Of course, people's hearts are unpredictable, and no one knows what everyone really thinks in their hearts, even if you hate Li Xuan to death, but as long as you cover it up well and don't let the Hantong Eagle Dog find out, then there is no problem.

But if there are negative remarks about Li Xuan, the royal family, and the Tang Dynasty in public or private remarks, then it is basically goodbye to key cultivation.

You can think, but you can't say it, and you can't do it!

The officials don't care what others think, but they absolutely care what others say and do!

Although in many cases, it can't be managed.

In this palace examination in the seventh year of Xuanping, more than 1,000 scholars are grinding their fists and palms, trying to make a splash in the palace examination, if they can successfully attract the attention of the Son of Heaven, and it is a positive impression, then there is no doubt that it will be of great help to the future career.

But there are more than 1,000 scholars in the two disciplines who participated in the palace examination, and it is not difficult to stand out among more than 1,000 people and attract Li Xuan's attention.

With anticipation for the future, more than 1,000 soldiers also walked into the examination room one after another, but today's palace examination was much more relaxed in atmosphere than the general examination, and soldiers were not even arranged to search the soldiers.

More inspections are more to ensure that these scholars are dressed neatly and will not behave in front of the palace.

In order to ensure that there is no fraud during the examination, the Guards specially dispatched 3,000 soldiers to maintain the safety of the examination room, but also to prevent cheating.

At the same time, the Cabinet has also temporarily dispatched hundreds of officials to serve in the smooth conduct of the examination.

But today's palace test will not be like this!

Because as long as there are not too many accidents, the tributes will basically not fail in the palace examination, at most there is a difference in ranking.

Of course, those tributes died by themselves, and they had to criticize the Holy Son Li Xuan and the Tang Dynasty in the answer sheet, or they went crazy in the examination room and left a blank without answering, in this case, the Tang Dynasty would not mind a new low-level official.

Anyway, there are more people who want to be officials, and there are no worse than one or two.

After the tributes entered the examination room one after another, Li Xuancai went to the examination room accompanied by a group of civil and military ministers, preparing to personally sit in the palace examination for the seventh year of Xuanping.

Because of the large number of people in the examination room, and it was not arranged in a special examination room, it was specially chosen to be held in the open space in front of the royal annex, and of course, an awning was built in advance, and tables and chairs were laid out.

Li Xuan sat in front, because the place was relatively large and the distance was far away, in fact, except for the students in the first few rows who could see Li Xuan more clearly, most of the scholars in the back could only see a vague figure.

With a start, the exam papers were distributed, and then Li Xuan saw more than a thousand people and began to bury their heads in the papers.

The papers of the palace examination were personally reviewed by Li Xuan, and whether it was a scholar or a doctorate, the content of the policy theory was increased.

As for the content of science, in fact, I don't pay much attention to it, because when I take the exam, I have already focused on the assessment.

In the previous examination, the overall difficulty of the science and engineering papers of the Jinshi Department was already comparable to that of the entrance examination of the Royal Institute of Technology, and as a result, no one had a full score in the papers, and even 80 points were less.

A large number of students in the science department have only 60 or 70 points in their science papers.

The content of the doctoral department in the examination is even more difficult, and on the whole, it has reached the level of the sophomore year of the Royal Institute of Technology, because the examination paper is extremely difficult, so there is no full score in the exam, and many people are only at the level of fifty or sixty points.

And with such a score, the reason why they can still be admitted is also very normal, because if they can get a full score for these papers, there are only those students in the Royal Institute of Technology.

Considering the actual science level of these students, a score of 56 is already very good.

In today's palace examination, there is not much content in science and engineering, but only some basic theories, and the focus is on policy theory, which is not the case for both the Jinshi and the doctoral department.

Because no matter what their focus is, they will all become civil officials in the Tang Dynasty in the future, and the starting point is relatively high, and the lowest level is also from the seventh grade, and from the seventh grade in the Tang Dynasty, it is already regarded as a middle-level official, and when it is put at the local level, it is also the second-in-command of the department or the second-in-command of the town.

And some people are starting from the seventh grade or even the sixth grade.

Therefore, this is more demanding for their quality!

The topics of policy theory are relatively large, and today, whether it is a doctoral department or a scholar's course, they all have the same topic, that is: on industrial development.

This question is very vague, and there is not even a clear direction, which is to let the candidates talk about industrial development, and industrial development also has a lot to say, and what to say specifically is up to the candidates to decide.

Or in other words, this question is actually to ask the candidate, if you are asked to be the head of the industrial and commercial department of a county, or simply a county order, how do you develop the local industry?

A few years ago, I talked about the problem of the Ming Dynasty's guards, and later talked about the problem of overseas trade, and also talked about the problem of immigration and reclamation.

This time, when it comes to the issue of industrial development, it is no exception.

The other topics are also relatively large!

And these questions, it is not for the candidates to answer them all, there is no mandatory requirement, you can choose one of the questions, an essay, you can also answer two questions at the same time or even more.

However, there is a limit to the time of the exam, two hours, no more, no less, and the exam papers must be submitted when the time comes.

And in this hour and a half, they still have to do some exam questions for science and engineering first.

Li Xuan sat on it and watched the group of candidates below doing the questions, but after he stayed for half an hour, he left first.

The exam takes three hours, and he won't be stupid enough to sit here for three hours, he still has a bunch of things to deal with.

So after appearing in the examination, Li Xuan went to the side hall next door first, and then held two small meetings in a row.

The first test is to discuss the people's livelihood problems in Shaanxi, and now the situation in Shaanxi is still not very good, although before the Tang Dynasty entered Shaanxi, there were already relatively large-scale rebellions that had been forcibly suppressed, but this was only succumbing to the strong military power of the Tang Dynasty, but the local people's livelihood was still difficult, and when the people did not have enough to eat, the rebellion was certain.

From last winter to this spring, there was another drought in several parts of the province, and although it was said that there were no large-scale rebellions, there were already more than a dozen small-scale riots, and this was enough to attract the attention of the upper echelons of the empire.

Once, twice, it's fine, this is a small probability time, but in just one or two months, more than a dozen riots have been reported in Shaanxi, so it is not normal.

Therefore, Li Xuan needs the cabinet to propose a comprehensive solution to solve the local civil unrest, and to solve the civil unrest, in the final analysis, it is necessary to let the local people have enough to eat.

People's livelihood issues are the core!

After having a plan to solve the people's livelihood, the military side can also cooperate with one or two to completely solve the many problems of the rebellion in Shaanxi!

At the beginning of the meeting, several solutions were proposed, and this solution was also modeled after the previous Tang Dynasty in Henan and Shanxi provinces, that is, a multi-pronged approach!

And the purpose is to thoroughly prevent and control the displaced people, because throughout history, large-scale rebellions are almost always related to the displaced people, and the control of the displaced people is partly by military means, and the other part needs to rely on administrative means.

The cabinet proposed that the local government yamen should organize the landless people in the disaster-stricken areas to carry out reclamation, and that the newly developed land should belong to them free of charge, and that some necessary help should be given to the reclamation.

At the same time, it has increased investment in the construction of water conservancy facilities, roads, rivers and other infrastructure, so that the local people can get extra jobs so that they can get the necessary food rations through the cash-for-work model, and through the centralized militarization of labor and other means, to prevent them from re-evolving into displaced people and causing riots.

In addition, it is to increase investment in disaster relief and mobilize grain from neighboring provinces to Shaanxi for disaster relief to avoid large-scale famine.

These are some ordinary means, but the cabinet also proposed that because the Shaanxi direction already needs more troops, it can appropriately increase the number of recruits from Shanxi, and directly recruit local young people into the army, so as to prevent them from becoming the backbone of all kinds of riots.

Li Xuan was still quite satisfied with some of the suggestions put forward by Liu Bagou, was more pragmatic, faced up to the difficulties, and did not despise or exaggerate.

As for recruiting homeless people to join the army, this made Li Xuan feel a little worried.

Recruiting homeless people to join the army, the Song Dynasty did this, but as a result, it was useless, and the soil consumed money and food.

But this proposal also gave Li Xuan a new idea, and directly let these victims join the army to fight, which is estimated to be unreliable, and it is also contrary to the army building idea of the Tang Dynasty.

The core of the Tang Dynasty's army building is the elite army policy!

It costs dozens of taels of silver a year to raise a soldier in the regular army, and even if it is a reserve, it also costs more than ten or twenty taels of silver.

The salary of the soldiers is not low, and the salary is lucrative, and the recruitment conditions are even more stringent, sometimes hundreds of young men and women come to the recruiting station to apply, but only a dozen or so are selected.

However, it is not reliable to let these victims go to war in a young and strong way, but it is good to gather them together and reclaim them.

In the Tang Army, there are hundreds of reclamation regiments, although the main body of these reclamation regiments is said to be prisoners of war of the Ming Army, but the operation mode of the reclamation regiment is okay, at least for the time being, the Tang Army, basically does not need to provide too much military support for these Ming prisoners of war, and most of the reclamation regiments can be self-sufficient.

Now, they can also let the young people go to the reclamation!

Moreover, even if these victims are young and strong and cannot fight, because it is militarized management, this can also play a part of the role of suppressing the local area, especially in some relatively remote places.

The more Li Xuan thought about this, the more he felt that this idea was interesting!