In the next few days, the generals of various factions were warned that they did not dare to impeach Xu Jingchang again, and suddenly there were many fewer twists and turns in front of Yunxi; Yun Xi used the methods that had been prepared to deal with the pure Wenchen again, and finally dealt with the matter.

Immediately, the temple examination was held on the sixth day of the fourth month. Early in the morning, as in previous sessions, the people who had won the tribute test lined up outside the Chang'an Gate early in the morning, and after dawn they came to the outside of the Fengtian Hall through the heavy portals, and then followed the orders of the waiter to pay homage to Yunxi.

Although Yun Xi had already presided over a palace test, he was still very interested, and looked at these people in front of him who were about to become Jinshi with great interest.

'Is this man Zhou Shu?' looks like a talent, full of righteousness, and indeed looks like an upright minister. Yun Xi thought.

The tributes of this department, so far Yunxi's most important thing is Zhou Shu. He had previously put forward a moderate view in the debate on Cheng Zhu Lixue, and when the wall of the Lixue School was falling down, he also made a statement proposing that Lixue could not be completely dismissed, which attracted the attention of Yun Xi.

He silently recalled the answer he got when he asked Xie Jin and the others. "Your Majesty, the minister is a fellow villager of Zhou Shu, and when the minister lived in the township, he also had a lot of dealings with Zhou Shu, this person is indeed a filial piety, benevolent and righteous person, and he must be a good minister under His Majesty." Xie Jin said.

"Your Majesty, although the minister was in the first subject of Jinshi earlier than Zhou Shu, but in the second year of Jianye, Zhou Shu only missed it because his biological father died of illness and kept filial piety. Zhou Shu is profound, still above the ministers, and is very upright, if His Majesty orders him to know the criminal department or Dali Temple, there will be no omission. Kim Sun said.

Kim Sun and Ji Jin are both ministers he reuses, and of course Yun Xi will attach importance to their words. But they are all fellow villagers of Zhou Shu, and the townsmen of this year are natural accomplices, and most of them will exaggerate Zhou Shu's ability, so they can't be fully trusted.

I don't know how the local Jinyi Wei investigated, I have to send the investigation to the capital as soon as possible, otherwise how will I choose his official position? Or will I appoint him as a scholar first, and then be sent as an official in two or three years? Yun Xi thought.

Just as he was thinking, Wang Xi leaned over to his side and whispered, "Your Majesty, it's time for the exam." ”

"Oh, let these people sit down and prepare, and order the waiters to distribute the papers." Yun Xi came back to his senses and commanded.

Zhou Shu didn't know that he had entered Yun Xi's eyes, and after paying homage to the emperor, he sat down in the first row and the first column, took out the wolf pen and inkstone he had prepared, poured a little warm water and began to grind.

At this time, the waiter had already begun to distribute the test papers. Zhou Shu was the Huiyuan, and the first test paper was placed on his desk.

Zhou Shu, who was grinding the inkstone, took the test paper, put it on the table, and was about to continue grinding the inkstone, but when he accidentally saw the question, he froze. Not only him, but many tributes were stunned the moment they saw the title.

What caused them to be stunned was, of course, the question of this year's palace exam. I saw that the title was:

Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty moved the military festival in the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the country, so that Li Jishan was the inland festival, and wanted to level the Hetao and Ningxia. However, some members of the Li clan stayed in the local area and failed to move inward, resulting in local turmoil and could not be pacified for several years.

Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty paid his labor, and then dismissed the land of Ningxia under the direct jurisdiction of Hetao, and allowed the Li clan to hereditarily set the difficult army to make the envoy, and gave the year to stabilize the northwest. But then Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao was not satisfied with the Song State, so he founded the country called Xia, known as the Western Xia, and conquered the Central Plains for many years, and the Song State spent ten times the money of Song Taizong.

(End of question)

This question is not difficult to understand, and the direction of the answer is also very clear, but the content is a little scary. Generally speaking, although later dynasties will comment on the gains and losses of the previous dynasty, the general comments on the emperors of the previous dynasties are made by the current emperor, and ordinary ministers do not dare; But this question is tantamount to making them criticize the failure of Song Taizong's original decision-making, which is quite rare.