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The wind and snow have passed, and the warbler grass ascends the imperial examination.

"Mr. Qu, I have an article here that can be called shocking. I have read thousands of articles, and this article is the best. It can be ranked among the top three." The unshaven old man forced the test paper in his hand into the middle of the long case with a happy expression.

After the examinee finishes the test paper, the cover page of the test paper will be collected and reviewed by eight secondary reviewers and one chief reviewer.During the marking period, the nine examiners were not allowed to step out of the tribute courtyard, and were not allowed to contact outsiders. Anyone who came into contact with outsiders would be disqualified immediately, which would also affect future promotion.

Examination examiner is a good job that no one else can ask for. One examination can be worth two or three years of hard work in Hanzhou, a special chief judge. The general examination is the lifeline of the whole world. Whoever is elected as the chief judge means The power behind him is the highest in the court.

The presiding judge this time is Fan Shiyuan, a Jinshi during the Jiaxu period, a well-known Confucian, the current Prime Minister Fu Yu, and the current Secretary of the Household Department.

It is not allowed to enter or leave the Gongyuan. The nine examiners eat, drink, and scatter all in one-third of an acre of land. There are endless test papers every day. Whoever puts them will not be confused.

Mr. Qu's buttocks were numb, and he secretly regretted not listening to his old wife to bring the cushion. Hearing this, he was overjoyed and chose two test papers from the pile of test papers in his hand, "Master Xu, I have two. Majestic, broad-minded, unlike Juzi, but the methods proposed are mostly utopian and somewhat unrealistic. The other person abandons complicated and beautiful sentences, and his writing returns to the basics, with exquisite ideas and sharp vision."

Mr. Qu was also a Jinshi during the Jiaxu period. At that time, poetry and literary theory paid attention to returning to the basics, unlike the extravagant fashion prevailing today.He has long been displeased with the extravagant style of big fashion, and the second policy theory is just scratching his itch.

At this time, another examiner also interrupted suddenly, even hissing and sighing, his eyes were also very wonderful, sometimes admiring, sometimes sighing.A beautiful beard was about to be pulled bald, such an abnormality attracted the attention of others, and asked: "My lord, what a beautiful article you have seen, it is so difficult to choose, why don't you share it with all the kings?"

The bearded examiner sighed, pushed the test paper into the case, closed his eyes and leaned back on the chair without saying a word.

All the examiners circulated it one after another, and finally looked at each other in blank dismay.

Due to the worrisome border situation and vicious neighbors staring at them, how to deal with the two kingdoms of Dirong and Jizhen on the border has always been the most troublesome problem for the Li Dynasty.The topic of this policy discussion also closely follows current events, and the topic is The Way of Anbian.

This topic is too big and the most difficult to test. You can tell at a glance whether the examinee is a sour person who reads rote books.

And because the topic is too big, it is easy to write empty, the topic seems simple but is tricky.

And this policy theory begins with the first sentence.

The chaos on the border is actually the chaos of national thieves.

The following text is even more unabashed, bluntly saying that there are two national thieves, one is the Xiangdang, and the other is the current prime minister Fu Yu.

Da Hao made it clear that he didn't want it, so he threw it away for fun.The person who was born to write this policy theory, every word is pearls, and the literary talent can be seen.

"How dare you dare to slander Mr. Fu and Zhang Zi. This kind of crazy student should be arrested immediately, and his teachers and friends can't escape. He actually taught such a crazy person!" An examiner jumped up at the case, glaring angrily. The person who handed out the test paper said, "Wang Zizi, what are you so worried about? If such wild words are not dismissed immediately, they are passed around to all the princes. Could it be that your Wang family has long been dissatisfied with the prime minister?"

Wang Zi raised a pair of cloudy old eyes to the sky, leaned on the back of the chair and said weakly: "I don't know when the judging policy is not based on literary talent, but whether it is respectful to the adults." .

"Could it be that you know who wrote this theory and deliberately excused him?"

"My lord, why did you say such words? Nowadays, all imperial examinations use special fonts for imperial examinations. How can I recognize people from the square characters made by adults? I just saw that this article is well written and has a lot of controversy, so I want to share it with you." The adults discussed together, why do you slander the old?" Wang lied casually - because there were frequent incidents of fraud in the imperial examinations in the previous dynasty, and in the same year of Changchang, there were express regulations that only the prescribed fonts could be used in the imperial examinations.But if a grandfather can't recognize his own evil animals?Wang himself cursed secretly, things that are used to trouble, even if Zhang Yuan and Fu Yu are animals, they can't scold in front of the dogs of animals, do they have brains!

When the smell of gunpowder was almost choking to death, the presiding judge who had been sitting at the head with his eyes closed and meditating finally spoke. Fan Shiyuan raised his eyelids, and the old bark that was folded together at the corner of his mouth was torn apart, and his voice was hoarse like a broken log, "Bring them all up. "

Everyone understands that this is the time to decide the meeting.

Wang Zizi still looked like he hadn't woken up, picked up "Kyogen" and threw it to the first place.Master Qu and Master Xu also handed over the ones they liked, five copies in total.

After Fan Shiyuan looked at it, he pondered for a moment, so he wondered: "The five people are all shocking in the world, and it is difficult to distinguish the superior and inferior at the moment, why don't you just take a look at it?"

As soon as the words fell, Wang Zizi thought it was ridiculous, and suddenly stood up with his back bent like a bamboo knot, and said in a cold voice, "That's right, you're really a house full of country thieves!"

After speaking, he walked away.

Qu and Xu were ashamed, but the rest of the people didn't take it seriously.

In order to prevent examiners and examinees from cheating for personal gain, the Ministry of Rites formulated a series of countermeasures. The unified font and the title of the examination paper are the most practical, but now Fan Shiyuan wants to name it with a high-sounding appearance.

Three days later, Song Ling and Wang Fuyang watched the river tower for a while.

Today, when the list was announced, people crowded in front of the Saints Temple, and the usually bustling Wangjiang Tower became deserted.

Song Ling was the first to speak: "I don't know why Brother Wang asked me to meet today?" After the announcement of the results, tomorrow is the palace examination. Why didn't Wang Fuyang prepare for the palace examination at home, but instead asked him to meet? Could it be something important?He knew that Wang Fuyang was upright, so he didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.

"Today is to bid farewell to you," Wang Fuyang took out an ancient book from the book basket by his side and handed it to Song Ling indifferently, "I won't take part in the imperial examination. I will return to Jiangdong today."

Know that you have failed?Song Ling thumped in his heart, and after a second thought, he denied this conjecture—although Wang Fuyang didn't know his specific level of knowledge, but with the name of Jiangdong Wang's, he was not far behind, and he couldn't even be a Gongsheng student. superior.Could it be that I wrote something that shouldn't be written?Song Ling felt that it was really possible to regard him as a human being.

Sure enough, Wang Fuyang sneered: "I came to Beijing this time to scold people. No one dares to speak out about Fu Yu's power. .”

"It should still be bright and clear."

Song Ling took the ancient book and exclaimed: "A man who dares not to act is a real gentleman." He thought to himself, Wang Fuyang has no intention of official career, and he has the backing of the Wang family, so he dares to act casually. The gates of the capital can't get out.

The two said goodbye.

After Wang Fuyang bid farewell and left, Song Ling looked far away at the place where the list was released, and he could vaguely see a shadow in the upper echelon.They were completely surrounded, and their heads formed a black cloud.Looking forward to longing, uneasy vision is turned into a storm, just waiting for a thunder.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

Thunder strikes!

It's time to go, Song Ling drifted away.When the thunder sounded, people flocked to that place, it was rare to be quiet, if you don't leave now, when will you wait?

Iron cavalry cleared the way to disperse the crowd.One of the two ranking officials was holding a red silk scroll, and the other was beating the gongs and drums.

The onlookers lost their awe of the iron cavalry, and pushed forward, and the copper and iron walls were also burned to the ground.

"I saw it, I saw it!"

"The first name is Prime Minister Fu's son, Fu Qiuchi!"

"I knew it must be him, really embarrassing our Imperial College! What about the people who brag about Jiangdong Wang Fuyang? Not to mention Huiyuan, they can't even hang on to the end, Jiangdong Wang's Zhulu Academy is not worthy of its name!"

"Cui Chongying is the third," one person yelled on his feet, and the shorter one could only jump outside the wall, "Who is the second? But Huang Mingjian?"

"No, no, it's called Xie Mo, what's more wrong, who is Xie Mo?"

On the day when the list was released, there were two things that attracted the most attention. Prime Minister Fu's son lived up to expectations and became the Hui Yuan, but No.2 was won by an unknown candidate.

The two of Shang Jingfan met each other that day, and they both asked, "Do you know who Xie Mo is?"

Who is Xie Mo?

Once the list is released, some are happy and some are sad.

Song Ling had already locked the noise outside the courtyard and kept his worries to himself.

The next day for the palace examination, he left the mansion in the middle of the night to go to Xie's house in Lanemo.Song Chengxi didn't break his promise, he really bought a fake identity for him, and the medical examiner couldn't see any flaws.You only need to change your appearance to deceive the world.

At the fourth watch, the guiding officer came to pick up the person to the imperial court according to the place of origin on the test paper.With the sound of gongs and drums all the way, Song Ling felt that his group was like a herd of monkeys waiting to be watched.The queue was arranged in order of rank, Fu Qiuchi was in front of him, but unfortunately he recognized Fu Qiuchi, but Fu Qiuchi did not recognize Xie Mo.

Strange to say, the two of Fu and Luo haven't seen each other since they parted last year, and they haven't seen Fu Qiuchi for the past few months, but seeing each other today is like meeting them for the first time.The person is still the same person, and the appearance is still the same, but the whole person is completely cold and frozen.

Somewhat like his father, Song Ling said silently.

At five o'clock, enter the Zichen Hall from the noon gate, the emperor sits in the temple hall, and the powerful officials live on both sides.I have never seen such a scene before, and my stomach and legs are about to twist. Fortunately, everyone is a high-level intellectual, and they didn't show their ugly faces.

Song Ling was also a little scared, he was afraid of being spotted by Luo Qingshan, as soon as he sat down, he took a peek at the row of military officers from the corner of his eye.Luo Qingshan is tall and standing at the front, which is extremely eye-catching.

I saw his eyelids half-opened and half-closed, and the corners of his straight mouth curved sharply, looking calm and majestic.Song Ling twitched, and slept soundly.

Emperor Chang Tong's voice came from a high place, he spoke very slowly and softly, his voice was mellow and not like an emperor, but like a mortal teacher.He set a question for everyone and answered it on the spot.Song Ling finished answering slowly, and let the eunuch take away the answer sheet.Listening to the rapid heartbeat and chaotic breathing around him in his spare time, he insinuated that the champion had already made a decision, and the laymen were still delusional.

When he was young, he also thought about wanting to be the top three, to be the number one scholar, and to be the No. 1 in the ages.When you are young, you understand that the situation is stronger than people, and you can't hold your head up if you can be overwhelmed by the word power.Song Ling turned sideways slightly, looking at Fu Yu without dodging.

I thought to myself, at present, I am in charge of the palace, let's see in the future.

However, no one can predict the emperor's dominion.

"Xie Shimo, with extensive knowledge and strong ambitions, is good at governing chaos and good at eloquence, he can be the crown of talents." ①

Song Ling raised his head in astonishment.

The author says:

① "Historical Records Biography of Qu Yuan Jia Sheng"