The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

Generally speaking, Guo Nuan's birthday celebration went smoothly this time. Although Yan Zhenqing reminded her, Guo Nuan didn't care about offending Yuan Zai, the right minister of the court, unintentionally.

With four days left before the exam, Guo Nuan became very busy. He stayed up all night in the official office of the Ministry of Rites in the palace for two consecutive days. He kept yawning during the day, with dark circles under his eyes. Ah Fu was busy making stew for the young master. Ginseng soup is nourishing and refreshing.

However, there were a lot of unpleasant things in the Ministry of Rites. First of all, Yuan Zai's loyal Yang Yan, as the three major examiners, always had trouble with Guo Nuan at work briefings. According to his seniority, Yang Yan, a middle-aged He has been an official for more than ten years. Compared with Guo Nuan, a newcomer with little qualifications, he speaks in a tone of relying on the old and selling the old, which makes Guo Nuan very upset.

It's not good to be unhappy, but Guo Nuan doesn't want to make troubles, so he can't make any mistakes in this test.

For the birthday banquet, Li Duan got some referrals and help from Guo Nuan. Li Duan took this opportunity to chat with Yan Zhenqing for a while. Of course, Li Duan didn't know that Yan Zhenqing was the examiner this time. Famous people will naturally talk about poetry and songs when they get together.

It is said that Li Duan vomited lotus flowers, and his witty remarks won the appreciation of Yan Zhenqing. Guo Nuan had some foundation in his heart. Not being able to qualify as a Jinshi in the imperial examination depends on his strength.

As for the singer Xiaoyao, she was very beautiful at Guo Nuan's birthday party. I like everything, but when they learned that Xiaoyao is a singer, the officials didn't feel disgusted. The popular singers in the Tang Dynasty are like popular singers in later generations. It is difficult to define the difference between noble and vulgar. Landed on the Hall of Elegance.

Xiaoyao has gained a lot, no doubt she has taken a big step towards revenge for her father and the villagers of Le Village.

Guo Nuan tidied up the tedious business while preparing for work with the examination officials. Since Guo Nuan was an internal senior examiner who secretly gave false testimony to Prince Li Shi, he was not discovered. , I also saw him leisurely boating on the artificial lake in the garden, swaying the ink fan, wearing white clothes, fluttering with the wind, and he was relaxed and at ease.

Guo Nuan sighed, the prince told his brother-in-law to abuse his private power to give false testimony, and the other candidates had to hurry up to review on the eve of the exam, but he himself was very calm. I guess the brother-in-law is just holding soy sauce for the exam. As for the mentality, I don't want to get any ranking.

Of course, the cheap father-in-law's ancestors definitely didn't know that the prince would take the exam. For some reason, Guo Nuan anxiously hoped that his brother-in-law would not pass the exam this time. Even if he passed the exam, he should not pass the exam The Golden Temple interviews the emperor.

Think about it, if during the interview, the paper can't cover the flames, and the father and son sit on the throne and look at His Highness, wouldn't it be misleading? When Daizong asked the prince why he took the exam, Guo Nuan would definitely be involved. This is a blessing. Woe, I really can’t tell. If a group of rivals and colleagues are a little bit involved in the truth, the prince who passed the Jinshi exam is fine. Congratulations. It doesn’t mean that Guo Nuan, a busy accomplice who runs errands, is fine. , The evidence is indeed conclusive. Most of the courtiers of the ancients were dead-brained and admitted to death. If Guo Nuan was to be punished, he could only admit that he was unlucky.

Thinking too much is just asking for trouble, Guo Nuan discarded these miscellaneous thoughts, and soon the day of the exam will arrive.

It is said that candidates enter the examination room not in the early morning of the day, but in the middle of the night. At this time, the examination street is very lively. The inns and shops are brightly lit, and the dinner before the examination is prepared. On this special day , Eating something in the middle of the night can only be called an exam meal.

After eating enough, drinking enough tonic wine for exams, Daquan Dabu Dan, seven or eight thousand people began to enter the arena one after another. According to the heyday of scientific examinations in the early Tang Dynasty, there were references for each exam. Tens of thousands of people, the most of which exceeded 2 people at one time, so in the examination house, which covers an area of ​​over a thousand acres, there are more than 1000 independent dormitories.

Firecrackers were set off at the entrance of the examination room. The first cannon was lit and exploded, and then the candidates lined up in a long line at the entrance of the examination room to confirm their identities.

Guo Nuan was looking at the lonely stars above his head and the silver crescent moon in the sky. He took a few officials to look at the candidates lined up, and swept over with a majestic glance. The candidates all lowered their heads subconsciously. Guo Nuan inadvertently displayed his authority.

"You, why, the surveillance photo says you're thin, but you're fat," an official inspector at the entrance of the examination room sneered at a flushed and nervous examinee, which caught Guo Nuan's attention, and he immediately walked forward .

"My lord, I...my supervision document was submitted by the prefectural and county schools to the Beijing Normal University Examination Institute half a year ago. During this period of time, my mother has been making soup for Xiaosheng, so I have gained weight," the examinee wanted to cry without tears , anxiously at a loss, saying that if this is regarded as an imposter instead of taking the exam, there is no doubt that there will be a stain on the research certificate. Not to mention that I can’t refer to it this time, and I will lose my qualifications for the exam in the future. Can you not worry.

Guo Nuan saw the examinee's appearance, plus the characteristic of a red mole on the neck in the surveillance photo, there was nothing wrong with it except that the body shape was indeed different.

"Let him in," Guo Nuan said lightly to the inspector.

"Yes, my lord," the two officials immediately released and continued to verify the identity of the next candidate.

After Guo Nuan hurriedly inspected the area, he found that there was no strange phenomenon, so he went to the nearby attic to observe from a high position.

"Hehe, that guy is here," Guo Nuan saw an acquaintance, Qiao Yun, who was timidly sweeping around the verification officer with his mouse eyes.

Like other candidates, Qiao Yun carried a set of equipment and tools for the exam, such as portable lanterns and candles to be illuminated at night. Since the candidates had to spend three days in the exam room, they had to be on the test day and night. Shirley is spent until the exam is over.

The dormitory is as big as a single-room latrine, a typical dwelling, with brick walls built into small cubicles seven or eight feet high, from which you can see a grid of blue sky or night.

There is a small wooden door five or six feet high in the dormitory, and a person of medium build just passed by. Tall candidates can only sneak in. Once the third shot of the exam is fired, the outside of the wooden door will be patrolled. Officials lock it up, and people inside can't get out. They can't unlock it until the exam is over.

After Guo Nuan inspected the order of the examination room, he sat on his seat and watched. Then he whispered something to an accompanying official, and the messenger whispered to the official inspecting the surveillance photos for a while. Unlucky, naturally received special care from officials.

"Your Excellency said, this guy looks like a thief, he needs to be strictly censored," the official searched the crying Qiao Yun all over.

The shoe was taken off, and the officer looked at the sole, but it was just an ordinary men's cloth shoe without a thick interlayer. Then the officer inspected his candle again, and what was pulled out was a normal wick without a note.

Because Qiao Yun didn't know why he was under special inspection, he seemed a little anxious, jumping up and down, yelling that he didn't bring a cheating tool, this funny action made Guo Nuan, who was observing from a high place in the attic, laugh.

However, even the food boxes, rice bowls, and candles did not find anything special. Guo Nuan wondered, didn't this kid trade in a cheating shop a few days ago?

In view of not delaying the examination time of the subsequent candidates, Guo Nuan waved to the officer below from a distance, and after making eye contact for a while, the officer was impatient with the boy and babbled and pushed Qiao Yun into the examination room.

Thousands of people, due to the addition of five entrance gates and sufficient inspection staff, at the fourth shift, when the sky was slightly bright, these thousands of candidates finally completed the security check.

It is said that entering the examination room does not mean that cheating is not prohibited. There is a bathing pool next to the examination room. These candidates must strip naked and jump into the pool to take a hot bath in public.

Generally speaking, in order to obtain the qualifications of Gongsheng students with a bright future, candidates who have cheated in the past have racked their brains to fight wits and courage with the invigilators. There is no problem with the test tools they bring, but some candidates will make a fuss about their bodies.

For example, candidates in the past wrote densely packed teeny characters on the hair knot tape, and then twisted it into strips as hair knots. Anyway, they entered the dormitory and closed the papers. If you can bring cheating hair knots in, you can copy them casually None will notice.

Of course, some candidates will also write on the reverse side of their underwear. When they go to the dormitory, they take off their underwear and put them on the table for the naked test.

And some people are even worse, engraving a large section of text on their bodies, such as their stomachs and thighs.

Guo Nuan looked at the naked, naked, and hairy dicks dangling in the pool. The candidates flushed flushed and plopped into the public bath. Clean clothes specially provided by the examination room.

Guo Nuan glanced at the crooked-neck locust tree and Qiao Yun, who bent over and rushed to the pool in embarrassment, this kid didn't expect to be thin-skinned, his cheeks were rosy, and he was extremely shy. Guo Nuan looked at him. Looking at Qiao Yun, the snow-white skin is better maintained than girls, especially the crotch, not bad, I didn't expect the size to be quite magnificent.

Candidates have no choice but to go through this process. For the sake of official career, they are clean and dangling in front of thousands of naked men. There is nothing shameful about each other.

After swimming around and changing into laundry, this group of candidates had already been tortured enough before they finished the exam.

Unlucky, there were five or six daring examinees who took advantage of the chance to commit the crime and stabbed a paragraph of text in the armpit. Don't think that the sharp-eyed officials can't find it. It is estimated that these five or six people committed the same crime The method is a group.

Immediately, Guo Nuan randomly pulled these cheating candidates out with a few tough officials and spanked each of them thirty sticks, disqualifying this exam. As for the next exam, it depends on their attitude of repentance. Just apply, Quack,