Liu Xun put on his gown, put on his crown, turned around, and looked at himself in the bronze mirror.

He opened his hands and asked the maids to arrange his clothes and tie them up.

"Are all the scholars here?" Liu Xun took a step forward, raised his chin, fastened the crown belt, and asked.

"Your Majesty, everyone, a total of four thousand five hundred and seventy-two scholars, is already waiting for your summons in the Xuanshu Palace!" Huang Xie respectfully reported, "The guard of honor has been prepared, will Your Majesty go over now, or will you wait?" ”

Liu Xun waved his sleeves and said, "Don't worry, wait first!" ”

"Is Han Zeng here?" Liu asked.

"Chenzeng is here!" Han Zeng's voice came from the door: "Your Majesty, do you have any orders?" ”

"I asked Qing to draw up a question, but it was ready?" Liu asked.

"Your Majesty, the minister has prepared a ......" Han Zeng respectfully bowed at the door, presented a blank piece of paper, and said, "Your Majesty, please take a look!" ”

Huang Xie immediately took the piece of paper and handed it to Liu Xun, Liu Xun held it in his hand, looked at it, nodded and praised, "Not bad!" There is Lao Qing! ”

Today is the second part of the examination - the palace examination, well, at this time it should be called the question.

It's just that the question is usually asked by the emperor to the sage who recommended him to come to the court.

Moreover, the king asked Daxian about the major events in the world, how to stabilize the country and defend against foreign aggression.

When you come to Liu Xun's side, you must ask about these things, and even the questions should include those related to government affairs, the country, foreign policy, etc.

Liu Xun stuffed the blank paper into his sleeve and ordered, "Let's go, let's go and meet the heroes of the world for a while!" ”

Walking out of the palace gate, the sunlight outside was a little dazzling, through the gap between the beads, Liu Xun saw both sides of the palace, in front of the hall in the distance, rows of guards like a silent iron tower, standing on both sides of the road.

Liu Xun took a step forward.

A platoon of guards immediately fell to their knees.

One more step forward.

Another platoon of guards half-knelt down.

At this time, Liu Xun could only hear the beating of his heart and the sound of gold and iron made by the guards who were silent and half-knelt down.

This is the treatment that the prince of the Han family can only enjoy when worshipping the temple.

Even the Son of Heaven will only put on this guard of honor at the Great Dynasty Meeting.

Now he can appear here because Liu Xun's cheap father Yubi Qinzhun gave Liu Xun permission to support the scene today.

"Power is such a good thing!" Looking at the black pressure of the half-kneeling guards, Liu Xun sighed in his heart, "Wake up to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beauty!" That's how it should be for my generation! ”

Then, he took a step forward and walked up the steps, and behind him, the guard who knelt down first stood up, holding a halberd under the leadership of the officer, and followed closely behind Liu Xun.

Each of these guards is more than 1.8 meters tall, and they are not far apart in size.

So, when Liu Xun stepped into the hall, the scholars who were waiting quietly on both sides of the hall, regardless of their status or status, were stunned by the scene in front of them.

Liu Xun walked forward slowly, and the guards behind him were like stars and moons, clustered left and right, and the sunlight shone directly through the skylight in the hall, just falling on Liu Xun, making him look like a god at the moment, as if he was a savior carrying the mandate of heaven.

This visual impact, unparalleled, has left many people with a lifetime of memories.

At this moment, many people even forgot to breathe, looking at the scene in front of them stupidly, and after a while, someone came to their senses and quickly knelt down and bowed, "I'll wait to see Your Majesty!" ”

With one person taking the lead, the others quickly reacted, and hurriedly knelt down and bowed, "I'll wait to see Your Majesty!" ”

As soon as Liu Xun waved his hand, the guards who followed him immediately lined up on both sides, creating an artificial passage for others in front of him.

Liu Xun followed this passage, walked forward step by step, walked up to the top of the hall, knelt down, waved his sleeves, and said loudly, "Please be exempted from courtesy!" ”

At this time, the guards quickly stood on both sides of the hall.

Hundreds of maids quickly entered the temple and arranged seats for these scholars.

When everything was settled, Liu asked, "Where is Xiao Wangzhi?" ”

When Xiao Wangzhi heard this, he immediately came out to bow and said, "Student Xiao Wangzhi, please see Your Majesty!" ”

"Raise your head......" Liu Xun commanded softly.

When Xiao Wangzhi heard this, he hurriedly raised his head but didn't dare to look directly at Liu Xun, so he could only bow his head slightly.

Liu Xun took a look, this Xiao family really deserves to be a prestigious family for seven consecutive generations, this Xiao Wangzhi's appearance, no matter how the judging standards of that era are concerned, is a handsome guy, not only that, his bearing is also good, it looks very comfortable, and has an inexplicable affinity.

"Sure enough, he is a great gentleman, worthy of being the queen of Xiao He......" Liu Xun laughed and said, "Mr. will return to the throne first!" ”

"No!" Xiao Wangzhi bowed down and bowed again, and then returned to his position.

deliberately asked Xiao Wangzhi to come out to meet alone, as far as Liu Xun was concerned, it was just a means to make others envious, jealous and hateful.

Just like the online game companies of later generations, if you don't find a few people to pretend to be local tyrants, how can real local tyrants be willing to bleed?

For the examination, the same is true, there are few typical successful people, how to motivate others to actively participate?

Xiao Wangzhi is a typical example that Liu Xun wants to create.

"The public is the gentleman of the world, I am fortunate to be able to get the public and not give up, I am willing to attend here, I am very ......frightened" Liu Xun said slowly, this is a cliché that must be said, just go through a procedure, Liu Xun changed his words, and asked, "I try to read poetry and books, look at the words of the sons of a hundred schools, all the sages and saints, all based on filial piety, dear and loving, will be benevolent after the world, although I am not sensitive, but also willing to follow the sages, filial piety, the queen mother, the next Shun Li Shu, benevolence to love people." However, I am dull and stupid, I don't know where filial piety is, all the public talents, please ask for advice! I will choose the good ones and follow them! ”

At this time, the Son of Heaven asked, asking about the major events in the world, the rise and fall of the society

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Different from the previous exams, this time the temple question was impromptu on the spot, and all the scholars were given three blank sheets of paper each, and they were free to choose whether to study or not.

In fact, this palace question is just a formality.

The real candidate Liu Xun has actually decided a long time ago.

Unless, someone suddenly broke out in this temple questioning, made a big show of might, and wrote an article that can be famous through the ages and point directly to the hearts of the people.

However, this retreat article ......

In addition to Dong Zhongshu and Sima Xiangru, there are very few sons of heaven in the Han family who can write brilliantly.

Moreover, most of the 100 people who passed the second round of the examination this time are scholars under the age of 30, even if they are disciples from a family of poetry and books who have been studying for generations like Xiao Wangzhi, I am afraid that the current theoretical level is also limited.

And most of the people present also knew very well that there were only twelve places in total, but there were a hundred people vying for it, and many people who were not at the top of the rankings knew that they were out of play.

But they don't rely on this, they can pass the second round, for them, they have already earned!

But knowing is knowing, the necessary process must always be there, and the attitude must be correct.

What's more, there are so few opportunities to present your articles and political opinions directly to the royal family!

You have to grasp it!

So, as soon as Liu Xun's voice fell, the scholars immediately answered on paper.

Half an hour later, the last gentleman also put down the pen in his hand.

All the test papers were handed over to Huo Guang, who came in a hurry.

Although he knew that this was a performance, Liu Xun was still patient and waited for Huo Guang to lead his subordinates to review the articles written by everyone one by one.

There are high and low levels, and the high ones are like Xiao Wangzhi's articles, which look pleasing to the eye, well-organized, and logical, but they are the worst one, and they basically do it smoothly without typos.

It took two hours to read all the test papers.

Liu Xun didn't find any articles or people in it that would make him change his mind and mind.

So, he pretended to think about it and said, "The public is all talented, and I have read all the books offered by the public, please allow me to think about it for a day and reply tomorrow!" ”

As soon as Liu Xun's words came out, many people immediately felt good.

So, the atmosphere began to become cheerful.

Can it not be cheerful?

After today, everyone present, everyone can get an official position to do, and they will no longer be the common people of the past.

Even the disciples of the Marquis of Che are full of spring breeze - most of the people who come to participate in the examination are concubines or even illegitimate children, and the status of these people is naturally incomparable with their sons-in-law, and now they can have such a way out, which is already very good!

Fortunately, Liu Xun had a lot of experience in dealing with literati in his previous life, and when he saw this, he immediately raised a wine bottle and said, "Princess, please drink this cup with me, and wish my Han family a thousand years!" ”

"I wish the Han family a long life!" More than 4,000 scholars raised their glasses in congratulations.

"Gentlemen, please feel free to ......" Liu Xun put down the wine bottle, clapped his hands, and immediately countless maids came out with large and small plates, which contained delicacies from the mountains and fresh vegetables and fruits from the river.

This is obviously a consolation banquet.

Being able to fight their way out of more than 3,000 people, they deserve to be rewarded with such a royal banquet.

But Liu Xun knew that the army would definitely be expanded in the next examination.

The number of admissions for the next examination will no longer be about a dozen people, it may be a hundred, or a thousand!

It is unlikely that all the high school candidates will be gathered in the palace for a banquet.

This is because the examination system formulated by Liu Xun has a completely different design intention from the imperial examination system of later generations.

What came out of the imperial examination was an official, an elite, and a future Zaifu.

The officials who came out of the examination, the officials who helped the people of the world, and the vast majority of the scholars who were examined in the future, the first job they arranged must be the pavilion chief, the tour payment, and the husband of a certain county, and the rank is no more than a hundred stones, and it is said that it is an official, but in fact, it is just a college student village official or the director of a grassroots police station in the later Celestial Dynasty.

Therefore, the threshold is countless times lower than that of Jinshi who is required to be familiar with the Three Books and Five Classics and Mingtong classics at every turn, and at most it is the threshold of a showman.

As a traverser, Liu Xun certainly knows that there must be drawbacks to his design!

The most important one, there is no doubt that those who have climbed from the grassroots level to the top step by step after the examination must be ruthless people with far more ability and skill than ordinary people, rich in political experience and political struggle methods.

The difficulty of such a courtier is naturally countless times more difficult than that of the nerds cited by the imperial court.

Liu Xun's generation is okay, with his heart and character, Liu Xun doesn't think that anyone can empty himself.

But when the next generation comes, Liu Xun's heir has a slightly weaker personality, and he will definitely be ridden to the head by these courtiers.

But then again, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty when the imperial examination was held, didn't the ministers ride on the head of Emperor Lao Tzu to show off their might?

Thinking about it this way, Liu Xun felt that there was no drawback in the pirated examination system designed by himself, and even if there were, it could be slowly improved and perfected in the future.

Thinking like this, Liu Xun's mood became very good, as soon as people were happy, it was inevitable that they would let go of their wreckage, after a few glasses of wine, Liu Xun felt a little drunk, so he got up and said, "Drink slowly, I am not strong enough to drink, go back and rest first!" ”

"Prime Minister, Shang Shuling!" Liu Xun instructed: "The two Qing families will accompany the princes for me!" ”

"No!"

Huang Xie hurriedly came up to help Liu Xun, who was a little drunk, and walked towards the dormitory.

When he walked through the back garden, Liu Xun thought that he had been thinking about it for so long, and he had been a human being in two lives

, finally began to change the future of this country, nation and people, and took their destiny into their own hands. His chest couldn't help but emit a wave of pride.

But he can't share this kind of emotion with anyone, let alone a forum for him to complain and show off, and he can't even reveal his true thoughts to others.

This made him a little uncomfortable!

Especially at this moment, under the influence of alcohol, this uncomfortable mood is undoubtedly magnified a lot.

He desperately needed a place to vent his inner passion and excitement.

He now understands why Liu Bang, Cao Cao, and Taizu of the Celestial Dynasty are famous political figures, and they are all sullen when they drink.

There is nothing like words to express the true feelings of a person's heart.

Liu Xun was born with little interest in poetry and anything, and he had no talent to write it.

But this does not prevent him from plagiarizing.

So he broke free from Huang Xie's support, took a few steps forward, and chanted, "The mountains are not tired of being high, and the sea is not tired of being deep." The Son of Heaven bows down, and the world returns to the heart! ”

This is the end of the later Cao Apu's short song line, only slightly changed, if you only look at the last four sentences, then a man with great ambitions, want to do great things The image of the Ming Jun jumped on the paper.

As the Son of Heaven, Liu Xun has to let outsiders know something, so that the world can see his ambitions, and let the world know that he has lofty ambitions.

These four sentences, when others say them, it is a bit taboo.

Although there was no writing and prison in the Han Dynasty, the emperor killed someone, so why should he be charged?

But what the Son of Heaven said, everyone could only say: "The choice of the true lord ......"

That's what kind of status, what kind of words to say.

Holding a pen late at night, Huo Guang wrote Xiao Wangzhi's name on the paper, and then Yang Shen, Zhang Yu, Zhou Lukan, and these candidates who had already been decided.

And then it's basically after the aristocracy.

Gu Qing?

Huo Guang thought about it for a while, and finally wrote the name on the paper.

This person is special, he is probably the queen of Chehou, right?

His ancestor was the Yongguan Three Armies of the year, with the commander to break Xiang Yu's army Chen, even pulling Yan, the early Han Dynasty fierce general Gu Feng, and then on the meritorious deeds, Gu Feng was awarded Qucheng Hou with military merits, and there were 4,000 households. The Han Dynasty's interpretation of the law is that it is strong and powerful.

There were more than 100 marquis in the early Han Dynasty, and only Gu Feng got this good word, from this you can imagine how brave Gu Feng was back then.

is a fierce man, and natural heirs are also indispensable.

Gu Feng had dozens of beautiful concubines before his death, and these wives and concubines gave birth to twenty or thirty sons for him.

Gu Qing is just a descendant of one of the sons, according to the system of the Han Dynasty, because his father did not inherit the title of Qucheng Hou, so he can only be regarded as a quasi-nobleman.

Of course, this is all in the past, and it doesn't matter.

Huo Guang paid attention to Gu Qing because this person became Runan Ling five years ago, and it is said that this person is quite popular with the people, and he has done a lot of practical things in Runan Ling, benefiting the people.

This kind of talent who is willing to do practical things, Huo Guang has always admired it the most.

After writing down Gu Qing's name, Huo Guang turned around and instructed his subordinates, "Check it out, who is the contemporary Qucheng Hou?" ”

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there were more than 100 Chehou Marquis, ahem, except for a few who were extremely influential, there are few ministers in the court who can remember the names of all Chehou, let alone Huo Guang.

"No!" The subordinate official nodded, immediately went down to check the records of the Han court, and soon came back to report "Prime Minister, the contemporary Qucheng candidate Jin ......"

When the subordinate official said this, Huo Guang was impressed.

Huo Guang sneered, this Gu Jin can be described as a talent among the talents in the Han Dynasty, and a fighter among the two goods.

During the reign of the first emperor, this person repeatedly violated the law of the country, and then was regarded as a model by the then prime minister Amada Qiu and deposed as a commoner.

But this is very capable, and after Tian Qianqiu went to the throne, he actually climbed the door of the Jin family, so the first emperor issued an edict and reinstated it as Quchenghou, the reason is that 'survival is interrupted'.

But he didn't be honest for long, and his old ways sprouted again.

Huo Guang remembered that three years later, this Qu Chenghou was once again deposed as a commoner.

Ahem, the story isn't over yet!

After another two years, God knows how he played, and he actually climbed a high branch again, and reverted to Quchenghou again.

It stands to reason that after two blows before and after, he should know how to restrain himself, right?

No!

The saga continues.

The year before the death of the first emperor, he sat as a horse thief, guilty, and died. At that time, Gu Jin was already in his sixties, and as a Che Hou, he ran to steal, and it could only be said that he would not die if he did not die.

Originally, according to the system, it was impossible for the Marquis of Che who was executed for breaking the law to have an heir to inherit his title, and the imperial court would take back his fiefdom and divide it into counties, but at that time, Liu Che had just ascended the throne and needed to show the benevolence of the new monarch, and Gu Jie's sons were obviously not suitable for inheritance, so Gu Zhenrou miraculously became the Marquis of Che with 4,000 households in the imperial court from a side branch who had almost no sense of existence before.

After that, Huo Guang wrote down the names of Jin Shi, Wu Lu, Wei Xin, Gongsun Ye, and Zhang Jin on the paper.

Although it seems that the ability is average now, but maybe after training, there are some unexpected surprises, among the children of Chehou, those who can come out to respond to the call for examination belong to senior talents, after all, you can't expect too much.

Wu Lu was chosen purely because of political correctness.

Wu Luzhi's ancestor is the late Changsha King Wu Qi, Huo Guang has long wanted to get it, in order to stabilize Changsha and the Yue people, this person must be taken!

Otherwise, Wu Qi, the king of Changsha, worked hard for the Han family for decades, and finally even the feudal country was extinct, and if he didn't give his children and grandchildren some benefits, wouldn't the people of the world have to gossip?