Dingguo

Chapter 441, Imperial Examination

Jinling Gongyuan is close to the south gate, and an empty side street with few people passes through the gate of the Gongyuan. 【】A row of tall lanterns hangs under the plaque of 'Gongyuan', and many soldiers have lined up outside the gate of the Gongyuan.

Li Shu first went to the big courtyard in the tribute courtyard, reported his name, and received his number plate.Only then did he hand in all his clothes at the inspection office.

Everything that should be carried must be handed over here for inspection.After the inspection, the examination room will put these things into each person's number according to the row.After Li Shu handed over his belongings, he sent his servants back, and he went to the clothes inspection place to enter the arena.

The clothes inspection office was set up in front of a small pavilion, and there were several officials sitting inside, checking the candidates one by one, and the candidates were caught.The lights in front of the pavilion were brightly lit, and there was already a long queue.

A few officials also burned paper cows and horses in the tribute field and worshiped the Quartet, which attracted a lot of whispers from the officials.Li Shu knew that this was an old practice in the examination room, so he didn't care.But at the front, Shan Shijie was also in the line. He was angry for a while, and he didn't care about it. He rushed forward and kicked Shan Shijie's ass desperately.

This kick was kicked out, and many judges saw it, and they all shouted 'OK' loudly.

Shan Shijie kept his head down, afraid that others would notice him, but he felt aggrieved after being hit suddenly.Looking back, it was Li Shu.This morning the two were still talking secretly together, but now they are strangers, Shan Shijie also went all out, cursing back: "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? You scum, I need a knife in my hand to stab you." Li Shu said viciously.

Shan Shijie wanted to argue, but he couldn't make it clear!Goodbye, all the neighbors spit at him, and shouted 'Hello' for Li Shu in unison!For a while, Shan Shijie really wanted to die.

When the guards in the examination room heard the booing, they hurried over and shouted, "You don't want to take the test, do you? Don't make any noise!"

Li Shu also looked away and went back to the back of the line to line up!It was interesting for Shan Shijie to think about it, and angrily walked out of the team and walked away.

All the judges scolded: "If you dare to come to the exam, you should die farther away!"

The guard stepped forward to scold again, but ignored Shan Shijie who left.

Not long after Shan Shijie left, a group of officials escorted Su San out from the corridor on one side.Some people had never met Su San, and under the reminder of everyone, they went to Su San together, and saw that Su San had a good bearing and graceful demeanor, but he was an adjutant. They couldn't help but think, maybe only such a demeanor can write a poem. Such poetry!

Naturally, there was another discussion, but the guards stopped them in a low voice.

Su San glanced at the queue of applicants waiting for the survey, and then at the paper money being burned in the yard, and couldn't help frowning.An official from the Tribute Court came to Su San and frowned, and hurriedly explained: "The Tribute Court is usually not very popular, and the yin energy is a bit heavier! So many people squeezed in at once, I was afraid of disturbing the Yin Division, so I burned something to avoid evil spirits."

Su San naturally didn't believe in these evils, she smiled faintly, went straight into the main hall and sat down without saying a word.

Gao Zaixian and Huang Zhidong are already waiting here.Su Sanyi cupped his hands and said, "You two came early!"

Gao Zaixian smiled and said: "It's the middle of the night, I'm afraid I won't be able to wake up, He Zhidong slept here last night."

Su San laughed again and said: "Ning Yuan presides over the imperial examination for the first time, there are some points that I don't understand, I hope the two elder brothers can give some pointers."

Gao Xianxian said with a chuckle: "There are no rules, and there are people below who will arrange everything."

Su San glanced at the distraught Huang Zhidong, knowing that he was worried that Luo Ruiqing's matter would involve him.The last time he came to test his tone, he had already expected that Huang Zhidong had some connection with Luo Ruiqing. If this matter was investigated, Huang Zhidong would not be able to get rid of it.It's just that I don't even want to get to the bottom of Luo Ruiqing, so naturally I have no reason to pull him out.

So he sat at the top and waited for the time to come, and then went to the hall to offer incense to the saint.Because the topic of the imperial examination was circulated in the city, for the sake of fairness, when I played today, I specially asked the emperor to change the topic, and the emperor sealed it in the jade box, so no matter whether the topic that was circulated before was true or not, I didn’t have to go Asked for proof.This saves me a lot of trouble.

This is also the choice he made subconsciously after he learned that the imperial examination was a muddy field.

I am the main examiner, if the test questions are leaked, and I will be investigated in the end, I will be the unlucky one.Qin Peisong presided over all the imperial examinations before, and I don't know what he did. Although he is dead and many things have come to an end, if he sold the exam questions before that, then The final bitter fruit can only be borne by oneself.

Replacing the exam questions is undoubtedly the most appropriate choice.If it were a shrewd emperor who would change the exam questions, he would have to ask in detail, and he wouldn't just change it just because of a word of doubt.However, Zhao Pu obviously didn't intend to make a big deal out of it. The death of a Qin Yuanzheng was already enough. What should be covered up, he hoped to cover it up.Therefore, the exam questions were changed so smoothly.

There are two locks on the jade box, one key is in Gao Xianxian's hand, and the other is in Huang Zhidong's hand.After the two burned incense, they respectfully opened the jade box, took out the scroll inside and handed it to Su San.

Su San glanced at the exam questions first, then handed them to the two assistant examiners, and then said to her: "Let's start the exam!"

At this time the sky has brightened!The people in the field closed the gate of the tribute courtyard, locked the entire tribute field, and announced the exam questions.

Seeing that all the candidates had started to take the exam, Su San breathed a sigh of relief, and began to think about how to deal with Wu Taiming's hint and the second prince's express.

After much deliberation, I still have to give face!It's just that you can't give them all, only those who are qualified enough.This is naturally considered cheating, but I can increase some places appropriately.Originally, there were more people taking the exam this time, and it was normal to have more quotas. With this name, I asked the emperor for more quotas, so that I could place people from the Second Prince's Party.In this way, it can still ensure that the entire imperial examination is carried out on a normal track.

In fact, there are some things that cannot be avoided.Everyone's standpoint is different, so nothing is completely fair in the eyes of different people.Absolute fairness does not exist; it is precisely because of this understanding that Su San can only settle for the next best thing and try to make things relatively fair.

There are three days of imperial examinations!The most important thing is to test strategies and essays, and the incidental test is poetry!But the poems are generally written at the beginning of the volume, so the quality of the poems determines whether the examiner will carefully read the following chapters.After all, the chapter is very long, and with so many papers, it is unrealistic to hope that the examiner will detail each one.

After the three-day exam, the examinees left, and the entire Tribute Academy was left with the examiners busy grading papers.As for the details of those seals and transfers, there is no need to talk about them.The messy papers were the first to be typed, and these papers would never enter the examiner's eyes.

To be on the safe side, Su San also deleted these messy papers!If there are special talents, he will pick them out.

After another five days of busy work, I finally managed to finish grading these papers. Three examiners selected 250 papers.After registering their names, Su San asked for an additional 50 quotas, and took the time to select another [-] people from the remaining papers.In the end, the three of them deliberated on ten papers, sent them to the emperor, and asked the emperor to select the top three papers.

After being busy with these things for two more days, everything is considered to have come to an end.By the time Su San came out of the tribute courtyard, it was almost the month.The list was released on the 33th, and Chuanlu was set on the [-]th. Su left the Gongyuan at noon on the [-]rd, went to the Jiumen Yamen to ask questions, and then returned to the mansion for a deep sleep.

The job of the imperial examination is not easy!It took a lot of effort, and he still had to go through the last [-] papers one by one!Even the selected papers, he had to check them randomly to avoid omissions.In the meantime, Wu Taiming and the second prince's intentions must be taken into account, otherwise there is no need to ask for an extra [-] copies.It doesn't matter if it's the person the second prince wants, as long as he has enough, he'll be happy to choose a few more people.Only those with bad chapters were pushed down by him.

Anyway, everyone will be happy in the end, and Su San is not worried about not being able to make ends meet.

During this period of time, he had been staying in the Gongyuan, but something happened in the city.

The marriage between Yuanren and Fengren has finally been confirmed in the past few days.The content of the peace treaty between the two countries has also been rumored by interested people. It is not about the terms of sharing blessings and sharing hardships. The key is of course sharing hardships.

In addition, Yuanren asked Zhao Pu to send a team to meet the relatives with Yuanren to the prairie to meet the relatives. Despite the objections of some courtiers, Zhao Pu finally agreed to go to the prairie to meet the relatives instead of meeting them on the spot.

It was not his original intention to marry Na Ren, so he was not in a hurry and married Na Ren into the harem on the spot, so he was actually very concerned about these things.Since the original person made a strong request and it was not negotiable, then he would have a smooth sailing.

Su San also understands that this kind of thing cannot be avoided!The matter of getting married was tied up with the matter of the alliance, unless Feng Chao didn't want the alliance, otherwise it was impossible for Feng Chao to marry Naren Ge Ri Le back on the spot.

Now that Zhao Pu agreed to Yuanren's request, Yuanren naturally couldn't wait to go back to the grassland. The day of the trip was set on the fifteenth!It was the same day as Chuanlu.

That's a big deal!The other matter is considered trivial, but to Su San, this matter is very important.

That is, Yufeng's Zuixianlou has started trial operation, and it is said that the business is doing well.At least so far, two of the 100 taels of seats have also been sold.The first seat was actually Lao De who came to fulfill his promise; it is probably because Jiumen took good care of Jing Renyuan during this time, so he came to support him.The second seat was unexpectedly held by Na Ren Ge Ri Le.

Lao De has been a little annoyed recently, it is understandable to come to praise Su San and make friends with Su San; and Na Ren Ge Ri Le also joins in the fun, Su San doesn't think she is greedy.She was not indifferent to Yu Feng last time, but this time she went to cheer her up again. I don't know what was going on in her mind?

The two seats brought in 200 taels of income for the trial operation, which was obviously an encouragement to Yu Feng and others, at least they knew that this kind of seats were not something no one dared to eat.As long as the name is established, the business will be even better.

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