Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 287
"In three years, try to create as many magic arrows as possible for me, especially increase the number of them, so that the speed and distance can be increased." Li Song said.

Three years later, everything was ready, and at that time it was time to send troops south to recover Jingzhou and the six counties in Jiangdong.

"No!" Sima Yi bowed his hands and replied, the experiment was over, Li Song and Sima Yi returned to Xuchang City together, and then separated to go about their own affairs.

In the blink of an eye, two months have passed, Xuchang City has welcomed many students from all over the world two months later, most of them are children from poor families, and very few children from noble families come to take the imperial examination.

A team of heavily armed guards marched to the examination room to maintain order and ensure that no one would cheat. Today is the day of the imperial examination.

Those who can come here are educated people recommended by various counties. Candidates will take out the admission tickets they carry on their bodies and hand them to the guards outside the gate for inspection. After confirming that they are correct, they can be let in.

Under the guard of the personal guard camp, the students who came to rush for the exam entered the examination room one after another. When the time was up, no matter whether there were still people who did not enter the examination room, the gate of the examination room would be closed directly, and it would not be opened again until the three-day exam was over.

Not only children from poor families participated in the imperial examination this time, but also some children from noble families participated, and Yang Xiu was one of them.

Yang Xiu came to a small room prepared for him. In order to prevent candidates from cheating, the examination room divided the venue into a small single room with wooden boards, and all the pens, ink, paper and inkstone inside were provided by the examination room.

"Interesting!" After Yang Xiu sat down, he picked up the writing brush on the table, couldn't help smiling, and said in a low voice, which only he could hear. What he saw and heard in the examination room made him feel novel.

The door of the examination room was closed, and the chief examiners Sima Yi and Chen Lin came out and read out the order of the examination room, the exam questions, and the matters that need attention.

"Start!" Following Chen Lin's order, the soldiers at the side rang the gong hanging on the shelf, and the exam officially started.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the imperial examination was over!The next thing was to wait for the announcement of the rankings. Yang Xiu left the examination room and went back in his own carriage.

"How was the imperial examination this time?" Now that the examination was over and the papers were approved, Li Song called Sima Yi and Chen Lin to ask about the results of the examination.

"I want to report to the Prime Minister! There are quite a few good candidates in this exam, including Yang Xiu, the son of former Taichang Yang Biao, Sima Fu, Zhongda's third brother, etc..." Chen Lin mentioned a lot of names, including the sons of noble families and others. Among the children from poor families, there are many children from poor families with good academic performance, but it seems that all the children from noble families have passed.

In the imperial examination held this time, Li Song knew exactly how many gentry children there were. It seemed that both Chen Lin and Sima Yi were biased towards the gentry. He still knew how many gentry children could pass. Second, now that everything has passed, if there is no trick, no one will believe it.

Li Song didn't mean to blame them. The gentry was powerful, so it was not so easy to solve it, not to mention that the two of them were from the gentry, so it was unrealistic for them to think about the problem from the standpoint of a poor family.

After Chen Lin finished speaking, she stood there quietly, waiting for Li Song to speak. If Li Song didn't speak, they wouldn't dare to speak casually, after all, their status was here.

From Chen Lin's point of view, Li Song was also from a gentry family. It should be something to be happy about being able to recruit all the gentry at once this time, but Li Song has no expression on his face, and he doesn't know whether he is happy or not.

"Yang Xiu, whose name is Dezu! I have heard about this person for a long time. This person is studious and talented! Just like Yuan Shao, he comes from a noble family of four generations and three princes." Li Song said.

"The prime minister is right! Dezu is the great-great-grandson of the late former Taiwei Lord Yang Zhen. He is the son of the former Taichang Yang Biao. Wei, so like the Yuan family in Runan, it belongs to the fourth generation and three princes, and the Yang family is the Wangmen of the Huayin gentry in Hongnong County of the Sili Department." Chen Lin said.

Li Song knew what Chen Lin said, and the famous Yang Xiu, as a person who likes history in later generations, there is no reason why he didn't know.

However, this Yang Xiu did not die well in the end, and was killed by Cao Cao on a random charge. This was his own fault, and it had something to do with Cao Cao's character.

"De Zu is a rare talent!" Li Song praised, and Chen Lin was secretly happy. He and Yang Xiu were good friends. Yang Xiu was praised by Li Song, so he was naturally happy for his friend.

"The talent of Dezu, I can't wait for it!" Chen Lin said.

Li Song glanced at Chen Lin, and naturally understood what he meant by saying that.

"The rest of the students can continue to study in the Taixue, and become the first batch of Taixue's students, except for Yang Xiu." Li Song said.

"No!" Sima Yi bowed his hands and responded, while Chen Lin turned pale with shock!Originally, he wanted to help his friend Yang Xiu, who would have thought that this would be the result, except for Yang Xiu, wouldn't he be expelled?
Chen Lin was about to speak out to persuade her. No matter what, she couldn't harm her friend just because of her own words. Dezu was a man with great ambitions.

Li Song's words brought Chen Lin's hanging heart back to her chest, "Since Yang Xiu is such a great talent, let him come to my prime minister's mansion and Qu Cai be the master bookkeeper! But before that, I want Talk to him alone."

After Li Song finished speaking, Chen Lin was overjoyed, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "On behalf of Dezu, I thank the prime minister for his great kindness!"

"Okay! Go and bring Yang Xiu!" Li Song said, waving his hand, signaling them to leave quickly.

"No!" Chen Lin cupped her hands and bowed, turned around and left joyfully. Sima Yi saw that there was nothing for her here, so she also cupped her hands and left.

"Dezu is at home!" Chen Lin, who came to Yang's mansion to look for Yang Xiu, asked outside the door of the Yang mansion.

"Report to Mr. Chen! My son is reading in the study." The servant knew that Yang Xiu and Chen Lin were good friends, so he said respectfully.

"Quickly guide me to see Dezu!" Chen Lin said.

"No! Sir, please come with me!" After saying that, one of the servants led the way, and the other servant went ahead to inform them.

"Brother Kong Zhang, what wind brought you here today, but what's the matter?" Yang Xiu came out of the study after receiving the servant's report, just in time to meet Chen Lin who was following the servant, and said with a smile.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Of course it's something! And it's a big deal. I'm here to congratulate Dezu." Chen Lin clasped her hands and smiled.

"Oh!" Yang Xiu flicked his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, and asked, "I don't know where this joy comes from! I need to trouble Brother Kong Zhang to go there himself."

(End of this chapter)