The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

"Ahem, then let's continue with the grading."

Daizong managed to get the ministers to stop arguing, and began to read the second paper.

"Well, this is good. The salt and iron government only collects and resells it, and changes it to the government's exclusive collection, and decentralizes the salt resale right to market for private salt merchants. It can reduce the number of officials who sell salt and iron, water transportation, and sales, streamline the organization, and change the bureaucracy. situation, it can also play a role in merchant competition, reduce salt prices, increase sales, and increase taxes. Well, this argument is very good, and it will be No. 1 in the top two."

After reading several papers, Daizong kept shaking his head, looking at his expression, as if he was not very satisfied. When he read the eighth paper, his eyes lit up, and he read the paper aloud while reading the paper. The loud voice echoed in the quiet hall. keep echoing.

Shi Shiran stood up and bowed his head to the emperor solemnly and said:

"Reporting to the emperor, this is the test paper of a candidate from the famous Zhu family in the Jianghuai area. The candidate was born in a wealthy merchant family. He is expected to be in a coastal salt field. He has been swayed by the shortcomings of the government's salt trading system in the surrounding environment, so he can feel it. The argument is well-founded, and it is by no means a generalization, and I think it should be a first class."

When Du Hongjian finished speaking, the ministers at the court all nodded their heads in agreement. It could be seen that Du Hongjian, a chubby and lovely old man, still had a lot of prestige in the eyes of his colleagues.

"Oh, what Du Aiqing said is indeed reasonable, so let's make his paper the No. [-] list." Seeing that the ministers also nodded in agreement, Daizong happily made a move to push the boat.

The more than [-] papers that can be placed on the imperial desk in front of the Emperor's Dragon Throne are undoubtedly the first-class and best articles selected from tens of thousands of exams. The results of the discussions of more than a dozen highly respected examiners have a unified opinion and no disputes. Try to be as impartial and objective as possible, with little moisture at all.

As for how to rank these more than fifty papers, it has a lot of subjective emotions.If there is an examiner's fellow candidate's paper among them, as long as the examiner is willing to praise the examinee's paper when the emperor takes over the imperial paper, the rank of the examinee will be improved by a few. If you are lucky, Maybe jump up a dozen or so.

"Uh, isn't this the paper written by the nephew of the Silla ambassador, Park Hao? .Eh? To stabilize the north, we must first unify the Korean peninsula, and then conquer Japan, an island country on the sea, so as to stabilize China’s Guanzhong.”

"Last month ago, didn't Pu Hao lead [-] Tang soldiers to support his motherland, Silla? How is the war with Japan going?" Daizong seemed to have thought of something, and looked up at the ministers below from his desk. , asked casually.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the report of the urgent dispatcher at [-] miles, our reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty arrived in Pyongyang, the capital of Silla, [-] days ago to help the King of Silla stabilize the situation. The war in North Korea has temporarily stabilized. The supply line for logistics transportation will be cut off by our Shuilou fleet from Tianjin Port in a month, and within half a year, the Japanese pirates will withdraw their troops, and the crisis of the subordinate state of Silla will be resolved."

Minister of the Ministry of War stepped forward, reacted quickly, and immediately reported to the emperor.

"Well, although the Japanese army can be driven out, it is impossible for my Tang army to stay in the foreign land of Silla. If the army is withdrawn and Silla's power is weak, wouldn't the Japanese kingdom come back again? Once the Japanese kingdom occupies Silla, it will inevitably Taking Koryo, Japan has always had a strong naval force and was good at fighting. The capital of my Tang Dynasty was located inland, and the soldiers were not good at water warfare. If the Japanese navy ferry went straight to Yangzhou, went upstream along the Yangtze River, and then sent troops south, entered Hebei, and threatened Guanzhong. It is a big hidden danger to endanger Chang'an."

The emperor sighed worriedly, touched his forehead, and felt a little pain in his head. The Nanzhao tribe in the south of the Lingnan region, the Turks in the north of the Mobei, and the Tubo on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are enough to toss the emperor. It's really choking.

"Isn't this Pu Shangxuan the heir of King Silla? He has been studying Chinese culture in the Imperial College of the Tang Dynasty for quite a long time. After careful review, his articles are really good in terms of conception and argumentation. In addition, we It is necessary for Datang to strengthen the alliance with the vassal state of Silla, um, let’s make Park Sang-hyun, the eldest son of King Silla, the first-class Tanhua."

Soon after the emperor pondered for a moment, he came to a conclusion. With a flick of the pen, he wrote a large bright red character in vermilion ink on the front of the scroll.

"Your Majesty is holy!" After Daizong made his instructions, the ministers unanimously passed the resolution and immediately knelt down and shouted.

"Your Majesty, I think the article written by the candidate Guo Nuan is good, I hope you can read it carefully."

Yan Zhenqing stood up again at this time, and then said to the emperor.

"Uh, Guo Nuan? He is also in the ranks of Jinshi?" The emperor was a little taken aback, but then smiled: "Hehe, I am so confused, I almost forgot this son-in-law. I heard that Guo Xiaozi from the family of King Fenyang was in Chang'an recently. But it caused a lot of sensational events.”

"Well, indeed, a song, oh no, I was wrong, half of the song 'Green poplar smoke outside the dawn and cold, red apricot branches are full of spring.' But it is famous." At some point, Yuan Zai, who was not very vocal, stood up again. He came out, looked around at the minister, and exclaimed loudly.

It is said that Yuan Zai's main wife is the daughter of Wang Zhongsi, the Jiedu envoy of Hexi. , An Lushan rebels breached the Hexi defense area, and almost lost his life. Fortunately, Guo Ziyi led Shuofangqin's army to rescue, and Wang Zhongsi was rescued.

As for the son of the savior who saved his father-in-law, Yuan Zai would of course have a good word in front of the emperor. Guo Nuan's praise is worthy of the name.

"Well, I heard that I made half a poem again recently. What's the matter?" A young household minister stood up, looked up, thought for a while, and then said: "By the way, 'The setting sun is infinitely better, but it's almost dusk. ', every half of Guo Bansong must be a masterpiece, it’s wonderful, it’s really wonderful.”

The young servant of the household department recently deducted more than 2 silver from the taxation of the household department. Yuan Zai found out that he was pocketing his own money. He was unlucky and caught the little pigtail. He had no choice but to secretly donate 3 taels to Yuan Zai Bai Huahua's money and three charming concubines fed the hungry wolf Yuan Zai. Now it's too early to curry favor with the prime minister of Yuan Zai, or else something will happen and the emperor will know the corruption. Bao, even my life may be gone.

"Well, "Punishments and Rewards to the Best of Loyalty" is interesting and interesting. It does not have the flattery and flattery of the usual examination papers to speculate on the examiner's intentions. It also has unique calligraphy, which is refreshing. The thin gold body that has been widely circulated, Guo Nuan's first creation, is really extraordinary."

When Daizong saw it, his eyes lit up, he nodded repeatedly, and sighed while twisting his beard. He was very optimistic about Guo Nuan, the son-in-law's article.

"Okay, since everyone says that Guo Nuan's article is good in calligraphy, dear friends, how should you rank Guo Nuan's volume?"

"A number one scholar!" Prince Li Shi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stood up in the crowd of ministers and shouted loudly towards Daizong.

"The crown prince's opinion, the number one scholar deserves the name of Guo Nuan!" Everyone saw that the crown prince and emperor were very optimistic about Guo Nuan's article, and immediately knelt down in agreement.

"Haha, the number one scholar is the number one scholar, and Guo Xiaozi is good, so let him be the number one scholar!" Daizong laughed and immediately made a decision.

"Emperor Shengming!"

Immediately there was another shout from the hall.