Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Lu Xiu and others took note of what Li Wei taught them and returned to the academy to review the classics with Fang Xiaoru and other students.

Li Wei also left home and went to the Arms Bureau.

In the Ordnance Bureau, a group of new "craftsmen" gathered together, but they were not working, but writing and drawing. They did not look like working craftsmen, but like a group of students.

These people also don't speak, and communicate with each other through a bunch of written symbols.

As the sky grew dark, the craftsmen also called it a day. Except for a few who stayed behind, they all returned home. These special craftsmen transformed themselves, put on fancy clothes, and began some special training.

Under the night, the figures flickered, but silently, looking like ghosts in the dark night.

Occasionally someone accidentally falls during training, and there is no other sound except a low muffled sound.

Li Wei walked unhurriedly to the side of the training ground where these people were training, followed by several students such as Chen Su and Chen Shaofeng.

Chen Su was responsible for the physical training of these people, while Chen Shaofeng and others were responsible for handing over the secret communication methods such as Professor Li Wei's Morse code to these people.

In addition to teaching passwords, they will also try to teach these people some basic cultural courses, especially some simple and practical physical and chemical knowledge, which can often work wonders when performing special tasks.

Several people stood on the sidelines. Chen Su covered his mouth with his hand and made a whistle that sounded like a bird's call. Everyone who was training immediately stopped, quickly gathered in front of Li Wei, and knelt down on one knee.

Li Wei looked at these people and nodded with satisfaction.

"My lord, after this group is trained, we will have over a thousand people. I have arranged them to various places according to your instructions. Only a hundred or ten people are left in the capital."

Chen Su said in a low voice.

The capital is at the foot of the emperor and the territory of the Jinyiwei. If many good players suddenly appear, they will definitely be noticed. Therefore, these agents trained by Li Wei are sent to other places, leaving very few in the capital to avoid being exposed.

However, being sent to other places can also do a lot for him. Although the capital is the center of power of the imperial court, local changes can also have an impact on the imperial situation.

"Very good. It just so happens that I have something to entrust to them. Let's treat it as a test for them." Li Weidao.

"Master, please give me your instructions!" Chen Su eagerly handed over his hand.

Li Wei nodded and said softly: "The imperial examination is coming soon, and scholars from all over the country are already on their way to Beijing. I expect there will be many obstacles along the way, especially for students from the north. Go and find out who are the outstanding scholars from the north. , find them, help them overcome these difficulties, it doesn’t matter if they arrive in Beijing later.”

After listening to this, Chen Su immediately understood. Li Wei's previous words were not important. The most recent words were the key point.

Although the journey to the north is far away, the world is now basically peaceful, and these scholars have merit and fame, and the government will give them preferential treatment along the way. It can be said that it is difficult, but the dangers are not mentioned at all. Li Wei's words, Just let them create artificial obstacles for these people and delay their entry into Beijing.

"Yes!"

Chen Su responded in a deep voice. As for why he did this, he didn't ask, and he didn't need to ask.

After Li Wei gave these instructions, he raised his hand to ask these people to get up and continue training.

After a while, Chen Su hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands and said: "Master, we don't have a name yet, please give us a name!"

Li Wei was stunned for a moment and then realized what he was doing.

Also, he asked Chen Su to secretly organize these special personnel, and they haven't named them yet.

A name is still necessary, and a suitable name can greatly enhance the cohesion of an organization.

Li Wei pondered for a moment and then said: "The Jin Yiwei are gorgeous and beautiful, but you are just the opposite. You can only walk in the dark and cannot see the light. In this way, we are called Night Guards."

"Night Guard?" Chen Su read it in a low voice, feeling that this name was very appropriate for the newly formed organization.

"Well, you are the first generation of night walkers."

Li Wei turned around and looked around Chen Shaofeng and several other students, and said softly.

"Yes, don't worry, teacher, we will definitely do a good job with this night traveler!"

Chen Shaofeng said firmly.

Although the Night Guard was organized by Chen Su, students like them also played a decisive role in it. This was their official career after graduation.

Young people are always more energetic than old people, and so are Chen Shaofeng and others. They are even more excited than Chen Su.

Li Wei smiled. He understood the mood of these students very well. After all, he only had dreams when he graduated. It was not until he was severely beaten by society that he finally recognized the reality.

I hope these students don't become like him before.

After more than ten years, the imperial court finally opened the subject again. Scholars all over the world were very excited. Although many people secretly despised the current emperor of common people and often criticized him for not knowing how to govern the country and being very violent. However, after the imperial court opened the subject, , these upright and upright scholars flocked to the capital with great ambitions in order to serve the imperial court.

In this era, families who could afford to study were not too poor. These scholars who poured into the capital were like overseas students in later generations. When they arrived in this prosperous capital, they spent money lavishly, making the capital's economy prosperous. There was a lot of excitement and excitement everywhere. From time to time in various inns and hotels, a group of arty literati would appear reciting poems, composing poems, and showing off their literary talent.

Although Li Wei didn't care about these scholars, they often mentioned him in their conversations.

After all, Ming-Huang Neo-Confucianism has spread very widely now. Although there are many people who oppose it, there are also many supporters. As the founder of Ming-Huang Neo-Confucianism, Li Wei has naturally been criticized or admired by these people, and even has many students. They will also be bold enough to come to your door.

However, the prince-in-law was the Duke's residence at that time, so naturally they couldn't enter. The two waves of people could only quarrel and quarrel with each other outside the door. Li Wei sent people to drive away a few waves, but later there would be new ones. In desperation, he just let them quarrel.

Entering February, these scholars have also stopped, because the ninth grade examination is about to begin, and they have to prepare for the exam quickly.

Today's exams are much more stringent than the college entrance exams of later generations. Each person has a small dark room. Once he enters, he spends three days, three times in total, eating, drinking and having sex in there. Those who are in poor health really can't bear it.

Moreover, you had to be searched before entering. There was no X-ray machine in this era, so students could only be asked to take off their clothes for inspection. These scholars usually emphasized being polite, but here they had to strip down to their underwear, no longer caring about face.

For nine consecutive days with a break in between, the examination lasted from early to late February before finally ending.

These nine days were extremely difficult for the scholars who participated in the examination, but for those who had nothing to do with it, it passed by in the blink of an eye. The examination papers of the scholars were gathered together, transcribed and proofread, and then the examiners began Nervous grading.

After nine days of torment, they immediately fell into anxious waiting again.

Since the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examination has become the main way for these scholars to achieve class crossing. Once they reach high school, they have jumped over the dragon gate and entered the powerful class. The whole family will follow the chickens and dogs to heaven.

And if they fail, then they will have no shame in going home to meet their parents and clansmen who supported their studies.

After another seven days, the Ministry of Rites finally published the list. Scholars came in large numbers and nervously searched among the hundreds of names on the list. Only when they found themselves on the list could they be qualified to face the saint and participate in the final competition. Test: Palace examination.

"I found it, I got it, I got it, haha..." "I got it too..."

Some of the scholars kept shouting in surprise, while the rest had sweat breaking out from their nervous foreheads, as did Lu Xiu, Ye Qingyun and others.

Because they were born in poverty, they worked very hard when they got the opportunity to study, especially Ye Qingyun and the others. As the children of ordinary craftsmen, they knew how rare this opportunity Li Wei gave them was. If it weren't for Li Wei, they would have lost The father's children don't even have food to eat, let alone go to school.

They worked hard, and Fang Xiaoru was indeed a good teacher. Therefore, although the study time was still short, their results were very good.

However, compared with the scholars from all over the country who were selected from the best, they were still a little behind. They didn't have a share in the top rankings, so they had to rummage through a bunch of names at the back.

As time went by, some people searched the entire list but did not see their name, and immediately knew that they had failed the list. Of course, their faces were extremely disappointed, and some even cried.

A list of results from the imperial court divided these originally equal candidates into two classes. Those in high schools cheered with joy, while those who failed the list looked ashen.

"I found it, I found it too!"

Ye Qingyun suddenly shouted in surprise.

Lu Xiu and several others hurriedly came to him. Ye Qingyun pointed to his name on the list and showed it to everyone. Sure enough, he also won.

"congratulations!"

Several people congratulated Ye Qingyun one after another, but the smiles on their faces were a little forced.

Ye Qingyun was very discerning and understood everyone's mood. He quickly suppressed his surprise and said to several people: "You must have been hit too. I will help you find it together."

When Lu Xiu and others heard this, although they knew that he was just comforting them, they couldn't help but feel much better.

Everyone nodded and continued to look for their names separately. Not long after, Lu Xiu also found his own.

However, he did not promote it too much. Instead, he told everyone and continued to help other students search.

Not many people from Minghuang Academy came to participate in the examination, and there were only a dozen of them together. After the two were found, only two or three others were on the exam, and the remaining nearly ten people failed.

Some students in the high school were overjoyed. Although those who failed were disappointed, they were not as distraught as the other scholars. After all, they had only been in school for five or six years and were still very young. They would have many opportunities in the future.

"Let's go and tell the teacher the good news!"

"it is good!"

Lu Xiu and other high school students discussed it and went to find Li Wei together.

Although they had two teachers, Li Wei not only taught them knowledge, but also took care of their food and often helped their families. Therefore, in their hearts, Li Wei was truly like a teacher and a father.

In the Ordnance Bureau, Li Wei was sitting in the room, holding a booklet in his hand, reading it leisurely while drinking tea. What was written in the booklet was the list that was published today.

After all, he was one of the most important ministers in the court. Naturally, he didn't need to go outside the gate of the Ministry of Rites to read the lists like those ordinary scholars. Someone copied these lists to him as soon as they came out.

Moreover, not only are there names on it, but also the place of origin of the scholar is simply marked after each name.

Li Weizhi scanned it and found that most of them were from high schools of scholars from the south, and he immediately smiled.

The North-South List Case was so famous, so naturally he didn't know about it, he just didn't know the specific time.

But it doesn't matter. Anyway, under the covert operation of the Night Guards, the most outstanding scholars in the north were held back by the "difficulties and obstacles" along the way and failed to catch up with the Spring Festival. Naturally, the North-South Ranking Case was It is inevitable that if there is really no movement, he will send someone to deliberately publicize it.

As long as this case happens, the Ministry of Rites will definitely be held responsible, and the examiners assigned by the Imperial Academy and various ministries and yamen will also suffer.

Although Zhao Hao had no grudge against him, if Wu Chen and others wanted to regain their positions, they had to kick out the current people in the Ministry of Rites.

While Li Wei was thinking about the arrangements, Lu Xiu and Ye Qingyun walked in and saluted.

"Teacher, I'm hit!"

"Me too."

"And I!"

Lu Xiu, Ye Qingyun and other people on the list all said to Li Wei with happy faces.

Others who failed the list lowered their heads, a little ashamed.

Li Wei looked up at them and said with a smile: "Okay, it's good if you win. The next step is the palace examination. You all should prepare well."

"Yes, teacher, don't worry!"

Lu Xiu said respectfully.

Li Wei nodded lightly, then looked at the students who failed, and comforted them: "You don't have to be discouraged. This is your first time. If you fail once, you can just take the test again next time. You are still young and you have plenty of opportunities."

"Yes, teacher." Everyone else also said yes.

"Hmm." Li Wei thought for a while and then said, "Well, when the new college is completed, you will go in and become teachers, and teach the knowledge I taught you to the newly recruited students. This can be considered as helping to share the worries of the teachers."

The new college is very large. Once it is completed, it will not be a problem to recruit thousands of people. Naturally, he will no longer be able to teach in person. These students just go over to help.

To engage in the science and technology industry, these 100 or so students alone are far from enough, and students must continue to be taught.

These people volunteered to become officials, but they felt embarrassed because of their lack of strength. Now they breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Li Wei still wanted to use them.

"I will obey the teacher's instructions."

"Well," Li Wei nodded, "Okay, if you have nothing to do, go back as soon as possible."

"Yes, students are resigning."

Everyone turned around and left.

Li Wei sat alone in the room, his eyes fell on the roster of southern scholars, and he smiled again. (End of chapter)