Huang Shang has arrived home.

As soon as he entered the door, his wife greeted him with the maid of the family, helping Huang Yi change his clothes as quietly as usual.

When his wife quietly took away the robe, Huang Sheng asked, "Why don't you ask how you did in the exam?" ”

"How did the officials do in the exam?"

Huang Shang's wife's questions were careless, and her spirit seemed to be all on Huang Shang's sweaty underwear.

Huang Sheng smiled slightly and sighed: "It's finally over." ”

All he had to do was change his clothes and wait at home for news, which would not be too late.

Just like the other candidates who had just come out of the Imperial City with him to take the pavilion exam, he was waiting at home for his fate to be decided.

The more than ten candidates who took the exam with Huang Shang didn't seem to have any intention of communicating with others, and after leaving the imperial city, they hurriedly greeted each other, and then parted ways. Even if they are sure to pass the cabinet exam, there is still a royal exam waiting for them after that, and the candidates have neither the mood nor the time to communicate with the competitors.

Unlike passing the Ministry of Rites Examination and having already determined the qualification of Jinshi, just passing the cabinet examination does not mean that you have obtained the qualification of the department. Most of the candidates who passed the cabinet examination will still fail in the imperial examination and become a loser with the fifth evaluation. It is difficult to get a fourth-class person, and since the founding of the country, only two people have obtained the third-class class. If you have time to make friends, you might as well go back and study for the exam.

"The doctor will definitely be able to pass the exam." A little maid who helped change her clothes in yellow clothes chirped.

Huang Shang smiled and asked the little maid at home, "How can you see it?" ”

"With the recommendation of Xiao Han Xianggong, do you still need to talk about the doctor's knowledge?"

"That maybe, those who can enter the pavilion to test are recommended by the two governments."

The little maid shook her head in disbelief: "How can they compare to Xiao Han Xianggong?" ”

"A single can't compare. But there's someone down there......" Huang Sheng sighed softly.

It is said that there are people above, but there are people below who are the most terrifying. Emperor Taizu's yellow robe is added, how did he lean on it?

While thinking, Huang Shang listened to his wife's instructions and peeled off his soaked underwear from his body.

"Why do you sweat so much?" Huangshang's wife shook the underwear she had just peeled off, all covered in sweat.

The little maid also hurriedly brought a hot drink and let Huang Sheng hold it, while she took a dry cloth to help Huang Sheng wipe the sweat on her back.

"I'm sweating in a hurry." Huang Sheng took a sip of the hot drink, and a wave of warmth spread from his throat to his whole body, and the whole person relaxed, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, it's just like this, such a pavilion test, I don't want to have a second time for my husband." ”

After going through this pavilion test, Huang Shang seemed to have just been fished out of the water, and the front and back plackets of the underwear were already soaked with sweat, and when they blew in the cold wind, they were chilled. Just breathing in the fresh air, the suffocation in the room was swept away.

Although he only completed the pavilion exam, he seemed to have removed the barriers in his heart, and his whole body was a lot more relaxed. Whether it succeeds or not, just wait for how the examiners judge, and for a while, Huang Shang doesn't want to take it too seriously.

"Is the topic too difficult?"

"It's really hard." Huang Shang has always been calm in front of his wife, waiting for himself who has been traveling abroad to study all the year round, and has been serving his aunt and brother and sister-in-law without complaint at home, such a wife makes him extremely respectful, "But it is not that problem that makes it difficult for a husband." ”

"What's that bother?"

"Wang Pingzhang and Han participated in politics, and they were admitted and deposed, and they were a little difficult for their husbands on both sides."

"For what?" Huangshang's wife looked at her husband with wide eyes in confusion.

Although his wife has an ordinary appearance and is old, her inadvertent expression still makes Huang Shang's heart tremble.

Gently shook his wife's hand, which was putting on a new obscene dress for him, "Wang Pingzhang and Han Shenzheng are different from each other. Wang Pingzhang is now powerful, and all his people in the Chongwen Academy are his people, if he doesn't learn from his husband, he can only hate Jinke. And Han's participation in politics has the atmosphere of a dignified family, and it is in harmony with his husband. It doesn't matter how you write it, but today I have to choose one side of the exam question, and I have been embarrassed for a long time for my husband......"

When Huang Shang went to do the last question and chose how to answer it, he thought hard for a long time, and finally decided to do it according to his own ideas, rather than succumbing to the current theory. Regardless of whether or not the current imperial examination is based on Xinxue, so that no matter what school of Gongsheng must bow to it, Huang Shang does not intend to follow the opinions of Xinxue to discuss his own views in the cabinet examination of the system.

In addition to this question, there is another question, Huang Shang can't determine the source, and among the other four questions, Huang Sheng is still very sure that there are three questions.

The only question in which Huang Shang has not determined the source is that half of the two four-word sentences are particles. It is too difficult to find out the source of four words that are divided by particles and in a completely different order from the original text. In this question, Huang Shang fully realized the malice of the questioner, and after reading it twice, he wisely chose to give up.

The remaining question was made, but the one he was not sure about was that he was asked to make a list of more than 70 prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty, and it was obvious that the person who wrote the question wanted to embarrass the candidates. Although Huang Shang wrote it all, he was still a little unsure. From the point of view of the questioner, the order of most of the list will also be the basis for judging, otherwise this question is not too difficult.

In the case that there was a question that was not made and a question was not grasped, Huang Shang chose to stick to his own opinion when faced with the argument of choosing a foothold between Xinxue and Qixue.

If you take the middle school examination, you will be able to be a high-ranking official in the future, and you will be able to repay Han Gang, who has cultivated you for many years. But between Xinxue and Qixue, not being afraid of power and insisting on one's own opinion is also a reward, if you compromise and seek perfection, how to face Han Gang who is trying to preach Qixue?

Today, for the sake of the quota of the imperial examination, he can succumb to the new school, and in the future, he may also betray Qi Xue for the sake of the future. Instead of developing step by step like this, it is better to be firm in your thoughts now.

"I see." Huang Shang's wife nodded, and quickly put on the coat that Huang Sheng wore at home, looking completely unconcerned.

"A gentleman acts, does not agree with his words, and does not tolerate his deeds. Rather than bending one's own mind and flattering Shangguan, it is better to stretch one's chest, so as to repay the kindness of South Korea's participation in politics. Huang Shang is not afraid of talking too much, and he has to explain to his wife with all his tongue.

"The official is right." Huang Shang's wife helped her husband tidy up the placket, and when she heard it, she bent her knees and said Wanfu, "That's how it should be." Although the slave family does not read much, they also know the four words of Dao Zhi En Tu Bao. Since you have to choose one between Han Senzheng and Wang Pingzhang, there is nothing to think about at all. ”

It seems that his wife doesn't care, which makes Huang Shang feel at ease. Compared with the turmoil outside, the quiet home is the most reassuring place for Huang Shang.

And now it is not necessarily said that it will definitely not pass, so I don't know if the examiner with cold eyes will be afraid of the power of the new governor.

……………………

The eyes of Jian Zhoufu, the editor of the History Museum, are famously cold, coupled with his excessively thin cheeks, standing in the corner of the house, he doesn't need to speak, and he can directly scare the child so much that he can't cry.

Back then, when he was in the Yushitai, he was ordered to try the case several times, and he was happy to get things done. The prisoner said his confession like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, which was not unrelated to Jian Zhoufu's attitude and expression.

His face is still gloomy, but he is facing his colleagues who accompany him every day, and he can't be scared.

Jian Zhoufu pointed to an exam paper in his hand, "This paper is well written, five of the six questions are written, and this one is wrong." ”

"Five questions? Who is so capable? ”

Several examiners hugged each other and read it carefully.

Skip the only one that was skipped, and look at the answers to each question. In fact, the owner of this paper has indicated the source of each question in the test paper.

"It seems to be a little bit worse." One frowned.

"It's not just bad, it's going in the wrong direction." Jian Zhoufu shook his head.

"It's wrong." Another person echoed him, "Wang Pingzhang will definitely not agree." ”

"But if you want to judge it as 'rough', can the owner agree?" Another person asked.

"Wang Pingzhang is a little closer." Jian Zhoufu smiled, his smile was closed as soon as he smiled, and he returned to his wooden, gloomy appearance.

"That's it. Is everything else okay? ”

"No problem." The first person nodded.

"No, there's another one." Jian Zhoufu said in a low voice, "The order of the names in this article is wrong. ”

Jian Zhoufu made friends with Fan Zhen and He Tan when he was a teenager, but after Fan Zhen and He Tan became famous, Jian Zhoufu failed the exam, and the most important thing was to enter the official through the special performance, and then he was admitted to the Jinshi, which was many years later than his old friends. Now he is nearly sixty years old, and he is still far away from the train of the important ministers. But Jian Zhoufu is an old-timer in the Chongwen Academy, which is composed of three halls and one pavilion, the Zhaowen Pavilion, the History Museum, the Jixian Courtyard and the Secret Pavilion, and his words have some weight. And when the imperial court is in charge, he often chooses an old and stable person like him to preside over it, and he comes and goes, but his prestige is getting higher and higher.

This time, the main examination is based on Jian Zhoufu's age and talent, which is the main reason for the imperial court to appoint him.

"That's all there are three questions. If the sentence is rough, this person will be brushed off. ”

"The intention of the imperial court to open the system, you should understand. Don't let the indiscriminate people fill the court, and we will be ordered to participate in the Zhige test. The system is only for the great sages of the world, and it is better to have a shortage than to be excessive, but all mistakes that can be judged or not judged are all counted as mistakes, and there is no need to preserve them. ”

Jian Zhoufu said firmly. But he had already seen the owner of the paper.

Although there is a sealing officer, after a few glances, the ownership of the test paper can be easily determined. There are a total of more than a dozen people in the system this time, and it is not a Jinshi department with thousands of participants, so it will not be difficult to correspond to a volume.

In this exam, Huang Shang's answers are decent, ranking in the forefront of the twelve, but no matter what kind of work it is, no matter how perfect it is, as long as you have the heart to find it, you can always find the wrong place. And this time, it wasn't a simple mistake.

"But this is a roll of yellow clothes." One of the examiners sighed.

Jian Zhoufu suddenly glared: "I'm waiting for the invigilation of the exam, isn't the first consideration to complete the task entrusted by the Queen Mother?" Chongwen Academy is the place where the Son of Heaven is a store of talents, and it is also the most important place in the court, should you be afraid of participating in politics? How could Wang Pingzhang let his son-in-law act in front of him?! ”

Jian Zhoufu is not afraid at all.