Chu Tianxiu said goodbye to all the officials and scholars and got into the carriage of the Ping Palace.

He sat in the carriage with his buttocks, his face pale, and his whole body was about to get out of his mind.

Da Chu Ke took the examination for all subjects, and it was finally completed. Although Confucianism was given some more exam questions, he finally got this big thing.

However, he still had weak feet.

The emperor actually said, "I don't faint when I see you!" ”... This is by no means a casual remark, but a reminder that he is too high-profile and has to be low-key.

Can Chu Tianxiu not be frightened!

He had previously brought down the leader of the gate lord Xungui faction, Prime Minister Xie Huyong, suppressed the old faction, and promoted the new policy of the imperial court.

Now he has stepped on the leader of Confucianism, Kong Hanyou, to suppress the impulse of Confucian exclusivity.

Isn't this all for the sake of the Great Chu Dynasty!

Emperor Xiang Yanran was still suspicious, and said things like "Look at your little faint marquis, you won't faint".

Emperor Taizu sealed the Chu clan as a "faint marquis", just to faint.

If you don't faint, what does it mean?

It's too difficult for him to be a little faint marquis!

Not only to deal with the gate lords and Confucianism, but also to make the emperor not suspicious of him.

In the carriage, Li Yu, Zu'er, and Di'er had been waiting for a long time.

"Husband, why is your face so bad?"

Li Yu couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw that his face was pale.

"Lady! What if one day, the emperor suddenly became murderous towards me? ”

Chu Tianxiu said bitterly.

"No, you are filial to Empress Dowager Shen and loyal to the emperor, how can the emperor kill you?"

Li Yu was stunned for a moment and exclaimed.

"Not now, of course."

Chu Tianxiu sighed: "But if the emperor is dying one day, he will definitely eradicate all hidden dangers in order for the crown prince Xiang Tiange to sit firmly in the world." Those princes... And my little faint marquis! ”

He has seen too much of this kind of thing in the history books.

The emperor is suspicious, as he has been since ancient times.

I am most afraid that someone else will rob the throne.

Before those emperors died, they often killed the queen mother, relatives, meritorious heroes, and powerful ministers to pave the way for the crown prince to ascend the throne.

From the standpoint of the royal family, there is nothing wrong with this, killing these relatives and powerful ministers, the crown prince's throne can be stable, and the world can be peaceful.

However, who knows, the emperor will not feel that he is still a threat to the little faint marquis.

"I don't care who the emperor kills. But if he kills his husband, I will turn against him! My father has sacrificed his three sons for the sake of the Xiang family, and the Li family is worthy of their Xiang family.

In the future, our son will inherit the family business of King Ping's mansion! This is what he owes to my Li family. If the emperor wants to kill you, we will rebel! ”

Li Yu's beautiful eyes showed a resolute look.

Her eyes softened again, "But the husband doesn't need to worry too much, since the emperor didn't kill you before and has already let you enter the palace of Pingping, it means that he has let go of the idea of killing you!" I want to kill you in the future... It's just that he just wants to do it with the Ping Palace. This is still very unlikely. ”

"Lady!"

Chu Tianxiu held Li Yu's jade hand, and his heart was moved.

Rebellion or something.

He didn't think about it.

The Great Chu Emperor looked majestic, but the millions of kilometers of territory of Great Chu and the burden of tens of millions of people in the world were pressed on his body.

Every morning before dawn, I would go to court early and come for a few hours to review the recitals.

Perhaps, there are brothers who turn against each other, fathers and sons become enemies, princes rebel, and anti-thieves and rebels are running around. In the sixty or seventy years since the founding of the Great Chu Dynasty, there have been six emperors, and most of the emperors are also short-lived.

It's too tiring to be an emperor!

He crossed over as a little dusk, which was already very cool. Although he entered the Pingwang Mansion, he is not unhappy now, making paper and making some gunpowder or something when he has nothing to do.

It's a free and easy day.

Why go to great lengths to rebel and force yourself to deal with the government day and night!

As long as the emperor does not kill him, he will not do anything rebellious.

However, it is still necessary to guard against one hand.

In the court, the battle between the Confucian faction and the gate lord lord, he will try not to mix in the future.

After finishing this imperial examination, he continued to be his little dusk marquis, and Danyang County ordered him to go.

The emperor of the province was always worried that he was not faint enough.

...

The first round of county examinations of the Great Chu Dynasty was completed.

Chu Tianxiu returned to Yu Garden, rested for a while, and continued to prepare for the imperial examination, focusing on the questions of the third round of the national examination.

Half a month later, there will be a county examination, and a group of talents will be selected from the children in each county.

This second round of the county examination was presided over by the county guards.

The second round of the county examination in Jinling City was presided over by Wang Xu of the Imperial Palace.

In order to avoid suspicion and avoid leaking the exam questions of the national examination in advance, Chu Tianxiu has rarely stepped out of the Pingwang Mansion.

The second round of the county exam paper is actually not too difficult, in addition to reading a lot of books, some reading comprehension has been added, and there is not much surprising about it.

A group of children who are top in the county examination are easy to become talents in the county examination.

Among the 1,000 children in Jinling City, the 200 talents with the highest scores were finally selected.

In each county of Dachu, there are about ten talents born in each county.

The county, and the imperial capital Jinling City, the difference in strength is obviously extremely huge.

Jinling City has gathered ten major gates, high-ranking officials and nobles, and the world's wealthy businessmen, and has the largest number of scholars in the world, which is far from being comparable to counties and counties.

Finally, it was the third round of the national examination that the entire Great Chu Dynasty had been waiting for.

More than 1,000 talents selected from hundreds of counties in Dachu were escorted to Jinling City by carriages sent by the government from various county governments, and stayed at various inns in Jinling City to prepare to participate in the national examination.

They are the best scholars in the entire Great Chu Dynasty, the most read books, and the most talented and learned. Pick out any one and it's a top character in the county.

But it's useless to show off after passing the exam.

The first two rounds of the county examination and the county examination were just screening and eliminating those who were not qualified, and these two rounds were not the key.

The real selection examinations are in the "National Examination" and the "Imperial Examination".

You must squeeze into the top 200 in the national examination, and only after winning the "lifting" can you become an official, and you must be a county magistrate and a lieutenant in the local county and the central court.

Only by raising people can they be qualified to enter the palace examination, and only by taking the "Jinshi" examination in front of the emperor can they become officials, become county commanders, and govern one party.

Five to ten days before the Great Chu National Examination.

All the inns in Jinling City are full, and they are all from the top talents in Dachu.

Inside the Hongmen Inn, the lights are bright.

All night long.

These thousands of talents talked at night, excitedly learning skills, talking about Xiao Duhou's "Stone Record", and talking about the upcoming third round of "national examination".

The most popular game for the show is undoubtedly a variety of bets, guesses, and bets on what exam questions Xiao Duhou may have.

National Examination.

The examiner is "Little Dusk Hou", who personally presides over the exam.

Two hundred people will be selected from among the thousands of talents.

As a new generation of "literary masters", the questions in the national examination are definitely much more difficult than those in the county and county examinations.

But how difficult the national examination is, the talents are obviously impossible to speculate.

The examination papers of the third round of the national examination were not even visible to Prime Minister Kong Hanyou, Imperial Doctor Wang Su, and the two deputy examiners.

The printing house responsible for printing the exam papers has long been surrounded by a group of guards from the Pingwang Mansion, and even rats can't enter or leave.

The Marquis of Xiao Duan wants to pass the third round of the "national examination", select the most outstanding talents, and give an explanation to the emperor to prove the excellence of the imperial examination system.