After leaving the Joy Place, Zhang Xiaowu ordered a search of the Guirenfang, but not the Ye family. After tossing for a night, people found nothing, and did not find Ye Shishi, and at this time, Zhang Xiaowu also confirmed one thing, this Ye Shishi is a member of the Ye family. He guessed that this person should not be Du Shanbo's granddaughter, the future queen Ye Wanying, after all, she is the future queen, and it is impossible for a man to disguise himself as a woman and drink tea alone with a man.

"It should be a branch of the Ye family." Zhang Xiaowu guessed in his heart that this Dushanbo has no grandson so far, and the Ye family should not have a direct third generation, and for the inheritance of the Dushanbo family, the uncle will definitely choose a successor from the branch of the family, and this Ye Shishi may be the daughter of the branch or something.

"Since she is from the Ye family, it is safe, and there is no need to look for anyone." Zhang Xiaowu said to himself, had a good night's rest, and also gave some silver rewards to the silver guards who helped him tonight, and everyone smiled.

The next day, Zhang Xiaowu did not go to the Central Mansion until noon to deal with official business, and the biggest official business today was the formulation of the imperial examination questions. Xiang Rui and the scholars on the right selected ten sets of exam questions for Zhang Xiaowu to refer to, and selected the contents. There are four days left before the imperial examinations, and they must write the papers for the three examinations three days in advance.

"The first post will be according to your questions, but all the bachelors who have written the questions are not allowed to go out and stay in the palace until the imperial examination is completely over." Zhang Xiaowu said, "The topic of the second game is also good, it is accurate, and the third game can also be selected." ”

Xiang Rui was very happy to see that Zhang Xiaowu had fully accepted his proposal, but then said: "Ling Gong, it stands to reason that the third time belongs to the palace examination, that is, His Majesty needs to be the invigilator himself, but now His Majesty's body is ......."

"Everyone in the Central Mansion will be the proctor together." Zhang Xiaowu set the rules, "Your Majesty is still the same, alas, ......"

Four days later, on the 10th day of the 10th month of October, the weather was cool and sunny, and there were no clouds, and the much-anticipated three-year imperial examination of St. Han Dade began. Early in the morning, more than 5,000 Xiucai poured into the Guozijian, which was in charge of the imperial examination. Guozijian has long been surrounded and protected by the forbidden army, and the talents will be released after the forbidden army inspects them one by one. Because of the large number of people, the forbidden army has many people to inspect, and each time a hundred people are inspected, 5,000 people need fifty batches, so everyone wants to be the first to enter the examination room.

The purpose of entering the examination room is not to prepare for review first, but to choose a good position first, because some positions in the examination room are facing the sun, and some positions are shaded. Because of the large number of people in the prison, they are not allowed to bring their own heaters and other equipment, so the candidates can only wear more clothes to resist the cold, and some people who enter early will sit in their own private rooms and move their bodies, so as not to wait for a while and not be able to write.

In Guozijian's examination room, each person is in a separate room, similar to a public toilet without doors, with only a chair, a table and a urine bucket inside. Candidates can only pee in the pee bucket and are not allowed to leave the test room. Of course, the most unlucky ones are definitely those candidates who have diarrhea, because they can only solve the problem of diarrhea in the urine bucket.

For some candidates, they need to stay inside all day, so they are extremely aggrieved. But this imperial examination is the same for everyone, even if the nobles of the scholar clan come to Guozijian to participate in the imperial examination, they can only be treated with ordinary people. k

Zhang Xiaowu stood outside the crowd and watched the excitement, he pretended to be a little ordinary person this time, but not to get older, but to disguise himself as a ranger, with a broken straw hat on his head, a wooden stick beside him, and a hole in his clothes, looking like those homeless rangers who can only wander the world.

In view of the accident he encountered last time, Wang Yijin specially called Wang Huaili to accompany Zhang Xiaowu, not because Wang Huaili can fight, but because Wang Huaili has a loud voice, his nickname is Wang Da Voice, if Zhang Xiaowu is in any danger, Wang Da Voice only needs to roar, and the silver-clothed guard hidden in the crowd will appear to protect him.

Zhang Xiaowu was quite helpless about Wang Yijin's careful protection, how could he encounter danger, but since it was everyone's wish, he could only accept it. So next to the ranger Zhang Xiaowu, there was a beggar Wang Huaili, but fortunately, Wang Huaili was also sloppy and ugly, playing the role of a beggar, it was simply a beggar.

"Zhang Daxia, why do you like to watch the excitement?" Wang Huaili asked, meaning, General, you have nothing to eat, run to the crowd to watch the talents enter the national prison, if you want to see them, let's go directly to the national prison to watch, isn't it? As for being so complicated, still mixed in the crowd? Do you know how much thought you have spent on your private visit?

Zhang Xiaowu naturally heard what he said, and said, "Don't you think that over the years, we have always considered things from our own perspective? We must go deep into the people and understand the people, so that we can better serve the people in the future. ”

"Serving the people?" Wang Huaili wondered, "What is serving the people, why do you want to serve the people?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu explained: "From the perspective of social composition, the existence of a court is actually to better serve the people. Once this court makes the people feel that it is betraying everyone's interests, making everyone's life bad, and making everyone unhappy, then the people will abandon this court. You look at Jiangnan, the first place to rebel was Yuezhou, because the people of Yuezhou did not think that the imperial court was good to them, so they abandoned the imperial court and supported the imperial court formed by the rebels. As a court, if it only thinks about taking benefits from the people, and does not think about serving the people, and does not think about how to make the people happier, it will be abandoned sooner or later. ”

Wang Huaili thought for a long time before he said: "Zhang Daxia, I am really lucky to have you in the court, but you are too few." ”

Zhang Xiaowu smiled bitterly: "Yes, one me, too little, too little." ”

At this time, there was a sudden scream at the gate of Guozijian, and it turned out to be a Xiucai with a note in a cotton coat who was found by the forbidden army, and was immediately beaten and put in a cage. The cage is a special wooden cage, specially used to imprison Xiucai who cheats in the examination room or is about to enter the examination room to cheat, and the crimes committed by these Xiucai will otherwise make them have no chance to be officials from now on, and they will be dismissed from their reputation, and they will be sent to the army for thousands of miles.

Although the risk is extremely high, every time the imperial examination, there are still many candidates who take the risk of bringing private goods into the examination room, and many people are also put in cages. Zhang Xiaowu looked at these students with a sympathetic face, and felt a pity in his heart, perhaps it was the desire to be an official that allowed them to overcome all their fears and jealousies, which made them end up where they are now.