I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

Li Zhi was subdued by Yin Lulu.

Greetings are a must when we see each other early in the morning - this is out of the younger brother's respect for the older sister.

After the greetings were over, Li Zhi spoke again, seemingly not so eagerly asking: "Ms. Yin, did Mr. Zhengyang answer the boy's request?"

"Brother, he agreed." Yin Lulu said.

Li Zhi heaved a sigh of relief, his body staggered, and he sat down on his seat at once—he was worried all night yesterday, because he was afraid that Mr. Zhengyang would not agree to his request.

"However—" Yin Lulu protracted her tone.

Li Zhi's heart tightened, and he hurriedly stood up again.

Yin Lulu smiled slightly, and continued: "Brother said, he will only write you two recommendation letters, one next year and three years later."

"If you don't get satisfactory grades, brother won't write recommendations for you anymore."

After speaking, Yin Lulu paused for a moment, and frowned: "But at that time, you will almost reach the crown, it doesn't matter whether my brother writes a recommendation letter or not."

How can it be indifferent!
When Li Zhi heard this, his face became serious.

He also understands Yin Xuan's subtext, he only has two chances - and this satisfactory result is probably not to the extent of his own satisfaction, but to the extent of Zhengyang Gong's satisfaction.

Satisfy Mr. Zhengyang?

Not to mention the champion, at least the top three.

Li Zhi took a deep breath, and then bowed to Yin Lulu: "Please trouble Mrs. Yin to thank Mrs. Zhengyang for me. The students have to prepare for the imperial examination, so it's not good to visit in person."

"Wait until the students get a satisfactory ranking, and then come to the door in person, thank you Zhengyang Gong."

Yin Lulu wrote down the series of words Li Zhi said, stretched out her hand to beckon Li Zhi to sit down, and poked her head curiously: "What are you and your brother planning?"

She reacted now.

What can make my elder brother and my younger brother Li Zhi so serious is definitely not just a letter of recommendation.

The two of them seemed to have reached an agreement in tacit agreement, and they clearly acted as the mouthpiece, but... they didn't know what they had agreed on.

Li Zhi was a little embarrassed, he hesitated for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't want to talk to Lady Yin, it's just...it's not easy to talk about this kind of thing."

"If you want to know, you can ask Duke Zhengyang."

Yin Lulu curled her lips, if her brother was willing to tell herself, as for...the two of them were playing charades, asking herself to pass on such words.

But she didn't investigate, anyway, after the imperial examination is over, everything will have a result.

Li Zhi and Yin Lulu began to concentrate on preparing for the imperial examination.

This made the teachers of the school very gratified—it wasn't because the two smartest students in their school were going to make a name for their school again.

It was Yin Lulu who finally stopped bringing her soldiers and generals to make trouble.

The heart can finally beat steadily in the chest, instead of worrying about the victim coming to the door.

Although the imperial examination is next year.

But just halfway through this year, the entire city of Chang'an was shrouded in the atmosphere of the imperial examination—this road is too convoluted, and the leaders are still foreign scholars.

They are not considered to have lived in Chang'an for a long time, but their reading and literacy skills are definitely not as good as those of Chang'an scholars, and their requirements are not high. They just hope that they can be listed, even if they are only at the bottom of the list.

In order to be admitted to Tang nationality, they worked extremely hard.

The scholars in Chang'an saw that the scholars from other countries worked so hard, and they all started to study hard.

Whether they can be selected or not depends on their own ability, they mainly don't want to be trampled underfoot by foreign scholars.

If any foreign scholar can be on the list, and someone happens to be a few behind this foreign scholar, then these scholars will all be laughed at severely.

No one wants to be taken as a joke.

The scholars of Tongfu Academy are the most hardworking and dedicated. In the last imperial examination, Tongfu Academy failed to win against the aristocratic family, which made them feel a little ashamed.

So this time, they decided to overwhelm the aristocratic family.

The sound of Wei Zheng and the others playing mahjong became much quieter, and the little old man Li Yuan stopped making noise, for fear of disturbing these scholars.

But for Li Shimin, this sort of thing caused him some headaches.

There are too many people participating in the imperial examination.

There is still nearly a year before the imperial examination, but the number of people who have applied for the government office has already exceeded a thousand. If this rate continues, nearly ten thousand people may apply.

This is of course a good thing.

Datang is now short of talents - Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje still have a certain amount of official vacancies, and the talents accumulated in the previous few imperial examinations have been exhausted.

Not to mention, the follow-up will devour Anxi, West Turkic and other places...

If it weren't for the lack of officials, Li Shimin would have taken Anxi down this year.

His headaches are things farther in the future.

Li Shimin is a person with great foresight. He knows very well that the next ten or 20 years may be the era when the territory of the Tang Dynasty urgently needs to expand.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty will surpass the powerful men, to a level that no one has ever seen before, and there may be no one to come after.

That sentence "Under the world, is it the land of the king", will really become the land of the king, is it the land of the king.

Now, the more talents, the better.

But wait until the territory of Datang stops expanding?
Now that the public schools are open, more and more people will be able to read and write in the future, and more and more people will take part in the imperial examination. Maybe 10 people will take the imperial examination in ten years' time.

But there are only so many gaps in official positions.

When the territory of the Tang Dynasty stops expanding and everything is settled, how will these scholars be arranged?Should they be allowed to return home to farm after studying hard for so many years?
Suddenly, Li Shimin thought of those workshops in Datongfang.

He vaguely had some ideas.

But he couldn't make up his mind about this idea, picked up a pen, dipped some ink, and started writing and drawing on paper, sorting out some new thoughts every day.

After he organized these messy thoughts into a booklet, Li Shimin took a deep breath, squinted his eyes, and stared at the words.

After hesitating for a while, he decided to take this thing to find Yin Xuan.

I have to let this kid evaluate it, so that I can feel a sense of security.

Stay until rest.

Li Shimin took a good night's sleep to make up for the soreness caused by staying up late these days. When he arrived at the restaurant at noon, he saw a group of people eating and reading at the same time.

It almost made Li Shimin feel that he entered the wrong room.

Then he saw his daughter, stood up, and was asking Li Yuan for chestnuts.

Li Shimin walked over, cut off his beard, took the plate away, walked to the counter, and squatted to peel the chestnuts for Rolling while waiting for Yin Xuan to come out of the kitchen.