It is the most April day in the world, and the apricots are red and white.

Bianliang finally survived the long winter and ushered in April, which was warm and cold.

In the warm pavilion in Wanfu Palace, the water temperature has been lowered a lot.

Empress Liu looked at Zong Shu playfully while playing with the polished Buddha beads.

Zong Shu came to Wanfu Palace for his Baigong disciples to participate in the examination, and he wanted to ask Empress Liu and Zhuzhu for help.

"Queen Mother, if you don't come forward, I'm afraid I'm really lost." Zong Shu bowed his head and said.

Zong Shu ignored a detail, that is, after the exam, the examiner organized the judging papers, listed the rankings, and proposed the list of the top three.

Entering the palace examination, the emperor interviewed the three people, and hand-picked the champion, Bangyan and Tanhua.

Even if Su Yi entered the top three, in the final interview session, if he didn't win the top prize, it was Huizong who had the final say.

In other words, this bet between Zong Shu and His Majesty, from the very beginning, Huizong had already won.

The devil is in the details. This detail was reminded by Zhuzhu.

At that time, Zong Shu was dumbfounded.

Ginger, it's still old and spicy.

Dare to be affectionate, Huizong has long known in his heart, and has always treated Zong Shu as a monkey.

Of course, Huizong would not have thought that Su Yi would be able to enter the top three.

Zong Shu first found Li Ruoshui and poured bitter water, saying that he was miserable by His Majesty this time, Su Yi entered the top three, and His Majesty would definitely point him to Tanhua.

Zong Shu asked Li Ruoshui to correctly perform the duties of the deputy examiner, and persuaded His Majesty not to interview during the palace examination, and not to be confused by superficial phenomena.

It is necessary to seal the top three papers and let Huizong set the level according to the quality of the examination papers, so that it can be regarded as fair and just.

Li Ruoshui felt that Zong Shu was looking for something to do.

Can Su Yi enter the top three? If you don't rank first, it's God's care.

Zong Shu also took into account the details of the palace examination, and was afraid that Huizong deliberately did not point Su Yi as the champion, so how could he enter the palace examination with Su Yi?

Seeing that Li Ruoshui didn't care about himself, Zong Shu found Queen Liu.

Empress Liu said: "Zong Shu, the official family will never judge people by their appearance, you can rest assured." ”

Don't judge people by their appearance?

If you really want to judge people by appearance, Su Yichang is a talent, but Zong Shu is not worried.

What Zong Shu is worried about is that Huizong takes people by people!

I don't want Su Yi to be the champion! No one has anything to say.

There is no first, and there is no second.

There is no absolute and uniform standard for the quality of the articles.

"Queen Mother, if Su Yi enters the palace test, His Majesty will definitely let him be a tanhua when he sees Su Yi, which is not fair."

Zong Shu didn't care so much, so he simply made his words clear.

"Zong Shu, I will follow what you say, everything is fair and just. During the palace examination, only the papers are marked, not the people. ”

It was Huizong who answered, and he came to Wanfu Palace after the next court, and happened to hear Zong Shu's words, and this guy actually suspected that he was deliberately embarrassed.

Is this kid deliberately looking for fault because he has a weak heart, and then shouts everywhere that the examination selection process is unfair and unjust, and then chooses the opportunity to quit!

Li Ruoshui had actually found Huizong and said Zong Shu's suggestion.

Huizong immediately realized that Zong Shu's gang must be messing around!

As soon as he retired from the dynasty, he found that Zong Shu was "reflecting the situation" to Empress Liu again, and this was to build up a wide range of momentum and pave the way for his dignified withdrawal.

The more this is the case, the more Huizong wants to satisfy him!

If you want to quit, no way!

"The gentleman is set in the mountains, and the villain has no quarrel. Don't see the truth in the scriptures and policies, but bother with the details, it's ridiculous! ”

Huizong immediately knocked on Zong Shu, which means, you have the ability to write the essay well in the examination room! Don't can't be pulled out and complain about the pit!

After getting Huizong's promise, Zong Shu finally settled down and immediately bid farewell to Huizong.

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Since then, Zong Shu's life has been very regular, switching between Bianliang and Mi County, staying in one place for three days.

No matter where he was, Zong Shu took Su Yi with him.

For a while, he lectured in the East Palace, and for a while, he went to Zong's fireworks workshop, porcelain workshop, Dasong Liquor Industry, and Dasong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for research.

Zong Shu and Su Yi's actions made everyone inexplicable.

Su Yi is completely giving up and trying?

Zong Shu is going to give Huizong a million taels of silver for nothing?

Some people feel that even if Zong Shu loses the gamble, he can marry His Royal Highness Zhuzhu.

One million taels of silver was given to Huizong, and it is very possible that Huizong married Zhuzhu to Zong Shu.

From the perspective of status, Zong Shu was also born in the same Jinshi, and now Cai You, a member of the Privy Council, is also from the same Jinshi.

From the point of view of wealth, Zong Shu is making money every day and has a lot of wealth, which is almost unmatched.

As for the Jin people, it is easy to say that Huizong's daughter is not only Zhuzhu.

Besides, the Jin people, the northern barbarians, can't distinguish between beauty and ugliness, good and bad.

Zong Shu and Huizong's bet on Su Yi's high school champion caused widespread heated discussions inside and outside the Great Song Dynasty and the imperial court.

Ordinary people such as village husbands and industry workers all hope that Zong Shu will win the gambling game and marry the princess.

The literati, especially the court officials, all hoped that Zong Shu would lose the gamble, and it was best to let Su Yi rank at the bottom of the list.

In the major tiles, guest houses and other places where people gather in the capital, the most discussed thing is how many people can be ranked behind Su Yi.

If these moves are ranked behind Su Yi, he will have to give up the examination in the future, and he will not have a chance with Jinshi from now on.

Of course, if even Su Yi, who was born in a hundred workers, can't pass the exam, and then take the exam in the future, there is not much hope of passing the Jinshi examination.

Now, the lifters have no intention of reading books, after all, the Four Books and Five Classics have been memorized since childhood, and they have long been ripe.

They were keen to attend all kinds of gatherings, especially poetry gatherings organized by officials in the capital, either publicly or privately.

On this occasion, everyone will get some useful information from it, such as the temperament of the examiner and the deputy examiner, famous poems, opinions, etc.

Based on this information, you can judge what this year's exam questions will be.

Some even directly inquired about who the chief examiner Chen Guoting and the deputy chief examiner Li Ruoshui were friends with, and it would be best if they could get information out of their mouths.

At this time, almost all of the famous officials in the capital have raised their sons to hand over their famous posts in order to visit.

There are even some retired champions who have opened a "tutorial class" to specialize in the topic.

These questions are basically about the recent hot spots of the government and politics, such as military punishment, financial endowment, rivers and canals, and the benefits and diseases of border blocks.

In the past, the Northern Song Dynasty examination had to test four subjects: poetry, scriptures, theories, and strategies.

The purpose is "the state to cover the world's heroes with subjects, righteousness to observe its scriptures, endowed with its knowledge, and strategy to observe its talents." ”

The reform of the content of the examination began with Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi once said to Song Shenzong: "Today, when I was young, I should pay attention to the righteousness of the world, but I learned to write poetry behind closed doors, and I entered the official, and I didn't learn anything in the world. ”

After that, the content of the examination will no longer test poetry, but will specifically test the scriptures and theories.

The main reason for the reform of the examination is that Wang Anshi is relatively tough.

And now the examination system is going to change again, and there is only one subject to the examination: Jingyi.

Strategy, don't take the test!

Without considering the strategy, it is really a big loss for Cai Xiu.

The purpose of the policy theory is to analyze and study the problems existing in the internal affairs and military affairs of the imperial court and put forward solutions to them.

For ordinary students, Cai Xiu has the most advantages, after all, the family members are all officials, and what the family talks about is related to the major policies of the imperial court.

Without considering the strategy, Cai Xiu can only fight with everyone.

Cai Jing told Cai Xiu that the reason why he didn't consider the strategy theory, he analyzed, was mainly because of Zong Shu.

Zong Shu once judged that Zhongjing and Xijing of the Liao State would be captured by the Jin people within two months, and the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty would inevitably be defeated and returned, and these were fulfilled one by one.

What is tested in the policy theory is not the beauty of the words, but whether it can accurately grasp the situation and whether it can propose countermeasures.

Judging from these two things, Zong Shu should be much more than ordinary people in terms of strategy.

With Zong Shu's judgment on the general situation and direction, how bad can Su Yi's strategy be?

Policy is Zong Shu's biggest reliance for Su Yi to be admitted to the top prize.

Your Majesty doesn't think about it, this is to extinguish Zong Shu's last bit of hope.

For the sake of one person, the content of the exam has been changed.

Cai Xiu sighed, His Majesty's change was certainly a blow to Zong Shu's arrogance, but he became a victim and a victim.