In March of the eighth year of the great cause, it was the spring when the flowers were blooming, the capital was bustling, the merchants from the south to the north, and the students from all over the country gathered in the capital, the inn in the capital was already full as early as a month ago, and the leisure places such as restaurants and teahouses were full of friends every day. The business is booming, so that the bosses can't stop laughing all day long.

After two years of brewing, the imperial examination system finally entered the final procedure in March this year, that is, the qualified students entered the Beijing entrance examination.

More than two years ago, the emperor returned to the capital with the power of the imperial victory over Goguryeo, the first thing was to announce the implementation of the imperial examination in the country, as soon as this will came out, the poor students in the world cheered, learned literature and martial arts, and sold them to the emperor's family, but all the time, the selection of officials, the appointment of officials are in the hands of local officials and families, even if the general children of the poor are talented, unless they are thrown into the family of the gate valve, they basically do not get much opportunity to show, and the imperial examination system is equivalent to opening a bright road to the career of everyone to the official.

This will naturally caused dissatisfaction among many people, in the eyes of the gate valve families all over the Great Sui, this is simply digging their foundation, Shen Guogong Li family, Yan Guogong Yu family, Song Guogong He Ruo family, former queen Dugu family, current queen Yuan family, eldest grandson family...... Which family's gate valve does not have dozens or hundreds of children who can easily become officials by relying on Enyin, and the imperial examination announced by the emperor is equivalent to cutting off the shortcut for the children of these families to rely on Enyin to become officials in the future.

In addition to the opposition of the family of the gate lords, some military attachés in the army are also unhappy, they work hard, and they can only become officials by tearing up and killing the enemy on the battlefield, and those in the rear can become officials just by reading books and taking exams, and many people feel that it is unfair.

The emperor's prestige was in full swing, and the family did not dare to oppose it openly, but spread rumors in the army: the emperor wanted to suppress the generals. Let the literati lead the army, and their merits will be swallowed up by the civilian officials in the future, and the military spirit will fluctuate for a while, and the undercurrent will surge.

Noticing the mood in the army, Yang Yong awarded the reward in advance. In this campaign against Goguryeo, dozens of people without titles were knighted, more than a dozen people with titles themselves were promoted, and nearly 1,000 officers were promoted. All those who participated in the war were rewarded with large sums of money, and the court issued a total of 200,000 gold pieces, 1 million taels of silver, 3 million mu of meritorious fields, more than 10 million mu of meritorious fields, 20 million horses of various silks and cloths, and 30 million copper coins. In addition, the children of meritorious soldiers were specially allowed to obtain the qualification to enter the official schools of various counties and counties without examinations according to the size of their merits, and the rumors in the army were quickly quelled, and many military generals also turned to support the imperial examination.

Without the cooperation of the army. The various gate valve families suddenly died down, and instead encouraged their children to study, and for a while, various counties learned. The county scholars were overcrowded, and the number of officials and students across the country surged several times, and their funds also climbed steadily, but the emperor did not care, and all the children of officials and eunuchs could be admitted without examination. It can be regarded as compensation for the children of the eunuchs. If you want to enter the government school, you must be excellent in your studies. Nothing is absolutely fair. Although Yang Yong is the emperor, he still has to compromise on many things, and if he blindly comes by force, he will become a reckless man.

In order to prevent the imperial examination from becoming the eight-strand text of later generations, Yang Yong personally selected the content of the imperial examination, and stipulated six subjects: Ming Calculation, Ming Law, Ming History, Ming Things, Ming Characters, and Ming Jing, of which two subjects of Ming Calculation and Ming Matter are compulsory subjects, and the remaining four subjects can be selected by scholars, and those who pass more than three subjects will be hired by the court.

Among them, a subject of Mingwu includes the content of physics and chemistry in later generations, and is also known as a miscellaneous subject, when Yang Yong ascended the throne, he selected the textbook of a subject of Mingwu for the official school, few people are interested in this subject, and most of the people who are willing to learn this subject are the children of the Han family, because they can get a lot of practical knowledge from this subject, and when the content of the imperial examination is announced, many people suddenly regret beating their chests, fortunately, the court gave the scholar more than a year to review, and the examination was not opened until the summer of the second year, and the examination was moved to the next year.

As a result of last year's selection and allocation in various counties and counties, a total of more than 10,000 scholars passed the examination and obtained the qualifications for the examination, and they will complete the examination on 21, 22, and 23 March this year, and those who excel will directly become low-level officials.

Today is March 16, only five days before the day of the big exam, some of the scholars are still nervously studying, but some of them seem to be confident, relaxed, in various restaurants, teahouses to call friends, talking.

Although the purpose of the imperial examination is to give everyone the opportunity to enter the official field, it is undeniable that the people who can go to the capital to participate in the scientific examination are still the majority of the rich and noble, and many scholars have rich pockets, and it is the first time that they have left their parents, with servants by their side, they can eat when they want, play when they want, and they are so happy.

There is such a group of scholars living in the largest Sihai Inn in the capital, the Sihai Inn is one of the most famous inns in the capital, an ordinary room needs to spend consistently for one night, and the higher rooms are even more numerous, as for the four single-family courtyards, it is the sky-high price of 50 guan a day.

Despite this, since the beginning of February, the Four Seas Inn has been full, a total of more than 30 customers have lived in Beijing scholars and businessmen, four sky-high yards are ordered by people for two months, the preliminary estimate, the daily income of the Four Seas Inn has reached at least 500 yuan, if all are replaced with copper coins, the weight of copper coins should be close to a ton, it can really be regarded as a daily gold, no wonder the fat boss of the inn stays on the counter every day and laughs.

The Four Seas Inn not only has a guest room, but also a restaurant, its food is also famous, on the occasion of the gathering of scholars in the capital, the Four Seas Inn has lost no time in launching a few new dishes that can be delicious and can please the mouth of the scholars, so that some of the scholars who can not live in the inn also come to visit, it is lunch time, more than ten tables in the lobby are full of guests after a while, most of them are scholars.

Soon after sitting down, these scholars began to talk loudly, and the content was mostly not related to the exam, but some boasted about their family background, or some strange theories they heard on the road, and the scholars laughed from time to time while eating.

The innkeeper squinted, as if he didn't care about the conversation of the various scholars, and there was always a smile on the corner of his mouth, coupled with his chubby face, which made people feel kind at first sight.

A young man dressed in gray clothes walked in from outside the door, his eyes rolled several times, and finally his eyes fell on a table of scholars in the corner of the hall, there were only three scholars at this table, all dressed in silk clothes, and their feet were silky, although the weather in March, each of them held a gold-painted fan in their hands, which was not similar in the eyes of others, but they themselves thought that they were rich and elegant.

The gray-clothed young man quickly approached the three people, whispered a few words in the ears of the three people, the three of them had a look of disbelief on their faces, the gray-clothed young man confessed a few words, took out an object from his arms, obviously for the three to check, the three of them discussed a few times in a low voice, one of them took out more than a dozen coins from his arms and stuffed them into the hands of the gray-clothed young man, the gray-clothed young man had a happy face, counted the coins, handed the things in his hand to the three scholars, and then turned around and left.

Seeing the young man in gray walking, the three scholars didn't care about eating, and immediately beckoned the men to settle the bill and leave.

When the gray-clothed young man was talking to the three gentlemen, the fat boss who was squinting flashed in his eyes, and then immediately covered it up, even if someone saw it, he would think it was an illusion, but his ears could be seen to be visibly erected.

Although the fat boss had undergone rigorous training, it was only because of the distance and the noise in the lobby that he only heard some vague information: "Exam questions...... Accurate...... Ten Gold Coins......"

It is enough to have this information, what exam questions are worth ten gold coins, the ratio of gold coins to copper coins in the Great Sui is one to ten, and ten gold coins are worth one hundred yuan.

Could it be that the exam questions were leaked, the fat boss shook his head, in last year's township examination, there were many counties and counties where the exam questions were leaked, and some of the children of the eunuchs got the answers before the exam, and later the court knew that the emperor was furious, not only canceled all the results of the county and county scholars who leaked the exam questions, but also all the chief examiners were sentenced to a decisive decision, which really shocked many officials.

The emperor attaches great importance to the examination in the capital, not only personally participated in the question, but also after the question is prepared, the person who wrote the question has been staying in the palace, only after the exam will come out, the exam paper is completely sealed in the palace, only on the day of the exam, the test paper will be collected directly from the palace by the examiner, sent to the examination room, the leakage of the exam question is really unlikely, unless it is the emperor himself leaked.

Of course, this is even more impossible, so, could these three soldiers be taking fake questions? The fat boss knew the three gentlemen, and one of them was the person who chartered a single courtyard of the Four Seas Inn, and the person who could afford to pay 50 yuan a day would naturally not care about 100 yuan.

The boss's mind turned, and when he saw the gray young man walking out of the inn, he hurriedly waved to the side, and a guy appeared in front of the fat boss and asked in a low voice, "Boss, what's the matter?" ”

"Follow the man and find out where he is going."

"Understood." The fellow nodded, and stepped out of the inn.

The fat boss breathed a sigh of relief, whether it was true or not, this matter was too important, since it was discovered, it must be reported, maybe a big credit will be in hand.