The palace is inside, along the central axis of the royal road through the Xuande Gate into the Daqing Gate, there is a huge square about 10,000 square meters, also known as the square in front of the Daqing Palace.

At this time, there were hundreds of officials lined up on both sides of the station, and in the middle of the royal road, there were twenty low tables, no stools, but a yellow futon.

After Li Yan and the others finished the ceremony, they were taken here by the old eunuch for a written test.

As the first place in the examination, Li Yan sat in the front row, which was a supreme honor, but he couldn't be happy.

Because Li Yan saw the look of expectation on the faces of the officials on both sides.

Everyone's expressions were unusually serious, holding their breath and staring at him with full attention, which made him feel a great pressure.

Elegantly flatten the rice paper, fill the wolf hair slowly, stretch the limbs, straighten the sleeves, and make a lot of small movements, then put the tip of the pen on the paper.

But, for a long time, he did not move......

Officials gradually lost patience, and from expectation to doubt, and from doubt to doubt.

A quarter of an hour later, seeing that Li Yan still hadn't written a word, he couldn't help but start whispering.

These people are all civil officials, so they naturally also pay attention to the examination, and when they learn that the examination questions are from a hundred ancients, they are all shocked, and they all agree that no one can solve the question satisfactorily.

Seeing Li Yan's appearance now, it also confirmed their guess that the stack of near-perfect test papers was definitely not from this person's hand.

On the other hand, Yang Ruobing, who ranked second, was stunned for a moment after getting the exam paper, and asked the invigilator: Which country is Jin?

This question ushered in the echo of all Confucian scholars, and they all said that they didn't know that there was still a Jin country.

Because, the topic of the exam is Lianjin to fight Liao, and the Jin country was originally a small tribe called Jurchen in the far north, which did not rise for long, and has been fighting with Liao soldiers outside the Guan, and has not had any intersection with the Central Plains, so it is not surprising that I don't know.

After the invigilator finished explaining, Yang Ruobing frowned, thought for a long time, and began to write hard.

And Li Yan was still holding a brush, posing for writing, still not moving, listening to the officials whispering, and said in his heart: This time it is a shame to be thrown home.

Just let it go!

"Ahem." Li Yan coughed lightly, attracting the attention of the officials, temporarily stopping the discussion, and casting expectant eyes.

Li Yan pulled the pen unhurriedly and wrote a handle, which attracted exclamations from the officials:

"Written, written."

"Look, he wrote."

Li Yan secretly smiled bitterly, wrote another T-character next to him, then slowly put the brush, blew down the ink, rubbed his hands and said to the invigilator: My lord, I'm done answering next.

Yes?

The officials' eyes widened in surprise, their jaws dropped to the ground, and they tried to write half a zhang high, but they only wrote one word in the palace test, what does this mean?

The invigilator also said with a blank face: "Really, is it really finished?" ”

Li Yan nodded affirmatively.

He also wanted to write a few more sentences, but he only knew traditional Chinese characters, and couldn't write, so he originally wanted to write the three words "must be typed".

But after thinking about it for a long time, I didn't come up with what the traditional character "whisker" looked like.

Therefore, I had to write a "type" word.

"Are you sure you won't change it?"

"No change."

Hearing Li Yan's firm answer again, the invigilator reluctantly rolled up the paper and handed it to a little eunuch beside him, who ran towards Tianqing Hall with the paper in his hand, and shouted repeatedly: Yanggu County Li Yan test paper......

"My lord, where is he going?" Li Yan blushed and said.

"Of course, it will be handed over to the Holy Lord and the ministers for review." The invigilator said.

"Oh."

Li Yan lowered his head, thinking quickly in his mind about what to do next, handing in the one-word palace examination paper, he was the first and definitely the last since ancient times.

is so shocking, you don't have to think about it to know that it will cause an uproar, and it will definitely be criticized, so you have to think of a careful explanation in advance, otherwise you will try to cheat and be exposed.

……

In the Daqing Palace, the anger was extremely strange.

Zhao Ji sat on the dragon chair bored, tired of listening to the endless quarrels between the two factions of His Highness, his heart was extremely anxious, and he just wanted to end the palace examination quickly.

Because a eunuch came to report this morning, saying that the big insect he raised was difficult to give birth, and his life was in danger.

In a hurry, he wanted to cancel the palace test, but fortunately the queen stopped him, so he sat on the dragon chair with an unwilling face, and he didn't listen to a word of the content of the ministers' debates, and his heart had already flown to the body of the female insect.

At this moment, the little eunuch ran into the hall with Li Yan's answer sheet, finished the salute, held the test paper and said: "Your Majesty, Li Yan of Yanggu County has finished the written test." ”

Zhao Ji was overjoyed, and said in his heart: He is worthy of being the person I personally selected, and he really understands my heart.

"Present, present." Zhao Ji beckoned again and again.

The little eunuch presented it to the hidden minister Liang Shicheng, and Liang Shicheng respectfully presented it to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji opened the test paper with joy, but he was confused in an instant.

When he saw only one word, he couldn't help but sigh lightly, his eyes glanced at Liang Shicheng, and seeing that the latter was also frightened, Zhao Ji immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

If the ministers such as Cai Dang and Yu Shitai see that something is wrong, then it will be certain that they will try to cheat.

This kind of big crime, not only Li Yan will be executed, but all invigilators are guilty of the same crime, including Wang Fu, of course.

Then he tried his best to recruit Li Yan from Yanggu County, wouldn't it be in vain.

What's more, there is also Wang Fu, if Wang Fu dies, then there will be no one in the entire court who can compete with the Cai Party.

Although Liang Shicheng is Wang Fu's superior leader, he is not from a good background, after all, he is a eunuch, no matter how powerful he is, he can only compete in secret, but he does not dare to discuss national politics in the open.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji immediately stabilized his mind, pretended to read it carefully, nodded with satisfaction from time to time, and made a hmm-huh sound.

Fortunately, he was far away from the ministers, so it did not arouse suspicion.

But there was a man in the temple who knew the truth.

It was the little eunuch who handed the roll paper.

The little eunuch obviously saw with his own eyes that there was only one word on the test paper, but the emperor had read it for so long, and he still read it with relish, and guessed in his heart: It is said that the official family loves calligraphy and painting the most, is it because the "type" character is too good?

Since Cai Jing was sitting on a chair with a low line of sight, he could just be at eye level with the little eunuch, so it was obvious that he could see something strange and immediately noticed something unusual.

After Zhao Ji put down the test paper, Cai Jing slowly stood up, walked to the hall in an old manner, pinched the wat board with both hands, and said respectfully: "Please read the candidate's strategy to the hundred officials." ”

"Oh, don't worry, when the palace exam is over, I will read the test papers of the top three to the Zhongqing." Zhao Ji said in a humble heart.

Cai Jing lowered his head, and the corners of his mouth smiled slightly, and he already knew it in his heart.

But he was not in a hurry, and with a playful expression on his face, Shi Li returned to his seat.

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