Tang Dynasties as an example. At any rate, it writes about the legal system of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Heng pulled Wei Yingwu's article aside, he was still a little disappointed.

However, these young scholars have not yet entered the official career, so naturally they cannot understand their own thoughts, and it is not bad to be able to write such articles.

But immediately after, Li Heng shouted again: "Okay! Okay!"

Hearing the emperor's applause twice, Li Fuguo raised his head and saw the name "Gu Kuang" on the examination paper.

Li Fuguo had an excellent memory, and he immediately remembered that Gu Kuang was Li Mi's disciple.

However, Li Fuguo and Li Mi are in the same situation, and Li Fuguo does not want Li Mi's disciple to win the first prize.

Li Fuguo rolled his eyes and said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty for being a talented person, this Gu Kuang is the master of Bi Gong."

Li Mi's disciple?
It's no wonder that Gu Kuang's articles can be written in his heart. This set of theory of alternation of style and quality is used in his succession, which shows the manifest destiny of Lingwu's ascension to the throne.

But when Li Fuguo said that he was Li Mi's disciple, the emperor was a little puzzled.

Li Mi was a close minister of the emperor, and it was not difficult to find out the exam questions. Li Fuguo's reminder made Li Heng feel uncomfortable.

What if Li Mi called it?
Li Heng took out Gu Kuang's paper, but placed it under Wei Yingwu's paper, and then he saw Wang Chengwei's paper.

"Good! Good! Wonderful!"

(End of this chapter)