Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 320 Jiang Biao
Zhang Zhe also found it interesting after seeing the shirts sent by Taichang Temple, because in another time and space, this kind of clothing appeared in the Tang Dynasty.But in this time and space, this kind of clothing has also appeared, and it has been popular for more than 400 years.

The shirts of the Song Dynasty were made of white fine cloth, with round necks and large sleeves, and a horizontal skirt underneath, with pleats around the waist. Jinshi, Guozijian Jiansheng, and prefectural and county students all had the habit of wearing this kind of clothing.

In Dazheng, this kind of clothing can only be worn by Gongsheng who has passed the examination. Unlike Zhang Zheyuan, people in Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty wore dark cloth hats when they wore shirts, while Gongsheng in Dazheng wore crowns. The inch-high learning crown was changed to a half-foot-high Jinxian crown.

The shirt is worn on the body, the white cloth wide sleeves and the dark border make the man look very fair and elegant.

For Zhang Zhe, he was a little weak. He kept his head down and bent over for half a stick of incense.Meng Xiaowan, who was supported by the egret and the white warbler and stood on tiptoe, put the Jinxian crown on him with her own hands.

Today is September 22nd, which is the day of the palace examination.

Zhang Zhe put on his clothes, and in order to prevent drowning during the palace examination, he simply ate some dry food. Under the dim sky, Zhang Zhe, Jiang Shangyang, and Huo Bingcheng walked towards Litianmen on foot.

Litian Gate is located in the southeast of the Imperial City, which is part of the Miyagi City. Behind the gate is the Wenhua Palace and the Palace Chinese Temple.

Zhuchi Xiaoyuan is not too far from the imperial city, about five or six miles away, and along the way, white shadows with long sleeves and fluttering shirts gather in the direction of Litianmen.

Before the examination, the students rush to the examination room to use whatever vehicles they want.However, the palace examination must follow the imperial court regulations, and all tribute students need to abide by the rules of officials going to the imperial court, and take cars according to their grades.According to the Dazheng Dynasty system, only officials of the fifth rank or above are eligible to participate in the court meeting.

Gongsheng must be a Jinshi. In fact, he already has the status of an official. The only thing left is the final procedure of the palace examination. This has been the custom for hundreds of years.Gongsheng went to the test on foot, which was actually a kind of recognition and grace from the imperial court to the Gongsheng.

In the archives of the imperial court, there is a record for all Jinshi-born people: XX participated in the Jinshi Dynasty in XX.This is the glory of officials who were born as Jinshi. On the day they participated in the palace examination, the court recognized them as officials who had completed three achievements: the first face-to-face saint, disciples of the Son of Heaven, and participating in the court meeting that only officials of the fifth rank are eligible to join.

Therefore, most of the high-ranking officials in the Dazheng court today are Jinshi. This is the inherent advantage of the Jinshi group.

A total of one hundred singles and three Gong students were admitted in this department. After arriving at the huge Litianmen Square, Zhang Zhe discovered that these hundreds of people seemed to be many times sparser than the scene at the entrance of the Gong Yuan.

Zhang Zhe, who was hanging around all the way, sighed a few times, and he finally realized the difficulty of the imperial examination. Many people may not come here after studying hard all their lives.

In front of Litian Gate, there were 36 guards in heavy gold armor, standing with their chests upright and holding their knives.More than a dozen officials from Taichang Temple and the Ministry of Rites walked among the tribute students, directing the tribute students to stand in order.

Zhang Zhe was placed in the first place, and behind him was Li Zhaofeng, a 29-year-old celebrity from Macheng County, Hanoi Province. It is said that he is the only other one in the two complete pairs of Jinke Moyi Juan.

For the 19-year-old young man in front of him standing in front of him, Li Zhaofeng was also full of sighs.He thinks that he has studied hard for these years, and he didn't come out to refer to it until he was fully sure.Before the test, he also scored three yuan in a row, but it is a pity that in this subject, he encountered a monster that would not last in a thousand years.

For Zhang Xinzhi standing in front of him, Li Zhaofeng is also very convinced. Zhang Xinzhi's essays on the test can be regarded as masterpieces of the world. situation.

But when he looked up at the majestic Litian Gate and the lofty Wenhua Palace behind it, his eyes showed extreme confidence.In the palace examination, literary talent is not the first thing to occupy the first place. The article is in line with the sacred heart and the emperor's will, and it is the real number one.

Contesting with Zhang Xin for the champion, Li Zhaofeng felt extremely excited just thinking about it.

On the other hand, Zhang Zhe's expression was very calm.He really wasn't sure about the number one scholar, and he also knew that only the one that best suited the emperor's wishes could win the palace examination.Just looking at the fact that none of the eight great masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties was born as a number one scholar, one can see that the palace examination has little to do with talent and learning.

The palace test in this time and space is somewhat interesting. For example, the time of entering the Tianmen is different every year. The Qin Tianjian will calculate the time when the sun will appear according to the different climates every year.When the first ray of sunlight hits the gate of Litian, the ritual officer will open the gate and let the tribute students in.

When the sun completely jumped out of the horizon, the light enveloped Li Tianmen.

The ceremonial officer yelled loudly: "Students of all tributes enter the imperial court to participate in the examination~!"

With a bang, eight golden-armored warriors pushed open the huge Litian Gate, and a huge red and white palace appeared in Zhang Zhe's sight.This is the Wenhua Palace, the final place of scientific research.

Like the head of a big white snake, Zhang Zhe entered the Litian Gate with the first step of the ceremony officer, followed by a white-clothed tribute student every three feet behind him, starting to move forward like a entangled long snake.

There are 28 steps in front of the Wenhua Hall, corresponding to the 28 constellations in the sky.There is a special point here, the last level is called Wenqutai.

Wenhua Hall is a single hall with heavy buildings. The eaves are divided into three floors, with white walls, red columns and golden glazed tiles.

The eaves on the first floor are about two feet high, the second floor is two feet eight, and the third floor is three feet six. All the eaves, windows and hall doors are opened.Only the side facing the south has a carved wall of wandering dragons. The three-foot-wide Wolong steps are one foot high, and there are a dragon table and a nine-dragon chair on the steps.

In the main hall, there are five rows of book cases neatly arranged. There is an embroidered pier in front of the case, and the book cases are complete with pen, ink and paper.

Near the Wolong steps, there are three old ministers standing.

After entering the hall, Zhang Zhe lowered his head slightly. According to the introduction of the etiquette official who came to his home yesterday, these three are the three assistant ministers in the current court, the first assistant Sun Gezheng, the second assistant Li Danian and the Ji assistant Gu Zhe.

Zhang Zhe has inquired about the resumes of these people. The chief assistant, Sun Gezheng, is two years younger than His Majesty today. The first assistant has been sitting in the position for ten years.

The second assistant, Li Danian, was three years older than His Majesty, but he was born in the top three, and he became a Beijing official because of his meritorious service. He served in the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Punishment.

Although the last Ji Fu, Gu Zuo, was born in the second-class class, he is now the official of His Majesty's hidden residence.Whenever there was a vacancy in any important position in the court, he would fill it up temporarily. Over the past few decades, there were few mistakes and omissions, so he was nicknamed "Gu Liuli".Only three years ago, he was promoted from the position of Minister of the Ministry of War to be a Bachelor of Nanxiang Pavilion, and he is the mediator between the first assistant and the second assistant.

And the two people a little farther away from the dragon seat should be the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Taichang Temple.

Zhang Zhe didn't dare to look too much, he kept his eyes on his nose, his nose and his heart, and was led by the etiquette officer to stand in front of the leftmost desk in the first row calmly.Behind him is No.6 Jiang Shangyang's position, and Huo Bingcheng's position, don't think it must be the last one in the last row.

After all the students stood up, the chief assistant, Sun Ge, came out to clear his throat, and a clear voice echoed in the hall.

"Gentlemen, let's salute the Dragon Seat."

All the Gongsheng students including Zhang Zhe were stunned, there was no one on the Dragon Seat?

Zhang Zhe reacted the fastest, and immediately took the lead and knelt down, kneeling three times and knocking nine times, proclaiming long live, but cursing secretly in his heart: I will go to the grave.

After calling out three times, an internal officer stepped forward with a smile: "Sheng An, please stand up."

With a wave of the officer's hand, a group of young eunuchs rushed out and moved the Jiulongzuo and Jiuchilong case away neatly.After a while, another eight-dragon glass chair and eight-foot table were lifted and placed in the original position.

Zhang Zhe slightly raised his eyes to look at the chair, but it was silver and gold-rimmed, which seemed to be the seat of the prince?
According to the rules, shouldn't the crown prince take the exam in place of His Majesty in the Fairview Palace?Just as Zhang Zhe suppressed the doubts in his heart, he heard several people walk into the Wenhua Palace. The three chief assistants took the lead to greet them and called them "Prince". Will come.

With no other choice, Zhang Zhe could only take the lead in going to the grave again.

But the emperor specially ordered the prince to use the Wenhua Palace to invigilate the examinations of the students, and the examination papers of the tribute students were still checked and approved by the emperor.

The crown prince took the lead to get up, received the imperial edict, and then spoke in ancient Chinese. All the people in the hall were excited and their expressions were in place, but only Zhang Zhe, the leader, remained calm.

The three assistant ministers were carefully observing the examinees. Just now, the crown prince's exhortation quoted scriptures, even Li Zhaofeng, who was ranked second, also faintly sympathized, but this letter has always looked the same, as indifferent as before.

Sun Gezheng couldn't help but take another look at Zhang Zhe, not wanting that this young man has such a city and concentration.

But I don't know, among the tribute students in the palace, only Zhang Xinzhi listened to the prince's words in a cloud, as the saying goes, the seven orifices have been connected to the six orifices-or they don't understand anything.

"Everyone, sit down!"

Zhang Zhe took the lead to take the seat, but he didn't dare to sit down on Xiudun at the beginning, and only sat halfway.This detail was discovered by the crown prince and second assistant Li Danian, and they couldn't help but nodded secretly.

The chief assistant, Sun Gezheng, stepped forward and explained the rules of the palace examination one by one. After repeating it three times, he saluted the prince to show that he was done.

Next, the prince and the three ministers pushed each other modestly, and finally the prince opened the seal of a yellow scroll.After unfolding, the prince first called out "wonderful" "sincerely", and then read out the questions of the palace examination aloud.

"I have heard that the Han Dynasty was good enough to make the whole world, let's try to talk about Liuhou."

The meaning of the title is: I heard that Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was assisted by Zhang Liang, so that he unified the world. Let’s try to talk about Zhang Liang, Marquis of Liu.

Zhang Zhe was startled when he heard the topic, why is it a character review?But after thinking about it, he realized that the emperor's palace examination questions had always been closely related to government affairs, and the biggest government affairs now were the war between the North and the South.

Instead of distinguishing the meaning of the question, he thought about why the emperor asked such a question in the first place.

Zhang Zhe had judged before that the emperor had a deep obsession with unifying the world, so he always thought that the emperor would firmly persist in both wars.So why did the emperor suddenly think of Zhang Liang?

In folk tales, Zhang Liang is a man as wise as a monster, but in official history, what Zhang Liang is most praised for is that he persuaded Liu Bang to submit to Xiang Yu and go to the Hongmen Banquet and successfully escaped.In addition, Zhang Liang went away in seclusion in time and was not purged by Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, when literati talked about Zhang Liang, the first evaluation that came to mind was not "wisdom as much as a demon", but "judgment of the situation".

Zhang Liang, who is judging the situation, wants everyone to talk about this character?Still at the moment when the North and the South were fighting, Zhang Zhe's eyes suddenly wandered away. Could it be that the emperor's persistence has been...

The day before, Zhang Zhe had just received a letter from Zhang Wuliu, and he had already learned that there was too much rain in the south of the Yangtze River this year, which had affected the autumn harvest in various places.As Dazheng's granary, Jiangnan was short of harvests, and Dazheng's confidence in fighting on both sides was weakened by three points.Moreover, this time the people of the country of Dai came aggressively, and the harm was far greater than that of the country of Wu.

Zhang Zhe himself analyzed that although Dazheng captured Zhaoyang County and his soldiers could guide Wu's capital Jinling by himself, it was almost impossible for Dazheng to destroy Wu when he was surrounded by a group of enemies.Therefore, killing Nan Wu fiercely is probably the real need of the court.

What's more, the newly captured Xiushan was affected by the disaster, and the situation in various parts of Southern Wu must be the same. At this time, the State of Wu definitely wants to seek peace quickly. As long as the conditions are not too excessive, Southern Wu will definitely agree.So for Da Zheng, the best time for peace talks has come.

Once Southern Wu cuts the land and pays compensation, Da Zheng can wholeheartedly clean up the invading Dai country.

At this time, I asked Liu Hou Zhang Liang, could it be that the emperor was preparing to agree to a peace negotiation to set the tone of public opinion?
If this is the case, Fatty Su's "Liuhou Lun" is a good choice, and it can be used with a little modification.Su Shi's most unique argument in this article is: endure small anger and make big plans, support his full strength and treat him poorly.

Of course, if he really uses this article, he is advocating a temporary peace with Southern Wu, and it has to be said that it means a lot of gambling.

Zhang Zhe was thinking seriously, but he didn't know that he was the center of most people's attention in the hall.

The prince was already curious about the famous Zhang Xinzhi, so he couldn't help but look at Zhang Zhe a few more times.I saw that this person kept his eyes down and indifferently, but the 19-year-old was like an ancient well, which was really surprising.

Zhang Zheyuan was taller than Jiang Shangyang. After he sat down, he exposed No. 6 Jiang Shangyang behind him.

The prince was about to take his gaze away from Zhang Zhe, but then he involuntarily turned his gaze back and landed on the face of the scholar behind Zhang Zhe.

From King Song to Crown Prince, after so many years of court struggle, Yang Zonghan had already reached the point where he couldn't show his emotions or anger.But today, caught off guard, after seeing Jiang Shangyang's appearance, his expression changed slightly.

The prince's heart suddenly turned up a huge wave.

Who is this person? !
He has always been a person who pays attention to details, but he will not let go of any abnormal clues.In the palace examination, a person who imagined so much as his father suddenly appeared, and the prince couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.

But it's a pity that there are no people from the East Palace by his side at the moment, and he can't discuss with them for a while, so he can only forcefully hold back and stop looking at Jiang Shangyang.But after the palace examination, he will definitely try his best to find out the past of this person.

Without him, this person looks too much like His Majesty today.But doubts also spread in the prince's heart, because just looking at this person's age, he would never think of being able to connect with any lucky woman in the harem.

The prince was not the only one who was frightened. After seeing Jiang Shangyang's appearance, several internal officials were also speechless for a while, and their whole body trembled slightly.

Li Danian, the second assistant, looked even more puzzled. He looked at Jiang Shangyang's face, and then at Sun Gezheng, the first assistant. Endless doubts were accumulating in the second assistant's heart.As the second prime minister of the empire, he immediately thought that just relying on this person's appearance could cause endless troubles for many restless people.

A trace of inexplicable killing intent suddenly surged into Li Danian's heart.

The emperor is old and the crown prince has been established. For the sake of Dazheng's society, he will not let this process have any changes!

It wasn't until Li Danian saw Shoufu's indifferent eyes that he suppressed his wild thoughts.

Sun Gezheng shook his head slightly at Li Danian, and he also discovered the existence of Jiang Shangyang.However, as the first assistant, he knew that no matter whether His Majesty knew about Jiang Shangyang's existence, this kind of matter could only be resolved by His Majesty. Their rash intervention in the clan would only make things more complicated.

After a few glances, both the first assistant and the second assistant turned their attention to Ji Fu and Gu Chiu.

But he found that Gu Chiu was half-squinting his eyes, looking like he was taking a nap.Sun Gezheng smiled lightly immediately, and stopped paying attention to Jiang Shangyang. He probably guessed something in his heart.Li Danian stared at Gu Chiu, he knew that this person was pretending!

Gu Chiu was indeed pretending to take a nap, and he kept crying in his heart.

In fact, after Gu Chiu saw Jiang Shangyang's appearance, he took another look at the list in his sleeve, and as soon as the three words "Jiang Shangyang" came into view, he guessed everything.He has a severe headache at the moment, because he knows Jiang Shangyang's origin and the incidental harm very well!

As a minister of His Majesty's hidden residence, he knows a lot of His Majesty's secrets.For example, His Majesty, who was King Zhou back then, when he was learning chess at Shentu Shangshu's school, did not use the name of Zhou King according to the agreement with Shentu Shangshu, but gave himself a nickname of "Jiang Biao".

Jiang Biao, Shen Tuxiu, and Gu Zhe guessed Jiang Shangyang's origin in an instant.What Jiang Shangyang should be called Yang Shangyang!As the emperor's confidant, he naturally knew about the messy affairs between the emperor and Mrs. Shentu.

With the help of Shen Tuxiu, His Majesty broke through Grand Master Shen Tu's supervision of him, and successfully killed his brother to seize the throne.As the prince's teacher, Lord Shentu broke his friendship with His Majesty, and was immediately forced to death by His Majesty with an impulsive decree.

Gu Zong was one of the few people who knew the real horror of Mrs. Shentu.The horror of Shentuxiu is that the emperor always felt that he owed Shentuxiu too much, but she never asked the emperor for anything for decades.But now, Gu Chiu found that she and His Majesty's grandson are already this old!
Once the news gets out, the entire capital will be shaken up, and everyone will think: Will His Majesty leave the throne to him and Shen Tuxiu's descendants! ?After all, that is Shen Tuxiu, the only Ni Lin in the emperor's heart!

Gu Zhe didn't dare to open his eyes, letting anyone see the bitterness in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)