Out of the more than 3,000 people who took the Jinshi examination, only 100 tributes were selected, and the acceptance rate was only 1 in 35.

Such a low acceptance rate has attracted readers from all over the world, and they are rushing to refer to it. Can you imagine how big the benefits of being an official are?

The so-called everything is inferior, only reading is high, which is definitely not the dream of scholars, but the objective reality caused by the imperial examination system!

The imperial examination of Tian Shelang and Tianzi Hall in the evening does have the great magic power to turn decay into magic.

Studying and participating in scientific research is the best way for the poor to change their destiny in peacetime, and it is also the best way.

After dawn, the ministers of the cabinet had already arrived, and they were waiting for Li Zhongyi's summons while handling government affairs.

According to Li Zhongyi's daily routine, he could not get up until four o'clock in the morning, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning.

To put it bluntly, in order to support the beauty and lie down until the sun shines on the buttocks, Li Zhongyi forcefully abolished the regular staff system that required four watches to get up early, and changed it to seven hours before summoning the ministers of the cabinet.

It was still early when Li Zhongyi summoned him, and the ministers of the cabinet began to deal with government affairs slowly after eating breakfast according to their own habits.

Kong Kun was a little impetuous, fidgeting today, mainly because his nephew Kong Yiqing also participated in this year's Autumn Festival.

As a child of the outer hole, Kong Kun has always been looked down upon by the inner hole. It's just that Kong Yiqing's father, Kong Kun's cousin Kong Mingzhong, is the only Confucius brother who is good friends with him.

With this relationship, Kong Kun is naturally worried about Kong Yiqing's exam, mainly because his surname is Kong, and it is common sense to be in high school, if he falls off the list by chance, I am afraid that he will become the laughing stock of readers all over the world.

The chief examiner of this examination is Sun Congwen, the head of Hallym Academy. The reason why Sun Congwen was chosen was mainly the result of a compromise between the cabinet ministers.

After all, Sun Congwen is not only a protégé of the former prime minister, but also a candidate acceptable to both Kong Kun and Liu Jinshan.

In fact, Sun Congwen and Kong Kun can only be regarded as nodding friends at most, and the two sides have very few opportunities to speak, let alone the possibility of secretly colluding.

As far as Kong Kun knows, Sun Congwen and Liu Jinshan are also general friends. After all, when Fan Zhen was in power, Liu Jinshan, a member of the Li family, was not worth mentioning at all.

Objectively speaking, although the country has changed, Li Zhongyi's quality is indeed not thin. So far, Fan Zhen is still the head of the political hall, and after Li Zhongyi ascended the throne, he was crowned the Duke of Qin, and he was sealed by 5,000 households.

Today's Fan Qian, in addition to losing the real power to control the world, still maintains the dignity of the prime minister.

Perhaps because of her advanced age, Li Qiong's breakfast speed is getting slower and slower.

In this Enke Provincial Examination, no one participated in the Wang Mai of Huayang County, so Li Qiong naturally did not need to worry about the admission and ranking of the exam.

Roughly similar to Li Qiong, Zhe Congruan is also a relaxed and slow breakfast. They have always built their families with martial arts, and the children in the family are all martial artists, and there are no people who do literary affairs.

The children of the Liu Jinshan clan are either too old and simply give up the reference. Either he was still young and was suppressed by Liu Jinshan for one or two subjects, and no one would refer to Enke this time.

However, even if there are people in the clan to refer to, Liu Jinshan will not take it too seriously.

After all, Liu Jinshan is Li Zhongyi's confidant who picked up his confidant, and Li Zhongyi has never paid attention to the provincial examination of Jinshike, and he has long known it.

After Li Zhongyi sacrificed to the Taimiao, he hastily ate breakfast and walked slowly to the inner study.

Although today is the day of the opening of the Ministry of Rites examination, Li Zhongyi only cares about the examination of the two subjects of Ming Law and Ming Calculation. Comparatively speaking, he is much less stressed than Kong Kun.

Before the exam, Li Zhongyi had already mastered the specific situation of the two subjects of Ming Law and Ming Calculation from Wang Dahu.

It is very different from the Jinshi examination, which has more than 3,000 people participating, and there are less than 100 people who participate in the two subjects of Ming Fa and Ming Arithmetic.

Among these 100 people, there are still some older people who feel that it is hopeless to be admitted to the Jinshi, so they simply abandon the light and go to the dark, so they choose the clear method or the clear calculation.

As long as you can pass the exam, even if the starting grade is much lower than that of the jinshi, there will always be an official to do!

From the ninth grade, no matter how you say it, it is also the starting official rank in the imperial court official system!

The difference between the government and the people, don't look at the difference of just one word, the huge difference in interests contained in it cannot be said in a few days.

According to the practice of the Tang Dynasty, only those who participated in the Jinshi examination were eligible to enter the Gongyuan to take the examination.

As for the miscellaneous students, they originally planned to temporarily pick a salt merchant's house, and after renovation, it was used as an examination room.

Unexpectedly, less than a day before the exam, the big mansion caught fire. As a result, Li Zhongyi designated the secret pavilion in the Chongwen Academy as a temporary place for miscellaneous examinations.

The ministers of the cabinet all felt that the big mansion for the miscellaneous examination suddenly caught fire, and it was very strange. However, there was no conclusive evidence in the record, so Li Zhongyi could only move the examination room of miscellaneous subjects to the Secret Pavilion.

Today's Secret Pavilion is very different from the past. Originally, from Chongwen Temple to the front of the Secret Pavilion, it was all open space. Now, under the operation of the Forbidden Army Engineer Barracks, it has been converted into a covered examination room that can shelter from the wind and rain.

In this way, the ministers of the cabinet have more reason to believe that the fire before the miscellaneous examination room is full of suspicions and is very difficult to solve!

The number of the students who took the miscellaneous examination was about 300. As a result, the distance between each person's exam seats is surprisingly large.

Half an hour before the official exam, Wang Dahu, the chief examiner of the miscellaneous subjects, had already arrived at the main hall of the Secret Pavilion and took his place.

According to the rules of the examination, under the leadership of the same examiner, the lifters met with Wang Dahu, the teacher.

Of course, Wang Dahu, the master, should actually be put in quotation marks.

According to the past practice, there were only about 30 of the more than 300 miscellaneous scholars on the scene, and they could finally pass the test and become a petty official from the ninth grade.

In other words, the vast majority of those who fail to make the list are not qualified to call Wang Dahu a teacher.

After the test papers were issued, Wang Dahu slowly got up, walked to the middle of the candidates, and shouted: "If there are cheating plots such as entrainment, it is still too late to hand it in, and a certain family will definitely not correct the past." ”

Li Zhongyi attaches great importance to the miscellaneous exam, if there is a cheating plot, Wang Dahu, the chief examiner, can be said to have no face.

In fact, most of the people who dare to take the miscellaneous exams have a few brushes. Otherwise, by the time of the state examination, it had already been brushed down by the magistrate.

After the official start of the examination, Wang Dahu gave an order, and hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Guards stepped forward one after another, adopting the strategy of keeping an eye on one person to prevent any candidate from cheating.

In this miscellaneous exam, the ten questions that are clearly calculated are all written by Li Zhongyi after careful scrutiny.

Although Li Zhongyi can trust Wang Dahu, however, the system is the system after all. Therefore, the locked secret box containing the exam questions was not delivered to Wang Dahu by Zhang Sanzheng and Gao Qiang until an hour before the exam.

Unlike the Jinshi subject, which requires nine days of examination, the provincial examination of miscellaneous subjects only requires three days of examination.

Originally, the children who participated in the miscellaneous course brought food and clothing. Who would have thought that during the exam, the chief examiner Wang Dahu suddenly ordered that the clothes prepared by the candidates themselves could be kept, and the food needed to be handed over in all respects, which would be provided by the imperial kitchen in the palace.

In fact, without Li Zhongyi's covert instructions, Wang Dahu would never have made such an arrangement.

You must know that in the imperial examination, if you move a little bit of the existing convention, you may be attacked by the reference exams.

However, the reason for providing three meals by the imperial kitchen, Wang Dahu said it above board.

After all, hundreds of people are cooking on fire in the palace, and if there is a fire, wouldn't it be unlucky?

Li Zhongyi had a lot of complicated affairs at hand today, and it took a lot of effort to deal with them, and even the time to summon the cabinet ministers was postponed for more than half an hour.

After the ministers sat down, without waiting for Li Zhongyi to speak, Kong Kun preemptively said: "Your Majesty, the provincial examination of miscellaneous subjects was actually arranged in the secret pavilion in the deep palace, and three meals were provided by the imperial kitchen, this treatment is inevitably too generous, right?" ”

Long before Li Zhongyi made a special arrangement, he had already expected that Kong Kun would definitely speak for the world's scholars who believed in Confucius.

As expected, before everyone could sit down, Kong Kun took the lead and publicly questioned Li Zhongyi's injustice to the Confucian disciples.

Li Zhongyi said lightly: "The examination room originally prepared for miscellaneous subjects suddenly caught fire, if you don't make special arrangements, I'm afraid that miscellaneous scholars in the world will scold me for being unfair, right?" ”

"What's more, even if the examination room is special, the grade of the official is extremely low after all, what is the reason?" Li Zhongyi didn't want to entangle with Kong Kunduo, so he deliberately made his words clear.

Fold Congruan picked up his white beard, looked at Kong Kun, who was like a fighting, and then looked at Li Zhongyi, who was calm and composed. With his experience, even if there is no evidence, he dares to assert that Li Zhongyi must be the mastermind about the change in the miscellaneous examination room.

However, since it is a civil and military journey, Zhi Congruan can't do anything for the sake of the civilian clique and flow into this muddy water.

Li Qiong actually understood that Li Zhongyi attached great importance to the examination of miscellaneous subjects, but rarely asked about the provincial examination of Jinshike.

You must know that from the beginning of the plan to open the Enke examination to the summons of the cabinet ministers so many times today, Li Zhongyi has hardly expressed a clear attitude towards Jinshike, and the Wenchen Group will handle it according to the old practice.

Li Qiong didn't understand the difference between Jinshi or miscellaneous, but he knew that since Li Zhongyi attached so much importance to miscellaneous, he pushed it back, which also confirmed the importance of miscellaneous.

"Your Majesty, share the world with the scholars, and your country can be forever!" Kong Kun had already guessed Li Zhongyi's true attitude, so he was a little angry and didn't choose to speak.

Li Zhongyi smiled and said slowly: "My country, is it that the scholars gave it away?" May I ask you, Copper Stinker, who gave me the nickname? ”

This question is really too damaging, Kong Kun is speechless!

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