On the first day of January of the second year of Yongshuo of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng officially issued an edict to the world - I was ordered by the heavens, but I felt that I had a great responsibility, but the people of the world were also the people of the world, and I decided to reopen the imperial examination after the New Year, so that the heroes of the world would assist me Gong! When this decree was issued, it was ordered that people who were interested in the imperial examination in Chang'an Mansion were registered, and two months later, the official opening of the imperial examination was made. Next to this edict, Li Jiancheng also explained the subjects of the imperial examination, which is divided into regular subjects and system subjects, and the regular subjects are: Ming Jing Branch, Ming Law Subject, Ming Character Subject, Ming Arithmetic Subject, One History Subject, Three History Section, Daoju Subject, and so on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Ming Law Section, the state selects judicial talents, the scope is seven articles of law, three orders. Ming Character Subject, Writing Theory and Calligraphy, Examination of "Shuowen" and "Character Forest". Mathematics is a wide range of mathematics and mathematics talents. A history subject, choose one from the "Historical Records", "Book of Han", "Book of the Later Han", and "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms". The three historical subjects, "Historical Records", "Book of Han", and "Book of the Later Han" are all examined, mainly to select talents in history. Daoju Branch, "Laozi", "Zhuangzi", "Liezi". When the time comes, all the people who have passed the regular examination will gather in the Xuanzheng Palace, and Li Jiancheng will personally take the exam, and those who pass the examination will be immediately awarded official positions. After Li Jiancheng's edict came out, the whole world cheered, and the world talked about it, Chang'an and Luoyang markets:

"Hey! In the pre-Sui period, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian issued an edict to promote virtue and virtue when he was three years old, and the old man was recommended to be virtuous when he was young, and he also met His Majesty Emperor Wen of Sui! ”

"Yes! At the beginning, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian not only issued an edict to recommend virtuous people, but also set up two subjects: Zhixing Cultivation and Qingping Ganji. Ay! It's a pity that the field is still gray, and the children of the family would otherwise be an official. ”

"Hey! This gentleman is wrong, the children of the family also have real talent and real learning, at the beginning, Du Ruhui was proud in the field, and the Du family in Guanzhong also had an anecdote about Du Zhenglun, Du Zhengxuan, and Du Zhengzang! These four people are famous talents of our Guanzhong people! After the establishment of Li Tang, in order to show the world that he was the will of heaven and the people, he whipped the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and compared Yang Guang to the beasts, not to mention that in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there were people who spread the word that Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian was killed by Yang Guang. He also attached great importance to Confucianism, coupled with Li Yuan's good feelings for Yang Jian, fueled public opinion, and never stopped the people's praise of Yang Guang, so the people never got convicted of talking about Yang Jian. In addition to Luoyang, Chang'an, there are also many people talking about the imperial examination in other places in Li Tang, but most people are full of expectations for the imperial examination in the future, of course, there are also people who are very resistant to the imperial examination, and under the calm lake, the undercurrent is surging.

As soon as the New Year of the second year of Yongshuo passed, the hotels and inns in the Chang'an area were full, and there were people who looked like scholars everywhere. In front of the yamen of Yin, Chang'an Mansion, there were all scholars who came to register.

"Xie Yizhi, people from Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River, Huang Zonglai, people from Jiangling in Jingchu, Wang Xuewu, people from Hedong, ......"

Li Jiancheng was under the protection of Di Renjie and Mingyu's father-in-law and dozens of strong guards, strolling around the Chang'an Street Market, in order to prevent anyone from recognizing it, and in order not to arouse suspicion, Li Jiancheng and Di Renjie, Mingyu's father-in-law and others dressed in disguise, Li Jiancheng's face was all glued with a beard and dressed as a Hu businessman in the Western Regions. came to the vicinity of Chang'an Mansion Yin to observe.

"Your ......Majesty" Mingyu almost slipped his mouth, Li Jiancheng glanced at Mingyu Gonggong, Mingyu Gonggong immediately realized that he couldn't tell Li Jiancheng's identity, but he didn't know what to call Li Jiancheng for a while:

"Call me Beasley's treasurer! Remember, I'm a Hu merchant from the Western Regions, the big shopkeeper of Beasley! Mingyu's father-in-law nodded.

As Li Jiancheng walked, he observed these moves, some of which were young people in their eighteens and twenties, and some middle-aged people in their fifties. Moreover, there are many officials under Li Shimin, the former king of Qin. Mingyu's father-in-law was a little strange, and secretly whispered to Li Jiancheng, who was standing in front:

"Beasley's shopkeeper, look, isn't that Chu Suiliang from the original Qin Palace?" Li Jiancheng looked in the direction pointed by Mingyu's father-in-law, and saw a person dressed as a scribe in his thirties also registering in front of the Yin Gate of Chang'an Mansion. It was Chu Suiliang. Li Jiancheng's heart immediately flashed Chu Suiliang's resume - Chu Suiliang, the word Dengshan, a native of Qiantang, Hangzhou, was born in the Chu family of the Jiangnan family, and his ancestral home was Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan). It is the descendant of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Kangdi Sima Yue Empress Chu Garlic, the Jiangnan Chu family is a wang family in the Jiangnan area, but there is no foundation in the north, especially Chu Suiliang's father Chu Liang, when his father Chu Liang was a casual attendant, and Yu Shinan, Ouyang Xun and others were friends. Chu Liang was a scholar of the East Palace of the Sui Dynasty at that time. Because of his relationship with Yang Xuan, he was demoted to the secretary of Xihai County. Later, in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, Xue Ju was proclaimed emperor in Lanzhou, Chu Liang was appointed as the Huangmen squire, and Chu Suiliang was Xue Ju's general secretary, in charge of the edict and the presentation of the case. Later, Xue Ju's son Xue Rengao inherited Xue Ju's career. Continuing to be the enemy of the Tang Dynasty, after the Qin king Li Shimin pacified Xue Rengao, and Xue Rengao's men were subjugated under Li Shimin, Chu Suiliang entered the Li dynasty and began Chu Suiliang's political career. Initially, Chu Suiliang joined the army as an armor under Li Shimin, the king of Qin. Li Shimin has a good impression of Chu Suiliang, Li Shimin once said to the eldest grandson Wuji: "Chu Suiliang is upright, academic, and does his best to be loyal to me. When Tang Gaozu ordered Li Shimin to take control of the civil and military power in the Eastern Plains, and allowed him to open the Tiance Mansion in Luoyang. In the same year, Li Shimin set up his own literature museum, in which eighteen scholars were serving as his state advisers. Chu Suiliang's father, Chu Liang, is one of them, in charge of literature. In such an environment, Chu Suiliang's knowledge is advancing day by day. In particular, calligraphy, under the guidance of Ouyang Xun and Yu Shinan, is even more outstanding, and has a political status and social prestige that Ou and Yu do not have. "Tang Hui Yao" volume 64 "Under the History Museum" records that the daily affairs of the Hongwen Pavilion are managed by Chu Suiliang, and people call him "the owner of the museum". Probably seeing that Li Jiancheng was bored, Mingyu's father-in-law deliberately pretended to be a little strange, and quietly said to Li Jiancheng:

"Beasley treasurer, logically speaking, this Master Chu is already an official of my Tang Dynasty, why do you still want to participate in the imperial examination?" Li Jiancheng smiled, and said in his heart - this Chu Suiliang seems to be fair and strict, but in fact he is a big hypocrite, at the beginning, Li Shimin's subordinates Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, and Wei Zheng are known as the four great Zaifu, and, in Li Shimin's later years, due to Du Ruhui's early death and Fang Xuanling's retirement, the authority of the imperial court was slowly concentrated in the hands of Wei Zheng and Changsun Wuji, especially Changsun Wuji, when Changsun Wuji saw the ambition of Changsun Wuji, so when he was alive, he often said to Li Shimin to curb his relatives, And also to the eldest grandson Wuji everyone contained, so that the eldest grandson Wuji repeatedly to Li Shimin to resign as prime minister, so, Wei Zheng's official power is greater than the eldest grandson Wuji, so, Chu Suiliang in the name of admiring Wei Zheng's direct ministers, often treat Wei Zheng with disciple etiquette, Wei Zheng also regarded Chu Suiliang as the person who passed the mantle, copied a copy of his own admonition, gave it to Chu Suiliang, and put a lot of effort into Chu Suiliang's official promotion, later, Wei Zheng died, Li Shimin's dissatisfaction with Wei Zheng was immediately exposed, Chu Suiliang immediately took refuge in the eldest grandson Wuji, and said to Li Shimin that Wei Zheng formed a party, leaked the forbidden words in the palace, and copied the flat body music to himself, which made Li Shimin angry, and personally dissolved the marriage contract with Wei Zheng and pushed it to Wei Zheng's tombstone. When Li Shimin went on an expedition to Goguryeo, in order to prevent the prince Li Zhi from being isolated in Beijing, and also wanted to curb the power of the eldest grandson Wuji, he let Ma Zhou, Liu Xun, and Chu Suiliang assist the prince, and Chu Suiliang framed Liu Xun, and in the name of Li Shimin's expedition to Liaodong, Liu Xun wanted to let the prince ascend the throne in advance, so that Liu Xun died unjustly, and later Wu Zecai rehabilitated Liu Xun, so Li Jiancheng did not have a good impression of Chu Suiliang, and when he incorporated Chu Liang and Chu Suiliang's father and son, Chu Liang was dismissed in the name of Chu Liang's age. and put Chu Suiliang in the field as a petty official. Now, Chu Suiliang can appear here, he should know in his heart that he doesn't like him, but he is reluctant to be prosperous and rich, so he must resign from his official position and come to take the exam again. However, after Li Jiancheng observed for a while, his face suddenly became angry:

"Humph! How unreasonable! Seeing Li Jiancheng so angry, Mingyu's father-in-law and Di Renjie felt strange, I don't know why Li Jiancheng was so angry, Mingyu's father-in-law didn't dare to say anything, Li Jiancheng was most disgusted by eunuchs interfering in politics, so Mingyu's father-in-law didn't speak, but Di Renjie opened his mouth and asked:

"Beasley's treasurer, I don't know why I'm angry!"

"Humph! You see, in this imperial examination, there are many children of ordinary people, but no one from the Guanlongshi clan comes, which is obviously not giving face. Mingyu's father-in-law didn't speak, and Di Renjie persuaded him:

"The big shopkeeper, don't be angry yet, it's still early at this hour, let's take a look first!" Li Jiancheng suppressed the anger in his heart, and continued to watch quietly, and suddenly, Li Jiancheng saw several familiar figures:

"Yo! It's Yang Yu's brother! You're here too. ”

"Ahh Brother Zheng Tao! You're here too. ”

"Hey! This imperial examination was founded by my brother-in-law, and of course I am going to come to support it. How? Brother Yang Yu, you are here too. ”

"Brother Zheng Tao, you said less, the queen is your brother-in-law and my cousin-in-law!"

"Yo! It's the eldest grandson, you're here too! "The person who came was the eldest son of the eldest grandson Shunde, the eldest grandson Xiuye, although the eldest grandson Xiuye was the eldest son of the eldest grandson Shunde, but because his mother was a concubine, he had not been valued by the eldest grandson Shunde. However, the learning and martial arts are still good. Li Jiancheng nodded, stood up, and had a slight smile on his face - although the eldest grandson Xiuye is not the descendant of the eldest grandson family, and Yang Yuzhi and Zheng Tao are better than straw bales, but there are already core children of the Guan Long family participating in the imperial examination, which can be regarded as a chance to buy bones with a thousand dollars, I believe that in the future, this Li Tang official will definitely come out of this imperial examination!