This is not the first time Yang Wu has been assassinated, but compared to the previous assassination, although this time the assassin successfully approached him through the imperial examination, but the next performance was extremely unprofessional, and he was easily put down by the guards. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

After this kind of thing happened, Yang Wu was naturally in no mood to continue to visit the candidates, so he hurriedly explained a few words and left.

However, his magnanimity left an excellent impression on those scholars who thought they would be angry, and when they talked about it in private, they all felt that Yang Wu had the appearance of a master, and at the same time completely inherited his father's generosity, he was also a well-known commander in the world, and it was not only a great luck for Huainan to meet such an heir, but also a great luck for their scholars.

Therefore, whether it is the local scholars in Huainan or those scholars who have traveled thousands of miles from other feudal towns to participate in the imperial examination, they all feel that participating in this imperial examination is an extremely wise choice at this time.

As a result, Yang Wu's unintentional move instead gained the hearts of a large number of scholars, even some of Yang Xingmi's old subordinates, after learning about Yang Wu's handling method, couldn't help but sigh that Yang Wu's benevolence was no worse than his father's, and even many officials who used to think that he was more strict had their views on him have also changed, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.

After returning to the Jiedu Embassy, Yang Xingmi heard that his son had been assassinated, and he was furious, at this time, he regarded Yang Wuke as more important than his own life, if he lost this excellent heir, he could not imagine who his inheritance could be handed over to in the future.

Therefore, Yang Xingmi, who was furious, planned to conduct a big investigation of these scholars, but finally stopped under Yang Wu's persuasion.

It's not that Yang Wu doesn't want to conduct an investigation, but now that the re-election of the imperial examination is only about to start in three days, if a large-scale investigation is carried out at this time, it will definitely affect the performance of many candidates, so it is best to conduct an investigation in secret.

Of course, this incident also reminded Yang Wu that since then, he has always paid great attention to his safety, but he has avoided many assassinations in the future.

As for the assassin captured this time, after Fan Yu's investigation and interrogation, it was found that this person was not the person sent by Qian Biao as Yang Wu expected, but by Zhu Quanzhong in the north.

This scholar was originally a genuine scholar, but after the news of the Huainan imperial examination spread, Zhu Quanzhong's people found this person and threatened his family to come to Huainan to assassinate him. That's why the assassination process was so unprofessional.

After some interrogation, the Assassin did not get any more information, and finally had to execute him, but Fan Yu's men took the opportunity to conduct an inventory of Guangling and successfully uncovered a secret agent of Zhu Quanzhong, which was a surprise.

Three days later, Huainan's first imperial examination re-election officially began.

This time, more than 500 scholars came to Guangling to participate in the re-election through the primary election, and most of them were local scholars from Huainan; After all, the degree of development in the north is still much higher than that in the south, and a large number of scholars chose to go south to participate in this imperial examination because they had no way out of the country and the continuous war in the north.

Like in the primary election, the questions in this re-election also include Confucian classics, mathematics, law and other aspects, but because the questions in the primary selection were too difficult, a large number of scholars could not do it, and they could only guess the answers, which lost the meaning of the exam, so the difficulty of the questions in the re-selection dropped a lot.

However, the difficulty of the "Practical Test" part has decreased, but the difficulty of the strategy has increased correspondingly.

A day later, the exam ended, and as during the primary selection, many candidates still did not have the slightest confidence in the results of the exam, even Song Qiqiu did not know whether he could pass or not. Although he has talent and learning, after all, he is still young and lacks experience and knowledge, so he is a little bottomless in the face of difficult strategies this time.

After the exam, it is time to mark the paper. However, unlike today's Tang Dynasty's method of grading imperial examinations, Huainan has two new systems designed to prevent fraud.

The first is the sealing system, that is, after the candidate's exam, the candidate's name, place of origin and other parts of the test paper will be pasted with paper, and then handed over to the examiner for evaluation. Names can not be unsealed until the final score is calculated.

The second is the transcription system, which is to prevent candidates from writing marks and code words on the test papers, after the candidates have handed in the test papers, the Jiedu Embassy specially hired a group of people to re-transcribe the test papers and then hand them over to the examiner for reading.

These two systems were set by Yang Wu with reference to the systems of later generations. After these two steps are completed, the grading will officially begin.

According to the rules of this imperial examination, the candidates who pass this re-election will no longer be eliminated in the next "palace examination", but will only be ranked, so this re-selection must be strictly controlled and cannot go wrong.

Fortunately, among the two people who served as the chief examiner in the imperial examination this time, although Gao Miao has not been admitted to the Jinshi, he is very capable in all aspects, and he is naturally competent for the responsibility of marking the papers; As for Yin Wengui, he is a Tang Dynasty jinshi who is very knowledgeable, so it is even more fine.

In addition, the nerds who came to take the test this time were basically eliminated as early as the primary selection, and the rest were those students who were poor in literature but performed well in all other aspects, so it was easier to mark the papers.

Two days later, more than 500 test papers were all scored, Gao Miao and the two selected the top 50 answer sheets according to the score, and the next 50 to 80 answer sheets were also selected to prepare, and then in the remaining candidates' answer sheets, those who did well in the "line test" did not do well, and the answer sheets that did not do well in the "line test" in the front 10 each, a total of 100 points of answer sheets, and then sent to Yang Xingmi.

"Is this the answer sheet of the batch of candidates you selected?" Yang Xingmi flipped through the answer sheet in front of him at will, and said with a smile: "This matter of marking the papers, I can't do it, let's let Wu'er come!"

"Yes!"

Yang Wu was not polite, this was Huainan's first imperial examination, no matter how much he believed in the ability and vision of Gao Miao, but this kind of thing still had to come in person to be more reassuring, so he spent a whole day reading the hundred answer sheets sent by the two of them one by one, and finally made a decision.

I have to say that Gao Miao's vision is still very good, and Yang Wu can't find any problems, so he just made some adjustments to the rankings of several of the top fifty answer sheets, eliminated four of them, and then selected four exam papers from the other fifty answer sheets and put them in the quota for this admission.

In other words, this time Yang Wu finally decided to admit only fifty people, and the rest of the candidates all failed.

Speaking of which, admitting fifty people at a time is definitely a relatively large number of admissions in this era. In the Tang Dynasty, generally according to the principle of preferring shortage to abundance, twenty or thirty people were admitted to one subject; Even in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty in history, only a dozen people were admitted to one subject. It was only later that the number of people admitted to the imperial examination increased greatly.

The reason why Yang Wu is preparing to admit fifty people this time is mainly because now that the south is about to be pacified, a large number of talents are needed to govern, and among these admitted people, even if some of them are relatively poor, they are better than those generals who serve as magistrates.

After reading the papers, he began to remove the seals, and then Yang Xingmi suddenly asked: "At the beginning, you promised to let Liu Rengui and your clan brother Yang Xin take the test, if the two of them are not in the list of fifty people you selected this time, what are you going to do?"

Yang Wu was stunned, and then he remembered that there was something about these two people, he had promised Yang Xingmi to let Liu Rengui take the test, and he also promised Yang Yan to let Yang Xin take the test, not to mention, Yang Wu also wanted to cultivate the power of the Yang family and in-laws, so it was really necessary for these two people to let them pass.

"Then in the name of their father, give them the status of being born as a fellow jinshi!" Yang Wu thought for a moment and replied.

"Born with a jinshi?" Yang Xingmi nodded, this is also a workaround, and immediately smiled: "Since this is the case, let's start unsealing it!"

The seal was opened, and the person who won the first place was a person named Wang Taifu, the second Jiang Mengsun, and the third Xu Rong, all of whom Yang Wu had not heard much of in history.

However, Yang Wu was very optimistic about the answers of these three people in the primary election, and he was not surprised that they won the top three in this re-election.

Next, Song Qiqiu ranked fourth, Yin Chongwen ranked fifth, and Cha Wenhui ranked sixth......

To Yang Xingmi and Yang Wu's relief, Liu Rengui ranked twenty-third, while Yang Xin ranked forty-nine, both of them were tested, so there was no need for Yang Xingmi to open the back door for them.

In general, Yang Wu is still quite satisfied with the results of the imperial examination this time, especially the answers of the first few places, whether it is the "line test" or the later policy theory, they all answered very well, much stronger than the few who ranked behind, and they can definitely be regarded as truly learned.

After Yang Xingmi's consent, the next day, the much-anticipated Huainan imperial examination admission list was officially announced.