On the 10th day of October, the weather was sunny. The sun is shining and the breeze is gentle.

On this day, the front of the forbidden city gate was crowded around, wearing various colored clothes, wandering around the square, in view of the large number of people today, in order to avoid accidents, the soldiers of the East City, the West City, the North City, and the three integrated Praetorian Guard Corps were all put into the security of the Forbidden City.

The reason why the forbidden city is so lively today is because today is the day when Princess Xia Ning'er chooses a concubine, and the men and elders of the entire Xia Dynasty who meet the conditions for the competition have all come to the front of the forbidden city.

In the middle of the square, Nangong Xiongba, the chief examiner of the preliminary competition, sat on the chair of the Taishi, on the left were ten military generals at the level of the commander of the military aircraft, and on the right were ten ministers of the rank of cabinet scholars, these people were the invigilators of the preliminary competition, responsible for registering the results and supervising the examination.

All the contestants who participated in the competition to recruit relatives, after registration, stood on both sides of the square according to their serial numbers, because the people who participated in the election of horses came from the two major forces of Wenchen and military generals, in order to distinguish between scribes and warriors, Nangong Xiongba thought of an idea of odd and even numbers.

Among all the players, the double number represents proficient in martial arts, and the single number indicates that they are good at writing. At that time, Nangong Xiongba will issue two exam questions based on the talent that the contestants are good at, one article and one martial arts, and at that time, the players with the double number ranking will answer the "martial arts questions", and the players with the single number ranking will answer the "essay questions". ”

In order to ensure the fairness of the exam questions and prevent the leakage of exam questions and the phenomenon of favoritism, Nangong Xiongba came up with the exam questions and kept them personally until the day of the exam, which was jointly reviewed by twenty civil and military invigilators, and if the invigilator had no objections, it would be released on the spot.

On the day of the preliminary competition, in order to cheer up the children and grandchildren of their own family, many important ministers of the court and famous generals of the military aircraft all came to the scene.

There were more than 50,000 contestants who participated in the written test alone, plus the families and entourage of those people, hundreds of thousands of people surrounded the forbidden city gate, and those contestants and their family elders kept competing in secret in order to suppress the competitors.

Originally, the cordon was set at the edge of the square, ten meters away, but those people held their own identities and ignored the rules and squeezed towards the front, and some even crossed the Praetorian Guards standing guard at the edge of the square and walked directly up the stone steps of the square.

Looking at the unscrupulous appearance of these people, Nangong Xiongba stood up and took out his war halberd, which was made of dark iron outside the sky, about two meters long and weighing a thousand catties.

Then, Nangong Xiongba jumped forward, floated to the side of the war halberd like a flying swallow, pulled out the war halberd, and carried the true qi in his body, he raised the war halberd with one hand, and roared angrily in the sky: "You are presumptuous, don't be arrogant, retreat ten meters, and the violator will be removed." ”

This roar was like the roar of a tiger, resounding through the sky. When Nangong Xiongba roared, a sound wave visible to the naked eye spread like ripples on the surface of the water, and after the sound wave entered the ears, the eardrums of the people who were shocked roared, and their heads were dizzy, and some scribes and scholars who were weak in cultivation were shocked with blood in both ears.

With the power of a roar, suppressing the surroundings, the noise of hundreds of thousands of people was instantly dispersed, and all kinds of aura around were shocked and annihilated.

"This ------ Nangong Metropolitan Governor is so strong in cultivation."

"Oh my God, I almost suffocated from that momentum just now."

"Although these generals are arrogant, their strength is indeed high."

"True Qi is eightfold, and Nangong Xiongba's cultivation has improved again."

"Amazing, this Janissary Governor really deserves his reputation."

Although everyone was still whispering below, Nangong Xiongba ignored those people, don't look at the elders of many wealthy families who came today, but this is only the preliminary competition, and those elders of the famous families with real profound backgrounds, as well as the controllers of the transcendent power, have not yet appeared.

For these so-called wealthy patriarchs and outstanding talents, Nangong Xiongba didn't look at it at all, seeing that he had already shocked everyone, he gently walked back to his seat, put away his weapon, he took out a horizontal scroll, and symbolically asked about the left and right sides.

Because the twenty invigilators had already read the exam questions before taking the stage, so everyone had no opinion, after seeing Nangong Xiongba's gaze, everyone saluted one after another, saying that they had no objection, seeing that the invigilators agreed to release the papers, Nangong Xiongba said lightly: "All the contestants came on stage to verify their identities." ”

Hearing the order, the 50,000 contestants at the scene took the number plate to verify the identity of the Praetorian Guard at the entrance, among these people, there was a young man wearing a white robe, holding a folding fan, and elegant demeanor smiled and walked on the stage, and the Praetorian Guard responsible for identity verification at the entrance happened to be a member of the Dongcheng Legion.

After seeing this person, those Praetorian Guards were stunned: "You ------- you are General Ling?" Why are you going up on stage? Even if you want to go up and give it a try, but you should choose the military general camp, how did you get a single number? That was the main battlefield of the literati and scholars. ”

"Shhh Patting the soldier on the shoulder, the young man handed over the number plate for inspection.

It turned out that this person was Ling Xia, after he received the task of arming today, he first led the team to the task point, and temporarily handed over the military affairs at hand to He Youzhen, and then he went to the registration office to register.

Don't look at Ling Xia as a person of martial arts forces, but his kung fu level is really not very good, although he stole a peerless secret book from Tianxiaozi, but after practicing for so long, he is still a six-fold cultivation of external strength.

Considering that the exam questions encountered by the martial artists later were all related to cultivation and kung fu, Ling Xia specially chose the literati number plate when he signed up, so that he didn't have to compare his kung fu with those martial arts players, and only needed to chant poems and paint with those scribes.

Although Ling Xia was a little clueless about the exam questions of those scribes, compared to the swords of the warriors, he could only choose the "essay questions" with a relatively high safety factor, and in this way, Ling Xia, a military general, mixed into the team of scholars.

After all the players verified their identities and verified that they were correct, Nangong Xiongba raised the scroll in his hand, and slowly opened the scroll in front of everyone, and the players in the square and the surrounding family members were all stunned when they saw the exam questions on the scroll: "What kind of exam questions is this---- this?" ”