The first thing Zhang An faced after becoming the first assistant was the imperial examination, which had many changes from the first imperial examination, the most obvious one was that the imperial examination passed the big waves, and the people who could come to Beijing to participate were elite students who had passed the township examination and the government examination.

The newly built Tribute Academy of the Imperial Court can provide these people to take the exam, and with the experience of the last exam, Li Jun doesn't have to worry about it at all, but Zhang An and the Ministry of Rites are still busy.

Thousands of scholars come to Beijing, and more than half of them are the old people before, under the leadership of these predecessors, the new students soon got to know Chang'an City, Chang'an City now has eight famous scenes, one of the most popular scenery is the incense street of Pingkangfang, there is no doubt that this is the famous red light district, especially the Yuchun Building is the most, the decoration is luxurious, there are many foreign beauties, named Chang'an City, but unfortunately now each Qinglou does not dare to use the Tang people, once the Tang Welfare Institute knows which Qinglou uses the Tang people as prostitutes, will come to the door, not only to take people away, but also to fine, but also to impose heavy fines, there is money to pay fines, it is better to buy a few more women of different races.

The Tang people are proud, even if a Tang beggar sees the Hu people, he will not bow his waist, and sometimes the Hu people will give the beggar a salute, because although this beggar is too lazy to die, he has a Tang household registration.

Now the Hu people in the West Market and the East Market are crazy for a Datang household registration, Gao Pei followed a few classmates to play in the West Market, only to see a Hu merchant scolding on the street, Hu Shang obviously drank too much, a few bad people came over and knocked Hu Shang to the ground very rudely, Hu Shang said with a handful of snot and tears: "I have come to Datang since I was in my thirties, and I have been stumbling for more than 20 years now, and I can't get a Datang household registration, but you Tang people have forced the household registration to a homeless person, and people don't want to ask for it. Why? That's not fair. ”

Hu Shang's tragic experience resonated with everyone, looking at the crowd of coaxing, several bad people were also a little scared, at this moment a one-eyed man walked over, and the bad people hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Subordinates, see Zhang Shuai." ”

This person is the bad handsome Zhang Xiaojing of Chang'an County, who had been a soldier in Liaodong before, because he lost an eye, so he retired and returned to Chang'an.

I saw Zhang Xiaojing sneering and said, "Why? Lao Tzu tells you why? Just because Lao Tzu has a group of good ancestors, and the ancestors have left us valuable knowledge, so it doesn't matter how we Tang people toss, because we are Tang people with noble blood. ”

Zhang Xiaojing's Hu caused the applause of many onlookers, and Hu Shang was speechless by Zhang Yijing's words, and only knew how to cry.

Zhang Xiaojing snorted coldly and said: "Okay, don't cry, now Your Majesty has also relaxed the conditions, as long as you Hu people have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, they will give you a household registration, such as spying on enemy intelligence, discovering good breeds, and having major inventions, these can be, but the premise is that you also have to abandon your miscellaneous gods and recognize the ancestors of our Tang people." ”

After speaking, Zhang Xiaojing took Hu Shang and left, Hu Shang's fate will not be particularly tragic, as long as he goes to the bad people to pay some fines, and then he can come out after sobering up.

What happened in front of him stimulated Gao Pei, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, and Gao Pei muttered to himself: "Culture is very important, sometimes culture is even more important than war, I can't beat you, then I can assimilate you." ”

Gao Pei thought that he was very fascinated, and he was not in the mood to play anymore, so he said goodbye to his classmates and went home.

On August 17, the second imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty officially began, and in addition to the regular arithmetic, law, scriptures, etc., the last question of the examination was to test how the scholars were kings of foreign races. Lee Jun hopes someone will surprise him.

As soon as the imperial examination was completed, Ji Meng's 30,000 army launched a war against the Dian State, which was the last country in Lingnan and a country with vitality in the Three Kingdoms.

The progress is advancing so fast that Ji Meng is a little suspicious that the people of Dian have any conspiracy, until the army came to the city of Guizhou, the royal family of Dian organized a decent resistance, this city of Guizhou has 100,000 troops garrisoned, at this time Ji Meng understood that the original idea of the Dian country was to build a strong wall.

Ji Meng is very grateful to the guy who came up with this idea, if the Dian army was distributed all over the place, he would not be able to destroy the Dian State a year ago, but now the Dian people have gathered the army together, which gives Ji Meng the opportunity to return to Beijing for the New Year.

The person who came up with this idea was Liu Xiang, the crown prince of the Dian Kingdom, after Liu Xiang returned with 30,000 Yunnan troops, in order not to show his incompetence, he deliberately exaggerated the combat effectiveness of the Tang army by ten times, for which Liu Xiang was not only not punished, but also became a hero.

So this time the old lord Liu Qiang waved his hand, the defense of Guizhou was still led by the prince Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang couldn't cry or laugh after hearing the news, if he put it on the front he would have been very happy to take it over, because although he is the prince, there are several brothers who are eyeing their position, but now it seems that this is a hot potato, his younger brothers can escape with their families, but they can't escape.

Liu Xiang really didn't want to face the Tang army alone, so he ordered all the capable Dian troops to be transferred to Guizhou to defend the capital, and then closed the city gates, and his good brothers could not escape.

Liu Xiang with a tragic mood to defend the city of Guizhou, Liu Xiang summed up the experience, the Tang army occupies the benefit of gunpowder, a city wall is not safe, so he ordered to build a wall outside the city of Guizhou every five miles, although it is an earthen wall, can not withstand the gunpowder of the Tang army, but Liu Xiang in the spirit of having equal nothing, desperately digging ditches and building walls, and strive to be able to consume the gunpowder of the Tang army, so when the Tang army came, seven low walls had been built outside the city of Guizhou.

Ji Meng looked at the city wall in front of him and couldn't help scratching his head and said, "What is this going on in the Dian Kingdom?" ”

Feng Jing smiled bitterly: "Dashuai, these earthen walls are newly built at first glance, you can see that there are some places where the paste has not dried yet." ”

Ji Meng nodded and said, "Don't worry about these for now, Feng Jing, you take three thousand soldiers to test it first, catch a few live mouths, and ask what the people of Dian are doing?" ”

Feng Jing led the troops to rush up, sparse arrows were shot from behind the earthen wall, after a loud bang, the low wall was torn apart, Feng Jing rushed in, the strange thing was that there was no one, and then Feng Jing looked at the ground There were many holes, Feng Xiong came to Feng Jing and asked, "Sixth brother, what kind of formation is this?" ”

Feng Jing shook his head and said, "I don't know, it seems that these Dian people have just escaped from these caves. ”