Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 336 Palace Exam
Li Shimin's question was like a thunderbolt, echoing in Fang Yi'ai's ears for a long time, and this undecided commoner broke out in a cold sweat.

Fang Yiai stopped to look at the white rice paper, and dared not raise her head to meet Li Shimin's gaze. Almost instantly, the thoughts in Fang Yiai's brain jumped together, and she quickly weighed the hidden information in Li Shimin's words.

"Wanzai asked where my hometown is? What does this mean? Could it be that Wanzai sent someone to Zhending to investigate my details?!"

"If Wansui really sent someone to Zhending, where there is no such person, wouldn't he be testing me by asking now?"

After thinking about it again and again, Fang Yiai realized the importance of this matter, and let the ink drip from the tip of the pen on the paper, although she had already seen it, she couldn't care less about reacting.

Standing beside Fang Yiai, Li Shimin saw him stop writing in a daze, and the doubts in his heart were magnified several times in an instant, "What are you thinking?"

Fang Yiai's thoughts were disturbed, she was taken aback for a moment, and then said bravely: "The student of Qizhou Long Live is from Linzi, Qizhou. I talked with everyone before, lest they spread the student's hometown and disturb the parents' peace. So he lied that he was the true family."

"Linzi, Qizhou? In this way, Hengzhou Zhending Mansion is your lie?" Li Shimin stroked his beard and nodded. He knew that "the top of the commoner list" was famous in Chang'an. The native place is reasonable, but this emperor has overlooked one thing, that is, the ancestral home of Fang Xuanling, the Prime Minister of the current dynasty, is also Linzi, Qizhou.

Fang Yiai glanced at Li Shimin out of the corner of her eye, seeing him nodding his head in thought, afraid that the emperor of all ages would notice something was wrong with him, she hurriedly got up and cupped her hands and said, "Student has a stupid temper at the moment, if you make such a bad plan, I hope Long Live will punish you."

Seeing "He Zudao" standing up to plead guilty, Li Shimin immediately withdrew his thoughts and said with a smile: "I never asked about your hometown before, it was just a hearsay, what is your fault? Prepare for the exam with peace of mind."

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin looked at Bai Jian at the side, and said, "Give him another piece of rice paper, it's a big taboo to get a paper roll."

"Student, thank you for your long live." Fang Yiai watched Li Shimin ascend the high platform, and he, who had been anxious all the time, dared to take a deep breath.

Taking the rice paper from Bai Jian, Fang Yiai sat on the chair and held his breath in reverence. When his mood subsided a little, he picked up a pen and re-wrote his name and place of origin at the beginning of the line.

"He Zudao, a native of Linzi, Qizhou, a member of the Imperial College Yin Shengsheng, is 19 years old now."

Picking up a pen to write down the details in italics, each handwriting was like a sharp knife, piercing into Fang Yiai's heart, looking at her own handwriting on the rice paper, Fang Yiai smiled wryly, thinking, "This line of big characters is The proof that I will deceive the emperor in the future. It is difficult to make up for the omissions when the boat is in the middle of the river, Fang Jun, Fang Jun, I am afraid that disaster is about to happen to you!"

Li Shimin sat on the high platform, looked around at the 48 students below the stage, and said seriously: "Listen to the test questions carefully."

Seeing that Li Shimin was about to say the topic of "policy theory", Fang Yiai and the others all listened attentively, all distracting thoughts in their minds were thrown out of their minds at this moment, and all they were thinking about were two words - Number One Scholar!
"One term of office benefits one party, should we make reconciliation in detail?"

Hearing Li Shimin's sixteen-character policy test question, Fang Yiai thought about it carefully, and immediately remembered the four sentences of Hengqu written by Zhang Zai, a great scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty.

After lowering her head and thinking that there was nothing wrong, Fang Yiai made up her mind, picked up the wolf pen and began to splash ink on the rice paper.

"Build a heart for the world, and a life for the people. To inherit the knowledge of the past, and to create peace for all generations."

Because the palace examination is related to the future wealth and life, Fang Yiai dares to show off and answer in thin gold fonts. The whole test paper should be in Zhongzheng and peaceful script, and strive to win steadily, without the slightest show off.

After listening to the test questions, the 48 students including Fang Jun bowed their heads to answer the questions. For a while, the main hall of the Gongyuan was so silent that even a needle dropped could be heard.

Li Shimin was sitting on the stage holding a cup of tea, seeing all the sentient beings answering with concentration, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he turned his eyes to Fang Yiai, and saw his brows were slightly wrinkled and his pen was flying like flying. The smile on the hopeful Qiangu Yidi's face became brighter, and then he walked down the platform silently and slowly, and stood beside Fang Yiai again.

Li Shimin squinted his eyes to check the test paper. After seeing the "Four Sentences of Hengqu" in the first line of the test paper, his serious eyes suddenly burst into a brilliant light, and he almost couldn't help shouting out.

"Set up a heart for heaven and earth and create peace for all generations. Good momentum, good ambition, and good ambition!"

After boasting about Fang Yiai in his heart, Li Shimin's sword-like eyebrows furrowed slightly, and a trace of doubt surged up in his heart again, "Although He Zudao's ambition is great, I'm afraid he is young and inexperienced and lacks experience. If we do something, I'm afraid we will create a group of enemies!"

After seeing the shortcomings of Fang Yiai, a figure immediately appeared in Li Shimin's mind, "Ma Zhou is a mature and steady man, if He Zudao cooperates with him, with a little tempering, he will be a pair of ministers, just like Xuanling and Ruhui are like that, and Fang's plan will be resolved. How can he plan to make a decision immediately?"

During the palace examination, time flew by like a fleeting moment, but Fang Yiai only wanted to win the first prize, and all his energy was devoted to the test papers, so he didn't notice Li Shimin who had been standing beside him for a long time.

Changsun Jin stopped writing to gather his thoughts, subconsciously glanced at the high stage, but saw that there was no one on the stage, looked closely and found Li Shimin standing beside Fang Yiai, watching with a smile.

Changsun Jin found out that after Li Shimin watched Fang Yiai's answer sheet the whole time, the corners of his mouth curled up, his eyes were mixed with cunning and treachery, and he sneered secretly: "Fang Jun, Fang Jun, you are in great trouble! Long live has high expectations for you , if it is known that you have been concealing your identity to deceive him, it would be strange if you didn't slash you thousands of knives under extreme anger!"

With the rapid passage of time, the incense stick used for timing has been burned to the end silently. When the last bit of incense ash fell into the incense burner, Bai Jian picked up the golden gong and tapped it three times, and said in a moderate voice: " The time is up, the students stop writing!"

At the same time as Bai Jian's words came out, Fang Yiai also wrote the last stroke, put the pen on the ink cartridge, Fang Yiai gathered her thoughts and carefully checked the test paper, lest she would be falsely alarmed by the unwarranted flaws in the test paper like she did in the first test one game.

After checking the test paper, Fang Yiai collected her mind, stretched her arms and stretched her arms. When she looked up, she saw Li Shimin standing beside her, looking at each other with a smile.

"Me!" Fang Yiai didn't know when Li Shimin would arrive, and was taken aback unpreparedly, then hurriedly straightened her clothes, got up and stood up, cupped her hands and said, "Long live!"

Seeing Fang Yiai's cautious expression, Li Shimin chuckled lightly and said, "Ai Qing doesn't need to be so alarmed, is I so frightened?"

"Long live the sky is as mighty as the sea, and the students are sincere and fearful." Halfway through the flattery, Fang Yiai suddenly sensed something wrong from Li Shimin's previous words, "Ai Qing? Long live called me Ai Qing? This."

Fang Yiai's flattering words greatly benefited Li Shimin, he nodded with approval in his eyes, and climbed onto the high platform with his hands behind his back.

Looking at the back of Li Shimin's departure, Fang Yiai's tense nerves were relieved, and she thought, "Since the Sui Dynasty, there has been no one who failed the palace examination, and the worst thing is that he was born as a top three Jinshi. Long live calls my love There is nothing wrong with you, Qing."

After Li Shimin took the stage, Bai Jian sealed the test papers by herself. After sorting out the 48 test papers, she carefully climbed onto the high stage and put the test papers on the desk in front of Li Shimin.

Looking at the thick pile of test papers on the desk, Li Shimin was overjoyed, and said with a rare kindness: "You are all future pillars. Although there are some rankings in this test, you will have to enter the court as an official in the future. , I also hope that you will treat the people kindly with all your heart.”

Hearing Li Shimin's lecture, Fang Yiai and 48 people got up together, stood on the right side of the book case, cupped their hands and said, "Long live the oracle students will remember it in their hearts."

"Okay, it's already late noon in the blink of an eye, you guys should hurry up and eat, and after a few days the news of the news will return to your respective residences, then enter the Daming Palace to participate in the Qionglin Banquet!"

Everyone thanked the holy grace together, and then they walked out of the tribute courtyard in an orderly manner, and walked out of the tribute courtyard one by one with joy on their faces.

After everyone left, Li Shimin flipped through the test papers with a smile. After finding Fang Yiai's test paper, he just read it briefly, then picked up the ink pen and wrote four big characters "Yi Jia Tou Ming" on it.

Putting down the vermilion pen, Li Shimin, with a happy heart, said to Bai Jian beside him: "Slave! After returning to the palace, go to the Ministry of Rites to choose a good time. I want to pass an order to marry Li Zhi to He Fu!"

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin looked at the red wall of the Gongyuan, stroked his beard and murmured: "I have never betrayed you, I hope you have never betrayed me either."

(End of this chapter)