The matter of Pei Lin and Fang Baihua is just a small episode for the current Jiangdu City, and the imperial examination is still held as usual the next day, but some scholars find that the person who was originally next to them has disappeared, but now is the moment to decide the fate of their lives, and no one is interested in finding out the whereabouts of an unknown person.

After the end of the imperial examination the next day, the election results of Wuke came out immediately, among which Su Lie was elected as the champion of Wuke with the three first places in cavalry, infantry archery, and cavalry archery, and Li Jing was the only scholar in Wuke who was promoted with excellent results.

When reviewing the list, Yang Gao did not find out that he knew the cattle of the Sui and Tang dynasties, only a character named Lu Heng defeated Su Dingfang in the infantry battle, and was nominated by the chief examiner of the martial arts department as the leader of the martial arts department with the first place in foot combat and the third place in foot shooting.

Yang Gao systematically detected the four dimensions of this Lu Heng, commander 62, force 92, intelligence 51, and politics 43. Extremely good at foot combat, infinite strength, is a buildable material. Then he agreed to the nomination of the chief examiner, crowned him as a partial general, and went to Huainan Xue Rengui to listen to the investigation.

The champion of this martial arts, Su Dingfang, was named the general of the Fu army of the fifth grade, and Li Jing was appointed as the squire of the military department from the fourth grade, and both of them were transferred to the command of Yang Yanzhao in Nanyang. Most of the rest of the martial arts winners were awarded the posts of lieutenants and military commanders, and went to serve in various armies.

After the examination was over, Yu Yunwen personally took nearly 100 doctors from Guozi University to work day and night, nervously reviewing the mountains of examination papers.

For the sake of fairness, each exam paper is graded by five doctors, and the highest score and the lowest score are removed before being averaged, which is of course Yang Gao's idea.

After three days of marking, tens of thousands of test papers have basically been corrected, Yu Yunwen screened out the roster of the top 300 candidates and the top ten candidates' test papers together with Yang Gao, the order of the top ten is decided by the emperor, if the emperor is not in Beijing, it is decided by several Xiangguo.

After Yang Gao got these ten test papers, the first thing he did was to see if there were Fang Xuanling and Zhang Juzheng among them, and sure enough, the test papers of both of them were among them. Yang Gao immediately pulled out the test papers of the two and reviewed them carefully.

There is not much difference between poetry and posting, and the two are basically equal, so the key still falls on the strategy.

The topic of this policy discussion was personally proposed by Yang Gao, and there were two questions in total, one entitled "On Today's Form" and the other entitled "The Law of Enriching the Country and Strengthening the Army".

Fang Xuanling chose to answer the first question, and he analyzed in an orderly manner in the test paper, "Today, there is the image of the Warring States in the past, among which Guanlong Li Yuan, Central Plains Li Mi, Hebei Dou Jiande and His Majesty are the most powerful today, although Li Mi and Dou Jiande are powerful, but they have extremely unstable factors internally, and they will be destroyed by others in the future, so Your Majesty's great enemy should be Guanlong Li Yuan." ”

After that, Fang Xuanling put forward several strategies to deal with Li Yuan, each of which was a rare good strategy, which made Yang Gao can't help but applaud the case.

Zhang Juzheng chose to answer the second question, he believed that if you want to enrich the country and strengthen the army, you must first rectify the rule of officials, strictly inspect the implementation of the imperial court's edicts by officials at all levels, require officials at all levels to regularly report to the imperial court on local political affairs, supervise each other between the upper and lower levels, and improve the supervision and supervision system at all levels. Ensure that every decree of the imperial court can be implemented accurately.

He then proposed the famous "One Whip" law, arguing that the reason for the chaos in the world was that the peasants were taxed too heavily, and very few of the taxes actually collected ended up in the state treasury, and a large part of them were embezzled by the middle officials. Therefore, in order to curb this situation, it is possible to combine the land levies, forced labor, and other miscellaneous levies of various prefectures and counties into one article, and collect silver taels together, and pay them according to the mu, so that it is difficult for local officials to cheat.

Yang Gao hesitated for a long time, and finally wrote Zhang Juzheng's name on the candidate for the champion.

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At noon, the list of admitted personnel for the liberal arts was posted outside the school field of the liberal arts examination room, and the scholars who had been waiting there for a long time surrounded it with a "bang", and the entire school field was instantly blocked, and only dense human heads could be seen.

The first class is the top three champions, Bangyan and Tanhua are Zhang Juzheng, Fang Xuanling and a scholar named Fang Zheng, this Fang Zheng is a poor disciple of Hedong, and the strategy is written well, but there are several blanks in the scriptures, which may be related to the lack of reading in the poor family.

Tens of thousands of people are densely packed under the list desperately searching for their names, and after finding their names on the list, they are naturally cheering, while the nameless ones on the list are quite unwilling, and after reading it again, they will look at it again and again, and then read it for the second and third times, hoping to find their names in an inconspicuous corner, and in the end they really can't find it and can only leave gloomily.

The official next to the gold list shouted loudly: "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, the list will remain here for ten days, and those on the list will also have officials come to report the good news, don't squeeze, those who read it will retreat, don't squeeze, don't squeeze!" ”

Although the official shouted hoarsely, basically no one listened to his advice, after all, this was a rare opportunity, and everyone wanted to know the result as soon as possible.

After reading the list, Fang Xuanling, who was dressed in green clothes and elegant and slender, smiled at Zhang Juzheng, who was dressed in coarse black clothes and had a clear face: "Congratulations to Brother Zhang, the top student in high school, it's really gratifying!" ”

Zhang Juzheng smiled slightly when he heard this, and bowed back: "Where is it?" Brother Fang is resourceful, and Uncle Da is just a fluke. ”

Fang Xuanling smiled and said: "Brother Zhang doesn't have to be humble, although you and I have only known each other for half a month, but your way of governing the country, Xuanling admires it so much!" ”

Wow, oh...

While Fang Xuanling and Zhang Juzheng were talking, a sound of horses' hooves sounded, and several officials rushed to the horse, shouting at the dense crowd: "Attention to the scholars on the list, Your Majesty will personally meet you in the Wenhua Hall in ten days, and you must not lose your manners in front of Your Majesty." ”