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There are many Qinglou near the Chunnu Building, which are not much weaker than him, Pei Yuanqing naturally said that he wanted to go to a certain building to sit, but Wang Junlin was too lazy to accompany each other, hugging each other and saying goodbye.

But when saying goodbye, the young general, who always likes to run to the Qinglou at a young age, said with a smile: "Today, the eldest prince wants to see you first, maybe because after the test, you probably can't escape the prince's entrustment." ”

Wang Junlin was stunned for a moment, and heard a trace of information revealed in the other party's words, and officially started the autumn examination competition three days later, although he was not the one who marked the papers, but he had the responsibility of supervision, and this power was not much smaller than Gao Ying's main exam.

In the evening, Wang Junlin returned to his mansion and talked with Shen Guang, Niu Jinda, and Zhan Peng about the meeting with the waste prince during the day, and then ushered in the expected guest Yuwen Chengdu.

instructed someone to sit down for his cheap senior brother to watch tea and serve wine, but the latter was the character of a warrior, and he was too lazy to say anything kind to Wang Junlin, and directly handed over a note that was said to be written by the crown prince Yang Guang himself.

Looking at the names on this sticky note, Wang Junlin thought to himself that this kind of thing is the same whether it is ancient or later generations, whether it is a feudal society or later generations.

He smiled a little inexplicably, of course he knew what the prince Yang Guang wanted him to do, although he seemed to be very close to Yang Guang to outsiders because of his closeness to Yang Zhao, but in fact, whether it was Yang Guang or himself, it was very clear that he did not really surrender to Yang Guang, but Yang Guang unceremoniously asked Yuwen Chengdu to send him the note.

Yang Jian wanted to open a branch to recruit scholars, apparently in order to give the world's poor scholars a way to progress and use the world's talented people for his use, but the real purpose was to break the situation of the gate valve family controlling the government and the local government. But in the end, if the results of the examination are all the children of the nobility and the poor scholars who have secretly taken refuge in those top gate valve families, then what is the use, it can only be a failed imperial examination.

"Why are you showing me this?" Wang Junlin was unwilling to do this kind of thing in his heart, so he took the note in his hand. Zi, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Senior brother, Gao Ying has the final say in the matter of grading the test papers, and I can't interfere at all." ”

In the past month or so, whether it was the fact that he kept Niu Jinda when Mai Tiezhu led people to attack the original mansion at night, or he used it to deal with the old man and his wife in the Tianying Palace, the two of them cooperated very tacitly, and there was no too much conflict with each other's personalities, plus the two of them were genuine brothers, so now they are naturally familiar with each other.

Yuwen Chengdu was a little surprised that Wang Junlin would say this, pulled the teacup aside, took the wine glass and drank it dry, and explained loudly: "Senior brother, you should know what these names are. ”

Of course, Wang Junlin knows that the day after tomorrow is the day when the examination will be held, at this juncture, the scholars of the cold family are running around, suffering from no way, and the various gate valve nobles are constantly secretly communicating with each other, as long as there is an official in the family The threshold of the back door of the family is about to be trampled on, it is said that Zhou Chengyan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is tireless, and he does not dare to offend too many princes and nobles and various gate valve families, so after talking with Gao Ying secretly, he simply closed the door on the grounds of physical discomfort. In addition to Gao Ying, the main exam, the other four who took the same exam and were promoted also avoided and did not dare to go home, so they simply lived in the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

But in Wang Junlin's view, according to the energy of the East Palace, if the crown prince Yang Guang wants to promote some young scholars who have already taken refuge in him in this autumn imperial examination, there should be connections and methods, although Yang Yong and Gao Ying have risen a lot recently, but Yang Guang is a genuine prince after all, and there are staunch supporters of giants such as Dugu Gate Valve behind him, just hand a sentence to someone in the Ministry of Rites, even if there is Gao Ying in the middle of it, as long as the number of people is not large, there will not be too much problem, how can he find his own head.

Yuwen Chengdu saw the doubts in Wang Junlin's heart, remembered something, his face showed anger, and said: "That Gao Ying'er is so shameless, and a group of birdmen in the Ministry of Rites are also so bold, they didn't even tell their junior brother the rules of this autumn test plan." ”

Wang Junlin was stunned for a moment and said, "The Ministry of Rites sent someone to send a program agenda, but I didn't bother to read it. ”

"Cough cough cough junior brother, you are really" Yuwen Chengdu almost squirted out a sip of wine that he had just drunk, such a major event as the autumn imperial examination, I don't know how many people's interests and minds are involved, he, the person who supervises, is too lazy to even read the plan, if this is heard by Yang Jian, who is bent on successfully holding the first imperial examination by Wang Junlin's fierce means, he will not be angry that he will not eat the Dragon and Tiger Pill that night.

Wang Junlin was also a little embarrassed, he originally wanted to look at the agenda sent by the Ministry of Rites the night before the exam.

Yuwen Chengdu thought for a while and said: "In order to show his fair side in front of His Majesty and the people of the world, on the grounds of preventing fraud, the old man Gao Ying stipulated that the papers of the candidates should be re-copied to prevent the handwriting from being recognized by the people who read the papers. ”

Hearing this, Wang Junlin nodded thoughtfully, Yuwen Chengdu took a sip of the wine that Wang Junlin poured for him, and continued: "The names of these five people on the paper are all people who have been interviewed and taught by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in person, four are from nobles, and one is from a poor family. He smiled and said, "When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was taking the examination, I watched from the side, and these five were all talented people. ”

After a pause, Yuwen Chengdu took out another note with some embarrassment, handed it to Wang Junlin and said: "These three people are the children of my Yuwen family, and I also ask my junior brother to take care of one or two on my behalf, and take them to toast my junior brother for my brother another day." ”

After sending Yuwen Chengdu away, Wang Junlin sat quietly in the study, looking at the two notes in his hand, although he already knew the fate of Da Sui, he still had some faint anger.

Three days later, it was the day of the examination, and he didn't know until today that after Gao Ying presented the plan to Yang Jian, in addition to Gao Ying's main examination, the deputy examination and promotion were all selected by Gao Ying and His Majesty one by one, and among the officials of the examination, Yang Jian personally ordered him to play a very troublesome and very important role as the chief supervisor.

The so-called chief supervisor is fully responsible for the supervision of the examination, and he has great real power in his hands, and more importantly, after the book was sealed that night, in the long night before the revision of the volume, before Yang Jian personally selected a close attendant who could write from the palace to copy the volume, he was responsible for the matter of obscuring the name.

And to this day, I don't know if it was because his performance after coming to the capital was much better than Yang Jian expected, or because Yang Jian had other thoughts, he didn't summon him and told him about it again.

And all the various gate valve families and forces that want to cheat for personal gain in this test, the first thing to deal with is the link of fame.

Even if the background behind those students has already bought off the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the examiners of the teacher, and even Gao Ying himself wants to take care of someone, if he doesn't do it first, the examiner who marks the test paper will not be able to start, because he doesn't know which test paper is the test paper of the person he wants to take care of.

Of course, if this is placed in later generations, there are too many ways, even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial examination has been very mature, there are many ways to deal with the vague measures, but the current autumn examination of the Great Sui is the first imperial examination in Chinese history, whether it is an examiner or a candidate, the means used to cheat are only in the process of exploration and research.

Originally, for more than a month, these fraudulent and private transactions, secretly the various gate lords and nobles and various forces have privately allocated the quotas, but because Wang Junlin is the chief supervisor of this autumn test, everything is full of variables.

Although Wang Junlin is now a big nobleman, strictly speaking, he doesn't seem to be the same as the nobles of the gate.

Secondly, what Wang Jun has done in the past month or so since he entered Beijing seems to have been used by His Majesty to deal with the nobles of the gate lords.

Besides, Wang Junlin's actions are often unexpected, even if an official of the Ministry of Rites was sent by a group of noble gate lords to tempt some time ago, but the various gate lord families and the forces of the court and China are still a little uncertain. No one knows what this famous and ruthless poison will do.

Therefore, the prince did not shy away from letting Yuwen Chengdu come to Qin'an Hou's Mansion in advance, he thought that Wang Junlin should not go against his will, and Yuwen Chengdu also unceremoniously gave his family's name to Wang Junlin.

And these days, the crown prince thinks that he has shown enough kindness to Wang Junlin, and it is time for Wang Junlin to show his attitude.

Wang Junlin glanced at the names of the eight people on the two notes again, kept them in his mind for the time being, sighed, rubbed his hands, and directly destroyed the two notes into powder, thinking that anyway, Yang Guang is the person he can't offend in this world, and Yang Guang is not too much, just five people, and I also heard that he is a really talented person, and it is nothing to help him cheat. As for the three names sent by Yuwen Chengdu, it is not a big problem to have three more people

But he still somewhat underestimated the complexity of the situation.

The next day, the eldest grandson Wuji came, also holding a note in his hand, but only two names were written on it.

Pei Shiju asked Pei Yuanqing to run down again and sent three names.

The backer king Yang Lin asked his son Yang Cheng to also send a gift, and also told him the names of the three people.

The general Han Baohu sent someone to bring Han Ziliang a gift from Tianshui County to Wang Junlin, along with two names.

Even the eldest princess Yang Lihua asked the Nighthawk Envoy to send a list, which was the same as Yang Guang's number, there were five people.

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