People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 677

Under the afterglow of dusk, fourteen scholars from all over Wuyue stood up at the same time, facing Li Xuan who walked into the courtyard, solemnly cupped their hands and said, "I have seen you, Your Majesty."

Li Xuan, dressed in a blue checkered gown, walked from the center of the fourteen Wuyue scholars, and then walked to the main seat on the eaves of the courtyard.

Li Xuan glanced at Li Bi and Yu Ze standing in the shadow of the door, nodded slightly, and then looked at everyone in the courtyard.

These fourteen Wuyue scholars will all take part in tomorrow's scientific examination, but it is hard to say how many of them will pass the examination.

Li Xuan waved her hand and said with a smile, "Everyone, please sit down."

"Thank you, my lord!" The scholars bowed their hands to Li Xuan again, and then sat down.

Li Xuan raised her head, her gentle eyes swept over everyone present.

Each of them was wearing thick clothes. Although the temperature in the courtyard was a bit low, the atmosphere in the courtyard was very relaxed with the warm stove, as well as the hot dishes and warm wine on the table.

"The weather is actually quite cold, isn't it?" Li Xuan said suddenly, everyone present was slightly taken aback, not understanding what Li Xuan meant.

Li Xuan smiled faintly, looked at everyone, and said calmly: "The reason why today's banquet was chosen in the cold courtyard is because we arrived at the examination room. Some psychological preparations, tonight should be used to get used to it."

Everyone at the scene immediately stood up in awe, and at the same time stood up and cupped their hands to Li Xuan: "Thank you for your good intentions, my lord. We will definitely be listed on the imperial list to repay my lord's kindness."

"Forget about generous rewards. For this king, if three or five of you can pass the Jinshi examination, it will be a blessing to this king, and also to the Wuhang families." Li Xuan waved her hand casually. Although most of the scholars are from Wuzhou and Hangzhou, the children of ordinary families, but even so, they are all inextricably linked with those famous families.

Even many of them are collateral descendants of those famous families.

The true direct descendants of everyone, such as Laiqian, although he came from Runzhou, but his family is in Chang'an, there is no need to live in Li Xuan's mansion.

From entering Beijing last September to now, most of those who are still staying in Prince Peng's Mansion are students who are really studying hard.

After all, in addition to providing them with three meals a day, Prince Peng's Mansion only has a residence, and even pen, ink and paper need to be purchased by them personally.

The direct descendants of everyone, who are used to extravagance and playfulness, can't bear this kind of hardship at all.

Li Xuan's luck is very good. Although one or two of these people are former scholars, but fortunately they are young and not frivolous, or maybe they were afraid of being attacked in previous years, so they will be safe this time. Set your mind to really study hard.

Among these, apart from He Zhizhang and Zhuge Minghui, there are one or two who may pass the Jinshi examination.

But even if there are only one or two people, it is enough to closely link Li Xuan and the Wuyue family.

……

Li Xuan waved his hand to let everyone sit down, and then said: "In this scientific examination, everyone is studying Jinshi and Mingjing. Master Yu has explained the content of the scientific examination to you in detail, and everything that needs to be said has been said. The rest is for tomorrow's impromptu performance."

Li Xuan looked at the warm wine on the table. The courtyard was very quiet. He said in a deep voice: "Today, there are only three glasses of wine in the jug on the table in front of each of us... In spring, Sanyang is in full bloom. , everyone, go back and have a good sleep. Tomorrow at five o'clock at five o'clock, the king will send someone to wake you up, and then go to the examination room of the Chongxianmen official department. Whether you jump directly into the dragon gate, or fight again in the next year, everything depends on you the power."

"Thank you, my lord, for your concern!" Everyone present stood up again, bowing gratefully to Li Xuan.

During their stay in Prince Peng's Mansion, although Li Xuan did not take care of them meticulously, there was basically no shortage of needs.

And from time to time, people from the Imperial College get up to give advice, and they don't have much time to spend on socializing and submitting papers, and most of them are spent on reading.

Li Xuan once again signaled everyone to sit down, and then continued: "Everyone here, there are several people who are between passing the exam and failing the exam. If you calm down and don't think wildly, you may succeed in the Jinshi. It's messy, I'm afraid there is not much hope for this spring, but it is also because of this, if you have any thoughts, you may wish to express your thoughts and write them all in the test paper."

Although Li Xuan talked a lot, they were all talking so that they could answer as many thoughts as possible in the test paper.

"If there are one or two examiners who are blind and take a fancy to what you wrote, maybe you can jump to the Dragon Gate." After Li Xuan finished speaking, she poured a glass of wine from the jug, and then respected the people in the courtyard. Many Wu Yue scholars said in a deep voice: "For the imperial examination, you can do your best. If you don't succeed today, there will be another day, but the king still wishes you good luck in the next few days. Dry!"

"Thank you, my lord, for your blessing!" Everyone present immediately raised their wine glasses and drank them all in one gulp.

Li Xuan looked at the jug on the table, picked it up and poured himself a glass, then looked at everyone and said, "This second glass needs to be savored slowly. There is no water in this banquet, only the second glass of wine. Let everyone drink slowly, and be careful not to choke."

"Students obey the order." Many scholars present bowed their hands to Li Xuan again.

There seemed to be some other meanings in Li Xuan's words, let them think about it slowly.

Li Xuan picked up the chopsticks, took a casual bite, and nodded in satisfaction when everyone started to eat.

Eat without speaking, sleep without speaking.

Everyone slowly ate all the dishes with faces, and their stomachs were finally full.

Li Xuan put down the chopsticks in his hand, and the plate in front of him was empty.

Glancing at everyone, Li Xuan finally turned to look at He Zhizhang on the left: "Brother Ji Zhenxian, are you ready for tomorrow?"

The food in front of He Zhizhang didn't move much, the chopsticks had long been put aside, as if he was waiting for Li Xuan to ask.

He Zhizhang faced Li Xuan, cupped his hands and asked, "My lord, if the student's performance in the test is not satisfactory this time, will he not be affected when he comes back next time?"

"It stands to reason that it is possible!" Li Xuan answered directly, and then said: "However, if you are unlucky, you may be particularly remembered by the examiner who met before, but if you have the talent of the number one scholar, then naturally You can have nothing to worry about.”

It is not unheard of for high school Jinshi to fail to take office, and he will retake the exam next year.

It's just that since the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty, there are indeed those who retake the exam once they are in high school, but their ranking in high school is not even as good as before.

Unless he has the appearance of a champion, he will never give up high school and not take the job easily.

Of course, if you have the appearance of a champion, you can naturally be more arrogant and domineering.

But the premise is to avoid those villains.

He Zhizhang has the talent of number one scholar. Even if he does not participate in the scientific examination this time, he still has a chance to come back. It's hard to say what the results will be.

Li Xuan looked at He Zhizhang with interest, although this time the matter of the king of the East China Sea was over, but the future of He Zhizhang's imperial examination was still dangerous.

In fact, if there is no such thing, although he has the talent of the number one scholar, it would be very difficult for him to get the number one scholar in this imperial examination.

One is that the experience is not enough, and the other is that the time is not up to me.

Nowadays, the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty are still dominated by aristocratic families. Even for figures like Song Zhiwen, Liu Xiyi, and Shen Quanqi, the number one scholar is no match for Zheng Yi, who was born in the Zheng family of Xingyang.

The era that belongs to He Zhizhang has not yet arrived.

He Zhizhang slowly raised his head, looked at Li Xuan, and said, "My lord, Ji Zhen heard that this time the battle with Tubo, my lord will go west. I wonder if I can take Ji Zhen with me?"

"Yes!" Li Xuan nodded without hesitation.

He Zhizhang finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised his glass to respect Li Xuan, and said in a deep voice: "Thank you for taking care of the prince this time, in the future, Ji Zhen will have to trouble the prince even more!"

"No problem." Li Xuan waved his hand, raised his wine glass, nodded to He Zhizhang, then looked at the crowd and said, "Everyone, let's have a drink together."

"Drink together!"

……

"Dong dong dong!" A crisp gong sounded throughout the west courtyard, and the lamps and candles in each room were lit up quickly.

There are fourteen people, one is not missing, one is not missing, all are here.

He Zhizhang stood at the head of the crowd, and beside him stood the equally elegant Zhuge Minghui.

Everyone was wearing blue scholar's uniforms and black pu caps, with serious expressions, and a trace of tension flashed in the depths of their eyes.

Li Xuan was wearing a crimson official robe, and after seeing that everyone had packed up, she nodded and walked out.

At the gate of the courtyard, the palace has prepared food and water bottles for everyone, but these things are not for them to use now, these are for them to eat and drink in the middle of the examination room, so that reducing the time to go to the toilet can give them more Some time for answering questions.

The carriage was ready outside the door, and everyone got into the carriage.

Li Xuan was sitting in a carriage at the front, beside him and across from him were He Zhizhang and Zhuge Minghui respectively.

There was no words all the way, when they arrived at the gate of Chongxian, He Zhizhang got out of the car first, Zhuge Minghui was behind, Li Xuan nodded slightly to Zhuge Minghui.

Zhuge Minghui, who was a little younger than Li Xuan, nodded in response, his expression full of determination.

Perhaps Zhuge Minghui could be said to have the best grades among the people in Prince Peng's residence.

Because he is the most well-known person in Chang'an, except for He Zhizhang.

It was also what Li Xuan expected most.

"Let's go back to Honglu Temple. There are still people waiting there." Li Xuan sighed softly. Envoys from various countries in Beijing, nobles, even businessmen's children, after passing the study at the Imperial Academy, can also have Eligibility to participate in imperial examinations.

However, there are very few such foreigners, and there are only a dozen or so of them, not even as many as the people living in Prince Li Xuan's mansion.

As Li Xuan, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple in charge of the Host and Guest Administration, it is also his responsibility to send these people to participate in the imperial examination.

These people, they have been arranged to live in the guest house of Honglu Temple a few days ago, not far from the examination room.

……

After sending a group of people into the examination room, Li Xuan was slightly relieved.

At this time, there were not many people in the square, and the examination room would be closed in a quarter of an hour.

Li Xuangang was going to Honglu Temple to take a rest, after all, this scientific examination is a whole day.

At this moment, a carriage slowly stopped in front of Li Xuan.

Immediately, the curtain of the car was lifted, and Yang Jiong got out of the car first, followed by Song Zhiwen and King Luo Bin, who came to send Yang Jiong to participate in the ceremony.

Seeing Li Xuan, Yang Jiong was taken aback for a moment, then immediately cupped his hands to Li Xuan and said, "Your Majesty has seen the prince."

"Mr. Ling Ming, there is no need to be too polite. Time is urgent. Please come in, sir." At this time, Li Xuan did not dare to drag Yang Jiong to say anything, and hurriedly let him into the examination room.

Yang Jiong smiled relaxedly, then cupped his hands at Li Xuan, turned around and entered the examination room.

Although the system and imperial examinations are in the same examination room, they are completely different.

Li Xuan turned to look at Song Zhiwen and King Luo Bin, and gently cupped his hands and said, "I've seen the two gentlemen."

"I have seen the lord!"

"You two, it's almost time for you to be on duty, so I will take my leave first."

"Farewell to the prince." Song Zhiwen and King Luo Bin immediately bowed to see him off.

While lowering his head, King Luo Bin suddenly raised his eyes to look at Li Xuan, his eyes already filled with strong murderous intent.

However, when he raised his head, he saw Li Xuan staring at him with cold eyes.

He said that this time, the king of the East China Sea had to die, so he had to die.

　Sorry, the time of this chapter is actually set to August 8th, but fortunately, I found it in time.

　　我还是有些没搞明白，今天9点15设定的9点30发，怎么前面的日期，就自动成了8月5号

　　
　
(End of this chapter)